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2008-02-05 17:38 < TheWeasel> :-P
2008-02-05 17:38 < gwern> Jawohl, mein Hastert!
2008-02-05 17:39 * gwern schnell schnells
2008-02-05 17:40 < TheWeasel> Achtung!
2008-02-05 17:41 < Sfan00> Hi Weasel
2008-02-05 17:42 < Sfan00> Stromscape: Wikinews?
2008-02-05 17:42 < Sfan00> :)
2008-02-05 17:47 < TheWeasel> yay
2008-02-05 17:47 < TheWeasel> Ron Paul supporters are still hopeful
2008-02-05 17:47 < TheWeasel> "Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!"
2008-02-05 17:47 < Demi> heh, yes
2008-02-05 17:48 < Demi> nor will it be over when the germans bomb ron paul
2008-02-05 17:48 < Messedrocker> ron paul is to the right of bush
2008-02-05 17:48 < TheWeasel> Or when the Japanese invaded Poland.
2008-02-05 17:48 < OverlordQ> "You forgot about Poland"
2008-02-05 17:49 < The359> Or when those Jews put all those Germans in camps
2008-02-05 17:49 < Messedrocker> or when Danny punched Paul Simon in the throat
2008-02-05 17:50 < Messedrocker> and then chevy chase raped marianne faithfull
2008-02-05 17:50 < TheWeasel> Obamawicz and Clintiński are still neck and neck.
2008-02-05 17:50 < Sfan00> The Germans Bombed Pearl Harbour?
2008-02-05 17:50 < Sfan00> ;)
2008-02-05 17:50 < Gracenotes> Messedrocker: maybe Paul will go independent. Dems hope so, anyway..
2008-02-05 17:50 < TheWeasel> so nobody can forget Poland
2008-02-05 17:50 < Sfan00> Which Alt Hist is Ron Paul hailing from?
2008-02-05 17:50 < Messedrocker> Ron Paul actually exists
2008-02-05 17:50 < TheWeasel> Hayek's.
2008-02-05 17:50 < Messedrocker> he is a man
2008-02-05 17:51 < OverlordQ> no he's not, he's a robot, from the year 3000
2008-02-05 17:51 < Messedrocker> that's senator bender
2008-02-05 17:51 < TheWeasel> it's not just an alternate history, it's an alternate world only slightly to the centre of David Icke.
2008-02-05 17:51 < OverlordQ> how else could he create so many PaulBots
2008-02-05 17:52 < TheWeasel> Both of his supporters are very active on the internet, yea
2008-02-05 17:52 < Demi> what i think is interesting is that the champions of so many people are actually really bad exemplars of their type
2008-02-05 17:52 < TheWeasel> Well, I guess one has to differentiate
2008-02-05 17:52 < Demi> e.g. George Bush is really bad at being a conservative, Ron Paul is really bad at being a Libertarian; whatnot
2008-02-05 17:52 < Huntster> John McCain is just really bad?
2008-02-05 17:53 < TheWeasel> for instance being rich doesn't automatically make you a hypocrite
2008-02-05 17:53 < Messedrocker> http://virt.vgmix.com/music/arrange/v-mario3_1-2.mp3
2008-02-05 17:53 < Demi> i don't know what he stands for
2008-02-05 17:53 < Demi> or is supposed to stand for
2008-02-05 17:53 < TheWeasel> McCain is awesome to imitate
2008-02-05 17:53 < TheWeasel> Even I manage to pull of a pretty decent McCain soundalike
2008-02-05 17:53 < Demi> i do a better gore
2008-02-05 17:54 < White_Cat> McCain is bald
2008-02-05 17:54 < White_Cat> US is not ready for a bald president
2008-02-05 17:54 < Messedrocker> mccain is not bald
2008-02-05 17:54 < TheWeasel> haha
2008-02-05 17:54 < Messedrocker> also i do an awesome impression of messedrocker
2008-02-05 17:54 < TheWeasel> he has a non-bald mother.
2008-02-05 17:54 < Huntster> McCain has "Picard-hair"
2008-02-05 17:54 < TheWeasel> so he's mixed
2008-02-05 17:55 < dungodung> mikey!
2008-02-05 17:55 < Cyrius> make it so!
2008-02-05 17:55 < Cyrius> engage!
2008-02-05 17:55 < White_Cat> Picard is a bald captain
2008-02-05 17:55 * Messedrocker engages Cyrius
2008-02-05 17:55 < Cyrius> =O
2008-02-05 17:55 * Messedrocker throws a shuriken in his eye
2008-02-05 17:55 * White_Cat makes Cyrius so
2008-02-05 17:55 < Arwen> KIRK WAS BETTER!
2008-02-05 17:55 * Arwen runs
2008-02-05 17:55 < Huntster> White_Cat, he has that wrap-around hair thing going on.
2008-02-05 17:55 * Messedrocker throws a shuriken at Arwen
2008-02-05 17:55 < Cyrius> sisko shaved his head
2008-02-05 17:56 * Arwen blocks it with a nunchuck and stabs Messedrocker with a Claymore.
2008-02-05 17:56 * TheWeasel drinks liberal (ha!) amounts of Mountain Dew
2008-02-05 17:56 * Messedrocker throws a wii remote at arwen
2008-02-05 17:56 * Arwen tells TheWeasel to go a little conservative on it.
2008-02-05 17:56 * TheWeasel takes a more centrist approach
2008-02-05 17:56 * Arwen stops Messedrocker's WiiMote (who ever came up with that name ought to be shot) with a LIGHT GUN
2008-02-05 17:57 < TheWeasel> I'm a moderate drinker at heart.
2008-02-05 17:57 < Arwen> TheWeasel, conformist
2008-02-05 17:57 < TheWeasel> I'll brb.
2008-02-05 17:57 < TheWeasel> that Google Maps script kills my FF
2008-02-05 17:57 < TheWeasel> AAH!
2008-02-05 17:58 < TheWeasel> brb
2008-02-05 17:58 < TheWeasel> thats better
2008-02-05 17:58 < Demi> when our company gets a contract renewed, there's a company-wide "celebration" taking the form of a casual friday
2008-02-05 17:59 < TheWeasel> how often does that happen?
