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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, fake_Robb_Sherwin
Visible Exits: west, east
<Rob> There is no other option for the world than to invade America and dismantle the lasers, send them through a time portal, and repurpose them as vibrators for dinosaurs. I?ve invented much of this."
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 maxporter!", Even Newer World Map, charset sampler, Automeeter, TheMasterTheorem player names, time zones, MUD Client Wish List, battle.net battletags, madlibs, Anything Finder, Sarcasm Detector, Gene Ray
Players: Alex, markm, Touchy, small, DorianX, Ryan, GDorn, jpt, vimes, Bishop, Dave, Jon, Allen, Otis, ctmiller, baf, marc, Matthew, vaporware, Marktwo, zaphod, boucher, Hugo, Psmith, annabianca, ghira, genericgeekgirl, DavidW, borowski, BrenBarn, dfabulich, Ellison, Gerynar, McMartin, Lucea, zarf, jenrexrode, Tale, nothings
Visible Exits: north, west, southwest, southeast, up, east
Rob comes right on in.
Recapping 1000 of 3182 lines from recent channels:
[movie]/16:40 Hugo says, "Not en masse, certainly."
[hardware]|16:40 * jenrexrode has joined the channel.
[questions]|16:40 * jenrexrode has joined the channel.
[movie]|16:41 Gunther says, "the correct answer is to stop pandering and educate people"
[movie]|16:41 Gunther says, "not make everyone and -thing dumber"
[movie]|16:41 Hugo says, "And it's naive to think that if you want to get something done -- like getting re-elected, or maintaining a positive profile for your business -- you don't need the support of 'most people'."
[movie]|16:41 Gunther says, "also, to ban the NRA for good and fire all its members into the sun"
[movie]|16:41 Johnny asks (of Gunther), "With what, a gun?"
[movie]|16:41 Hugo says, "It doesn't make them dumber.  And if you have any suggestions for making people smarter, I suggest that's only because you've never tried to."
[movie]|16:42 inky says (to Johnny), "ha ha"
[movie]|16:42 Gunther asks (of Hugo), "is the MPAA releasing the numbers normally?"
[movie]|16:42 Hugo says, "It isn't the MPAA; the studios do."
[movie]|16:42 Gunther says, "ok"
[movie]|16:42 Gunther says, "because I can think of maybe one company with a worse public profile than the MPAA"
[movie]|16:42 Hugo says, "The studios release essentially estimates of their week(end) grosses."
[movie]|16:43 Hugo says, "And then all the news outlets rush to report them, and sometimes there are adjustments as the real numbers come in, especially when two films are close to #1."
[movie]|16:43 Hugo says, "Because there is arguably an economic benefit to actually being #1, given the amount of attention paid to box office receipts."
[movie]|16:43 Gunther asks, "and you seriously think that releasing numbers this week would have changed anything whatsoever?"
[movie]|16:43 Gunther asks, "anything? at all?"
[movie]|16:44 Hugo says, "I think that there is a portion of the public that might frown on it, sure."
[movie]|16:44 Hugo says, "And news commentary that might revolve around it being gauche to celebrate making millions of dollars when people are dead."
[movie]|16:44 BrenBarn says, "what they should have done is say 'our box office take this weekend for the batman movie was $87,872,365.45*'"
[movie]|16:44 Ellison says, "also, while the shooting isn't going to stop people from seeing the movie, I imagine there was -some- impact on ticket sales, so they might want to keep quiet, at least for a bit, that the movie didn't do quite as well as expected."
[movie]|16:45 BrenBarn says, "'*it would have been $87,872,417.45, but we refunded the tickets of the people who got shot'"
[movie]|16:45 Ellison says, "ha ha"
[movie]|16:45 Hugo says (to Ellison), "(Very little.  'Unofficial' numbers have leaked, and it did very well.)"
[movie]|16:45 Hugo says, "(i.e., very much what best estimates put it at)"
[movie]|16:46 Ellison says, "well, still, it was a good PR move that covered their asses."
[movie]|16:46 Hugo says, "And -- call it insincere, or silly, or whatever -- but there has been *positive* covered of the fact that B.O. numbers aren't bein celebrated.  So there's a net benefit."
[movie]|16:46 BrenBarn says, "I agree it's stupid, but it's just one more stupidity in the endless line of bullshit stupidity that people do to cover their asses and make facades of goodness while continuing to engage in covert badness"
[movie]|16:47 Gunther says, "END THIS WORLD IN FIRE"
[movie]|16:47 Hugo says, "Well, come on: not everyone working at every job everywhere is an evil, money-grubbing asshole."
[lounge]|16:47 dfabulich enters the lounge in a perfectly ordinary way.
[movie]|16:47 BrenBarn says, "it's people's own fault for being placated by dumb doggie biscuits like this while continuing to support the overall operation"
[lounge]|16:47 Johnny says, "Hi dfab"
[movie]|16:47 Hugo says, "Although magically put them together in a 'corporation' and they become so."
[lounge]|16:48 dfabulich says, "hi"
[lounge]|16:48 dfabulich leaves ifMUD without any non sequiturs at all.
[science]|16:49 Johnny | http://www.nature.com/news/artificial-jellyfish-built-from-rat-cells-1.11046
[lounge]|16:49 dfabulich enters the lounge in a perfectly ordinary way.
[lounge]|16:49 dfabulich says, "let's try that again"
[lounge]|16:50 Hugo says, "You can't tell us what to do."
[science]|16:50 Johnny | Bioengineers have made an artificial jellyfish using silicone and muscle cells from a rat’s heart. The synthetic creature, dubbed a medusoid, looks like a flower with eight petals. When placed in an electric field, it pulses and swims exactly like its living counterpart.
[wildlife]|16:51 Tale asks, "Do animals who have no natural enemies know fear of other living things?"
[movie]|16:51 Ellison says, "I think aspiring to a facade of decency is better than only accepting true decency, since you're going to be able to break down every organization into some component that you have problems with. like, actors are notoriously vain people, but that's not going to stop me from enjoying movies."
[movie]|16:51 K-Y says, "I'm not sure you are going to be able to make people cease to be placated by things that they view as positive"
[wildlife]|16:51 vimes says, "sure, people feel afraid all the damn time"
[movie]|16:51 K-Y says, "well, I guess you could try being angry all the time"
[wildlife]|16:51 vimes says, "i'm not sure that's quite what you meant"
[politics]|16:52 Bishop | Johnson disagreed and argued that the assault weapons ban, which expired in 2004 and banned high-capacity magazines, actually made things worse in the Aurora shooting. ?If a responsible individual had been carrying a weapon, maybe, maybe they could have prevented some of those deaths, some of those injuries,? he said.
[politics]|16:52 Bishop asks, "Is he seriously claiming that he would reasonably expect a law-abiding citizen, if it were lawful, to tote an assault rifle to the movies?"
[politics]|16:52 maga says, "Ta-Nehisi Coates has a good thing about this"
[politics]|16:53 maga says (to Bishop), "and body armour"
[lounge]|16:53 Ellison says, "ok, gotta go. later!"
[lounge]|16:53 Ellison goes back to Squeamhurst..
[lounge]|16:53 * Ellison has disconnected.
[politics]|16:54 maga says, "but, yes, a crowded room of startled people with automatic weapons is not exactly going to lower your body count"
[movie]|16:55 boucher says, "We had a bit of a mention on #news that it's possible to relate almost anything to anything.  So in theory, any sort of even tangential happiness or celebration might be seen as inappropriate here.  'It's my birthday today!  We went out to see The Dark Knight Returns.'  'Oh good!  That must have been fun for you.  ...wait, sorry.  That was tasteless of me to be happy for you going to a movie, considering the...unfortunate news.'"
[wildlife]|16:55 Tale asks, "Is there any animal an elephant can be afraid of?"
[wildlife]|16:56 Gunther says, "mouse, man"
[lounge]|16:56 * Hugo has disconnected.
[lounge]|16:56 * Hugo has connected.
[politics]|16:56 K-Y says, "and if the body count is not lowered, that just means that law-abiding people are not investing enough in tactical combat education"
[wildlife]|16:56 Gunther says, "lion"
[lounge]|16:56 Iain hasn't been here since April, I'm starting to get worried.
[wildlife]|16:56 borowski says, "I saw a nature show where a pride of lions took down an elephant."
[lounge]|16:56 Iain says, "Evening"
[questions]|16:56 * borowski has joined the channel.
[movie]|16:56 Hugo says, "Or maybe I am wrong, entirely, because God just struck down my router (and everything else) with a bolt of lightning."
[movie]|16:57 Gunther says, "Nah, that was for XCode."
[movie]|16:57 Gunther says, "now make sure to not anger me any further."
[English]|16:57 Gunther says, "note to potential rappers:"
[lounge]|16:58 inky says, "hey hey"
[English]|16:58 Gunther says, ""ME RAPPING" should always be spelled with two Ps."
[lounge]|16:58 Firion enters the lounge. How unseemly!
[lounge]|16:58 Firion goes southwest to play with toys.
[lounge]|16:58 Firion arrives from the Toyshop, Baywatch Barbie perched on a convenient shoulder.
[questions]|16:58 borowski says, "Most animals need to fear members of their own species to some extent."
[questions]|16:58 borowski says, "ilac"
[wildlife]|16:58 borowski says, "Most animals need to fear members of their own species to some extent."
[movie]|16:59 K-Y says, "I would venture to say that it is possible to know what is appropriate and what is not for most people"
[movie]|16:59 boucher says, "I found Gunther's joke particularly tasteless.  My father died in an XCode accident.  *runs off crying*"
[movie]|17:00 Gunther says, "that wasn't a joke."
[movie]|17:00 vimes says (to boucher), "i kill people with xcode every day.  did i say people? i meant bugs."
[science]|17:00 Johnny says, "This is pretty cool."
[science]|17:01 Gunther says, "I wonder why rat"
[science]|17:01 Johnny says, "Cheaper than mice."
[science]|17:01 Gunther asks, "why not jellyfish?"
[science]|17:01 vimes says, ""guys, guys, i made an artificial jellyfish out of a jellyfish""
[science]|17:02 vimes says, ""how'd you do that?" "killed it and then wired it up to power""
[science]|17:02 Gunther says, "(holds up shitty papercraft model)"
[movie]|17:02 boucher says, "Also, I guess we all have our ways of dealing with things that are disturbing.  I do tend to take the head-on #tasteless route, because that's how I cope with the fact that the world is pretty crappy a lot of the time.  If I don't laugh, or at least give things a middle finger and carry on, I might actually never stop crying."
[science]|17:02 Gunther says, "mmm, Frankenjelly"
[science]|17:02 vimes says, "and his compatriat, Peanutbutterstein"
[science]|17:02 Gunther says, "together, they sandwich"
[science]|17:03 vimes says, "i was going to say "fight hunger""
[science]|17:03 vimes says, "but i like yours better"
[science]|17:03 Johnny says (to vimes), "That assumes something would eat them."
[science]|17:03 Gunther says, "guys, guys, I made peanut butter out of a jellyfish"
[i-am-an-idiot]|17:03 borowski says, "#joinchannel recapc"
[i-am-an-idiot]|17:04 Johnny says, "Joining #recapc is just begging for miscommands."
[science]|17:04 vimes says, "haha"
[i-am-an-idiot]|17:04 Johnny says, "As is joining #joinc for that matter."
[i-am-an-idiot]|17:05 Jacqueline says, "@recapc is there for both the masochists and the sadists, to be fair."
[jacq-chat]|17:05 Jacqueline says, "Okay, of to role playing soon.  Better get ready."
[jacq-chat]|17:05 Gunther says, "oo"
[jacq-chat]|17:05 vimes says, "break some imaginary legs."
[i-am-an-idiot]|17:05 borowski says, "Hopefully it will encourage accurate typing skills."
[jacq-chat]|17:05 Iain says, "Not if you're role-playing a serial procrastinator."
[jacq-chat]|17:06 inky says, "oh yeah"
[science]|17:06 Johnny | Although this is impressive, it doesn't really qualify as "building a jellyfish" because this Medusoid cannot reproduce. Ergo it's not a viable living organism
[science]|17:06 Johnny says, "Thank you, only commenter."
[science]|17:06 Johnny says, "That really needed saying."
[science]|17:06 Gunther asks, "also unable to reproduce: those zebra-donkey hybrids?"
[science]|17:06 Johnny says, "zonkeys"
[science]|17:06 Gunther says, "ha ha"
[science]|17:07 Gunther says, "furthermore, the commenter"
[science]|17:07 inky says, "ha ha"
[jacq-chat]|17:07 Firion says, "Have fun, Jacqueline."
[science]|17:08 Johnny says, "ha ha"
[science]|17:09 Gunther says, "next, they will cross the Medusoid with Orly Taits so it actually turns people to stone."
[science]|17:09 Gunther says, "er, Taitz"
[sleep-deprivation]|17:09 jenrexrode says, "ugh, work tomorrow is going to be rough.  I think I stayed up until 6am today."
