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Zoe

09:00

not contradiction between the translations

tchrist

@medica That’s not a translation.

medica

@tchrist ?

tchrist

It’s a song.

medica

Isn't that Tolkein?

tchrist

Yes.

But not a translation.

medica

09:01

What book?

tchrist

He wrote a pair of songs about Beowulf.

@medica Beowulf.

medica

What volume is it published in?

Zoe

Most Trinity questions are closed for duplicate and the reason for close - it states to ask another question if the 'original' doesnt answer ur question.... which is weird

tchrist

@medica Beowulf

medica

@tchrist ok... two songs in a whole book called Beowulf?

tchrist

09:03

Yes.

And much more.

There’s a prose translation.

medica

and the rest of it is what?

tchrist

And a couple hundred pages of his lecture notes on it.

medica

Ah!

tchrist

And there’s the Sellic Spell.

medica

I'll take Bible for 200 please

tchrist

09:04

Which is retelling the tale in modern English and without the Danish/nationalistic element.

medica

fun!

tchrist

Well, I say Modern English.

But he also has a version of Sellíc Spell in Old English, too.

medica

You've convinced me of how ill-read I am tonight. :(

Zoe

5 hours of halo movie

i like.

►

medica

(I mean, I knew it, but not so acutely)

Zoe

09:05

@medica ouch

medica

@Zoe lol, my sons would love that!

Zoe

@medica So would I!

tchrist

The prose translation is only 102 pages. The book is 425 pages long. There’s really much more in there than you would imagine.

medica

The Halo years... I remember then soooooo well

seems like yesterday

oh, wait!

It WAS yesterday

Zoe

HAHAHA! Some says Noble six did not die

medica

09:07

Zoe, are you *a "nerd" as my comiccon attending friend calls herself?

Zoe

NO!

medica

No?

Zoe

I am way beneath the level of a nerd

They are god

medica

5 hours of Halo?

Zoe

I havent played for so many months now

medica

09:08

@Zoe Favorite movie?

Zoe

Hm, favourite movie would be Deliver Hope

I think its.... its just so sad

I think I should get the books

Noah

Hi

medica

So... you are not a nerd, but your favorite movie is a Halo movie?

Hi Noah

Noah

9 hours ago, by medica

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Hi Medica

medica

yea, my Performa

Zoe

09:10

I thought u asked for fav halo movie LOL

medica

lolol

Noah

What does Zoe mean?

medica

@Zoe lol

no!

your favorite movie of all, lol

Zoe

Fav movie was Eight Below (Paul Walker, peace to him) now, I have a minor obsession with Loki

tchrist

@Noah Life

medica

09:11

No, you are a nerd!

Zoe

Yes it does.... It's greek for Life

medica

LOKI?

Zoe

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Yes

medica

why do you say nooo?

Zoe

I am in denial

I don't nerd out about things

Noah

09:11

Because he thinks we don't have ears.

medica

yess!!! lolol

Zoe

But I guess I like them enough or fan girl enough to qualify as a nerd?

medica

@Zoe oh, that's so funny!

tchrist

Ζωη

Zoe

idk, whats the definition lol!

medica

09:12

@Zoe I think so, from my limited exposure

Noah

Definiation of what?

Zoe

of a nerd

Noah

@tchrist how are you?

medica

My nerdiest friend loves Loki, halo, comiccon, etc

Zoe

oh my

tchrist

09:13

@Noah Sleepwalking.

medica

and I love her, but she is a self identified nerd, so I take her word for it

she goes to comic con in costume

Zoe

I think I like the characterisation of Loki, if any nice looking character has that characterisation, i would like them too. Like Castiel from Supernatural. But i dont actually nerd out about Loki :P

medica

wonderwoman

etc.

Zoe

holy

*salute

BUT I DO NERD ABOUT CASTIEL!

medica

@Zoe lolol

Zoe

09:14

:P

medica

Supernatural!!!

