@JosephWeissman Oh, I saw that one.

bonjour @Mahnax

@cornbreadninja Good day to you!

:D How go the Russian studies?

Alright, I suppose.

I haven't done a lesson in a few days, mostly due to work and being busy and such.

@Mahnax nods

I haven't studied teh HTMLs in a while ._.

@cornbreadninja How goes general life for you?

@cornbreadninja Is that an issue?

@Mahnax I can't complain, but I might anyway. :) I made a QR out of LEGOs that goes to my blog. It is in my cube and is sure to confound my coworkers.

@Mahnax only because I'm trying to make a portfolio site for myself and perhaps make sites on the side for cold, hard USD.

@cornbreadninja Oh, neat!

@cornbreadninja Ah, sounds like fun.

If I wasn't already doing editing work I might consider doing a wee bit of web design for similar reasons.

My reason being soft, plastic CAD.

@Mahnax I am frightened of the idea of having irregular income.

@Mahnax now that sounds like fun, and something I could already do. How did you get started doing that?

@cornbreadninja Hm, why?

You still have your main job, right?

@Mahnax do you have a <strike>MakerBot</strike> 3-D printer?

The irregularity will just be the extra.

@Mahnax yes, but I think I'd like to not have it someday.

@cornbreadninja Well, yeah. Someday!

@cornbreadninja Nope.

@Carlo_R I'm not a he.

hello @simchona!

Hi @cornbreadninja!

Oh, hey @sim.

@Mahnax tell me more about this soft plastic CAD

@cornbreadninja We're switching to plastic bills here.

@CarloR In fact, I'm surprised you think I am a 'he', considering you asked me for photos a few months ago.

The 100s and 50s are already plastic.

@Mahnax ohhhhh duh. My brain read that as 'computer-aided drafting'.

@Mahnax that's loony. :D

that was supposed to be a 2CAD joke.

@cornbreadninja Nah, it's neat! They're impossible to fake.

You can see through parts of them, they don't tear, and they can still fold.

They've got raised bumps in places and the usual stuff that only shows up under UV.

It's good, because there are fake $5 bills going around near here.

@Mahnax I must investigate this!

> Canada And Mexico Not Allowed To Observe TPP Negotations, Even Though They're Joining Them

@Mahnax it is a swell idea. Is it super-special top secret plastic to which no one but the government has access?

Are you letting the Murkins bully you again, guys?

@cornbreadninja Go for it!

techdirt.com/articles/20120702/04020819551/…

@cornbreadninja I don't know.

@simchona I think she's right on the money.

@Mahnax Our weird fabric-y USD paper is in that situation (supposedly).

@cornbreadninja Our current/past bills were like that. I think they were a cotton-paper blend.

@Mahnax Me too.

Ugh, it's Toonie Tuesday today.

dreads work

Howdy.

Hi there, @MetaEd!

Didn't he learn not to write comments in other languages?

@Mahnax :( are tacos involved?

howdy @MetaEd!

@cornbreadninja Nah, toonie Tuesday is a KFC thing. You get two pieces of chicken (a leg and a thigh) and a small fries for just a toonie!

Except it's not just a toonie, it's $2.79.

@Mahnax liars! Can I get two legs instead?

@cornbreadninja Probably, that shouldn't be an issue.

A toonie.

@Mahnax I've always hated the word "toonie" (or "twonie")

What about it?

it's just about the dumbest name I can imagine for the two-dollar coin

@MrShinyandNew安宇 After working at KFC for eight months, I've learned to despise it too.

I'd prefer twosy. Or toodle. Or deuce.

It sounds funny.

it's a portmanteau of "two + loonie" where "loonie" is the nickname for the $1 coin cuz it has a loon on it.

@cornbreadninja Those sound funny too.

@Cerberus do you hate them less?

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Cuz, I see.

@Cerberus I reserve the rite to type lazy

@cornbreadninja I don't hate any of those names!

@Cerberus reads transcript

Better read it.

@Cerberus oh, you said 'toony' was dumb. Do you find mine dumb?

Dumb?

When did I say that?

@Cerberus wow, I need to eat. 'Twas @MrShinyandNew

Heh.

Yes, it always best to blame things in Mr Shiny.

i.stack.imgur.com/9mTHz.jpg @Mahnax

@cornbreadninja Does it work?

@Mahnax mos def

even faster with the border

@cornbreadninja Good!

@Mahnax I'm going to put that picture on my blog. It will be so meta.

Time to visit burritoville.

CUL8R

@cornbreadninja Haha… People will think, "Oh boy, a QR code!" Then they will be taken to the exact same page.

@Mahnax :D

@cornbreadninja Enjoy!

@Mahnax thank you!

GTG w-rk bai

@Mahnax Hey, Mglw'nafh!

"Boredom is my fuel? Can I say that?"

How low can we go?

Until we rename the site, as low as you can imagine.

"Treacle is my pudding!? Can I say that?"

@Mahnax don't let the toonie tuesers get you down

@Robusto the limbo theme has knocked the Andy Griffith theme from my head, so, thanks for that, and RIP Sheriff Taylor

smells like Nortonn. english.stackexchange.com/q/73397/18399

now I have "smells like teen spirit" in my head

@MrShinyandNew安宇 \m/

"I wish you were a beer"

feel like shootin' doves / feel like wearin' gloves

@MetaEd we're just two lost souls swimmin' in a fish bowl

@cornbreadninja ear after ear

eggggggs actly

@cornbreadninja Slash and burn, return, listen to yourself churn.

wishes he had some coffee

@MetaEd ...leonard bernstein

@MrShinyandNew安宇 offers a latte

@MetaEd jump to the jam boogie woogie jam slam.