[science]|17:09 Gunther says, "wait, I think I just found out who the commenter is"
[science]|17:09 Gunther | Scientists at Stanford University and the J. Craig Venter Institute have developed the first software simulation of an entire organism, a humble single-cell bacterium that lives in the human genital and respiratory tracts
[science]|17:10 Gunther says, "also this excellent headline"
[science]|17:10 Gunther | Fracking science comes under criticism as scientists question motives
[science]|17:10 Gunther says, "Fracking: the science that keeps on giving"
[sleep-deprivation]|17:12 Lucea says, "ugh, sorry to hear"
[sleep-deprivation]|17:12 Johnny asks, "Does tomorrow mean tonight?"
[sleep-deprivation]|17:13 jenrexrode says, "I have to be at work by 930am Monday"
[sleep-deprivation]|17:13 jenrexrode says, "I'm thinking about taking 2 benedryl about 11pm"
[lounge]|17:14 olethros has ordered three mega-generators to be installed in his boathouse.
[lounge]|17:14 * Marktwo has disconnected.
[lounge]|17:14 * Marktwo has connected.
[lounge]|17:14 * boucher has disconnected.
[lounge]|17:14 * boucher has connected.
[lounge]|17:14 olethros was sworn in by robed priests on Thursday morning.
[lounge]|17:14 olethros says, "helllo"
[lounge]|17:14 jenrexrode says, "hi"
[lounge]|17:16 * Marktwo has disconnected.
[lounge]|17:16 * Marktwo has connected.
[Canada]|17:18 jenrexrode says, "so in a day of Toronto coincidences, as I was going to sleep, I was watching a show about snipers, and it was about a hostage incident in Toronto. The other things were 'My Cat from Hell' trivia about Sphinx cats, and #tv talking about Maury Chaykin dying there."
[sleep-deprivation]|17:18 borowski asks, "Your sleep schedule is off?"
[science]|17:19 Johnny says, "Favorite bit to take out of context:"
[sleep-deprivation]|17:19 jenrexrode says, "yeah, I've been on 2 weeks vacation, and sleeping late every day"
[science]|17:19 Johnny | "You’ve got a heart drug?" says Parker. "You let me put it on my jellyfish, and I’ll tell you if it can improve the pumping."
[lounge]|17:19 Nitku leaves.
[lounge]|17:20 jscott goes home.
[sleep-deprivation]|17:20 jenrexrode says, "and the last few days have been a little too late, leading to staying up too late"
[lounge]|17:22 RootShell is back, slightly taller, with gigantic scars on his calves. Will you marry him now?
[lounge]|17:23 RootShell says, "Hello :)"
[lounge]|17:23 Johnny says, "Hey olethros, RootShell"
[lounge]|17:23 RootShell says (to Johnny), "Hey"
[sleep-deprivation]|17:23 boucher says, "There was a period during a summer class session in college where I didn't need to adhere to a very strict schedule, as all my classwork was online or flexible where I settled into a very comfortable rotation schedule of 4 hours awake, 4 asleep."
[lounge]|17:23 RootShell goes southwest to play with toys.
[lounge]|17:24 RootShell is not Spam! He is entering the lounge because you subscribed and confirmed that you wanted him.
[sleep-deprivation]|17:24 boucher says, "Granted, that did mean I slept 12 hours a day, but I felt far more productive the other 12."
[lounge]|17:24 RootShell goes southwest to play with toys.
[lounge]|17:24 RootShell. A MAN, PHYSICALLY. CONFIDENT. WANTS BALL.
[lounge]|17:24 RootShell heads southeast into the spoiler room.  Rather annoyingly, Anna trails along behind him like the too-long hem of a guilty red-headed plague.
[lounge]|17:24 jenrexrode says, "hi"
[lounge]|17:25 Johnny says, "He's in the jailhouse now"
[lounge]|17:25 Johnny says, "Er, spoiler room"
[sleep-deprivation]|17:25 jenrexrode says, "sounds good"
[lounge]|17:25 RootShell has a sheet of triangle-grid paper, a straightedge, an X-acto knife, and several sheets of 3M Diamond Scotchlite vinyl.
[tech]|17:29 DorianX says, "Wow. We truly live in the future"
[tech]|17:29 DorianX says, " https://twitter.com/JMMandel/status/227118313954750464/photo/1 "
[tech]|17:30 jenrexrode says, "all but those clothes"
[tech]|17:30 borowski says, "There's no way that guy would fit in my pocket."
[tech]|17:30 Gunther says, "ok look I just like large pockets ok"
[tech]|17:30 jenrexrode says, "heh"
[tech]|17:30 BrenBarn says, "I don't want to know what his 'equipment' is like"
[tech]|17:30 jenrexrode says, "heh"
[tech]|17:30 jenrexrode says, "I don't like ear buds"
[tech]|17:31 Johnny says, "I had a pair of cans that died a few years ago."
[tech]|17:31 DorianX says, "Though it seems like cheating that he's got a boom box, walkman and radio"
[tech]|17:33 jenrexrode says, "iphone makes a lousy boom box without some accessory"
[tech]|17:33 DorianX says, "he also seems to have two mid system speakers"
[tech]|17:33 Johnny says, "maybe a popbox"
[tech]|17:33 Johnny says, "cracklebox"
[tech]|17:34 jenrexrode | https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=491677530848941&set=a.376415269041835.110463.200652089951488&type=1&relevant_count=1
[lounge]|17:36 inky suffers from an "excess of kittens".
[WWIII]|17:37 borowski | Long before the era of post-Sept. 11 security precautions in the U.S., an unknown person or group of people may have begun carrying out a series of bioterrorism attacks in California. The target? Menthol-scented eucalyptus trees. Before you wonder why you hadn't heard of this, it's because the story isn't necessarily true. It's a hypothesis, a theory promoted by a noted California entomologist and eucalyptus expert named Timothy Paine.
[WWIII]|17:38 Johnny says, "Oh no, who will save the Californian Koala"
[WWIII]|17:39 Johnny says, "that smokes Menthol ciggies"
[WWIII]|17:40 DorianX says, "Or "T-Paine", has he is known on the streets"
[WWIII]|17:41 borowski says, "haha"
[WWIII]|17:42 borowski says, "Oh no! It looks like the Californian Koala is already becoming difficult to find!"
[WWIII]|17:42 Tale says, "I liked Dan Browns earlier boosk better."
[WWIII]|17:45 Gunther says, "Noted California entomologist and eucalyptus expert Timothy Paine stumbled through an embarrassing conspiracy theory, and the schadenfreude you feel was not his."
[lounge]|17:46 Miseri heads southeast into the spoiler room. Nobody has ruined it yet.
[lounge]|17:47 Grocible enters the lounge after having sawrn something narsty in the woodshed.
[lounge]|17:47 Grocible says, "good eve"
[lounge]|17:47 jenrexrode says, "hi"
[lounge]|17:47 Johnny says, "Hi Mis and Groc"
[lounge]|17:47 Johnny says, "Wait, whoops"
[lounge]|17:48 Miseri enters from the southeast, thoroughly spoiled.
[lounge]|17:48 Grocible says, "there you go"
[comp11]|17:48 Miseri says, "Man.  I'd forgotten ... only 4 quotes last year, and 2 were mine."
[comp11]|17:48 Miseri says, "there"
[comp11]|17:48 Tale asks, "Quotes?"
[comp11]|17:48 Miseri says, "there's got to be a special prize for that."
[comp11]|17:49 Miseri says (to Tale), "the 2011 comp game quotes object in the spoiler room.  It plays quotes when people enter the room."
[lounge]|17:49 Gunther, Geoffrey, and Shamino all represented various aspects of Garriott: his ego, his ego, and his ego, respectively
[WWIII]|17:51 borowski says, "I was listening to an interview with Paine and his theory isn't completely out there. I'm more amused by the possibility that it very well could be true."
[lounge]|17:51 Fang is a veritable smorgasbord of visual variables.
[bm]|17:52 Grocible says, " https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/378302_10151047132844378_1178882681_n.jpg "
[bm]|17:52 Grocible says, "for an alleged bunch of anarchic hippies, burning man is pretty organised"
[lounge]|17:52 RootShell http://www.ifreviews.org
[tech]|17:53 jenrexrode says, "we were making poitions"
[tech]|17:53 jenrexrode says, "oops"
[tech]|17:53 Johnny says, "Take it to #alchemy"
[lounge]|17:53 Grocible says, "I wonder how much copper is wasted worldwide by using 10 or 100 baseT over Ethernet"
[lounge]|17:53 Grocible says, "since only half the wires are used"
[Olympics]|17:53 olethros | John Coates, President of the Australian Olympic Committee, admitted he paid $70,000 to two African members of the IOC so that Sydney would get the Games in 2000 and it did
[Olympics]|17:53 olethros asks, "are there a few 0s missing?"
[lounge]|17:55 Tale heads into the spoiler room, situated just so, to inconvenience any invading evil spirits.
[lounge]|17:55 Firion goes home.
[lounge]|17:56 Tale enters from the southeast, thoroughly spoiled.
[lounge]|17:57 Tale is fired from breathing.
[lounge]|17:57 * Tale has disconnected.
[videogames]|17:59 Johnny | We went through five iterations of neck fat and positioning so that she could make eye contact with you without her neck looking wrong.
[videogames]|18:00 BrenBarn says, "neck fat"
[Pokey]|18:01 BrenBarn says, "hey, a new pokey"
[ultima]|18:02 * Ghogg has joined the channel.
[gameofthrones]|18:13 olethros says, "ah, the game gets unsettled once more, after book 4"
[gameofthrones]|18:14 olethros says, "even though some of the characters do not appear as their stories are in the parallel book 5, it is still a bit too many characters for me to remember comfortably"
[lounge]|18:20 Jearl When you see it, you have the tendency to eat this beauty ( with your eyes )
[Floyd]|18:30 * zaphod has joined the channel.
[griffin]|18:30 * zaphod has joined the channel.
[gus]|18:30 * zaphod has joined the channel.
[mud-bots]|18:30 * zaphod has joined the channel.
[tale]|18:33 * zaphod has joined the channel.
[Jotacabana]|18:34 * zaphod has joined the channel.
[videogames]|18:35 K-Y says, "Mirror's Edge is giving me the same problems that ySuper Mario 64 did back in the da"
[videogames]|18:37 K-Y says, "I have a limited time to enter a door, and must execute jumps off a wall in order to reach it"
[videogames]|18:37 K-Y says, "but I can't figure out how to consistently execute said jumps"
[dinner]|18:39 Miseri ought to get some food in him, but feels too anxious to feel hungry.
[space]|18:40 Fang says, " http://vimeo.com/45878034 "
[dinner]|18:41 Miseri says, "okay, off for food."
[lounge]|18:51 Steve slips away on the newly waxed floor.
[noise]|18:52 olethros says, "these concerts are very annoying"
[noise]|18:52 olethros says, "now there is some spanish bawling"
[lounge]|18:54 Gerynar enters the lounge but is facing the wrong way. After a couple minutes of staring at the wall, he turns around.
[lounge]|18:55 jenrexrode says, "hi"
[lounge]|18:55 Gerynar says, "Howdy"
[lounge]|18:55 Johnny says, "Hi Gerynizzle"
[lounge]|18:55 Gerynar says, "Hi, Johnnyfizzle"
[lounge]|18:56 olethros says, "food"
[lounge]|18:56 olethros has ordered three mega-generators to be installed in his boathouse.
[lounge]|18:57 Gerynar asks, "So, what's going on in the wonderful world of ifMUD?"
[lounge]|18:58 DavidW says, "ClubFloyd played Sting of the Wasp this afternoon."
[lounge]|18:58 Johnny says, "And now it's playing Talk About Roommates."
[lounge]|18:59 Johnny says, "(featuring Lasagna)"
[lounge]|19:00 Gerynar says, "They're still goin? I took a peek while I was at work because it was slow, then, because I was peeking, we got busy"
[lounge]|19:00 DavidW says, "hm. Taking the acronym of Talk About Roommates made me think that T.A.R. and Feathers would be an interesting name for *something*."
[lounge]|19:00 Gerynar agrees with DavidW and can barely wait to see what he comes up with.
[lounge]|19:01 Johnny says (to Gerynar), "Nah, it's an actual conversation on #clubfloyd about roommates and (my favorite part, although it's mostly over) lasagna."
[lounge]|19:01 borowski says, "Tar and feathers would be a good name for cop buddies."
[lounge]|19:01 Johnny says, "TAR could be like KITT"
[lounge]|19:01 DavidW says (to borowski), "That's what I was thinking, yes."
[lounge]|19:02 Gerynar says, "ah"
[lounge]|19:02 DavidW says, "Feathers could be the nickname of a Big Bird type."
[lounge]|19:03 DavidW says, "T.A.R. -- Text Adventure Robot."
[lounge]|19:04 Jota turns into a slimy toad!
[lounge]|19:04 Iain leaps astride a mountain pony and gallops off bareback for reinforcements.
