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2008-02-14 22:17 < Therapist_Cat> WTF
2008-02-14 22:17 < Therapist_Cat> http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/15/usa
2008-02-14 22:17 < Therapist_Cat> Choking 'game' claims 82 young lives in US
2008-02-14 22:18 < Therapist_Cat> In the so-called game, a leash or rope is wrapped around the neck to temporarily cut the blood supply to the brain. The goal is a dreamlike, floating-in-space feeling when blood rushes back into the brain. Up to 20% of teenagers and pre-teens play the game, sometimes in groups, according to some estimates based on local studies.
2008-02-14 22:18 < gwern> Therapist_Cat: it is yet another example of Darwin's ineffable plan working itself out, iz no more
2008-02-14 22:18 < Leslie_S> gwern AWESOME
2008-02-14 22:18 < Leslie_S> i especially love the srsly iz not mous :[
2008-02-14 22:18 < gwern> Leslie_S: that ranks up with the /. proposal for my aw fuzzy moments online
2008-02-14 22:19 < quanticle> Leslie_S: Do you know which issue the article was from? My library maintains its own archive of CQ, so direct links don't work.
2008-02-14 22:19 < autocracy> ok, this is stupid, but...
2008-02-14 22:19 < autocracy> [[PP]] I think this anonymous user, though doing general vandalism...
2008-02-14 22:19 < bumm13> Therapist_Cat: invoking Darwin Awards? :P
2008-02-14 22:19 < autocracy> on that page... has a fair point in what he added...
2008-02-14 22:19 < Leslie_S> quanticle Details of Transportation Law ; 9-26-2005
2008-02-14 22:19 < Krimpet> why can't the kids just smoke pot instead? :/
2008-02-14 22:19 < bumm13> or good ol' fashioned huffing?
2008-02-14 22:20 < Therapist_Cat> if you're going to do that, you might as well go for the full autoerotic asphyixation
2008-02-14 22:20 < Leslie_S> quanticle make sure it mentions drunk driving and public transportation too
2008-02-14 22:20 < bumm13> heh
2008-02-14 22:20 < Therapist_Cat> at least that way you're happen when you go
2008-02-14 22:20 < quanticle> Leslie_S: Ok
2008-02-14 22:21 < privatemusings> if anyone's got 2 secs...
2008-02-14 22:21 < privatemusings> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Socrates&curid=26710&diff=191566828&oldid=191530611
2008-02-14 22:22 < autocracy> privatemusings: done
2008-02-14 22:22 < privatemusings> hooray - thanks....
2008-02-14 22:23 * Therapist_Cat huggles privatemusings
2008-02-14 22:24 < quanticle> Leslie_S: I got it. Can you PM me your e-mail address?
2008-02-14 22:24 * privatemusings has never been huggled before...
2008-02-14 22:24 < privatemusings> ..or had therapy from a cat....
2008-02-14 22:25 < Leslie_S> quanticle ok
2008-02-14 22:26 < Ceiling_Cat> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Hurricane_Isis_%281998%29&diff=prev&oldid=191536206
2008-02-14 22:26 < Ceiling_Cat> Teeheee
2008-02-14 22:26 < Ceiling_Cat> Yikes! Wikipedia mane page is becoming like the weather channel, or something. Enough with the hurricanes already!--[[Special:Contributions/137.82.36.214|137.82.36.214]] ([[User talk:137.82.36.214|talk]]) 00:09, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
2008-02-14 22:27 < Leslie_S> haha
2008-02-14 22:27 < Golbez> except when the last anon bitched about that i did the math
2008-02-14 22:27 < Golbez> which showed we run a hurricane FA on the main page every ~2 months
2008-02-14 22:27 < Golbez> which is not excessive
2008-02-14 22:30 < Brian_M> We need more articles about The Simpsons on the main page
2008-02-14 22:30 < NedScott> my watchlist is huge, but most of it is redirects
2008-02-14 22:30 < NedScott> I'm getting close to 5,000 again, and wondering why it's still managable
2008-02-14 22:31 < AzaTht> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Baltic_sea_map_with_pipeline.jpg
2008-02-14 22:31 < AzaTht> since when is finland included in scandinavia?
