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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
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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
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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> When he said that, it gave me the ending of my book.
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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 jenrexrode!", 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, Ryan, GDorn, jpt, vimes, Bishop, Dave, Allen, ctmiller, baf, marc, annabianca, Jon, DorianX, Matthew, genericgeekgirl, jess, Otis, maga, vaporware, Iain, Marktwo, ghira, Jearl, jenrexrode, McMartin, Petrosilius, BrenBarn, zaphod, Psmith, Firion, Grocible, Ellison, DavidW, K-Y, boucher, zarf, borowski, Hugo, Jota
Visible Exits: north, west, southwest, southeast, up, east
Rob comes right on in.
Recapping 188 of 3337 lines from recent channels:
[Olympics]/21:43 boucher says, "The Internet is practically awash at the moment with dour queen meme images now."
[lounge]|21:43 borowski is now in glorious EGA!
[lounge]|21:43 borowski says, "Evening"
[lounge]|21:44 jenrexrode says, "hiya"
[Olympics]|21:44 boucher says, " http://i.imgur.com/bPAh7.png being a sample, if you've not seen it."
[lounge]|21:45 borowski asks, "How are things tonight?"
[Olympics]|21:45 boucher says, "There was another site somewhere with a gallery of the 16 happiest pictures of The Queen, which is just a bunch of different frowns, except for the last, which is sort of half not-not-amused."
[lounge]|21:46 jenrexrode says, "I just woke up from a nap I didn't know I was taking"
[lounge]|21:47 borowski says, "Naps can be sneaky like that."
[Olympics]|21:49 boucher says, "You might say, funnily enough, that she's trying so hard to not be amused, it's not even funny.  Ha-ha."
[TV]|21:50 Ellison is watching the first episode of the new season of Alphas. "the last season ended with the plot point where most superhero shows get canceled, so it's kind of interesting to see one continue on. guess we'll see where it goes."
[TV]|21:53 boucher says, "I'm waiting for the spinoff series, Betas, about buggy superheroes.  You know, maybe they're not quite as good as Alphas, and need more testing and debugging to get as good as the Alphas."
[TV]|21:53 boucher says, "Although that joke isn't that good, because they already address the Alphas being buggy."
[TV]|21:54 zarf says, "I may yet get into Alphas, but I seem to have picked up Lost Girl first"
[TV]|21:54 boucher says, "Also, because software revision doesn't travel that direction."
[TV]|21:55 zarf says, "the one Alphas I saw (the pilot) struck me as unnecessary because I was already reading Shadow Unit"
[TV]|21:55 zarf says, "that's just me, of course"
[TV]|21:56 boucher says, "I sort of hope Alphas actually works out, but I'm not willing to invest in it until I know if it's going to be more than just a 2010's Misfits of Science."
[TV]|21:56 boucher says, "Not that I don't have fond memories of that."
[TV]|21:56 boucher says, "But there are plenty other shows to watch in the meantime."
[TV]|21:58 K-Y says, "I feel like I've read about all of these powers already"
[Olympics]|22:00 * borowski has joined the channel.
[TV]|22:00 Ellison says, "Alphas starts off pretty generically. I mean, it doesn't get loads more creative or anything, but I think it got more entertaining as it went on. I haven't yet gotten into Lost Girl since I paid attention to it late and was too lazy to catch up."
[Olympics]|22:08 jenrexrode says, "huh, that air rilfe seems to be a specialized piece of equipment to have it's own sport"
[Olympics]|22:08 jenrexrode says, "er rifle"
[wtf]|22:12 boucher says, "I don't think I've used this channel any more emphatically than this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApKE01R9DyY "
[wtf]|22:12 boucher says, "I mean, #anime, and #what-the-hell-is-wrong-with-japan could be other choices"
[Olympics]|22:13 borowski says, "Huh, I didn't know that was an Olympic sport."
[Olympics]|22:15 borowski asks, "I guess they use air rifles because of the noise?"
[Olympics]|22:15 jenrexrode says, "not sure, I haven't found the right search yet"
[Olympics]|22:17 borowski says, "It looks like the have convential rifle events as well: http://www.myoan.net/shootingart/sm_rifle_olym.html "
[Olympics]|22:17 borowski says, "*conventional"
[wtf]|22:22 borowski says, "I sort of want to find out the context of this, but I'm afraid that would ruin the magic."
[lounge]|22:24 Olly arrives in a puff of yellow smoke, which makes them cough.
[wtf]|22:24 borowski says, "I'd rather believe that this is the typical Japanese response to deer."
[lounge]|22:24 Olly says, "Hello, MUDfolk."
[lounge]|22:25 borowski says, "Hey Olly"
[lounge]|22:25 jenrexrode says, "hi"
[lounge]|22:26 Olly throws glitter on ouroboroski.
[lounge]|22:26 Olly exclaims, "Yay!"
[lounge]|22:26 borowski says, "Hooray!"
[lounge]|22:27 borowski says, "I've always wanted to be as shiny on the outside as I feel on the inside."
[lounge]|22:27 Hugo enters the lounge. Do you like him? Check box: [ ] YES [ ] NO
[videogames]|22:28 Hugo asks, "Wait, John Romero still has that hair?"
[lounge]|22:28 Olly says, "Hello, Hugo."
[wtf]|22:28 boucher says, "As best I can tell, this is typical of this anime...it's highly random, so...context is non-existent to irrelevant."
[videogames]|22:28 Hugo asks, "What the fuck is going on?  Why don't people check with me on these things?"
[lounge]|22:28 Hugo says, "Heya."
[wtf]|22:28 boucher says, "So, you're probably welcome to expect Japanese principals to suplex deer."
