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10:00 AM

in Shadow's Den, 14 secs ago, by FOX 9000

Definition from Merriam-Webster:
1. noun
- a structure of poles interwoven with slender branches, withes, or reeds and used especially formerly in building
- material for such construction
- poles laid on a roof to support thatch
2. transitive verb
- to form or build of or with wattle
- to form into wattle :interlace to form wattle
- to unite or make solid by interweaving light flexible material
3. noun
- a fleshy process hanging usually about the head or neck (as of a bird)

ok, sent mail

So, chicken has "a structure of poles interwoven with slender branche"? :|

> Tim said that it would be engraved with the text “Cheese Overflow 2018”… Is adding some picture in there possible too? I was thinking about Stack Exchange logo or maybe Bubbles (SE mascot, not the MLP pony… but if you really wish…).

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@ShadowWizard Near Downtown Austin, corner of Lamar Blvd. and Toomey Rd

when, not where. But thanks for the details anyway. :)

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

10:01 AM

@ShadowWizard Definition 3

@Derpy As they first ordered the boards (and only then sent out the e-mail)... I'm afraid chances of that are slim at most.

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@ShadowWizard Yesterday

oh. Nice.

Before you knew she became a mod?

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@ShadowWizard Yes.

:)

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

10:02 AM

I feel thankful I ran out of film that day

@ShadowWizard The timestamp on the photo proves it...

Didn't you see any wall painting of a wizard?

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@ShadowWizard If I did, it's probably on film, and I won't have it until two weeks later.

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog what timestamp? Checked the full size now, can't see any.

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@ShadowWizard Just in case a certain Austin-based CM decides to check it out as well

@Derpy so, d'you miss this?

33 mins ago, by JNat

I believe it'll have an SO logo

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

10:04 AM

@ShadowWizard Imgur strips EXIF data?

@JNat I guess I did :P

@JNat believe. That's not enough for someone who want to be sure. ;)

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog Yea

@ShadowWizard :|

@JNat :)

10:05 AM

> Due to privacy concerns, EXIF data/metadata is removed on upload. There is no setting available to retain the data.

Source

The vendor's working on proofs, which he'll then send our way. If the logo looks good, it'll have one. If not, it won't :)

@Derpy @ShadowWizard ^

Thanks!

maybe you could ask for seven red lines, all of them strictly perpendicular, some with green ink and some with transparent?

huh?

There's no color in this

it's, like, laser engraved

as in, burnt into the wood

The Expert (Short Comedy Sketch)

10:08 AM

@JNat guess they can add paint if they wanted. ;)

well, yeah, y'all can do your DYI stuff once you get it, for sure :P

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@TimPost It would be great if you made a playing card deck. I wouldn't have much use for a CAH expansion since the game itself is NSFW and adults-only, and I'd prefer something a little more family-friendly (not to mention that some users may only be 13 years old). Also, I use a deck of cards when teaching sorting algorithms to my students, so it would be nice to have an SO-themed deck of standard playing cards.

@JNat It was a reference to this sketch video I just posted, @JNat. I assumed most dev knew it but it seems I was wrong. Have a look at it when you have time, it is very funny and a very fitting picture of "nonsensical client requirements" :P

My favorite part must still be when at the end of the meeting the client suddenly asks if one of the "seven red perpendicular lines" could be shaped like a kitty cat ^_^'

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@Henders Well, thankfully pyrotechnics data is still saved (@Shadow)

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog what is it?

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

10:20 AM

@ShadowWizard You forgot the Puzzling question that featured a photograph of you?

ohhhhh lol. :D

Forgot that word was used. :)

@ShadowWizard The only Card Against Humanity you may ever seem me use is the one in Binding of Isac.

Card Against Help Vampire

@ShadowWizard *modern era

@ShadowWizard I guess ChrisF is going to have a hard time with me .. ;)

10:31 AM

flowery tactics

I need to prep lots of bad Dutch jokes ...

bad Dutch jokes will be purged. Only the good ones shall remain! :D

@rene :D

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported question (93): Evden eve nakliyat Nasıl Yapılır? by Bediroğlu Nakliyat on patents.SE

@Tinkeringbell maniacal laughter parrot

10:33 AM

Something like that, yeah :P

I just realized you have also got the immeasurable pleasure of moderating the tavern when it descends into chaos now :D

More importantly... No more typos that I can't edit out! :P

Yours or ours?

in typos rene blooms

Are you going to retroactively spellcheck the Tavern transcript?

