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19:00
@MrShinyandNew安宇 Are you in a different time zone, where three minutes pass in two?
Mine is at 35:46...
@RegDwightѬſ道 I made the chicken start rowing in order to pass the time faster
> You have been on a raft with a chicken for 37 minutes 14 seconds.
NOW
There might be some lag between copying and pasting into this chat
Well your chicken does row faster.
37:14 NOW
You have been on a raft with a chicken for 38 minutes 46 seconds. now
19:02
What do you do about it exactly? Other than staring at it ...
I guess I'm about 1:20ish ahead of you
So 1:30, roughly.
It takes me a second or two to do the actual copy and paste.
@Gigili Just listen, cast all of your worries upon the chicken.
I have to give up just 91 seconds after you to have sailed farther.
@Gigili sing along. Row along. Enjoy the landscape. The possibilities are endless! Endless!
19:04
Hi, Ho, chicken on a raft
You can do anything at chicken on a raft. Anything at all.
Huh, an owl and a chicken on a raft.
Bah, I thought it was a game.
Who would have thought.
@Gigili It is a game. But the only winning move is not to play.
19:05
@MrShinyandNew安宇 One might say it's a strange game.
@Gigili It is. You get to the first boss after 40 minutes.
> You have been on a raft with a chicken for 42 minutes 7 seconds.
I'm at 40:50 right now and I have beaten him already.
I can't wait until I get the rooster upgrade.
Hi, Oh, Rooster on a raft.
Yeah I can see it downstream.
19:06
I wouldn't listen to that sound for 40 minutes, jingelemu ha chicken on a raft, chicken on a raft.
Kill the chicken.
> You have been on a raft with a chicken for 44 minutes 8 seconds.
that's all I can take
Now I'm listening to Gotye
Somebody that I used to know?
You didn't have to stoop so low
audacious misspellings, table for one
@cornbreadninja Shouldn't that just be "audacious misspelling"?
Else you need a table for 2
19:10
this is how my day has gone.
Okay, now that JL is not around, could you please have a look at my translation:
> Herpes viruses family has a capsid with a tetrahedral symmetry. Broken skin and mucous membranes of the body are ways of getting infected with this virus.
Glycoproteins which covers the external surface of viruses, sticks on private holders of external target cell surface and enters the cell reproducing and moving forward to enter the body, they enter neurotic cells of the host and this cycle will continue until complete treatment’s done. They’ll remain in Neural Ganglions inactively afterwards.
(Silly ">")
@Gigili I don't have time to proofread it all but one thing that stands out is that some of your subjects and verbs don't agree in number
@Gigili *The herpes virus family…
@MrShinyandNew安宇 Thank you, I'll correct it.
@Mahnax Thank you.
19:14
@MrShinyandNew安宇 I had forgotten about that! Briefly! But now you've caught me just as another run through the Fallout soundtrack is ending...
@Gigili *Glycoproteins which cover
*stick not sticks
eg: herpes viruses family has (virus family has)
Glycoproteins which covers (which cover) or (glycoprotein which covers)
F'x
F'x
@RegDwight I posted this image today in an innocent post on Mathematica, then somehow I thought you'd like it
chatkillah out
19:16
I like how it's a self-referential and self-explanatory fail: the word "FAIL" is over the wrong continent.
Oh hi @Fx.
F'x
F'x
@Mahnax hi
@Fx How are you?
F'x
F'x
@Mahnax very fine, lovely spring weather where I am
and you?
@Fx Oh, I'm good I suppose. These lab reports won't write themselves, though.
F'x
F'x
19:24
@Mahnax well, if it's any consolation, I should be reading my student's PhD thesis, instead of chatting round here :)
@Mahnax so remember while you suffer to write, someone will suffer to read it!
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@Fx Ha.
@Fx You are a teacher?
what is love? baby don't hurt me don't hurt me no more woohhowowohoaoaoah owoooaahoa waaahaaah
F'x
F'x
@Mahnax yeah
You have been on a raft with a chicken for 1 hour 12 seconds.
@Fx Cool.
@RegDwightѬſ道 I'm so sorry.
19:27
> You have been on a raft with a chicken for 41 minutes 31 seconds.
so i think Reg is beating me, as always
Mercilessly.
it's the price we pay for enjoying the benevolent care of our owly overlord
JSB is in love with me today. Must be the spring.
Or he watched too many Steven Seagal movies again.
where did the idea that i love steven seagal come from?
have i ever mentioned seagal before?
It was complicated. Also, all wrong.
19:29
i saw the ping. i was very confused.
but not motivated to read the surrounding context and figure out wth you were talking about
Nah, it's just a couple messages down from there.
