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Robusto

00:00

Stop messin' my mind.

Jez

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 you're still not explaining how "straight up & down" means that

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Jez in ... z-space?

Help me out here, 'busto.

As opposed to tilted on the x-axis.

Jez

hmm

Robusto

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cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Plot the phone on the y-axis only.

Jez

00:02

well that's terribly phrased

Robusto

There ya go. That should explain everything.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Jez agreed. I was going to say that you linked to a picture of a phone that's straight up and down.

But they mean landscape for the boobtography.

Jez

maybe "straight while moving it up & down"

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Robusto nice.

Robusto

One of the best bands of the '90s, and way underplayed.

So let's have an encore:

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Jez

00:08

ask.slashdot.org/story/13/08/15/2128208/…

interesting. isn't it common practice in US employment contracts to have a minimum notice period, then? it is here. i can't give less than a month's notice without being in breach.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

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Robusto

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Nice.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

:)

Robusto

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Same era.

user87637

The singers sure looked different back then.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

00:16

@Robusto @_@

groovy.

Robusto

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Just lay back and hit that bong.

Not like the Fleetwood Mac you remember, yeah?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

This is your father's Fleetwood Mac.

Time for tennis.

Robusto

I can still hear you sayin' you would never break the chain.

Well, if you gonna up and leave like that . . .

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Mitch

@Jasper compare the right universities. Many well known universities in the US are research universities which have lots of good -graduate- level classes (which might be the fun ones you're looking at. Is your math department a research department or just teaching?

user87637

00:53

@Mitch Research, but most of the courses I took as an undergrad were terrible. Then again, I think weirdly.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

01:17

@Robusto I'm sorry!

O0oO0oOO0ooO

01:37

How much does a bottle of Cola cost in your country?

WendiKidd

01:49

@KitFox The hangman room died

♦ Hangman room

A room for playing hangman and such.

(or at least, the bot is gone)

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

noooooooooooooooooooo! ._.

It's my fault.

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WendiKidd

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 you killed the hangman room?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@WendiKidd I didn't actively kill the hangman room, but I haven't played in several days and feel responsible.

But then I saw that the room didn't freeze.

WendiKidd

02:04

No it's not that, just the bot has disappeared. hugs

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

02:53

@WendiKidd aww! hugs

David Wallace

stuff.co.nz/national/9051982/…

I am all right, Alhamdu Lillah.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

O_O

@DavidWallace good!

David Wallace

03:19

Actually, the ground has been shaking almost constantly for about 50 minutes now. Tiles have fallen off the ceiling of my office. I am still here, because I think it will be slightly safer than walking through the streets of Wellington. Anyway, I can't get home easily, as there are no trains.

MετάEd

03:53

I have seen no reports of injuries. Apparently no buildings collapsed.

David Wallace

Yeah, it wasn't as big as the one four weeks ago. But that one was on Sunday evening, rather than a weekday afternoon, so many more people were in the central city for this one.

user87637

06:46

@WendiKidd After deleting my second account, I created a third one, lol. I am back!

user87637

08:31

@MετάEd Nice pun!

user87637

Today is Debian's birthday, yay!

RegDwighт

09:30

@KitFox TIL that American women have asses on the front. Or boobs on the back.

Or perhaps Kit's point was that American women just can't lead in any one direction.

David Wallace

@RegDwighт Hey, I was just assuming that she meant the animal :-)

Matt Эллен

Hello.

David Wallace

Hello @Matt

Matt Эллен

Hi, David

RegDwighт

Hi, Matt

Matt Эллен

09:34

Hi, Reg

RegDwighт

Hello, David

David Wallace

Hi, Reg.

RegDwighт

Hi, Reg.

Matt Эллен

Wo, Reg?

RegDwighт

Hinter Dir, Matt.

David Wallace

09:34

stuff.co.nz/lightbox/national/photos/9051995/…

Matt Эллен

!!

David Wallace

My building is the one with the pile of glass.

RegDwighт

@DavidWallace I like how that image is titled "sport, business, and entertainment".

It explains everything in a nutshell.

David Wallace

Is it? I don't know where you're looking.

RegDwighт

In the title.

Hence the choice of word, titled.

David Wallace

09:37

Oh, confuse me by only quoting half of the title why don't you?

RegDwighт

A++ would confuse again.

David Wallace

In my browser, the title looks like
New Zealand, world, spo

RegDwighт

Well okay, that's how you talk in NZ.

David Wallace

Is it?

RegDwighт

I mean, who is quoting half of the title now?

