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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'.
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  "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.
No new channels have been created since your last check.
Adventurer's Lounge
Candles on the wood-panelled walls create a comfortably dark atmosphere. Hand-drawn maps are taped to nearly every surface -- the walls, the ceiling, the trophy case in the corner. Seating is plentiful. A small storage closet is to the north.
You can see: new laundry list, Birthday Calendar, magic laundry list, banner reading "Happy birthday Tale!", 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, Bishop, ctmiller, Jon, DorianX, Matthew, Otis, Jearl, vimes, Dave, Psmith, Grocible, Ryan, baf, GDorn, zaphod, jess, Whizzard, Markov, marc, annabianca, Steve, McMartin, Fang, Gunther, inky, ghira, Marvin, lpsmith, Johnny, Jota, boucher, jenrexrode, Allen, Emily
Visible Exits: north, west, southwest, southeast, up, east
Rob comes right on in.
Recapping 1000 of 3416 lines from recent channels:
[politics]/13:17 Matthew says, "I have no idea how true that is."
[politics]|13:17 ghira says, "One of the many things I learned from "Yes, Prime Minister" is that one function of the VP is so you can gently chastise foreign countries by having their head of state meet the VP instead of the President."
[politics]|13:17 Fang says, "but you might as well spread that rumour anyway"
[politics]|13:17 inky says, "I assume VPs don't make a huge difference but it would be interesting to do a retrospective on various VP choices and whether they were a good idea ornot"
[google]|13:17 K-Y says, "I should probably take a break from this channel"
[politics]|13:17 inky says, "there's a whole series of onion articles about Biden"
[politics]|13:17 Rob says, "biden was potentially a liaison to the senate, although they ended up with not much congressional leverage anyway"
[google]|13:17 * K-Y has left the channel.
[politics]|13:18 Fang says, "I thought Biden was a pretty good pick from a strategic POV"
[politics]|13:18 inky asks, "oh yeah? why?"
[politics]|13:18 Fang says (to inky), "well, firstly, he wasn't Hillary Clinton"
[politics]|13:18 inky says, "personally I think Obama should have gone with an asian guy who knows kung fu"
[politics]|13:18 Fang says, "haha"
[politics]|13:19 Rob | Another strategist: "The good news is that this ticket now has a vision. The bad news is that vision is basically just a chart of numbers used to justify policies that are extremely unpopular."
[politics]|13:19 Allen says, "and of course, there was the Cheney pick, neatly balancing out the one candidate that actually had a beating heart"
[politics]|13:19 Fang says, "but broadly, as an Old White Guy, he helped stabilise the image, and the dems didn't need two guys with 'big' images"
[politics]|13:19 inky says (to Allen), "ha ha"
[politics]|13:19 inky says (to Fang), "yeah, I can see that argument"
[politics]|13:20 Fang says, "and next to Palin, he made Palin sound extra crazy"
[politics]|13:20 inky says (to Rob), "hmm"
[whiz-games]|13:20 Whizzard says, "Well, if I sleep, odds are good I'll oversleep and miss the bus."
[politics]|13:20 Matthew says (to Fang), "I agree, but primarily insofar as I think Obama didn't want to have to compete with the VP, so they picked someone who wouldn't be a threat to his bigger-than-life image."
[politics]|13:20 Matthew says (to Fang), "No, he didn't, but whatever."
[whiz-games]|13:20 Whizzard says, "And that would basically be a genuine disaster for me."
[politics]|13:20 Fang says, "heh"
[politics]|13:20 Fang says, "I do so love riling Matthew up."
[politics]|13:20 inky says (to Rob), "I imagine some of what you're seeing here is the standard insider-vs-tea-party fight"
[whiz-games]|13:20 Whizzard says, "Or, they'll call me and I'll have to race down there while everyone waits, which...ugh."
[whiz-games]|13:20 Whizzard says, "I'd rather just stay up and sleep on the bus."
[whiz-games]|13:21 Gunther asks, "ye olde alarum clocke?"
[politics]|13:21 Fang says, "at the time, Biden supposedly had foreign policy experience (though that turned out to not matter), and also Biden's screwups were endearing instead of actually causing trouble"
[ill]|13:21 jenrexrode says, "almost time to go to the doctor"
[politics]|13:22 Allen asks, "what was the Al Gore reasoning?"
[ill]|13:22 vimes says, "woo!"
[whiz-games]|13:22 Whizzard says, "Snort."
[whiz-games]|13:22 Whizzard says, "Alarm clocks have no power over me."
[whiz-games]|13:22 Whizzard says, "Not at 7 AM."
[politics]|13:22 Fang asks (of Allen), "in picking Lieberman?"
[whiz-games]|13:22 Whizzard says, "Not anymore."
[politics]|13:22 Allen says, "no, Clinton's choice in Gore"
[politics]|13:22 Matthew says (to Fang), "Clinton's picking Gore, I assume."
[politics]|13:22 Rob says (to inky), "yeah"
[politics]|13:22 Allen says, "since, you know, two white guys from adjacent states"
[ill]|13:22 jenrexrode says, "and I've got my story straight.  I'm blaming the heat wave from last summer."
[whiz-games]|13:22 Whizzard says, "I've slept through alarms WAY too often to rely on them."
[whiz-games]|13:22 vimes says, "divers alarums"
[politics]|13:22 Fang says, "freg knows, way before my time"
[politics]|13:22 Rob says, "there's a schism that they're trying not to let outsiders see much of"
[whiz-games]|13:23 vimes says, "exit sleep, pursued by bear"
[ill]|13:23 jenrexrode says, "I was moderately productive before that, and have never recovered"
[politics]|13:23 Matthew asks (of Rob), "They being who?"
[politics]|13:23 Matthew asks (of Rob), "The establishment versus the TEA Party?"
[politics]|13:23 Fang says (to Allen), "I guess at that time, 'two white guys' is pretty much taken for granted"
[politics]|13:23 Matthew says, "I don't think anyone is hiding it very well, if that's what you mean."
[politics]|13:24 Allen says, "two southern white guys"
[whiz-games]|13:24 Whizzard says, "Haha"
[whiz-games]|13:24 Whizzard says, "Hee hee more."
[politics]|13:24 Fang says, "maybe they figured Gore would help carry his home state"
[politics]|13:24 Allen says, "and then Perot  picked Admiral Stockdale, who was a really smart guy, but an absolute disaster of a public speaker"
[names]|13:24 jenrexrode asks, "any help with how to say DR. OMERINE ASEH?"
[politics]|13:25 Rob says, "they did and he did. although didn't gore lose tennessee when he ran against bush? I forget now"
[politics]|13:25 inky says, "the Gore thing was supposedly Clinton wanting to pick another guy like himself"
[politics]|13:25 Matthew says (to Rob), "Yes."
[politics]|13:25 Matthew says (to Rob), "If he'd won Tennessee, Florida wouldn't have mattered."
[names]|13:25 Rob says, "hm I'm not sure on the name Aseh"
[names]|13:25 jenrexrode asks, "and is that a man or woman?"
[names]|13:25 Rob says, "dunno"
[politics]|13:25 Allen says, "no, looks like Tennesse went democrat in 1992"
[names]|13:25 Rob says, "just say 'doctor'"
[politics]|13:25 Allen says, "as did Georgia and Louisiana"
[politics]|13:26 Rob says, "yeah, in 92, but not in 2000"
[politics]|13:26 Matthew says (to Allen), "Right, 2000 is what I was talking about (and what I assumed Rob meant)."
[names]|13:26 jenrexrode says, "well I have to go to the reception desk for that doctor, and there are multiple desks..."
[names]|13:26 vimes says, "that sounds like one of those "OWAH TAGOO SAIM" sorts of names"
[names]|13:26 inky says, "ha ha"
[names]|13:26 Rob says, "why don't you have it written down and ask the receptionist how you say the name"
[names]|13:26 Rob says (to vimes), "yay"
[names]|13:26 Ryan says, "My first job interview out of college was with a guy named Eoin, which I'd never seen before."
[names]|13:27 ghira asks, "Irish?"
[names]|13:27 Rob says, "sounds like another variant of ian/ewan"
[names]|13:27 zarf says, "owen"
[names]|13:27 jenrexrode says, "that sounds like it's out of middle earth"
[names]|13:27 Ryan says, "I got there and said to the receptionist, "I'm here to see... uh..." and she said, "He'll be right with you.""
[politics]|13:27 Allen says, "and then there was Mondale and Fererrar (sp?)"
[names]|13:27 inky says, "ha ha"
[politics]|13:27 Allen asks, "Ferrara?"
[politics]|13:27 inky says, "Ferrari"
[names]|13:27 Ryan says, "Yeah, it's Owen, and it is Irish."
[politics]|13:27 Matthew says, "Ferraro, I think."
[politics]|13:27 inky says, "the controversial choice of a man/car ticket"
[names]|13:27 Rob says, "or ioan griffudd"
[names]|13:27 K-Y says, "YOING, like the bungee cord sound effect"
[politics]|13:27 inky says, "it didn't help him carry michigan, though"
[names]|13:27 jenrexrode says (to Ryan), "that's what I'll do"
[names]|13:27 zarf says, "I didn't encounter the name until the author Eoin Colfer"
[politics]|13:27 Allen says, "Mondale carried nothing, except Minnesota and DC"
[names]|13:27 vimes says, "every time i go to jury duty i listen for them to call my name as "Justin *long pause*""
[politics]|13:28 inky asks, "see?"
[politics]|13:28 Allen says, "and he was lucky to get Minnesota"
[politics]|13:28 Rob says, "mondale was a total wipe-out"
[politics]|13:28 Rob says, "oh so that's what a landslide looks like I remember thinking"
[names]|13:28 zarf says, "(then I worked at a job under a manager who went to school with Eoin Colfer, for whatever story value that has)"
[politics]|13:28 Allen says, "Minnesota in 1984: 49.72% for Mondale, 49.54% for Reagan"
[politics]|13:28 Matthew says, "Wikipedia says he won it by 3,761 votes."
[politics]|13:28 Allen says, "almost a total blowout (except for DC)"
[politics]|13:29 Rob says, "they printed a big colored map of which states went to which candidate in 84 and it was not a motley speckled map but more of a full solid color type thing"
[lounge]|13:29 jenrexrode says, "off"
[politics]|13:29 Rob says (to Allen), "dang"
[lounge]|13:29 Rob says, "bye"
[lounge]|13:29 jenrexrode wanders off.
[politics]|13:29 Allen says, "McGovern 72 was similar"
[politics]|13:29 Allen says, "he only carried MA"
[politics]|13:29 Rob says, "wow"
[politics]|13:29 Allen says, "but it was a landslide in MA for him"
[politics]|13:29 Rob says, "hm"
[politics]|13:29 Allen says, "10 percentage points higher than Nixon"
[politics]|13:30 Rob says, "someday I should read a book about the nixon-mcgovern race"
[names]|13:30 Iain says (to Ryan), "Yay"
[names]|13:30 Iain says, "It would be even funnier if his name was actually pronounced Uhhhh"
[names]|13:30 Ryan says, "Ha ha"
[names]|13:30 Rob says, "heh"
[politics]|13:30 Allen says, "I didn't find it very interesting"
[names]|13:30 Iain says, "Which seems like it could actually happen in Ireland, although it'd be spelled Uieasghhhhbdh"
[politics]|13:31 Allen says, "and Nixon didn't have coattails"
[names]|13:31 Rob says, "heh"
[politics]|13:31 Rob says, "didn't find what very interesting"
[politics]|13:31 Allen says, "72"
[politics]|13:31 Rob says, "when didn't you find it interesting"
[politics]|13:31 inky says, "hmm"
[lounge]|13:31 Johnny insisted that the mobile hot-dog-on-a-bun did nothing wrong.
[lounge]|13:31 Rob says, "J"
[politics]|13:31 Allen says, "McGovern was way underfunded"
[names]|13:31 Ryan says, "Eeeagh is actually the 6th most common Irish given name."
[lounge]|13:31 Johnny says, "R"
[politics]|13:31 inky says, "coattails are almost one of those things where the word exists as a metaphor when the item is no longer around"
[politics]|13:32 Allen says (to inky), "except orchestra directors"
[politics]|13:32 Rob says, "perhaps in broadway musical revivals"
[politics]|13:32 inky says, "yeah"
[names]|13:32 Iain says, "I think it means 'staunch wings' or some such."
[politics]|13:32 Matthew exclaims, "Sometimes even in new musicals, too!"
[names]|13:33 Ryan says, "It's pronounced 'egg', as in 'Eeeagh, Irish bird zygote!'"
[lounge]|13:33 Rob says, "I suppose it might be lunchtime"
[politics]|13:33 Allen asks, "have you read that book on the 88 election?"
[politics]|13:34 Rob asks, "there's just one book?"
[politics]|13:34 Allen says, "What It Takes"
[politics]|13:34 Rob says, "that was the first election I voted in"
[politics]|13:34 Allen says, "Adam has highly recommended it for years"
[politics]|13:34 Rob says, "a couple of months after getting to college"
[politics]|13:34 Allen says, "I got a copy, but I didn't read it straight through. I skipped around a lot"
[politics]|13:34 Rob says, "I'm not sure I want to relive the glory days of lee atwater"
[politics]|13:34 Allen says, "oh man Lee Atwater!"
[politics]|13:34 Allen says, "he could play him some good guitar"
[politics]|13:34 Rob says, "there was an interesting documentary about him a while back"
[politics]|13:35 Rob says, "unique individual, that's for sure"
[lounge]|13:35 Gunther says, "NEVER"
[politics]|13:35 Allen says, "so many political operatives cut down before their time"
[politics]|13:35 Rob says, "then he got sick and withered away and kind of did one of those deathbed 'oops I'm sorry I was like that' changes of heart"
[lounge]|13:36 Jota arrives from the east.
[lounge]|13:36 Jota greets.
[politics]|13:36 Allen says, "just imagine the possibilities... Atwater-Breitbart ticket in 2012!"
[lounge]|13:36 Rob greets Jota.
[lounge]|13:36 Johnny says, "Hey Jota"
[politics]|13:36 Ryan | https://twitter.com/PaulRyanGosling
[lounge]|13:36 Rob says, "how can it never be lunchtime? preposterous"
[lounge]|13:36 Johnny says, "In German lunch is Munchenzeit."
[lounge]|13:37 Johnny says, "Probably."
[politics]|13:37 Rob says, "RonPaulRyanReynoldsWrap"
[lounge]|13:37 Rob says, "yay"
[politics]|13:37 Matthew exclaims, "His slogan is: Fiscal Responsibility? Foiled Again!"
[lounge]|13:37 Rob says, "they like munchen lunch so much they named a whole town after it"
[politics]|13:37 Ryan says (to Matthew), "Nicely done"
[lounge]|13:38 Rob says, "anyway, me lunch now"
[lounge]|13:38 Rob moseys right on out.
[jobs]|13:40 Ryan asks (of Matthew), "I've been mostly out of touch for a week and a half. Any news on the job front?"
[obits]|13:40 * NewsBoy hollers, "Extra! Extra! Jota has posted message 470, about 'Ron Palillo, 63', to the bulletin board!"
[jobs]|13:40 Matthew says, "I asked yesterday, and they haven't made a decision yet."
[jobs]|13:41 Matthew says, "One of the people who needs to help decide is out of town, and apparently slow about looking through the tests people submitted last week."
[jobs]|13:41 Matthew says, "So hopefully I'll hear something one way or another soon."
[jobs]|13:44 Ryan says, "def digitalEditorTest () { editor = new digitalEditor(); assertEqual('Matthew', editor); }"
[headlines]|13:45 Jota says, "I sometimes find headlines tricky to parse on the first try. But this one has me stumped:"
[headlines]|13:45 Jota | Nancy Duran, NJ woman, denies man her locked in room for years
[headlines]|13:46 inky says, "well, I can parse it if you take "locked in" as "locked-in""
[headlines]|13:47 Iain asks, "What's a locked-in room?"
[headlines]|13:47 Jon says, "this seems to be the original headline: http://www.app.com/viewart/20120814/NJNEWS10/308140032/Woman-denies-NJ-man-locked-her-room-years?odyssey=nav%7Chead "
[headlines]|13:47 K-Y says, "appropriately, it makes about as much sense as a Duran Duran song"
[headlines]|13:47 Iain says, "Hee hee"
[grubshack]|13:48 Matthew says, "I guess this is really a mamster question, but maybe someone else will have something to say...  Has anyone else here used Silpat liners before?  I'm considering buying one and wondering if it's really worth using one instead of parchment paper (at least for most uses)."
[lounge]|13:49 Iain says, "Home time."
[lounge]|13:49 Iain leaps astride a mountain pony and gallops off bareback for reinforcements.
[grubshack]|13:50 Jon says, "I've looked at one in stores."
[movie]|13:50 Gunther says, "guess who. http://www.bing.com/th?id=AbxOjCBrmLxuJHg306x306&bn=SANGAM&pid=13.1 "
[grubshack]|13:50 Jon says, "but decided to stick with parchment paper because, for example, you can easily use two sheets of parchment paper at once, but if you want to prep two batches with silpat, you need to buy two liners"
[grubshack]|13:50 Ryan says, "I was given one, and it works great."
[movie]|13:51 Gunther says, "hint: <ear-splitting scream>"
[grubshack]|13:51 Ryan says, "Easier to wash than the cookie sheet itself."
[movie]|13:51 Fang asks, "sarah palin?"
[movie]|13:51 Ryan asks, "Wilhelm?"
[grubshack]|13:51 inky says, "my mom loves silpat"
[grubshack]|13:52 zarf says, "I should get a pair, the amount of cookies I bake"
[movie]|13:52 Gunther says, "ear-splitting, not overused"
[grubshack]|13:52 Matthew asks, "Is the only difference that Silpat is only heatsafe up to 480 degrees, and parchment paper can go a little higher?"
[grubshack]|13:53 Matthew says, "I go through a lot of parchment paper, but I seem to recall mamster arguing against Silpat for some reason...  I just can't remember what it was now."
[movie]|13:53 Ryan says, "I have no idea what you're getting at."
[grubshack]|13:53 Ryan says, "I imagine there are other differences, but I don't know what they are."
[movie]|13:53 Gunther says, "Newt, from Aliens"
[law]|13:53 K-Y | "I want to see papers," Koh said. "I don't trust what any lawyer in this courtroom tells me."
[grubshack]|13:54 inky | The only downside is that it holds the taste of the bacon, which just means, for me at least, that I now have one Silpat dedicated only to bacon and use the rest for everything else.
[grubshack]|13:54 Matthew says, "I don't think I would make bacon on a Silpat."
[movie]|13:55 Fang says, "what"
[movie]|13:55 Fang says, "that's... wow"
[grubshack]|13:55 Matthew says, "The main thing I would use it for would be cookies, I think."
[grubshack]|13:55 inky says, "once you get a silpat you are required to make bacon"
[grubshack]|13:55 inky says, "maybe that is one of the downsides mamster was talking about"
[grubshack]|13:55 Matthew says, "I'd still need parchment paper for pizza and cakes and things like that, but cookies are where most of the paper goes."
[grubshack]|13:56 Ryan says, "Cookies are the main thing to use everything for."
[grubshack]|13:56 zarf says, "except bacon."
[grubshack]|13:56 Ryan says, "We had Sophie because we knew that, someday, she would be able to make us cookies."
[grubshack]|13:56 inky says, "ha ha"
[grubshack]|13:56 Matthew says (to Ryan), "She's not quite there yet, is she?  Hopefully she can at least pour the chocolate chips by now."
[grubshack]|13:57 Ryan says, "She helps with every step of the process, except for the oven bit."