2008-02-05 17:59 < Demi> sometimes
2008-02-05 17:59 < Demi> i don't pay that much attention to company-wide mail
2008-02-05 17:59 < Demi> i think less often than once a week
2008-02-05 17:59 < TheWeasel> haha
2008-02-05 17:59 < TheWeasel> so every Friday is potentially casual
2008-02-05 18:00 < Demi> in theory some are and some aren't
2008-02-05 18:00 < White_Cat> Cyrius well
2008-02-05 18:00 < White_Cat> some people are naturaly bald
2008-02-05 18:00 < White_Cat> sisko was non natural
2008-02-05 18:00 < Demi> though probably over half our employees actually work at client sites where their fridays would be casual or formal according to the mores of the client
2008-02-05 18:01 < TheWeasel> [[Pierluigi Collina]]
2008-02-05 18:01 < White_Cat> Now Kathryne had hair
2008-02-05 18:01 < White_Cat> plenty of it
2008-02-05 18:01 < White_Cat> we know how that turned out
2008-02-05 18:02 < OverlordQ> how do you be a 'worlds greatest referee'
2008-02-05 18:04 < Leslie_S> how in the world do you cable unlock a cell phone anyway?
2008-02-05 18:04 < TheWeasel> Making correct decisions in more controversial situations than others?
2008-02-05 18:04 < TheWeasel> and managing a game well from the start?
2008-02-05 18:06 < TheWeasel> John McCain, Ron Paul, George Clinton and Ringo Obama
2008-02-05 18:07 < TheWeasel> Ringo Romney sounds even better
2008-02-05 18:07 < White_Cat> George Clinton?
2008-02-05 18:07 < White_Cat> Clinton McDuck
2008-02-05 18:07 < TheWeasel> Yea, for more funky shizzle in Washington.
2008-02-05 18:07 < White_Cat> Obama McDuck
2008-02-05 18:08 < White_Cat> Mc-O-Bama
2008-02-05 18:08 < White_Cat> or
2008-02-05 18:08 < White_Cat> Mac-o-bama
2008-02-05 18:08 < White_Cat> -o-
2008-02-05 18:08 < TheWeasel> Obama-o-rama
2008-02-05 18:08 < White_Cat> mac-o-bama-rama
2008-02-05 18:08 < TheWeasel> "We asked them to ignore me." Choir "They didn't."
2008-02-05 18:09 < TheWeasel> (Mitt Romney)
2008-02-05 18:09 < Leslie_S> Obama bin laden!
2008-02-05 18:09 < TheWeasel> Iraq Hussein Osama.
2008-02-05 18:09 < TheWeasel> Oh, did I mention his middle name is HUSSEIN?
2008-02-05 18:09 < Alkivar> so?
2008-02-05 18:09 < TheWeasel> *nudge nudge
2008-02-05 18:10 < Demi> TheWeasel - i hear he's black, too. Well, ish.
2008-02-05 18:10 < TheWeasel> McCain got 1% in WV!
2008-02-05 18:10 < Alkivar> i cant believe WV went for Huckabee
2008-02-05 18:10 < Leslie_S> hes hardly black
2008-02-05 18:10 < Alkivar> wait a minute... yes i can... WV is full of morons
2008-02-05 18:10 < TheWeasel> Did you know "Obama" sounds helluvalot like "Osama"? 'Cause it does.
2008-02-05 18:10 < TheWeasel> Coincidence? You do the math.
2008-02-05 18:10 < White_Cat> McCain bin Ladin
2008-02-05 18:11 < Mike_H> <Alkivar> i cant believe WV went for Huckabee
2008-02-05 18:11 < Mike_H> <Leslie_S> hes hardly black
2008-02-05 18:11 < Mike_H> sorry, that timing
2008-02-05 18:11 < Mike_H> that was great
2008-02-05 18:11 < Mike_H> :D
2008-02-05 18:11 < White_Cat> Osama Bin McCain?
2008-02-05 18:11 < White_Cat> I reccomend all candidates to listen adequate rolling stones
2008-02-05 18:11 < White_Cat> who knows they may paint themselves black
2008-02-05 18:11 < TheWeasel> in Cainsian economics, there is no new Texas
2008-02-05 18:11 < Demi> TheWeasel - it's no coincidence he studied at an extreme Mohammetan Seminalary in Malaysia
2008-02-05 18:12 < Mike_H> TheWeasel: "Keynesian"?
2008-02-05 18:12 * TheWeasel has never understood why some people write it as "Paint it, black"
2008-02-05 18:12 < TheWeasel> Mike_H: Pun was intended.
2008-02-05 18:12 < Demi> TheWeasel - That's the name of the song
2008-02-05 18:12 < Mike_H> o rly
2008-02-05 18:12 < Mike_H> I thought it was weird that you misspelled it
2008-02-05 18:12 < Mike_H> I was like
2008-02-05 18:12 < Mike_H> he speaks better English than I do
2008-02-05 18:12 < TheWeasel> But is it ungrammatical?
2008-02-05 18:13 < TheWeasel> You gotta paint it, black too, not blue.
2008-02-05 18:13 < TheWeasel> or something
2008-02-05 18:13 < Mike_H> TheWeasel: Why don't we paint it the colors of my dreams?
2008-02-05 18:13 < TheWeasel> I would never put a comma there
2008-02-05 18:13 < Mike_H> Red, gold and green?
2008-02-05 18:13 < Demi> TheWeasel - You gotta paint it, paint it, paint it. Paint it, black.
2008-02-05 18:13 < TheWeasel> Paint the town.
2008-02-05 18:13 < TheWeasel> "He told me to paint it any color I want. So I painted it, black."
2008-02-05 18:14 < TheWeasel> Or something
2008-02-05 18:14 < White_Cat> no colours, just pitch black!
2008-02-05 18:14 < TheWeasel> with a "just" in there a comma is of course due
2008-02-05 18:14 < Demi> No more will my green seagull turn a deeper blue
2008-02-05 18:15 * White_Cat headbutts demi back to oblivian
2008-02-05 18:15 * TheWeasel has his 18th nervous breakdown. Closing in.
