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@KitFox No, just like I'm excited. I get interested in random things sometimes, I guess. I'd never thought about that before, and I like things that make me think :)

KitFox

Yeah. You'll do just fine here.

@RegDwighт Sure, sure.

WendiKidd

:D

RegDwighт

This is the think tank of SE. We all wear think tank tops. And nothing else.

KitFox

No, no, pink tank tops. Didn't you get the memo?

RegDwighт

Jun 20 '11 at 15:00, by RegDwight

Wait, what? You are clothed?

I write the memos round here, darling.

KitFox

12:18 AM

Sep 12 '11 at 1:00, by Kitḫ

@drɱ65δ I know that it's difficult not to star everything I say, because I am so wity and briliat.

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RegDwighт

Well I just laughed.

So it was witty.

I also sparkled a bit.

KitFox

bows

feels pleased

RegDwighт

So it must have been brilliant as well.

Martha found it quite funny how I sparkled a discussion once.

I think the exchange has since been removed.

KitFox

Not the Hello Kitty? That's Rob's, innit?

I stole it.

RegDwighт

Nah not that.

KitFox

12:21 AM

Apr 16 '11 at 22:03, by RegDwight

And.

Found it.

You're welcome.

Also, there's one other of equal length.

Two. Two other.

RegDwighт

I posted a half-assed one-liner answer that generated seven imperial tons of comments and then I expanded it, prefixing it with "Now that this has sparkled some discussion, I feel like I must expand on this." And then Martha was all like funneh and then the rest was like history.

KitFox

Hee hee. That made me giggle.

You know, I'm pretty sure Vitaly had an empty line that got starred.

That beats you.

RegDwighт

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A: Difference between "commentor" and "commentator"

One difference is that as far as Merriam-Webster is concerned, the word "commentor" does not even exist. Same goes for "commenter". Edit: Now that this has sparked some discussion, I feel like I have to expand on it. I do see the word "commenter" (but not "commentor") being used on Reddit, blo...

@KitFox ah, but you misunderstand. Zero length is no length. That doesn't count as short.

KitFox

accedes

I miss that kid though.

Man, looking back through those starred comments...we've had some good times.

RegDwighт

And to think of all the unstarred comments!

That was some quality unstardom right there.

KitFox

12:28 AM

We've got the best unstarred comments anywhere on SE. Anywhere on the bleeding interwebs.

RegDwighт

I expect Vit to be out of the country now, running first Skynet tests in the Mojave.

KitFox

He is still learning Haskell and working through the Euler project posers, I think.

I hope he learns how to solder too.

Also that he finds a nice mathematician who likes electronics.

And spiders.

RegDwighт

I think we should spread the word that tin soldier is called such because it used to be used as tin solder.

Step three would be profit.

KitFox

Excellent plan.

I think I should put my jammies on.

RegDwighт

I have to say it was a good day.

KitFox

12:34 AM

I am beginning to believe that my husband is not going to solder the pipe tonight, and will not therefore relinquish the PS3.

Hooray for good days!

RegDwighт

PS3 runs on pipes now?

KitFox

No, but I can't solder pipes. He can, but he can't play Plants v. Zombies while he's doing it.

RegDwighт

Plants FTW

Anyone can be a zombie.

KitFox

Have you played it?

It might be too scary for you.

The sunflowers are nice though.

RegDwighт

I am sure if it's got plants it must be scary.

KitFox

12:37 AM

It's fun.

And it makes my boys excited to eat peas.

Of course, they eat them anyway.

RegDwighт

Holy moly, it's quarter to three.

No wonder I'm so sleepy.

And it doesn't help that I got like zero sleep all week.

KitFox

Go sleep. I'll see you later.

Oct 24 '12 at 15:06, by RegDwighт

Who else wants to get suspended by me? I promise to make it your most enjoyable suspension. Way better than what you'd get from Kit.

Hahaha. I forgot about that one.

RegDwighт

Yeah I thought I'd wait for my wife to get home, but that could take like anothet two hours.

@KitFox it is funny because it is true.

KitFox

What does she do so late?

@RegDwighт I didn't do the suspension that time though. At least, I don't think I did.

RegDwighт

Well she's flying to Moscow on Sunday, so she has all kinds of business to wrap up before she goes.

@KitFox I do not even remember whose it was. And I haven't handled any suspensions in months.

