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tchrist
00:04
Whoa, suddenly there’s a crowd.
Cerberus
00:17
@KitFox Excellent.
@tchrist Yeah, what are all those people doing here in my room, standing in my way and making noise?
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> Will Using the Prefix Cyber- Make Me Look Like an Idiot?
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chatkillah
02:46
coughs
Mahnax
@chatkillah Did you cover your mouth? I don't want the plague.
washes hands
chatkillah
Well, that's a fine how-do-you-do.
How goes it?
Mahnax
I'm doing fairly well, thank you. Working hard, and all that.
And yourself?
chatkillah
Oh, same.
They opened a Starbucks in the shopping center I grew up with. It's all man cave meets ski lodge in there.
In a nice way.
Mahnax
Yeah, the one I work at is fairly nice-looking.
We have some comfy chairs and a big wall made out of an old tin roof.
Dark wood, dim-ish lighting, the whole nine.
chatkillah
02:57
There's a plaque telling you how sustainable the store is.
Mahnax
Same, we're a LEED certified store.
chatkillah
Yeah, hides dirt.
Mahnax
Our plaque is in the form of an immovable coaster.
chatkillah
The counter looks like a big slice of tree.
This one's by the john.
I need to try that blonde roast.
Mahnax
I am not a huge fan of the blonde roast, mainly because it's too acidic for my tastes.
chatkillah
02:59
So far, I haven't found a bag of whole bean.
I'm looking forward to increased caffeine.
Mahnax
Christmas Blonde, however, is excellent.
@chatkillah The difference is negligible, unfortunately.
chatkillah
curses
Curses!
Did you see
Titanic
?
Mahnax
I didn't, no.
My parents still won't let me.
There's a naked lady.
…
chatkillah
:o
Mahnax
I'll say no more of that though.
Haha, silly silly.
chatkillah
03:04
We got what I imagine are Mahnax-land amounts of snow recently.
About a meter within six days.
Mahnax
Well, that's rather a lot.
chatkillah
'Twas.
Mahnax
We haven't had a decent snowfall in… weeks.
chatkillah
And tchrist will argue that he perhaps had more from those storms, but my town isn't well-equipped to deal with that much.
Mahnax
> And tchrist will argue…
chatkillah
03:06
I saw more than a few people moving snow with open-air bobcats.
Mahnax
Enough has been said ;-)
chatkillah
:D
Mahnax
@chatkillah
chuckles
chatkillah
brrrr
Our curbs have started appearing.
Mahnax
Shovels and mittens, folks.
That's how we do things in Canada.
Afterwards, light beer and poutine.
chatkillah
03:07
You couldn't buy a snow blower or a shovel in this town by the end of the second big storm.
Mahnax
…
chatkillah
b-b-but large amounts of wet, heavy snow
Mahnax
A snow blower is a luxury that I will never have.
chatkillah
Most of the bobcatters were clearing things like church entrances.
Mahnax
@chatkillah Ah yes, important things like that.
chatkillah
03:08
I'll buy you a snow blower.
Mm.
They had a bobcatter here at the apartment complex, too.
Mahnax
@chatkillah No thank you. Shovelling is fun.
I'll happily clear a driveway of 40cm of snow if I'm not in a hurry to be anywhere.
chatkillah
@Mahnax it is, for a while, if you have the proper outfit.
Mahnax
@chatkillah T-shirt and mittens, you're set.
chatkillah
0_0
Mahnax
cackles
chatkillah
03:11
It was like, 18F out there. And windy.
Mahnax
Only if it's warmer than -10˚C.
chatkillah
calculates
Mahnax
-8˚C, we're good to go.
chatkillah
Hmpf.
Mahnax
Hehe.
chatkillah
03:12
I shoveled behind my car and the vicinity after the second one. When I came in, my hands shook for a while.
I felt really good otherwise.
Mahnax
@chatkillah That can't be healthy.
chatkillah
@Mahnax I think it was just because I don't do anything like that with regularity.
Maybe I got overheated in my down coat.
Mahnax
Hm, can't have that sticking around in the transcript.
Cerberus
Ooh! Ooh!
Hello there!
What have I missed?
Mahnax
Cerby!
So nice to see you again.
Cerberus
03:17
Likewise!
How are things?
It is good of you to still pop in from time to time, no harm in that.
Mahnax
Things are good. I'm doing fairly well in school right now, which is always nice.
Anything new happening in your life?
Cerberus
Good!
Hmm not much happened here.
I have made crème brûlée?
I'm researching the etymology of -ble?
Mahnax
@Cerberus Ah, yummy.
Cerberus
My friend is getting married, and I may have to be her best man?
Mahnax
@Cerberus Even yummier!
Cerberus
03:22
Haha.
Mahnax
@Cerberus That's exciting!
Do you
want
to be her best man?
Cerberus
I like the idea very much; it's just that I hope it won't involve having to organise things I know nothing about.
Like, wedding stuff.
Mahnax
Oh, fair enough.
Cerberus
It'll probably be all right.