2008-02-05 18:15 < Mike_H> :D
2008-02-05 18:15 < Mike_H> WHEN THE NIGHT CLOSES IN
2008-02-05 18:15 < Sfan00> Demi Green Seagulls?
2008-02-05 18:15 < Sfan00> me wonders if this is #Wikipedia
2008-02-05 18:16 < TheWeasel> Not that I'm "the kind of guy you meet at certain dismal, dull affairs"
2008-02-05 18:16 < Sfan00> It sounded like ##day-trippers back there for a mo :(
2008-02-05 18:16 * Mike_H NP: Exile - I Wanna Kiss You All Over (1978)
2008-02-05 18:16 < Mike_H> Sfan00: oh, have some fun and some X
2008-02-05 18:17 < Demi> i need to boil my razors and find my waterstone
2008-02-05 18:17 * TheWeasel listens to his favorite Stones song
2008-02-05 18:17 < TheWeasel> Get Offa My Cloud
2008-02-05 18:17 < Xihix> unceunceuncuenceunceunceunceuncunceunceunceuncunce
2008-02-05 18:17 < Sfan00> Anyone want to talk about a Wikipedia issue?
2008-02-05 18:17 < Mike_H> Sfan00: no :(
2008-02-05 18:18 < Mike_H> I'm all drama'd out
2008-02-05 18:18 < Xihix> I do.
2008-02-05 18:18 < Xihix> Lets talk, baby.
2008-02-05 18:18 < TheWeasel> What is this Wikipedia thing everybody keeps talking about?
2008-02-05 18:18 < TheWeasel> When they're not conspiring against me personally, I mean.
2008-02-05 18:19 < Sfan00> LOL
2008-02-05 18:19 < TheWeasel> (which for some is the same thing really)
2008-02-05 18:22 * TheWeasel continues to be wary of "common sense solutions"
2008-02-05 18:22 < TheWeasel> just a thought
2008-02-05 18:22 < TheWeasel> Anyway, brb
2008-02-05 18:23 < Xihix> anyone here in the Tzatziki Squad?
2008-02-05 18:23 < TheWeasel> o.o Larry king with his chin on the table and his suspenders hanging at a weird angle
2008-02-05 18:25 < TheWeasel> wow, the Ludwigshafen fire is on CNN
2008-02-05 18:25 < Sfan00> The Weasel : breaking news?
2008-02-05 18:26 < TheWeasel> no, it was yesterday
2008-02-05 18:26 < Sfan00> OK
2008-02-05 18:26 < Sfan00> Sorry I try to keep an eye on things for Wikinews
2008-02-05 18:26 < Sfan00> :)
2008-02-05 18:26 < TheWeasel> just a pretty terrible fire where someone was forced to throw his baby out of a high window, to be caught by a police officer outside
2008-02-05 18:26 < SWATJester> wow
2008-02-05 18:27 < SWATJester> good catch
2008-02-05 18:27 < TheWeasel> yea
2008-02-05 18:28 < SWATJester> that guy has to be going to bed thinking either "Holy shit I am a badass" or "all those hours playing beer league softball really helped"
2008-02-05 18:29 < Sfan00> BBC said it was a firefighter
2008-02-05 18:29 < Sfan00> hi SWATJester
2008-02-05 18:29 < White_Cat> Demi you want to evolve that badly
2008-02-05 18:29 < SWATJester> hi
2008-02-05 18:29 < White_Cat> with a water stone that is
2008-02-05 18:30 < White_Cat> whats going on?
2008-02-05 18:31 < SWATJester> woot. Apple software updates
2008-02-05 18:32 < TheWeasel> someone used "popular people" and "Dick Cheney" in one sentence
2008-02-05 18:33 < White_Cat> TheWeasel he is popular
2008-02-05 18:33 < TheWeasel> Is he?
2008-02-05 18:33 < White_Cat> yes
2008-02-05 18:33 < White_Cat> among rich people tho
2008-02-05 18:33 < TheWeasel> Don't believe it.
2008-02-05 18:33 < White_Cat> poor people despize him
2008-02-05 18:33 < TheWeasel> hm
2008-02-05 18:33 < White_Cat> he makes rich richer
2008-02-05 18:33 < TheWeasel> well, there are left-wing rich people
2008-02-05 18:33 < Gracenotes> 2% of the population is enough to vote in the next president, amirite?
2008-02-05 18:34 < TheWeasel> he's not exactly a cherished national figure
2008-02-05 18:34 < White_Cat> Gracenotes you mean primaries are unnecesary waste of peoples time?
2008-02-05 18:34 < White_Cat> TheWeasel oh he is
2008-02-05 18:34 < White_Cat> "Americas most hated man"
2008-02-05 18:34 < Gracenotes> White_Cat: "rich", you said :)
2008-02-05 18:34 < White_Cat> Jon Stewart loves him
2008-02-05 18:34 < White_Cat> You don't know dick!
2008-02-05 18:35 < Gracenotes> Harry Whittington loves Cheney as well <3
2008-02-05 18:35 * TheWeasel trusts his Weaselmentum
2008-02-05 18:37 < Leslie_S> i wonder if this whole having a girlfriend thing will work out :(
2008-02-05 18:39 < mavhc> seems to be quite popular
2008-02-05 18:41 < TheWeasel> Ah, relationships are so 2007.
2008-02-05 18:42 < placebo_effect> relationships?
2008-02-05 18:42 < placebo_effect> people on wikipedia have those
2008-02-05 18:42 < placebo_effect> ?
2008-02-05 18:42 < TheWeasel> yea, dating, engagement, marriage and that jazz.
2008-02-05 18:43 < White_Cat> You know
2008-02-05 18:43 < TheWeasel> Yes.
2008-02-05 18:43 < White_Cat> the more I read about John McCain the more I respect him
2008-02-05 18:43 < TheWeasel> Tornados in Memphis!
2008-02-05 18:43 < White_Cat> If only he was a democrat
2008-02-05 18:43 < TheWeasel> He's never earned his maverick reputation.
