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    cgra: asciilifeform: so if you had a 27" 16:9 vertical display, smth like 22pt font size? when you're rummaging items like trb source, do you ever zoom out?
    
    asciilifeform: cgra: 3 x 30" verticals (2160x3840) currently. 18pt. on occasion emacs 'follow mode'
    
    asciilifeform: (or what means 'zoom out' ?)
    
    cgra: in the series of noob questions, there's another, possibly related: what would make tab indentation superior (in c/c++ context, if nowhere else) to spaces?
    
    dulapbot: (trilema) 2016-01-21 mircea_popescu: in honesty, without any exaggeration, i would estimate the barrier to contribution that whitespace-for-tab puts in front of me is actually larger than the barrier blindness put in front of chetty.
    
    asciilifeform: cgra: folx who like tab indentation, usually like because adjustable (can set tab to x cols, for preferred x)
    
    asciilifeform when working w/ other people's coad, usually uses 'dtrt-indent' to match existing style
    
    cgra: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-10-27#1061975 << i'm starting to getting a feeling it's because similarly want ~80 cols and deeply nested indentation will could seriously cramp things up. or smth else?
    
    dulapbot: Logged on 2021-10-27 12:24:41 asciilifeform: cgra: folx who like tab indentation, usually like because adjustable (can set tab to x cols, for preferred x)
    
    asciilifeform: problem with 'just use tabs' is that it gives limited # of indent positions.
    
    asciilifeform: for e.g. commonlisp, this makes for ugly.
    
    asciilifeform: meanwhile,
    
    asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: http://mvdstandard.net kaput ?
    
    asciilifeform: !q seen BingoBoingo
    
    dulapbot: BingoBoingo last seen here on 2021-10-20 13:49:33: Uptober continues
    
    cgra: unless i counted 2+1=4, your numbers seem to add up to about 160 cols, not 80 cols. but yeah, i begin to understand asciilifeform prefers pretty large font, compared to my usual 10-12pt (on 27" 2560x1440).
    
    dulapbot: Logged on 2021-10-27 12:23:45 asciilifeform: cgra: 3 x 30" verticals (2160x3840) currently. 18pt. on occasion emacs 'follow mode'
    
    dulapbot: Logged on 2021-10-26 13:53:04 asciilifeform: cgra: 80, lol
    
    asciilifeform: cgra: your #s aren't off, but i do have the runtime adjust feature (fughet where in config it was) for +/- font pt
    
    cgra: asciilifeform: so can view, say, in 120 cols if thrown such a pile at you?
    
    gregory5: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-10-26#1061939 << do you have one of those old-fashioned line-printers? I have been meaning to get one.
    
    dulapbot: Logged on 2021-10-26 12:46:52 asciilifeform: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-10-26#1061936 << i do the paper thing for just about any nontrivial item (i.e. that takes >1d of thought) so muchly prefer 80.
    
    asciilifeform: gregory5: i had one for a while (well, not 'proper' lineprinter, but line-matrix) but retired it for colour laser duplex thing
    
    gregory5: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-10-26#1061948 << having 80 columsn is not good for nested function-calls, unless both your variable names and function-names are very short.
    
    dulapbot: Logged on 2021-10-26 13:53:04 asciilifeform: cgra: 80, lol
    
    asciilifeform: (it doesn't eat hole paper, sadly, but does eat 'legal size' (extra-large american paper) which almost as nice)
    
    gregory5: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-10-27#1061995 << nice to hear.
    
    dulapbot: Logged on 2021-10-27 14:37:01 asciilifeform: (it doesn't eat hole paper, sadly, but does eat 'legal size' (extra-large american paper) which almost as nice)
    
    gregory5: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-10-27#1061992 << so you have to use CUPS?
    
    dulapbot: Logged on 2021-10-27 14:36:36 asciilifeform: gregory5: i had one for a while (well, not 'proper' lineprinter, but line-matrix) but retired it for colour laser duplex thing
    
    asciilifeform: gregory5: cups ~dunwork sadly. i use the print-from-usbdrive thing, lol
    
    gregory5: I was so excited when I finally got CUPS to work with my Taiwanese inkjet-printer.
    
