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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
<Rob> So you're like, "Wow, this book comes with an onion!"
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, blank banner, Even Newer World Map, charset sampler, Automeeter, TheMasterTheorem player names, time zones, MUD Client Wish List, battle.net battletags, madlibs, Anything Finder
Players: Alex, markm, Touchy, jpt, DorianX, Jon, Bishop, marc, GDorn, Jearl, Ryan, Allen, Jacqueline, vimes, Psmith, lpsmith, baf, Matthew, Whizzard, maga, Dave, ghira, Grocible, McMartin, Doug, borowski, zaphod, Fang, DavidW, K-Y, vaporware, BrenBarn, Gunther, boucher, Marktwo, zarf, nothings, Hugo, small, Jota, jenrexrode
Visible Exits: north, west, southwest, southeast, up, east
Rob comes right on in.
Recapping 887 of 2996 lines from recent channels:
[lounge]/15:06 vaporware has been installed, configured, and maintained by secretaries, janitors, and a creepy Australian kid with a razor boomerang.
[lounge]|15:10 Ellison has appeared in three Bigfoot/Abominable Snowman-themed movies: Bigfoot: The Unforgettable Encounter, Little Bigfoot and Abominable.
[lounge]|15:10 Ellison says, "hey all"
[lounge]|15:10 Felix says, "Hello."
[videogames]|15:10 Gunther asks, "hmm?"
[TV]|15:11 DorianX says, "weird. Alan Thicke liiks like he's turning into James Garner."
[ifdb]|15:12 DavidW says, "ooh, somehow I forgot to check often enough, but I see Cover Stories games are finally listed."
[vimesical]|15:14 vimes says, "also probably a good sign that they wrote me on a saturday to schedule the next phone screen on monday"
[vimesical]|15:14 inky says, "woo"
[vimesical]|15:14 Ellison says, "right on"
[DrawSomething]|15:14 vimes says, "hmm, all my coins and purchased colors vanished"
[DrawSomething]|15:14 vimes says, "thanks a lot, zynga"
[DrawSomething]|15:14 inky says, "hmm, someone was just griping about that -- Jota, I think"
[DrawSomething]|15:15 inky says, "he said all his games vanished too"
[lounge]|15:15 Ellison says, "actually, csb"
[lounge]|15:15 Ellison goes back to Squeamhurst..
[lounge]|15:15 * Ellison has disconnected.
[DrawSomething]|15:15 vimes says, "my games stuck around"
[DrawSomething]|15:15 vimes says, "still have Jota's, for instance"
[electronics]|15:16 Bishop says, "Yay: < https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/428557_434872623200421_1589766276_n.jpg >."
[electronics]|15:17 inky says, "ha ha"
[videogames]|15:19 K-Y says, "this economics comment thread is just embarrassing"
[lounge]|15:22 DorianX asks, "What are he sides of a crib called?"
[lounge]|15:22 Felix asks, "I have no idea. They have a name?"
[wikipedia]|15:23 Allen says, "ha ha, what the hell with these "further reading"? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_petite_mort "
[DrawSomething]|15:23 jenrexrode says, "yay, vw finally played my game, so I can't post it"
[babies]|15:24 DorianX exclaims, "!!!"
[babies]|15:24 DorianX says, "Dylan has started babbling out a repeated sequence +"
[wikipedia]|15:24 inky says, "wow"
[DrawSomething]|15:25 jenrexrode says, "er can"
[DrawSomething]|15:25 jenrexrode | https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3240690696171&l=bf12083a9f
[babies]|15:25 Allen says, "+ is the regexp for that"
[babies]|15:27 inky says, "ha ha"
[wikipedia]|15:27 K-Y says, "first added in 2006"
[babies]|15:28 DorianX says, "it kinda sounds like he is tryign to say 'i love dada'"
[DrawSomething]|15:28 inky says, "nice!"
[babies]|15:28 inky says, "well sure, babies are all into dada"
[wikipedia]|15:29 boucher says, "It's a very specific type of voyeurism.  'Oh yeah, baby...look at those gamma band EEG waves.  Hot!.'"
[wikipedia]|15:31 K-Y says, "I'm pretty sure that is the actual reason why these are here"
[wikipedia]|15:34 Allen says, "the article is surprisingly worthless for what I thought was one of the big metaphors, at least for a short time until it became really cliche in the 17c"
[wikipedia]|15:35 K-Y says, "but don't you want to know about the *EEGs*"
[lounge]|15:35 Ellison arrives from the east.
[lounge]|15:35 Felix says, "wb"
[grubshack]|15:37 inky | Awesome beer selection. The food was disproportinnal.
[grubshack]|15:38 DavidW | The baby carrots barely fit on my plate.
[wikipedia]|15:38 boucher says, "About all one can prove with an EEG regarding 'la petit mort' is that the French couldn't have been more wrong."
[programming]|15:39 vaporware says, "doh, someone answered my question about TestFlight but it scrolled away and tf lost it."
[wikipedia]|15:40 boucher says, "'Here, on the left, we have the brainwaves of someone having an orgasm.  Note the increased activity.  Now here, on the right, we have the brainwaves of someone who is dead.  Notice the lack of any significant activity at all.  Therefore, we can conclude that an orgasm is not really like death, not even a "little".'"
[DrawSomething]|15:40 jenrexrode says, "thanks.  I felt pretty crazy when I was drawing it, but I coudln't stop"
[news]|15:41 Allen | 'Kindness Of America' Author Shot Himself For Promotion, Cops Say
[news]|15:42 boucher says, "IRTA 'protection'"
[lounge]|15:44 Miseri regularly eats multiples of things inky wouldn't eat more than zero of.
[lounge]|15:45 Miseri says, "arrr"
[lounge]|15:45 Felix says, "hi there."
[lounge]|15:48 Ellison says (to Felix), "thanks"
[lounge]|15:48 Ellison says, "hey Miseri"
[news]|15:49 Ellison says, "I knew it was a bad idea for vanity presses to give out free ammo"
[news]|15:49 boucher says, "Also, if you want to avoid the complications of police looking too closely into your fabricated story of being shot, report it having happened in Los Angeles where the gunman could be any of thousands of known criminals on any given block, not along a stretch of country road in Montana where police probably know the one guy to have passed that way today by name."
[lounge]|15:49 Miseri says, "sleepy."
[lounge]|15:50 Felix says, "That's natural."
[news]|15:50 Allen says, "and it sucks for the guy they arrested"
[news]|15:50 boucher asks, "Was it here that someone mentioned a friend having been pulled over by a policeman in Montana...because he was lonely and wanted to chat?"
[news]|15:51 inky asks, "oh, they arrested someone for shooting him?"
[news]|15:51 Allen says, "he was cleared of the shooting, but apparently he was an oilfield worker who happened to be intoxicated"
[news]|15:51 Allen says, "so he's still in jail for the drunk driving"
[news]|15:51 inky says, "man"
[ifwiki-editors]|15:52 DavidW says, "hm. Should I put a 'Slice of life' category on ifwiki? I've been rather resisting that genre as a kinda made-up vague genre, but I notice it persisting in ifdb as a significant genre there."
[news]|15:52 boucher says, "'You're under arrest for failing to shoot someone while under the influence.'"
[TMI]|15:53 Allen says, "and of course, there was the news a few years ago that Montana had greatly increased the penalties for urine bombs"
[ifwiki-editors]|15:53 inky says, "I don't exactly understand what it means"
[ifwiki-editors]|15:53 Ellison says, "it is for games about piemakers, I believe"
[lounge]|15:54 Miseri says, "At a cafe maybe half an hour from home.  Can't sleep here."
[TMI]|15:54 Allen says, "since there are so few businesses to stop and pee, people instead pee into plastic bottles and toss them out the window. Where there urine slowly ferments, building up pressure, until a highway mowing crew comes along, and his them, and is sprayed with a shower of putrid piss"
[ifwiki-editors]|15:54 DavidW says, "I think it means a story set in everyday reality, something that could conceivably happen to anyone in real life, given the circumstances of the game."
[TMI]|15:54 Allen says, "it's such a big problem the legislature enacted a special class b misdemeanor for it, over and above the normal littering"
[lounge]|15:55 Felix says, "Ah."
[ifwiki-editors]|15:55 DavidW says, "But it's not a category book stores or movies ever use."
[TMI]|15:56 boucher says, "I'm now imagining a fleet of bomb disposal robots being purchased to deal with the issue."
[TMI]|15:57 Allen | July 2003: Washington state launched an agressive public awareness campaign to combat the proliferation of Jugs of Pee on its highways. One poster depicts a gallon milk jug, partly filled with an amber liquid, above the text: "Okay, one last time: This is not a urinal."
[ifwiki-editors]|15:57 DavidW says, "hm. And I should probably rename the Espionage category to Crime, since that's a closer fit to how I treat that category."
[ifwiki-editors]|15:58 Ellison asks, "the book equivalent is just 'general fiction' or something like that, isn't it?"
[ifwiki-editors]|15:58 DavidW says (to Ellison), "I dunno."
[ifwiki-editors]|15:59 DavidW says, "Maybe."
[TMI]|15:59 boucher says, "'We're pissed off about being pissed on.'"
[programming]|15:59 vimes | 22:01:37 # [programming] jmac says, "TestFlight handles as much of the back-and-forth as it can in that process, which is rather a lot. And it makes it maximally easy for testers, which is correct. Developer still has to manage a lot of provisioning-profile confusion, and that took me a while to get the hang of."
[programming]|15:59 vimes | 22:05:22 # [programming] jmac says, "TestFlight seems to have become the de facto way to test iOS apps 'round here, anyway... when I trolled for testers on a local game-dev list, people replied by sharing their TestFlight usernames, without my asking for them specifically."
[programming]|15:59 vimes asks, "that bit?"
[ifwiki-editors]|15:59 DavidW says, "But almost all of IF is 'fiction', so it's not a useful category for us."
[ifwiki-editors]|16:00 vimes says, "well, there's literary fiction and there's fictiony fiction, i've always felt"
[ifwiki-editors]|16:02 DavidW says, "um. I'm not even sure I understand that statement."
[TMI]|16:02 Allen | Recycling solution?
[TMI]|16:02 Allen | Unfortunately, a recent breakthrough in diesel filter technology that uses urine won't be helpful. European researchers are developing a filter that uses animal urine to cut down on harmful emissions. Truckers who use the filter will fill up with the purified urea solution each time they stop for diesel. But Oliver Kröcher, one of the filter researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute near Zurich, Switzerland, says using human urine "is not practical at all, since ... very pure urea has to be used" and that wouldn't be the case with urine straight from the source. "Thus, there is no way to apply this crazy idea," he says.