2008-02-05 18:44 < TheWeasel> I think he's mostly a media product
2008-02-05 18:44 < TheWeasel> even though he's a decent guy in many ways
2008-02-05 18:46 < White_Cat> McCain for admiralship
2008-02-05 18:46 < White_Cat> wait there already are two
2008-02-05 18:46 < White_Cat> O_o
2008-02-05 18:46 < Demi> White_Cat - a water stone is a blade sharpening stone you use with water
2008-02-05 18:46 < Demi> and i want to boil my razors because i bought them on ebay, and who knows where they've been
2008-02-05 18:47 < White_Cat> EEVEE evolves into VAPOREON with a Water Stone
2008-02-05 18:47 < White_Cat> Demi mmm
2008-02-05 18:47 < White_Cat> you shave with razors you buy on ebay?
2008-02-05 18:48 < White_Cat> I'd imagine you eat used food too
2008-02-05 18:48 < Demi> well, i will
2008-02-05 18:48 < Demi> but not yet
2008-02-05 18:48 < White_Cat> and use used condoms
2008-02-05 18:48 < Demi> it's difficult and pointless to get some things new, razors are one of them, hand tools another
2008-02-05 18:48 < White_Cat> Demi why NOT buy an electric razor?
2008-02-05 18:48 < White_Cat> they are actualy dirt cheep
2008-02-05 18:50 < SWATJester> why would you have to buy razors on ebay? Every year Gillette sends me a new mach 3 razor, or whatever the hell number they're on
2008-02-05 18:51 < Cyrius> I think I got a free razor once
2008-02-05 18:52 < Demi> i have a dirt cheap electric razor, the quality is poor. i've had several electric razors, including expensive ones, and the shave quality is not good.
2008-02-05 18:52 < Demi> plastic cartridge razors are also not very good
2008-02-05 18:52 < Demi> and of course, you have to keep replacing the cartridges
2008-02-05 18:53 < Demi> (and with the electric you have to keep replacing the screen and cutter, or at least i did)
2008-02-05 18:58 < TheWeasel> o.o Get that man off my screen.
2008-02-05 18:58 < TheWeasel> o.O
2008-02-05 18:59 < TheWeasel> Even Lou Dobbs' perfect teeth are hard to watch
2008-02-05 19:00 < TheWeasel> Obama takes GA
2008-02-05 19:06 < White_Cat> TheWeasel and Demi take a look at this:
2008-02-05 19:06 < White_Cat> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:United_States_presidential_election%2C_2008#Putting_republicans_and_democrats_side_by_side
2008-02-05 19:07 < Demi> i think it would be best to pick a breed of cat for each candidate and use that for the image
2008-02-05 19:07 < White_Cat> Demi its a temp image
2008-02-05 19:08 < White_Cat> my cat does not run for US presidency
2008-02-05 19:08 < Cyrius> be better than most of the candidates
2008-02-05 19:08 < bumm13> hiya Demi
2008-02-05 19:08 < White_Cat> you havent met my cat
2008-02-05 19:09 * bumm13 NP: Green River - Hangin' Tree (c. 1987)
2008-02-05 19:10 * Cyrius replaces one of White_Cat's temp images with [[Image:lolfrettchen.jpg]]
2008-02-05 19:10 < Cyrius> not really
2008-02-05 19:11 < Cyrius> because I can't decide which party I should call domesticated weasels
2008-02-05 19:13 < White_Cat> Cyrius have you checked the licensing of my photo?
2008-02-05 19:13 < Cyrius> uh...no, why?
2008-02-05 19:14 < TheWeasel> Can steaks burn at stake?
2008-02-05 19:15 < TheWeasel> "Hootch and Mootch in a Steak at Stake (1921)"
2008-02-05 19:16 < White_Cat> TheWeasel if the stakes are high enough, yes
2008-02-05 19:16 < TheWeasel> I'
2008-02-05 19:17 < TheWeasel> ll stake a claim to one then.
2008-02-05 19:19 < torchie> never could be any other never could be any other
2008-02-05 19:20 < NotACow> moo!
2008-02-05 19:20 < NotACow> CNN has called Georgia for Obama, with 0% of the vote counted.
2008-02-05 19:20 < Cyrius> yeah, I dunno what's with that
2008-02-05 19:20 < Mike_H> LOTS OF BLACKS
2008-02-05 19:20 < Cyrius> 1% of the Montana vote is in
2008-02-05 19:20 < Mike_H> GEORGIA HATES WIMMINS
2008-02-05 19:20 < NotACow> Cyrius: they must have damn good exit polling... either that, or they have the inside line on diebold there
2008-02-05 19:20 < TheWeasel> They say his exit poll lead cannot be overcome
2008-02-05 19:20 < Cyrius> guess who's ahead
2008-02-05 19:21 < TheWeasel> Peaches have the right to vote in the US.
2008-02-05 19:21 < torchie> I saw the news today
2008-02-05 19:21 < torchie> oh boy
2008-02-05 19:21 < Cyrius> if dead people can vote, live fruit can too
2008-02-05 19:21 < Demi> TheWeasel - Peaches only count as 3/5ths for purposes of representation, though
2008-02-05 19:21 < TheWeasel> haha
2008-02-05 19:21 < Cyrius> nobody wants to guess who montana is voting for
2008-02-05 19:22 < bumm13> Hannah Montana?
2008-02-05 19:22 < NotACow> Cyrius: chicago has more dead voters than georgia has live peaches
2008-02-05 19:22 < leslie_z> NotACow exit polling?
2008-02-05 19:22 < bumm13> I believe that, somehow
2008-02-05 19:22 < TheWeasel> Vote early and often.
2008-02-05 19:22 * Mike_H casts a vote for Margaret Mitchell
2008-02-05 19:22 < Mike_H> Margaret Mitchell would want to vote for Barack Obama.
2008-02-05 19:22 < bumm13> Mike_H: did you check out that link? :)
2008-02-05 19:22 < leslie_z> why is hillary campaigning on "im a woman" anyway? seriously, wtf?