[lounge]|22:30 Jota arrives from the east.
[lounge]|22:31 Jota greets.
[lounge]|22:31 Olly says, "Hello, Jota."
[lounge]|22:31 borowski says, "Hi Jota"
[ollyprattle]|22:32 Olly says, "I'm going to go to church tomorrow."
[wtf]|22:32 boucher says, "Indeed, the stereotype appears to be that they're public servants of exceptional judgment, impeccable morals, and...no, ha-ha, they're all perverse or eccentric or senile, and have about as much sense as a wet rag."
[ollyprattle]|22:33 borowski asks, "Looking forward to it?"
[wtf]|22:33 boucher says, "And if anything, their primary concern is saving face and preventing the school from suffering any undue publicity when a teacher accidentally kills a student or something"
[wtf]|22:33 jenrexrode says, "my neck was already hurting before this"
[wtf]|22:33 boucher asks, "I'm sorry.  Are you okay, deer?"
[ollyprattle]|22:33 Olly says, "Yes, but I am also a bit apprehensive."
[wtf]|22:34 jenrexrode says, "haw"
[lounge]|22:34 jenrexrode says, "hi"
[ollyprattle]|22:34 Olly says, "I haven't been to church since March, I think.  I've cut my hair since then, and I don't plan to wear my camouflage tomorrow."
[apropos-of-nothing]|22:36 McMartin says, "Suplex is an intrinsically funny word, like weasels."
[band-name]|22:36 McMartin says, "Suplex Weasel"
[ollyprattle]|22:37 Olly says, "It isn't totally unheard of in my parish for women not to wear skirts, but it is pretty unusual, and I always used to wear one.  So I think some people will probably notice and wonder why."
[ollyprattle]|22:38 borowski says, "I think it can be fun to dress up. But I can understand why you wouldn't want to wear a skirt."
[ollyprattle]|22:40 borowski says, "I've been thinking about going to an Episcopal Church."
[ollyprattle]|22:41 Olly says, "Neat."
[ollyprattle]|22:41 borowski says, "I'm still not sure if I believe in God, but I'm feeling the need for a loving community."
[ollyprattle]|22:42 Olly says, "I think Episcopal churches tend to embrace a pretty wide diversity of belief."
[lounge]|22:53 Allen says, "conclave is officially ended"
[lounge]|22:53 Allen says, "I've pre-loaded my car"
[lounge]|22:53 Olly says, "Conclavecluded."
[lounge]|22:54 Allen says, "now, the only thing left is to head out and play music until 3am"
[lounge]|22:55 Psmith asks (of Allen), "habemusne papam?"
[lounge]|22:58 borowski says, "Sound like fun."
[band-name]|22:58 K-Y says, "save it for next speedif"
[kitties]|23:01 borowski says, "I think I hear Messy meowing but I don't know where she is."
[band-name]|23:02 McMartin says, "That's > SUPLEX WEASEL"
[band-name]|23:02 McMartin says, "Though I guess this is also usable as a Maverick or FoxHOUND agent name"
[lounge]|23:02 Rob comes right on in.
[lounge]|23:03 Rob says, "yrp"
[lounge]|23:03 Olly says, "Hello, Rob."
[lounge]|23:03 McMartin says, "And a hearty wargrbl to you"
[kitties]|23:03 borowski says, "I think she might be outside somewhere."
[kitties]|23:03 jenrexrode asks, "battling a sleg?"
[kitties]|23:03 jenrexrode says, "er slug"
[lounge]|23:03 jenrexrode says, "hi"
[snacks]|23:04 jenrexrode says, "cocoa puffs"
[band-name]|23:06 Olly says, "Slugbattle"
[band-name]|23:07 Olly says, "Ok, maybe not a good name."
[lounge]|23:08 Rob says, "I ate a big sandwich and now I'm logy"
[kitties]|23:08 borowski says, "I think the slugs are big enough to scare her."
[lounge]|23:08 Rob says, "not quite enough for a nap, but enough to be barely mobile"
[kitties]|23:08 borowski says, "Now I'm wet and catless."
[band-name]|23:08 Olly says, "Wet and Catless"
[lounge]|23:09 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]|23:10 Hugo asks, "Wait, how big a sandwich are we talking?"
[lounge]|23:11 jenrexrode says, "heh"
[lounge]|23:11 Ellison says, "it was so big that I'm kind of tired now, too, just hearing about it"
[lounge]|23:12 Hugo says, "I mean, I've eaten some big sandwiches in my day, but I don't think one's ever *won*."
[lounge]|23:12 Rob says, "maybe I'll lie down and watch the olympics"
[lounge]|23:12 Rob says, "watch someone else moving around"
[lounge]|23:12 jenrexrode says, "wow, sports"
[lounge]|23:13 Rob says, "I just watch so I can learn the flags of all the countries"
[lounge]|23:13 Rob says, "ok back in a while or two"
[lounge]|23:13 Rob moseys right on out.
[lounge]|23:13 jenrexrode says, "ok"
[lounge]|23:13 zarf says, "I'm making cookies"
[lounge]|23:13 jenrexrode says, "yum"
[lounge]|23:14 Olly asks, "What kind?"
[lounge]|23:14 jenrexrode says, "you see a lot of those flags in the bike racing"
[lounge]|23:14 zarf says, "I'm trying to make pinwheel cookies, but the consistency of the chocolate dough and the cinnamon dough is laughably different"
[lounge]|23:14 jenrexrode says, "ha ha"
[lounge]|23:14 jenrexrode says, "oops"
[lounge]|23:14 zarf says, "So, they'll come out funny"
[lounge]|23:15 zarf says, "The chocolate dough is stiff because I put a lot of chocolate in it (plus some cocoa). I tried putting the cinnamon dough in the fridge to firm it up, and it instantly went rock-hard"
[lounge]|23:16 zarf says, "Took it out, ten minutes later it was squishy again"
[lounge]|23:16 zarf says, "I'd need a thermally-controlled kitchen to get this to work"
[lounge]|23:16 Olly says, "Or maybe a chilled marble cutting board."
