Happily, I haven't really noticed that trend here.Salmoneus wrote:*at risk of making this the venting thread: what's with the hatred of vegetables? I get that a restaurant isn't going to be as vegetable-heavy as rustic home cooking can be. But increasingly it seems as though the only 'vegetables' you get are a drizzle of pureed something and two small potatoes, and perhaps some garnish, or shredded/toasted whatever (or possibly pencil sharpenings, it's hard to tell), and then your only non-meat option is to pay £5 for a couple of sad green beans on the side, and another £5 for a "salad" that's just three lettuce leaves. Come on people, the vegetables are meant to be the cheap bit!
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This kind of reminds me of Croatia.Salmoneus wrote:But increasingly it seems as though the only 'vegetables' you get are a drizzle of pureed something and two small potatoes, and perhaps some garnish, or shredded/toasted whatever (or possibly pencil sharpenings, it's hard to tell)
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I now also got notifications working in my IRC client.
Dibotahamdn duthma jallni agaynni ra hgitn lakrhmi.
Amuhawr jalla vowa vta hlakrhi hdm duthmi xaja.
Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro.
Amuhawr jalla vowa vta hlakrhi hdm duthmi xaja.
Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro.
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I'm jealous. If only I had skills like that so I could write a working XMPP/GG client for Linux and use it instead of Kadu (which is unmaintained as of now).Travis B. wrote:I now also got notifications working in my IRC client.
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And now I have color and text styles working for everything but the topic. However I do not have any means of entering color or text styles at the moment.
Dibotahamdn duthma jallni agaynni ra hgitn lakrhmi.
Amuhawr jalla vowa vta hlakrhi hdm duthmi xaja.
Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro.
Amuhawr jalla vowa vta hlakrhi hdm duthmi xaja.
Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro.
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I really don't understand that either. Maybe other people really go to restaurants for a nicely prepared cut of meat, but I prefer having a balanced meal... (in fact I'll very happily go without any meat, too).Salmoneus wrote:
*at risk of making this the venting thread: what's with the hatred of vegetables? I get that a restaurant isn't going to be as vegetable-heavy as rustic home cooking can be. But increasingly it seems as though the only 'vegetables' you get are a drizzle of pureed something and two small potatoes, and perhaps some garnish, or shredded/toasted whatever (or possibly pencil sharpenings, it's hard to tell), and then your only non-meat option is to pay £5 for a couple of sad green beans on the side, and another £5 for a "salad" that's just three lettuce leaves. Come on people, the vegetables are meant to be the cheap bit!
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Ooh, you'd love Indian food.
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Same here, though I hate the use of meat substitutes or things that pretend to be meat. (Indian food is great in this respect.) But that's separate.din wrote:I really don't understand that either. Maybe other people really go to restaurants for a nicely prepared cut of meat, but I prefer having a balanced meal... (in fact I'll very happily go without any meat, too).
Happy: The manuscript I (and some coworkers) submitted to Langmuir didn't get rejected! We got some "revision required" comments (two out of three said "major revisions needed" and the third said "publish as-is"), but there doesn't appear to be a lot needed to get it through the reviewers again and accepted (no need for whole new runs of experiments, for example; just some reworking and reformulating the analysis and stating some things more explicitly).
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Sounds like a perfectly reasonable referee round then, a bit of work but nothing out of the ordinary.
We are currently having a maybe too swift referee round with a paper that we submitted about a month ago. Against everyone's expectations the referee report came back in only two weeks. We'd expected it to take far longer and thus had put some additional model runs going after the paper submission. Now we have the positive report and could in principle get the paper accepted pretty quickly, but if we also want to include the extra runs in the paper, we still have to wait a couple of weeks before resubmitting.
We are currently having a maybe too swift referee round with a paper that we submitted about a month ago. Against everyone's expectations the referee report came back in only two weeks. We'd expected it to take far longer and thus had put some additional model runs going after the paper submission. Now we have the positive report and could in principle get the paper accepted pretty quickly, but if we also want to include the extra runs in the paper, we still have to wait a couple of weeks before resubmitting.
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Indeed, that's what other people are saying. And we do have three weeks (but sooner is better, naturally). After discussions with my boss, though, he wants more experiments, but they'll just take about a day to go through, assuming all goes well. Tomorrow is prep (cleaning the devices, preparing a new solution, etc.) with the runs and analysis on Thursday and Friday.gach wrote:Sounds like a perfectly reasonable referee round then, a bit of work but nothing out of the ordinary.