2008-02-05 19:23 < TheWeasel> My love/don't give/me/presents
2008-02-05 19:23 < NotACow> leslie_z: because she has nothing else to go on
2008-02-05 19:23 < Cyrius> here's a hint, montana's full of isolationists who want the government to butt out
2008-02-05 19:23 < leslie_z> NotACow is she seriously that useless?
2008-02-05 19:23 < Mike_H> bumm13: no, I was working all night and then I went to bed :(
2008-02-05 19:23 < bumm13> aww
2008-02-05 19:23 < leslie_z> montana? HANNAH MONTANA :D :D :D
2008-02-05 19:23 < NotACow> leslie_z: no, if she was merely useless that would be an improvement
2008-02-05 19:24 < TheWeasel> Montana for Paul.
2008-02-05 19:24 < TheWeasel> Liverpool for Ringo
2008-02-05 19:24 < bumm13> considering that Washington state is rather "blue", I see my share of Ron Paul signs here
2008-02-05 19:24 < bumm13> (west of the Cascades)
2008-02-05 19:24 < TheWeasel> No, it's *because*
2008-02-05 19:24 < Cyrius> dang, more votes in for Montana, Ron Paul lost his lead
2008-02-05 19:25 * Mike_H NP: Gladys Knight and the Pips - Midnight Train to Georgia (1973)
2008-02-05 19:25 < TheWeasel> left-leaning states tend to have more imaginative conservatives as well.
2008-02-05 19:25 < caseypj> Cyrius what news network you watching
2008-02-05 19:25 < Cyrius> none
2008-02-05 19:25 < NotACow> mccain 38% romney 28% buckabee 28%
2008-02-05 19:25 < TheWeasel> Mike_H: Brilliant song.
2008-02-05 19:25 < Mike_H> The major left-leaning states are usually the Northeast, the West, and Hawaii
2008-02-05 19:25 < TheWeasel> They don't make that sort of soul any more.
2008-02-05 19:25 < Mike_H> and some states in the Midwest
2008-02-05 19:25 < Mike_H> sometimes.
2008-02-05 19:26 < bumm13> the West?
2008-02-05 19:26 < TheWeasel> Wisconsin and Minnesota
2008-02-05 19:26 < TheWeasel> parts of Michigan
2008-02-05 19:26 < bumm13> you mean the west coast
2008-02-05 19:26 < Mike_H> bumm13: the Pacific.
2008-02-05 19:26 < Mike_H> like, those three down thurr.
2008-02-05 19:26 < bumm13> down? :)
2008-02-05 19:26 < Mike_H> Washington
2008-02-05 19:26 < Mike_H> down
2008-02-05 19:26 < Mike_H> Oregon
2008-02-05 19:26 < Mike_H> down
2008-02-05 19:26 < Mike_H> ...
2008-02-05 19:26 < Mike_H> you get the idea.
2008-02-05 19:26 < Mike_H> :D
2008-02-05 19:26 < TheWeasel> Are you down with that?
2008-02-05 19:26 < bumm13> we be north of Florida, kind sir
2008-02-05 19:26 < NotACow> Mike_H: please use fewer newlines
2008-02-05 19:26 < Mike_H> NotACow: :(
2008-02-05 19:26 < Mike_H> ok
2008-02-05 19:27 < bumm13> hell, San Diego is north of Florida :x
2008-02-05 19:27 < TheWeasel> He wants to boost his stats.
2008-02-05 19:27 < TheWeasel> :-P
2008-02-05 19:27 < Mike_H> girl, I'm good on that
2008-02-05 19:27 < bumm13> San Diego is at about the same latitude as Savannah, GA
2008-02-05 19:27 < NotACow> MY CAT IS NORTH OF SAN DIEGO
2008-02-05 19:27 < bumm13> is not!
2008-02-05 19:27 < bumm13> {{fact}}
2008-02-05 19:28 < TheWeasel> So is.
2008-02-05 19:28 < bumm13> =^o.o^=
2008-02-05 19:28 < Demi> people in the rest of the country use maps with the eastern seaboard at the top
2008-02-05 19:28 < NotACow> MY CAT IS ALSO SOUTH OF SAN DIEGO
2008-02-05 19:28 < TheWeasel> o San Diego
2008-02-05 19:28 < TheWeasel> =^o.o^=
2008-02-05 19:28 < TheWeasel> See?
2008-02-05 19:28 < bumm13> that's one stretchy cat
2008-02-05 19:28 < Demi> MY CAT IS NAMED SAN DIEGO
2008-02-05 19:28 < bumm13> heh
2008-02-05 19:28 < TheWeasel> ° San Diego
2008-02-05 19:29 < TheWeasel> ° Tijuana
2008-02-05 19:29 < TheWeasel> =^o.o^=
2008-02-05 19:29 * bumm13 wonders how Diego ends up being the Spanish equivalent of James
2008-02-05 19:29 < TheWeasel> It is?
2008-02-05 19:29 < bumm13> yep
2008-02-05 19:29 < TheWeasel> Weird
2008-02-05 19:29 < bumm13> it is
2008-02-05 19:29 < Mike_H> The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is the only major daily newspaper in Atlanta, Georgia, USA and its suburbs.
2008-02-05 19:29 < TheWeasel> I thought it was some sort of homegrown saint
2008-02-05 19:29 < bumm13> nope
2008-02-05 19:29 < Mike_H> I'm kind of shocked that such a big city would only have one daily.
2008-02-05 19:30 < bumm13> some just do
2008-02-05 19:30 < TheWeasel> Jacobo is James
2008-02-05 19:30 < TheWeasel> Oh, nm.
2008-02-05 19:30 < bumm13> mmmm, I don't buy that
2008-02-05 19:30 < TheWeasel> Jakob in German
2008-02-05 19:30 < bumm13> Mary/María, Joseph/José <---- makes sense
2008-02-05 19:31 < bumm13> but Diego is weird
2008-02-05 19:31 < bumm13> wheeeeeeeee!
2008-02-05 19:31 < TheWeasel> Diego is a weird form of Jacopo
2008-02-05 19:31 < TheWeasel> Yago
2008-02-05 19:31 < TheWeasel> -> Diego
2008-02-05 19:31 < White_Cat> woops
2008-02-05 19:31 < bumm13> ah
2008-02-05 19:31 < Mike_H> bumm13: Spanish and French don't have literal translations of James.
