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Cerberus

02:00

But you're using Latin words all the time.

user19161

Anyway I have finished my tea, though I am still pondering. This pondering might last a few years.

Cerberus

The longer, the wiser.

user19161

Not true, it depends on how things go. There is something called the airplane in case you forgot.

user19161

I hope you finish your thesis soon, and well.

user19161

@cerb You should be off to bed!

Cerberus

02:05

Thanks.

Yeah I should be... but I should be doing so many things!

Life is complicated.

@JasperLoy I suppose so. But there's also loads of intelligent girls in Singapore!

user19161

@Cerberus Love doesn't work like that. You see a painting, you like it and you get it. You don't say there are a million paintings in the world.

Cerberus

Why not? There are.

user19161

Let's just say I'm programmed differently from you.

Cerberus

But have you tried?

user19161

Tried what? Please remain cryptic yet comprehensible to me.

user19161

02:12

Anyway I will remain true to myself. Matt made a number of very good observations in the email.

Cerberus

Tried out local varieties, digitally.

If I may put it so unromantically.

user19161

I don't intend to. I don't get along with local varieties in general. And I intend to get well and go to grad school and live and work there.

Cerberus

Aren't you underestimating the locals?

Does it hurt to try?

Going there isn't going to happen next week. Why not look around for a bit?

user19161

Let's say I have tried with regard to the local varieties for many years. And I am not really looking now in my current situation, just focusing on healing. But if it happens while I am not looking, it happens.

Cerberus

OK.

user19161

02:17

In fact I realised a lot of good things happen when you are not looking for them. It is called serendipity.

Cerberus

As long as you don't stray too far from common sense.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

These J.Lo conversations are always entertaining because I have no friggin' idea what you guys are talking about. Or if I do, why you dance around the topic so much.

Reminds me of high school.

Cerberus

Haha.

Just generalities.

user19161

@MrShinyandNew安宇 J. Lo? I didn't really know what Reg was referring to!

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@JasperLoy I thought you pointed out earlier that J.Lo might refer to you. Bam! new nickname

Cerberus

02:19

But you know now, si?

user19161

@MrShinyandNew安宇 OK, thank you!

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

My friend and I, in high school, were totally TOTALLY unlucky with girls. We would discuss with each other who we liked, how we planned to get their attention, or whatever. But we were a bit... shy? or dumb? or both? and so we didn't refer to the girls as female, rather we used gender-neutral "they". And we didn't name them by name, they had code names. like "The comparatively tall one", which was too long, so she became "Comparatively".

user19161

@MrShinyandNew安宇 They are meant to be deliberately cryptic yet comprehensible to those who need to know, since this is public.

Cerberus

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Haha, that sounds fun.

user19161

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Sounds familiar!

Cerberus

02:21

School slang can be hilarious.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

In the end, I blundered along until one day a girl indicated that she might be interested in me. At that point I just decided to ask her to a dinner date and things took off slowly from there. Everything that I planned/learned/discussed with my friend was useless in the end.

simchona

@dr65 Oi. Stop pushing everything off the front page

Cerberus

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Yeah your friend and you sound rather silly!

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

I don't know if these anecdotes have anything to do with anything that ever gets discussed around here, mind you.

yeah we were pretty silly.

Cerberus

They do.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

02:23

@Cerberus my official position is that I don't know.

Cerberus

Very prudent.

You are a modern Socrates.

By the way, @J.Lo, where was that picture in your avatar taken?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

So if there were anyone here who maybe was in a similar situation to the high-school me, just hypothetically speaking, I'd suggest to just let things happen and not worry too much.

user19161

Cerberus is Socrates.

Cerberus

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Apt advice.

ChaosGamer ΕΛ-Υ ēel-ū

so who is Aristotle? Who is Plato?

Cerberus

02:25

I am not saying I know nothing.

@ChaosGamerΕΛΥēelū Google "Wikipedia".

5

user19161

Who starred that?

ChaosGamer ΕΛ-Υ ēel-ū

@Cerberus nonon... i know who they are, but who represents them?

Cerberus

Not I.

@ChaosGamerΕΛΥēelū Ah. Jasper is Plato.

ChaosGamer ΕΛ-Υ ēel-ū

I hate water, So I'm certainly not Plato XD.

Cerberus

I am Aristotle.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

02:26

gods, I miss those days of high-school shenanigans.

Cerberus

Eh what does Plato have to do with water?

