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8:00 AM

Which actually doesn't taste half bad, though a lot more expensive than what you'd normally expect

A family friend worked for a Japanese business man. When he took his kid to eat at McDonald's in the US, he couldn't stomach the burgers, wanting a fish-based version (I think).

Dan Grossman

not sure what I'd expect to pay for Kentucky Fried Rice

on the one hand, yeah, there are fish- and tofu- based burgers in Japanese mcdonalds I think

on the other hand, they were the only country with this

Tim Stone

@DanGrossman To the cloud!

George Marian

Ebi Filet-O - Shrimp burger with special sauce and lettuce. <-- This may have been what the kid was expecting to order.

Yi Jiang

@DanGrossman Hahaha... yes, seen that on Engagdet. Those guys also found the Windows 7 restaurant in Taipei, go figure

George Marian

8:03 AM

@TimStone LOL

Yi Jiang

@GeorgeMarian KFC serves a shrimp burger in China too

Tim Stone

@GeorgeMarian Microsoft continues to use that line in commercials where it doesn't make any sense, so I figure I'll start doing the same.

George Marian

McPork - Pork burger with lettuce and onions. Except for the thought of eating pork from McDee's, that sounds tasty.

@TimStone Those commercials just don't make sense....gah!

Dan Grossman

You've never had a McRib?

Tim Stone

I'm hungry now, so shame on you all.

Dan Grossman

8:04 AM

McRib

The McRib is a sandwich periodically sold by the international fast-food restaurant chain McDonald's. It was most recently offered in parts of the United States and Canada until December 5, 2010. Product description The McRib consists of a pork patty, barbecue sauce, onions, and pickles served on a 6 inch (15.2 cm) roll. The patty is precooked, frozen and later reheated. When it was first introduced, packets of a special McRib barbecue sauce called "Blazing Hot Sauce" were available with the sandwich. This sauce was much spicier than the barbecue sauce on the prepared sandwic...

George Marian

Hmm...I guess I have.

Dan Grossman

They're available again in the US now, and pretty tasty

Tim Stone

I don't think that a McRib actually qualifies as pork.

Wasn't that the reason they went away for a while?

George Marian

I do believe it ran through me faster than their burgers. :)

Yi Jiang

@DanGrossman There's no pork based products in Singapore because of the muslims

So no, I've never had one of those

Tim Stone

8:04 AM

@GeorgeMarian Yeah.. sighs

George Marian

@TimStone They're seasonal now.

Tim Stone

@GeorgeMarian Ah, like shamrock shakes.

George Marian

I think the concern is that they're a "formed" meat product. I.e. ground up crap, pressed into a shape

Tim Stone

G'morning Marc.

George Marian

eff-ing a...I'm hungry now.

Yi Jiang

8:06 AM

KFC also sells soup and youtiao + porridge for breakfast here

Dan Grossman

Mmmm... ground up crap pressed into a shape... like sausage and hot dogs

George Marian

I don't expect much to be open in this town after midnight.

Yi Jiang

Youtiao

Youtiao () - also known as you char kway in Min Nan, yau ja gwai in Cantonese,, and Chinese oil stick, Chinese cruller, fried bread stick, or Chinese doughnut in English - is a long, golden-brown, deep fried strip of dough in Chinese cuisine and other East and Southeast Asian cuisines and is usually eaten for breakfast. Conventionally, youtiao are lightly salted and made so they can be torn lengthwise in two. Youtiao are normally eaten as an accompaniment for rice congee or soy milk. Culinary applications and variants At breakfast, youtiao can be stuffed inside shāobǐng (燒餅; lit. roaste...

George Marian

Even those chains that are open late.

Yi Jiang

^ Tasty, but really really bad for your health

Tim Stone

8:06 AM

We have a 24-hour McDonald's, but that seems like a little much.

Dan Grossman

last night I tried to find something to eat at 5AM, nothing was open yet, drove around until 6 and everything opened

George Marian

@DanGrossman I would've expected a McDonald's to have opened before 6 am.

Tim Stone

Pizza Hut in Hong Kong liked to put corn on many of their pizza varieties. I'm not sure what that was about.