[TMI]|16:04 Gunther says, "renaming it peesel has also not been populae"
[TMI]|16:04 Gunther says, "r"
[movie]|16:04 Allen | No Cousins Have Sex in This Tame, Sad Remake of Blue Lagoon
[TMI]|16:04 Allen says, "ha ha"
[ifwiki-editors]|16:04 vimes says, "there are things setting down things that never happened but could have, or haven't yet happened but might have, and there are things setting down things that never happened and couldn't have, or haven't happened and aren't going to"
[TMI]|16:05 DavidW asks, "Are there just not enough urinals on the highways?"
[movie]|16:06 Allen | Emma Robinson (played by Indiana Evans) is a dimple in a prissy chin below eyes of honor-roll liveliness. Dean McMullen (Brenton Thwaites) is a bad boy and a new kid: "I heard he got kicked out of the last school he was in." (In terms of Breakfast Club membership, she is a straight-up Molly Ringwald, while he is a chuck steak seasoned with hints of Judd Nelson's defiance and Emilio Estevez's athleticism, and also a saffron-y touch of Ally Sheedy's slackerly strangeness.)
[ifwiki-editors]|16:06 DavidW says, "well, as I understand if, 'Slice of life' is the could've might've sort."
[ifwiki-editors]|16:06 vimes says, "yep, i'd say it fits in that half of the genre"
[movie]|16:06 Gunther | The author of this article eyeballed the waitress, but no coffee was forthcoming.
[ifwiki-editors]|16:07 DavidW asks, "Well, I guess I have two questions: is that sort of category useful, and is 'slice of life' the best name for it?"
[ifwiki-editors]|16:08 DavidW says, "(I propose that a teapot be its icon on ifwiki, should I so implement it.)"
[ifwiki-editors]|16:11 DavidW says, "(If the icon must look like a slice, I propose it look like a slice of pizza, rather than pie or cake.)"
[lounge]|16:18 jenrexrode wanders off.
[lounge]|16:18 Miseri is very disappointed in you.  Earlier, he may have ransacked your office, but he is *very* disappointed in you.
[ifwiki-editors]|16:24 Ellison says, "a teapot sounds fine"
[lounge]|16:30 zarf walks in through the wall. Behind him, light shines briefly through, vivid gold this time of day.
[lounge]|16:30 BrenBarn busta.
[lounge]|16:30 zarf says, "hey"
[lounge]|16:31 Felix says, "hello."
[comics]|16:33 Gunther says, " http://www.progressiveboink.com/2012/6/14/3085171/40-more-of-the-worst-rob-liefeld-drawings-numbers-10-through-1 "
[science]|16:33 BrenBarn | They found that the dirt with the remains of calm grasshoppers was far more efficient in breaking down plant matter than the dirt containing the remains of stressed grasshoppers
[lounge]|16:34 zarf walks off through the wall; vivid gold light flares briefly around him.
[science]|16:34 Ellison says, "huh"
[TSD]|16:36 boucher | China launches first woman, first manned docking mission
[TSD]|16:36 boucher says, "Yeah, that's how China got into their overpopulation problem in the first place."
[science]|16:36 BrenBarn says, "the way they stressed the grasshoppers out is pretty wacky"
[science]|16:36 BrenBarn | To create a group of seriously stressed-out grasshoppers, researchers at a Yale University forest field site in Connecticut placed the bugs in an enclosure with spiders. (The spiders' mouths were glued shut, but the grasshoppers didn't know that.)
[science]|16:37 BrenBarn says, "I think the mere idea of gluing a spider's mouth shut stresses me out"
[science]|16:37 Ellison says, "ha ha"
[science]|16:37 boucher says, "'Dude, what's with the mumbling spiders?'  'I dunno, but they're starting to freak me out.'"
[science]|16:38 BrenBarn says, "also here is some gross but interesting science"
[science]|16:38 BrenBarn | In one small but dramatic example of what might one day be routine, Finnish researchers reported in March that patients with recurring Clostridium difficile infections recovered after fresh fecal material from healthy donors was transplanted into their guts.
[science]|16:38 Ellison says, "dang"
[science]|16:39 BrenBarn asks, "so you can treat an infection. . . by putting someone else's poop in you?"
[science]|16:39 boucher says, "Also, perhaps it's actually an experiment being performed on the spiders.  'Tell me, Mr. Spiderson.  What good is a cricket...when you are unable to eat?'"
[science]|16:41 BrenBarn says, "heh"
[science]|16:41 boucher says (to BrenBarn), "I've heard of it as if it were a semi-rare, but well-established procedure by now.  Maybe people are just repeatedly reporting the same few experiments over and over."
[science]|16:41 BrenBarn says, "I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here: grasshoppers aren't really insects"
[lounge]|16:43 djfletch can produce a dozen witnesses to swear he was elsewhere.
[snacks]|16:50 Allen says, "ok, these are some goooood pickles"
[snacks]|16:50 Allen | http://www.bubbies.com/prod_pure_kosher_dills.shtml
[snacks]|16:51 Allen | Pure Kosher Dills
[snacks]|16:52 Allen | Pure Kosher Dills are naturally crunchy just like the "pickle barrel" pickles so many folks remember from their childhood. Made with no vinegar or preservatives, our CLOUDY BRINE is proof that Bubbies are naturally fermented and cured.
[ifwiki-editors]|16:52 DavidW asks (of maga), "Is it okay if I create the rest of the Cover Stories pages?"
[ifwiki-editors]|16:53 DavidW says, "although it does look like you'd do a more thourough job than I was planning."
[comics]|16:55 K-Y says, "of course, Liefeld has steady work lined up for the near future"
[comics]|16:57 Gunther says, "just like every other talentless hack out there"
[TV]|16:59 DorianX says, "Blue Bloods"
[TV]|17:00 DorianX says, "The DA is prosecuting a murder case and the defense lawer is murdered"
[TV]|17:00 DorianX says, "it turns out that he was lured to his death by someone offering th help him find a mysterious person called "M""
[TV]|17:01 DorianX says, "The DA flips out at the cop when he tries to follow this lead, because the defendant's defense hinges on claiming that there's some mysterious person called "M" who did it"
[TV]|17:01 DorianX says, "So she considers this M to be a fiction invented to cover the murder"
[TV]|17:01 DorianX says, "So she's really pissed that the cop is now looking for M"
[TV]|17:01 DorianX says, "And she says "Why don't you go after the one-armed man while you're at it!""
[TV]|17:02 Gunther says, "just dial M"
[TV]|17:02 DorianX says, "As hyperbole for the fact that he is hunting down an obvious false lead"
[TV]|17:02 DorianX says, "Only"
[lounge]|17:02 memeplex enters bearing chocolate that, tragically, is designed to maximise profit margins.
[TV]|17:02 DorianX says, "She has just chosen an example that means EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE"
[comics]|17:02 K-Y says, "also, in September DC is doing a month of minimalist covers with no backgrounds"
[lounge]|17:03 Ellison says, "hello memeplex"
[comics]|17:03 K-Y says, "which means we will get gloriously pure Liefeld designs such as this http://i.newsarama.com/images/dsk_cv0_previews_02.jpg "
[lounge]|17:04 memeplex says, ""hello""
[videogames]|17:04 Gunther asks, "oooh did Arma 2/Day Z self-destruct?"
[comics]|17:04 DavidW says, "well, you know he hates to draw feet."
[comics]|17:05 K-Y says, "I will give him that he has been trying to draw feet more http://i.newsarama.com/images/grif_cv0_previews_02.jpg "
[comics]|17:05 K-Y says, "it seems to have come at the expense of the characters' guns shrinking to hilarious sizes"
[lounge]|17:05 Felix waves.
[lounge]|17:05 memeplex waves.
[comics]|17:06 K-Y says, "also, this September there will be four DC comics with Liefeld on writing duty"
[education]|17:08 Allen | Parents are yanking their kids out of the "progressive," $32,000 per-year private school founded by the Blue Man Group -- which has no books and no tests -- because their kids are barely learning to read, The Post has learned.
[lounge]|17:08 memeplex goes southwest to play with toys.
[education]|17:09 Allen | "A majority of my Upper East Side clients, if they took a look down there, their heads would explode," said education adviser Terri Decker of Smart City Kids. "Literally, their brains would be on the pavement."
[lounge]|17:12 Duodave feeds the insatiable hatred of the envious and the jealous.
[videogames]|17:12 Gunther | Am I a bad person for getting thousands of people on ArmA2 banned, and blowing up servers of 50 people just to see the rage that they spew in chat after they lose their 3 hours of work?
[education]|17:13 BrenBarn says, "heh"
[whiz-games]|17:16 Whizzard stretches.
[lounge]|17:16 Duodave asks, "how is everyone today?"
[whiz-games]|17:16 Whizzard says, "Heyo."
[whiz-games]|17:17 Whizzard says, "Adventures in painter's tape today."
[whiz-games]|17:17 Whizzard says, "Got my maroon stripe added to both a frigate and a cruiser. Looks good."
[general]|17:17 Duodave asks, "does anyone know how to connect to the ifmud using pidgin?"
[programming]|17:17 vaporware says (to vimes), "Yeah, thanks."
[programming]|17:18 vaporware says, "So not a magic bullet. Guess I'll stick with 'hey, come by my desk and I'll use the cable' and 'go away, I have too many testers already'."
[lounge]|17:18 Felix asks, "Up too late. You?"
[lounge]|17:18 Duodave asks, "too late... like last night?"
[whiz-games]|17:19 Gunther says, "neat"
[whiz-games]|17:19 Gunther asks, "did you see battlefoam has ... well, foam ... for the game?"
[lounge]|17:19 Felix says, "Later. And today I have a good excuse."
[lounge]|17:20 Duodave asks, "oh?"
[lounge]|17:20 Felix says, "Roleplaying elsemu*."
[lounge]|17:21 Duodave says, "oic"
[lounge]|17:23 Felix asks, "Hmm?"
[whiz-games]|17:29 Whizzard says, "Yeah."
[whiz-games]|17:29 Gunther says, "also, pointlessly, for Descent"
[whiz-games]|17:29 Whizzard says, "I'm waiting until I can get a full custom loadout for both navies before I buy."
[whiz-games]|17:30 Whizzard says, "Speaking of which, time to see if the new shapes are in."
[whiz-games]|17:30 Gunther says, "no frenchies yet that I saw"
[whiz-games]|17:31 Whizzard says, "Oh, their predone trays suck balls."
[fourcoffees]|17:31 Gunther says, "I am slowly but steadily losing the "don't eat more" battle"
[whiz-games]|17:31 Whizzard says, "I'm looking in the tray creator."
[whiz-games]|17:32 Gunther says, "well, if you only have starter fleets I'm sure the starter fleet trays aren't bad"
[whiz-games]|17:32 Whizzard says, "Nope, only the 1st wave RoF stuff so far."
[whiz-games]|17:32 Whizzard says, "The starter trays are fine, just wasteful."