Zoe

I know!!!

medica

hahaha

tchrist

Zoe

My christian adult friend has drawn the comparison between Thor and Loki to Michael and Lucifer

as in the biblical one, but the SPN one can be taken into account also.

medica

09:15

I've seen those comparisons

and Kal-El to Jesus, of course

@Zoe omw, did you see Matrix?

Zoe

OOO Neo!

medica

LOLOL

Zoe

I like Keanu Reeves

medica

Wasn't he a wonderful Neo?

Zoe

Yes, Yes he was

I want a sole master chief movie :(

like 2 hours and 30mins full movie :(

medica

09:17

???

Zoe

not like forward unto dawn

medica

what is that?

Zoe

A movie starring Master Chief

its the Halo 4 movie, about commander Lasky.

Oh my, you've not heard about it?!

medica

ah, ok

oh, you are soooooo in denial.

Zoe

Master Chief is in that movie too! But is not the main character

medica

09:18

:D

Zoe

I AM!

medica

:)

funny

Zoe

I think of nerds as people who have heaps of knowledge on their idols

medica

@tchrist - please tell me you are not fluent in Greek. Please.

nah...

you don't have to be in universe to be a nerd

Zoe

oh?

medica

09:20

idts...

(that looks like idiots)

I don't think so

do you follow sci-fi fantasy SE

Zoe

no i dont, much of the topics discuss - i dont watch

medica

Hi Matt

Matt Эллен

@snailboat friends of yours?

medica

LOTR?

Matt Эллен

I have read it, but I'm not an afficianado

Zoe

09:21

i dont watch LOTR :P

medica

@Zoe no? ever?

Zoe

ever

Matt Эллен

I liked the films

Zoe

Should i?

medica

Yes, I think so.

Zoe

09:22

I think there are specific types of characters that draw me to certain sci fi drama/movies

medica

@MattЭллен the books were really good

Matt Эллен

yeah.

medica

@Zoe I bet you could get into LOTR

Just guessing.

Zoe

probably the similarities between Tobi Uchiha, Castiel and Loki would provide a general understanding

medica

:-)

Anonymous

09:23

@MattЭллен Aww, cute! :-)

Zoe

I would add Lucifer but that would not sound right

medica

yes, I think there's a lot of overlap

Zoe

I think... Tragic Hero?

medica

In the silmarillion, lucifer big time

tchrist

@MattЭллен Aw jeezy puhleezey.

medica

09:24

@snailboat Hello! How are the little ones?

Zoe

I think yea, I like tragic heroes.

Matt Эллен

@tchrist too many fs?

medica

You might love Aragorn...

Matt Эллен

well, it's Sattuhdee

Zoe

I saw LOTR as a largely adventure kind of sci fi

Anonymous

09:25

@medica My snails are doing well. They have cuttlebone, romaine lettuce and four types of fruit to choose from this evening :-)

Matt Эллен

@snailboat yeah! totally adorable :D

tchrist

> aficionado /afiθioˈnaðo/; anglicized as /əfɪsɪəˈnɑːdəʊ/. Pl. -os.

Etymology: Sp. = amateur, f. pa. pple. of aficionar to become fond of, f. afición affection.

A devotee of bull-fighting; by extension an ardent follower of any hobby or activity.

1845 R. Ford Handbk. Travellers in Spain i. ii. 178 - This sham fight is despised by the torero and aficionado, who aspire only to be in at the death.
1902 W. D. Howells Lit. & Life iii. 58 - The last [bull] was uncommonly fierce, and when his hindquarters came off or out, his forequarters charged joyously among the aficionados on the prisoners’…

Anonymous

I eat a lot of vegetarian food, so I tend to share little bits of what I eat

Zoe

I like Jaime Lannister also

medica

@snailboat do you see green in them when they eat lettuce? They are so transparent!

Zoe

09:26

LOL

medica

@Zoe HUNK

tchrist

@MattЭллен Bowel trouvles.

Matt Эллен

@tchrist pepole should learn to spell how they speak

Zoe

@medica indeed

Anonymous

@medica Uh-huh! When they're younger you can see food as they eat it.

tchrist

09:26

@MattЭллен Los hispanohablantes lo hacemos.