ChaosGamer ΕΛ-Υ ēel-ū

I thoguht you were Socrates.

user19161

@Cerberus None of my pictures are photos I took. They are all from avatarsdb.com.

Cerberus

@ChaosGamerΕΛΥēelū No, that is Mr S&N.

@JasperLoy OK so you don't know?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

my friend and I would go out on friday night and go to a donut shop, and scheme until 3am.

Cerberus

02:27

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Haha what a wild night!

ChaosGamer ΕΛ-Υ ēel-ū

@Cer nvm, that was Thalse.

Cerberus

*Thales

user19161

@Cerberus I don't know, but looks like where you live!

user19161

@chaos We aren't being serious about the name substitution here anyway.

Cerberus

@JasperLoy It does look Old-Worldy pre-war.

user19161

02:29

@MrShinyandNew安宇 I usually try to scheme myself if at all.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Cerberus yeah "wild" isn't really a good adjective for my life. :) But I still had fun. It was carefree. And one of those schemes turned into gold, eventually. In that I sufficiently impressed a girl that she eventually married me. But maybe it wasn't necessary... but I didn't want to take any chances.

simchona

I'm a Guru!

user19161

@simchona in scheming?

Cerberus

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Which scheme did you elect to implement? One among the 65b-77a categories?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Basically, I learned that this girl (future Mrs. S&N) liked puzzles. So I made a puzzle for her, and gave her the pieces one at a time, over a period of days, with the final piece asking her to be my girlfriend.

simchona

02:30

No, for an answer:

40

A: Proverb or expression for a situation with two choices, both leading to a different kind of trouble

The most common English phrase for this is between a rock and a hard place. It means: In difficulty, faced with a choice between two unsatisfactory options. Specifically, to say you are caught between a rock and a hard place means that you are in a dilemma. The exact dilemma seems to be exa...

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Oh my god. Can you teach my boyfriend that?

Cerberus

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Aww that is actually very cute.

Silly, but cute.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Since then I've never really topped it for sheer cheesy romance. Shouldn't have set the bar so high, now that I think of it.

Cerberus

That was high indeed.

simchona

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Well you married her. I think you're good.

you could always redo it on an anniversary

Cerberus

So you were too shy to make a move, or ask her out?

@simchona That would be hilarious.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

02:33

@Cerberus who me? too shy? Well, not exactly. A bit shy, actually. But I wanted to make it interesting.

user19161

@MrShinyandNew安宇 You are not shy, you are shiny!

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Actually when I gave her the first 8 pieces of the puzzle (9 total) I delivered them "anonymously". But the last piece I delivered in person. At that point the text on the puzzle was already legible and thus it was obvious what the last piece would say. So I gave it to her and waited for her answer.

simchona

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

But there was a potential snag, in that she is Chinese and I am not, and for some people that can be a problem. I hadn't sensed any issues but you never know, especially if the parents object.

Cerberus

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Interesting? But you took a big risk.

simchona

02:35

@MrShinyandNew安宇 +1 for hapa babies

ChaosGamer ΕΛ-Υ ēel-ū

Which is better: Crystal Balls or Magic 8 Balls?

Cerberus

Balls.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

So I give her the puzzle piece, (which says "will you be my girlfriend" on it), then I wait, and she says "I'd love to.".... and then there's a huge awkward silence, because I was expecting the literal words "yes" or "no". So I was expecting her to say ".... but I can't because...".

simchona

@Cerberus I am restraining myself from starring that out of childish glee

ChaosGamer ΕΛ-Υ ēel-ū

Merlin's bloody blue balls....

user19161

02:36

@ChaosGamerΕΛΥēelū I prefer beefballs.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

But happy me, there was no "but".

@simchona ok what's "hapa"?

simchona

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Congratulations! And the parents were fine with it?

Cerberus

@simchona Hah childish indeed!

simchona

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Hapa is "half"--usually half Asian and half something else

Cerberus

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Ohh! She is a real player.

user19161

02:38

@simchona But I still don't understand why the word is like that.

simchona

It can also refer to people who are racially mixed

@JasperLoy Hawaiian

ChaosGamer ΕΛ-Υ ēel-ū

@shiny YEs? No? Maybe?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@simchona yes, though her dad apparently had reservations about me that didn't really go away for some time. But he never made an issue of it so there was no problem.

simchona

@dr65 You're my new favorite person.

drɱ65 δ

@simchona Sorry. It's late here...