[movie]|13:57 Fang says, "also, fuck you for making me use bing"
[movie]|13:57 Matthew says, "BING BING BING GOES THE INTERNET BING BING BING GOES THE INTERNET"
[lounge]|13:58 Nitku will come to the conclusion that one of them is hallucinating and further conclude that the hallucination is due to poison ingestion.
[obits]|13:59 Steve says, "Ron Palillo died."
[obits]|13:59 Steve says, "Horshack from 'Welcome Back Kotter'"
[obits]|13:59 Steve says, "Cause of death: rubber hose up the nose"
[obits]|14:01 Ellison says, "ha ha"
[beer]|14:06 inky says, "uh-oh, news that could potentially tip Allen's vote in a critical race"
[beer]|14:06 inky | http://blogs.desmoinesregister.com/dmr/index.php/2012/08/14/revealed-the-president-brews-his-own-beer-and-brings-it-with-him-on-the-road/
[beer]|14:07 Allen asks, "ha, really?"
[beer]|14:07 Fang says, "haha"
[law]|14:12 boucher says, "Nice, Samsung's lawyer turns out to not even be licensed to practice law in the district where the Samsung-Apple case was being held."
[law]|14:13 boucher says, "She called it an honest oversight, and quickly filed the paperwork, but it's like one technical procedural blunder after another."
[law]|14:13 Matthew asks, "Dude, seriously?"
[law]|14:13 Allen asks, "mmmm, is being admitted to the federal bar not sufficient?"
[law]|14:14 Gunther says, "anyone can go to the federal bar during happy hour"
[law]|14:14 boucher says, "It's not like being unlicensed to practice law period, but yeah, California requires specific filing for each district in which you intend to practice."
[law]|14:15 boucher says, "he apparently had relied on a now-defunct law firm she used to work for to do it for her, and has mostly been practicing one district over, so never realized."
[law]|14:15 Allen says, "oh is this a state lawsuit? I haven't been following it. I thought it was a patent suit"
[law]|14:16 boucher says, " http://www.fosspatents.com/2012/08/fox-news-commentator-concedes.html "
[emulation]|14:17 Gunther asks, "what's the best SNES emu these days?"
[emulation]|14:18 Johnny says, "SNES9x (lol)"
[law]|14:19 boucher says, "Also note that her main day job is to 'play a lawyer on Fox News', which doesn't have any requirements, obviously, much in the same way Sarah Palin 'plays a former politician'."
[emulation]|14:19 Johnny says, "That or ZSNES. bsnes maybe, if you can run it."
[beer]|14:23 boucher says, "And here I thought 'President's Choice' was just a crappy store brand cola."
[beer]|14:24 boucher says, "They could spin this against him, though."
[beer]|14:25 inky says, "ha ha"
[beer]|14:25 Ryan says, ""Too good to drink what the rest of us drink," etc."
[beer]|14:25 boucher says, "'I allege that the President dabbles in the dark arts of...Zymurgy!'  And all the good Christians of the nation gasp and say, 'I knew it!'"
[beer]|14:25 inky says, "president's choice is actually a whole family of brands"
[beer]|14:25 inky says, "hee hee"
[beer]|14:26 boucher says, "Yeah, I know.  I like their chocolate, actually."
[beer]|14:26 boucher says, "I just mostly associate it with their cola for some reason"
[travel]|14:26 Allen | United Airlines loses a 10 year old girl
[news]|14:28 Allen says, "doh, I hate it when I do that:"
[news]|14:28 Allen | A Thai politician accidentally shot and killed his former wife and personal secretary with a submachine gun in a restaurant in northern Thailand, local police said Monday.
[travel]|14:29 boucher says, "These things happen with luggage sometimes.  She'll turn up.  In the meantime, you'll need to fill out this Lost Girl claim form, and we can offer you some extra air miles for your trouble."
[travel]|14:30 katre says (to boucher), ""Oh, hey, we found a nine-year-old boy, is that yours?""
[travel]|14:31 boucher says, "Close enough."
[news]|14:31 inky says, "wow"
[travel]|14:31 inky says, "ha ha"
[travel]|14:31 boucher says, "I'm now sort of imagining a lost-and-found department which is half orphanage."
[travel]|14:31 inky asks, "hey, are there any romantic comedies where the couple meets when the airline swaps their luggage?"
[travel]|14:32 Matthew says, "THERE WILL BE NOW.  <type type type>"
[travel]|14:32 Matthew says, "I shall call it:  EXCESS BAGGAGE."
[travel]|14:33 boucher says, "Or, indeed, the bit from Accelerando, where luggage is sentient, and so it's more like the humane society pound, with sad whining lost luggage looking for a new master."
[travel]|14:33 inky says, "hooray"
[travel]|14:33 two-star says, "Usually luggage swapping stories are spy comedies."
[news]|14:33 Marvin asks, "Did he accidentally scream "Take that you heartless bitch!" at the same time?"
[travel]|14:33 inky says, "I should submit this to http://heiglr.tumblr.com/ "
[news]|14:36 boucher says, "'Yes, I'll have the blatantly assassinated wife...and how is the alibi tonight?'"
[news]|14:36 vimes says, "Insubstantial!"
[news]|14:38 boucher says, "'Mm, I'll just have a bottle of your finest political privilege then.'"
[wtf]|14:38 GDorn | http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/3d-printer-creates-physical-model-fetus-expecting-parents-004556974.html
[wtf]|14:39 Allen asks, "oh, cool man. What state do you predict will first request all women applying to get an abortion to buy one of these?"
[wtf]|14:39 Gunther says, "IRTA 'eatenby-parents'"
[wtf]|14:39 Gunther says (to Allen), "AZ"
[wtf]|14:39 Allen says, "AZ? no, I'm figuring SC"
[wtf]|14:39 Alex says (to Allen), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that AZ is Arizona."
[wtf]|14:39 boucher says, "Man, that's going to be tough, raising a baby made entirely out of plastic."
[wtf]|14:40 Allen says, "they should print it out of something fragile, and require the parent to carry it around with her everywhere for a month. If it doesn't get broken, then they proceed to stage 2 in the process of getting permission"
[wtf]|14:41 boucher says, "Alternately, 'Dammit, the 3D printer malfunctioned again and produced an indistinct lump instead of the machine part we wanted.'  'Enh, just ship it to that place that claims to print images of womens' fetuses.  Ha ha ha.'"
[wtf]|14:41 two-star says, "In AZ, they'll ban undocumented immigrants from printing anchor babies."
[wtf]|14:41 inky says, "ha ha"
[lounge]|14:41 Ellison arrives from the east.
[lounge]|14:41 Ellison says, "hey all"
[lounge]|14:42 Ellison says, "whoa, Tale's birthday"
[lounge]|14:42 Johnny says, "Hey Ellison"
[wtf]|14:43 boucher says, "'Look, honey.  It's a melted gear!  Our beautiful baby gear.'"
[obits]|14:44 boucher says, "Also, while I'm quipping like mad, I lost the chance to make another tasteless remark..."
[wtf]|14:45 Gunther says, "Melted Gear?!"
[google]|14:45 inky | https://www.google.com/experimental/gmailfieldtrial
[google]|14:45 inky says, "this doesn't seem useful off-hand"
[obits]|14:45 boucher says, "'Which one of you can tell me which will be the first sweathog to die?'  'Oooh, ooh-ooh-ohh'  'Sit down, Arnold.'  'Epstein gets this one.'"
[google]|14:46 Gunther says, "wait, only my own e-mail? lame"
[google]|14:46 inky says, "ha ha"
[google]|14:46 inky says, "ok, now *that* would be useful"
[google]|14:46 katre says (to inky), "actually, I like it a lot"
[stevejobs]|14:46 Steve says, "Checked into my return flight now.  Seat 5A, which sounds pretty good"
[google]|14:46 katre says, "it makes searching for that thing I got two months ago that I forget what it is a bit easier"
[google]|14:46 inky says, "hmm"
[google]|14:47 inky asks, "but don't you always know if it was an email thing or something you came across on the web?"
[google]|14:47 katre says, "makes it faster to change keywords and try to narrow in"
[google]|14:47 katre says, "okay, the web part is useless"
[google]|14:47 Gunther asks, "oh, does the search work better than in actual gmail?"
[wtf]|14:47 boucher says, "Heh...oh dear god.  Now I'm imagining a horrible scene in which a dying Snake first gets a chance to be a daddy."
[google]|14:47 Gunther says, "that WOULD make it useful"
[google]|14:47 katre says, "oh, nevermind"
[google]|14:47 katre says, "this is the other thing"
[google]|14:47 katre says, "the one I like isn't public yet :)"
[google]|14:48 inky says, "ha ha"
[stevejobs]|14:49 boucher says, "Just wait until you discover that's not your seat.  They gave you the job.  That's it.  You're going to *be* Seat 5A."
[stevejobs]|14:50 boucher says, "Program by night, let tired businessmen sit on you during the day."
[google]|14:53 boucher says, "The thing about increasing personalization is that it can mean increasing embarrassment.  Someone looks over your shoulder as they ask you to look something up.  You Google it.  'Wecome back, Tyson Boucher!  We've prioritized your results to put all your Donkey Porn and Ways To Kill Your Boss results on top!  You're welcome!'"
[google]|14:56 inky says, "tell them it was an error and you were actually searching for ways to killy our donkey"
[google]|14:56 inky says, "NB this may not help if the person is your boss"
[google]|14:56 boucher says, "Or if your boss is a donkey"
[google]|14:57 boucher says, "Or if you were really searching for porn of your boss."
[google]|14:58 boucher says, "But I draw the line at making jokes about managerial donkey snuff porn.  That's a serious problem."
[lounge]|15:00 boucher goes home.
[lounge]|15:00 boucher stacks his car into the lounge. The damage is astonishingly comprehensive and in some places, very difficult to explain. Hloif then does some more damage to it, in a manner that is both out of character and hilarious. NOW SOMEONE HAS TO PAY.
[whiz-games]|15:06 Whizzard stretches.
[whiz-games]|15:06 Whizzard says, "Wow, go Spartan. Actually kicking some ass today."
[whiz-games]|15:07 Whizzard says, "Some new models announced, including this beauty: http://www.spartangames.co.uk/problem-solver "
[WWIII]|15:11 Allen says, "huh, it looks like the US defense dept has redacted this image to hide the fact that we're using blimps: http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/NA-BS012_BLIMP_G_20120813160623.jpg "
[WWIII]|15:11 Matthew says, "Oh man.  This is not a Goodyear."
[WWIII]|15:12 inky says (to Allen), "hee hee"
[jobs]|15:13 ghira says, "and another MD leaves"
[quotations]|15:13 Jota says, "I am not sure if there is an alternate meaning for this phrase that I am unfamiliar with:"
[quotations]|15:13 Jota | The scene of a fatal accident at the I293 exit 2 Brown Ave off ramp, early on Saturday morning, where a car drove into the sound barrier, sending the driver to the Elliot Hospital, in Manchester
[jobs]|15:13 ghira says, "though for the first time ever the new one is an existing person being promoted not someone parachuted in from outside"
[quotations]|15:14 inky says, "ha ha"
[quotations]|15:14 katre asks, "the big walls next to highways to keep loud noises from bothering the neighboring houses?"
[quotations]|15:14 inky says, "presumably these are those concrete walls -- yeah"
[quotations]|15:14 ghira says, "those curved walls you see alongside some .. timing"
[quotations]|15:14 katre says, "that's a 'sound barrier'"
[quotations]|15:14 Jota says, "Aha."
[quotations]|15:14 ghira says, "I've never heard them called that but that's my guess"
[quotations]|15:14 Jota says, "That makes much more sense."
[videogames]|15:14 K-Y says, "another day, another PS3-exclusive indie http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/08/review-papo-yos-dream-like-fable-will-stick-with-you/ "
[quotations]|15:14 Gunther says, "also the thing that stops you from falling into Puget Sound"
[quotations]|15:15 Jota says, "Although... elsewhere in the article it says 'State police say Bolser was driving a Mitsubishi Lancer about 6:45 a.m. when the car went off the Exit 2 ramp, hit the wooden barrier and rolled over.'"
[videogames]|15:15 Gunther says, "I watched the QL and it is mesmerizing"
[quotations]|15:15 Jota asks, "Would they make a noise barrier out of just wood?"
[videogames]|15:15 K-Y says, "another railroaded one-time payload"
[videogames]|15:16 Gunther says, "see also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFMdjcj6xmU "
[videogames]|15:18 Gunther says, "as far as I can tell it's very story-driven"
[videogames]|15:19 Gunther says, "also, new Media Molecule game!"
[quotations]|15:19 inky says, "this has some wood ones: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/noise/noise_barriers/design_construction/keepdown.cfm "
[videogames]|15:20 zarf says, "looks cool"
[videogames]|15:20 Gunther says, " http://www.giantbomb.com/say-hello-to-tearaway-media-molecules-new-vita-game/17-6432/ "
[videogames]|15:22 Gunther says, "also"
[videogames]|15:22 Gunther | Sony announces Cross Buy: Buy a game on PS3, get Vita version for free http://vrge.co/OsbI36
[videogames]|15:25 K-Y asks, "what would be eligible for that, anyway?"
[videogames]|15:26 K-Y asks, "Madden 2012?"
[lounge]|15:29 Tale is perhaps the only example of a Western filmed entirely in Wales.
[stevejobs]|15:29 Steve says, "Man, terrified, and having serious doubts that I should even take an out-of-state job with all the inconvenience that comes with it"
[lounge]|15:29 Ellison says (to Tale), "happy birthday!"
[lounge]|15:29 Tale says, "Thanks"
[tale]|15:29 Tale says (to ghira), "My girlfriend got me 2 bowties!"
[tale]|15:29 Ellison says, "although really, get your own birthday month. geez."
[tale]|15:30 Tale says, "One is in the regimental color of her reenactment, er, regiment."
[tale]|15:30 Tale says (to Ellison), "Aw, I missed you, you big cuddly thing!"
[tale]|15:30 ghira asks (of tale), "oho! what colour and/or pattern?"
[tale]|15:30 Tale says (to Ellison), "Oh yeah, belated Happy Birthday!"
[tale]|15:30 ghira says, "timing"
[tale]|15:30 annabianca exclaims, "happy birthday tale!"
[tale]|15:31 Tale says, "Thanks!"
[tale]|15:32 Ellison asks, "your girlfriend is a historical battle reenactment actor?"
[tale]|15:32 Tale says, "yep"
[tale]|15:33 Ellison asks, "what war do they do?"
[tale]|15:33 Gunther says, "#obvious WW2"
[tale]|15:33 Tale says, "Napoelonic. They a"
[tale]|15:34 ghira says, "i thought historical reenactment people mostly did Nap... timing"
[tale]|15:34 Tale says, "Napoelonic. They are the 92nd Gordon Highlanders."
[tale]|15:34 ghira says, "or english civil war in the UK"
[tale]|15:34 Tale says, "And lots of US civil war here, I hear"
[tale]|15:37 maga asks, "does she re-enact in male costume?"
[videogames]|15:37 Gunther | The Star Wars 1313 Trailer Is Every Trailer Ever
[videogames]|15:40 K-Y asks, "did they explain what 1313 is yet?"
[stevejobs]|15:41 Dave asks (of steve), "do you currently lean on any family support system, like for babysitting and such?"
[stevejobs]|15:42 Dave says, "to me, that would be a large factor in moving"
[lounge]|15:42 two-star took 30,500 buckets -- why?
[tale]|15:42 Tale says, "Well, it's a kilt."
[stevejobs]|15:42 Dave says, "had I to do my married life all over, I would either have moved back to Milwaukee or moved to Florida"
[stevejobs]|15:42 Dave says, "raising children without a support system is brutally hard"
[tale]|15:42 Tale says, "But her "character", as far as there is such a thing, is male."
[tale]|15:43 maga asks, "are you implying that kilts are unmanly, sir?"
[tale]|15:43 maga says, "we may need to have Words"
[emulation]|15:44 Jon says, "I use snes9x for psp."
[emulation]|15:44 Jon says, "because playing earthbound on a PSP is pretty awesome."
[tale]|15:44 Tale says, "I've seen a lot of guys rock a kilt."
[tale]|15:45 maga says, "anyway -- yeah, that makes sense! that's the only way you get the good uniforms if you're female! but I wouldn't have expected it from the perspective of US re-enactment"
[obits]|15:45 Ryan says, "Margaret Thatcher!"
[obits]|15:45 Bishop says, "Huh, didn't know she could die."
[obits]|15:45 Matthew says, "Yeah, I just saw that."
[tale]|15:46 Tale says, "To extrapolate on kilts: To the modern, unintiated viewer, they may seem like skirts."
[tale]|15:46 Tale says (to maga), "Well, lots of people are okay with it."
[videogames]|15:47 baf says, "It's a year. Star Wars 1313 is a retelling of the original Star Wars set in the early 14th century."
[tale]|15:47 maga says, "I am curious about this sort of thing in part because the Park Service deals with re-enactment a lot, and it's often pretty sensitive"
[obits]|15:48 Matthew says, "Hrm, now I'm seeing stuff saying that's not right."
[videogames]|15:48 Jon asks, "why don't they just make it set in Japan? and call it The Hidden Fortress?"
[obits]|15:48 Ellison says, "wow"
[lounge]|15:49 jenrexrode has entered the lounge. [ Your score has gone up by 10 points ]
[obits]|15:49 jenrexrode exclaims, "noooooo!"
[obits]|15:49 Ryan | http://isthatcherdeadyet.co.uk/
[stevejobs]|15:49 Steve says, "We don't have any regular babysitter or anything, no"
[obits]|15:49 Ryan says, "Conflicting reports!"
[obits]|15:49 Gunther | How will you be celebrating?
[obits]|15:50 Gunther says, "I've so many other people on the to-celebrate list"
[obits]|15:50 jenrexrode says, "oh, I was saying no about Horshack"
[tale]|15:50 Tale asks, "Sensitive in what way?"
[health]|15:51 jenrexrode says, "sciatica"
[English]|15:51 Jota says, "So we already know about how people don't understand how to use quotation marks and just stick them in wherever they might look pretty."
[tale]|15:51 Tale says, "Feel free to poke me with questions about it."
[stevejobs]|15:51 Steve says, "My main issues would be not wanting to move, and the inability to sell the house."
[English]|15:51 Jota says, "But apparently people also don't understand how to read them either. And blame the writer for their own misapprehension."
[health]|15:51 jenrexrode says, "but my dumb replacement doctor doesn't know  the difference between Advil and Aleve, and was going to prescribe me ibuprofen, which I'm allergic to"
[English]|15:52 Jota says, "E.g., this headline: 'How a three-fingered hand "regrew" its digits after amputation'"
[tale]|15:52 maga says, "well, how history is portrayed is a sensitive subject generally"
[English]|15:52 Jota says, "It's a story about phantom limb syndrome."
[English]|15:52 Jota says, "However, it attracted comments like:"
[lounge]|15:52 Allen says, "crap, my router seems to be reseting my IP every hour or so"
[lounge]|15:52 jenrexrode says, "wow, it's spreading"
[English]|15:52 Jota | Thanks for nothing. I lost a fingertip and have to completely relearn how to play guitar. 12 years of experience pretty much wasted.
[English]|15:52 Jota | Please change the title to this fucking story.
[obits]|15:53 Ryan says, "Aw, retracted."
[English]|15:53 Jota asks, "Which I feel bad for this person for losing a fingertip, do they somehow believe that it's the fault of this story writer for using quotation marks?"
[English]|15:53 baf says, "I don't see how that's about the quotation marks."
[English]|15:54 Jota says (to baf), "They misunderstood the headline as indicating that the story was about literally regrowing actual fingers."