7 hours ago, by RegDwight Ѭſ道
Because you see, I actually have that Romanian friend who admires Steven Seagal because he's Romanian.
Turns out that Steven Seagal is not very Romanian after all.
@JSBᾶngs Surely you mean our poopy overlord.
Quit touching my stuff.
@RegDwightѬſ道 i wasn't even that motivated
but thanks for enlightening me
19:34
Thou aret willkommen.
Someone is in @JSBngs's answers not understanding the formatting.
> You have been on a raft with a chicken for 1 hour 12 minutes 53 seconds.
@RegDwightѬſ道 you're cheating. overclocking your clock.
Not at all.
I am sitting here, patiently waiting for the next stanza.
@RegDwightѬſ道 *art
Orly?
When will people let me troll in peace?
@RegDwightѬſ道 When you stöp doing it with umlauts.
19:45
I haven't even started.
You did it once.
Oh well.
Once is not a start.
Troll on, moderator. Troll on.
You should see me getting started one day.
Then again maybe you shouldn't.
It's probably for the best.
19:46
shouldn't
He just doesn't want to see your umlaut.
@Mahnax Someone has to do it, so I figured I might as well do it myself.
Or do you want Thursagen to troll you?
@RegDwightѬſ道 I don't want Thursagen, period.
He doesn't sound too pleasant.
He was okay. His sis trolled harder.
Or was it his uncle? We never quite figured out. Probably neither did he.
You mean 3I?
19:49
Hey Cerberus remembers!
God exists!
That you misremember.
No, wait, it must be the Lord of Tartarus.
That's more like it.
Hey, I thought you were semi-religious.
19:50
I am demi-religious.
So same thing.
I actually wonder why we have semi and demi.
So Ashton Kutcher can tell his wife from a truck.
> from L. dimidius
Funny.
Ah, so that is funny.
The -di- part should not have been cut off.
shakes heads in disapproval
19:54
Tell that to the Romans.
Oh wait, them's all dead!
yawns
It's the Frogs what did it.
Hi.
Hi!
Tired?
19:56
Still a little sleepy.
@KitFox Are you not entertained? Are you not entertained? Is this not why you are here?
Wah! That's a bit intense for me right now, @Reg.
> You have been on a raft with a chicken for 1 hour 30 minutes 27 seconds.
@Mahnax Looks like my old dog.
@Mahnax Haha brilliant.
19:58
Actually I think I'll leave the raft and go listen to Ms XXXX for a change.
@Cerberus I know, I love it.
I had a border collie when I was a girl.
@RegDwightѬſ道 How long have you been rafting?
Smartest dogs evah.
i love it when i google a code question and get a stack overflow link back
19:59
The cheering crowd looks very much like my family at a garden weekend.
@JSBᾶngs That's how I found SO.
That's a lot of family.
@Mahnax You have been on a raft with a chicken for 1 hour 32 minutes 27 seconds.
@Mahnax Me too.
@RegDwightѬſ道 Oh dear.
@KitFox Haha, nice.
19:59
@JSBᾶngs Google is probably filtering its results based on your former visits, hehe.
is enticed by lovely NES sitting just metres away
Like many of us, I came to EL&U by way of SO.
21 hours ago, by RegDwight Ѭſ道
Very refreshing.
Especially when still on the raft.
Ouch. covers ears
@JSB should try it.
20:01
Hm, do any of you remember my first question here, by any chance?
Not off the top of my head.
It scored -3 and got closed.
Did it have to do with monkeys?
That made me determined to not suck here.
Aww, I can't even see it?
20:02
Get to 10k. That's where all the gory goodness is.
@Mahnax Aww. You know how mean people are here.
@Cerberus Haha, it didn't really bother me.
I should have read the FAQ, 'twas my own fault.
What's a FAQ?
You mean an FAQ?
Yeah, an.
20:03
@KitFox How could I know if I don't know what it is?
Hey! I should ask a question about whether to use a or an in front of FAQ.
The Russians pronounce FAQ as fuck.
I'm stuck on 8982.
Clearly it's not an fuck.
enjoys thinking about an fuck
enjoys thinking about Russians
20:05
Okay, I'm going to play The Legend of Zelda now.
No enjoying thinking etc.
Have fun!
@Mahnax Which part?
@RegDwightѬſ道 The very first part.
Fourth dungeon.
> You have been on a raft with a chicken for 1 hour 6 minutes 9 seconds.
20:06
The very first one?
@Gigili I'm so sorry…
Or the very first one for SNES?
@RegDwightѬſ道 I think so...
I always mute the laptop.
I have the very first one on that Jubilee Disc that came together with Twilight Princess.
It's kind of unplayable.
The first one people actually remember was the one for SNES/Famicom.
Also, I should be playing the Skyward Sword right now.
Instead I am stuck on a raft.
20:09
With a chicken?
> You have been on a raft with a chicken for 1 hour 42 minutes 34 seconds.
Wife's back and insists on going for a walk.
She hasn't even listened to the song but for a minute.
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Q: What is RAS syndrome?

