Logfile from ifmud. ************************************************************************ ** ** ** Welcome to ifMUD! ** ** ** ************************************************************************ FAQ: http://www.allthingsjacq.com/ifMUDfaq/ IP: 66.114.68.227 MONKEY: Ook. If you... have an account Type "connect name password" to log in need an account Go to http://ifmud.port4000.com:4001/ and apply are just visiting Type "connect guest guest" to login as Guest want to see who's on Type "who" for a list of players online have problems Email markm - mark.musante@gmail.com TYPE connect, who, or quit: Login Succeeded ifMUD An interactive real time social network chat bulletin board quotebook url database with a parrot bot Copyright 1997-2007 by Loungent Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of rec.[arts|games].int-fiction; All rights reserved. Release 4 / Serial number 990908 / perlMUD v2.1z "The characters were mostly of the cardboard cutout variety. I wanted to punch everyone except the one Scottish guy." --Jearl NOTE: Whenever a fix or enhancement is in place, it will be announced on the channel '#mud-updates'. OTHER NOTE: There is a mailing list where people can say things like "hey, the mud's down, what's up with that?" In fact, since this is the only thing the list is used for, you should join it if you are interested in this subject. To join, go to http://groups.google.com/group/ifmud/ or talk to Steve. Robinson Manor A gracious, welcoming, airy space. Music drifts in from unseen speakers. A picture window on the southern wall provides a pleasant source of light and a sense of openness. You can see: teleporter, a picture window, comfy sofa, Jeopardy podium, buzzer1, buzzer2, buzzer3, Jota greets Rob Visible Exits: west, east So much hard stuff is going on. Somehow it just seems simpler to stay here indefinitely, remain destitute, and forget about home, family, and anything else. No new channels have been created since your last check. Adventurer's Lounge Candles on the wood-panelled walls create a comfortably dark atmosphere. Hand-drawn maps are taped to nearly every surface -- the walls, the ceiling, the trophy case in the corner. Seating is plentiful. A small storage closet is to the north. You can see: new laundry list, Birthday Calendar, magic laundry list, banner reading "Happy birthday Jaybird and Whizzard!", Even Newer World Map, charset sampler, Automeeter, TheMasterTheorem player names, time zones, MUD Client Wish List Players: Alex, markm, Bishop, Doug, GDorn, Touchy, DorianX, Jearl, Psmith, lpsmith, annabianca, Whizzard, Allen, Ryan, Dave, Grocible, baf, McMartin, vaporware, Matthew, DavidW, vimes, maga, Richie, zaphod, Johnny, Lionheart, jpt, Jon, Fang, Storme, olethros, Marktwo, genericgeekgirl, zarf Visible Exits: north, west, southwest, southeast, up, east Rob comes right on in. Recapping 159 of 2343 lines from recent channels: [whiz-games]/07:52 Gunther says (to Whizzard), "also, happy birthday" [whiz-games]|07:52 Gunther says, "if you're still painting" [UK]|08:04 Fang asks, "so, does the 'spy in a bag' case count as a locked room mystery?" [UK]|08:07 olethros says, "sure" [UK]|08:07 Fang says, "I wonder what Sherlock Holmes would conclude" [UK]|08:08 olethros says, "whatever doyle would have wanted him to" [UK]|08:08 Fang says, "heh" [teaching]|08:11 olethros says, "hm, I must find an external expert for the master thesis" [teaching]|08:12 olethros says, "the problem is I dont know any people that are a short distance away" [teaching]|08:12 olethros says, "(it's already hard to get people to come over for a phd defence)" [UK]|08:14 Fang says, "personally, I reckon it's some kind of self-experimentation sort of misadventure" [UK]|08:15 olethros says, "that's what the police thought too" [UK]|08:16 olethros asks, "but if it was, why didn't he also take a pocketknife with him so that he'd be able to get out in case of emergency? how did he think he was going to escape?" [UK]|08:16 Gunther says, "yeah he's kinda not the first edge player to take it too far, if that's indeed what happened" [UK]|08:16 Gunther asks, "if you know you can get out easily, how is it exciting?" [UK]|08:17 olethros asks, "but did he have a plan at all?" [UK]|08:17 olethros says, "there'd