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KitFox

00:00

I have too many toys to play with. I can't decide what to do.

RegDwigнt

Toys are the worst.

KitFox

Toys are great. Too many toys are overwhelming.

is overwhelming.

are overwhelming.

whatever.

RegDwigнt

Yeah.

First-world problems are great. But too many first-world problems is like a third-world problem.

KitFox

Yes. Like how I just realized that my husband took the other car, so I had to go back my car into the barn.

so I won't have to clear the snow off it tomorrow.

Which is a little awkward because I started drinking as soon as I got home today, so missing the broad side of the barn was actually difficult.

And now I'm mugging for an audience of one.

RegDwigнt

An audience of one barn?

KitFox

00:15

No. You.

RegDwigнt

But I am a one barn.

KitFox

Mugging in the sense of attempting to be funny.

RegDwigнt

Yes yes.

KitFox

Oh. You are a barn? In my imagination, you are svelte.

RegDwigнt

In Soviet Russia, barn mugs you.

KitFox

00:16

And much taller than five-ten.

I need the other computer. Editing on this is such a pain.

I am debating doing a YouTube vid tonight.

RegDwigнt

Five sazhen ten arshin?

Obsolete Russian units of measurement

A native system of weights and measures was used in Imperial Russia and after the Russian Revolution, but it was abandoned in 1924 when the Soviet Union adopted the metric system. The Tatar system is very similar to the Russian one, but some names are different. The system existed since ancient Rus', but under Peter the Great, the Russian units were redefined relative to the English system. Until Peter the Great the system also used Cyrillic numerals, and only in the 18th century Peter the Great replaced it with the Hindu-Arabic numeral system. Length The basic unit is the Russian cubi...

KitFox

I was thinking of writing on tinfoil and practicing German words.

RegDwigнt

And you need to make a video out of that how?

KitFox

I am trying out different asmr techniques.

Unless you actually mean how instead of why.

RegDwigнt

Age-Sex-Mug-Rotation?

KitFox

00:20

Omg, really? I was sure we'd been over this, but you have a mind like a steel trap.

Autonomic sensory meridian response, aka the tingles.

RegDwigнt

Wut.

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt Congrats!!

KitFox

Oh. Shit. You're pulling my chain, aren't you?

RegDwigнt

I would remember that.

Cerberus

> 8350.

KitFox

00:21

I know you would.

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt What's your high score anyway?

@Mitch A very promising score!!!

RegDwigнt

I am not much of a videoer, but I am a good rememberor.

KitFox

I know.

Cerberus

Hey, have you ever scored over 9000?

KitFox

Which is why I am dumbfounded. How can you and I have never discussed this before?

Cerberus

00:22

I'm getting closer!

I've never had a 768, though.

KitFox

JSB introcduced me to it this summer or something.

It's been months of me talking about it.

Cerberus

This summer?

Vitaly and I used to discuss this in War Metal Tyrant...

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus still 7695.

Cerberus

A lot.

RegDwigнt

Never got a 384 again.

But I am aiming for other records now.

Cerberus

00:23

@RegDwigнt Wot I beat you? I'm shocked!

KitFox

I think so. I know you talked it over with Vit, but I wasn't in on those.

RegDwigнt

Currently I'm at 109.

Cerberus

I usually suck at puzzle games.

RegDwigнt

Anyone can get 5000. Now try getting 50, that is art.

Cerberus

@KitFox Are you sure?

KitFox

00:24

@Cerberus pretty sure. I know it was JSB who showed me the first one.

Cerberus

And, Reg, I think I talked to you about ASMR before. But it's hard to remember if you don't really experience it, because it is, well, excruciatingly boring otherwise.

KitFox

At least he was in on the first conversation about it.

RegDwigнt

Oh, that tingle.

Cerberus

@KitFox Perhaps you didn't realise you had it before you saw any videos?

Vit and I never had any videos.

RegDwigнt

At least now I understand something.

