zibb: i can now cut you in half with a water hose however, i have to chuck you up in the machine at work I get a say in this, right? no Dammit we need something to cut with the waterjet first. Okay, but if I get streamed in twain, you have to finish editing 2-1 for Mal. no. because he's getting streamed in sixteenths if I don't get a say in being cut in half, you don't get a say in editing this novella It's only fair. Otherwise I'm not gonna get cut in half, now, 'cause that's how it works the jet will flow with the blood of the unbelievers! Oh, I believe in the power of the jet, I just choose not to meet it without a price fine. i'll only jet our right hand Left. I need a weapon hand and i'll do it such that the flesh is flayed from the still attached bones ...so I get a skeleton fist? :D zibb, if i can use my left hand to shoot with, you can use it too. yes * Zibblsnrt saws off Damo's left hand and places it on his own left wrist. it's not the hand. it's the brain. you're obviously not in your right mind No, I'm quite sinister. ...ow bah * Zibblsnrt bows. -- dear USPS, why offer a tracking service if you *never* update it? dear customer, how better to drive you nuts while pretending to offer a service? -- Sev: I'm more WWI french than WWII french, thankyouverymuch. ;) Sev: (...Actually, my ancestors prolly came over before even WWI, so...) Zibblsnrt: hee Zibblsnrt: So there's a chance they were Franco-Prussian War french? Zibblsnrt: (in which case you're fucked, again) -- In fact, if we can make prophylactics out of it, I bet we could make shorts of it. -- [London bombings] Dionysus Won: Yeah. Clearly, Great Britain needs to invade (*throws dart at map*) Finland. -- and did I mention her husband's still supporting the three he had by Wife #1? that story makes me feel good about the problems I have. aio: Ow aio: ... rhythm method, by any chance? Will: probably, yes. will: that always conjures up the image of having sex to a loud techno beat (what, you didn't have that image? now you do. xoxo) mmmm, bolt-action uterus *sputter* *ka-chunk* *offspring* *ka-chunk* *offspring* *snrk.* ... Zib is my hero today -- * Prophet4 wanders off - girl on phone ... girl on phone? They *do* constitute half the human population, you see. pr0n gets more and more esoteric every day... Mal: thanks for that ... You're welcome. -- also, what should i eat for dinner? The extracted liver of your darkest foes. but i've already vanquished my foes :( Get more foes! fuck you! There you go! KJ's liver! -- [re: the "coordinated" 7/7/05 London attacks] "Co-ordinated my arse. The stupid buggers blew up a bus right in front of the British Medical Association, meaning there was a building full of doctors right there - I don't call that good planning..." - Unknown -- * KillJoy_ breaks out the soldering iron... bwah ha ha ha ha! * KillJoy_ ows. Notes that the instinctive reaction of swatting insects crawling on one's person is bad when one is soldering things. -- zib... I thought guilt by association was invalid? Joii: See, that's why the mormons don't like it... ...because it leads to having fun? that's *their* problem. They don't believe in premarital sex, either...and you notice they don't get many converts. *snigger* then there's the catholics, who brought guilt by association to its logical conclusions "You're damned because you're" Zib: *laughs!* -- anyone want two buckets of kfc? it'll be just as good by the time it gets there -- ...I just found a *small,* excellent local pizzeria that has their own Web site where you can order delivery. And it allows special instructions (like "no cheese"). I shall never have to interact with a human again. -- Sev: anyone can go to the zoo and take pictures of animals. i took pictures of tourists ;) -- * Calculus eyes onyx.net. Some spammer sent a bunch of mail forged from info@sandwich.net. It's stopped, but onyx.net appears to be stuck in an infinite loop, sending me "your message was detected as spam and has been bounced" messages every half hour. BAKA. SOKU. ZAN. *cackle* echo "onyx.net 550 Fix your broken antispam setup" >> /etc/postfix/access;postmap /etc/postfix/access Why am I pondering shinsengumi hunting spammers? I've pondered that for a LOOOONG time. Wouldn't that rock? Oh, it does. ...I mean, it would. * Calculus whistles. -- Seems like these sorts of weapons can only be defined as man portable by extending your definition of man. -- [Discussion on alt.sysadmin.recovery about naming a system "Babylon4"] Dunno, I've never had a server stolen and taken back in time to help in a great war against the forces of darkness. - John Burnham Really? Huh. For me, it's the only thing that makes sysadminning worthwhile, some days. - Q Wouldn't you love to fill out *that* report? "Company asset #423423 was lost while fighting the forces of evil." - Chris Adams -- * Fireball suddenly realizes that his can of spam is over ten years old now, wow. %) ... Zib: Got it from one of the guys in my dorm hall when we were moving out, I've kept it around. Does it pay its share of the rent by now? -- My body doesn't seem to do the whole "hunger signal" thing well. My problem is the opposite... "Hmm, I just had a 40-gallon drum full of fettuccini with mushroom sauce, and half a deep-dish pizza. Wow I'm full." (30 minutes later) "MUST CONSUME UNIVERSE" -- attention. i just took a 20lb crate of fruit to the nuts. ow. that is all. fruit and nuts, a winning combination -- "Introduction. I am Brian Kernighan. If you don't know what that means, yuo're not qualified to understand what I'm about to say anyway." Lesson: Do not - just do NOT - fuck with IBM. *snigger* It's like not crossing the streams. -- the problem is that these are tiny ants too tiny for the cats to notice and/or care about them. Ack. sugar ants? I think they're called GAnd: You need to get Aris' help to irradiate them. Stop when the cats start getting injured. Sev: ... eh? Gand: You know how nuclear radiation makes ants grow. IT says so in most B-movie flicks...;) -- Ontario likes to butt into everything. I'm convinced they're glacially attempting to invade Florida. -- man, outsourcing is fuckin great i just wrote a ton of broke-ass code that will need to be fixed for the 1.1 release. we're sticking the india team with that and i get to work on 2.0 stuff :) -- I have a caffeine withdrawl headache from hell ...and what's the answer to that, Nick? Caffeine. XD -- [re: the murder of preeminent Russian spammer Vardan Kushnir] In modern Russia, Vladimir Putin unsubscribes the way we all want to. - KDR-11, on Slashdot -- * Mal-3 continues to slam head against Ch3 in the hopes something like content emerges. Mal: Tell me if that works * Fb_work has a difficult time getting content to come out of his head... pink goo... leaking. if it's grey, you're in trouble. ;) yeah, that's it. laugh it up hee my job, no? kat: I'd like to think it's a job we all share. ;) -- What sucks is that besides the two people I work with, I like this job. Best boss I've had in years... But I think I might get caught for the murder. :P I suppose you could always try to get 'em fired. Fired is less felonious than murder. -- Sev: It's often said that some parrots have the abstract reasoning capacity of small children. Fine and good, doesn't sound too outrageous to me. However, what they fail to mention is that small children also share a number of traits with parrots--repeating inconvenient phrases, shrieking a great deal, seeming to be a terrible combination of destructive and fragile, and in some cases requiring large newspaper floored cages. -- Dionysus Won: *sighs* I still think we need to actively encourage a war between the Randroids and the postmodernists. We could sell arms to both sides, and use the cash to fund propaganda to galvanize both sides. -- http://www.birdwatchersdigest.com/site/backyardbirds/ hummingbirds/mantis-hummer.aspx?sc=birdwireJul2005 <-- Hummingbird vs Mantis ... FIGHT! 50 quatloos on the newcomer! *eyes article* Evolutionarily, Mal, I think you lost your money. -- * Zibblsnrt demands a copy of MoO3 with the Suck surgically extracted! * Sev hands Zib a copy of MoO2. -- I have been introduced to a source of very, very, very cheap manga and Japanese CDs. My wallet...it BURNS. -- My sister's new husband looked like a halfassed pimp yesterday. It was awesome. -- Ah. It's a neat trick. Like inserting fake towns into atlases. * Zibblsnrt wonders if anyone's ever tried to go to one of the fake- town sites on an atlas and proceed to build that town ... well, now I have a new goal in life. -- [8/18/05] * Fb_work does a bit of quick improvised electoral math... I could beat Bush in an election if it was held right now. -- Zib: I also have a friend who does read, but only when sitting on a toilet. ;) I watched him go through the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy in the john at the Dixon Shell. %) -- * William guffaws at a friend's kid. (Beth's daughter Iolanthe, for those in the know.) Five years old, sees a driver doing something really dumb. Out of the blue, she says, "He must have evolved from a stupider monkey." -- A dozen, a gross, and a score / plus three times the square root of four / divided by seven / plus five times eleven / is nine squared, and not a bit more. -- StevenE unpackages the Simpsons sixth season, sees the head-shaped container, and thinks, "That won't line up with the other boxes right." Opens the box, and finds a sheet of paper titled "For all those that fear change . . ." which gives a number to order an old-style box "[f]or all those anal-retentive nerds who like their DVD boxes to line up perfectly on the shelf" -- my neighbors need to shut their lights off... oh? yes badly or shut their blinds bewooow chicka-bowow.... Place a camera in your window, that'll make them shut the blinds somehow I doubt it nah, just sit at the window with popcorn and yell advice... ED: Score cards "Hmm. 7.2" Decent routine, but he failed on the dismount.... ROFL lmao -- ack, google's into IM now? Yup! internet's back up! I'd rather use them than AOL, that's for sure. ;) hehe lol hey - I love aol for the chat rooms (the ones I don't use...) but if I ever wanted to get to know some m4m philly people, I have instant access at any hour of the day. -- * Fireball watches an ad for dish soap that's actually selling itself as being able to wash away the dirt you can't see. For those discriminating, OCD-afflicted consumers? Zib: I suppose. Seemed like an Emperor's New Clothes sort of thing to me. ;) Y'think selling such a soap, with a pH of 14, would be good for the gene pool? Quite possibly, yeah. Cool At the very least you've got an amusing new reality show. Not sure. "Who Wants Their Face Dissolved?" sounds like it'd have a limited audience. Limited but very enthusiastic. True -- * G_buffalo notes that chai at midnight was a bad idea. is still awake. Just chai? Bah. Not everyone has a caffeine gland, Cal And why not? >:( Because we've evolved in a cold and uncaring universe. -- ...children should be grown in vats until they're 21. It works fine for scotch. -- * Calculus consumes "fresh basil fried rice." It is...basil-y. Pretty good. :9 That sounds good. * Kowh had fishball ramen earlier, it was good. * Zibblsnrt idly ponders the fact that nobody here merely eats anything, but - at least! - consumes it. %) I osmote, but hey And they gave me a small amount of fried banana as a free sample. It was also good. Proph: I surround and absorb PS: I hwarf. isn't hwarfing the result of failed snarfing? No, that's hourking. Ahhhhh I always confuse the two. it makes for akward dinner parties. -- Ahh, pseudoephedrine, how I love thee... -- Dionysus Won: Olvey-Andis is the pharmaceuticals dorm. All the neorobio majors live there, where they continue their studies long after classes are over. -- * StudentOfLight checks At Reed... "New! XTREME quiet study rooms! Open until 4am!" -- i am one happy jabowah jabo? getting to see this girl i've been talking to everynight for the past couple weeks after not seeing her in two weeks, i just hope i don't instagib on contact ;) ... that's an interesting way of putting it... Hee, mental image "Hi!" "Uhh... *meaty splash*" -- Anime is much more a medium than a genre, although like any medium, it has its conventions. And also like any medium, ~30% of is it porn and ~80% of it is crap. ;) -- * Zibblsnrt gets spam advertising a r0l3x. I might actually *buy* a watch with that kinda name. ;) (would the plural be r0l3c3s?) Why yes, yes it would %) -- kats: Your storm is disappointing me. It's not a Category 5 yet. I imagine a Cat 5 hurricane *could* in fact move data at 100Mbps if it threw enough tapes for a sufficient distance... -- On today's episode of "What The - Oh Fuck No! The Hurting, Make It Stop!", a.k.a. The Sysadmin Cooking Hour, our host discovers what happens when you are holding a metal colander with your bare hand and pour a large amount of hot pasta into it. -- * Gandalf cries. The box of peanut butter girlscout cookies he's been slowly nibbling on got taken over by ants. :( :^( G: You mean it got enhanced by protein units! Girl Scout cookies are uniformly yummy. *snigger* Crunchy. :9 People in POW camps would kill for those ants! Meat Group! -- Quake wouldn't lie to me -- ...and my point was, when you start off an argument with "this may sound stupid," you are indeed going to sound stupid. -- Dionysus Won: *thinks* Barney's so awful that, damn it, there has to be something postmodern about it. Just has to be. Unity of analogy. All things that suck belong together. -- ... a couple of my friends said I should thesis by creating a bucket of LSD. I politely declined. ;) "I'd like to thank my parents, my advisor, and the TWO MILLION GUMMI BEARS WHO ATE MY SHOES! THE WASPS! AUUUGH!" LSD comes by the bucket? Makes it sound like something KFC would sell Original Recipe or Extra Freaky? -- AaaandI'mlegal. %) Oh lord. Hide the women and the liquor. * Calculus demands ale and whores! I thought she was banned from the server? * JCat runs away. You're in NY, just order out. ;) Ow! Good point. Craigslist time! -- ... man, now I'm not going to be able to look at cabbages without wondering if they were someone I would have known. -- In other news, who wants a free 14-day CoH trial code? NOT ME, YOU DIRTY BASTARD! -- [New Orleans was washed into the Gulf of Mexico some days earlier] ...and in other news, the vice-president is still "on vacation" in Wyoming, not accepting calls, and no expected date of return. ... Perhaps this version has died and they're growing his replacement. -- For people who hate sodomy so much, evangelical christians sure as heck have the Administration's cock pretty far up their ass. -- * Gandalf schedules a vet appointment for the cats. bwahahaha. (just regular checkup / rabies booster / distemper test /etc) and maybe they'll be able to shed some light on why lucy adores eating dust and cobwebs. I mean, I appreciate the fact that she cleans all the miniblinds for us, but it's still kinda weird. -- ... someone hack my firewall and block my access to levenger.com and llbean.com. I've just cleared a big space in the living room, and now I'm thinking of what to fill it with... -- Calc and LCat are arguing whether a particular level of Hell's "bottomless pit" contains an infinite number of tarrasques, or a *functionally* infinite number of tarrasques. -- "There are three houses in this neighborhood with unsecured networks. >%)" "Long story short, they now have loads of horse porn on their computer." >_< Elena: That's a qote from bash.org Ahhh :) mmm, equine-rotica http://www.bash.org/?202477 NO. NO NO NONONONONONO!!!! putting the "horse" back into "hoarse cries of passion"? NOOOOOO As Catherine the Great once said, it takes a real stud... C'mon guys, don't break the newbie. We're still making payments. -- * Calculus gets himself a dish of Rocky Rove soy ice cream. Cal: Now with kool-aid? :9 -- "In news today, the inside of the Washington Monument was found to have a rich, nougat center. Reports that psychotropic drugs have been introduced into the Washington, DC water system are totally unfounded." -- * Calculus ponders making a bugzilla entry: "mkinitramfs-tools 0.26 iz teh b0rkded - critical" -- Yeah, I agree this is one where the judge should just machine-gun the courtroom and call it a day. ;) -- MysticErf: ugh, I want to go to the ATF headquarters place Zibblsnrt: hmm? MysticErf: they have samples of every gun made Zibblsnrt: ahhh, hee MysticErf: show just showed one of the gun rooms... rack after rack of rifles, it's like the NRA without beer -- Mal: There's a lot I chalk up to ignorance, but finding a way to equate Nazis and Israelis seems to go beyond mere ignorance. It's like saying apples and oranges are the same thing because they're both blue, two plus two equals a sack full of badgers... -- * JCat is a product of September. (...Industries. Makers of beautiful bouncing babies since 1912!) (*Babies do not actually bounce. Do not attempt to bounce. Attempting to bounce September Industries babies will result in nullification of warranty.) -- So. We set the student organization budgets the other day. Most of the SBA's own budget this year is going towards a few fairly inexpensive mixers, the hurricane aid fundraiser, beer and pizza periodically throughout the semester, and coffee and donuts leading up to finals... The jocks are griping about not receiving the funding they wanted for basketball, where they want to hold limited tryouts for one team, and make the other entirely preselected. This would be coming out of the *all-students* activity fee. you have jocks? And they've started insulting the events we fund, because "people like sports more than pizza," and claiming that the *previous* SBA *promised* them that they could do this. keeb: I'm as surprised as you are. Calc: i'm not really surprised, just confused ;) So. Shooting them. Morally sound? Vital organs or just in the kneecaps? What about torture? Displaying disembodied heads on the front gates: effective leadership or bad PR? I need opinions here. -- * Zibblsnrt scrolls way up.. screw green, I want a gamma ray laser pointer Zib: fuck that, i want a coherent golf ball emitter in the "omnidirectional laser" sense, or the "emit a beam of golf balls" sense? Zib: the latter. i've always wanted to see a macroscopic demonstration of the double-slit experiment ;) ... %) my physics prof actually suggested it the day we did that in class.. golf ball diffraction would be awesome he also suggested using volkswagens and elephants -- * NickM rips a bunch of club trance from a 5-cd set he just bought to mp3, so he can shove it onto his rio for listening while exercise happens. I've found that when I listen to something that has a nonstop, constant-rate beat, I don't have this annoying problem where sometimes I slow down and sometimes I speed up. ... which is what happens when you're listening to the radio they pipe over the PA and they go from playing a punk song with a beat rate of 180 or so to a plodding rock ballad at 80 or 90 bpm. * Zibblsnrt ponderrs something like that that *very gradually* accellerates over time. %) PS: ... that would rule. XD y'know, like 1bpm^2 or something. %) * Zibblsnrt describes tempo in terms of accelleration, collects a geek point. :P -- Dionysus Won: Yeah; my dad and I are having tea with the philosophy profs and the other philosophy majors and their parents. Dionysus Won: Well, the joke is that it'll actually be a "continental breakfast." -- Dionysus Won: Yeah. Earlham needs to change its motto to "Unitarianism, Socialism, and Polyamory." To, y'know, assume its rightful place as Reed Lite. -- I've been hanging around in the wrooooong parts of the Internet. The phrase "hot lizard-on-lizard yuri" just crossed my brain, and it didn't even seem particularly heinous. -- http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1570835.html?menu=news.quirkies heh That's great. NM: w...t...f I think we've finally found the biggest geek on Earth. I'd get them. *snrk* Heh! ...the *second* biggest geek on Earth. -- * keebtoiling makes ramen with the espresso machine.. whee! .... you can do that? Yup! How? ... NM: um.. insert ramen, pull lever, remove food -- I'm just having this incredible difficulty with clothes today. -- "Parodying japanimation is like starving Soviet peasants, in Leningrad, in 1942. It doesn't take a lot of effort because 90% of the work is already done for you and lots of people end up dead." -- National Geographic, for their part, ran a cover feature called "Was Darwin Wrong?", which turned out not to be a rhetorical question; the answer, spelled in 68-point type on the inside, was: "NO." -- RikPrimis: " Hurricane Wilma grows into the strongest storm on record" <-- not a good thing to hear right now RikPrimis: Florida's like, beginning evacuations *now*.... Zibblsnrt: yeah RikPrimis: I honestly wonder what happens if it says "Screw it" and just makes a dead aim at Louisiana. I honestly wonder if there's a point at which they'll say "You know what, you can HAVE the coast!" and stop trying or something Zibblsnrt: I think that'd require that gulf of mexico pinball thing RikPrimis: I like how you've given it a name... Gulf of Mexico Pinball Thing.... RikPrimis: "Oh my god, it's come through and turnign back aroudn for another pass!!" Zibblsnrt: Hee RikPrimis: Someone remind the hurricane it's not a P-47.... Zibblsnrt: fuck that, someone should convince the hurricane that it is * RikPrimis ponders guerilla hurricanes RikPrimis: Just spring up somewhere out of nothign in like 3 hours, wreak havoc for about 6, and then just dissolves rapidly into nothing.... * RikPrimis suddenly gets this image of a hurricanes spewing forth mobs of fighter craft, like it's a Protoss carrier group or something.... Zibblsnrt: hee RikPrimis: ok, yeah, time to go home :-p Zibblsnrt: Squadrons of scout tornadoes shooting ahead like so many twisty skirmishers... RikPrimis: did you just use the term "twisty skirmishers" to describe tornadoes. You may be my hero for the moment Zibblsnrt: Yes. Yes, I did. -- I don't know why, but I still occasionally have some trouble believing that there isn't at least some tiny way that Windows isn't a worthless piece of shit, it should've managed to do something right just on sheer random probability. Well, its calculator's nice. That's true. -- They have magazines in Canada? *nod* You guys call them "cheeseburgers," but ours can speak. They tell amazing stories, and the best among them are allowed to breed to produce the next generation, while the rest are devoured. As a result, our fast-food-customer demographic has been getting smarter for fifty years. Zib: That... er... what? ... Except for McDonald's; their magazines can't get past two-syllable words. * KillJoy_ is getting mental images of anthropomorphic Whoppers reciting iambic pentameter. KJ: *nod* Magazine King earned their title. .. neat, part of my brain's screaming at me. -- NM: Have you ever considered that you might have Problems? :P Gand: Yes! That's why I drink! -- [snatched utterly without shame from bash] <--- law student. future lawyer. <-- computer programmer. future defendant. -- * Calculus realized today that he's turning into the Mad-Eye Moody of the Internet. ... * Calculus whirlpoints. "CONSTANT VIGILANCE!" -- so one of my housemates asked me today what the name of the other housemate is. now i don't feel so bad for not knowing ;) *snrk* After how long, dare I aks? sak, evne AAAAAAUGH * Zibblsnrt quietly bursts into flame. wpned :P 3 weeks i think hee .. but i could be off, time is kind of a blur lately .. i've been watching the incoming mail for a couple weeks to find out the guy's name though. it hasn't worked, but at least i tried :D hee start addressing him as Rent Dispersal Unit Three and see how long it takes for him to correct you Zib: i doubt it'd work.. he's way too polite ;) for the meantime, i've decided that his name is "Ben 2" (after the last guy in that room) -- this is almost as bad as that time i forgot how to make coffee keeb: ... well, I can see forgetting the proper coffee/water intermix ratio, but seriously... there's a filter basket, a filter, and grounds (or beans and a grinder) ... heh heh heh How hard can it be? NM: i forgot to turn it on, and forgot to put in water Ohhh. so you less forgot how to make coffee than forgot to make coffee at all? Zib: no, i sat there expecting coffee for several minutes keeb wins at life! keeb ftw. -- * Calculus converted to Islam very briefly today - just long enough to shop at the halal butcher's. ;) -- we deal with that all the time, it's retarded it aint free to get 99% uptime it's always, well if it goes down we'll just have to deal with it then when it goes down it's like someone said the secret word on peewee's playhouse -- ... if I suddenly come to the realization that the Finnish are actually space aliens and invented IRC just to make our brains tastier, will that immediately lead to the final battle scene? -- * dragfyre (dragfyre@herring.sandwich.net) has joined #spork moo moo moo moo foo bar qux quux quuux quuuux moofle garply * Bucher stares and runs away! You know, this is a great way to tell exactly who is exactly how geeky. -- The most important thing to understand about Ludditism is its wild subjectivity.. it's not technology that's unnatural and wrong, it's technology that makes any particular Luddite uncomfortable that's unnatural and wrong. ;) -- StevenE [to JHG]: Since the Revolution, they've had the Jacobites, Directory, Napoleon, Restoration, Citizen King, Second Republic, another Napoleon, Third Republic, Vichy regime, Fourth Republic, and Fifth Republic. That's a new order every ~20 years, on average. And it's been over 50 years since the Fifth Republic began. Matt_D says, "Hm. You know I'm french... and a megalomaniac..." -- Treasurer's? You register cars at the Treasurer's office? WTF are you? :-p Omaha. Nebraska. I'm as shocked as you are, but there are apparently not that many cars in the state. Which means they must all fucking be here, for the traffic to be the way it is. -- .. o w I fell off the chair. <.