[lounge]|19:04 borowski says, "ooo a crime solving Text Adventure Robot"
[lounge]|19:05 DavidW says, "'We heard there was a crime against ...(robo-sunglasses)... mimesis.'"
[lounge]|19:05 Gerynar says, "yeeeAAAAAAHHH"
[lounge]|19:06 Ellison arrives from the east.
[lounge]|19:06 Ellison says, "re"
[lounge]|19:08 Johnny says, "Hey Ellison"
[facebook]|19:19 DavidW says, "argh. Just got gyped again by the game. I spent resources to get energy -- that it remembered. Used the energy on an expedition and lost the connection. The recent progress on the expedition got lost, and that energy I just bought and used is still gone."
[facebook]|19:22 DavidW says, "Only have 19 more hours of play in the expedition too."
[kitties]|19:25 Johnny says (to Cat), "damn you"
[kitties]|19:26 Johnny says, "So, there wasn't any cat food for a while, and I had to feed the cat, er, ham and stuff."
[kitties]|19:26 Johnny says, "And now it's all down on the kibble."
[kitties]|19:26 vimes asks, "ham and "stuff", eh?"
[kitties]|19:27 Johnny says, "Hot dog."
[kitties]|19:27 Johnny says, "Anything from the meat drawer."
[kitties]|19:29 Johnny says, "It went through a pack of ham, a pack of turkey, and half a pack of hot dogs."
[kitties]|19:29 Johnny says, "It's trying to eat the parakeets."
[kitties]|19:29 Johnny says, "And it won't eat the cat food."
[kitties]|19:31 (from DavidW) Cat says (to Johnny), "You were holding out on the good stuff."
[dinner]|19:33 genericgeekgirl says, "Chilled beet and fennel soup, which Amdi is choosing to refer to as "Thai borscht.""
[dinner]|19:35 vimes says, "hee hee"
[dinner]|19:35 vimes says, "we made something like that a couple of years ago, when we were getting huge bulbs of amazingly peppery and delicious fennel from the coop"
[dinner]|19:36 vimes says, "we also made fennel salsa, roasted fennel and sunchokes, fennel-braised lamb, poached salmon with fennel, fennel-curried lentils, and fennel and pear crisp"
[dinner]|19:36 (from Johnny) vimes says, "then the darn chickens decided to lay eggs instead"
[dinner]|19:36 vimes says, "heh"
[dinner]|19:42 jenrexrode says, "turkey club"
[dinner]|19:43 Johnny asks, "Turky Swiss?"
[dinner]|19:43 jenrexrode asks, "bacon cheddar?"
[dinner]|19:43 Johnny says, "okay"
[lounge]|19:54 Gerynar says, "CSB"
[lounge]|19:54 Gerynar says "bloop" and shrinks down into a little dot, then winks out...just like those old-fashioned B&w televisions.
[lounge]|19:54 * Gerynar has disconnected.
[dinner]|19:57 borowski says, "I ate some spaghetti a couple of hours ago but this conversation is making me hungry."
[dinner]|20:00 jenrexrode says, "mine was specifically a defense before grocery shopping"
[dinner]|20:02 borowski says, "Ah, that's always a good idea."
[photoshop]|20:05 Johnny says, "Who twitted this http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~vision/SingleImageSR.html "
[photoshop]|20:05 Johnny says, "Damn you, #photoshop"
[lounge]|20:11 Gerynar enters the lounge but is facing the wrong way. After a couple minutes of staring at the wall, he turns around.
[lounge]|20:12 Johnny says, "Hello, again, Gery, n, ar."
[lounge]|20:12 Gerynar says, "Howdy"
[lounge]|20:14 jenrexrode says, "re"
[photo]|20:15 Johnny says, "It was Iain, Iain retweeted it. http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~vision/SingleImageSR.html "
[photo]|20:15 Johnny says, "Anyway, I want to see this technology applied to adventure games."
[English]|20:17 K-Y | Related searches: Sinkapy
[English]|20:17 K-Y says, "stupid search engines"
[noise]|20:30 * vaporware has joined the channel.
[Pokey]|20:30 * vaporware has joined the channel.
[lounge]|20:33 Lucea is gonna get back baby bad balls to you, love, cretin.
[lounge]|20:33 * Lucea has disconnected.
[begood]|20:40 Johnny says, "I kinda want to make my webpage Geocities-like."
[begood]|20:41 Gerynar asks, "why?"
[lounge]|20:41 Lucea had the olive complexion.
[begood]|20:41 Johnny says, "It's an aesthetic choice, Gerynar."
[lounge]|20:41 Johnny says, "Hi Lucea"
[lounge]|20:41 Gerynar says, "OK, I was just curious"
[begood]|20:41 Johnny says, "Anyway, I've been seeing a lot of old websites lately."
[lounge]|20:41 Gerynar says, "ILAC"
[begood]|20:42 Ellison says, "you'd think that there'd be some service targeting the nostalgia crowd"
[whiz-games]|20:42 Whizzard stretches.
[whiz-games]|20:42 Whizzard says, "Whew."
[whiz-games]|20:42 Whizzard says, "Ok, I don't like to do it, but I need some AC tonight."
[begood]|20:42 Johnny says, "There was that one webhost that offered services to the Geocities.com refugees."
[begood]|20:43 Johnny says, "I wonder how those websites turned out."
[begood]|20:43 Johnny says, "(Geocities.jp still going strong.)"
[begood]|20:44 Johnny asks, "What?"
[lounge]|20:44 Lucea says, "re"
[begood]|20:45 Johnny | Oops! Google Chrome could not find robotfindskitten.org
[begood]|20:45 Johnny says, "There it goes."
[begood]|20:45 Gerynar says, "speaking of old web-pages...here's a snapshot of the one I designed for a company I worked at a long time ago http://web.archive.org/web/19981212020321/http://pcmicrocomponents.com/ "
[begood]|20:46 Johnny asks, "What does the E stand for?"
[begood]|20:46 Johnny asks, "Myszka Mik-E?"
[begood]|20:46 Gerynar says, "no, Eugene"
[begood]|20:46 Johnny says, "I think I forgot a C in there."
[I7]|20:49 Lucea says, "ok, so"
[I7]|20:49 Lucea says, "as a player, would you prefer: a container inside a container, or one object that becomes another object when unwrapped"
[I7]|20:50 Lucea says, "i.e."
[I7]|20:50 Lucea says, "there's just a useless container surrounding it, think "do not open until Xmas" -- would you rather have the useless paper around or not? (Not a puzzle game.)"
[begood]|20:50 Johnny says, "Huh, Kris Straub (Chainsawsuit guy) did this http://robotfindskitten.org/download/Extras/DeltaurInitiative/robotfinds.jpg "
[whiz-games]|20:53 Whizzard says, "Ah, that's better already."
[whiz-games]|20:53 Whizzard says, "Just a bit beyond my tolerable zone tonight. I expect it'll get better when the sun goes down, though."
[begood]|20:53 Johnny says, "Damn, this game has more ports than possibly the Z-machine."
[I7]|20:54 Ellison says, "I'd be happy with the latter, assuming the original container has no other uses"
[I7]|20:55 Lucea says, "yeah, it's useless"
[begood]|20:55 Johnny says, "Since there's an Inform version of this... I don't know if that's cheating or not."
[begood]|20:56 Ellison says, "dang. although I'd say that any port that stops you from finding the kitten is not a faithful port."
[lounge]|20:57 Miseri asks, "aaaand time to go.  What could I be forgetting?"
[begood]|20:57 Johnny says (to Gerynar), "Anyway, good website for 1998, man."
[begood]|20:58 Johnny says, "Well, that one's just a mockup."
[lounge]|20:58 Miseri says, "Off.  'Later, all."
[lounge]|20:58 Miseri is very disappointed in you.  Earlier, he may have ransacked your office, but he is *very* disappointed in you.
[begood]|20:59 Gerynar says, "I even wrote a Delphi program to go through my pages and update prices when they were changed in our Point of Sale system"
[TV]|20:59 DorianX says, "started watching The Tribe again"
[TV]|21:00 DorianX says, "You know what the problem is withthat show? The most interesting character in the whole show was the main villain who got killed off in episode 2"
[begood]|21:03 Ellison says, "the thing to remember when doing an object switch like that is to update your pronouns in between, so 'it' refers to the right thing"
[begood]|21:03 Ellison says, "oops, iladc"
[I7]|21:03 Ellison says, "the thing to remember when doing an object switch like that is to update your pronouns in between, so 'it' refers to the right thing"
[lounge]|21:05 Rob comes right on in.
[lounge]|21:05 Rob says, "zblrp"
[lounge]|21:05 Ellison says, "hey Rob"
[lounge]|21:05 Johnny says, "Speak of the devil"
[lounge]|21:05 Johnny says, "Hi Rob"
[lounge]|21:05 Rob says, "ell o"
[lounge]|21:05 Rob says, "the devil you say"
[lounge]|21:05 Firion was your mother much upon these years that you are now a maid, etc.
[lounge]|21:05 Johnny says, "And introducing Firion as Firion"
[lounge]|21:06 Ellison says, "and hey Firion"
[lounge]|21:06 Firion asks, "Yes, corr-- erm, what's going on?"
[robmumble]|21:06 Rob says, "ow, hurts to type after guitar practice"
[robmumble]|21:06 Rob says, "calluses not fully formed yet"
[compression]|21:08 * borowski has joined the channel.
[lounge]|21:08 Johnny says, "Nothing suspicious, that's for sure."
[begood]|21:09 Rob says, "hm that gerynar link isn't loading for me at web.archive.org"
[begood]|21:09 Rob says, "it had an error about too many 'http:'s so I removed some and then it said Hrm can't find nuthin"
[compression]|21:09 borowski asks, "I tried compressing some AVI files with 7zip but it only reduced their size by about 1.5%. I guess they're already as compressed as they're going to get?"
[begood]|21:09 Johnny asks, "What browser?"
[begood]|21:10 Johnny | This site is best if viewed with either Netscape Navigator 4.0 or higher -or- Miscrosoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher
[begood]|21:10 Ellison says, "there was an extra http in Gerynar's link"
[begood]|21:11 Johnny says, "Nah, that's just how the Wayback Machine works."
[begood]|21:11 borowski says, "It works for me on Firefox 14."
[begood]|21:11 Johnny says, "It also works if you take it out, though."
[compression]|21:12 Rob says, "yeah probably"
[lounge]|21:12 Doug has arrived.
[lounge]|21:12 Doug waves.
[compression]|21:12 Rob says, "unless you converted them to yet another video format and cranked up the compression yourself of screen size and lossiness and stuff"
[compression]|21:13 Johnny asks, "Are you compressing them primarily to try and save space?"
[compression]|21:13 Johnny asks, "Or for archive-y, move-y reasons?"
[lounge]|21:13 Rob says, "Doug-o"
[lounge]|21:13 Johnny says, "Hi Doug"
[lounge]|21:13 Doug asks, "What's the rumpus?"
[lounge]|21:13 Rob says, "we smell a wumpus"
[compression]|21:13 borowski says, "For the latter. To save time on dropbox backuping."
[robmumble]|21:13 BrenBarn says, "how is calluss formed"
[robmumble]|21:14 Rob says, "hehh"
[robmumble]|21:14 Ellison says, "heh"
[compression]|21:15 borowski says, "And to avoid having to pay for more space."
[begood]|21:15 Johnny says, "Dang."
[begood]|21:16 Johnny says, "All this game maker looky-looing makes me want to dig up DarkBASIC Pro that's on some CD around here."
[lounge]|21:16 Doug says, "The door has vended Carrot Dudes and a Fish Dog."
[lounge]|21:16 Rob says, "what"
[lounge]|21:16 Doug says, "(from #d&d url)"
[lounge]|21:16 Rob says, "#english-sentences-never-before-uttered"
[lounge]|21:16 olethros was sworn in by robed priests on Thursday morning.
[lounge]|21:16 Rob says, "'thros-O"
[lounge]|21:17 olethros says, "howdy par'ner"
[lounge]|21:17 Rob says, "someone told me you're in toronto"
[lounge]|21:17 Doug says, "ol?, thros!"
[lounge]|21:17 Doug says, "hmph."
[lounge]|21:18 Rob says, "arriba"
[lounge]|21:18 Doug says, "that was supposed to be an e with accent"
[lounge]|21:18 Rob says, "yeah I inferred"
[lounge]|21:18 Doug says, "this works in linux emacs but not osx emacs"
[lounge]|21:18 Johnny says, "You got almost the whole range of emotion punctuation can convey."
[begood]|21:18 Rob says, "wrote some games when you were 12 did you"
[compression]|21:19 vaporware says, "If they're AVIs that other people might have uploaded already, you're better off keeping them intact."
[begood]|21:19 Johnny says, "Nah, just a lot of fumbling."