2008-02-05 19:31 < Mike_H> Spanish: Diego, Jaime, Jacome, Iago
2008-02-05 19:31 < Mike_H> those are all acceptable.
2008-02-05 19:31 < TheWeasel> hence "Sant' Iago"
2008-02-05 19:32 < bumm13> ahh
2008-02-05 19:32 < gwern> 'Among set theorists of a realist bent, who believe that the axiom of constructibility is either true or false, most believe that it is false. This is in part because it seems unnecessarily "restrictive" (it allows only certain subsets of a given set, with no clear reason to believe that these are all of them). In part it is because the axiom is contradicted by sufficiently strong large cardinal axioms. This point of view is especially associated ...
2008-02-05 19:32 < White_Cat> Georgia for Obama
2008-02-05 19:32 < gwern> ... with the Cabal, or the "California school" as Saharon Shelah would have it.' <-- TINC
2008-02-05 19:32 < Mike_H> French: Jacques, Jame, Gemmes (Normandy), Gemme (Normandy)
2008-02-05 19:32 < White_Cat> And Armenia for Hillary
2008-02-05 19:32 < White_Cat> really
2008-02-05 19:32 < bumm13> Mexican calendars have all those saint names for each day
2008-02-05 19:32 < White_Cat> how can they name a country/state the same?
2008-02-05 19:32 < Xihix> I live in Georgia!
2008-02-05 19:32 < TheWeasel> McCain in a fairly good lead in GA
2008-02-05 19:32 < Xihix> I wish Ron Paul would win :(
2008-02-05 19:32 < TheWeasel> Surprising
2008-02-05 19:32 < TheWeasel> Ron Paul is batshit crazy.
2008-02-05 19:32 * bumm13 plonks Xihix on the head
2008-02-05 19:32 < White_Cat> Georgia is a country that borders armenia
2008-02-05 19:33 < White_Cat> it actualy is in asia
2008-02-05 19:33 < leslie_z> lol...
2008-02-05 19:33 < TheWeasel> but a member of UEFA
2008-02-05 19:33 < Xihix> But
2008-02-05 19:33 < Xihix> Ron Paul is hope for America!
2008-02-05 19:33 < White_Cat> and not georgia
2008-02-05 19:33 < Xihix> Hmm.
2008-02-05 19:33 < White_Cat> my point exactly
2008-02-05 19:33 < caseypj> there's no good coverage on TV
2008-02-05 19:33 < caseypj> glenn beck is an idiot
2008-02-05 19:33 < TheWeasel> Depends on what you're hoping for.
2008-02-05 19:34 < Xihix> What will all those people who spent two weeks worth of money from their jobs on his fundraisers?
2008-02-05 19:34 * bumm13 hopes all the candidates get violently ill
2008-02-05 19:34 < TheWeasel> If what you're hoping for is the denial of 300 years of economic and social theory, Ron Paul is your man.
2008-02-05 19:34 < Demi> i just read the moon is a harsh mistress
2008-02-05 19:34 < gwern> 'Early results showed Obama with a 2-1 lead over rival Hillary Clinton in the first state to close its polls.' <-- wow
2008-02-05 19:34 < Demi> whichi is a sort of book of mormon for libertarians
2008-02-05 19:34 < gwern> Demi: cute idea huh?
2008-02-05 19:34 < NotACow> if you want you life to be even more bizarrely surreal, vote ron paul
2008-02-05 19:34 < bumm13> the moon is a lunatic
2008-02-05 19:34 < gwern> the bombardment I mean
2008-02-05 19:34 < Demi> gwern - yes
2008-02-05 19:35 < DragonFire1024> hello
2008-02-05 19:35 < NotACow> MOO!
2008-02-05 19:35 < DragonFire1024> just for interested parties
2008-02-05 19:35 < DragonFire1024> http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Story_preparation/Wikinews_interviews_Mark_Bunker%2C_producer_of_anti-Scientology_website_%27XenuTV%27
2008-02-05 19:35 < TheWeasel> Ron Paul is the politics equivalent of the Raelians
2008-02-05 19:35 < DragonFire1024> if anyone would want to ask some Q's
2008-02-05 19:36 < gwern> Demi: I once sketched an idea where they shot the rocks the other way in an attempt to put the moon into a death spiral, but my tedious rudimentary physics told me that to just compensate for the moon drifting away from the earth would require chucking away kilotons a second
2008-02-05 19:36 < NotACow> mccain 37% buckabee 32% romnee 27% paul 3% 9/11 1%
2008-02-05 19:36 < Sfan00> Wikinews needs some questions in order to challange the anti-CoS views that are widley propogated on the net
2008-02-05 19:36 < NotACow> Sfan00: heh, good luck with that
2008-02-05 19:36 * Mike_H thinks Romney should change his name to Romnee.
2008-02-05 19:37 < Mike_H> It's very flowy and twee.
2008-02-05 19:37 < TheWeasel> That seems like a decent edge for McCain.
2008-02-05 19:37 < TheWeasel> hehe
2008-02-05 19:37 < TheWeasel> Romneyouse!
2008-02-05 19:37 < bumm13> Rahmny
2008-02-05 19:37 < NotACow> emmanual rahmny?
2008-02-05 19:37 < TheWeasel> haha
2008-02-05 19:37 < TheWeasel> :-D
2008-02-05 19:37 < NotACow> emmanuel rahm is my congresscritter :)
2008-02-05 19:37 < gwern> rommel
2008-02-05 19:37 < gwern> I'd vote for him
2008-02-05 19:37 < TheWeasel> Dennis "Kucinich" Hastert is a politician from the Democratic-Republicans from Indiana
2008-02-05 19:37 < NotACow> i voted for him today, since i had little choice not to
2008-02-05 19:38 < NotACow> he is unopposed for the nom
2008-02-05 19:38 < TheWeasel> he's the epitome of what makes the Democrats fail.
2008-02-05 19:38 < NotACow> i could have not voted for him ,b ut then my ballot would have been an undervote and i would have had to argue with the election judge as to whether i meant to undervote.