Journeyman Geek

10:37 AM

@Magisch in theory we can actually suspend people now

@Magisch w00t ;)

@rene I have to do something? :P

:D

@JourneymanGeek nothing theorethical about that

nothing's stopping you if someone acts out

toes the line

10:38 AM

this is also nice for when someone completly loses their mind in chat again

user194636

How come the new blog post didn't get a star board pin?

which one?

user194636

this one: chat.meta.stackexchange.com/transcript/89?m=7383888#7383888

Journeyman Geek

@Magisch true

@ShadowWizard Are we going to work on proving the opposite: We're not talking about Stack Overflow levels of activity and flagging here ... flags away ...

10:40 AM

there I pinned it

user194636

sweet as

Journeyman Geek

@PaulWhite I have had no computer access so far since I became a mod

user194636

lucky we have a spare mod dog then

Have a mod parrot now as well

user194636

yes but a parrot is not a dog

user194636

10:43 AM

which is not to say it is inferior, just that it's not as close a match

@PaulWhite Which is good, it adds diversity :P

now there's a skyborne mod unit as well

to augment the ground forces

user194636

really is a major step forward

user194636

I was a little surprised that they did it, but delighted nonetheless

@PaulWhite Heh. Imagine getting a mail and then having to keep quiet for a week XD

10:45 AM

@Tinkeringbell torture eh?

user194636

Oh I don't have to imagine, I've been living under NDAs for years, but yeah I get the point

As a parrot I can see how hard that is ...

^ That... and then seeing Geek tweet about getting their e-mail :/

See the positive side of things, they had 200 people to choose from and chose you

18 hours ago!

10:47 AM

tis' a high honor

@Magisch Oh, I'm honoured indeed!

Dangit, now I can't be sarcastic about Tinker either

Kinda surprised, and trying not to get too proud :P

I'm sure you'll do the position justice

Congrats!

10:49 AM

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Thanks :)

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ you can ... probably only once ...

@Magisch That's not hard :P There isn't really a clear description of what that means so ... :P

Also at some point they stopped censoring i.stack.imgur so my site UX got much better

eh, don't sell yourself short

@Magisch But, that's what I always do!

10:50 AM

(to think that I have to say that)

It's easier to recognize your own flaws in others ;)

4 mins ago, by Magisch

See the positive side of things, they had 200 people to choose from and chose you

This ^

Still waiting to see your socks, @Tink though now the diamond complicates things. :P

@Magisch I keep thinking you're tripleee with that green

@Tinkeringbell yuo are crearly owerestimatings your tjme and underestimatiing our creativitj

Journeyman Geek

10:56 AM

@Tinkeringbell that makes it harder :p

@ShadowWizard Oh sorry, I forgot about that. I'll try and tweet a picture tonight ;)

(I am wearing just black ones though). I need to see if mom did the laundry today first

Really, they should allow infinite edit time for cool people

@Tinkeringbell yay! Guess it's really time for me to rejoin Twitter then! :D

@JourneymanGeek Yeah. Do you think we get a mod-room?

Journeyman Geek

@Tinkeringbell hah. I only had to wait 2 days and it was hard :p

10:58 AM

Might help in hammering that stuff out.

Journeyman Geek

@Tinkeringbell we should

@Tinkeringbell what?? You got only one pair of the colorful socks? :(

@ShadowWizard 3. But clean socks every day!

Journeyman Geek

Honestly this is roughly the worst time lol

@Tinkeringbell oh so you've used all three already?

10:58 AM

@ShadowWizard Yep!

Journeyman Geek

I have almost no computer access

@Tinkeringbell CJT Room?

@JourneymanGeek Relax... :P

No need to have everything done by next week XD

After the operation we had to wear these long long anti-embolism stockings and it was sooo weird

CJT is nice, easy to remember.

Journeyman Geek

10:59 AM

XD

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ my dad had those. Hated them

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ pic! pic! Or it never happened!

:D

Brb. lunch!

@Tinkeringbell tweet it too

@ShadowWizard well considering they're compost by now, I dunno how to take a pic

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ nah, food belongs to Instagram.

I tore them while jogging around the ward on day 7

11:01 AM

Buy new pair.

God no

lol

@ShadowWizard oh sorry, i iz n00b on sociel madea

@JourneymanGeek Sounds... ruff.