[lounge]|21:19 Rob says, "the mud has 8bit char user settings but it still seems stymied by macos's charset"
[905]|21:19 Adam says, "Hey, question"
[begood]|21:19 Rob says, "well yeah"
[905]|21:19 Rob says, "hey, it's Adam. hey Adam"
[905]|21:19 Adam says, "(I'm assuming people on this channel have played the game - spoilers ahoy)"
[compression]|21:20 vaporware says, "Dropbox de-duplicates uploads, so if someone else already has the file in their account, you can sync it without having to send the data."
[lounge]|21:20 olethros says, "indeed I am"
[905]|21:20 Adam says, "Right now, if you try to lock the front door of the house, the game says that the locking mechanism is broken"
[905]|21:20 Rob says, "what hotel room were you in when you wrote the game"
[lounge]|21:20 olethros says, "Toronto is nice"
[lounge]|21:20 Rob says, "what t'heck're'ya doin' there"
[lounge]|21:20 olethros says, "an .... average city in some sense"
[DustWorld]|21:20 DavidW says, "hm. After all the packing I did yesterday, all i did today was pack one box, play ClubFloyd, cook a frozen lasagna."
[lounge]|21:20 Rob says, "I've been there"
[905]|21:21 Adam says, "Uh, I think room 315 of the Victoria Hotel in Melbourne, Australia"
[lounge]|21:21 Rob says, "it's not all that average, unless you're used to rampant multiculturalism"
[905]|21:21 Rob says, "ok, carry on"
[lounge]|21:21 olethros says, "international conference of the association for the advancement of artificial intelligence"
[905]|21:21 Adam says, "In the current beta for v1.1, the description out in the driveway tells you whether the front door is open or closed"
[905]|21:21 Rob says, "heh, you remember the room number"
[905]|21:21 Adam says, "Presumably this will prompt people to close the door behind them"
[905]|21:21 Adam says, "You asked what room!"
[905]|21:21 Rob says, "only some players are door-closers"
[905]|21:21 Adam says, "If you had asked what hotel I would have just told you the hotel"
[905]|21:22 Rob says, "hee hee"
[begood]|21:22 Ellison says, "the other week, I was trying to find a good program for playing BASIC source games on the ifarchive. wasn't successful, though."
[lounge]|21:22 olethros says, "really? hm, well, it has a china town a korean town, a greek town, an italian town... but I thought that this was standard for all US^W north american cities"
[905]|21:22 Rob says, "like Jota"
[905]|21:22 Adam says, "Right, but if the room desc explicitly says 'The house lies to the north; the front door is open,' you're gonna close the door before driving away"
[905]|21:22 Rob says, "ah"
[905]|21:22 olethros says, "point"
[905]|21:22 Rob asks, "wait so what's the question?"
[begood]|21:22 Johnny asks, "Quick BASIC in DosBOX?"
[905]|21:22 Adam says, "Then it is likely that you will lock it"
[905]|21:22 Adam says, "Since you think it's your house"
[905]|21:23 Rob says, "hmmmmm yeah personally I'd do that as a player"
[905]|21:23 Adam says, "That will pull up the line about the broken lock"
[905]|21:23 Rob says, "still trying to factor in the laziness of random joe player though"
[905]|21:23 Adam asks, "Is that too much of a giveaway?"
[905]|21:23 Rob says, "hmrmmmmmm"
[begood]|21:23 Ellison says, "I think I thought Quick BASIC was too big of a download so I was trying something called FreeBASIC"
[905]|21:23 Rob says, "that's a chewy question"
[compression]|21:23 borowski asks, "Does it do that automatically?"
[905]|21:23 Adam says, "I mean, it's been in the game for twelve and a half years, but only for people who have sought it out, really"
[905]|21:23 olethros says, "mmm then you might go in to investigate"
[DustWorld]|21:23 Doug asks, "what did Club Floyd play today?"
[movie]|21:23 Dave says, "Ice Age 4 was okay"
[905]|21:23 Rob asks, "and if it gets given away at that point, does any other ending happen?"
[movie]|21:24 Dave says, "I could live without Nicki Minaj"
[905]|21:24 Adam says, "I'm guessing the % of players who try it would go from 5% to 95%"
[905]|21:24 Rob says, "well, maybe keeping it as only for the sought-outs is the right way to go"
[DustWorld]|21:24 olethros says, "see emily play"
[905]|21:24 Rob says, "hm yeah"
[905]|21:24 Rob asks, "do you even have a key to the door?"
[movie]|21:24 Dave says, "out of all of the animated movies, Madagascar 3 was by far the best"
[905]|21:24 olethros says (to rob), "good idea"
[905]|21:24 Adam says, "You do"
[videogames]|21:24 Doug says, "man, people on tablets have a huge advantage in Draw Something. I just can't get that fine a resolution on my phone."
[DustWorld]|21:24 DavidW says, "Sting of the Wasp"
[begood]|21:24 Johnny says, "QuickBASIC should just be a few megs."
[905]|21:24 Rob says, "maybe it depends on how you describe it"
[compression]|21:25 vaporware says, "If you want to shrink the videos, your options are basically what Rob said - reduce the resolution, reduce the quality, and/or use a more efficient codec (like H.264 instead of XVID). Reducing the quality would be quickest, if you can find a compressed domain transcoder for whatever format it's in. (ReJig does it for MPEG-2, not sure if there are any for XVID or H.264.)"
[DustWorld]|21:25 DavidW says, "It was a good session."
[begood]|21:25 Ellison says, "yeah, maybe I was looking at the wrong site"
[compression]|21:25 vaporware says (to borowski), "Yes."
[905]|21:25 Rob says, "maybe with a little sneaky ambiguity in terms of how you describe that the lock is broken"
[905]|21:25 olethros says, "if the whole point is to not have peoploe go and search the room at the very beginning, then I'd avoid adding any early hints that something is amiss"
[begood]|21:25 Johnny says, "I don't know that FreeBASIC pledges any kind of fidelity to the dialects of BASIC those older games are written in."
[905]|21:25 Rob asks, "can the player go inside again and look under the bed at that point?"
[videogames]|21:25 Dave says, "so this is typical"
[905]|21:25 Adam says, "Another option is to automatically have the PC close the door behind him"
[905]|21:25 Adam says (to Rob), "Yes"
[videogames]|21:25 Dave says, "my kids were fighting with FIFA 2012"
[videogames]|21:25 Dave says, "we could not figure out how to make it work 2 on 2"
[begood]|21:25 Johnny says, "Some of them are C-64 BASIC frex."
[905]|21:25 Adam says, "If the door is closed you might be less inclined to try to lock it"
[compression]|21:26 DorianX says, "I've seen it for mpeg-2, never for anything else"
[905]|21:26 Rob says, "hm yeah an automated door-close would probably throw another large % off the trail"
[videogames]|21:26 Dave says, "and so I'm searching the web, getting pissed off, and finally e-mail EA support"
[905]|21:26 Rob says, "especially if it were just narrated as having happened"
[905]|21:26 Rob says, "it'd still seem like 'la la la, typical day, head out, close the door...'"
[videogames]|21:26 Dave says, "I get up, go out to the living room and tell the kids the bad news and they say, "Oh, we figured it out...nevermind.""
[905]|21:26 Adam says, "But at present there is no mention of the door, and that seems to have worked well enough"
[905]|21:27 Rob asks, "how was leaving the house handled in the original version?"
[905]|21:27 Rob asks, "is it because you're implementing a door that didn't used to be an object?"
[lounge]|21:27 olethros has ordered three mega-generators to be installed in his boathouse.
[lounge]|21:27 olethros was sworn in by robed priests on Thursday morning.
[905]|21:27 Adam says, "In v.1.01 t just dumps you in the driveway, says the neighborhood is seedy, and tells you there's a car in the driveway"
[DustWorld]|21:27 Doug asks, "huh, never heard of it.  Is it new?"
[905]|21:28 Rob says, "the other thing is that I remember feeling like there was a lot of narrative momentum propelling me to work"
[905]|21:28 Ellison says, "you could just say, 'well, the lock is broken, but there's nothing of value inside anyways.'"
[905]|21:28 Rob says, "er, to go to the office, what have you"
[905]|21:28 Adam says, "The actual reason this came up is that someone noted that the house isn't implemented as a scenery object, and the description doesn't tell you what direction it's in"
[905]|21:28 Rob says (to Ell), "heh"
[905]|21:28 Rob says, "ah hm"
[905]|21:28 Rob says, "I'm in favor of houses being implemented as scenery objects"
[905]|21:29 Adam says, "So I put 'the house lies to the north' in the desc, and then I thought that I should say the door is open/closed"
[905]|21:29 Adam says, "But now I'm leaning towards taking that back out"
[905]|21:29 olethros says, "Hmm I think it would be too much to sagive details about the doors when you are standing in the driveway"
[905]|21:29 Adam says, "Still keeping the house as a scenery object, but not mentioning the status of the door"
[905]|21:29 Rob says, "this is weird but I have been picturing leaving the house on the east-west axis during this conversation"
[compression]|21:30 borowski says, "Thanks, I'll try changing the video format."
[905]|21:30 olethros says, "why not mention the windows, etc"
[905]|21:30 Rob says, "so the southerly exit is making my brain spin"
[905]|21:30 olethros says (to rob), "south is the pious way out"
[905]|21:30 Rob says, "house as scenery object without explicit mention of the door would work for me"
[905]|21:30 Adam says (to Rob), "I have the same sort of thing - I keep typing >E to go into the car, even though it's implemented as a container!"
[905]|21:30 Rob says, "if someone's going to start poking around typing >x door then they deserve to get extra info on the situation, seems like"
[905]|21:30 * Lucea has joined the channel.
[905]|21:30 Rob says (to Adam), "well then!"
[google]|21:31 DorianX asks, "I want to stick a copy of my backups in the cloud. Is google drive fit for this?"
[905]|21:31 Rob says, "if I 'keep typing' something when I'm working on my own game, I eventually decide that whatever that is is what I should implement"
[begood]|21:31 Ellison says, "I think the ones I was looking at were Quick BASIC."
[905]|21:32 Adam says, "I think that's idiosyncratic, though - I walked east to get into my first car when I was 16"
[google]|21:32 borowski says, "I tried Google Drive but I didn't like the lack of an option for limiting bandwidth."
[905]|21:32 Rob says, "yeah I guess I trust my idiosyncracies sometimes"
[google]|21:33 borowski says, "And there isn't a linux client yet."
[905]|21:33 Rob says, "or I think of it as implementing something for that one player besides me, like an MST3K joke that the one guy in ohio gets"
[begood]|21:34 Johnny | Other compilers, like PowerBASIC and FreeBASIC, have varying degrees of compatibility. QB64, a multiplatform QuickBASIC compiler, is being developed and aims to be 100% compatible.[16]
[robmumble]|21:34 Rob says, "I was just thinking about IF earlier this afternoon"
[robmumble]|21:35 Rob says, "like, looking back, I hit my peak in 2001"
[google]|21:35 DorianX asks, "How about amazon's s3?"
[comics]|21:35 Adam asks (of Rob), "Hey, as long as you're online, here's a question for you (and anyone else on this channel): any favorite European graphic novels?"
[robmumble]|21:35 Rob says, "at the time I thought I was just at the start of something big, relatively speaking, but now I'm starting to reckon with the idea that that was my big year"
[comics]|21:35 Rob says, "hmmmm"
[comics]|21:35 K-Y says, "Blacksad, I suppose"
[DustWorld]|21:35 DavidW says, "no, IF Comp 2004 entry, and winner of Best PC at the Xyzzies."
[comics]|21:35 K-Y says, "that's huge right now"
[905]|21:35 Ellison says, "to be honest, I'm not entirely understanding what the issue is here, but it reminds me of how I rewrote Hugo's vehicle class so it's easier to change the default ways to enter a vehicle (like, a horse vehicle where 'entering' might be 'up')"
[comics]|21:36 Rob says, "gad, of course, I haven't really bought any graphic novels in ages"
[google]|21:36 borowski says, "I haven't tried that. Dropbox seems to work well."
[comics]|21:36 Johnny says, "Sounds depressing."
[comics]|21:36 Adam says, "Preferably in French (or English), though I could get through Spanish/Italian/German with a dictionary"
[comics]|21:36 Johnny says, "Like, I'd expect every review to use the word "sadgasm"."
[comics]|21:36 K-Y says, "Blacksad is indeed French"
[DustWorld]|21:36 DavidW says, "It was 4th at IF Comp 2004, and 2nd for Miss Congeniality."
[comics]|21:36 olethros says, "legion"
[comics]|21:36 K-Y says, "but Dark Horse has published it in English"
[905]|21:36 Adam says (to Ellison), "The issue is just that I'm imagining the car lying to the east for no reason at all"
[comics]|21:37 olethros says, "l'incal"
[comics]|21:37 olethros asks (of adam), "what style?"
[905]|21:37 Ellison says, "that's a good enough reason to support >east for me!"