[whiz-games]|17:33 Gunther says, "well, they're designed for their bags"
[whiz-games]|17:33 Whizzard says, "My FSA navy is all done and designed out, and I've worked up custom trays to hold it all in 5.5" of foam."
[whiz-games]|17:34 Whizzard says, "So, if I can fit my planned RoF navy in 5.5" of foam, then I'll be able to carry everything perfectly."
[whiz-games]|17:34 Gunther says, "brb"
[lounge]|17:34 Gunther is a game about well-bred young ladies firing improbable amounts of projectiles at each other for no immediately discernible reason.
[lounge]|17:39 Duodave goes home.
[lounge]|17:41 Gunther just looks like a moron throwing around jars of spiders... bitch please.
[whiz-games]|17:41 Gunther asks, "which of the three measurements is 5.5"?"
[whiz-games]|17:45 Whizzard says, "Height"
[whiz-games]|17:46 Whizzard says, "It takes 3 trays, but they add up to 5.5" tall, including .25" extra for each tray."
[whiz-games]|17:46 Whizzard says, "As with width/length, it's the standard Spartan tray size."
[whiz-games]|17:47 Whizzard says, "As for"
[whiz-games]|17:47 Gunther says, "ok"
[whiz-games]|17:47 Whizzard says, "Designed so you can have 2 stacks of trays side by side in the bag."
[whiz-games]|17:47 Whizzard says, "So, the other stack can be for my other navy."
[whiz-games]|17:49 Gunther nods
[whiz-games]|17:50 Gunther says, "I still want a good foam solution for my LotR stuff but I don't even know how to begin"
[whiz-games]|17:53 Gunther says, "also man that creator is bad"
[lounge]|17:53 memeplex got needs. HUNAN URGES.
[lounge]|17:53 Ellison asks, "have any questions so far, memeplex?"
[videogames]|17:58 K-Y says, "oh my, a sequel to Revolver360"
[videogames]|17:58 K-Y says, "this will be excellent http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pGgg6HmrM4 "
[videogames]|18:01 Gunther says, "I approve of the music"
[pain]|18:12 DavidW says, " http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.ca/2010/02/boyfriend-doesnt-have-ebola-probably.html "
[whiz-games]|18:12 Gunther says, "every time I look it's just "this will cost a fortune""
[lounge]|18:13 * borowski has disconnected.
[lounge]|18:13 * borowski has connected.
[UK]|18:15 ghira says, "well. 2 trips on the train of terror today"
[UK]|18:16 Gunther says, "holy"
[lounge]|18:16 memeplex goes home.
[lounge]|18:17 Felix says, "So much for questions. :) See you."
[lounge]|18:17 Felix goes home.
[UK]|18:18 ghira says, "there and back"
[UK]|18:18 ghira says, "they were suitably impressed"
[UK]|18:20 Gunther says, "I cannot believe they brought two changes of underwear"
[lounge]|18:20 annabianca goes home.
[youtube]|18:21 DavidW says, "Is that a new Table Top episode? I think it is... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpuTGWFkBYs "
[youtube]|18:21 borowski says, "hoorah!"
[youtube]|18:22 Gunther says, "oh this"
[youtube]|18:22 Gunther says, "I hear it's a terrible game"
[youtube]|18:22 Gunther says, "should be interesting"
[youtube]|18:22 DavidW says, "I don't know it at all."
[UK]|18:23 ghira says, "they're off to bed to try to calm their nerves now"
[UK]|18:23 ghira says, "and I think so am I"
[youtube]|18:23 Gunther says, "well, it's tower defense the board game"
[youtube]|18:24 DavidW says, "well, I never play tower defense games."
[lounge]|18:24 Emily arrives.
[cartoons]|18:24 Lionheart says, "Watched the first three episodes of Tron: Uprising today. If you don't mind the character designs, and I don't, it's got a good look visually."
[cartoons]|18:25 Lionheart says, "It's kinda like Batman Beyond set on The Grid; old vigilante mentor tutors young protege to take his role."
[youtube]|18:27 Gunther says, "exactly"
[lounge]|18:41 Ellison says, "hey Emily"
[lounge]|18:47 Marktwo goes home.
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[politics]|18:47 Allen says, "I'm getting more political calls lately, that *ever* before, ever"
[politics]|18:48 Allen says, "this time it was the ACLU wanting money to stop voter ID laws."
[politics]|18:51 Allen says, "(though, I am a member)"
[youtube]|18:51 DavidW says, "Next episode will be Gloom. I don't know that game either."
[youtube]|18:53 Gunther says, "oh that's the goth game printed on transparent cards"
[youtube]|18:53 DavidW says, "Sounds different."
[youtube]|18:54 DavidW asks, "So you're wardrobing the characters with the cards, as if they were paper dolls?"
[politics]|18:54 Lionheart says, "Well, when I did phone banking for Amendment One, we had autodialing software that ran down every number in a database, and when it got one that wasn't busy, put it through to us. When it turned out to be an answering machine or when the person we asked for wasn't there, we'd check Not Home and they'd go back into the queue. It was the ones who already voted that got off our lists."
[youtube]|18:55 Gunther says, "yes"
[lounge]|18:56 boucher got needs. HUNAN URGES.
[lounge]|18:56 Marktwo returns from space. Quick, put on those ape suits and ook.
[lounge]|18:56 Emily goes home.
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[politics]|19:00 Lionheart says, "A number of times I got people complaining that we'd called several times before; I had no information about that on my screen."
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[politics]|19:03 Lionheart says, "I suggest that you explicitly refuse to give a donation if you want to stop getting asked, rather than, say, just hanging up, so that you get flagged as "said no" rather than, say, "refused to take call"."
[politics]|19:05 Lionheart says, "Lest some mindless autodialer continue to think you're a prospect."
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[ifwiki-editors]|19:15 DavidW says, "well, I have my work cut out for me tonight. I count 58 games released in 2012 that are listed on ifdb but not on ifwiki."
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[lounge]|19:20 jenrexrode has entered the lounge. [ Your score has gone up by 10 points ]
[lounge]|19:20 jenrexrode says, "hi"
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[lounge]|19:28 Allen asks (of boucher), "network problems?"
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[DustWorld]|19:35 DavidW says, "How unusual. Roommate seems to have a male guest over."
[games]|19:37 jenrexrode asks, "why would people use steam community?"
[games]|19:40 K-Y says, "perhaps you have some group of people you prefer to play games with"
[games]|19:40 jenrexrode asks, "do you use it to play them together?"
[games]|19:41 jenrexrode doesn't know what it is
[DrawSomething]|19:42 jenrexrode spaced out between picking the word and having to draw it
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[DrawSomething]|19:43 (from jenrexrode) jenrexrode asks, "why is the screen blank?"
[games]|19:44 K-Y says, "or you would like to download the Portal 2 levels your friends have made"
[DrawSomething]|19:45 jenrexrode asks, "oh - that's really above my skill level - like maybe I'm not a 'gamer'?"
[DrawSomething]|19:45 jenrexrode says, "oops"
[games]|19:45 jenrexrode asks, "oh - that's really above my skill level - like maybe I'm not a 'gamer'?"
[lounge]|19:45 zarf walks in through the wall. Behind him, light shines briefly through, rich crimson this time of day.
[games]|19:46 jenrexrode says, "I just found this place as I was stalking Johnny to see if he was alive, that's all"
[games]|19:48 Allen says, "there's some website I saw last week to check if people are still alive"
[games]|19:48 K-Y says, "oh, it's also good for stalking people"
[games]|19:48 jenrexrode says, "haha"
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[games]|19:59 baf says, "Having been for a while on a regular TF2 team that had arranged matches against other such teams, I can assert that Steam's community features do make it a little easier."
[games]|20:02 baf says, "Also, a former coworker of mine liked to use Steam chat as an IM client, even for work-related communication."
[games]|20:03 baf asks, "He figured that everyone here has Steam installed, so why bother installing another IM client?"
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[games]|20:14 jenrexrode says, "huh"
[lounge]|20:18 Ellison goes back to Squeamhurst..
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[lounge]|20:19 reed enters the lounge. DorianX congratulates reed on his arrival, and then leads everybody present in a cossack dance.
[lounge]|20:19 reed says, "hey everybody"
[lounge]|20:19 * boucher has disconnected.
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[lounge]|20:20 reed goes home.
[games]|20:20 baf says, "(Mind you, "everyone here has Steam installed" has a lot to do with being a game company that gets a lot of its revenue from Steam and occasionally does Steam exclusives. I wouldn't expect to take it for granted elsewhere.)"
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[movie]|20:29 Allen | A "Guinness World Records" movie is in the works, according to The Guardian. No details are yet forthcoming, but how hard can it be to turn a reference book into a heartwarming movie for all the family?
[lounge]|20:32 * boucher has disconnected.
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[lounge]|20:33 jenrexrode says, "hi\"
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[movie]|20:39 DavidW says, "hm, I wouldn't expect 'heartwarming'. There was a Guinness tv show, and I _think_ it was mostly a freak show peppered with interesting trivia."
[apropos-of-nothing]|20:40 mwmiller says, "Go, birdy, go!  < http://i.imgur.com/MC0pa.gif >"
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[videogames]|20:42 K-Y says, "man, there are surprisingly few walkthroughs for Auditorium"
[videogames]|20:43 K-Y says, "although to be honest it's not a very precise puzzle game"
[videogames]|20:44 K-Y says, "I've fudged quite a few solutions by now"
[comics]|20:45 K-Y | I have just been informed that preorders of the first print of The Walking Dead #100 have, so far, topped 300,000. Which would not only make it the best selling direct market comic of July, but the best selling direct market comic of the year, certainly as far as the first printing is to go by.
[comics]|20:47 K-Y says, "it will have nine variant covers"
[comics]|20:47 DavidW says, "I do hope that's a joke."
[comics]|20:48 K-Y says, "they're all right here http://www.newsarama.com/php/multimedia/album.php?gid=4331 "
[comics]|20:49 K-Y says, "with McFarlane and Silvestri participating, just like the earliest days of image"
[apropos-of-nothing]|20:50 Ryan says, "That is apropos of #gifs"
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[comics]|20:52 DavidW says, "I'm not sure how pages 1 to 8 equals all nine variant covers, but I've already lost interest."
[TV]|20:52 DorianX says, "I am not sure why under the law, shouting "Do you think I won't find your children and kill them like their mother if you testify against me!" in the courtroom doesn't make it basically redundant when the witness then refuses to testify"
[TV]|20:53 DorianX says, "that was circumloqutious"
[TV]|20:53 Lionheart asks, "Was the jury removed from the chambers at the time?"