[tale]|15:54 Tale says, "They try to portray everything pretty realistically. From the outcome of battles to the buttons on their boots."
[English]|15:54 baf says, "Sounds to me like this guy saw a headline about regrowing fingers and then was disappointed to learn that it was just about the phantom limb effect."
[English]|15:54 jenrexrode says, "I'm with the guitar player - it's bad"
[tale]|15:55 maga says, "and US re-enactment tends to centre around eras like the US Civil War and the Western expansion which have big racial components"
[obits]|15:55 boucher says, ".daed t'nsi hctiw eht ,gnod gniD"
[tale]|15:56 Tale says, "Also, lots of people sorta still support the South."
[lounge]|15:56 olethros was sworn in by robed priests on Thursday morning.
[tale]|15:56 maga says, "pretty much, yeah"
[lounge]|15:56 olethros says, "back from nazeece"
[English]|15:56 baf says, "Put it this way: If a doctor announced that he had literally regrown a patient's fingers, but the only evidence for this was his claims, the headline would probably contain quotation marks around the word "regrew"."
[health]|15:57 jenrexrode says, "but now I need to see if I can't just take the OTC naproxen at a higher dosage"
[English]|15:57 baf says, "Because it would be a quotation then."
[English]|15:57 Jota says, "I would expect the headline to use a word like 'claims' or 'announces' or the like."
[tale]|15:57 Tale says, "I can't say people here are still much concerned about the politics involved."
[English]|15:58 Jota says, "And I would expect 'regrew' in quotes to imply that it wasn't actual, literal regrowth, even in your context, and would criticize your headline-writer."
[tale]|15:58 maga says, "and pioneerism is not a culturally dead trope, etc."
[kickstarter]|15:58 Gunther says, "hmmm"
[English]|15:58 baf says, "As it is, I'm not even sure that the use of quotation marks in the headline as it stands is technically correct."
[kickstarter]|15:59 Gunther says, "SA detectiving points to shenanigans regarding several Kickstarters which had sudden jumps"
[English]|15:59 baf says, "For a headline, anyway."
[English]|15:59 baf says, "There's been this progression:"
[gplus]|15:59 Jota says, "One new post between Aug 10-12. Twenty new posts between yesterday and today."
[mozilla]|15:59 K-Y says, "great, now I'm being urged to stop using Java 6"
[mozilla]|15:59 K-Y says, "but I cannot"
[English]|15:59 baf says, "1. Quotation marks are used to mark off direct quotations."
[kickstarter]|15:59 katre asks, "oh?"
[kickstarter]|16:00 katre says, "I figure all the people behind it wait til the last minute and then buy out the top tiers"
[kickstarter]|16:00 Gunther says, " http://www.kicktraq.com/projects/leviathaninteractive/project-lodus-a-cyberpunk-co-op-action-rpg "
[kickstarter]|16:00 Gunther says, "pretty blatantly obvious in this one"
[kickstarter]|16:00 katre says, "a) they'll get their money back, and b) it lets them get the rest of the not-quit-at-threshhold money from everyone else"
[English]|16:01 baf says, "2. Beause quotation marks are used for quotations, you can use them to mark off text whose veracity is in question. People start using them to specifically signify 'Someone else is to blame for these words; I myself find them questionable.'"
[tale]|16:01 maga says, "the Park Service doesn't allow battle re-enactment, per se; its emphasis is more Living History"
[kickstarter]|16:01 Gunther says, "except that's not allowed"
[kickstarter]|16:01 katre says, "sure, but I bet it's not hard to game around"
[kickstarter]|16:01 Jota says (to katre), "A) They only get part of their money back. They're just giving KS a cut of cash that they're never going to receive."
[English]|16:02 baf says, "3. People start using them purely to signify 'The veracity of these words is questionable at best', without regard to whether the words are actually quoted or not."
[mozilla]|16:02 Ryan says, "It has a serious security hole, apparently. http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/update-and-unblock-java "
[tale]|16:02 Tale says, "Living History is the more interesting thing, anyway. Battle means shooting into the air and mock-fighting with dull bayonets."
[kickstarter]|16:02 Jota says (to katre), "B) What's the point of forcing it to fund if they're not going to have enough cash to do the project? (Unless these are completely fabricated projects, in which case, my bad.)"
[kickstarter]|16:02 Gunther says (to katre), "maybe if you're less obviously cretinous than these guys, yes"
[kickstarter]|16:03 Gunther asks (of Jota), "some cash is better than no cash and it pays the tickets to Rio?"
[kickstarter]|16:03 Jota asks (of Gunther), "So these are completely fabricated projects?"
[lounge]|16:03 zarf walks off through the wall; vivid gold light flares briefly around him.
[English]|16:04 baf says, "And I guess now we have: 4. People start to think that this is the only legitimate use of quotation marks in certain contexts."
[kickstarter]|16:04 Gunther says (to Jota), "anything on KS could well be completely fabricated"
[tale]|16:04 maga says, "I dunno, if you're a military-history / strategy wonk the battles are presumably the coolest bit"
[English]|16:04 olethros says, "and you end up with quotation marks used randomly"
[English]|16:04 Jota says (to baf), "Not the only legitimate one, 2 and three are the only usages that make sense in this context."
[English]|16:05 Jota says, "Or two and 3, as you prefer."
[kickstarter]|16:05 Gunther says, "meanwhile, PA remains pretty fail-y"
[stevejobs]|16:06 Steve says, "Woo, got a call back from another mortgage lender"
[tale]|16:07 Tale says, "True. Also, for those who just want to hear the bangs and see the smoke. But Living History is pretty good at teaching you stuff in an interesting way. The people doing it are usually very, very into it."
[tale]|16:07 maga says, "Living History tends to place more emphasis on the social-history stuff that is anathema to some folks"
[stevejobs]|16:08 Steve says, "Something that would reduce my monthly payment by about $250-ish, and would be a 25 year loan, so I wouldn't have to start our mortgage term over again"
[stevejobs]|16:08 Steve says, "Whoops, meant that for #housing"
[housing]|16:09 Steve says, "Got another refinance quote, which is much easier to swallow than the last.  No real drawbacks that I can tell"
[kickstarter]|16:09 Gunther says, "but I've once again found a project worthy of kickstopper"
[housing]|16:09 inky says, "that's more like it"
[kickstarter]|16:09 Gunther says, "make that two"
[housing]|16:09 katre asks, "are you at all considering moving away for a job?"
[tale]|16:10 Tale says, "This sounds more and more like there's a big difference between there and here"
[housing]|16:10 Steve says, "Yeah, I have two out-of-state interviews in the near future"
[tale]|16:10 maga says, "I guess the short version is that you can't really portray history in a totally neutral manner, no matter what you do, so stuff is often going to be kind of sensitive"
[housing]|16:10 katre says, "just that you might want to go slow on the refi in that case"
[housing]|16:11 Steve says, "I can't sell the house no matter what"
[housing]|16:11 Steve says, "It's worth less than I owe, and I don't have the cash to make up the difference"
[tale]|16:11 maga asks, "well, hmm, in Europe nobody really thinks of the Napoleonic era as a politically-relevant thing any more, right?"
[housing]|16:11 katre says, "ouch"
[board-games]|16:11 Gunther says, "wow"
[board-games]|16:11 Gunther says, "just wow"
[board-games]|16:11 Gunther says, " http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1286842883/the-keep-any-game-anytime-anywhere "
[housing]|16:12 Jota asks, "What would you do if you moved? Rent it out?"
[housing]|16:12 Jota says, "(Also: huh, I would have thought that being underwater would limit its refinancability.)"
[housing]|16:12 Steve says, "Yeah, I reckon so"
[housing]|16:13 Steve says, "I have an FHA loan, which allows refinancing without reappraisal"
[housing]|16:13 Jota says, "Huh, cool."
[tale]|16:13 maga says, "like, in the UK people sometimes get all rah-rah about Nelson and Waterloo and so on, but they aren't really thought of as being relevant to anything about the modern world"
[health]|16:13 jenrexrode says, "i'm gonna ask the pharmacist if i can't just take the OTC"
[housing]|16:13 Steve says, "It's in my best interest, so to speak, to lower the payment as much as possible no matter what"
[tale]|16:14 Tale says, "Yes, and that's, I guess, the major differemce. WWI#II overshadow everything politically."
[housing]|16:14 Steve says, "Since either I stay and want to pay less, or I rent it out and want the rent income to offset as much of the payment as possible"
[tale]|16:14 maga says, "the US doesn't really have any eras that are like that. or, at least, not any interesting ones"
[craft]|16:14 Dave says, "so although I have a group of writers within Textfyre, I'm having trouble allocating time with one of them"
[housing]|16:14 Steve says, "Only other option would be a short sale, but I think you have to be delinquent in your mortgage payments in order to even trigger that"
[housing]|16:14 Steve says, "And the whole thing would be a credit destroyer"
[craft]|16:15 Dave says, "which leaves a very serious opening in my endeavors over the next few weeks"
[housing]|16:15 katre says, "that's rough"
[housing]|16:15 Jota asks, "What's your old interest rate?"
[housing]|16:15 Steve says, "This would go from 6.25% to 3.75%"
[craft]|16:15 Dave says, "if anyone has about 10 to 20 hours in the next two weeks, I'd like to talk to you about helping with a prototype"
[housing]|16:15 Jota exclaims, "Nice!"
[housing]|16:15 katre says, "yow, that's nice"
[housing]|16:16 Steve says, "I could get 3.5%, but would have to pay more points at closing than I have"
[health]|16:16 jenrexrode says, "okay, I'm just going to take 2/220mg every 12 hours, instead of 1/500mg every 12 hours"
[tale]|16:16 Tale says, "The part where canadians burn the White House never gets old."
[health]|16:16 Jizaboz says, "Sounds kinda rough"
[politics]|16:16 Jon asks, "man, when will the US government or Arizona state government establish rule of law in Maricopa county?"
[politics]|16:16 Jon | http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/az-woman-imprisoned-after-producing-h
[lounge]|16:17 Jizaboz paddles home.
[health]|16:17 jenrexrode says, "now to reseach more on sciatica"
[health]|16:17 jenrexrode says, "+r"
[tale]|16:18 maga says, "I dunno if anybody re-enacts 1812"
[tale]|16:19 maga says, "surely there must be somebody"
[tale]|16:19 Gunther says (to maga), "orchestras constantly do"
[tale]|16:19 vimes says, "they don't figure it's necessary because the orchestral score includes actual cannons"
[board-games]|16:21 Whizzard says, "Hmm, <looks>"
[gop-sux]|16:21 olethros says, "the gop manages to field two infinitely hateful candidates to make up for the 2008 gap"
[gop-sux]|16:22 Matthew asks, "Oh?"
[gop-sux]|16:23 olethros says, "i guess the bush cheney roles are reversed"
[gop-sux]|16:24 olethros says, "ryan is the honest sounding fool and romney the vampiric turd"
[board-games]|16:24 Whizzard immediately releases an Arkham expansion that won't fit in it.
[board-games]|16:24 Whizzard exclaims, "Take that!"
[English]|16:24 Jota says, "I wonder why it's 'refrigerator' rather than simply 'frigerator'."
[lounge]|16:24 Nitku leaves.
[gop-sux]|16:25 Matthew asks, "How exactly is Romney sounding that way?"
[English]|16:25 Jota asks, "Is there some built-in assumption that objects will have been defrigerated on their way there?"
[English]|16:25 Johnny says, "The air is continuously frigged and refrigged."
[health]|16:25 jenrexrode says, "argh the treatment for this is about everything"
[gop-sux]|16:25 olethros asks, "ryan?"
[gop-sux]|16:25 Alex says (to olethros), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that Ryan is BabelFish."
[health]|16:25 jenrexrode says, "heat, ice, therapy, massage, comfy chair"
[English]|16:25 maga asks, "hmm. the circulation of the freon tubes, or something?"
[English]|16:26 vimes | Earlier words in the same sense of "to make cold, to cool" were infrigiden, infrigidate (both early 15c.).
[English]|16:26 jenrexrode says, "that's what I need"
[English]|16:26 vimes | from re- "again" (see re-) + frigerare "make cool,"
[health]|16:27 jenrexrode says, "accupuncture, hydrotherapy, good posture"
[English]|16:27 maga says, "and 'infrigidator' just sounds like a Victorian sexual therapy"
[greece]|16:27 olethros says, "in other unreal news, 'Greece Wins Praise as Merkel Signals Progress in Crisis Fight'"
[English]|16:27 vimes says, "or a supervillain"
[greece]|16:27 olethros says, "progress? geometrical progress to 0"
[English]|16:27 maga says, "that was my alternative joke, yes"
[English]|16:27 Jota says (to maga), "Heh."
[health]|16:28 jenrexrode says, "stretching, anti-inflammatories, icy-hot"
[English]|16:28 baf says, "It may be using 're-' in the sense more common in Spanish, where it means something more like "very" rather than "again"."
[English]|16:28 Jota says (to baf), "Hmm."
[English]|16:28 maga says, "so the question now becomes 'why does Latin have a word for refrigeration'..."
[English]|16:28 maga exclaims, "aha!"
[English]|16:28 Jota says, "(Such as veryfried beans.)"
[English]|16:28 maga says, "originally it was a medical sense"
[English]|16:29 maga says, "so you'd refrigerate someone who had a fever"
[English]|16:29 vimes says, "a supervillain who performs Victorian sexual therapy"
[English]|16:29 Jota says (to maga), "Huh."
[English]|16:29 Jota says (to maga), "In which case, re- would make perfect sense."
[English]|16:29 baf says, "(as seen in "frijoles refritos", which gets confusingly translated into English as "refried beans" despite the fact that the beans have been fried only once.)"
[board-games]|16:31 Whizzard says, "Eesh, a $200 case...well, I can't throw too many stones. I'm gonna be getting a $130 or so minis case. Mind you, I painted those and don't want them damaged."
[board-games]|16:32 Gunther says, "$170 *plus* $25 for something holding Dominion up to the current expansion, after they say "never run out of room with the next expansion""
[board-games]|16:32 Gunther says, "-> uhhh"
[board-games]|16:33 Whizzard says, "Well, that's just preprinted dividers."
[board-games]|16:33 Whizzard says, "I'm pretty sure the thing will have plenty of actual SPACE."
[board-games]|16:34 Gunther says, "unfortunately, I can get dividers for $25 right now that fit everything in the base box."
[board-games]|16:34 Gunther says, "so I need the case exactly not at all"
[board-games]|16:34 Whizzard says, "Ok, don't fund it."
[board-games]|16:35 Gunther asks, "also, do they want you to pack and unpack games into it every time you want to carry one?"
[board-games]|16:35 Gunther asks, "or buy one per game?"
[board-games]|16:35 Whizzard says, "I'm assuming it's a travel case."
[board-games]|16:35 Whizzard says, "It doesn't make any practical sense to me, but hey, I'm not buying one."
[board-games]|16:36 Gunther says, "oh, I'm not offended by it, I just think it's stupid"
[whiz-games]|16:36 Whizzard says, "Also, on a side note, looking at Numenera says to me that I should Kickstart my Redemption board game at some point."
[whiz-games]|16:36 Whizzard says, "Still need a fucking setting name, though."
[board-games]|16:38 Gunther says, "I'm *offended* by 1) http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/coolminiornot/relic-knights and 2) http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/370924922/kanzume-goddess "
[lounge]|16:38 olethros says, "z"
[lounge]|16:39 olethros has ordered three mega-generators to be installed in his boathouse.
[whiz-games]|16:39 inky asks, "which one is redemption?"
[whiz-games]|16:40 Gunther says, "Planet New Texas"
[whiz-games]|16:40 Whizzard says, "Wild wild Indiana Jones."
[board-games]|16:40 Matthew | Kanzume Goddess is a deck building game that brings the excitement of the Greek and Norse myths into your home.
[board-games]|16:40 Matthew says, "..."
[wtf]|16:40 Jearl says, " http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8ci78KYdo1qcd6cdo1_500.jpg "
[board-games]|16:41 vimes says, "And breasts, don't forget breasts."
[wtf]|16:41 Jearl says, "snake warning"
[wtf]|16:41 Jota says, "Freaky."
[board-games]|16:41 Whizzard says, "Pff hahahaha, ah, geez, that's just embarrassing. Ah well, sex sells, apparently."
[wtf]|16:41 Matthew asks, "Who would a cake like that?"
[wtf]|16:41 Matthew asks, "Er, who would WANT a cake like that?"
[wtf]|16:41 vimes says, "it's a great gag gift to give to Indy on his birthday"
[board-games]|16:42 Whizzard says, "Hahaha the chick in pink straddling or...I dunno...that pink mech."
[wtf]|16:42 Matthew says, "Cakes?  I hate these guys."
[board-games]|16:42 Gunther says (to Whizzard), "I was happier before I knew how many boardgamers are furry anime fetishist wanktards"
[wtf]|16:42 Allen says, "ha ha"
[wtf]|16:42 Allen asks, "who wouldn't want a cake like this?"
[wtf]|16:43 Gunther says, "Indy. Try and keep up."
[board-games]|16:43 Whizzard says, "Furry? Looks like standard anime breastsploitation to me."
[board-games]|16:43 Gunther says, "Relic Knights has a fucking rabbit"
[board-games]|16:43 Gunther says, "also "special edition cosplay miniatures""
[board-games]|16:45 Gunther says, "Kanzume Goddesses just needs someone to hunt down and kill every last backer"
[board-games]|16:45 Whizzard says (to G), "Dude, that's a Pikarabbit."
[board-games]|16:45 Whizzard says, "I'm not saying it's high quality, but seriously, this is all low-hanging fruit."
[board-games]|16:46 Whizzard says, "This is practically Anime Tropes: the minis game."
[board-games]|16:46 Gunther says, "do not underestimate my burning hatred of anime"
[twitter]|16:47 Matthew asks, "Why is Condescending Wonka a thing?"
[board-games]|16:47 Whizzard says, "They obviously tapped into a market that hasn't been hit too hard in games yet."
[board-games]|16:47 Gunther says, "You must've missed Tanto Cuore"
[twitter]|16:47 Ryan says, "Because he looks smugly amused."
[board-games]|16:47 Whizzard says, "And their kickstarter format, with unlocking factions and components and shit, is really pretty well thought out."
[board-games]|16:47 Gunther says, "also I think the second link"
[twitter]|16:47 Johnny says, "Because some asshole invented screen capture."
[board-games]|16:47 Whizzard says, "I will prolly steal the crap out of their format at some point."
[board-games]|16:48 Gunther says, "they're the same people who did the Battle for Alabastra KS"
[board-games]|16:48 Gunther says, "so obviously they already know what they're doing"
[board-games]|16:48 Whizzard asks, "Hahaha...Hot Anime Lesbians, the card game?"
[board-games]|16:48 Gunther says, "yes, that is the one that needs murdering"
[board-games]|16:49 Gunther says, "by the same people who brought you Tanto Cuore, the Pornminion Underage Nurse game"
[board-games]|16:49 Whizzard says, "And yes, they've had their project overfunded already."
[board-games]|16:49 Gunther says, "and probably also the Nazi Porn Anime Deckbuilder"
[board-games]|16:49 Whizzard says, "Well, this is exactly the dark side of KS."
[board-games]|16:49 Gunther says, "I can't blame KS for pedophiles"
[board-games]|16:50 Whizzard says, "There's no gatekeepers keeping designers from publishing their ideas, which is great, but there's no GATEKEEPERS keeping CREEPY designers from publishing their ideas either."
[twitter]|16:50 Ellison says, "ha ha"
[twitter]|16:50 inky asks (of Matthew), "you know that exists in the context of a bunch of other <adjective> <character> image macros, right?"
