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6:29 AM
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8:01 AM
Hm. My flashlight and new home server are in.
Wasn't expecting the latter so soon 😁
 
@JourneymanGeek you bought a new home for your server?
 
@rene Nah, that would be a server home ;) He's got one of those robots that deliver food/drinks :D
 
If I would get one of those I would get out of my chair even less ...
so many evens ...
 
Yeah. With the weather being all rainy for the past few days I don't think I left my chair for more than the food, toilet, and sleep :/
 
Oh, good call to do the toilet thing. I keep forgetting that ;)
 
8:16 AM
XD
 
8:35 AM
@Tinkeringbell Hello. Can I talk to you in a private room?
 
Not now, I'm at work. What is it about?
 
@Tinkeringbell Ok. I can wait. Is there any other moderator to talk now?
@JourneymanGeek Hello. Are you here?
 
9:04 AM
@rene server for the home 😁
Basically a box to run my long running tasks
 
9 messages moved to Chimney
 
@Later at work
 
@JourneymanGeek Ok. Please inform me when you are able to talk to me in a private room.
 
@Magisch needed anything? Leave me a mes. in the other room if you need - will try to reply when I have some time.
 
Uh. Other mods may do otherwise but I personally prefer not to conduct mod activities in private unless there's a good reason
@Later what is this about?
Also see ^
 
 
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10:54 AM
@JourneymanGeek cough, if you haven't seen it
 
11:14 AM
@SonictheStay-HomeHedgehog gone
@SonictheStay-HomeHedgehog gone and gone
@rene gone
@JourneymanGeek gone
@ShadowKeepsSocialDistance gone
@ShadowKeepsSocialDistance gone
@SonictheStay-HomeHedgehog gone
and that concludes my outstanding spammer cleanup
 
whoa
lol
@JNat thanks!
@JNat thanks!
You work with LIFO or FIFO? @JNat
 
11:29 AM
fifo, usually
 
unless my tabs' order got messed up somehow
 
Yeah, sometimes I drag a tab by mistake...
 
I like wifleo
Whenever I feel like it out 🤣🤣🤣🤣
 
@JourneymanGeek Buffalo?
> die wir den H-intmel umb F f Cbrtfii wifleo erlangen
About the only wifleo I've found online...
 
goooone :P
 
12:43 PM
Echo.... Echo.......
 
*cups ear*
 
12:55 PM
Make sure the cup is empty first.
 
How's everyone's Tuesday?
 
Very Tuesday
 
Feels very Wednesday to me, strangely enough.
 
I burnt lunch
 
That's just sad. :(
 
12:58 PM
Only for the lunch
 
@Spevacus Monday-ish. I overslept because I forgot to set an alarm, and I just managed to lose an untracked file.
 
Last Tuesday was very Monday-ish for you as well, wasn't it?
 
Yes, because Monday was a day off then ;)
 
Heh, Mondays...
Also, rest in peace untracked file. :(
 
It's okay. It was a lousy file anyways, wouldn't compile.
 
1:07 PM
Takes off hat
Cue national anthem
Excuse my laymanity, but how do you lose a file?
 
del program.java
 
Source control wasn't tracking it, it looks like.
 
@M.A.R. New file, source control not tracking it, thought I stashed it before I was tasked to do 10 other things in 20 other branches, wasn't true.
 
Could be worse. You could be the head programmer at my workplace. Before he had some of us young-ins join the programming team (of 4 total people now...) he would just commit straight to master. One branch to rule them all.
 
First four months at my current client, I committed exactly nothing :P
 
1:15 PM
/shrug
 
They were using SVN but transitioning to git and no one felt it was necessary to teach me because we'd be using git next week XD
To be honest? yeah. Shrug ;)
 
Screw it tbh, hahaha
Who needs commits
 
(/¯◡ ‿ ◡)/¯ ~ ┻━┻
 
SVN is ... not git ...
 
I disagree I'm random people. I'm a blurry flower that was trusted with the hammer by fellow members of this community. — rene 6 hours ago
Has Eminem make a "Darene" song like Venom
 
1:20 PM
@rene not IMO
 
Tags a Javascript question as [Java][script] and runs away
 
@Tinkeringbell okay. I've transitioned between VSS, TFS, CC, SVN and Git. Slightly different gotcha in each. Except VSS, that was one big oops in hindsight.
 
You're old though.
 
@Tinkeringbell thanks, I aged nicely, if I may so myself ...
 
goed opgedroogd?
 
1:27 PM
yep, even behind the ears ;)
 
@rene Like a fine wine?
 
@rene XD okay I earned that one.
 
@Spevacus yep, or a good single malt Whiskey
 
Excellent
 
@Tinkeringbell hey, all in good spirit.
 
1:29 PM
I know :)
 
Glad to hear
 
1:43 PM
I was about to link to lifehacks.se to prevent the birds from nesting ...
 
LOL
I watched that one get nuked before my sub-10k eyes before I could really read it.
Saw the title, though.
 
