In a sword fight? What is the comparison?
I don't know if I really have a preference. Though I'd definitely take Mozart in a sword fight.
Why is that? And by "take" do you mean bet on *him* or you think you can beat him?
I don't know. Even though I know Beethoven is probably capable of wielding a sword, he also was disabled. No bet. Maybe I should bet on Beethoven though because he's more unstable.
Didn't Beethoven go deaf or something similar?
Yeah. I feel like he went blind too but maybe I'm making stuff up.
That does ring bells in my head, but I'm not sure as well. Fighting a deaf person wouldn't involve much advantage/disadvantage, but a blind person in a sword fight... If Toph from Avatar: the Last Airbender got trained, maybe.
I feel like you might be able to sneak up on a deaf person though.
Oh yeah, definetly. So long as they don't have a mirror handy, and I suppose they do. I'm in ASL class and I remember reading that they mount lots of mirrors in their houses.
Really? I didn't know that. I wonder if they're extra paranoid about stuff. Maybe it depends on if you were born that way or not.
Well, I know that they can drive. Yesterday our teacher told us all these stories with deaf people driving, and I saw her driving two days ago. Sorry, I clicked the touchpad with the heel of my palm...
Hate that.
I know some computers turn it off if it detects typing, but mine isn't doing that.
Mine definitely doesn't do that, it screws me up all the time. So why ASL?
I'm hard of hearing, so I figure if it ever fully goes out...I have a backup. Do you know any other languages?
Oh that makes sense, very practical of you. I'm not necessarily hard of hearing, but my upper frequency range is really bad. I had surgery when I was like 6. German, from my mission.
Cool, I learned german back in High School, but now it's all gone because I learned Dutch, which is *very* similar. *German, sorry 6 ouch.
Yeah, ear infections. But it's fixed now, so hopefully I don't go deaf or else all I have to fall back on is some German gibberish. Why did you learn Dutch, mission or something else?
Mission.  I would write some up on here for you to see, but I think they want to train this thing on English <tongue_face>
I don't know, it would be pretty sweet for Eve to know Dutch. I never got to serve over by the Dutch border, but I ran into more than a few Dutch people, so I heard it occasionally.
Multilingual Eve, she can also learn Elvish haha Did you think it was similar?
Did you go to Amsterdam, or like a Dutch colony? Oh it's totally similar. Like I can pick up a few things here and there. It's like Spanish and Portuguese I think.
I went to Belgium and the Netherlands (what some people call Holland, but that's not technically correct).  Only the Northern part of Belgium speaks Dutch though, they speak french in the south. I have made that comparison myself, but not knowing Spanish or Portugese, I can't really say. I never actually got to Amsterdam, but I did go to Rotterdam. Whereabouts were you?
So I take it you also didn't make it to the southern part of Belgium either? I was mostly in what used to be East Germany, but I spent a couple transfers clear up by Denmark.
Nope!
So I was the Berlin Mission.
Okay.  Did you ever have Doener?
Pretty much every week. Though I found that they were better the further east I was. Maybe because I was closer to Berlin where they originated? They were also a load cheaper the further east I was. You?
Oh yes.  I just found out that there is a place here in provo.  I have yet to go though, so I don't know how good it is.
Rimmels? It's pretty good, there's one on Center St. and one in the University Mall food court. It's not the same, but it's as close as it's going to get. I wasn't disappointed. There's a place called Spitz's in Salt Lake I like better, but it's also in Salt Lake
Well, not having a car, Salt Lake is a bit far out there. Is it a good place for a date?  I've been trying to think of ideas in case I ever get the nerve up to ask someone out.
The food court one probably not, unless you're really into the mall. I don't really know about the other one, I haven't been to it. It's small. That's about all I know. But I would take a date there, just because it's on Center St. There's always tons of stuff to do on Center St.
Hmm.  I might end up going there first, just to try. Yep!  That waffle place is awesome.
