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02:00
Crok.
I had to read up a lot of things in the past few days.
I even came across one that nobody seems to know.
waits
Саркозу́х () — вымерший род гигантских крокодилов. Питался рыбой и травоядными динозаврами. Обитал на территории современной Африки в начале мелового периода и является одним из крупнейших гигантских крокодилоподобных пресмыкающихся, которые когда-либо жили. Саркозух был приблизительно в 2 раза длиннее современных крокодилов (11–12 м в длину), масса его достигала 8 тонн. До недавнего времени все находки исчерпывались несколькими окаменевшими зубами и щитками брони, которые были обнаружены в пустыне Сахара французским палеонтологом Альбертом-Феликсом де Лаппарентом в 1940-х или 1950-х....
"Nobody seems to know" because it's the perfect pun on Sarkozy, yet he's long out of office and the pun never happened once.
Sarcosuchus (; meaning "flesh crocodile"), commonly called SuperCroc, is an extinct genus of crocodyliform and distant relative of the crocodile that lived 112 million years ago. It dates from the early Cretaceous Period of what is now Africa and South America and is one of the largest crocodile-like reptiles that ever lived. It was almost twice as long as the modern saltwater crocodile and weighed approximately 8 tonnes. The first remains were discovered during several expeditions lead by the French paleontologist Albert-Félix de Lapparent, spanning from 1946 to 1959 in the Sahara De...
Wow. Reg, you are so impressive.
02:02
I know, with all my air support.
Or what was the term I used in your dreams.
@RegDwighт I remember this one.
He could definitely chow down on plenty of fairly large birdosaurs.
@RegDwighт He explained it succinctly to his colleague, who sounded possibly like a Spaniard.
They were cool beasts.
@KitFox ah, Russell Crowe. No, I'd never call him a colleague. That's the proof.
02:03
So why the з?
Does it have 3 heads?
Why no c?
@Cerberus because Sarkozy is pronounced with a з, duh. What kind of pun would it be otherwise?
@RegDwighт And without resorting to "covering our ass," which is really what he meant.
Oh, the Russian site is about the pun, not the croc?
No, you're about Jasper, not the Cerberus.
The site is about the croc alright.
I'm just wondering why Russian uses a z there.
@Cerberus becuz Ruzzian iz cooz.
It doesn't always turn intervocalic s into z, does it?
No, that's German.
Or French
Or French.
Or Italian.
02:08
jinx
They need more letters.
@RegDwighт Then why?
Dunno about Italian. They don't turn lasciate into laggiate.
maybe it is word initial s->z
@Cerberus I don't know!
02:09
It's not initial.
@RegDwighт OK that is an answer, +1!
@Cerberus no, that's an abstract. The answer I have been giving you for ten minutes now.
@RegDwighт Sc is different. Cosí is pronounced cozi.
it sorta is. what kind of suchus? I mean zyk? a sarko-zyk.
@Cerberus I no rite.
@RegDwighт You forgot a few letters.
O and n twice.
02:10
I am writing you five letters as we speak. That not enough?
Pseudosuchia ("false crocodiles") is one of two major divisions of Archosauria that includes living crocodilians and all archosaurs more closely related to crocodilians than to birds (what are often called "crocodilian-line archosaurs"). The name was originally given to a group of superficially crocodile-like prehistoric reptiles from the Triassic period but fell out of use in the late 20th century, especially after the name Crurotarsi was established in 1990 to label the clade (evolutionary grouping) of archosaurs encompassing most reptiles previously identified as pseudosuchians. By thi...
@RegDwighт How nice you you.
You you just saying that.
Yes.
How in the world is that just?
02:11
@Cerberus glares
Compared to the world, it is just.
All desserts are.
Compared to the world, it's Lasse Kjus.
Oh right, you don’t make sych puns.
Who is pronounced like Tschüß for some strange reason.
02:12
@Mitch You do know, I sure hope, that that’s the wrong word.