Mahnax
I would be a terrible wedding planner.
Cerberus
03:24
Haha.
Why do you think so?
Mahnax
"How about this one?"
"Are you crazy?! It doesn't match!"
Something like that.
Cerberus
I see. Sounds very...judicious.
Mahnax
Heh.
Cerberus
"Should the life-size ice swans be pink or purple stained?"
Mahnax
Lilac. Pfft, plebe.
Cerberus
03:26
Oops!
I see you are more experienced in this.
Mahnax
Sorry, I meant
urban proletariat
.
Cerberus
Is that better or worse?
Mahnax
grumbles about 1790s France
@Cerberus More or less the same, probably.
Sans-culotte!
Cerberus
Hah. Is that what you are learning about now?
I am indeed without culotte.
Being a dog.
chatkillah
@Cerberus the one who went to France?
Mahnax
03:27
Yep. I find it very interesting, actually.
Cerberus
@chatkillah She is in Paris now, yes, or she has just come back. Did I tell you about her? She doesn't live there though, just a short holiday.
chatkillah
@Cerberus a while back, you met a friend for coffee or something who was leaving for Paris.
Cerberus
Yeah, the French Revolution is quite interesting—except the endless changes in regime and policy and all during the 1790s...unless you're into that.
@chatkillah To live there? That must be my other friend.
You have a great memory!
She's still living there.
God knows when she will move back.
Mahnax
@Cerberus Hey, I like it.
It's very silly sometimes though.
Cerberus
OK, OK!
Very.
chatkillah
03:31
@Cerberus thank you!
Cerberus
The only thing I remember is that Robespierre was a butcher who in the end was butchered by his own favourite knife.
chatkillah
Sorry if it is creepy.
Cerberus
Not at all!
chatkillah
Hooray!
Cerberus
Just thoughtful.
You know my memory sucks.
Mahnax
03:32
@Cerberus He was originally against the death penalty, but then went wild with it, then went completely nuts and ended up dead.
He tried to shoot himself in the head, apparently.
Cerberus
Oh, was he against it? I didn't know that.
Wasn't he eventually prosecuted too?
Mahnax
His suicide attempt failed, so several days later they gently separated his head from his body.
Cerberus
Ah haha.
Mahnax
If you call that a prosecution…
Cerberus
You're mild today.
Mahnax
03:33
How do you mean?
Cerberus
@chatkillah I remember your cat looking at the snow.
@Mahnax Or, rather, hard to impress.
If decapitation isn't enough...
Mahnax
@Cerberus Oh, that. Well, decapitation ≠ prosecution. I wonder if he even had a proper trial.
But the Reign of Terror had to end itself, so it did.
C'est la vie.
Cerberus
Oh haha, in that way.
Oui, ça c'est la vie.
Mahnax
Speaking of French, my French teacher is a little bonkers.
Cerberus
What's also funny is how writers still refer to month names according to the revolutionary calendar.
Oh, what does he or she do?
Mahnax
03:38
Seriously, they should have called winter
Robes-hiver
.
Cerberus
Heh.
Mahnax
@Cerberus He asked for yesterday's
devoirs
to be handed in, but he had not given them to us.
They sat on his desk, un-handed out, and incomplete.
Cerberus
Ah, quelle stupidité!
Il est vraiment fou.
Mahnax
Mais il est agréable, alors je suppose que c'est pardonnable.
Cerberus
And of course he asked, "why didn't you remind me to assign your homework?"
Mahnax
03:40
Non, non. Il riait.
Cerberus
Bien sûr. Je suppose qu'il accepta son erreur?
Mahnax
Oui.
C'était drôle.
Anyways, I'll be running along then.
See you good folks again sometime.
Cerberus
Oké.
À la prochaine!
Mahnax
Oui, à la prochaine!
cloud of French smoke
Cerberus
waves
malloc
04:20
Did you see this?
Did who saw what
Sudhir
Sorry
malloc
2
Sudhir
I've doubt in Past tense.
Don't mind.
Amazing!
Hi @Cerberus
@malloc: From which country you belong?
malloc
@sudhir US
Sudhir
I've one doubt. Could you please clarify?
malloc
04:26
@sudhir What doubt?
Sudhir
I've two sentence tell me which is correct.
malloc
What are they?
Sudhir
1) Did you called me yesterday?
2) Did you call me yesterday?
malloc
2
Sudhir
You're sure?
malloc
04:28
Yes it is 2. I don't know why. It sounds right.
Sudhir
Okay
"I know it"
"I knew it"
What's the difference between two?
I think it'll be sleeping time in US?
malloc
1 is present tense, 2 is future tense
Sorry, 2 is past tense
The future tense is "I will know it"
Sudhir
Thanks
@malloc: You're going for sleep?
malloc
Yes
Good night
Sudhir
Good night
Thanks
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Robusto
12:52
This room is dead as disco. I think @Reg should come back for a few guest appearances.
Matt Эллен
seconded
@Cerberus are you a cyber-Cerberus? Does that make you a cyberus?
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