[comics]|21:37 Rob says, "I'm more aware that there's a huge talent pool in europe but not what the wares are"
[comics]|21:38 olethros says, "(sorry, I meant 'Je suis légio')"
[905]|21:38 Rob says, "yeah me too I guess"
[compression]|21:38 * Lucea has joined the channel.
[comics]|21:38 olethros says (to adam), "if you can get issues of the old anthology 'metal hurlant' it may get you started on reading some"
[comics]|21:38 Adam says (to olethros), "Well, for one, the European comics I've read tend to have gorgeous, detailed, fairly realistic art"
[comics]|21:39 Rob asks (of Adam), "while we're here, do you have any interest in a copy of my latest graphic novel?"
[comics]|21:39 Adam says, "I've mostly read historical fiction"
[comics]|21:39 olethros says, "ok, je suis legion ishas awesomrealistic art but it's .s fantasy. L'incal is mystical SF"
[lounge]|21:39 Rob moseys right on out.
[comics]|21:40 K-Y says, "Blacksad has a historical setting and is painted painstakingly in watercolor"
[comics]|21:40 K-Y says, "as a result we've only gotten four volumes in a decade"
[comics]|21:41 Johnny asks (of K-Y), "Wait, does that have anthropomorphic animals?"
[comics]|21:41 olethros says, "Maus is pretty good, but the art is meh"
[comics]|21:41 Johnny says, "If so, I read... a little of it."
[comics]|21:41 Adam says, "Here's a sample page from something I was looking at today"
[comics]|21:41 Adam says, " http://i.imgur.com/Ge6Gd.jpg "
[comics]|21:41 Johnny says (to olethros), "Also, not European."
[comics]|21:41 olethros says (to johnny), "thought it was german"
[comics]|21:42 Adam says, "I basically want to look at stuff like that forever"
[comics]|21:43 olethros says, "you may want: Les Phalanges de l'Ordre Noir"
[comics]|21:43 Johnny says, "Oh, huh, Spiegelman was born in Sweden."
[comics]|21:43 Adam says (to Johnny), "Really! Hunh"
[comics]|21:43 Johnny says, "It's pretty 'mer'can, though."
[comics]|21:44 Johnny says, "Says Wikipedia."
[comics]|21:44 K-Y says (to Johnny), "yes, that one"
[comics]|21:44 Adam says, "By the way, I am noting down the titles people are mentioning"
[comics]|21:45 Johnny says (to Adam), "That is pretty ... gorgeous."
[comics]|21:45 Johnny says, "(Was gonna say pretty pretty.)"
[travel]|21:45 Jacqueline asks, "So, disposable razors are okay in carry-on luggage?"
[comics]|21:45 olethros says, "recently I have been also reading the adventures of a swiss in the himalayas in the beginning of the 20th century, which is quite nice"
[comics]|21:45 olethros says, "anyway, Enki Bilal is pretty good overall, try one of his novels out"
[comics]|21:47 Adam says, "Rightio"
[comics]|21:48 K-Y says, "ack, there was this awesome-looking recent one I saw one day years ago"
[comics]|21:48 K-Y says, "I've completely lost track, hold on"
[travel]|21:48 genericgeekgirl says, "Yup."
[comics]|21:49 BrenBarn says, "the look of that reminds me of the Proust comic"
[comics]|21:50 olethros says, "try Bourgeon"
[comics]|21:50 olethros says, "he also did historical stuff"
[comics]|21:51 olethros says, "(and gorgeous art)"
[comics]|21:51 olethros says, "cannot think of anything else at present"
[comics]|21:52 BrenBarn says, "I read French translations of these French comics in a series called Isaac the Pirate"
[comics]|21:52 BrenBarn says, "the art isn't that style, but they're pretty cool"
[comics]|21:52 BrenBarn says, "er, I read English translations, I mean"
[comics]|21:52 K-Y says, "okay, this is not European nor historical, for the the style take a look at Nonplayer"
[travel]|21:52 Jacqueline says, "Cool."
[comics]|21:53 Adam says, "I'm not just interested in historical stuff - that's just most of what I've read up to this point"
[comics]|21:53 olethros says, "finally, there's one comic I havent read but which looks awesome: les cites obscures"
[comics]|21:54 olethros says, "in general you can't go wrong with anything by bilal and moebius IMHO"
[comics]|21:54 K-Y says, "file under 'looks fantastic but may never finish' http://www.nonplayercomic.com/p/nonplayer_22.html "
[comics]|21:54 olethros says, "(moebius in particular varied his art style a lot)"
[comics]|21:55 olethros says (to K-Y), "oh yeah you mentioned that before"
[lounge]|21:56 inky is a CN mercenary who will do pretty much anything for the right price (20 gp/day)
[lounge]|21:57 Ellison says, "hey inky"
[lounge]|21:57 maga says, "ink"
[comics]|21:57 olethros says, "but if you were to only get one thing, that should be L'Incal"
[comics]|21:58 Adam says (to KY), "Holy smokes"
[lounge]|22:01 Lucea says, "Hi"
[comics]|22:01 olethros says, "recently I was tempted to get this: http://www.humanoids.com/album/260 "
[lounge]|22:01 Emily arrives.
[eBert]|22:02 Doug | But I suspect Australia, England, Germany and Canada have about the same percentage of crazy people that we do. It's just that they can't get their hands on firearms so easily.
[eBert]|22:02 Doug says, "not sure I agree on the first point."
[eBert]|22:03 Doug says, "the US seems pretty good at making crazy people"
[eBert]|22:03 olethros asks, "there's something in ... ?"
[lounge]|22:03 Ellison says, "hey Emily"
[comics]|22:04 olethros says, "oh damn"
[comics]|22:04 olethros says, "fuck fuck"
[comics]|22:04 olethros says, "I'll be out of down during the comic festival :("
[comics]|22:05 olethros says, "seems like a good show http://www.bdfil.ch/programme/expositions/ "
[eBert]|22:07 K-Y says, "Canada is doing its best to catch up"
[eBert]|22:07 K-Y says, "both in terms of crazy people and in terms of getting hands on firearms easily"
[eBert]|22:07 Doug says, "I kind of feel like it has something to do with our freedom, or at least our self-perception of freedom, as some sort of license to do anything, and that leads to a particular kind of crazy."
[eBert]|22:08 olethros says, "ah, license to do anything - that's anarchy"
[eBert]|22:08 Doug says, "but that sort of thinking leads to "they hate us for our freedom" so maybe not."
[eBert]|22:08 olethros asks, "who is 'they'?"
[lounge]|22:08 Grocible says, "evening"
[eBert]|22:09 Doug says, "well, that's more or less a direct quote from GW Bush explaining why terrorists want to attack the US"
[lounge]|22:09 Grocible says, "so the designer has replaced a photo in my book by mistake"
[lounge]|22:09 Grocible says, "the same person shows up twice"
[comics]|22:09 K-Y says, "this also looks pretty cool http://parkablogs.com/content/book-review-jim-hensons-tale-of-sand "
[lounge]|22:09 Grocible says, "and that means one of the captions now no longer makes any sense"
[lounge]|22:09 Grocible says, "sigh"
[comics]|22:09 K-Y says, "comic book adaptation of unfilmed Jim Henson screenplay"
[lounge]|22:09 Adam's reaction time is one nanosecond, and his "memory" capacity is 1,000 megabits.
[lounge]|22:10 Grocible says, "hey. speaking of opticks, it's Adam"
[lounge]|22:10 Adam says, "Thought I should say hello before logging back out"
[lounge]|22:10 Adam says, "Hello"
[lounge]|22:10 Ellison says, "hello Adam"
[lounge]|22:10 Adam says, "Oh, was someone speaking of opticks"
[lounge]|22:10 Adam says, "How about the gryndinnge of Lenses"
[lounge]|22:10 Grocible says, "I mention opticks in my new book"
[lounge]|22:11 Grocible says, "I actually quote Newton"
[lounge]|22:11 olethros asks, "Verbatim?"
[lounge]|22:11 Grocible says, ""... in the beginning of the Year 1666 (at which time I applyed my self to the grinding of Optick glasses of other figures than Spherical,) I procured me a Triangular glass-Prisme, to try there- with the celebrated Ph¾nomena of Colours.Ó Ð Isaac Newton"
[lounge]|22:11 Grocible says, "I thought it was an interesting quote"
[lounge]|22:12 Grocible says, "there he was, moving cities to avoid the plague"
[lounge]|22:12 Grocible says, "literally"
[lounge]|22:12 Grocible says, "and London is burning down"
[lounge]|22:12 Grocible says, "and he's making scientific breakthroughs about the nature of light"
[lounge]|22:13 Doug says, "I read about that stuff in Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle.  Except I never quitefigured out which parts were fictionalized."
[lounge]|22:13 Grocible says, "I think the bits where he fights the Tartars in a steam-powered rocketship are probably not true"
[lounge]|22:15 Doug says, "I haven't read the third book yet"
[lounge]|22:15 Adam says, "I read the third book last year"
[lounge]|22:15 Grocible says, "I just made that up"
[lounge]|22:15 olethros says, "cryptonomicon was sufficient neal stephenson pseudohistory for me"
[dental]|22:15 Doug | http://www.jwz.org/blog/2012/07/the-importance-of-dental-hygiene/
[lounge]|22:16 Adam says, "I have never had as many people come up to me and say 'ZOMG THAT BOOK RULEZ!!1!' as when I was reading The System of the World"
[lounge]|22:16 Adam says, "I didn't much care for it"
[lounge]|22:16 Fang is told of the death of Christ, and becomes so angry that the brain bursts from his head, and he dies. The blood from the wound baptises him as a Christian, and his soul goes to heaven.
[lounge]|22:16 Adam says, "But it is beloved by randoms in cafes, so"
[lounge]|22:18 Grocible says, "hm"
[lounge]|22:18 Grocible says, "that never happens to me"
[lounge]|22:18 Lucea says, "this strikes me as rather unconventional for randoms and/or cafes"
[lounge]|22:18 Grocible says, "but then, I really rarely read books in public"
[lounge]|22:19 Grocible says, "I should stop re-reading this book PDF. I'll keep discovering problems with it that are too late to fix"
[lounge]|22:20 Doug says, "I admit I have been hoping people will comment (or at least notice) when I've been reading Paul Krugman's _End This Depression Now!_ in public, but as far as I know no one cared"
[lounge]|22:20 Doug says, "also, pretend the tenses make sense in that sentence"
[lounge]|22:20 olethros says, "maybe they think you are depressed"
[lounge]|22:20 Grocible says, "they're worried you're depressed"
[startrek]|22:21 Jacqueline says, "Heehee TNG-S8: Picard must work with a cannibal species that eats its poor. Worf gets loaded on blood wine spritzers and admits he's not a great reader."
[lounge]|22:21 Grocible says, "timing"
[noise]|22:21 olethros says, "ok people why are you chatting outside in the hallway"
[lounge]|22:21 Doug says, "oh huh, I never even thought of that possibility"
[lounge]|22:21 Doug says, "haha sigh"
[noise]|22:21 olethros says, "it is not a fucking lounge"
[startrek]|22:22 Jacqueline says, "OMG classic.  I missed the last one."
[startrek]|22:22 Jacqueline | A long lost Starfleet ship appears with wood repairs. Barclay accidentally locks himself in Riker's room, hides under the bed. Huge mistake.
[startrek]|22:23 olethros asks, "mm?"
[startrek]|22:25 Jacqueline | https://twitter.com/TNG_S8
[startrek]|22:25 Jacqueline says, "It's the episode summaries for the season that never happened."
[startrek]|22:25 Jacqueline says, "And they are generally full of win and worth having a twitter account, even if you have one for no other reason."
[startrek]|22:25 Jacqueline | An alien transforms Beverly into a mythical Irish banshee. Worf pitches a fit when he finds out crew kids are going "as Worf" for Halloween.
[startrek]|22:26 Jacqueline says, "I guess I hadn't read these in awhile."
[startrek]|22:26 Grocible asks, "are these all jokes?"
[greece]|22:26 olethros says, "oh geez"
[startrek]|22:26 Jacqueline says, "Yeah"
[greece]|22:26 olethros says, "bill clinton is a lobbyist for Noble Energy, which is the company that does oil exploration near cyprus."
[greece]|22:26 olethros says, "I guess that explains his greece visit"
[lounge]|22:27 Doug says, "ok gnight"
[lounge]|22:27 Doug goes home.
[lounge]|22:28 Adam says, "Off I go"
[lounge]|22:28 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]|22:28 * Adam has disconnected.
[startrek]|22:28 borowski says, "Heh, this is great."
[startrek]|22:28 borowski | Wes invents an amazing powerless door that operates on a hinge.
[startrek]|22:28 Jacqueline says, "Yeah, we were just giggling over that one."
[startrek]|22:30 borowski says, "Worf: "I have... dyslexia. I do not read with honor.""
[startrek]|22:31 Jacqueline says, "Actually, I think it's more like... 'Klingons do NOT read.'"
[startrek]|22:34 vaporware says, "Poor Barclay."