    gregory5: printer-ink is very cheap in Taiwan, so inkjets actually make sense over laser-printing.
    
    asciilifeform: gregory5: there are even inkjets which take straight bottles (vs the scam-cartridge thing). problem is that if you don't print at least erry month, head dries.
    
    asciilifeform: then you gotta scrub it
    
    asciilifeform: asciilifeform say nothx
    
    gregory5: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-10-27#1062003 << small price to pay for me.
    
    dulapbot: Logged on 2021-10-27 14:40:21 asciilifeform: gregory5: there are even inkjets which take straight bottles (vs the scam-cartridge thing). problem is that if you don't print at least erry month, head dries.
    
    gregory5: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-10-27#1062003 << that is what I mean. the bottle-configuration is ubiquitous in Taiwan.
    
    dulapbot: Logged on 2021-10-27 14:40:21 asciilifeform: gregory5: there are even inkjets which take straight bottles (vs the scam-cartridge thing). problem is that if you don't print at least erry month, head dries.
    
    
    
    asciilifeform: gregory5: i hadn't realized btw that you've made it to taiwan
    
    asciilifeform: how long ago?
    
    gregory5: asciilifeform: I lived in Taiwan in 2019 and half of 2020. currently I am in Eastern Europe, and waiting for the Mainland of China to let me in.
    
    asciilifeform: aa
    
    asciilifeform: gregory5: visa bureaucracy ?
    
    gregory5: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-10-27#1062015 << obtaining a visa has not been easy owing to additional requirements which were imposed during the pandemic.
    
    dulapbot: Logged on 2021-10-27 14:48:55 asciilifeform: gregory5: visa bureaucracy ?
    
    asciilifeform: a that.
    
    asciilifeform: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-10-27#1061989 << often enuff (some people have no concept of col# at all)
    
    dulapbot: Logged on 2021-10-27 14:32:29 cgra: asciilifeform: so can view, say, in 120 cols if thrown such a pile at you?
    
    dulapbot: Logged on 2021-10-26 12:49:15 asciilifeform: working w/ commercial client who doesn't do 80col (or any limit at all) and the coad looks like shit on paper
    
    
    
    asciilifeform: mats: asciilifeform can very rarely be arsed to listen to tape -- anyffin remarkable in there ?
    
    mats: the show notes are detailed, if any of that interests you
    
    asciilifeform: curious re 'How different ASIC vintages affect the power price you can tolerate for the units and what interruptibility they can deal with'
    
    mats: i learned more about renewable energy arb in texas
    
    asciilifeform: ( why wouldn't all miners be 'interruptible' in this sense ? )
    
    mats: they are
    
    asciilifeform wonders whether anyone has tried integrating miner into pv panel. ~0 transmission loss, and if the panel gets shaded, the thing simply cranks down, and then cranks back up when cloud passes, etc
    
    asciilifeform: tile'em together in whatever qty.
    
    mats: i wouldn't necessarily want to run a 2021 era asic at the same time as a 2021 pv in 2035
    
    asciilifeform: no need to make'em on 1 die lol
    
    asciilifeform: can go where the usual inverter box goes
    
    asciilifeform: this is simply 1 way to make use of the 'interruptible' aspect of miner, obv
    
    mats: i imagine there's periods during the day where you can get paid more by feeding into the grid than mining
    
    mats: but i'm just an idiot speculating about things i don't understand well
    
    asciilifeform: mats: as i currently understand, miners are often enuff folx who specifically want their output in btc, rather than fiatola (and hence willing to participate in what often enuff is -ev process for it)
    
    asciilifeform: i.e. it's a way to obtain coin w/out the obv disadvantages of buying it at market
    
    mats: energy producers who are mining presumably want to maximise profit per mw, and having a customer other than the grid is handy
    
    asciilifeform: re feeding into grid -- req's inverter and the attendant losses; not to mention it has to be near the grid, and in a jurisdiction where you can get moar than simply offset against your existing balance w/ the util co
    
    asciilifeform: whereas pv-miner could be just about anywhere, a single sat dish could easily serve any # of units in e.g. alaska
    
    asciilifeform: (or oceanic buoy, etc)
    
    asciilifeform: (phree cooling!)
    