be no way to reach the padlock without tearing the bag open" [UK]|08:17 Fang says, "well, maybe he was stupid" [UK]|08:17 olethros says, "The Spy Who Locked Me" [UK]|08:18 Fang says, "maybe there was an accomplice" [UK]|08:19 Fang says, "like, he had someone else lock him in, so that he could later attempt to escape" [UK]|08:19 Fang says, "the accomplice then bailed on him, and for obvious reasons would not come forward afterwards" [UK]|08:19 olethros asks, "why would he bail on him?" [UK]|08:20 Fang says, "well, who knows" [UK]|08:20 Fang says, "maybe at first as a joke" [UK]|08:20 Fang says, "and then he forgot about it" [UK]|08:20 Fang says, "and then 'Oh shit!'" [UK]|08:21 Gunther says (to olethros), "why would he bail on someone he accidentally killed? I dunno." [UK]|08:22 olethros says, "well, he'd just have locked him in the bag, not killed him" [UK]|08:22 olethros asks, "unless you think he died immediately upon entering the bag?" [UK]|08:22 Gunther says, "accessory or something." [ice-cream]|08:22 Gunther says, "about time!" [UK]|08:23 Fang says, "well, I don't know if it's plausible for someone to forget about someone you locked in a bag" [UK]|08:24 olethros says, "I guess that ever since these drunken soldiers decided to bury a passed out drinking companion in the snow during out winter mountaineering exercise, I stopped being surprised about the combined level of stupidity and malice that people can possess" [UK]|08:25 olethros says, "(is there a word for stupid + malicious in english?)" [UK]|08:25 Fang says, "#flamebait 'republican'" [UK]|08:27 Fang asks, "Is the cause of death still unclear?" [web-toons]|08:29 K-Y says, "I guess the question I have is, how much pre-investment do you need to check out some webcomics" [web-toons]|08:30 Gunther says, "ONE THOUSAND PERCENT" [research]|08:32 olethros says, "hmmmm norway position" [research]|08:32 olethros says, "norway is even further north than scotland though" [research]|08:32 olethros says, "but there's lots of skiing!" [web-toons]|08:32 Gunther says, "had I known Luther was zombie stuff I would have saved 15 seconds" [web-toons]|08:33 K-Y says, "anyway, the answer to Fang's question is that it's a guy's self-funded attempt to build a viable webcomic platform" [web-toons]|08:34 K-Y says, "comics designed explicitly for web rather than print" [web-toons]|08:35 Fang says, "what a novel idea." [web-toons]|08:36 K-Y says, "I'm not saying throw money at him or something" [web-toons]|08:36 K-Y says, "there is no way to do that, for one thing" [research]|08:37 ghira asks, "did you apply for the Aberdeen one?" [research]|08:37 olethros says, "yeah" [research]|08:37 olethros says, "it seems to at least have progressed beyond the HR department" [research]|08:38 olethros says, "frequently, it seems that job are cut by HR without any professor viewing them" [tired]|08:41 Gunther says, "so... tired" [kitties]|08:45 katre says, "waiting for the vet to call and tell me to go get lindy" [lounge]|08:46 Marktwo goes home. [lounge]|08:46 * Marktwo has disconnected. [web-toons]|08:46 K-Y asks, "also, what should be a reason to care?" [lounge]|08:46 Marktwo and at least a dozen men, some of them little better off than it was, explained to it that wheel and car were no longer joined by any physical bond. [lounge]|08:47 * Marktwo has disconnected. [lounge]|08:47 * Marktwo has connected. [names]|08:51 Ryan | http://twitter.com/#!/davidproworx/status/197622589227679745/photo/1 [UK]|08:52 olethros says, " http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17922388 " [names]|08:52 Gunther says, "hooray" [web-toons]|08:54 Fang asks, "I dunno, does it do anything new and unusual? Has the creator made anything particularly impressive? Has anyone read the thing and gave it rave reviews?" [web-toons]|08:58 K-Y says, "I'm agnostic to those things when it comes to webcomics" [web-toons]|08:59 Ryan says, "I guess that's because it's a fairly low-cost commitment." [web-toons]|09:00 K-Y says, "I think of it as the last frontier where you can read and recommend things based on just looking at the content itself" [names]|09:01 Gunther says (to K-Y), "but why spend 15 seconds looking when you can spend hours asking about it beforehand" [web-toons]|09:01 Fang asks, "but