Logfile from ifmud. ************************************************************************ ** ** ** Welcome to ifMUD! ** ** ** ************************************************************************ FAQ: http://www.allthingsjacq.com/ifMUDfaq/ IP: 66.114.68.227 MONKEY: Ook. If you... have an account Type "connect name password" to log in need an account Go to http://ifmud.port4000.com:4001/ and apply are just visiting Type "connect guest guest" to login as Guest want to see who's on Type "who" for a list of players online have problems Email markm - mark.musante@gmail.com TYPE connect, who, or quit: Login Succeeded ifMUD An interactive real time social network chat bulletin board quotebook url database with a parrot bot Copyright 1997-2007 by Loungent Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of rec.[arts|games].int-fiction; All rights reserved. Release 4 / Serial number 990908 / perlMUD v2.1z "The characters were mostly of the cardboard cutout variety. I wanted to punch everyone except the one Scottish guy." --Jearl NOTE: Whenever a fix or enhancement is in place, it will be announced on the channel '#mud-updates'. OTHER NOTE: There is a mailing list where people can say things like "hey, the mud's down, what's up with that?" In fact, since this is the only thing the list is used for, you should join it if you are interested in this subject. To join, go to http://groups.google.com/group/ifmud/ or talk to Steve. Robinson Manor A gracious, welcoming, airy space. Music drifts in from unseen speakers. A picture window on the southern wall provides a pleasant source of light and a sense of openness. You can see: teleporter, a picture window, comfy sofa, Jeopardy podium, buzzer1, buzzer2, buzzer3, Jota greets Rob, fake_Robb_Sherwin Visible Exits: west, east "that was a sound of realization transitioning into a groan" No new channels have been created since your last check. Adventurer's Lounge Candles on the wood-panelled walls create a comfortably dark atmosphere. Hand-drawn maps are taped to nearly every surface -- the walls, the ceiling, the trophy case in the corner. Seating is plentiful. A small storage closet is to the north. You can see: new laundry list, Birthday Calendar, magic laundry list, blank banner, Even Newer World Map, charset sampler, Automeeter, TheMasterTheorem player names, time zones, MUD Client Wish List, battle.net battletags, madlibs, Anything Finder, Sarcasm Detector, Gene Ray Players: Alex, markm, Touchy, ctmiller, Jon, DorianX, Jearl, vimes, Grocible, Ryan, GDorn, marc, annabianca, Iain, Allen, genericgeekgirl, Dave, baf, zaphod, Bishop, jpt, ghira, Matthew, boucher, Markov, McMartin, vaporware, jess, Psmith, BrenBarn, nothings, jenrexrode, zarf, Ellison, K-Y, DavidW, Doug, borowski, Jota, Emily, Johnny Visible Exits: north, west, southwest, southeast, up, east Rob comes right on in. Recapping 194 of 2164 lines from recent channels: [conspiracy]/20:13 Jon says, "I hope if Hawaii isn't a state that means Canada can claim it." [conspiracy]|20:13 Jon says, "because, man, if I got to live in Hawaii and Canada at the same time, that would be absolutely great." [lounge]|20:15 DavidW materializes out from a silver haze in the light. [lounge]|20:15 DavidW says, "hello" [lounge]|20:16 borowski says, "Hey DavidW" [lounge]|20:16 DavidW says, "Woke up around 4:30pm" [lounge]|20:16 DavidW says, "so totally missed ClubFloyd today." [lounge]|20:16 DavidW says, "(sigh)" [conspiracy]|20:17 borowski says, "Canada will no doubt seize Hawaii to expand their imperialistic empire." [lounge]|20:17 borowski says, "I did as well. Had to drive across the state yet again." [lounge]|20:17 DavidW says, "But Patrick's back home and he made a banana cream pie." [lounge]|20:17 borowski says, "That is a big plus." [lounge]|20:18 Ellison says (to DW), "it was a really quick CF