Carlo_R.What is RAS syndrome? Is RAS a language's virus like HIV virus is for the humans?

Gah, too much workday left at the end of the brain cells.
@Reg See above photo, first one, yes?
At this point I think Carlo is just trolling.
@Mahnax Let me check my disc...
... Yeah looks like it.
For meh NESz.
20:13
And the disc didn't come bundled with TP, after all.
Collector's Edition.
I think I got it off Nintendo.com for 5000 points.
@Mahnax I rarely bother reading FAQs.
> You have been on a raft with a chicken for 1 hour 47 minutes 43 seconds.
And now I must be off.
I trust you with not losing this one, @Rob @Kit @Vit
My ratio sucks anyway.
What? Oh.
Go enjoy your wife.
CU
Bye!
20:22
@RegDwightѬſ道 I can't help. I'm jammed and my adrenal glands have been scoured clean by caffeine.
> You have been on a raft with a chicken for 1 hour 46 minutes .
20:49
@JSBᾶngs At 2 hours yet?
@Mahnax just passed it
Well that was a short walk. But I don't regret leaving the chicken for my wife.
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Q: Is a "misspelled" word which subsequently creates another word still considered misspelled?

animusonAccording to Dictionary.com: mis·spell·ing   [mis-spel-ing] noun the act of spelling incorrectly: Note his misspelling of that word. an incorrectly spelled word: You have three misspellings in your letter. Some people have told me that as long as the letters actually create ...

I'm not sure what to do with this one.
Or what it is asking, really.
I have marked it too localised
but I suppose it's asking "when someone spells world as word is it a misspelling?"
What does this mean: A wise man told me that I'm proof gods like a good joke?
21:02
I'm out.
or more generally "when a world is spelled in a way that causes it to be another word, is that a misspelling"
@Robusto CU
Bye.
@Gigili maybe he meant "I'm proof god likes a good joke"?
either way
he thinks he a is a good joke, created by god/gods
@MattЭллен Aww, not wise at all. Thank you.
no trouble :)
21:06
Oh, just got it. Like I'm a proof that god likes good jokes, so I'm a good joke created by god?
Doesn't it need a "a" or "the"?
I left a comment and closed. Meanwhile Tim posted an answer that basically says it all.
So case closed as far as I'm concerned.
@Gigili yes
So I'm a proof blabla?
21:09
maybe?
oh, no
The proof?
that is an option
Oh, no again?
Aha, thank you.
I am the proof or I am proof
it's either the only proof, or an uncountable amount of proof
Right.
21:11
a proof is a mathematical thing
or a photographic/graphic design thing
one proof, two proof, reproof
@RegDwightѬſ道 it's the same old question of when does a mistake in a word or phrase become a real word (i.e. not a mistake anymore), just with respect to spelling. Shouldn't there be dups for that? (what to search for?)
@JSB Very nice.
@aediaλ 100 proof
21:28
@MattЭллен will make you an excellent proofreader
@Mitch nah that one is completely different. And search for "fuchsia".
@Reg is the status "active war" right now?
@aediaλ oh yesh, ecshellent. I shee no mishtakesh in my documensh when I'm blind drunk
@Vitaly not here.
"Def war". And has been that way for like thirty minutes.
@RegDwightѬſ道 well, then they still haven't fixed that issue where you need to reload to see the new status
So I almost never look at the status. And I suspect they don't either.
21:44
Yeah that was kind of obvious anyway... Oh well, at least I hope they do reload the current war list.
22:10
> The specific power densities of the biofuel cell implanted in a female Blaberus discoidalis through incisions into its abdomen yielded maximum values of ca. 55 μW/cm2 at 0.2 V that decreased by only ca. 5% after ca. 2.5 h of operation.
22:23
Some people must be really bored.
Oh, I am.
For example?
Oh, Mahnax.
For example see the link Vitaly posted.
@RegDwightѬſ道 I wouldn't mind an army of a few million remote-controlled cockroaches, though. You kind of need a biofuel cell to power the controlling circuits.
Dunno.
I'll opt for giant Death Stars.
I'm the nuke-from-orbit kind of guy.
22:26
Do you have any experience with sending real letters via internet?
Like this: iwiletter.com
Cope.
Rope.
22:41
Lope.
Nope.
Does the pope smoke dope? Nope.
What's with the 1 vs. 7 question? OT, I think.
22:59
hello there
C'mon, throw me a bone.
Hello @vemv
hey Robusto! Quick question - is "My thoughts stand, though" idiomatic English?
23:13
It could be.
@vemv: It's a little soft, though. "Thoughts" isn't as strong as, say, "assertions" or "arguments."
> The other thing about knowledge workers is that they’re exquisitely sensitive to even minor sleep loss. Research by the US military has shown that losing just one hour of sleep per night for a week will cause a level of cognitive degradation equivalent to a .10 blood alcohol level. Worse: most people who’ve fallen into this state typically have no idea of just how impaired they are.
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A: What is the pejorative for people who only practice their faith while at the place of worship?