Dan Grossman

cheapest food in the world

George Marian

Apparently, the Starbucks opens its drive-thru at 4:30 AM here.

Dan Grossman

8:08 AM

I guess nobody works early around here

nothing opens before 6

there's a 24 hour wawa and a supermarket though..

George Marian

I wonder if the crack-in-the-box is open this late...

Yi Jiang

Oh, and does anybody's KFC sell tarts? No? Thought so...

Dan Grossman

chocolate cake, parfaits and mini apple pies

Yi Jiang

Egg tarts, those small ones. Portuguese style, the advertisements claim, but I doubt so

Dan Grossman

apparently they do sell seasoned rice at KFC here

Yi Jiang

8:10 AM

@DanGrossman Tried rice in Long John Silvers once in Singapore. It was awful.

George Marian

Ooh, it may just be open 24/7.

Tim Stone

Long John Silvers isn't even that popular here, what the hell is it doing in Singapore? :P

Dan Grossman

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Yi Jiang

The only place in the world where KFC is more popular than McDonald's is China. The Chinese love their chicken, apparently

@TimStone It's quite common in Singapore. Slightly more than Subway and Burger King, I think

Dan Grossman

eww, subway

Tim Stone

8:12 AM

Hmm, interesting. I'm not even sure where there is one around here.

Dan Grossman

i've yet to have a subway sandwich I enjoyed

George Marian

@YiJiang So do our southerners, but I dunno how well KFC does in the south. I assume there should be many small restaurants, with better food.

Tim Stone

Really? I don't mind Subway.

Yi Jiang

@DanGrossman It's not too bad, but very overpriced

Dan Grossman

Maybe I'm spoiled, every little neighborhood pizza shop does great hoagies/subs in the northeast US

Yi Jiang

8:13 AM

Also, Subway's very rare in China

George Marian

@YiJiang They're freaking cheap here.

Tim Stone

@DanGrossman OK, that's true.

Dan Grossman

I lived near Seattle for a little bit and couldn't get good sandwiches there

Tim Stone

@GeorgeMarian If I see that $5 foot long commercial one more time I'm going to punch them through the TV.

Yi Jiang

@GeorgeMarian Six Singapore dollars for a sandwich compared to half that for noodles or rice is very overpriced, yes

George Marian

8:14 AM

@DanGrossman It's all about the seafood here.

Tim Stone

Ah, I love seafood..

George Marian

@YiJiang It's all about the local ingredients, distribution network and all that.

Yi Jiang

@GeorgeMarian It's actually very interesting how somethings are much more expensive some things are in Singapore compared to China, and others aren't

George Marian

Tourist traps?

Yi Jiang

@GeorgeMarian No, the raw ingredients

George Marian

8:16 AM

Ah.

Yi Jiang

Vegetables are anywhere between 20x to 5x more expensive in Singapore, but meat only 2-3

George Marian

Well, meat freezes better.

Yi Jiang

The difference between the RMB and the Singapore dollar is 5x, by the way

@GeorgeMarian Meat is very expensive in China. Vegetables are priced closer to meat in Singapore because the cost of transportation is quite significant

Oh, and computers in China are about as expensive as everywhere else in the world, but the wages here are much much less, so... sigh~

Dan Grossman

Hey, they get eggs on their big macs?!

Want.

George Marian

@DanGrossman hehe

Yi Jiang

8:20 AM

@DanGrossman But no bread in between the patties?

Also, 570 yen = 45 RMB = US$6.80 = expensive

George Marian

@YiJiang It's not much cheaper in the US.

That's for the meal, right?

Dan Grossman

yeah, that's pretty close

it is

mcdonalds just raised their prices at most stores in october too

$1 for the value menu, but all the meals are more expensive

George Marian

Granted, taking the local economy into consideration it is a bigger chunk of the income.

Yi Jiang

@GeorgeMarian Really? Big Mac in Singapore at lunch time is S$5.00, at a US$1 -> S$1.5 exchange rate

Dan Grossman

just the big mac alone is probably $3.xx US

Yi Jiang

8:25 AM

It's S$6.* for the rest of the day, but it's still cheaper

Tim Stone

@YiJiang exchanges his USD for USD so he can get an extra $0.50 on the dollar magically

George Marian

@TimStone nice catch

Yi Jiang

@TimStone Oops...