[startrek]|22:34 Grocible says, "so a tiny part of me was thinking hey - it'd be cool to go that con in London where all of the trek captains are going to be attending"
[startrek]|22:34 Grocible says, "but then I saw the price"
[startrek]|22:34 Grocible says, "and thought fuck that"
[greece]|22:34 olethros says, "hmm"
[startrek]|22:34 borowski says (to vaporware), "I was thinking the same thing."
[greece]|22:34 olethros | Washington?s motive for pushing Greece to join forces with Turkey on oil and gas is to force a formula to divide resulting oil and gas revenues. According to his report, Washington proposes that Greece get 20% of revenues, Turkey another 20% and the US-backed Noble Energy Company of Houston Texas, the company successfully drilling in the Israeli and Greek offshore waters, would get the lion??s share of 60%
[greece]|22:35 olethros says, "that sounds a bit too conspiracy theorist for me .. but"
[startrek]|22:35 borowski says, "I don't think he's *that* bad of a character."
[startrek]|22:36 maga says, "well, he's the one normal human being in a ship entirely populated with Mary-Sues"
[lounge]|22:36 McMartin never actually achieved independence from Great Britain, and secretly continues to operate under British rule.[citation needed]
[peanut-gallery]|22:36 McMartin says, "Oh dear"
[startrek]|22:36 borowski says, "I think I'd be pretty neurotic if I were traveling through space faster than the speed of light."
[peanut-gallery]|22:36 McMartin says, "Radical Al is attempting to compile Weishaupt Scholars in 6G60"
[peanut-gallery]|22:36 vaporware says, "That McMartin guy is back."
[peanut-gallery]|22:36 vaporware says, "Man, that guy just keeps going."
[lounge]|22:36 Lucea is gonna get back baby bad balls to you, love, cretin.
[lounge]|22:36 * Lucea has disconnected.
[startrek]|22:37 maga says, "yeah, to be fair, I wouldn't go through a transporter either"
[lounge]|22:37 Lucea had the olive complexion.
[lounge]|22:37 Lucea says, "csb"
[Canada]|22:37 olethros asks (of Hugo), "you asleep ?"
[startrek]|22:37 Jacqueline says, "Huh.  I'd do all that stuff."
[startrek]|22:37 Jacqueline asks (of Groc), "How much is it?"
[startrek]|22:38 borowski says, "Yeah, considering that it's possible to travel to an evil parallel universe by using a transporter, I'd be a little nervous."
[startrek]|22:38 Grocible says, "jacq: I forgot. Shitloads"
[startrek]|22:38 Grocible says, "I've never been to a fan con"
[startrek]|22:39 Grocible says, "so going to one with all the trek captain actors would be interesting, I guess"
[startrek]|22:39 Grocible says, "but honestly, I can't be arsed"
[startrek]|22:39 Jacqueline says, "Is Patrick Stewart still lookin' good these days?  Seems like the shows we just got done watching were filmed 15+ years ago..."
[startrek]|22:39 Grocible says, "I think he looks fine. he obviously looks older"
[startrek]|22:39 Grocible says, "but being bald it's less obvious"
[startrek]|22:40 maga says, "admit it, you just want to capture the special camera effect that can only be derived from the gleam on Stewart's head"
[startrek]|22:40 Grocible says, "I saw him at a stage show the other year"
[startrek]|22:40 Grocible says, "and he's come by work occasionally"
[lounge]|22:42 jenrexrode says, "hey"
[Canada]|22:45 Hugo says, "Nope, I'm here!  Sorry, I meant to get back to you.  I don't think I can make it downtown Monday (tomorrow)."
[Canada]|22:45 Hugo asks, "You're conferencing for the days after that?"
[Canada]|22:46 olethros says, "yeah, but it's not like I'll be in chains"
[Canada]|22:47 (from Grocible) Hugo says, "Shucks."
[Canada]|22:47 olethros says, "nevertheless, it'd have to be somewhat close as I would not like tomsis the whole day"
[videogames]|22:47 K-Y says (to McMartin), "I ended up getting Satazius, since it's $3"
[Canada]|22:48 Hugo asks, "Where's the conference?"
[Canada]|22:48 olethros says, "sheraton centre"
[videogames]|22:48 K-Y says, "I think I like it for the novelty of having Gradius start out with all the firepower"
[Canada]|22:48 Hugo says, "Oh, right.  Yeah, if I can make it down, we could meet right around there somewhere."
[videogames]|22:48 McMartin says, "Heh."
[videogames]|22:49 McMartin says, "I've kind of been out of the shmup world for awhile"
[lounge]|22:49 DorianX says, "Dylan is having a bad day"
[lounge]|22:50 DorianX says, "He's been fussy and feverish all day"
[videogames]|22:50 K-Y says, "I'm stuck in multiple games due to 'things I don't actually know how to do'"
[videogames]|22:50 K-Y says, "shmups are a good counterpoint to that"
[jendoodle]|22:52 jenrexrode says, "shopping success"
[videogames]|22:53 McMartin says, "After spending 70-odd hours faffing about in Rennaissance times stabbing dudes I'm playing less conflict-y games."
[videogames]|22:53 McMartin says, "1000 Amps is pretty adorable."
[lounge]|22:55 mwmiller rocks and his feet rock too.
[lounge]|22:56 olethros says, "z"
[lounge]|22:56 olethros has ordered three mega-generators to be installed in his boathouse.
[lounge]|22:56 Allen says, "University of Delaware sucks"
[lounge]|22:56 Allen says, "I have to share a bathroom"
[lounge]|22:56 Allen says, "and there's no tub"
[lounge]|22:56 Grocible asks, "what are you doing there?"
[lounge]|22:56 Grocible says, "other than sharing a bathroom and not bathing"
[lounge]|22:56 Allen says, "and the dorm was built in the 60s or something and has 3 hideously slow elevators"
[lounge]|22:57 Allen says (to grocible), "annual conclave"
[videogames]|22:57 K-Y says, "aiee, sudden repressed memories of some game with maps made out of cubes looking like that"
[lounge]|22:57 Allen says, "50th anniversary. They wanted one near the original"
[videogames]|22:57 K-Y says, "...I think it's Within a Deep Forest"
[lounge]|22:57 Allen says, "every other conclave I've been to has been at private schools with rocking dorms"
[begood]|22:57 Johnny says, "Ha ha"
[lounge]|22:57 K-Y says, "if this dorm is rocking"
[lounge]|22:57 Allen says, "also, the bed is (***) over 3 feet off the ground"
[begood]|22:58 Johnny says, "Help  > DarkBasic Professional Help"
[lounge]|22:58 Allen says, "I hope I can sue someone when I tumbled out of it"
[lounge]|22:58 Allen says, "and there are no fitted sheets"
[lounge]|22:58 K-Y says, "rig up a hammock"
[lounge]|22:58 Allen says, "plus, there are 700 lacrosse players at a lacross camp here"
[lounge]|22:58 K-Y says, "at least that is capable of rocking"
[startrek]|22:58 vaporware | Q's back: he's wearing scuba gear and needs Picard's help dumping his girlfriend. Barclay accidentally locks himself outside the ship.
[lounge]|22:59 jenrexrode says, "yuk"
[lounge]|22:59 Allen says, "I haven't seen a single minority lacross player yet"
[bm]|22:59 Grocible says, "for those who weren't on earlier: https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/378302_10151047132844378_1178882681_n.jpg "
[startrek]|22:59 BrenBarn says, "ha ha"
[startrek]|23:00 inky says, "part of the reason these are good is because they work fine if you don't know the characters, but they work extra if you do"
[lounge]|23:04 Allen asks, "why do universities hate fitted sheets?"
[cooking]|23:05 jenrexrode says, "found a one function tool at HEB https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3373565057947&set=s.120849178059758&type=1&relevant_count=1&ref=nf "
[lounge]|23:06 mwmiller heads east.
[lounge]|23:07 * K-Y has disconnected.
[lounge]|23:07 * K-Y has connected.
[lounge]|23:15 inky says, "hmm"
[lounge]|23:16 inky says, "well, one obvious thing is if you don't use fitted sheets, then you only need one kind of sheet"
[lounge]|23:17 jenrexrode says, "yup"
[lounge]|23:17 Ghogg, being psychic, enters the lounge.
[lounge]|23:17 Ghogg says, "Hi"
[lounge]|23:17 jenrexrode says, "hi"
[lounge]|23:17 inky says, "that doesn't seem like sufficient reason to do it, though"
[lounge]|23:17 inky says, "maybe fitted sheets are more expensive because of the elastic"
[lounge]|23:17 borowski says, "I remember the beds in the dorms where I went to college being of some weird size."
[lounge]|23:17 inky says, "yeah, that's true too"
[lounge]|23:17 inky says, "fitted sheets are probably slightly less flexible in terms of mattress size"
[905]|23:18 * Ghogg has joined the channel.
[lounge]|23:20 Lucea says, "yeah, universities usually use extra-long twin beds in my experiences"
[lounge]|23:20 BrenBarn says, "yeah"
[lounge]|23:20 Lucea says, "experience, too"
[lounge]|23:20 BrenBarn says, "I had fitted sheets, but of course that was because you had to provide your own sheets"
[begood]|23:21 Johnny | Is the age of making a game like "I made a game with zombies in it !!!!!!!" and becoming a millionaire over?
[begood]|23:22 Johnny | Indi Games are popular at the moment with the movie out 'n all.
[begood]|23:22 Johnny says, "I love you, DBPro forums."
[lounge]|23:22 inky says, "people don't have fitted sheets at college because everyone has trouble fitting in"
[begood]|23:23 Johnny says, "I'm just not in love with you."
[lounge]|23:23 jenrexrode says, "ha ha"
[lounge]|23:23 Ellison says, "ha ha"
[lounge]|23:26 Ghogg goes home.
[cooking]|23:28 jenrexrode | https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=303132426450688&set=a.141278542636078.27634.140400192723913&type=1&relevant_count=1&ref=nf
[cooking]|23:28 jenrexrode says, "ilac"
[channels]|23:32 Jota says, "Whoops. '@recap 905' did not do quite what I was expecting."
[videogames]|23:35 McMartin says, "1000 Amps: About 20% through, totally adorable"
[videogames]|23:35 Jota says, "I get the feeling that the people who made Quantum Conundrum were fans of Portal."
[videogames]|23:35 McMartin says, "s/were fans of/made/"
[videogames]|23:35 McMartin says, "IIRC one of Portal's designers left Valve and then made QC."
[apropos-of-nothing]|23:36 BrenBarn | Another unexpected request came when a woman asked for a chicken pumped full of tequila, like a water balloon, then killed.
[apropos-of-nothing]|23:36 McMartin says, "What the actual fuck"
[videogames]|23:36 Jota says (to McM), "Oh, huh."
[apropos-of-nothing]|23:39 Jota says, "The only way I can parse 'actual fuck' here is if we're assuming she wanted it for a sex toy."
[apropos-of-nothing]|23:39 McMartin says, "Or because the prerequisites were necessary for a sexual thrill when doing whatever you do with it later."
[apropos-of-nothing]|23:40 inky says (to Jota), "ha ha"
[videogames]|23:42 Johnny says, "Kim Swift was part of the Narbacular Drop team at Digipen that got hired for Portal, and she was the team lead on Quantam Conundrum."
[videogames]|23:42 Johnny says, "*Quantum"
[apropos-of-nothing]|23:43 BrenBarn says, "it's from this LA Times article about a poultry market with the amusing name of Al Salam Polleria"
[videogames]|23:43 Johnny says, "I can't name anyone on the TAG team."
[apropos-of-nothing]|23:43 BrenBarn | http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0722-polleria-20120722,0,7177759.story
[apropos-of-nothing]|23:43 inky says, "that is a great name"
[apropos-of-nothing]|23:45 inky says, "for some reason it always amazes me that newspaper websites have such terrible comments"
[apropos-of-nothing]|23:45 inky says, "even though terrible comments on like youtube don't faze me at all"
[apropos-of-nothing]|23:46 Ellison says, "yeah, our local paper gets horrid comments, too"
[apropos-of-nothing]|23:46 BrenBarn says, "heh"
[apropos-of-nothing]|23:46 BrenBarn says, "that reminds me of a piece of graffiti I saw in a bathroom at UCSB"
[apropos-of-nothing]|23:46 BrenBarn says, "there was a ton of graffiti on the stall"
[apropos-of-nothing]|23:46 BrenBarn says, "one person had written 'I thought university graffiti would be more intelligent'"
[apropos-of-nothing]|23:46 inky says, "hooray"
[apropos-of-nothing]|23:46 BrenBarn says, "and someone else had drawn an arrow pointing to that with their reply: 'u thought wrong fucker'"
[movie]|23:48 Jon says, "TDKR: did like."
