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@KitFox I don't know...I think I took at least five minutes to browse Siberia proper, then Wikipedia'd Siberia, then quickly went over the coast lines in the east that I hadn't covered yet. Then a few minutes maybe.

KitFox

Probably longer then.

But I was distracted with non-sleeping child.

Cerberus

12:24 AM

Valid excuse.

Perhaps it took me longer too, I don't know.

KitFox

Now I'm going to play Clone Wars unless anyone has urgent matters that need mod attention.

Cerberus

But this was perhaps the first time I actually wanted to know where a photo was taken, so that was nice.

OK have fun!

My urgent matter has been dealt with.

tchrist

The Criss-cross question has been supercolidered. Now like everybody is going to show up. I’m holding out for Burt Lancaster.

cornbread ninja

Isn't Yvonne DeCarlo in This Island Earth?

no! It's Lily Munster.

user19161

@corn I forgot to ask, have the braces been removed? Or maybe I asked already.

cornbread ninja

12:28 AM

@WillHunting yessir!

I ate Skittles at the movies!

user19161

@cornbreadninja It must feel quite weird now.

user19161

@cornbreadninja Yes, I know you watched Batman.

cornbread ninja

@WillHunting It feels great!

I still want to poke out my teeth after everything I eat.

By which I mean use an interdental brush resembling a small evergreen.

user19161

@cornbreadninja Like that piece of cake I see in your pic.

cornbread ninja

@WillHunting Mmm. :D

KitFox

1:04 AM

A Resting Spell, microfiction for tomorrow's Writers Chat, for anyone who wants a read. About 600 words.

Cerberus

1:15 AM

@KitFox I like it.

Some tantalizing bits of information are given that suggest a complicated story / next chapters.

The complexity in these 600 words is just right, no more and no less than the format can bear.

Now we want to know more about the demon.

Robusto

1:36 AM

You know about the demon. You are one.

cornbread ninja

1:50 AM

@KitFox 0_0

KitFox

looks around What?

Mahnax

@KitFox Nice.

Robusto

@KitFox: I read that, and if you want my input on it I'll share it with you tomorrow, time permitting.

KitFox

@Robusto Sure. You could come to the chat group if you like. I'd be pleased to have you join us.

Robusto

What time?

KitFox

1:55 AM

Um, we changed it recently. I think 1pm our time.

But we are rather broad. Sort of noon to sometime around 2:30.

Whenever people show up and feel like talking.

Robusto

We'll see. My new boss arrives tomorrow, so it's anything-can-happen day.

KitFox

Yipes.

Understood.

Robusto

Night all.

Mahnax

Good night.

Robusto

I'll let MGMT play me out ...

►

KitFox

1:57 AM

Nice.

user19161

@Robusto Nice drawings. My pictures are worse than a first grader.

cornbread ninja

2:11 AM

I listened to Electric Feel instead.

cornbread ninja

2:22 AM

youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&NR=1&v=udszB80AzZo

David Wallace

2:40 AM

@KitFox It's very good, but does she have to be called Rachel?

user19161

@DavidWallace Why not? It is my favourite name!

David Wallace

@WillHunting I think your favourite name should be David.

user19161

@DavidWallace No way!

user19161

But do watch the movie I am David. It is very good.

user19161

And you can read the book too.

David Wallace

2:42 AM

Can I?

user19161

The book was my literature text in school. It is about a boy who escaped from a concentration camp and travelled across Europe to find his mum.

David Wallace

In that case, I probably can read it.

user19161

@DavidWallace Yes, I am sure you can read anything that I read. After all, my vocab is only at 18,000 words according to testyourvocab.com!

David Wallace

My goodness, I'm starting to sound like an entirely different person.

I shall keep telling myself - I am David.

user19161

@DavidWallace Also, you are a King.

David Wallace

2:53 AM

Oh, @WillHunting, you're a real gem!

Cerberus

3:10 AM

@DavidWallace Hello.

Y you dislike Rachel?

David Wallace

@Cerberus Oh, am I in trouble?

