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user315433

00:44

Stuck late in the office grading :( and Amazon Music is down. :((

hichris123

@zaq youtube.com

user315433

I doubt that Youtube will have the 96-track Deluxe Edition of Mellon Collie & Infinite Sadness.

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user315433

Which is what I wanted to listen to, given the nature of grading.

hichris123

Perhaps someone should try some different music. ;)

user315433

Any finite amount of sadness would not suffice.

user315433

00:55

OTOH, Friday is the last day of classes. A super-happy hour.

user202362

let's admit it, u r sad coz u didn't c kitteh - here, haz a kitteh (coz I am all sympathetic) ...

user202362

bjb568

ViewChicago Live 2016 - Episode 7

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user315433

01:12

As an undergrad, I was blissfully unaware of the term "Liberal Arts". Kind of wish it stayed this way.

bjb568

s/Ar/Far/

user315433

@zaq 92 tracks, actually. (They are back up.)

Shog9

01:38

Good to be the student who lands on "Porcelena" I guess

user315433

And unlucky ones get Zero.

user202362

01:51

what's good to land on will depend on how far you fall from ... for example, a student who falls from a 3 story building will be lucky to land on a gigantic piece of feta (cheese)

bjb568

I'd be pretty happy to land on a huge block of cheese. Think of the concentrated value! Think of the pizza-making opportunity!

If it's big enough to cushion a fall, it'd probably be worth over $10k.

user315433

> Remember the good old days, when you could post a namespace into the URL bar to google it…and it wasn’t a random .services TLD landing page? pic.twitter.com/fylYCwv8ks -- Nick Craver at 5:48 PM - 6 Dec 2016

user315433

Nick has an interesting combination of extensions and bookmarks.

user202362

@bjb568 also depends on the type of cheese - for example, cheddar is not a good type to land on for a long fall

bjb568

Air bubbles are probably pretty good.

user315433

02:02

One of them is Special:Random from Wikipedia. A form of self-education, I guess.

bwDraco

@zaq Doesn't Special:Random just return a random article?

user202362

random is just random, what about this 'special' is all about then?

user315433

Yes, that's what it's for. Not something I'd bookmark... I prefer having a little more system to what I learn about.

bwDraco

Special: is used for dynamically-generated pages on Wikipedia. These include your watchlist (which tracks changes in selected pages), the login page, and system statistics.

Help:Special page

Special pages are pages that have no wikitext, but are generated by the software on demand. They are found in the "Special:" namespace. It is not possible to make a redirect to a special page, or to create normal pages beginning with the "Special:" prefix. Special pages often take arguments. Sometimes these can be supplied after a slash (as in Special:Log/block); in other cases an index.php call is used, as in http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&days=3&limit=10. Also the content of some special pages depends on preferences that have been set by the user, e.g. classic...

user315433

> Q: stack exchange, quora, yahoo answers: which is the least useful?
> A: when asked, each will point to another, rock-papers-scissors style. https://twitter.com/nnnnicholas/status/806318835611668480

user315433

02:17

Not true... Would be closed anywhere on SE.

user315433

02:35

!!/report stackoverflow.com/a/41008401

SmokeDetector

02:52

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword with email in body: what is the formula for resultant of two vectors? by Isidro De La Cruz on physics.stackexchange.com

user202362

I was almost in the mood to start telling a story about how a demons captured the mother of 3 siblings, so the 3 siblings set out to rescue their mother. In order to do that, they had to travel through a maze of riddles. So the oldest brother pulls out of a laptop and started to ask questions on reddit, although he did get some initial success, he was eventually engulfed by trolls. While the first brother battled trolls, the second sibling, a daughter, searched yahoo answers on her tablet.

user202362

She too, had some success. Then she posted a question and received no answers, so she waited and waited. The youngest sibling posted the question on SE network ...

user202362

then I decided to not waste my effort on someone/thing so boring, bye

approxiblue

@Telkitty noooo, what happened next?

user202362

03:23

@approxiblue Many possibilities, currently 3 ending. But probably should write the ending when I am in a better mood (I don't want sound so sarcastic).

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04:06

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user315433

> Head to any local department store and you will be bombarded with Anti Aging cream sales pitches.

user315433

Yeah... and even if you don't go there, you still will be.

bwDraco

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A: Is this avatar appropriate or offensive?

To get an idea of what we expect, users who use Gravatar for their avatars can only use images rated G or PG. We don't allow adult-only avatars. The way I'm seeing it, this avatar is NSFW and sexually explicit to the point where it is only appropriate for 17+ audiences. I would not consider it a...

Nine more upvotes needed for the Reversal badge :p

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