[TV]|20:53 DorianX says, "No"
[TV]|20:54 DorianX says, "He did shout it in russian"
[TV]|20:54 DorianX says, "But, like, it's not like they didn't knowwhat he said"
[TV]|20:54 DorianX says, "Also he has now had the witness murdered"
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[lounge]|20:54 jenrexrode wanders off.
[TreatyOfBabel]|20:55 zaphod says, "I am reading this document."
[TV]|20:55 DorianX says, "Oh god that rag"
[TreatyOfBabel]|20:55 DorianX says, "Oh god that rag"
[TreatyOfBabel]|20:55 zaphod asks, "Should I... I don't even... what?"
[TreatyOfBabel]|20:56 zaphod says, "I wrote a game for Cover Stories.  It's an HTML file.  It seems to be on IFDB now, which is wonderful."
[TreatyOfBabel]|20:57 zaphod asks, "Should I even be worrying about having an 'IFID' for my game?"
[TreatyOfBabel]|20:58 DavidW asks, "Well, it would be nice to have one, yes. Yours was the web browser one?"
[TreatyOfBabel]|20:58 zaphod says, "Yeah."
[TreatyOfBabel]|20:59 zaphod says, "I get the impression that the signatories did not provide for any means of assigning a version-independent ID to any game that wasn't written in a format on their short list of approved formats."
[TreatyOfBabel]|20:59 DavidW says, "There's no standard provision for people to figure out what IFID a web browser game has, but you could use a IFID generator and declare that's what it is, I think."
[TreatyOfBabel]|21:00 DavidW says, "The problem with web browser games is partly there's no obvious story file and they're notorious variable over time."
[TreatyOfBabel]|21:00 zaphod says, "HTML is mentioned nowhere.  The catch-all is an md5sum of the file, which is obviously not going to stay put when new versions are released."
[TreatyOfBabel]|21:01 zaphod says, "This game is a single .html file."
[TreatyOfBabel]|21:01 zaphod says, "I sort of expected the document to say something like 'and if you want to write a game in some other format, just embed a string in the file somewhere that follows this pattern,' but no."
[TreatyOfBabel]|21:01 DavidW says, "I think the only thing you can do to give it an IFID is use an IFID generator to make one, and put it into an <!-- comment --> section of your HTML file."
[TreatyOfBabel]|21:02 zaphod says, "And ignore the document?  I could do that."
[TreatyOfBabel]|21:02 zarf says, "the document says, or leans towards, putting the string UUID://...// into the file"
[TreatyOfBabel]|21:02 zaphod says, "Let me do that then."
[TreatyOfBabel]|21:03 zarf says, "that's listed as Z-code/Glulx specific but I see no reason not to adopt it widely"
[TreatyOfBabel]|21:03 DavidW says, "This is becoming more of an issue, if you ask me. Undum games, and ChoiceScript games, have no obvious IFIDs."
[TreatyOfBabel]|21:03 zaphod says, "Does it cause problems in practice?  I guess I'm not 100% clear on what they're for."
[TreatyOfBabel]|21:04 DorianX says, "It is always legal to shove a UUID in prefixed with the string "IFID://""
[TreatyOfBabel]|21:04 DorianX says, "iirc"
[TreatyOfBabel]|21:04 zarf says, "they're for finding the game's entry in IFDB automatically"
[TreatyOfBabel]|21:04 DorianX says, "It's been a long time"
[TreatyOfBabel]|21:04 DavidW says, "In practice, only IFDB and IFWiki is using IFIDs. IF Archive is _supposed_ to use them; I'm not sure why it hasn't happened yet. I believe IFRO was planning to use them."
[TreatyOfBabel]|21:04 zarf says, "no, it's UUID://...//"
[TreatyOfBabel]|21:06 zaphod says, "And just put enough strongly-random bits between the //s to prevent collisions in practice?  Someone mentioned an IFID generator...."
[TreatyOfBabel]|21:07 zarf says, "the idea is that what's between the slashes is the MD5 checksum of your *first* release"
[TreatyOfBabel]|21:07 zarf says, "then you stick with that string"
[TreatyOfBabel]|21:07 zaphod says, "Ah!  That makes sense."
[TreatyOfBabel]|21:07 zarf says, "or, you know, the release as it was just before you put that string in. :)"
[TreatyOfBabel]|21:07 zaphod says, "Glad I asked before releasing version 2."
[TreatyOfBabel]|21:07 DavidW says, "I think there's a link to TADS's IFID generator somewhere on the Babel page, isn't there? You can use it, I think."
[TreatyOfBabel]|21:08 DavidW says (to zarf), "hm, this is sounding like stuff that never quite made it into the treaty for some reason."
[TreatyOfBabel]|21:09 zarf says, "I'm talking reasonable extensions. I don't remember the discussion that went into it"
[TreatyOfBabel]|21:10 DavidW says, "I have no trouble defering to what you're saying. I just don't remember reading about this sort of situation explicitly."
[TreatyOfBabel]|21:10 zarf says, "I could start a discussion thread on it somewhere, but eh, tired"
[TreatyOfBabel]|21:11 zaphod says, "I'll add <!-- UUID://f68c89466946704930ec9fe58d31431c// --> somewhere in the file."
[TreatyOfBabel]|21:11 zaphod says, "Thanks!"
[TreatyOfBabel]|21:12 DavidW says, "Sounds good to me."
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[lounge]|21:18 Olly arrives in a puff of yellow smoke, which makes them cough.
[lounge]|21:19 Olly says, "Hello, MUDsters."
[TreatyOfBabel]|21:19 DavidW says, "For what it's worth, IFDB uses the IFID to check on IFWiki if there's an appropriate IFID:[ifid] page, and if there is, it knows to generate a link to IFWiki to it."
[lounge]|21:20 Guest1 arrives from the east.
[lounge]|21:21 Olly says, "Hello, Guest1."
[lounge]|21:21 Guest1 waves
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[lounge]|21:21 Olly asks, "Are you a new MUDder, or an old MUDder in disguise?"
[lounge]|21:21 jenrexrode has entered the lounge. [ Your score has gone up by 10 points ]
[lounge]|21:21 Olly says, "Hello, jen."
[lounge]|21:21 jenrexrode says, "hiya"
[lounge]|21:22 Guest1 says, "old mudder, new to if/ifmud"
[comics]|21:22 Allen says, "I thought publishers learned their lesson about stupid variant covers in the early 90s"
[lounge]|21:22 DavidW says, "hi Guest"
[lounge]|21:22 Olly says, "I see.  Welcome."
[lounge]|21:22 nothings bursts in through the door. iCRASH!
[comics]|21:22 DavidW says, "I suppose not."
[lounge]|21:22 jenrexrode says, "hey"
[lounge]|21:22 Olly says, "Hello, nothings."
[dogs]|21:23 jenrexrode says, "dog who secretly spit out 3 french fries in the car thinks I should give her more now that we're home."
[dogs]|21:23 jenrexrode says, "i think she only like stolen fries, not given"
[lounge]|21:24 Olly gives an imaginary flower to Guest1.
[dogs]|21:24 Olly says, "Or maybe she thinks they smell better than they taste."
[dogs]|21:25 jenrexrode says, "huh, down it goes"
[dogs]|21:25 jenrexrode says, "i guess home fries are better than car fries"
[lounge]|21:26 Hugo was a virgin, though few people knew.
[lounge]|21:26 Olly says, "Hello, Hugo."
[MacOS]|21:27 Hugo says, "I feel bad every time I click OK on this 'Web pages are not responding' dialogue because I feel like I'm saying okay to whatever stupid thing they've done to cause it."
[lounge]|21:27 Hugo says, "Word."
[lounge]|21:28 Guest1 says, "i"
[lounge]|21:28 Ellison arrives from the east.
[lounge]|21:28 Guest1 blinks
[lounge]|21:28 Olly says, "Hello, Ellison."
[lounge]|21:29 Ellison says, "hey hey"
[lounge]|21:29 jenrexrode says, "hi"
[lounge]|21:29 Hugo says, "Ellison, bringing it."
[movie]|21:29 jenrexrode says, "oh, I was thinking it would be more like JackAss"
[comics]|21:29 K-Y says, "well, in the 90s variant covers were about flooding the market with thousands of copies that never get sold"
[comics]|21:30 K-Y says, "now, variant covers are about 'for every 25 copies of the regular cover you, the retailer, can get 1 of these rare variant covers that you can then mark up to $10-20'"
[comics]|21:31 DavidW says, "ah. That's somewhat more sensible."
[lounge]|21:32 Rob comes right on in.
[lounge]|21:32 Ellison says, "no, I didn't bring it. Rob's here to bring it!"
[lounge]|21:32 inky says, "ol' clonk hisself"
[lounge]|21:33 Rob says, "I brought a rock"
[comics]|21:33 DavidW says, "It still, unfortunately, treats comics as something to save and store and resell, though, instead of, y'know, something to read and look at."
[lounge]|21:33 Ellison says, "ha clonk"
[lounge]|21:33 Olly says, "Hello, Rob."
[way-secret]|21:33 Rob says, "thanks for the 'boing' ping"
[lounge]|21:33 Rob says, "hi olly"
[comics]|21:33 mwmiller says, "Something to read and look at?  Silly, that's what scans are for."
[lounge]|21:33 Rob says, "also grklbmgf"
[comics]|21:33 K-Y says, "occasionally there's also dickery like 'strip the covers off our competitor's books and send them to us, and we'll send you copies of this rare variant cover'"
[lounge]|21:33 Olly says, "texyozts"
[lounge]|21:33 K-Y says, "Rob"
[Hugo]|21:34 Ellison says, "I commented on some of my library ideas in this thread: http://www.joltcountry.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=8324 "
[way-secret]|21:34 inky says, "we were wondering how you were doing"
[way-secret]|21:34 Rob says, "it is heartening to hear it"
[comics]|21:34 mwmiller says, "Anyway.  Artificially rare variant covers, eh?  Sounds like the McDonald's Monopoly game, only, uh, with something to read behind them."
[way-secret]|21:34 Rob says, "I actually don't know what it's like on ifmud when I'm not here"
[way-secret]|21:34 inky says, "it is a sad and lonely place rob"
[way-secret]|21:34 Rob says, "possibly if I did I'd behave differently"
[way-secret]|21:34 Rob says, "well wah"
[way-secret]|21:34 inky says, "tumbleweeds roll across the floor of the lounge"
[way-secret]|21:35 Rob says, "of course, I miss ifmud when I'm not logging in, too, which is what I see"
[way-secret]|21:35 inky says, "a single empty rocking chair creaks slightly in the breeze"
[way-secret]|21:35 Rob says, "sometimes, though, on occasion"
[way-secret]|21:35 Rob says, "when it happens that you're not here, man, ifmud without inky is palpably incomplete somehow"
[way-secret]|21:35 Rob says, "so I try to grab ahold of that idea and be empathetic"
[way-secret]|21:36 Rob says, "whenever I'm gone, though, there's always some big reason I can't articulate"
[comics]|21:36 DavidW says, "I'm trying to imagine this sort of nonsense in other media. DVDs in variant cases. Books in variant covers. Campbell's Soup in collectors' labels."