Cerberus

@DavidWallace No...the name leaves me cold.

David Wallace

No, I like it. Just not in that story.

Cerberus

I was just wondering whether perhaps there was something special about the name to you.

David Wallace

No, I don't think so.

Cerberus

3:17 AM

Hmm OK then.

How are your paintings hanging?

David Wallace

What brings you here at 5am?

Most of them are parallel to the floor; thanks for asking.

Cerberus

Good, good.

Not parallel to the walls?

Or the ceiling?

@DavidWallace Mmm nothing.

And you?

cornbread ninja

3:36 AM

I'm about to be parallel to the floor.

Mahnax

I have to go to school tomorrow.

cornbread ninja

Me too!

UNIX class

Is it your first day?

Mahnax

Yeah, first day of grade/year 11.

The first day of my last two years in HS.

cornbread ninja

!!

Mahnax

Is this a surprise?

cornbread ninja

3:47 AM

no

you seemed wistful

tchrist

Junior year is the best high school year.

cornbread ninja

maybe because you're standing in the middle.

Start planning your senior prank.

Mahnax

@tchrist Well, that's come and gone.

tchrist

@Mahnax I thought you have two years left?

cornbread ninja

No, that was sophomore year. :P

@tchrist I'm writing scripts all over the place.

Mahnax

3:49 AM

@tchrist This year, and the next.

HS here consists of grades 10, 11, and 12—10 is junior, no?

tchrist

Do you mean that your best year has come and gone, or that Junior year has, or that your second to the last is?

Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, Senior.

Sometimes grade 9 is in Junior High.

cornbread ninja

There are a few US schools where middle = 7-9

Mahnax

Junior comes after sophomore?

cornbread ninja

mine was just 7 & 8

tchrist

Mine was just 7&8.

Mahnax

3:51 AM

So which one gets skipped for a 10-12 HS then?

tchrist

I don’t know whether there are places that do 6-9.

I don’t know. I haven’t ever been in one of those.

cornbread ninja

I dub thee a junior.

tchrist

The idea is for the four years of high school to have the same names as the four years of college.

Mahnax

@cornbreadninja Ew.

Sophomore sounds so much more sophisticated.

tchrist

You know what it means, don’t you?

cornbread ninja

3:52 AM

That's because they both start with 'soph'.

tchrist

Check its etymology.

cornbread ninja

Don't be sophomoric! :P

Mahnax

Interesting.

Wise and foolish.

tchrist

Yes.

Mahnax

I still prefer the term sophomore.

But noöne really says those things here. It's just "grade X" for the most part.

cornbread ninja

3:55 AM

How the crap did Yankee Doodle Dandy get in my head?

Mahnax

> How the crap…

Interesting construction you've got there.

cornbread ninja

I was trying to be marginally polite.

tchrist

Grade is less cool, because the names sound like the college names.

cornbread ninja

aw, I missed it

Mahnax

I was just saying something about there not being a need for politeness, but it was wrong.

cornbread ninja

3:58 AM

aitch-ee-double-hockey-sticks

Mahnax

That was a popular one here.

cornbread ninja

Time to brush mah chompers.

Shyam K

wats the use? u most probably gonna eat a mid-night snack anyhow.. :P

(or is it morning there?)

I usually do that.. brush my teeth and then get a snack at some point later in the night :D ... my dreams get me hungry...

Cerberus

Uh-oh...

Mahnax

What?

Cerberus

4:16 AM

Midnight snacks...

I have actually installed a silly exercise/food application on my phone.

I know, lame.

Mahnax

At the moment, it's called "breakfast" for you.

Cerberus

Heh.

I haven't eaten in hours!

Aren't you proud?

Mahnax

Sure.

I didn't eat dinner.

Cerberus

Why not?

Mahnax

Work.

When I work, the food there is too sickening for me to eat.

Cerberus

4:18 AM

You're probably thin anyway...don't you eat at work?

Really?

You never liked fastfood?

Mahnax

I do, but after ten months, it gets gross to be around.

@Cerberus I do sometimes. I'm not necessarily thin, but I"m nowhere near overweight either.