2008-02-14 22:32 < NedScott> since Monday. you didn't come to the meeting, did you
2008-02-14 22:32 < AzaTht> must have missed it
2008-02-14 22:33 < AzaTht> it's an attack on our belief!
2008-02-14 22:33 < AzaTht> now I have to murder the artist!
2008-02-14 22:42 < Leslie_S> quanticle that article didnt really help much, sadly.
2008-02-14 22:43 < quanticle> Leslie_S: It looked rather a bit like an overview, rather than a detailed analysis.
2008-02-14 22:44 < Ceiling_Cat> Former Senator Bob Dole once said the most dangerous place in Washington “is between Chuck Schumer and a television camera,”
2008-02-14 22:45 < Ceiling_Cat> the Bush administration once “circulated a guide called ‘Redacting With Confidence,’ with information about ‘how to safely publish sanitized reports.’
2008-02-14 22:57 < doobeydoo> hi, besides buying psu, case, cpu, heatsink, memory, hd, vidcard, mobo, are there other components missing and do i need to buy extra cables, screws, etc?
2008-02-14 22:57 < doobeydoo> for building a completele system
2008-02-14 22:58 < Ceiling_Cat> doobeydoo - NIC and sound card, if not built into motherboard
2008-02-14 22:58 < gwern> keyboard is good
2008-02-14 22:58 < FastLizard4|Food> so is a mouse
2008-02-14 22:58 < doobeydoo> what about cables? do they come with the parts?
2008-02-14 22:58 < FastLizard4|Food> and speakers
2008-02-14 22:59 < gwern> nah, just go with headphones
2008-02-14 22:59 < doobeydoo> well not the external parts
2008-02-14 22:59 < FastLizard4|Food> You know, a monitor would be a very nice addition
2008-02-14 22:59 < gwern> more bang for the buck, and more polite
2008-02-14 22:59 < Ceiling_Cat> you may need electrolytic glue to hold the heat sink to the processor
2008-02-14 22:59 < FastLizard4|Food> Uhh, what about cooling mechanism?
2008-02-14 22:59 < Ceiling_Cat> (some no longer require it)
2008-02-14 22:59 < gwern> FastLizard4|Food: he obviously wants to use it for a server!
2008-02-14 22:59 < doobeydoo> heatsink is a cooling mech.
2008-02-14 22:59 < gwern> sure, for the procesor
2008-02-14 22:59 < doobeydoo> no, i already own mouse, keyboard, moniotr etc
2008-02-14 23:00 < FastLizard4|Food> Air cooling, which needs fans
2008-02-14 23:00 < gwern> but what about the videocard? it's unlikely you picked an air-cooled card
2008-02-14 23:00 < FastLizard4|Food> Water cooling, which needs a water cooling system, etc.
2008-02-14 23:00 < gwern> *passively cooled, I meant
2008-02-14 23:00 < doobeydoo> comes with the case doesnt it?
2008-02-14 23:00 * FastLizard4|Food goes to eat dinner
2008-02-14 23:00 < gwern> I have a passively cooled video card, but it's obviously not particularly fast and took a bit of shopping
2008-02-14 23:00 < doobeydoo> i plan to get a coolermaster cosmos case
2008-02-14 23:01 < doobeydoo> so i dont need additional cables, thermal compound, etc? its all included within the parts i purchase?
2008-02-14 23:02 < gwern> you should really read the documentation very carefully in these matters
2008-02-14 23:03 < gwern> I discovered my mobo came with few to no IDE cables, just SATA, so I couldn't reuse most of my old hard drives, for example
2008-02-14 23:03 < doobeydoo> IDE? isnt that like prehistoric
2008-02-14 23:04 < gwern> old drives. but cumulatively, they would've doubled my storage capacity
2008-02-14 23:04 < doobeydoo> yeah, but your complaint is irrevelvant
2008-02-14 23:04 < doobeydoo> irrelevant*
2008-02-14 23:05 < doobeydoo> the new gen mobos need sacrificing of older wares to space out the newrer technology
2008-02-14 23:06 < quanticle> doobeydoo: IDE isn't that old. My computer still runs an IDE drive.
