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7:00 PM

@aediaλ I hate losing things.

Ah.

@Cerberus This might be a silly question, but don't you have too many books? Where do they go? I've tried for the most part not to buy physical books except textbooks in the past several years, due to the problem of having to move them repeatedly, and I still am low on bookcase space somehow. I think my paperbacks were breeding while boxed up.

Cerberus

@aediaλ Haha, yes, they breed like rabbits. And I do have to many books. But I have most of them double-stacked at my parents'; I now have zero book cases here.

A few little shelves around the house, but many books end up on desks and tables.

aedia λ

@KitFox I don't have any advice for that because I am slightly intolerant of my better half's cavalier storage methods already (hint: involves piles) and suspect that any hypothetical offspring who develop similar tendencies may push me over the edge.

KitFox

@aedia Do you remember drinking tea with me in a little cabin by the sea, by the sea?

Ach. You know, I feel bad because I have merged your memory with @cornbread and now I am having trouble remembering which things are associated with whom.

She is the one who sings songs and does poetry.

You are the IPU.

aedia λ

It's ok! Don't feel bad. I've been gone quite a while, and it sounds like you're also very busy.

KitFox

7:14 PM

Most days I can't remember my own name.

Cerberus

You're Melanchthon, don't you remember?

shakes Melanchthon

It's not so hard to pronounce once you get used to it.

Besure to articulate the h's.

tchrist

@KitFox They say that once you’ve lost your mind, you don’t even notice it’s gone missing.

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@Cerberus You’re stealing my secret name!

Cerberus

Is it secret now?

You could be any kind of chthon, melas or no.

KitFox

Sep 4 '12 at 14:38, by KitFox

"Why'd they do that arbitrarily? I liked the old way better!" <–Cerb, no matter what the new thing is.

Ahahaha. I forgot I said that.

Oct 5 '12 at 18:11, by KitFox

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Thing is, I pour my liquor over naked models' breasts before drinking it anyway, so I don't really want to pay extra for that feature.

Forgot that one too. Hilarious.

user19161

Geezis.

RegDwighт

7:27 PM

This is hilarious.

user19161

@RegDwighт Why?

RegDwighт

Q: "I have these stats that show that A and B get used in books, but A is used way more often." A: "Yes, A and B are both fine, but A is used way more often."

@JasonBourne It's like those people who post "I found the word car in a dictionary. Does it really exist?"

user19161

@RegDwighт Ah, I think perhaps more elaboration on the grammar would be good.

user19161

@RegDwighт Actually I can empathize with the asker's doubt in this case. It seems a reasonable question.

RegDwighт

@JasonBourne I'm afraid you still don't get my point.

"Does the word car exist?" is a reasonable question, too. But not "I checked a dictionary, and found the word car, but I'd still like to poll a random group of strangers off the Internet if it really exists".

user19161

7:31 PM

@RegDwighт OK.

RegDwighт

I mean, if he thinks all those books are lying, then what makes him think we won't be?

And the books have names of actual people on the cover. We are a just bunch of bytes.

user19161

I can get away with that answer, but Barrie, a real English expert? I expect better answers from the old man!

RegDwighт

Wrong again. You wouldn't get away with that answer. :P

Barrie has a subscription to that kind of one-liners.

user19161

Well, for the word requests I try to add some words to have the minimum length.

RegDwighт

Very noble of you!

I will express my gratitude with a bunch of flowers.

user19161

7:35 PM

I know there are tricks to bypass it, but I can't be bothered to use any of them.

user19161

@RegDwighт No flirting in this chat!

RegDwighт

I think they have eradicated most of them.

In comments, too.

user19161

Give your wife flowers instead, and also your mum.

RegDwighт

I ran into an old comment of mine a couple months back, and the trick was no longer working but was printed out in plain text.

And it didn't help that I have the rights to edit comments, because the whole point of that comment was its being a mere three characters long.

So I nuked it.

A pity, really.

user19161

Did I tell you I have nuked all my comments on SE?

user19161

7:38 PM

Can you believe that I deleted over a thousand comments yesterday?

RegDwighт

@JasonBourne You wouldn't stop telling everybody that you were going to.

user19161

@RegDwighт Yes, I am so proud of it...

RegDwighт

@JasonBourne life is too short. You could have gone for a walk instead.

MετάEd

@JasonBourne "We expect answers to be supported by facts, references, or specific expertise"; Barrie's are the latter.

RegDwighт

Yeah, that is very much what I meant.

user19161

7:40 PM

I was expecting that after the hundredth comment a mod will be notified of possible vandalism.

RegDwighт

Nobody gives a damn about comments. Certainly not the system.

user19161

@MετάEd Kris's are also the latter.

RegDwighт

That is a different kind of specificity.

user19161

@RegDwighт I will do that tomorrow night.

aedia λ

@KitFox Nice.

user19161

7:43 PM

@aediaλ What's the thing on the top left corner?

RegDwighт

A mirror.

user19161

I have been trying to figure out since yesterday.

KitFox

Her eyeball.

RegDwighт

Mirror

A mirror is an object that reflects light or sound in a way that preserves much of its original quality subsequent to its contact with the mirror. Some mirrors also filter out some wavelengths, while preserving other wavelengths in the reflection. This is different from other light-reflecting objects that do not preserve much of the original wave signal other than color and diffuse reflected light. The most familiar type of mirror is the plane mirror, which has a flat surface. Curved mirrors are also used, to produce magnified or diminished images or focus light or simply distort the...

