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none, I hope

user19161

And how many Americans say zed instead of zee?

7:08 PM

> .....

GRRRRRRR

well, it does depend on context, somewhat.

I would never pronounce the Z in Dragon Ball Z zed

giggles

user19161

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 I say NARQ. It is like writing a CV for him. It would depend on style etc.

@ClarkKent well actually only the third one makes sense.

user19161

I have heard so many zeds and so many zees that I use both all the time.

7:10 PM

But all of them are awfully punctuated.

user19161

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 Yes, Kris's comment. Facepalm.

Well I suppose that could be valid if you add a dash and an eliipsis.

But just "March 2010" is of course quite funny.

user19161

That would mean that the entire event took place in the month.

user19161

I am just using common sense here.

user19161

I might use "Mar 2010 - " myself.

7:14 PM

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 ~~....~~

user19161

I still think Kris is Thursagen. He probably changed location or something.

you mention this a lot... I think you are Thursagen!

user19161

Also I think that Carlo is Lewis Carroll, in case you missed my declaration yesterday!

paces

it's the only logical conclusion — you are trying to throw us off the scent

7:15 PM

Lewis speaks English too well to be Carlo.

user19161

@MattЭллен Maybe I am Thursagin.

user19161

@KitFox But Carlo has also improved greatly.

Thursagain?

user19161

Or maybe I am Frigen.

Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage.

user19161

7:16 PM

Well, the cage is not real.

user19161

There is no cage.

Despite all my age I am still just a matt off the stage

Smashing Pumpkins!

Are they still alive?

I like them.

I don't know.

user19161

7:18 PM

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 Wait, did I see wrongly just now? My comment was because I thought he wrote "March 2010" without anything else.

The lovely combination of that voice and those lyrics.

They were all the rage when I was in sixth grade.

@MattЭллен :)

I remember they were popular, though not when or where.

@ClarkKent yeah he did. I just tried to cut him some slack.

7:20 PM

I have a cursing mantra running through my head.

I like "Today", it's a very good song.

user19161

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 Well, you should not modify an answer's intent!

@KitFox Write it down?

@MattЭллен Oh, yes, I remember that title.

@ClarkKent I can only guess its intent, so you can only guess that I modified it.

user19161

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 Deep.

7:21 PM

@Cerberus fuck fuck shit, fuck fuck shit, fuck fuck shit.

just "March 2010 -" — Kris 18 mins ago

►

@KitFox Great.

@KitFox like the beats for We Will Rock You

I have never seen that video clip.

@MattЭллен ah so he does intend to put a dash there.

7:22 PM

Actually I haven't seen many video clips. We didn't have commercial television.

I overlooked it. As did Jasper.

►

@MattЭллен Exactly.

All these videos are verboten in my country.

But I know the songs so I don't care.

Tunnelbear time!

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 You would be the perfect prisoner. You remember what the sky looks like so you don't ever need to see it again.

@Cerberus that's not called "being a prisoner". That's called "being online".

user19161

7:25 PM

A prisoner of the internet.

user19161

We are all prisoners of our minds.

What's the deal with all those music videos on the Internet anyway? The Internet is for porn.

I can only counter flag messages that have been flagged

The flags wouldn't even load for me.

user19161

@MattЭллен That's because I was the first to invalidate it.

user19161

7:27 PM

I win this round!

damnit! ;)

I invalidated it too.

I feel a little bad about it though.

They are just kids in that room.

nah. he is f--ked

Yeah, totally.

user19161

I mentioned F***book that day in another room and they did not know what it is, maybe they were trolling me.

7:28 PM

What room?

user19161

math

I want to be part of the experience.

Math has a room? With kids? Go figure.

No, the Bridge has the kids.

the bridge

jinx!

user19161

7:29 PM

Also, what is the news about the FB founder wanting to live here? He's crazy!

gah!

tries to shake it off and get her game face on

take your pick

user19161

@MattЭллен I prefer pepsi.

Red, please.

user19161

7:30 PM

I'll take the white one.

hands the red one to @Kit

Nutrisweet causes brain tumors.

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 Eh...to you being online may be identical to not seeing videos, but it's not that way to others.

You can trust me. I used to be a neuroscientist.

Eek! Game time!

Later!

CU. You're awesome

7:31 PM

Bye!

user19161

@KitFox Good luck!

So when is your pres??

user19161

@Cerberus Now.

@Cerberus I can't even parse that, so I'll just disagree.

@ClarkKent Oh! Then good luck@Kit!!

user19161

7:33 PM

Taniyama from Canada ate the banana in the papaya in the iguana in the zenana in Panama.

Oh I missed Kit thanks to loading up Math, which always takes forever and freezes everything.

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 To you, [being online] may be identical to [not seeing videos], but it's not that way to others.

@Cerberus I know.

Well.

Then.

But I still don't uinderstand.

7:34 PM

@Cerberus I see what you mean. Maybe she was trying to be polite.

And it's irrelevant anyway, as I've already disagreed.

user19161

Oh @matt I guessed the meaning of spexy before I saw the link.

congrats!

user19161

After all I invented ctfd definition 2.

user19161

I keep seeing the "new" beside the "blog" on the top of meta.

user19161

7:37 PM

The blog is always new.

maybe they write stuff

@MattЭллен Ah, so that's what you were replying to.

heh

I'm not sure how that sounds polite, though...

user19161

I think our blog is dead.