Cerberus

@Mahnax Hm I understand.

@Mahnax Yeah, I mean thin as in not fat.

Mahnax

@Cerberus In that case, yes.

Cerberus

We chubby people need to disparage you, don't you understand? Some straw to clutch.

My BMI is in the centre region.

Mahnax

Ah, you're not chubby.

Cerberus

4:20 AM

But it's always a struggle.

Mahnax

@Cerberus Mine too, I think.

Cerberus

I should really lose 10 pounds.

Shyam K

chubby ppl need to get fit.. most of the diseases affect that lot..

Cerberus

Well, thanks.

Shyam K

don't u think?

Cerberus

4:21 AM

But chubby is not fat: just a tiny bit fat.

Shyam K

yes... cute fat...

Cerberus

Well, yes, some people may find it cute, hehe.

Do you know many fat people in your country?

Mahnax

Me, or Shyam?

Cerberus

Both.

I don't know any young people who are actually fat, not well anyway.

Perhaps one or two of the kids we teach.

Mahnax

I don't know any fat people personally.

Cerberus

4:24 AM

Right.

But then, what counts as fat?

Mahnax

Well, I'm not sure.

Shyam K

@Cerberus fat ppl.. sure.. not many are overweight here though.. chubby yes... but maybe one outta five are fat...

Cerberus

@ShyamK Ah OK. Well, it depends on your definition, I guess?

Shyam K

aah.. good thing.. keeping fit (well sort of) is always good.. more fit.. more stamina.. more fun.. :D

Cerberus

It's usually the poorer people here who are overweight, on average.

@ShyamK Absolutely!

But it can be hard work.

Shyam K

4:26 AM

@Cerberus poor ppl here are thin like bones.. the rich folk here indulge.. mainly fast foods are to blame..

@Cerberus ya I was thinking of trying to get six-pack abs at one point, then I decided it was just too much work :D

so I went back to eating sugar :D and chocos :)

Cerberus

@ShyamK Yeah, it's funny how money has many bad effects on people.

@ShyamK Hehe.

Understandable.

Shyam K

money is the root of all that is evil..

Mahnax

I disagree.

Shyam K

explain...

Mahnax

> Because some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

—Alfred Pennyworth

Shyam K

4:34 AM

@Mahnax U qouting Batman ?

Mahnax

@ShyamK Yeah.

If I were a heinous villain, I wouldn't be doing evil for money.

Shyam K

hehe.. well that is true.. some guys are just plain nuts..

@Mahnax if?

ain't you one already?

:P

Mahnax

@ShyamK I'm not currently a heinous villain.

@ShyamK You don't know me, why would you make such an assertion?

Shyam K

was joking.. duh!!!

@Mahnax but money would be an added advantage?

Mahnax

@ShyamK Nah.

Shyam K

4:48 AM

where would u get all the money for all your evil schemes?

gadgets and all

??

Mahnax

Well, I'd need that, obviously.

But I wouldn't hoard money and roll in it.

Shyam K

aah.. so money is the root of evil :P

Mahnax

Nope.

Why do murderers murder?

Shyam K

for money.. :P

Mahnax

Not necessarily.

Shyam K

4:52 AM

for the fun of it?

Mahnax

Yes.

Shyam K

cos they're crazy...

Mahnax

Money can do good things, too.

It pays bills, buys food.

Shyam K

everything has a good and bad version..

Cerberus

Okay, bed time for me.

Good night, guys!

Shyam K

4:53 AM

see you at snack time :)

Bye!

Hehe noooo...

G'nite (for now)

poof

5:04 AM

^ hmm.. still not gone? Apparently magic is not his strong suite :P

simchona

5:44 AM

@cerb are you tipsy again?

David Wallace

He may well be asleep.

Shyam K

he's supposed to get up any sec now.. for a snack (hopefully)

ΜετάEd

Let sleeping dogs lie?

David Wallace

I have never known Cerberus to lie, in this chat room.