1st response was pets.se but that is not for wild animals.
DIY.se might have worked
But given they tried a lot already I reckoned stronger measures were warranted ...
There must be a question and answer that explains how to use explosives to get rid of birds things ...
 
Yikes
 
if you blow up the house, so also solved the bird issue...
 
What's the normal behavior when reviewing low quality answers in the formatting sandbox? Unless it's complete nonsense I typically just "Looks OK" it... Because... formatting sandbox.
 
1:54 PM
For insects, I recommend spiders
 
@Spevacus yeah, unless it says in the post: please review this as delete or something. Or if it is blatant rude / offensive, that has no place here, sandbox or not.
 
Sounds about right.
 
For birds ... depends. If it's sparrow-sized, a golden orb weaver might cut it. If it's an eagle invading your home, spiders won't do.
 
2:29 PM
@ArtOfCode Hello.
@ArtOfCode Can you share your "cough" with me?
@JourneymanGeek Do you think that I wanted to talk to you about ArtOfCode's cough?
 
2:52 PM
Cough? That's risky those days. calling 911
@Spevacus can also delete, doesn't really matter.
 
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
Yeah, the Sandbox is weird.
 
There are many things much more weird than Sandbox.
 
Me, for example.
@M.A.R knows.
 
@Later no, it's a link to the Teachers' Lounge
 
3:05 PM
He could link you to it, but you'd have a heck of a time getting in there.
Same thing with the mod team.
Team as in... Stack Overflow for Teams.
 
I have already linked everyone in here to it, technically :P
I just haven't quoted it, because that would be bad
 
Darn mods and their darn chatrooms and their darn council chatrooms
 
...though now I say that... TL messages quote on chat.SE, but I wonder if they quote on c.MSE where I'm not a mod
 
yes, yes they do
 
3:08 PM
(redacted)
 
@ArtOfCode You are talking about me?
 
no
 
Here, I joined the party.
 
\o/
 
@ArtOfCode Your cough had not any relation to me?
 
3:10 PM
!!/tea Art
 
@ShadowKeepsSocialDistance brews a cup of earl grey tea for @Art
 
This might help with the cough.
 
@ShadowKeepsSocialDistance cheers, much better
 
With lemon and honey I hope?
 
3:10 PM
Always at your service.
 
as long as you didn't put the milk in first, Smokey
 
@Rubiksmoose out of lemons
looking on the lemon tree growing in @Mithical's yard
 
@Rubiksmoose why are you still not interested in knowing "What's up"?
 
@ShadowKeepsSocialDistance gasp that is a true tragedy.
 
@Later I think they're rather subtly dropping the subject.
 
3:12 PM
@Rubiksmoose I know! Tea without lemon is like MSE without Shog.
 
Oof...
 
right in the feels
 
squeezing Shog
status-failure
 
@Later Mainly because I figured out what was up from your chat history and saw that you had been told to stop pinging random mods and employees yet continued to do so and didn't want to encourage that.
So how about we respect that and move on?
I will say, lemon is great for more than just tea, also some great cocktails. Though lime is really my go-to there.
 
Maybe some coffee will help?
!!/coffee Lat
 
3:16 PM
@ShadowKeepsSocialDistance brews a cup of Espresso for @Lat
 
!!/coffee
 
@Spevacus brews a cup of Americano for @Spevacus
 
Americano, eh?
 
stealing @Spe's Americano
@Rubiksmoose Mojito!!!!1!11!!
 
You can have it, I'll see what Barista Smokey's got next.
!!/coffee
 
3:17 PM
@Spevacus brews a cup of Macchiato for @Spevacus
 
Oh she'll do.
 
@ShadowKeepsSocialDistance Mmmmm I love me a good mojito. I just planted mint in my garden for that express purpose.
 
@Spevacus She?
@Rub ^
 
@ShadowKeepsSocialDistance [mouth waters]
No mojitos before lunch lol
 
I made mojitos a little while ago, for the first time. Gotta say, pretty good drink. Screw the "that's a girl's drink" people, btw.
@ShadowKeepsSocialDistance Ignore me my mind is gone. Not sure what I was going for there.
 
3:20 PM
@Rubiksmoose I did not want to talk to you about such a thing. However, I have not been told that warning before ban even for one time.
 
@Spevacus true!
@Spevacus well, looks like you referred to the Macchiato as female? lol
Or to Smokey who served it? ;)
 
@Later ...you realise both Rubiks and I are mods and can literally see your chat moderation history, right
 
@Spevacus I always found it funny when people say that and then advocating for drinking beer instead. Like, what makes beer more manly? The taste? The fact that most beers have a lower ABV than cocktails? The color?
So ridiculous.
I drink what I want!
 
@Rubiksmoose because Beer! (no, I don't get it either)
give me spirits any day
 
@Rubiksmoose the way "real men" drink, maybe? Huge gulps, then burp....
Personally I don't even like beer that much. :D
 
3:22 PM
When I make cosmos they turn out vivid pink and I drink them with pride.
 
@ArtOfCode Yes. I will be glad to show me anything contradicting my claim.
 