[way-secret]|21:36 Rob says, "if I could articulate it, I'd show up and talk about it"
[comics]|21:36 K-Y says, "I assume those all exist"
[way-secret]|21:36 inky says, "yeah I can understand that"
[comics]|21:36 DavidW asks, "Actually... didn't a cola do this with the Olympics?"
[way-secret]|21:36 Rob says, "or I can subsume it and somehow turn it into an IF game or a QMAN story or something"
[way-secret]|21:36 inky says, "ha ha"
[way-secret]|21:36 inky says, "I couldn't be here because -- bam! government agents!"
[comics]|21:36 K-Y says, "every Olympics since I can remember, I think"
[robmumble]|21:36 Ellison asks (of Rob), "so what's the word? what have you been up to? did you send an intent for the IntroComp?"
[comics]|21:36 DavidW says, "I think you could collect Coca-Cola in different Olympics can or something."
[way-secret]|21:37 Rob says, "the 'hey, maybe I can use this' thing you have to deal with when you have friends who are writers or artists"
[robmumble]|21:37 Rob says, "I did send an intent"
[robmumble]|21:37 Ellison says, "aw dang it"
[robmumble]|21:37 Rob says, "I have a game that's under development but real behind schedule"
[robmumble]|21:37 Rob says, "I'm working on QMAN at various levels"
[robmumble]|21:37 Rob says, "I read a book called 'The Sugar Frosted Nutsack'"
[robmumble]|21:38 Rob says, "I saw 'Prometheus' in IMAX 3D with my Dad"
[robmumble]|21:38 Ellison asks, "a cookbook?"
[robmumble]|21:38 inky says, "ha ha"
[comics]|21:38 K-Y says, "oh look, someone is pre-hawking the whole set of covers http://www.ebay.com/itm/310408127260 "
[robmumble]|21:38 Rob says, "it's by this guy michael leyner(?) who was of the david foster wallace generation who then dropped out of sight for 20 years and then re-emerged to write this"
[robmumble]|21:38 DavidW says, "'The Sugar Frosted Nutsack' sounds naughty. Tell us more."
[comics]|21:38 K-Y says, "including the 'chromium' variant"
[comics]|21:38 DavidW says, "ooh aah"
[comics]|21:38 mwmiller says, "Just the covers, no contents."
[comics]|21:39 DavidW says, "That's asinine."
[robmumble]|21:39 Rob says, "it is recursive and worth having a conversation about, the topic of which may be, 'ok, it's original in the sense that nobody ever wrote a book like this before, but ... well, it's entertaining at times, sure, but... uh... is it really worth having been written? or what'"
[robmumble]|21:39 Rob says, "although, the prologue chapter made me think, 'hmm, this is like 21st-century douglas adams'"
[robmumble]|21:40 Rob says, "then the rest of the book was its own thing, the prologue being another thing, so the rest of the book doesn't remind me of douglas adams at all"
[lounge]|21:40 Gerynar enters the lounge but is facing the wrong way. After a couple minutes of staring at the wall, he turns around.
[comics]|21:40 DavidW says, "Perhaps a comic company ought to sell covers without the contents for issues of a comic book that doesn't exist."
[music]|21:40 jenrexrode says, "gotye"
[music]|21:40 Allen says, "all the bassus parts checked. And darn, I want to go to the store, but Eenie is sleeping on my pants"
[lounge]|21:40 Gerynar says, "OK, I'm back...entertain me :)"
[lounge]|21:40 Ellison says, "whoa, Gerynar"
[robmumble]|21:40 Ellison says, "interesting"
[lounge]|21:41 Gerynar asks, "So, how goes it?"
[lounge]|21:41 Olly dances around the lounge balancing Ivan on their forehead.
[qman]|21:41 Rob says, "ok, so does the MUD get a free PDF sneak preview copy of the QMAN ANNUAL #1 which is to be serialized starting July 1st"
[lounge]|21:41 Ellison says, "oh, it goes like a going-thinger"
[DustWorld]|21:41 DavidW says, "Amazing. Roommate put on Roger Rabbit for his guest."
[lounge]|21:41 Gerynar asks, "and that's good?"
[qman]|21:41 Rob says, "I need to see a show of hands"
[qman]|21:41 inky says, "we're the sneakiest!"
[DustWorld]|21:41 Rob asks, "he did what now?"
[qman]|21:41 Allen asks, "how many variant covers you gonna have?"
[comics]|21:42 DavidW says, "I bet they could get away with covers only for the Amalgam line."
[DustWorld]|21:42 Rob says, "hallo, this is my friend Harvey"
[qman]|21:42 K-Y says, "ooh"
[qman]|21:42 Rob says (to Allen), "I actually have 2!"
[qman]|21:42 Rob says, "or maybe 3"
[music]|21:42 inky says, "go in a skirt"
[lounge]|21:42 jenrexrode wanders off.
[qman]|21:42 Rob says, "the print final version is #11"
[lounge]|21:42 jenrexrode has entered the lounge. [ Your score has gone up by 10 points ]
[comics]|21:42 baf says, "Hm yeah"
[qman]|21:42 Rob says, "oh wait, that means I can put an alternate cover out first"
[music]|21:42 jenrexrode says, "hehe"
[qman]|21:43 Rob says, "I still haven't seen any hands go up"
[qman]|21:43 Ellison raises hand
[qman]|21:43 Rob says, "this offer won't last forever !"
[qman]|21:43 inky says, "ooh ooh me me"
[qman]|21:43 Rob says, "one hand! one hand is bid"
[lounge]|21:43 Olly takes a plastic hamster ball from their pocket, steps into it, and rolls away.
[qman]|21:43 Rob says, "two hands !!"
[qman]|21:43 Rob says, "we need at least three"
[qman]|21:43 K-Y says, ">HAND HAND HANDS"
[qman]|21:43 inky says, "the ladies say I am all hands"
[qman]|21:43 Rob says, "the gentleman in the corner bids three hands"
[qman]|21:44 inky says, "also one time someone gave me a hand"
[qman]|21:44 Rob says, "that's five hands, a full house"
[qman]|21:44 Rob says, "ok well I have to make a pdf at the other computer not the one I'm chatting on right now"
[comics]|21:44 Allen says (to DavidW), "actually:"
[dinner]|21:44 jenrexrode says, "mcdonald's - who'da thunk it"
[qman]|21:44 Rob says, "perhaps it will appear at midnight tonight"
[comics]|21:44 Allen | Campbell's Celebrates Andy Warhol With Limited Edition Tomato Soup Cans
[qman]|21:44 Rob says, "<thunderclap> central standard time </thunderclap>"
[comics]|21:45 DavidW says, "Commercialism has no shame."
[lounge]|21:45 jenrexrode says, "hi rob"
[dinner]|21:45 DavidW says, "not me"
[WIP]|21:45 Rob says, "I shall also release... Beta Version 01 of whatever-this-game-is-I'm-working-on !!  Ah AH AH ah!"
[lounge]|21:46 Rob says, "hi jen"
[dinner]|21:46 DavidW says, "I thought you'd more likely go for pizza"
[comics]|21:46 baf says, "Shame don't bring in the moolah. Exploitation do."
[lounge]|21:46 Rob says, "howzitgoin"
[lounge]|21:46 Rob says, "eh"
[dinner]|21:46 jenrexrode says, "pineapple mango smoothing, french fries, and chocolate chip cookies."
[WIP]|21:46 Ellison says, "right on"
[dinner]|21:46 jenrexrode says, "er smoothiE"
[lounge]|21:46 jenrexrode says, "itzagoingokeh"
[comics]|21:46 mwmiller says, "I don't know, I think it's appropriate to celebrate an artist who specialized in crass banal commercial graphics with crass banal commercialism."
[WIP]|21:46 Rob says, "then I can flake off for a few days on the notion that I'm waiting for tester feedback to do anything"
[lounge]|21:46 Rob says, "excellante"
[dinner]|21:46 DavidW says, "Mango: The Smoothing."
[lounge]|21:46 Rob says, "how is your house paiting going"
[dinner]|21:47 jenrexrode says, "10/15 windows done."
[WIP]|21:47 Ellison says, "good plan"
[dinner]|21:47 jenrexrode says, "ILAL"
[lounge]|21:47 Rob says, "a solid two-thirds"
[lounge]|21:47 jenrexrode says, "taking this weekend off to turn storage room into guest room"
[lounge]|21:47 Guest1 goes home.
[lounge]|21:48 Rob says, ">vlmorple room"
[dinner]|21:48 Jon says, "hm, i don't know what i want for dinner"
[lounge]|21:48 jenrexrode says, "yeah, the last 5 have 3 high up and 2 near incessant barking"
[lounge]|21:48 Rob says, "Suddenly, in a shower of sparks, the storage room changes into a guest room!"
[lounge]|21:48 Rob asks, "what's the barking coming from?"
[lounge]|21:48 jenrexrode says, "heh, more likely a shower of carboard boxes"
[lounge]|21:48 jenrexrode says, "cow dog"
[lounge]|21:49 Rob . o O ( cow dog ? )
[lounge]|21:49 jenrexrode asks, "australian cattle dog?"
[Hugo]|21:49 Gerynar says (to Ellison), "nifty"
[lounge]|21:49 Rob asks, "a neighbor's dog?"
[lounge]|21:49 DavidW says, "ah, I've heard of the Australian Cattle Dog. There was an IF that had one."
[dinner]|21:50 jenrexrode says, "yeah, and it's this special part of my yard that's only about 3' wide, so she doesn't like me being there"
[dinner]|21:50 jenrexrode says, "darnit"
[dinner]|21:50 jenrexrode says, "ilal"
[Hugo]|21:50 Gerynar says, "now I have another excuse to start over on my WIP"
[lounge]|21:50 jenrexrode says, "i think her name is Nina"
[lounge]|21:50 Rob says, "this is like a suburban IF game"
[lounge]|21:50 Rob says, "where the goal is painting the house and there are various obstacles"
[Hugo]|21:51 Ellison says, "hmmm, it should be pretty easy to slide into any existing work that doesn't do anything TOO crazy"
[lounge]|21:51 jenrexrode asks, "yeah, what if the scaffolding is wider than the place it needs to go?"
[lounge]|21:51 Rob says, "it's a puzzle!"
[Hugo]|21:51 Gerynar says, "but it's an excuse"
[lounge]|21:51 DavidW | Bannister dries!