    asciilifeform suspects it isn't done (at least afaik) simply because conventional grid current too cheap atm
    
    punkman: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-10-27#1062003 << these are the only inkjets worth buying
    
    dulapbot: Logged on 2021-10-27 14:40:21 asciilifeform: gregory5: there are even inkjets which take straight bottles (vs the scam-cartridge thing). problem is that if you don't print at least erry month, head dries.
    
    punkman: let mine sit a little too long though, and it's clogged
    
    punkman: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-10-27#1062029 << ASICs being scarce, it's not great putting them on intermittent power source
    
    dulapbot: Logged on 2021-10-27 15:02:16 asciilifeform: wonders whether anyone has tried integrating miner into pv panel. ~0 transmission loss, and if the panel gets shaded, the thing simply cranks down, and then cranks back up when cloud passes, etc
    
    mats: in a random assortment of stale news, https://wccftech.com/car-thieves-arrested-after-using-a-nintendo-game-boy-knock-off-to-bypass-security
    
    mats: https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2021-09-28/far-right-cryptocurrency-follows-ideology-across-borders pankkake cameo
    
    mats: https://cis.org/Bensman/Historic-United-States-First-National-Guard-Soldiers-Start-Arresting-Illegal-Migrants
    
    mats: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3150699/chinas-population-could-halve-within-next-45-years-new-study
    
    mats: https://asiatimes.com/2021/10/indias-quest-for-water 'It’s a serious matter if “21 Indian cities – including Delhi, Bengaluru, Chennai and Hyderabad – will run out of groundwater by 2020, affecting 100 million people, and 40% of India’s population will have no access to drinking water by 2030,” as NITI Aayog’s 2018 Composite Water Management Index reported.'
    
    mats: are asics scarce atm though? hash is still way down from all time highs
    
    thimbronion: CR's immigration system is 'down' so my appointment was canceled.  Relatedly, I was informed that work visas for IT workers are impossible to get because there is enough local talent.
    
    asciilifeform: wb punkman
    
    asciilifeform: mats: they're only 'scarce' from a retail pov
    
    asciilifeform: (i.e. serious miners are vertically integrated and afaik have been for yrs)
    
    asciilifeform: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-10-27#1062054 << this reads like a lul -- if genuinely 'have no access to water' then population will reduce, via thirst and madmaxing, to a # which does
    
    dulapbot: Logged on 2021-10-27 15:28:14 mats: https://asiatimes.com/2021/10/indias-quest-for-water 'It’s a serious matter if “21 Indian cities – including Delhi, Bengaluru, Chennai and Hyderabad – will run out of groundwater by 2020, affecting 100 million people, and 40% of India’s population will have no access to drinking water by 2030,” as NITI Aayog’s 2018 Composite Water Management Index reported.'
    
    asciilifeform: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-10-27#1062052 << from linked piece seems moar like a gesture (to pad abbott's resume for eventual potus campaign)
    
    dulapbot: Logged on 2021-10-27 15:24:48 mats: https://cis.org/Bensman/Historic-United-States-First-National-Guard-Soldiers-Start-Arresting-Illegal-Migrants
    
    asciilifeform: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-10-27#1062050 << lulzy, esp. in re modern plasticars with radio keys (100% have widely known masterkey). they are built to be easily stolen w/out so much as breaking glass. (can speculate why, and you'll likely be right)
    
    dulapbot: Logged on 2021-10-27 15:24:04 mats: in a random assortment of stale news, https://wccftech.com/car-thieves-arrested-after-using-a-nintendo-game-boy-knock-off-to-bypass-security
    
    asciilifeform: that someone's charging 27k$ for a hackrf cum lcd plus a little perlscript is also lulzy.
    
    asciilifeform: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-10-27#1062056 << i thought thimbronion had bought a house there ? (or even this aint enuff for a visa?!)
    
    dulapbot: Logged on 2021-10-27 15:41:50 thimbronion: CR's immigration system is 'down' so my appointment was canceled.  Relatedly, I was informed that work visas for IT workers are impossible to get because there is enough local talent.
    