@Rubiksmoose Living in america, and having known out-of-countrymen, I know that american beer is... Pretty awful. Imports are alright, but even then, not so great. I'm a cocktail guy through and through, and I'll probably never change that. Rum's my fave liquor so far... Need to branch out a bit more though.
 
@ShadowKeepsSocialDistance I used to hate beer, but I'll drink an occasional one now.
 
beer is way too bitter for me
 
@Spevacus Yes! Rum is amazing. My favorite too.
 
3:23 PM
gotta have something sweet in the alcohol or it just doesn't work
 
@Rubiksmoose sure, I can also drink it with friends, just won't do it by myself without a good reason. :)
 
^ and ^^
 
Peach schnapps, anyone? Pineapple gin?
 
Peach schnapps is great
Never had gin, it's on the list, though.
 
what else is there downstairs... Cointreau? Creme de framboises? Good stuff.
Peach, pineapple, orange, and raspberry
 
3:25 PM
> One of sour, two of sweet, three of strong, four of weak
 
@Rubiksmoose eh?
Can't say I've heard that one before :P
 
Neither have I. Source?
 
No, sauce. To go in the alcohol.
 
Nice
 
@ArtOfCode It's an old rhyme for making alcohol punches. Let's see if I can dig up a source.
 
@Rubiksmoose I'm pretty sure the recipe for alcohol punches is just "Glasgow".
 
@ShadowKeepsSocialDistance Thanks :)
 
@ShadowKeepsSocialDistance It looks good as well.
 
3:27 PM
@ArtOfCode hah!
 
@Later Take the hint and drop it, please.
@Rubiksmoose where's that Doctor Who scene when you need it...
 
@ArtOfCode but that was after the ban
 
@Later Not the time or the place, I'm afraid. Please drop it.
 
@Later you were asked to drop it. Please do.
 
You were banned for that, @Later. And you're on the sure way to be banned here too. Please, stop now. Cheers.
 
If you're pissed off, take a break, go for a walk. It works.
 
It actually does.
If you're of-age, make a mojito. They're excellent.
 
@ShadowKeepsSocialDistance tree is kinda bare at the moment
 
@Mithical sure, that's why we're out of lemons.
 
Whole bunch of tiny nectarines coming in, though
 
Been looking into getting a dwarf lemon/lime tree. Can't find a place to purchase one, though.
 
@ArtOfCode Love it!
I need to watch more DW...
 
eugh, Dreamweaver
 
Doctor Who :P
 
worst web development software in existence
 
DW was the blight of my first forum.
When a question was about Dream Weaver, I had a canonical answer: stop using this.
It generated some crappy auto code, which never worked well.
 
@Spevacus Just plant a lemon, water it, and voila... :P
 
@Mithical But that's slow. You're telling me I have to have patience and dedication? Preposterous!
 
@Spevacus oh I have a few actually. I believe we got them down in Florida or New Orleans area.
 
3:35 PM
> "A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."
4
 
Now that's a quote.
 
I'm not actually sure what it's from.
 
meh
 
@Mithical you just posted it ...
 
I've heard it, but that doesn't mean I know the source. ;)
Potential Lit.SE question, I guess.
 
3:40 PM
I think that's a cross-site spammer as well ^
 
dialing 1-800-JNAT
 
@JNat Cross-site spammer ready for expulsion stackexchange.com/users/18549886/optimus-fox
 
@Mithical Apparently, it's a Greek proverb.. If so, it isn't a very common one, unfortunately.
 
@Spevacus gone
 
Whew! That was quick!
I clicked the link again and saw it was gone and was momentarily concerned that I had posted a broken link.
 
3:45 PM
Ah, not Greek after all. This seems much more believable: roger-pearse.com/weblog/2017/08/26/…
> A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
> That, I suspect, is the real origin of the proverb – a volume of moral writing by a quaker in 1951. The aphorism then trickles through popular magazines, changing as it goes. Ronald Reagan uses it in 1983. But it seems to become a “Greek proverb” only in the hands of US congressmen in 1993.
 
@terdon Yup sounds like a very US congressman thing to do lol
 
@terdon Ha! That's interesting. Every time I look into quote origins it turns out that nothing is ever quite as it seems. :)
 
 
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4:53 PM
@Mithical Who you calling old
Anxiously checks for white hair
@Mithical Don't, ever, quote something again that might or might not be a Greek proverb
 
> "Never trust M.A.R." -Socrates
 
Squints
 
> "When you're speaking Greek, everything is a Greek proverb."
> "Anything placed in quote marks looks believable."
 
> Any man who speaks only in quotes forgets to think for himself.
Actually, that's a legit paraphrase of a quote, but I dunno its origins.
It's definitely not a Greek proverb.
 
> Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur
 
5:04 PM
quidquid, eh?
 
@JohnDvorak Whatever
 
🤷‍♂?
 
@JohnDvorak Need a translation?
 
I have Google Translate... but do feel free to anyways.
 
> Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound
Probably same for greek and / or quotation marks.
 
5:12 PM
Google was right, then. Thanks.
 

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