Two wronges make it right.
If you build them, they will come.
Tower of Pisa!
@tchrist that's my thinking. I'm building me an army of twelve monkeys.
With wings.
"It is forbidden to piss on El Something Hungarian"?
Or "It is forbidden to piss if you are El Something Hungarian"?
02:16
Don’t piss on the funny eastern European putt-putt scooter.
Or "It is forbidden to piss. Signed: El Something Hungarian"?
Ah.
So why is there a random ankle in the picture?
Because the sign says don’t step on the grass.
lawn. something like that.
Irony.
Cesped, sounds like a closed-off something.
Hmm it's just grass.
"What is the most common utterance in Dutch?"
Uh.
Whom are you quoting?
02:23
Jeopardy.
And how long does the utterance have to be?
Such are the rules.
Someone tell Cerberus how Jeopardy works.
I'd say...the sound of breathing?
You sure you really aren't Jasper tonight?
@RegDwighт "Hmm, it's just grass!"
Now you've got me all confused.
02:25
@KitFox well sorry to inform you but you don't get how Jeopardy works, either.
First comes answer, then comes question. Simple, eh.
57 secs ago, by KitFox
Now you've got me all confused.
Ah, I had forgotten.
Anyway, @Cerberus. Jeopardy is a televised game where you are presented with an answer, and have to formulate the question that must have produced it.
In your case, "it's just grass" being the answer.
It's funny because of the long explanation.
Yeah, I remember now.
The only thing is that we say "weed", but no matter.
02:27
Except that, of course, that's only how Jeopardy only works on paper. In reality they've long forgotten the rules themselves and now formulate completely nonsensical answers.
Really?
Which drives me crazy.
Then I was abiding by the new rules.
fashionista
I mean, when you ask me, "What is War and Peace?", I'll answer "A three-volume novel by the famous Russian writer Tolstoi" or some such, but not "When presented with this book, Jean-Baptiste de la Frontera exclaimed, Hare Krishna!"
That is like so not helpful.
If someone IRL were giving the kind of answers you see on Jeopardy, you'd beat the shit out of him or lock him up in a booby hatch. Or both.
02:34
@RegDwighт Yeah, that sounds like random factoids instead of actual knowledge about things that matter.
What's a booby hatch?
Hatch to keep boobies from falling out.
Feb 17 '11 at 21:22, by RegDwight
His wife sat up in bed and looked at him coldly. "You are a booby," she said, "and I am going to have you put in the booby-hatch."
Like a nursing bra?
Don't count your boobies until they are hatched.
02:35
<= has no idea
Feb 17 '11 at 21:22, by RegDwight
http://english.glendale.cc.ca.us/unicorn1.html
Don't count your boobies unless you have more than two, like a kangaroo.
I'll live that up as a bedtime story. A good one.
"There is a unicorn in the garden," he said, "Eating roses."
Almost there.
02:36
I know the story from a game I used to play called Missing Link, I think.
I know much of it by heart. The "it is" must be superfluous.
I gathered from our prior interactions.
Anyways.
See you lators alligators. After a while.
Byes!
Byeshock Infinite.
02:38
Bye!
A booby-hatch must be like a loony bin.
Ya.
> A small population of the Greater Rhea has become established in Germany. Three pairs escaped from a farm in Groß Grönau, Schleswig-Holstein, in August 2000. These birds survived the winter and succeeded in breeding in a habitat sufficiently similar to their native South American range. ... As of late 2000 the population was estimated to be seven birds and in 2001 eighteen birds. In October 2008 the population was estimated by two German scientists at around 100 birds.
> Large males can weigh up to 40 kg (88 lb), stand nearly 1.83 m (6.0 ft) tall and measure over 150 cm (59 in) long, although this is rare
02:55
oops!
Starting from -3- pairs of birds? That's a lot of inbreeding.
also, a lot of good eating!
I know!