< I swear, I've only had two glasses. *laughs* (each glass was two liters, but..) Nononono.... just wine. wine is not a unit of measurement, so that doesn't contradict my statement (in fact it could further explain it) -- * William ponders going through the Bible and actually listing all the GURPS spells Jesus apparently performed. Apparently He was a bit of a Necromancer. There was the raising of the dead, of course, and I've just been told that if you include the Apocrypha you can get some Wither Limb in there... Come to think of it, He certainly had Command Spirits and Banish. ... dude. Jesus was a sodding Necromancer. -- * Calculus eyes e-mail. ... the IP law association is having a showing... ...of Hackers. I kid you not. ...I'm going to cosplay Joel. -- Semi-final inventory, subject to competing preregistrations: archimed.es, armi.es, bovin.es, edg.es, elv.es, hobbits.es, hord.es, navi.es, pag.es, pockets.es, socrat.es, tentacl.es, test.es, tom.es, websit.es, wir.es I am VERY glad I found that discount registrar, yes. cabl.es was taken? ! * Calculus checks. Heh, the NIC is down right now, but I'll check shortly. :) Cal: ... you have Issues. Hell, I have *subscriptions.* No, he doesn't. Is issu.es open? ! -- I just realized why I never cook. Your kitchen is now a towering pillar of flame? Naw. pfft, you're not trying hard enough then. -- Hey, Calc? What all .es domains did you register? archimed.es, armi.es, bovin.es, edg.es, elv.es, enemi.es, hobbits.es, hord.es, navi.es, pockets.es, socrat.es, tentacl.es, test.es, wir.es %) BRB Has someone asked you for eureka@archimed.es yet? O:) (tricksy.hobbits.es, mongol.hord.es, naughty.tentacl.es...) Not yet, no. %) * William ponders lament@ions.of.my.enemi.es . YES Will for the win. Though you're missing a t. Okay, that is my new abuse response address. :D -- and to think when the furnaces came I was going to spare you -- * Dan-Wood loads NCSA Mosaic 2.0.1 Lessie how broken the web looks through 1992 glasses! ... The web looks blinded through 1992 glasses. ;) Shush you. I'll sort you in a bit. 1.0.3 should be antedeluvian enough. %) Dude, you just used the word "antediluvian" to describe a deprecated web browser ... I'm so proud *snicker* Though wait! If it predates the September that Never Ended, it actually *IS* antediluvian! -- * Calculus wonders what the environmental effects would be of replacing the Great Lakes with rum. Cal: Acceptable. Besides that "Tomorrow: Strong winds from the east. Schools closed, mandatory evacuation declared for those using prescription medications" People would willing visit Toronto. +ly "Humidity: 63%; Alc/Vol: 2.5%" -- * Calculus snickers at BrookLaw IT. The network was down for about 45 minutes earlier; I identified the exact problem (down to the MAC address), kludged my way onto the network and e-mailed them. They hadn't even noticed. %) -- Calamoneri and Sterbini \cite{cs-d234cg-96} follow up Cohen {\em et al.} by establishing a lower volume bound of $\Omega(n^{3/2})$ for $k$-colourable graphs (for fixed $k \geq 2$), and provide a three- dimensional drawing algorithm for 2-, 3-, and 4-colourable graphs in volume $\bigO{n^2}$. They hypothesized that {\em all} $k$-colourable graphs can also be drawn in volume $\bigO{n^2}$. BHLERK. ... Ow my brain Oh come on, *I* understood that. ;) (Zibblsnrt casting Dispell LaTeX. ... Zibblsnrt casts Dispell LaTeX.) -- "Human embryos are not potential human beings. Human embryos are human beings with potential," John Weaver, deacon of Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Columbia, told worshippers Sunday. <-- o/~ Every sperm is sacred o/~ They're human beings with kinetic if you impart mo - I'm gonna derail this train of thought before bad things happen ...YES. The fetus ballista. Bah, they're big enough for a sling or arbalest at bI *said* I was gonna derail this train of thought! -- which brings us to the actual point of *why* you would ever need that much throughput. Are we preserving the Library of Congress, here, or...? Jo: Far more important - the Porn Collection of Congress. -- Sev: Aah. Female rabbits produce about 35 young/yr, the young are weaned and ready to breed at 2 months... Zibblsnrt: Augh. %) Zibblsnrt: Assume 50/50 mix by gender and the rabbits being Habsburgs.. Sev: ...So, with an average of 6-10 babies in a litter, after -three months-, assuming you start out with a pregnant dow about to give birth, you've gone from one rabbit to ... 22. Sev: (Assuming 6 young/litter, 50/50 m/f) Zibblsnrt: *nodnod* Zibblsnrt: That'd get suitably obscene in a year. Sev: Yeah. %) * Sev gets out a pen and paper... Zibblsnrt: Oh, thank God you decided to figure that out before I did. ;) Sev: *laughs* Sev: OKay, assumptions: You start out with one doe giving birth. Each litter is 50/50, each litter is 6 animals, all animals live to sexual maturity... Zibblsnrt: *nodnod* Sev: Actually... Sev: ...Shit, I don't have a c compiler on this. ;) Zibblsnrt: Now, are you assuming each generation gets pregnant once, or is eve going to have multiple litters? ;) Sev: Multiples. Rabbits have belt-fed uteri. Zibblsnrt: hee Sev: ...Shit, this is a perfect instance for a recursive function. Zibblsnrt: ...God, we're nerds. Sev: I was just thinking: Jesus christ, I'm a geek! ;) -- MysticErf: I'm currently working on a project of "Mental Wellness" in my county MysticErf: and I get to work on "Mental Wellness" in education MysticErf: it's making me mentally unwell -- Macross 7 FYI was about a band called Fire Bomber and their lead singer, Basara, who fought war using the power of song ... Let me guess. War won. -- it's 32F outside and guess who has no heat? hi. jabo: just fire up Doom 3 and sit beside your case cooling outlet -- "Unclean Rot (or as she is better known by her non-anagrammed name, Ann Coulter)" %) -- * Zibblsnrt looks up, encounters the term "bayesian smackdown," is briefly weirded out before he remembers where and who this is Zib: take that, frequentist! -- phen: COX-ZUCKER THEOREM dot dot dot Tell me that isn't real %P I'd hate to be the guy to present it at conference Not only real, but deliberately named so by Cox and Zucker, who got together, snickered, and decided to collaborate just to get it into the literature. -- Cal: E-mail her back with links to, e.g. http://data.4chan.org/u/src/1134205622115.gif (clicking not really required, but fun for the bored) It gets better - her name is apparently Stella. irrelevant, her operating IQ appears to be low enough to be contagious. evacuate immediately! * Joii gets a faceful of lesbian. Damn, warn me and stuff. Room-temperature IQs spread with difficulty; they need to be incubated first Cal: Yeah, send her to http://tinyurl.com/bby7q (clicking not really recommended) (Especially in metric countries.) Jo: /u = warning ;) no, 4chan.org = warning thanks, kids. no, .[jpg|gif|png|mpg|wmv|avi|mov|rm|ram|mp3] = warning this is #spork we're talking about, for chrissakes *sigh* Yes, a channel full of reasonable, intelligent, slightly loopy people. * Zibblsnrt hmms, adds .html and / to that ;) anything starting with http:// is pretty much suspect ^[0-9a-z]+:\/\/[0-9a-z]+ Cal wins -- Mmmmm, fresh aorta -- Sooo, today's exam quote. Only one, really, but it's a good one. ;) If you exchange a capital asset (e.g. business equipment that's not inventory for sale) for one of "like kind," even if you make a gain, it isn't recognized - the gain is not taxed until you sell the item you got in exchange. There are some exceptions. One of those will become relevant in a moment. %) We had a question on exchanging two identical pieces of construction equipment, with some complications, etc. I analyzed the complications, and then covered an exception that had just a tiny potential to be relevant: "I am assuming that the machines are not (cyborg) livestock of different sexes. IRC 1031(e)." I'm hoping I'll get an extra point for covering that. ;) -- "I still prefer IBM-style keyboards that you can use to beat someone to death with and then blog about it." -- Felenesse: bahaha! I just psycho-analyzed Jung! -- ... damn cat just stuck his paw in my tea. Aargh! >_< FLAWLESS VICTORY. -- ["Analyze all torts in the following situation. You have two hours."] Mechanic misrepairs skydiving plane, pilot panics and has a seizure, man falls out early, his parachute opens only partially because someone's pet hamster chewed through a cord, and he ends up in a tree in someone's front yard. The house owner demands he leave, but a crowd tramples the owner's prized flower bed in order to rescue him. One of the passersby begins administering first aid, but gets a call from his girlfriend and leaves, making an injury worse. Then, a truck carrying nuclear waste collides with the ambulance on the way to the hospital, spilling it and causing many injuries - but the driver wasn't at fault. -- eliminat - bill: The Darwinist State of Pyretica Iron Fist Consumerists "May God have mercy on my enemies, for I won't." eliminat - bill: NationStates mottos amuse me eliminat - bill: "If violence isn't fixing it, you're not using enough." -- http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/12/31/8219/5938 <-- Know Thy Enemy *looks* ...Wow. I now know my enemy, and my enemy is apparently largely incapable of knowing how to know. And yet your enemy fields vast armies of wannabe brownshirts. Alas, if push comes to shove, brown shirts burn just as easily as most other colors... -- * Calculus listened to two people at the next table make their social lives for the next (hmm) two years hell, in the space of ten seconds. %) Ha! What happened? ;) marriage proposal/acceptance? ;) "Well, you know what's similar about marriage and a tornado, right?" "No?" "Well, there's lots of sucking and blowing at first...then your house disappears." "*mild snicker*" "... Suzie, don't repeat that joke." <4-year-old> "Why?" -- Noah has an almost-guaranteed "Summon Children" down whenever he cusses. "Cockwrangling donkey fucker!" *POOF* *appears a cadre of 1d6-year-olds with anime eyes and one or more horrified adults* -- Hmm. Either (a) I am very hungry, (b) my memory is faulty, (c) I have made some Brie-like discovery of an intriguing new mold, or (d) twice-cooking this vegetable soup has substantially improved its flavor. Affine combinations of all four are, of course, possible. Will: I find that the latter is generally true of soups. Interesting. Things have had time to blend ;) Yeah, and the freezing ruptures cell walls and unlocks more flavor. * Primis gets this image of Person A beating Person B with a stick and shouting "I'M UNLOCKING FLAVOR!!!!".... -- [snatched without shame from Bash] ...Now wait a second.. There's a class action lawsuit against wikipedia? Anyone can join in and add a grievance. -- Wow, it's up to thirty-one vets running for Congress as Democrats? Cool. By questioning the Democrats' manliness, the Republicans have ensured that Starship Troopers will become fact instead of fiction! -- dude! super mario brothers was awesome. it's no street fighter, but it's still a quality film -- Dalcassius: So today I am photocopying some cases out of an 84 year old law text for a lawyer to use to cite president and such, when I go to remove the little yellow post it and take away a portion of the page equal to the little sticky rectangle on the post it. Did I mention the book was published in 1912? Zibblsnrt: whoops Dalcassius: The next book was published in 1876. I went to lunch. -- we're trying to collectively view the entirety of the imdb bottom 100. i'm at about 20% now (damn list keeps changing) -- i have come to feast on the blood of the living. your time has come. sorry, fresh out of blood but you've got plenty of Farmer John's Blood Substitute Beverage(tm)! braaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaainz my veins pump naught but nacho cheese and fresca -- Bucher: that's like saying all blondes are stupid. Hey, I represent that remark! -- Sev: ...Oh, god. I have had a horrible thought. Zibblsnrt: As oppo - .. too easy. Sev: ...A filk of "Who Let the Dogs Out" -- god, I hate that song -- "Who Let the Drones Out" for Gallente pilots... Sev: *snicker* Zibblsnrt: ... Zibblsnrt: In faux-French accent? Sev: ... Sev: Yes. %) Zibblsnrt: "Who let ze 'trones out?" Sev: Oh, jesus, that's so horrible, it's a sure-fire winner. ;) * Zibblsnrt pictures a chorus line of Gallente drone carriers doing that as a battlecry. %) Zibblsnrt: [leader] "Who let ze 'trones out?" [squadron] "NOUS! NOUS! NOUS!" -- PS: http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/002244.html After the James Wolcott vs. Michael Fumento battle, in which Wolcott pinned back Fumento's ears and buttered his head, and swallowed him like a dinner roll, it seemed things couldn't possibly get any better this week, hubris-wise. -- * beeeklr == old keebler >= old seriously. i have gray hair and eat rolaids for breakfast. in a few months, i can start wearing suspenders -- Grow a beard! NM: my facial hair only grows on my neck.. which means i'm pretty much obligated to teach operating systems Keeb: Enter a RMS lookalike contest! DW: gads no damn you i'm not in systems! ai and theory people are a different stock.. we bathe occasionally! -- * Calculus has never been able to file electronically, since he has to do a full 1040 and Schedules C and SE. :( Calculus: because of sandwich.net? (a.k.a. "Hmm, you have a hobby. Here, pay inflated social security rates! *tentaclerape*") -- Pri: oh, everything worth doing is a war crime these days -- * NickM cracks open a jar of hot-flavored salsa. :9 It tastes like tomatoes, onions, peppers, and BURNING -- And then sometimes life reminds you you bought a cheesecake sampler, it's in the fridge, and if you don't eat it the terrorists have won. -- * Bucher showers JC with love and affection. And a hot cup of tea. Showering someone with hot cups of tea is really not cool ;) Arg! Not what I meant! -- actually, i had one text book this quarter that costs somewhere around $115 or so.. it has an amazon rating of like 1.5/5, so i borrowed it from someone in the lab academic communism is awesome -- I tried to talk him out of it. He's just a moron. Jo: I tried to teach a melon to dance, once melons have no rhythm, otherwise I would've been successful. you, on the other hand, took up an impossible challenge -- Bring some "wtf?!" with you. You'll need it. -- * Mal-3 looks in, howls in anguish. -- * William decided to get himself lost today. Realized he may have a bit of a problem with compulsive curiosity. "Hmm, what's this little side road?" "Posted No Trespassing, Private Property signs everywhere. Well, the road's probably public." *drive on* "Wow, there are a lot of these signs. Maybe I should turn back." *drive on* "Hey, what's that? It looks like a chimney and a fireplace standing by itself in the middle of the woods. I'll just ease past this unlocked gate and go take a look..." And I sat there looking at it for several minutes wondering what was going on. Was it a house that burned down? Was it a house being built? Was it something else entirely? The curiosity, it *gnaws* at my SOUL... You realize... I would *never* survive a Call of Cthulhu game. I would read the books. I would talk to the crazy old hermits. I would, indeed, explore the curious old ruins. -- * jwwvkwe (bmcfee@cpe-72-130-136-162.san.res.rr.com) has joined #spork ... nii jwwvkwe. ,pp esddi[? bir nyxg -- * CalcEQ2 drinks liquor and reads for Information Privacy. Hey, I really am getting the hang of this law school thing. %) -- 1953: "inefficient buttons, hooks or other clothes-holding devices" 2005: "wardrobe malfunction" Who says that slang doesn't improve efficiency? -- [Harper just got elected prime minister, more or less] So, how long until Harper sends troops to Canada? -- * phenyx will hire people to dance on harper's grave. I don't want to get eldritch mud on my shoes Scrape it off and sell it for profi t you can't get it off Ahhh, point So get expensive shoes, have Britney Spears wear them and do the dancing, then sell a) expensive shoes b) as worn by Britney Spears c) with valuable eldritch mud on them. On eBay. The whole profit is greater than the sum of its parts! -- WHY is there so much crap in my room? Did I at one point think it would summon CRAPTOR, god of messy dorm rooms, and get him to do my bidding? hee Aris: It's your association with me. My room is an altar to entropy, and, by association, I think I've become its avatar. ;) Sev: Dammit! Lower temperature so that my free energy dependence on you is minimized! -- because really, there's no greater hotbed of fine imported booty than a graduate CS program -- * katster eats keebie's e supply. * eeeeeee is now known as _ oops. <_> now how am i supposd to spak? -- http://www.deviantart.com/view/7156316/ <-- Because I love you guys. %) * Zibblsnrt looks... No you don't. hee hee, the eyes Mal, I spit your gift URL back in your face. Ptui! %( ;) Bah, just think. If this is what I do to you guys, imagine the horrors I rain down on my enemies. ;) -- In March, Russell Stover unveils its new Easter candy: 6-inch chocolate crucifixes. The Roman Catholic diocese in Bridgeport, Conn., denounces the confection, saying that an edible version of the cross on which Jesus Christ died is not an appropriate Easter-basket mate for marshmallow chicks and chocolate bunnies. ^^ Must obtain. *laugh* So Catholics can't eat the cross, but they can eat the guy who died on it? :D * Zibblsnrt declares victory at casual blasphemy. * Calculus worships! Thus compounding the problem. -- Zibblsnrt: Anything in particular that should be brought over to your place tomorrow btw? Dalcassius: Anything you want for supper. We'll be having the BBQ lit up so feel free to bring something that once felt. -- "Freejack Science fiction, 1992, R, *1/2, 01:50, Color, English, United States, - An auto racer (Emilio Estevez) crashes into dismal 2009, his body snatched by a bounty hunter (Mick Jagger) for use by a dying tycoon (Anthony Hopkins)." Pri: that's oscar material right there Oh my god... this is now the greatest movie ever. what am i thinking of? billy jack? Emilio Estevez... Mick Jagger.... Anthony Hopkins. WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?! they could make a sequel? or a prequel Primis: DOCTOR THINKER WROTE THE SCREENPLAY! It has Rene Russo too. icing! So now we all know the answer to the question "What ever happened to these peoples' careers?". Clearly, this movie. -- * Dan_Wood looks up, Juggalos... one step below furries on the Intarweb Evolutionary Ladder. What *does* juggalo mean? * Zibblsnrt is now known as ZibblBRB It's the common name for fans on Insane Clown Posse Bucher: perhaps you have heard of the group Insane Clown Posse ....no? i used to live with a couple. one word: ugh jab: And they lived? You're either a saint or lazier than I am. ;) Mal: I figure most things in this world have a way of working themselves out sooner or later :) -- If you *really* want to know, google on "juggalo." But don't say we didn't warn you... if you google for them here is a warning. there is such a thing as juggalo porn, usually involving regular porn models with facepaint and a bottle of Faygo inserted into various bodily orifices. >_< *whimper* thank you, internet :( Sweet Eris. You made *Mal* whimper. Why, jugglos?! Why do you have to make such things and not be content with all the *normal* porn like everybody else?! Mal: Stupidity removes the fear of the Gods. -- Well, so much for CoX for today. Just got to lvl 20, trained up, got Stamina, all my Invulnerability power enhancements just went red and I am broke so can't upgrade them. Cyo - I assume you mean CoX in the Co$ or whatnot sense... otherwise I'm gonna' run right out and buy City of Xylophones -- there's almost nothing I won't try Sal: .... Reaaaaaaaaaaly. Sev: out of my head. I'm the one in the gutter today. Sal: If you're in the gutter, you should be paying me rent. ;) -- Sev: I think so, but where are we going to find a fifty-gallon drum of squid ink and a bondage mistress at this hour? Craigslist! -- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4695320.stm * Bucher snrks at the sign in the background..."What Would Jesus Drive?" yeah. %) Clearly the answer is Mary Magdalene -- SevTT: "WHILE I couldn't agree less with Richard Cravatts's take on the enforcement of the laws concerning privacy, I will agree with his contention that librarians know the Dewey Decimal System. That a librarian's professional training concentrates on mastering the use of the system is quite off the mark, however, and as enlightened a concept in the 21st century as starting a fire with a stone and a spark. In any event, should he himself ever need to be catalogued, I've got a spot for him on the shelf at 621.945. That would be the 620s for Engineering, 621.9 for Tools and Fabricating Equipment, and, specifically, 621.945 for Boring Tools." -- I tell you, my subconscious is a lot cooler than I am. -- I bet you... if you were to map out the dates that Cheney was ill or in the hospital, it'd coincide with furry conventions. -- "I really hate when people say "don't complain, other people have it worse". Right. So, there's only ONE person on the planet who has any right to complain? Boy I'd love to hear his rant." %) You probably couldn't, y'know, him being a deaf, blind, mute quadruple amputee with leprosy. But