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Tim Yi Jiang

16:08

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Consider the following about Santa Claus: 1) He can carry presents for every little boy and girl around the world in one bag that sits on a sleigh pulled by 8 tiny reindeer, so his bag has to be bigger on the inside. 2) He's able to make it around the entire world, including time to go down eve...

Tim jadarnel27

Bleep bloop.

Tim Yi Jiang

Just sayin'

Tim jadarnel27

Hahaha

Wow!

Tim Yi Jiang

SciFi and Fantasy is either full of crackpots or geniuses.

Moshe

@TimStone You there?

I'm looking for a simple mod_rewrite rule.

Tim Stone

16:11

Yeah, momentarily (I think I'm about to leave for lunch)

Oh, and I have your WP question open in a tab at home by the way, just haven't yet had time to answer.

Moshe

Yea, that's what I'm pinging you about.

Just want this:

Timootinator

@TimTimStone

Moshe

mosheberman.com/wordpress/year/month/day/article-name

to become:

blog.mosheberman.com/article-name

Tim jadarnel27

@TimYiJiang I'm going with geniuses.

Moshe

@Timjadarnel27 Geniuses who stick parts of context menus into the Aero rendering layer - just for fun? :P

Tim jadarnel27

16:24

@Moshe I will stick you into the aero rendering layer, buddy!

Moshe

@Lix, Airline approved the extension. I'm gonna be in Israel for a month with nothing to do. (Well, there's always code!)

Tim Stone

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^blog
RewriteRule ^(\d+/){3}(.*)  blog.mosheberman.com$1 [R=301,L]

(or something)

goes to lunch

Moshe

@TimStone Or something? Heh, ok. Thanks.

Gonna try that.

Didn't quite work.

@TimStone I'm probably doing it wrong.

Lix

16:49

@mos - cool buddy :P Be prepared for scorching heat :P Have you got any family here?

I think I asked you already... :S

Mark Hurd

@TimYiJiang or both!

Lix

Is this REALLY a feature-request?

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Q: Can we make the logo a little bigger on the stackoverflow hoodie?

I recently bough a Stack Overflow Hoodie. When I had bough it, I had expected the logo to be a little bigger.... It is a $30 sweatshirt with a logo on it that is barely larger than 3 inches wide, and about half an inch tall. I like the hoodie, it is comfortable, and I am happy to support Stack ...

feature-request shop

Moshe

@Lix Yea. (Ramat?) Beit Shemesh, Har Nof, elsewhere, I'm sure.

Mark Hurd

@Lix Well it's either that or a bug.

Lix

@mos - Ramat Beit Shemesh is like Beit Shemesh Heights :P

@mar - if its a bug then it'll need FHRC's... and jQuery.... lots of jQuery... where is @TimManishEarth?

@mar - I want to post whathaveyoutried.com in a comment... soooo wanna... :P

Tim Stone

16:56

@Moshe $1 should be $2, whoops.

And also RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^blog

Lix

hehe

Possible duplicate - How can I make people jealous of my swag? — Lix 27 secs ago

Timootinator

17:09

@Lix I can't flag a question as a duplicate of itself? (frowny face)

Lix

hehehe

@timo - your display name is suspiciously similar to @termootinator... :P

Timootinator

You should see my assortment of World of Warcraft characters.

Lix

I'd rather not...

;) hehe - I kid I kid :P

Timootinator

Kaboominator, Mooninator, and so on...

Words ending in 'inator' never get old.

Lix

same as words beginning with @tim I guess :P

Tim jadarnel27

17:13

@TimStone Heh, oops.

Lix

classic :P

Tim Stone

;)

Tim jadarnel27

Haha, we both self-deleted. Double oops.

Lix

Clicked on this and got a 404... guess its not just him...

Tim jadarnel27

Hmmm. And I cannot vote to undelete my own question? I did not know that.

Tim jadarnel27

17:31

I have flagged for un-deletion. Which might not be the exact correct thing to do. I don't know.

Someday I will learn how this wobsite works.