[lounge]|23:16 jenrexrode says, "like those freezing marble slabs"
[lounge]|23:16 jenrexrode says, "hey"
[lounge]|23:17 zarf says, "If it had a thermostat"
[lounge]|23:18 Miseri regularly eats multiples of things inky wouldn't eat more than zero of.
[lounge]|23:19 Miseri says, "arr"
[lounge]|23:19 Olly says, "Arr."
[lounge]|23:21 jenrexrode says, "ree"
[ollyprattle]|23:21 Olly pouts. "I don't want to take a bath."
[ollyprattle]|23:22 jenrexrode says, "me neither"
[ollyprattle]|23:22 Olly says, "I need to so that I will be presentable for church tomorrow."
[ollyprattle]|23:23 jenrexrode says, "then you better do it, if you can't do it tomorrow"
[ollyprattle]|23:24 borowski says, "Word on the street is that a rubber ducky makes bath time lots of fun."
[ollyprattle]|23:24 jenrexrode says, "heh"
[lounge]|23:24 Miseri is very disappointed in you.  Earlier, he may have ransacked your office, but he is *very* disappointed in you.
[ollyprattle]|23:24 Olly says, "Yes.  Sadly I don't have a rubber ducky."
[ollyprattle]|23:25 jenrexrode says, "ah, well that needs to be corrected"
[ollyprattle]|23:25 Olly says, "I agree."
[ollyprattle]|23:26 Olly says, "My mother has the rubber ducky that I used as a child."
[ollyprattle]|23:26 Olly says, "I don't know if she would let me have it, though."
[ollyprattle]|23:27 jenrexrode exclaims, "hm!"
[ollyprattle]|23:28 Olly says, "Maybe I will have to buy my own rubber ducky."
[videogames]|23:28 K-Y says, "okay, the difference between easy and normal in Ys turns out to be massive"
[ollyprattle]|23:29 Olly says, "Weird fact: I have never bought my own underwear."
[ollyprattle]|23:29 jenrexrode says, "wow"
[ollyprattle]|23:29 Olly says, "My mother always decides that I need new underwear before I do and buys me some."
[ollyprattle]|23:29 borowski says, "I recently got a pack of socks in the mail from my mother."
[videogames]|23:30 K-Y says, "it's the difference between retrying dozens of times and retrying... once"
[ollyprattle]|23:32 Olly asks, "Did she have a reason to conclude that you needed socks or did she just guess that you might?"
[ollyprattle]|23:33 borowski says, "I did need some new socks, but I think she just guessed. She probably knows that I tend to wear clothes until they're full of holes."
[ollyprattle]|23:35 Olly says, "I remember a few years ago there was a media flap because some political figure had a hole in his sock.  I didn't see what the big deal was."
[lounge]|23:36 Gerynar says "bloop" and shrinks down into a little dot, then winks out...just like those old-fashioned B&w televisions.
[lounge]|23:36 * Gerynar has disconnected.
[ollyprattle]|23:38 Olly says, "Paul Wolfowitz, apparently."
[ollyprattle]|23:38 borowski says, "Yeah that does seem odd. Sometimes I don't even notice that I'm wearing a sock with a hole in it."
[lounge]|23:49 Olly says, "Ok, time to go become Clean Olly."
[lounge]|23:50 Olly says, "Ciao, MUDfolk."
[lounge]|23:50 borowski says, "Bye Olly"
[lounge]|23:50 jenrexrode says, "seeya"
[lounge]|23:50 Olly takes a plastic hamster ball from their pocket, steps into it, and rolls away.
[personals]|23:56 borowski says, "I'm trying to pick an OK Cupid username."
[personals]|23:56 borowski | Sorry, DentArthurDent is unavailable!
[personals]|23:57 jenrexrode says, "heh"
[personals]|23:58 Jota says, "That's because he's hooked up with Fenchurch."
[programming]|23:59 Hugo asks, "What is the name for a CRC or CRC-like function that includes some kind of internal validation?"
[personals]|23:59 borowski says, "Dang it!"
[programming]|00:00 Hugo says, "Basically I want to generate a unique signature for a file, but also guarantee that it's not a random signature."
[programming]|00:00 Hugo says, "Signature/fingerprint."
[personals]|00:01 jenrexrode says, "I'm not sure what you want your username to say about you, but I bet slartibartfast isn't what you're looking for"
[programming]|00:02 zarf says, "hash."
[programming]|00:02 Hugo says, "Won't help, man."
[programming]|00:02 Hugo says, "Oh.  Oh!"
[programming]|00:02 vaporware says, "Hash the hash."
[kitties]|00:02 borowski says, "There she is! She managed to stay fairly dry for being caught in the rain."
[programming]|00:02 vaporware says, "That's how bitcoin addresses work - part of it is a hash of the public key that it identifies, the other part is a hash of the first part."
[kitties]|00:03 jenrexrode says, "yay"
[kitties]|00:03 borowski says, "Time for kitty medicine."
[kitties]|00:03 borowski says, "She had a couple of teeth extracted yesterday."
[kitties]|00:04 jenrexrode says, "awww"
[programming]|00:05 Hugo says, "That's exactly what this is for.  I think bitcoin could be done better, so I'm doing my own implementation."
