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2:00 PM

Quit trying.

@RegDwigнt Hahax.

Born Free is a 1966 British drama film starring Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers as Joy and George Adamson, a real-life couple who raised Elsa the Lioness, an orphaned lion cub, to adulthood, and released her into the wilderness of Kenya. The movie was produced by Open Road Films Ltd. and Columbia Pictures. The screenplay, written by blacklisted Hollywood writer Lester Cole (under the pseudonym "Gerald L.C. Copley"), was based upon Joy Adamson's 1960 non-fictional book Born Free. The film was directed by James Hill and produced by Sam Jaffe and Paul Radin. Born Free, and its musical s...

@JasperLoy Antarctica is at both ends.

I know the song Born Free.

I think I will go rename Jasper's account into JasperLol.

2:00 PM

Or JasperHahax.

Matt Эллен

HasperHajax

KasperHauser.

@tchrist Fox in Sox says it all in much fewer words. Therefore Steppenwolf is too long.

Already I am incomprehensing.

@JasperLoy As free as the wind blows.

2:02 PM

@Mitch Yes, that is right.

Jasper the friendly ghost

@MattЭллен cough syrup is in the aisle with aspirin.

@JasperLoy Free to kill little baby antelope for dinner.

Matt Эллен

@Mitch it's alright. I only eat raw

Hapax legomenon

A hapax legomenon ( also or ; pl. hapax legomena; sometimes abbreviated to hapax, pl. hapaxes) is a word that occurs only once within a context, either in the written record of an entire language, in the works of an author, or in a single text. The term is sometimes incorrectly used to describe a word that occurs in just one of an author's works, even though it occurs more than once in that work. Hapax legomenon is a transliteration of Greek ἅπαξ λεγόμενον, meaning "(something) said (only) once". The related terms dis legomenon, tris legomenon, and tetrakis legomenon respectively (, , ...

You know something? I saw two Jeroen's on SE with a lovely picture of them and their girlfriends. I should rename myself Jeroen.

2:03 PM

@KitFox 5 incomprehensible things before... dammit...it's already past second breakfast.

@JasperLoy If you're trying to get chummy with their girls, I'm not sure if that's how it works.

@tchrist LEGOmenon? Wut?

@Mitch Let me give you their links.

Is that Agamenon's son?

2:04 PM

bis

@RegDwigнt I thought there were only two Atreides.

math.stackexchange.com/users/45174/jeroen and math.stackexchange.com/users/66668/jeroen @mitch.

YOu know, those ancient greeks, what with their 'close' families.

Yesterday I went and tried to figure out who between Aether, Chaos, Chronos, Uranus, Gaia, and Thalassa was whose mother, son, stepfather-in-law, and great-grand-uncle, and it turns out they all were all of that to all of them including to themselves.

Right.

It's like the Ancient Greeks were trying to predict El Hechizado's family tree.

And succeeded.

2:08 PM

!!wiki El Hechizado's family tree

@skullpatrol No result found

!!google El Hechizado's family tree

@skullpatrol en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_II_of_Spain ; meeg-toomuchinformation.blogspot.com/2009/02/… ; ancientfaces.com/surname/el-hechizado-family-history/140011

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Just ask and ye shall receive.

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2:11 PM

If only they had access to that chart!

Mine is better. Also, I drew it myself.

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The Habsburg lip.

I drew that myself too.

lol

2:12 PM

lefthanded

I'm not lefthanded.

Six of his 64 great-great-great-great-great-grandmothers were the same person. And that person's name already was Joanna the Mad. What do you expect.

I am going to take a nap.

later, pal

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@RegDwigнt She wasn't insane, she was just really angry

@RegDwigнt I beg you to read the Zelazny’s novella Creatures of Light and Darkness. Set the Destroyer and Isis the Red Witch give birth to Thoth Hermes Trimismegistus (The Prince Who Was a Thousand) and to Typhon the Abyss. Osiris and Isis give birth to Horus the Avenger. Thoth and Nephytha give birth to Set the Destroyer after the Prince has conquered the time barrier. And so the circle turns upon itself.