this comic's just started, right?" [names]|09:01 Gunther says, "IlAc" [web-toons]|09:01 Gunther says (to K-Y), "but why spend 15 seconds looking when you can spend hours asking about it beforehand" [web-toons]|09:02 K-Y says, "one has a full chapter up" [web-toons]|09:02 Fang says, "oh, I read two comics as 'two pages'" [web-toons]|09:02 K-Y says, "he other one I'm not sure if it's just done in one or what" [web-toons]|09:03 K-Y says, "and yeah, it's partly that it's going to be hosting a variety of titles" [UK]|09:09 olethros says, "this bag seems to be airtight" [UK]|09:09 olethros | Pathologists have told the court Mr Williams would have suffocated within three minutes if he was alive when he got inside the red 81cm x 48cm North Face bag. [UK]|09:09 olethros asks, "wait, it was a two-dimensional bag?" [UK]|09:09 Fang says, "heh" [people-suk]|09:12 Gunther slaps Fang across the room yet again [UK]|09:12 Fang says, "that supports my misadventure with accomplice theory" [English]|09:16 Fang asks, "as a epithet, 'cock' is more british, while 'dick' is more american, right?" [English]|09:16 Gunther says, "'twould seem so" [workplace]|09:20 Ryan says, "Grr. Me: "I need a list of IDs and the associated URLs." Days later, them: "Here is a list of IDs. I hope you can get the task done very quickly now that you have the data you asked for because we are tired of waiting."" [workplace]|09:20 Gunther says, "no urls, of course" [workplace]|09:20 Ryan says, "Right." [workplace]|09:21 Ryan says, "Also, not my fault that it took you days and days to fail to get all the data I asked for." [workplace]|09:21 Ryan says, "(Yes, this is yet more fun from Client From Hell.)" [workplace]|09:24 Gunther says, "I don't understand, couldn't they just have tweaked the HTML manually and inserted the -- careful with that axe, Ryan!" [lounge]|09:31 Rob comes right on in. [lounge]|09:31 Rob says, "blrghm" [lounge]|09:31 Gunther says, "agree" [rhem]|09:32 Rob says, "hmm rhem sale" [lounge]|09:32 Rob says, "waiting to go to the doctor" [peanut-gallery]|09:32 K-Y says, "wow connect" [lounge]|09:33 ghira says, "robble" [lounge]|09:33 Oren holekh ha'bayta. [lounge]|09:33 * Oren has disconnected. [lounge]|09:34 olethros says, "dont wait, just do it" [lounge]|09:35 Rob says, "well the appointment isn't for another 45 minutes" [lounge]|09:35 olethros says, "turn all the clocks forward" [lounge]|09:36 genericgeekgirl wanders off for a bit. [twitter]|09:36 olethros says, "twitter.com has a 'trends' piece of shit" [twitter]|09:36 olethros says, "you can change the location of these trends" [twitter]|09:36 Rob says, "what do you mean location" [twitter]|09:36 olethros says, "but the number of locations is only a handful, or is it just me" [twitter]|09:36 olethros | Worldwide trends · Change [twitter]|09:37 olethros says, "34 countries to choose from!" [twitter]|09:37 Rob says, "oh ah" [twitter]|09:38 olethros asks, "also, why does the 'compose a new tweet' button have a feather pen icon?" [twitter]|09:38 olethros says, "where is the ink bottle!" [twitter]|09:38 Rob says, "it's the universal symbol for writing, 200 years ago" [twitter]|09:39 olethros says, "it should have a thumb. Thumbs were useful for writing even back then" [twitter]|09:39 Rob says, "also, one supposes 'tweet' 'feather' synchronicity or something" [twitter]|09:39 olethros says, "it's not as though the feather is attached to a bird" [twitter]|09:40 Gunther says, "really. *that* is your beef with the Twitter UI." [twitter]|09:40 Rob says, "that's his new beef for today" [twitter]|09:41 olethros says, "new beef, same as old beef" [twitter]|09:41 olethros says, "it's just something I noticed and found strange" [lounge]|09:42 Rob says, "ok now it's time to go" [twitter]|09:43 olethros asks, "what's a good twitter chrome extension?" [lounge]|09:43 olethros says, "have fun!" [lounge]|09:43 Rob says, "mm well I guess I can face it as cheerfully as possible" [twitter]|09:43 olethros asks, "silver bird?" [lounge]|09:43 Rob says, "people who work in clinics seem to appreciate patients with a sense of humor" [lounge]|09:43 Rob moseys right on out. [lounge]|09:43 olethros says, "humoritis" [Europe]|09:45 olethros | Amid all the gloom, we have some good news from Belgium! [Europe]|09:45 