[kitties]|00:06 borowski says, "Apparently she had a couple of nasty cavities. Maybe they were recent, but I suspect my last vet wasn't doing a good job of checking her teeth."
[kitties]|00:06 borowski says, "It upsets me to think that she was in pain."
[programming]|00:07 vaporware says, "Brilliant!"
[programming]|00:07 Hugo says, "Ah, damn, inky's not here.  See, inky would've found that funny."
[programming]|00:08 zarf says, "I felt a disturbance in the force, like a million inkys crying out 'hee' and then falling silent"
[programming]|00:10 Hugo says, "You may have the crying right."
[kitties]|00:11 borowski says, "But she gets to eat soft food for the next week which she is loving."
[lounge]|00:11 Rob comes right on in.
Recapped 188 of 3337 lines from recent channels.
Current time: Sunday, 29 Jul 2012, 12:11:33 AM EDT
Rob says, "zrp"
Rob says, "me again"
[kitties] jenrexrode says, "yeah, I bet"
[ill] jenrexrode says, "headache, neck ache, sleep, headache"
jenrexrode says, "reya"
[ill] Rob says, "well why's all that"
[cooking] jenrexrode says, "I read that lasagna is the plural of lasagne"
[ill] Rob says, "have you been drinking enough water"
[ill] jenrexrode says, "probably that psycho lady at work"
[cooking] Rob says, "is that why there are two spellings? huh"
[ill] Rob says, "which psycho lady"
[ill] Rob says, "it is shocking to learn there are psycho ladies working at the IRS"
[cooking] jenrexrode says, "I hope i got them in the right order, I didn't double check since i read it."
[cooking] Otis asks, "Wouldn't it be the other way around?"
[cooking] jenrexrode says, "could be"
[ill] jenrexrode says, "yeah, at work."
[cooking] Rob says, "if we wait long enough ghira will show up as our resident italian authority"
[ill] Rob asks, "did she give you a head and neck ache?"
[programming] Hugo | U.S. spelling lasagna
[programming] Hugo says, "(Wikipedia is never wrong)"
[programming] Hugo says, "(Although U.S. spellings often are)"
[cooking] Rob says, "lasagnae"
[cooking] Rob says, "lasagni"
[ill] jenrexrode says, "I say 'no manual refunds on Mondays', so instead of doing it tues-friday, she tries to get one of our coworkers to review it for Monday. co-worker refuses, and sends he to me.  she doesn't come to me, and gives it to the manager."
[programming] Hugo says, "Yeah, okay, that was really helpful on #programming."
[ill] Rob says, "blurgh"
[programming] Rob says, "replace the parentheses with /*  */ and you can claim it as a comment"
[ill] jenrexrode says, "manager doesn't give it to me until 5pm and i get off at 6, and there's 2 years in it.  one had the wrong interest date, and the other is missing a form.  she's psycho and will probably accuse me of lying about the missing form"
ghira wakes
Rob says, "hallo ghira"
jenrexrode says, "hi g"
Rob says, "we were just mentioning you on #cooking"
[programming] Hugo says, "Most of what I say on #programming should probably be commented."
[ill] jenrexrode says, "so neither one is going to get input on monday"
[ill] jenrexrode says, "and in incident with her earlier in the day had already made me angry"
(Current channel set to #misc/workplace)
[ill] Rob says, "so you're stressed out is basically what you're saying"
[ill] jenrexrode says, "she says 'i just got this e-mail, and i don't know what you want, i closed that case on july 10th'"
[Olympics] Rob says, "watched some swimming meets"
[ill] jenrexrode says, "and I look at it, and the e-mail was sent on june 24th.  i write back saying 'that e-mail was sent on june 24th, i don't know why you are just now getting it'"
[Olympics] Rob says, "everyone wears suits that are like old-timey in length, down over the thighs nearly to the knees, instead of bikini speedo type swimwear, both the men and the women"
[Olympics] Rob says, "the beach volleyball women wear the skimpiest attire at the olympics"
[google] vaporware says, "heh, search for 'kerning' and check out the highlighted words."
[ill] jenrexrode says, "she writes back 'well if you have any questions [blah blah blah] [some other nutty stuff' and copies the manager, like I'm being unhelpful."
[ill] Rob says, "erm"
[ill] Rob asks, "does the manager know you're cool and she's psycho?"
[ill] jenrexrode says, "yes, but she's not doing enough for this keeping happening.  that last run-in was about birthday cards."
[poweruser] Rob says, "even though I didn't actually read the email, my phone started sending me push notifications about a B7 meet today"
[ill] borowski says, "Yeah, it seems like she does a lot of crazy stuff."
[poweruser] Rob says, "which I had no intention of going to but it was weird that somehow my phone was enabled to do this without me doing anything"
[poweruser] Rob says, "I figure it's something to do with Josh knowing how to embed calendar technology in emails"
[poweruser] jenrexrode asks, "B7?"
[poweruser] Rob says, "uh oh"
[poweruser] Rob says, "I may have made a weird assumption just now that I shouldn't have"
[ill] jenrexrode asks, "has he been communicating with you?"