@Henders he always codes in Morse, why should it be any different?

Journeyman Geek

11:16 AM

@Henders sadly I don't do reservist next to the k9 unit...

@JourneymanGeek I haven't seen much of Ash recently either!

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ you are not forgiven!

@ShadowWizard I know, right? Not doing the whole millennial thing proud.

Journeyman Geek

@Henders been busy lol

I'm supposed to have a Twitter life, a Facebook life, an Instagram life, bonus for others, and a marginally related real life

Journeyman Geek

11:24 AM

Have you at least had avocado toast?

* Smashed avocado toast

Apparently smashing it makes it more expensive to buy.

That logic doesn't seem to carry for most things.

Reviews of sites, for keyboard-only accessibility: SE main: 8/10; SE chat: 3/10; YouTube: 4/10; Google search: 9/10; GMail: 2/10; Medium: 5/10; Twitter: 1/10; Google Code-In: 6/10; WhatsApp Web: 4/10; Discord: 1/10; Slack: 7/10; Wikipedia: 5/10; ProtonMail: 3/10

Still not got the mouse fixed?

I'm in no rush, this is an interesting experiment.

blasts Twitter on Twitter for poor accessibility

Mithrandir24601

@Mithrandir They deserve it...

11:32 AM

The point was, SE does a much better job than the rest of the internet when in comes to keyboard-only accessibility... if you know about and can enable the keyboard shortcuts.

SE should just have them on by default.

And then you can turn them off in your preferences.

From an accessibility point of view, having them hidden away in an obscure part of your profile is just... bad.

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ tweet? Surely you meant 'eat' :P

That's my main gripe about SE main keyboard accessibility.

@Tinkeringbell tweet your lunch with #blessed #sobored and then don't eat and discard it instead to go get burger king

source: literally one of my coworkers. Keeps tweeting and snapchatting about the healthy lunches she has when none of those salads actually get eaten ever

Wow, that's such a waste o.o

That's... not only a waste but such a way of deceiving yourself too

11:35 AM

What's the point? Might as well just get images of salads from the internet.

@Henders No, those can be reversed image searched :P

point is making yourself feel better about stuffing yourself with 2500 kcal worth of processed meat and SMG every lunchday :P

@Tinkeringbell Depends, you could flip the image :p

@Henders You sounds experienced in this kind of deceit!

user image

I just had this for lunch

(#plzDontGoogle)

11:38 AM

tbh that is barely a salad

that's more like chicken egg and sauce with a side of salad greens

user image

My lunch :D

<insert picture of cheese sandwich>

@Magisch Haha, that's the only picture I could get on board with. The rest had too many leaves not enough meat :P

(sorry for double ping)

@Tinkeringbell will reverse image searching that trigger my firewall block?

@Magisch Not that I know? Why would it...

11:41 AM

I don't actually know what that is, and some foods have weird names

@Magisch It's called frikandel (more exactly 'broodje frikandel') :P

So many names for grilled meat

True. Though the way it's seasoned it's different from e.g. hamburger or berenklauw ;)

you have ... an unhealthy diet ...

@Tinkeringbell I'll be honest, that doesn't look very appetizing. O-o

11:46 AM

@rene Sure, just because I don't post the pictures of all the healthy things I eat in here? :P

Okay!

@Derpy It is, once in a while ;)

It needs some sauce though.

watch out @rene tink might consider adding dandelion flower salad to her diet ^^

@Magisch Ugh, never! :P

I assume cacti are safe for now ...

11:48 AM

@Tinkeringbell go to the rpg board, ask for BESW. Tell him that some pony in the Tavern send you there on a quest for more appetizing food.

@rene I think Oded mentioned prickly pears are edible and quite tasty ;)

I don't know anyone more prickly than Magisch

cacti are also very healthy to eat

Not for the gums

@AndrasDeak not sure how to take that

11:49 AM

pricklily

:P

ah, no, it wasn't a play on words with "prick" :D

@Magisch as a compliment. They're saying your leaves are shiny today

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ I think it's like banana's and oranges... you peel away a layer and then it's okay-ish, even for gums ;)

your evolutionarily atrophied leaves

iirc cactusfruit can be delicious

Men eat cactus raw

That should be a slogan somewhere

Slogans, unrelated words jammed together that seem like they mean something

11:52 AM

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Wait a second.

Bonus if it contains "impossible"

If Don Rosa had me learn something, it is that a slogan isn't something that is used to advertise a product.