what if he stubbed one of his stumps while falling down the spiral up escalator after being struck by lightning while fleeing neo-interahamwe through the streets of what used to be new orleans one day, and gained the power of speech through sheer frustration alone? -- http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060212/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cheney_hunting_accident <-- In truth he shot the guy just to watch him die, but you know spin... -- phen: lotr, syriana... you know, you could just shoot novocaine directly into your ass and save a bunch in rental fees -- Calc, isn't my birthday a day or so after yours? JCat: Sep. 2? Sept. 3. Wow. Another victory for the holiday season! -- what's the line? sex is like oxygen: only important when you're not getting any? also, they're both powerful on the scrabble board -- It's funny how much CYA the cable companies have in their promotional materials. See, for DSL, if you're provisioned a 3Mbps down, 768kbps up line, you will *get* 3Mbps downstream and 768kbps upstream. Cable can say "up to" 5Mbps down and "up to" 2Mbps up all they want. Kay... Because of this line: "*Actual speeds may vary." while actually providing 5mbps down and 2mbps up and still not be liable for anything. ;) PS: Exactly. ;) * Zibblsnrt ponders 2mbps. They actually have a guy come to your house every couple days to hand-deliver the packet. -- RikPrimis: "You've watched them get shot for years..... you've always thought them easy prey...." *sound of shotgun pumping* "YOU WRE WRONG!!!!" *action sequences and clips* *bullets going everywhere* "This time, they're fighitng back. And they're playing... FOR KEEPS!" *quick cut of Cheney kicking a guy's head clean off* "Because you just crossed.... THE WHITE HOUSE! (Rated R)..." -- RikPrimis: IRAQ: The Musical RikPrimis: Every 3 scenes is cut short by a blast somewhere. I'm a horrible HORRIBLE person.... Zibblsnrt: nah, every scene cut short by three blasts RikPrimis: It's IRAQ: The Musical, not TEL AVIV: The Musical.... RikPrimis: c/` Thhee hiilllllssss are aaa-llliiivvvveeeee... with the sooundd oofffff *CACAPHONY OF EXPLOSIONS*...c/` Zibblsnrt: it's like the 1812 overture, with the cannons loaded and aimed directly into the audience -- [How many languages are known in your vicinity?] my lab: english, french, spanish, bangla (apparently), some crazy african dialect, japanese, some dutch and some german it's truly a rainbow of diversity that would make jesse jackson joygasm all over the ceiling -- is Cham from Newfoundland? you sound like it Actually, you do sometimes sound like it. No he doesn't, he's using grammar and syntax -- * k eyes last year's midterm for the class he's ta'ing next quarter... The Reverend Thomas Bayes's Rules are a set of rules concerning the development of morality of a population by showing how the conditions of a poor upbringing generating the morality of the children are propagated to their children, because the children's morality then generate the conditions for their children. (t/f) oh god oh god i didn't study this part what do i do k: Hee 50/50 chance... false? no wait tru- * jabowah (jabowah@ip70-173-27-230.fv.dl.cox.net) Quit (Quit: *explode*) -- i learned calc/physics long before i learned how to drive, so after i learned to drive i automatically saw other cars as being surrounded by repulsive fields and such. then i realized that i was an idiot, and i'm just trying to not hit people. ;) -- fucking kids need to get off my lawn agh, now the dogs are going nuts, and someone's bird won't shut up * Gandalf pictures keeb in a rocker with a shotgun... G: i'm 3 teeth away, i swear -- Oh, you wacky, lovable Xen developers and your wacky, lovable default kernel settings. I'LL KILL YOU WITH A NAILBAT -- * Fb_work snickers... some pro-ID group got a petition disagreeing with evolution signed by 514 scientists and engineers, all of whom were evangelical Christians and very few of whom were biologists... ...in response, some group of scientists got an opposing petition signed by 700+ scientists, because they only polled biologists named Steve. -- * dragfyre (dragfyre@herring.sandwich.net) has joined #spork moo [minutes pass] moo someone tell df that we're not talking to him but then we'd be talking to him, and the whole facade would come crashing down isn't that right, df? ...DAMMIT -- ytmnd is cool. for now. its cool::suck ratio is somewhere on the order of planck's constant ;) -- How is it that Paintball isn't an Olympic sport yet? How is there a downside to countries shooting one another WITHOUT fatal ammo for once? Sure... the Pakistan-India matches would end in melee, hand-to-hand combat but... tell me you wouldn't WATCH that? * Primis envisions one side giving the order to attach bayonets and charge... dangit, now I want to try that sometime "Don't bother firing back, just sprint in from all angles and take them on at point-blank range..." -- * Zibblsnrt hees. JihadNet's #5 on a google search for the word "jihad." nice. ;) * Zibblsnrt zonks ... laterz http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/2/23/75528/4979 <-- and we got a recent Kos plug. ;) Sweet. %) "a downloadable GURPS role playing game that seems to approach the general whackiness level of that classic Bunnies and Burrows." %) yes! Someone who understands! -- [public performance licensing loopholes] Calc: ... so would jacking the conference room for an AI lab screening of dr strangelove be out of the question too? ;) Technically yes. ;) bah! what if we get one of the vision people to host it? they technically live there :D Nope. ;) Calc: what about watching a movie on my laptop in a public place? keeb: Technically not a "performance." and maybe my eyes are bad, so i hook it up to a projector. and other people happen to watch over my shoulder also, i sell snacks -- DrDamocles: i'm currently playing through doom 3 DrDamocles: though i don't know if my monitor's on -- What Does an Executive Order: The Unitary Presidency at the Dinner Table. Who Does a Free-Trade Commission: Economists and Funding Committees Confront Globalism. How Does Karl Rove: The Travels of a Political Gadabout. "How They Jack Abramoff: Failing to give Indian Tribes the Reach-Around." -- * ph4nyx ponders McLaughlin & Co. Baristas and Solicitors. -- * katster eyes spam, ponders supermodel computing. ...wouldn't geek guys love that? :) nah, I prefer computers that can do basic math -- Felenesse: If my blog has the power to restore sanity, HOW COME I'M GETTING MORE AND MORE INSANE?! Felenesse: and hi! Zibblsnrt: It's the Law of Conservation of Sanity. Knowledge and sanity can be converted into one another and the sum total of the two must remain constant; therefore, the wiser you get, the nuttier you must become to maintain balance. Zibblsnrt: hi! Felenesse: HMMMmmm Felenesse: this could be true Felenesse: I mean, look at River! Felenesse: wait, does that mean I make people dumber when they read my blog, so they become more sane? Zibblsnrt: Nah, they leave a little bit crazier than when they arrived Felenesse: but I was just told on my f-list: "I thought you would be happy to know that one of my students reads Glaukopidos religiously and she has said that reading your blog has often restored her sanity. Thought you might get a kick out of that." Zibblsnrt: where did it restore it to, though? Felenesse: LOL! Zibblsnrt: Was it in her head beforehand, and then placed back where it belonged? Felenesse: ::giggle!:: Zibblsnrt: There, I've solved another dilemma for you. ;) -- also, undergrads make my life bad one class i'm ta'ing has a midterm tomorrow, the other has a project due. the emails ... THE EMAILS hee good lord, another one BE MY MERCY ANGEL, PIGLET -- * Fb_work snickers at talk radio... in a discussion about the various wars the US has been in over the last century, the comment that America may have jumped the shark. %) -- "If we have learned nothing else from World War II and the Holocaust, we have learned this much: let everybody into art school who wants to go. " -- bah. all chemistry is atom-fucking -- DW: sacking newfoundland is like putting a paper bag over a crosseyed whore. sure, it helps, but the goods are still damaged Shut up, keebie. Hee ...you do have a gift for metaphor, don't you. That's a rather shortbussian form of "gifted"... -- Hmm, whatever it is, it'd likely involve a $3700 handbag. any handbag that costs $3700 had better actually be made out of hands or something -- Apparently Chanel burns things that don't sell, rather than discount them. That makes very little sense from a business standpoint. NM: Businesses like Chanel aren't businesses, they're pretension capacitors Point. -- So Exxon's under lawsuit for human rights violations in Aceh, Indonesia. And, uh... in July 2002, the U.S. State Department filed a motion asking that the suit be dismissed on *national security grounds*? Executive branch of U.S. Government <---> Oil Industry Executive branch of U.S. Government <--> Oil Industry Executive branch of U.S. Government <-> Oil Industry ExecOutiivle brancIhn odf U.uSs. Govternmentry -- "Safety Third" is my senior design project team's motto. -- I was at the law courts making a delivery when their new 1st aid kits were delivered. One of the clerks commented, "The province must have had a great fiscal year. This first aid kit has more than a note that says "Call 911" -- * Zibblsnrt ponders the first aid kit in Machall some more PS: "+20HP"? ph: Yeah. %) * Zibblsnrt needs to write "+[foo] HP" on various stuff around the house. Especially beer. KJ: +15HP, -2 SAN KJ: Naw, that's MP Hrm. I want MP. ... what I'd cast though is a funny thought. AFAICT the only thing you can cast when you get enough MP is Projectile. :P -- I still find it infinitely ammusing that the churched was against lightning rods until a church full of gun powder was hit by lightning. Dal: And there was light? Not for the priest! -- Let's put it this way. It was good enough for Babylonian engineers. Have *you* built a Wonder of the World recently? ;^) Will: Have they? In a geologic sense. -- * William stares at this random stranger who's contacted him on ICQ. She's 24, her nick is mommy23, and upon being asked vouchsafed that, why yes, she is indeed a mother. Her little darlings are a 4 month old, a 1 year old, a 3 year old, and the eldest, 4. Will: Uh, one of those kids is either ridiculously premature or decided to stay in the womb for a few trimesters.. Zib: 1 could be anywhere in 1--2... but still get some coathangers, people. seriously. Yes, 4 months + 9 months = 13 months, gives her up to 11 between that one and the 1 year old. Well that's obviously wrong. There should be a 2 year old too. K: It's actually delayed-action quadruplets After the first one, the others were stored in standby mode until they were required. "It is time. Launch Offspring Beta." *whirring noises* s/Launch/Eject/ *fwoomp* . . . So what do you do for fun? http://www.jihad.net/roleplaying.html *waits for response* Will: Target destroyed! *pregnant pause* "So do you have any brothers or sisters?" Will: Wow, wrong choice of adjectives Will: interesting choice of--dammit ("brb, new kid") *fwoomp* I'm offended that you think that choice was accidental. Too few people have been offended at this conversation so far; we had to spread the rage -- hot damn. i cooked dinner for the first time in a month did you eat it or did it eat you? i'm winning right now -- Daniel M Laenker: But getting back to it... a "SPIC LOER". What is loe, anyway? Is it like a loa? Daniel M Laenker: That would be awesome Daniel M Laenker: I could go to a Minutemen rally in Fairfax and raise zombie armies to drive them out Daniel M Laenker: "Don't fuck with me man, I know voudoo!" Zibblsnrt: Maybe he means "to 'lo", and he's accusing you of casually greeting every hispanic person you meet. -- Zib: I am actually looking right now at a business registration for for which the entire location address is "Old Lewiston Road." How is it a majority of this nation's small businesses are being started by people who probably didn't get the points they give you on the SAT for correctly filling out the personal information box? -- * Calculus eyes e-mail. Okay, folks, let's play a quick guessing game. For which of my classes are classmates seeking notes because they only attended two sessions? ... Professional Responsibility. -- And yay for me for getting the brothers hooked on anime. The corruption continues! B: terrorist. -- * Gandalf hrms, only kernel maintainer we don't have now is Linus, I think. * Gandalf suddenly pictures them as trading cards. or Pokemon? * Gandalf laughs. Alan Cox, I choose you! -- I do agree that boys should be allowed to wear skirts if they want, though. skirts on boys make for easy access. er, disregard ...*snrk* skirts in general make for easy access... but all geometries taken into account, i think the skirt/pants divide happened the right way -- ...*snicker* An anagram for "Discovery Institute" is "dirty vicious tenets." -- DrDamocles: i suppose i should get around to finishing off that drink i mixed DrDamocles: apple vodka and arizona brand sweet tea Zibblsnrt: I parsed "apple" as in the computer company DrDamocles: yeah. DrDamocles: it's really easy to drink DrDamocles: but you can't mix it with anything -- * Fb_work blinks at this business registration.. Michael Hyde Bagpiper For All Occasions. %) -- * Fireball gets off the phone with a friend in California... he's putting together a small still and is going to attempt to make moonshine out of cheerios. ... Zib: Well, they are whole grain. -- "German Cannibal Guilty of Murder" Isn't that kind of implied? ... I mean, there's the possibility that he could've devoured someone who actually survived, but that strikes me as unlikely Or he just got his groceries at the local morgue ...point -- * Kowh ponders keeblers as a unit of measurement. Although, most measurements will probably use the milli prefix at most. I think I'm at least a couple decikeeb. irrational my ass, i work in transcendental radices oh god, what was that hot... why, also :D I transcended your mom's radix in bed last night. YESSSSSS. *fistpump* *lol* ... Calc: i heard your mom has a unary radix BUUUURN -- [4:45am] * Calculus idly ponders RFMing. * Zibblsnrt eyes the clock, ponders REMing -- * Fb_work reads an article about a gang in Germany that's been dressing in superhero costumes to steal food from high-end restaurants and gourmet shops so they can give it to the poor... hee. %) "After they plundered Kobe beef fllets, champagne and smoked salmon from a gourmet store on the exclusive Elbatrasse, they presented the cashier with a bouquet of flowers before making their getaway." -- Shad: No. There's no way to even try to count the number of wildly offensive things Rush Limbaugh has said... I remember. Years ago there used to be billboards with just a picture of his lips that were captioned "Rush Limbaugh's mouth, actual size." -- so i got my picture taken in front of adam west highlight of the year so far.. but only because i didn't wait in line like a sucker, just ran up and had whak take a picture ;) hee also had a good long, roll-in-the-floor laugh at the morons standing in line to see the new nintendo shit "in soviet russia, nintendo owns you!" i'm probably going to buy a wii :( but not an xbox or a p$3 one of my friends got interviewed on camera about that.. "yeah, i'll probably buy a wii because i'm a consumer whore. i already have a 360" "what do you think of the pricing on the new playstation?" "uh ... yeah ... hope that works out for them" -- Oh, no, I wouldn't do that. but that's cause I'm a girl, and they trained me to be nice to mean people. See, we need to break that training. Fortunately, you're here in the House of Bastards. Our kung-fu is strong indeed. break me? that sounds... less than pleasant. Yes, but at the end of your training you will be able to destroy fools with a glance & do all kinds of nifty internets wuxia stuff, only without the wires. tempting, but pass. Aw, c'mon. We'll even teach you the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart technique. -- . o O the House of Flying Bastards. Coming soon to theatres everywhere. ooh... we could totally start an idiotfighting syndicate. Can we, bast, can we? * Mal-3 *IS* Gordon Liu *AS* Pai Mei *IN* House Of Flying Bastards! Presented by Quentin Tarantino! -- hrm. my mouth tastes like cat food ugh, I'd do something about that if I were you. it's not entirely unpleasant, but it's really interesting k: how do you know what cat food tastes like? phen: look, i'm not proud of EVERYTHING i've done in my life... -- ABORTIONS FOR SOME, MINIATURE AMERICAN FLAGS FOR OTHERS! * joii gets in the first line. I have enough flags. -- Gauss assisted NSWR hittile. KJ: Parsed as "Gauss assisted NSFW hittite"; I'll be shoving an eggbeater into my mind's eye now. Augh. Ooh, splash damage -- * ph4nyx eats french toast, under the "candy for breakfast" clause er? being an adult means you can eat candy for breakfast if you want -- Felenesse: well, first we must discover its meaning. Felenesse: the kernel of truth that speaks to the very soul of humanity. Felenesse: like... my mouth may appear to be moving, but it's really coming from my ass. -- Dionysus Won: Being at Earlham, one gets the impression that the world actually ended several years ago. Dionysus Won: Earlham's basically a... post-apocalyptic LARP with no GM. -- Zib: Bah, proper footwear has its character enhanced by the blood of the stupid. -- StudentOfLight: Oooh, I just found an ex-Reedie in Sellwood who wants a roommate. StudentOfLight: Ex-Reedie==good. StudentOfLight: Ex-Reedie means I don't have to explain why I want to move the old NMR console into his house. -- * k awakesortas * Joii eyes elph; aren't you inside out? OH GOD I AM INSIDE-OUT k: LIes, you're outside-in * k swallows organs k: I meant your circadian rhythms Jo: i'm white, i have no rhythm -- Note to self: You're used to getting barbacoa at Chipotle. Their usage of the word is NOT correct. Bear this in mind when ordering at authentic Mexican restaurants. * Zibblsnrt watches Cal recieve 2d6 culinary damage? Calc: 1) never eat at chipotle, 2) never get a burrito anywhere that doesn't have brain on the menu as a meat choice -- you lost your step, your spring, or your chickens? :) yes. df: they're too lost, but it's a sweet offer. I got some chickens. * dragfyre grins madly. Dude, don't taunt me with cock I can't have. Get thee behind me, temptor! o_O You set yourself up for it. That was not my fault. my purity index just went down three points -- ... I didn't need that mouthful of pepsi.. * Zibblsnrt coughs. sorry, zibbs * Calculus needed that mouthful of hard cider. OW my nose! ...a double snarf? I think that's a three-pointer Wow. I must be talented. too bad that's not a marketable skill lol * Calculus consequently needs...more cider. This can't end well. Calc: Are you sure this is a good idea? * Shad-Asleep is now known as Shadur Jo: Hardly! -- Dionysus Won: Malthusian crisis - could that happen? Dionysus Won: It just seems so unlikely. Zibblsnrt: I'm unconvinced of it, myself, except maybe on local levels. Malthusian stuff's kinda based on outdated analysis, obviously. Zibblsnrt: ('sides, I remain hopeful that Science! will grant us steak vats eventually.) Dionysus Won: That's a horrible idea. if we have steak vats, we'll run out of A1 sauce and start hoarding - there'll be fires and looting. :-) Zibblsnrt: The production of A1 sauce grows arithmetically, but the production of steak grows geometrically? -- Kyrgyzstan. Thassit Central Asia needs more vowels. Japan has some &! to spare these days. * Gandalf parsed that as "Japan has some succubi!" Well they have those too. -- Have I told you about the classes I'm taking / took this semester? An "Active Directory" class that is really a surreptitious hacking-windows class, a business class in human relations where I don't get along with the teacher, an online speech class, and a math class that makes me feel like Barbie. "Math is hard!" -- * Salinn senses drama coming from the other room, goes into avoidance mode by the pricking of your thumbs, something myspace this way comes? -- thanks to deregulation, I can *choose* who I want to receive the shaft from -- PS: I choose to believe that somewhere, there is a Diefenbaker effigy that burns day and night -- I swear, I ever get my hands on a time machine the first thing I do is go back 5,000 years and throw Abraham in the friggin' Euphrates, save the rest of us a ton of heartache. -- * Calculus reads more e-mail. "Thought you might be interested in an event designed specifically for students interested in exploring a legal career in project finance." ... I'd rather suffocate in a vat of wildebeest urine. -- "this housing thing is so depressing. I need to IPO" "individuals can IPO?" "who says i'm not a corporation? that'd be cool.. i can sell shares of 'me' and people can buy it based on future success s peculation. kind of like how Carney has a junk bond rating. i would totally short CRNY" "i heard that china's buying up all of carney's debt" "i thought it was strange when my broker told me he was pegged against the yuan..." -- If they continue with that lawsuit, they are planning, commissioning, designing, and constructing their own petard with hydraulic auto-hoist, then standing directly under it during testing. -- Not that I'm gonna rush out and try liver from anything other than a cow any time soon just because of that, though. ;^) Cow liver fried up with onion is t3h :9. Bah, feast on the livers of your enemies. Can't. I like to drive them to drink first, followed by a long slow painful decline, so by the time they're in condition to feast on the muscles are nice like Kobe beef but the liver's usually cirrhotic. -- * joii consumes mass quantities of wheat things thins, also WHEAT THINGS! They're like Wheat Thins, only with 75% more ambiguouty!!!!!.... pri: heee ambigouty? they make you swell up Miss mystery meat, but you're a vegetarian (not that that should make a difference with the stuff as often as not)? Now you can have MYSTERY WHEAT! -- I'm thinking about starting a project...it had a bizarre genesis, with a comment my girlfriend made about how I needed to see the movie 'Clueless', and something to do with everyone's favorite Horror From Beyond. I'm going to call it: "Cthuless" ooh, baby, do it again, and this time, work the camera ...AUGH I did NOT say taht. Ia! Ia! Lipstick fth'agn! The Klingons learn that their returned Messiah-Emperor is a fake. Riots ensue and dark cults spring up throughout the Empire, eventually subsumed by one great hideous evil. The armies of C'thaless march forth. * Quits: Dan_Wood (dwood@cpe-70-95-97-39.hawaii.res.rr.com) (Ping timeout) The first victim is claimed. -- Come to NYC! We can go to St. Andrews. Isn't New York spensive, though? Site of Dreol, Ceyrus and I getting horribly, very, and moderately drunk, respectively. -- o/` there's no business like shoah business o/` -- sidenote: i'm gonna print up a roll of stickers with the ORLY owl for grading finals K: ... hee *snrk* * phenyx grumbles. goddamn heisenbug "1/4 + 7/6 = 1/4 + 3/6" "ORLY?" -- * Calculus has a very confused dinner: the classic German combination of sausage (Cajun) and a beer (Irish). -- [Jeopardy] What an interesting episode. The first six catagories were "Was a farmer," "Had a dog," "Bingo," "Was his Name-o," "B-I," "NGO." -- heh, yeah, that's just one of the topics where people are exceedingly likely to vanish up their own ass Zib: The next topic of controversy, surely -- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/06/01/ndeo01.xml <-- Teenage boy blows up the house with deodorant * Quits: Dan_Wood (dwood@cpe-70-95-97-39.hawaii.res.rr.com) (Ping timeout) * Quits: dragfyre (dragfyre@herring.sandwich.net) (Ping timeout) Hmm, maybe I should have said "don't try this at home." -- Cairsten: another half hour and it should be perfect, should you be hungry G: I'm hungry niftiness. :) Nightchikins all. dragfyre: is your name Cairsten? :) no, but I can fake it. -- http://www.livejournal.com/userpic/46563361/67558 ... %) *looks* Aw, sonofa-- * Mal-3 explodes in a towering column of flame! -- * Zibblsnrt watches Harper announce a plan to combat child predators by raising the age of consent. ... Let's play spot the flaw, shall we? Zib: I can't spot anything but the flaw. ;) -- Learjet registered to Pat Robertson crashes <-- !! Robertson not aboard <-- :( Dammit, have to try again. ...er, I mean.. um... look over there! *flee* -- News from AP & Reuters » Plane Registered to Pat Robertson Crashes 14 minutes ago Alba Picks Popcorn Over Oscars 21 minutes ago Zombies Ready to Attack the States 23 minutes ago Best set of AP headlines ever. -- I love conversations about menstrual flow *grins at df.