2:14 PM

And then he renamed himself Love Symbol, just to make matters confusing a little bit.

This is what happens when you force cousins to marry.

This is the original marry-merry merger.

“Do you think that I am unaware of your power, brother?” says the Prince, as
Horus raises the arrowhead between thumb and forefinger. “Do you think, brother,
that I do not know that you can add the power of your mind to the mass or
velocity of any object, increasing it a thousandfold?”

There is a blur in the vicinity of Horus’ hand and a crashing sound across the
room, as the Prince stands suddenly two feet to the left of where he had been
standing and the arrowhead pierces a six-inch wall of metal and continues on

So Set is both Thoth’s father and his son, too.

And yet, no one committed incest.

@KitFox No, it is what happens when cousins fuck.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

wouldn't it be incest to have sex with your grandmother?

Marriage is somewhat unrelated to such relations.

2:21 PM

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 More like outcest.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Oh, you’re read Gene Wolfe’s Book of the New Sun I see.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@tchrist spoiler alert!

But yeah, I did read it, per your recommendation.

Very cool.

So, now that Mr Shiny is here, I can brag about my free LEGO.

Isn’t it brilliant?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

2:22 PM

It was certainly unusual. Very good use of language. Some of the storytelling was pretty hard to follow.

No kidding.

You nearly have to read it twice to figure it all out.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

I felt like the story didn't make sense unless you already knew the whole story. Like, lots of foreshadowing and surprise reveals that make no sense at all until they explain it later.

There’s a Lexicon Ursus out there that does that.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I agree.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@tchrist yeah, well, he tells you to do just that at the end, doesn't he?

The much shorter Creatures of Light and Darkness and be read here.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I can’t even talk about it without spoilers.

2:25 PM

@RegDwigнt Yes, please.

I mean I can’t talk about Book of the New Sun without spoilers, not Creatures of Light and Darkness.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

I will have to read it again sometime and judge how much I like it.

> I bear no malice, or the burden of my life would be staggering.

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@RegDwigнt Is this for the translation work?

There are several passages from Book of the New Sun that I really love.

2:26 PM

I will post that on my monitor.

@KitFox so just to recapitulate your question from yesterday: of course it wasn't strictly free, as I had to do the translation for them.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 yup.

@KitFox Isn’t that insightful?

What translation?

@tchrist And pithy. An unusual combination.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@KitFox Reg was translating stuff for Lego.

Of three of the Master Builder Academy sets, which up until now have only been available in the US.

It was a crowd-sourcing project.

2:27 PM

Hubba-WHA—?

I was not knowing this.

20 people registered, 7 actually participated, I came out on top in terms of speed and quantity and I was told the quality as well.

@KitFox That’s just a small part of why the novella is worth the read. It is also highly entertaining.

@KitFox it's in the transcript. You should read the entire transcript more often.

@RegDwigнt This does not surprise me.

So anyway, the only thing they promised everyone for sure was a T-shirt. Plus some optional presents depending on the participation, but these were kept secret to not upset anyone.

Anyways, first things first, I got that T-shirt.

And it's kinda awesum, cuz it has the Master Builder Academy logo on the front and says "STAFF" in giant letters on the back.

So I am MBA stuff now.

2:29 PM

Oooooh.

I am excited.

envy

And? And?

But wait, that is not all. I also got an MBA sticker.

Oh wait. What color is the shirt?

The T-Shirt is green.

Like, lime green.

But not the LEGO lime.

2:30 PM

Arf?

It is very noticeable from far away.

Well. Teh awesum, much envy.

I am probably that color green right now.

So anyway, the T-shirt and the sticker. But that is not all.

Oh no, that is not all.

I also got some, I dunno how to call it, sketch book with special LEGO paper in it.

2:31 PM

gasp Oh.

The official name is LEGO Design Paper I think.