olethros gets excited [Europe]|09:46 olethros | Its economy grew by 0.3% in the first three months of 2012, according to data just released. And data from the third quarter of 2011 has also been revised higher, to 0% growth from -0.1%. [Europe]|09:46 olethros says, "ok, that's like somebody your partner finally having an erection only to ejaculate after 5 seconds" [Europe]|09:46 olethros says, "s/somebody//" [Europe]|09:47 Allen asks, "have they formed a government yet?" [Europe]|09:48 olethros asks, "why is that important?" [Europe]|09:48 ghira says (to allen), "I thought so" [exercise]|09:50 olethros | So far there are only two easyGyms, but world domination is projected [Europe]|09:51 Allen says, "oh they did: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%E2%80%932011_Belgian_government_formation " [Europe]|09:51 olethros says, "the 1000-minute government" [Europe]|09:51 olethros says, "actually the approach 1000 days now!" [Europe]|09:51 Allen | Belgium matched the record for time taken to form a new democratic government after an election, at 353 days, held until then by Cambodia in 2003-2004.[1] On 11 October 2011, the final agreement for institutional reform was presented to the media. A government coalition was named on 5 December 2011 and sworn in after a total of 541 days of negotiations and formation on 6 December 2011 [quotations]|09:56 olethros | If building great roads and trains were the route to lasting prosperity, Greece and Spain would be booming. [quotations]|09:56 olethros asks, "wait, has this guy ever _seen_ the roads and trains of greece?" [quotations]|09:57 olethros says, "the athens train station is worse than that in leoben" [lounge]|09:57 genericgeekgirl utilizes her advanced knowledge of physics to enter the lounge. [quotations]|09:57 olethros says, "(tiny austrian town)" [lounge]|09:57 genericgeekgirl waves. [lounge]|09:59 Gunther says, "generique" [lounge]|09:59 marc goes home. [lounge]|09:59 * marc has disconnected. [lounge]|10:08 olethros says, "el gen" [race]|10:08 olethros | My best friend is black [lounge]|10:09 Gunther was like watching the world's most boring car crash, and then someone with a monotone voice overanalyzing it. [greece]|10:12 olethros says, "ooo police to enforce peace during university elections" [lounge]|10:20 zarf walks in through the wall. Behind him, light shines briefly through, rosy pink this time of day. [race]|10:21 Allen says, "I was telling my vegan coworker a few weeks ago that meat isn't that bad. Some of my best friends are made of meat" [race]|10:24 Ryan says, "Friends like Terry Bisson." [lounge]|10:26 ghira goes home. [lounge]|10:26 * ghira has disconnected. [lounge]/10:53 Rob comes right on in. Recapped 159 of 2343 lines from recent channels. Current time: Wednesday, 2 May 2012, 10:53:26 AM EDT Rob says, "bizet" Rob says, "well, so far so good" Oh, I'm sorry, was it a *private* distress signal? Gunther has a complicated history with pants. Gunther says, "re" Rob says, "doctor takes a look at ear, says, 'that looks like it's doing fine! if it goes weird, call me!' then I pay ninety dollars" Rob says, "I guess what I was paying for was professional reassurance" Richie says, "CRB" zarf says, "And risk reduction" Richie ambles off. Richie has disconnected from ifMUD. Rob says, "hm yes that too" Rob says, "also having someone to call in case weirdness happens" Rob says, "obviating the need for the 'uh oh weirdness! bad weirdness! what do I do? who can I call? ahhh' scene" Rob says, "the backstory is that my ear swelled up like a water balloon had inflated" Tale's first civilian job after World War I was at the Oxford English Dictionary, where he worked mainly on the history and etymology of words of Germanic origin beginning with the letter W. Rob says, "went to ER, got it poked, it swelled up again" Rob says, "back to ER, different doctor is more engaged with it as a treatment to properly be figured out, including follow-through with a specialist she knows" Rob says, "the main thing they're trying to head off being cauliflower ear" Rob says, "so now after all that, we come back to where we started, where specialist says 'looks good! bye'" Storme says, "man" Storme asks, "and they don't know why?" Rob says, "nobody knows