    asciilifeform: (or hm, possibl. that was whaack ?)
    
    asciilifeform: !q seen whaack
    
    dulapbot: whaack last seen here on 2021-09-10 12:37:34: once i started getting symptoms i started to really feel just how uncomfortable the mac keyboard is
    
    billymg: i bought a property pre-pandemic but immigration has been gummed up ever since march 2020, to add to gregory5 and thimbronion's accounts
    
    dulapbot: Logged on 2021-10-27 14:49:31 gregory5: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-10-27#1062015 << obtaining a visa has not been easy owing to additional requirements which were imposed during the pandemic.
    
    dulapbot: Logged on 2021-10-27 15:41:50 thimbronion: CR's immigration system is 'down' so my appointment was canceled.  Relatedly, I was informed that work visas for IT workers are impossible to get because there is enough local talent.
    
    asciilifeform: billymg: i'd naively think 'i live here' is enuff for a visa
    
    asciilifeform: 'investment visa' or whatever they call it
    
    billymg: i'm officially legal here now, as of 2 months ago
    
    asciilifeform: billymg: congrats!
    
    mats: in more car stuff, https://github.com/HackingIntoYourHeart/Unoriginal-Rice-Patty
    
    billymg: first of all, couldn't even file the papers until recently because immigration *completely* shut down for just over a year
    
    
    
    billymg: second, now that i've filed i'm told that the wait is expected to be around 10-12 months from filing due to the backlog (caused by the shut down the previous year)
    
    billymg: vs. the typical 90 days in 2019 and earlier
    
    billymg: and add to that, i'm in a weird state where, can legally live here, but not legally drive
    
    billymg: must do "border run" to renew tourist visa for those privileges, apparently because "separate government department"
    
    asciilifeform: nuts
    
    billymg: and those border runs now are quite costly because when you return you're forced to buy the covid "traveler's insurance"
    
    asciilifeform: mats: it is interesting how non-joke crypto is de-facto banned in 'radio key' market
    
    asciilifeform: (it aint hard at all to make a proper one, if you think about it, a coupla MB of rom will hold onetime keys enuff for century+ of auto/garage opening/closing)
    
    billymg: and i hear that the tourist visa stamp they give you is now tied to how many days of insurance you purchased, which also has to line up with your "return ticket" if traveling by plane
    
    mats: tesla crypto is supposed to be pretty good
    
    billymg: if opting for the full 90 days of traveler's insurance it's apparently like $2-3k iirc
    
    billymg: so the whole thing amounts to a forced shakedown every 90 days
    
    asciilifeform: mats: tesla's cryto afaik is largely to keep 'owner' from enabling 'subscription' features w/out paying, lol
    
    asciilifeform: tesla auto is afaik the textbook 'post-ownership society'(tm)(r) lizard product.
    
    asciilifeform: complete w/ undisableable gsm orifice.
    
    asciilifeform: billymg: i suppose tourists aint needed anymoar, Officially
    
    billymg: asciilifeform: right, just get money directly from IMF loans?
    
    asciilifeform: aha
    
    asciilifeform: no need for the meatsacks to carry it in by hand
    
    billymg: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-10-27#1062075 << if i was homeless, probably would be
    
    dulapbot: Logged on 2021-10-27 16:13:29 asciilifeform: billymg: i'd naively think 'i live here' is enuff for a visa
    
    
    
    asciilifeform: 'this is good for bitcoin'(tm)(r)
    
    mats: i mean the key fob crypto was previously broken by researchers and its been fixed
    
    asciilifeform suspects that lulzstories like this are simply to distract morons from the plain-as-daylight existing daily reich.confiscations
    
    dulapbot: Logged on 2021-07-13 15:40:34 asciilifeform: y'know , the 1 where plebe now expected to pay 2-3x for the SAME FUCKING CARBOARD BOX he lived in '19 in.
    