user6725Whited sepulchres. This is what they are called in the Bible, King James' Version.

Holla.
Why is this getting flagged as offensive?
23:22
@RegDwightѬſ道 Because it's a perjorative?
I am not familiar with the term, so I can't handle the flag without asking someone else.
I would dismiss it.
The question is asking for a perjorative, after all.
I am just perplexed because Callithumpian's link to OED leads to a page not found, while Wiktionary tells me that a sepulchre is a burial chamber.
It is.
Yeah I understand now that it's a metaphor.
But it caught me off-guard.
23:28
Yeah, it would. It's weird.
What's the problem? That's not flag-worthy.
It's also from last year.
Somebody just got upset?
Maybe one of the Xians who got riled recently.
That's what I'm thinking.
Funny they wouldn't flag all of the other pejoratives.
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Q: Is "do(es)" used to mean either single or plural subject?

TimI wonder if the following usage of "do(es)" properly or commonly used: If money doesn't concern you, what else do(es)?

Speaking of perplexing.
23:31
I can't believe I did that twice.
What is singular.
Maybe he saw "do(es)" somewhere in that context.
I suppose so.
But it's just wrong.
Yep.
I mean, to answer the general question in the title, I suppose people do use "do(es)" just like they use "student(s)". But the specific question in the body is a whole nother story.
23:35
Yeah. I close voted and left a comment.
How was the constitutional with the wife?
She wanted to take me to open-air movies nearby, but by the time we arrived it was over.
It's more of an "art" "installation".
Constitutional?
raises eyebrow
Rammstein performance?
23:38
Now why the hell do(es) our enemy put up only 400 damage in the first two hours, but once we start fighting back they put(s) up another 2k?
Oh shit. The war.
We have open-air movies in the summer here.
We used to help set up and take down, but can't anymore what with the small ones.
@Cerberus As in "walk that is good for your constitution."
Yeah I looked it up, funny word.
I like it.
I've dome something that I shouldn't have done.
bitterly regretted
Oh no...
Set a new date with your ex?
Ahh Edith! I like that song.
@Cerberus Even worse.
@Gigili In such a short time!?
You were away only, what, an hour?
Booty call! Nice.
I suppose he should come immediately when you call him.
23:51
Oh the things I plan to do to my husband once I feel better...
@Cerberus Hey, you're just inventing a story. I'll never get back to him.
@Gigili Hmm then what did you do?
@Cerberus Umm, Ran out of patience. I was contemptuous of myself.
I know, I'm not making sense.
That is bad. So what concrete thing did you do that you are dissatisfied with?
She cut off all her hair.
23:59
Noooo...
We saw her picture for a brief while. Did you catch it?
She changed her avatar.

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