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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> When he said that, it gave me the ending of my book.
No new channels have been created since your last check.
Adventurer's Lounge
Candles on the wood-panelled walls create a comfortably dark atmosphere. Hand-drawn maps are taped to nearly every surface -- the walls, the ceiling, the trophy case in the corner. Seating is plentiful. A small storage closet is to the north.
You can see: new laundry list, Birthday Calendar, magic laundry list, blank banner, Even Newer World Map, charset sampler, Automeeter, TheMasterTheorem player names, time zones, MUD Client Wish List, battle.net battletags, madlibs, Anything Finder, Sarcasm Detector, Gene Ray
Players: Alex, markm, Touchy, small, Ryan, GDorn, jpt, Bishop, Dave, Allen, ctmiller, baf, marc, annabianca, Jon, DorianX, Matthew, genericgeekgirl, jess, Otis, Jearl, McMartin, Psmith, vimes, Whizzard, Marktwo, Hugo, ghira, Doug, Ellison, Grocible, boucher, borowski, jenrexrode, BrenBarn, Petrosilius, Emily, two-star
Visible Exits: north, west, southwest, southeast, up, east
Rob comes right on in.
Recapping 293 of 2881 lines from recent channels:
[lounge]/21:26 jenrexrode has entered the lounge. [ Your score has gone up by 10 points ]
[lounge]|21:26 jenrexrode exclaims, "hello!"
[lounge]|21:26 borowski says, "Hey JRR"
[food]|21:27 jenrexrode | dry tortellini
[food]|21:27 jenrexrode | https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3406834649666&l=c53cf826f1
[lounge]|21:28 jenrexrode says, "not bad for a monday"
[lounge]|21:30 borowski asks, "It's Monday! Why didn't anyone warn me!?"
[lounge]|21:31 jenrexrode says, "I bought stuff got the school supplies drive at work.  that's always fun."
[lounge]|21:32 jenrexrode says, "er for the"
[movie]|21:34 jenrexrode asks, "wreck-it ralph?"
[movie]|21:37 jenrexrode says, "hm, it doesn't say who plays inky"
[movie]|21:38 Jon says, "I think inky is played by Alex."
[whiz-games]|21:40 Whizzard stretches.
[whiz-games]|21:40 Whizzard says, "Beebl."
[whiz-games]|21:41 Whizzard says, "Ok, got my sabbatical request in,"
[whiz-games]|21:41 Whizzard says, "And ordered several boxes of card sleeves."
[movie]|21:41 jenrexrode | Inky will make an apperance in "Wreck-It Ralph" at the Game Central Station.
[lounge]|21:43 inky originally had the name "Legacy," a ponytail and one of those '90s headgear things everybody seemed to have for a while.
[lounge]|21:43 K-Y says, "speaking of inky, it's inky"
[lounge]|21:43 inky says, "oh yeah him"
[lounge]|21:44 jenrexrode says, "making another cameo appearance"
[kitties]|21:47 jenrexrode says, "sheesh, I went from dozing off to being stabbed and have a hole in my shirt"
[lounge]|21:47 Whizzard says, "hink"
[kitties]|21:47 jenrexrode says, "okay, no blood"
[kitties]|21:48 borowski asks, "Kitty stabbing?"
[kitties]|21:49 jenrexrode says, "oops, take that back, there's a scratc under the hole in my shirt"
[kitties]|21:49 jenrexrode says, "yeah, I had a cat in my lap, and a dog on the bed in front of us.  then the dog decided (wrongly) that he cat wanted her bone.  then hilarity ensued"
[random-requests]|21:51 Jacqueline | Optionally, you may enter any reasonable special instructions you might have here.
[random-requests]|21:51 Jacqueline says, "This was on the pizza online ordering form."
[random-requests]|21:52 inky says, "there are some famous things about that"
[random-requests]|21:52 Jacqueline says, "I love their inclusion of the word 'reasonable.'"
[random-requests]|21:52 Jacqueline asks (of inky), "Oh?"
[random-requests]|21:52 Jacqueline says, "It makes me wonder what ridiculous, unreasonable things people have entered on their special request form."
[random-requests]|21:52 inky says, "here's one: http://www.buzzfeed.com/awesomer/11-special-instructions-for-pizza-delivery-place "
[random-requests]|21:53 Jacqueline says, "hahaha"
[random-requests]|21:53 Jacqueline says, "And I've only seen the first one."
[lounge]|21:54 borowski added himself to the banner.
[lounge]|21:54 jenrexrode says, "yay"
[lounge]|21:55 jenrexrode says, "we've had quite a run with ghira, storme, inky, me, and you"
[lounge]|21:55 borowski asks, "When was your birthday?"
[lounge]|21:55 jenrexrode says, "yesterday"
[lounge]|21:55 borowski says, "Oh, happy birthday!"
[lounge]|21:55 jenrexrode exclaims, "thanks!"
[lounge]|21:55 borowski says, "I've always suspected that Leo's were extra cool."
[lounge]|21:56 jenrexrode says, "for sure"
[random-requests]|21:58 Jota says, "Whoever deemed the cat 'cruddy' is a jerk and doesn't deserve to have nice things drawn on his pizza box."
[random-requests]|21:58 Jacqueline says, "Yeah - I kinda like that cat, and possibly prefer it over the other one."
[random-requests]|21:58 Jacqueline says, "Both of them are better than the narwhal."
[random-requests]|21:59 inky says, "I guess reddit is a big source of this: http://www.reddit.com/search?q=pizza+box+draw "
[random-requests]|21:59 Jacqueline says, "The pentagram is pretty, but easy to do with a pizza cutter - I'm extraordinarily impressed with the concentric circles."
[random-requests]|21:59 inky says, "(the narwhal is a reddit joke)"
[random-requests]|21:59 Jacqueline says (to inky), "Ah"
[random-requests]|22:00 Ellison says, "I have to think the concentric circles one is fake"
[random-requests]|22:00 Ellison says, "I am a cynic like that"
[random-requests]|22:00 Jacqueline | If I am forced to draw something on your pizza box before delivering it, I will shit on your doorstep.