why" Rob says, "I was suffering the symptoms of having taken a blunt trauma to the ear, bursting a blood vessel in my outer ear" Rob says, "but I kept shrugging and saying, 'I have had no such blunt trauma occur'" K-Y's apocalyptic flotsam included the emergence of figures of such dazzling dementia as to momentarily mesmerize even thinking people. Tale says, "I told you to go easy on the hardcore roleplaying" Storme asks, "any chance that happened and the blow also knocked out the memory of getting hit?" Rob says, "heh it's possible" zarf says, "Ceta Alpha eel larva" Gunther asks, "isn't blunt trauma when you smoke dope that's been laced with something bad?" Rob says (to zarf), "aiieee" Dave says, "morning" Rob says (to Gunther), "that too" Rob says, "g'Dave" K-Y says, "wow, ear" Rob says, "the interesting thing is that everyone I've met in these three hospital/clinic visits has been awesome and friendly and professional" Rob says, "I posted a picture of me with my ear bandaged up on facebook yesterday and caused a small stir" K-Y says, "now, there's always the possibility of spontaneous psychic powers" Rob says, "yesterday I was waiting in an ER curtain-cubicle on a bed for about an hour and a half (I was the lowest-priority case during a busy tuesday morning)" Rob says, "but I could hear all the conversations between the staff and patients, and the staff amongst themselves, as they tackled case after case" Rob says, "it was like a radio version of Scrubs" Rob says, "there was a cantankerous 82 year old woman who couldn't remember whether or not she'd ever had a tenanus shot, which would require them giving her a second type of serum in addition to the tetanus shot, which they had to figure out and research and see if they had around" Rob says, "but the lady was cranky about waiting so long" [workplace] Allen says, "the yahoo home page takeover for Pepsi is live today" [workplace] Allen says, "it's obnoxious! Go to yahoo.com. It fills your screen with pepsi (for a moment)" [workplace] Gunther says, "nope, it doesn't" [workplace] K-Y says, "I can do that all by myself with mud jokes" Rob says, "and some nurse got snarky with her at one point and said, 'we're doing the best we can, we're all very busy -- do you see anyone sitting around?'" [workplace] Gunther says, "ad block, you're the best" Gunther says, "YES! MYSELF!" Lionheart can see a dream in your dance. Lionheart can see tomorrow in your dance. We can call it, "our hope"! "The-the-the criticism people have of your position, Reverend, is... you want God out of everything!" -- Megyn Kelly, 16 Apr 2010 [workplace] Allen says, "curse you for taking away our ad revenue" Rob says, "I was picturing it as a tv show in my head while hearing it all go on" [workplace] K-Y says, "and in that case at least it's funny" Rob says, "and wondering how House would diagnose my mysterious ear problem" [money] Allen says, "man, how sucky:" [money] Allen | An Arkansas woman who cashed a $1 million lottery ticket may have to give up the winnings to a woman who threw away the ticket after she bought it, according to a judge's ruling Tuesday. [workplace] Gunther says (to Allen), "don't worry, I don't go to Yahoo or Pepsi" [money] Gunther says, "that's shitty" Field set. [money] Fang says, "er, huh" [writing] Rob says, "I finally got paid a royalty check for writing something" K-Y says, "well, first it would turn into horrible crippling symptoms" [writing] Rob says, "an article about IF, no less" [money] Fang says, "that seems to be an unreasonable judgement" Gunther says, "they'd put you in an MRI, at which point your stomach would explode through your eardrums" [writing] Rob says, "I've actually earned a ledgerable amount of money from my IF career" jmac has connected to ifMUD. [writing] Rob says, "not enough to live on, but higher than nonexistent" [writing] Gunther says, "hooray" Tale says, "You would be diagnosed with something harmless by Wilson, and House would go hmm, next day you're back in and in a coma" [writing] Rob says, "more than from comics or drawing" [writing] Rob says, "less than from movies" [money] Allen | Simpson noted that Duncan testified she threw away the ticket after the read-out on a ticket scanner said, "Sorry. Not a winner." [writing] Rob