The Periodic Table

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Jan

00:35

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Oh hello @M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ, long time no see o/

4 hours later…

Jan

04:24

Waiting for JSPS to publish the selection results is hard.

Avnish Kabaj

@orthocresol :P

2 hours later…

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

06:51

@Jan Hallo Herr Jan!

Or Frau. It got confusing back then

Anyway, why did I expect to see something like this second thing in the morning?

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ: Thank you for admitting that you seek just to close every list question whether or not you have any understanding of what is being asked. — user1271772 8 hours ago

Where the hell is the "Not Constructive" flag when you need it?

Actually, I didn't though

I had a cinch of hope they're aiming for a constructive discussion

Jan

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ I like this one more:

@Jan, do you have anything else to say? — user1271772 3 hours ago

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@Jan I should add a canned comment to the comment templates: "Thank you for making me realize spending [] minutes of my time trying to help you around was a mistake."

I know better now, it was only 15 last night

Whatever, flagging and moving on

@Ortho and @Loong really do need something to do, don't they?

Jan

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Didn’t even raise a flag.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Meh, I flagged two random comments just to raise the stink

Whether or not they purge the whole thread doesn't matter. Moving on

@Jan What else is going on in Bavaria?

Wait, Japan actually

Right?

Jan

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Japan, yeah.

In Bavaria, snow is happening and the new minister president is trying his best not to completely fail his first year in office.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

07:06

Heh, do politicians ever succeed anymore?

Jan

In Japan, Autumn is happening, medical universities are admitting they forged entrance examination results although they won’t admit it was for reducing the number of women. They come up with excuses like ‘but men are worse in communication so we needed to increase their scores accordingly.’

Also, I’m waiting for JSPS to publish the selected postdoc fellows and feverishly refreshing their page a few times a day ~.~

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

That's not feverish

Not if you did it few times every minute, that'd be a different thing

Here people are too jaded to complain anymore

I guess

I can't get out and listen to the random cab driver ranting about the world

Jan

For a minute or so, I’m being feverish.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Day 50 of transplant

Jan

But I also have to prepare a presentation for our year-end powerpoint seminar.

And they decided to put general lab cleaning on a Saturday.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

07:10

No pain, increased brain matter, increased health, increased muscle mass

Jan

Waitwot?

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

But also increased BP and FBS thanks to the facking Prednisolone

Nov 20 at 7:40, by M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

I finally got a new kidney!

Jan

Oh, nice.

Not kid’n ye, are ya?

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Nopes

I have three kidneys now

Which makes me eligible for a moderator position.

Jan

Good good. One can never have enough kidneys.

Damn, I thought I would need the greater part of three days to prepare the slides. Now I’m three quarters through the second day, procrastinated intensly on SE and am practically done. That’s not what I expected D=

Guess I’ll have to go back to the lab tomorrow ~.~

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

07:18

I hate it when they don't take long enough

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ That's also what she said

@Jan How many slides were they?

@Jan The 2.5 % yields await!

Back to the book for me

I've been filling my time with studying and that's why I'm currently not on every second of every minute

Jan

07:51

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Around 10-ish

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Oh, I got less than that ~

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@Jan 10 . . . thousand?

Must have been some slides

@Jan Your sulfuric acid is fake

Tempting every other acid to fake it as well

And the bases are two-face anyway

Jan

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Nah, supposed to be a ten-ish minutes presentation for each member, with that much time again for discussion.

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ The assertment that I used sulphuric acid is fake.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Oh. 3000 words per slide

@Jan It is the source of all evil nonetheless

I remember when they lasered Britannica onto a needle

Must have been a similar experience

2 hours later…

Avnish Kabaj

09:39

-1

Q: Is this sentence correct (Deadline soon please help me)

Hey I am a student and I have a deadline soon I need your help. I already done my work and I need someone to only check it for me. PLEASE, I will appreciate you whole my life and for your help. I will never forget, I am so stuck. My work is to fill the blanks. I will never ask homework q...

I will appreciate you my whole life

Please

3 hours later…

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

12:52

@AvnishKabaj I love that the only thing resembling chemistry in that whole onebox is the logo and the tags

> Hey I am a student and I have a deadline soon I need your help. I already done my work and I need someone to only check it for me. PLEASE, I will appreciate you whole my life and for your help. I will never forget, I am so stuck. My work is to fill the blanks. I will never ask homework q...

So much text

Avnish Kabaj

Agreed

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Q: Synergic Bonding in Carbonyl complexes

What is synergic bonding? How does it affect the C-O bond in the carbonyl ligand?

coordination-compounds carbonyl-complexes

Reopenable?

