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> After introduction of a spin-label into the lid, specific EPR spectra were attributed to the closed and open conformations of the HPL lid using factors known to induce lid opening (bile salts, colipase, and E600 lipase inhibitor).

Hmm. Maybe I can upload it for you. Let me see.

Mahnax

That would be fantastic.

KitFox

ifile.it/v2sc7p9/bi801250s.pdf

Try that.

If you are really interested in this kind of stuff, you can usually get access to journal articles through your University's library. You might be able to get a student account with them, although sometimes, you just need to get there via their website.

Mahnax

Thanks, it worked.

KitFox

Welcome.

Mahnax

My Bio teacher said that she can view the articles, but I have no means for contacting her at the moment.

Come to think of it, my mom might even be able to access these things.

Jon Purdy

6:27 PM

Hey all.

Mahnax

Hi Jon.

KitFox

Well, I'm happy to get you others, if you need.

Jon Purdy

I’m not just lurking today. :P

KitFox

Hi @Jon.

Jon Purdy

I feel so welcomed.

Or at least hi’d.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

6:29 PM

Dear Jon I'm moving on
By this time I'm gonna be long gone
Dear Jon c'est la vie
You've seen the last of me

Jon Purdy

Trying to come up with a domain for a site I want to make.

As usual, all the obvious ideas are taken.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

How about obvious-idea.mn?

Mahnax

@JonPurdy On what topic?

@KitFox Thanks!

Matt Эллен

ileikcerberus.com

Jon Purdy

@Mahnax A site for rightsholders to let people legally cover/use their work for a small royalty. Mainly targeted at independent musicians.

Mahnax

6:31 PM

@JonPurdy Neat idea.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

paymemoney.com

Matt Эллен

my browser does not support javasript

Mahnax

catattack.com

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@MattЭллен dot com?

Matt Эллен

would be a great name for a band?

KitFox

6:33 PM

gimmegimmegimmesome.com

@MattЭллен Jesus Las Vegas.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

That will get you sued by ABBA.

KitFox

That's my pending lounge act.

Matt Эллен

Bah! Every one thing I do gets me sued by ABBA these days.

@KitFox with you as lead vocalist, I presume?

Mahnax

@MattЭллен Anonymous Methods.

KitFox

@MattЭллен spits coffee

Mahnax

6:34 PM

For the halibut.

KitFox

@MattЭллен Naturally.

@Mahnax Love it!

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@MattЭллен You see, it's true: everything you do, you do it for you.

Matt Эллен

Dot Tumblr Dot Com, on the other hand, would be an awful name for a band, if only because of how hard it would be to direct people to your band's website.

KitFox

No! Not XKCD!

covers Reg's eyes

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Apr 22 '11 at 21:53, by RegDwight

You post another XKCD, I'll kick you again.

Jon Purdy

6:35 PM

I’m not immune to the multiwordtumblrname.tumblr.com effect.

Matt Эллен

I was just pointing out why I said "would be a good name for a band?"

Jon Purdy

Would that I were.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

I don't mind if you do.

Matt Эллен

I initialised my multiword tumblr site name

so it's just sgdi.tumblr.com

RegDwight Ѭſ道

We are doomed.

KitFox

6:36 PM

I feel compelled to mention that this conversation was the thing that I told my project lead I needed fifteen minutes or so to wrap up before I could meet with him.

LOL

Hahahaha.

Very good.

well, so long as it's time well spended

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Well, have you got the wrapping paper?

KitFox

6:37 PM

He's been making me wait all day, and when I went to warm up my coffee, he was in with the big boss, and said "Hey, Kit, is now a good time to meet?"

Without missing a beat, I replied "I've got something I need to finish up. I'll be about 15 minutes or so."

Mahnax

How long ago was that?

RegDwight Ѭſ道

And it was the truth!

KitFox

I have no idea.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Or it was a lie!

KitFox

Project Lead snaps fingers. Kit looks vaguely in his direction, unconcerned.

Matt Эллен

6:39 PM

I hadn't even noticed how badly I misspelt everything until I saw it starred

KitFox

I thought it was much nicer than saying "Go to hell."