says, "I used to know in my head what the total IF earnings were but I don't any more" [money] Allen says, "that sounds like a reason to sue the state for their crappy scanners..." [money] Allen says, "or the store" [money] Gunther says, "oh, don't worry, the person giving up the money now will do that" [writing] Rob says, "of course, the friendships are priceless" jmac has disconnected from ifMUD. [music] Gunther says, "40 years after everyone else I am getting into Pink Floyd" [writing] Rob says, "made more friends from IF than from other creative careers, too" [music] Rob says, "hooray" [music] Rob says, "what's your path of getting into it" [music] Gunther says, "YouTube" "You'd rather have a male technician? Do you have a racial or religious preference, so I can tell dispatch who to send?" [music] Rob says, "I'm a fan of only a small slice of it" [music] Rob says, "I have two albums, Dark Side of the Moon, and Piper at the Gates of Dawn" [music] Gunther says, "and the sheer drug-induced anarchic insanity" [music] Allen asks, "you like Piper at the Gtaes of Dawn?" [music] Rob says, "I remember ddyte once complimenting my taste, and he was a big floyd fan" [music] Rob says, "I said I have it, I didn't say what I thought of it" [dreams] Dave says, "I love these dreams" [music] Allen says, "is that the one with the little ditty "I've got a mouse and he doesn't have a house I don't know why I call him gerald"" [dreams] Dave says, "it's the dream where you're writing a story" [music] Rob says, "it's not really that listenable, but it's very interesting" [music] Rob says, "and offered the occasional track pick for a mix tape" [music] Rob says (to Allen), "yes!" [music] Allen says, "30 years after I got into pink floyd and owned everything (on cassette or LP), the only thing I find listenable to today is Dark Side" [dreams] Dave says, "and the first word holds all the granduer and emotions of the entire story and everyone is amazed at how I thought of that word to start my story" [music] Rob says, "I've occasionally heard tracks from it like Interstellar Overdrive playing in coffeehouses and such and thought, 'yay, I know what this is, that's how hip I am'" [tangent] Tale says, "I will soon be making money from IF! 50 Euro and a t-shirt" [music] Rob says, "I still haven't done the wizard of oz thing with it" [music] Allen says, "occasionally I give something a short listen. I got a hankering for Animals a few months ago" [music] Rob says, "maybe I should try that someday" [music] Tale says (to rob), "That would interest me, too" [music] Rob says, "I also have one Roger Waters solo album, from the early 90s" [music] Allen says, "oh, and Echoes, from Meddle" [music] Rob says, "reminds me of my grad school years" [music] Allen says, "I don't have that one. I have one of his 80s albums" [music] Rob says, "since that's when I got it" [music] Allen says, "two of them" [music] Rob says, "it's called Amused to Death" [music] Allen says, "the one after the falkland war..." [music] Ryan says, "I have two Gilmour solo albums." [music] K-Y says, "I think I could just get the compilation from 2001 and be set" [music] Allen says, "the only memorable ttrack on that one is Two Suns in the Sunset." [music] Rob says, "I put a track from it on the mix CD I made for a Steve-sponsored ifMUD mix CD swap fest" [music] Allen says, "and I had Radio Kaos, but hated it and gave it away" [music] Gunther says, "the live Floyd stuff I've heard is basically Throbbing Gristle with people who know their instruments" [music] Rob says, "the only Gilmour I have is when he plays on the occasional Paul McCartney track" [music] Rob says, "he does some pretty good stuff for mccartney though. the styles mix" [music] K-Y says, "Two Suns is Pink Floyd" [music] K-Y says, "although it's hard to tell" [music] Allen says (to K-Y), "oh, that's right" [music] Allen says, "yeah, I forgot. That album is *so* Roger Waters" [music] Rob says, "there was just a fancy remastered package set of pink floyd's the wall" [music] Rob says, "that I saw a review of in my local weekly" [music] Gunther says, "yeah" [music] Allen asks, "has any of their past 25 years stuff been any good?" [music] Rob says, "they were like, 'some stuff, awesome! other stuff, meh'" [music] Ryan