KitFox

12:42 AM

Yes, I know.

:D

I had no idea your wife was such a powerhouse. I am impressed.

And she sews.

RegDwighт

She generates 1kW, day in day out. Runs on fruit.

JSBձոգչ

wow. i'm getting, like 0.6kW per day from my wife, tops

KitFox

Truly amazing. And not in the sense that teenagers use that word.

RegDwighт

@KitFox Right! That is one thing. She must sew a dog before going. And she only started today.

KitFox

Sew a...dog?

Like a live one?

Aug 4 '11 at 17:53, by JSBᾶngs

besides, i already discovered that Kit is an omni-sexual robot from the future

I forgot that I was a robot.

JSBձոգչ

12:45 AM

i forgot that too!

KitFox

I forgot I posted my boobs so much. We had a good run of my cleavage for a couple of weeks.

I don't know if we knew that I had sent a robot back in time to destroy @MattЭллен at that time.

RegDwighт

KitFox

@RegDwighт Oh! I love it!

Did your wife make that?

RegDwighт

This is the kind of stuff she does. I had a better image somewhere with a whole bunch of them, but I can't find it.

JSBձոգչ

those are adorable

KitFox

12:48 AM

I like the color choices. Does she design her own?

RegDwighт

This she did for me. For my birthday. His name is Blömpson.

KitFox

Is that fleece?

RegDwighт

Yes, in this case.

KitFox

I just want to squeeeeeze it.

RegDwighт

The dog will be fleece, too.

Violet-yellow.

KitFox

12:50 AM

So she designs these?

RegDwighт

I think she may have got some inspiration on some site, I think it was for a frog. She never did a frog though, but went from there to make these.

KitFox

Very cool.

RegDwighт

She also paints on my tshirts. I don't have a single white shirt left.

JSBձոգչ

adorable hedgehogs are adorable

RegDwighт

JSBձոգչ

12:53 AM

does russian have the same word for porcupine and hedgehog?

RegDwighт

This is just some random stuff in this one folder I am looking at.

KitFox

Did she draw your tats as well?

JSBձոգչ

my wife and i use the same word, but it may just be that the romanian word for porcupine is really obscure

i hope @Reg's tats are as adorable as that hedgehog

KitFox

Sonic the porcupine?

RegDwighт

@JSBձոգչ no. Porcupine would be "hideous-look".

JSBձոգչ

12:54 AM

and hedgehog is fence-pig?

RegDwighт

KitFox

Sep 14 '12 at 16:07, by JSBձոգչ

i found lots of naked women, but a disturbing lack of owls

RegDwighт

Anyway I'm done for today. I'll ask her where she has that collage of all her animals to date.

KitFox

She crochets as well?

duly impressed

RegDwighт

@JSBձոգչ дикобраз vs. ёж.

JSBձոգչ

12:56 AM

well ёж is a lovely word

RegDwighт

It's beautifully written, too.

Actually I now realize it looks like one.

Whatever! I am falling asleep.

So JSB you take over from here. To the infinity and beyond.

Ouvert et haut !

JSBձոգչ

okay i'm taking over now!

Reg left me in charge

i hope i don't get drunk with power

KitFox

Mar 14 '12 at 19:16, by JSBᾶngs

@Meysam yep. "I shit in your spaghetti." (Note: do not shit in people's spaghetti)

JSBձոգչ

ha ha! i used to be so funny

btw this was really good, at least as trigger material:

►

some parts of the script were unintentionally hilarious

but it's possible i'm just too cynical for it

KitFox

I don't think I can listen to it properly without headphones.

JSBձոգչ

1:06 AM

good point

this one's binaural, so headphones are required

KitFox

So it'll have to wait until Monday.

JSBձոգչ

no headphones at home?

KitFox

Nope.

Someday.

JSBձոգչ

i'm trying to put my boys to sleep

w/ limited success

KitFox

Oh! PS3 is mine! But now I don't know what to play...

Pikmin 2, HL2, or Assassin's Creed.

Hmm.

JSBձոգչ

1:10 AM

difficult choices

KitFox

Must decide quickly.

I'm terrible at this.

JSBձոգչ

the only one of those i've played is hl2

go with pikmin!

KitFox

Pikmin is sweet.

JSBձոգչ

then go with that

KitFox

Shit, now I can't find it. (We moved the stuff into the living room today!)