Dan Grossman

oanda.com/currency/big-mac-index

^ Big Mac Price Index

$3.73 in US

Tim Stone

@GeorgeMarian I knew what he meant, but I wanted magic money. :P

George Marian

8:26 AM

Dang, I'm failing at my quest to avoid going to the jack in the box....

@DanGrossman LOL nice

Tim Stone

I told myself that driving to McDonalds at 3:30 in the morning was an unreasonable thing to do. Unfortunately for you, it's not quite that late ;)

Yi Jiang

Curious if they have this in the States

George Marian

@TimStone Well, I can feel better about the fact that I did check the kitchen first. Nothing I can eat without making noise to cook it.

Well, there are the Ritz crackers...

Yi Jiang

Makes a meal at McDonald's cheap enough to actually be competitive, though in reality eating somewhere else is still significantly cheaper

Tim Stone

Hahah, I'll accept that as a reasonable excuse.

Dan Grossman

8:28 AM

George Marian

@YiJiang The deal or the Filet-o-fish?

Dan Grossman

Yi Jiang

@GeorgeMarian The deal, of course

Surely you have that burger too

Dan Grossman

first picture: $0.99, second picture: $3.99

George Marian

@YiJiang Yah, the Filet-o-fish is a McDonald's staple. I don't think I've ever seen a McValue Lunch deal.

Tim Stone

8:30 AM

You have McDelivery?

I've only seen that in NYC before, heh.

Dan Grossman

McWhat?

George Marian

@DanGrossman That's why buy two of the $0.99 ones. :)

Yi Jiang

@TimStone Yes, islandwide 24h I think

George Marian

Though, it's still not the same.

Tim Stone

@DanGrossman Check the bottom of the advertisement that @YiJiang posted

Dan Grossman

8:31 AM

i prefer the smaller ones

George Marian

@DanGrossman They are easier to eat, that's for sure.

Dan Grossman

the "buck double" at Burger King upsets my stomach, though

Tim Stone

Dan Grossman

it's like pure grease without enough bun to soak it up

George Marian

Most fast food burgers upset my stomach.

Tim Stone

8:32 AM

I can't quite put my finger on it...but something seems amiss in that screenshot.

George Marian

Well, they don't spend too much time in the tummy. Whether it's a slider or not, they tend to slide right through.

Dan Grossman

heh

Yi Jiang

It's funny, but I wonder if Americans would enjoy eating at a Singaporean style food court

Dan Grossman

Intel's throwing in free Athlon II processors with every purchase of a Celeron, clearly

George Marian

heh

Yi Jiang

8:33 AM

@DanGrossman Eh...

Dan Grossman

all this talk and there is nowhere to buy a fast food burger for another 8 hours here

guess thats a good thing

George Marian

Yah, I'm bout to cave-in and hop in the car.

Yi Jiang

Hainanese chicken rice

Hainanese chicken rice is a dish of Chinese origin most commonly associated with Hainanese cuisine, Malaysian cuisine and Singaporean cuisine, although it is also commonly sold in neighbouring Thailand. It is based on the well-known Hainanese dish called Wenchang chicken (文昌雞). So-called due to its roots in Hainan cuisine and its adoption by the Hainanese overseas Chinese population in the Nanyang area (present-day Southeast Asia), the version found in the Malaysia region combines elements of Hainanese and Cantonese cuisines along with culinary preferences in the Southeast Asian region. ...

(Makes everyone that much more hungry)

George Marian

Yah, thanks. :P

@YiJiang Can that paragraph use Hainanese often enough?

Tim Stone

@DanGrossman Aren't you near Bridgeport? There's not a 24-hour anything in KoP? ;)

Dan Grossman

8:39 AM

Too far to drive and check

There is a McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy's, KFC, Taco Bell, Arbys, Chick-Fil-A within 5 minutes driving, but none are open 24 hours.. McDonalds is 24 hours on Friday and Saturday only

Plus 24 hour McDonalds serve breakfast from 3:30AM-11AM (now)... no burgers

Tim Stone

Ah, I guess that's true, yeah.