Could you beat them?
Struthio camelus = ostrich.
Deinonychus claw bone.
The actual claw consisted of a horny material fitted around the bone, which was a lot larger.
 
2 hours later…
05:02
2 hours of no chat messages?
@cerb, you are really slacking off here.
Aren't you perpetually awaker than me?
I need to know urgently (okay, I actually don't, for future reference) if you know of some lint removal method I haven't thought of. And when I say lint I mean the immense quantity of greyish-white cat hair that shows up on a black wool coat after going to a friend's house.
@aediaλ Hi!
Have you tried tape?
It took precious moments away from my time drinking the remaining unpalatable rum and playing DAO. Those are seconds, neigh, minutes I'll never get back.
Oh noes!
I have just defeated the Ogre Alpha in Shale's Thaig.
I tried the two lint rollers I had... One is a mimic of tape.
And hi!
Hmm.
The stronger the glue on the tape, the better.
I don't know what kind of tape you have?
05:10
The fake tape one failed faster than the one that was like a... One way picks up stuff one way lets it go sort of stiff short brushy thing
Yeah, those never work for me.
I didn't try actual tape. I probably should have.
And the tape one, you need to use new tape for every inch!
It's still fairly slow.
Other method that will probably work, but that is a lot of work, is fire.
Like those gas lighters you use to light the stove?
I just so seldom encounter cat hair anymore (not having been an owner in years) that I was not sure what to do
Yeah there is no real quick and easy solution, I fear.
05:12
Burn the garment and start over?
Haha.
You burn the cat hair in very short bursts.
As in, short enough that you could do it on your finger.
You can also use it remove facial hair, if you have any.
Oh. Man. My DEX is impaired (note the cheap rum). I fear that would end badly.
Haha.
I have just found a pair of boots that gives +6 dex or something!
Too bad I don't use rogues.
And they're probably covered in cat hair too.
I always save those things to give to my rogues out of some obligation to equip everyone just in case.
Oh, and have you tried vacuuming your coat?
Haha I do the same thing.
05:15
I didn't!
It may work to some degree, but it is no panacea.
Next time I will try. Husband was trying to hurry to bed (he has to wake much earlier) so I wouldn't have done it tonight...
Yeah OK.
Or maybe in the south-west wing?
He probably won't hear the noise from there...
I know your house is huge.
You can hear our house shake when the doors slam.
Heh OK.
Maybe tomorrow, then.
05:18
Either one, but the back door doesn't have an enclosed porch and is a more modern sort of like... suction-y? door, so even when it opens, it's a noticeable noise.
I struggle to describe it adequately. The front is a more civilized noise and the front enclosed porch door has a beautiful click... But I can still hear it from upstairs when a package is delivered. No palace is mine, sadly.
But no alienage neither.
Heh.
Haha!
It sounds more like a nice, airy elven forest house.
Elves ain't made for this winter. That's the problem with airy.
Maybe do something with sound insulation later.
Lots of draft?
It was finally a tiny bit warm today, but I don't trust this "spring" until I see it.
I know what you mean. Although it's still very cold here, close to zero.
Oh, it's -1 now, feels like -6. Thanks a lot.
A few days ago, it officially felt like -15.
05:23
Aw. Sowwy for sending it over.
It's OK.
My weather says it's 5 degrees but chance of snow.
It's bearable.
Yikes, you always with your snow!
I hope it doesn't.
Maybe install flame throwers on all rooftops and street lights?
05:26
Haha.
Or just create a crystal shield to cover the city.
I'll recommend it at the next village meeting.
I'm sure the elder mages will agree.
Sell some Chantry property if it's too expensive.
Maybe not. They tend to frown on big expenditures when education of the young Templars is at risk...
Hmm.
Bribe them with some high-grade lyrium?
So would you buy DA2 for € 8?
Or, rather, will you?
I am considering it.
The seller has a great feedback score.