Oh. It's in the Wii already

JSBձոգչ

1:13 AM

nooooooooo

wait, problem solved

KitFox

I'm off to play. Later!

JSBձոգչ

have fun!

TRiG

in Aww!, 18 secs ago, by TRiG

JSBձոգչ

fence-pigs!

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

3:10 AM

Are stars on sale this week or something?

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WendiKidd

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 YES

Mahnax

4:06 AM

"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Hi @Mahnax!

Mahnax

Hi!

How's your life?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Oof.

Um . . . interesting

Mahnax

Oh no. Why "Oof"?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Work sucked all week, and mom's surgery, and T's gramma is dying.

Mahnax

4:08 AM

Oh my. I'm very sorry to hear that. proffers hug

Is your mother's surgery serious?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

It happened Friday last.

And thank you!

She's doing alright I guess.

She had discs removed.

I am being called to bed.

@Robusto that's one reason I thought it might appeal to you.

Check you later, @Mahnax

Mahnax

Wow, disc removal. I hope she has a quick and healthy recovery, and I hope your things at work improve!

Buh-bye!

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

You are sweet.

I hope work is fun and caffeinated for you.

Mahnax

Thanks! I hope so too. I'll be up at 5:00, so lord knows I'll need the caffeine…

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Aieeeeee

It's 11:12!

Mahnax

4:13 AM

10:12 here.

If I go to bed at midnight, I can get… five hours. Good enough!

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

You working open to 2 or something?

Or shorter

Mahnax

Open to 1:00.

6:30-1:00 to be more precise.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

yag

Mahnax

Same shift on Sunday.

Not so bad. I like opening.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Beats closing.

You don't have to do closey stuff when you're all tired.

Mahnax

4:21 AM

Closing is icky.

Store is slow, all you do is clean.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Okay, g'night for reals.

Mahnax

Night!

skopp

good day, you cunninglinguists

or night, as it were

what are the possible (and correct) ways to punctuate 1st-person thoughts

Johan Larsson

12:06 PM

in C# on Stack Overflow Chat, 1 min ago, by Tom W

Robusto

1:01 PM

@RegDwighт Do they make a model with a Dvorak sole?

RegDwighт

You are not the first one to wonder that.

You are the first one, however, to make Dvorak a link just so I don't think you mean the composer.

haha

Ms Lewinski looks like a toad. I completely forgot.

Robusto

Don't you love it when someone gives you a JSFiddle link with that QED smirk of self-satisfaction and it doesn't fucking work?

RegDwighт

1:08 PM

Are you trying to imply that there are JSFiddles that do work?

Robusto

Sorry.

RegDwighт

It's okay. Happens to the worst of us.

What is that thing trying to bind anyway?

Or reevaluate, for that matter.

Robusto

I'm trying to research reasons for not acceding to our consulting company's desire to use the Knockout.js framework. Besides just shouting, "Learn to code in the front end and you won't have to rely on yet another fucking framework!"

RegDwighт

Yeah I never understood frameworks. And I mean okay, JS is at least an interesting beast actually, but there are frameworks for CSS or even friggin HTML.

Frameworks are for dumb cheapskates.

Johan Larsson

js is plain awful ime, never tried any frameworks

RegDwighт

1:12 PM

And as the Russian saying goes, cheapskates pay twice.

Robusto

I've said that myself before: "Buy the best thing first, not last."

Johan Larsson

agreement star

RegDwighт

OMG Robusto invented the Russian language. First English, now this. What will they invent next?

Robusto

Well, I can't tell you how many times I've learned that lesson from painful and expensive experience.

RegDwighт

Oh yeah I remember there was that car...

Johan Larsson

1:19 PM

not buying at all might be the best strategy also

RegDwighт

Right on. Selling is where it's at.

Robusto

> Adding ponies will help too, but mostly concentrating on keeping things small, understandable and idiomatic (whatever that means) will keep your JS from becoming a write-only mess.

RegDwighт

> The Read the Bills Act (RTBA) is proposed legislation intended to require United States Congress to read the legislation that it passes.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Read the Bills Act

The Read the Bills Act (RTBA) is proposed legislation intended to require United States Congress to read the legislation that it passes. It was originally written in 2006 by Downsize DC, a non-profit organization focused on decreasing the size of the federal government. The proposed act is a response to the passing of bills like the USA PATRIOT Act that are thousands of pages long and are passed without copies being made available to the members of Congress who vote on the bill. The bill is aimed at limiting the size and growth of the federal government. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) stated hi...