2008-02-14 23:06 < gwern> eh? sacrificing my very real desire to double my storage on the altar of the greater good rankles a bit, honestly, although I approve of aggressive obsolescence in the software space
2008-02-14 23:06 < autocracy> straw poll: redir? [[Babe & Me]]
2008-02-14 23:08 * gwern munchs on some cattails instead
2008-02-14 23:09 < gwern> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/w/index.php?title=Babe_%26_Me&oldid=185106259 <-- seems like a reasonable stub. the main article makes the series sound popular
2008-02-14 23:10 < OverlordQ> so what's the policy for ex-Tor nodes? IE, IPs that are no longer running neither transit nor exit nodes. Do they stay indef blocked?
2008-02-14 23:10 < gwern> don't think so
2008-02-14 23:10 < gwern> most tor nodes are very transient, anyway
2008-02-14 23:12 < Krimpet> OverlordQ: they shouldn't, though in practice the anti-tor crowd tend to leave em blocked anyway.
2008-02-14 23:13 < Rinn> You know what's terrible?
2008-02-14 23:13 < Rinn> Finding porn of one of your siblings over the internet.
2008-02-14 23:13 < OverlordQ> Krimpet: ah, just curious :)
2008-02-14 23:13 < gwern> Rinn: terrible? I'd call it incestalicious
2008-02-14 23:13 < OverlordQ> there's ~900 IPs out of the 1300 in [[Category:Tor_proxies_blocked_on_Wikipedia]] that are no longer Tor nodes
2008-02-14 23:13 < gwern> what the hell has happened o #wikipedia anyway? we used to discuss twincest all the time
2008-02-14 23:14 < gwern> it was hawt
2008-02-14 23:14 < gwern> but now we're all tame
2008-02-14 23:14 < gwern> and boring
2008-02-14 23:14 < Rinn> He's not that cute, though.
2008-02-14 23:14 < gwern> and dead
2008-02-14 23:14 < Krimpet> OverlordQ: thank the open proxy hysteria. ;P
2008-02-14 23:15 < Krimpet> the hysteria tends to lead to way too many blocks that are too large/long and leave legit users in collateral damage
2008-02-14 23:15 < BrianM> Bye everyone that I wasn't talking to.
2008-02-14 23:17 < Krimpet> heck, I once had to ask on AN/I for consensus to unblock after a CU blocked an entire ISP as an "open proxy" and refused to back down (everyone agreed with me)
2008-02-14 23:17 < autocracy> wikipedia bots: nothing like being able to tell a troll that somebody's perl script can tell what they just wrote was worthless
2008-02-14 23:17 < OverlordQ> Krimpet: well if the paranoid want to have a paranoid party, there's a list of 2238 unblocked Tor nodes in one of my userpages :D
2008-02-14 23:18 < autocracy> Rinn: you got a link to this unfortunate incident?
2008-02-14 23:18 < Krimpet> OverlordQ: ...but do all of those nodes exit to WP?
2008-02-14 23:18 < Rinn> Not for #wikipedia I don't.
2008-02-14 23:18 < autocracy> partly disbelief, partly morbid curiousity, partly just being dirty
2008-02-14 23:18 < OverlordQ> Krimpet: not all, but still, that wont stop the paranoid
2008-02-14 23:19 * Krimpet runs a non-exit tor relay, and if anyone blocks it she's ripping them a new one
2008-02-14 23:21 < OverlordQ> well if I rm out the transit-only nodes, 915 instead of 2238 :)
2008-02-14 23:21 < Mike_H> haha, I love this Moment of Truth show
2008-02-14 23:22 < Mike_H> the question was "Have you ever looked at porn without your wife's knowledge?" and he didn't even wait the customary 30 seconds. He was like "YES!"
2008-02-14 23:22 < OverlordQ> lol
2008-02-14 23:24 < Mike_H> yeah, this guy is great
2008-02-14 23:24 < Mike_H> he did that quick yes again, this time to "Have you ever stolen anything from a job?"
2008-02-14 23:24 < Mike_H> his wife was like
2008-02-14 23:24 < Mike_H> "Let us ring the buzzer so we can save you!"
2008-02-14 23:25 < OverlordQ> rofl what's the point of the show?
2008-02-14 23:25 < Mike_H> to embarrass people on national TV
2008-02-14 23:25 < Mike_H> and catch them in a lie
2008-02-14 23:25 < Mike_H> for money.
2008-02-14 23:26 < OverlordQ> so who actually wins? the interviewer or the interviewee?