[random-requests]|22:00 Jacqueline asks (of Ellison), "Why must you crush my dreams?"
[random-requests]|22:01 Ellison says, "I am a dream-crushing dreamer"
[programming]|22:02 Hugo asks, "So does the world go dark in 2038?"
[random-requests]|22:02 Jacqueline says, "hahaha - this one ('I asked Dominos to draw a dragon on the pizza box....they drew three.') is great because they drew three dragons, all different, and attached a note that says, 'call back and tell us which dragon is best   - management'"
[movie]|22:05 Hugo says, "It's funny: I don't think I've read one positive reaction to the announcement of a third Hobbit movie."
[pizza]|22:06 jenrexrode says, "just figured out why I am craving pizza"
[random-requests]|22:06 boucher says, "I wonder if you ask Dragonbox to include a pizza inside, if they'll make an extra effort to include three and ask which is best."
[movie]|22:08 Jota says, "As I mentioned a while back, this gives it six times the books-to-movie ratio of LotR."
[movie]|22:08 Hugo says, "All I say is King Kong better be in it."
[pizza]|22:09 borowski says, "ifMUD always makes me crave pizza."
[lounge]|22:09 DorianX says, "Leah's friend blocked her on facebook."
[lounge]|22:09 DorianX says, "Tis is the one whose boyfriend inspired leah to be a better catholic by being a bully to her"
[random-requests]|22:09 boucher says, "Also, may I just say that I appreciate that pizza people are such good sports.  I guess it must make their jobs at least slightly less soul-crushingly boring, but still, I can only imagine the blank stares you'd get at, say, McDonalds if you said, 'Oh, and can you draw a picture of Iron Man fighting Godzilla on the tray cover?'"
[random-requests]|22:12 Allen says, "I had a fun time working at Dominoes"
[random-requests]|22:12 boucher says, "I probably could have collected some pretty epic artwork over the years from people...."
[random-requests]|22:12 Allen says, "not soul-crushingly boring at all"
[random-requests]|22:12 Allen says, "no one ever requested pictures drawn on the box though (in 1988)"
[random-requests]|22:12 boucher says, "I was pretty popular with the staff of my local pizza places."
[random-requests]|22:13 Allen says, "also, after having eaten free dominoes pizza every day for 9 months, I couldn't sniff a dominoes pizza for years without feeling ill"
[random-requests]|22:13 boucher says, "I even got some slightly flirtatious behavior from the female delivery drivers.  But I assume that was because of my...*cough*...big tip."
[random-requests]|22:14 boucher says, "They generally put me first on their delivery schedule, though, because of it, which was cool of them."
[random-requests]|22:15 boucher says, "And, even before they had computers that knew this sort of thing automatically, I was a regular enough customer for them to remember my usual order."
[random-requests]|22:15 Allen says, "I remember a guy that once a week would order a quadruple-olive pizza, always right before closing time (1am), and would always tip $10 so he was really popular. The person with the longest shift at that time usually got the delivery"
[random-requests]|22:16 boucher says, "I took a sort of pride in making a pizza order that consisted of.  'Hi.  Yup.  Yup.  Yup.  Thanks.  *click*'"
[random-requests]|22:17 Allen says, "we were just 1 dominoes store of a 6-store franchise. One time the owner was there when the order came in. He frowned at it, then told us "Cost saving trick: I'm only gonna give him double olives. You may not know it, but black olives are the most expensive ingrediant we have. ALWAYS go light on black olives.""
[movie]|22:18 Jon says (to Hugo), " https://twitter.com/dresdencodak is enthusiastic about the prospect"
[random-requests]|22:18 Allen says, "he was a dick. Also, whenever he was in the store, employees didn't get to make free pizzas. We could only eat ones that got returned for whatever reason"
[random-requests]|22:19 Allen says, "that was where I got my start with experimental pizzas. I tried to make the meatiest pizza ever meated"
[random-requests]|22:19 boucher says, "Heh, I always get better service when the owner is present."
[random-requests]|22:20 boucher says, "I was once in a Fuddrucker's when the division manager was in the store."
[random-requests]|22:20 boucher says, "I didn't realize it immediately, but I got this odd vibe from the employees."
[random-requests]|22:20 boucher says, "A sort of 'HEL-LO!  And HOW may I HELP, you SIR!' impression."
[random-requests]|22:20 boucher says, "And was taken aback enough I needed a moment to recover, but then, after a pause, placed my order as usual."
[random-requests]|22:21 boucher says, "And it's generally self-service everything, but there was like...an employee standing at attention at the side of our table.  If he were waiting any harder, he'd have a towel over his arm and be offering us the house wine."
[movie]|22:21 Hugo asks, "I assume that's not (just) some random dude on Twitter?"
[movie]|22:22 Jon says, "that is the artist and writer of popular irregularly updated webcomic Dresden Codak."
[movie]|22:22 Jon says, "also, huge tolkien fan"
[lounge]|22:23 Emily arrives.
[movie]|22:24 Jota says, "This seems to just be his main twitter page."
[random-requests]|22:25 boucher says, "I also remember the time Burger King experimented with upscale weirdness"
[movie]|22:25 Jota says, "And not particularly Hobbit-related."
[movie]|22:25 Jon says, "that's true. he tweeted earlier today about how enthusiastic he was about the notion."
[random-requests]|22:25 boucher says, "They served us at our table and offered us popcorn as an appetizer."
[movie]|22:25 Jon says, "look at timestamps roughly around 9 hours ago."
[random-requests]|22:25 boucher says, "It was kinda pathetically cute"
[pizza]|22:27 jenrexrode says, "ok, got a zpinach alfredo pizza, and a downtown special"
[movie]|22:28 Hugo says, "I don't trust anybody that tweets that much"
[pizza]|22:28 jenrexrode asks, "where's that z come from?"
[pizza]|22:28 jenrexrode says, "I do live in the Zilker neighborhood"
[movie]|22:28 Jon says, "I cannot assist you, then."