[board-games]|16:50 Whizzard says, "In the end, they'll sell their creepy games to creepy gamers and will affect me not at all."
[board-games]|16:51 Gunther says, "yup, same guys. http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/72809/barbarossa "
[twitter]|16:51 Ellison asks, "like, same genre of 'sad Keanu'?"
[stevejobs]|16:51 Steve says, "Resume copies printed"
[board-games]|16:51 Whizzard says, "Oh, man, they got the license for Lupin? Now THAT hurts me a bit."
[lounge]|16:51 Allen goes home.
[twitter]|16:51 Matthew says (to inky), "Er, I'm actually not sure I did."
[board-games]|16:51 baf asks, "(recapping) 'Cosplay miniatures'? Aren't those two concepts pretty orthogonal?"
[board-games]|16:52 Whizzard says, "But that's the licensor's fault, there."
[twitter]|16:52 inky | http://www.quickmeme.com/
[stevejobs]|16:52 Steve says, "Have to set up my clothes and stuff so I can try to be out of the house by 5:30 to make my flight"
[board-games]|16:52 Whizzard says (to baf), "Haha, I'm surprised they haven't unlocked chibi minis yet."
[stevejobs]|16:53 Steve says, "And I should be home in time for dinner, which is so weird"
[twitter]|16:53 inky says, "I think the general idea is somebody comes up with a picture expressing some persona and then other people come up with specific jokes to go with the persona"
[board-games]|16:53 baf says, "Saying 'Cosplay miniatures' strikes me the same way as, say, 'hockey singer' or 'cucumber zoo'."
[lounge]|16:54 Allen is a scarfaced Libertarian waffle chef with a robot buddy named Sparky. Whizzard is a sarcastic belly-dancing lawyer from a secret island of warrior pygmies. They stole a tiny car from a Shriner!
[lounge]|16:54 Allen says, "arg, router reset my ip again"
[lounge]|16:54 Allen says, "I wonder if it's rebooting or just getting a new ip"
[board-games]|16:54 Gunther says (to baf), "the miniatures are cosplaying"
[board-games]|16:55 Gunther says, "like, it's Tits McRack in her Catwoman outfit"
[ads]|16:55 Allen says, "not sure what this is advertising... but I like it http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5gMgdW22iUA "
[quotations]|16:56 Jota |  If I underhend this correctly, you're having cars drive underneath a flexible pavement? So you have pedestrians surfing 20-30mph waves? This sounds impeccably good.
[ads]|16:56 Gunther | Een nieuwe Even Apeldoorn bellen film!
[ads]|16:56 Gunther says, "this means "one new even apple thorn barking movie""
[ads]|16:56 Gunther says, "ok, not really, 'bellen' means 'to ring'"
[board-games]|16:56 Whizzard says, "hahahaha"
[board-games]|16:56 maga asks (of baf), "both cosplay and miniatures tend towards the same kind of costume styles, no?"
[board-games]|16:57 maga says, "i.e. 'hugely exaggerated for maximum visibility'"
[ads]|16:57 Gunther says, "and they sell insurance"
[whiz-games]|16:57 Whizzard says, "Oh hey, that was nice. Ted Alspach gave me a shout out for the suggestions I gave him on his Suburbia game."
[ads]|16:57 Allen says, "another commercial from the same campaign/company that got banned"
[ads]|16:57 Allen says, "/religion /gayrights"
[ads]|16:57 Allen | http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_phH_-e1jTM
[health]|16:58 jenrexrode says, "candied ginger"
[board-games]|16:58 inky says, "I think he just meant that cosplay usually menas 'people dressing up', so how could you have a miniature of that"
[board-games]|16:58 inky says, "but I guess the answer is that the miniature is of somebody dressed up as somebody else"
[ads]|16:58 Allen says, "(offensive to religion, not offensive to gays)"
[board-games]|16:58 Jota says (to maga), "I thought that cosplay tended toward whatever kind of costume you are dressing up as."
[board-games]|16:58 baf says, "Well, I think Gunther's explanation explains it."
[board-games]|16:58 inky says, "yeah, but who wants to dress up as somebody with a small rack"
[board-games]|16:58 Jota says, "Er, s/costume/character/"
[rpg]|16:59 inky says, "oh, so I watched the fiasco playthrough on tabletop and it made me wonder something"
[board-games]|16:59 Gunther asks (of inky), "would you *really* want to see, eg, me, as cosplaying with a large rack?"
[rpg]|16:59 (from Jota) inky asks, "how can I get a show like this of my own?"
[rpg]|16:59 inky asks, "are there any gm-less games that don't feel like unfettered improv?"
[rpg]|16:59 inky says, "hee hee"
[whiz-games]|16:59 Whizzard says (to inky), "Sailor Beard, for one."
[board-games]|16:59 baf says, "A miniature of, like, Ikari Shinji in a Naruto outfit would be a cosplay miniature."
[whiz-games]|17:00 Whizzard says, "Aw, meant that for #board-games."
[whiz-games]|17:00 inky says, "it's on topic everywhere!"
[lounge]|17:00 Ellison goes back to Squeamhurst..
[lounge]|17:00 * Ellison has disconnected.
[board-games]|17:00 Jota says (to Whizz), "Oh, man, you've just reminded me of ManFaye. I do not appreciate that."
[tech]|17:00 boucher says, "Mrm...e-mail letting me know that the new MakerBot 3D printer is available and ready to ship, fully assembled for $1999."
[rpg]|17:00 baf asks, "You mean, something more rules-based?"
[rpg]|17:00 inky says, "I guess"
[rpg]|17:00 inky says, "like, I realize fundamentally all rpgs are just people making stuff up"
[rpg]|17:01 GDorn says, "yeah, fiasco's mechanics are vague, uninteresting and generally feel tacked on for no reason"
[rpg]|17:01 marc says, "i guess you could take something like microscope and draw up a set of constraints"
[board-games]|17:01 Whizzard says, "Hey, I'm going to Gencon. If I have to suffer through the Sailor Beards, we ALL do."
[rpg]|17:01 Jota says (to inky), "Now you have me sitting here trying to think of a counterexample."
[rpg]|17:01 baf says, "I mean, where the rules specify more specific developments than 'something good happens to your character this round'"
[rpg]|17:01 marc says, "[additional constraints]"
[rpg]|17:01 inky says, "but it feels like in the standard with-gm model, there's one person doing most of the world simulation and other people have a relatively small window to interact with it, which cleaves pretty closely to their character"
[board-games]|17:01 Gunther says, "all I can think of when I hear 'cosplay' is Tyler Perry ever since I saw that trailer for Maedea's Witness Protection"
[rpg]|17:02 Jota asks, "Are there many group-GM games?"
[board-games]|17:02 boucher says, "I would so do a Blackbeard the Sailor Scout costume if I had the legs for it."
[board-games]|17:02 Gunther says, "(why did I watch it? I was unfamiliar with the phenomenon)"
[board-games]|17:02 boucher says, "Just to traumatize as many people as possible."
[rpg]|17:02 Jota asks, "Where when one player is doing stuff, the other players are the GM, and it gets swapped around?"
[rpg]|17:02 inky says, "and it seems like with the gm-less games I've seen (which isn't many), the world simulation is both more nebulous and more open to general tinkering"
[rpg]|17:02 baf says, "Actually you could do something pretty close to D&D without a DM. There's that whole Random Dungeon Generator from the 1e DMG."
[rpg]|17:02 inky says, "that's true"
[rpg]|17:02 maga says (to Jota), "there are things like Penny For My Thoughts which work like that for individual scenes, kinda"
[rpg]|17:02 inky says, "and the mythic gm emulator that I am always talking about"
[board-games]|17:03 Gunther imagines boucher with fake tits in a tight pink leotard, Pippi Longstocking hair, and beard.
[board-games]|17:03 inky says, "ha ha"
[rpg]|17:03 Jota says, "gmulator"
[board-games]|17:03 inky says, "he could dye his beard red and fold it up as pigtails"
[board-games]|17:03 Gunther asks, "I think I would pay to see... the reactions to this?"
[rpg]|17:04 GDorn says, "hell, the D&D boardgames basically do this for you"
[rpg]|17:04 inky says, "anyway, this doesn't feel like an intrinsic property of the with-gm/gm-less attribute"
[rpg]|17:04 inky says, "hmm"
[board-games]|17:04 Gunther says, "alternatively I will make you all suffer: http://www.zhuoyou.com/att/articlefiles/image/article/2011/201111/20111110/guanzhuang/20111113gznvplist001.jpg "
[board-games]|17:04 boucher says, "Yarr, I am the terror of the seven wings of the conference center."
[rpg]|17:04 baf says, "The thing about the Random Dungeon Generator is that it's completely storyless. It's just one randomly-generated room after another. I bet you could come up with something that uses a system like that for GM-less rules-based interactions, but something more improv-y to give it meaning."
[board-games]|17:04 Whizzard carefully doesn't click that.
[board-games]|17:04 Gunther says (to Whizzard), "it's merely hilarious"
[board-games]|17:05 Gunther says, "no breasts."
[rpg]|17:05 inky says, "yeah, maybe it's really about the size of the player's ability to affect the world"
[rpg]|17:05 inky says, "and the random dungeon generator stuff doesn't actually widen your ability to affect the world"
[board-games]|17:06 boucher says, "Sadly, I can't read Chinese.  But I assume it reads 'Superior Pretty Man Powers: Is Capable of Stunning Any Female or Gay Male Enemy for Three Rounds'"
[board-games]|17:06 Matthew asks (of boucher), "Is that your first guess for all Chinese writing?"
[rpg]|17:06 inky says, "abnd I guess contrariwise you could have a with-GM game where the players can nevertheless make a lot more statements about what NPCs are doing and stuff"
[rpg]|17:06 baf says, "Hm. I guess part of the thing about a GM who has a plot in mind already is that it gives the whole thing a structure and consistency from the get-go that you don't get when people are just making it all up as they go along. I wonder if you could get something that delivers that sense from rules and randomness alone, rather than intentional design."
[rpg]|17:07 inky says, "that's true too"
[board-games]|17:07 Gunther says (to boucher), "it's Zeus, I think"
[board-games]|17:07 Gunther says, "so he'll use his gigantic lightning bolt for that"
[board-games]|17:07 boucher says, "Pretty much.  Ever since I learned that most Chinese-English dictionary list 'Fuck' as the first translation for the chinese character ? (to do), I assume all Chinese are trolling."
[board-games]|17:08 Whizzard says, "Haha"
[board-games]|17:08 Gunther says (to boucher), "well, it's used mostly in ???? "I'd do her""
[board-games]|17:08 boucher says, "This is why you will sometimes enter Chinese supermarkets and see things with Chinese and English both listed, and see the 'Fuck Vegetables' aisle."
[board-games]|17:09 Gunther says, "wait, "Do Vegetables" makes less sense"
[board-games]|17:09 Gunther says, "maybe the owner just really hates broccoli"
[board-games]|17:09 Gunther says, "but the chicom party is forcing him to sell it"
[board-games]|17:09 Whizzard exclaims, "Carrots...peas....brocco---FUCK YOU BROCCOLI!!!!"
[board-games]|17:10 Whizzard says, "I dunno why, but an enraged Chinese grocer screaming obscenities at broccoli just cracks me the hell up."
[workplace]|17:11 Allen says, "we didn't design this... looks like it was a small NJ agency."
[board-games]|17:11 Gunther says (to Whizzard), "all I can think of now is "GODDAMN MONGOLIANS STOP TEARING DOWN SHITTY WALL""
[workplace]|17:11 Allen says, "but... this Mountain Dew site attracted the chaps at 4chan"
[workplace]|17:11 Allen | http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/08/14/mountain-dews-dub-the-dew-online-poll-goes-horribly-wrong/
[board-games]|17:12 Whizzard says, "Hahaha"
[workplace]|17:12 Gunther says, "wait, Crushing Granny would've been a great name"
[workplace]|17:13 Gunther | the funniest example of an online poll going wrong is probably the ?Fred Durst Society of the Humanities and Arts? ? currently leading the pack for the city-sponsored renaming of the Austin, Tex. Solid Waste Services Department.
[workplace]|17:13 Gunther says, "won-der-ful"
[apropos-of-nothing]|17:15 vimes says, "huh, this chipotle bag has lorem ipsum on the side"
[apropos-of-nothing]|17:15 Gunther asks, "literally?"
[apropos-of-nothing]|17:15 vimes says, "yes"
[apropos-of-nothing]|17:16 Gunther says, "awesome"
[apropos-of-nothing]|17:16 Jota asks, "Intentionally?"
[apropos-of-nothing]|17:16 vimes says, "i have /no idea/"
[apropos-of-nothing]|17:16 Jota says, "Also, this sounds like something to upload to TDWTF."
[apropos-of-nothing]|17:16 Gunther says, "contents: lorem (23%), ipsum (70%), dolor sit amet (6%), ..."
[apropos-of-nothing]|17:17 inky | http://designenvy.aiga.org/the-chipotle-lorem-ipsum-bag/
[startrek]|17:18 Allen | http://scifi.icanhascheezburger.com/2012/07/09/sci-fi-fantasy-star-trek-try-this-line-at-the-next-convention/
[videogames]|17:18 Gunther says, "I ... what http://s3.amazonaws.com/ksr/assets/000/091/449/78de6326d77f73e6ee8b8064c91287de_large.gif "
[apropos-of-nothing]|17:19 Jota says, "Apparently this site thinks that only graphic designers use lorem ipsum."
[apropos-of-nothing]|17:19 Gunther says, "graphic designers use that cat thing and swearem ipsum"
[videogames]|17:20 Whizzard says, "Looks like a Nitrome game."
[apropos-of-nothing]|17:21 Gunther says, "it's Mercenary Kings, by the guys who did the Scott Pilgrim game"
[apropos-of-nothing]|17:21 Gunther says, "ilac"
[videogames]|17:21 Gunther says, "it's Mercenary Kings, by the guys who did the Scott Pilgrim game"
[apropos-of-nothing]|17:21 vimes | I can also share with you that this particular bag was completed intentionally. We thought there was something funny about writing out Lorem Ipsum (which, as we all know is used as placeholder copy) by hand?
[videogames]|17:21 Gunther says, "looks like Metal Slug"
[apropos-of-nothing]|17:21 Gunther says, "also I totally misinterpreted what kind of bag this was"
[apropos-of-nothing]|17:21 Gunther says, "I thought it was a bag of chips"
[GRRM]|17:22 Allen | http://gettingridoftheb.tumblr.com/post/29322993007
[apropos-of-nothing]|17:22 vimes says, "hahaha"
[apropos-of-nothing]|17:22 vimes | It?s only appropriate that the packaging for fake Latin food should have fake Latin on it.
[videogames]|17:22 Whizzard says, "Ah, Nitrome's flash games all look like that."
[apropos-of-nothing]|17:23 Gunther says, "fake latin, eh"
[apropos-of-nothing]|17:23 Jota exclaims (at Gunther), "Me too!"
[lounge]|17:23 Emily arrives.
[videogames]|17:24 Whizzard says, "A bit like Eyemaze games, too."
[twitter]|17:26 Gunther says (to Matthew), "similarly http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/431414_427529690632427_1561656282_n.jpg "
[vimesical]|17:26 vimes says, "since i am always one to go above and beyond, instead of the traditional dead /hooker/ in the trunk of my car in las vegas, i went with a dead /angel/"
[vimesical]|17:26 vimes | http://imgur.com/4TXxC
[twitter]|17:27 Jota says, "Perhaps they weren't allowed, during an early but vital stage of infanthood."
[twitter]|17:29 Gunther says, "ow"
[rpg]|17:30 Jon says, "belatedly, Polaris is gm-less, but has constrained roles for each player."
[rpg]|17:30 Jon says, "and basically divides up gm authority on the basis of player and PC/NPC"
[board-games]|17:30 K-Y says, "belatedly, I assume the intended meaning is 'dried vegetables' or at least I can't think of anything else that makes sense"
[rpg]|17:30 Jon says, "so I determine things about my PC, but the person on my right determines things about certain NPCs in relation to my PC"
[rpg]|17:31 Jon says, "and there are rules about who gets the final decision making power"
[rpg]|17:31 Jon says, "so it's much less freeform than Fiasco."
[rpg]|17:31 Jon says, "(I highly recommend reading Polaris, even if you don't think you'll ever get to play it.)"
[whiz-games]|17:31 Whizzard says, "Man, I'm getting stoked for Gencon."
[whiz-games]|17:31 Whizzard exclaims, "My very last one with FFG!"
[cars]|17:32 boucher says, "I know it's tasteless to laugh at one's own jokes, but I was just browsing my dumbpics folder and came across http://bouchert.com/dumbpics/flipcar.jpg again"
[cars]|17:33 boucher says, "Such a lot of fuss for nothing."
[cars]|17:33 Gunther says, "goddammit, no unicode car"
[cars]|17:34 boucher says, "Apropos previous conversation, there's ?"
[cars]|17:35 boucher says, "But you can't tell if it's flipped"
[rant]|17:36 Tale says, "Saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaavepoints!"
[rant]|17:36 Tale says, "FROM HELL'S HEART I STAB AT THEE!"
[cars]|17:36 Gunther says (to boucher), "oh good"
[whiz-games]|17:36 Whizzard says, "I wonder how Chris is gonna react when I give notice in Oct."
[cars]|17:36 Gunther says, "(?°?°??? ?"
[rant]|17:36 Tale says, "Oh wait no, I'm transported back to the bit where I meet Vergil and have to go through all of Hell again!"
[cars]|17:36 boucher says, "Heh"
[whiz-games]|17:37 Whizzard says, "Could be anything from "WHAT??!! DEAD TO ME!" to "Meh, later.""
[cars]|17:37 boucher says, "There actually are many car ones, but they're not represented in my character set at least"
[cars]|17:37 boucher says, "?"
[cars]|17:37 boucher says, "Looks like a box to me"
[cars]|17:37 Gunther says, "looks like a lowercase greek delta to me"
[whiz-games]|17:37 inky says, "hmm"
[whiz-games]|17:37 inky asks, "are you sure you want to give notice?"
[cars]|17:38 boucher says, " http://unicode.org/charts/nameslist/n_1F680.html "
[whiz-games]|17:38 inky says, "or, well"
[cars]|17:38 boucher says, "These all just show codepoint boxes for me"
[whiz-games]|17:38 inky says, "if you're planning on contracting with other people, why not also keep contracting with FFG if they have a gig you like the looks of"
[cars]|17:38 Gunther says, "yeah, that's what I meant by "no""
[whiz-games]|17:38 Whizzard says, "Well, I'm currently an employee with a non-compete clause."
[whiz-games]|17:39 Whizzard says, "I HAVE to leave if I'm going to work with anyone else."
[cars]|17:39 boucher says, "Ah well, someday, every font in the world will contain a full set of every model of car ever made.  And then we will live happily."
[whiz-games]|17:39 Whizzard says, "But I'm just giving 2 weeks' notice at the start of Oct."
[whiz-games]|17:39 inky says, "yeah"
[whiz-games]|17:39 Whizzard says, "I'm going to suggest that my last day be the 15th, which is a payday, and the day after Arkham Nights."
[whiz-games]|17:39 inky asks, "what is arkham nights?"
[whiz-games]|17:40 Whizzard says, " http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_news.asp?eidn=3480 "
[whiz-games]|17:41 inky says, "ah, cool"
[cars]|17:41 boucher says, "Until we need a specific character to represent a 17th century female doll in a dress with short hair and a polka-dot pattern, with blush on the cheeks but no other makeup riding an early bicycle prototype on a road in Paris in August, in the evening, with couples strolling on the street, and a petshop in the background, which is currently closed, as we can see, from a sign in the window saying the owner has taken ill."