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Lix

@timJ - fix that typo; I want to star it:PP

Tim jadarnel27

@Lix Not a typo =)

Lix

nuff said :P

Tim jadarnel27

Feb 23 at 20:17, by Popular Demand

What spelling mistake? If it's in xkcd, it becomes a legitimate variant spelling.

@PopularDemand and I have discussed this before =)

Lix

ah yes... but of course... ;)

Tim ManishEarth

17:40

I have a plan for a meta post

Lix

If it needs planning...

Tim ManishEarth

"Can we ban 'can we' posts on meta?"

Lix

NC questions you mean?

oh wait.. on meta?

Tim ManishEarth

Since "can we?" results in a "yes we can" answer--correctly its "may we"

Lix

hehe - grammar natzi :P

Tim ManishEarth

17:42

(been drilled into heads by grade school teachers)

"Can I go to the bathroom?" "I don't know.. can you?

Needs planning cos its not friday yet

Lix

I don't think think it validates a post... but if people start making those edits the other grammar natzi's will surely join in :P

Tim ManishEarth

Dont think I'll post it, not funny enough

Lix

haha... these are the things one looks for in a meta post usually :P

Tim ManishEarth

Note the first two words in the post title

:p

Lix

Exactly... that would be fixed immediately :P

May we put blog notifications on the Community Bulletin Board instead of the header?
May we make the logo a little bigger on the Stack Overflow hoodie?

May you please unban me?

May you please require people to comment on down votes?

@timM - I think you're on to something here...
;)

Timootinator

17:56

Can we alter the earth's orbit by standing on our heads?

Tim ManishEarth

@timo I think yes, if we all coordinate directions of flipping over

Ask on Physics.SE!!

Timootinator

^_^

I'm sure that will go over as well as chopping an onion with a bandsaw.

Tim ManishEarth

18:15

@Timo its about angular momentum. phrase it correctly, and its a good question

phrase it incorrectly, and you get a CV from me. As well as the rest of us.

For example,

Title: Change Earths angular momentum by standing on head

Content: Suppose I wanted to reduce the angular momentum of the earth. By flipping over (standing on my head), I can probably affect the Earth's L in some way. I can probably intensify this by getting more people to do this. If I could get the whole world's population to d ob this, (cont)

how would I tell everyone to flip over? As in, in which direction should they do so (given latitude/longitude of a person) for maximum effectiveness?

Also, what exactly is happening here?

Actually now I'm not too sure on how well itll be received

(also im not sure of the answer)

But you can certainly try!

Lix

salutations @timMmyers!

Tim Stone

18:39

@TimPost With regard to the chat incident, I'm sorry you had to take one for the ~~Tims~~ team.

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animuson

Get to work, Tim!

Timootinator

I don't think so, Tim.

Tim ManishEarth

My entire MSO frontpage is yellow since MSO has decided that all four mandatory tags are frequented by me. Will have to override when I get back to a laptop

Lix

@timm - yellow? on meta... never...

Moshe

19:03

@TimStone that breaks my login at blog.mosheberman.com/wp-login/

Password:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^blog
#RewriteRule ^(\d+/){3}(.*) http://blog.mosheberman.com/$2 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

animuson

Ughhhhh

My printer is only printing the color yellow whenever I send anything to it.

Moshe

Wait, missing a / in there, aren't I?

animuson

But when I went into printer properties and printed the color test thing, all the colors show up...

I'm so confused!!!

Moshe

No, checked, not missing anything.

minitech

@animuson When you print a page, just set that as the printer's test page, then print a test page.

That fixed it for me!

animuson

19:11

Lol, I tried the Print Head Alignment test, and it printed all the colors except yellow. O.O

Tim Rob Hruska

@animuson - That's because I took all the yellow.

Moshe

Lol

Take ALL the Yellow.

Tim Rob Hruska

A meme approaches.

Tim jadarnel27

@TimRobHruska One does not simply take all the yellow.

@TimRobHruska I don't always take the yellow. But when I do, I take all the yellow.

@TimRobHruska Hipster TimRobHruska had all the yellow before it was cool to have any yellow.