[movie]|22:30 K-Y says, "look, the man has to balance out his infrequent comics with *something*"
[movie]|22:30 Jota asks, "He makes comics?"
[pizza]|22:32 Allen says, "I just ran and got a slice of pizza maghrita"
[pizza]|22:32 Allen says, "from whole foods"
[pizza]|22:33 jenrexrode says, "that's a pretty cool stunt"
[movie]|22:33 K-Y says, "hey, I give him credit for the comics"
[politics]|22:42 Allen says, "hey, I see a bill introduced in Congress to ban online purchases of ammo"
[politics]|22:42 Allen says, "the only way it could improved would be to name it after the infant that got shot"
[lounge]|22:43 BrenBarn busta.
[lounge]|22:43 borowski says, "Hey BB"
[lounge]|22:44 jenrexrode says, "hi"
[lounge]|22:45 jess snaps out of it and unidles.
[lounge]|22:45 jess says, "ahoy"
[politics]|22:45 Allen says, "oh, heh, Reid as well as Bohner, when asked, both say they have no intention of bringing the bill to the floor"
[lounge]|22:45 jenrexrode says, "hiya"
[lounge]|22:47 * K-Y has disconnected.
[lounge]|22:47 * K-Y has connected.
[lounge]|22:48 DavidW materializes out from a silver haze in the light.
[lounge]|22:48 DavidW says, "hi"
[lounge]|22:48 jess says, "hey"
[lounge]|22:49 DavidW says, "I have the new computer at the new place now."
[lounge]|22:49 jess says, "hooray!"
[politics]|22:49 Allen says, "woo, possible legislation to regulate uniforms in the olympics!"
[politics]|22:49 Allen | Several other senators plan to introduce the "Team USA Made in America Act of 2012? to require our Olympic team's uniforms be made in the U.S.
[food]|22:49 jess says, "so i managed to tone down that chimichurri sauce i bought with some light mayo.  maybe i won't die of nuclear burps tonight"
[lounge]|22:50 DavidW says, "I still have most of my stuff at the old place since I don't have a mover yet. But I wanted to get the computer moved, to force me to think of the new place as 'home'."
[lounge]|22:51 jess says, "understandable"
[lounge]|22:51 jess says, "home is where the internet is"
[lounge]|22:53 borowski says, "Hey DavidW"
[lounge]|22:53 DavidW says, "I've also made the decision to do no more cooking at the old place, so I can move food, pack pots and dishes."
[lounge]|22:53 jenrexrode says, "hi dw"
[lounge]|22:54 DavidW says, "hey jen"
[lounge]|22:54 jess says, "i am pretty sure this will be our last year in this apartment.  although, i guess, who knows.  but going to try to enjoy the last July 31 that will not incite panic."
[random-requests]|22:54 jenrexrode says, "Fuddruckers is pretty annoying, because the burgers have so many toppings , it just becomes a big sloppy mess."
[lounge]|22:56 jenrexrode asks, "oh, so that's they day the lease is up next year?"
[lounge]|22:56 jess says, "yeah, july 31 is mass panic day here"
[lounge]|22:56 jess says, "everyone's leases are up"
[lounge]|22:56 jenrexrode says, "oh some special place"
[lounge]|22:56 jess says, "college town"
[lounge]|22:56 jess says, "lots of people don't actually have a home between noon on the 31st and noon on the 1st, it kinda sucks"
[random-requests]|22:57 jenrexrode says, "wow"
[lounge]|22:57 DavidW says, "One nice thing about the new place is that I feel much less anxiety in general."
[random-requests]|22:57 jenrexrode says, "oops"
[lounge]|22:57 vaporware enters the lounge. Wacky hijinks ensue. Or, more accurately: Hijinks ensue that are intended to be wacky, but are, in fact, predictable to the point of tedium.
[lounge]|22:57 jess says (to DW), "that's awesome"
[MacOS]|22:57 K-Y asks, "why is automatic brightness adjustment defaulting to it being so dark now?"
[lounge]|22:57 jenrexrode says, "hooray for less anxiety"
[lounge]|22:57 DavidW says, "I'll have to take pictures."
[MacOS]|22:57 K-Y says, "I suppose it could be the lighting in this new apartment"
[MacOS]|22:58 K-Y says, "but having moved and upgraded on the same day, I have no control variable at all"
[music]|22:58 Allen asks, "this been posted?"
[music]|22:58 Allen | http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/arts/music/for-more-pianos-last-note-is-thud-in-the-dump.html?_r=3&pagewanted=2&hp&gwh&pagewanted=all
[music]|22:58 jess says, "aw :("
[random-requests]|23:00 jenrexrode says, "cuz you put on your own toppings..."
[random-requests]|23:00 jess says, "i've never been there"
[random-requests]|23:01 jess says, "there's one in west des moines, though"
[random-requests]|23:01 jess says, "IJLS Fuddruckers"
[pizza]|23:01 jenrexrode says, "argh - don't really care when the pizza gets here as long as I can hear them knocking."
[pizza]|23:03 jenrexrode says, "I guess I could go hang out by the front door"
[music]|23:05 Allen says, "one commenter:"
[music]|23:05 Allen | Eh, even though a bit of me winced at this, I think we should remember that pianos are not violins. They do not improve in sound quality with time, and the mechanisms fail as they age. Older pianos may look nice but give me a modern new build for playing satisfaction any day.
[music]|23:05 jess says, "good point"
[pizza]|23:08 jenrexrode says, "hey, that worked, they came immediately"
[pizza]|23:08 jess says, "woo!"
[food]|23:10 jess says, "i'm not sure which part of the "spring mix" tastes like dirt, but i always manage to get a huge honking bite of it when there's no dressing to be found"
[food]|23:10 jenrexrode says, "heh"
[random-requests]|23:11 boucher says, "Insert Idiocracy reference here."
[food]|23:11 jess says, "and then i start scrambling through the bowl trying to find a few leaves that are covered in the dressing"
[food]|23:12 jess says, "i didn't put that much dressing on to begin with, and it's balsamic vinaigrette, so it still doesn't help THAT much in getting the dirt taste gone."