[whiz-games]|17:41 Whizzard says, "Leaving them high and dry for that event would be fairly hostile."
[whiz-games]|17:41 inky says, "yeah"
[kitties]|17:42 Allen | Kitten vs. Doberman... in bed
[kitties]|17:42 Allen | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdYMxb2RAnY&feature=plcp
[cars]|17:42 boucher says, "U+FFF762319E8C9040462, in other words"
[cars]|17:43 inky says, "heh"
[kitties]|17:43 Allen says, "squeeeee"
[lounge]|17:44 Ellison arrives from the east.
[urls]|17:50 Allen says, "the ghost ... of TAMAGOTCHI! http://marlomeekins.tumblr.com/day/2012/08/09 "
[Jotacabana]|17:50 Jota says, "The local Subway must not keep very precise inventorty on some things."
[Jotacabana]|17:51 Jota says, "Because I just walked in to buy some dressing packets (sans salad), and they were rung up as 'extra bacon'."
[urls]|17:52 Jota asks, "But does it vibrate?"
[obama-rox]|17:52 Allen says, "this been posted? http://www.buzzfeed.com/jpmoore/barack-obama-is-a-wizard "
[Jotacabana]|17:54 inky says, "maybe the cashier is running an elaborate scam"
[obama-rox]|17:54 inky says, "ha ha"
[obama-rox]|17:54 inky says, "shit, he's been captivated by a palantir"
[Jotacabana]|17:55 Jota asks, "Wherein she stockpiles bacon for her own nefarious purposes?"
[kitties]|17:58 Jota says, "Not the smartest cat in the world: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7Ay4vEj7C4 "
[Jotacabana]|17:59 Gunther says (to Jota), "perhaps it was an underhanded insult to you"
[lounge]|17:59 Ellison heads east.
[kitties]|18:00 inky says, "cats are weird"
[kitties]|18:01 Allen says, "a friend got her longhaired male shaved for the summer a few years ago"
[obama-rox]|18:01 Matthew says, "Man, creepy."
[kitties]|18:01 Allen says, "and he repeatedly attacked his own tail"
[Jotacabana]|18:01 inky says, "well, there is a real scam where you ring the thing up at a cheaper price but charge the customer the real price and pocket the difference"
[kitties]|18:01 Allen says, "which looked completely different"
[Jotacabana]|18:01 inky says, "(that is why they are supposed to offer you your receipt, I think)"
[Jotacabana]|18:01 inky says, "but that does not seem to be the case here"
[board-games]|18:04 inky says, "hmm, somebody on metafilter is saying Imperial ( http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/24181/imperial ) is in the middle between euro and non-euro, but it looks pretty euro to me from their description"
[Jotacabana]|18:04 Jota says (to inky), "Yeah, this was just a matter of 'well, I can't give him a bunch of dressing packets and no salad without charging *something*, and there's no button for it on the register, so... enh, it's bacon'"
[Jotacabana]|18:05 inky says, "ha ha"
[Jotacabana]|18:05 inky says, "maybe their training teaches them to price everything in terms of bacon"
[apropos-of-nothing]|18:05 Gunther says, "I need some googling help"
[apropos-of-nothing]|18:06 Jota exclaims (at Gunther), "Fortunately, there's a site for that!"
[apropos-of-nothing]|18:06 Gunther says, "I'm looking for two old portable games"
[apropos-of-nothing]|18:06 Gunther says, "one was like a game & watch, involved turtles, was yellow, and played Fur Elise as its song"
[apropos-of-nothing]|18:07 Gunther says, "the other is harder to describe as it was more of a tiny standalone video game with a joystick and buttons, a portrait-orientated screen, and was probably named "Spider" or "Spiders""
[board-games]|18:07 Gunther | Artist   Matthias Catrein
[board-games]|18:07 Gunther says, "word to the wise: run away"
[board-games]|18:08 Gunther says, "and yeah, that is exactly the driest Euro and nothing else"
[apropos-of-nothing]|18:08 vimes says (to gunther), " http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYO9QTCJsQ0 for the second one"
[movie]|18:09 Matthew | It's the kind of revelation that would melt the face of any die-hard Indiana Jones fan (this time, with joy): "Raiders of the Lost Ark," the 1981 adventure film that introduced that globetrotting archaeologist, will receive a one-week Imax release next month, Lucasfilm said on Tuesday.
[apropos-of-nothing]|18:10 Gunther says, "YESSS"
[movie]|18:10 Matthew says, "Supposedly they're enhancing the audio but not making any other non-IMAX changes.  In which case, I don't think this sounds like a bad idea."
[movie]|18:11 Matthew says, "I'm trying to think if I've ever seen a movie in IMAX.  I honestly don't know.  But this one I would see."
[movie]|18:13 inky asks, "have you seen the one about beavers? or the one about fish?"
[movie]|18:13 Gunther asks, "if it's not made for IMAX what's the point?"
[music]|18:13 Allen says, "these Palestrina madrigals are stunningly beautiful"
[music]|18:13 Allen | http://www.amazon.com/Palestrina-First-Book-Madrigals-Voices/dp/B003U04UY4
[amazon]|18:14 Allen says, "huh I'm getting sales taxed on Amazon"
[amazon]|18:14 Allen says, "I never noticed before"
[movie]|18:14 Matthew says (to Gunther), "I don't quite get what you mean."
[apropos-of-nothing]|18:14 Gunther says, " http://www.gamesdbase.com/mame-rom/spiders.aspx "
[amazon]|18:15 inky says, "I demand sales representation"
[apropos-of-nothing]|18:15 Gunther says, "the original"
[amazon]|18:15 inky says, "also, they just started rolling it out relatively recently"
[movie]|18:15 Gunther says, "it's just a bigger screen"
[movie]|18:15 Gunther says, "not filmed in IMAX"
[movie]|18:15 Gunther says, "so I fail to see the point"
[movie]|18:15 Matthew says (to Gunther), "I assume they're re-rendering it for IMAX."
[movie]|18:15 Gunther says, "also I bet it says "Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark""
[movie]|18:16 Matthew says, "...point."
[apropos-of-nothing]|18:16 vimes says, "i probably have that rom, if you want"
[apropos-of-nothing]|18:16 vimes says, "i'm looking at http://www.handheldmuseum.com/index.html and haven't found the yellow-turtle-beethoven game yet"
[apropos-of-nothing]|18:16 vimes says, "but you might have more luck or more patience"
[movie]|18:17 Matthew says, "Anyway, regardless, I love this movie, and would probably want to see it live in a theater regardless.  I never have."
[movie]|18:17 Matthew says, "I remember when my parents went to see it originally, but I was too young to go with them."
[apropos-of-nothing]|18:17 Gunther says, "I don't even have MAME installed anymore"
[Scotland]|18:17 Matthew says, "#iain-rox:"
[Scotland]|18:17 Matthew | If you're wondering "is Brave authentically Scottish?" I can reassure you that it includes both hamesucken and a guddling montage.
[apropos-of-nothing]|18:18 Gunther says, "also I'm pretty sure it was a clone"
[Scotland]|18:18 inky says, "ha ha"
[Scotland]|18:18 inky asks, "where is that from?"
[Scotland]|18:18 Matthew exclaims, "Iain's Twitter feed!"
[apropos-of-nothing]|18:18 vimes says, "i also have the clones, likely, if they're in the mame set"
[apropos-of-nothing]|18:19 Gunther says, "PS: Fur Elise is the first furry song ever"
[apropos-of-nothing]|18:19 vimes says, "haha"
[apropos-of-nothing]|18:20 Gunther says, "now I wonder if I misremember the turtles"
[phobia]|18:20 Tale says, "Great, about to go to bed and Sargent has posted a giant spider eating a bird on G+. Thanks Sargent!"
[apropos-of-nothing]|18:20 Gunther says, "I'm pretty sure you stepped over 4 turtles in a river to catch something, though"
[apropos-of-nothing]|18:20 inky asks, "are you thinking of frogger?"
[apropos-of-nothing]|18:21 vimes says, "apparently http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Misc/GameWizardCatAndMice.htm plays fur elise"
[movie]|18:21 Matthew says, "Has anyone seen The Dark Knight Rises in IMAX?  I loved the movie, but I can't think what in it would be enhanced by IMAX."
[apropos-of-nothing]|18:21 Gunther says, "no, it looked entirely different. Definitely not Nintendo"
[movie]|18:22 inky says, "imagine batman's nose, six feet long"
[lounge]|18:22 Grocible says, "heh"
[apropos-of-nothing]|18:22 Gunther says, "it had two triangular buttons for moving"
[lounge]|18:22 Grocible says, "dubstep is so mainstream"
[lounge]|18:22 Grocible says, "jennifer's watching a nature show"
[apropos-of-nothing]|18:22 Gunther says, "and a set of smaller buttons in the middle"
[lounge]|18:22 Grocible says, "they used a track with dubstep-style mwawah noises"
[apropos-of-nothing]|18:22 Gunther says, "it's stupid that this site doesn't have thumbnails"
[apropos-of-nothing]|18:22 vimes says, "hm, maybe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZBu93phpAs "
[movie]|18:23 Matthew says, "I have a friend who saw the last movie in IMAX almost 20 times, so I could probably ask him whether it makes a big difference."
[movie]|18:23 inky says, "wow"
[movie]|18:24 Grocible says, "I saw the second raiders movie in the theatre"
[movie]|18:24 Grocible says, "and hated it"
[movie]|18:24 Grocible says, "all the casual racism was so repugnant"
[movie]|18:24 Matthew says (to Grocible), "Er, I meant the second Batman movie."
[apropos-of-nothing]|18:24 vimes says, "(Turtle Bridge by Nintendo)"
[movie]|18:24 Matthew says, "(Sorry if that wasn't clear.)"
[movie]|18:24 Grocible says, "it was also so charmless"
[movie]|18:24 Grocible says, "oh sorry - thought the topic was still Raiders"
[movie]|18:24 Matthew says, "I moved to a new topic faster than a flying rat, sorry."
[movie]|18:24 McMartin says, "It gave us a useful character in LEGO indiana jones; the obnoxious lady where all the buttons are 'scream uselessly'"
[movie]|18:25 inky says, "ha ha"
[movie]|18:25 McMartin says, "Until you get the powerup for her and then her screams can shatter glass and skulls"
[movie]|18:25 Grocible says, "karen allen's character was at least spunky"
[movie]|18:25 Matthew says, "I would not run to see Temple of Doom in a movie theater, no."
[health]|18:25 jenrexrode says, "candied ginger kinda tastes like medicine, so it must work"
[movie]|18:25 McMartin says, "I like the one where it turns out his dad is James Bond"
[movie]|18:26 inky says, "that doesn't work!"
[movie]|18:26 inky says, "indiana jones could be james bond's dad, though"
[movie]|18:26 McMartin says, "It's well established that James Bond is a Time Lord"
[movie]|18:27 Grocible says, "a bitter angry one"
[movie]|18:27 inky says, "awesome"
[movie]|18:27 Grocible says, "it was hilarious seeing him at work"
[apropos-of-nothing]|18:27 Gunther says, " http://www.handheldempire.com/games.jsp seems more useful"
[movie]|18:27 Grocible says, "he was like all thespian-like"
[movie]|18:27 Grocible says, "Ah. So this Computer is BROKEN. Well then! It shall have to be REPLACED!"
[apropos-of-nothing]|18:27 Gunther says (to vimes), "it was totally a ripoff of that"
[apropos-of-nothing]|18:28 Gunther says, "but, like I said, not Nintendo"
[kitties]|18:28 inky | http://tv.ibtimes.com/rare-sand-kittens-born-in-israel-after-years-of-rumored-extinction/7327.html
[movie]|18:29 K-Y says, "so basically, anyone famous in the UK you haven't seen at work yet we can assume uses Windows"
[movie]|18:29 Grocible says, "basically"
[kitties]|18:29 jenrexrode says, "cool"
[apropos-of-nothing]|18:30 Gunther says, "it looked similar to http://www.handheldempire.com/400x300/game_instance_images/3009_3257_1333225351268_Unknown_Frog.jpg "
[apropos-of-nothing]|18:30 vimes says, "oh, i missed not nintendo"
[kitties]|18:30 boucher says, "Meanwhile, I'm being leaned upon."
[kitties]|18:31 boucher says, "My dad's friend's dog used to do this"
[kitties]|18:32 boucher says, "I think this is the first cat I've had that leaned hard, though."
[jobs]|18:32 Matthew says, "Well, if the EIC is gone all week, I guess I should just go ahead and make arrangements for my trip to San Francisco."
[apropos-of-nothing]|18:32 Gunther says, "Nintendo would be simple"
[jobs]|18:32 Matthew says, "By the time he comes back, I'll only have three weeks, and that's not very much time."
[kitties]|18:33 boucher says, "And yeah, sand cats are cool."
[kitties]|18:33 boucher says, "Very wide heads and flat ears."
[stress]|18:35 jenrexrode says, "on the lighter side - I used my downtime today to drive up to the tax assessor and get my auto registration.  That and yesterday's hideous driver's license photo, and I'm all legal.  So I can quit freaking out about that."
[stress]|18:38 jenrexrode says, "Friday I go to the dentist about this loose fEEling in my mouth, then I need to find a new doctor to do my physical, and I can quit freaking out about being behind on health stuff."
[food]|18:38 boucher says, "There's an automatic peeler call a 'Rotato'"
[food]|18:38 boucher says, "Rotato."
[stress]|18:38 jenrexrode asks, "anything like the rotating apple peeler?"
[food]|18:38 boucher says, "called*"
[food]|18:38 katre says, "at least it's not a brotato"
[stress]|18:38 jenrexrode says, "channell"
[stress]|18:38 jenrexrode says, "#5"
[food]|18:39 boucher says, "Actually, this is the Rotato *Express*: http://www.amazon.com/Starfrit-93209-Rotato-Express-Electric/dp/B000X9EPT0/ "
[food]|18:39 boucher says, "For those not content with a standard Rotato"
[food]|18:39 vimes | Peels potatoes. fruits and vegetables instantly at the push of a button
[food]|18:39 vimes says, "instantly"
[food]|18:39 boucher says, "Plus, you can get this bundled with a set of Rotato Blades"
[food]|18:40 boucher says, "For when your Rotato gets dull."
[food]|18:40 katre says, "I have an automatic peeler... I married her HAR HAR HAR"
[food]|18:40 vimes asks, "how could something as incredible as the rotato ever get dull?"
[food]|18:40 vimes asks, "also, why has nobody made this into a Mr. Potato Head horror movie yet?"
[food]|18:40 Gunther says (to vimes), "gary larson"
[food]|18:41 Gunther says, "also I see that and raise you http://www.pearl.at/images/large/pe4873_2_7.jpg "
[food]|18:41 boucher says, "I am reminded now of the Red Dwarf potato-peeling sketch"
[food]|18:41 vimes says (to gunther), "i think that was potato *bugs*"
[food]|18:41 vimes | http://cdn.buzznet.com/assets/users16/bizarreland/default/comic-monday-night-potato-bugs--large-msg-133092738417.jpg
[lounge]|18:42 Tale is fired from breathing.
[lounge]|18:42 * Tale has disconnected.
[food]|18:42 boucher says, "Yeah, I've seen the spiral-cutters."
[food]|18:42 Gunther says (to vimes), "there must've been 2"
[food]|18:42 jenrexrode | Steam punk version http://footage.shutterstock.com/clip-693166-stock-footage-a-primitive-prototype-hand-cranked-apple-peeler-removes-the-skin-from-a-red-braeburn-apple.html
[food]|18:42 boucher says, "I don't think there's a kitchen large enough to hold ever 'amazing kitchen gadget' ever made."
[food]|18:43 boucher says, "And until a few days ago, Gunther didn't even know what a Salad Shooter was, which is a shame, because it combines the fun of the old west with the excitement of slicing vegetables."
[food]|18:45 Allen says, "intellectually I know what a salad shooter is, but I've never seen one in action"
[food]|18:47 jenrexrode says, "I have an attachment for my kitchenaid that does that, but it doesn't have the over-the-bowl capability of the real salad shooter."
[lounge]|18:47 Rob comes right on in.
Recapped 1000 of 3416 lines from recent channels.
Current time: Tuesday, 14 Aug 2012, 06:47:20 PM EDT
There is one new message on #alt/obits.
Rob says, "sgwamp"
[food] jenrexrode says, "my grandmother bought me one once, but I returned it for [something less memorable]"
#470 [alt/obits]                   From: Jota          Date: 14-Aug-12 13:40
Subject: Ron Palillo, 63
Actor who played Arnold Horshack on 'Welcome Back Kotter'.
jenrexrode says, "hey rob"
Recapping 31 of 31 lines from alt/obits:
[obits]/001 Rob says, "#comics whoa joe kubert"
[obits]/002 Rob says, "also when I got back last night there were 4 bb posts here, I wasn't expecting another right away"
[obits]/003 jenrexrode says, "Helen Gurley Brown - 90"
[obits]/004 jenrexrode | Brent Grulke, creative director and driving force behind the South by Southwest music festival, has died. He was 52.
[obits]/005 Ellison says, "dang"
[obits]/006 jenrexrode says, "cardiac arrest during oral surgery"
[obits]/007 Ellison says, "on the bright side, his burial plot will get a free wifi spot t-shirts"
[obits]/008 Ellison says, "t-shirt"
[obits]/009 jenrexrode says, "heh, I wonder if he's to blame for that"
[obits]/010 Ellison says, "I doubt he is, but I just have that debacle indelibly associated with SXSW now"
[obits]/011 mwmiller says, "< http://i.imgur.com/FKTVc.jpg >"
[obits]/012 * NewsBoy hollers, "Extra! Extra! Jota has posted message 470, about 'Ron Palillo, 63', to the bulletin board!"
[obits]/013 Steve says, "Ron Palillo died."
[obits]/014 Steve says, "Horshack from 'Welcome Back Kotter'"
[obits]/015 Steve says, "Cause of death: rubber hose up the nose"
[obits]/016 Ellison says, "ha ha"
[obits]/017 boucher says, "Also, while I'm quipping like mad, I lost the chance to make another tasteless remark..."
[obits]/018 boucher says, "'Which one of you can tell me which will be the first sweathog to die?'  'Oooh, ooh-ooh-ohh'  'Sit down, Arnold.'  'Epstein gets this one.'"
[obits]/019 Ryan says, "Margaret Thatcher!"
[obits]/020 Bishop says, "Huh, didn't know she could die."
[obits]/021 Matthew says, "Yeah, I just saw that."
[obits]/022 Matthew says, "Hrm, now I'm seeing stuff saying that's not right."
[obits]/023 Ellison says, "wow"
[obits]/024 jenrexrode exclaims, "noooooo!"
[obits]/025 Ryan | http://isthatcherdeadyet.co.uk/
[obits]/026 Ryan says, "Conflicting reports!"
[obits]/027 Gunther | How will you be celebrating?
[obits]/028 Gunther says, "I've so many other people on the to-celebrate list"
[obits]/029 jenrexrode says, "oh, I was saying no about Horshack"
[obits]/030 Ryan says, "Aw, retracted."