Like a drafting notebook?

Yeah.

Eeeeeee!

With lines in the dimensions of bricks and plates.

2:31 PM

I love stuff like that!

It's plenty thick, too.

omgomgomgomgomg

So the T-Shirt and the sticker and the drafting notebook. But wait! That is not all.

jumps up and down

I also got an MBA set, one of the three I translated the instructions for:

!!lego 20200

2:32 PM

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brickset.com/detail/?Set=20200-1

Oh dude!

I bet I have parts for that.

I looked up on eBay and only like one person has it up, for like 40 Euros.

That's Euros, right.

Plus 30 Euro shipping from the US.

It is only 10 degrees here right now.

Plus taxes, of course.

Why would you ever sell that?

Too special.

2:33 PM

I wouldn't, I just wanted to check.

So the T-Shirt and the sticker and the notebook and the set. But wait! Wait!

waits impatiently

And the longhaired kitten doesn’t mind. Weirdo.

I also got another free set, which is a special-edition of two MBA sets, the other two out of the three I did the translation for.

Did they ask you to come work for them as a translator? Like, forever?

!!lego 20216

2:34 PM

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brickset.com/detail/?Set=20216-1

Oh!

This one is like 50 Euros. Plus shipping plus taxes. So like a 100 total.

You must be so excited right now!

Even my wife was excited.

I am this excited on your behalf!

That IS SO COOL!

2:35 PM

So that's Space Designer, Microbuild Designer, and Mech Designer, the T-shirt, and the sticker, and the notebook. BUT WAIT!

WHAT!?

I also got another free set, which is a special edition of three other MBA sets, for which I never did any translating.

NO!

!!lego 20217

brickset.com/detail/?Set=20217-1

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2:36 PM

OH MY GOD! I LOVE THAT!

That's 80 bucks even in the US.

wantitwantitwantit!

tries to commit wing formation to memory

Here, one guy had it for 100 Euros. Plus 40 Euro shipping. Plus taxes.

I'm going to run out of exclamation points.

Yeah it was like Christmas.

2:37 PM

That's way better than Christmas.

That's a job well done.

Oh, and these boxes are all very nice. They have that special finish, like the Architecture sets, or the CUUSOO sets, or the limited-edition Crawler.

Real boxes that you can open and close, nothing that you rip apart.

I saw some architecture sets for the first time in real life this weekend. We don't have much selection around here.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

wow Reg, that's pretty sweet

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So this is the actual box.

A better representation of the fact that it's a three-in-one.

Congratulations. That's really excellent!

2:40 PM

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That's planes and creatures and I don't even know, cars?

Wow, that's cool.

So all in all, I now have Kits 1 through 6.

Suddenly, a lot of things about the LEGO movie make more sense.

Plus I am Teh Staff.

You are also Teh Awesum!

2:41 PM

So actually, I looked up on Rebrickable, and I think for this biggest set I have all the parts already.

Wait... @RegDwigнt, do you work for Lego?

He has a t-shirt that proves it.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

holy crap what happened to Brickset!

So I am contemplating downloading the instructions somewhere, and reading and building without unsealing the box.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Isn't it pretty?

2:42 PM

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 good morning. It happened two weeks ago!

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

It's like their website took a giant leap from 2004 into 2011!

And they were soliciting feedback for months prior.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@RegDwigнt I was in Aruba two weeks ago.

And I gived them feedback.

I started sorting our bricks a little bit, despite my husband's insistence that there is no point to doing so.

2:42 PM

@KitFox hah.

You absolutely have to sort. No matter how few parts you have.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@KitFox I can recommend some great boxes for you

And you do not have few. You now have many.

Well. It's sort of true, but I felt like at least I could separate the rainbow colors from the black, white, and bley, and wouldn't you know that I found some really interesting pieces in there?

@KitFox The point is to have them sorted. To bring order into the universe. Doesn't he get that?

@RegDwigнt We have literally buckets of inherited LEGO.