session. they were done in less than an hour." [lounge]|20:18 DavidW says, "And we had cheese and veggie lasagna for dinner." [lounge]|20:18 DavidW asks (of Ellison), "goodness. Which game?" [lounge]|20:18 jenrexrode says, "yum" [lounge]|20:19 jenrexrode says, "speed if" [lounge]|20:19 DavidW says, "oh" [lounge]|20:19 jenrexrode says, "that I missed, too" [lounge]|20:19 DavidW asks, "A new speed-if or an old one?" [lounge]|20:19 Ellison says, "I only caught the end. something about a pumpkin." [lounge]|20:19 jenrexrode says, "they said Miseri wrote it" [conspiracy]|20:19 Jon says, "I support this plan." [lounge]|20:19 DavidW asks, "oh, The Hand That Rocks The Pumpkin?" [lounge]|20:19 jenrexrode says, "the first one ever, i think" [lounge]|20:19 Ellison says, "yeah" [lounge]|20:20 DavidW says, "The first speed ever was by Miseri, yes, but it was called Coffins." [lounge]|20:20 DavidW says, "And based on something by Poe, which I only discovered years later." [lounge]|20:21 jenrexrode says, "just what I gleaned by looking at my buffer" [lounge]|20:25 DavidW says, "I guess if CF played old speeds today, it wasn't a tragedy for me to miss it. I have played almost every English speed-if there ever was." [movie]|20:25 borowski says, "Man, Pacino doesn't mess around." [movie]|20:28 borowski says, "And can really wear a beard." [lounge]|20:28 McMartin says, "And written awesome walkthroughs for them" [lounge]|20:28 McMartin says, "Sadly, some of the mid-era speeds are in versions of TADS3 that no longer exist" [lounge]|20:29 Doug has arrived. [lounge]|20:29 Doug waves. [lounge]|20:29 jenrexrode says, "hi" [lounge]|20:29 McMartin says, "Including some of the ones about the French-Texan disembodied brains fighting goldfish or something" [jacq-chat]|20:29 Jacqueline says, "Mmkay, party time. Laters." [Boston]|20:30 Doug says, "oops, I forgot to login to look for Limax dinner details" [DustWorld]|20:30 DavidW says, "For those of you who played Coffins today, you might like to see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligeia " [Boston]|20:33 Firion asks, "What? Where?" [Boston]|20:36 jenrexrode asks, "bb?" [Boston]|20:36 Alex says (to jenrexrode), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that BB is Base on Balls." [Boston]|20:38 Firion says, "I don't see anything on this bb." [Boston]|20:38 jenrexrode says, "bb #boston 154" [Boston]|20:39 Firion asks, "I'm guessing Doug forgot about it?" [Boston]|20:39 zarf says, "I didn't throw that up there until late Friday night" [babies]|20:40 Allen | While ten other people have since been born on Antarctica, Palma's birthplace remains the most southerly of anyone in history. [babies]|20:40 Allen says, "until ... OBAMA!" [babies]|20:41 BrenBarn says, "heh" [babies]|20:45 Allen says, "ok, this is neat:" [babies]|20:45 Allen | The United States military issues the Antarctica Service Medal to military members or civilians who perform research duty in Antarctica. The medal includes a "wintered over" bar issued to those who remain on the continent for 2 six-month seasons.[76] [babies]|20:47 BrenBarn says, "yeah" [babies]|20:48 Allen says, "there should be a similar medal for Texas, with a jackaloped-over bar" [lounge]|21:01 Fang is told of the death of Christ, and becomes so angry that the brain bursts from his head, and he dies. The blood from the wound baptises him as a Christian, and his soul goes to heaven. [babies]|21:04 boucher says, "And if you do both, you get a copy of this CD cover, featuring a wintered over jackalope: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/519zewh-%2BqL._SL500_AA300_.jpg " [lounge]|21:18 Emily goes home. [lounge]|21:18 * Emily has disconnected. [lounge]|21:24 inky says, "ok off" [lounge]|21:24 inky has already funded a $2000 Uhaul rental to transport a triceratops skeleton from Wyoming to