[obits]/031 boucher says, ".daed t'nsi hctiw eht ,gnod gniD"
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[obits] Rob says, "so people on facebook are saying that the guy who played Epstein also died recently, but I didn't hear that at all"
[food] boucher says, " http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3v0061FU1A "
[food] vimes says, "the kitchenaid attachment has the advantage that it more or less actually works"
[food] jenrexrode says (to vimes), "heh heh heh"
[food] vimes says, "but we've given all those up in favor of a good mandoline"
[obits] Rob says, "thatcher rumor? huh"
[food] boucher says, "But yeah, it's more or less a handheld barrel-style food processor"
[food] jenrexrode says, "i don't have a good mandoline, but I do have the Amazing Discoveries whatzit"
[food] jenrexrode says, "including the Ask Mike video"
[obits] Rob says, "elvis costello has a caustic song from 1988 whose chorus ends with 'and when they finally put you in the ground/ I'll stand on your grave and tamp the dirt down'"
[obits] Rob says, "later he said oh yeah that's about thatcher"
[movie] Rob says, "it's pretty good in IMA"
[movie] Rob says, "er IMAX"
[kitties] jenrexrode says, "argh, sand kats turn into bourne legacy if you don't close the window"
[movie] Rob says, "since they shot 10 or 20 percent of it in that format so it looks full and crisp and bright and detailed"
[movie] Rob says, "also, the sound mix in an IMAX theater is stunning"
[obvious] Gunther | Attorney: Gunman in shootout had 'mental issues'
[movie] Rob says, "almost ear-ringing kind of 'ow I'm literally stunned' but still"
Recapping 61 of 61 lines from media/movies/movie:
[movie]/001 Allen | "The film 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High' was released 30 years ago today..."
[movie]/002 Allen | "... and if there's a better line reading in the history of American cinema than Sean Penn's 'You dick' to Mr. Hand, I don't think I know it."
[movie]/003 Allen | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ektZ_RC1VL8
[movie]/004 Gunther says, "guess who. http://www.bing.com/th?id=AbxOjCBrmLxuJHg306x306&bn=SANGAM&pid=13.1 "
[movie]/005 Gunther says, "hint: <ear-splitting scream>"
[movie]/006 Fang asks, "sarah palin?"
[movie]/007 Ryan asks, "Wilhelm?"
[movie]/008 Gunther says, "ear-splitting, not overused"
[movie]/009 Ryan says, "I have no idea what you're getting at."
[movie]/010 Gunther says, "Newt, from Aliens"
[movie]/011 Fang says, "what"
[movie]/012 Fang says, "that's... wow"
[movie]/013 Fang says, "also, fuck you for making me use bing"
[movie]/014 Matthew says, "BING BING BING GOES THE INTERNET BING BING BING GOES THE INTERNET"
[movie]/015 Matthew | It's the kind of revelation that would melt the face of any die-hard Indiana Jones fan (this time, with joy): "Raiders of the Lost Ark," the 1981 adventure film that introduced that globetrotting archaeologist, will receive a one-week Imax release next month, Lucasfilm said on Tuesday.
[movie]/016 Matthew says, "Supposedly they're enhancing the audio but not making any other non-IMAX changes.  In which case, I don't think this sounds like a bad idea."
[movie]/017 Matthew says, "I'm trying to think if I've ever seen a movie in IMAX.  I honestly don't know.  But this one I would see."
[movie]/018 inky asks, "have you seen the one about beavers? or the one about fish?"
[movie]/019 Gunther asks, "if it's not made for IMAX what's the point?"
[movie]/020 Matthew says (to Gunther), "I don't quite get what you mean."
[movie]/021 Gunther says, "it's just a bigger screen"
[movie]/022 Gunther says, "not filmed in IMAX"
[movie]/023 Gunther says, "so I fail to see the point"
[movie]/024 Matthew says (to Gunther), "I assume they're re-rendering it for IMAX."
[movie]/025 Gunther says, "also I bet it says "Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark""
[movie]/026 Matthew says, "...point."
[movie]/027 Matthew says, "Anyway, regardless, I love this movie, and would probably want to see it live in a theater regardless.  I never have."
[movie]/028 Matthew says, "I remember when my parents went to see it originally, but I was too young to go with them."
[movie]/029 Matthew says, "Has anyone seen The Dark Knight Rises in IMAX?  I loved the movie, but I can't think what in it would be enhanced by IMAX."
[movie]/030 inky says, "imagine batman's nose, six feet long"
[movie]/031 Matthew says, "I have a friend who saw the last movie in IMAX almost 20 times, so I could probably ask him whether it makes a big difference."
[movie]/032 inky says, "wow"
[movie]/033 Grocible says, "I saw the second raiders movie in the theatre"
[movie]/034 Grocible says, "and hated it"
[movie]/035 Grocible says, "all the casual racism was so repugnant"
[movie]/036 Matthew says (to Grocible), "Er, I meant the second Batman movie."
[movie]/037 Matthew says, "(Sorry if that wasn't clear.)"
[movie]/038 Grocible says, "it was also so charmless"
[movie]/039 Grocible says, "oh sorry - thought the topic was still Raiders"
[movie]/040 Matthew says, "I moved to a new topic faster than a flying rat, sorry."
[movie]/041 McMartin says, "It gave us a useful character in LEGO indiana jones; the obnoxious lady where all the buttons are 'scream uselessly'"
[movie]/042 inky says, "ha ha"
[movie]/043 McMartin says, "Until you get the powerup for her and then her screams can shatter glass and skulls"
[movie]/044 Grocible says, "karen allen's character was at least spunky"
[movie]/045 Matthew says, "I would not run to see Temple of Doom in a movie theater, no."
[movie]/046 McMartin says, "I like the one where it turns out his dad is James Bond"
[movie]/047 inky says, "that doesn't work!"
[movie]/048 inky says, "indiana jones could be james bond's dad, though"
[movie]/049 McMartin says, "It's well established that James Bond is a Time Lord"
[movie]/050 Grocible says, "a bitter angry one"
[movie]/051 inky says, "awesome"
[movie]/052 Grocible says, "it was hilarious seeing him at work"
[movie]/053 Grocible says, "he was like all thespian-like"
[movie]/054 Grocible says, "Ah. So this Computer is BROKEN. Well then! It shall have to be REPLACED!"
[movie]/055 K-Y says, "so basically, anyone famous in the UK you haven't seen at work yet we can assume uses Windows"
[movie]/056 Grocible says, "basically"
[movie]/057 Rob says, "it's pretty good in IMA"
[movie]/058 Rob says, "er IMAX"
[movie]/059 Rob says, "since they shot 10 or 20 percent of it in that format so it looks full and crisp and bright and detailed"
[movie]/060 Rob says, "also, the sound mix in an IMAX theater is stunning"
[movie]/061 Rob says, "almost ear-ringing kind of 'ow I'm literally stunned' but still"
Recapped 61 of 61 lines from media/movies/movie.
[obvious] vimes says, "related: http://www.democraticunderground.com/101638596 "
[food] boucher says, "And because I haven't met my Simpsons reference quota for the day, I'm reminded of 'I Can't Believe They Invented It!'"
[obits] jenrexrode says, "Ask Mike died ages ago"
Recapping 30 of 30 lines from alt/vibes/ill:
[ill]/001 GDorn says, "too much coffee, not enough food"
[ill]/002 Rob says, "don't be doin that"
[ill]/003 GDorn twitches.
[ill]/004 jenrexrode says, "cannot bear this pain - waiting for e-mail from clinic for an appointment"
[ill]/005 jenrexrode says, "oww oww oww"
[ill]/006 Tale says, "yikers"
[ill]/007 Tale asks, "What's the matter?"
[ill]/008 jenrexrode says, "hip hurts"
[ill]/009 jenrexrode says, "it's just short of breathtaking."
[ill]/010 jenrexrode says, "when my shoulder hurt, I said no to cortizone shot, but whatever this is, bring it on"
[ill]/011 vimes says, "i've had hip bursitis before"
[ill]/012 vimes says, "cortisone was a brilliant choice"
[ill]/013 jenrexrode says, "I suspect that's what it is"
[ill]/014 jenrexrode says, "it's only in one side"
[ill]/015 vimes says, "hurt like worse hell for a day and a half, then the pain was basically gone"
[ill]/016 vimes asks, "feels like it's several inches in from the point of the hip, and if you could only wring your leg around to the right position, it would feel better?"
[ill]/017 vimes asks, "except the 'right position' seems like it might be "with your leg through your torso"?"
[ill]/018 jenrexrode says, "i'm not sure.  It's in the middle, like the furthest away from where you can ice it"
[ill]/019 vimes says, "yeah, that's the point i'm talking about"
[ill]/020 vimes says, "one cortisone shot, a couple weeks of physical therapy, and six months of rigorously following a stretching exercise every morning and evening, and it's never come back"
[ill]/021 vimes says, "(for me - some people aren't as lucky)"
[ill]/022 jenrexrode says, "cool.  sounds like what I did with my shoulder.  and there's no accident with either one"
[ill]/023 jenrexrode exclaims, "yay, a beep from an e-mail!"
[ill]/024 jenrexrode says, "aiiie - 1pm and it's only 9:22am"
[ill]/025 vimes asks, "is when the doc can see you?"
[ill]/026 jenrexrode says, "yup"
[ill]/027 jenrexrode says, "almost time to go to the doctor"
[ill]/028 vimes says, "woo!"
[ill]/029 jenrexrode says, "and I've got my story straight.  I'm blaming the heat wave from last summer."
[ill]/030 jenrexrode says, "I was moderately productive before that, and have never recovered"
Recapped 30 of 30 lines from alt/vibes/ill.
[food] boucher says, "Such as a pool float for your microwave, a robot doorman to open your doggie door, and a chandelier for your car."
[obits] jenrexrode says, "but my dog won't use the doggie door if someone doesn't open it"
[food] boucher says, "Also, on a separate show, a home sugar cube maker."
[food] vimes says, "being an owner of both cats and dogs, i would very much like a doorman for a doggie door"
[food] vimes says, "and we made sugar cubes once! it was entertaining"
[movie] Rob says, "oh, so recapping farther, hearing a remix of Raiders (which always had *great* sound design) in IMAX would be cool"
[movie] Rob says, "raiders is a fun movie just to listen to"
[food] boucher says, "Well, my aunt and uncle once had a magnetically switchable cat door that only allowed cats in if they had the proper magnetic collar."
Quote added to inky's quotebook.
[movie] Matthew says, "Hrm, I guess I don't know as much about IMAX as I thought."
[movie] Matthew says, "I thought it just had to do with the screen, not the sound."
[movie] Gunther says, "I just got the BDs of Alien and Aliens and those movies have fantastic sound design"
[food] boucher says, "The problem was, they held the door open for the rest of the cats in the neighborhood anyhow"
[movie] Rob says, "it's both"
[movie] Rob says, "it's trying to be the ultimate presentation format"
[food] Jota says, "I guess it's nice that the their cat was friendly."
[food] boucher says, "I did like the experiment in a photorecognition cat door."
[movie] Rob says, "but the speakers are of the highest quality and have huge dynamic range and there's more things they can do about stereo sound placement and such things"
[ill] Rob says, "how did the appointment go"
[food] vimes asks, "which learns to recognize your cat so it can let squirrels in instead?"
[food] boucher says, "It would look at the silhouette and determine if it was a cat.  It managed to exclude dogs, squirrels, spiders, birds....  But it did sometimes have false negatives.  You know, 'Error:  Do not recognize cat butt'"
[food] vimes says, "your cat-like butt called me crying"
[ill] jenrexrode says, "Well I was greeted by the wrong name, then poked, diagnosed with sciatica, then told that Aleve is ibuprofen"
[ill] jenrexrode says, "poked with fingers"
[food] boucher says, "The cat usually just went away a while, figuring it'd done something to anger the door, then came back later and got let in."
[TV] DorianX says, "So Colbert wore his admiral's uniform for the roctaugustfest"
[TV] DorianX asks, "does that make him Admiral The Rev. Sir Dr. Stephen T. Mos Def Colbert DFA, Heavyweight Champion of the World?"
[ill] vimes says, "ibuprofen, which works (in 800mg 3-times-a-day doses) as opposed to naproxen sodium (which gives me a headache)"
[ill] Jota exclaims (at vimes), "You should try taking some Advil for that headache!"
[food] boucher says, "Being fickle creatures themselves, I presume cats generally just assume the world is the same way, so they often don't remember much beyond the moment, I think."
[food] jenrexrode says, "ah, it was called the Super Slicer, and I still have it http://youtu.be/_YF7oDEYB2I "
[movie] Matthew says, "Huh, cool."
[food] boucher says, "They might get a little shy if you repeatedly reinforce something, but generally, a random insult doesn't scar them for long."
[movie] Matthew says, "In that case, I'm looking forward to this even more than I was."
[ill] jenrexrode says, "yeah, but ibuprofen gives me hives, and naproxen sodium does not"
[rant] Gunther says, "#movie in fact, the motion tracker from Aliens has more consistency in its *sound design* than all of Crystal Skull has in anything whatsoever, fuck you Lucas and Spielberg"
[food] boucher says, "Ah. yes.  I remember these"
[food] Jota says, "I dunno. My mother once accidentally kicked her cat off the bed, and it never tried getting up there again."
[ill] Rob says, "hmm"
[food] vimes says, "huh"
[food] boucher says, "Aw, maybe your cat was just unusually sensitive."
[ill] Rob says, "so I guess it doesn't necessarily have to do with what you were saying about bending your leg up and sitting on it while you're at work"
[ill] Rob says, "I was going to recommend maybe you try to learn not to do that if it was the hip that goes with that leg"
[food] Jota says, "Could be."
[ill] jenrexrode says, "ah, could be"
Jota turns into a slimy toad!
</Jota> Thunder rumbles quietly overhead. Jota is gone.
[ill] Rob says, "like if you catch yourself doing it slap your leg and move it down again until the next time you notice it"
[ill] Rob says, "then yell 'hay stop that' at it and slap it again"
[food] boucher says, "It must be embarrassing going to buy a mandoline and accidentally buying a mandolin.  You end up making bad music, and you end up with a mess of unevenly sliced vegetables."
[ill] vimes says, "if your leg is a sensitive cat, it'll only take once"
[ill] jenrexrode asks, "are you merging this with the cat thread on #food?"
[ill] Rob says, "maybe she can shoot her leg with a squirt gun"
[ill] Rob says, "no but it's nicely confluent"
K-Y's apocalyptic flotsam included the emergence of figures of such dazzling dementia as to momentarily mesmerize even thinking people.
K-Y says, "re"
[ill] Rob says, "if that's a word"
[post] K-Y says, "argh"
Rob says, "K-Y"
#misc/post: Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor... STOP LAUGHING.
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[post] Rob says, "hm"
[post] K-Y says, "I take this package to the post office and buy enough postage"
[post] K-Y says, "but can't mail it there because I forgot to seal it"
[weather] Rob says, "whewh"
[post] Rob asks, "they didn't have any kind of tape there?"
[post] K-Y says, "they *sell* tape"
[ill] jenrexrode says, "I suspected as much when Jota and I said "could be" at the same time"
[post] Rob says, "ah blah"
[post] inky says, "buy like six more stamps and use them to seal it"
[post] Rob says, "ha ha"
[post] K-Y says, "so I bring it back and put it in the post box in our building"
[post] K-Y says, "I get back today and it's sitting outside the box with no explanation"
[weather] jenrexrode says, "#dreams I had a dream that it got cold all of the sudden and we needed jackets"
[post] Rob says, "sometimes what the post offices here have is 'priority mail' tape so if you use that you are pretty much locked into using priority mail rates. although they're fixed"
[post] Rob says, "garh"
[weather] jenrexrode says, "then I woke up and it was 102 or whatever"
[post] Rob says, "you will have to truck yourself back to the post office again"
[post] K-Y says, "yes"
[weather] Rob says, "brr"
[post] inky says, "some places you can't mail things that weigh more than X pounds"
[post] K-Y says, "this is less than one pound"
[food] boucher says, "That's me in the corner.  That's me at my cooktop, messing up my kitchen."
[food] Rob says, "heh"
Quotations:
boucher (quoted by inky, 14-Aug-12):
  [beer] boucher says, "'I allege that the President dabbles in the dark arts of...Zymurgy!'  And all the good Christians of the nation gasp and say, 'I knew it!'"
inky (quoted by Rob, 14-Aug-12):
  [movie] inky says, "imagine batman's nose, six feet long"
Recapping 13 of 13 lines from food/beer:
[beer]/001 inky says, "uh-oh, news that could potentially tip Allen's vote in a critical race"
[beer]/002 inky | http://blogs.desmoinesregister.com/dmr/index.php/2012/08/14/revealed-the-president-brews-his-own-beer-and-brings-it-with-him-on-the-road/
[beer]/003 Allen asks, "ha, really?"
[beer]/004 Fang says, "haha"
[beer]/005 boucher says, "And here I thought 'President's Choice' was just a crappy store brand cola."
[beer]/006 boucher says, "They could spin this against him, though."
[beer]/007 inky says, "ha ha"
[beer]/008 Ryan says, ""Too good to drink what the rest of us drink," etc."
[beer]/009 boucher says, "'I allege that the President dabbles in the dark arts of...Zymurgy!'  And all the good Christians of the nation gasp and say, 'I knew it!'"
[beer]/010 inky says, "president's choice is actually a whole family of brands"
[beer]/011 inky says, "hee hee"
[beer]/012 boucher says, "Yeah, I know.  I like their chocolate, actually."
[beer]/013 boucher says, "I just mostly associate it with their cola for some reason"
Recapped 13 of 13 lines from food/beer.
[post] K-Y says, "anyway, this time I get return receipt requested *and* insurance"
[quotebooks] Rob says, "heh boucher quote"
[post] inky asks, "is it more than 13 ounces?"
[quotebooks] Rob says, "also points just for using the word zymurgy"
[post] Rob says, "is it bigger than a bread box"
[ill] jenrexrode says, "while I was picking up the candied ginger, I also got some healing baguettes, dips, and a slice of healing carrot cake"
[ill] Rob asks, "healing baguettes?"
[ill] vimes says, "mmm, healing dip"
[ill] Rob says, "what magical marvel are these"
[ill] jenrexrode says, "sure, why not"
[ill] Rob says, "oh I get it"
[post] K-Y says, "what, does your mailman carry a scale around on the job"
[ill] Rob says, "sure why not"
[weather] Allen says, "huh, it's 104 outside"
[weather] Rob says, "yeah"
[weather] Allen says, "when I came home it seemed cooler."
[weather] Allen says, "I didn't think it was more than 96"
[weather] Rob says, "I was just taking my dad to the airport, and the radio said it was 101, but the car's external-temp thermometer said it was 104"
[weather] Rob says, "I used to have this sense of when it was over 100 because the heat felt 'crispy' to me (I dunno, it always seemed like the right word to use) but I'm not getting that sensation lately"
[weather] Rob says, "maybe it's too humid to feel crispy"
[ill] jenrexrode says, "I could only find raw ginger at Sprouts, 32 cent, but I'm gonna have to be more healed before I slave over the stove making my own candied ginger cure"
[post] K-Y says, "and now I have to hope that the postmarked date being within the warranty period is sufficient even if the receipt date is not"
[weather] Rob says, "colorado was incredibly dry and it's good to be back in the moist air again"
[weather] jenrexrode says, "more maintenence, I guess"
[post] Rob says, "oh, that's what you're sending"
[ill] vimes asks, "man, they didn't have candied ginger in the bulk section?"
[ill] vimes says, "crazy"
[ill] Rob says, "ginger seriously helps with sciatica? that's interesting to know"
[ill] jenrexrode says, "I cruised them all twice, and nothing"
[ill] jenrexrode says, "well that's what the internet sez"
[ill] Rob says, "I remember some half decade back liza saying she had sciatica and it bothered her when riding her bicycle"
[ill] Rob says, "well it's certainly worth a shot"
[ill] Rob says, "and can't hurt"
[ill] jenrexrode says, "nope"
[ill] Rob says, "and no creepy side effects"
[ill] vimes says, "and it's yummy"
[ill] Rob says, "that too"
[ill] Rob says, "or that three"
Gunther, Geoffrey, and Shamino all represented various aspects of Garriott: his ego, his ego, and his ego, respectively
</Gunther> I can't even bring myself to leave these forums because I feel like I'd be doing the world a great disservice by not criticizing this game at every possible opportunity I can.