* I really do, I just find it so fascinating. it's like talking about dinosaurs. you know they existed, you just have no clue what the hell they're like. *laughs!* -- Also, apparently there's a civilian 'zombiecon'... Dude, that's where WE need to go. As zombies or hunters? YES! * Dan_Wood gnaws on PS' bald noggin. "I AM HEAR TO DEFEAT MYSELF!" ...here. Okay, Zibblsnrt's losing IQ due to fatigue * Zibblsnrt is now at -2 to all skill rolls. -- I was in a traffic jam in Alabama for 3.5 hours on I-20, I could feel my IQ dropping -- * Fireball definitely hides his batcave full of extremely advanced computer hardware behind his back. -- Overeating overheats my imagination. I'm picturing the entire Democratic Party walking around Capitol Hill, the White House, etc. in saffron robes tending a Zen monastery's exquisite rock gardens, bonsai and suiseki, while *at the same time* the Republicans are running around in camo fatigues and GI boots ducking fire from unseen sources in a blasted urban landscape of ruined majesty. -- ...oh, hi, by the way, I just got back from four days in Nowhere, KY I will be thoroughly southernized for most of a week. We'll forgive you eventually. ;) they have pills for that now ... but... I like being southern at least i'm not being baptist? they have pills for that too ;) k: Unfortunately those ones are only available in the old almond-flavored variety -- Sev: Heh. There's a "Home Tissue Culture Listserv". I love teh intarweb. -- Sev: Hee. "I'm going to go back to the first caller's idea, and misquote him slightly to use him as a strawman..." -- * KillJoy_ idly hopes that he gets an opportunity to do a situationally appropriate "fools, I'll show them/destroy them all" speech at some point IRL. -- * KillJoy_ avoids paying too close of attention to the news for fear that doing otherwise will mean upping the dosages on the variety of prescriptions that make him be a sane, well adjusted, functional human being. KJ: Just kitbash some air defenses. Zib: I don't have tenure or grad students yet. ... I do? I'll be a grad student for ya if I get to play with arty. ;) ('Cause, let' face it, 'grad student' just means 'heavy lifter'.) * KillJoy_ ...s. Wonders how many followers he could get just by promises like that alone. Enough Yeah. A Sufficient Quantity. As an early adopter, I also hope to get other benefits, like a BAR, access to late-beta weaponry, and not wearing a red shirt. (Alpha testers and red shirts go together, I assume.) -- HI ECHELON Zib: Bah, it's perfectly legal in every way to posess knowledge of weapons of historical interest. Yeah, but I think discussing it's non-kosher. ;) 'sides, it's illegal for me to know about stem cells. %) *snigger* My brain's probably illegal right now. ;) Actually, it's perfectly legally kosher to posess every single part necessary to make a fully automatic weapon. Just not to fully assemble it. ...Actually, I -know- it is. For -several- reasons. I'm infringing on several patents, contain controlled substances, and Know Too Much For My Own Damned Good. Sev: They can have by brain when they pry it out of my cold dead... uh... head. -- * Calculus eyes MySpace. ... I hate humanity. humanity has nothing to do with myspace. Any species that can make this... * Gandalf snickers Cal: *snrk* ANything in particular? No, not really. ;) It would be less depressing if it were something in particular. -- There is a - small, but present - possibility that the research and writing I am doing will culminate in a precedent-setting court decision that shall result in the Lamentations of my Enemies. -- >> For fuck's sake. Every time [Livejournal] change something superficial like [the new userinfo pages], five other things break. Maybe they could put their energy into solving world hunger or something. > If they do tend to break five related things for every one thing they change, whyever would we want to risk having them working on something important like world hunger? > I suspect the world's probably suffered from enough inept attempts to end hunger already. LIVEJOURNAL ENDS WORLD HUNGER TOO BAD ABOUT COKE CLASSIC, THE NITROGEN CYCLE, AND GRAVITY -- Dionysus Won: He posted this huge rant about how technology is evil and did the whole Aldous Huxley name-dropping thing that they always do. Zibblsnrt: Ahhh. On the Internet? ;) Dionysus Won: Yes, Patrick. It's ALWAYS on the Internet. Dionysus Won: Luddites organize - on the Internet. Anarchists rant about the corporate techno-fascist elite - on the Internet. 14-year olds complain about how unnatural it all is while they wait for their iPod to charge. -- * KillJoy_ snickers as he remembers the segment they showed on in-car toolkits people had in the various race cars. First, they showed one of the Porsche's toolkits, which had wrenches, twist-ties, some special fancy space-age duct tape, fuses, relays... all in this neat box with cutout foam for all of it. Everything in its place, etc. Then they showed another car's repair kit. Which was, ISYN, a roll of generic duct tape, a can of Heinekin, 100 Euros and a knife. -- "Keystone Stasi" <-- Ow Cal: %) now I'm pondering the Kestapo. "Quick, Otto! Ze typewriter!" -- * Joins: kprime (keebler@216-31-237-34.cust.telepacific.net) k no, k' -- Zibblsnrt: Hrm. I wonder how many people give themselves skin failure trying to play this song. %) Sev: Heee. Sev: Yeah, you probably need callouses thicker than your fingers to do it right...;) Zibblsnrt: Well, beyond that. ;) Sev: Hehehe. Zibblsnrt: You know some 15-year-old tried playing this, got halfway through and then blew his entire epidermal layer in a searing flash of divine denial. Zibblsnrt: Just going along, and FOOM! Lampshades everywhere. -- http://www.decapod73.com/images/myps/fizigig-clone.jpg * Quits: Sev (user@ool-182dff6f.dyn.optonline.net) (Killed (*.irc.sandwich.net (OH MEGAWEAPON))) * Joins: Sev (user@ool-182dff6f.dyn.optonline.net) ...Sooooo worth it. ;) Heee. Also, hi. ;) :) Cal: I was waiting for you to come online for that. ;) No, really? What can I say? I see a guy covered in hairy tarantulas, and I think of you. ;) -- k: wasn't sigmoid a sea monster? DF: no, he was a famous psychologist. sigmoid freud * KillJoy_ hrms. Pink Freud? ... Now -him- I'd pay to be psychoanalyzed by. ;) -- "I need to check my records but I am pretty sure that this is the most retarded post I have ever seen. I actually felt myself lose 2 IQ points as I read it." - Anonymous poster in a tech support forum -- Kesseki: I am currently writing a response to a motion. Is this suitably extra-crispy? "In its motion for injunctive relief, Plaintiff has cited impeccable legal authorities - while tragically misapplying them to the facts of the case." Kesseki: I'm not sure "tragically" is quite right. Zibblsnrt: Hee. So the plaintiff's argument tastes great, but is less filling? Kesseki: ... yes. Zibblsnrt: Argumentum ad aspartamum. -- * Zibblsnrt listens to someone mowing the lawn... er, it's after 10 Best time to do it. Zib: Sneak out in ninja gear and strategically place some pointy rocks? But hurry. Extreme emotional disturbance is an affirmative defense to murder. ;) (This tactical, not legal, advice is provided without warranty. Law may vary in your jurisdiction. Void where prohibited.) -- "I have created... THE SUPERCOOKIE!" "... at the cost of almost ten thousand lives?" "It's really really tasty..." -- Mal - Touchdown Jesus? That's not at Notre Dame.... No, but it is Touchdown Jesus. * KillJoy_ ponders Soccer Fan Jesus. Jesus saves, passes to Moses, who scores? No no... soccer *fan*. KJ - "Thank Me for Liverpool?" No, that'd be Soccer Hooligan Jesus there's a difference? :-p Pri: Local team has fans, visitors have hooligans He'd have his head shaved, stigmata bleeding Manchester United's colors... -- [re: North Korea's 7/4/2006 missile tests and the general media and diplomatic freakout caused thereby] Dionysus Won: This is so emo. -- * Joii yawns, accidentally swallows her own head -- (My argument style is apparently "understated but persuasive." If I do end up in that field and get enough experience points to earn a nickname, The Shark sounds good.) * KillJoy_ looks up... huh, damn Cal, sweet! * NickM suddenly notes that Calc said something about experience points... Thanks. %) "The jury finds the defendent Not Guilty." *FF Battle Won Fanfare* [Gained 532 EXP] [J. Renken, Attorney at Law gained a level!] [Got 3 AP] [Learned Cross-examineaga!] Hee * Calculus nods. * KillJoy_ ponders Legal Limit Breaks Being an Assistant DA is basically grinding exp. KJ: Exactly. The really good, famous criminal lawyers simply know how to time their Limit Breaks to match up with closing arguments. -- I went to St Louis and found my religion. And made everyone else watch the stream. Joii: You're lucky. So many people lose their religion and never find it again. This is why you should always put your religion in a safe place, or perhaps attach some kind of religion-fob to it so that it'll still be attached to your pants. I already keep it in my pants. let's not get into this. ... into jo's pants? Joii: Can I join your religion? ;) ... baZING *snigger* sure. but not in my pants. :P But if I'm part of your religion, and you keep your religion in your pants, then I should get in your pants if I join your religion. -- "I want to bury the 1970's in the Yucca Mountain high-level nuclear waste site where they can never hurt anyone again." - Triggur on LJ, 7/7/2006 -- pfft. i'm from california. we like our electricity overpriced and intermittent! -- http://www.livejournal.com/userpic/35478843/4920120 phen: That's gayer than two men having sex with one another. And that's pretty gay. "that's gayer than eight guys blowing nine guys!" -- "It's brilliant. I'm just not sure if it's Marxism in action or a West End musical." -- Everyone who's ever had anything to do with "Tom Goes to the Mayor" should be burned alive, publicly... No, they shouldn't. Burning works too quickly. I think something involving dermestid beetles would be more appropos. Regular burning, perhaps...but what about Cleansing Flame? -- * k eats half a bag of pasta. mmm, carby Did you at least cook it first? ;) mostly -- I addicted her to anime and I'm proud of it. ^_^ you know, in texas, you can get 20-life for that Only if you say Satan made you do it. satan, japan, same deal. it sorta rhymes too -- ...yes! Natto mac 'n' cheese! * Calculus high-fives Nick. .... ... No. Oh, but yes. This concept cannot be unthought. No matter how much we may wish otherwise. Quite. -- Everyone should have a copy of princess bride, tucked into a first aid kit perhaps. -- [July 13, Mid-East blowing up again, etc] Blood...oil...pork... It's not dinner until my apron is a microcosm of global unrest. :9 -- Okay, some babies eventually *turn into* people, but... I was about to argue that being likely people isn't necessarily an argument in their favor... KJ: It's a small percentage though True, but what can you do? KJ: I really think there's some merit in growing them in vats for the first twenty years. If you can find a way to do that and not end up with drooling morons... I know, it'll be hard to tell the difference... But the way I figure, aging in vats works for scotch, and I like scotch a lot more than I like babies. Seems reasonable. Though I thought it was oak barrels or something? Well, yeah, and they call them casks, but it's all the same thing. ... I'm a horrible person. As much time as you've spent in here, I should hope so by now. -- It'd almost be worth it to make a real cake, then use wasabi for green letting on top. Then give it to someone and watch. -- ... digg comment ftw: "So what you're trying to say is that Bush and his administration are the snakes on America's plane." -- you know it's too hot when you take a swig of listerine and the first thing that occurs to you is "this shit needs some ice" -- o/) Me and my friends are Jem girls... o/) <<-- It was at about this point that young William knew he was not destined to grow up to be a manly man. -- That just reminds me of "Jurisprudence fetishist gets off on technicality." -- Sev: bah yourself. i don't shit in libraries either I have! (I mean, y'know, they have bathrooms there, too...;)) Sev: damn. i was picturing more of a spider jerusalem escapade ;) Naw. That'd be too basphemous even for me. ;) even in the self help section? I'd be more likely to take a crap in the Romances section. ;) Sev: there's plenty there already though ... the size of a birthday cake *snicker* "Why are you eating Prunes in Metamucil Soup?" "Gonna visit the library..." Sev: i am so doing that when i'm 70 -- * SevTT has been out for a good chunk of the day taking pictures of bugs and furry meatloafs. Zibblsnrt: ...and is it wrong that I'm parsing "furry meatloaf" as "live cow"? SevTT: *snigger!* SevTT: I was more referring to shape than destiny. ;) -- see, keeb wasn't born like the rest of us, he fell out of a Heinlein story. He's the Man Too Lazy To Fail. ;) -- and speaking of pedantic and annoying, i'm off to grade homeworks! whee, the marketing of educations... have fun, mr. mcfee like a barrel of illiterate monkeys -- sweet, there's a black widow in my carport glee! how much does dry ice cost? i want to surprise calc -- Zib: i got into an argument about this last night... would shooting zombie reagan in the head still work to kill him? or does the alzheimers give him extra special super zombie power? That's an astonishingly good question i was arguing in favor of super zombie power, in case it matters k: I find myself leaning in that direction myself it's like shooting a bullet through meringue. it'll just reform itself after a few seconds -- * Joins: CalcEQ2 (jrenken@brooklyn1.ny.us.cosanostrapizza.com) IT LIVES Holy crap, it does! * CalcEQ2 bursts through the wall, a thunderous "MOOOO" emanating from his fearsome visage! Or not so much. -- Maybe I just want a little more nuance in my Antichrist, okay? -- There really are quite a few people who take it for granted that the Democrats will take the House in November. Fire: and then there's the folks who are all "why bother trying? Republicans are gonna steal the election anyway." ...hardly anybody takes my "steal the fucker first" position. ;) -- It's *that* person. Why must there be morons in my fandom? It's a law of fandoms. Every one must have -that- person; indeed, they must have enough That Persons for any group in that fandom to have a That Person. -- "The word 'abstinence' is kind of like the word 'retirement fund' to the average 16-year-old." - Chamelaeon, 8/18/06 -- * k eyes the SOAP email. "come over any time between now and [6:45] if you want to drink. I will be starting at around 2:30." really organized drunks. awesome. -- like the kind of guy who would set up schroedinger's box just because he likes killing cats -- ...but then, I'm bitter & twisted. YMMV. You? Bitter and twisted? couldn't be. Mal can't be bitter and twisted... He must be one or the other? You sure about that? indeed. Mal is either bitter and rigidly sane, or twisted beyond all hope and in a state of perpetual, childlike glee. Oooh, that second one sounds fun. ... -- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5268892.stm dude, where's my terraforming crews? c'mON people... $10 says that's really caused by martian land-whales you're on. bring me the head of a martian land-whale! give me a trip to mars -- unless i'm over 70, which would be pretty cool which kind of problem, is a different question... you're not over 70, dude. then how do you explain those damn kids on my lawn? zero quantity condom use... also, bad aim. -- * k , apparently not having learned his lesson from yesterday, toasts the deep-fried tortellini in the oven man, this is like the caddyshack 2 of meals joii how so? in the same way that snakes on a plane is the caddyshack 2 of movies I thought caddyshack 2 was the caddyshack 2 of movies o...k.... Mal: that's a common mistake -- i figure Merry Meet of Blessed Be is just like a club's password if someone says that, I know how to respond and then they know i am part of the club but i never issue the phrases on my own ah that would explain it I think I'll start my own club password good idea! the greetings will be "Eat Shit" and the farewell with be "Drop Dead"... both said with a friendly smile * Quits: Peacock (Infinite@woobie-132B02B9.rivrw8.nsw.optusnet.com.au) (Connection reset by peer) * Joins: Peacock (Infinite@woobie-132B02B9.rivrw8.nsw.optusnet.com.au) Eat Shit! Drop Dead works for me -- [07:40] + nm [~Xtreme@Gamma.EdyStar.Customer.Bz.iNES.Ro] has joined #linux [07:42] care e siteul lu shocker 07:42] nm: english [07:43] i wanna arhive 4 scanner 4 linux [07:43] :) What's that, girl? Did Timmy fall down the well? o_O Not yet, gimme a moment. -- "The National Association of Media Lawyers of America, or NAMLA..." %) -- "Not since Unit 731 have atrocities against humans been this much fun!" -- * KillJoy_ hrms... wonders how you could finagle things so you could openly accept bribes without it being technicially illegal. KJ: "Overhead." KJ: Call the briber a lobbyist and the bribe a campaign contribution. Will: I mean, to the point where you can openly discuss how much your vote costs in a press conference. ;) "Vice President Wood, why does your page on the whitehouse homepage have a cart system?" "... Ease of use!" -- That'd be great, spend all day at Worldcon in the convention center, then hop down to the Pepsi Center to watch all the festivities at the DNC. %) * William pictures a group of delegates attending the DNC cosplaying. ...yes! "The Chair recognizes the delegates from... um..." *whisper* "No, you can't be a delegate from Japan. You have to be American." *whisper* "... the Chair recognizes the delegates from American Yokohama." -- * KillJoy_ hrms. Oh yeah, there was what I'm pretty sure is a juvenile bald eagle sitting by our bird feeder. KJ: What, pretending to be a lawn ornament? "Don't mind me, come and get your nice, nourishing seeds. Yep, just an inanimate object..." -- You know, playing video games wastes time, but by God it sure is distracting. It's now 11pm and I've totaled zero calories all day. you and me both, and now i'm stumped on this homework problem i have to explain tomorrow :P and i'm starting to wonder if it's a typo in the book Izzit MATH? it's math-like ;) Curse you and your ability to find a shade of grey between my instant willingness to help and complete dismissal of trivialities. Would you like assistance? -- And for real fun, call Turkey that ["Asia Minor"] still today. Because remember: Pissing off the Turks is the one thing the rest of the world can *always* agree on. * Calculus nods. Pri: You know you want to wander through the streets of ankara saying "ARMENIAN GENOCIDE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE" over and over -- is it wrong to draw the bombing of dresden in pictionary? well, the whole Heresey thing and all... keeb - And wow, my comment was so not directed at you, but sure, now it is keeb: Depends on what you're trying to get the audience to guess. "dresden flesh" i drew a burning city with swastikas and airplanes Nice. the funny thing is that everyone got the flesh part *snrk* ... Wow. Note to self: Never play Pictionary with keeb. %) -- * KillJoy_ idly ponders our neighbors, the mother of the family of whom is depressed that her *third* son is going into the priesthood too. ...Hee. Wow. Apparently, every sperm was sacred. -- [discussion of a "cheese railgun"] I've figured out what business the people of #spork could well and truly team up for. We need to start a mad science lab. %) Well, yeah. ;) Start? Okay, formally incorporate. KJ: I'm still waiting on that H2O2-powered chainsword. -- Cal: You need to become a high-priced and famous lawyer so that you can be KJ's patron. -- Note to self: We will need to obtain *serious* liability insurance. Cal: After a while, I have a feeling that we'd be one of those things in insurance policies, like acts of god or direct themonuclear action, which are specifically exempted from coverage. ;) Sev: Well, yeah. %) -- * NickM pauses. ... Wow, if I smoked crack, I would tell my self to lay off it right now. We save time by piping it through the server's air handling system. -- k: suprisingly not. Iceland tends to be up on all the latest fashion. It took about 3 years for the clothes I got in Iceland to make it to the states. ;) ari: haven't you heard? eskimo is all the rage for fall blubber is the new black -- It's kinda scary, tho. Being adultish and mature. It seems like not that long ago, I was trolling usenet. :( that was this afternoon -- William: Video games are very good at reward/punishment systems, and they reward the instilling of thought processes, like "do I have enough rupees" or "be wary of green squares." William: Play long enough, and like any habit of mind, it internalizes. NickM: "be wary of green squares" is good advice for living. * William waves a folded $10 bill at Nick. * NickM is wary. -- dragfyre: american money changed colours?!?!? katster: the Treasury department seems to have this "pastel" thing going. Money as done in Web2.0 -- Kowh: My advisor made up Durfee symbols in a forthcoming paper. They're another way of writing partitions when k=1, and with more k there are some conditions on what colors go where. Ah, so more general than what I touched on then. What does this have to do with my getting hawt sex? DW: nothing modulo hot math chix0rz Probably. Though if you came across Frobenius symbols you know something very similar. math has hot chix0rz? Nick: They exist, but the set is measure zero. .... god you're a dork :D k: You got the joke. ;^) ... I don't get it, so you're a dork. Nick: There are hot math chix0rz, but they are extremely rare and you're not likely to come across one randomly. Will: except now i'm contemplating epsilon-covers as clothing, and finding myself oddly aroused... -- "I was once blown across the room whilst I was fixing an old and dusty PSU. I accidently touch the case and one of the bigger caps at the same time whilst the thing was still plugged in. "Thats the sort of mistake you only make twice, maybe three times. Four and you're clearly an addict." - el_womble, on Slashdot -- * Calculus finishes dealing with another stupid, STUPID tech problem for Former, Now Apparently Current Again Consulting Client. Well, that was only two and a half hours of pure frustration. (Anyone want to guess what happens when you try to edit a totally-obfuscated [as in, all the code is hex] commercial Perl script, upload it over the original version, don't test it at ALL, and do this right before the software needs to be used for urgent purposes? Anyone? Anyone?) Calc: Oooh! Oooh! I have a guess! Go ahead, Aris_TGD! You get kerblammofux0r3d! *dingdingdingdingding!