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00:11
The verb to notice means to take notice of.
Noticing is the -ing form of the verb notice. It can be used as a noun. But it is still the verb that has of built into it.
I noticed her shoes.                 I took notice of her shoes.
I've always noticed her shoes.       I've always taken notice of her shoes.
I normally notice her shoes.         I normally take notice of her shoes.
I'm noticing her shoes.              I'm taking notice of her shoes.
I'll notice her shoes.               I'll take notice of her shoes.
Understand now?
Noted.
Gee, that was a measured response.
inch
One whole note.
@Mitch I thought you'd never come back!
00:23
Just stop.
What happened to hammer time?
@tchrist eat?
¿ʇɥƃᴉuoʇ ןɐɯɹou uɐɥʇ ɹəxxᴉʌ ɯəəs pᴉodןnʌ əɥʇ səop ɹo ʻəɯ ʇsnɾ ʇᴉ sI
Why have a method that returns the primitive value of an object if the object is already a primitive?
I don't get it.
Hemidemisemiquaver.
That's the 32nd time.
Ah, damn me maths.
This is what the Brits do to music: obfuscate the maths with words.
i wanna be loved / i just wanna be loved
I was confusing quaver and crotchet.
Bet you knit your brow over that one.
My mom knitted me two brows.
Long time ago.
Other boys use the splendor of their trembling lip.
So teddy-boy tender and tragically hip.
So you'll be an Austrian nobleman / Commissioning a symphony in C
00:42
I can't stand the way that guy sings.
:P
Am I the only person here who is truly eclectic in my musical tastes?
I could never have a party with all my friends. I wouldn't know what to put on the stereo.
It's worse than trying to suss out everyone's food allergies, ferchrissakes.
I think Dylan is particularly controversial.
And overrated. Like Springsteen. runs
@Robusto If you put the wrong music on, do some of your guests get anaphylaxis?
00:49
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 You would think, from their reactions.
And when I go over to their places all they want to listen to is crap.
I mean, I'm laying down some serious grooves, and they're all like "I can't stand the way that guy sings" or some shit. (Note to cornbread: :P)
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Wait, what do you mean by wrong? It's the right music. If I like it, it must be right. People have to start with that assumption.
@Robusto redundancy. in case the built in one doesn't work.
@Mitch But the primitive value is the primitive value, if you follow what I'm saying. Why have a superfluous method that wouldn't return the value anyway if it didn't already exist?
I'm messing with you. Of course it is idiotic.
00:54
Thank you.
feels validated
But then there's 'int' and there's 'Integer'
@Robusto wrong... for your guests.
@Mitch Well, that's Java for you. If there is a redundancy Java hasn't indulged itself with, I haven't seen it.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Hey, why did they come to my party if they didn't want their horizons broadened?
I blame them.
@Robusto I blame them too.
this is the craziest party there could ever be / don't turn on the lights, 'cause I don't wanna see
01:02
Thank you, Randy. Another county heard from.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 We blame them. Good.
For your enjoyment.
Now enjoy, dammit!
so my health insurance website won't let me log in, it says my password is invalid. However if I click around it shows that the site has "hours of operation" and that it "closes" at 8pm Eastern on Saturdays.
@Mitch Wait, isn't Integer() a way to cast other data types as int?
I'm not sure what's the bigger WTF: that a website has hours of operation, or that the login failure doesnt' just tell you that the site is unavailable right now.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Yeah, the Web closes early in some locales. Didn't you know that?
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Which begs the obvious question, who the fuck determined that the server has to go home at 8pm on Saturdays?
I hate reality sometimes. Like when it's idiotic.
@Robusto Maybe it wants to see its family, after a hard week toiling in the server farm.
01:09
New topic: How can alcohol (specifically, ethanol) not have any carbohydrates? It's C2H5OH, ferchrissakes.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 displays the world's smallest violin, etc.
@Robusto I thought it metabolized to sugar
O RLY?
@Robusto reality... gah!
inorite
@Robusto It has lots of what are those things...calories?
01:11
Reality bites.
@Mitch Not as many as you'd think.
Ok so it doesn't metabolize to sugar, but it does contain calories. How many is hard to be sure about because it gets excreted before fully metabolized.
@Robusto I've always wondered that.
But it strikes me as counter-intuitive that it wouldn't have carbs. I mean, it feels like everything I know is wrong.
*worng
@Robusto I wonder if it's because "carbohydrate" on a nutrition label means something specific, and alcohol doesn't fit?
01:19
I hope you people are enjoying "Night Streets" . . . gives the room a warning look
@Robusto needs more fiber