@cornbreadninja too little, too latte?

but thanks a latte for the offer

@MrShinyandNew安宇 ROFL

I wish it said [redacted] instead.

I [redacted] wish it said that too

d'oh.

@cornbreadninja You gotta jump, jive, and then you wail.

@MetaEd but I'm just a gigolo.

@MetaEd I still need to listen to that Scissor Sisters song.

@cornbreadninja You're welcome.

@cornbreadninja I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy.

@MetaEd It's the beginning of the world as we know it, and I'm not so sure I feel all that great.

@cornbreadninja Yes you do.

@Robusto If life seems jolly rotten, there's something you've forgotten: and that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing.

> Space-age couple, why don't you flex your magic muscle.

@MetaEd Always look on the dark side of life?

@MetaEd scaramouches

does the fandango

You can't stop him. You can only hope to contain him.

high-fives @JasperLoy

@JasperLoy in that case, both. First is as in 'orange', second as in 'give'. jig-a-low

@JasperLoy yes, I'm drinking it now

slurps coffee

@JasperLoy I would have thought gigolo to be Italian, but apparently not

@MrShinyandNew安宇 jealousy ensues.

I made lots, have some

hands out coffee

@MrShinyandNew安宇 :D

@JasperLoy :D

already coffeed up

@JasperLoy we've borrowed so many!

Video killed the radio star.

@MetaEd look, I'll play my VCR.

The Internets killed the video star.

@Cerberus the internets diluted the video star!

Just diluted?

I pledge my allegiance to all things dark / And I promise on my damned soul / To do as I am told. Lord Beelzebub / Has never seen a soldier quite like me: / Not only does his job, but does it happily!

Doing it happily might violate the terms of your contract with B.

for me / for me / for meeeeeee

So... Serenity == Nortonn?

serenity now, insanity later

Hello everyone!

I was wondering if there's an English word or technical term for making a marriage certificate valid in one's home country (after having gotten marries abroad)

@Szabolcs This would depend strongly on what the process is. Do you just have to notify the authorities? Register? something else?

@MrShinyandNew安宇 I'm not sure. The point is that they want to know about it, and when I have to show some proof of my status, I usually need to bring it from the country of my citizenship. Right now I am hoping that I can show some proof of my status before I manage to register (or whatever it is called!) in my country, and I need to write an email and ask about the situation. I need the term to write the email (concisely) :)

Yeah, I think whatever it is you need to do will have a specific word that depends on what precisely the process is. I don't think there is a generic term for this.

I'd go with "registering the marriage"

arlight, thanks!

I thought there's a simple term that I can't find in the dictionary. If there isn't, I'll just explain it in a few more words.

The only term I've ever heard of is "recognize".

@RegDwightΒВB but that isn't what the married couple needs to do

the state either recognizes or doesn't recognize a foreign marriage, but the couple isn't making that happen.

You do have to jump through hoops.

They don't recognize your marriage just like that.

@RegDwightΒВB right, and what is it called, the process of hoop-jumping?

Getting it recognized.

or getting it registered. or validated. or ......

Yeah. But I've never heard of those.

Our marriage already was registered. We only had to have it recognized. My wife's diploma already was valid. We only had to get it recognized. But that wasn't in an English-speaking country, so shrug.

@RegDwightΒВB well, when I got married here my marriage had to be registered before it would be recognized.

Whatever suits your fancy.

Me, I found it enough to register one marriage once.

@RegDwightΒВB you might have to register it to get it recognized.

In practice, I have to bring the certificate to an office in my hometown, ask a lady to write it into a big book and give me another certificate.

@Szabolcs Sounds like registration to me

We just had to get an apostille.

About having it recognized, that's what the Apostille should be for, but bureaucracy like this is usually bloody complicated and annoying, and never works as it should

(it does come with an Apostille here by default)

Hah. Must be a country so vastly rich, the lawyers don't need any additional income.

Well, notaries, to be precise.

@RegDwightΒВB No, just a place which is really popular for getting married on a holiday and is also full of foreigners working here. I was looking at the banns, one third is for foreigners.

hm, Apostille, never heard of that before. From wikipedia it looks like Canada doesn't take part in the treaty.

I could paper a room with those.

so there's a guy who lives on Tatooine

@Matt yeah?

Yeah

he's got a bird of prey and a fennec fox

pop

@Matt I just realized that was a link. slaps forehead

I thought it was the introduction to a joke.

Awesome synergy between music-writing program and mouse-gesture program.

I just play my compositions using a digital piano keyboard controller. The software fills in the notes. Much easier than writing with a stylus. Of course, you have to put on some quantizing, and edit some things by hand, but overall it's much easier.

What are those things called? The things when headlines have two meanings?

@MattЭллен Damn it! You found me!

@KitFox I didn't know there was a special word for it, other than "double meaning" or "ambiguous sentence".

There is a name, I just can't think of it.

Surely not crash blossoms?

Yes. Thank you.

It was eating my brain and you stopped it.

Crash blossoms? Are you serious?

blows kisses @Vitaly

Later.

Oh, it seems you are. Thank you, @Vitaly, you have educated me today.

I would blow you kisses too, but people might talk.

Hey, @Vitaly, can I ask you a question about Russian?

If I want to say "soldiers die every day in Afghanistan", do I use the same verb as I would if I said "John Lennon died in 1980"?