Tim Rob Hruska

@Timjadarnel27 - I'd try to come up with one, but I'm too busy trying to extract a sound byte from youtube.com/watch?v=HBhyXkuQtD0 to set as my desk phone's ringer.

This is important stuff.

Tim jadarnel27

19:23

@TimRobHruska Ah, that is very important stuff!

animuson

Bahhh, she'll just have to settle for yellow and black -.-

Tim jadarnel27

I am thoroughly enjoying this old Fountains of Wayne CD.

mmyers

@Tim jadarnel27, is the live updating still messing up? Bobby commented on his question that it was working just before he deleted it.

Tim jadarnel27

19:38

@mmyers I have not seen it happen again. Perhaps it was just some kind of temporary glitch. You can leave that question deleted. Thanks for checking into it though!

Tim jadarnel27

20:01

♫ Stacy can't you see, you're just not the girl for me. I know it might be wrong, but I'm in love with Stacy's mom. ♫

Shog9

@Timjadarnel27 not old enough for my taste

and now it's time to say

what I forgot to say...

Popular Demand

@Shog9 Stacy's grandmother, then.

Shog9

baby baby baby come on, what's wrong...

it's a radiation vibe I'm groovin' on...

and don' it make you WANNA GET SOME SUN

come on, come on, come on...

shine ooooooooon

Now I have to find that somewhere. TO THE YOU TUBE!

Tim jadarnel27

20:16

@Shog9 I think @PopularDemand beat me to the best possible response to that statement.

So not a fan of Fountains of Wayne, though?

Shog9

@Timjadarnel27 Yeah, that was full of win

@Timjadarnel27 More, still stuck in the '90s

animuson

@Shog9: You should sing Baby by Justin Bieber instead :)

Shog9

►

Tim jadarnel27

@Shog9 I love 90's music. Blues Traveler, Third Eye Blind, Counting Crows, Bare Naked Ladies.

@Shog9 Nice. I've never listened to that before. I only have the Welcome Interstate Managers album, and never thought to listen to any of their other music.

Shog9

Good stuff. Also Better than Ezra, Presidents of the USA, Screaming Trees, Soul Asylum... Man, I loved music in the '90s.

Tim jadarnel27

20:23

Haha, indeed. Fantastic stuff.

JNK

90s radiohead was awesome too

Shog9

They were indeed.

Tim jadarnel27

Yes! Forgot about Radiohead. "Creep" was awesome.

JNK

toad the wet sprocket too

Tim jadarnel27

I don't think the "too localized" close reason really makes sense on this feature request.

Timootinator

20:40

I want meta close votes.

Must...be...more...<del>funn</del>helpful. ^^Knowledgeable about markup.

Tim jadarnel27

@Timootinator I came fairly close to losing my close-vote abilities =)

@Timootinator Oh, and you can use 3 hyphens to do strikethrough. So ---this--- becomes ~~this~~

Well. 3 hyphens on either side.

So 6 hyphens.

is good at arithmetic

Timootinator

It's so ~~obscure~~ intuitive.

Anonymous

@TimStone So I've been poking around the data explorer, and I think the description of PostTypeIdin the schema post on meta is wrong. It says that tag wikis are 3, but actually checking their post Ids shows that tag wiki excerpts are 4 and tag wikis are 5.

Anonymous

Okay, so I'll correct that, but now I can't figure out what all the posts with PostTypeId = 3 actually are.

animuson

@Timootinator: I'm abbreviating your name as "Tootinator" in my mind.

Tim jadarnel27

20:50

@Timootinator Indeed =) I don't think it's documented anywhere either. I just saw one of the Tim's in here do it once.

Timootinator

So, you saw someone do it once.

Tim jadarnel27

I'm very helpful.

Anonymous

@TimSiteisaForum A lot of them read like tag wikis, but I've Googled many of their bodies without any hits (except for source of plagiarism).

Tim jadarnel27

That's odd. The PostTypes table just lists them as "wiki"

mmyers

Those are likely orphan wikis.

Anonymous

20:53

@Timjadarnel27 D'oh. I forgot we had that.

Anonymous

@mmyers That makes sense.

