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@scottalanmiller said in Happy Twentieth Birthday to NTG:

So glad that you guys have a solid project for the day.

Hey I'm not looking it up any more. I spent like 5 minutes on it and gave up.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

DD coffee

Double Dutch?

@LilAng said in Happy Twentieth Birthday to NTG:

@LilAng said in Happy Twentieth Birthday to NTG:

@tonyshowoff said in Happy Twentieth Birthday to NTG:

@LilAng said in Happy Twentieth Birthday to NTG:

episode 307

No, it's not The Cafe, what happens is George and Jerry are plotting something, and Jerry remarks about the potentiality of it and Geroge says something like "Are you kidding? It's genius" and then clanks his glass to Elaine's and it spills on her. It may be a much later episode

I'm gonna phone a friend LOL

wait is this the one where they don't want her to move into Jerry's apartment building?

No, I don't think, that's earlier.

@LilAng said in Happy Twentieth Birthday to NTG:

episode 307

No, it's not The Cafe, what happens is George and Jerry are plotting something, and Jerry remarks about the potentiality of it and Geroge says something like "Are you kidding? It's genius" and then clanks his glass to Elaine's and it spills on her. It may be a much later episode

Good to be on the roster. Cheers, with some Pepsi

(I had a better one in mind where George clunks his glass to Elaine's and spills her water, but can't remember the episode nor figure it out)

@scottalanmiller Sarah Connor

There's no way wine is better than Pepsi.

Just between you and me, I'm really excited about the RingDings and the Pepsi.

@RojoLoco He was better as the other half of Dumb and Dumber and/or running from spiders in Arachnophobia.

@dafyre said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@hobbit666 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Trouble shooting this today

I bet that was fun! Did you find any snakes or venomous spiders in there? I thump stuff before sticking my hands in now. I found a black widow or three hiding in a rack in an electrical closet one day.

How does one thump?

@Curtis said in Did Zoho Just Increase Prices by 50%:

@tonyshowoff Details?

I tried to find it, but I can't. Unless they removed it (I doubt it) it's still on Spiceworks some place but I have no idea what it was called.

@scottalanmiller said in Did Zoho Just Increase Prices by 50%:

@tonyshowoff said in Did Zoho Just Increase Prices by 50%:

That company is a joke.

Better systems from what we've used (which is limited) compared to O365 or Gmail. At a fraction of the cost.

Better than others doesn't mean good though. That is what it's all about though if I'm being perfectly honest, if you can do a better job than others than you are already doing pretty well considering how bad most are. It's like WordPress, it gets the job done, for the price, it isn't the worst thing ever, so it's easy to say "ok, fine"

That company is a joke.

Funnily, over on SW they had a contest for one year free service (or something) if you wrote an advertisement for them and you won. Guess what? I wrote one, and I won! Then they tried to give me the account and I told them that I didn't want to use their service and give it to someone who would be more easily convinced to overpay for garbage... or something to that effect.

I always look forward to them

@scottalanmiller said in Ridiculous Words Lacking from the Google Chrome Dictionary:

Chrome: gimbal

In the UK English dictionary for Chrome "gimbal" is missing but "gimbals" is there.

@jt1001001 Those look like urine samples from bad to worse

@scottalanmiller said in I thought I had a lot of gear at home but WTF?!?:

The thing with this network is that it's focused on the gadgets, not the tech. From a tech side, it's pretty weak and the author doesn't really even know the stuff that he has...

I'm glad I wasn't the only one who noticed, there were a few times were I was like "..that's not what that means/does/is"

@LilAng said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@DustinB3403 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

https://scontent-dfw5-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/51548021_10157270314014905_686610935275585536_n.jpg?_nc_cat=104&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-2.xx&oh=c57823bd2d391478a27c346233b9f3e5&oe=5CE8C8B6

In all reality, as far as SMs go, G+ wasn't nearly as bad as FB or MySpace.

God is MySpace still around?

last i heard jt had bought it to make it a more musical based forum. I think.

Also don't pretend like Tom wasn't your friend either.

The only people I've seen in recent years that even use MySpace (almost typed MySQL which I did all the time back then) are people in crappy bands that also visit the profiles of other crappy bands and no lay people actually use it. I never used MySpace at all myself.

Actually that's not true, I signed up once to send a message to one of my long lost sisters to get her email address after my brother had found her on there. I didn't use it beyond that.

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@tonyshowoff said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@DustinB3403 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@tonyshowoff said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@tonyshowoff said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

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@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@tonyshowoff said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

The point is unregulated languages are vastly worse than regulated ones. English is an example of it when it comes to both grammar and spelling, where you can even have idiotic teachers spit out grammar books in the 50s claiming "no split infinitives" and some people say "of course, that's totally true!"

But English DOES have an academy, and it caused many of those problems because it was the source of many.

No it does not.

It does, the US founded one in the 1700s.

Are you talking about American Academy of Language and Belles Lettres? That hasn't been operational since the late 1700s.

No, Merriam Webster, as an example, produces current works from it.

That's a private company though.

It is now, but it's touted as being the authority on what is and isn't an actual word of the English language.

Eventually twerking may become a proper word in the English language if it makes it into that book.

The only official academy which has ever existed is the American Academy of Language and Belles Lettres which hasn't existed since the early 19th century. Any other claims are basically self-appointed, non-government sponsored entities which is something anyone can say. Merriam-Webster never held the position, they just think because they took over after Noah was dead that they have the same authority he had, and he really didn't have much of any because in his lifetime his dictionary wasn't very popular.

That's how America works, "unofficial", but still official, businesses. Same with medical. It's how the government keeps it looking like capitalism when actually being a highly planned economy.

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@LilAng said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

i had a spicy chicken sandwich because i was on a time crunch.

I need no time crunch justification to eat five of those at once.

@scottalanmiller said in DuoLingo Challenge:

@fuznutz04 said in DuoLingo Challenge:

@scottalanmiller That's great. I just recently started back up on this. I also started on Tandem, which allows you to actually speak/chat with other learners. I have a hard time retaining information (language) if I am not speaking it.

Same here. So hard to retain.

Luckily I have to talk to Spanish only staff every day.

That happens with native speakers as well if they don't speak to anyone who speaks their language on a regular basis. I've experienced a bit of that, confusing myself and using the wrong words from the wrong language.