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Well, maybe.
oat meal muffin, with vermouth
@Mitch Scotch is way more satisfying than Raisin Bran, and without any fiber at all!
@Robusto alcohol is derived from carbs. if that helps.
01:20
I'm only concerned with its effect on the body once imbibed.
For dietary purposes, it appears to have 0 carbs.
@Robusto how about night sweats?
How about Wind Danse?
Maybe I misjudged the room. looks for some Christina Aguilera or Coldplay or some shit
More to the point (regarding Scotch and carbs), why are the distillers not trumpeting the 0 carbs! message?
Excuse me, that should be 0 carbs!!!!
no fat! never had it, never will.
And if there are no carbs, how come there are 76 calories anyway? Where do the calories come from? 0 fat, 0 carbs, 0 protein.
@Robusto from alcohol
01:26
I don't get it.
alcohol has calories in it.
but for the purposes of a nutrition label, it is not a "carb"
But don't calories have to fall into the fats/protein/carbohydrates groupings?
I guess not?
gotta run
when you burn wood, what are the calories coming from?
> The liver does not metabolize alcohol into sugar. On the contrary, most people will experience a dip in their blood sugar (glucose) levels when consuming alcohol. Alcohol is eventually broken down by the liver into acetate, and finally into carbon dioxide and water---not sugar.
@Mitch My stomach doesn't burn wood.
01:28
exactly. but the wood contains calories that are not carbs, fat, or protein.
01:44
I'm sure there are other metabolizable substances (just not that common)
02:09
@mitch The idea is that, ultimately, prepositions and adverbs/particles were possibly once the same thing.
You could say prepositions and many verbal prefixes originate in adverbs/particles.
Greek has separable verbs, though they are somewhat archaic.
I.e. uncommon in most classical prose.
02:31
@Rob is bio where you had that one guy?
The susser outer?
03:11
kicks chat
!!norris
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 One time, Chuck Norris accidentally stubbed his toe. It destroyed the entire state of Ohio.
03:35
Idiot, and asshole too:
@tchrist Please refer me to where this is written in the rules — Third News 2 hours ago
So screw him. I have taken it upon myself to edit out his inappropriate chatter. If he triggers a rollback war, I shall flag it to be locked.
To whom did he refer?
I'm on my phone or I might've worked that out myself.
There was a comment up earlier in another post, the OP I believe.
And he addressed the commenter in his answer, or referenced him. It was not appropriate.
I’m not very impressed with this fellow; he has quite a few very low-scoring answers.
Like 100 less than 0 or something like that. Not kidding.
I am not going to waste my time tracking down where it says that this is a Q&A site not a chat forum, nor what all that implies.
He will learn the culture, or he will not.
Damn, that's pretty bad.
He’s very bickery. I haven’t the time.
I get “quack/crank” vibes from him.
I believe he has 268 out of 342 non-positive answers. So only 22% are even positive. That’s pretty lame.
03:58
Thanks for doing the math.
@tchrist As "someone who undertands the system" can you please link where your opinion is reflected in the rules - thank you — Third News 1 min ago
Fool.
You might as well.
I’m tired. I’ve given him my answer.
No, I won’t. I am not going to waste my time tracking down where it says that this is a Q&A site not a chat forum, nor what all that implies. If you have not figured it out yet, then you never will. This is not about “rules”; it’s about intent, reason, logic, and community. — tchrist 44 secs ago
I can do no more, at least, not without sleep.
Yes, please.
Good night.
Talk to @Mahnax a bit if he’s here. I’m retiring.
May the kitties be with you.
Hello yes, I am here.
And also with you.
Good night, Tom. Sleep tight.
Phone doesn't show me that. Hi, @mahnax!
04:03
Hiya! What's cracking?
I am at a bar watching UFC fights. You?
Love the Chemex.
Just home from work. Glad you like it! I'm loving my espresso machine.
Yay!
How was woek?
*work
Oh, it was nice. Got to work with the closing crew, which isn't something I do much. Very relaxed, compared to mornings, which is my usual gig.
I hope you left it in good shape.
04:09
The store?
Oh, yes. Of course! And I open tomorrow, so it's not like it matters much :-)
Ah, clopens aren't so bad.
To take a page from Jasper's book, lol.
Shouldn't you be sleeping?
04:12
Ah, sleep is for people who don't get free palatable coffee at work.
Besides, it's only ten.
Says you.
I've got 11.
yawns
I'm not tired yet anyway.
I think I'll apply for my second job at Famoso, a pizza place.
It's a nicer pizza place.
Makes thin-crust "Neapolitan" pizza, you know the kind? Pretty good.
Mhm. I work with two people who know the owners of this location, should be able to get in fairly easily.
Plus I have almost three years of experience working in customer service/food industry.
At the age of seventeen. Jesus.
I have 15 years at my job.
34 in August.
Go pizza!
04:25
Nice!
nom
snxxx
Well . . . bai!
Bye!
 