@simchona Why?

simchona

02:39

@drɱ65δ For the Guru badge

ChaosGamer ΕΛ-Υ ēel-ū

@sim ?

drɱ65 δ

@simchona Ohh, that!

ChaosGamer ΕΛ-Υ ēel-ū

?.?

O.o

Q.Q

drɱ65 δ

@simchona You deserve it!

simchona

@ChaosGamerΕΛΥēelū He +1ed an answer where I answered first, was accepted, and had 40 votes

Cerberus

02:39

Oh, dear. Crisis!

ChaosGamer ΕΛ-Υ ēel-ū

P.P

Cerberus

Sim is a real player too.

drɱ65 δ

@simchona It's not fair that I have one when you don't

ChaosGamer ΕΛ-Υ ēel-ū

A.A

Cerberus

Poor Chaos.

simchona

02:39

@drɱ65δ Aww you're sweet

ChaosGamer ΕΛ-Υ ēel-ū

C.C

simchona

@Chaos Please stop.

user19161

If Cerberus is Socrates, then I am Hippocrates. This is true because a conditional statement is true if the hypothesis is false.

ChaosGamer ΕΛ-Υ ēel-ū

ahahahahahah......

ahahah...

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@JasperLoy Did you ever hear how you can prove anything if 1=2? Like, I can prove that I'm the pope.

drɱ65 δ

02:40

@simchona Incidentally, I am impressed by your rep cap record

simchona

@ChaosGamerΕΛΥēelū I think you're the only one who thinks you're funny

@drɱ65δ Summer break--I can spend wayyyy to much time here

And then when school starts I probably will do one answer and go away to study

drɱ65 δ

@simchona how many days has it got to?

simchona

@drɱ65δ 45 days on the site, I think 26 rep cap

user19161

Similarly, if Chaos is Kimchi, then I am Sashimi.

drɱ65 δ

50% to epic, then.

I'm still 17

ChaosGamer ΕΛ-Υ ēel-ū

02:42

@Jasper Nah, I'm chille.

drɱ65 δ

My summer break ended a while back now

simchona

@ChaosGamerΕΛΥēelū That isn't a word.

drɱ65 δ

G2g and cheerio!

simchona

@drɱ65δ That explains why you haven't been around.

user19161

@simchona Actually I find Chaos funny too.

user19161

02:43

@ChaosGamerΕΛΥēelū You mean chilli?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@simchona btw I posted a pic of my "hapa" babies a while back. They ARE cute, if I do say so myself.

ChaosGamer ΕΛ-Υ ēel-ū

Yep. Yeppity Yeppity Yep. Y-E-P spells YEp!

user19161

@ChaosGamerΕΛΥēelū Chaos is funny. Chaos is cute.

simchona

@MrShinyandNew安宇 There's a book called "hapa" I think. Shows pictures of different hapa people

You might take a look at it when your kids are older, especially if they (like me) originally grew up in an area where they're the only ones

ChaosGamer ΕΛ-Υ ēel-ū

I better change my name soon.... chaos is going to be confused.

chaos, New Jersey

8.7k 13 35

simchona

02:45

@ChaosGamerΕΛΥēelū It doesn't matter. It doesn't ping them unless they've been here recently

user19161

@ChaosGamerΕΛΥēelū I look forward to that on 97.

ChaosGamer ΕΛ-Υ ēel-ū

Phew...

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@simchona We live in Toronto. mixed-couples maybe outnumber non-mixed here.

simchona

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Oh well, never mind. When I was born I was basically the only one

Then we moved. I'm part of a majority now

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Where I work, there are 8 guys, 6 of which date or are married to Chinese/Japanese/Korean women, and only one of us is asian.

And one of the guys is single, but I bet he'd be dating a Japanese girl if he could.

simchona

02:47

Makes note: move to Toronto

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

And the last guy... I dunno what race his girlfriend is, but he's studying Chinese language as a hobby.

@simchona Yeah! Toronto is awesome.

simchona

I've never been to Canada

user19161

@simchona You once thought it was in the US.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Actually it's very strange to me that my company's entire R&D dept has studied asian language.

simchona

@JasperLoy Umm...facetiously?

user19161

02:49

@MrShinyandNew安宇 There are cosmic forces at work.

user19161

There are pictures which you can take to show the aura you are emanating I think, something about EM waves.

user19161

I probably have a very dark aura now...