* That is CORRECT! rotfl hee Calc: The ghosts of sysadmins past, present and future appear to you at night and strangle you in your sleep? Shad: Ghosts, fuck, I'm gonna do it myself. -- * Calculus wants to make an NC-17 movie with absolutely no sex or violence. Can it be done? -- * Zibblsnrt snrks. DU's still spazzing out over that "new" Iranian "fighter" Zib: link me? Ars: It's a twin-tail F-5; that's really all you need to know. ;) "Man, when we attack them forty years ago from now we'll be screwed" -- it is the great and mighty wizard! i shall not meddle in his affairs. arr. x_x * k meddles. careful; he's subtle, and quick to...wait, no he's not. he's subtle. and crafty and such. * Calculus deep-fries keebler. Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup. * k becomes more delicious than you could possibly imagine -- * Calculus had forgotten that Supreme Court opinions have a two-drink minimum. *pours* -- * Sev sniggers. "I designed this Kid-A-Pult to be just dangerous enough to injure my kids, but not kill them. They know it's dangerous, and they know they have to work together to make it work. They love it." -- * Dan_Wood hears the gentle slosh of giant vats of karma teetering... -- Jadua: ok, DW. I think you be wizzen now. Dan_Wood surges with power, etc., etc. -- You know you want a falcata. I also want one, yeah, but if I had to pick I'd get a spatha. ;) Bah... choppy! stabby! Choppy! Stabby! Choppy! * KillJoy_ idly cackles. This is the best debate ever. I think we just boiled down the essence of all debate over tactics in pre-gunpowder eras. -- * Joins: k (bmcfee@cpe-66-75-240-21.san.res.rr.com) well, well, well... look what the lumberjack dragged in. it was horrible. flannel everywhere... -- * Joins: Calculus (jrenken@tofu.sandwich.net) * ChanServ sets mode: +o Calculus * Zibblsnrt prods Cal. I'm still waiting for my revolution moo Zib: Revolution is like evolution: it takes time. And is very controversial. ;) -- Caaaalc, make the bad men stop! But...that would entail stopping myself. :( -- * KillJoy_ eyes the note for a party this weekend. "Come dressed some what like a Laywer or a Ninja. Lawyers will come in through the front door and must pass the Bar Exam to enter. Ninja in the through the basement window and drink the Blessed Liquid of My Ancestors." -- * Calculus is away: Defendant requests any and all documents which indicate or tend to indicate that plaintiff is a wanker. This shall include, but is not limited to, your mom. -- Some days I want to live in an alternate universe where we could engage Krahulik & Holkins LLP as co-counsel on the brief. -- WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW * Zibblsnrt ate him. He goes well with ketchup. ... I *will* not laugh at blasphemy. I *won't* You will soon enough. heheheh Many people eat the flesh of christ rather often, I thought? It just happens to look like a cracker. Bah, theophagy's one of the most ancient of Christian traditions. ;) -- Everything's better when battered and fried in boiling fat. NM: Compound fractures of the femur? PS: Sure, if you can figure out how to eat it! NM: I'm assuming it's your own femur Hmm. It'd be hard to eat your own femur. And battering and frying it in boiling fat wouldn't exactly improve things, would it? Probably not. ZOMG TEIM PARADOCKS DIVIDE BY ZERO -- I dunno, the preparation and devouring of gods has to be at least somewhat interesting, even if you do cook them can't say i know. i've never eaten god and i never intend to. "WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW?" "in mah belleh!" -- with the frequency of rule 34 being invoked lately, it could only be the apocalypse. a very messy apocalypse. No, it's just the internet. A common mistake. -- Despite being awesome, it was rather depressing to realize that this single legislator could utterly demolish the Shrub in any given debate, probably without preparation. Sigh. That's because we have convictions. that aren't DUI. -- * Fb_work hears that there's some evidence that there's a compound in marijuana that reduces brain inflamation that could prevent alzheimer's. Wow. w00t Did I just hear Ronald Reagan becoming slightly more ironic? Zib: I wondered what that sound was. -- * Phil isn't offended, he's METAoffended. -- "What rock do you live under? Is it called Asia?" - Chamaeleon on RFM, 10/20/2006 -- SEPTUAGENARIAN SCANDAL: Sister Silvia Gomes De Sousa, 39, has been charged with threatening to murder and with arson after allegedly setting fire to the house of the village priest in Roccalumera, Sicily, Italy. Why? She stopped by the house where Fr. Carmelo Mantarro, 70, lives and "I just flipped when I came to the house and caught him in bed with another woman who is married," she testified in a court proceeding. "We had been together four years and I had even had two abortions because of him." (London Daily Mail) ...John 8:7. ... rofl. ....holy shit ...*snork* ... i don't get it? *eyes keeb.* he's a priest. they're supposed to be celibate. I lost count of the number of vows and commandments that got broken in that single paragraph he's also 70. the 70-yr-old *priest* was with *two* women. ...and he's - yeah %) I don't know whether to applaud or wince... do both. ;) at least he apparently still remembers that birth control is a sin. ;) dude's just makin up for lost time let a player pray or prayer play. whatever. -- * joish queries... I've got somebody who y'all might like... and might like y'all. Can I invite him to the serverness at some point? I'm always up for meeting new, interesting people, cutting out their still-beating hearts in honor of Huitzilopochtli and then feasting on their warm brains. Please don't sacrifice James to your South American gods... Please, Huitzilopochtli is Central American. Big difference. -- bah, 4chan. life didn't really need 4chan. The internet probably needed 4chan, if only to ensure that the true vileness is well-marked and held in a secure place. 4chan serves a useful filtering purpose. All we need to do is to make a one-way door to it. ...and a hydrochloric alligator pit... That'd be unpleasant for the alligators, though robot alligators, then. With shiny titanium teeth. crikey What, stingrays too? Tungsten carbide tipped tool steel would actually be more durable... titanium's roundly overestimated as a structural material. That's the problem with capitalism; no one will ever build titanium stingrays. -- Considering that the stingrays all seem to be out to get us, titanium ones seem to be counter-indicated. contraindication, my ass! What happened to fighting fire with fire? After Chicago burned down that last time... -- * retstak tries really hard not to laugh IRL. nah, laugh it up kats. We like it when you laugh. :) I'm in the middle of accounting class. It would be bad form. I thought that thing was over? accounting is not a laughing matter! or are you in more than one? * retstak had two accounting classes this term. ACCOUNTING: SERIOUS FUCKING BUSINESS -- * Calculus nods. You always win the staring competition if you eat the eyes. Calc: what happened to my benevolent leader? Jo: Oh, I eat only *deserving* eyes. -- Children are resilient and they heal quickly. They are bendy, too. NM: And they're a renewable resource! -- DrDamocles: stolichnaya=evil Zibblsnrt: ? DrDamocles: i bought some at the winco this evening and went over a friends house and drank like a quarter of the bottle DrDamocles: now i have an urge to make heavy equipment and get shot at by germans. -- * k stares at perl k: * the abyss stares back -- * Fireball blinks a couple times at the TV torrent site he uses... there was a Wing Commander tv series? An animated one? Yeah; I didn't see it but I'd heard it was pretty good Zib: I'm just seeing the complete run show up on this torrent site, so I can only assume it was the animated one. But it couldn't have sucked more than the movie. ;) Smallpox couldn't suck more than the movie I don't know about that. I've see the movie, and it at least didn't kill me painfully. Yeah, but a simple vaccine can confer immunity to smallpox, even if you are exposed to it afterwards. No such treatment exists for the movie. ...point -- irvine is pretty much what happens if you let a strip mall get it on with a golf course -- I don't like Christ. He's so dry and flavorless, and always gets so soggy when you dip him in the wine. NM: Nah, it's just that most people don't buy from high-quality Christ suppliers, nor do they store Him correctly. Your Lord and Savior should be stored in a cool, dry place for no more than six months. Calc: Ahh, so Christ isn't always stale and flavorless. If stale, He can be resurrected in a 300-degree oven for about twenty minutes. ... Jesus: It's what's for dinner.(tm) -- * KillJoy_ hrms. Lorica segmentata and a katana holding against a stoneage army? Fuck a katana. Claymore. :) Sev: You can't fight close-order with claymores ...Granted, you can't much with katana either, but it's more possible. ;) It's hard to get close to someone with a claymore. ;) Claymore *would* be easier to forge. Zibblsnrt: Bah, for sufficiently immortal types of immortal, claymores are close quarters weapons. ;) K: If you're that immortal you might as well fight unarmed. ;) Or with the femur of your previous foe or something Zib: Yeah, but you'd get tired a lot slower with a weapon. You get more kills per calorie invested. ;) ...I just broke the arms race down to an energy equation. -- Yes, but Evangelion theology is not fluffy at *all*. Yes, but in normal theology they just schism, in Evangelion theology somebody gets eaten. (And then is declared the loser by the survivors) Will: SOmeone gets eaten in Catholicism, too. :^D XD *snigger* * Calculus looks in, in between grinding up communion wafers for the Jesus bukkake scene. "..." .... ....... Wow, that's the most blasphemous thing I've heard in _months_. %) Sev: That's the most blasphemous thing *you've* heard in months? I disbelieve. ;) * Calculus bows. I'm serious, I think it really is. ;) You could probably render seminary students unconscious with that phrase. I live one block away from the RC Diocese of Brooklyn. Anyone willing to lend me a megaphone? Sev: .....dammit, stop giving me ideas! Calc: I *live* at a Christian school Bucher: Why ever would I do that? HA! B: Then you are hereby deputized. See, I knew that fact, and was hoping that Bucher would go out and do it. ;) Bah ;) I mean, can you imagine walking by someone in conversation, then letting that bit slip out a bit louder, and watching the wave-front of horror from those who overheard? ;) Best perpetrated in a ballroom full of evangelicals. -- Aren't they usually on the website or something? The odd time I've read a Playboy interview is when someone links to the site. Could be. Only one I have on my bookshelf right now is the 50th Anniversary issue. ... bookshelf. what a unique and atypical place for them, I'm sure. *runs.* oh snap ;) Come on, this entire discussion started with a comment about the additional romantic appeal provided by an Erdos number. Encountering a Playboy neatly filed on a bookshelf flows naturally from that starting point. ;^) -- I mean seriously. If I was stuck in the middle of the desert, with no hope of rescue, but I had a PC hooked up to a strangely convenient phone line that would allow me to use nothing but AOL to get someone to come save my desiccated ass, i'd die. f'it. -- Calc: i'm seriously pondering jungian mormonism now.. you still get one animus, but as many anima as you want? ;) -- Sev: (The best profs are the ones who come to class like a martini, heavy on the vermouth -- bitter, hateful, and full of gin.) -- QotD: "You see, this is why, whenever I go to a sushi bar I either use the menu numbers when ordering or I very carefully fill out the order form, because accidently substituting weaponized aerosol Polonium 210 when you really wanted eel sauce can be very disappointing to the palate." -- hmm. good riot or bad riot? good = ? sure. it's like a world cup riot vs a rodney king riot -- i don't want your congratulations, i want sedatives. or chocolate. or both. chocolate sedatives, that's what I want. -- "i'm afraid that one day i'll be looking for work and a hiring manager will google my name, find this and read too many details of my personal life, points i omit from cover letters. it's in the newspaper more and more, a guy losing his job after management finds his website. that's the risk of communicating on a ubiquitous medium: we're all indexed. this was less of a concern back when i was making $8 an hour at toys r us or target, but now i'm coming upon better, more "professional" opportunities. so, with my future in mind, i want to make one point absolutely clear to any potential employer who may read this: i've had some great times on LSD. " - Bobby Burgess -- StudentOfLight: Rome==good, friends==weird. Zibblsnrt: *snrk* Zibblsnrt: weird==good therefore friends==Rome? StudentOfLight: Yes! StudentOfLight: Wait. -- Oh CNN, quit playing with my funny bone: "Police want bullet in teen's forehead" But enough about the NYPD... Actually, Texan police want to pull a bullet from a kid's forehead to link him to a murder. "Oh, you want to pull a bullet from my head just to put another one in there? SURE!" -- Scientology is okay for most Congressmen, but Islam isn't. Ooohhh-kay. * KillJoy_ damned well wants to get elected and swear oath on the Principia Discordia now. KJ: I want to get elected nad swear an oath on an Onion anthology Hrm. Stack of Playboys? Cookbook -- woo! free colloidal silver on craigslist! smurfdom, here i come! -- * Dan_Wood lounges mightily. -- What the FUCK? http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/01/01/down.syndrome.ap/index.html <- Free Downs Syndrome Tests to Expecting Mothers. ... What's so horrible about that? It's the thin end of the eugenics wedge! * Mal-3 gets out the ice axe... I'll give you the thin end of a wedge, just hold that pose... -- * Kowh idly wonders why now, of all times, someone lit off a string of fireworks outside. Celebrating lunch? Almost four hours after noon? K: It's January 1. Do you have any idea how many people woke up at one PM, hideously hung over? ;) You'd think they'd avoid loud noises then. New Year's hangovers cause people to be at -3 to all IQ rolls And given their starting stats... -- Y'know, being on helldesk has given me the appreciation that, much like the mail, there will never be an end to stupid people. Come hell or high water, stupid people will get through? Prezactly! -- http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1.gif <-- Why Marketers Should Never Use Slang, Chapter n+3 Mal: I refuse to get tired of that. %) ... hee * aio eyes that picture, *laughs.* hey, there's a reason the big mac has two patties just saying *cackles.* WHY YOU SAY THESE THINGS? %( -- * Kowh wants micro heat seaking missiles that'll home in on cigarettes... ... ! Which I can fire off my balcony, and leave my window open for fresh air. We need venture capital STAT -- * joii puffs sawdust. It's everyeffingwhere EVERYWHERE! Despite constant vacuuming Sawdust has a lot of fiber in it. ...yeah, but it tastes like sawdust. With good reason. -- http://www.ready.gov/kids/home.html <- The DoHS is part of the Furry Conspiracy! OMG! The truth comes out, the DoHS is too busy making fursuits to keep the terrorists at bay. (Also, that'd explain the lack of furcons being ebola'd into oblivion.) I dunno, that's drawn too well, and has no nudity. ... point. I'm avoiding googling for '"Department of Homeland Security" fanfiction' Because we all know that if Osama wanted to strike fear into our hearts, it'd be through furry fanfiction. Results 1 - 10 of about 864 for "department of homeland security" fanfiction <-- %( Results 1 - 10 of about 879 for "homeland security" tentacle jello. -- *looks in* So Jewish, Muslim and Buddhist representations are /all/ at an all-time high in this Congress? Yep Holy moly, this may actually be a Congress that does something about pork. -- [OOC] Kyra says, "Fuck family" [OOC] Simon says, "Please don't, think of the children!" moo Mama does it best, but let your sister do the rest? ... ... bad verra bad. * Dan_Wood laughs. eew * Zibblsnrt looks up, snickers. Well-done. ;) David just muttered, "I don't know you." I win. -- Dalcassius: Why did we ever get out of the fucking trees and stop throwing our own feces at the assholes of the clan? Zibblsnrt: the assholes of the clan got out of range and we had to go after them Zibblsnrt: granted, by following them they became our leaders Zibblsnrt: ... THEY PLANNED IT THIS WAY ALL ALONG! BASTARDS! -- I still wonder if there's a true big-C Conspiracy that guides humanity... and if so, did they do this intentionally or was it one of the Overlord's little brother's ideas? DW: They're training the new guy "HAY! You were supposed to keep the Republicans in power!" "But... A Starbucks in the Forbidden City?" "... Hmm." I, for one, welcome our new n00b overlord. -- * Calculus grumbles, takes hate reducer...er, Tylenol -- "For instance, I found it nearly impossible to read the praise of Kazmer Ujvarosy, who seems to be operating on a wavelength of about 0.9 Timecubes." -- I've always wondered why it gets so damned hot inside NASCAR cars. They don't even have windows. It's the intense masculinity. -- Gentlemen! I give you: James Randi/Richard Dawkins slashfic. You're welcome. Calculus! *cringe.* I give you: A compound panskeletal fracture. You're welcome. Yay! -- KJ: Bah, run your own fibre! It's not really worth it when I'm likely moving. ONE OF US ONE OF US ONE OF US Damo: Not necessecarily there. my network of spies assures me this is so So far only like, a quarter of the job apps I've submitted are for Cali. I HAVE A NETWORK OF SPIES AND I WAS ASSURED You might wanna pay 'em better, then * Zibblsnrt pays 'em more. -- zibb: if japan was a person, that person ouwld be in jail -- Sev: "Vinyards are heating up. German whites are improbably lush, Australia and Napa are turning out reds with enough alcohol to be considered breakfast food in Russia, and for the first time since the Magna Carta, English wine is drinkable." -- * Sev figures that, since books == knowledge and knowlege == power and power == energy and e=mc^2, I'll tear spacetime from all the books in my room sometime in the next ten years. -- * Quits: Kowh (bob913@206-248-162-94.dsl.teksavvy.com) (Quit: Practice the four Rs: Reduce! Reuse! Recycle! Regicide!) -- * StudentOfLight *cackles* at a friend's LJ Zibblsnrt: ? StudentOfLight: There's an "If I were a [thing], I'd be:" meme going around. StudentOfLight: She answered "If I were a colour or a shade, I'd be" with "Anchises." -- I just ordered a pizza over the internet. I get free breadsticks for being antisocial!! Welcome to THE FUTURE. -- * William ponders Baba Yetu as his prmary hymn for whenever he becomes god to a primitive civilization. Bah. Kirk-Spock fight music all the way -- * William hmms. Has had a normal breakfast, an order of Chinese, and a pint of Ben & Jerry's. Is moderately full, but the third doesn't exactly constitute a dinner. On the other hand, it's late. On the third hand, I've nothing much in the fridge before I shop tomorrow. On the fourth, I have already ordered out once today. Do I really want to order a calzone? No, seriously, I'm asking for votes. As the Hivemind commands! Yes. :9 ...time limit passed. The will of the Hive! *calls* -- * Kowh finishes the latest BSG. Huh, I think I've seen this episode before. It was on Law & Order. :/ -- KJ: Currently at Redeemer University College, Ancaster, ON ;) ... they named a university after the most awesome weapon in UT2004? -- * Calculus is producing an episode of Pimp My RAID. uh oh. It's SOOPER SYSADMIN! This 3ware array needs...MORE BLING! oh dear. * Calculus replaces the drive casings with 24-carat gold plating. -- ... forty minutes later, I have the same customer. :( he hasn't left yet and I am still answering the same questions I've answered four times or more. wow. maybe he's the miniboss for this level df: %) you might get a promotion if you successfully vanquish him -- Oh you can't read aloud about scrotums. That word's too uncouth, so demote 'em to balls, nuts, or nads or just call them "the lads," but anatomy textbooks? Don't quote 'em. -- Ah, putting the "win" back in "Darwin." -- ...why have I not previously used the word "adminquisition"?! * Calculus googles. It has been used... once. ... this needs to be changed. I'm disappointed that you aren't the first person to do that. ;) I'm disappointed that I'm only the second. -- * KillJoy_ backwanders. ... I'm so glad I'm not a member of some wacky non-pig-eating religion. :( Seriously, BLTs rock. not eating pigs isn't wacky :( many sensible people don't eat pigs Many otherwise-sensible. ;) -- for the record, rubbrchikin was absolutely right about women well, some of them WHAT! -- Hey, lemme have my delusions, 'kay? ;) no. if i can't have them, you can;t have them, fucker. self-esteem transmitted via abuse. there's a new one. ;) -- * Joins: k (bmcfee@cpe-72-130-177-28.san.res.rr.com) greetings, jerkbags! fuck you too, keeb. ;) what? i don't mean jerkbag in a disrespectful way I don't mean fuck you in any disrespectful way either. ... do you mean it in the fun way? O_o -- the people demand interesting induction problems for discrete math chillins! Goddammit, if boring math problems were good enough for you as an undergrad, then they're plenty good enough for the next generation! dude, i took this class in a different *decade*. how should i remember what i did? :P Not my problem, man. useless I try, thanks. try less :( that's more like it -- "People in China need to hear Sanctuary, because people in China need to hear what freedom sounds like, God dammit, and if Sanctuary doesn't sound like freedom I don't know what does!" - Chamelaeon on RFM, 3/2/2007 -- * k shrugs.. i'm 25 and saw clerks in theaters ;) doubled my vocabulary that day... -- guys are more weird than people -- I think you both are now on the list I'm on a list? it's sort of like a to do list except it involves more scarring ... You're entirely too male for me to feel comfortable being on a "to do list". -- my keen senses of deduction suggest to me the presence of alcohol in your system though that could just be the guinness talking -- See, if there was a giant conspiracy, I'd feel better about this clusterfuck... But somewhere deep in my heart, I think these people are genuinely trying their hardest. DW: Those aren't mutually exclusive PS: Have I stated recently how much I hate you? I aim to please, but my sights are broken. Now I have the image of the Keystone Kops in Illuminati gear... -- how's you? killed any students yet? one or two Did they deserve it? gonna get acquitted? definitely on both Well, okay then sounds like it's going well. ;) -- ooh, they finally announced the 8-core Mac Pro. http://www.apple.com/macpro/ The question is... what do we really need THAT much powar for? Porn! ..... Well, that's the default answer True. -- * Fb_work snickers at Dawkins in a discussion about euthanasia... "All I can say is that when my time comes I shall have myself declared an animal and go to the vet." %) -- * Dan_Wood blarghs at his cisco. Wrassling with SDM is like wrassling with a giant porcupine. You generally feel better before you started. -- The only thing that keeps me from being depressed about politics is that I know the participants still have to follow the laws of physics and are therefore mortal. -- I was rewiring and needed lubricant to get phone cables through the wall. Thing is, cable lubricant only comes in one-gallon buckets - way more than I need. It's propylene glycol, though, exactly the same thing that's in personal lubricant. So I went and got some KY. I'm allergic, so I got some Kleenex. And I needed DVD-Rs. ...so, I'm standing there in the checkout line, wondering about the funny looks I'm getting, and then it hits me. -- And now, the QotD, in two parts. Stimulus: "The 2nd most common question I am asked whenever people find out I'm an atheist is something along the lines of "Well, if you don't believe in God, what keeps you from going out and, y'know, killing people?"" Response: "The best way to answer that question is "You know... I hadn't thought of that before," and start choking the shit out of them." -- Exam #1 down! * Calculus was expecting to fail with great wailing and gnashing of teeth. Instead, he kicked its ass. ^_^ Calculus: Did it at least explode in a pleasing manner after you got its health to 0%? Kowh: Actually, yes. The exam software crashed. %) Cal gibbed a law exam? Sweet! Madness! THIS IS NEW YORK CIVIL PRACTICE! *boot* -- DrDamocles: i'm bored. Zibblsnrt: Instigate the revolution! DrDamocles: okay. brb. -- * rubbrchikin wonders if he's an alcoholic. Can you quit anytime you want to? Yeah. yep. -- * William consumes soup that involves seaweed, mushroom, and bits of plant intended to repel eating... now all I need is a moldy bit of modified sweat intended to nurture the young of another species, preferably atop grain filled with the byproducts of yeast metabolism, and the meal would be awesome. Yeast! Mold! Fungus! Mild poisons! Mm, mushroom-and-pepper pizza.... -- * Calculus gets this in the mail: http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/ripoff30548.htm * Calculus fills the reply envelope with as much low-grade notebook paper as he can fit, blacks out his return address, and prepares to dump it in the mailbox. Am I a bad person? ;) -- Given the choice between installing a binary-only extension from Microsoft that runs as root on Herring and performing oral sex on a rhinoceros, I'd have to think about it. -- I hate to say it, but the way she thinks, I could honestly assume that she'd either love her bf or God, but not both How's God in bed? Let's just say there's a reason people say "oh, God, yes." <3 -- [a Nickelback song just cued on RFM] ... kill it and play nickelbacksucks. Cham: You are only allowed to play this as half of nickelbacksucks. I PLAY ANYTHING. D:< I've played Dolly Parton, I can damn well play Nickelback. But are you ridin' dirty? You bet your sweet ass I am. -- * Calculus does the happy and rather obscene !Falwell Dance. Cal: Now you have to watch the funeral from a safe distance. I assume you heard about Phelps ;) Yeah. %) (You got Falwell in my Phelps! You got Phelps in my Falwell!) (...