You don't want to ride the train to Salt Lake with our fancy new ID Cards just for a doener?
Haha.  Wait, it works on the train as well? I thought it was just busses!
Oh yeah it works for everything. I haven't done it yet but my wife says hers works, she just taps on and off and she's good to go. So you could totally go explore Salt Lake if you wanted.
Now to figure out when I have time...that's the fun part. What do you study?
Yeah, I feel like my life ends when school starts and I become a robot hellbent on getting homework done. Molecular Biology, applying to pharmacy school right now.
Absolutely! ooh. Random question: Do you use a mortar and pestle at all in pharmacy?
I don't in the pharmacy I work in. But we're required by law to have it. Right now it has like an inch of dust inside it. I think really only compounding pharmacies that make their own formulations would use it.
Required by law?
Yeah, the State Board can fine us if we don't have a mortar and pestle. It's totally dumb
Weird indeed.  I mean, you would think that there would be some shiny new tool instead of old ceramics.
There probably is, but it's probably super expensive and not super cost-efficient.
ah.  By hand is cheaper.
I don't know though, I'll have to ask one of my compounding pharmacy friends one of these days. What do you study? Beyond ASL.
Haha.  Computer Science.
Makes sense why you're training Eve then.
Not really close to working anywhere yet. Yep! The link came in some announcement email.
Same. I've known about it for a while but just barely decided to try it. Do you know what industry you want to work in? Or what you want to do?
I should be doing my math...haha I think AI would be cool, but I don't really have any firm plans.  I also have this dream of doing space-type stuff, but how to get to doing that...I don't know. Combining AI and space would be really cool, what classes?  Which jobs?  etc etc.  The future is pretty uncertain.
Space as in outer space, making rockets and mars rovers and that kind of thing?
Yep!  Maybe more the programming side, because that's what I know best, but yes.
I think that's a pretty good mix. I mean, we aren't exactly suited for outer space as humans, but a robot equipped with some AI would be an awesome tool. Especially since it's hard to communicate with it once it gets clear out there, it would be way better if it could make its own decisions.
Well, I do eventually want colonies too. I wonder if one could stick a game AI into a rover?...
I mean probably. I guess the advantage of a good AI is that we still have no idea every circumstance a rover could encounter. So if it has some sort of AI then we don't have to worry about preprogramming it's decisions, it can synthesize them itself.
Right. The next step would be having it teach its "cousins" what it learned. That way they can ace a similar situation.
Then you have a whole army of semi-sentient rovers flying around space.
So long as they follow Asimov, we are fine.
Is it weird if I won a free Amazon Echo, tried using it for a day but then unplugged it because it kind of creeped me out? Haha. That's a throwback to my 10th grade science fiction class.
It may take some getting used to.  I have been trying to figure out the Google Assistant on my phone, and to what extent It is okay to use, and how much privacy I want to give up. (limited buffer space, whaddya know?)
Maybe I just don't use it right, but I just don't see it as that useful. Like I find myself struggling to even make Siri set my stupid alarm for the morning. But maybe that's more a Siri problem than anything else.
I am having difficulty getting google to play music from my youtube playlists.  I would have thought that, with them both from google, it would know how. Do you try for a recurring alarm, or...?
No,  I'm weird and set the same alarm every night. I think I have hopes that I'll decide to get up earlier and be productive. But I never actually make that decision so I should really just have a recurring alarm. So I'll be in bed screaming at Siri to set my alarm, then my wife will get pissed at me and tell me to just do it myself. Then my baby wakes up and screams at me.
haha
Then I give up and just do it myself.
Have you trained siri on your voice?
I did, maybe my voice changed since then? Like maybe I was really chipper when I trained her, so she doesn't know the half conscious me.
I wonder if you go through and train her again, if that will wipe the previous sample or augment it? Chipper, that's a good word.
Anyways, I'm going to go eat lunch. It was good talking though. I'll retrain my Siri haha.