2008-02-14 23:28 * OverlordQ reas the WP article
2008-02-14 23:28 < OverlordQ> ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh
2008-02-14 23:50 < jeremyb> root?!?
2008-02-14 23:50 < MessedRocker> its not like this thing has accounts
2008-02-14 23:51 < jeremyb> so make one
2008-02-14 23:51 < MessedRocker> it was enough trouble to jailbreak this iPhone, thank you
2008-02-14 23:51 < jeremyb> ohhh
2008-02-14 23:52 * jeremyb didn't realize it was an iPhone
2008-02-14 23:52 < jeremyb> they have a disclaimer just for phones in the store
2008-02-14 23:52 < MessedRocker> I know
2008-02-14 23:52 < jeremyb> (for the genius bar)
2008-02-14 23:52 < MessedRocker> geniuses don't use the genius bar
2008-02-14 23:53 < jeremyb> orly?
2008-02-14 23:53 < jeremyb> where do geniuses get repairs done then?
2008-02-14 23:55 < MessedRocker> they do it themselves
2008-02-14 23:55 < jeremyb> and free in-warranty parts replacements?
2008-02-14 23:56 < MessedRocker> jailbreaking doesn't destroy the phone
2008-02-14 23:56 < MessedRocker> worst case scenario you have to do a system restore
2008-02-14 23:56 * jeremyb isn't talking about phones specifically
2008-02-14 23:57 < MessedRocker> oh?
2008-02-14 23:57 < jeremyb> say, for example my laptop battery won't hold a charge
2008-02-14 23:57 < jeremyb> if you're a genius you can fix that without going to the genius bar?
2008-02-14 23:57 < MessedRocker> I guess you are allowed to go to the genius bar then
2008-02-14 23:58 < MessedRocker> apple is highly pompous and I hate them for that
2008-02-14 23:58 * jeremyb chuckles
2008-02-14 23:58 * jeremyb likes the branding
2008-02-14 23:58 < MessedRocker> but damn if their shit aint worth buying
2008-02-14 23:59 < MessedRocker> I hate their iPhone commercial
2008-02-14 23:59 < MessedRocker> "you never know what part of the internet you'll need"
2008-02-14 23:59 < MessedRocker> well guess what, apple didn't know either
2008-02-15 00:00 < MessedRocker> IRC is probably 90% of my net activity
2008-02-15 00:01 * Krimpet will stick with her 3-year-old razr. -_-
2008-02-15 00:01 < MessedRocker> also
2008-02-15 00:01 < MessedRocker> it is now Feb 15
2008-02-15 00:01 < Rinn> I like not having a cell phone.
2008-02-15 00:01 < Rinn> It makes me feel more unique.
2008-02-15 00:02 < MessedRocker> has been for one minute
2008-02-15 00:02 * jeremyb will stick with 3 month old refurb razr for now
2008-02-15 00:02 < Krimpet> happy Canadian Flag Day, MessedRocker
2008-02-15 00:02 < MessedRocker> it is now my birthday
2008-02-15 00:02 < Rinn> Still the fourteenth here.
2008-02-15 00:02 < KingTT> hi doods
2008-02-15 00:02 < MessedRocker> hi dood
2008-02-15 00:03 * Krimpet is in ur channel, greetin ur d00ds
2008-02-15 00:03 < MessedRocker> seriously though, iPhone colloquy is top notch
2008-02-15 00:03 < jeremyb> do you know the hour/minute of birth off the top of your head?
2008-02-15 00:03 < AppleBoy> MessedRocker: I am not!
2008-02-15 00:03 < KingTT> I am back from being away forever
2008-02-15 00:03 * AppleBoy shoots MessedRocker
2008-02-15 00:03 < MessedRocker> 4:54 AM
2008-02-15 00:04 < AdamBishop> my birth time was 3:54, and my son's was 3:52
2008-02-15 00:04 * jeremyb takes MessedRocker's pulse
2008-02-15 00:04 < jeremyb> 10:36
2008-02-15 00:04 < AdamBishop> I suppose that would be eery if the days were at all remotely close together
2008-02-15 00:05 < AdamBishop> and if it was synchronized to a universal clock
2008-02-15 00:05 < jeremyb> on my dad's side there are a handful of ppl that all have birthdays on the same day of week in any given year
2008-02-15 00:06 < MessedRocker> neat
2008-02-15 00:07 < AdamBishop> yeah there are 6 or 7 people in my family all born within two weeks in July and August
2008-02-15 00:08 < MessedRocker> hah it is 31 degrees in my home town
2008-02-15 00:08 < MessedRocker> however I am in Florida
2008-02-15 00:08 < KingTT> oh mans you guys finally made a good collaboration maybe i will start editing again
2008-02-15 00:09 < MessedRocker> oh?