[ill] jenrexrode says, "oopd"
[ill] jenrexrode says, "ilac"
[poweruser] Rob says, "well yeah this is the email list that came from Flight and the Leprechaun BBS and R/T"
[poweruser] jenrexrode says, "yeah, I'm not on it"
[poweruser] Rob says, "there was a secret board -- hmm, kind of like I was saying there are sekrit channels here"
[poweruser] Rob says, "yeah I guess now that I think back you would have been excluded"
[poweruser] jenrexrode says, "he was chatting me up on facebook recently, but I didn't know why"
[poweruser] Rob says, "I guess it was secret board #7 on Flight or something. eventually I got onto it"
[poweruser] jenrexrode says, "oh, i was probably on that"
[poweruser] Rob says, "so it's josh and glen and +Rich and anne and mongoose and that whole old crowd"
[poweruser] Rob says, "there's still an email list"
[poweruser] Rob says, "so there was some bbq dinner today or something"
[poweruser] Rob says, "for Dan Price, whose old handle I forget by now"
[poweruser] Rob says, "and who was never much of a real friend of mine, just a guy I would have to see at things"
[poweruser] jenrexrode asks, "wow, aren't they all distributed to the 4 winds?"
[poweruser] Rob says, "kind of"
[poweruser] Rob says, "the weird thing a few years ago was that from some friend of a friend from high school I started going to this every-other-friday casual house party, and matt pinsonneault and his wife were part of that crowd"
[poweruser] Rob says, "austin-is-a-small-town kind of thing"
[ill] jenrexrode says, "later, she was sitting in her car in the parking lot, 45 mins after her tour of duty ends.  I thought she was stalking me."
[poweruser] Rob says, "I eventually left that group about 4 years ago"
[poweruser] Rob says, "rich 'RoadRich' simental was a really good friend of mine and movie-going buddy for the past ten years, and he helped me make my movie, but over the last year and a half we've drifted apart again, which I'm a little sad about because I feel like he did the drifting"
[poweruser] Rob says, "it's possible he's thinking the same thing from the other direction"
[ill] jenrexrode says, "but that was before the thing that happened at the end of the day.  but she's stressing me out."
[ill] Rob says, "mrf"
[cooking] jenrexrode | The word comes from Italian, of course. In that language, lasagna is the singular noun and lasagne is the plural.
[cooking] Rob says, "I'm figuring ghira is stumbling around making breakfast tea for himself or something"
[cooking] Rob says, "I could imagine that a->e plurals exist in Italian as an inheritance from the a->ae of Latin"
[cooking] jenrexrode says, "good point"
[cooking] Rob says, "what in the world is a singular lasagna though"
[cooking] jenrexrode says, "well in TV dinners..."
[cooking] Rob says, "the whole dish or one noodle"
[cooking] Rob says, "I wonder if the word means something. most pasta names are actually descriptive in some way"
[cooking] Rob says, "maybe it means 'wavy flat noodle'"
[cooking] Rob says, "actually maybe it could mean 'wavy'"
[cooking] jenrexrode asks, "what if i dont want a flat noodle?"
[cooking] Rob says, "then have penne"
[cooking] Rob says, "or rotini"
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Johnny insisted that the mobile hot-dog-on-a-bun did nothing wrong.
Rob says, "J-man"
Johnny says, "Weishaupt, I mean, wassup"
Johnny says, "Q^H R-man"
[cooking] jenrexrode says, "aww, it was kind of a Kramer quote"
[cooking] Rob says, "oh I can totally picture Kramer saying that"
[cooking] Rob says, "I don't remember the quote though"
[cooking] jenrexrode | KRAMER: What do you mean, a broad noodle? GEORGE: It's a big flat noodle. KRAMER: Well I don't want a big flat noodle.
Rob says, "oh so that's what I should have called the comic"
[cooking] Rob says, "heh"
borowski says, "Hey Johnny"
[cooking] Rob says, "what episode does it come from"
Johnny says, "Hi borowski"
[cooking] jenrexrode says, "the virgin, i think"
[cooking] Rob says, "hm"
[cooking] Rob asks, "like jerry's dating a virgin or something?"
[ill] jenrexrode says, "ack, talking about it didn't make the headache go away, I'm gonna try headache pills"
[ill] Rob says, "yeah"
[cooking] jenrexrode says, "yeah"
[ill] Rob says, "also, drink more water than you think you need because you need more than you think"
[ill] borowski says, "I wish I could give some nifty advice, but people like that stress me out too."
Rob says, "so what are you working on lately"
[ill] Rob says, "every workplace seems to have a psycho who stresses you out"
[ill] jenrexrode says, "I am not adept at walking on egg shells"
[ill] borowski says, "Yeah."
[ill] Rob says, "I'm self-employed, so I'm my own psycho co-worker"
[ill] Rob says, "well if you have your manager on your side that's at least some kind of plus"
[ill] Rob says, "maybe psycho lady will get transferred out sometime soon"
[ill] jenrexrode says, "oh yeah, mgr said that 3rd e-mail was unreasonable"
[cooking] ghira looks in Italian monolingual dictionary and Italian encyclopedia
</Johnny> Mi acetos bananon
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Johnny says, "Tell us, borowski"
Grocible goes home.
Grocible has disconnected.
[cooking] ghira says, "looks like "lasagna" comes from a Latin word meaning saucepan, which comes from some greek word. current Italian meanings of lasagna are (1) the pasta shape and (2) a layer of wax placed around shapes to be cast in bronze."
[ill] jenrexrode says, "i hope that lemon lime soda isn't giving me the headache.  I had to drink that for my tummy last night"
[cooking] ghira says, "I imagine (2) is pretty specialist"
borowski says, "I have been working on my MUDing skills."
[cooking] ghira says, "so to all intents and purposes "lasagna" in Italian has no meaning other than the pasta shape"
borowski says, "I'm thinking about taking a level in comma splices."