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Aug 11 at 15:39, by Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

btw here is an updated pic of both kids https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-0nHicJMaRcQ/TkP2On8Pw0I/AAAAAAAAAk4/nzh4Cyvrfs4/s800/IMG_20110605_184116.jpg

simchona

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Cute

user19161

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Sweet.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

02:53

Someone actually asked me if they were twins, the other day.

Well, Toronto is nice, but it's late here, and those kids won't take themselves to daycare tomorrow, so I must be signing off. see you all later.

user19161

03:10

There appears to be a bug in google mail. On the left, under chat, if you choose to display all contacts, it actually displays some only. If you choose to display most popular, it displays all.

user19161

Anyone who fixed this pray tell how.

simchona

@Kit: this was happy comment, right?

This answer has a lot of interesting detail about the words forward and forwards in addition to the phrase "looking forward."

KitΘδς

I was irritated with FF's comments on MrShiny's answer, so I commented. I didn't want to appear as though I were casting aspersions on your answer, so I wrote nice things on yours too.

user19161

@KitΘδς Good trick.

KitΘδς

@JasperLoy What trick?

simchona

03:16

@Kit I see what you mean. I hadn't read his comments on the other answer.

user19161

@KitΘδς Use the left arrow.

KitΘδς

@JasperLoy What trick?

user19161

I am very glad Robusto taught me how to use the left arrow.

simchona

Ok. I commented on his answer too

user19161

@KitΘδς Well, I am just saying that you did what you wrote in your second sentence to offset the effects caused by what you wrote in the first. Sorry if I am too incomprehensible these days.

KitΘδς

03:19

@JasperLoy Oh I see. Yes, I was trying to be considerate.

Good night!

user19161

@KitΘδς Night!

simchona

Good night @Kit

user19161

@simchona You should ping her so that she gets it in the morning.

user19161

I think half the people in chat are not aware of the left arrow.

user19161

OK I will take a nap before meeting my friend for the rally.

simchona

03:28

Ok

Mana

Toronto is cool.

goes back to lurking

simchona

Haha

OT:

-1

Q: The use of "hamlets" in a sentence

Cruising white Midwestern hamlets in his black bus, Obama tried to justify not calling lawmakers back to D.C. by saying they’d just continue to bicker. After looking up "hamlets," I see it is a small village. Could someone explain what "Cruising white Midwestern hamlets in his black bus" me...

meaning

And @mana, congrats on modship!

Mana

Thank you. :)

simchona

So how does it feel?

Mana

Uhmm, it's actually really overwhelming at first

simchona

03:32

gets out interview equipment

flashes camera in your eyes

Mana

It's like someone slamming a giant panel covered in red buttons that cause things to blow up, in front of your face, and you have to figure out which buttons to press at the right times or bad things happen.

simchona

Do they come with signs like "Do Not Touch!!!!!"?

Mana

No, not really.

But it's cool. I'm happy I got elected.

simchona

I'm happy for you

Now you have double reason to be pinged when flags fly

Mana

eugh

chat flags make me nervous, man. It's always so hard to figure out what's going on and what's offensive and what isn't. Except in the really clear cases.

simchona

03:38

Like trg

ChaosGamer ΕΛ-Υ ēel-ū

03:58

Congrats @mana.

Mana

Thanks!!

ChaosGamer ΕΛ-Υ ēel-ū

now, I must sleep. ;Z

user19161

04:41

Can't sleep yet. Congrats @mana!

Mana

Thanks! I'm going to bed. Good night.

user19161

OK good night @mana and @chaos! Now I'll take a nap.

simchona

08:28

Is this on topic?

0

Q: Pronunciation and orthography of foreign names?

How is the pronunciation and the orthography of foreign names such as Gadhafi, Gorbachev determined ? How do English speakers pronounce such foreign names?

pronunciation orthography

Matt Ellen Д

09:11

damp socks are unpleasant

user19161

@simchona Removed!

user19161

@MattEllenД And smelly!

Matt Ellen Д

@JasperLoy I don't want to think about it! I'll be glad when I get back home and can take them off

although, by the looks of things, they'll be getting wetter on my cycle home

user19161

@MattEllenД I read your email and replied.

user19161

@MattEllenД How did they get so wet?

Matt Ellen Д

09:15

@JasperLoy Oh! I haven't got the reply yet, you must have sent it when I was asleep

@JasperLoy it's raining, and my shoes are not water tight

user19161

@MattEllenД Indeed.