Matt Эллен

I'm not an ufishionardo neither

medica

@snailboat cool, carrots and lettuce!

Matt Эллен

@tchrist verdad

medica

@Zoe My boys don't understand why I like Jamie Lannister.

it makes me laugh

Matt Эллен

I guess that's why I like it

medica

09:28

they think he's a bad guy

Zoe

@medica Your boys don't understand Jaime Lannister.

Anonymous

@medica When they get older, they're less translucent, although you could still see through them (their shells, even!) if you shined a bright enough light behind them. If you look at a snail with the sun behind it, you can usually see their heart beating inside

Zoe

He's not!

medica

but I think he's good down indside

IKR??

Zoe

He saved countless orphans when he killed the mad king!

Tragic hero indeed

medica

09:28

@Zoe He's a sweetie

IK!!

I don't know why my boys only see the bad stuff!

@snailboat omw! That's so amazing!

I raised chickens from eggs, but you can't see the heartbeat from chandling

@snailboat how many little ones do you have?

Anonymous

@medica My snails had 38 babies.

medica

@snailboat wow... so one day, you will have to launch them into the world?

or will you keep them all?

Anonymous

@medica It's okay, there is a place with a lot of food where they can live, where no one minds them eating :-)

medica

@snailboat :-)

@Zoe Zoe, it's been wonderful meeting you.

I hope we get to talk again.

Zoe

Haha, you too.

I'm sure we can

medica

09:35

@tchrist - thanks for the wonderful verse...

@snailboat - give your little ones ... some lettuce for me. :)

@MattЭллен - good day (or night) to you!

nite, all.

Zoe

good night!

Matt Эллен

@medica night!

Noah

@MattЭллен hi

Matt Эллен

Hi

Stack Exchange

10:08

Limerick Machine: Someone once used all their talent On learning how to become gallant So brave and heroic And...

posted on May 24, 2014 by sgdi

Someone once used all their talent On learning how to become gallant So brave and heroic And faultlessly stoic They soon came to wish that they hadn’t

Robusto

10:47

@medica lulz +1

TRiG

12:23

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Is hereoglogical autological?

Johan Larsson

13:13

@Robusto Today it is 30°C, still adorable? When does it stop being adorable?

Also so much sun, so little hair.

Robusto

Pfft, that's still only 86° F, which is middling warm. I don't start getting bothered until it hits the 90s (your mid-30s). But see how much more useful Fahrenheit is for discussing human temperature ranges?

Seriously, though, you might as well have a temperature scale that ranges from absolute zero to the maximum temperature seen in a supernova (or hypernova). That would remove humans from the equation entirely, and wouldn't you feel so much more scientific to say it's going to be .0001043° today, and may get all the way up to .00010432° tomorrow?

Johan Larsson

Hot enough for a cold beer.

Robusto

That's why there's a summer. Otherwise all that cold beer would go unimbibed.

Johan Larsson

do you use visual studio?

Robusto

@JohanLarsson Not at the moment, but I have in the past.

Ah, maybe he means something else.

Johan Larsson

13:22

found a nice ~hidden~ feature this week

Robusto

There are some nice features.

I hate the grep tools, though. Too bloody rigid.

Johan Larsson

1. Copy some xml or json into clipboard
2. Create a new class in VS, delete everything in it
3. edit > paste special > paste xml as classes
4. Profit

tchrist

You haul a load but very slowly when half-assed. So as not to offend the donkey by calling him slow, we just say half-assed as a euphemism for slow. He still giddyups a bit because he thinks you called him something-fast, and he just didn’t make out the first part. — tchrist 41 secs ago

Robusto

@JohanLarsson So it converts XML into a C# class?

Johan Larsson

yeah, xml or json

Robusto

13:26

@tchrist Half-fast? Sounds like sarcasm.

Johan Larsson

useful on the level of good to know

Robusto

@JohanLarsson With getters and setters and all that?

tchrist

@Robusto He’s a donkey. He doesn’t catch on much.

Robusto

Stupid donkeys.

Johan Larsson

yeah, not auto properties though, but that is fixed with a couple of keystokes

tchrist

13:27

You’d think that auto properties would be the opposite of static properties.