says, "Division Bell was the first PF album I heard, and I loved it." [music] Rob asks, "what has there been in the past 25 years?" [writing] Storme says, "my IF involvement helped me get my job" [music] Rob says, "I thought their last album was like in 1987" [music] Allen says, "oh, huh, they've only had one album" [writing] Storme says, "and I've not exactly written anything non-jokey" [music] Rob says, "I can picture the cover art but not remember the name of it" [music] Gunther says, "what I'm listening to now is 'Live at Pompeii'" [music] Allen says, "yeah, momentary lapse of reason is the last I bought" Recapping 14 of 14 lines from arts/writing: [writing]/001 Gerynar says, "A crown of Baies is a reference to the crown of bays that was traditionally awarded to the winning poets and dramatists of the ancient Pythian games." [writing]/002 Gerynar says, "so I'm pretty sure it's crown of Baies" [writing]/003 Rob says, "I finally got paid a royalty check for writing something" [writing]/004 Rob says, "an article about IF, no less" [writing]/005 Rob says, "I've actually earned a ledgerable amount of money from my IF career" [writing]/006 Rob says, "not enough to live on, but higher than nonexistent" [writing]/007 Gunther says, "hooray" [writing]/008 Rob says, "more than from comics or drawing" [writing]/009 Rob says, "less than from movies" [writing]/010 Rob says, "I used to know in my head what the total IF earnings were but I don't any more" [writing]/011 Rob says, "of course, the friendships are priceless" [writing]/012 Rob says, "made more friends from IF than from other creative careers, too" [writing]/013 Storme says, "my IF involvement helped me get my job" [writing]/014 Storme says, "and I've not exactly written anything non-jokey" Recapped 14 of 14 lines from arts/writing. [music] Allen asks (of Gunther), "that's actually good. That has Echoes, right?" [music] Gunther asks (of Rob), "Pulse?" [music] Gunther says (to Allen), "yes, both parts, 20 minutes long or so" [music] K-Y says, "we've almost got to the point where the 'last 25 years' is - timing" [writing] Rob says, "hasn't helped me get any jobs, except for the above-mentioned chance to write an article for a book" [music] Allen asks, "I've only seen the film. Was there an album?" [writing] Tale asks (of strome), "How so?" [music] Rob asks, "of the wall?" [music] Rob says, "yeah" [music] K-Y says, "Division Bell seems to be more notable for the proto-ARG than for the music" [music] Allen says (to Rob), "of Live at Pompeii" [music] Rob says, "oh" [writing] Storme says (to tale), "came up during my interview because I write what are basically very boring-and-FAQ-focused NPCs" [music] Rob says, "wow pompeii" [music] Rob says, "good ol caecilius" [music] Allen says, "funny about the Wall: I have two side twos" [music] Gunther says, " http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1yxNjU7u_8 " [music] K-Y says, "stuff like 'why does the LP have slightly different art than the CD'" [writing] Rob says, "and now you have a whole career" [music] Allen says, "I went to a party in 1988, and took my new cd version of the wall there" [writing] Tale asks, "They asked about it?" [writing] Storme says, "being able to talk about conversational IF sold my boss on my ability to do that" [music] Allen says, "it was played. Then we left. Then a couple days later, I discovered I had two side 2's" [writing] Tale says, "ah" [writing] Storme says, "yeah; screw everyone who says not to put hobbies on your cv" [writing] Rob says, "huzzah" [music] Allen says, "I asked and never found the person with two side 1s." [music] Allen says, "but that ok. Side 2 is the best. Disc 2." [music] Rob says, "heh" [NYC] Gunther | Starting next year, New York will become the first state to require lawyers to perform unpaid work before being licensed to practice, the state’s chief judge announced on Tuesday, describing the rule as a way to help the growing number of people who cannot afford legal services. [music] Allen says, "when I read Julian May's Pleiocene books, I listened to Echoes on repeat for hours on end" Rob says, "back in a bit" [music] Allen says, "it kinda fit" Rob heads right on out. Find release from your cares. have a good time. Seeya later.