Matt Эллен

true

telling someone to go to hell is frowned upon in polite society

KitFox

I should probably bring a notebook and try to look official.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

I don't want her back
I won't even try
This time ain't just au revoir
This time it's goodbye

We could not go on
Living like we were
I was just about to write
A Dear Jon note to her.

KitFox

And you claim not to be Sir Elton.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

6:41 PM

It's Bernie.

KitFox

Oh. My bad.

Jon Purdy

@MattЭллен Unless they’re a necromancer and you’re asking them to go to hell for you and pick up some villain-souls or hellfire or whatever.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

All the things I've said in songs. All the purple prose you bought from me.

Matt Эллен

Unless that, @JonPurdy :D

Mahnax

@JonPurdy …polite society…

Jon Purdy

6:42 PM

@Mahnax I have never known a necromancer to be anything but polite.

KitFox

Lovely lot, those necromancers.

Jon Purdy

Charming, really.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

161 necromancers on this site.

KitFox

Also, Hell's Angels.

Mahnax

@JonPurdy Oh, really. Fantastic, then.

KitFox

6:43 PM

@RegDwightѬſ道 Including me.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

I have never known Kit to be anything but polite. Except that one time.

Matt Эллен

I have 69 badges but ~~a bitch~~ Necromancer ain't one

KitFox

@RegDwightѬſ道 I said I was sorry!

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Hahaha. Chill.

KitFox

And I meant it too!

RegDwight Ѭſ道

6:45 PM

Then chill some more, what should I say.

KitFox

:D

Jon Purdy

@RegDwightѬſ道 “Except that one time” instantly adds dramatic tension to a sentence. Just like “not since…the incident”.

KitFox

:P

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@JonPurdy I knew you would say that!

KitFox

I suppose I can't put it off any longer.

Back in a bit.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

6:46 PM

@MattЭллен Robusto has more Necromancer badges than you have badges.

Matt Эллен

he is a machine

RegDwight Ѭſ道

listens to the sound of five people looking up whether an obvious lie is actually true

Matt Эллен

lol (because I did)

RegDwight Ѭſ道

I know. There was that sound.

Mahnax

Jon Skeet has more Nice Answer badges than you have badges.

Matt Эллен

6:49 PM

not on this site!

Jon Purdy

Maybe the reason we get so many “is there a word for (some oddly specific thing)?” is that English has so many words for oddly specific things…

Mahnax

@MattЭллен I know, just had to put it out there.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Mar 17 at 19:52, by RegDwight Ѭſ道

Ah yes. The Enlightened badge. Note how @Robusto is so cool, he has more Enlightened badges than you have badges.

Matt Эллен

@Mahnax he is quite the answerer

Jon Purdy

@MattЭллен Well, and people upvote him because he’s famous. :P

Mahnax

6:51 PM

@MattЭллен Indeed.

@JonPurdy Famous because he knows what he's talking about.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@JonPurdy I never knew him, and I still don't know him.

I will never buy his book, either. And for all I know, the language he programs in must suck, otherwise people wouldn't be asking that many questions.

Matt Эллен

C#

or he did

RegDwight Ѭſ道

C#, Bb, whatever.

Mahnax

Well, lunch time. Latehs.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Mahlzeit.

Matt Эллен

6:53 PM

I will also take my leave of this place. For the moment.

Jon Purdy

I like F# better. ;)

Matt Эллен

I like Haskell better of all!

Jon Purdy

@MattЭллен Yeah, I do too.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Tim Minchin is an oft-seen guest in this room.

Jon Purdy

I do love him.

The ofter seen, the better loved, really.

KitFox

7:05 PM

Well, that was easy.

Holy shit. I just heard my project lead blatantly lying to his project director.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

0

A: "open mike" vs. "open mic"

Mic? Isn't that what you call an Irishman? An "open-mic" night in a nightclub could be an occasion when management allows customers to slip drugs into one another's cocktails.

Worth converting to a comment?

Or just deleting?

Jon Purdy

gives a dramatic thumbs-down with a deep frown

RegDwight Ѭſ道

KitFox

@RegDwightѬſ道 At least a comment, but probably ought to delete.

Since it's "slip a mickey," not "slip a mick."

@RegDwightѬſ道 feels oddly aroused

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Joaquin Phoenix is the man.

Jon Purdy

7:11 PM

@RegDwightѬſ道 He looks like he’s holding his thumb against a hole in a dike.