[apropos-of-nothing]|23:49 inky says, "I guess maybe the deal is newspapers have subjects like blogs, but they're not set up with the same economics as blogs"
[apropos-of-nothing]|23:49 inky says, "so they can't moderate or form a community"
[apropos-of-nothing]|23:50 BrenBarn says, "I dunno, it seems like the comments on the LA Times are in some ways less crappy than typical youtube comments"
[apropos-of-nothing]|23:50 BrenBarn says, "like, the proportion of 'omg u r gr8 y u got 2 h8 lol' type comments is lower"
[apropos-of-nothing]|23:50 inky says, "yeah, I mean, the grammar is better"
[apropos-of-nothing]|23:50 BrenBarn says, "yeah"
[apropos-of-nothing]|23:50 inky says, "so maybe the issue is I can bleep over that kind of thing"
[apropos-of-nothing]|23:50 BrenBarn says, "it seems like the thing is that the people who write in are the type of people who would write letters to the editor"
[apropos-of-nothing]|23:50 BrenBarn says, "i.e., cranks"
[apropos-of-nothing]|23:51 inky says, "but not over straight-up racism"
[apropos-of-nothing]|23:51 inky says, "yeah"
[apropos-of-nothing]|23:51 BrenBarn says, "so they comment saying 'dagnabbit this country is goin' straight to the dogs'"
[apropos-of-nothing]|23:51 inky says, "ha ha"
[apropos-of-nothing]|23:51 inky says, "I would be totally in favor if that is literally how they commented"
[apropos-of-nothing]|23:51 BrenBarn says, "heh"
[apropos-of-nothing]|23:51 inky says, "like you can say whatever you want but you have to present it in a stereotypical idiom of whatever era it was current thinking in"
[apropos-of-nothing]|23:52 inky says, "so like you could write "my dear chap, I feel quite strongly there are far too many motor-cars on the boulevards of today""
[apropos-of-nothing]|23:52 BrenBarn says, "heh"
[apropos-of-nothing]|23:52 Ellison says, "yeah, I dunno. our comments are pretty close to straight-up racism."
[apropos-of-nothing]|23:52 BrenBarn says, "I imagine a lot of letters to the editor at papers are that sort of bigoted junk"
[apropos-of-nothing]|23:52 BrenBarn says, "every once in a while they print one"
[lounge]|23:53 ghira mostly wakes
[apropos-of-nothing]|23:53 K-Y says (to inky), "it seems that for most blogs, a community just means 'terrible people you are used to'"
[apropos-of-nothing]|23:53 BrenBarn says, "heh"
[cooking]|23:54 jenrexrode says, "I used mushroom soup to make stroganoff last week.  Now I'm finishing the stroganoff by making it into soup."
[lounge]|23:55 zarf walks in through the wall. Behind him, light shines briefly through, deep blue this time of day.
[board-games]|23:56 zarf says, "today I taught Dominion to someone who had only played Ascension, and then we played a game with a third person, and then I taught Ascension to the third person, who had only played Dominion, and then we played a game."
[board-games]|23:56 zarf says, "so that was an amusing pair of explanations"
[cooking]|23:59 jenrexrode says, "the circle of life in soup"
[TV]|00:01 jenrexrode says, "yay, the house caught on fire on Hoarders, Buried Alive"
[TV]|00:03 DavidW asks, "er, what?"
[TV]|00:05 jenrexrode says, "the hoarder had all this crap stacked up on the counters and the stove, and the burner accidentally got turned on"
[TV]|00:06 jenrexrode says, "while they were filming..."
[cooking]|00:07 Lucea says, "the bowl is the proper shape, at least"
[TV]|00:07 DavidW asks, "um, ok. But this is a yay because...?"
[TV]|00:07 jenrexrode says, "better than usual drama.  usually it's just them screaming 'don't touch my stuff!'"
[TV]|00:07 DavidW says, "oh"
[TV]|00:08 Jota asks, "How do they get inside if the person doesn't want them to touch their stuff?"
[TV]|00:08 DavidW says, "Screaming isn't effective against fire, true."
[TV]|00:09 jenrexrode says, "oh they're usually open to it, until reality sets in, or someone throws the wrong thing away."
[TV]|00:09 DavidW says (to Jota), "I'm sure looking is fine."
[TV]|00:09 jenrexrode says, "they're often under some health department order, or threat of eviction."
[TV]|00:13 borowski asks, "I wonder why they agree to be on TV. I guess they get paid?"
[TV]|00:14 jenrexrode says, "most want help, but they've got some kind of psychological problem and can't help themselves"
[TV]|00:14 jenrexrode says, "they often bring a therapist and a separate organizer person"
[TV]|00:15 ghira says, "Is there a show about overgrown gardens? I'd agree to be on that if it meant someone else would cut my brambles down a bit."
[TV]|00:15 DavidW says, "I suspect some hoarders see themselves as saviours, protecting the unwanted things from the trashman."
[lounge]|00:15 Johnny does like justice, but that's taking it a bit far.
[TV]|00:16 jenrexrode says (to ghira), "Yard Crashers"
[TV]|00:16 ghira says, "(It's now about 5 years since I last cut the grass and beyond a certain point the _grass_ doesn't get any longer. I do, a tiny number of times per year, find myself cutting brambles with secateurs otherwise the Mi can't move around)"
[xkcd]|00:20 K-Y says, "this seems like one of those things that shows up anew in each era of history"
[lounge]|00:23 Petrosilius arrives from the east.
[lounge]|00:23 Petrosilius says, "G'morning all."
[lounge]|00:24 Otis says (to Petrosilius), "Hello."
[lounge]|00:24 jenrexrode says, "hi"
[daily-show]|00:26 jenrexrode says, "ROTFL = Reaching Out to Fellow Losers"
[mud-updates]|00:32 * Petrosilius has joined the channel.
[lounge]|00:34 Firion goes home.
[cooking]|00:34 jenrexrode says, "I'm pretty sure my grandmother made the same 7 meals every week, on the same day of the week.  I'm trying find of other people had similar menus."
[cooking]|00:35 jenrexrode says, "I found one person's but it involved takeout or restaurants 3 nights a week."
[DustWorld]|00:35 DavidW says, "ok, managed to move everything blocking the last bookcase to be disassembled, and dragged it into the living room. But first, I need to cool down and let a lot of sweat evaporate."
[DustWorld]|00:35 DavidW says, "Then I can take the thing apart and lug it all back into my room."
[cooking]|00:41 jenrexrode says, "It was like fried chicken Saturday, pot roast Sunday, then other days were salmon patties, hamburger patties"
[lounge]|00:44 * borowski has disconnected.
[lounge]|00:44 * borowski has connected.
[lounge]|00:44 * Petrosilius has joined the channel.
[lounge]|00:46 boucher says, "Bleh, brilliant.  Cleanup workers at Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant had their pocket dosimeters go off soon after starting work, indicating they'd already reached their maximum allowable dosage.  Japan's solution to this problem?  Give them lead-lined pocket protectors."
[lounge]|00:47 jenrexrode says, "aw"
[lounge]|00:48 boucher says, "Have to protect those valuable dosimeters from getting too much radiation!"
[cooking]|00:50 jenrexrode says, "wow, a lot of these lists have spaghetti on wednesday"
[drawing]|00:52 K-Y says, "finally"
[cooking]|00:55 jenrexrode | http://youtu.be/KlNAYCcxgUw
[drawing]|00:56 K-Y says, "results"
[science]|00:58 zarf |  ?I grabbed him and said, ?John, I think I can build a jellyfish.? He didn?t know who I was, but I was pretty excited and waving my arms, and I think he was afraid to say no.?
[science]|00:59 zarf says, " http://www.nature.com/news/artificial-jellyfish-built-from-rat-cells-1.11046 "
[lounge]|01:03 jenrexrode says, "ack it's midnight and I don't know if I have clothes for work tomorrow"
[lounge]|01:15 K-Y then looked around and came to the conclusion that pretty much no one in this lounge even lifts.
[lounge]|01:15 * K-Y has disconnected.
[lounge]|01:15 Grocible goes home.
[lounge]|01:15 * Grocible has disconnected.
[lounge]|01:18 Petrosilius goes southwest to play with toys.
[lounge]|01:24 Petrosilius arrives from the Toyshop, Baywatch Barbie perched on a convenient shoulder.
[lounge]|01:24 Petrosilius lights out for the west.
[lounge]|01:26 jenrexrode wanders off.
[lounge]|01:27 jenrexrode has entered the lounge. [ Your score has gone up by 10 points ]
[science]|01:27 * jenrexrode has joined the channel.
[lounge]|01:29 Tale enders. Dammit!
[science]|01:29 jenrexrode says, "I'd like a jellyfish without so much rat in it."
[lounge]|01:29 jenrexrode says, "hi"
[science]|01:30 vaporware says, "Well, there's the jellyfish, rat, jellyfish, carp, and jellyfish... that hasn't got much rat in it."
[science]|01:30 jenrexrode says, "heh heh"
[lounge]|01:31 Emily goes home.
[lounge]|01:31 * Emily has disconnected.
[lounge]|01:34 nothings will be in the audience while Psmith dances as the back half of a two-man cow in a children's operetta tonight.
[lounge]|01:34 jenrexrode says, "hi"
[lounge]|01:35 nothings says, "howdy"
[board-games]|01:38 * jenrexrode has joined the channel.
[lounge]|01:43 Ellison says, "hey newcomers"
[lounge]|01:45 Whizzard goes to hamstring some zombies.
[lounge]|01:45 * Whizzard has disconnected.
[movie]|01:47 boucher says, "I wonder how common it is for directors to just let Jim Carrey do improv for as long as he wishes, to see if something worth including happens.  I'm finding a ton of outtake reels that seem to just go on forever from various movies he's been in."
[movie]|01:48 zarf asks, "this was the old Robin Williams plan, right?"
[movie]|01:48 boucher says, "Like, seriously, hours of material of him just chewing the scenery and being stupid and random and going on and on, while everyone else in the scene tries not to break character."
[band-name]|01:49 Jon says, "I have just discovered I own legitbacon.com. I have no idea why, and no memory of registering it."
[movie]|01:49 boucher says, "Yeah, even in the serious movies, they apparently let Robin Williams do it too."
[movie]|01:49 boucher says, "What was that one with the photo guy..."
[movie]|01:50 boucher says, "Ah, 'One Hour Photo'.  Should have remembered that."
[lounge]|01:50 maga's studied dalliance with his venal muses is little to our taste.
[movie]|01:51 boucher says, "Anyhow, apparently there's stuff that was filmed that was *too* dark and dramatic that they cut."
[movie]|01:54 boucher says, "(As an aside, from a webcomic, a friend of mine and I have already adopted the last frame of http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20120716 as a meme in several situations)"
[band-name]|01:54 McMartin asks, "is that Leg It, Bacon or Legit Bacon?"
[movie]|01:55 boucher says, "The 'growling...kittens' bit, as shorthand for over the top attempts to portray something disturbing."
[band-name]|01:56 jenrexrode says, "good question"
[band-name]|01:57 boucher says, "At some point, perhaps you anticipated a rivalry with fakebacon.com"
[movie]|01:57 Tale says, "I like how one of the Watchmen saved Bruce Wayne's parents"
[band-name]|01:58 nothings says, "le Git Bacon"
[band-name]|01:58 jenrexrode says, "heh"
[band-name]|01:58 nothings says, "with a cedilla"
[band-name]|01:58 jenrexrode says, "fakebacon looks like some play on facebook"
[band-name]|01:59 boucher says, "Or maybe you have a habit of getting drunk and then browsing a registrar site.  You then wake up with a hangover and hundreds of embarrassing domains."
[band-name]|02:00 boucher says, "Nothing's worse than waking up next to a domain name you don't know, and trying to sneak out before rappingapples.com wakes up."
[band-name]|02:00 jenrexrode asks, "drunk domaining?"
[band-name]|02:01 nothings says, "morkandmindyfanclub.com, bronyexpress.net, rickastleyse.cx"
[movie]|02:05 boucher says, "I want the next movie to be a retcon called 'The Well-Adjusted Businessman', about a tycoon with healthy, living  parents, a decent interest in social causes, which he promotes with philanthropy instead of vigilantism, and a reasonable range of hobbies, none of which involve any particular devices for adventure and crimefighting.  He does have one enemy, but he's another businessman, and they fell out over a disagreement on the future direction of a business partnership.  They split the assets of the company and now primarily express their enmity by simply avoiding each other and occasionally making competing bids on financial service contracts."
[movie]|02:07 Tale asks, "Are people really getting tired of Batman?"
[lounge]|02:07 inky says, "ok bloof"
[lounge]|02:07 inky suffers from an "excess of kittens".
[movie]|02:08 boucher says, "I'm getting a little tired of superhero movies in general, but then, I was never really a 'comics' guy.  I mean, I enjoyed them, but it was a fairly shallow source of fantasy for me."
[movie]|02:10 boucher says, "Also, I think we're just running out of ways to make new stories, without ending up doing what the comic books themselves have done, and ending up with increasingly ludicrous and desperate ideas, taking place in alternate universes where all the X-Men are furries and they find themselves in a simultaneous crossover with Men In Black and Star Trek."