Shyam K

@ΜετάEd Sleeping Dogs? the game? :D

ΜετάEd

5:58 AM

@ShyamK Sadly I am not familiar.

Shyam K

sleepingdogs.net

its a game.. if you're into that sort of thing..

ΜετάEd

Ah, thank you. Judging by the splash page, I'll probably give it a miss :-)

Shyam K

hehe

cool.. Polly wants a cracker?

ΜετάEd

6:19 AM

rawk

Shyam K

:D

ЯegDwight

8:44 AM

In case you're interested, @robusto, I am the location scout for Breaking Bad, ask me anything.

Gigili

9:45 AM

Anybodyo hierio?

Matt Эллен

soy hierro

@tchrist being a man, I definitely don't want people to know my gender

Shyam K

I'm here too.. nice to meet you @Gigili

Gigili

@MattЭллен And I don't care about it at all as a woman.

@ShyamK Oh, good.

Does this sentence make sense: "I couldn't attend the conference due to some issues despite my great interest and I owe you an apology for that. Could you please guide me through the payment of $50 to attend proceeding?"

Matt Эллен

> Could you please guide me through the payment of $50 to attend proceeding?

that doesn't quite make sense

what are you trying to do?

Gigili

Like I missed the conference but I'd attend the proceeding.

Matt Эллен

9:57 AM

and you need help in making the payment?

help using the system that takes your money?

Gigili

Yes, exactly.

Matt Эллен

> Could you please guide me in paying the $50 to attend the proceedings?

when you say proceeding do you mean later conferences, or some set of proceedings?

Gigili

Later conferences.

Matt Эллен

ah

Gigili

Yay! Thank you, Matt.

Matt Эллен

10:00 AM

> Could you please guide me in paying the $50 to attend the others?

Gigili

You were always a blue to me.

Matt Эллен

awwww. thanks

Matt Эллен

10:37 AM

I'm done close voting for the day

KitFox

@DavidWallace No, probably not.

Matt Эллен

hiya @Kit :)

KitFox

Morning.

Hullo, sweetie.

You folks ready for Writers chat today?

Matt Эллен

ready... I've not done the exercise, but I'm ready to chat!

KitFox

Sweet.

Matt Эллен

10:42 AM

How are you getting along with your EL&U blog article?

KitFox

coughs

Matt Эллен

:D

Well, there's no rush.

KitFox

You've had articles pouring in, haven't you?

Matt Эллен

I'll put you fourth

@KitFox I've got 3 ready to go, and cornbread ninja is working on hers

KitFox

I'm just a bit behind what with work and Writers stuff and all.

Plus, I've managed to get myself completely confused about apostrophes, which is quite a feat for me.

Matt Эллен

10:46 AM

!!

KitFox

I started thinking about them too much.

Matt Эллен

have you been dreaming about them? That could be an issue

KitFox

uh, no.

ЯegDwight

How do you make that subscript apostrophe?

KitFox

but I am down to two weeks until this release's launch, and we'll probably have to delay it, and so work is unhappy.

Matt Эллен

10:50 AM

oh, that's not so good.

KitFox

Yeah, and I'm tired and have a meeting today.

Matt Эллен

I hope it goes OK.

KitFox

And I want to bitch at the project lead because he did something wrong.

But I won't.

Matt Эллен

hmmm. sounds like that's for the best

Shyam K

A project lead has higher authority than you do (right?).. better not get on his bad side :D

Robusto

10:54 AM

@ЯegDwight I really want to talk to Vince Gilligan. But that would probably bring the Reddit servers down too.

Matt Эллен

I've discovered that the muscles used for walking up hill and cycling are very different to the muscles used to walk down hill/down stairs. I know this due to pain. Currently I go down stairs backwards.

Robusto

@MattЭллен Yes. Try walking up a mountain sometime and thinking "it's all downhill from here."

Matt Эллен

@Robusto hahaha. ye gods no, don't make me think about it. At least I learned to run downhill. It's so much easier than walking downhill

Shyam K

@MattЭллен I usually end up tripping on something and then rolling all the way to the bottom..

:(

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