I thought you were talking about the other tingles.

Nov 6 '13 at 20:05, by RegDwigнt

Cerberus

00:25

Umm...

KitFox

Oh.

My.

I went to get my computer and I returned to this.

I wonder what will happen if I get my slippers, hoodie, and a cuppa.

RegDwigнt

Things.

That's what will happen.

In fact there is no chance that things won't happen.

It is inevitable.

KitFox

Things. Stuff.

Gah, why am I so miserable?

RegDwigнt

Because you missed the barn?

KitFox

I have this terrible desire to have everyone love me. It's awful.

Can't seem to shake it.

There is a new tea shop in the village where I live.

I hope to check it out this Saturday.

Bradd Szonye

00:38

Howdy all. LTNS.

KitFox

Hello.

Bradd Szonye

@KitFox You have a new fox!

KitFox

Really?

Bradd Szonye

Your avatar. It's a different fox than the one I recall.

KitFox

Oh. What was the last one?

Bradd Szonye

00:39

The tiny version looks kinda like a dinosaur head.

KitFox

Rowr.

I have a few different ones that I rotate through.

Bradd Szonye

The last one looked more like KitSox, I think. I've been away for a month or two though.

KitFox

Based on arbitrary rules.

Yeah, maybe the one where I'm pouncing on a vole.

Bradd Szonye

I change mine on the rare occasion that I take a better selfie than the last one, and I happen to feel motivated enough to change my avatars.

Although lately it's been more like “my girlfriend takes a better couple selfie”

KitFox

I don't like to show my face.

Bradd Szonye

00:42

Speaking of which, is there a better term for “couple selfie” or “group selfie”?

Wikipedia says that “group selfie” is the norm. Hm.

KitFox

Anything more than one with selfie sounds kinda pornographic to me.

Well. Selfie sounds pretty pornographic for that matter.

I have to go quiet the children. bbs

Bradd Szonye

Groupie already has a meaning.

KitFox

01:00

So what's new?

Bradd Szonye

Been busy with work, roller derby, new(ish) girlfriend. Haven't had much time to hang out here lately.

I saw a notice for SO elections. Is there an ELU election coming up too?

KitFox

Not that I know of.

I think we've got things nailed down here OK.

Robusto

I have no idea who the SO candidates are, so I'm not going to pollute the system with my vote.

KitFox

They won't do elections again until we show some kind of need.

Bradd Szonye

Ah OK, I know very little about how the election process works around here.

KitFox

01:05

@BraddSzonye Is she a derby girl? I was snooping the pictures on your website.

@BraddSzonye Mod 4 life.

Bradd Szonye

@KitFox She skates, but she is not (yet) a derby girl.

KitFox

My ex- is a derby girl. Well, wannabe. She's a ref-in-training last I knew.

Rough sport, nice community.

Reminds me of the bikers I know, actually.

Bradd Szonye

Oh cool. I'm a ref-in-training too.

Recent selfie w/Fred: facebook.com/…

KitFox

Oh, I like the beard.

Bradd Szonye

Thank you!

Just realized that my current picture here is beardless.

It was one of my Christmas presents to Fred. :)

KitFox

01:10

The beard?

Bradd Szonye

Yep. She specifically asked for it.

KitFox

Well, for what it's worth, I think it looks good on you too.

Bradd Szonye

Thank you!

KitFox

What time is it out there? I can never remember the difference. 5pm-ish?

Bradd Szonye

Yes, 5:13. We are 3 hours behind New England.

KitFox

01:14

It's that damn Mountain Time. I always forget it.

Then I think, maybe there's one more in there.

Robusto

3 hours behind is Pacific time

KitFox

And then my BiL lives in Anchorage and fucked if I know how far behind they are.

Four hours, I think. But then I'm never sure.

Bradd Szonye

Yeah, I can never remember AK or HI.

KitFox

And since @Rob is here, I feel I should probably play Bioshock.