[beer] Allen says, "ok, this new (for Texas) dogfish head is great"
[beer] Allen says, "Festina Peche"
[beer] jenrexrode says, "gimme"
[beer] Allen says, "it's a rare berliner weisse style beer with peach flavor"
[beer] Rob says, "is there actually a fish called dogfish"
[beer] Allen says, "but it's not sweet at all"
[politics] Fang says, "haha http://i.imgur.com/dZvo4.jpg "
[beer] Rob says, "the frog and peach"
[beer] Allen asks (of Rob), "yeah. Don't you know Rock Lobster?"
[beer] Allen says, "'There goes a dogfish. Chased by a catfish'"
[beer] Rob says (to jen), "have a ginger beer instead"
[beer] jenrexrode says, "gimme"
[beer] Rob says, "lobster magnet"
[beer] Rob says, "hee hee"
[beer] Allen says, "anyway, it's not a sweet beer. It's got a lactic tartness"
[beer] Rob says, "lactic eh"
[beer] Allen says, "lactic acid tartness"
[beer] Allen says, "not lactic like milk"
[beer] Rob says, "what makes a tartness lactic instead of some other acidic"
[beer] jenrexrode says, "but that sounds like it will hurt my sciatica"
[movie] McMartin says, "IMAX is never a step down"
[beer] Allen says, "it's a byproduct of some fermentations"
[beer] jenrexrode says, "the cyclists in the tour de France have massages to get the lactic acid out of their muscles"
[food] boucher says, "Actually, I notice the people who bought the Rotato also bought the '7" Rotating Disco Ball Light'"
[movie] Rob says, "for a while austin just had this one IMAX theater (better than having none) in the Texas History Museum"
[beer] Allen says, "lactic acid bacteria produce it"
[food] boucher says, "Maybe there are just people who are fans of rotating things."
[food] boucher says, "If it turns, they must have it."
[beer] Allen says, "anyway, this tastes like peaches, but it's not peachy sweet. Instead, it's very tart and refreshing"
[beer] jenrexrode says, "yum"
[movie] Rob says, "but a multiplex in a mall that's a few minutes from my house converted their Auditorium #1 to be an IMAX theater"
[food] Fang says, "how apropos, fans are rotating things"
[movie] Rob says, "it's smaller than the museum one, but I guess is certified to be up to IMAX specifications, and has the projector and all the sound system"
[movie] Rob says, "and it's a few minutes from my house! so it's a better deal"
[movie] Rob says, "also the museum had a really labyrinthine ticket buying process (if you used the website to pre-purchase) and the multiplex doesn't"
[movie] Rob says, "(barton creek mall theater, for anyone in austin who cares)"
[webtv] DorianX says, "So the latest Nostalgia Critic has doug going on a weird and angry rant about how empty and horrible his life is"
[beer] Rob says, "what was it called again? dogfish somethingorother"
[beer] inky asks, "head?"
[beer] Allen says, "Dogfish Head"
[beer] Rob says, "hmm"
[webtv] DorianX says, "Given Spoony's ultima 9 thing, I am wondering if this is some weird lead-up thing for the anniversary"
[robmumble] Rob says, "sort of tangent from #webtv"
[webtv] Matthew asks, "What anniversary?"
[beer] Allen | http://www.dogfish.com/brews-spirits/the-brews/seasonal-brews/festina-peche.htm
[beer] Allen says, "this comes in a 4-pack"
[Austin] jenrexrode says, "I drove past that Kome Japanese restaurant today.  It's in a pretty amazing place, I think.  2 doors down from Mrs Johnson's Bakery.  like maybe where they used to sell the used washingmachines?  Or maybe that's still nearby"
[food] boucher says, "Shopping kitchen gadgets on Amazon always exposes me to things I never knew existed."
[webtv] DorianX says, "The Channel Awesome 4th anniverasary special is airing soon"
[webtv] inky says, "the ultima 9 ending was kind of weird"
[food] boucher says, "Like cast-iron bacon weights, to keep your bacon from curling"
[robmumble] Rob says, "I occasionally have this idea that there are movies and tv series I want to review in a kind of video blog review format, where I talk about them on camera and intersperse with clips from the things if I can find clips of them, for 4 to 6 minutes"
[beer] Allen | In addition to fermentation with an ale yeast, Berliner Weisse is traditionally fermented with lactic cultures to produce its acidic (or green apple-like) character.
[webtv] Matthew says, "I liked it."
[robmumble] Rob says, "then I think well that's a lot of hassle and trouble oh well"
[robmumble] Rob says, "then I think hm it'd be fun to do this a few times and then I swing back the other way of not doing it"
[webtv] inky says, "like it was hard not to feel like the bit right before the ending was the real thing about his life and the very last bit was the made up thing"
[food] boucher says, "I guess I'm just not enough of a foodie to get exposed to this stuff."
DavidW arrives from the east.
[movie] jenrexrode asks, "they don't call it barton creek square mall theater anymore?"
[robmumble] Rob says, "I still don't have my whole blogging situation settled and figured out enough to do things like this"
[webtv] Matthew says, "Yeah."
[food] boucher says, "Or a Pancake Batter Dispenser.  To allow you to pour batter from a flour-sifter like cup, so as to better have perfectly poured pancakes."
[Austin] jenrexrode says, "but I say amazing, because they are gentrifying a really weird rundown place on Airport Blvd"
[robmumble] Rob says, "I wish I had a setup that was a lot more solid and stable and all set to go if I wanted to impulsively post something, but somehow I've gotten myself into a situation of a bunch of only-halfway-there type setups"
[food] inky says, "hmm"
Recapping 6 of 6 lines from misc/places/Austin:
[Austin]/001 jenrexrode says, "I'll have to get a poster of the 1873 map when I decorate my house"
[Austin]/002 Allen says, "Rob should totally draw another map from the same point of view, with the modern street names and appropriately funny labels on buildings and stuff"
[Austin]/003 Allen says, "and then he should etsy it!"
[Austin]/004 Allen says, "it might be even more profitable than selling art of girls with big eyes and cat ears"
[Austin]/005 jenrexrode says, "I drove past that Kome Japanese restaurant today.  It's in a pretty amazing place, I think.  2 doors down from Mrs Johnson's Bakery.  like maybe where they used to sell the used washingmachines?  Or maybe that's still nearby"
[Austin]/006 jenrexrode says, "but I say amazing, because they are gentrifying a really weird rundown place on Airport Blvd"
Recapped 6 of 6 lines from misc/places/Austin.
Recapping 87 of 87 lines from food/food:
[food]/001 DorianX says, "Looking for recipe ideas for chia seeds"
[food]/002 DorianX says, "Most of what Ive found so far is from the hippy dippy raw-food types"
[food]/003 Gunther says, "plant in trash can"
[food]/004 DorianX says, "Dylan loves them"
[food]/005 DorianX says, "THough I'm not sure we'll be giving him any more since he probably can't digest them properly"
[food]/006 DorianX says, "You add water to them and they form a gel."
[food]/007 DorianX says, "sort of like poppyseeds in strawberry gel. Only powerfully bland"
[food]/008 BrenBarn | I told my server I wanted my buffalo freshly dead. I told her I wanted to combine two different burgers and make it my own. I said to her CAN I PLEASE BE A PAIN IN THE ASS WITH THIS and she told me to to go for it with a smile.
[food]/009 jenrexrode says, "hey, this yoplait greek is almost as good as the Liberte coconut yogurt"
[food]/010 Whizzard says, "I really like the chobani yogurt."
[food]/011 jenrexrode says, "I haven't tried them"
[food]/012 Gunther says, "yosploitation"
[food]/013 jenrexrode says, "the last time I tried a yoplait greek, I think it was claiming 2x calcium, so it was all gritty with the added calcium"
[food]/014 jenrexrode says, "I accidentally picked up the orange juice with added calcium.  I drank it for a week, then replaced it with plain orange juice."
[food]/015 Whizzard says, "Chobani is just nice. It's thick and has a nice short ingredient list."
[food]/016 Johnny asks, "Pulp?"
[food]/017 jenrexrode says, "yeah, I like a short ingredient list"
[food]/018 jenrexrode says, "no pulp"
[food]/019 Johnny says, "what's the point then"
[food]/020 jenrexrode asks, "I like it?"
[food]/021 jenrexrode says, "but I add water to it,too"
[food]/022 boucher says, "There's an automatic peeler call a 'Rotato'"
[food]/023 boucher says, "Rotato."
[food]/024 boucher says, "called*"
[food]/025 katre says, "at least it's not a brotato"
[food]/026 boucher says, "Actually, this is the Rotato *Express*: http://www.amazon.com/Starfrit-93209-Rotato-Express-Electric/dp/B000X9EPT0/ "
[food]/027 boucher says, "For those not content with a standard Rotato"
[food]/028 vimes | Peels potatoes. fruits and vegetables instantly at the push of a button
[food]/029 vimes says, "instantly"
[food]/030 boucher says, "Plus, you can get this bundled with a set of Rotato Blades"
[food]/031 boucher says, "For when your Rotato gets dull."
[food]/032 katre says, "I have an automatic peeler... I married her HAR HAR HAR"
[food]/033 vimes asks, "how could something as incredible as the rotato ever get dull?"
[food]/034 vimes asks, "also, why has nobody made this into a Mr. Potato Head horror movie yet?"
[food]/035 Gunther says (to vimes), "gary larson"
[food]/036 Gunther says, "also I see that and raise you http://www.pearl.at/images/large/pe4873_2_7.jpg "
[food]/037 boucher says, "I am reminded now of the Red Dwarf potato-peeling sketch"
[food]/038 vimes says (to gunther), "i think that was potato *bugs*"
[food]/039 vimes | http://cdn.buzznet.com/assets/users16/bizarreland/default/comic-monday-night-potato-bugs--large-msg-133092738417.jpg
[food]/040 boucher says, "Yeah, I've seen the spiral-cutters."
[food]/041 Gunther says (to vimes), "there must've been 2"
[food]/042 jenrexrode | Steam punk version http://footage.shutterstock.com/clip-693166-stock-footage-a-primitive-prototype-hand-cranked-apple-peeler-removes-the-skin-from-a-red-braeburn-apple.html
[food]/043 boucher says, "I don't think there's a kitchen large enough to hold ever 'amazing kitchen gadget' ever made."
[food]/044 boucher says, "And until a few days ago, Gunther didn't even know what a Salad Shooter was, which is a shame, because it combines the fun of the old west with the excitement of slicing vegetables."
[food]/045 Allen says, "intellectually I know what a salad shooter is, but I've never seen one in action"
[food]/046 jenrexrode says, "I have an attachment for my kitchenaid that does that, but it doesn't have the over-the-bowl capability of the real salad shooter."
[food]/047 jenrexrode says, "my grandmother bought me one once, but I returned it for [something less memorable]"
[food]/048 boucher says, " http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3v0061FU1A "
[food]/049 vimes says, "the kitchenaid attachment has the advantage that it more or less actually works"
[food]/050 jenrexrode says (to vimes), "heh heh heh"
[food]/051 vimes says, "but we've given all those up in favor of a good mandoline"
[food]/052 boucher says, "But yeah, it's more or less a handheld barrel-style food processor"
[food]/053 jenrexrode says, "i don't have a good mandoline, but I do have the Amazing Discoveries whatzit"
[food]/054 jenrexrode says, "including the Ask Mike video"
[food]/055 boucher says, "And because I haven't met my Simpsons reference quota for the day, I'm reminded of 'I Can't Believe They Invented It!'"
[food]/056 boucher says, "Such as a pool float for your microwave, a robot doorman to open your doggie door, and a chandelier for your car."
[food]/057 boucher says, "Also, on a separate show, a home sugar cube maker."
[food]/058 vimes says, "being an owner of both cats and dogs, i would very much like a doorman for a doggie door"
[food]/059 vimes says, "and we made sugar cubes once! it was entertaining"
[food]/060 boucher says, "Well, my aunt and uncle once had a magnetically switchable cat door that only allowed cats in if they had the proper magnetic collar."
[food]/061 boucher says, "The problem was, they held the door open for the rest of the cats in the neighborhood anyhow"
[food]/062 Jota says, "I guess it's nice that the their cat was friendly."
[food]/063 boucher says, "I did like the experiment in a photorecognition cat door."
[food]/064 vimes asks, "which learns to recognize your cat so it can let squirrels in instead?"
[food]/065 boucher says, "It would look at the silhouette and determine if it was a cat.  It managed to exclude dogs, squirrels, spiders, birds....  But it did sometimes have false negatives.  You know, 'Error:  Do not recognize cat butt'"
[food]/066 vimes says, "your cat-like butt called me crying"
[food]/067 boucher says, "The cat usually just went away a while, figuring it'd done something to anger the door, then came back later and got let in."
[food]/068 boucher says, "Being fickle creatures themselves, I presume cats generally just assume the world is the same way, so they often don't remember much beyond the moment, I think."
[food]/069 jenrexrode says, "ah, it was called the Super Slicer, and I still have it http://youtu.be/_YF7oDEYB2I "
[food]/070 boucher says, "They might get a little shy if you repeatedly reinforce something, but generally, a random insult doesn't scar them for long."
[food]/071 boucher says, "Ah. yes.  I remember these"
[food]/072 Jota says, "I dunno. My mother once accidentally kicked her cat off the bed, and it never tried getting up there again."
[food]/073 vimes says, "huh"
[food]/074 boucher says, "Aw, maybe your cat was just unusually sensitive."
[food]/075 Jota says, "Could be."
[food]/076 boucher says, "It must be embarrassing going to buy a mandoline and accidentally buying a mandolin.  You end up making bad music, and you end up with a mess of unevenly sliced vegetables."
[food]/077 boucher says, "That's me in the corner.  That's me at my cooktop, messing up my kitchen."
[food]/078 Rob says, "heh"
[food]/079 boucher says, "Actually, I notice the people who bought the Rotato also bought the '7" Rotating Disco Ball Light'"
[food]/080 boucher says, "Maybe there are just people who are fans of rotating things."
[food]/081 boucher says, "If it turns, they must have it."
[food]/082 Fang says, "how apropos, fans are rotating things"
[food]/083 boucher says, "Shopping kitchen gadgets on Amazon always exposes me to things I never knew existed."
[food]/084 boucher says, "Like cast-iron bacon weights, to keep your bacon from curling"
[food]/085 boucher says, "I guess I'm just not enough of a foodie to get exposed to this stuff."
[food]/086 boucher says, "Or a Pancake Batter Dispenser.  To allow you to pour batter from a flour-sifter like cup, so as to better have perfectly poured pancakes."
[food]/087 inky says, "hmm"
Recapped 87 of 87 lines from food/food.
[food] inky says, "I feel like foodies and people who buy kitchen gadgets are distinct but overlapping sets"
[food] Rob says, "oops #food recap was 20 times longer than I was expecting"
[food] inky says, "it's #food all the way up"
[Austin] Rob recaps
[Austin] Rob says, "hm yeah doing a modern austin map like that would be lucrative"
[food] DavidW says, "And I just ate dinner!"
[food] jenrexrode says (to boucher), "but they aleady have the batter blaster, to get you batter faster"
[Austin] Rob says, "drawing a lot of tediously detailed things is totally not my groove though, unfortunately"
[food] boucher says, "Hamburger Press, for people who are unable to make a perfectly round hamburger by hand, but somehow are incapable of standing anything other than a perfectly round hamburger."
[food] jenrexrode | http://www.batterblaster.com/
[Austin] Rob says, "I'm much better at spontaneous freewheeling art than the kind of discipline drawing a map takes"
[Austin] Rob says, "but maybe it'd be worth it as a (time+labor+whatever) investment"
[food] boucher says, "Yes, it's considerably messier than one would expect."
[food] DavidW says, "I'm lucky if I remember I own a whisk."
[food] Allen says, "I never manage to make a perfectly round, or even mostly round pizza"
[food] inky asks, "how about a whale?"
[food] Allen says, "I'm happy with mishapen burgers"
[Austin] jenrexrode says, "I have an old ad like that frame around here somewhere"
[food] DavidW says (to inky), "I own no whales."
[food] Rob says, "this reminds me of my cousin's wedding-amazon-gift-list, which had specialized strawberry cutters and other kitchen gadget ephemera which were strange to encounter"
[food] Allen says, "I'm not sure if I have anything that constitutes a genuine gadget"
[food] boucher says, "A Mickey Mouse-shaped egg ring, for people who want every breakfast to be like a trip to Disneyland."
[food] inky says, "I have a tube for removing the skin from garlic"
[food] Allen asks, "does a rice cooker?"
[food] inky says, "that is kind of gadgety"
[food] DavidW says, "I haven't used my blender for over ten years."
[food] jenrexrode says, "hey, I was looking for the round egg rings last night, so I can make my own egg mcmuffins"
[way-secret] Rob says, "hey"
[food] Allen says, "I have a small kitchen. I've never had a big kitchen"
[way-secret] inky says, "hello rob how are you"
[way-secret] Rob says, "I'm fine !"
[food] boucher says, "Also, the Amazon 'people also bought' list does reveal something fairly disturbing."
[food] Allen says, "oh! I have a spaetzle maker!"
[way-secret] Rob says, "actually I am doing pretty good"
[food] Allen says, "and when making spaetzle, it's very handy"
[way-secret] inky says, "that is good to hear"
[food] boucher says, "People who buy kitchen gadgets are also apparently disproportionately interested in storage for their guns"
[way-secret] Rob says, "I had this idea I was going to pitch to you when I saw you in person but various channel topics are making me think of it right now so I'm going to go ahead and mention it"
[food] DavidW says, "Last night, one of my roommate's wanted to make cheesecake. He found the ring but not the metal plate it fits to, so he ended up using just an ordinary lasagna pan instead."
[food] boucher asks, "I mean, nothing says breakfast like a Plano Protector Four Pistol Case, am I right?"
[food] Matthew recaps.  "I've gotten into the habit of always buying Cook's Illustrated's recommended kitchen tools.  I guess that's not quite the same thing as gadgets, but it's pretty expensive.  Like, I think I paid $10 or so for measuring spoons, which to me sounds like a lot.  I mean, they're very good, but."
[food] Allen says, "in fact, I think this is the one I have: http://spaetzlemaker.net/wp-content/uploads/spaetzle-maker-3.jpg "
[food] jenrexrode says, "but that looks like a food mill"
[food] DavidW says, "(I don't even know what spaetzle is. New word!)"
[food] boucher says, "I suppose maybe some people need to go out and shoot their meal first.  I mean, if you really want fresh meat."
[food] Allen says (to DavidW), "they're little soft dumplings popular in central europe"
[way-secret] Rob says, "I had this idea that a nice wedding gift would be to do some kind of portrait of you and hannah, probably by taking a photo of you two and then digitally painting it until it looks like a painting, and then it could even be printed on canvas with the tech they have these days"
[food] boucher says, "Or just scare the eggs right out of your hen"
[food] Allen says, "very nice with the right sauce or gravy"
[food] DavidW says, "ah"
[food] jenrexrode asks (of Allen), "does it have more discs?"
[way-secret] inky says, "oh hunh"
[way-secret] Rob says, "anyway, that's the concept, you may discuss"
[food] Allen asks, "the maker?"
[food] jenrexrode says, "yeah"
[food] Allen says, "it's just a thing that forces the dough through the holes"
[food] Allen says, "no"
[books] Matthew says, "Huh, a book called Murder Must Advertise.  I have no idea if it's a good book, but I really like the title."
