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RegDwighт

20:22

Nice indeed.

I'd go crazy. I would never sleep.

I'm already no fan of sleeping at night, and if it's sunny, I just wouldn't see the point.

Johan Larsson

yeah sleep can be a problem but you are not as tired when there is always sun ime.

RegDwighт

20:40

I don't have a problem with not sleeping when I'm not tired. I have a problem with not sleeping when I am.

Often I'm so awfully tired, but I still don't go to bed, just waste hour upon hour doing absolutely nothing, and then the sun comes out and then I'm like okay whatever now I must have breakfast and check the morning news.

And this happens all the time, has been happening for decades. So with midnight sun, I literally know for a fact I wouldn't go to bed for three days straight, and then pretty much drop dead.

Amaan Cheval

Hahaha

Johan Larsson

@RegDwighт ok, not for you then I like it

RegDwighт

@AmaanCheval Yeah, dropping dead has never been funnier.

@JohanLarsson oh it absolutely is for me. I'm just saying I could experience it exactly once.

Johan Larsson

> that's the way I like it baby, I don't wanna live forever.

RegDwighт

Foreigners never want to live forever.

Wait. It wasn't Foreigner. It was Queen. What the f is wrong with me.

Johan Larsson

20:52

Motörhead, Ace of spades

Cerberus

@RegDwighт God, I hate that.

Getting ready for bed is hard as it is, let alone when you're super tired.

RegDwighт

Aye. And I don't understand it, because sleep is such fun!

Johan Larsson

I have this window where I'm tired, if I fail to fall asleep during it I have to wait many hours for the next window.

RegDwighт

It's really this whole conscious process of disconnecting yourself from the world that sucks. If going to bed was just flipping a switch and be asleep, that'd be progress.

Cerberus

If only!!

@RegDwighт And I'd like to add a clause saying that you can't be woken up for no particular reason and be all awake long before your alarm clock goes off.

RegDwighт

20:56

What is alarm clock?

Cerberus

@JohanLarsson I sort of recognise that, although I can still fall asleep outside the window: it just doesn't happen as quickly.

@RegDwighт Alarm clock is for not sleep until heel freezes over.

RegDwighт

I do not understand the purpose of that purpose.

Cerberus

I either sleep for too long or too short if it were up to my body.

The only thing I can do is cut off too long.

RegDwighт

That can be hard.

Cerberus

But at least it can be done.

RegDwighт

20:58

But it's worth it. Because too long is worse than too short.

Cerberus

Go to bed earlier and sleep for more than 5 hours, however, I cannot.

RegDwighт

Too short, and you're a psycho, but too long, and you're a zombie.

Cerberus

@RegDwighт I don't know. It's not a choice one has to make.

Both suck.

Johan Larsson

@RegDwighт I would like to be as tired in the night as I am in the morning, that would be sweet

Cerberus

And the main difference is that I'm a different kind of zombie.

@JohanLarsson Yes!

I believe something like 30 % of people suffer from sleep problems.

RegDwighт

21:00

Well as outlined above, I'd just prefer to never be tired. Just either asleep or not. Tired should not exist.

Cerberus

Agreed.

Johan Larsson

The feeling of weighing 1000 kg and the bed is made for it :D

Cerberus

But my first pick would be the switch-flip thing.

@JohanLarsson I know!

Have you ever tried one of those wake-up lights?

Or one of those phone applications that wake you up between sleep cycles, so you don't have to wake up from deep sleep?

Johan Larsson

@Cerberus yes I have one don't use it anymore

Cerberus

Doesn't work?

Johan Larsson

21:01

@Cerberus I trust you! :D

Cerberus

Good!

Johan Larsson

got to walk puppy, afk

Cerberus

Bai.

RegDwighт

There must also be a law that I'm allowed to play any musical instrument at any time of the day. But only me. Others should shut it. Preferrably at all times as well.

I just played several songs from Chicago on my bayan. I guess that's not quite what anybody envisioned. And @robusto will just groan in complete despair.

Cerberus

Hmm.

You need sound-proof cellar.

RegDwighт

21:07

It's not exactly soundunproof here. I did play the bayan last night, and I will often play some guitar. I just ease up on the piano, and the same would likely go for flute, violin, or percussion.

Cerberus

I don't even know what a b. is, so I wouldn't know how loud it is.

RegDwighт

May 15 at 20:03, by SO ChatBot

@RegDwighт bayan A type of chromatic button accordion developed in Russia in the early 20th century and named after 11th-century bard Boyan.

!!/define bayan

Caprica Six

@RegDwighт bayan A type of chromatic button accordion developed in Russia in the early 20th century and named after 11th-century bard Boyan.

RegDwighт

See. Nothing changed.

Cerberus

Ah.

How about now?

!!/define bayan

Caprica Six

21:10

@Cerberus bayan A type of chromatic button accordion developed in Russia in the early 20th century and named after 11th-century bard Boyan.

Cerberus

Still no change.

RegDwighт

Anyway. Which is why I poked Rob. I think he likes using accordion in the same sentence as torture, and as far as Chicago goes, he, um, didn't quite like the movie all too much.