Bradd Szonye

Fred went to Hawaii for vacation a few months ago. I just added the local clock to my iPhone to keep track.

KitFox

01:16

I have too many games to choose from.

@BraddSzonye Oh, lucky.

Rob's been there, but I've never.

Looks like a lovely place.

Bradd Szonye

My parents took me to Hawaii as an infant. I haven't been back as an adult.

KitFox

I think I may have already lost at Bioshock. Damn my cruel, cruel heart.

Do you play video games, @Bradd?

Bradd Szonye

@KitFox I do, occasionally. Been playing Soul Calibur V recently.

And Civilization V before that.

KitFox

Soul Caliber, wow. I haven't thought about that game in ages. I played it before and I think I enjoyed it.

Bradd Szonye

Strategy games (esp 4X), fighting games, music games, some CRPGs.

Those are my favorites. Oh and trivia, although good trivia video games are rare.

KitFox

01:22

Civ V I figured I had better never play, at least not if I wanted to raise my children.

Bradd Szonye

Bwahaha.

I'm an empty nester. ;)

Robusto

@KitFox How far are you?

KitFox

Hang on, killing rascists...

Hot, hot, fire...

Bradd Szonye

Heh. That's an amusing pastime.

KitFox

OK. I'm right at the beginning.

I just got my second vigor.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

01:31

@KitFox Is that like racist fascists?

KitFox

Yes, rather like that.

Hiya.

Holy shit. Guess that Gatling is still live.

Bradd Szonye

Are you playing Bioshock? Or something else?

KitFox

Bioshock Infinite.

I got it for free recently.

@Rob Once I have a vigor, do I keep it always? Just have to recharge it? Or do I have to find the same thing again if I run out of it?

I love how booze and cigarettes are good for you.

Robusto

@KitFox It varies. I don't remember all the details of each one, but here are some charts.

KitFox

Oh thanks. It's the modifications that I'm wondering about.

Robusto

01:42

@KitFox IIRC, they up one state but drain the other.

BTW, take some time to explore around. There are lots of little fun things off the beaten path.

KitFox

I'm looking around as much as possible when I'm not getting my ass shot up.

I'm really impressed with the attention to detail.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Sorry, I went to make sandwiches.

KitFox

Oh, I would love a sandwich!

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

gets back up

What kind of jelly? We have blueberry, raspberry, and triple berry today.

KitFox

Oh, don't trouble yourself. I'll get it.

brb

wonders what 'turkey ham' is

Robusto

01:49

Ever have garlic preserves?

KitFox

Don't think so. Is that garlic in a lot of sugar and pectin?

Robusto

I dunno. Only had it once. It was delicious.

KitFox

omg really what is this? turkey flavored ham? ham flavored turkey? turkey and ham mashed together?

whatever it is, it don't look natural

Robusto

BTW, I'm in a quandary. We decided not to go to Hawaii and can't make up our mind now between Curaçao and Aruba.

I hate trying to choose a hotel.

KitFox

My brother went to Barbados. Someone...

Oh! @Mr.Shiny went to Aruba recently.

And my ex- has been there.

I don't know anyone who has been to Curaçao, but seems I've put that in drinks before.

Bradd Szonye

01:54

Mmmsammich.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Basagna!

KitFox

Sammy with blueberry lemonade, and playing vids by myself with youse.

I've had worse nights.

I guess I need to go back and buy that Possession Aid.

Bradd Szonye

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Hi!

KitFox

Except it's far away now.

@Robusto Glad you said that. The icons are tiny and I didn't look closely.

Robusto

I am bored with food. Nothing tastes good, and making it is too much trouble.

@KitFox "state" => "stat" ... durr

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

01:58

@BraddSzonye hello!

KitFox

@Robusto I heard what you meant.

Can I pick up just one thing in a container or must I take it all?

Robusto

@KitFox I don't remember. Experiment.

It's more than a year since I played the game, I think.

OK, about a year. Eleven months or so.