Matt Ellen Д

I thought the rain would lift as I cycled in, but not so

it got worse

user19161

Were you surprised by the email or did you expect its contents?

Matt Ellen Д

I wasn't totally surprised, I mean I'd seen the same things as you

user19161

So you have been observant.

Matt Ellen Д

09:19

I hope you realise my advice is just one opinion. I'm no Oracle at Delphi!

user19161

I do. Your opinion is superior to Cerb's in my opinion.

user19161

sips tea

Matt Ellen Д

@JasperLoy I read the transcript every morning :D

user19161

@MattEllenД But to read it and note one-liners others would miss is very hard.

user19161

And to read it in context of the past is hard too.

user19161

09:21

So you are quite a good reader I must say.

Matt Ellen Д

I like it here, so I find things easy to remember

I like your new avatar

user19161

I am perhaps about to make some difficult decisions then, on the next step.

user19161

Sunsets and sunrises cannot be distinguished for avatars.

user19161

So either can serve as either.

user19161

But the next step must be done with caution.

Matt Ellen Д

09:24

@JasperLoy well, there's no rush.

@JasperLoy very true. I was considering it a rise, but it could easily be a set

user19161

Indeed there is no rush, considering my current situation especially.

user19161

I might even take years to make the next step, or not make it at all.

user19161

But I am happy about the experience, even if there is none.

user19161

Now my avatar is blond like you.

Matt Ellen Д

@JasperLoy That's good. I try to see life that way too, it can be difficult at times

user19161

09:26

Though your points in the email are valid, things are still difficult to fathom.

user19161

I guess people you meet in person are difficult to fathom already, and this is worse.

Matt Ellen Д

yes, there is so little to go on here

user19161

It is like dissecting a historical text and thinking of the lives of the people who lived back then, interesting.

user19161

I will be joining my friend soon at his church rally.

Matt Ellen Д

it's very interesting, I really like trying to understand people. I'm not particularly good at it.

@JasperLoy what are they rallying behind?

user19161

09:29

@MattEllenД No idea. Some Christian talk session.

Matt Ellen Д

are you going along to socialise?

user19161

No, I go to listen to the talk, socialise is what I do here!

Matt Ellen Д

:D

what is the talk about?

user19161

So now I hope for two miracles: one is you know what, two is what I just sent you.

Matt Ellen Д

well, I hope you get what you need

user19161

09:31

@MattEllenД No idea, some Christian thing, I am always interested in these stuff.

simchona

Hello, both of you

user19161

@MattEllenД And also what I want.

Matt Ellen Д

hi @simchona :)

simchona

One of you want to finish closing this?

-1

Q: Does the root -batic have a source meaning?

I'm curious about the words aerobatic and acrobatic. They seem of Latin origin and I wonder if anyone could enlighten me as to the meaning of the "-batic" portion of these words. Edit: I stand corrected, it is of Greek origin.

etymology suffixes greek

Matt Ellen Д

I cannot, yet

146 reps to get!

user19161

09:33

@simchona What did you choose?

simchona

@JasperLoy It doesn't apparently matter as long as 5 vote

I said off topic, though

Also this:

0

Q: Whats the difference between taxonomy and category

I think Taxonomy & category both refers classification.What's the difference.suitable examples please

word-choice differences

user19161

@simchona Done!

user19161

@simchona Done!

simchona

Yay! Double yay!

user19161

Double done would have had an alliterative effect.

simchona

09:35

Double down

Matt Ellen Д

pair of aces?

simchona

Call

Matt Ellen Д

I always get excited. luckily there's no need to bluff in blackjack!

user19161

Double decker.

Matt Ellen Д

tasty

user19161

09:36

I miss the non air-conditioned buses of the past.

user19161

They are windy, especially on top.

Matt Ellen Д

user19161

@MattEllenД Haha, I was thinking of the bus!

Matt Ellen Д

@JasperLoy I know :D I'm hungry though ;)

simchona

@Reg is here somewhere

Matt Ellen Д

09:38

Reg is awlays here ;)

user19161

@simchona No, why?

simchona

No--he closed the taxonomy question

Oh gosh

0

Q: What would you call a person who farts a lot?

I came across one word that is "GAS-BAG" are there any other specific (not slang) words?

single-word-requests

user19161

I wonder how many users read the FAQ. I noticed you got the analytical badge @sim.

user19161

@simchona LOL

Matt Ellen Д

@simchona flatulent

user19161

09:40

@MattEllenД Indeed! Perhaps you can answer.