*slashfic*) -- Damocles: okay, pissing contest time, who has the most expensive hobby related item? Zibblsnrt: Damo: *points to his degree* Damocles: I have a 2,000 dollar rifle Damocles: THAT DOESN"T COUNT Zibblsnrt: Damo: neither does yours! It's a vital tool in the battle against tyranny, or might be! Damocles: ...point. -- DrDamocles: i'm probably going to get a webley Zibblsnrt: you mentioned that DrDamocles: to go with my enfields Zibblsnrt: will you hold it sideways on the range, uttering gangsta smack talk in a clipped british accent? DrDamocles: .... DrDamocles: now i will -- Hey, I'm not the internets! -- "You know, I miss the Cold War. Only the Cold War could have allowed Rocky IV to get made." - ElboRuum, DemocraticUnderground, 6/3/07 -- m_vfxArivalEffect m_vfxDepartuerEffect this is why visual studio needs a goddamn spellcheck /me laughs. s/\s+//g or we need to FIRE THE PROGRAMMER RESPONSIBLE FOR 99% OF THE SPELLING ERRORS Departuer? seriously, there's one guy in the company who can't spell for shit Maybe it's job security? And he's also a terrible programmer, has no concept of architecture or robust design DW: Unfortunately phe's the debugger? and we should FIRE HIM. Ah, so he's a college graduate. Actually I don't know Ask him if he learned programming concepts from the back of a Rice Krispies box. If he responds 'no', just suggest that he does. :D Also, if nepotism is involved, ask if any of his siblings survived or was he just too quick for the coathanger. -- * Dan_Wood hmms, ponders establishing a 'mod your spouse' service. DW: Pimp My Bride A wedding mod the spouse is just a singleton anyway... -- ... did I just buttress quantum theory and constitutional law? +together Careful, you'll accidentally create quantum law ... win. So if it's Shroedinger's Office, does that mean that Cheney is both alive and dead? oooh... OPEN THE BOX "Your Honour, a careful reading of the relevant legislation -" "Changes it. Case dismissed." :D PS: Well, it's already quasi-quantum... You're only guilty if you're caught. :D DW: But if it's fully quantum being caught changes the circumstances under which you were caught, shrouding you with a thick layer of Reasonable Doubt. ... -- why would anyone pay to have wait-staff be rude when you can get that for free in quite a lot of places? They're ... endearingly rude. It's kind of hard to explain. nex: why pay a dom when you can get a shit-kicking for free at any biker bar? Okay, NOT so hard to explain. -- ...no do NOT quote rule 34 and then post a URL -- "All opinions are true, facts are wrong?" "Well, it's my opinion that your facts are wrong" P: Yeah, the neat thing about that kind of statement is that it's autorefuting. ;) Yeah, much like a sign saying "Unauthorized Parking Only" -- Where would we be without wikipedia... Prolly better informed about the things that matter and less informed about things that don't? :D -- I want a ticket headed by a white woman and a black-looking multiracial guy just to watch the apoplexy. We'll cut our redneck population by 10% through strokes alone. %^) Will: 20% if one of them's gay and/or atheist I find your logic compelling and now seek a gay running mate for the 2032 Presidential. * Quits: Alt-Eisen (Rook@cpe-76-173-130-1.socal.res.rr.com) (Quit: ) Will: Bah, come out right after you win the primary. ("Thank you! Oh, by the way..") -- New Revised and Expanded Edition "WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN" incorporating "Jesus Christ The Counterfeit Christian Messiah" ... That's a pageturner. Sounds like he's a few rabbis short of kosher. I'd buy a box of those just to hand out to people who give me Chick Tracts. -- There is a raccoon in the dumpster! ! So? :) I beaned him with some trash and he made some surprised noises. hee NM: "THE FOOD GODS DELIVER UNTO ME!" XD I don't think he expected to be smacked upside the head with-- yeah, FOOD. Now you've made a religious masochist, you know "O God, smite me more with Thy edible fists!" -- "If it's weird, Japan has it! It's a law!" - Chamelaeon, 8/10/07 -- Tort law is fun. It's my favorite tort. ^_^ Mine's apricot. (Sorry) ...*whack* * Calculus hits William in the face with a torte, thus committing a tort. -- * Calculus also hits the US Postal Service in the face for not selling Forever Stamps in coils. Have you ever pondered just buying, like, $1000 worth and letting your kids inherit whatever's left? *Year: 2413* "Yeah, I'd lke to mail this instant-entanglement-service to Andromeda Station 3, please." "That's a lotta of cash lad--" *whips out 41-cent Forever Stamp* "...daaaaaamn." -- StudentofLight: TOO MANY PEOPLE WITH THE SAME NAME strangebrooch: YES OMG StudentofLight: We need a war! Clear out some of them! strangebrooch: *is now laughing like a complete nutter* StudentofLight: I swear, the Wars of the Roses started because the Duke of York was talking about going around to talk to Richard, and someone said "Richard who?" StudentofLight: "RIGHT! WE HAVE TOO MANY RICHARDS! TO ARMS!" -- See, what keeps me from ever committing any serious jury-warranting crimes is that a jury of my peers would spend the entire time that they're supposed to be deliberating making meme jokes. "I CAN HAS NOT GUILTY VERDICT?" "NO, YOU MAY NOT. NOT YOURS." DW: "I maked you an alibi, but I eated it." "INVISIBLE EVIDENCE." Hey, that one's working for the White House ...wait. That's it! Bush is Anonymous! ... I don't think he's quite 4chan, but iichan is the Internet Apathy Machine... DW: Think about it. He's terrible in his anger, he does not forgive, he's dumber than whatever animals or synthetic polymers are the source of his clothing... You can stop now. I'm actually getting a bit scared. -- tang: if you don't really have time for lj, what are you doing here? IRC is like anti-time. It combines and takes out whole blocks. ;) kowh: I was having procrastination withdrawals and needed a substitute tangaroa: Ah. Well, we've got every flavour of procrastination around here. When we get around to it. * Tangaroa plans to have chocolate fudge swirl procrastination with whipped cream and a cherry on top. Eventually. -- * dragfyre has joined #spork mooooo mutual respect and understanding YAY How about we agree not to set each other on fire, and go from there? We're not ruling out less drastic options like global thermonuclear war, but hopefully, in good time, we'll come around to that too -- * Miki is now known as Seaweed_Avenger * Tangaroa grumbles at c++ and having to spend more time wrestling with the syntax than writing code JAVA I might, but the class is taught in c++. Otherwise i'd be doing it in python .... :( error: dot count exceeds ellipsis maximum boundary \n error: expected '-' in frowny face definition \n error: you have too many characters in your username \n error: you too, Seaweed Avenger tangaroa: That's too straightforward. You made it too obvious which line the error was on. -- "My friends who read the [Wheel of Time] series and I always had a theory that he'd written the ending years ago, and that in some strange, literary mockery of Zeno's Paradox, he just wrote the plot half-way there each time he churned out a new book." - Valdrax on Slashdot, 9/17/07 -- http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-reviews/B0006TJ7I6/sr=1-31/ qid=1191130759/ref=cm_rev_next/102-5155017-1497760?ie=UTF8&customer- reviews.sort%5Fby=-SubmissionDate&n=284507&s=kitchen&customer-reviews. start=21&qid=1191130759&sr=1-31 ... hrm. somebody tell me no. aio: No. heh, thank you. too late though; Paul actually talked me *into* it. (he's so helpful.) hehe. Doh! Getting those will make saying 'no' to future things less safe.. -- "Following in the steps of her father Maggie decides to become a detective by choice. But suddenly she is forced to ask herself "How could this happen to me? I have always felt disconnected from everyone. And now I feel connected to someone who is not even here...or is she?" " ... what? ... that's the book's *description.* I don't want to know what the inside looks like. I'm going with my earlier statement. Let's stone her! A: Sounds like she beat you to it -- * Cairsten happies at possessing shiny sharp things. David's Henckel's set was better, but these'll do for the money, since I have no upper-middle-class parents buying them for me, heh. Mmm, sharp things. one day, though, my kitchen will contain ony the best. Seems a reasonable goal. ... though, for what degree of "best"? Laser cutting tools for meat? ;) No no no, lasers would heat things too much. Waterjet. KJ: Halberds and a large kitchen * KillJoy_ wants a waterjet cutter, btw. if I had laser cutting tools, I'd raise my own meat just for the cool factor of butchering and cauterising in the same stroke. -- My tapeworm demands that I eat rare steak. -- this is a very weird conversation. Agreed. My apologies. Back to silk screen bukkake? -- bleh. hot + cloudy == nobody should have to live in this weather * Zibblsnrt initiates m0x0r protocols jerk yep may you die of cholera contracted from a circus clown -- * William comes in with a salad, sets down and cracks open AMV Hell 4. * William closes AMV Hell 4. Error: INSUFFICIENT COMPUTER. -- yes, that's not how i ever expected to see "jo" and "federal agent" arranged in a sentence k: just how did you expect it, by the way? jo: hmm.. maybe a slightly more waco sense, but i mean it in the best possible way ;) -- You! I want to take you to a gay bar! Why? I want to take you to a gay bar! I want to take you to a gay bar, gay bar, gay bar! Will: Wow, I didn't know you swung that way. *run* kats: I don't. I go to gay bars because they have the best disco. -- Zibblsnrt: you'll be pleased to know that the only thing which keeled over while you were off was the Writer's Guild of America Dalcassius: wtf? Zibblsnrt: They voted to strike Zibblsnrt: so no more awful TV for awhile, at least once the producers run out of scripts Dalcassius: One of the laziest professions on earth went on strike? Dalcassius: They are my heroes -- Hm. I do have some colorsafe laundry detergent; a thick liquid. Dab some on, scrub it in, let it evaporate? Good idea, bad idea, 404? Aw, nertz. It's dark carpet, it's mostly water, and I'm on the second floor so I'll hardly be attracting ants. *goes to make some more tea* * Zibblsnrt watches Will use "404" as an option in a knowledge question. hee. just put water on it and pat up with a towel. Tea can discolor carpet eventually, so getting it out is good. NO to the detergent. You'll never get it out, and it'll stain and stick and attract other things. Cleansing flame! I agree. Burn down the place and move. THanks, Anna. Always a good plan. ^_^v I'll save the burn-and-flee plan for when I need to destroy slightly tougher evidence. DNA ftl. :( Tell me about it. There were a couple of Jehovah's Witnesses that came by last week. You think their door-to-door guys are persistent, you should see their missing-teams investigators. -- I'm a mite unenthusiastic working on problems with no apparent use (nor has any been mentioned in any class offered as an undergrad) with a teacher who every so often goes into speeches on how we must be stupid because we're going to this college instead of UW Madison. ... and why is that teacher not teaching at UW Madison, I wonder? couldn't make the cut? aio: Actually, his specific beef was that for the same money we could be going to MIT too, and he'd pay 5 grand to anyone who could get into a grad program there. ... someone wrote on his course evaluation that they'd give him 50 grand if he could get accepted for a teaching position there. ;) -- Five bucks says you won't wear a tinfoil hat to the lecture. DW: I'm going to be talking about technology as an historian's tool to an historiography class. The tin hats are gonna be on the other side of the lectern Well, if you're wearing one too, you can both speak the universal language of sophistry. But then I'd have to get my pretensions lanced again. Sophistry gives me soul cancer. heee. Enh, it's a worthy sacrifice for proper bemusement. "If you'd like to direct your attention to my first slide... *click* , I will be referring to this slide throughout the presentation." -- Johnny Hart took all the fun out of that a long time ago. "retarded", not "thuggish fundamentalism" is he still claiming jews are obsolete? Isn't he _dead_? Upgrade now to Jews 2.0? K: Judaism Vista Cham: like that stops people like that ;) Well, he's got his 72 virgins, doesn't have much to complain about any more. I dunno, with attitudes like his, all 72 are likely to remain that way by choice -- Torchwood makes so much more sense when I read that it was originally a Russell T. Davies idea to do a Buffyesque that got greenlit once he put the Dr. Who name and franchise on it. It's like the Super Mario Bros 2 of Dr. Who shows. -- I have a special place in my heart for Foucalt. It is called the Iron Maiden Of Cham's Rage. -- I can acknowledge the viewpoint which states that technology is not the Universal Panacea, but jesus fucking christ, eschewing it in favor of ... NOTHING ... is madness! Madness? THIS! IS! POSTMODERNISM! -- You have issues. I have subscriptions. -- Orphaned eastern grey kangaroo. This is the sort of joey you want to scoop up in your arms and say "Oh aren't you kyAAAAGH! AAAAAGH! AAAAAGH!" and then you wake up in intensive care. - dewhitton, 11/30/07 -- Zibblsnrt: I shold probably crash soon here Felenesse: bah Felenesse: your car insurance will go up Zibblsnrt: that's alright, I don't have a license Felenesse: well, if you'd like to get arrested, by all means! Felenesse: although Felenesse: it's your job as a grad student to seek free food Felenesse: and getting arrested and going to jail would get you free food. -- * KillJoy_ hrms, should go get married now to shock everyone. KJ: Well, if you marry something mechanical, it wouldn't be a shock per se... ;) Kowh: ... that was my point, really. "I now pronounce you Man and Pencil, may "Bob" save us all." -- DrDamocles: when i am king of america, team will be spelled teim -- My last words, as I am hurled out the eighth-story window of a federal circuit courthouse, will be "Commerce Clause." Justice Scalia will be framed for the murder, and be unable to appeal due to one of his more rabidly anti-defendant procedural decisions. It will be glorious. -- I wish I had a secret identity. You do. It's just secret. -- [GermanShepherd] But feel free to stick words in my mouth. GS: I can't, there's a foot in the way. -- * Dan_Wood is only mildly embittered after hearing about how the new Weapons Officer (Who has an MCSE) took digs at my Best Practices and configurations. Word has it that as soon as he browbeat my replacement into making changes, they lost $bignum years of data. :) And the only backup that was worth a damn was the one I handed his predecessor and manually FORCED him to put in a safe on my last day. :D Hee! Go back and try to contract yourself out to 'em for $750/day to repair the damage. Nah. It's not my LAN anymore. Can't even rightly remember the-Okay, that's a lie... I still remember every administrative password, login, and netblock on the two lans. But I drink to forget, because the PAIN that SPAWAR put me through to make it /work fucking right/ every time has been seared into levels of my brain that even my subconscious needs a posse to travel in. -- Yeah. Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true. - Minwee on Slashdot, 12/8/07 -- * Shadur plays some EVE... Wait, one WEEK of RL time to increment one lousy skill? Eeesh. Shad: the more ubar skillz can take a few months, IIRC. There's a reason the more ridiculous ships take entire nations to build and crew. %) * Shadur departs workward. You should bump yer learnificating sk33lz first. * Dan_Wood eyes the wodge of implants he's got rattling around. .... Stop killing hookers, Sailor Dan. But they won't willingly fit in pokeballs! -- * Mal-3 sends ninjas to build a garum factory right next door to Zib's place! * Zibblsnrt bolts a bishop's mitre onto Mal's head and ships him to Bob Jones University! * Mal-3 uses the ineffable powers of Popery to make the BJU throngs his mindless slaves! * William bolts a bishop's head onto Mal's mitre. Ow! Dude, uncool! -- SevTT: "You've just hijacked your first commercial airliner! What're you gonna do next?" "I'm going to Disneyworld!" *cut to Epcot, fireball* -- SevTT: "Not just a 'technical nightmare' it's plain logically incoherent, mathematically unsolvable. It's like programming done by politicians. :)" -- * Fireball considers seeing In The Name Of The King... Jeph Jacques says it's the best Uwe Boll movier ever. ..."in the same sense that the Titanic was the best ship ever." %) -- SevTT: Icelandic cuisine is less "cooking" than *fucking chemistry.* -- I think every spammer is a transexual with organs so big they can't move and therefore have to spam, and they think everyone aspires to the same. -- OW MY EYE! ... wtf? I just sprained an ocular muscle reading the article. ... Excessive rolling? Yais. Between a friend on a m* who's a Scientologist and a Ron Paul supporter, I'm going to be able to stop a bus with a glare. :| -- Sammichcon + Bowling Alley == Not going to end well. How do you figure? Putting 18lb blugeoning weapons in our hands? Pfft. Like we wouldn't dismantle the slot machines and improvise them into weaponry. * Dan_Wood ponders that, Hay guys! I just made a minigun that shoots chips! That would be awesome. ... sir, put that down. FOOM FOOM FOOM FOOM FOOM FOOM FOOM ... you know that doesn't hurt, right? But it's AWESOME. -- http://rofl.wheresthebeef.co.uk/Blimpin%20Aint%20Easy.jpg I'd like a window seat... This seat will be a window seat shortly, sir. -- I just pulled out some of the larger plastic plants in the aquarium, and put in some live plant bulbs. Hee. Yay. So in essence, you took out their crappy Goodwill couch and replaced it with something tasteful? -- Kids are expensive, noisy, and ... sticky. NM: If they get sufficiently sticky you could strap a handle onto them and use them to clean those hard-to-reach spaces! -- * Dan_Wood mutters, can't wait for the 1990s crowd to be of proper age to run for high office... Dan_Wood> I just want to have some poor schmuck's chances at an office ruined by the Wayback Machine. DW: or made. %) "My opponent, Bupper..." "WHAT?!" "Oh, I mean..." *spinny newspaper* 'PRESIDENTIAL CANIDATE WITHDRAWS FROM ELECTION DUE TO FURRY PAST' DW: Anonymous for president? KJ: We're going to have to wait for at least another twenty years for that. DW: Just you wait. Ten years after *that*, you'll see people who were otherkin until they, say, reached voting age getting nailed for flip-flopping after they decided they aren't actually $animecharacter PS: You warm my heart. -- water is probably the least lazy thing i know of. it's indefadigable, it eventually destroys anything man creates. when it stops moving, you know it's fucking cold. -- * William sighs at news articles. [to Israel] Give me food. *sigh* Israel gave Hamas 1 Food. [to Israel] Thank you. Hamas attacks Israel! Israel is lightly scratched. [to Israel] Give me food. *sigh* Israel gave Hamas 1 Food. [to Israel] Thank you. Hamas attacks Israel! Israel is lightly scratched. [to Israel] Give me food. I find your food-obtainment strategy intriguing and wish to subscribe to your newsletter. -- Back to the mental bleach... * AnnaW passes DW a mental enema. "Here." Why is this 1M HCL? -- * Fireball snickers... Nobody was hurt, thank goodness, but the quake caused three million dollars in improvements to the city of Reno." -- Damocles: It's awesome. Damocles: I made food without a recipe Damocles: and i'm not dead yet! Zibblsnrt: yes you are! ***KillJoy_ nods. Sorry Damo, but you're imagining this. Damocles: nope. Damocles: I know i'm not imagining this, because last time i fell into a food poisoning induced coma, you just congratulated me. KillJoy_: Who's to say you can't imagine more than one outcome? Damocles: I'm not that imaginitive. Damocles: also, i can't spell Damocles: besides, why would i imagine you guys harassing me? Damocles: you do it anyway. KillJoy_: Exactly, so it doesn't take much imagination. Damocles: but i can just exist and get harassed. Damocles: that takes less imagination Damocles: ...unless i'm not real. Damocles: and one of you has halusinigenic food poisoning. KillJoy_: That's entirely possible; Zib, have you cooked anything lately? Zibblsnrt: ...noooooo... Damocles: zibb only makes one dish. Damocles: carbon. -- joel.hruska: There was a show on NPR today about where would you go if you had a time machine. I've decided I want to go back and view primitive man discovering what things are edible and/or what things really fuck you up. Cairsten: why? joel.hruska: Because, oh come on. Think of say, the potato. All these prehistorics, sitting around, staring at it. Eventually someone bites in. Everyone gets very excited. Then the debate begins. "IS IT FOOD?" joel.hruska: "Thag found soft rock!" "Thag eat rock! Thag die? Not yet! Come watch! This might be good! "Remember time Thag ate crawdad?" Like, I bet there was one poor sap in the tribe who got stuck with trying everything. Hey, you. Eat this weed. You fucked up? Ok, set weed on fire! You fucked up? Ok, what about if we burn these weeds at the same time? And...we throw in some of Thag's soft rock! Those were some fucking culinary adventures. Imagine the TV shows. "Today...we....COOK...rock!" I imagine the first man who found Cayenne Pepper was hilarious. OMGWTFTHAGBBQ! -- Doug: there was just a train wreck of comments in my brain. dozens perished -- http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/03/expelled.php <-- Critfail on Spot check, or critical success on Stealth roll? YOU make the call! -- ... oh, so, in the news... well, I don't expect you guys to know the person I'm talking about. But Formula 1 head in charge guy Max Mosley is in the middle of a scandal after being caught on tape with a Nazi-themed S&M orgy with 5 German prostitutes. -- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7324564.stm %) SCIENCE~! *nod* %) The fact that they're printing foot long wasps makes it awesomer. This is true. %) * Zibblsnrt ponders people finding an ambered meganeura. %) Zib: I'm not sure any tree could produce that much sap in one place. ;) Hey, the time the thing was in could produce that much dragonfly in one place. ;) Hehe. Still, I think trees probably worked about the same back then, and any wound big enough to produce enough sap to cover that much dragonfly would have to be at least as catastrophic as your average beheading. ;) Y'know, this is the sort of thing time machines and a couple of very large buckets of maple syrup were made for. ;) "It's a perfectly preserved 300 million year old dragonfly, and it smells like the Waffle House."