Cerberus

I see.

RegDwighт

►

Johan Larsson

what change are you expecting?

RegDwighт

21:25

Change I can't believe in.

Johan Larsson

> When the truth is found to be lies.

> Feed your head, feed your head not sure if this one is correct

RegDwighт

I think the idiomatic way of saying that is stuff your face.

Johan Larsson

I think it was the Doormouse who said it, Jefferson Airplane, White Rabbit

first quote is from somebody to love

KitFox

21:52

One pill makes you larger and one pill makes you small, and the ones that Mother gave you don't do anything at all.

Johan Larsson

yes, you like it?

KitFox

Yes.

Johan Larsson

hard not to imo

KitFox

Especially if you have done lots of drugs.

!!/define precover

Caprica Six

@KitFox No definition found

KitFox

21:55

!!/define albedo

Caprica Six

@KitFox albedo (physics, meteorology, astronomy) The fraction of incident light or radiation reflected by a surface or body, commonly expressed as percentage.

KitFox

Oh.

RegDwighт

22:32

LOL @ "doormouse".

Poor thing!

And with that I'm out for today. Je vais doormir.

Robusto

22:58

@RegDwighт That's the advantage of having a digital piano. If you have headphones, the only person you are likely to annoy is yourself.

RegDwighт

23:30

@Robusto yeah we discussed. I remember. I think I settled for "fuck digital, gimme actual metal".

Or my wife settled for "oh, this one looks nice!"

Or both.

Robusto

And I settled for "give me in tune and I can play it whenever I want"

@RegDwighт Yeah. The furniture factor.

RegDwighт

@Robusto all my instruments so far, thankfully, either can be tuned by myself, or do not require tuning in the first place.

KitFox

My two favorite people. How nice.

RegDwighт

More to the point, I can also untune them every which way I want to, to get the Wild West sound, say.

Robusto

I can make my digital sound like a honky-tonk piano if I choose.

KitFox

23:35

Who is up for beer?

RegDwighт

Yeah like exactly one kind of honky-tonk piano. I can choose between an infinite number of honky-tonks.

@KitFox I'm not up for anything, actually, I said goodnight like an hour ago.

I am supposed to be reading the Wizard.

KitFox

Aupres de am blonde, qui fait Bon dormir.

RegDwighт

I only read a dozen pages the day before yesterday, and not a single one yesterday. That is definitely too little.

KitFox

Ach well. I must get a copy and then we can race. That should motivate you.

RegDwighт

There are books with which I prefer not to.

KitFox

23:37

I see your wife did not kill you.

RegDwighт

This is not Dan Brown. You can race yourself.

@KitFox what for, now? I've long lost track of all the reasons.

KitFox

shrugs I'd have faked it anyway. Just to help you.

For the Lego stash.

RegDwighт

Oh, but she still might. Cuz the stash is still there.

Most of it.

I tried, but gave up halfway through.

KitFox

Andhere I was thinking you had put them all together.

What was I doing? Oh yes. Drinking.

RegDwighт

I had too little time for LEGO lately, what with the bayan.

KitFox

23:40

That woman must love you like crazy.

RegDwighт

So I basically switched from one mode to the other three days ago and never switched back.

@KitFox I dunno, I'm now really trying her patience with the bayan as well.

Robusto

@RegDwighт Yeah, but I'm happy with one or three piano sounds. I sold my rack of synths and mixer, as I may have mentioned. My tastes are simpler now.

KitFox

She is a good woman to allow her patience to be tried.

Robusto

@RegDwighт Since when did a wife ever need a "reason"?

KitFox

This drink tastes a bit like it has been soaked in band aids.

RegDwighт

23:41

@Robusto nah obviously I'm joking anyway. I'm not in the daily tuning-untuning business.

@Robusto since she needed something to go with her rhyme.

Accessories. Women love these. You should make notes.

KitFox

makes notes

RegDwighт

Well, my job here is done, then.

Off to the readomobile!

KitFox

Later.

RegDwighт

Yeah, morrows.

I will play this song from Chicago just for Rob one last time for today.

Bai

Robusto

@RegDwighт Baian.

KitFox

23:49

There's a 15-year-old girl missing up here. They had about 500 people turn out to search today.

Robusto

Fuck.

What is wrong with people?

KitFox

I don't know.

I'm assuming you're not talking about the people who came to search for her.

A few years back, they caught a guy who killed three people including a 10-year-old boy by posting a picture of his truck on Facebook.

Robusto

@KitFox ...

KitFox

It circulated so fast, they picked him up near NH either the same day or the next one.

@Robusto You don't mean there is something wrong with the people going to look for her.

Robusto

@KitFox What the fuck do you think I mean?

KitFox

23:55

I don't know. I've been drinking.

Robusto

If that's what you think of me, then to hell with you.

KitFox

Aww, don't be like that. I'm just messing with you.

Robusto

I joke about a lot of things, but not kidnap, rape, and (presumably) murder, especially when the victims are children.

KitFox

I wasn't joking about that part.

I wish they'd had as much luck with this girl. They were looking for a truck, but the best it got them was a general possible vicinity.

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