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11:22 PM

Prickelly-dickelly              Better her brother for
Renly Baratheon                 Breakfasts of champions:
Married himself to a            Homoërotically
Virginal queen.                 Finest cuisine.

user19161

But what are your words even about?

Double dactylic requirement: there must be a single-worded double dactyle in the second stanza, and it cannot repeat throughout the work.

So there are nine stanzas.

Madderly-hatterly               Summoned the father and
Aerys Targaryen                 Pyromaniacally
Couldn’t be troubled to         Roasted him slowly, con-
Hear Branden’s claims.          Signed to the flames.

Doomily-gloomily                Burned his own subjects up
Stannis Baratheon               Ritualistically,
Traded his gods for a           Feeding the flames of the
Cult from the East.             Fire god’s priest.

Higgledy piggledy               Wolvering wolverenes
Lord Wyman Manderly             Incontrovertibly
Sups with his foes, leaving     Tell all who hearken that
Nary a crumb.                   Winter is come.

Izzio-Rizzinty                  Despite this dubious
Aegon Targaryen                 Chronobiology
Claims that he’s really Prince  Swift he comes conquering:
Rhaegar’s dead son.             Storm’s End’s undone.

Hankety-pankety                 After the trial he
Tyrion Lannister                Unsympathetically
Hid his cheap whore as his      Choked her to death cause his
wife’s smiling maid.            Dad she had laid.

Morbidly-torpidly               Sought to increase his reign’s
Robert Baratheon                Respectability:
Drank till he couldn’t sit      Married a bitch, so she
Straight on his horse.          killed him of course.

Hocussy-pocussy                 Nothing that he could try
Aemon Targaryen                 Thaumaturgistally
Forged him a link of            Opened the lock that its
Valyrian steel.                 Mysteries conceal.

Dracally-whackaly               Rode to the Trident, then
Rhaegar Targaryen               Apocalyptically
Thought he was born of the      Fell ’neath the hammer and
Dragon’s own blood.             Drowned in the flood.

@WillHunting There, now you try a double dactyl. They are bazillion times cooler than Willy Jimerix.

user19161

Hello @mah. Have you installed that thing?

Can’t tell scale. What is that, 10 or 14 inches?

11:30 PM

It's around 30cm.

That's a photo that one of my friends took and posted on facebook.

These are not the droids you are looking for.

user19161

@Mahnax I thought it was outside your place.

@WillHunting Yes, I have.

We call that a foot where I come from.

macbook# units '30 cm' inches
	* 11.811024
	/ 0.084666667

@tchrist Why would you do that?

11:31 PM

macbook# units '30 cm' feet
	* 0.98425197
	/ 1.016

It's still snowing here.

Imperial units are silly.

Hurricane Sandy made the school close for 1 whole week.

macbook# units '30 cm' yards
	* 0.32808399
	/ 3.048

No empire here.

No emperor here.

11:32 PM

macbook# units '30 cm' furlongs
	* 0.0014912909
	/ 670.56

user19161

There was a question on the game show. Which is not an Apple product? ibook, workbook, powerbook, macbook

macbook# units '30 cm' hands
	* 2.9527559
	/ 0.33866667

@WillHunting Workbook, methinks.

user19161

@Mahnax Ding!

Powerbook.

11:34 PM

PowerBook G4

The PowerBook G4 is a series of notebook computers that were manufactured, marketed, and sold by Apple, Inc. (then Apple Computer, Inc) between 2001 and 2006 as part of its PowerBook line. It uses the PowerPC G4 processor, initially produced by Motorola and later by Freescale, after Motorola spun off its semiconductor business under that name in 2004. The PowerBook G4 had two different designs: one enclosed in a titanium body with a translucent black keyboard and a 15" screen; and another in an aluminum body with an aluminum-colored keyboard, in 12", 15", and 17" sizes. Between 2001 and 2...

No,

IBook.

No,

user19161

I might have heard wrongly though.

...Hey, you just trolled us.

IBook

The iBook is a line of laptop computers sold by Apple Computer from 1999 to 2006. The line targeted the consumer and education markets, with lower specifications and prices than the PowerBook, Apple's higher-end line of laptop computers. Three distinct designs of the iBook were introduced during its lifetime. The first, known as the "Clamshell", was influenced by the design of Apple's popular iMac line at the time. It was a significant departure from previous portable computer designs due to its shape, bright colors, incorporation of a handle into the casing, lack of a hinged cover ov...

Jasper, I can't believe you trolled us.

-_-

user19161

11:35 PM

Troll? No way!

Way. All the choices are apple products!

user19161

Really?

No.

There is no "Apple workbook".

...Wait, Jasper said "Ding".

That means incorrect, isn't it?

No, it means correct.

user19161

11:36 PM

@SonicTheHedgehog Ding means correct!

Weird.

Ding means incorrect in Korea.

Ding Dong Dang means correct.