    
    
    
    
    asciilifeform: mats: they only ever get 'fixed' a la stuxnet
    
    asciilifeform: mats: for the obv. reason that Officially-approved car thieves (incl. 'repo man') like to be able to drive off w/out breaking glass or scratching paint.
    
    billymg: re: rents, i was recently looking at listings, both for sale and rent, in/around austin, tx. compared to the last time i looked (in 2019) sale prices and rentals of actual homes seem to have gone up 2-2.5x across the board. however, rents in the corporate owned towers downtown, completely flat
    
    billymg: which sort of made sense, since those are more or less reserved as the dormitories for the applezon workers in the area
    
    asciilifeform: billymg: well noshit, what with the 'make plebes burn less petrol' 'pandemic' setup
    
    mats: seems like consumers don't give a shit about fob security
    
    asciilifeform: point being, morons get excited over a (notional) 'usg will drain from yer bank acct' but somehow draining yer savings (as well as future income) via inflationism is unremarkable
    
    asciilifeform: mats: at one time konsoomer couldn't even be arsed to lock doors
    
    billymg: asciilifeform: right, and i failed to see how an "officially" fed-based bank would be much different from the existing de facto fed owned system
    
    asciilifeform: 0 diff
    
    billymg: e.g. afaik can still monitor all transactions and freeze account whenever they feel like it now
    
    asciilifeform: already sop.
    
    gregory5: asciilifeform: so the Establishment is trying to pressure people to live in apartments instead of single-family houses?
    
    gregory5: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-10-27#1062112 << where is that extra demand for single-family houses coming from, though?
    
    dulapbot: Logged on 2021-10-27 16:33:22 billymg: re: rents, i was recently looking at listings, both for sale and rent, in/around austin, tx. compared to the last time i looked (in 2019) sale prices and rentals of actual homes seem to have gone up 2-2.5x across the board. however, rents in the corporate owned towers downtown, completely flat
    
    gregory5: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-10-27#1062106 << this is consistent with Patrick Wood's theory that the American deep state is trying to empty non-urban areas of residents, in order to turn those areas into exclusive wildlife-conservation areas and natural-resource zones.
    
    dulapbot: Logged on 2021-10-27 16:29:14 asciilifeform: suspects that lulzstories like this are simply to distract morons from the plain-as-daylight existing daily reich.confiscations
    
    billymg: gregory5: my guess would be that the increased rents in the mom'n'pop owned units is a result of the same forces driving up the sales prices, e.g. mostly currency debasement
    
    billymg: and the corporate owned buildings can stay flat, since they're essentially subsidized housing for the single 20-30 year old office workers
    
    mats: if the building has lot of debt, and a bunch of empty units, they might have to post more collateral in order to raise rents
    
    mats: and it might be easier to just leave them empty
    
    mats: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/11/27/the-paradox-of-persistent-vacancies-and-high-prices related reading
    
    mats: er, reduce rents
    
    mats: https://old.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/innhah/nearly_twothirds_of_new_york_restaurants_may_have/g49g4c5 this is pretty good too, if you're not bored yet
    
    billymg: mats: these explain why the buildings can't reduce rents, but what i was describing is a situation where the entire surrounding market is up 2-2.5x and yet large buildings have not increased rents, at all
    
    mats: well a lot of people have been fleeing cities
    
    mats: sucks to be in the city center, where there's not a lot of single family housing
    
    mats: but i don't know what the market is like now
    
    mats: early on i heard anecdotes of great deals, like first month free in sf and south bay
    
    asciilifeform: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-10-27#1062122 << warehousing plebes is a biz cost for the reich. so from that pov cheaper to pack'em like battery chickens. we had this in old sovok, 'уплотнение' ('densification') campaign of '20s
    
    dulapbot: Logged on 2021-10-27 16:50:13 gregory5: asciilifeform: so the Establishment is trying to pressure people to live in apartments instead of single-family houses?
    
    mats: in more rf stuff, https://github.com/rfquack/RFQuack
    
    mats: used for this paper, https://maggi.cc/publication/maggi_industrialradios_2019/maggi_industrialradios_2019.pdf 'A Security Evaluation of Industrial Radio Remote Controllers'
    
    asciilifeform: mats: there's a great many of these. for sumreason very fashionable.
    