Everything is used to advertise something these days.

It comes from the Scottish word "sluagh-ghairm"

meaning battle cry, war cry

You're currently advertising slogans that don't intend to advertise

Makes sense

11:55 AM

so, Fus Ro Dah is a slogan.

"Step into the future" -> Invoke a nuclear war

Scientifically predicted by comic book writers

@Derpy that's obviously advertising monosyllabic words.

> Scientifically predicted by comic book writers

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ also.....

Might advertise more if I remember what it is

do you even read what you're typing? :D

11:57 AM

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ You should know better than advertising "making sense" to a pony :P

user image

@Derpy that reminds me of Sha, not you

that's not even a pony, that's Q

@AndrasDeak occasionally. And the chances that I'm proud of what I write are

@AndrasDeak you know a little too much for someone who didn't disclose any association with the show :P

user image

11:59 AM

Oh I so very missed "image not found"

can you see imgur? edited

I.stack.imgur stopped being censored a while ago

Perfect!

This hasn't been pinned yet:

Please Join Us in Welcoming Our New Meta Stack Exchange Moderators! - by Tim Post

9

shameless self-pin

@Magisch Perhaps edit it to match the question title then ;)

You pinned a link without alt text. facepalm

12:06 PM

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ huh?

are link texts also censored and you have to figure out what they are based on alt text?

@AndrasDeak no it's just RO promanship

No one will see a onebox in the star board

there is no onebox...?

I edited it

oooh OK, that makes way more sense

@Magisch I believe the appropriate course of action WOULD have been to feature it to test how much faster the mods are at deleting the new wave of VBA questions

12:08 PM

Lets talk about food to lure g3rv4 out of hiding :P

OK, enough chat for me today, I gotta get off and do things. Ciao

Now that parrot badly neads a diamond hat. Fixed. — Andras Deak 5 secs ago

@Tinkeringbell ^ :P

@AndrasDeak Nice! :P People mentioned it before but I definitely don't have enough photoshop skills to do it myself :P

neither do I

Then who did it?

12:18 PM

I did :P

but in gimp, and it was nothing :D

XD photoshop, gimp, paint... all the same :)

that's roughly the extent of my "photoshop" skills

I'm already happy that I managed to make my previous parrot right-facing, the original was looking left :P

hehe

@Tinkeringbell hey! I'm left handed. ;)

12:22 PM

I'm curious: do we know anything about ancient cultures with RTL scripts being more left-handed than right? Or back in those days people weren't using quills and ink so it doesn't work that way

@AndrasDeak interesting question! Might fit in some SE site. ;)

Meh, it's probably been asked and investigated before, I'm just too lazy to search. Figured this is something a left-handed Israelite might know :P

Actually, I do know rather lots of people who are left handed, I'd say around third of the people I know. So it might be true it's related to the RTL writing.

With my luck anyone here worked extensively with the new javascript file objects?

> I have heard that part of it happened because most people were right handed. Hebrew was originally mostly written in stone by hammer and chisel. The left hand held the chisel while the predominant hand held the hammer. You entered the text from right to left so you did not cover up what you had written with your other hand. Arabic, I always presumed just followed the Hebrew custom of right to left.

source

12:24 PM

thanks :)

@AndrasDeak nope, never bothered to dig so deep. ;)

Uh-oh, quora link. From a moderator no less!

the shame

At least not EE!

Or.... godforbid..... w3sc****.... :D

@Magisch perhaps the guys in the JS room?

the resident Kevin seems inactive

@AndrasDeak Shame? What's that?

12:30 PM

@Tinkeringbell conspiracy created by @Andras

This reminds me... @user1271772 are you still asleep?

nooooooooooooo

I read the transcript...it was painful

Huh, I see they took the reset to the extreme. Never saw someone renamed to just "user".

And they did it cross network. So weird...

the good old "nuke it from orbit, that's the only way to be sure" strategy

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer (94): Moon looks too small in 3D model by user24944 on astronomy.SE

@AndrasDeak but he's suspended only in MSE. Might have been a mistake, i.e. misclick.

12:40 PM

I don't think so

meh

Situation: user was naughty on MSE, suspend on MSE. User has disruptive content on MSE profile, better wipe all the profiles

thinking of a pun for @Pan

@AndrasDeak maybe. Guess they can't undo this, so pointless to ask. He'll just change back where he wants to.