O.o

user19161

HAHAHAHA

@Mahnax 3 barleycorns per inch, 4 inches per hand, 3 hands per foot, 3 feet per yard, 2 yards per fathom, 11 fathoms per chain, 10 chains per furlong, 8 furlongs per mile, 3 miles per league, 7 leagues per boot.

How many feet in a boot?

1.1

Decimal are forbidden.

user19161

11:38 PM

@tchrist Geezis, you guys should switch to SI units!

K.

@tchrist 1 1/10.

Now that’s rational for you.

Your boot is one size too small for you, eh?

The SI unit system makes sense to me.

@tchrist Yep.

Anything makes sense to you once you are familiar with it.

11:39 PM

One of the reasons I don't wear boots.

macbook# units "7 leagues"   barleycorns
	* 3991680
	/ 2.5052108e-07
macbook# units "7 leagues" lightyear
	* 3.57234e-12
	/ 2.7992856e+11

From seven leagues to a light year

Hey guys, I am writing a novel for NaNoWriMo right now.

user19161

@SonicTheHedgehog Good good.

You know about it?

> Lex I: Corpus omne perſeverare in ſtatu ſuo quieſcendi vel movendi uniformiter in directum, niſi quatennus illud a viribus impreſſi cogitur ſtatum suum mutare.

user19161

11:42 PM

I just hear all the Americans talking about it all the time.

@SonicTheHedgehog How many words are you at?

That guy used old units, you know.

Power outage delayed me; 2247 words right now.

But I plan to boost ahead in weekends

To catch up.

I'm behind a little, but November break is coming up.

Oh, you participating too? How many words?

11:44 PM

I'm at 9.595×10³ words.

user19161

If you can't think of anything to write just write parts of your own life into it.

And we don't have November break.

user19161

@Mahnax Why not just use 9595? That sounds so pretentious!

Even if we did, Sandy took whole week of school away. Shrugs

@WillHunting Sorry, IB drills scientific notation into our heads.

11:45 PM

You're right; You should be at at least 11000 words right now, if my calculations are correct.

But than again, who am I to talk.

@SonicTheHedgehog Closer to 1.2×10⁴, actually.

Me, sitting here on this computer using calculator to figure out how many words I should write per day and my keyboard on fire.

user19161

@SonicTheHedgehog Your keyboard is on fire?!

NaNoWriMo has a thing on their website that shows you the par for each day.

@Will From typing too fast.

user19161

11:46 PM

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

user19161

There, there. Not too slow eh?

I gotta continue writing; got to write at least 2000 words before 12 am.

Will comment time to time though.

user19161

@SonicTheHedgehog OK, bye!

@Mahnax 9.595e3

@tchrist Yes, that too.

user19161

11:48 PM

@tchrist That's what the calculator uses!

macbook# perl -E 'say 9.595e3'
9595

It’s what everybody uses.

But we're not allowed to use e in place of 10ˣ.

user19161

Everybody = macbook and calculator.

No. All programming languages . . . of any consequence.

user19161

Ah.

11:49 PM

Really, good luck at pulling out one that does not.

@tchrist Intercal.

Inconsequential.

BASIC-PLUS, BASIC-PLUS-2, VAX BASIC.

Actually I bet I'm wrong.

Intercal is not inconsequential.

Decimals suck.

@tchrist Of course they do. They're from fingers.

user19161

11:51 PM

Python is inconsequential, lol.

Quick: what’s ⁵⁄₁₂ * ³⁄₄ + ⁵⁄₈ * ⁷⁄₆ anyway?

Simula.

²⁵⁄₂₄

ALGOL.

@WillHunting Duhᵈᵘʰ!

macbook# perl -Mbigrat -E 'say 5/12 * 3/4 + 5/8 * 7/6'
25/24

11:53 PM

Hey @tchrist, how do I get unifrac?

@MετάEd Pass-by-name.

@Mahnax You should already have it?

I thought.

Doing unifrac 2/3 returns this:

-bash: unifrac: command not found

@tchrist Passepartout.

Hm.

Quit bashing it and perhaps it will cooperate.

11:54 PM

Here:

#!/usr/bin/env perl

use v5.12;
use strict;
use warnings;
use warnings FATAL => "utf8";
use open qw(:utf8 :std);
use charnames qw(:full);

sub backchomp($);

for (@ARGV) {
    unless (m!/!) {
        say $_;
        next;
    }
    my($top, $bottom) = m! ( [^/]* ) / ( [^/]* ) !x;

    my $superscript = backchomp("echo '$top' | unisupers");
    my $subscript   = backchomp("echo '$bottom' | unisubs");

    say $superscript, "\N{FRACTION SLASH}", $subscript;

}

sub backchomp($) {
    die unless @_ == 1;

Now you have it.

Do I just copypaste that into my terminal?

Put it in a file, call it unifrac, chmod +x it, and you are done.

Mm, ok.