Yi Jiang

@DanGrossman McDonald's in Singapore have burgers on their breakfast menu

^ That's Bacon Mushroom with Chicken rice in KFC China

It's served with pickled vegetables that doesn't taste like they've been pickled

Tim Stone

Is it any good?

Benjol

I very briefly had the precognitive badge everywhere, no longer, sadly:

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Yi Jiang

@TimStone Very. The rice is as good as it gets, and the mushrooms aren't too bad

It's expensive though

Tim Stone

8:43 AM

Hmm

Benjol

Dan Grossman

What are the black things?

big mushrooms?

Benjol

@DanGrossman, Black pudding :)

George Marian

mmm...microwaved hotdog

Yi Jiang

(Propose that we rename this room The Food Room)

Benjol

8:46 AM

The Making ourselves salivate room

@DanGrossman, not to be confused with Christmas pudding (equally black :)

Yi Jiang

Oh, and anyone here want's to try Duck Blood Vermicelli?

Tim Stone

@YiJiang If it's good? :P

Yi Jiang

Midhat

hey. how do they select StackExchange questions that appear in the right side ad bar

Yi Jiang

The black solids are cooked duck blood

George Marian

8:51 AM

I dunno about you, but I like my animal blood spilled on the ground, not collected into a casing. :)

Dan Grossman

Yi Jiang

@Midhat It uses the same algorithm for the hot questions you see in each SE site, with modifications

@DanGrossman Instant noodles, yuck.

@TimStone They're really good when cooked well (Note the caveat)

Tim Stone

@YiJiang Yeah, I'm pretty sure I've seen it before, but I don't think I've ever actually had it.

Dan Grossman

Star Trek: The Next Generation foretold The Matrix in 1993 ("Ship in a Bottle")... Picard says "All this may be an elaborate simulation running in a device on someone's desk"...

Yi Jiang

I swear, KFC Singapore's menu is one of the least exciting anywhere in the world

KittenBot logged into the Javascript room again. Let the havoc begin!

Tim Stone

9:05 AM

@YiJiang Uh oh :P

George Marian

Alright, I should get some sleep. But, first time to reboot into Windows shudder and update WoW shudder

g'night folks

Tim Stone

@GeorgeMarian G'night

Tim Stone

9:38 AM

0

A: What are "Community Wiki" posts?

New wiki features are awesome in my opinion there are really effective changes. Prefabrik

It seems likely that user is just spamming that link, right? :P (There's also this one)

Dan Grossman

typical spam I see every day on forums

Tim Stone

flags

Benjol

10:03 AM

@TimStone "take him down!" :)

Yi Jiang

currently trying to build something using the Dissociated Press algo to generate random stuff from existing chat conversations

radp

Markov chains, eh?

Yi Jiang

@radp I'm not finding a lot of info on it, but I think I know how to get this to work

radp

10:24 AM

There was a program from jwz I think that did those.

jwz.org/dadadodo

Tim Stone

11:08 AM

has posted a question-type post on a SE site for the first time

Hrm, is the image too big?

0

Q: Malformed HTML causes Chat Ads to display incorrectly on Meta Stack Overflow

There appears to be some malformed HTML in Meta's sidebar that's causing the chat advertisements to be displayed incorrectly. The module which contains the "Frequently Asked" question list has a "linked" container inside of it, and either it or its parent module element appear to be missing a clo...

bug

radp

@TimStone Nah, maybe a bit unclear

also, I can repro on the advertisement being cut, but only on the home page...

Tim Stone

Really?

Ah, right.

radp

Yeah, there's definitely a module in a module.

Tim Stone

I've gone ahead and made specific mention of the fact that it only happens on the main page due to the FAQ links being displayed there.

radp

@TimStone I've gone ahead and sent the developers a jQuery selector.

Bitches^WDevelopers love jQuery selectors.

Tim Stone

11:19 AM

Hahah, good point, thanks. For some reason I haven't slept yet, and it's now 6 am...so my ability to explain is a bit hampered. :P

@MarcGravell Half of chat.SE, excluding you and @radp for some reason, seemingly just got booted :(

0

Q: Find bandwidth of internet?