[cooking] ghira says, "(which does seem a bit unusual since they are usually descriptive)"
Johnny says, "The kind of people who care about comma splices, you're not going to make people like that happy."
ghira says, "I guess I need to spend some more time outside today cutting bits off brambles"
ghira says, "we may never cut the grass, but when the brambles are dense enough to interfere with cat movement, something probably needs to be done"
borowski says (to Johnny), "True, I should relax, when it comes to commas."
jenrexrode says, "yes, obey the Mi"
ghira says (to jen), "in all things"
McMartin says, "Aiya, Captain Kirk has invaded, our lounge"
[begood] Johnny says (to Rob), "If that question was for me, I'm noodling with two game making kits, Construct Classic and Adventure Game Studio."
[begood] Johnny says, "(I went back and changed fiddling to noodling for some reason.)"
[obama-sux] ghira asks, "Obama seems to pause at odd times when speaking. Is this caused by use of TelePrompTer technology or does he pause at odd times when not apparently reading prepared speeches too?"
[obama-sux] vaporware says, "I think it's his style."
[dinner] jenrexrode says, "the box says 'lasagna'"
[begood] Johnny says, "Some folks made a series of about 50 videos on AGS. They then wrote a draft for the first half of a book on AGS, and that's what I'm using."
[Olympics] jenrexrode asks, "3D?"
Johnny does like justice, but that's taking it a bit far.
</Johnny> Mi acetos bananon
[obama-sux] Lionheart says, "Seems to me that's caused by not enuf use of TelePromTer technology"
<Johnny> Thanks four showing this 2 us mandmscommercials!
[Olympics] jenrexrode says, "i wonder if there's a special channel/equipment for that"
Johnny insisted that the mobile hot-dog-on-a-bun did nothing wrong.
[dinner] ghira says, "wikipedia says US spelling lasagna http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasagne "
[begood] Johnny says, "The second half is supposed to cover the scripting language which is pretty C-like."
[begood] borowski asks, "Do you have a game you want to write?"
[videogames] McMartin says, "off to finish CoD4. It's like an adventure game, but you just say USE GUN ON MAN over and over again"
[begood] Johnny says (to borowski), "A road movie-style thing."
[begood] jenrexrode asks, "like bing crosby and bob hope?"
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Rob says, "flrbnz"
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[begood] borowski asks (of Johnny), "Are you going to do the art?"
[cooking] Rob says, "layer of wax placed around shapes to be cast in bronze is interesting"
[cooking] Rob says, "very renaissance"
[begood] jenrexrode says, "it's all about the layers"
[ill] Rob says, "you should just drink club soda"
[begood] jenrexrode says, "ilac"
[ill] jenrexrode says, "hm, i'll have to buy it"
[begood] Johnny says, "Something tangentially inspired by North by Northwest."
[ill] Rob says, "flavored lightly with fruit juice if you want more zing"
[begood] Johnny says (to borowski), "Not if I can help it."
[begood] Rob says, "I think I looked into AGS at some point"
[begood] Johnny says, "I'll have to do 'programmer art' at least."
[cooking] ghira says, "as mentioned earlier most Italian pasta shape names are plurals in normal use. and most of them are plurals in English too aren't they? except spaghetti which is an Italian plural but used as an uncountable noun in English."
[obama-sux] Rob says, "yeah it's kind of his oratorical timing and style"
[obama-sux] Rob says, "he is thinking while he speaks, so I think he pauses to mentally rehearse/double-check what he's about to say"
[cooking] ghira says, "perhaps some other examples like that too. I imagine pasta shapes which have been talked about in english for longest"
[cooking] zarf says, "Thus allowing me to occasionally refer to 'a macaronus'"
[begood] Rob asks, "road-movie videogame? oh ?"
[begood] Rob says, "road movie north by northwest? this is sounding good"
[begood] borowski says, "I fooled around with AGI briefly but even that was too much art for me."
[obama-sux] ghira says, "It sounds a bit off to me. "I am trying to sound measured so .... I will pause occasionally.""
[begood] Johnny says, "You can do a 320x240 game in AGS."
[begood] Rob says, "well do programmer art and finish something I can look at and maybe I could work with you on the art and sound design at some point"
[cooking] zarf says, "'gnocchus'"
[cooking] zarf says, "these are great words"
[begood] Rob says, "I'm looking for fun collaborations these days"
[begood] Johnny says, "I'll have to do a handful of stupid learning games first."
[begood] Johnny says, "But I'm hoping to focus them around characters I'll be using."
[begood] Rob says, "well, get on it, man"
[cooking] jenrexrode says, "spaghetto , heh heh"
[begood] Rob says, "so how does a road movie work as a game"
[cooking] ghira says, "we've had occasion to refer to pasta shapes in the singular. "can you try a farfalla to see if the pasta is cooked yet?" and similar"
[begood] Rob asks, "you go from place to place and there's plot and puzzles and action in each place?"
[cooking] Rob says, "hee hee spaghetto"
[cooking] ghira says, "nothing wrong with spaghetto if you're trying one or have dropped one or something, I'd say."
[cooking] Rob says, "I need to start using that whenever I have the opportunity"
[cooking] Rob says, "I don't know why it's funny but it is"
[cooking] ghira says, "but yes, only for fairly specific situations"
[cooking] Rob says, "one of those BrenBarn type jokes"
[cooking] jenrexrode says, "sounds like a spa where you might get an infection"
[cooking] Rob says, "yeah, but when such situation exists, deploy"
[cooking] ghira says, "spago = string. spaghetto = little string."
[begood] Johnny says, "For one thing, I'd like to avoid the player having to backtrack."
[cooking] Rob says, "I like farfalle"
[cooking] Rob says, "we eat a lot of it in my immediate family"
[begood] borowski says, "Yeah, "did I leave the stove on?" would be an annoying puzzle."