7:38 PM

@Cerberus indeed, but you're not from Middlesbrough

@ClarkKent I clicked it once, and now it's gone.

user19161

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 I mean when I next log in I will see it again.

chap is more polite than, say guy or man, because of its perceived poshness

it's slightly jovial in nature

user19161

The chap had the chop and the chip.

@MattЭллен Oh, all right.

7:41 PM

Hello, all!

user19161

@timothymh Hi!

But in any case it's not exclusively upper class, si?

Hey Timmy!

user19161

Hey Cerby!

@Cerberus no chap, not a bit of it

@Kit: I'm not so sure Lewis speaks good English. I saw lots of errors...

7:42 PM

@Cerberus Oh please don't call me "Timmy".

@MattЭллен OK then we are agreed. I thought that was what you were saying back then.

It doesn't really irk me, but I do find it annoying.

@timothymh I knew it.

That's what I said it.

horned halo

So we had a blast on April 1, didn't we?

Ah yes.

People were a bit annoyed.

7:44 PM

The good ol' days.

And our pretty questions were deleted.

nods

:(

le sigh

Poor Marjorie.

Heh.

user19161

@Cerberus Were they from you?

Are you Mahnax?

He always does le gasp.

7:44 PM

No.

@ClarkKent Some.

user19161

@Cerberus Under another username?

simchona

Why were most of Lewis' questions deleted?

Oll Write.

@ClarkKent Yes.

We know each other from here and Apple.SE

user19161

7:45 PM

@simchona By who?

simchona

Mods

@simchona He was apparently suspended.

@timothymh Ah yes, he is an Apple boy too.

simchona

@Cerberus I knew that part, but most of his questions were taken away too

shakes heads

user19161

@simchona Oh I guess they weren't good.

7:46 PM

@simchona Hmm I don't know how that works. Perhaps it is customary to remove a user's sub-par questions if he gets suspended?

user19161

Well, mods can do this kind of thing according to their discretion.

user19161

Anyway I don't pay attention to the deleted questions, though now and then I cast some delete votes.

@Cerberus or maybe he deleted them because he was angry with the oligarchs?

user19161

@MattЭллен Who are oligarchs?

@MattЭллен Ahh yes.

user19161

7:49 PM

There are only orcs, foxes, owls, dogs etc here.

@ClarkKent good question, but Carroll thought there was a conspiracy against him and called it the little oligarchs

He figured the little monsters might creep up and feed off his questions in the dark.

user19161

@MattЭллен Well, depends on how you define conspiracy then. If we discuss a post and don't like it of course we all downvote it accordingly.

user19161

Also if a user keeps posting poor questions we then become less tolerant of his future questions for example.

but we don't plot it. it happens naturally

Q: When we use "Suppose" and when we use "Let"?

8:02 PM

We don't plot it. We draw it.

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As a matter of fact; these two words are used much in Mathematical concepts. Many of times, their meanings are the same for us in the Maths and I do know; this is NOT correct. What should I do about this matter? Honestly, I am asked about these two words and the posions they should be used by my ...

meaning

The formatting of this; question makes me Smile. The posions SHALL not prevail!!

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 wowwwww.

Cameron

8:26 PM

Hi all

8:37 PM

If you want to be able to send faxes for free from digital documents, you can use Hellofax.

techrepublic.com/blog/google-in-the-enterprise/…

Q: What do you call someone skilled in researching quickly?

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Having looked through the synonymous for researcher and come across the following definition of an investigator as a: person who checks thoroughly is there a word, or phrase that describes a person who checks rapidly without implying sloppiness or inaccuracy.

word-choice

And the answer is... RegDwight!

If you have Google Drive (free) and sign up through that link ^, you get 50 fax pages a month for free internationally.

Sometimes faxes can be handy, when you need to "sign" something.

Coincidentally, "RegDwight" is also the word for "someone who is very most humble".

And also for someone who is very most proficient in English?

No, that's JA Rule.

8:39 PM

Ah, the 99 %.

Or what had he.

I don't know, but I do know that RegDwight never had any score at all.

Then perhaps you belong to the 1 %!

By the way, there are so many awesome backup/synch providers now!

freewaregenius.com/2012/05/02/…

Pretty awesome.

I have 70 GB free online backup space or so.

And you could increase that ad infinitum to literally store your entire hard drive on the web for free.

Auto-encrypt your sensitive files if you like.

Most of those guys do have a 2GB limit on individual file size.

Some have 500MB.

Oh, cake. BBL

Cameron

I wonder if it was the band or the food.

JSBձոգչ

9:14 PM

our duckling isn't doing too well :(

when i checked on her after lunch she was lethargic and shivering (though clearly still alive)

i put a hot pad wrapped in a towel into her box. hopefully she'll get better.

Aww. Perhaps she is in shock?

BOSS

10:44 PM

anyone know how to correctly make a plural possessive of "iPhone 4S"?
as in, instead of writing "those features of the iPhone 4S's"
you write "iPhone 4S' features" (or however it's correct)

10:58 PM

@BOSS I think the best way is to recast the sentence: the features of the iPhone 4S.

BOSS

yeah, good point

and I assume the only option in terms of referring to more than one iPhone 4S is, "iPhone 4S's"?

@BOSS There is the option of two iPhones 4S, but I would expect that to be unusual among the Apple crowd.

BOSS

yeah, definitely not a fan

but I'm admittedly part of the Apple crowd