That's both a good and bad thing. Hopefully the deadline for re-submission isn't too close...We are currently having a maybe too swift referee round with a paper that we submitted about a month ago. Against everyone's expectations the referee report came back in only two weeks. We'd expected it to take far longer and thus had put some additional model runs going after the paper submission. Now we have the positive report and could in principle get the paper accepted pretty quickly, but if we also want to include the extra runs in the paper, we still have to wait a couple of weeks before resubmitting.
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Luckily a resubmission deadline is something I've never encountered in astronomical journals. That means that as long as you keep yourself and your co-authors disciplined, you can take a bit of time to think your response through.vampireshark wrote:That's both a good and bad thing. Hopefully the deadline for re-submission isn't too close...
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I'm probably moving to France in a few months. Great job over forthcoming, that is.
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Fingers crossed!masako wrote:I'm probably moving to France in a few months. Great job over forthcoming, that is.
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Echoed! Where'll you be in France, if you don't mind me asking?hwhatting wrote:Fingers crossed!masako wrote:I'm probably moving to France in a few months. Great job over forthcoming, that is.
Oh, that is nice. Each of the times I remember having to do resubmission, they've given a not particularly hard deadline, normally about a month, but there is a deadline that they claim they want your response by, so it's never really a rush and there's time to think things over (but definitely not to re-do a year's worth of experiments!). So, still, there isn't a hurry, but there's at least an end in sight. (And especially with the holidays approaching...)gach wrote:Luckily a resubmission deadline is something I've never encountered in astronomical journals. That means that as long as you keep yourself and your co-authors disciplined, you can take a bit of time to think your response through.vampireshark wrote:That's both a good and bad thing. Hopefully the deadline for re-submission isn't too close...
Other minor happy: Amazon Prime has finally come to Luxembourg. Definitely a plus for ordering lots of things, especially the supply of coffee, chips, candy, and nuts I use in my group's coffee room to
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Most likely, near Cognac.vampireshark wrote:Where'll you be in France, if you don't mind me asking?
Thank you.hwhatting wrote:Fingers crossed!
It's one of those "not gonna happen again" type of opportunities. I'm very excited about it, but I have to stay calm until I know for sure. Looks like about 98% sure, at this point.
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Hahahaha! And another one bites the dust!
Just finished a project. I'm almost as happy as when I read this paper: https://husant.github.io/Xpander/files/xpander-full.pdf
Just finished a project. I'm almost as happy as when I read this paper: https://husant.github.io/Xpander/files/xpander-full.pdf
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I hope the move to France happens, Masako.
My own situation has improved since the Spring and the problems we had with my brother-in-law in the weeks before and after his mother's death. My wife and I have got a lot of work done on the estate and are nearly ready to get the paperwork signed off. Just heard today that there's a proposal to name a new road down in Devon after both my in-laws. They were both local councillors down there for many years. Hopefully the proposal will go through, it would be a good way to remember them.
My own situation has improved since the Spring and the problems we had with my brother-in-law in the weeks before and after his mother's death. My wife and I have got a lot of work done on the estate and are nearly ready to get the paperwork signed off. Just heard today that there's a proposal to name a new road down in Devon after both my in-laws. They were both local councillors down there for many years. Hopefully the proposal will go through, it would be a good way to remember them.
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Little happy thing: This forum still exists!
I first discovered it over fourteen years ago! It was crazy to discover that other people made up languages for fun and it was an influencing factor in me going on to studying linguistics at university up to post-graduate level.
So, thank you, everyone.
I first discovered it over fourteen years ago! It was crazy to discover that other people made up languages for fun and it was an influencing factor in me going on to studying linguistics at university up to post-graduate level.
So, thank you, everyone.
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Congratulations!
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Congratulations indeed!
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Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro.
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Publication #4 (and my first first-author publication) just got approved. Will be some time before it goes live, but still feels quite nice to get the notification of acceptance.
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Congrats again!
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Today was Pączki Day at work and someone brought kola nut chocolate, so I am pretty hopped up right now.
Plus I got to talk with a coworker about language learning and conlangs, so I'm stoked.
Plus I got to talk with a coworker about language learning and conlangs, so I'm stoked.
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I brought in paczki for my coworkers today! I was originally just going to get a couple for myself, then decided to be a nice person and ordered two boxes to share. The bakery where I got them had a bunch of interesting flavors--the surprising favorite (to me) was apple with a cinnamon/powdered sugar coating. (I also was able to introduce one of my coworkers to paczki, which was fun; he's from Maryland and had never heard of them before)
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Fat Tuesday's the best.
I generally forget to say, so if it's relevant and I don't mention it--I'm from Southern Michigan and speak Inland North American English. Yes, I have the Northern Cities Vowel Shift; no, I don't have the cot-caught merger; and it is called pop.