@RegDwightѬſ道 Was. He went insane, remember?

KitFox

giggles

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@JonPurdy Well the gesture never went that way, but really, that's the smallest of that movie's problems.

And I've watched it at least twenty times. Maybe thirty. I like it, too. But it's so awfully inaccurate, there's no talking around that.

KitFox

I found the camera effects difficult to watch.

Also, the scene with the dead kid, I can't take.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

You mentioned that.

Jon Purdy

@RegDwightѬſ道 The biggest of Gladiator’s problems was that it lacked March of the Gladiators.

KitFox

7:14 PM

@RegDwightѬſ道 Did I? Oh.

Also, there is a lot of brooding.

Jon Purdy

Anyway, I’m off to eat Chinese food.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@JonPurdy I have Hans Zimmer's soundtrack right here, and it quotes that march at least seven times. You just don't notice because of all the OVER 9000 instruments he puts haroomphing the hell out of themselves on top of that.

Jon Purdy

@RegDwightѬſ道 Okay, to be fair, I’ve only seen the movie once or twice.

But yeah, haroomph.

Jon out.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@JonPurdy See you in twenty minutes then. And then again in thirty.

Feb 29 at 14:20, by KitFox

I find even the memory of the scene where he discovers his son's body very upsetting.

Mahnax

Well, that lunch was nice.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

7:18 PM

Also, this

Mahnax

Feb 27 at 20:01, by KitFox

@SonicTheHedgehog Are you a gay gladiator?

That made me laugh.

KitFox

Hahaha

At least I'm consistent.

Ish.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Yeah. Ir. Ish.

KitFox

I'm not Irish. I just married Irish.

And I have an Irish name.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Hence the ish.

DUH.

KitFox

7:20 PM

rofl

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Really, are all my jokes so sophisticated they need explained?

KitFox

That's awful. How'd I get to feeling so cheery all of a sudden?

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Sweaty gladiators.

Mahnax

2 mins ago, by Mahnax

Feb 27 at 20:01, by KitFox

@SonicTheHedgehog Are you a gay gladiator?

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Gay, even.

It ain't called gay for no reason.

KitFox

7:22 PM

Oh, right. I was going to look up that gay Russell Crowe flick.

muses

Maybe another cup of coffee.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Feb 29 at 14:26, by RegDwight Ѭſ道

►

KitFox

Not right now! I'm at work and can't do anything about it.

Oh, the things I shall do to my husband when I am feeling better.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Call your lead over.

Share the fun.

Mahnax

covers eyes

KitFox

shudders

He and the big boss ended up in a very awkward conversation about dating supermodels.

It was pretty pathetic.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

7:25 PM

Jul 20 '11 at 15:42, by Kit

F*CK! F*CKING project leader! Back later.

Jul 20 '11 at 15:43, by RegDwight

Yes, that is an important task.

KitFox

Stop! Ew!

RegDwight Ѭſ道

You invaded Poland!

KitFox

I would never make such a mistake!

Mahnax

@RegDwightѬſ道 Who hasn't these days?

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Now, escenas gay de Crowe Russell he can handle, but "Ew"? Careful there.

@Mahnax stop quoting @Robusto. Or continue quoting him in exchange for royalties.

Mahnax

7:27 PM

@RegDwightѬſ道 I'm quoting Robusto?

KitFox

Look at him!

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Am I supposed to be answering rhetorical questions?

KitFox

Look at that face!

shudders

Don't you just want to punch him?

Mahnax

I'm not intentionally quoting Robusto.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

I never want to punch anyone. I just must.

Jan 4 at 13:56, by RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Mahnax that is entirely irrelevant in the royalties-payment business.

Mahnax

7:30 PM

May 7 '11 at 12:55, by Robusto

Everybody has invaded Poland at one time or another.

Found it, I think.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

That's not the only one.

He gets to repeat himself for free.

KitFox

Huh. I probably should've mentioned in that meeting that I am on vacation the week after next.

Mahnax

Sorry, @Robusto. hands over royalty It won't happen again.

@KitFox Ooh, where are you headed?

KitFox

12 miles south of where I live, to my mother-in-law's house.

Exotic, I know.

Mahnax

considers American geography

That's like, Mexico, right?