2008-02-05 19:39 < TheWeasel> CNN calls it a "close race" in GA
2008-02-05 19:39 < leslie_z> rofl, hannah montanas real name is miley cyrus
2008-02-05 19:39 < leslie_z> miley?
2008-02-05 19:39 < NotACow> miley?
2008-02-05 19:39 < Demi> gwern - the moon is large
2008-02-05 19:39 < NotACow> that's so a boy's namr
2008-02-05 19:39 < TheWeasel> I think it looks pretty straightforward
2008-02-05 19:39 < leslie_z> NotACow boys name?!
2008-02-05 19:39 < NotACow> THE MOON IS A MASS OF NONINCANDESCENT ROCK
2008-02-05 19:40 < bumm13> old cartoons were really into the moon
2008-02-05 19:40 < TheWeasel> The word unblowuppable is tossed around a lot these days, but...
2008-02-05 19:40 < NotACow> THE MOON!
2008-02-05 19:40 * Mike_H NP: Diana Ross - Touch Me in the Morning (1973)
2008-02-05 19:40 < leslie_z> NotACow too bad she isnt S. Miley
2008-02-05 19:40 < leslie_z> S. Miley Cyrus
2008-02-05 19:41 < TheWeasel> I didn't know the morning is a body part.
2008-02-05 19:41 < TheWeasel> (cavity)
2008-02-05 19:41 < gwern> Demi: I know. that's what terminated my outline - I couldn't figure out what tech could move that much rock around which wouldn't be more effective as a weapon on its own
2008-02-05 19:41 < Mike_H> TheWeasel: Diana Ross was on crack
2008-02-05 19:41 < Mike_H> imagery aplenty.
2008-02-05 19:41 < TheWeasel> oh yea.
2008-02-05 19:41 < leslie_z> anyway, i have to restart because i just installed SP2.
2008-02-05 19:41 < TheWeasel> Unsavoury.
2008-02-05 19:41 < NotACow> SP2 of what?
2008-02-05 19:42 < leslie_z> winblows
2008-02-05 19:42 < Mike_H> "Touch Me in the Morning" is a song recorded by Diana Ross. It was a number one single in 1973.
2008-02-05 19:42 < NotACow> you didn't have SP2 on yet?
2008-02-05 19:42 < NotACow> dude.
2008-02-05 19:42 < NotACow> you are WAY behind the cycle.
2008-02-05 19:42 < leslie_z> NotACow ive had windows installed on this system for like....a month.
2008-02-05 19:42 < NotACow> my INSTALL cds have SP2 prefuckingloaded.
2008-02-05 19:42 < leslie_z> NotACow the install cd is as old as dirt.
2008-02-05 19:43 < leslie_z> NotACow maybe thats why it let me activate three computers on the same license key, when everyone tells me it wont? :o
2008-02-05 19:43 < Mike_H> THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, a guru to the Beatles who introduced the West to transcendental meditation, died Tuesday at his home in the Dutch town of Vlodrop, a spokesman said. He was thought to be 91 years old.
2008-02-05 19:43 < leslie_z> thought to be? ROFL
2008-02-05 19:43 < Mike_H> leslie_z: back then they didn't have birth records
2008-02-05 19:43 < Mike_H> literally.
2008-02-05 19:46 < Mike_H> leslie_z: Did you know he founded a university?
2008-02-05 19:46 < NotACow> A VOTE FOR HUCKABEE IS A VOTE FOR MCCAIN
2008-02-05 19:46 < Mike_H> Maharishi University of Management (M.U.M.), formerly known as Maharishi International University, was founded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, creator of the Transcendental Meditation technique. The campus is located in Fairfield, Iowa, USA, on the grounds of the former Parsons College. [2]
2008-02-05 19:47 < TheWeasel> Rachmaninoff had a screw loose.
2008-02-05 19:47 < TheWeasel> it's hard to believe even he himself could play this stuff.
2008-02-05 19:48 < Demi> that's okay, i too, write programs i could not myself execute
2008-02-05 19:49 < TheWeasel> it's utterly grand but utterly insane.
2008-02-05 19:49 < TheWeasel> AAH. Lou again.
2008-02-05 19:50 < Leslie_S> sigh, my forgetfulness makes me act like a jerk
2008-02-05 19:50 < Leslie_S> i borrowed an assitant managers knife recently at work, because i left mine at home.
2008-02-05 19:51 < Leslie_S> then i left mine at home the next day. then i left his at home the next week. and every time he needs to use it he asks for mine...rofl.
2008-02-05 19:51 < TheWeasel> Hey, you could call it a Knife Museum, take entrance fees and give those to him.
2008-02-05 19:51 < NotACow> TheWeasel: like gracie's hat closet?
2008-02-05 19:51 < TheWeasel> I don't know about that
2008-02-05 19:52 < Leslie_S> TheWeasel except its not anything exciting and i own one just like it?
2008-02-05 19:52 < NotACow> TheWeasel: on the burns and allen show, gracie had a hat closet filled with people's hats
2008-02-05 19:52 < TheWeasel> Eh, petty concerns :-P
2008-02-05 19:52 < TheWeasel> hah
2008-02-05 19:52 < TheWeasel> :-D
2008-02-05 19:52 < NotACow> TheWeasel: people would forget them, and not come back for them because they didn't want to deal with gracie again.
2008-02-05 19:52 < TheWeasel> Umbrellas are popular too.
2008-02-05 19:52 < NotACow> TheWeasel: she had little notes in the hatband for who it was and why they were there.
2008-02-05 19:53 < TheWeasel> hehe
2008-02-05 19:53 < TheWeasel> trophies
2008-02-05 19:53 < NotACow> TheWeasel: one of them was General Eisenhower's general's hat
2008-02-05 19:53 < TheWeasel> haha
2008-02-05 19:54 < TheWeasel> oh, the Silly Party has held Leicester South West
2008-02-05 19:56 < Mike_H> Super Tuesday Key Poll Closings
2008-02-05 19:56 < Mike_H> 8 p.m. AL, IL, MA, NJ, TN
2008-02-05 19:56 < Sfan00> Night
2008-02-05 19:56 < Sfan00> Good night
2008-02-05 19:56 < TheWeasel> Stupid bloody Tuesday.