[random-requests]|23:19 boucher says, "If you've seen it."
[random-requests]|23:20 boucher says, "I remember the promotional materials and menus used to make regular reference to Mother Fuddrucker.  I don't know if they still make much of their name anymore."
[personals]|23:27 BrenBarn | I once wrote a love poem to a hardware upgrade. I once accidentally sent a limerick to a listserv that I shouldn't have.
[personals]|23:27 jess says, "hot."
[personals]|23:35 boucher says, "I once saw a video card hard to describe / Our love could not be dissuaded with a bribe / It was an instant connection / I got an erection / Oh shit, um sorry, unsubscribe."
[personals]|23:35 jess says, "hahahhaa"
[books]|23:40 inky says (to BrenBarn), " http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9781846143489,00.html "
[books]|23:41 BrenBarn says, "sweet"
[books]|23:44 BrenBarn says, "hmmmm"
[lounge]|23:49 Olly arrives in a puff of yellow smoke, which makes them cough.
[lounge]|23:49 Olly says, "Hello, MUDlings."
[lounge]|23:50 jenrexrode says, "hi olly"
[ollyprattle]|23:51 Olly says, "Flickr allows you to identify your gender as 'other.'  Excellent."
[ollyprattle]|23:52 Olly says, "I joined Flickr today, because one of my cousins set up a group for sharing family photos."
[law]|23:55 Allen says, "Tara Carreon. Not parody. Really."
[law]|23:55 Allen | And for the record, you Inman hyenas just demonized one of the best lawyers in the world, one of the kindest, sweetest, gentlest, sensitive, poetic, musical, spiritual lawyers in the world. He wouldn't hurt a fly. Which is why he's my mate. Condemning Charles for writing a letter demanding $20,000 is like condemning an organic farmer for driving a tractor.
[law]|23:55 BrenBarn says, "ha ha"
[law]|23:55 inky says, "lawyers gotta lawy"
[diy]|23:58 jenrexrode | http://www.bigassfans.com/product/isis/
[ollyprattle]|23:58 Olly sings, "Must be something that the angels done planned."
[diy]|00:03 jenrexrode says, "they have some of these on the porch of the Palmer Events Center, and there's also one at Phil's Icehouse"
[lounge]|00:09 zarf walks in through the wall. Behind him, light shines briefly through, pale green this time of day.
[lounge]|00:09 Olly says, "Hello, zarf."
[lounge]|00:09 zarf says, "hey"
[lounge]|00:10 jenrexrode says, "hi"
[drawing]|00:10 K-Y says, "crap, now I need a human model"
[lounge]|00:10 zarf says, "had a good PRIF meeting. Brian Moriarty dropped in."
[lounge]|00:11 inky says, "cool"
[lounge]|00:11 zarf says, "And some newbies too"
[lounge]|00:12 zarf says, "And now my mac is installing 10.8"
[lounge]|00:22 Emily goes home.
[lounge]|00:22 * Emily has disconnected.
[lounge]/00:39 Olly takes a plastic hamster ball from their pocket, steps into it, and rolls away.
[lounge]|00:40 Jota turns into a slimy toad!
[drawing]|00:42 K-Y says, "well, no human models came by"
[lounge]|00:43 Petrosilius don't wanna work, he just wanna bang on de MUD all day.
[lounge]|00:43 Petrosilius waves.
[lounge]|00:44 jenrexrode says, "hi"
[drawing]|00:45 K-Y says, "but I'm not beaten yet"
[drawing]|00:50 inky asks, "are you drawing animals?"
[lounge]|00:51 Emily arrives.
[drawing]|00:51 K-Y says, "not horses if that's where this is going"
[drawing]|00:51 inky says, "ha ha"
[drawing]|00:51 inky says, "and can you draw me as a pon-- oh"
[kitties]|00:51 Allen says, "ok, glad to be back home with cats, I made one too many tummy kisses"
[kitties]|00:51 Allen says, "and found a cat attached by claws to the side of my head"
[kitties]|00:52 inky says, "hee hee"
[kitties]|00:52 jenrexrode says, "hee hee"
[kitties]|00:53 K-Y says, "irta each side"
[lounge]|00:54 K-Y says, "zzz"
[lounge]|00:54 K-Y then looked around and came to the conclusion that pretty much no one in this lounge even lifts.
[lounge]|00:54 * K-Y has disconnected.
[kitties]|00:57 jenrexrode says, "a somnolescent irta"
[lounge]|01:02 zarf walks off through the wall; pale green light flares briefly around him.
[music]/01:20 Allen | His work The Gallbladder Operation, for viola da gamba and harpsichord, includes composer's annotations such as "The patient is bound with silken cords" and "He screameth."[2]
[music]|01:21 BrenBarn says, "dag"
[music]|01:21 Allen says, "I got a copy of the facsimile that contains that piece."
[music]|01:21 Allen says, "the screaming goes really, REALLY high"
[music]|01:22 Allen says, "the e two octaves above middle C"
[music]|01:22 jenrexrode says, "sounds like that hungarian suicide shanty"
[lounge]|01:22 two-star sought a woman and found a monkey. Well, it happens.
[lounge]|01:24 olethros was sworn in by robed priests on Thursday morning.
[lounge]|01:25 olethros says, "hello"
[lounge]|01:25 jenrexrode says, "hi"
[lounge]|01:27 Petrosilius says, "Hi."
[miserable]|01:27 ghira says, "bleah"
[miserable]|01:28 inky asks, "what's up?"
[lounge]|01:28 vaporware vows never to return again, as he leads a rumba line out of the lounge after setting the place on fire.
[miserable]|01:28 ghira says, "non-specific misery"
[miserable]|01:28 ghira asks, "though I wonder if I should visit a doctor and get scratches on my arms checked out. can you get e.g. tetanus from thorns?"