Is it possible to find bandwidth of internet through JAVA. If it is possible, please send me code for it.

discussion feature-request support bug java

radp

@TimStone Also flagged

Tim Stone

I like the all the bold emphasis.

radp

That said, what does it mean "bandwidth of internet"

I mean, he obviously meant bandwidth of his internet connection

but if one were to define the bandwidth of the internet how would you do it?

Tim Stone

Yeah, but I decided not to interpret it that way since it wasn't as funny.

radp

I guess the internet ends where intranets start.

So we'd be talking of LAN bandwidths.

But there's also another place where the internets end, and it's our monitors!

Tim Stone

11:28 AM

So many levels of mystery!

radp

And all the appliances that interface the internet to the real world.

I think I shall estimate the bandwidth of the internet to a couple teraunicorns.

For good measure.

Tim Stone

I'll independently verify your claim so it can be deemed scientific fact.

radp

No, it's true by definition. The unicorn is defined to be the 1 / 2 000 000 000 000th part of the bandwidth of the internet, for the purposes of this discussion.

Tim Stone

The real question is whether or not we can actually shove a couple of teranunicorns through this JAVA thing..If we can, maybe we can use it to send him the code.

Ah, very good then.

Marc Gravell

@TimStone I saw it. Something to do with the cookie auth code I'm hacking to pieces right now.

and I was booted to. I just came back in.

let's hope the build I just put up fixes it.

Pretty please.

PLEASE

3

Tim Stone

11:31 AM

I've crossed my fingers ;)

Marc Gravell

Farting around with auth code isn't fun...

George Marian

Heh, yes, please. :)

Tim Stone

With our star power combined...!

@GeorgeMarian Weren't you going to sleep? :P

George Marian

lol

Marc Gravell

Tim Stone

11:33 AM

Hahah

Marc Gravell

That's the screen as it should be

radp

@MarcGravell tada.wav

Marc Gravell

lets see if it fills up with logo fails again...

George Marian

Yeah, I couldn't exactly fall asleep. Then, I made the mistake of looking that my cellphone bill.

2

radp

@MarcGravell You're lucky I can't find the logout button!

George Marian

11:34 AM

Speaking of which, @TimStone. When do you sleep? heh

Marc Gravell

still /logout AFAIK

(actually, I might have blocked that for SE - it doesn't do quite what you'd think)

Tim Stone

I conveniently assume nothing about the mystical beast that is chat at the moment, so I won't be disappointed.

@GeorgeMarian No one really knows...It's one of those mysteries.

George Marian

lol

Marc Gravell

@TimStone I feel sad now

still no errors...

radp

Remember to keep your arms well straight as you raise them triumphantly in the air.

Marc Gravell

11:37 AM

I'm under a sloping ceiling. If I do that I get broken fist.

My left hand will be fine; but my right hand will need some work.

George Marian

That would drive me nuts. I'd bang into that ceiling all the time.

Marc Gravell

I never have. Yet.

Still no errors. I have increasing confidence now.

Tim Stone

@MarcGravell ...Because you feed off of my disappointment? Hahah

Marc Gravell

I'm used to that; married w/ kids ;p

(ouch)

Tim Stone

shakes head

I'm still connected, this makes me happy. :)

Yi Jiang

11:48 AM

@TimStone \o/, as @RebeccaChernoff would say

Tim Stone

Ah, right. \o/ all around.

radp

Hey, \o/ isn't made in rchern.

Benjol

0

Q: how to create one's own ad channel for his/her website ?

Lets say i want to post ads on my website but I dont want to use google ad sense . I want to build an ad channel that can create ads for the people who want to post ads on my site . How feasible is it?

adsense

Marc Gravell

still no errors. I declare success.

Tim Stone

pops the champagne

Yi Jiang

11:52 AM

@radp Yes it is. And so is oy! and ):

radp

@YiJiang I claim prior art!

George Marian

\o/ is popular in Eve-Online.

radp

However, instead of linking to prior art, I'll offer is some poorly styled old question rendering.