[lounge]|21:52 jenrexrode says, "heist had use lure the dog with raw meat, and electrocute him in a fountain"
[Hugo]|21:53 Ellison says, "those are good, too"
[tangent]|21:53 mwmiller | You know, if you think about it, the Hulk is emblematic of today's economic problems. He has a doctorate, but circumstances conspire to keep him from using it, so he ends up doing manual labor for a living for next to no pay.
[jendoodle]|21:54 jenrexrode says, "not my day for gum.  first the dog stepped in some one the sidewalk, and now I'm blowing bubbles, and it got tuck on my glasses lens"
[lounge]|21:54 DavidW says, "I remember one game where you lead a trail of bird feed to the dog, and a chicken follows the trail, makes the dog bark when he sees it, and gets taken into the house and out of the way by the annoyed owner."
[lounge]|21:54 jenrexrode says, "hehe"
[music]|21:54 Allen says, "hmm, this album carries a diverse subject matter: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61o3I-ogKUL._SS500_.jpg "
[lounge]|21:54 Gerynar is planning on having a dog in one of his WnIP
[iPhone]|21:55 jenrexrode says, "so I wanted to see what song I heard on the radio, so I go to my KGSR app, last 10 songs, and I don't see it.  So I go to the webpage, and they've skipped a bunch of songs on the "last 10""
[cycling]|21:56 jenrexrode says, "pretty, pretty Switzerland"
[lounge]|21:56 DavidW says, "Dogs are usually neutralized with bones or hunks of meat. Occasionally you can do the animal encounter bit, like have the dog see a cat and they run off together."
[TreatyOfBabel]|21:57 zaphod says, "Oops, the letters are supposed to be uppercase I guess."
[lounge]|21:57 jenrexrode says, "IRL the ower will come get it eventually, when they figure out I'm gonna be ther for 6 hours"
[lounge]|21:57 DavidW says, "Games of fetch can also be employed to get the dog to do something useful."
[D&D]|21:57 inky says, "guy is talking about these monsters that are native to the elemental plane of fire"
[D&D]|21:57 inky | The bit I like the most about Azer is that their forts are defended by siege engines that to try to extinguish attackers by pouring water or blowing air at them! It perfect sense for defending themselves against other fire creatures, but I can't you imagine their dismay when they face PCs for the first time.
[D&D]|21:57 inky | "The Great Blower only slowed them down! Unleash the Soakenator! Amaimon preserve us! We've soaked the enemy to the skin and they're still coming! "
[lounge]|21:57 jenrexrode keeps dropping letters.  When you collect them all, it unscrambles into a secret message.
[music]|21:58 jenrexrode says, "to gotye will be at ACL festival.  of course I won't.  It's too expensive/complicated."
[lounge]|21:59 DavidW | I-A-M-T-R-A-P-P-E-D-I-N-A-F-O-R-T-U-N-E-C-O-O-K-I-E-F-A-C-T-O-R-Y-S-E-N-D-H-E-L-P
[lounge]|21:59 jenrexrode says, "hehe"
[lounge]|21:59 Rob says, "computer switch"
[lounge]|21:59 Rob moseys right on out.
[D&D]|22:00 baf says, "This is like my ideas about magically-shaped air pockets in the Elemental Plane of Water"
[lounge]|22:00 Adam's reaction time is one nanosecond, and his "memory" capacity is 1,000 megabits.
[lounge]|22:00 Adam says, "Hello from Toronto"
[music]|22:00 jenrexrode says, "to get your money's worth, you really have to suffer all the sun/heat/discomfort/waiting that comes with a festival.  If you go home early, it seems weird to have paid over $100"
[D&D]|22:00 baf says, "which are like impenetrable walls to the inhabitants: spaces that it's impossible to swim through"
[lounge]|22:01 jenrexrode says, "Hi toronto"
[lounge]|22:01 jenrexrode says, "and Adam"
[D&D]|22:01 baf says, "but that pose less problem to extraplanar horrors like the PCs"
[lounge]|22:01 baf says, "hi"
[lounge]|22:02 Ellison says, "whoa, Toronto Adam. lots of people stopping by today."
[cycling]|22:02 jenrexrode says, "chalet, chalet, chalet, chalet, descent, climb, chalet, chalet, chalet"
[lounge]|22:02 Adam asks, "Who else?"
[cycling]|22:02 jenrexrode says, "oh and some more chalets on the descent and the occaisional snow tunnel"
[lounge]|22:03 Adam says, "This is where I would have put my 'zarf finally came back from buying car insurance' joke back in the '90s"
[cycling]|22:03 jenrexrode says, "hm, I think I added a letter there, so that counts, too"
[lounge]|22:03 Ellison says, "well, Rob stopped by for the first time in a couple weeks, and I haven't seen Gerynar as much lately.  you are the least-seen visitor, yes."
[lounge]|22:04 Ellison says, "I don't remember that one, but it has a catchy ring to it"
[kitties]|22:06 jenrexrode says, "optical mouse not as accurate on a cat as on other surfaces"
[lounge]|22:06 * Adam has disconnected.
[lounge]|22:06 * Adam has connected.
[lounge]|22:06 * boucher has disconnected.
[lounge]|22:06 * boucher has connected.
[lounge]|22:06 Adam says, "Wow, that is the first time my account has bounced in like ten years"
[lounge]|22:07 Ellison says, "this is why Hugo drinks"
[lounge]|22:07 jenrexrode opted for the rubberized account
[lounge]|22:07 Gerynar asks (of jenrexrode), "how does one get a rubberized account here?"
[facebook]|22:09 maga says, "christ, fuck off @party"
[lounge]|22:09 jenrexrode says, "I didn't mean to, but since I got my new router, it's the only way to go"
[music]|22:10 jenrexrode says, "wow, I thought gotye had Sting singing for them, but I guess that's just how they sound"
[kitties]|22:12 baf says, "You need a cat with higher contrast."
[kitties]|22:12 jenrexrode says, "it's true, I tried to use a grey cat"
[facebook]|22:12 zarf says, "well, I had a good time"
[facebook]|22:12 zarf says, "not on facebook, admittedly"
[kitties]|22:12 baf says, "You need to get a tabby."
[kitties]|22:13 jenrexrode says, "they get suspicious when you go get them"
[lounge]|22:13 Ellison says, "later!"
[lounge]|22:13 Ellison goes back to Squeamhurst..
[lounge]|22:13 * Ellison has disconnected.
[lounge]|22:17 * boucher has disconnected.
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[lounge]|22:20 * boucher has disconnected.
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[lounge]|22:21 small arrives from the east.
[lounge]|22:22 Hugo says, "Adam Cadre, purveyor of fine olive oils and fiction."
[lounge]|22:25 * boucher has disconnected.
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[seattle]|22:26 maga says, "today I have seen more in-person penises than in the rest of my life combined"
[seattle]|22:26 jenrexrode says, "oh my"
[seattle]|22:26 DavidW says, "HUMP-ity Dump-ity frigged on a wall?>"
[lounge]|22:27 Miseri regularly eats multiples of things inky wouldn't eat more than zero of.
[lounge]|22:27 Miseri says, "arrr"
[lounge]|22:27 jenrexrode says, "hiya"
[seattle]|22:28 Allen says, "I once had a dream about a cliff covered with penises, and the only way to get to the top was to climb them"
[seattle]|22:28 Miseri says, "Eeeagh.  That sucks."
[seattle]|22:29 maga says (to DW), "no, the Fremont nude cycle parade"
[seattle]|22:30 Adam says, "I suppose in-person penises are preferable to severed ones"
[seattle]|22:30 DavidW says (to Allen), "My version of that dream involves the original Star Trek crew and a sex crazed computer."
[lounge]|22:31 Jota arrives from the east.
[lounge]|22:31 Jota greets.
[seattle]|22:32 DavidW says, "hm, I've never seen any version of the Naked Bike Ride. I think Toronto does it, but I rarely get to Toronto these days."
[seattle]|22:33 maga says, "there is a lot of body paint and it is all extremely good-natured"
[seattle]|22:33 DavidW says, "That sounds okay."
[seattle]|22:35 DavidW says, "sigh. I need more in-person penises in my life."
[seattle]|22:36 (from baf) DavidW says, "And fewer severed ones, yeah."
[seattle]|22:38 DavidW says, "well, if we're counting porn shop toys... actually, I could probably stand to see fewer of those."
[seattle]|22:41 Allen says, "I'm pretty sure a naked bike ride in Dallas would end up with a lot of sex-offender-registering cyclists"
[jendoodle]|22:41 jenrexrode says, "cleaning gum with more gum was minorly successful"
[lounge]|22:42 * boucher has disconnected.
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[jendoodle]|22:42 DavidW says, "I vaguely remember a suggestion to rub gum with ice cubes, but I've never tried it, and it doesn't sound practical,."
[jendoodle]|22:42 Gerynar says, "the ice-cube thingie works with gum in carpet"
[jendoodle]|22:43 jenrexrode says, "well I put peanut butter on the dog today"
[WWIII]|22:43 Allen | By conservative estimates, the United States has been at war for 40 of the last 100 years.
[jendoodle]|22:43 jenrexrode says, "but glasses i don't think I want peanutbutter on them"
[jendoodle]|22:44 jenrexrode says, "ice might work, but maybe just soap and water"
[jendoodle]|22:44 DavidW says, "I wonder if sand or salt would do anything useful vs. gum."
[jendoodle]|22:44 Gerynar says, "might be okay against gum, but not so good on glasses"
[jendoodle]|22:44 DavidW says, "Salt might do something unexpected, though."
[WWIII]|22:45 Allen | For the leaders in the rest of the world, if they consider the use of violence, they have to be aware that that violence might come home and hit their own people and their own country. Wars have simply not touched the United States directly.
[jendoodle]|22:45 jenrexrode says, "least scritchy method would be best for eyeglasses"
[WWIII]|22:45 Allen | Apart from the isolated terrorist attacks, we have been immune to the kind of violence that Europe and the rest of the world has seen. So American presidents not only wield a vast amount of military power, they also preside over a country that has been mostly safe of reciprocal violence.
[jendoodle]|22:46 Gerynar says, "probably easiest is to get new glasses ... not cheapest, but easiest"
[jendoodle]|22:47 jenrexrode says, "it's still invovle leaving the house and take at least an hour"
[jendoodle]|22:47 Gerynar says, "soap and water should work fine (I would assume)"
[WWIII]|22:48 baf says, "Which is exactly how we like it, I think."
[jendoodle]|22:48 jenrexrode says, "heh heh"
[DustWorld]|22:49 DavidW says, "goodness. They've reached Toontown."
[movie]|22:51 Allen asks, "Adam Sandler in a comedy about a rape survivor?"
[movie]|22:52 Allen says, "oh wait"
[movie]|22:52 Allen | (I know "rape survivor" is inflammatory language, and yes, an underage boy having sex with a female teacher -- the scenario here -- is a more ambiguous situation than the other way around. But it's still not a 100 percent rockin' idea, and legally and morally that's the right term.)