Seattle, as well as a penguin-tagging project. [sf-bay-area]|21:25 vaporware says, "belated, Stokely and I are in the Bay Area as well." [sf-bay-area]|21:26 vaporware says, "Also out of BART range, but within CalTrain range." [music]|21:27 K-Y | I wasn't implying that Westlife can't sing. I actually wish I could go back to these days. My comment was implying how years have changed, these days everyone loves One Direction. In the 90's it was real music like this [music]|21:27 K-Y says, "in the 90s we had real boy bands, not the fake boy bands they have now" [music]|21:30 Allen | They had a lot more dances and fiddling back in those days. There was a girl who lived around Concord, Kentucky and she held a fiddling contest for all the single guys - whoever played the fiddle the best got to marry her. And this old guy named Dick Swinington won and she married him. After he passed away, she would go by their old house most everyday and call out, "Dick, are you in there? If you are, just saw three times across your old fiddle." [music]|21:30 Allen | One time a bunch of young guys hid in the house with a fiddle and they sawed away when called out like that. She ran away and never went back to that house no more. [IntroComp]|21:30 DavidW says, "geez, I just realized I hadn't even downloaded the games. I've been way out of touch the past few months." [music]|21:31 K-Y says, "I hope by those days you mean the 90s" [music]|21:31 BrenBarn says, "man what" [IntroComp]|21:31 Firion says, "I remember I wanted to enter IntroComp, but I couldn't make it. As for my Cover Stories game, I'm rewriting it." [music]|21:31 Allen says, "from this: http://www.fieldrecorder.com/docs/notes/bthomas_autobio.htm " [music]|21:32 Allen says, "he died 40 years ago. Recorded one album. Two other albums have been made since of field recordings" [IntroComp]|21:32 DavidW says, "My main excuse is I was moving and I really did need a full month and a half to manage the move." [Camembert]|21:36 vaporware says, " http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/07/26/why_is_cheese_yellow_or_orange_when_milk_is_white_.html " [IntroComp]|21:36 Firion says, "That's understandable. But me, I'm most likely now the ifMUD equivelant of Tod Frye." [IntroComp]|21:38 borowski says, "If you can port Pac-Man to IF, all is forgiven," [IntroComp]|21:50 Firion asks (of borowski), "Et tu, brute?" [lounge]|21:55 borowski comes here everyday to talk to butterflies and say stuff to them. [lounge]|21:55 * borowski has disconnected. [lounge]|21:55 borowski is now in glorious EXTRA MINIMALISM! [music]|22:01 Allen says, "this is some sweet, sweet music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuUzg6UcsYE " [music]|22:03 borowski says, "Nice" [music]|22:04 borowski says, "That would be a fun dance" [dogs]|22:05 jenrexrode says, "maddie keeps asking me for a hunk of cheese, even though I gave her one and she didn't like it" [dogs]|22:05 borowski asks, "Maybe she wants a different type of cheese?" [dogs]|22:06 jenrexrode says, "i thnk she means the one i'm holding" [dogs]|22:07 jenrexrode says, "ok, she got the message and is eating her piece" [dogs]|22:08 jenrexrode says, "it's Jarlsberg" [Camembert]|22:13 jenrexrode says, "funny how some cheese likes to go moldy, while others are happy to hang out in the fridge for a long long time" [Camembert]|22:13 Allen says, "it's the pasteurized ones that tend to go moldy" [lounge]|22:14 Jota arrives from the east. [lounge]|22:14 Jota greets. [lounge]|22:14 jenrexrode says, "hi" [Camembert]|22:14 Allen says, "the unpasteurized ones have an active biological community that tends to keep away fungi and bacteria and stuff" [lounge]|22:14 borowski says, "Hey Jota" [Camembert]|22:15 jenrexrode says, "that Jarlsberg, I must have bought that over 6 months ago" [dogs]|22:15 jenrexrode says, "now