@Pandya did you notice your fellow diamonds already? Your new diamond siblings? ;)

Journeyman Geek

@AndrasDeak whaaaa?

@JourneymanGeek you might have missed it.

Journeyman Geek

12:44 PM

I might have, yes

@JourneymanGeek suffice to say, something bad happened

Journeyman Geek

@AndrasDeak oh that.

That also crashed people browsers.

Journeyman Geek

It makes me a little sad tbh

Oh no... :(

You being sad makes me sad!

12:45 PM

A user posted an answer (which is not of high quality) and questioner B accepted an answer. now if some other user C post comment underneath question that you should not do hurry in accepting answer, pointing /help/someone-answers . Is it behavior from C ok? since answerer A may get hurt.

@ShadowWizard Hi, what is pun?

@Pandya I usually love to see that come from user A, but it's not forbidden to see user C post it, as far as I'm aware...

@ShadowWizard are you talking about new MSE diamonds?

@Pandya if you ask me it's OK if the answer is crap

even more so if the answer doesn't answer the question

A bird has tweeted that mods knew a week in advance to us

@Pandya ask @Magi, he's the local Master of Puns. ;)

12:47 PM

so it ain't news :p

Journeyman Geek

@Magisch not all lol

I got my e-mail on the 15th, I know JG got his only two days ago...

@Pandya yup. Two of them are here. Third appears to not use chat. :)

Journeyman Geek

@Tinkeringbell lol

@Tinkeringbell and Mr. F?

12:50 PM

@JourneymanGeek It was really fun to see you tweet about your e-mail ;)

@ShadowWizard I'm guessing even earlier, but I'm not entirely sure.

@ShadowWizard I know Journeyman and Chrisf for long time but not much about Tinkeringbell

Journeyman Geek

@Tinkeringbell Well, I didn't know who else, or what was going on.

oh, he does use chat, but rarely. Interesting, his last message is related to moderation. ;)

Sep 4 '14 at 12:39, by ChrisF

@JanDvorak I destroyed the user.

Journeyman Geek

There's a bit more but... ;p

@Pandya she is a nice parrot. And long time mod on IPS. :)

12:51 PM

@ShadowWizard long time... pah. 7 months, 4 days :P

More than 6 months is a lot. :D

Journeyman Geek

But yeah, I got the message 2 days ago, and ... probably cause folks inside the company remembered I totally missed my SR.SE mod appointment email... someone checked offsite the next day lol

@JourneymanGeek So... no pressure? :P

Journeyman Geek

@Tinkeringbell in your case its not the time, its the station.

@ShadowWizard I see member for 1year 4 months and pro tem for 7 months.

Journeyman Geek

12:53 PM

@Tinkeringbell aaactuallly....

I said yes about 30 seconds after I read the email.

@Pandya yup

Journeyman Geek

So someone did a little bit of polite arm twisting for nothing XD

Shog?

@JourneymanGeek 30 seconds? :P I spent an entire night lying awake trying to choose.

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard the funny thing is no, not a CM

12:55 PM

@Tinkeringbell heh. I guess @Mithrandir also was in the list, probably pretty high in there. ;) (i.e. if you had refused, he would become a mod on MSE)

Journeyman Geek

Shog isn't the arm twisty type. He's the anvil on the head kind of subtle.

3

I glad to see that very nice approach, attitude, objective and moderation are pillars of the Network!

eyebrow what makes you think that?

I think otherwise but that's just my 2 cents

(I doubt it. They're not insane enough to offer me another diamond ;))

12:56 PM

@Mithrandir you're also long time mod elsewhere, and active on MSE. And, well, a good person. :)

already a RO in the tavern, too much power! :P

Journeyman Geek

@AndrasDeak I half suspect they also pulled people who applied for CM ;p

Also, time zones.

"...a good person..." - now I know I'm dreaming.

@JourneymanGeek I did not do that...

12:57 PM

@Mithrandir rofl :D

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard that's a very valid point. The mods are UK, europe and asia. the CMs can manage the morning shift ;)

@Tinkeringbell also, to some extent folks people know well.

@JourneymanGeek I chat too much? :P

no such thing as "chat too much"

There is. Which is why I now have to go to the next meeting ;)

Journeyman Geek

@Tinkeringbell third chattiest person on chat.se.

12:59 PM

@Tinkeringbell your case is special, you're everywhere (in a good way)

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