[movie]|22:52 DavidW says, "There will probably be fart jokes regardless."
[movie]|22:53 baf says, "I have seen more trailers for this flick than I would have liked."
[movie]|22:54 DavidW says, "I made a vow years ago to avoid all movies with Adam Sandler in them."
[movie]|22:54 baf says, "Such a vow does not protect you from trailers."
[movie]|22:55 DavidW says, "I think the most I've seen of such trailers or excerpts was one where he and Bob Barker get into a slugging match."
[movie]|22:55 Jota says, "I am tempted to see one of his upcoming movies because he supposedly re-creates a local restaurant in it."
[movie]|22:56 Jota says, "Which, I admit, is probably a really horrible reason to go see a movie."
[movie]|22:58 Jota says, "(On the other hand, I can't think of a better reason to go see an Adam Sandler movie.)"
[TV]|22:58 jenrexrode says, "hey this guy on poirot is the bad guy from the Dr Who dream episode"
[lounge]|22:59 Rob comes right on in.
[TV]|22:59 jenrexrode says, "also a bad guy on poirot, and I saw him in something else recently"
[lounge]|22:59 jenrexrode says, "rero"
[lounge]|23:01 Rob says, "yorp"
[lounge]|23:02 Rob moseys right on out.
[TV]|23:02 jenrexrode says, "ah, the evil oby Jones"
[TV]|23:02 jenrexrode says, "ah, the evil Toby Jones"
[lounge]|23:03 Adam says, "Whoops, time to go"
[lounge]|23:03 Adam lives in a world of glass skyscrapers, high-speed trains, gas-powered automobiles, calculators, and a worldwide communications network, yet cannot find happiness and comes to a tragic end.
[lounge]|23:03 * Adam has disconnected.
[lounge]|23:03 jenrexrode wanders off.
[lounge]|23:03 jenrexrode has entered the lounge. [ Your score has gone up by 10 points ]
[TV]|23:04 jenrexrode says, "oh, I saw a clip of Tinker Tailor Soldie Spy, that was the other thing"
[old-farts]|23:05 DavidW says, "I think I first started feeling a little old when I realized everyone on the magazine covers was younger than me."
[old-farts]|23:06 (from Jota) DavidW says, "That's when I unsubscribed from Tiger Beat."
[old-farts]|23:06 DavidW asks, "heh. Would you believe I've never owned a single copy of that?"
[old-farts]|23:07 DavidW says, "I don't think I'd even heard of the magazine until high school, and by then I was already too old for it."
[old-farts]|23:08 DavidW asks, "God only knows who I'd've wanted on the cover. Billy Mumy?"
[old-farts]|23:08 Gerynar asks, "they had magazines when you were in school?"
[old-farts]|23:09 DavidW says, "They invented magazines when I was in grade 5 or so, yeah."
[old-farts]|23:10 DavidW says, "But I remember when they invented the moon when I was in grade 8. That was an amazing time."
[old-farts]|23:10 DavidW says, "no, wait, that was grade 7."
[old-farts]|23:12 Gerynar says, "the unveiling of the moon was a great night"
[old-farts]|23:12 DavidW says, "Everyone was rhyming moon with spoon and June, and landing on it, and having 'honeymoons' at Niagara Falls, and everything."
[old-farts]|23:13 DavidW says, "It was even bigger than the Shmoo."
[lounge]|23:13 inky got credit for creating Common and the concept of money, for generating lots of art and literature, and for being the very best at killing his enemies.
[TV]|23:16 nothings says, "Tinka Taylor Sophie Sy"
[kitties]|23:17 Allen says, "Tom is sowing wild oats tonight"
[kitties]|23:17 Allen says, "he's into everything, and running back and forth and getting on the desk and off and on"
[music]|23:19 Allen says, "cantus: error checked. Only altus to go"
[lounge]|23:19 Rob comes right on in.
[lounge]|23:19 Rob says, "#onion Spontaneous Gesture Takes Hours to Complete"
[lounge]|23:20 Rob says, "the computer where I do all my art work has a ludicrously awful net connection"
[lounge]|23:20 Rob says, "so I have to move things to a USB stick and then to my teeny little netbook in order to upload them"
[lounge]|23:20 Rob says, "and this is actually faster"
[robmumble]|23:23 Jota asks, "Oh yeah, did anything come of that waitress you gave the picture to?"
[lounge]|23:23 Miseri is very disappointed in you.  Earlier, he may have ransacked your office, but he is *very* disappointed in you.
[robmumble]|23:23 Rob says, "good question"
[robmumble]|23:23 Rob says, "I still haven't seen her since"
[robmumble]|23:23 Rob says, "the odd practical reason for this is that I've been keeping a more normal sleeping schedule and she works the late-night shift"
[robmumble]|23:24 Rob says, "leading to the question, ok, which do I want to do, daytime errands, or see how she's doing"
[robmumble]|23:24 Jota says, "Keep in mind that the latter will help keep the ifMUD gossipmongers appeased."
[robmumble]|23:24 Jota says, "Priorities, man."
[robmumble]|23:24 Rob says, "and there are a certain amount of practical affairs of late that have needed taking immediate care of"
[robmumble]|23:25 Jota says, "'Affairs'."
[lounge]|23:25 Gerynar is contemplating going out for munchies
[robmumble]|23:25 Rob says, "I can add a couple of details to the tale, at the superstitious risk of making it not work out because I shared personal details"
[robmumble]|23:25 Jota says, "Nah, I was just thinking about alternate meanings of the word."
[robmumble]|23:26 Rob says, "too late, here it comes"
[robmumble]|23:26 Jota says, "In the sense that if things went especially well with said waitress, we could be hearing of an entirely different sort of (perhaps rather less practical) affair."
[whiz-games]|23:27 Whizzard stretches.
[robmumble]|23:27 Jota says, "(This isn't to try to dissaude you from discussion whatever it is you're doing, of course.)"
[whiz-games]|23:27 Whizzard says, "burbl."
[whiz-games]|23:27 Jota asks, "Bad pickled egg?"
[robmumble]|23:27 Rob says, "well, first datum. her name is Kara"
[whiz-games]|23:27 Whizzard says, "Nope. Too much delicious mongolian beef."
[robmumble]|23:28 Rob says, "which I think is a lovely name just in and of itself, even if I didn't know someone whose actual name was Kara"
[whiz-games]|23:28 Whizzard says, "Caravelle's always gets me to overeat."
[whiz-games]|23:28 Whizzard says, "But damn, it's good."
[whiz-games]|23:28 vimes says, "now those sweet-spicy onions are coming out your ears"
[whiz-games]|23:28 Jota says, "Strangely, Google image search is convinced that she's a Korean pop idol group."
[whiz-games]|23:28 Jota says, "Ilac."
[robmumble]|23:28 Jota says, "Strangely, Google image search is convinced that she's a Korean pop idol group."
[robmumble]|23:29 Rob says, "now, the restaurant uses a computer to run its affairs, so every waiter and waitress logs in and they can personalize their username, which is what gets printed out on the checks that customers get when it's time to pay the bill"
[robmumble]|23:29 Rob says, "kara's cheeky name, for a long time, was 'karalicious'"
[robmumble]|23:30 Jota says, "An appropriate handle for food services."
[robmumble]|23:30 Rob says, "which was a bit of a contradiction with her diffident personality, but that was kind of cute"
[robmumble]|23:30 Rob says, "more recently it suddenly changed into 'karadactyl'"
[robmumble]|23:31 Rob says, "now, there is a wooden pterodactyl hanging famously from the ceiling beams of the restaurant's 'patio' dining room"
[robmumble]|23:32 Rob says, "but it was an interesting personality change, a little more aggressive, a little less (or more) suggestive"
[robmumble]|23:32 Rob says, "it kind of feels like she's about to change it again"
[robmumble]|23:33 Jota asks, "Was there a personality change, or merely a name change?"
[robmumble]|23:33 Rob says, "and I'm curious what it would be changed to, but have no guesses about what"
[robmumble]|23:33 Rob says, "hmm"
[robmumble]|23:33 Rob says, "it kind of happened around the time she was promoted from waitress to manager/waitress"
[lounge]|23:35 * boucher has disconnected.
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[DrawSomething]|23:35 jenrexrode says, "vw caught me copying him again. :)"
[DrawSomething]|23:36 Rob says, "heh"
[DrawSomething]|23:36 Rob says, "there was this one day when I finished drawing 'ping pong' for inky, then five minutes later I was obliged to guess vaporware drawing the same thing"
[DrawSomething]|23:37 Rob says, "and he eerily drew it in the same way I'd drawn it for inky"
[DrawSomething]|23:37 Rob says, "the same 3d perspective angle on the table, was the most telling identicality"
[DrawSomething]|23:37 Rob says, "BRANE"
[lounge]|23:37 Gerynar says "bloop" and shrinks down into a little dot, then winks out...just like those old-fashioned B&w televisions.
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[DrawSomething]|23:37 Rob says, "braaane"
[DrawSomething]|23:37 jenrexrode says, "heh"
[DrawSomething]|23:38 jenrexrode says, "i wonder if it looks like my tennis..."
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[DrawSomething]|23:41 jenrexrode | "inspired by vw" https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3243061195432&l=32f3e22305
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[drawing]|23:43 K-Y says (to Rob), "oh yes, was hoping to get your opinion on some colors"
[drawing]|23:44 Jota says, "I recommend the Mardi Gras pack."
[drawing]|23:44 K-Y asks, "fifty shades of vomit?"
[drawing]|23:45 Jota says, "(Draw Something joke.)"
[drawing]|23:46 Rob says, "sure"
[drawing]|23:47 K-Y says, "put this together over a few days http://smallwhitehouse.org/gallery2/v/k-y/2012-06-13.jpg.html "
[drawing]|23:47 K-Y says, "but I have no experience with picking palettes so I probably ended up with all cool colors or something"
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[DrawSomething]|23:55 jenrexrode says, "I like my tennis ball perspective, and I've drawn the same thing twice https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3170605424083&l=88d158e740 "
[DrawSomething]|23:55 jenrexrode asks, "and what's this ad they keep making me watch for 5 coins?  a VD clinic?"
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[Robstuff]|00:06 * NewsBoy hollers, "Extra! Extra! Rob has posted message 41, about 'WIP Beta 01', to the bulletin board! Jaybird soon to be given WizBit!"
[Robstuff]|00:06 * NewsBoy hollers, "Extra! Extra! Rob has posted message 42, about 'QMan Annual #01 Promo', to the bulletin board! Insert a naughty double entendre here!"
[Windows]|00:09 DorianX asks, "Windows is cool with using ntfs on an external hard drive, right?"