2008-02-15 00:10 < KingTT> yarly
2008-02-15 00:14 < MessedRocker> which one
2008-02-15 00:14 < jeremyb> 'night!
2008-02-15 00:14 < KingTT> secrets
2008-02-15 00:17 < KingTT> his computer asploded
2008-02-15 00:21 < Lucifer_Cat> whose
2008-02-15 00:22 < KingTT> secrets
2008-02-15 00:36 * FastLizard4|busy is going to bed, good night!
2008-02-15 00:45 < SaadS|AboutUsORG> Hello
2008-02-15 00:50 < JessicaTaylor> hello
2008-02-15 00:53 < cjf_sk> Hello!
2008-02-15 00:57 < suppiluliuma> hello
2008-02-15 00:57 < SaadS|AboutUsORG> hello
2008-02-15 00:57 < KingTT> hay
2008-02-15 00:57 < SaadS|AboutUsORG> we are not home right now, please leave a message.
2008-02-15 00:57 < SaadS|AboutUsORG> ;)
2008-02-15 00:58 < SaadS|AboutUsORG> Why isnt the wikipedia channel buzzing with wikipedians debating and arguing?
2008-02-15 01:00 < suppiluliuma> i hate when these bastards going on a rampage then kill themselves
2008-02-15 01:00 < suppiluliuma> coward assholes
2008-02-15 01:01 < JessicaTaylor> Okay...
2008-02-15 01:01 < JessicaTaylor> What are 217 people doing
2008-02-15 01:02 < SaadS|AboutUsORG> umm unsure thats what i came to find out too
2008-02-15 01:03 < suppiluliuma> sorry for my lanaguage
2008-02-15 01:04 < cjf_sk> Hello!
2008-02-15 01:04 < cjf_sk> ;)
2008-02-15 01:04 < SaadS|AboutUsORG> Hi
2008-02-15 01:05 < SaadS|AboutUsORG> I really wish they had enabled leave and join messages
2008-02-15 01:06 < JessicaTaylor> The you couldn't see what was going on
2008-02-15 01:06 < JessicaTaylor> There would just be this mess of leaves and joins and name changes
2008-02-15 01:07 < SaadS|AboutUsORG> I'd prefer seeing that instead of no conversations at all ;)
2008-02-15 01:09 < cjf_sk> I'm just hiding from the #ai channel to be honest, seemed like a safe place
2008-02-15 01:13 < bluefoxicy> wikipedia lists Psychosis as a side effect of methylphenedate
2008-02-15 01:13 < bluefoxicy> it lists both Psychosis and Toxic Psychosis as side effects of adderall
2008-02-15 01:14 < bluefoxicy> I cannot find the difference between psychosis and toxic psychosis
2008-02-15 01:14 < bluefoxicy> Explain.
2008-02-15 01:15 < SaadS|AboutUsORG> bluefoxicy: perhaps start a discussion for it under the methylphenedate article, see what the writer has to say
2008-02-15 01:16 < Miranda> bluefoxicy: wikipedia can't give you medical advice.
2008-02-15 01:42 < yao_ziyua1> i am a little curious,
2008-02-15 01:42 < yao_ziyua1> but can't the Simple English Wikipedia be simply automatically generated based on English Wikipedia?