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09:31
This morning begins with someone confusing a paraprosdokian for a zeugma.
We've had worse mornings!
09:47
posted on June 08, 2014 by sgdi

We’re never going to be perfect That doesn’t make us a defect There’s some give and take We’ll make many mistakes And then take some time to reflect

How am I supposed to pronounce perfect for this to work?
Or defect, for that matter.
10:11
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Yes.
@RegDwigнt You're going to defect? What will your fellow commies think?
@Robusto they won't notice, because I'll pronounce it to rhyme with reflect.
"He reflected to the U.S." Hmm, not sure that carries the same weight.
Of course not, the US uses Royal weights.
We have no kings here. We use "standard" weights.
Standard is just an anagram for "in King we trust"
10:16
Standard is an anagram for "dart sand" (or, in some locales, "sand dart"). It says nothing about kings. Or queens, for that matter.
Obviously, you don't know much Farsi.
Farsi => fairs = is far
Si? I told you.
If you told me what?
I think we should talk about something less contentious, like veganism.
10:18
Do you have that one on a macro?
One part of it, yes.
So anyway. Veganism is like a paraprosdokian.
Actually this is a paraprosdokian, not a zeugma. You have an example of a zeugma right there, it is a completely different thing. A paraprosdokian relies on how you read the sentence, a zeugma does not. In a zeugma, there are no different readings. The one word governs two other words simultaneously, and every which way you look at it. It is not subject to interpretation. — RegDwigнt ♦ 50 mins ago
I advertised your shit. Where's my royal tea.
Or standard tea, if you insist.
You may have one standard (read: small) tea.
Has.
Hm, twas rather nice.
Too much Palin in it though, and not the Michael kind.
I was going to counter with having but now it appears only had will do.
A counter strike through, so to speak.
10:23
And Palin is so dumb she doesn't feel the shame of having made a gigantic fool of herself, nor does she ken how her name has become a punchline.
Are you suggesting it takes the same level of competence to realize you're incompetent as it would take to be competent in the first place?
That's a novel thought that needs a name or five.
@RegDwigнt: Oh, I know what I was going to ask you. In the recent flap about the NSA tapping Merkel's phone, I heard a report that included some German official complaining about it. And he used the word Nachrichtendienst which got translated as "security service." Is that a common usage? While I was listening to the German I thought he was referring to the news service.
@RegDwigнt Something like that. You have to know a lot before you can appreciate how much you don't know.
Nachrichtendienst means intelligence agency. And yeah it's very common, especially these days of course, but the Germans had their very own Bundesnachrichtendienst long before that.
OK. But it's also used for "news service," right? Or am I just unaware how much I don't know?
@Robusto so seeing how your name is Kruger and mine is Dunning, I think we should have a hyphen party.
10:29
I didn't know that.
@Robusto I suppose...
I also suppose people shouldn't use it that way to avoid any confusion.
The (, BND; ; CIA code name CASCOPE) is the foreign intelligence agency of Germany, directly subordinated to the Chancellor's Office. Its headquarters are in Pullach near Munich, and Berlin (planned to be centralised in Berlin by 2016, with about 4,000 people). The BND has 300 locations in Germany and foreign countries. In 2005, the BND employed around 6,050 people, 10% of them Bundeswehr soldiers; those are officially employed by the "Amt für Militärkunde" (Office for Military Sciences). The annual budget of the BND for 2013 was € 504,770,000. The BND acts as an early warning system ...
BND is a nachrichtendienst, CIA is a nachrichtendienst, KGB FSB is a nachrichtendienst. API and Reuters are not nachrichtendienste in my book.
They are typically called Nachrichtenagenturen instead.
Allgemeiner Deutscher Nachrichtendienst
Nachrichten- und Presseagenturen sind Nachrichten liefernde Unternehmen, die Informationen über aktuelle Ereignisse enthalten, als vorgefertigte Meldungen in Text, Audio- oder Filmmaterial sowie Bilder für Massenmedien zur Verwendung in Zeitungen, Internetportalen und Nachrichtensendungen bei Radio und Fernsehen. Presse- und Nachrichtenagenturen spielen im weltweiten Nachrichtenfluss eine zentrale Rolle. Vor allem vor der Etablierung des Internets war überregionale und internationale Berichterstattung ohne Nachrichtenagenturen kaum möglich. Über 180 Nachrichtenagenturen gibt es zurzeit we...
@Robusto never heard of them, to be honest.
Die Reuters Group plc war zuletzt die weltweit größte internationale Nachrichtenagentur mit Hauptsitz in London. Ihr Schwerpunkt waren Wirtschaftsthemen, doch verkaufte sie ähnlich der Deutschen Presse-Agentur oder Associated Press auch andere Nachrichten. Nach Kauf durch und Vereinigung mit der kanadischen Thomson-Gruppe heißt der Konzern seit dem 17. April 2008 Thomson Reuters und hat seinen Hauptsitz in New York. Unternehmensprofil 90 % des Umsatzes wurden mit Börsen- und Wirtschaftsinformationen erwirtschaftet. Das Unternehmen wurde von Paul Julius Reuter 1850 in Aachen gegründet...
Der Allgemeine Deutsche Nachrichtendienst (ADN) war neben Panorama DDR die einzige zugelassene Nachrichten- und Bildagentur der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik. Er nahm eine Monopolstellung bei der Belieferung fast aller Zeitungen sowie von Funk und Fernsehen der DDR mit Nachrichten, Berichten, Artikeln und Fotos mit überregionalem Charakter ein. Mit rund sechzig Agenturen anderer Länder fand ein Nachrichtenaustausch statt, woraus sich zugleich auch die Filterfunktion für die DDR-Medien ergab. ADN unterstand offiziell dem Ministerrat der DDR, wurde aber angeleitet und beaufsichtigt vom ...
DDR.
There you have it.
Next up, you'll be bringing up Austria.
10:33
See? My German is aging fast.
They mess with language a lot.
On a second thought, I bet the DDR thing was an intelligence agency. Freudian slip.
I suppose I ought to visit Deutschland again at some point. See how much I no longer know.
Oh, like the Ministry of Truth in Orwell's 1984.
Phone...
Bah, so I do have to shower today after all.
10:57
What has phone got to do with showering?
Could somebody please look at this question?
I did not get satisfactory answers there and really need help with it.
3
Q: "The Moving Finger writes even in Heaven."