KitFox

Wearing glasses.

user19161

7:44 PM

Geezis.

aedia λ

@KitFox I've been looking through the starred posts a bit but I keep getting distracted by reading context for some of them. I still don't think I'm back to October.

@JasonBourne Huhwha?

RegDwighт

@JasonBourne No, not geezis. Mirror.

Repeat after me: mir-ror.

KitFox

It's not a mirror.

user19161

@aediaλ I mean in the pic you posted above, it looks weird.

aedia λ

I don't have any mirrors.

RegDwighт

7:44 PM

@KitFox You're not a mirror.

aedia λ

At least not in places I've shown you.

So it's gotta be my face, but I still don't know what picture you're talking about, @Jas. All of them?

I got new glasses and they are bigger.

RegDwighт

@aediaλ you just don't know it because they reflect stuff right back at you so you don't see them.

user19161

1 hour ago, by aedia λ

23 hours ago, by aedia λ

RegDwighт

@aediaλ follow the gray arrow.

KitFox

Eyeball. Glasses.

RegDwighт

7:46 PM

That's just a type of mirror.

user19161

Also, with my special powers, I can see you in front of that photo.

user19161

Hey @trig!

TRiG

@JasonBourne 'Ello.

RegDwighт

Oh no, not the gay-porn TRiG!

user19161

@TRiG Still the same pic I see. Not that I am hurrying you to change.

TRiG

7:48 PM

@JasonBourne I've not had my home computer online since, so I've not had an opportunity to change it.

user19161

@TRiG So what will be the next pic like?

TRiG

@JasonBourne Dunno. I'll trawl through my photos and find one that's reasonable. Probably one that shows me with long hair and wearing a silly hat.

user19161

@TRiG Long hair! Interesting! I look forward to seeing it.

aedia λ

TRiG

@JasonBourne I've not cut my hair since November 2011, but I'm planning to get it cut when I'm on a day off in Galway on the last day of this month. I've not told anyone that yet.

KitFox

7:51 PM

suddenly wants cake

user19161

@aediaλ Is that your husband?

TRiG

@RegDwighт Oi. I've never been in gay porn. Yet.

aedia λ

@JasonBourne Have I mentioned lately that I married a turret?

user19161

@aediaλ Do you know that I need to look up that word now?

Mechanical snail

@JasonBourne It's a reference to Portal, methinks.

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A: How should I respond to an inappropriate question in a job interview?

Can anyone suggest a better way of handling something like this so that I do not exclude myself from consideration? An easy way is to deflect questions like this is asking clarification or simply answering their concerns without the specific question. We want employees who will be stayin...

user19161

7:53 PM

@Mechanicalsnail Very lovely shades of blue there you have.

Mechanical snail

See the bottom of the answer.

RegDwighт

So now we can assemble the whole of aedia piece by piece.

user19161

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Q: "You and your..." vs. "Your and your..."

Which is correct, and why? ...identifying you and your competitors' relative market performance... or ...identifying your and your competitors' relative market performance... Each entity is in possession of "relative market performance", so I think grammar dictates both be "your", but...

user19161

Amazing question!

user19161

I don't mean it sarcastically. I think it is very interesting.

RegDwighт

7:58 PM

@TRiG I didn't say you have.

I'm just saying that I was peacefully searching for — see, I don't even know what, because suddenly OMG gay porn.

Dinosaurs. It was donut-shaped dinosaurs.

So yeah, I was searching for donut-shaped dinosaurs but found your gay porn. That was like unexpected.

In fact the last time that happened I was using Cuil.

user19161

@RegDwighт Wait, I am very confused now. You mean that is aedia and not her husband in the pic?

KitFox

Does that person look like a man to you?

user19161

Honestly, it could be either sex.

TRiG

@RegDwighт You found my gay porn?

KitFox

It would be a pretty effeminate man.

TRiG

8:02 PM

;)

RegDwighт

Jasper really likes to put his foot in his mouth.

user19161

@KitFox Like Justin Bieber.

TRiG

Andrej Pejić

Andrej Pejić () (born 28 August 1991 in Tuzla, SR Bosnia-Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Bosnian Australian androgynous model. Early life Pejić was born in Tuzla and has one older brother, Igor. Their mother, Jadranka Savić, is a Bosnian Serb, and their father, Vlada Pejić, is a Bosnian Croat. They divorced shortly after Andrej's birth. During the Bosnian War, Andrej and Igor fled to Serbia with their mother and grandmother, settling in a refugee camp near Belgrade. When asked if they found their childhood difficult, Pejić said: After the refugee camp, the family settled in Vojska vi...

KitFox

@JasonBourne Right, but aedia's hardly going to be married to a gay guy.

TRiG

@KitFox effeminate != gay

RegDwighт

8:03 PM

@JasonBourne now stop right there.

user19161

@TRiG Well, as long as we understand each other.

KitFox

@TRiG I wasn't saying that.

RegDwighт

Saying that Justin Bieber is an effeminate man is offending men and women.

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user19161

@RegDwighт Geezis. I sinned.

user19161

@aediaλ OK, now I can recall the similarity between this and the one with the leaf two years ago.

user19161

8:08 PM

By the way, I haven't been following Justin Bieber's news. Is he still with Selena? I think they broke up long ago.

aedia λ

@KitFox He does look like a bear though.

user19161

@aediaλ A fierce big bear?

KitFox

Hey, want to see a wedding pic?

aedia λ

Bear (gay culture)

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user19161

@KitFox Yes.

aedia λ

8:09 PM

@KitFox Of course!

user19161

OK, done.

KitFox

I was checking my flower.