KitFox

I've been experimenting. y u no gimme teh ansur?

That long?

Robusto

Becuz me no remember every sinking detale.

KitFox

I'm so behind the times.

Well, I guess we were playing Skyrim when you were playing that.

That was ages ago.

Robusto

02:02

Plus some of the deets blur in my mind between the three versions of the franchise.

KitFox

02:14

Well, I suppose I ought to focus on what I'm doing. Night all.

Robusto

Night. For me too.

Cerberus

@Robusto From what I hear, Aruba is better suited to tourists. But Curaçao will not be that much different. And there may be a little bit more to see on Curaçao, Willemstad is very pretty.

Cerberus

03:56

@RegDwigнt > Your score is 9179 ^__^

My score is OVER 9000!

Cerberus

05:01

> The South African poet writer Breyten Breytenbach, attempting to visualize the language distance to anglophones once remarked that the differences between (Standard) Dutch and Afrikaans are comparable to those between the Received Pronunciation and Southern American English.

@skopp I don't know if you will see this, but anyway. ^

Matt Эллен

09:23

Mernan

RegDwigнt

09:38

Mronin!

Matt Эллен

a poet writer? someone who writes poets? That seems an odd profession.

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus I have scored 1530 over six times now. Does that count?

@MattЭллен what would you expect from one Broaden Broadencreek?

Okay, broadening creeks, perhaps.

But other than that, what?

Matt Эллен

09:58

Maybe some wandering. Wandering poets are common. I certainly wasn't expecting a new form of genesis

RegDwigнt

No Öne expects a new form of genesis.

That's why new forms of genesae's are so powerful.

Matt Эллен

indeed! I wonder if they can turn their talents from poets to extinct or endangered species.

Susan

Reg

Sam the troll is back, making fat mother comments in comments.

RegDwigнt

Hah. Wut.

Susan

Remember a month ago, a troll named sam?

RegDwigнt

10:05

I'm confused why you couldn't be bothered to create a username! Did you just insert 'user115444' straight into the database table or did GMail actually suggest that username for you! — Sam 4 hours ago

Susan

Heeeeeeee's back. I just flagged his second offensive comment in several minutes.

RegDwigнt

At least he's creative.

Susan

yeah, go to the next one.

(I feel like a little gitrl tattling on someone, but he is a troll.)

I wonder what Mary and Webster think! They would probably know more than anyone here. BTW the "your Mum is so fat" joke on your profile photo is against this site's regulations. Here's a link to an FAQ on how to ask questions and how to think and it pretty much tells you everything you need to know about the workings of the universe. Oh, actually you should just google it to show your research effort! (:-D) – Sam 4 hours ago

Ok, thanks

sorry to interrupt you so rudely.

RegDwigнt

No prob.

I did some cleanup. For the time being I'll leave it at that.

@JohnLawler Please, please stop replying to this thread as by now it is apparent that you are a linguistics troll who is a) ignoring my question, and b) trying to divert the conversation into some sort of entirely irrelevant discussion of semantics. To answer your question: No, I couldn't give a damn about Greek names, but we must have some sort of terminology in order to talk about rhetorical figures in literature, and this terminology must be stable. Oh, and if you really think that the study of literature is "trying to find out what the basic themes are," you've got another thing coming. — mig81 7 hours ago

Now this...

Susan

oh, my. trolls out from under their bridges tonight.

Thanks, Reg.

RegDwigнt

10:11

I guess I should be informing @Cerberus.

Speaking of which, 7674.

It looked good, but I got nervous.

RegDwigнt

10:54

7749.

RegDwigнt

11:05

> Our mood analysis revealed that you can find lots of smiling faces in Bangkok (0.68 average smile score) and Sao Paulo (0.64). People taking selfies in Moscow smile the least (only 0.53 on the smile score scale).

Analysis findings for 120000 selfies.

Matt Эллен

11:16

> On one hand, commas are often best taken out

> On balance, I would remove it.

but not follow your own advice?