2008-02-15 01:43 < yao_ziyua1> the computer should be able to do that
2008-02-15 01:43 < Cyrius> it can't
2008-02-15 01:43 < yao_ziyua1> these two editions should be merged, like the chinese edition
2008-02-15 01:48 < yao_ziyua1> Cyrius: i even read a paper on this
2008-02-15 01:49 < Cyrius> it's not as simple as changing a few symbols around
2008-02-15 01:49 < yao_ziyua1> Basic English's idea of rewriting. e.g.: benefit -> do good to
2008-02-15 01:49 < Cyrius> the computer would have to understand the text
2008-02-15 01:49 < yao_ziyua1> Cyrius: more advanced words tend to be unambiguous, like "benefit"
2008-02-15 01:50 < Cyrius> writing simple english is more than just not using big words
2008-02-15 01:52 < Brown_Cat> O_o
2008-02-15 01:52 * JessicaTaylor saw a Brown_Cat
2008-02-15 01:53 * Brown_Cat sees a very nice lady :)
2008-02-15 01:53 * Brown_Cat cuddles JessicaTaylor
2008-02-15 01:53 * JessicaTaylor cuddles Brown_Cat
2008-02-15 01:53 * Brown_Cat had 2 bad run ins today
2008-02-15 01:54 < Brown_Cat> one with a meat pie, one with a deoderant can
2008-02-15 01:55 * Brown_Cat stares at Rinn
2008-02-15 01:55 < yao_ziyua1> for example, i didn't know what cuddle meant until i looked up my dict
2008-02-15 01:55 < Brown_Cat> yao_ziyua1: what does it mean/
2008-02-15 01:55 < yao_ziyua1> ,,
2008-02-15 01:56 < yao_ziyua1> two:
2008-02-15 01:56 < yao_ziyua1> 1. embrace...
2008-02-15 01:57 < yao_ziyua1> 2. stay against each other
2008-02-15 02:28 * Rinn is incinerated by Brown_Cat's piercing stare
2008-02-15 02:28 < Brown_Cat> ARGHHH!!
2008-02-15 02:28 < Brown_Cat> WHAT DID I DO!
2008-02-15 02:28 < cannsado> ??
2008-02-15 02:28 * Brown_Cat cries
2008-02-15 02:28 * Brown_Cat revives Rinn
2008-02-15 02:28 < cannsado> GRRRR
2008-02-15 02:29 < Rinn> BRAAAAIINS
2008-02-15 02:31 * Brown_Cat brings Rinn back to eternal life
2008-02-15 02:31 * Brown_Cat cuddles Rinn
2008-02-15 02:31 * Rinn eats Brown_Cat's brains
2008-02-15 02:31 * Brown_Cat looks at Rinn
2008-02-15 02:31 < Rinn> BRAINS
2008-02-15 02:31 * Brown_Cat cuddles Rinn
2008-02-15 02:43 < Sniperz11> does anyone know latin over here?
2008-02-15 03:11 < suppiluliuma> Sniperz11
2008-02-15 03:11 < suppiluliuma> try #linguistics
2008-02-15 03:18 < Sniperz11> thx
2008-02-15 03:21 * Mike_H NP: Dr. Hook - When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman (1979)
2008-02-15 03:29 < Mike_H> How quickly we forget the lovely impact Australian staples made on the US self-consciousness, like Men at Work and Olivia and that other Minogue sister and Savage Garden and Kajagoogoo.
2008-02-15 03:29 < Mike_H> Wait, was that last one even Australian? Whatever, we're blaming that on you too. Don't be shy shy!
2008-02-15 03:30 < pr0nGuy> Mike_H: Dani Minogue? But then her sister is also Aussie.
2008-02-15 03:31 < Mike_H> the other sister, Not Kylie.
2008-02-15 03:31 < Mike_H> Does she even deserve a first name?
2008-02-15 03:31 < pr0nGuy> She's hot like a million firesides!
2008-02-15 03:35 * Mike_H NP: Billy Joel - Tell Her About It (1983)
2008-02-15 03:42 < Cyrius> 'TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan and South Korea, long at odds over their wartime history, should be linked by a railway tunnel under the sea symbolising peaceful ties, a group of Japanese lawmakers was reported as saying on Friday.'
2008-02-15 03:43 < The359> peace my ass
2008-02-15 03:43 < The359> they still can't agree over an uninhabited island between them
2008-02-15 03:46 < pr0nGuy> What the heck is this chan about anyway?
2008-02-15 03:46 < pr0nGuy> I thougth it was Wikipedia.
2008-02-15 03:46 < Mike_H> It's the main channel
2008-02-15 03:46 < Mike_H> it usually doesn't have a topic
2008-02-15 03:46 < The359> The explosion was a precipitating cause of the Spanish-American War that began in April 1898 and which used the rallying cry, "Remember the Maine!, To hell with Spain!"[citation needed][1][2][3][4]
2008-02-15 03:46 < The359> Which is it? Citation needed or it's cited?