she wants to go outside." [dogs]|22:17 borowski says, "She oughtto finish her cheese first" [housing]|22:18 Allen says, "ow ow ow ow took trash to back" [housing]|22:18 Allen says, "in bare feet" [housing]|22:18 Allen says, "I didn't realize the pecan tree would have dumped half its crop on the sidewalk since last week" [housing]|22:19 jenrexrode says, "oops, not enough rain, I guess. I hope our holds out." [Camembert]|22:19 Jota says, "American cheese is pasteurized, but it's designed to last through a nuclear winter." [dogs]|22:19 jenrexrode exclaims, "she did! and now she's pretending to eat dog food!" [housing]|22:19 Allen says, "hordes of rain, maybe. It might have been the wind and rain" [housing]|22:20 Allen says, "(which followed weeks of drouht)" [housing]|22:20 jenrexrode says, "because last year that happened pretty much on one day here" [housing]|22:21 jenrexrode says, "my new neighbors, I was considering telling them they should water that tree as well as their new lawn" [dogs]|22:22 borowski asks, "Just pretending?" [lounge]|22:23 Emily arrives. [dogs]|22:23 jenrexrode says, "yeah, she bring a piece from her bowl to the carpet, and then drops it and tries to decide if it should be eaten" [dogs]|22:24 borowski says, "Huh" [lounge]|22:24 Ellison says, "hey Jota and Emily" [lounge]|22:24 Emily says, "hey" [weather]|22:25 jenrexrode says, "wow, flooded parking garage in Dallas coming up on the news" [lounge]|22:25 borowski says, "Hi Emily" [weather]|22:25 borowski says, "When it rains..." [ads]|22:26 jenrexrode says, "they don't show Shaq getting in that Buick or driving it." [lounge]|22:35 Johnny insisted that the mobile hot-dog-on-a-bun did nothing wrong. [lounge]|22:37 Ellison says, "hey Johnny" [lounge]|22:37 Johnny says, "Hey Ellison" [stress]|22:40 jenrexrode says, "it will be worse if I wait until tomorrow to go to the store, since I'll have to go all Monday without cream for my coffee, bananas, orange juice, and dr pepper." [begood]|22:40 Ellison says, "I had to stop sending your tweets to my phone today, Johnny. you weren't 'good.'" [begood]|22:40 Johnny says, "I was playing Sword and Sworcery" [begood]|22:41 Johnny says, "I felt compelled to use the tweet functionality." [begood]|22:41 Johnny says, "(Also, it was all of THREE tweets.)" [begood]|22:41 Johnny says, "(Threets.)" [band-name]|22:55 borowski says, "Hyper Beat Princess" [politics]|22:59 Allen | Exclusive: FBI probed GOP trip with drinking, nudity in Israel [anime]|22:59 jenrexrode says, "Eureka 7 & Samurai 7 on Toonami - I guess they're replacing Cowboy Bebop and Deadman Wonderland. I didn't like Deadman Wonderland." [jendoodle]|23:00 jenrexrode says, "goes to brush hair to see how it looks for grocery shopping" [Babylon5]|23:00 nothings says, "one thing i'll say, all the not-very-good acting throws the good acting into sharp relief" [jendoodle]|23:02 jenrexrode says, "I need to make some better decisions with breakfast food. those walmart mcmuffins were too soggy/chewy" [politics]|23:02 Allen | "A year ago, my wife, Brooke, and I joined colleagues for dinner at the Sea of Galilee in Israel. After dinner I followed some Members of Congress in a spontaneous and very brief dive into the sea and regrettably I jumped into the water without a swimsuit," Yoder said in a statement to POLITICO. "It is my greatest honor to represent the people of Kansas in Congress and [for] any embarrassment I have caused for my colleagues and constituents, I apologize." [Babylon5]|23:02 Matthew asks, "What specifically are you watching right now?" [Babylon5]|23:03 nothings says, "generally, season 1, specifically, Deathwalker, but I was thinking about both Deathwalker and the previous ep" [channels]|23:03 nothings says, "i wonder what #babylong would be if it existed" [Babylon5]|23:03 Matthew says, "Ah ha." [channels]|23:05 