EnglishMaster

11:56

Guys, my nurse friend wants to practice Venipuncture (Drawing blood from me) one day. Is it safe to trust a apprentice nurse with little experience? Can she kill her or infect me with some disease?

I know it's unsafe if she doesn't use hygienic equpments

Other than that, do you know any other risks regarding to this?

Matt Эллен

are you a haemophiliac?

EnglishMaster

nah

Matt Эллен

are you afraid of needles?

EnglishMaster

nope, I love needles

Matt Эллен

do you think your friend is likely to make a mistake?

even trained nurses can take a few stabbing attempts to find a vein

EnglishMaster

12:00

hmm I'm not sure. After meeting with her for several times, I found she is slightly dumb. She thought Philiphines is located inside Thailand so I had to teach her that they are not.

Matt Эллен

that's not so bad

if you got a map with no labels on it, could she point out Australia?

EnglishMaster

I haven't tried it out but she knows what Australia is.

Matt Эллен

but more important than her geographic knowledge: does she have steady hands?

EnglishMaster

yeah

I never saw her shake her hands

Matt Эллен

I can't think of any dangers other than unclean equipment

EnglishMaster

12:05

wait

Ok, thanks

Matt Эллен

maybe you should ask an actual nurse, though :D I have no medical training

RegDwigнt

12:50

Mkay...

Matt Эллен

merry crash mess?

RegDwigнt

13:34

10689 @Cerberus

Matt Эллен

13:57

I find jokes are much harder to tell on the bridge

Mitch

14:10

Are you on the bridge now? Tell us a joke and we'll see.

How do you catch a squirrel?

To keep his pants up.

Why did the chicken cross the road?

Climb up a tree and act like a nut.

Why does a fireman wear read suspenders?

To get to the other side.

How was that?

Matt Эллен

jumbled

in The Bridge, 20 mins ago, by Arperum

@Fluttershy Stop telling me to buy new games :( glares at banished players

in The Bridge, 19 mins ago, by Matt Эллен

@Arperum buy old games

in The Bridge, 18 mins ago, by Arperum

@MattЭллен I have enough games I need to play first before I start buying other ones.

KitFox

14:25

Hi.

@EnglishMaster How do you think people learn venipuncture? It's as safe as it can be.

@MattЭллен Yes, they are all quite thick in The Bridge.

Reg got his feelings sorely hurt. They aren't any fun at all. Bunch of annoying children.

Posers.

Matt Эллен

I see

KitFox

Hi!

Matt Эллен

Hi!

RegDwigнt

Hi?

You should drop jQuery and buy old games.

KitFox

Wo?

RegDwigнt

14:36

Im Supermarkt!

Matt Эллен

mishears. Drops old games, buys jQuery.

RegDwigнt

As long as you don't do so totally...

Lookin good. Which means I will screw it up and get -314 points.

There really should be an undo button.

KitFox

Yes.

pay attention to me! pay attention to me! pay attention to me!

Matt Эллен

What are you doing @Kit?

RegDwigнt

9206.

Matt Эллен

14:41

That's over 9000!

KitFox

@MattЭллен Nothing. Drawing diagrams. What are you doing?

RegDwigнt

Where is Kit, by the way?

I haven't seen her in a while.

Matt Эллен

Yeah, she's not been here in a few days.

Maybe she's snowed under at work

figuratively

@KitFox building disk images

KitFox

This is so much fun.

Which is to say, not.

I hate having itches I can't scratch.

Wow, that's a weird looking word.

Matt Эллен

does your arm not bend that way?

KitFox

14:50

It's in my head.

Matt Эллен

in the middle of your brain?

KitFox

And I haven't perfected transubstantiation.

@MattЭллен Kind of lower right.

Left.

Um. My left, your right.

Matt Эллен

I see

Sounds like you need your trepanning kit

KitFox

Yes. Yes. That is a great idea.

Get all the evil spirits out.

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