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[Windows]|00:10 nothings says, "yes"
[Windows]|00:10 DorianX says, "Kay. I figured, but wasn't sure there wasn't some weird thing where windows only liked external drives to be fat32"
[lounge]|00:11 Rob says, "current status: double-checking download integrity"
[Windows]|00:12 vaporware says, "I accidentally put my music for the car on an NTFS thumb drive. Car wouldn't even acknowledge that it was plugged in."
[lounge]|00:12 Rob says, "I guess I could catch up on DrawSomething while I'm waiting"
[drinks]|00:13 jenrexrode says, "hm, I think that tea has been steeping for about 12 hours"
[DrawSomething]|00:13 Rob says, "my ipad tells me that there's an update to drawsomething that up-does a bunch of stuff, but I kind of feel like I like how it's been for the most part and am not sure if I want to update right now or not"
[drinks]|00:13 Rob says, "that'll be some mighty strong tea"
[DrawSomething]|00:14 vaporware says, "The update fixes the replay timing.. not sure if al platforms were affected by that."
[drinks]|00:14 Rob says, "if someone right now handed me a cuppa mighty strong tea I'd say thankee and glug it down"
[DrawSomething]|00:14 Rob says, "hm ok"
[drinks]|00:14 jenrexrode says, "it's destined to be iced tea, so that was always a given that it would be watered down later."
[DrawSomething]|00:14 Rob asks, "fixes the replay timing in what way?"
[DrawSomething]|00:14 vaporware says, "It also adds some new ways to choose new words (i.e. new ways to get you to buy more bombs) and changes the UI gratuitously."
[drinks]|00:14 Rob says, "well then no worries"
[DrawSomething]|00:15 Rob says, "well wait, gratuitously-changed UI is like the main thing I'm hesitant about"
[DrawSomething]|00:15 Rob says, "what UI changes are imposed"
[DrawSomething]|00:15 vaporware says (to Rob), "Previously, the replay was sped up but I'd see people guess the word way too early even still. Now it's sped up and they guess when I'd expect."
[drawing]|00:15 K-Y says, "I'm thinking I'm going to need full-blown character reference sheets here on out"
[DrawSomething]|00:16 vaporware says, "I don't think anything is rearranged except for 'create game' being more prominently placed... let me make a screen shot."
[DrawSomething]|00:17 Jota says, "It also appears to get rid of the stats."
[DrawSomething]|00:17 Jota says, "But I think the extra words for bombs thing is worth it, IMO."
[DrawSomething]|00:20 vaporware says, " https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/252775_3439217384582_1446977190_n.jpg "
[Robstuff]|00:20 * NewsBoy hollers, "Extra! Extra! Rob has posted message 43, about 'Exciting new beta-version preview stuff!', to the bulletin board! Imminent death of retina predicted! What, this is news?"
[DrawSomething]|00:20 vaporware says, " https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/248067_3439217784592_71577631_n.jpg "
[DrawSomething]|00:21 vaporware says, "The 'cute' for 1 bomb here doesn't give you the word 'cute', it opens a menu of several cute-themed words ranging in coin value up to like 7 coins."
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[drinks]|00:22 jenrexrode says, "some people might miss the predominant color comparison"
[lounge]|00:23 jenrexrode wanders off.
[lounge]|00:23 jenrexrode has entered the lounge. [ Your score has gone up by 10 points ]
[drinks]|00:23 jenrexrode says, "ilac"
[grubshack]|00:24 ghira says, "ok dinner yesterday sounded pretty freaky"
[grubshack]|00:24 ghira says, "hjalfi ordered something where "salmon seared in treacle and lime" was one ingredient, and "a pear steeped in ginger tea" was another"
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[qman]|00:29 * NewsBoy hollers, "Extra! Extra! Rob has posted message 17, about 'QMan Annual #01 Promo', to the bulletin board! Behold! The Power! Of Greyskull!"
[comedy]|00:29 Lionheart just finished watching a DVD of the final performance of Beyond the Fringe/
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[robmumble]|00:29 * NewsBoy hollers, "Extra! Extra! Rob has posted message 8, about 'WIP Beta 01', to the bulletin board! [Citation Needed]"
[WIP]|00:30 * NewsBoy hollers, "Extra! Extra! Rob has posted message 16, about 'WIP Beta 01', to the bulletin board! When is a jar not a jar?"
[comedy]|00:30 Lionheart says, "I didn't know that young Dudley Moore was an accomplished, comedic pianist."
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Recapped 887 of 2996 lines from recent channels.
Current time: Sunday, 17 Jun 2012, 12:30:49 AM EDT
There is one new message on #if/theory/WIP.
There is one new message on #media/comics/qman.
There is one new message on #misc/personal/robmumble.
The new bb system's interface is very similar to the old system, although
the internals have been completely rewritten. The main changes are the
addition of an undelete command, expansion of ranges (eg, bb delete = 1-10),
alternate supported numbering system, and each channel now has a bb in addition
to the main one. Command summary: 
  bb  (list last X messages on main board)
  bb 1-3  (read messages 1-3 on main board)
  bb read #foo = new (read new messages on #foo)
  bb del = new  (delete all new messages on main board)
  bb undel = 4 (undelete message 4 on main board)
  bb post = hello : bye (post message to main board)
  bb modify = 32 : foo : bar (modify message 32 to have new subject/body)
  bb #foo (list last X messages on board for #foo)
  bb post #foo = hello : bye (post message on board for #foo)
  bb modify #foo = 32 : foo : bar (modify message 32 to have new subject/body)
  bb clear #foo (mark all messages on #foo as having been read)
  bb ignore #foo (stop seeing bb announcements for #foo)
  bb search #foo = monkey (search #foo for messages with text 'monkey')
  bb * (shortcut to read all new messages on all boards)
Use "\:" to escape colons for the subject line.
For further details, see the help entries for "bb_list", "bb_read",
"bb_post", "bb_modify", "bb_delete", "bb_undelete", "bb_check", "bb_scan", 
"bb_clear", "bb_unread", "bb_ignore", "bb_search", "bb_range", "bbnotify"
No such channel: 'robmumble: -last'.
bb clear sets the bbread time to the current time, erasing the new flag 
on all messages. Without an argument it updates the time for the main 
bulletin board. With an argument it updates the time for the given
channel, unless the argument is *, which updates it for every channel.
Syntax:
 bb clear
 bb clear #food
 bb clear *
The new bb system's interface is very similar to the old system, although
the internals have been completely rewritten. The main changes are the
addition of an undelete command, expansion of ranges (eg, bb delete = 1-10),
alternate supported numbering system, and each channel now has a bb in addition
to the main one. Command summary: 
  bb  (list last X messages on main board)
  bb 1-3  (read messages 1-3 on main board)
  bb read #foo = new (read new messages on #foo)
  bb del = new  (delete all new messages on main board)
  bb undel = 4 (undelete message 4 on main board)
  bb post = hello : bye (post message to main board)
  bb modify = 32 : foo : bar (modify message 32 to have new subject/body)
  bb #foo (list last X messages on board for #foo)
  bb post #foo = hello : bye (post message on board for #foo)
  bb modify #foo = 32 : foo : bar (modify message 32 to have new subject/body)
  bb clear #foo (mark all messages on #foo as having been read)
  bb ignore #foo (stop seeing bb announcements for #foo)
  bb search #foo = monkey (search #foo for messages with text 'monkey')
  bb * (shortcut to read all new messages on all boards)
Use "\:" to escape colons for the subject line.
For further details, see the help entries for "bb_list", "bb_read",
"bb_post", "bb_modify", "bb_delete", "bb_undelete", "bb_check", "bb_scan", 
"bb_clear", "bb_unread", "bb_ignore", "bb_search", "bb_range", "bbnotify"
Invalid range format: "#robmumble"
Deletes some messages. You must be either a wizard (for the main board) or
a channel moderator (for other boards) to delete messages which you did
not write.
Syntax:
 bb delete = 1-3
 bb delete = #foo : 1-3
small goes southwest to play with toys.
Invalid range format: "-last"
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Invalid range format: "#robmumble"
  # From         Date            Subject
  1 Rob          15-Dec-07 23:39 NWN dialogue module
  2 Rob          15-Sep-10 23:13 Beta test for Rob's comp game
  3 Rob          04-Jan-11 11:58 Rob art show!
  4 Rob          05-Jan-11 20:51 Online gallery
  5 Rob          10-Jan-11 19:47 review- Dr Who (1996 tv movie)
  6 Rob          25-Jan-11 00:11 Doctor Who Series Five big honking review
  7 Rob          02-Apr-12 12:55 Book review
N 8 Rob          17-Jun-12 00:29 WIP Beta 01
Message 8 deleted.
[music] Allen says, "here we go, the first book: plover.net/~agarvin/01-cantus-book.pdf"
[robmumble] * NewsBoy hollers, "Extra! Extra! Rob has posted message 8, about 'Exciting new beta-version preview stuff!', to the bulletin board! And now to make PollBoy an offer he can't refuse."
#16 [if/theory/WIP]                From: Rob           Date: 17-Jun-12 00:30
Subject: WIP Beta 01
Apple Adventure! (Working title!) Beta version 01! Was going to be for IF cover art minicomp, is now for IntroComp! Which means, it's only the beginning of something. But, I want it to be the best beginning-of-something I can make out of it. So, play it, send me a transcript, I'll make it better, la la la. 
     http://raddial.com/if/dev/applevent/applevent.zip
#8 [misc/personal/robmumble]       From: Rob           Date: 17-Jun-12 00:32
Subject: Exciting new beta-version preview stuff!
Update for QMAN on #qman, and an IF update on #WIP. Yeah-haw.
#17 [media/comics/qman]            From: Rob           Date: 17-Jun-12 00:29
Subject: QMan Annual #01 Promo
http://raddial.com/tmp/qman/qman_annual_no01_print_preview.pdf 
      The Q Man: Annual #1 is a jam-packed 72-page volume, hot off the presses and pressed into our waiting Q-fans’ warm and waiting little hands, in the nick of time!
The Q Man: Annual #1 does more than reprint classic already-told tales from the Q Man archives, of course — though it does do that! It changes them a bit, shows a different take, draws a different dimension on the scene that hadn’t occurred before!  Re-thrill, if you will, to the pulse-pounding Origin of The Q Man ! (AKA, “*Never* Sit in the Chair!”)! Re-live Allegra’s dream, but from the point of view of — well, we don’t want to spoil it! Also, what was Assignment Zero, exactly? And what didn’t we see when The Q Man first met Allegra?
     The answers are all there, dear reader, within these titanic pages! Summer 2012 is the season to believe in, if you can believe anything about the warped world of…
                   THE Q MAN
[Note: several pages have blanked-out dialogue. You are to pretend that this is deliberate and provocative and part of the replayed storyline.]
Rob heads right on out.
</Rob> Find release from your cares. have a good time.
Seeya later.