George Marian

:)

radp

in The Python Place, Jul 18 at 21:54, by Feeds

newest questions tagged python - Stack Overflow
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3277404/python-object-oriented-model

in The Python Place, Jul 26 at 5:53, by Feeds

newest questions tagged python - Stack Overflow
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3332454/oop-python-oriented-tutorials

Look! History! Bad styling! Broken images! runs

George Marian

11:56 AM

dang it, forgot about the markdown

Marc Gravell

ugh; what happened there!

George Marian

grr

where now?

radp

@MarcGravell Notice the timestamps :)

Tim Stone

shakes fist at Feeds

Marc Gravell

oh, fine then; yeah we broke the styles at some point in beta.

I can re-render them...

radp

11:57 AM

but that would be overwriting history!

Marc Gravell

yes. Get used to it. Refresh...

George Marian

lol

Marc Gravell

1

Q: Python object oriented model

I have something like the follwing. A person having many colors of cars of the same model belonging to some state. I have designed a person class as having attributes person name, car model, car year, car state, and car color as attributes. And color should be a list as a person can have many c...

python oop class-design

George Marian

I was gonna ask if i was supposed to see something different.

Marc Gravell

I think we changed how feeds are parsed too... so they don't onebox quite the same any more.

(we pre-process it rather than post-process it)

Yi Jiang

12:01 PM

Mmmhmmm... these coconut nuggets are good

A little too sweet, but still very good

radp

@MarcGravell Not before I take a screenshot!

George Marian

@YiJiang For some reason, monkeys flinging things came to mind.

radp

Okay, screenshot taken, history preserved.

Marc Gravell

that's fine, we'll just claim it was a 'shop

2

radp

@MarcGravell Don't you dare! I'll make sure all the reflections look just right.

And the flare too.

Need moar flare.

Yi Jiang

12:07 PM

@MarcGravell @radp Hey, I claim prior art on all of the badly produced Photoshops in this chatroom

radp

@YiJiang Fine, I use Gimp.

Actually you should make an index or something

Yesterday I struggled to find your revolving :|

Yi Jiang

@radp My erm... what?

radp

@YiJiang :| ._. |: .─.

Yi Jiang

in JavaScript on Stack Overflow Chat, 4 mins ago, by Yi Jiang

(And yes, I totally coined the word 'rchernism'. @rchern won't be pleased)

radp

$(".comment-text a.comment-user[href*=/138794/]").parent(".comment")

why doesn't this work? :(

Yi Jiang

12:22 PM

@radp What are those two / doing there?

radp

@YiJiang making sure they match the full user ID

not just a subset

$(".comment-text a.comment-user[href*=/138794/]") works as expected, matching all ownership links of this user.

$(".comment-text a.comment-user[href*=/138794/]").parent() works as expected, matching all comment text from this user

$(".comment-text a.comment-user[href*=/138794/]").parent(".comment") gives an empty set, instead of a list of ".comment"'s

Tim Stone

That's because .comment isn't the immediate parent.

radp

@TimStone That's the whole point of passing a selector as a parameter isn't it? :|

Yi Jiang

@radp parents, not parent, then

Or closest

Tim Stone

No, try .closest('.comment')

radp

12:28 PM

@YiJiang parents worked too :)

Tim Stone

.parent() is stupid in the same way that .next() and .prev() work, in that they take a selector only to fail if the only element that they look at happens to not match that selector.

radp

except, sigh, they return a list of DOM elements

not a list of jQuery objects

why oh why

@littlegreen replace your user number with the one of the offending user, put this in a userscript and poof!

$(".comment-text a.comment-user[href*=/138794/]").parents(".comment").css("display", "none")

@radp You fail at life.

Marc Gravell

@radp I can imaging who the "offending user" is already (goes to check and kick-ass if necessary)

Tim Stone

Marc Gravell ready to lay the smack down, w00t!

Nick T

Anyone know if there's a way to force Google to search what you typed instead of auto-correcting?

Marc Gravell

12:35 PM

I was right; sigh.

►

Tim Stone

Heheh

Heh, questions with no answers show the "Know someone who can answer?" text with links...but it also shows on your own unanswered questions, which I feel already answers that.

Nick T

1:06 PM

Do you drop non alpha-numeric characters from @(name)?

spaces apparently, but periods, etc?