[miserable]|01:29 jenrexrode says, "oh man, I've been neglecting this channel"
[miserable]|01:29 inky says, "if they're dirty, I guess"
[miserable]|01:29 inky says, "stuff off the ground doesn't usually get that dirty, I think"
[lounge]|01:29 ghira says, "have to go"
[apropos-of-nothing]|01:33 inky | during the 2011 Women.s World Cup, five North Korean soccer players tested positive for steroid use, although Pyongyang authorities claimed .they were using traditional Chinese medicine of deer musk to treat players hit by a lightning strike..
[health]|01:33 jenrexrode says, "what ever happened to the shingles?  (craigyferg is bring it up again)"
[miserable]|01:33 Allen asks, "oooo, tetanus. Have you seen that hideous 19c picture of a tetanus sufferer?"
[miserable]|01:34 jenrexrode says, "I think i'm about to"
[health]|01:34 Allen says, "my mom mentioned someone she knew with shingles a year or two ago"
[miserable]|01:34 Allen | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Opisthotonus_in_a_patient_suffering_from_tetanus_-_Painting_by_Sir_Charles_Bell_-_1809.jpg
[miserable]|01:35 inky says, "bwuh"
[health]|01:35 inky says, "I had shingles a year ago!"
[health]|01:35 Allen says, "oh! Well, at least you won't need to get them for another 20-30 years, unless there's a hail storm"
[health]|01:36 inky says, "hee hee"
[lounge]|01:36 Emily goes home.
[lounge]|01:36 * Emily has disconnected.
[miserable]|01:36 jenrexrode says, "mmm, birthday shingles"
[miserable]|01:36 jenrexrode says, "er channel"
[wikipedia]|01:41 Allen | Originally set to become a doctor, Hanssen took the opportunity to enroll in the dental school at Northwestern University.[10] He did well academically, but said that he "didn't like spit all that much".[11]
[wikipedia]|01:42 jenrexrode asks, "so some dentists have a spit fetish?"
[apropos-of-nothing]|01:42 Ellison says, "I thought deer musk never strikes twice"
[apropos-of-nothing]|01:48 inky says, "well, not in the same scent gland"
[apropos-of-nothing]|01:52 Ellison says, "heh"
[apropos-of-nothing]|01:58 BrenBarn says, "man, deer musk"
[lounge]|01:59 two-star took 30,500 buckets -- why?
[apropos-of-nothing]|01:59 Ellison says, "I don't know what rss stuff they use, but Rob's q man and the AV Club's videogaming rss feeds always show up in my rss reader at the exact same time"
[lounge]|02:00 inky says, "zz"
[lounge]|02:00 inky has been a constant source of support, of nourishment, and also of Lego robots.
[lounge]|02:03 olethros has ordered three mega-generators to be installed in his boathouse.
[lounge]|02:05 DavidW goes home.
[lounge]|02:05 * DavidW has disconnected.
[lounge]|02:16 Emily arrives.
[dreams]|02:26 Ellison says, "I found out recently that the guy who did the theme for MacGyver also did the theme song to the Adventures of Brisco County Jr (which NBC uses these days for the Olympics). last night, I dreamt that I was at a busy cafe, and it turned out Richard Dean Anderson was there. I spent the rest of the dream trying to corner him since I thought he'd thought that piece of trivia would be cool."
[tangent]|02:31 jenrexrode says, "wow, I didn't know that the pancreatic cancer got Julius Carry, too."
[lounge]|02:33 zaphod goes home.
[lounge]|02:33 * zaphod has disconnected.
[tangent]|02:34 BrenBarn says, "in soviet russia, pancreatic cancers gets you!"
[tangent]|02:37 Ellison says, "yeah, I noticed his death recently, too...  although I think it's just as likely I heard about his death at the time but forgot, making me go 'aw, man' twice."
[lounge]|02:42 * ghira has disconnected.
[lounge]|02:42 * ghira has connected.
[lounge]|02:42 ghira says, "meep"
[lounge]|02:42 jenrexrode says, "reep"
[lounge]|02:42 ghira says, "jenster"
[lounge]|02:47 Ellison says, "hey ghira"
[lounge]|02:47 ghira says, "hellison"
[lounge]|02:48 two-star sought a woman and found a monkey. Well, it happens.
[lounge]|02:49 Ellison says, "hey two-star"
[lounge]|02:49 two-star says, "Hi."
[lounge]|02:49 Rob comes right on in.
Recapped 293 of 2881 lines from recent channels.
Current time: Tuesday, 31 Jul 2012, 02:49:32 AM EDT
There is one new message on #misc/places/NYC.
Rob says, "bzlap"
jenrexrode says, "hey"
Ellison says, "there goes Rob, b-zlap'ing everyone again"
[batman] * Rob has joined the channel.
#media/batman: MY PARENTS ARE DEEEEAAAAAD
Created: 20-Jul-12 11:56:07	Last message: 30-Jul-12 11:53:04
Users: Alex Auda baf borowski boucher Dave DorianX Doug Ellison ghira Jon marc markm Matthew Rob +Ryan vimes
Also: (DavidW) (Fang) (Johnny) (Jota) (K-Y) (lpsmith) (Nitku) (Olly) (Storme) (vaporware)
There are no new messages on #media/batman.
[batman] Rob says, "hm wasn't there a batman-spoilers channel recently"
[jendoodle] jenrexrode says, "I bought 20 pencil sharpeners, 20 boxes of crayons, and 20 70-page spiral notebooks"
[batman] Ellison says, "the batman spoilers channel is #brucewayne"
[jendoodle] Rob asks, "are you going back to school?"
You are not a member of #unclassified/brucewayne.
[brucewayne] * Rob has joined the channel.
#unclassified/brucewayne: Batman spoilers (The Dark Knight Rises, especially)
Synonyms: media/movies/TDKR
Created: 20-Jul-12 18:27:44	Last message: 30-Jul-12 16:09:24
Users: Auda baf borowski boucher Dave Ellison ghira Jon marc markm Matthew Rob vimes
Also: (+Fang) (Johnny) (K-Y) (Nitku) (Olly) (Storme)
There are no new messages on #unclassified/brucewayne.