[cooking] Rob says, "actually it's my job to pick out which pasta we get"
[cooking] zarf says, "I am a fusilli partisan"
[cooking] ghira says, "can you get strozzapreti? worth it just for the name"
[cooking] Rob says, "I've never seen strozzapreti"
[cooking] Rob asks, "what does that word mean?"
[cooking] ghira says, "priest-chokers or priest-stranglers or something like that"
[cooking] Rob says, "whao"
[cooking] Rob asks, "what are they shaped like?"
[tangent] jenrexrode says, "fusilli jerry"
[cooking] ghira says, "hmm. photo here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strozzapreti "
[cooking] Rob says, "looks like... split-open macaroni or other tube pasta"
[obama-sux] Lionheart says, "I don't think it's "trying to sound measured", it's what his being measured sounds like."
[tangent] jenrexrode | http://media.screened.com/uploads/0/428/291789-jerry_fusilli.jpg
[cooking] ghira says, "For whatever reason we seem to find them on sale fresh but not dried. maybe it's just that we look for them in a limited range of places."
[tangent] borowski says, "heehee"
[obama-sux] Rob says (to Lionheart), "mm"
[cooking] Rob says, "I've never seen fresh nondried pasta"
[cooking] Rob says, "I'm on the verge of attempting to forge my own pasta"
[cooking] ghira asks, "not even egg pasta?"
[cooking] Rob says, "just for the culinary experience of it"
[cooking] Rob says, "I don't think so"
[cooking] jenrexrode asks, "not even that stuff by the deli?"
[cooking] zarf says, "we have a good pasta grocery in Davis Square"
[cooking] Rob says, "belated heh macaronus"
[cooking] Rob says, "I've made so many trips to Boston I actually know what and where Davis Square is, which makes me vaguely happy"
[cooking] borowski says, "I once was given fresh pasta as a gift. The texture was odd but it might not have been done correctly."
[cooking] ghira says, "for unusual pasta colour, there's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizzoccheri "
[cooking] jenrexrode asks, "does Buitoni count?"
Jota turns into a slimy toad!
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[cooking] borowski says (to ghira), "I think it might have been something similar to that."
[begood] Johnny says, "I want to have 5 or so main locations, as the characters are chased or chase from one location to the next."
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[begood]/001 Johnny says, "Grr."
[begood]/002 Johnny says, "Not taking credit card. Paypal low."
[begood]/003 Johnny says (to Form), "Take credit card."
[begood]/004 Johnny says, "Hm."
[begood]/005 Johnny says, "Started downloading the free weekend Borderlands, then activated key."
[begood]/006 Johnny says, "What the hell"
[begood]/007 Johnny | Duke Nukem Forever First Access Club Code
[begood]/008 Gunther asks, "am I somehow missing half of this conversation or are you rambling?"
[begood]/009 Johnny says, "It started out with me asking on #steam if I should buy Borderlands."
[begood]/010 Gunther says, "#satsq no"
[begood]/011 Johnny says, "Too late!"
[begood]/012 Gunther says, "fffffffffffffffffFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFf"
[begood]/013 Gunther asks, "and now you got punished by getting a DNF coupon?"
[begood]/014 Johnny says, "I got it for $3.98 though, so, eh."
[begood]/015 Ellison says, "yeah, I would recommend against Borderlands, too. I can't believe anyone likes that game."
[begood]/016 Johnny says, "I assume it's even more worthless since DNF is out already, but it's listed in the DLC."
[begood]/017 Gunther says, "oh boy oh boy there is also a code for doom 3"
[begood]/018 Gunther says, "if you enter it it costs 500% more"
[begood]/019 Johnny says, "At least I didn't get London 2012: The Official video game of the Olympic Games."
[begood]/020 Gunther says, "that is not an FPS and thus inherently superior"
[begood]/021 Ellison says, "the opening ceremony tonight did make me long for the EPYX game, California Games"
[begood]/022 Ellison says, "if they released that for the 360, I'm not sure my siblings and I would do anything except play the frisbee portion online"
[begood]/023 Johnny says, "It's called a discus, man."
[begood]/024 Gunther says, "man, that discus throw"
[begood]/025 Gunther asks, "was it California Games with the BMX?"
[begood]/026 Ellison says, "yeah"
[begood]/027 Gunther says, "we also had Winter Games"
[begood]/028 Gunther says, "I got pretty damn good at ski jumping"
[begood]/029 Ellison says, "yeah, I never put as much time into the others that I put into California Games"
[begood]/030 Gunther says, "or was that a different game with the stunt ski jumping"
[begood]/031 Gunther says, "SO MANY EPYX GAMES and also Accolade"
[begood]/032 Johnny says, "I'm not interested in a skiiing game without a yeti."
[begood]/033 Johnny says, "Oh yeah, I was looking at Geneforge earlier."
[begood]/034 Johnny says, "Brian Snoddy worked on the first one!"
[begood]/035 Rob says, "who's brian snoddy"
[begood]/036 Johnny asks, "And, is the Andrew Hunter in the credits the Andrew Hunter who did Zoom and the OS X I7 gui?"
[begood]/037 Ellison says, "could be!"
[begood]/038 Johnny says (to Rob), "Illustrator."
[begood]/039 Ellison says, "Geneforge looks intriguing but my cynicism keeps me from picking it up"
[begood]/040 Rob asks, "what, so he was an early Adobe programmer and invented illustrator and his name is snoddy?"
[begood]/041 Rob says, "maybe Geneforge is the Soul Surfer of software"
[begood]/042 Johnny | http://www.snellsoftware.com/briansnoddyart/ScifiFantasy.html
[begood]/043 Johnny says (to Ellison), "It was interesting looking at the copyright dates and seeing that they were all post-2000."