05:31
I don't know what that is in US$ off the top of my head.
I already own it as well (well, my household does) so I cannot give a totally unbiased opinion.
Oh!
That's cool.
It is about $11.
On the EA site, it is € 15. Or maybe $ 15.
finger inching towards BUY NOW! button...
Haha.
It sounds like you've already convinced yourself.
Yeah kind of...
But I think I'm supposed to hate DA2.
Because they changed battle into a clickfest and every single cave has the exact same lay-out and stuff.
But...DAO already has the same lay-out for everything.
And I believe you can turn off the clickfest in the options.
Ah. But isn't it more good story?
I think it is less epic, but perhaps also less cliché because of that.
But they say the characters are not very interesting.
Nevertheless, I have to admit it looked pretty cool in the reviews.
05:42
I have to say, just when I thought DAO was going to follow the Mass Effect template and I was nearly done, instead the plot turned out to have lots of awesome.
Yay!
Where are you now?
I'm still in Orzammar, have just finished Shale's quest.
In Denerim doing things.
Ahh.
The Wiki talks about the Secret Companion a lot.
But I'm afraid I glimpsed who it was somewhere.
Oh, well.
We'll see.
I hope I'm wrong.
I haven't got any of Shale or the additional stuff in my install so I think that may speed it up a bit.
Ohh I see.
Nah, the DLC quests are fairly small. Only the Warden's Keep is somewhat larger.
Oh, and I think most of the other DLC quests are separate campaigns that you have to load from the main menu.
Oh, except one other DLC that I haven't played yet.
05:46
I also just gave up on a few of people's kitten-saving/killing quests that I couldn't find. At the point I thought it was kinda blah I was like "whatever let's just finish this" and then I was like "holy @#%& intrigue"
It was like a revelation and I stayed up way too late because of it
Haha that's great!
Haven't you played before? Or am I thinking of someone else?
Played what before?
DA? Nope.
But I stopped playing for a few months.
JSB has played it.
And loved it.
I thought you were playing DA for the second time? Ah, that makes sense.
Yeah.
I knew JSB played and I keep missing him
Yeah I took a break. Combat had become too easy.
Yeah, question him when you see him.
05:49
That's something I don't get. I like it to be pretty easy.
So have you finished the game or not?
I play on normal or easy so I can progress faster. Easy if I get stuck somewhere.
Really? But then where is your satisfaction when your brilliant strategy at last kills the ogre that kept killing you?
Else normal. But hardly ever above normal.
I'm Nightmare.
Perhaps that makes it slower.
But I haven't been in a really tough fight since forever, except Branka.
I had to do her many times before I nailed her.
I hadn't upgraded my characters for a while.
I had 6 skill slots or so.
Ability/spell slots, I mean.
And I improved my tactics.
I usually didn't really bother with tactics.
05:52
I once tried to start over from that (called Insanity) beginning with Mass Effect 1, when I was super into Mass Effect. But the thing for me was it wasn't worth the effort to do it compared with games against real human opponents or other stuff I needed to do IRL like laundry or whatever.
I like beating up the computer but if it takes too many tries it is just not fun for me, and I don't want to take the time to improve because I can think of a zillion other more important to me skills to improve.
Heh.
Yeah, I kind of know the feeling.
It also depends on my mood and the kind of game.
watches all of Firefly
I use tactics all the time because I don't like pausing too much.
Hi!
05:56
@aediaλ Yeah, it's very convenient.
Hiya @Mahnax!
I had never noticed this before, how realistically shaped Shale is.
@aediaλ Hey!
Whatcha up to?
Well, I just got home from watching all of Firefly. You?
05:58
Customizing Wynne's tactics... Oh, you mean not me.
I heart Firefly.
What did you think?
I loved it!
I didn't get to watch the movie, though.
Yay!!!
Aw.
Apparently I'm not allowed to stay the night at any house containing members of the opposite sex.
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Another time for Serenity then.

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