Prasad ShrivatsaFollowing is an extract from a Rabindranath Tagore story called, "A Wrong Man in Workers' Paradise". I need help in understanding the contextual meaning of a line in it. The story is about a man who never did any useful work and lived a leisurely life devoid of all care. Some boys seldom ply...

I want to have sample format for passing of exam email msg to my boss?
any help
11:17
@Robusto BTW, Twitter is a Kurznachrichtendienst. Always prefixed with that on the evening news and the like, for people who don't know what the heck Twitter is. Like myself.
Couldn't 'moving finger' be metaphor for 'fate' here?
11:50
@RegDwigнt So Twitter is a tiny spy network. I always suspected as much.
@PrasadShrivatsa The reference is to Edward Fitzgerald's translation of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. The "moving finger" is absolutely a metaphor, possibly for "fate" or "destiny," but it could also just describe reality playing out, and how what happens in life cannot be undone.
 
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13:40
Hi
When I want to send an email to two person, is that the suitable way to write to them like this:
Dear Dr. xxxx,
Dear Dr. yyyy,
or
Dear Dr. xxx, and yyyy,
Dear Doctors xxx and yyyy,
@skullpatrol Thanks.
14:17
@Rob Vas ist das?
Not the French horns. The New Year's Eve contraption.
Scrivener switched me from Courier New to Curls MT.
14:46
I will punch someone.
"Addicting"? Really?
Whatever. It's a romance novel.
!!afk shower
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Can you pick up some milk on your way back?
Not that kind of shower.
15:10
-1
A: What is the female equivalent for "uxorious"?

SlickertopThere is no corresponding term because in our common understanding a woman cannot be too doting on a man -- in fact, doting and overly attentive has long been the norm (though perhaps things are beginning to change just a bit). In other words, it is not an aberration, not even considered a pheno...