jenrexrode asks, "babylon-g? longing for a baby? discussing the length of babies?" [channels]|23:05 nothings says, "i guess my first instinct was to read it as short for 'baby i'm gonna love you a long time', in Smoove B's voice" [jendoodle]|23:06 jenrexrode didn't brush hair yet [channels]|23:06 K-Y says (to nothings), "you realize that if it did exist, we would also be wondering what it is for" [channels]|23:07 nothings says, "no, we'd just read the topic" [channels]|23:07 K-Y says, "because it would have been created years ago with no activity for most of that time" [channels]|23:07 nothings says, "(like that ever helps)" [channels]|23:10 jenrexrode says, "it's usually just a random quote" [lounge]|23:13 Firion goes home. [lounge]|23:14 * K-Y has disconnected. [lounge]|23:14 * K-Y has connected. [channels]|23:17 K-Y says, "I've got it" [channels]|23:17 K-Y says, "proposal for new data type that is smaller than a long" [jendoodle]|23:17 jenrexrode says, "I guess if no one knows i'm not happy with my hair, maybe they will think this is how it's supposed to look," [apropos-of-nothing]|23:17 Jota says, "In 2004, there was a Spanish television show called 'Uhf'." [lounge]|23:18 Marvin buggers off. [Babylon5]|23:25 nothings says, "oh god JMS, stop doing that" [jendoodle]|23:27 jenrexrode says, "I might just make it after all." [Babylon5]|23:29 nothings says, "he writes these witty comments that come in the form: 'setup A, punchline B', where B relates to the scenario at hand" [Babylon5]|23:29 nothings says, "and then he gives them to two different people, so the first person says A with absolutely no motivation" [Babylon5]|23:33 Matthew asks, "Er, what's an example of this?" [grubshack]|23:34 Matthew says, "I like bittersweet chocolate for cooking, but for ordinary snacking, I think I still prefer semisweet." [grubshack]|23:34 Matthew says, "And handful of bittersweet chips just isn't that satisfying to me, for whatever reason." [jendoodle]|23:34 borowski says, "It could look strategically messy." [jendoodle]|23:35 jenrexrode says, "yeah, the right match of painty clothes ought to make it all blend right in" [jendoodle]|23:36 borowski says, "Oh yeah, that could be an artist look." [jendoodle]|23:36 jenrexrode says, "good thing I'm doing this now, so finding my keys isn't put off until morning" [jendoodle]|23:39 borowski says, "Just don't paint your keys ." [Babylon5]|23:39 nothings says, "They're commenting on Kosh doing a bunch of surprising things. A: 'You know what they say, God works in mysterious ways.' B: 'Maybe so, but he's a con man compared to the Vorlons'" [Babylon5]|23:39 Matthew says, "Oh yeah, I remember that." [lounge]|23:41 ghira wakes [lounge]|23:42 borowski says, "Hey ghira" [jendoodle]|23:43 jenrexrode says, "ah, just where I thought they were" [jendoodle]|23:43 jenrexrode says, "there was a little paper plate on top that I wasn't expecting, though" [smoking]|23:45 borowski says, "Argh, I can't believe I just bought a pack of cigarettes." [smoking]|23:45 borowski says, "I just wanted a puff. Just a little bit of dopamine." [Babylon5]|23:46 nothings says, "also i still can't buy sinclair as an action hero" [Babylon5]|23:46 Matthew says, "He wasn't really much of one." [Babylon5]|23:46 nothings says, "the character absolutely is one" [Babylon5]|23:46 nothings says, "an episode doesn't go by without a shootout with him at the front" [Babylon5]|23:48 Matthew says, "Well, I guess maybe I'm in the minority, but I always liked Sinclair better than Sheridan." [Babylon5]|23:48 nothings says, "his acting leaves me cold" [Babylon5]|23:49 zarf says, "if you call that acting" [Babylon5]|23:49 nothings says, "I *think* it's ok acting, just with a totally wrong choice about how to play everything, if you know what i mean" [Babylon5]|23:49 Matthew says, "I know what you