Robusto

Yeah, Jon Stewart mentioned it on The Daily Show the other night. Unbelievable.

RegDwighт

And it's a weird paradox of cosmic proportions that it hasn't passed.

Robusto

1:29 PM

Don't start pulling at that thread or the universe will start to unravel.

> Having delivered a talk on how to write your own JavaScript library (detailed notes) at the conference, Dmitry shared his thoughts on the new library over breakfast the next morning. “Just what the world needs—another sucky JavaScript library,” he said. When I asked him what made it ‘sucky’, he elaborated. “It’s a JavaScript library written by Java developers who clearly don’t get JavaScript.”

RegDwighт

I mean, if they don't read the shit they pass, it should have passed. But obviously they do read the shit after all, so it didn't pass. Except if they do read the shit after all, then there's no problem in passing something that tells them to continue doing just what they're doing anyway, right?

@Robusto oops too late.

Robusto

@RegDwighт Nobody read the Patriot Act except the press and comedians. But it passed.

RegDwighт

►

@Robusto and the people who passed it are still there, getting paid with the press's and comedians' money and acting in their name and on their behalf.

Robusto

Hey, ease up. It's Saturday and I don't want to think about the perilous instestinal blockage that is the U. S. Congress.

As Will Rogers said, "If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of Congress?"

> In his talk on building JavaScript libraries, Dmitry compared JavaScript’s global scope to a public toilet. “You can’t avoid going in there,” he said. “But try to limit your contact with surfaces when you do.”

RegDwighт

Yeah I always float in midair in public toilets. And judging by their condition so do other people.

ali

3:37 PM

hi

enybody there

?

RegDwighт

Not sure about Enya's body, but mine is.

ali

:)

how areu?

RegDwighт

Sleepy. And working on my new gravatar.

Ah, there it is.

ali

yep

why?

RegDwighт

Because I can!

ali

3:42 PM

Where are you from?

RegDwighт

RegDwighт ♦, Europe, GMT+1

44.8k 12 147 240

The fine City of GMT+1!

ali

i dont know

whereis it?

RegDwighт

Well you should come visit.

@ali It's on the map! In Europe!

ali

what is your country's name?

RegDwighт

Susan.

Though I call her Джугашвили on Fridays.

ali

3:46 PM

:))

please to meet u

u are funny man

pleased to meet u

RegDwighт

I know. I was raised that way.

So what about you, Cassius Clay?

ali

no

who is it?

RegDwighт

You.

ali

i'm cassius clay?!

no i'm ali

i live in iran

what is your first name?

RegDwighт

Reg.

ali

3:53 PM

what means?

RegDwighт

Advisor, counselor, decider.

ali

it's Beautiful

excuse me

i see your work

thay are beautiful too

i have to leave

good bye Reg

see u later

RegDwighт

Thank you. CU.

Robusto

4:43 PM

@RegDwighт Stop trying to confuse everyone with Stalinism.

@RegDwighт You know you will go back to the owl after a brief fling with this Hungry, Hungry LEGO thingie.

RegDwighт

4:57 PM

I know many things. Now what.

Also, I never confused Stalinism with anyone else.

Johan Larsson

@RegDwighт What is an act?

RegDwighт

An act is the thing Caught in the Act were caught in.

Johan Larsson

ok now when we are past the puns, what is it?

RegDwighт

What kind of trick question is this?

Johan Larsson

That red bills thing, what does act mean in context? Is it similar to a suggestion?

RegDwighт

5:43 PM

An act is a piece of legislation.

A law. A statute. No idea if these are different, IANAL.

MετάEd

I believe "statute" is specific to legislatures.

Compare "decree". Both law but not both legislative.

RegDwighт

Well an act is specific to legislatures, too.

Let's see.

> : the formal product of a legislative body : statute; also : a decision or determination of a sovereign, a legislative council, or a court of justice

MετάEd

OMG. I missed a day.

RegDwighт

M-W

> A product of a legislative body, a statute.

MετάEd

472 days, 6 consecutive.

RegDwighт

5:46 PM

Wiktionary.

Though it looks like they just copied it from MW.

@MετάEd I hate it when that happens.