[movie]|02:12 boucher says, "Okay, wait...I think I accidentally disproved my point.  I actually want to see that happen, just because when you jump the shark far enough, it becomes a little bit awesome."
[movie]|02:13 boucher says, "But in general, yeah, I'm bored with the comicbook movie boom.  It gave us some good movies and it's time for a bit of a rest now."
[movie]|02:15 boucher says, "But perhaps I say that just because it's not my responsibility to figure out what to replace them with."
[movie]|02:15 zarf says, "the comic book movie boom has been going on since 1992"
[movie]|02:15 zarf says, "(92? Tim Burton, I mean.)"
[movie]|02:16 vaporware says, "Batman was 1989, I think."
[movie]|02:16 zarf says, "that sounds righter"
[movie]|02:16 vaporware says, "Then Dick Tracy in 1990, Batman Returns in 1992."
[movie]|02:16 zarf says, "what we've seen in recent years is a spike in the percentage of comic book movies which are pretty good."
[movie]|02:17 zarf says, "surely you're not forgetting The Rocketteer"
[movie]|02:17 boucher says, "Yeah, '89, I remember that '89/'90 was one of my peak years for moviegoing."
[movie]|02:17 vaporware says, "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990), Superman (1978)"
[DustWorld]|02:18 DavidW asks, "o hai new scrape on leg. Where'd you come from?"
[movie]|02:18 zarf says, "anyhow, I'm okay with that continuing, even though Marvel is going to settle down into adequate sequelling for the next several years"
[DustWorld]|02:18 Tale says, "From moving."
[movie]|02:19 zarf says, "they might remember to keep the good parts"
[movie]|02:19 boucher says, "Though remembering Batman brings me back slightly to that mention of Robin Williams doing serious roles.  When I heard they were reviving Batman, and casting Michael Keaton, I sort of just rolled my eyes and figured we'd be stuck with another Adam West cheesefest, and was shocked at his breakthrough."
[lounge]|02:19 Rob comes right on in.
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zarf says, "But, bedtime"
zarf walks off through the wall; pale green light flares briefly around him.
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[movie] Rob says, "such controversy there was about michael keaton back in the day"
[movie] Rob says, "now he seems like a sane choice in some weird retroactive aspect"
[movie] boucher says, "There was a little ironic comedy, but it wasn't him Battlejuice."
[movie] boucher says, "Er, him doing"
[movie] Rob says, "didn't quite have much of a career afterwards for some reason"
[movie] Rob says, "playing a snowman and then fading out of sight"
[movie] boucher says, "There's got to be a phenomenon for what I see certain actors do."
[movie] boucher says, "Which is to have an on-screen film career, then switch almost entirely to voice acting for animated films."
[movie] boucher says, "A name for the phenomenon, I mean."
[movie] nothings says, "hmm, yeah. i mean, i remember him in most of the movies between batman returns and jack frost, but at least after THAT he does seem to have died"
[movie] vaporware says, "Skywalking"
[movie] Rob asks, "what was in between?"
[movie] Rob says, "there was a movie where he was a psychiatric case"
[movie] nothings says, "speechless, multiplicity, jackie brown, much ado about nothing"
[movie] Rob says, "oh multiplicity"
[movie] Rob says, "oh jackie brown, oh much ado"
[movie] Rob says, "hm speechless"
[movie] Rob says, "I tried to watch that recently and bailed halfway through"
[movie] nothings says, "(and a quick appearance in out of sight as the same character in jackie brown)"
[movie] nothings says, "i felt like the leads in that oozed charisma"
[movie] nothings says, "never seen multiplicity, actually"
[movie] nothings says, "(that = speechless)"
[movie] boucher says, "Heh, you know, sometimes I think I could do without any more movies ever.  I'll just go back and rewatch everything that was decently entertaining up to this point over and over, and I could be pretty happy."
[movie] nothings says, "yes"
[movie] nothings says, "i am pretty terrible about rewatching things for the third time instead of making progress on my giant list of things to see"
[movie] boucher says, "Well, a friend of mine and I were discussing the phenomenon...you *know* certain movies/books/videogames/whatever were good and you enjoyed them, so they're a sure bet for a use of your time.  New things are uncertain."
[movie] nothings says, "yep"
[movie] jenrexrode says, "I've seen 1/3 of 100 movies on some must-see list  app on facebook :)"
[movie] Rob says, "actually I've seen about 75% of my 'oh I always meant to watch that someday' list in the past year"
[movie] Rob says, "they keep appearing and I actually catch them at the beginning so I say 'ok this is on that list so I might as well watch'"
[movie] nothings says, "i added most of the movies from AFI's top 100 to my netflix a long time ago, i dunno if i've actually gotten to them all"
[movie] nothings says, "since my netflix dvd queue is 200 long and i watch about 10 a year"
[movie] jenrexrode says, "I have seen all of the Godfather, Citizen Kane, One  Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Seven Samurai, for example.  Some of each one, but not all ."
[movie] nothings says, "..."
[movie] jenrexrode says, "er haveN'T"
[movie] Rob says, "still haven't seen seven samurai..."
[movie] Rob says, "did see yojimbo, though"
[movie] jenrexrode says, "I bet I've seen an hour of it..."
[movie] nothings says, "i think i'm way down in kurosawa's lesser works now"
[movie] nothings says, "I think Ikiru is actually my favorite movie of his"
[movie] Rob says, "hmm"
[movie] Rob says, "I'm not familiar with that one"
[movie] nothings says, "(no samurai, it's just post-war japan)"
[movie] Rob says, "what year"
[movie] boucher says, "I've pretty much resigned myself to the fact that, unless immortality is invented, I'm never going to finish my 'must watch/play/read/etc.' list.  I will be lying on my deathbed and my last words will be, 'My only regret...is...that I didn't get around...to...watching...City of God.'"
[movie] nothings says, "released in 1952"
[movie] nothings | kiru (????, "To Live") is a 1952 Japanese film co-written and directed by Akira Kurosawa. The film examines the struggles of a minor Tokyo bureaucrat and his final quest for meaning.
[movie] Rob says, "I started worrying a few months ago that I've been seeing so many of my 'always meant to see that someday' list that my life was winding up"
[movie] nothings says, "yikes"
[movie] Rob says, "yeah well I'm neurotic"
[movie] Rob says, "but it crossed my mind 4 or 5 times as the list got shorter and shorter"
[movie] boucher says, "'Before you die, you see the director's cut of The Ring.'"
[movie] Rob says, "the Ring is not on my list"
[movie] boucher says, "Heh"
[movie] nothings says, "i have trouble imagining a significant 'always meant to see that' list unless it was written down"
[movie] Rob says, "trying to remember what's been on the list that I've seen. sweet smell of success, the french connection"
[movie] nothings says, "the problem with using the netflix queue for that is i get movies from netflix and I'm like 'really? what the heck is this? why did i queue it?'"
[movie] Rob says, "I've never subscribed to netflix. always seemed like too much pressure"
[movie] nothings says, "heh"
[movie] nothings says, "i watched a LOT more movies when I was self-employed"
[movie] nothings says, "(I also got a lot less work done.)"
[movie] Rob says, "yup"
[movie] boucher says, "Just start an independent film review site.  Then no more guilt."
[movie] nothings | Roger Ebert included it in his Great Movies reviews in 1996 saying "Over the years I have seen Ikiru every five years or so, and each time it has moved me, and made me think. And the older I get, the less Watanabe seems like a pathetic old man, and the more he seems like every one of us."[5] In his Great Movies review of Seven Samurai Ebert called it Kurosawa's greatest film.
[movie] Rob says, "when I see a significant movie I write it on my wall calendar but I'm not near it at the moment so I can't flip back through the last 7 months for more examples"
[DustWorld] DavidW says, "A bit worrisome when the giant pile of boxes makes little settling noises."
[movie] boucher says, "Then again, I have a belief that one should never do what they love for a living.  Because then they can't enjoy it as a hobby anymore."
[movie] boucher says, "I know that's not strictly true, but it's always been a fear of mine."
[DustWorld] jenrexrode exclaims, "!!"
[DustWorld] Rob says, "brr"
[movie] Rob says, "hmm"
[movie] Rob says, "the counterexample is all the people who say 'I can't believe I get paid to do what I love for a living'"
[movie] Rob says, "it can be ok to move from amateur to professional status"
[movie] nothings says, "make sure you do a followup on them five years later"
[movie] Rob says, "it can also be a whorish sellout move, who knows"
[movie] jenrexrode says, "but then my b-i-l was always worried about playing guitar for free"
[movie] jenrexrode says, "like he was being ripped off"
[movie] boucher says, "I guess it comes down to choice.  Like, if you got to watch only movies you'll like, then that's fine.  But if you're forced to review crappy movies you hate...well, then it gets dodgy."
[movie] Rob says, "that's not the mullet guy who put beers on his white vinyl white album is it"
[movie] Rob says, "yeah there's always that side of it"
[movie] jenrexrode says, "could be... but I don't remember that story, and I don't knwo him to drink beer"
[movie] Rob says, "what job doesn't require bucking up and enduring some crap you don't like so you get the paycheck"
[DustWorld] DavidW says, "If a pile of boxes must make noises, it should sound like 'I'm just going to bake two dozen cookies. Do you want some?'"
[movie] Rob says, "you don't remember that story?! you told me that story"
[movie] Rob says, "'oh, I thought all copies of the white album were like this'  'no that's hideously rare you fool!'"
[movie] jenrexrode says, "but I only know of my sister having a sgt pepper's album"
[movie] Rob says, "blarh"
[DustWorld] Rob says, "hee"
[movie] (from boucher) jenrexrode says, "And she only puts scotch on hers."
[movie] jenrexrode says, "heh"
[movie] Rob says, "who was your sister married to in 1989"
[movie] boucher says, "Oh, that one's easy.  Batman."
[movie] Rob says, "yay"
[movie] jenrexrode says, "the guitar player"
[movie] Rob says, "ok that's the doofus I'm thinking of. oh well"
[movie] Rob says, "you and me and cq and him and her all went to see ringo starr and his all-starr band in 1989, and I still have the t-shirt to prove it"
[movie] Rob says, "or maybe it was 1988. or 87. shoot"
[movie] jenrexrode says, "really?  mine got all horribly stretched and stuff"
[movie] boucher says, "I keep meaning to carefully sift through my mother's old record collection and determine for certain whether any of them appraise as worth anything, or if they are indeed just scratched junk."
[movie] Rob says, "anyway, I associate all these other memories with that guy"
[movie] boucher says, "But it's a huge pile and I'm not good with music."
[movie] Rob says, "the other memory was that we had tickets but it was open seating so cq and brother-in-law took the cooler chest and ran like the dickens to get the best seat they could down front while we wandered up at a normal pace"
[movie] jenrexrode says, "sounds like a plausible story, I just don't remember him having that album."
[movie] Rob says, "blarh"
[movie] boucher says, "Though we did inherit from my grandmother, only just recently, a console Victrola VV in very nice condition and a stack of quite old albums inside, and they are more likely to have value"
[movie] Rob says, "probably because they scratched the hell out of it using it as a coffee table coaster then she divorced him"
[movie] jenrexrode says, "hehe, running lick the dickens with a cooler"
[movie] Rob says, "how's the needle"
[movie] Rob says, "like not lick !"
[movie] jenrexrode says, "oops"
[movie] Rob says, "them running off down the ampitheater lawn is a vivid memory still"
[sleep-deprivation] jenrexrode recently took 2 benedryl's
[movie] Rob says, "the pair of them with a hand on each handle of the chest"
[sleep-deprivation] Rob says, "are you feeling sleepy"
[sleep-deprivation] Rob says, "are your eyelids getting heavy, so very heavy"
ghira has disconnected.
ghira has connected.
ghira says, "meep"
Tale is fired from breathing.
Tale has disconnected.
jenrexrode says, "hi"
[movie] boucher says, "I don't actually know the condition...it's carefully packed and I'm not going to mess with it until I know for certain what I'm doing."
Rob says, "hallo ghra"
ghira says, "jenster"
Rob says, "er, ghira"
ghira says, "and robble"
[movie] jenrexrode says, "I have a victrola cabinet, but it was gutted to invent television"
[movie] Rob says, "what's for certain is you'll soon be rockin' out to the sounds of the (decades-in-question)'s"
[movie] Rob says, "darn that RCA-Victor"
Tale enders. Dammit!
Rob says, "ker-Tale"
[movie] jenrexrode says, "by some inventor dude who didn't make it into the RTF textbook"
[movie] Rob says, "actually there is this one guy. or two guys. and an 'I invented it first' dispute"
[movie] Rob says, "Farnsworth!"
[movie] Rob says, "aaron sorkin wrote a play about farnsworth"
[movie] Rob says, "wikipedia must have that even if RTF textbooks do not"
Rob says, "uh oh I think I'm getting crashy"
Rob says, "and need to pack it in"
Rob says, "zzz bzzz"
Rob heads right on out.
</Rob> Find release from your cares. have a good time.
Seeya later.