[brucewayne] Rob says, "bruce wayne is batman? spoilers"
[jendoodle] jenrexrode says, "nope, but someone is, and I'm donating this stuff"
[jendoodle] Rob says, "oh ok"
[Olympics] Rob says, "all the athletes wear the three-letter code for their country on their outfits"
[jendoodle] jenrexrode says, "the pencil sharpeners were 10 cents, the notebooks 17 cents, and the crayons 25 cents."
[Olympics] Rob says, "today I was watching brazil play beach volleyball"
[Olympics] Rob says, "and on each of their sports bra bikini tops was 'BRA' in big bold letters"
[Olympics] jenrexrode says, "haw haw"
[Olympics] Rob says, "'I can't be the only one thinking this' I said to myself"
[Olympics] Rob says, "they were also wearing visors that said BRA on them too but it was only secondarily funny"
marc -> lounge, lounge <- marc
[brucewayne] marc says, "ha ha"
[brucewayne] Rob says, "this movie would make a lot more sense seeing it a second time"
[Olympics] jenrexrode says, "I know a lot of those abbreviations from cycilng, but I don't think there's a Brazilian cyclist in the peloton."
[brucewayne] Rob says, "also if I went back and watched Batman Begins again, since I don't remember it very much"
[brucewayne] Ellison says, "yeah"
[brucewayne] Rob says, "I'm not sure I'm up for another 3 hour ear blasting experience"
<Gunther> I like above all the railway vehicle! I love baseball after! I also cast magic ball!
Gunther apparently summons the Ruins of Old Magincia onto the Town of New Magincia, crushing everyone beneath piles of completely inexplicable towers.
[brucewayne] marc says, "yeah, tdkr was loud"
[brucewayne] Rob says, "I saw it in IMAX which also has huge sound system and my ears were stinging after all that"
Gunther says, "mornles"
jenrexrode says, "hello"
marc says, "gruss gunth"
[brucewayne] Rob says, "every gunshot and fist punch and explosion had an incredibly sharp high fidelity attack"
[brucewayne] Ellison says, "after it was over, I felt like the misleading stuff wouldn't work on a second viewing (and was kind of dumb on a first viewing), but maybe it'll be smoother than I give it credit for"
[brucewayne] Rob says, "the rumble of the bat-hover-plane was fun to feel in your chest though."
[brucewayne] Rob says (to Ellison), "yeah there's some of that too"
Gunther says, "namarcste"
marc says, "ha ha"
Ellison says, "heh"
Oren nikhnas l'atraklin.
[brucewayne] Rob says, "'surprise, someone we set you up to believe was a good guy is actually someone who wants to kill everybody' is my least favorite plot cliche"
Oren says, "hello"
[brucewayne] Rob says, "at one point I was going to make a big list of all the hollywood movies where this has happened but it's hard to recall them all off the top of my head"
Gunther says, "hey"
Rob says, "huh it's Oren"
Quotations:
Gunther (quoted by marc, 30-Jul-12):
  [java] Gunther says, "I AM JAVA YOU ARE GLUE, JAVA.LANG.BOUNCESOFFMESTICKSTOYOUEXCEPTION"
Iain (quoted by Doug, 30-Jul-12):
  [android] Iain says, "This comment won't help you much, but the people who like it seem to like it."
#308 [misc/places/NYC]             From: Lucea         Date: 29-Jul-12 21:08
Subject: IF group
So I've been trying, for various values of "trying," to get an IF community going in the New York area, renewed since No Show. There's no way there isn't enough interest, etc. What's missing is logistics. So here's the running thread: http://www.intfiction.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4024
[brucewayne] Ellison says, "YOU TOLD ME YOU WERE ADDING *FLOURIDE* TO THE TOWN'S WATER SUPPLY!"
[brucewayne] ghira says, "I'm also fed up with "the sacrifice wasn't""
[brucewayne] Rob says (to ghira), "ah, yeah."
[brucewayne] marc says, "yeah, the ending was a big let down [though the film was too]"
[brucewayne] Rob says, "I wanted a less depressing ending so ultimately I had to deal with it"
[brucewayne] marc says, "baf's link still has me laughing though"
[brucewayne] marc | [brucewayne]|13:41 baf says, "Also of course the entire climax is basically a big-budget version
[jendoodle] jenrexrode says, "oh,. my fan is not on, the a/c is turning it"
[brucewayne] marc |    of this: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1LWK9aBp3Ew/UAT-lzeVXDI/AAAAAAAAJzY/f5j3O2MwJ5c/s1600/
[brucewayne] Ellison says, "I was like, why did Alfred know the story of this prisoner pit? my sister was like, oh, Alfred was just talking metaphorically, but I knew enough about the comics that I knew there was a pit so I figured the whole thing was literal"
[brucewayne] Rob says, "also they showed the timer going down to < 5 seconds so he couldn't have bailed out outside the 9 mile blast radius the way they edited it, but whatever"
[brucewayne] Rob asks, "is that really Bane's origin?"
[videogames] Gunther says, "last night I had that facepalm moment"
[brucewayne] Rob says, "I know there was some point in the comics where Bane broke batman's back"
[brucewayne] Rob says, "although I was expecting him to be paralyzed after it"
[brucewayne] Rob says, "and climb out of the pit using only grit and arm strength"
[brucewayne] Rob says (to marc), "(to baf) ha ha yay"
[brucewayne] Ellison says, "I don't know if it's Bane's origin, but there was some pit that Batman crawled out of and it was all related somehow"
[videogames] Gunther says, ""hmm, I'm clearly not strong eno... wait, what level are my pawns... wait, wasn't there a place where I can, like, learn skills... wait, can't I equip and beskill my pawn also...""
[drinks] jenrexrode says, "oh, I better drink this juice from my lunch kit"
[Olympics] two-star says, "The commercials were better in 2008."
[brucewayne] Ellison says (to marc), "heh"
[brucewayne] Rob says, "I kept trying to figure out if I recognized Bane's voice but finally I decided I didn't"
[brucewayne] Rob says, "it almost sounded like sean connery the first few times I heard it"
[Olympics] Rob says, "I basically didn't watch any of the beijing olympics"
[Olympics] jenrexrode says, "I didn't have to watch any of the political ads until I started watching the Olympics.  I'm not in a swing state."