    asciilifeform: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-10-27#1062134 << iirc they also get massive tax writeoffs for vacant units (which often exceed the rent they could realistically ask for)
    
    dulapbot: Logged on 2021-10-27 18:38:40 billymg: mats: these explain why the buildings can't reduce rents, but what i was describing is a situation where the entire surrounding market is up 2-2.5x and yet large buildings have not increased rents, at all
    
    asciilifeform: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-10-27#1062123 << from the folx who get their dough directly from the printing press.
    
    dulapbot: Logged on 2021-10-27 16:51:20 gregory5: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-10-27#1062112 << where is that extra demand for single-family houses coming from, though?
    
    asciilifeform: ( and loox like billmg already said )
    
    dulapbot: Logged on 2021-10-27 17:00:20 billymg: gregory5: my guess would be that the increased rents in the mom'n'pop owned units is a result of the same forces driving up the sales prices, e.g. mostly currency debasement
    
    asciilifeform: re: 'уплотнение' -- see also m.bulgakov's 'dog's heart' :
    
    asciilifeform: 'We, the house management,' said Shvonder with hatred, 'have come to see you as a result of a general meeting of the tenants of this block, who are charged with the problem of increasing the occupancy of this house . . .'
    
    asciilifeform: 'What d'you mean - charged?' cried Philip Philipovich. 'Please try and express yourself more clearly.'
    
    asciilifeform: 'All right, I understand! Do you realise that under the regulation of August 12th this year my apartment is exempt from any increase in occupancy?'
    
    asciilifeform: 'We know that,' replied Shvonder, 'but when the general meeting had examined this question it came to the conclusion that taken all round you are occupying too much space. Far too much. You are living, alone, in seven rooms.'
    
    asciilifeform: 'I live and work in seven rooms,' replied Philip Philipovich, 'and I could do with eight. I need a room for a library.'
    
    asciilifeform: The four were struck dumb.
    
    asciilifeform: 'Eight! Ha, ha!' said the hatless fair youth. 'That's rich, that is!'
    
    asciilifeform: 'It's indescribable!' exclaimed the youth who had turned out to be a woman.
    
    asciilifeform: 'I have a waiting-room, which you will notice also has to serve as my library, a dining-room, and my study - that makes three. Consulting-room - four, operating theatre -five. My bedroom - six, and the servant's room makes seven. It's not really enough. But that's not the point. My apartment is exempt, and our conversation is therefore at an end. May I go and have supper?'
    
    asciilifeform: 'Excuse me,' said the fourth, who looked like a fat beetle.
    
    asciilifeform: 'Excuse me,' Shvonder interrupted him, 'but it was just because of your dining-room and your consulting-room that we came to see you. The general meeting requests you, as a matter of labour discipline, to give up your dining-room voluntarily. No one in Moscow has a dining-room.'
    
    asciilifeform: 'Not even Isadora Duncan,' squeaked the woman. Something happened to Philip Philipovich which made his face turn gently purple. He said nothing, waiting to hear what came next.
    
    asciilifeform: 'And give up your consulting-room too,' Shvonder went on. ' You can easily combine your consulting-room with your study.'
    
    asciilifeform: 'Mm'h,' said Philip Philipovich in a strange voice. 'And where am I supposed to eat?'
    
    asciilifeform: 'In the bedroom,' answered the four in chorus.
    
    asciilifeform: Philip Philipovich's purple complexion took on a faintly grey tinge.
    
    asciilifeform: 'So I can eat in the bedroom,' he said in a slightly muffled voice, 'read in the consulting-room, dress in the hall, operate in the maid's room and examine patients in the dining-room. I expect that is what Isadora Duncan does. Perhaps she eats in her study and dissects rabbits in the bathroom. Perhaps. But I'm not Isadora Duncan. . . !' he turned yellow. 'I shall eat in the diningroom and operate in the operating thea
    
    asciilifeform: tre! Tell that to the general meeting, and meanwhile kindly go and mind your own business and allow me to have my supper in the place where all normal people eat. I mean in the dining-room - not in the hall and not in the nursery.'
    
    asciilifeform: 'In that case, professor, in view of your obstinate refusal,' said the furious Shvonder, 'we shall
    
    asciilifeform: lodge a complaint about you with higher authority.'