15:28
!!weather overland park, ks
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Turns out I already have milk. Oops.
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Druskininkai: 23.395C (296.545K), Sky is Clear
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Overland Park: 66.236F (19.02C, 292.17K), scattered clouds
 
1 hour later…
16:46
@tchrist Okay. So the sentence, 'This deduction was made by my noticing of fact X' is syntactically equivalent to 'This deduction was made by my taking notice of of fact X'. So it is wrong.
16:58
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 You mean, what is "Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks"?
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 That's just mean. What did you do to piss off Bartleby?
Oh, you're asking about the GD reference. Yeah, it's a late-Romantic composition by Richard Strauss, who pushed tonality to its limits. He was mostly pre-modern, but he could be categorized as expressionistic, I suppose. Anyway, the general likes him for his embrace of literature and philosophy, the intellect of his pieces. They're almost always programmatic, meaning they are based on some sort of text, as opposed to "absolute music," which exists in relation to nothing else but music..
Also, Strauss wrote some damn-near impossible flute parts. I had to sight-read the part for his Alpine Symphony in my audition for the Civic Orchestra. They wanted to hear the parts in altissimo register, which is up to a fifth above what is generally given as the flute's top note: C7, or three octaves above middle C. As I recall, they were all in ledger lines, too, no help from 8va shorthand. But I passed.
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 "New Year's Eve contraption"?
Are you talking about one of the percussion instruments?
Oh, you probably mean this:
A ratchet, also called a noisemaker (or, when used in Judaism, a gragger or grogger (etymologically from ) or ra'ashan ()), is an orchestral musical instrument played by percussionists. Operating on the principle of the ratchet device, a gearwheel and a stiff board is mounted on a handle, which rotates freely. The player holds the handle and swings the whole mechanism around. The momentum makes the board click against the gearwheel, producing a clicking and rattling noise. A popular design consists of a thick wooden cog wheel attached to a handle and two wooden flanges that alternately...
> The ratchet is similar to a football rattle, which is sometimes used in its place when a particularly loud sound is needed. It is used in, for example, Richard Strauss's piece Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks and Arnold Schoenberg's Gurre-Lieder.
17:39
@Robusto I liked what I listened to. I hadn't read any farther than the title, and once I listened to it, wondered how it would be relaxing. Then I read on.
@Robusto I do.
@Robusto Perhaps he wanted to rest overnight instead of being left open. I gave him some ginger nut cakes.
I just had a Subway sandwich.
18:22
Hello.
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Mine's been open for months.
@Robusto Yay!
You haven't rebooted for months?
@Cerberus hello, doggie!
woof
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Why would you?
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Correct.
18:28
@tchrist because problems. Windows updates, for some.
@tchrist To save energy?
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 One reboots to change the kernel, if then. Anything else is broken.
@Cerberus For that was hibernation invented.
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 I had no idea that ginger bore nuts!
If you don't count that as booting...
A ginger biscuit, ginger nut or ginger snap is a globally popular biscuit based snack food, flavoured with ginger. Ginger biscuits are flavoured with powdered ginger and a variety of other spices, most commonly cinnamon, molasses and nutmeg. There are many recipes for ginger nuts. Global terminology In the UK, the Isle of Man, Australia, and New Zealand and most of the former British Empire, they are often called ginger nuts. Ginger nuts are not to be confused with pepper nuts, which are a variety of gingerbread, somewhat smaller in diameter, but thicker. Gingernuts are the most popul...
@Cerberus Neither do I. I still little reason to turn off my computer, considering that its job is to keep busy so I don’t have to.
18:40
Energy?
@tchrist I would prefer not to. But Windows updates.
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Would you please stop using such foul language? It disturbs me.
@Cerberus My computer is always doing something for me.
And in fact, many somethings.
As in, being a server?
@Cerberus What’s a server?
It’s a computer. It does things for me.
It pulls in mail, it runs cron jobs, it does various things.
It is not a server but a servant.
And I am its master.
If I send the servants home early, no work gets done.
18:53
That'll explain why I rarely see anyone ever leave this room.
Except Jasper.
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 I switch off my computer each time after use.
@Alraxite I switch on and off my computer several times a day.
@JasperLoy Me too.
@Alraxite Great minds think alike, lol.
Haha.
19:25
And we're back.
Yeah, I got that error too.
Like thrice.
I got that too. The developers should be fired.
Well, the cat fixed it.
Yeah. I had to click on the reload button three times and then had to open a new tab; can you imagine?!
Wow, a semicolon and an interrobang, awesome!
19:26
I like how they take the blame on themselves though.
Calm down with some Tal Farlow.
The cat looks like cornbread, lol.
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 What do people in the US use their middle name for?
Distinction. Honoring ancestors. Showing a kid you mean business when they're in trouble and you call out their full name.
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Nice.
If I write lhf, will people know that it stands for low hanging fruit?
19:40
No.
More clouds.
@JasperLoy They just have them out of habit. But they also help distinguish between people who have the same first and last names.
Ah. Three hours to myself on a Sunday afternoon.
@KitFox And yet you come to this chat, lol.
I know. I was going to the Overlook, but stopped through here.
19:57
Are your husband and kids at home?
I wouldn't have time to myself if they were.

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