Probably not

@Mart this guy is banging on the expertise drum, so let the experts decide: chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/106806/… Is it reopenable? I don't want anything to do with that guy again

@Martin-マーチン Obviously if you connect two dots you always end up with a tetrahedron.

Martin - マーチン

I'll look into it

Jan

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Had to star that one :D

Martin - マーチン

13:07

@Jan but you didn't, and also you obviously only need one dot to get to the tetrahedron...

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Ah... that makes me loose my Christmas spirit.

Jan

@Martin-マーチン Yes I did, like two minutes ago. Check it!

Martin - マーチン

ah, well now i see , you referred to the original quote...

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

My birthday is on Dec 26

Basically a version of Jesus that's compatible with Win 10

Martin - マーチン

haha :D

alright, need to indulge more into that question

Jan

Why is the 24th incompatible with Win10?

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

13:14

There have been no recent updates to it

And everyone knows up there they all use Macs anyway

Martin - マーチン

Preinstalled with linux though

That question is a gift keeping on giving.

Jan

If these are jokes, I don’t get them.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@Jan They're encrypted and only 70 percent yield people can access them

Jan

Good thing the standard reaction gives north of 90 percent.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Textbook reactions don't count

Back to the book for me

Jan

13:24

Not textbook, just established lab procedure.

Martin - マーチン

everything below quantitative yield is held back...

> The yield is quantitative after recovering 99% of the starting material.

I think the question is incredibly broad, even if it were limited to a single compound. For example: any molecule is hard for Hartree-Fock to be described anywhere close to correct, especially considering the properties you name. Obviously you can go post-HF, then only almost all molecules are hard to treat. And then there is "MP2 is a graveyard for transition metal chemistry". Also ab initio is only technically challenging for > 1000 atoms, there is not really a theoretical limit. Usually the smaller molecules are harder to describe. But I guess I am only stating the obvious here. — Martin - マーチン ♦ 18 secs ago

Jan

13:39

@Martin-マーチン Sadly, my starting material is volatile so how much I recover depends on how long it was on the rotavap Y__Y

Martin - マーチン

well... there's that then...

Bad molecules top spot: sodium diatomic

Jan

I don’t think I procrastinated so much on a single working day since writing my thesis …

2 hours later…

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

15:27

@Martin-マーチン Oh I guess someone needs a more rigorous background before asking a question then

Ugh, why am I letting them bitter up my day?

I made so much progress today! Unlike Jan

Martin - マーチン

I have been asking myself these things, too.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

The Viking hat is really a banana to me, BTW

A mostly red, weird banana

Martin - マーチン

agreed

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

I've got the routine visit to the surgeon general and my nephrologist tomorrow, so I'm confident all extra progress will go down the toilet, don't worry

Martin - マーチン

that's awfully pessimistic

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

15:30

Nope

Not if it's planned

Martin - マーチン

okay then: that sound awfully pessimistic

please enlighten me

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Well they're both located at the busiest district of the town, so the healthy 400 minutes of studying I do every day won't be possible tomorrow

Watching the same Iranian cars with the same dull colors, just different plate numbers, for 3 hours

I'm not on a tight schedule, the exam I'm studying for is 192 days away

Basically, I've been a different person after transplant

Dialysis days were really off my week. I had a week of only 4 days

I couldn't walk for 10 minutes without feeling elevated heart beats and dizziness. Thrice.

Now I walk/jog 10 kms a day at 7.2 kmph speed

I feel healthy as hell. Pretty sure hell is healthy. It all depends on your perspective

There's also this:

in Language Overflow, Dec 10 at 18:29, by CowperKettle

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-12-dialysis-patients-brain-injury.html

Back to the book!

1 hour later…

Martin - マーチン

16:52

Well that sound quite good then. And if you are already studying for an exam 192 days away, that must be pretty important... So good luck with that :D

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

17:26

-2

Q: I was reading the chapter oragin chemistry and could solve it out can u help me

in organic chemistry if we have functional group and a double bond which gets preference in UIPAC names for numbering carbon atoms

organic-chemistry

This needs to be preserved

Unidentified Intermittent Pack of Aspired Chemists

2 hours later…

Avnish Kabaj

19:34

A: Regioselectivity in iodolactonisation of γ,δ-unsaturated carboxylic acid

There are several arguments. Firstly, five-membered ring formation is generally kinetically more favourable than 6-membered ring formation. As ring size increases, the entropy of activation also increases – this is explained in greater detail in Clayden 2ed, pp 805–807. It is true that six-member...