2008-02-05 19:57 < Mike_H> TheWeasel: A few days ago Tony Sidaway erroneously called it "Terrific Tuesday"
2008-02-05 19:57 < gwern> out of curoisity, how many syllables do you guys say 'wikipedia'?
2008-02-05 19:57 < Mike_H> gwern: 4
2008-02-05 19:57 < Mike_H> er
2008-02-05 19:57 < TheWeasel> :-)
2008-02-05 19:57 < Mike_H> 5.
2008-02-05 19:57 < TheWeasel> 4 1/2
2008-02-05 19:57 < TheWeasel> Five really
2008-02-05 19:57 < gwern> ok then. so Wikipedia Review would be ~7 syllables, and 'aperture science' would be 5
2008-02-05 19:58 < gwern> 'pedia Review?
2008-02-05 19:58 < TheWeasel> "Patently paranoid" has six syllables.
2008-02-05 19:59 < TheWeasel> Huck has taken a lead
2008-02-05 19:59 < Gracenotes> :|
2008-02-05 19:59 < TheWeasel> but we're getting to the top of the hour!
2008-02-05 19:59 < Gracenotes> is CNN reporting results online?
2008-02-05 19:59 < TheWeasel> ten
2008-02-05 20:00 < TheWeasel> five
2008-02-05 20:00 < gwern> TheWeasel: you should be grateful for tsunami tuesday. imagine if every state got the same coverage as vermont or iowa, over all these months...
2008-02-05 20:00 < Mike_H> The polls are now closed in Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Delaware, Alabama, Missouri, Tennessee and Oklahoma.
2008-02-05 20:00 < gwern> Gracenotes: yes
2008-02-05 20:00 < Mike_H> The next poll closing is Arkansas, in 30 minutes.
2008-02-05 20:00 < gwern> TheWeasel: this way, we knock off many important states all at once. more efficient
2008-02-05 20:00 < Gracenotes> gwern: great. What's the URL?
2008-02-05 20:00 < gwern> Gracenotes: cnn.com? :)
2008-02-05 20:00 < TheWeasel> IL, CT for McCain, MA for Romney
2008-02-05 20:00 < Gracenotes> meh. No special page with a pretty flash application?
2008-02-05 20:01 < gwern> the homepage pretty well summarizes it - huckabee takes w. virgina over romney with mccain's help, Obama gets 2-1 in some state
2008-02-05 20:01 < TheWeasel> IL for Obama, Hillary in OK
2008-02-05 20:01 < gwern> and so far that's about it
2008-02-05 20:01 < Mike_H> gwern: Georgia
2008-02-05 20:01 < Gracenotes> nice, 8:00 is coming in
2008-02-05 20:02 < TheWeasel> See above.
2008-02-05 20:02 < ET216> ani romanian here ?
2008-02-05 20:02 < DragonFire1024> Hillary in AL
2008-02-05 20:02 < gwern> is 'locked' 1 or 2 syllables? I say 1 but I'm not sure
2008-02-05 20:02 < Gracenotes> 1, I pronounce it
2008-02-05 20:02 < gwern> DragonFire1024: by how much?
2008-02-05 20:02 < TheWeasel> CNN says Illinois for Obama, Oklahoma for Clinton
2008-02-05 20:03 < DragonFire1024> gwern: 62%
2008-02-05 20:03 < Gracenotes> gwern: unless you're Shakespeare, and need to fit it into blank verse. Then you may say lockéd
2008-02-05 20:03 < Mike_H> gwern: 1 syllable
2008-02-05 20:03 < TheWeasel> Wow, they gave Romney the brown colo
2008-02-05 20:03 < TheWeasel> r
2008-02-05 20:03 < Mike_H> TheWeasel: Top Model returns tomorrow :D
2008-02-05 20:04 < Mike_H> they're airing clip shows of the best and worst moments from the nine cycles tomorrow and next Wednesday, and then Cycle 10 returns on the 20th
2008-02-05 20:04 < TheWeasel> oh, the emaciated Mr Cooper
2008-02-05 20:07 < NotACow> NARF
2008-02-05 20:07 < Gracenotes> CNN uses prototype.js
2008-02-05 20:07 < Gracenotes> no wonder why it's slow :<
2008-02-05 20:07 < TheWeasel> Bill Schneider is at AEI I think
2008-02-05 20:09 < TheWeasel> NJ for McCain
2008-02-05 20:09 < TheWeasel> tough night for Romney.
2008-02-05 20:10 < Mike_H> They're not calling Georgia for Huckabee yet
2008-02-05 20:10 < Mike_H> they probably won't until more votes come in
2008-02-05 20:10 < Mike_H> it would be a lulzy moment in Super Tuesday history if Obama won Arkansas.
2008-02-05 20:10 < TheWeasel> Four per cent with five counted is not enough
2008-02-05 20:10 < NotACow> BUCKABEE!
2008-02-05 20:10 < Gracenotes> wow. British soaps are intense... >.<
2008-02-05 20:11 < Mike_H> Gracenotes: oh, which one are you watching
2008-02-05 20:11 < Gracenotes> I don't know the name
2008-02-05 20:11 < Mike_H> name some characters you've seen
2008-02-05 20:12 * Gracenotes shrugs...
2008-02-05 20:12 < Mike_H> or at least what channel it's on
2008-02-05 20:12 < Gracenotes> they have a British accent, and it looks fictional :P
2008-02-05 20:13 < Mike_H> Gracenotes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w9D8PoqrVU
2008-02-05 20:13 < Mike_H> I'm catching up on my soapies too
2008-02-05 20:14 < Gracenotes> lol
2008-02-05 20:14 < Gracenotes> that guy has seriously uploaded a lot of stuff >.<
2008-02-05 20:14 < TheWeasel> Bill Bennett just used "Trotzkyism" for "anti-Trotzky Stalinism"
2008-02-05 20:14 < Mike_H> Gracenotes: It's a long-running story
2008-02-05 20:14 < Mike_H> it's been going for like...nine months?