[Olympics] Rob says, "not even the opening ceremonies"
[Olympics] Gunther says, "why do you hate fireworks :("
[Olympics] Gunther says, "make that :C"
[Olympics] Gunther says, "and also \u{CRYING GUNTHER}, a new unicode glyph from v8"
[Olympics] two-star says, "I remember there being a bunch of commercials that used basically just a song as the soundtrack. And they picked good songs."
[Olympics] Rob says, "also clearly I missed the barking mad tribute to britain part of the opening show"
[Olympics] Rob says, "they were already doing the parade of countries by the time I tuned in"
[brucewayne] Ellison says, "I've seen stuff with the Bane actor in it. I thought it seemed like they were using another voice actor, but who knows."
Tale enters from the northnortheast.
[Olympics] jenrexrode asks, "is that a fu manchu?"
[Olympics] Gunther says, "oh man, that's a shame because it was awesome"
[brucewayne] Rob says, "I'm pretty sure it was one of those darth vader type overdub situations"
[Olympics] Gunther says, "Danny Boyle really didn't reign in the crazy"
[Olympics] Rob says, "yeah"
[Olympics] marc says, "okay, \u{CRYING GUNTHER} is now one of the main characters in an alternative universe's sliders"
Ellison says, "Tale! I've finally decided. you are badly flawed, but not all bad!"
[Olympics] Rob says, "hmm maybe it's still on the website or something"
Tale says, "good morning"
[Olympics] two-star says, "This time they didn't do that. The commercials are all about selling things."
[Olympics] Gunther says, "you know, as Samsung, I would run only ads about a guy making fun of an apple."
Tale says, "He told me via email he hopes the meta elements go away"
[Olympics] Gunther says, "in increasingly bizarre ways"
[jobs] Tale says, "(The reviewer, that is)"
Ellison asks, "didn't you mention that for the last review?"
Ellison asks, "did he e-mail you again?"
[apple-sux] marc says, "it's funny how people are laying into these new apple ads and talking about how, when jobs was alive, apple's adverts were gold"
[Olympics] two-star says, "But yeah, the opening ceremony was nice."
[Olympics] Gunther says, "entirely unbranded"
Tale says, "(the reviewer, that is). I imagine, once he plays "Elvis", he'll be foaming at the mouth"
[Olympics] jenrexrode asks, "russell brand?"
[apple-sux] Gunther says, "I don't care about Apple ads"
[apple-sux] marc says, "...because the mac vs. ps ads were some of the worst pieces of nonsense i've ever seen"
[apple-sux] marc says, "er, pc"
Rob says, "what are you guys talking about"
[apple-sux] Gunther says, "they were pretty embarrassing"
[apple-sux] marc asks, "the new or the mac vs. pc?"
[apple-sux] Rob says, "nonsense all the way to the bank"
Tale says (to rob), "Someone on IFDB is reviewing the Alex & Paul series and finds them flawed, but entertaining."
Ellison says (to Rob), "a guy has been reviewing Tale's SpeedIF games on IFDB"
Rob says, "ah."
Tale says, "And he hopes the meta-fictional jokes and puzzles goes away. In a future game, he will literally have to >BREAK FOURTH WALL"
Ellison says, "(which is a fair review. I am just doing my best to make it sound insidious.)"
Gunther says, "clearly your next game must be the protagonist of the series playing the other games in the series"
Tale says, "Yep, they're fair"
[Olympics] Rob says, "this morning I was flipping around through four different channels trying to find something amusingly weird to watch"
[Olympics] Rob says, "they had this equestrian event where it was like a crazy miniature golf obstacle course of things to jump over"
marc says, "nah, i think they should be this reviewer playing a game where the protagonst of the series is playing the..."
[Olympics] Rob says, "but fashioned to look like all different kinds of things, like miniature houses and rings and moons and planter pots"
[apple-sux] marc says, "yeah"
[apple-sux] marc says, "[also, excuse the hyperbole]"
[apple-sux] Gunther says, "the mac vs pc one"
[apple-sux] Gunther says, "s"
[Olympics] jenrexrode | http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2012/07/30/russell_brands_opinion_of_london_olymp
[apple-sux] Gunther says, "the ipod ones too"
Tale says (to marc), ">RETURN ZERO"
[Olympics] Gunther says, "if Russell Brand never speaks again it'll be too soon"
[apple-sux] marc says, "i don't remember those"
[apple-sux] Gunther says, "black silhouettes dancing with white earpieces and a white ipod"
[apple-sux] marc says, "ah yes"
[apple-sux] Rob says, "jobs used to always debut the new ipod ad during his keynotes"
[apple-sux] marc says, "and then -- hey is that dylan oh please god no"
[apple-sux] Gunther says, "the introduction of GarageBand was the absolute nadir of any presentation ever"
[Olympics] jenrexrode says, "i'm trying to see if there's an off broadway version planned"
[apple-sux] Rob says, "good thing we've moved away from the hyperbole"
[apple-sux] marc says, "ha ha"
[Olympics] Rob says, "heh"
[apple-sux] Gunther says, "not even E3 was as terrible"
[brucewayne] ghira asks, "so he wasn't unclear because of the mask, he was unclear because they overdubbed him to be unclear?"
[apple-sux] Gunther says, ""and now for an hour of shitty MIDI music with a bunch of fucks you don't care about!" "WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO""
[apple-sux] marc says, "it's too early in the morning to be reasonable"
[brucewayne] Rob says, "there were a lot of scenes where I said 'huh? what did he just say?'"
[brucewayne] marc says, "mee too"
[brucewayne] marc says, "er, me"
[brucewayne] Rob says, "which considering I was listening to it in the highest clarity audio reproduction possible in a movie theater is not a good thing"
[Olympics] Gunther says (to Rob), "if nothing else at least track down the Rowan Atkinson bit"
[brucewayne] Ellison says, "me too. I thought it was the theater I was in, since we went to one of older theaters in town."