David Wallace

09:38

Yes, but it's a different half. You picked on the middle half.

RegDwighт

It's the deliciousest.

Matt Эллен

mmmmm. the juicy, juicy centre

@DavidWallace are you still being shaken by the earth?

David Wallace

For the last two hours, there has been a small earthquake every three minutes or so.

The last really big one was about four hours ago.

The really really big one was seven hours ago, and was followed by very many medium sized ones.

RegDwighт

I see. Peptic earthquakes.

David Wallace

I was sitting at work, and I spent much of the afternoon climbing under my desk, and climbing back out again. Fun for the whole family.

RegDwighт

09:41

Oooh, a workout earthquake.

Free weight loss.

You don't get a day off for the earthquake? That's hardcore.

David Wallace

My building is actually two buildings joined together. Their foundations move independently. So the rift between them is a perilous place to be, and is reasonably close to my desk.

Matt Эллен

maybe Mars told the Earth it was looking fat.

David Wallace

I could have left, but I figured that being inside at work was slightly safer than being outside on the street.

Matt Эллен

certainly sounds safer

David Wallace

Getting home would have been difficult, due to the lack of public transport.

RegDwighт

09:43

@MattЭллен you mean the Earth is now using that, what's'yacallit, that wiggle band on its hips...

David Wallace

equator?

Matt Эллен

:D could be

Jez

hula hoop

David Wallace

It occurred to me that if there were an Islamic building in the capital of Ecuador, it would be a MosqQuito.

2

Matt Эллен

but bigger

RegDwighт

09:44

Yes. Thank you.

What'd you search for?

I am finding only crap.

Matt Эллен

"machine that vibrates weight off"

then google image search

RegDwighт

I see.

I used band hips lose weight wiggle in all kinds of orders.

Only got this.

Matt Эллен

oh gods

RegDwighт

Yeah it's so close and yet so far...

David Wallace

That's my Dad!

Matt Эллен

09:46

stiffles many laughs, due to being at work

RegDwighт

You're a Kiwi in first generation only?

David Wallace

We do have union jacks here. Or union jocks, whatever this one is.

I happen to be a three-times fifth-generation New Zealander. Both my mother's ancestors and my father's ancestors came here in the 1840s.

RegDwighт

Yeah but it'd still be more politically correct for him to wear some red stars on his behind.

David Wallace

How do you know he isn't?

Please don't tell me you also found the view from the other side.

RegDwighт

Is that a request for me to post the image of his behind?

Matt Эллен

09:48

:D

no

RegDwighт

Oh, David's faster.

David Wallace

If Caprica were here, you'd be getting a coke.

RegDwighт

Ice cream soda

An ice cream soda or float (United States, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and East Asia), coke float or Snowball (United Kingdom, New Zealand), or spider (New Zealand and Australia), is a beverage that consists of ice cream in either a soft drink or in a mixture of flavored syrup and carbonated water. Origins The ice cream soda was invented by Robert McCay Green in Philadelphia, PA, in 1874 during the sesquicentennial celebration. The traditional story is that, on a particularly hot day, Mr. Green ran out of cream for the flavored sodas he was selling and used vanilla ice cream from a...

First result for "sort of coke".

David Wallace

Why are they attributing other names for it to New Zealand? We only call it a spider. Nothing else.

RegDwighт

It's a wiki. You can fix it.

David Wallace

09:50

I'm a kiwi. I can fix anything.

RegDwighт

Point taken.

Now, why's it you're calling it a spider.

David Wallace

Always have, always will. Why do we call anything anything?

RegDwighт

I mean, I never tried an actual spider, but perhaps you all have and it tastes the same.

David Wallace

I'm suprised to learn it's only an antipodeanism.

RegDwighт

@DavidWallace because calling anything a zoo or a car instead would lead to much confusion.

user87637

09:52

Hi all, LOL is here.

David Wallace

Actually, it tends not to be ambiguous in the slightest

Try asking for lemonade in Singapore if you want ambiguity.

RegDwighт

Oh la la, that's a nice tricolore we're building.

David Wallace

It's a shame Kit isn't still transparent.

RegDwighт

Allons, requins de la Patrie !

Matt Эллен

Zut alors !

RegDwighт

09:57

Super dikke shoarmaburgern met heerlijke pikante saus!

David Wallace

and extra mayo.

RegDwighт

Prachtig.

David Wallace

You could take it to Seasoned Advice. Dutch seems to be the lingua franca there.

RegDwighт

Dutch is French there? That would make Seasoned Advice Belgian.