? ;) -- I don't think we should tempt fate like this, nick. you're in the navy Not anymore! well, actually that information is slightly out of date. the navy is taking a page out of the army's book also the mafia's book -- * Dan_Wood infects NM with feline AIDS. * rubbrchikin isn't a cat, so doesn't get AIDS. * Zibblsnrt infects NM with feline DNA, then AIDS. -- Wondershocked: I just can't help but thinking that Aristasia would be what L. Ron Hubbard would've dreamed up if he'd been female, tipsy, and a lesbian -- * k whees, has an advisor, can finally shave ...quois? i vowed not to shave or get a haircut until i had an advisor (makes it look like i've been working extra-hard) -- hrm. two nuked hotdogs and a similarly-nuked potato. oh, and a rum-and-coke. this meal is more whore-met than gour-met. not poor-met? ie, cheap, easy, and likely to be regretted in the morning. -- Doug: "If I had a quarter for every time I've heard someone try to justify obviously derivative works with claims of "postmodernism"... I'd have lots of small bits of metal do throw at postmodernists." -- Wondershocked: *winces* I'm going to miss the party of the century tonight because of this paper. Wondershocked: It's "Mythical Creatures of Earlham." Wondershocked: ....I was going to go as the neurotypical. -- ... why do these people not come with warning labels so I can know they're utter nutjobs before I start reading them? ha I mean, I might read them anyway -- e's a great photographer -- but I wouldn't be shocked. There were going to be labeling regulations, but the nutjobs objected because they thought the labels represented the mark of the Beast. You know who else tried applying permanant labels to people? Xerox? -- When I'm the King of the Future, Mal will be my food-taster. :| Excellent, that way I'll be in a perfect position to poison you and take your throne. Perhaps I didn't think this cunning plan through... -- SevTT: "Last night on the way to climbing, I nearly hit a wild turkey on Route 17 in Portland. It ran across the road well in front of me, but because my visual recognition sensors insisted on recognizing the silhouette of snaky neck, darting head, long powerful legs ending in heavy claws, tapered body, and stiff, pointed tail as Velociraptor, I disbelieved and--for something like three fourths of a second, failed to hit the brake." -- We need like a Linneaean classification of bastards, I swear.. -- Zibblsnrt: http://www.slate.com/id/2191124/ <-- I love the internet sometimes MysticErf: XD MysticErf: for the fact of how detailed they get? Zibblsnrt: yeah Zibblsnrt: and the "related in slate" paragraph MysticErf: oh god XD MysticErf: I kind of wish you hadn't mentioned Zibblsnrt: liar MysticErf: my mind's screaming "WHY ARE PEOPLE THINKING OF THIS STUFF?!" Zibblsnrt: hehehe MysticErf: ...and yet I still click -- The Internet is a place where someone who chose the username Buttseks tells you you have no taste. -- "Lauren O" on Boing Boing, 5/13/08 -- Using Chernobyl as an example of why nuclear power is unsafe is like cutting the wings off a plane then pushing it off a cliff and claiming air travel isn't safe because planes can crash. -- NeedleCast on DemocraticUnderground, 6/17/08 -- Zib: This particular friend had been asking me every time we spoke whether or not my old computer had crumbled into dust yet. ;) ...also, he told me he found out his forthcoming kid is a boy, they're naming him Leonidas. %) -- http://wiki.cali.org/calicon08/index.php?n=Sessions.438 <-- Tomorrow %) ... IT as 80s action movie? Francis got one of our desktop techs, who bears a passing ' resemblance to MacGyver, to pose for some PowerPoint illustrations. In other news, I love my job. -- ... mrph, must not start Prius rant again... KJ: Yeah, they're heavy and underpowered and not quite as green as they're made out to be, but the driving I do is what they're ideally suited for. Fire: More that people think they're a practical alternative on a wide-scale too. Toyota's building them as a PR tool. That too. I found out that Toyota's profit margin on them finally(!) got up(!) to 2% on them after 10 years or so. I didn't know that. It's Toyota's X-Box. %) -- At the sound of the tone, it will be 7:50 PM MDT, September 5434, 1993. *beep* -- * Fireball had to convince a coworker last week that the Large Hadron Collider wouldn't end the world... had to convince the same coworker a while before that that DIA isn't built on an indian burial ground. %P Well, there *was* one, but they moved it in order to get all the Masonic tunnels put in properly. I'll tell him that. This is the same coworker I convinced might ahve the plague when he felt bad after going to the zoo around the same time the squirrels in City Park had the plague. ;) hehehe "It feels just like the flu, until you die." %) Similarly, when I worked at the gas station, I spent a a fair amount of time convincing a coworker I was completely insane: "I'm gonna go take a smoke break by the pumps." "Yeah, but you believe in the moon landing." Mal: It was actually a long time before he figured out that I wasn't really a moon landing conspiracy theorist. %) hee "...wait, you don't really believe the moon landing was faked, do you? You're just bein' an asshole!" %) Zib: IOt was a year, maybe a year and a half before I heard that. %) We're actually still friends, he's the one who's naming his kid Leonidas. ;) -- StudentOfLight: Only in America can the nation's flag be jammed up an eagle's butt as a tribute. -- SevTT: ...I've decided the kid next door needs to take his medicine, and in this case, the medicine should be curare. -- QotD: "I want to make a game show where Libertarians fight each other in a Colosseum-like environment, and they can only use weapons they buy with their own money. It would illustrate the nature of libertarianism and the prize would be no more Libertarians." -- "ANIME: The Play" ... well, it is Fringe I think I've seen that one. Hell, it's possible I wrote that one. Either way, I disavow all knowledge on the grounds it may incriminate me and the City & County of Denver. -- ... did we all get old while I wasn't looking? Bah, I was born thirty phe: I got old last week; I was quite surprised and disappointed. the bitter hasn't set in yet, but it comes and goes. I'm hoping to leapfrog past bitter and straight into eccentric I thought most of us hit eccentric a long time ago Below a certain age it's deviance, not eccentricity yeah, I don't know that they're progressive like that. I think we mostly waved as we passed by eccentric on the way to completely bugfuck crazyville. You have to sneak up on eccentricity. Buy a purple hat. -- "There's excitement in the air over the Olympics...also lead, arsenic, benzene..." -- just leeroy jenkins'd the ubrs spot and won sweeet. and just pulled the entire next room with the knockback mobs 77 dk, 74 dk, 77 war we're getting onyxia keyed I feel as though I need a dictionary No. A dictionary would imply that learning these eldritch runes would impart knowledge -- * SevTT ponders the most terrible thing in the world: an Inquisitor with a platypus and an x-acto knife. -- QotD: "Everywhere where there is a man with a gun robbing you, there is a libertarian. Robbing you with a gun." -- SevTT: Hee. "I’m generally cool with spiders. I appreciate what they do, as artists and as predators, but I especially congratulate and admire them for having found a brilliant place to dwell, wherein those two identities overlap. That said, I don’t think I’m all that keen on spider overpopulation. I feel as if someone – and birds, I think we both know I’m looking at you – has been slacking off this summer. There are some nice, juicy arachnids in need of gobbling, and where the hell are you avian twats to partake of this smorgasbord?" -- Tomorrow is going to be fuuuun. Upper-class students are going to come in for their first day of classes and see the fifteen notices I plastered ALL over the major law school properties this evening, reminding them to convert their e-mail accounts to our new system or die in a fire. -- "My "automatic vision systems" teacher gave an interesting lecture about research on hens. Hens are awfully dumb. They have an instinctive reaction to images of weasels (panic/run) and to sound (tweeting) of small chickens ("herd/care"). The researchers made a model of a weasel that was making the chicken noise. Hens exposed to this experienced software failure: they would freeze and stop reacting to all other external signals/impulses until the chirping weasel was removed. ^- %) *snrk* * Zibblsnrt watches the /. thread evolve into a discussion of ways to segfault chickens. I'm a horrible person for being amused at that Everybody needs a hobby... Zib: Having some experience with chickens, that doesn't surprise me, especially if they were dealing with the more domesticated sorts that end up as mcnuggets and whatnot. ...that said, they're still geniuses next to the average domestic turkey. ;) hee Zib: When you buy baby turkeys, you have to put a couple baby chickens in with them so they can learn to drink without drowning. ;) -- SevTT: I'd be happy if our President wasn't an angry walking potato. Zibblsnrt: *snrk* SevTT: (Mealy and bland, and the same thing'd happen if you hooked up an EEG to him as would if you hooked it up to a spud. :P) -- * SevTT notes: I still think points should be awarded in javelin events for accuracy. SevTT: (If you can call the judge before the throw and stick him, hey, you deserve extra points. ;)) Zibblsnrt: "I'll take out his speech center and nothing else!" "Buh?" *toss* *schlkrpthzgt* " ----" "See?" "----!" -- when he's not fighting terrorists in Afghanistan Iraq with his robot heart. Recharging Have to do it somewhere, I suppose. I think that's why he shot the dude in the face. Accidental triggering of programming. Or purposeful. Maybe that dude was Taliban. Every so often he comes back to the states and they inject him with wolf testosterone and the blood of minority children. Thus refreshed, he is sent back into battle. And lo the world fears his presence. -- * Fireball blinks... the Fed's taking an 80% stake in AIG in exchange for an $85 billion loan. Yep Hehe... "On an amusing note, this give whole new meaning to the words 'social insurance.'" From a comments thread: "Ain't no communism quite like capitalism. Randians of the world, explain how this validates what you've thought all along! You have nothing to lose but your intellectual integrity, which you lost long ago." %) -- Cham: butbutbutcommunism! Yeah, that's about how the conversation went. the Cold War really fucked your national psyche. ;) We need to reload the save from 1875 or so. -- Felenesse: my friend posted this meme: "Give me one of my characters and one of yours, and I will upload a song that reminds me of their relationship. If they have one, and possibly even if they don't." Zibblsnrt: hee Felenesse: I dared her to find one for Piglet and Javert. -- Felenesse: I need to move into a new brain. -- * Joii sighs, should be responsible and sleep Good night? should. dunwanna. see, kowh's still up, and he's *always* responsible. I'm only still up because I was packing. After putting it off all evening. ...ssh, you're destroying my rhetorical point. -- Far as I can tell, I have everything. So no need to run to any stores tomorrow. Well, no known unknowns. It's the unknown unknowns now. -- Zibblsnrt: It's a physical book DrDamocles: what are those? Zibblsnrt: You see, the ancients had this bulky form of ROM where they'd permanently stain information onto xylem platters. DrDamocles: that's crazy. DrDamocles: how did they read it? Zibblsnrt: The technique was crude enough that they could only store a few hundred to a few thousand bytes of text per platter, or 'page.' The storage was low-res enough that it could be interpreted with the naked eye! DrDamocles: amazing! -- He's pandering to Big Alzheimer's. I thought that was Palin? No, that's Big Decerebrate. Ah. My mistake. -- I got a funny letter from the McCain campaign. Talking about some measure to protect teh babies!!1!!one! that none of the liberals in washington would vote against. I mean hell, it passed with a vote of 98-0 in the Senate! Lookit those evil liberals! -- * Joii returns from finding out what nick was talking about, feels kinda sick. You have destroyed yet another piece of my innocence. Thank you. Joii: What have we learned from this experience? To stop being curious about anything. Ever. No... If Nick and I are getting a giggle out of it, you should not learn about why we are giggling. We are men who have seen a bit too much of the Intertron. -- * Chamelaeon stumbles in from World of Goo Brain... so fuzzy. All is towers. O.o * Chamelaeon grabs Anna by the shoulders and shakes. "MUST BEAT THE CANADIANS AT TOWERBUILDING" -- If I have to deal with one more libertarian waving a credit card spam mail in my face going "THERE'S NO CREDIT CRUNCH, I GOT A 0% FOR 16 MONTH OFFER", I am quite seriously going to punch someone. With explosives. -- "Hey everybody! Housing prices have gone completely to shit, so let's make money flipping houses! And then we can corner the dotcom and tulip markets!" -- So...diner receipt from earlier. 1 Hot Cocoa $1.86 1 W/ Bacon $1.69 -- Zibblsnrt: also, haet roadwork Zibblsnrt: heavy machinery's been vibrating the hell out of the house since about 7am Zibblsnrt: like, make-this-room-resonate vibrating DrDamocles: there is a rock crushing plant behind my office DrDamocles: I am not kidding Zibblsnrt: you win DrDamocles: my desk spontaneously rearranges itself. DrDamocles: but yeah, i feel your pain DrDamocles: but, like, more than you do -- Looks like you're banning gay couples from having children. fuuuuuuck Not to worry, we can shut off their river. No water for Arkansas unless they recant! -- SevTT: "I just want to stay up all night. It's like Christmas - either we could get Obama, which would be like getting the Power Wheels and the Color Game Boy (though what you really wanted was a dirt bike and a PlayStation), or we could get McCain, which would be like getting socks and a subscription to Boys Life. Regardless, it is blessedly unlikely that we are getting more Bush, which would be like getting leftover Chinese food and an epileptic seizure, or for that matter more Cheney, which would be like getting shards of glass left in said Chinese food a fter someone broke in, stole your presents and your television before jacking your parents' car and driving away." -- Ladies and gentlemen, I give you: the Internet. We were going to call it the pornograph, but Internet was catchier. -- oy. It stopped raining, so I went to get a snack, and the skies opened up the moment I left the store. %( and the umbrella exploded, and the wind became malign. I now understand how the wharrgarbl dog feels * William watches Zibb's speech morph into Lewis Carroll poetry. To understand how the wharrgarble dog feels you must stand in the wind when malign. Explode your umbrella and dance tarantella while quoting philosophers nine. Spinoza works well, Hume is better to yell, and a whisper suits Goethe or Kant; but forego Cicero, let no Jung cross your tongue, if you wish to avoid any rant. Also, mad props Will. Liberal education represent. *terrorist fist bump* -- When you're shooting for a Godwin, you sneak up on it, you don't just drop trou and urinate all over it. You're attempting to attribute subtlety to redneck bigots. The closest they approximate the concept is "camo." -- It's either that or hurt myself reading surgery blogs. And I have literally a dozen of them in my browser just now. And when I say literally, I mean 'actually do' as opposed to the bastardised usage some horrible children have fallen into where they mean figuratively and say literally. hehe tis language abuse. indeed It's not like there's a mad happening conversation here for me to miss out on, anyway. * Zibblsnrt tries not to be a language purist, but what happened to the word "random" annoys him. ;) ? Jo: frosh-aged students use it as a synonym either for "cool" or "horrible" ... that's random. -- Fuck. Just when I didn't think Warren Ellis could hurt me. Many have made that assumption, and many have been mistaken. Silly man. Warren Ellis is perhaps an idiot savant, a madman with a metaphorical knife, but that knife is in its razor-slim sphere as ubiquitous as what might once have been God. And more have suffered from the hubris that is the assumption 'I've viewed the depths of the internet and have not died.' This is why the wise don't dive too deep. Warren Ellis is not wise, and he has gone deep into the heart of the Intertron. For all our sakes, he should be left to swim there alone. HE MINED TOO DEEP, TOO GREEDILY The problem is that these pockets of the internet have sealed themselves off, and then they fester into abomination. -- If I were rich, I would shop at target instead of walmart! -- You work for UMinn? Dude, put in a good word for me with the Math Department. Casual-like. I'm applying for a postdoc. ;^) Nah, I work for an ISP which took over their dialup modem banks... And given the braindeaditude of a good portion of their alumni, I'm pretty sure that you would be best served by storing your brain in a tupperware container before going there. I mean, look at what they did to Cal! He's a LAWYER now! -- Y'ever get the feeling that Tabbi's trying a *little* too hard to be Hunter Thompson? I'm not familiar enough with Thompson's writing. Thompson liked to go for that kind of demented hyperbole Tabbi does an okay job, but he tends to go with forced vulgarity instead of the sort of lunatic paranoid fantasies only available to a man who's spent a long time abusing all known forms of hallucinogens. ;) I think part of it is that at some point Taibbi stopped taking hallucinogens and started studying Congress. ;) -- * Dan_Wood hollers into Cal's ear, "PATCH TUESDAY!" NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO -- "The current issue of Policy Review has a paper by an American computer scientist and the recent Permanent Undersecretary of Defense for Estonia. Drawing on the Estonian cyber attacks a year and a half ago, as well as other recent examples, they argue that botnets are the major problem. They propose that botnets should be designated as 'eWMDs'" <- *punt* ...I want an iWMD. Goddammit, now I've got the image of a nuke with a shiny plastic case and user-friendly arming controls. "Sir, how did you locate these terrorists?" "It was the distinctive white headphones. Simple, really." -- Yeah, if I wasn't already near my LD-50 of schadenfreude, I would enjoy it more. -- I like how one guy got off the sub; he burst into the chaplain's office and said, 'Sir, I fear for my immortal soul. If I do not get out of submarine duty, I may kill myself!" -- * Zibblsnrt is large, contains multitudes, etc. PS is legion? At times, yes. ... It's not something you can just turn off! I have a certain knack for consensus-building. Do you? Raise your hands everyone who agrees with PS! [crickets] * Zibblsnrt beholds the unanimity and sees his claim proven. -- * Joins: bmcfee (bmcfee@cpe-76-88-112-104.san.res.rr.com) k'b yarr hey, moo oh, ye invisible elf i'm plenty visible! light bounces right off of me -- * Dan_Wood huhs... gets ADSL attenuation data into Cacti... "I think I may be going either insane or unusually lucky." Why mutually exclusive? Because being insane and lucky seems awfully unfair. Of course; it'd be insane. You'd have to be really lucky to have those both at once. -- hrm. that reminds me that i should get around to finishing the guitar that's parted out on my floor except i have no fancy tools :( One imagines that guitarmaking tools are $zomg. nah, not if you start with something that's already a guitar Oh, good. Then your only difficulty should be gutting the cat. -- "Lighten up you anal retentive grouch." "Darken down, you anally loose and cheerful ray of sunshine!" "Actually the two personality traits commonly associated with neuroses arising from conflict in the anal stage of Freudian psycho-sexual development are anal retentive and anal expulsive but otherwise, hell yeah." "You both educated me and allowed me to fit you in one of those categories, all in one go. Nice!" - AC, AC, trouser and CroDragn on Slashdot, 12/16/08 -- Merry merry merry! Merry? bah humbug Merry! *sleigh bells* bah humbug! Merry merry merry... ...this is going to be one of those Pokemon conversations, isn't it? Merry. -- * Dan_Wood plays Eve Online, sees that one of his contacts has slowly descended into madness... "Bring me his meat costume. I want to wear it." -- * SevTT remembers the time he convinced his friend that naugahide came from little furless critters called naugas... Zibblsnrt: hee. %) SevTT: I believe that I claimed the reason that they were endangered was because "they're rather small, and it takes so -many- of them to make a couch..." -- Wondershocked: A GOD AM I Wondershocked: (on 4chan) Zibblsnrt: hee Wondershocked: (which is roughly equivalent to being a german shepherd in the real world) -- "Oh god, I'm going to hit the Post Message on this one- I can feel the foreboding, like I'm headed into a seizure..." - Poll_Blind on DemocraticUnderground, 12/29/08 -- I'm not sure anything that's not a condiment and comes in a bucket is any good. indeed Paint isn't a condiment, yet it comes in a bucket. -- Aw c'mon, it's the internet, where the men are men, the women are men and the 13 year olds are FBI agents. -- "I thought about training the cat to guide me, but I'd end up under cars." - Lara McClintock -- Palin knows that without federal money Alaska becomes Somalia with polar bears. ;) -- Ding! All aboard the Midnight Bacon Express :9~ "yeah, I'll take a bacon fried bacon burger with xtra bacon, bacon curly fries, and a bacon shake." Mmm, bacon. "would you