2008-02-15 03:46 < Cyrius> =)
2008-02-15 03:47 < Cyrius> this is kinda the Wikipedia lounge
2008-02-15 03:47 * bumm13 serves up some drinks
2008-02-15 03:47 < Cyrius> it's for Wikipedia, not necessarily about Wikipedia
2008-02-15 03:48 < pr0nGuy> aiiight
2008-02-15 03:48 * Mike_H NP: Billy Joel - The Longest Time (1984)
2008-02-15 03:49 < bumm13> Mike_H: I remember those songs :x
2008-02-15 03:50 < bumm13> I still have a clear memory of being at a Chuck E. Cheese location in 1987 and the animatronic characters were "playing" to "Uptown Girl" ;)
2008-02-15 03:51 < Mike_H> oh, lord
2008-02-15 03:51 < The359> I seem to remember hearing "I'm your Venus" at a Chuck E. Cheese once...
2008-02-15 03:52 < The359> which, at the time, i thought was "I'm your penis"
2008-02-15 03:52 < Mike_H> The359: :o
2008-02-15 03:52 < The359> it makes more sense that way
2008-02-15 03:52 < The359> I'm your penis, I'm your fire, at your desire
2008-02-15 03:52 < bumm13> (celebrating the birthdays of both me and my older sister)
2008-02-15 03:52 < The359> Sounds like a STD catchphrase
2008-02-15 03:53 < zocky_> speaking of old songs and cheese, /me recommends richard cheese
2008-02-15 03:54 < bumm13> hmm, I've not heard of him
2008-02-15 03:54 < bumm13> Mike_H: I also remember "drowning" in the plastic balls ;)
2008-02-15 03:54 < Mike_H> haha, me too <3
2008-02-15 03:56 < bumm13> an appropriate link -- http://www.x-entertainment.com/messages/346.html
2008-02-15 03:56 * Mike_H NP: Elton John - Mama Can't Buy You Love (1979)
2008-02-15 03:56 < bumm13> (the images don't seems to work >:( )
2008-02-15 03:56 < bumm13> *seem
2008-02-15 03:57 < Mike_H> Then came something they called pizza for us to eat. I forgot how truly shitty this stuff is. You could microwave a frozen Celeste pizza (Abondonza!), leave it in your backyard for a week and reheat it again, and have a better tasting pie than this Alpo and spaghetti sauce monstrosity.
2008-02-15 03:57 < Mike_H> Oh, please, if anyone's had CiCi's it's really not that much different.
2008-02-15 03:57 < bumm13> yeah, that description is a tad harsh
2008-02-15 03:57 < Mike_H> CiCi's is a much cheaper alternative to irregularity than a big tub of Metamucil.
2008-02-15 03:58 < Mike_H> *to solving irregularity
2008-02-15 03:58 < bumm13> I do remember not caring for their pizza, but not in that sense
2008-02-15 03:58 < bumm13> (it was a tad bland and greasy, IIRC)
2008-02-15 03:58 < Mike_H> Honestly, in my taste, Chuck E. Cheese's pizza isn't really that much different than, like, Pizza Hut.
2008-02-15 03:58 < bumm13> still, this is hazy memory from 8 years ago
2008-02-15 03:58 < Mike_H> I don't think many pizza places have good pizza.
2008-02-15 03:59 < bumm13> yeah, like an inferior variant of Pizza Hut, I suppose
2008-02-15 03:59 < Mike_H> Papa John's is really the only place I'll order from.
2008-02-15 03:59 < Mike_H> Pizza Hut gives me the trots and Domino's gives me heartburn.
2008-02-15 03:59 < bumm13> sounds about right ;)
2008-02-15 04:00 < Mike_H> After a mysterious silence where the total was taken to "the backroom" to officially add up, this large fat black woman, who looked like Momma from "What's Happenin'" came out and pulled the father and girl aside to a table.
2008-02-15 04:00 < bumm13> "It turns out there was quite a crowd there gathered to witness an amazing spectacle. Some 8 year old girl had saved up a humoungous trash bag full of tickets and was cashing them all in. After talking to the fater, I learned that this was no one day haul, but a collection of 2 YEARS worth of tickets that the girl and her cousins had saved up."