Tim jadarnel27

It's alright @Tim. We all make mistakes.

mmyers

Confirmed; just checked a couple of them against the orphan wiki list (mod only).

Tim jadarnel27

(that has not gotten old for me yet)

mmyers

Now I wonder why the orphan wiki list is mod only if you can get it just as easily with the data explorer.

Anonymous

20:56

@mmyers Nice, thanks.

Tim jadarnel27

> Watching an old movie where the sound is playing backward, the horizontal is on the fritz and the glass in your hand starts to freeze over and cause a shudder of despair. Likes of which leaving you feeling a little dispossessed of the situation.

Anonymous

There seems to be only a single post with PostTypeId = 7, "WikiPlaceholder".

Tim jadarnel27

> For that power hungry thirst you've got to slam down fast, make wide the gullet with the use of a bootheel. Polished, leather and authoritarian it's the kicker down the maw that makes the wanting so ever more. They will crave as they gag and they will gully in the gutters. You too can be a tsar.

Popular Demand

random♦, @Timjadarnel27?

Tim jadarnel27

Sometimes I worry about random♦

@PopularDemand Yup =)

This query has been updated with new data =)

Anonymous

21:04

@RebeccaChernoff @Shog Hey, it looks like anybody can edit the election description page. Some shenanigans may be possible.

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Tim jadarnel27

Ok, one more and I'm done.

> Started with a frying pan of locusts and ended up with a cutting board filled with the crusts of day old sliced bread. Because you can only butter it up to a point before the doctor comes rushing through swishing an oil rag to clean out your arteries. The Pony Express is still around, yes?

animuson

Oooo, replaces everything with pictures of unicorns

Timootinator

That's impressive.

There are only 20 comments containing 'Hitler' in them on SO.

gives the mod team a high five.

animuson

Shhh, now you're going to cause a flood of search queries for the word "hitler"

Timootinator

True.

Popular Demand

21:07

You could all focus on random♦'s sock instead.

Shog9

@TimSiteisaForum Did you actually submit an edit there?

Anonymous

@Shog9 No. I didn't try, I just assumed it was possible because non-editable posts usually display an error message or say it will go in a queue. (Including the other non-standard PostTypes.)

Shog9

@TimSiteisaForum Try please. Add a HTML comment or something benign

animuson

Anonymous

@Shog9 Ah, an error page. Not editable.

Shog9

21:10

@TimSiteisaForum good.

I'm not worried then ;-)

Anonymous

Fair enough. :P

animuson

Quick, find something else to worry him about!

mmyers

Does the code differentiate between employees and mods? I have an edit link on the election page itself, but I don't feel like risking my diamond today.

Popular Demand

Oh, just claim that Shog put you up to it.

That's my new plan for... pretty much everything.

Timootinator

Apparently if behavior is undefined in C, that means it could "cause your cellphone to explode, stop the rotation of the earth, and bring Hitler back to life".

animuson

21:15

They're hiding the real reasoning behind it. It would cause the machines to take over. The machine would blow up your cellphone, stop the rotation of the Earth, and resurrect Hitler in robot form as their robot leader.

Shog9

@mmyers In places. Not everywhere.

Timootinator

@animuson I see I got at least one other person to run a query :P

Shog9

@PopularDemand New plan?

Timootinator

It's okay AI has been pretty much a flash in the pan so far.

Popular Demand

Was kind of hoping you wouldn't notice that.

Tim Stone

21:47

@TimSiteisaForum It is, I just...forgot to update that the other day when I mentioned it wasn't quite right in an answer.

badp

22:15

@mmyers You can edit the election page, yes

I've done so a few times.

Tim Stone

@badp But only if you're pro much.

badp

@TimStone I wouldn't daresay I am

Tim Stone

Only because you don't believe!

badp

22:29

How can I believe to be pro much!

If I did I wouldn't be pro much.

It's part of the nature of pro muchness

Tim Stone

Hmm, true. This is quite the quandary.

Timootinator

23:30

Must... resist... buying... IntelliJ IDE.

er

That company is too good at what it does.

Tim Stone

23:56

@Timootinator By "must resist buying" you mean "must buy right now", right?

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