like some bacon with that?" "yeah, could I have a bacon-wrapped bacon strip?" "That'll be $bacon." "Well, I'm bringing it home." * Mal-3 reads $bacon as a variable, not currency. I've been hanging out here too long. %P Mal: $bacon = "Good\n"; * katster pointlaughs at Mal. Mal: me too, and I wrote it as currency. %( Would that make $sausage a linked list? -- * aio eyes a pic of John Barrowman on his wedding day, sighs. why must the gorgeous ones always be gay? also, I hope it's not true what they say, 'cause he has rather small feet for a man... aio: No, it's true. Guys with small feet do, in fact, wear small shoes. -- Here's the thing about pissing off a pacifist: it is very, very hard. If you succeed, however, what you will have done is convinced a man strongly predisposed to consider the value of human life that yours is, in fact, an exception to the rule, due to the danger it poses to others. Congratulations. Duck. -- * Dan_Wood ponders a klingon version of The Hobbit... DW: Oddly enough, Frodo *does* still end up that one with nine fingers. It's just that those are in addition to his own. -- Zibblsnrt: hee.. remember that woman flipping out over the islamic propaganda (supposedly) in her kid's game? *flannery*: yes Zibblsnrt: http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/2/2/ *flannery*: thats great Zibblsnrt: yep Zibblsnrt: "Sandwich! I trusted you!" *flannery*: my sandwiches often betray me Zibblsnrt: the fiends *flannery*: i know.. but usually because they arent delicious enough Zibblsnrt: betrayal is an intrinsic attribute of the sandwich race, after all -- Zibblsnrt: "Just tell her you have Fisherman's Mouth." %) SevTT: lol SevTT: That sounds absolutely horrible. ;) Zibblsnrt: Yeah. %) SevTT: Kind of like the Red Cough, but even more horrible since you're kept wondering just what the fuck it could do to you to make it called that. ;) Zibblsnrt: I dunno, I kinda pictured Fisherman's Mouth as kind of a cross between, say, strep and tourette's. -- [KJ is vacationing in Hawaii] * Chamelaeon drinks scotch, relishes in the fact it's Friday. Mmm, scotch I want scotch and or whiskey now As opposed to drinks with little frilly umbrellas? KJ: Yuo're not authorized to have a better time than what you're already having ;P Zib: Bah! Happiness is above your clearance level, citizen! -- http://tech.yahoo.com/news/afp/20090219/tc_afp/francejewsetradeebayinternet "Internet auction house eBay has temporarily renamed the yellow stars it uses to evaluate sellers on its French site after a complaint that the symbol had anti-semitic connotations." K: Augh, historical symbolism fail I knew eBay was the ghetto of internet sales, but that's taking it a bit far... -- Like if I were to post an article to my blog stating that Calc eats baby carrots when, in fact, he does not, that would be really hard to prove. NM: But if you posted one stating that he ate baby *humans*, it would be easier to figure out' NM: And that's not even defamatory. False != defamatory. Huh. The baby humans thing, though, that's defamatory. Cal: Unless you're the highly-paid president of the Carnivory Society and lost your job because of it? Correct. ^_^ -- WHAT'S THIS BULLSHIT WITH WORKING AT WORK?! -- RikPrimis: blender is like a strategy game you can't win -- * Dan_Wood just told a nice old lady that being a computer geek is like being a hooker... "You don't want to do it all the time, but you know the money is good." She laughed. hee And you learn to ignore the unclean shameful feelings? Kowh: And recover from the bad experiences. -- * Calculus had an encounter today. * Calculus was carting some new SAN boxes down to the basement server room. A professor made the mistake of asking "Ooh, what's that?!" So they found out. It only took about ten minutes to explain. ^_^ Oh dear. So I have taken my revenge for the Rule Against Perpetuities lecture. Did they say 'Well, I can buy a bunch of harddrives for $pittance... why does it cost so much?" Thankfully, no. ("These are *special* hard drives. They produce a dizzying high and are illegal in twelve countries.") -- I need to stop thinking about getting something with tracks and armor. Yeah, ground effect has more panache. Oh goddammit. -- * Dan_Wood returns from bopping over to the pub across from work. Man, my alcohol tolerance has really dropped since I left the swervice. One beer and I'm moderately buzzed. The past couple of years have made my default state about two drinks under par. So it seems to take me about two drinks to get sober. -- * Calculus nurses his hand, continues to feel stupid for injuring himself in an unfortunate sandwich-making incident. Cal: story time. Dal: Breadknife slipped. End of story. ;) The bard ya ain't. There wasn't even any character development. Bah. I have to do something to make up for my colleagues' excesses. -- * Chamelaeon shakes Kowh. Why did you do exactly what I asked you to and find me a new band I like. D:< -- Everyone should have a supply of vacuum packed interns. -- * Dan_Wood mutters, removes Cal's spleen and Norm Colman's spleen to breed a flock of spleens to take over the world. -- Sandwich.Net IRC, especially #spork, really does have the breadth and depth of talent to be a serious R&D and/or evil genius concern. Haven't we been down this road before? At least conceptually. Most likely. Yeah... but we need capital, and a purpose, and some clients. Also a headquarters and/or lair. Do we have someone soulless and evil enough for, ah, right. Mal can do sales/marketing. Lawyer, hello. ;) Fuck you! I have standards! -- Here is the first draft of our official mission statement: BACON. -- Ah, Utah. The only part of the country the natives gave up voluntarily. ;) -- Is it wrong to make a sandwich by opening a package of sliced meat, folding the contents in half and then placing it on your bread with a couple toppings? :9 No :9 Or if it is, I don't want to be right. I may or may not have consumed entire packages of sliced meat as snackfood before. Only sometimes after the bread was moldy. Don't be ashamed. If we stand together we won't let them make us feel like less. Well. I have, in the past, eaten lunchmeat, bread, cheese, and pickles separately, because I was too lazy to make a sammich. -- Ah, right. Things don't get *better* here, they just get worse *in a different way*. -- To understand that joke in its entirety would have required familiarity with the nuances of two pursuits generally considered on the nerdy side: an online computer game and an old anime series. ...of course, you *could* walk the path of the Joke-Killer. Which is arguably worse. Thanks, Will! I am sworn not to refuse a sincere request for enlightenment I can provide. See? A Joke-Killer. Burn the witch! * Mal-3 saves time, assembles a burning pitchfork. -- * Fireball finally has enough money in KoL to get the item that, among other things, makes combat messages appear in haiku... "Your rippling muscles / strike fear into enemies. / Stat gain for the win." %) -- * Dan_Wood stabs Cal in the ethics. Bah! I'm a lawyer. The tiny remains of my ethics are unmarked and stored in a crypt in Albany. Think the old Paris crypts, here. I figured that it was either stab you in the ethics or give them to a rag-tag group of heroes who will oppose you in your inevitable rise to power. We call those "clients." -- If I want to get reciprocity to practice in MN, I need to do it within a year or so. I doubt I'll practice there, though, and it'd be another big application fee and annual fee. But you'll miss out on watching the Mall of America turn into a post-apocalyptic arcology! I could get admitted pretty much automatically, though. So if you want to pay a bigass up-front retainer, I can be on call in case you ever get arrested. ;) Huh, I thought they closed Camp Snoopy. They turned it into a Nickelodeon theme park. ... Pleasetellmethere'snospongebobpleasetellmethere'snospongebob... Cal: For a retainer fee, I will neglect to tell you the magnitude of the Spongebobbyness. ...;____; -- Bread is kinda like keeping an aquarium, except edible. -- Ars: Consider it a proactive form of schadenfreude. Instead of us feeling glad we're not you, it's you wishing you weren't you. -- uh. well, he's the only person to whom I've ever baldly stated that I won't marry him or anyone who thinks like him... but there's been no namecalling and I don't live with him, so. ;) heaven knows that would make an entertaining, yet brief, sitcom.. *laughs.* probably, yes. PS: It'd last one episode, and it would leave the networks scratching their head over whether to go ahead and call it a sitcom, or to not edit it so short and release it in theatres as a horror-comedy. 'Cuz I'm thinking mutually assured destruction is probably the only option there. NM: Okay, one sitcom pilot episode followed by a two or three-parter CSI case 'cause I'm pretty sure we have enough malign imagination to establish a situation that couldn't be solved in a mere hour "Wow, how in the heck did blood get up THERE?!" -- Well, I've expended my monthly allotment of empathy... :) and it's the 26th; your budgeting skills are impressive aheh. have you also used up your allotment of self-preservation skills, though? Oh, I used that up on the first. -- i should probably try to cut back again... i'm up to a whole french press before 10am and still taking naps in the afternoon (also: death to conference organizers that put submission deadlines on japanese standard time) eeee Unless the conference is in Japan. which it is, but still, fuck them sideways with rakes. -- Yeah, but... the Great Republican Machine has been around for almost my entire lifespan. Open *treason* didn't bring it down, for chrissakes! Watching it disintegrate like this is just surreal. I feel kinda like Sauron in the LotR movies, when the tower's collapsing and the Great Eye is flickering back and forth, the bit where you can almost hear the "WTF?! *WTF?!?!*" ;) -- * Calculus beams. Apparently there is a company that sells debt collectors lists of consumers who have sued debt collectors before - so that they'll ignore those accounts. * Calculus does the Perverse Incentives Dance. Which is not, in itself, perverse - much. -- Felenesse: dammit you are supposed to read my mind! Zibblsnrt: I'm working on it! Felenesse: work harder! Zibblsnrt: I knew you'd say that Felenesse: progress! -- side note: i knew a guy whose dad keeps a human brain in the garage i'm pretty sure he was a zombie. or at least, planning ahead -- SevTT: "It was Kevin Sterner who named the Fluffies. We here having a discussion about War and the difference between killing and murder. We had decided that killing was when you didn't know the victim's name and it was murder when you did. Personification and all that. 'Der Sterner' objected and demonstrated such when a roach appeared on the arm of his comfy chair. In his best Timmy-calling-Lassie voice he cried "Fluffy! You've come home!" and slammed down a fist. [killing it, not murder...] All the other Naming of the Fluffies mythos are fascinating reflections of the way Forumites think." -- Can we please begin to revoke some rhetoric licenses Or at least put together some kind of regulatory body -- aio,Cal: You mean that getting Obama into the presidency didn't rid us of the Race Card /and/ national solipsism? sadly, no. Well, what did we get? Besides a president with perspective and intelligence? These wooden nickels... -- Hrm. Is it wrong that I can't tell what's chocolate and what's blood on my tshirt? Nah, after a while they... *bing!* Twilight marketing crossover idea! ^___^ ... I'm not sure whether the question or the answer is worse there Fetch me the double boiler, the candy molds and a telemarketer. It's test kitchen time. -- * Joins: k (bmcfee@cpe-76-88-112-104.san.res.rr.com) mooo aeee [extended silence] sure is quiet.. people mourning ed mcmahon? Sure, why not cause he was an evil fucker, that's why Why d'ya think we're mourning him? right, evil. gotcha. you've been awol too long, man, forgettin' your roots like that... true, true -- "A day after his stunning confession that he cheated on his wife with a woman in Argentina, a chastened Gov. Mark Sanford..." <-- perhaps "chastened" is not quite the right word -- Plumbing does not need overclocking. -- * William grumbles at websites, noting, e.g., that Ikea puts stuff in its online catalog that can't be ordered online though other stuff can, and Bed, Bath and Beyond does not actually sell beds. Went there for a bath once. Their floor personnel have *no* concept of privacy. -- http://twitter.com/stephenfry <-- I want to be able to curse like him when I grow up. deep thought: stephen fry is spider jerusalem on pbs -- Oh, bother. ...said Pooh as he sprinkled lime on Tigger's corpse. -- * Kowh gets a quasi-list of what's legal here: "fireworks showers, fountains, golden rain, lawn lights, pin wheels, Roman candles, volcanoes, sparklers, Christmas crackers and caps for toy guns." At least, for the average person. There's a "display fireworks" permit, that lets you use "rockets, serpents, shells, bombshells, tourbillions, maroons, large wheels, bouquets, barrages, bombardos, waterfalls, fountains, batteries, illumination, set pieces, pigeons and firecrackers." But that involves, among other things, $5 mil of insurance. I swear that reads like a permit to lay seige to some bastard city that gave you shit last week. ;^) "I would like to apply for a display fireworks permit." "Reason for permit?" "Honor." -- * aiobheil finds, downloads Mickey's Mousercise. my neighbours are going to hate me. ;) -- * William spots a pattern, may be closing in on his theorem. You know what I want? I want a Metaphor Realization Layer. I want to be able to turn the world into a place where I can visibly pick up a spear and slowly creep forward through thickets of spurious conjectures toward an elusive, sharp-fanged theorem that has forced foes before me to retreat bloodied. -- Give a man a fish, he eats for a day; teach a man to fish, he eats for a lifetime; teach a man to shoot, others fish for him. -- Mal: Reselling Coors as homeopathic beer is just... brilliant. Ain't it just? And technically correct. -- * k snickers at a fat-fingered email from a conference reviewer that accidentally got sent to all reviewers.. "Unless the conference seriously needs more paid registrations, then i'd vote for reject." Hee! (yeah, it's that kind of a conference) ... ah, the impartial austerity of science. -- Heh, I should try and finish Revelation Space tonight. ...need to recharge my book, too. %) "I'll take Phrases That Tell You You're In The Future for $500." -- When I'm Vice King of the World, I'm going to ensure that people who voice opinions have the intellect to back them up, or I'll revoke their thinking priviliges. -- Calc: Also, gratz on being able to have your name on public-record stuff as doing actual lawyering things in actual courtrooms. Thanks. It's somewhat scary. As opposed to just tapping the screen with the stylus so that Pheonix Wright says "OBJECTION!" or something. NM: Well, at least we know that if Herring-Chan will have a good job as a legal assistant... and enforcer. Dan called... Apparently he needs legal... assistance. Oh dear. I have taken the liberty of booking your flight to Nuremberg. ... T_T; -- DrDamocles: http://gawker.com/5323472/we-predict-more-lawsuits-in-dov-charneys-future DrDamocles: itony indeed Zibblsnrt: yow DrDamocles: also irony Zibblsnrt: would itony be an italian mobster with a sleek, modern and vaguely pretentious interface and marketing scheme? DrDamocles: yes DrDamocles: yes it would DrDamocles: he would run numbers and protection rackests seamlessly, while listening to your music -- In lieu of contributing to this conversation, I will drink heavily. ;) -- It's like Dali and James Joyce had a love child. Which I inhaled. -- If we could somehow convert crazy into power, we could potentially jumpstart the sun if it failed... -- I became so awesome that I transcended to parallel existence. thats more of a strafe than a transcend -- WOOO FRIDAY NIGHT (scheduled server maintenance) -- My personal grooming habits are ISO 9000 compliant, thank you very much. -- [re: dispute over the number in attendance at the 9/12/09 demonstration in DC] Kesseki: I don't see why they haven't already provided birth certificates for everyone present. That's all they'd have to do, and then there would be no more controversy. Kesseki: What do they have to hide? -- http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v221/reynen/Colorado/Colorado%2009/september114.jpg <-- "C'mere. Yeah, c'mere. I'll show you that having arms is a PRIVILEGE." -- Also, on the related topic of o'clock, my subconscious rocks... A few nights ago I had a loopy dream that had a version of the Doomsday Clok labeled Godwin Clock... It was an analog clock that blinked midnight. -- *hides the handcuffs and the thuddy flogger, then.* haven't used that stuff in ages ... the flogger and cuffs? Oh, context, how I love you so. Cal: It's even better when it is missing. ;) -- * Joii gets back from Wendy's, cracks the box wine ah, hell, this is the zin; I meant to get the grenache. Oh well. it's wine. it'll work. "Hello, technical support? The wine stopped working..." -- I found attorney apps for my iPhone today. %) Rules of Civil Procedure: $3. Black's Law Dictionary: $50. (...I passed.) Hee Did they have an app for the rules of debate? I didn't check, but I'm sure there is one. %) Because I really do want to review that and whap it out at people. ;) No federal (PACER) or state dockets yet. :( ("What has it got in its docketses?") -- I might actually pay for data if I didn't have a Blackberry paid for by work. But I doubt it. $_$ Being able to access wikipedia no matter where you are? Awesome. (never has bar trivia been so authoritatively wrong) -- http://www.regretsy.com ... oh, *my*. *looks* Well, there's a little bit of the Internet's payback-inna-box if I ever saw some. The 'Net's sort of an auto-Ma'at for that sort of thing. Insert quarter, rotate the serving tray, obtain desired small serving of flavored justice. -- Coyotebrownish: I'm reading the wikipedia article on common carriers so i can be misinformed instead of uninformed -- My plan is to write a 84 volume compendium titled "Fuck That" in which I issue my denunciations. - JVS on DemocraticUnderground, 10/31/09 -- Bah, you only have yerself to blame. Hey, you were the one claming omnipotence earlier, so I now deem it to be your fault You can't blame me, you have free will! Or do I? You're arguing with a deity about your free will? Either you're contrary or I'm a masochist. I vote both. DW: Anyone claiming godhood over this asylum falls deep into the latter camp Well, yeah... And of course I'm not contrary. You are too! Nuh-uh! Unh-huh! -- * William looks through his photos from Times Square, suddenly realizes. I've just been on Capitalist Hajj. -- http://consumerist.com/5409438/does-convincing-mcdonalds-to-make-chicken-selects-for-breakfast-prove-you-were-sober Ah yes, the ever-popular McDonald's breakfast defense. *nods sagely* ... wow, here I was expecting a twinkie defense thing. lol. I have to admit, the family has a point. Little-known fact: convincing McDonald's to serve lunch before 10 AM qualifies you to be admitted to practice law without taking the bar exam. Hah Is /that/ how you did it? Nah. I did it the easy way. Going through lawschool? * Calculus nods. -- DW: You've started a church of unitology there, haven't you? See, I would but DS would descend upon me like a whole-body kidneystone. -- Names are rarely convincingly descriptive. . . . My name literally means 'lover of horses.' I have nothing against them, but when I ride them they show their hatred of me. - Felipe Fernandez-Armesto on HNN, 11/30/09 -- Kesseki: Because after all, American general contractors are known for their high quality and safety standards. Kesseki: In *totally unrelated* news, the opening of an ice skating rink in Manhattan is delayed due to large panels of glass falling off a new high-rise nearby. Zibblsnrt: .... ow Kesseki: Exciting! Zibblsnrt: I think I'd rather be creamed by a large slab of concrete than a large slab of glass from those heights. ;) Kesseki: Both sound sort of bad. Zibblsnrt: well, yeah. Ideally I'd prefer neither. Kesseki: Bonus: Goldman Sachs' new HQ %) Zibblsnrt: That's ... symbolic. %) Kesseki: "GS is shedding its assets again..." -- $49.95. I accept Visa and MasterCard. Any other questions? Yes... Can you stop mining my brain for wrong and making a profit for yourself on it? Can...but won't. -- Future natural scientists will marvel at the uniquely complex and carefully woven ass-coverings evolved by the Human Resources caste. -- Took a spill off my bike yesterday. Hit the road face first at 15 MPH. ow Nothing broken, but my right arm's badly sprained. Ow. No brain trauma or such? Not that I'm melon of. -- Wondershocked: Hey, uh, Patrick... Zibblsnrt: ? Wondershocked: I just watched the Star Wars Christmas Special. Zibblsnrt: Oh lord, I'm sorry. Is there anything I can do to help? Wondershocked: No, not really. -- * KillJoy_ idly gets the urge to make sculpture out of scrap metal. make sculpture out of scrap metal that can make scrap metal out of sculpture Zib: "This piece is entitled 'Deconstruction.' *vreeeeeee*" SevTT: ....%D SevTT: I'm just picturing Grey Goo sweeping over Europe and leaving rusted-out Passats in place of, say, things like Michaelangelo's David. -- MysticErf: I'm pretty sure Chopin himself wrote some of his compositions and never actually played them, becoming the first musical troll -- SevTT: Hrm. I have a new short-term goal in life: get Christopher Lee to throw me the horns. Photos or video are acceptable. -- Oh Cal.... http://store.valvesoftware.com/tf2/tf2-poster.sandvich.html CANNOT GET TO CREDIT CARD FAST ENOUGH -- <_kw> monkey island makes my pee pee rigid <_kw> is that normal? <_kw> if not, I was kidding -- SevTT: Hee. Reefkeeping acronym: PBITAWA SevTT: Pour Bleach In Tank And Walk Away. -- Also, as long as we're on the subject of religiously motivated intellectual endeavor, would it kill evangelical Christianity to develop a sangaku tradition? "Praise be to Jayzus? Does anyone have an offering for the service today?" "I do, pastor." "Come up and witness!" "Brethren, I have received the assurance, sure as the love of Christ, quod erat demostrandum: there exist infinitely many twin primes!" -- I don't really have a game yet. :P You can just connect to the server. But, since there's no real authentication, you can even make a connection with a web-browser, if not do anything. Just like that random bot. 8) know what kinda game it WILL be? For the most part :P Vaguely. :P Extreme Downhill Baking? Uphill. oooo nice -- you folks are bright, you know I'm capable of being mildly clever with a word, trying to actually put it together is too much work right now. it's 1 am, what do you want from me? The secret of fire. but... my liver... It'll grow back, don't be a wuss. -- * Kowh eyes that halal vegemite thing. Apparently all that's wrong with .au can be fixed by being more bigoted? And then there's some that you think is parody, but can't be entirely sure: ""I demand Catholic certified potato chips and Presbyterian bread be labelled accordingly! Cerified Baptist cheese and Adventist donuts. Where would it end?"" Scientologist Kool-Aid? *rimshot* * Calculus bows. -- * Kowh eyes the feed from whistler. Some guy's dancing on the roof of one of the buildings. oh my darwin award contender Yeah. It's a pointed roof, as they do tend to get snow. clearly the grounds demand additional sacrifice Gravity demands flesh... ........................................................................