Matt Ellen Д

bah, someone's already answered

simchona

It looks like general reference in that case

Matt Ellen Д

yes

second hit on google search

for "excessive farting"

user19161

I think I will forget about coffee and stick to tea. Tea seems much better than coffee.

user19161

At least it refreshes without agitating.

Matt Ellen Д

09:42

@JasperLoy I'm not a coffee person, but I enjoy tea now an again. I'm not really a hot drink drinker - I'm too impatient when I'm thirsty

user19161

It really depends on your search engine and search words though.

user19161

I used to hang out at Starbucks and study for hours over one cheap drink.

user19161

I get small Earl Grey there.

Matt Ellen Д

did you study in Singapore?

user19161

@MattEllenД Yes.

user19161

09:46

When sim comes here and doesn't post a message for long, she is probably busy chasing rep.

simchona

Not chasing rep

I rep capped

Now I'm chasing down people who try to sneak in off-topic questions

I'm layin' down the law: the GRAMMAR law

user19161

It is not good to rep cap. It means rep will likely be wasted.

user19161

I wasted quite a lot of rep that day when I got charity votes, because I also answered a few then.

user19161

Down with rep cap!

user19161

My Debian 6 is fully updated and functional even with Firefox 3.5!

user19161

09:52

I announce that I have decided to stick to Debian for the rest of my life, yay!

Matt Ellen Д

good! it must be a tad frustrating being stuck with old FF

user19161

@MattEllenД In fact it's called Iceweasel on Debian.

user19161

Debian comes out once about every 2 years while Ubuntu is 6 months.

user19161

By the time it is out the software is already a year old.

user19161

But the stability is superb.

simchona

09:55

my rep recalc always loses me points

user19161

@simchona That would give you the true measure of things then!

Matt Ellen Д

@JasperLoy that's good. I've been having some stability issues with unbuntu 10.10 on virtualbox, but I'm not sure which is to blame

user19161

But not that many are deleted to affect rep significantly.

user19161

@MattEllenД 11.04 is terrible.

user19161

11.04 has driven me away.

Matt Ellen Д

09:57

oh dear

user19161

Debian=Debra+Ian, how sweet. They married and divorced if I recall correctly.

user19161

Which guy would name an OS after a girl?

simchona

Shouldn't it be "Deb and Ian" again then?

And that guy, apparently

user19161

Well, a name stays forever. Kittens are universal, while Debian is called the universal OS since it works on many architectures other than i386 and amd64.

Matt Ellen Д

:O romantic turmoil in the software world!

user19161

10:01

Next time I will call my mathematical theorem **per too!

Matt Ellen Д

they've changed flagging from valid/invalid to helpful/declined. I like it.

user19161

Coincidentally, **per is very appropriate, but only I would understand this, no further comments.

user19161

Gotta go, later.

Matt Ellen Д

ok

have a good time at the rally!

simchona

bye @Jasper!

well. It's just us now.

Matt Ellen Д

10:07

aye

all alone in the room

simchona

a.uysal was suspended

Matt Ellen Д

really! well there's no surprises there

a lot of low quality submissions

simchona

And they were just plain wrong

Matt Ellen Д

Is stackunderblow still active?

@simchona yes

simchona

@MattEllenД 2 year suspension

Matt Ellen Д

10:09

wow! they must really mean it

I wonder if some people actually realise what they're doing

surely they must read what people say?

simchona

there were suspended before that's why

Matt Ellen Д

How can they stay so oblivious

simchona

I have no idea

Matt Ellen Д

I suppose SU is quite young (according to the profile), so that can account for it. But Uysal was purporting to be a teacher!

simchona

@MattEllenД SU wasn't actually 13. I asked once--another question they said they were in their 20s. And they answered a resume/work email question so I asked if they were really 13

Matt Ellen Д

10:14

!! The internet is a strange place. I will never nearly comprehend how strange

simchona

Probably not

Matt Ellen Д

looking forward to getting back to student life?

simchona

Yes actually

I like at least some studying

Matt Ellen Д

That's good. You're studying CIS, if I remember?

simchona

well, i'm going to sleep

it's been a long day

Matt Ellen Д

10:17

ok, good night!

simchona

but yup--CIS and Economics

Matt Ellen Д

hope you sleep well

Matt Ellen Д

10:28

and then there was one

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