KitFox

7:32 PM

Close.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

More like Cuba.

Mahnax

Mm, okay.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

No. Cuba is not okay.

KitFox

I live about 100 miles from Mexico.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

In Cuba.

Mahnax

7:33 PM

@KitFox That doesn't sound right.

Haha.

KitFox

I'm about 50 miles from Havana. I know the guy who owns it.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Guy? Or gay?

KitFox

Guy.

@Mahnax No, it's true.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

The times. Them is an changing.

Mahnax

@KitFox I would have thought that you were closer, maybe 80 miles?

KitFox

7:35 PM

Nope. About 50 miles from China as well.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

No dickering in this chat.

KitFox

And 130 miles or so from Norway and Paris.

Now any accomplished stalker should be able to figure out my approximate location.

Mahnax

@RegDwightѬſ道 Come on, just a few minutes.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

130, 150, 80, who cares. It's a number.

Mahnax

@KitFox Where's Jasper when you need him?

KitFox

7:37 PM

@Vitaly could solve that one easily.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

I built a wall in China, I sank an ocean liner
I've wrecked homes, I've burned thrones, hunting Kit down.

KitFox

Aww. I feel so special.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

I've put thorns in your feet, I spread plague in the streets
I've sprung traps, confused maps, hunting Kit down.

KitFox

taps toes That's catchy. You should set it to music and make millions.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Over 9000.

First rough draft guesstimate.

Though I think I'll start by making seven.

Mahnax

7:40 PM

I was trying to put it to the tune of "where the streets have no name" by U2.

Didn't really work.

KitFox

Haha

Mahnax

Also, they'd sue that seven right out of you.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

►

Mahnax

Then give it to African children, or something.

KitFox

Who Bernie and Elton?

Nah, they're real sweet.

Mahnax

7:41 PM

@RegDwightѬſ道 Ah, that makes more sense.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

They are like this, I'm tellin ya. Like this.

KitFox

Tight.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Yeah. What better word than that.

Mahnax

Spandesque?

Gigili

Is this correct: I wouldn't do that because I shouldn't do that and I couldn't do that?

Really? Thank you.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

7:51 PM

Ohai.

I see no grammatical problems, only stylistic choices. But you should be asking a native speaker.

Gigili

Thank you Reg.

Mahnax

Looks fine to me too.

KitFox

Is somebody there?

:P

RegDwight Ѭſ道

What?

Cerberus

Guess where this is.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

7:53 PM

Ceci n'est pas une maison.

KitFox

@Cerberus China.

Cerberus

Correct.

@KitFox Also correct!

RegDwight Ѭſ道

I built a wall there.

KitFox

The Chinese kind of gave it away.

Cerberus

Can you be more specific? What the building is about?

KitFox

7:54 PM

Must be a student dorm.

Cerberus

@KitFox Yeah I noticed.

@KitFox Nope. Why did you think so?

KitFox

Nets to catch suicidal students.

Cerberus

Ah you are thinking in the right direction.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Don't have to be a student in China to be suicidal.

Cerberus

Do Chinese student dorms often have nets?

KitFox

7:55 PM

I've no idea.

But suicide is big in China.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

I only build walls. I'm not in the net attaching business.

KitFox

About as big as Haßlehoff in Germany.

Cerberus

Heh.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Don't Hassle the Hassel.

Cerberus

Firewalls? Internets?

Mahnax

7:56 PM

Tell us, Cerb, what is this building?

Cerberus

You can guess. Kit also did the hard part.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

It's a building for the Communist Party's ego. The nets are there because it's childish and fragile.

Cerberus

Which I considered hard anyway.

@RegDwightѬſ道 Not everything is about communism, my Soviet comrade.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

It is in China, my hellish dog.

You have no idea of the things up here.

Cerberus

China is all about capitalism.

KitFox

7:57 PM

If a person threw away a disposable coffee cup in a clean trash bag and the only other thing that went in there today was her plastic disposable lunch box, is the cup dirty?

Mahnax

Oh, it's the Apple place, isn't it?

David Wallace

@KitFox an unused coffee cup?

RegDwight Ѭſ道

I like how they placed nets under walls, and beams under windows. They really want to finish the poor sods off.

Cerberus

@Mahnax Ding!!

@KitFox Of course not.

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