George Marian

@NickT I believe it's just spaces.

30

Q: How do comment @replies work?

How do I respond to a specific user when entering my comment? Will they be notified? Related: How do I view my recent replies? Return to the FAQ index

support faq comments notifications comment-replies

Nick T

@GeorgeMarian, if punctuation (say a comma) is right after the name it still works though?

Tim Stone

Yeah

Nick T

And if I put one in a chat will it still give someone a notice in their inbox if they've never been before?

Tim Stone

No, only if they've been in the room recently.

With a certain set of criteria that's documented somewhere but I don't quite remember the specifics of.

George Marian

1:14 PM

I do believe there's an activity requirement, if they're not currently present. I.e. they would need to have said something in the chat room

1

A: What is the one language or technology you would love to work with but can't?

Silverlight. Why? The work environment doesn't have it, doesn't want it and is not inclined to have it in the future (though I am hopeful, optimistic as I am) . But I love the technology for what it offers me and hence pursue hobby ideas on them.

Check out the comment.

shakes head

Tim Stone

shakes head too

radp

are you shaking head at "orientated"?

or at "Excel"

George Marian

"PM me for details."

Nick T

Hey, I like my stupid MSO scripts

There is no PM, right?

George Marian

@NickT Right.

Rebecca Chernoff

1:21 PM

stupid MSO scripts?

radp

@GeorgeMarian → thoughtstuff.co.uk/contact-me

:P

Nick T

@RebeccaChernoff Mostly in Excel, VBA scripts that act on ranges of cells to do whatever task

George Marian

@radp Sure, I guess...

Tim Stone

@radp Someone should inform him that there's plant life growing in his skull. That looks exceedingly dangerous.

3

Rebecca Chernoff

MSO as in, not Meta StackOverflow...

Tim Stone

1:23 PM

@RebeccaChernoff Microsoft Office :P

Rebecca Chernoff

(:

Nick T

Oh, whoops

radp

@TimStone I'm afraid it might be growing from his skull. I'm afraid it's too late now.

Tim Stone

@radp Hm, you may be right. Tragic, to say the least.

Not quite as tragic as the shifted chat boxes, but.

That amuses me, heh.

Benjol

@NickT There's an exception, if you put a comma after an explicit reply (like this one), it won't work.

Tim Stone

1:34 PM

Hm...I appear to be mildly sick, that's not cool.

Nick T

Because you're mildly warm?

Tim Stone

Seemingly so.

Yi Jiang

1:55 PM

@TimStone Bah, come over and wash rice for me, that'll cool you down

George Marian

There you go with the rice washing again. ;)

Tim Stone

Hahah, I think that'd only make me more sick. It's actually gotten quite cold here too.

Yi Jiang

Tim Stone

At my undisclosed location, it's currently -4 C.

Nick T

21 °F here

Yi Jiang

1:57 PM

Erhm... that imgur image isn't loading. Can anyone tell me what video @MarcGravell posted up there?

Tim Stone

@YiJiang Cool Hand Luke "What we have here...is a failure..to communicate."

Nick T

-6 °C in socialist ;)

Yi Jiang

@NickT The French republican next to me wants a word with you :P

jleedev

-5°C in Cleveland with Lake Erie dumping snow on us

littlegreen

hurray! i can chat!

Nick T

1:59 PM

Lake Michigan dumps snow on me

Yi Jiang

@littlegreen Congratulations!

littlegreen

Thanks to lovely two users voting up my question

Tim Stone

@littlegreen That is the ultimate achievement on any SE site, everything else is just filler.

Nick T

Lake-effect snow

Lake-effect snow is produced in cooler atmospheric conditions when cold winds move across long expanses of warmer lake water, providing energy and picking up water vapor which freezes and is deposited on the leeward shores. The same effect over bodies of salt water is called ocean effect snow, sea effect snow, or even bay effect snow. The effect is enhanced when the moving air mass is uplifted by the orographic effect of higher elevations on the downwind shores. This uplifting can produce narrow but very intense bands of precipitation, which deposit at a rate of many inches of snow each h...

George Marian

lol

littlegreen

1:59 PM

:)

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