2:44 PM

There are 6500+ different pieces at any given time. Four times that much over the course of decades.

Of course you need to sort that.

I found two colors I had never seen before.

100+ colors, too. Yes.

"a sounding meadow."

What image does it have?

I have three parts in a weird almost ultraviolet magenta, and a bizarro green.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

stuff4scrapbooking.com/…

2:45 PM

!!define sounding

@KitFox sounding The action of the verb

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

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These look great. I use something very, very similar.

I know the meaning but it doesn't make sense in that collocation.

But 10 Euro?

I pay 5 per box for mine, and that's already a ripoff.

I have 100+ boxes now, you do the math.

Matt Эллен

2:46 PM

@user4550 correct. it doesn't make sense

But it is from a famous poem...

Of course it is.

I would, but I am satisfied with trying to sort into shoebox sized plastic bins right now.

Have you ever been to a meadow? It is sounding alright.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@RegDwigнt Where do you get them?

2:47 PM

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 at a Baumarkt.

What you call them. Building centers.

I have four shoebox sized, two twice that size, then two underbed boxes and a tub of parts.

I have 100+ all of the same size. Different sizes no good.

You start down that road, you never come back.

I agree. It's just how it evolved.

Yeah.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Even LEGO itself is now selling almost standardized sorting boxes

2:49 PM

So just be a God and have a hand in the evolution.

Like one underbed box is my husband's old collection.

And the other was scrounged from the dump.

And the tub came from my nephew.

Matt Эллен

@user4550 poetry doesn't have to make sense

I do have a half dozen sewing boxes I could use for small parts though...

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

I did come across some good scrapbooking/craft storage boxes in NYC that were even better than the ones I use. The dividers have little teeth on the edges and the walls of the boxes are ridged, so you can make each compartment exactly as wide as you want

They have compartments like that.

2:50 PM

> There was an Old Man with a nose

Yeah what nonsense is that @Matt.

Matt Эллен

Utter

Udder?

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Otter?

Totoro.

Then where would I put my embroidery thread is the question.

Matt Эллен

2:51 PM

> There was an Old Man of Whitehaven,
Who danced a quadrille with a raven;
But they said, 'It's absurd
To encourage this bird!'
So they smashed that Old Man of Whitehaven.

Why, in the broid of course.

Whence the very name.

Good idea.

Poetry nourishes my soul, so does prose. But beautiful it must be. The foul breeds the foul, the beautiful the beautiful.

BY Anonymous

Do you agree?

Matt Эллен

> Opposites attract — Paula Abdul

@RegDwigнt hence...not whence.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

2:53 PM

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Like that box: "Infinite Divider System"

It's not as nice a box as the other box I have, but the flexibility of the dividers is pretty good

Oh, yeah. That's what mine are like.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

artbin.com/en/art/site/details/900IDS

There is the manufacturer's page

My boxes are all ArtBin SuperSatchel

The advantage of SuperSatchel is that they make deep and shallow boxes, all with the same footprint

The advantage of the IDS line is the more moveable dividers.

Or you could just build them all out of lego.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

heh. Then I'd have nothing to put in them.

And the one box with all the mismatched colours would be quite the rainbow.

So Mr. LEGO Staff @Reg, when are you going to put your awesome kits together?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

2:57 PM

@Reg doesn't put kits together. He just buys them and hoards them.

He puts them together later.

@user4550 I will never use hence to mean "whence" or "thence".

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 that was never supposed to be true, then sadly became true for some time, but it is no longer entirely true as of late. I've been clearing the stack.

Sometimes I will just open a set just like that, for no particular reason, and build it while watching TV.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

I must admit to a smidge of unopened sets accruing in my collection.

It used to be that I had special week-long sessions for which I hoarded the sets. But now I sometimes build a set a day for weeks.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Some were duplicates I bought for additional parts and never got around to needing them.

And now I also have 3 or 4 that are saved for later.

Yeah.

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