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8:00 PM

@WillHunting Okay, interesting.

Matt Эллен

!!wiki slush puppy

I was just rebooting her.

Matt Эллен

ah

user image

That stands for Debian (blue), Ubuntu (red) and Mint (green). QED.

Well, I just got a very tempting offer at an interesting company. I wonder if I should take it or just retire.

Matt Эллен

8:02 PM

take it!

Bright colours.

Matt Эллен

flavoured ice drinks

@MattЭллен But then I have to actually go to work!

@Robusto Demand a part-time arrangement! It could be a good experiment.

Matt Эллен

@Robusto but if you enjoy it...

8:03 PM

@MattЭллен Ah, I see it now, I thought that was foam.

I don't know what we call those.

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus ah, no :D

20 hours ago, by Robusto

Ha! I don't live in that world. I live in the United States of America.

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus Slushie?

@Robusto Try it. If they say no, you know.

@MattЭллен It looks like interesting work.

8:03 PM

@Robusto Another one already?

@Cerberus I know they don't want part-time.

Come work here and protect me from jerks.

@MattЭллен I used to get one after my swimming lessons when I was 6. But I forgot the name in Dutch.

@KitFox Yeah. And I have another offer in hand at the same time that's a little less, but which I could play off against the other one. Hmmph. What to do?

I hate living here sometimes.

8:04 PM

@Robusto You sure? And is this a project, or a permanent position?

I hate looking for work more though.

@Cerberus Poimanent.

Okay, well, it's your call...

You don't need the money.

@KitFox Yeah, but this will be my fourth job in less than a year. I've been very fussy. If this one doesn't work out, I'll just retire. But hey, fourth time's the charm, yeah?

Wheee!

If you don't enjoy working full time enough, perhaps you should go actively looking for part-time or temporary jobs/projects: I'm sure they exist somewhere.

8:06 PM

Then I have to scrape around for part-time work. I dunno. I'm kind of an all-or-nothing guy.

Okay, so you don't really want part-time work.

(It wouldn't be scraping around if you don't need the money.)

@Robusto go for mountains imo

also why/how can you retire?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Guuuuaaaaahhhhhh.

(Easter)

Hiya!

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Hi!

8:15 PM

Hello @cornbreadninja麵包忍者

I need hugs!

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

hugs

Thank you.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

lets go

grins

8:16 PM

What naughty stuff are you up to?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

I saw earlier that you have been at work forever. Have you left?

@WillHunting me?

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 You both, lol

I am at home. I switched computers to start working on consulting stuff but work is making me feel sick.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

I am trying to deal with Easter.

Don't think about it and it will go away.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

8:18 PM

Finding a restaurant for nine people.

Matt Эллен

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 not a fan of chocolate?

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 What is there to deal with?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@MattЭллен oh, far from it.

Nobody wants to host a dinner or anything.

Matt Эллен

ah

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

We've been going to a place called Mimi's for Easters and Thanksgivings, but they just closed both of the ones in this city.

8:19 PM

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 You can try to split them into two tables

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Fuck it, we'll go to McDonald's.

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Mimi died in La Bohemia

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@WillHunting Prague?

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 No, it's an opera, lol

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Good idea, or any other fast food outlet, but it might be very crowded

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

!!wiki prague

8:21 PM

Prague (; ) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. It is the fourteenth-largest city in the European Union. It is also the historical capital of Bohemia. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava River, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its larger urban zone is estimated to have a population of nearly 2 million. The city has a temperate oceanic climate, with warm summers and chilly winters. Prague has been a political, cultural, and economic centre of central Europe with waxing and waning fortunes during its 1,100-year exis...

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@WillHunting gramma has a sensitive tummy.

I wish to see the Prague.

@Cerberus I don't need the money. I'd rather do nothing than part-time. I may find I'd rather do nothing than full-time. But I think I'll probably give working one more shot.

Czech girls are hot!

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Earth girls are easy.

No, only in certain parts of Earth

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

8:23 PM

give it just one more try / give it a chance / starts like fascination / ends up like a trance

@Robusto OK fair enough.

Courage!