mean." [IntroComp]|23:56 DavidW says, "tee hee 'steam powered chainsword'." [lounge]|23:58 nothings asks, "are toasters *supposed* to fling their contents a couple inches in the air when they pop up?" [lounge]|23:59 Jearl says, "only in cartoons" [lounge]|00:00 borowski asks, "A hydraulic toaster?" [lounge]|00:01 DavidW says, "They're not supposed to fling, but if the toast is especially lightweight, it can happen anyway." [lounge]|00:01 nothings says, "combination of light food and excessively powerful springs, i guess" [lounge]|00:01 ghira says, "we had several toasters die so just switched to using the grill" [lounge]|00:02 DavidW says, "I vaguely remember reading about I Love Lucy and her complaining that they gave her balsa wood prop bread instead of real bread and the balsa would fly completely out of the toaster." [lounge]|00:02 borowski says, "That could be more tasty." [lounge]|00:02 Rob comes right on in. Recapped 194 of 2164 lines from recent channels. Current time: Monday, 20 Aug 2012, 12:02:45 AM EDT There is one new message on #games/board/board-games. There is one new message on #if/history/Infodoc. There is one new message on #misc/places/Boston. You have 1 new mudmail. Type "mail" to view it. Rob says, "blzrn" ghira says (to boro), "not really" # From Date Subject 134 Limax 05-Sep-11 01:25 All caught up 135 ghira 28-Dec-11 13:52 feb 136 ghira 12-Feb-12 00:33 house/cat-sit 137 ghira 13-Feb-12 05:15 house-sit 138 ghira 13-Feb-12 05:15 house-sit 2 139 ghira 13-Feb-12 05:21 sitting 140 ghira 13-Feb-12 05:23 data point 141 ghira 13-Feb-12 05:23 data point continued 142 ghira 13-Feb-12 14:22 places 143 maga 14-Feb-12 07:54 xyzzy reviewing 144 maga 18-Mar-12 21:39 xyzzy reviews 145 maga 19-Mar-12 08:55 xyzzy reviews 146 maga 20-Mar-12 01:35 xyzzyreviews 147 Johnny 16-May-12 02:27 Ker-Blam 148 Jacqueline 07-Jul-12 21:38 Forgot! Allergic to cats? 149 inky 07-Jul-12 22:21 ok no worries 150 Emily 10-Jul-12 16:35 invitation 151 Emily 18-Jul-12 19:27 hey so N 152 Jacqueline 19-Aug-12 11:53 More than fine ghira says, "robble" Invalid range format: "jacq" Rob says, "hallo ghira" borowski says, "The grill, not the balsa wood." # From Date Subject 134 Limax 05-Sep-11 01:25 All caught up 135 ghira 28-Dec-11 13:52 feb 136 ghira 12-Feb-12 00:33 house/cat-sit 137 ghira 13-Feb-12 05:15 house-sit 138 ghira 13-Feb-12 05:15 house-sit 2 139 ghira 13-Feb-12 05:21 sitting 140 ghira 13-Feb-12 05:23 data point 141 ghira 13-Feb-12 05:23 data point continued 142 ghira 13-Feb-12 14:22 places 143 maga 14-Feb-12 07:54 xyzzy reviewing 144 maga 18-Mar-12 21:39 xyzzy reviews 145 maga 19-Mar-12 08:55 xyzzy reviews 146 maga 20-Mar-12 01:35 xyzzyreviews 147 Johnny 16-May-12 02:27 Ker-Blam 148 Jacqueline 07-Jul-12 21:38 Forgot! Allergic to cats? 149 inky 07-Jul-12 22:21 ok no worries 150 Emily 10-Jul-12 16:35 invitation 151 Emily 18-Jul-12 19:27 hey so N 152 Jacqueline 19-Aug-12 11:53 More than fine #152 [MUDmail] From: Jacqueline Date: 19-Aug-12 11:53 Subject: More than fine You can stay for longer than that, if you'd like. I think the threshold has more to do with how long you want to be on our couch (we'll make it comfy, but it's still a couch or a couch bed). I think when people approach a couple of weeks it starts to make us a bit socially tired, but a week or even a week and a half would be fine, so four days is more than acceptable. Stay longer if you'd like and are able to do so. ghira says (to boro), "maybe I'm using the wrong word then" borowski says, "Maybe I'm thinking more of a skillet." BrenBarn says, "grill supposedly means something different in UK english" borowski says, "Hey Rob" BrenBarn says, "like I think what we call a broiler" DavidW says, "Some people do prefer to make toast inside the oven." ghira says, "the first two on this page for example http://www.applianceplanet.co.uk/cookers-products/gas-cooker-eye-level-grills-subcat/ " ghira says, "not terribly clear from the pictures, I'll admit" BrenBarn says, "that looks like a stove" ghira says (to brenbarn), "the thing at the top" ghira says (to bb), "hence "eye level grill"" BrenBarn says, "that's not really visible" BrenBarn | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grilling#UK.2C_Commonwealth_and_Ireland The prefix 'jacq' is ambiguous. Mail not sent. ghira says, "that has no picture at all but ok. also, gas grills exist and indeed ours is one" ghira says, " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grilling#Overhead_grilling seems about it" ghira says, "I had no idea broiling was grilling" ghira says, "I don't know what I'd have said it _was_ but I wouldn't have imagined it was grilling" Mail sent to Jacqueline. ghira says, "I've seen conveyer-belt based two-sided electric toasters in canteens but never in a domestic setting" #154 [misc/places/Boston] From: zarf Date: 17-Aug-12 20:21 Subject: Dinner tomorrow 7 pm? I was supposed to figure out some place to eat when meeting up with Limax. Lest we suffer total communications failure, I'm going to declare we meet at the Dosa Factory, Central Square (571 Mass Ave) at 7pm Saturday. And if we don't like that, we'll go somewhere else. #7 [if/history/Infodoc] From: Gunther Date: 17-Aug-12 16:01 Subject: Update! http://infodoc.plover.net/news.html #62 [games/board/board-games] From: Gunther Date: 17-Aug-12 09:58 Subject: Playdek iOS games on sale http://www.boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/12649/reminder-playdek-apps-on-sale-until-823 Quotations: boucher (quoted by DavidW, 17-Aug-12): [food] boucher says, "Other places, you can get their latest Turkey Bacon Guacamole Taco Teriyaki Noodle Egg Fish Steak Onion Mushroom Cheeseburger on a Special hybrid Ciabatta-Sourdough-Kaiser Roll Bun and smothered in a white wine sauce, with a pickle and a pint of urine." Markov (quoted by Johnny, 19-Aug-12): [markov-chains] Markov says (to Marvin), "You melt your pelvis, UH! You thrust your hitler and it completely misses the mark" borowski says, "Yeah, I've seen that in a restaurant." ghira says, "oh and I've seen it at breakfast in some hotels" borowski says, "Well, a bagel place." ghira asks, "so if I wanted to check if a cooker in the US had what i'd call a grill I'd have to ask if it had a broiler?" Emily goes home. Emily has disconnected. Rob says, "hmm" ghira says, "I think "grill" has come up here before and I don't recall broilers being mentioned last time" Rob says, "there are oven broilers but I really have reached an advanced age without knowing what broiling really consists of doing" Rob says, "except I have noticed a 'broil' setting on ovens" nothings says, "perhaps last time we were talking about US grilling" BrenBarn says, "basically every oven I've seen has a broiler, but it's at the bottom, not a separate thing at the top" ghira says (to nothing), "well last time i recall was about making toast too" Rob says, "grilling as I've observed it happens in backyard barbecue grills (hence the name?) and in restaurants with a huge flat piece of hot metal with oil poured on it to cook stuff" zarf says, "My oven has a top broiler" ghira says (to bb), "well the ones I picked out had "eye level" grills which are no longer terribly common. our grill is in fact below the elements and above the oven" Rob asks (of zarf), "what does it look like?" Rob says, ">x top broiler" BrenBarn says, "'My oven has no broiler' 'How does it grill?' 