[begood]/044 Johnny says, "Also, why do people do that Copyright 20010-12 thing"
[begood]/045 Johnny says, "er -0"
[begood]/046 Rob says, "every year you make something new"
[begood]/047 Johnny says, "You just need the year of creation."
[begood]/048 Ellison asks, "I've wondered about that. like, I release a game, it's copyright year so-and-so. when I release v2 2 years later, does the copyright year renew or what?"
[begood]/049 Rob says, "well it's automatic to an extent"
[begood]/050 Johnny | even though Robb has written something like 1/2 a dozen Hugo adventures
[begood]/051 Johnny asks, "What are your feelings on S.T.A.L.K.E.R?"
[begood]/052 Rob says, "too many periods in the title"
[begood]/053 Ellison says, "you know, I picked up S.T.A.L.K.E.R. for a dollar from Games for Windows the other year. I finally got around to trying it in the last couple months. I couldn't believe how complicated it was. I guess this is why I gave up pc gaming. they were moving in one direction. I was moving in another."
[begood]/054 Johnny says, "Well, what got me interested was < http://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-complete-2009 >"
[begood]/055 Ellison says, "ha ha, that starship duel one is weirdly hilarious"
[begood]/056 Ellison says, "oops"
[begood]/057 Johnny says, "Oh, I made a Notepad++ highlighter for Sludge."
[begood]/058 Johnny says, "s/highlighter/UserLang/"
[begood]/059 Ellison says, "I'm confused what that means"
[begood]/060 Ellison asks, "so, it has the same limitations as the Notedpad++ thing has?"
[begood]/061 Ellison says, "oh wait, yeah, I got it"
[begood]/062 Ellison says, "cool"
[begood]/063 Ellison says, "I forgot SLUDGE was still a thing"
[begood]/064 Johnny says, "It is."
[begood]/065 Ellison says, "actually, that's Trumgottist's thing, right? I got it confused with the thing that tried to reverse engineer SCUMM so many years ago"
[begood]/066 Johnny says, "ScummC? ScummC's pretty dead."
[begood]/067 Johnny looks for a Deus Ex LP.
[begood]/068 Gunther asks, "HR or 1?"
[begood]/069 Johnny says, "1."
[begood]/070 Johnny says, "I'm half-way through, but it keeps giving me headaches."
[begood]/071 Ellison asks, "headaches or motion sickness?"
[begood]/072 Johnny says, "Headache."
[begood]/073 Johnny says, "Hmm, maybe eyestrain."
[begood]/074 Johnny says, "But headpain."
[begood]/075 Ellison says, "interesting"
[begood]/076 Johnny says (to Rob), "If that question was for me, I'm noodling with two game making kits, Construct Classic and Adventure Game Studio."
[begood]/077 Johnny says, "(I went back and changed fiddling to noodling for some reason.)"
[begood]/078 Johnny says, "Some folks made a series of about 50 videos on AGS. They then wrote a draft for the first half of a book on AGS, and that's what I'm using."
[begood]/079 Johnny says, "The second half is supposed to cover the scripting language which is pretty C-like."
[begood]/080 borowski asks, "Do you have a game you want to write?"
[begood]/081 Johnny says (to borowski), "A road movie-style thing."
[begood]/082 jenrexrode asks, "like bing crosby and bob hope?"
[begood]/083 borowski asks (of Johnny), "Are you going to do the art?"
[begood]/084 jenrexrode says, "it's all about the layers"
[begood]/085 jenrexrode says, "ilac"
[begood]/086 Johnny says, "Something tangentially inspired by North by Northwest."
[begood]/087 Johnny says (to borowski), "Not if I can help it."
[begood]/088 Rob says, "I think I looked into AGS at some point"
[begood]/089 Johnny says, "I'll have to do 'programmer art' at least."
[begood]/090 Rob asks, "road-movie videogame? oh ?"
[begood]/091 Rob says, "road movie north by northwest? this is sounding good"
[begood]/092 borowski says, "I fooled around with AGI briefly but even that was too much art for me."
[begood]/093 Johnny says, "You can do a 320x240 game in AGS."
[begood]/094 Rob says, "well do programmer art and finish something I can look at and maybe I could work with you on the art and sound design at some point"
[begood]/095 Rob says, "I'm looking for fun collaborations these days"
[begood]/096 Johnny says, "I'll have to do a handful of stupid learning games first."
[begood]/097 Johnny says, "But I'm hoping to focus them around characters I'll be using."
[begood]/098 Rob says, "well, get on it, man"
[begood]/099 Rob says, "so how does a road movie work as a game"
[begood]/100 Rob asks, "you go from place to place and there's plot and puzzles and action in each place?"
[begood]/101 Johnny says, "For one thing, I'd like to avoid the player having to backtrack."
[begood]/102 borowski says, "Yeah, "did I leave the stove on?" would be an annoying puzzle."
[begood]/103 Johnny says, "I want to have 5 or so main locations, as the characters are chased or chase from one location to the next."
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[cooking] borowski says, "It was brown & wheaty."
[cooking] ghira says, "based on my very limited experience, pizzoccheri have an unusual texture"
[begood] Rob asks, "are the chases mini-games?"
[begood] Johnny says, "And I want travel scenes with a bit of scripted dialogue. I don't know about making them mini--haha"
[begood] Rob says, "ok dude, keep me posted on this, I'm interested in making a fun game. also interested in someone else doing most of the hard work"
Rob says, "ok, I gotta crash"
Rob says, "gn'MUD"
[cooking] ghira asks (of rob), "how are things like ravioli sold in the US? aren't they usually in the chiller cabinet?"
Rob heads right on out.
</Rob> Find release from your cares. have a good time.
Seeya later.