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 They say you're nothing but a party girl / Just like a million more all over the world

I'll drink to that.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Robusto it's true.

swoons

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

8:26 PM

:D

And now you find you fit this identikit completely / You say you have no secrets / And then leave discreetly

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Solved.

I might make it California's fault.

Ha! Fault! Because plate tectonics!

Yay Cinzetti's.

That's hilarious.

See you later.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

:(

Be seeing you.

@Rob do you like Get Happy!! ?

8:51 PM

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Yeah, I do. Not my favorite, but still good.

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 I go in this order: Armed Forces, This Year's Model, Imperial Bedroom, My Aim Is True, Blood and Chocolate, Get Happy, Trust, Spike, Out of Our Idiot, and the rest.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Robusto I don't have B&C, Spike, or Idiot.

Remind me what's on Imperial Bedroom.

Ah, you should avail yourself of those. Here is the Imperial Bedroom playlist:

Beyond Belief
Tears Before Bedtime
Shabby Doll
The Long Honeymoon
Man Out Of Time
Almost Blue
...And In Every Home
The Loved Ones
Human Hands
Kid About It
Little Savage
Boy With A Problem
Pidgin English
You Little Fool
Town Cryer
From Head To Toe
The World Of Broken Hearts
Night Time
Really Mystified
I Turn Around
Seconds Of Pleasure
The Stamping Ground
Imperial Bedroom

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Ah, yes.

About every other song is great.

I need to put that one on more.

9:17 PM

I just popped back in to lament that it would be more fun to be merciful if everyone knew I was doing it.

That is all.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@KitFox Merci.

9:44 PM

@KitFox gah! No! maybe in Texas.

@KitFox You have to make sure you get credit.

@Mitch I don't understand her sentence, what is "it" at the end?

@WillHunting The 'it' is the 'doing merciful things'.

It'd be more fun to be merciful if everyone knew she was being merciful.

Sorta like 'I'm so proud of how modest I am'

Deep

oxymoronic

self-contradictory

Deep means I am not going to try to understand it lol

9:54 PM

inconsistent

@WillHunting Oh....

then, weird.

strange.

@Mitch It's still too hard for me after you explained, so nvm

difficult to understand.

unfathomable.

@WillHunting Oh... so...

impenetrable

dense

obtuse

@Mitch Oh, I am still deciding between France and Germany for my next rebirth, lol

@WillHunting Luxembourg. Best of both.

Or Switzerland, and you get to ski too.

I have a very painful sore on my tongue, I probably bit it again

I will need to apply some bonjela

@Mitch Why have you gone all quiet? Talk!

10:29 PM

@WillHunting ha! on other windows doing actual work

@Mitch You seldom talk about your family here, I noticed

@WillHunting what is bonjela? I've never heard of that.

@WillHunting !! who does?

@Mitch I think it's for sores in the mouth. It has an icy feel

oh. right. everybody

@Mitch Well, for example, Mr Shiny and Kit talk about their kids

10:31 PM

I talk about family things in general, not in specifics.

Like "Why do kids never want to wear coats in the cold cold winter?" Because from experience they're crazy and don't wear coats in winter. Like just light jackets or sweatshirts. Stupid kids.

See?

and away! maybe back on in a bit.

11:04 PM

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 That's a bingo!

11:20 PM

Hello! I'm not tchrist.

plural of prefix is prefixes, right?

Yes.

ok

Do you know why Shakespeare wrote "Chaos is come again"?

11:54 PM

Hello!

@JersonZuleta Yes, the part participle of come is special.

Is come means the same as has come, but it is now old-fashioned.

Cf. is gone, which is similar but works in a slightly different way.

@Cerberus Oh, thank you! Though, didn't Shakespeare use hast?

Hast is the second person, thou hast.

He may have used hath, not sure.

If so, it is normally modernised in modern editions, I think?

@Cerberus Oh right, it was hath. So shouldn't it have been "Chaos hath come again?"

I'm not sure.

Here's the fragment: "But I do love thee! And when I love thee not
Chaos is come again."

I ask mainly because I recently heard "chaos is come again" and when I looked it up found out it was a reference to that fragment of Shakespeare, but the intrigue of knowing why he used 'is come' was too big to let it go by just like that.

11:59 PM

As I said, the participle come is special.

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