Robusto

No, auto properties are what used-car dealers have in inventory.

tchrist

Stay away from used car-dealers.

They’ll try to take you.

This is too funny. Wait till you spot it:

> 5 Comb. a General relations: (a)appositive, as ass beast; (b)possessive genitive, as ass bone, ear, flesh, hoof, stall (where ass’s would now be usual), ass colour; (c)objective genitive, as ass-driver, -keeper; (d)attrib. as ass argument (i.e. asinine); (e)parasynthetic deriv. as ass-coloured, ass-eared.
b Special combinations: ass-back, like horseback, in later times humorously; ass-cart, a cart drawn by an ass; ass-colt or -foal, the young of an ass; ass-herd, a keeper of asses; ass-like a., like an ass, asinine; ass-man, a driver or letter out of asses; assmanship, asswomanship, humor…

Pretty sure they missed the moat there on ass-man.

Robusto

I like the assmanship reference. Sounds useful.

tchrist

Only if all are of a like persuasion.

I have a kitten on my lap.

Playing with my hands as I type, purring and distracting me.

Occasionally adding spaces.

Johan Larsson

@tchrist public string Name { get; private set; }

nice language feature imo

tchrist

13:37

1770 G. White Selborne xxviii. 79 - The head was about twenty inches long, and *ass-like.
A. 1500 MS. Bodl. 565 (Halliw.) - And ye most ȝeve yowre *asman curtesy a grot other a grosset of Venyse.
1610 Healey St. Aug., City of God 694 - Yet had he his humane reason still, as Apuleus had in his *asse-ship.
1729 T. Cooke Tales, Prop. &c. 87 - Ended thus his *Assship’s Reign.
1728 Daily Post 7 July, - The famous Stoke Newington *Ass-woman dares me to fight her for the 10 pounds.
1800 Southey Lett. (1856) I. 119 - Edith has made a great proficiency in *asswomanship.

1800 Southey in C. Southey Life II. 109 - Edith and myself on *ass-back.

1859 N. & Q. Ser. ii. VIII. 17 - Of..this *assman, as he was called, I have an anciently engraved copper-plate card.
1882 Punch 24 June, - They witch the world with noble *assmanship.

C. 1450 Gloss. in Wright Voc. 213 - Hic asinarius, a *nashard.

a nashard > an ashhard

hard, herd, heard, hurled

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

15:14

imgur.com/0E7zL7Y

Cerberus

15:38

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Nice kitty.

Janus Bahs Jacquet

15:52

I made a funny. :-D

Cerberus

Haha.

Maybe you should turn your bedmobile over, mattress up.

Or what Robin will join you?

Janus Bahs Jacquet

Truth be told, I don’t know who put that bed there, or more importantly why, or where it’s been. So I ain’t turnin’ nothin’ over without a safety suit!

Cerberus

Fair enough...

I always imagine the worst things when I see a mattress lying around on the street.

May I make a confession?

I have sniffed a mattress or two, when curiosity got the best of me.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

16:07

Mattress oblige.

Cerberus

Without touching. And I think there was no perceptible smell.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Cerberus isn't that a beautiful kitty?

Cerberus

Haha.

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Yes!

Yours?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Cerberus No, some redditor.

reddit.com/r/aww/comments/26dhum/…

Cerberus

Aww.

"I am the same age as my cat", that's cute.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

16:11

Yeah.

Janus Bahs Jacquet

I’m the same age as my bookshelf, does that count?

Cerberus

Note sure.

My house is more than ten times my age.

Janus Bahs Jacquet

Mine’s only about 10 years older than me …

Typical ’70s concrete block.

Cerberus

Then you are closer to the magical 1:1 ratio.

Janus Bahs Jacquet

16:37

My dad used to have that. His dad built the house he grew up in just before my dad was born, so it was brand new when they moved in.

Cerberus

16:52

That is also kind of cute, though the cat wins.

Janus Bahs Jacquet

Haha

Well, if the Internet and lolcats have taught me anything, it’s that cats always win.

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