[Olympics] Rob says, "yeah I'd like to see what he did"
[Olympics] Gunther says, "naturally http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usxlYD_PtFw "
[Olympics] Gunther says, "wait, that's audio only or something, wtf"
[brucewayne] Rob says, "also how early was it obvious to people that the earnest young cop who becomes a detective is going to turn out to be Robin"
[Olympics] Gunther says, " http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-8AVo6bQlE "
[brucewayne] ghira says, "not as obvious as "don't use the rope" being the answer to the pit"
[Olympics] Gunther says, "crummy rip but good enough"
[brucewayne] Ellison says, "ha ha, yeah, that rope thing was so dumb"
[brucewayne] Rob says (to ghira), "yeah by the second or third failed attempt one wishes the filmmakers to move on"
[Olympics] jenrexrode | http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-watch-the-gorgeous-song-not-shown-in-nbcs-olympic-coverage-20120730,0,3076691.story
[brucewayne] Rob says, "also, the way catwoman is portrayed is not entirely unlike black widow in the avengers movie"
[brucewayne] Ellison says, "I didn't really give the Robin thing a whole lot of thought, and it didn't really annoy me or excite me when it happened. as far as that character goes, I think I just spent the whole movie thankful that JGL didn't do his really stupid Brooklyn accent for the movie."
[Olympics] Gunther says (to jenrexrode), "they cut that out? It was the only thing I actually found really bad in the ceremony"
[Olympics] Gunther says, "so clearly I'm right"
[Olympics] Rob says, "I'm still wondering how they made that flying neon bicycle with butterfly wings fly up into the heights of a stadium with no roof"
[Olympics] Rob says, "what the heck was it hooked up to"
[Olympics] jenrexrode says, "they showed a interview with michael phelps instead"
[Olympics] Gunther says (to Rob), "explosives"
[Olympics] Rob says, "also it's terrifying to imagine being the guy being thusly flown"
[Olympics] Gunther asks, "when are the next US olympics and will they be directed by Michael Bay?"
[Olympics] Gunther says, "I'd want him to direct those"
[brucewayne] Rob says, "I missed in the epilogue where he got the slip of paper with batcave GPS coordinates on it"
[brucewayne] Rob says, "just suddenly he had it and was looking into it"
[Olympics] Gunther says, "the parade of nations would be in army uniforms with helmets running through an exploding minefield while bombed from above"
[Olympics] Rob says, "it'll be all bshshhhhhh and then pohowwwwww and then khhhbbsshhhh"
[brucewayne] ghira says, "should I have stayed to the end of the credits? I am fed up with that"
[brucewayne] Rob says, "there was nothing but credits"
[Olympics] Gunther says, "and he could put up a giant fake sunset"
[Olympics] Gunther says, "and the camera would constantly rotate around the stadium"
[Olympics] Gunther says, "then Optimus Prime sings the national anthem but the Decepticons attack!"
[brucewayne] Rob says, "morgan freeman had his own personal hairstylist"
[Olympics] Gunther says, "then they blow up the swimming pools"
[Olympics] Gunther says, "later, Bumblebee "urinates" onto the president or something"
[brucewayne] Ellison says, "I'm sure that's why he was quick to point out that the movie doesn't signify the end of all Batman movies. hell if he's giving up his stylist."
[Olympics] Gunther says, "...it's telling I can't come up with anything stupider than he's already done."
[pain] Gunther says, " http://www.trbimg.com/img-5011d3dd/turbine/la-tr-0729-seattlerevisit-14.jpg-20120725/600 "
[Olympics] jenrexrode says, "yeah, you're way off sod rolling"
[Olympics] Gunther asks, "way off *what*?"
[Olympics] jenrexrode says, "when they changed from the agricutural age to the industrial age, there were all these moments of people rolling up sod"
[Olympics] Gunther says, "oh! ok"
[Olympics] Gunther says, "I was going with the other definition of sod and had no idea what you meant"
[Olympics] jenrexrode says, "we could have it start with learning stuff from the native people, then giving them blankets with small pox"
[apropos-of-nothing] Gunther says, "so the latest National Geographic mag has an article on some crazy-ass parasite fungus that is currently a "miracle medicine" in China and highly sought-after, but it only grows in the Tibetan highlands"
[Olympics] jenrexrode says, "then we can explore the west, and build the transcontinental railways,"
[apropos-of-nothing] Gunther says, "later in the article they report on someone who's treating their cancer with it and is all "it totally helps! Last time I went, the doctor didn't even remember I was a cancer patient""
[apropos-of-nothing] Gunther says, "and it was all I could do not to facepalm repeatedly in public"
[Olympics] jenrexrode says, "then we can have people collecting scrap metal for the wat effort as we inter the Japanese"
[German] Tale says, "#tastesless ..gunther Ich hab deswegen schon in Tibet angerufen, da war aber ?berall besetzt."
[Olympics] jenrexrode says, "er waR effort"
[apropos-of-nothing] Gunther says, "naturally, right at the end of the artice there was "Since writing this article, her cancer turned virulent and killed her""
[apropos-of-nothing] Gunther asks, "yes, well, duh?"
[Olympics] Gunther says, "then the atomic bomb!"
[German] Gunther says, "snrk"
[German] Gunther says, "hey that works in English too"
[German] Gunther says, "ish"
[Olympics] jenrexrode says, "oh, and we can have the fire that killed all those mill workers, and started trade unions"
[German] Tale says, "My favorite of those is : Ich hab die Weight Watchers angerufen, da hat aber keiner abgenommen."
[Olympics] Gunther says, "I cannot even begin to imagine the shitstorm this would cause"
[Olympics] Gunther says, "I can't even imagine the word that should replace 'storm' in there"
[Olympics] jenrexrode says, "oh, I left out the civil war"
[Olympics] Gunther says, "since beaufort stops at 17"
[Olympics] Gunther says, "and SSHWS at category 5"
[Olympics] jenrexrode says, "i guess my olympic ceremony shows how america was built on the backs of all these disadvantaged people"
[Olympics] Gunther asks, "did you mention slavery?"
[Olympics] jenrexrode says, "well i did when I said I forgot the civil war"