'Terrible'" Rob says, "heh" nothings says, "sure enough, we distinguish barbecuing from grilling as two different activities, but it looks like at least some other places call them both barbecuing" zarf says, "Gas burner running along the ceiling of the oven caviy" zarf says, "cavity" ghira says, "we have a _separate_ smaller cavity with gas burner at the top, and a tray with a handle" Rob says, ">close oven" Rob says, "the perils of implementing kitchens, bathrooms in IF" ghira says, "the cavity is basically big enough to slide the tray in and out and that's about it" Rob says, "which is why newbies should *not* set their first games in their apartments" ghira says, "usable for toast, bagels, and other not very tall things" zarf says, "What it does is apply strong radiant heat to the top of the food, to brown it quickly without cooking the interior much" BrenBarn says (to nothings), "when I read the wikipedia stuff about barbecue vs. grilling it was news to me" BrenBarn says, "I could call both of them grilling or barbecuing" Rob says, "brulee, he said, with accent marks" nothings says, "the 'sure enough' was wikipedia confirming my vague suspicion. but i'll admit it was only vague" ghira says, "of course you have to turn toast / bagels over since only one side is toasted" Rob says, "what? I thought one side was white and once side was blackened, like the moon" ghira says, "no doubt that is also an option" Rob says, "that joke is somehow making me chuckle out loud even though it doesn't seem to be very funny" ghira says, "so this is an area where electric toasters win. but for whatever reason we've had several die and have given up on them" ghira says, "same with electric kettles" Rob says, "the latest one my family got seems to be pretty solid" BrenBarn says, "I guess toasting bread in a toaster oven is basically like toasting it an oven" Rob says, "and kind of sharp looking in its stainless steel carapace" No matching messages. # From Date Subject 454 Gunther 05-Jul-12 05:24 Jim Drake (83) 455 marc 05-Jul-12 13:57 James Grout (84) 456 DorianX 08-Jul-12 17:24 Ernest Borgnine, 95 457 DorianX 16-Jul-12 15:30 Donald J Sobol 458 Matthew 16-Jul-12 15:31 Celeste Holm, 95 459 Allen 17-Jul-12 15:25 Kitty Wells, 92 460 Roger 19-Jul-12 14:49 Stephen Covey, 69 461 Firion 23-Jul-12 18:06 Sally Ride, 61 462 Jota 24-Jul-12 16:58 Sherman Hemsley (74) 463 Psmith 26-Jul-12 07:45 Mary Tamm, 62 464 Gunther 01-Aug-12 03:08 Gore Vidal (86) 465 Matthew 07-Aug-12 09:31 Marvin Hamlisch, 68 466 Gunther 08-Aug-12 09:19 Martin Fleischmann (85) 467 Hjalfi 09-Aug-12 05:12 Bernard Lovell (98) 468 inky 12-Aug-12 21:27 Jean Merrill, 89 469 marc 13-Aug-12 02:44 Joe Kubert, 85 470 Jota 14-Aug-12 13:40 Ron Palillo, 63 471 Matthew 14-Aug-12 21:56 Joan Roberts, 95 472 Gunther 15-Aug-12 04:51 Harry Harrison (87) #472 [alt/obits] From: Gunther Date: 15-Aug-12 04:51 Subject: Harry Harrison (87) Writer Rob says, "speaking of #obits 472" nothings says, "oh, is THAT who that is" nothings says, "(I was half expecting #obits 472 to turn out to be George Foreman)" BrenBarn says, "heh" Rob says, "at this place I just stayed at in colorado, there was a toaster oven, which everyone tried toasting toast in the oven part in, until they realized there was an old-timey vertical-loading toaster with the 'ka-chunk' slide down toast lever built into the fool contraption at second glance" BrenBarn | http://www.yellow5.com/pokey/archive/index278.html Rob says, "though near the end of the trip someone somehow broke the toaster lever, and I heard people arguing about how to make toast in the thing" Rob says, "I tried reading this pokey from right to left thinking I was outsmarting it, then it took a turn and that was no longer the right way to read it" BrenBarn says, "Pokey keeps you on your toes" Rob says, "expecting it to be the same way every panel tier" Rob says, "what a chucklehead" Rob says, "if I did that with qman people'd take a day puzzling out how to read every page. which would be funny, but frustrating" Rob says, "ok, time to crash, probably" Rob heads right on out. Find release from your cares. have a good time. Seeya later.