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Robusto

01:14

I have never been as self-conscious about my handwriting as when I was inking in the caption for this comic.

@tchrist: ^

Cerberus

01:31

@Robusto I've changed that into the direct link; this way, you also get the hover text.

Let's hope that shall attract him.

8 hours later…

SmokeDetector

09:20

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer, potentially bad asn for hostname in answer, potentially bad ns for domain in answer, potentially bad keyword in answer, username similar to website in answer (121): 'never peg the needle on your spending meter' by foreign exchange on english.SE

2 hours later…

Jasper van Looij

10:52

Hello @MattE.Эллен I just read that the Supreme Court ruled that the Prime Minister's suspension of Parliament is unlawful. What drama!

Matt E. Эллен

11:25

aye. we're all doomed

Aug 9 '12 at 18:04, by tchrist

1 hour later…

Robusto

12:40

@MattE.Эллен hahaha ... well, I should have known.

Matt E. Эллен

Jenna Sloan

Yo, who pinged me?

Oh I see, it was just some random guy with a weird name.

Matt E. Эллен

looks like the last time you were pung was 3rd october 2018

Jasper van Looij

@JennaSloan No, it is me, the blue square, not just some random guy, LOL.

@MattE.Эллен No, I did ping her a few days ago, saying that we were the only two people in the room, LOL.

Jenna Sloan

12:58

@JaspervanLooij You look like a random guy to me.

Matt E. Эллен

13:09

@JaspervanLooij weird that it doesn't appear in the search. I had to look at your recent messages to find it

Jenna Sloan

I think it takes 24 hours for a message to appear in the search.

Just like how, on the main site, it takes a day or so for things like votes to change a somebody's reputation.

Cerberus

13:30

Or did you mean another search?

Matt E. Эллен

13:40

oct 3 '18 is the last time Jenna was written, except it's not!

weirdly searching fro (at-symbol)JennaSloan brings the result up

Cerberus

13:58

So maybe it only searches for whole words, and @ counts as a word character?

Jasper van Looij

14:08

The plot thickens...

Jenna Sloan

14:31

Yeah, it only searches for whole words. Didn't you guys know that?

Matt E. Эллен

oh! I guess not

in that I guess I didn't know that

or if I did I forgot it

Cerberus

@JennaSloan Normally, in regex at least, @ does not count as a word character.

test-word

test@word

test word

And this I do not understand at all.

Jenna Sloan

It's a secret to everybody.

Cerberus

Apparently!

At least I'm glad they fixed it so that it automatically shows newest first.

2 hours later…

David M

16:38

Hello all

Cerberus

17:01

Hello.

Curio

17:12

Why is "The great ball" in Romeo and Juliet called in this way? Is it the name of the party?

Douglas Souza

Hello everybody!

@Curio because in italian it is: Il grande ballo, and ball can mean prom too.

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RegDwigнt

21:51

@Robusto that's a lovely one, though more resemblant of a male name than a female one. I'll keep it for future reference.

@Robusto good thinking. Adonis in particular is too common and on-the-nose, but maybe I can find something more obscure by looking in that direction.

@Robusto Yeah.

There's like 20–30 books in just the pile I'm facing as I'm typing this.

And that's just the pile that I'm currently reading. God knows where half the piles even are that I'm not.

(Here, of course, "am currently reading" being a synonym for "have most recently purchased".)

It's a common thing. As varied as their reasons and extents may be, many people share it.

So it's nice to see Japanese actually have a dedicated term for it.

And strange to see that other languages don't.

Like, why not just borrow it, failing everthing else.

It's a nice word, too. Tsundoku. Certainly nicer than "Hitler". And rolls off the tongue much smoother than "glasnost" or "kindergarten".

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