Which is quite appropriate, of course.

Fries with chocolate and waffles. What else do you even need.

Matt Эллен

apples

and cheese

RegDwighт

09:59

I do not like them apples.

David Wallace

How do you not like them apples?

RegDwighт

Oh, cheese they have alright.

@DavidWallace seven. Sometimes eight.

A waffle a day keeps two doctors away.

David Wallace

So does garlic.

RegDwighт

Nah, it keeps away everyone but doctors.

David Wallace

Why can't I type female? Every time I try to type female, my fingers decide I must be typing email, and spell it wrong.

RegDwighт

10:03

I have that with many words.

David Wallace

It's not like there are no other words with "ema" in.

Matt Эллен

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Q: What type of learning mechanism produces a consistent typo?

There is a typographical error that I make and do so every time I try to type a certain word. Whenever I try to type remember, I type remeber. I do this every time. This is different to a regular typo because most typos happen at random, whereas this mistake is guaranteed to occur. It's not a spe...

RegDwighт

@MattЭллен muscle memory. Duh.

As a musician I could write a book about it.

There are some pieces I still can't play twenty years after first playing them wrong.

It is so infuriatingly frustrating.

Matt Эллен

> I wonder whether it is related to muscle memory

RegDwighт

Yeah yeah you just edited it in.

user87637

10:06

@MattЭллен I remember this question!

Matt Эллен

lol

@Jasper oh? I didn't realise you'd been reading the cogsci pages

user87637

I think I will retire at 1k, lol.

user87637

@MattЭллен We talked about it in this chat!

David Wallace

@Jasper Plus ca change.

Matt Эллен

@Jasper ha! I have a terrible memory

RegDwighт

10:07

@DavidWallace the sad part is that ca does not even change in the first place.

Matt Эллен

Just recently I was talking to someone about a TV show and then a film that I have seen, but I couldn't remember a thing about either of them.

David Wallace

@RegDwighт Yes, but "plus c'est la meme chose, plus c'est la meme chose" doesn't really make sense.

RegDwighт

@DavidWallace how so?

It's very logical and straightforward.

It's most logical and straightforward.

David Wallace

The more you put it like that, the more you put it like that.

RegDwighт

Which is precisely what I do.

Matt Эллен

10:10

The things are the same, the more things are the same

RegDwighт

The more you accidentally a word, the more you accidentally a word.

Matt Эллен

reduplication, repitititititition

RegDwighт

!!/nsa

Matt Эллен

!!/nasa

RegDwighт

!!/lhasa

!!/kinshasa

David Wallace

10:11

Stop.

user87637

I once bought a NASA pillow for hundred dollars.

RegDwighт

It will be great fun when Caprica finally starts popping its stack.

user87637

It changes shape according to your head.

RegDwighт

@Jasper my head has the shape of a head. What's yours?

Matt Эллен

Jasper doesn't always buy pillows, but when he does...

David Wallace

10:12

@Jasper I've got a head, whose shape is always the same shape as my head.

user87637

But I did not like it in the end, because what I needed was a pillow which retained its height despite my heavy head.

RegDwighт

Gimme coke now.

David Wallace

!!/jinx

Matt Эллен

Caprica is being capricious

user87637

So today I use only latex pillows costing about ten dollars each only.

David Wallace

10:13

user87637

The moral of this story is don't buy NASA pillows. QED.

David Wallace

Here, it's Muslim Coke.

Matt Эллен

@Jasper Indeed, they have enough of their own.

user87637

@DavidWallace Did you become Muslim because you married one?

David Wallace

@Jasper No.

RegDwighт

10:14

@DavidWallace oh thanks but no thanks. I'd never try a coke with pics of worms on the label.

user87637

@MattЭллен The international space station is switching its computers from XP to Debian.

Matt Эллен

@Jasper I'm sure @Cerb will be disappointed. Everyone else will probably be relieved

user87637

Math SE is becoming a little like Eng SE these days, questions are closed very quickly.

RegDwighт

So it's switching from XP to XD.

@Jasper that's preposterous. Where's our royalties?

user87637

@RegDwighт I think overall SE is becoming a less friendly place.

Matt Эллен

10:16

I saw an answer on our meta that seemed to imply we should close more question, if you can believe it

RegDwighт

@Jasper Oh, so you think that, you silly nanny?

user87637

I would rather have less questions closed. That would generate more fun for us and more money for them.

RegDwighт

Gah, rather as a verb.

It's spreading.

user87637

Oh I see, I think there is a question on this...