[food] jenrexrode says, "like this http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/product.asp?SKU=11951627 "
[food] boucher says, " http://www.beewatec.de/en/projects/spaetzle-shooter/ "
<Guest1> Who is this squarish, laconic new inmate, the fish ask themselves.
[food] Allen says, "oh, no"
[food] Rob says, "hee spaetzle-shooter"
[food] jenrexrode exclaims (at boucher), "you and your circular convos!"
[food] Allen says, "it's specifically a spaetzle maker"
[food] Allen says, "with no other alternative things"
[way-secret] inky says, "well it seems swell to me"
[food] jenrexrode says, "i looks like it's the same maker, they match"
</Guest1> Well THAT was certainly... interesting.
[way-secret] Rob says, "yeah well talk it over with her and then stuff and such and things and maybe something cool appears"
[way-secret] inky says, "hee hee"
[way-secret] inky says, "sounds good!"
[way-secret] Rob says, "ok!"
[food] baf says, "I've got a break machine that I was given back when bread machines were new and popular. I haven't used it in years, but that's mostly because I've been trying to lose weight for years, and I know full well that if I used the bread machine I would eat entire loaves of bread at a sitting."
[way-secret] Rob says, "that is all"
[books] inky says, "it is a good booK!"
[food] DavidW says, "hm. Man cannot live by bread alone, but I suppose it could be fun trying."
[books] Rob asks, "what's a good book?"
[books] inky says, "it is about a guy who goes undercover at an advertising agency to track down a killer and also a weird drug-smuggling gang"
[food] jenrexrode says, "that's why I've abandoned my kitchenaid mixer.  It's good for cookies, bread, and meatballs."
[food] DavidW says, "At least for a couple days."
[books] inky says, "Murder Must Advertise"
[food] Allen says, "oh, went and looked. I have a bottle capper and a corker"
[food] Rob says, "I remember being about 5 years old and watching The Electric Company and they had a joke that went: 'Man cannot live by bread alone. It must have peanut butter on it.'"
[books] maga says, "I was not hugely impressed by it, after being told by everybody that it was awesome"
[books] inky says, "ha ha"
[food] boucher says, "I lived by bread once.  It got buttered and kept me up all night with loud music and parties."
[food] Rob says, "and I still remember that even though I didn't even know what they were riffing on back when I saw it"
[books] maga says, "although possibly it's just not my genre"
[food] Rob says, "actually maybe it wasn't even the electric company, I just remember it that way"
[books] inky says, "I can believe it wouldn't really be your thing, yeah"
[books] (from Matthew) maga says, "I much prefer the modeling agency murder genre"
[food] boucher says, "Children's television is often too clever for its own good and teaches kids all sorts of strange things the only understand decades later."
[books] inky says, "like you would probably be more into thus was adonis murdered if anything"
[food] boucher says, "Like I shared that Cookie Monster parody of Call Me Maybe earlier.  I'd be unsurprised to learn many kids think that's the original and will much later think, hey, that girl ripped off Cookie Monster."
[food] inky says, "weird"
[food] inky says, "this site attributes the quote to james a garfield"
[food] baf says, "I recall an interview with Jay Ward (creator of Bullwinkle) in which he described visiting a college campus and having someone come up to him and say 'I only found out last week that there's an opera called Boris Gutenov!'"
[food] boucher asks, "Oh, you mean the president named after a comic strip cat?"
[food] inky says, "hee hee"
[pedant] Matthew says, "#food So tempting, but I don't know Bullwinkle well enough to know if the misspelling is right for that."
[housing] jenrexrode says, "the bad thing about the programmable thermostat is that it doesn't know when you stay home sick. I had to hobble across the house to stop it from letting the temp get up to 85."
[puzzles] Rob says, "acrostic puzzle today had clue: 'Lover of Apollo, killed trying to catch a discus'"
[puzzles] Rob says, "ow snap"
[puzzles] Allen says, "Ultimate was a dangerous game in those days"
[puzzles] Rob says, "started with H, my first guess based on the number of letters was Hyperion, but that was clearly wrong"
[puzzles] Rob says, "actual answer is the name of a flower"
[housing] jenrexrode says, "hyacinth"
[housing] jenrexrode says, "whhops"
[puzzles] Rob says (to jen), "bing !"
[puzzles] DavidW asks, "Oh, so it wasn't Hernia?"
[puzzles] jenrexrode says, "ha ha ha"
[puzzles] Allen says, "oh oh oh oh I know!"
[puzzles] Allen says, "Hydiscus!"
[puzzles] Rob says, "heh"
[puzzles] inky says, "hooray"
[puzzles] Rob says, "Dohdiscus"
[puzzles] DavidW says, "heh"
<Jota> Black lightning pierces your mind for an instant.
[ill] jenrexrode exclaims, "argh, I don't know what the forbidden position is!"
Jota arrives from the east.
jenrexrode says, "re"
Jota greets.
[puzzles] Rob says, "I have never read anything about the mythic Hyacinth"
[puzzles] Rob says, "I guess I might look on wikipedia now that I'm talking abou tit"
Rob greets Jota-o
[quotations] Matthew | Nicolas Cage's hairline makes me think "Face Off" was filmed without special effects.'
[ill] Jota says, "The Kama Sutra could probably give you a few possibilities."
Jota greets Rob-E.
[puzzles] DavidW says, "I think I have heard of her but completely forgotten everything."
[puzzles] Rob puzzles over Rob-E as a response to Jota-o
[puzzles] Rob says, "there must be a logic to it"
[puzzles] Rob says, "but I can't quite grasp it yet"
[jobs] Matthew says, "So I asked the EIC if I should book the trip to San Francisco, even given that I'm waiting to hear back about the editor job, and he said to do it."
[puzzles] Jota says, "If you figure it out, let me know what it is too."
[jobs] Matthew asks, "So does this mean I'm out of contention for the other job?"
[puzzles] Allen says, "oh here's a painting of Hyacinth and some other guy, and also a balloon animal: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/The_Death_of_Hyacinthos.gif/170px-The_Death_of_Hyacinthos.gif "
[puzzles] Rob says, "ok"
[jobs] inky says, "no, but it does mean you aren't the only pick"
[puzzles] Rob says, "wow sexy"
[ill] jenrexrode says, "#TSD also it's not easy to elevate the hip"
[puzzles] Rob says, "maybe I should draw my own version of this as something fun-creative to do tonight"
[ill] Rob says, "tsd"
[ill] Rob says, "elevating the hips is the move women make when you're taking off their underwear"
[ill] jenrexrode says, "I think Conan does that, too"
[ill] Rob says, "... so I hear"
[ill] Rob says, "ha ha"
[ill] Rob says, "I hope you don't mean Conan O'Brien !"
[ill] jenrexrode says, "yes, I do - see String Dance"
[ill] Rob says, "eeeee"
[ill] Rob says, "no thanks"
[ill] Rob says, "I find Conan O'Brien kinda skeezy"
[ill] Rob says, "oh but I know what conan's string hips dance thing is now that I think about it"
[movie] boucher says, "I now want to find the most convoluted place in the world to build a movie theater.  'Yes, meet me at...do you have a piece of paper...yes, at Stacker-Jensen Hill Creek Township Square Memorial Circle Mall Theater...no, I'm not done yet...yes, I can wait until you get another....'"
[ill] jenrexrode exclaims, "see!"
[ill] jenrexrode says, "in other news, I found a good stretch while nearly falling off the bed"
[ill] Rob says, "I remember seeing Conan's premiere back when I was in grad school in LA, watching on the dorm tv with various other dorm people"
[ill] Rob says, "weird that he's been around this long when he wasn't given much of a chance at the time"
Recapping 122 of 122 lines from misc/personal/robmumble:
[robmumble]/001 Rob says, "the first morning I was in colorado in this small ski-economy-based town I was up at some random early hour and thought 'hm I wonder if I can find a little restaurant that's a locally owned little place that's just like the cafe here so I can get some eggs and coffee'"
[robmumble]/002 Rob says, "so I drove into town, which was mostly weird brand-name outlet shops like Calvin Klein and Liz Claiborne and Izod and parked near a creek and wandered around randomly and suddenly there was this tiny little cabin-looking Mountain Lyon Cafe"
[robmumble]/003 Rob says, "which had an 'Open' sign at 6:30 in the morning and it was like home away from home cafe away from cafe"
[robmumble]/004 Rob says, "like the only homey little business in this weird ski-mall burg"
[robmumble]/005 Rob says, "and I homed in on it through sixth sense I guess"
[robmumble]/006 inky says, "wow"
[robmumble]/007 inky says, "there should be a thing like how sometimes museums or libraries will accepted passes from other museums or libraries"
[robmumble]/008 inky says, "I am not sure what the equivalent would be here"
[robmumble]/009 Rob says, "hee"
[robmumble]/010 inky says, "maybe you can get a corner booth there if you have one at home"
[robmumble]/011 inky says, "or they would put up the painting of the rob guy"
[robmumble]/012 Rob says, "ha h"
[robmumble]/013 ghira says, "some museum-y type places we've been to here (london transport museum, bletchly park) have tickets which last a year"
[robmumble]/014 Rob says, "I did get a corner booth !"
[robmumble]/015 Ryan says, "The Regulars Club"
[robmumble]/016 Rob says, "I actually found a place like this when I was in new york city too"
[robmumble]/017 Rob says, "I wonder what the seattle version is"
[robmumble]/018 Ryan says, "Invitation only, and invitations are only given out by the proprietors of independent establishments that have been around for more than 20 years."
[robmumble]/019 Rob says, "I usually don't go wandering off when I'm up there but I bet I could find one"
[robmumble]/020 ghira says, "we need to send Rob to Totnes! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19146445 "
[robmumble]/021 Rob | I agree with the people of Totnes. Britain's high streets are all the same.
[robmumble]/022 Rob says, "hmm I've heard 'high street' a lot but I never thought of it as a general term. also I'm not sure what it means exactly now that I think of it as a general term"
[robmumble]/023 Rob says, "I think I thought it was being used as the proper noun name of a particular street in london or something"
[robmumble]/024 inky says, "maybe it means main street"
[robmumble]/025 ghira says, "this has come up on the mud before. apparently the USese is "Main Street""
[robmumble]/026 inky says, "or broadway"
[robmumble]/027 Rob says, "ok that was my guess"
[robmumble]/028 ghira says, "you also see "high street shops are closing because of competition from amazon" type lines"
[robmumble]/029 ghira asks, "which in USese would probably be "bricks and mortar something something"?"
[robmumble]/030 Rob says, "when I was in grad school I knew this musician guy and he had a local-to-the-dorm hit song everyone always asked him to play, with a chorus that started 'I'm sitting here, high street Kensington'"
[robmumble]/031 ghira says, " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Street "
[robmumble]/032 Rob asks, "they don't say that dumb brick-and-mortar thing over there?"
[robmumble]/033 ghira says (to rob), "maybe but I imagine "high street something" would be more likely"
[robmumble]/034 Rob says, "huh US Canada and Ireland say 'main street'"
[robmumble]/035 Rob says, ""| The Dutch equivalent is Hoogstraat"
[robmumble]/036 Rob says, "oop"
[robmumble]/037 Rob says, "Hoog"
[robmumble]/038 ghira says, "I'm not sure the terms are used the same way. here you'd see people talk about "prices on the high street", "high street banks", "high street shops" and lots of similar things"
[robmumble]/039 ghira says, "I don't get the impression people say "main street banks" to mean retail banks"
[robmumble]/040 Rob says, "yeah and 'Main Street' is really a concept for tiny little towns"
[robmumble]/041 Rob says, "such that they really only have one big street with shops and the rest is houses and farmland"
[robmumble]/042 Rob says, "Austin doesn't have a main street per se, for example"
[robmumble]/043 Allen says, "Dallas has a main street"
[robmumble]/044 two-star says, "I'm not sure I hear "main street" much except in the formulation, of Main Street vs. Wall Street."
[robmumble]/045 Allen says, "but it's not a main main"
[robmumble]/046 Rob says, "a Main Street or a main street"
[robmumble]/047 Allen says, "a Main street, in downtown"
[robmumble]/048 Allen says, "it goes by the courthouse"
[robmumble]/049 Rob says, "austin has 6th street, but that's an avenue of music clubs not a bunch of shops people want to go to"
[robmumble]/050 Rob says, "it has the Drag, too"
[robmumble]/051 Rob says, "but that's for college kids"
[robmumble]/052 ghira says (to rob), "well "high street" is usually not intended literally as a single street, of course."
[robmumble]/053 ghira says, "when used in these expressions"
[robmumble]/054 Rob says (to ghira), "hm oh ah hm"
[robmumble]/055 Rob says, "yeah I think 'main street' is a single street usually"
[robmumble]/056 ghira says, ""the sorts of shops and banks and whatnot you'd find in the main shopping area in town""
[robmumble]/057 Rob says, "so they aren't entirely equivalent expressions"
[robmumble]/058 Rob says, "it'd be a useful figure of speech"
[robmumble]/059 Rob says, "that sort of sounds like how 'downtown' is casually used or something"
[robmumble]/060 ghira says, "yes a lot of towns have a street called "High Street" or similar but "high street shops" wouldn't just mean literally the ones on that street"
[robmumble]/061 ghira says, "in my town there is a high street, but it's called "Church Road""
[robmumble]/062 two-star says, "Tigard has a Main Street that is a main street and has some small shops. But most actual shopping occurs in bigger stores on Hall or 99W or 72nd, or at Washington Square Mall."
[robmumble]/063 Allen says, "did Austin have a main street in the past that got renamed? That's not uncommon in the US, in cities"
[robmumble]/064 Rob says, "took me a while to realize new york city had a more literal meaning of 'downtown' because they also have a midtown and an uptown"
[robmumble]/065 Rob says (to Allen), "I bet it probably did"
[robmumble]/066 Rob says, "there might still be a street called Main here but I don't know what it is or where it is"
[robmumble]/067 ghira says, "I don't think people say "downtown" here except semi-jokingly. and in my town of 30k people I can't see how it could be used seriously."
[robmumble]/068 nm says, "but they have only an upstate"
[robmumble]/069 Ryan says, "Seems like Congress St. is the obvious choice."
[robmumble]/070 Rob says, "Congress Ave probably works as a main street shooting south from the capitol"
[robmumble]/071 two-star says, "The Tigard Chamber of Commerce is at 12345 SW Main St."
[robmumble]/072 Ryan says, "Ave., right"
[robmumble]/073 Rob says, "I think of 'downtown' as meaning 'where all the buildings are, esp. the tall ones'"
[robmumble]/074 nm says, "I don't know where the main street is, but I know where the main drag is"
[robmumble]/075 ghira says, ""London Road" is another common one here. The principal traffic route through our town is indeed London Road, but it only has a few shops"
[robmumble]/076 Ryan | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_Avenue_Historic_District
[robmumble]/077 Ryan says, "Sounds like it's always been Congress Ave."
[robmumble]/078 Rob says, "huh"
[robmumble]/079 ghira says (to rob), ""esp the tall ones" sounds like a big city thing, though"
[robmumble]/080 Rob says, "wow we're famous, we have a wikipedia page"
[robmumble]/081 Rob says, "small cities have the clump of taller buildings too"
[robmumble]/082 ghira says, "ok, the the 5-storey building in our town is indeed in the middle of town, but everything else there is 2 storeys like everything else"
[robmumble]/083 two-star says, "Yes, "Central Business District" (CBD) is the technical term for "where all the tall buildings are" because many town have an area that is historically designated as downtown but is not the CBD."
[robmumble]/084 Allen says, "see if you can find a main: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Old_map-Austin-1873-sm.jpg "
[robmumble]/085 Rob says, "hey I've seen that"
[robmumble]/086 Rob says, "on paper hanging somewhere"
[robmumble]/087 Rob says, "can't remember where I saw it though"
[robmumble]/088 Allen says, "this is a cute little small town"
[robmumble]/089 Rob says, "yeah"
[robmumble]/090 Rob says, "it still has some of that in its DNA"
[robmumble]/091 Allen says, "hey, there aren't any numbered east-west streets on this map"
[robmumble]/092 Rob says, "hmm"
[robmumble]/093 Allen says, "they were all named after trees"
[robmumble]/094 Rob says, "yeah like live oak and stuff"
[robmumble]/095 Allen says, "pecan, bois darc, ash, mulberry, mesquite"
[robmumble]/096 Rob says, "must have been just before they decided to make 1st to 51st streets"
[robmumble]/097 Allen says, "whereas north-south are named after rivers"
[robmumble]/098 Rob says, "and all those half-streets"
[robmumble]/099 Allen says, "trinity, neches, brazos, guadalupe"
[robmumble]/100 Allen says, "nueces, rio grande"
[robmumble]/101 Allen says, "this is a nicely Texas city"
[robmumble]/102 Rob says, "yee haw"
[robmumble]/103 Allen says, "native texas trees, vs texas rivers"
[robmumble]/104 Rob says, "yeah that's cute"
[robmumble]/105 Allen asks, "is there still a Trinity street?"
[robmumble]/106 Allen says, "hey, a red driver street. I don't remember that"
[robmumble]/107 Rob says, "yeah trinity's still there"
[robmumble]/108 Rob says, "trinity brazos colorado red river"
[robmumble]/109 Rob says, "also lavaca somehow"
[robmumble]/110 Rob says, "you don't remember red river? it goes all the way up from downtown through UT campus"
[robmumble]/111 Rob says, "it's the east edge of the west-of-I35 corridor"
[robmumble]/112 Allen says, "well, it's been 23 years since I lived there"
[robmumble]/113 Rob says, "now it too is a magnet for music clubs, it sort of takes the east-west strip from 6th and takes it north"
[robmumble]/114 Allen says, "I guess I never caught the river theme"
[robmumble]/115 Rob says, "and now it's real obvious"
[robmumble]/116 Allen says, "looks like the tree streets were renamed in the 1880s"
[robmumble]/117 Rob says, "sort of tangent from #webtv"
[robmumble]/118 Rob says, "I occasionally have this idea that there are movies and tv series I want to review in a kind of video blog review format, where I talk about them on camera and intersperse with clips from the things if I can find clips of them, for 4 to 6 minutes"
[robmumble]/119 Rob says, "then I think well that's a lot of hassle and trouble oh well"
[robmumble]/120 Rob says, "then I think hm it'd be fun to do this a few times and then I swing back the other way of not doing it"
[robmumble]/121 Rob says, "I still don't have my whole blogging situation settled and figured out enough to do things like this"
[robmumble]/122 Rob says, "I wish I had a setup that was a lot more solid and stable and all set to go if I wanted to impulsively post something, but somehow I've gotten myself into a situation of a bunch of only-halfway-there type setups"
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Rob says, "ok I've been sitting outside on the porch but it's getting sweltering and I should probably go in and cool off"
[English] Allen | The term "F-bomb" surfaced in newspapers more than 20 years ago but will land Tuesday for the first time in the mainstream Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, along with sexting, flexitarian, obesogenic, energy drink and life coach.
Rob says, "and work on that hyacinthos pic"
[English] Rob asks, "flexitarian?"
[English] inky says, "flexitarian is somebody who is a vegetarian except for bacon"
[English] Rob says, "some random dude on an MSNBC discussion panel today said, 'nobody knows what sexting means' and I thought 'everyone knows what sexting means'"
[English] Rob says, "bacon has a lot of flex"
[English] inky says, "that's what the bacon weights are for"
[English] Rob says, "also somehow two seconds later the idea that someone is vegetarian except for eating bacon is hilarious"
Rob says, "ok, back in four hours"
Rob says, "he said blithely as if that's going to happen"
inky says, "goodbye rob"
inky says, "see you in four hours !!"
Rob says, "ok !!"
Rob heads right on out.
</Rob> Find release from your cares. have a good time.
Seeya later.