RegDwighт

Yes, it's mine.

user87637

10:17

Ah I recall...

Matt Эллен

I rather them here, I rather them there, I rather them in their underwear

RegDwighт

Band of rathers.

user87637

@MattЭллен Who is them?

Matt Эллен

I don't know.

David Wallace

@RegDwighт That was an adverb.

user87637

10:18

@MattЭллен Are you going to reply to my email? Not that one is needed.

RegDwighт

Rather fordium.

user87637

@DavidWallace Oh I edited the line anyway.

RegDwighт

@DavidWallace he edited it since.

Now more coke for me.

user87637

One must look for the pencil mark.

David Wallace

Sorry.

RegDwighт

10:19

It's okay. I like coke.

David Wallace

This is not the only window that has a portion of my attention right now.

Matt Эллен

@Jasper If I think of something to say :)

user87637

I still prefer OK to okay, that is one thing that has not changed.

user87637

I also prefer DJ to deejay and MC to emcee.

RegDwighт

I prefer Run DMC.

Matt Эллен

10:20

do you prefer a.m. to ante meridiem?

user87637

I use am and pm without the dots.

RegDwighт

Anyone in his right mind prefers post meridiem anyway.

user87637

am and pm is about the only Latin abbreviations I would use in my writing. Perhaps et al is necessary too for citations.

RegDwighт

Xblast time!

Matt Эллен

@Jasper not QED?

Sankar Ganesh

10:21

Hi all

David Wallace

eg and ie?

user87637

@MattЭллен LOL

user87637

@DavidWallace I avoid them, writing out the English versions.

Sankar Ganesh

can anyone tell is there any site in stackoverflow for domestic pet animals like fish,birds, dogs etc

because i need some info on this

David Wallace

For them to use? Or for people to discuss them?

Matt Эллен

10:22

lol

Sankar Ganesh

lol

Matt Эллен

@SankarGanesh I can't see one.

depending on the question Biology or Chemistry might be of help

Sankar Ganesh

@MattЭллен: How can i convey my request to stack exchange admin guys for creating a forum for this

Matt Эллен

there's always Parenting

@SankarGanesh Area 51

it's for proposing new sites

Sankar Ganesh

@MattЭллен: Thank you dude

Matt Эллен

10:24

no trouble :)

David Wallace

You could ask your question here, Sankar. There are some animal lovers among us.

Sankar Ganesh

really

David Wallace

If we can't answer, we will at least have a good laugh.

Sankar Ganesh

lol, Actually My hobby is taking care of fishes and i m loving it

David Wallace

Oh, what sort of fish do you care for?

Sankar Ganesh

10:29

1. Gray Shark ,2. Sliver Shark ,3. Kissing Gorami,4. Milky White,5. Sea Angel,6. Twin Fin Fish,7. Tank Cleaner Fish,8. Sea Angel

Suddenly couple of days my Twin fish not eating the food , it seems to be it had some problem , it is not active as like of the olden days

David Wallace

Does it look the same? Especially its eyes?

Sankar Ganesh

so i thought if there's any stack exchange site i can get help from people

David Wallace

And its fins?

Matt Эллен

@SankarGanesh there is a proposal for fish pets:

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Aquarium and Aquatic Hobbyist

Proposed Q&A site for proposed Q&A site for people who design, build and maintain aquariums from micro-reefs to 300 gallon display tanks. Freshwater ponds and terrariums are welcome too.

Currently in definition.

it's not a site yet, but if you commit to it, etc., it could become one

Sankar Ganesh

Yes eyes are same , but now-days, i was able to see a red color paint on it fins

i was worried on this

i think it is going to die

so i need to take care of this fish

David Wallace

10:32

@MattЭллен It's not quite the same though is it?

Matt Эллен

oh, no, it came up when I searched for pets

I thought it was for fish

David Wallace

Fin Rot is a bacteria that attacks the fins and in extreme cases, the body. This bacteria is usually the result of environmental stress such as poor water quality, bullying, etc. Part of treating this illness is early detection. If left untreated, secondary infections can occur. Fin or tail rot can also be a secondary infection caused by stress from other diseases. There are many different ways that harmful bacteria can enter your aquarium, some fish at the pet store will look perfectly normal but harbor harmful bacteria that the fish has become immune to, and will release the bacteria thro…

Matt Эллен

This one is for pets:

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Pets

Proposed Q&A site for pet owners, caretakers, breeders, veterinarians, and trainers.

Currently in commitment.

Sankar Ganesh

thanks mates , will go through the sites you have mentioned

♦ Hangman room

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