2008-02-15 04:00 < bumm13> yeah ;)
2008-02-15 04:00 < Mike_H> Intrigued, I walked over there to find out what was going on (and everyone else was very interested in the official count as well), and she asked quite rudely, "Excuse me sir, can I help you?" I told her "No, I'm just eavesdropping.", and she grumpily went about her business.
2008-02-15 04:01 < The359> This story i smaking me pretty limp
2008-02-15 04:01 < The359> is making
2008-02-15 04:02 < bumm13> all those tickets for cheap "made in China" carnival-grade prizes
2008-02-15 04:02 < bumm13> haha:
2008-02-15 04:02 < bumm13> "Though I was impressed that the girl had saved up so many, I was getting frustrated at this horribly inefficient counting method, so I suggested that the employees merely weigh the entire trashbag full at once."
2008-02-15 04:02 < Mike_H> I was kind of pissed that the girl didn't get any good things for her tickets
2008-02-15 04:03 < bumm13> "'We can't do that', the genius replied, 'because the bag has weight, too. It'll give the wrong weight.'"
2008-02-15 04:03 < bumm13> ...
2008-02-15 04:04 < bumm13> Mike_H: they should have at least let her have a limit of, say, 3 "good" items
2008-02-15 04:04 < Mike_H> bumm13: omg
2008-02-15 04:04 < Mike_H> okay
2008-02-15 04:04 < bumm13> instead of being bitches about it
2008-02-15 04:04 < Mike_H> so I'm watching...
2008-02-15 04:04 < Mike_H> just click
2008-02-15 04:04 < Mike_H> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ix0gku5ZUs
2008-02-15 04:04 < morwen> it's as if Archimedes never existed
2008-02-15 04:05 < bumm13> heh
2008-02-15 04:05 < bumm13> "So it was time to bring them to the prize center (kind of like a welfare version of the Wheel of Fortue merchandise gallery) to cash them in."
2008-02-15 04:05 < bumm13> (earlier text)
2008-02-15 04:06 * bumm13 clickies linky
2008-02-15 04:06 < Mike_H> That show gave me NIGHTMARES as a kid
2008-02-15 04:06 < bumm13> haha
2008-02-15 04:06 < bumm13> I remember watching it frequently
2008-02-15 04:07 < bumm13> good ol' Robert Stack
2008-02-15 04:08 < Mike_H> I remember they'd show clips of like
2008-02-15 04:08 < Mike_H> healing towns
2008-02-15 04:08 < Mike_H> Fatima
2008-02-15 04:08 < Mike_H> Lourdes
2008-02-15 04:08 < Mike_H> Medugorje
2008-02-15 04:08 < bumm13> heh
2008-02-15 04:08 < Mike_H> and like, pilgrims would come by crawling on their knees
2008-02-15 04:08 < Mike_H> and I always wondered why they did that
2008-02-15 04:09 < The359> the UFO stories scared me
2008-02-15 04:10 < The359> I also remember the show mostly being aired on Lifetime, so you got shitty "Wife's Revenge!" movie commercials
2008-02-15 04:12 < The359> Wing Flannagan?
2008-02-15 04:12 < The359> wtf
2008-02-15 04:18 * Pwhdavey escapes from Scandalous wikiHow
2008-02-15 04:19 < Pwhdavey> Scandalous...
2008-02-15 04:19 < Pwhdavey> These are terrible times
2008-02-15 04:19 < Mike_H> bumm13: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvyRq6fhd-E
2008-02-15 04:20 < zocky_> you know, americans are a bit like bosnians
2008-02-15 04:20 < zocky_> "for a long period of time" instead "for a long time" is what bosnians would say
2008-02-15 04:22 < Pwhdavey> These are terrible times
2008-02-15 04:23 < zocky_> bumm13, here's an example of richard cheese: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8dj11BMw80
2008-02-15 04:23 < zocky_> (but he's usually faster than that)
2008-02-15 04:32 < Mike_H> bumm13: I'm watching the best of Unsolved Mysteries
2008-02-15 04:33 * Star-D pulls out sleeptyper 's eyeballs and plays baseball with them.
2008-02-15 04:33 * Star-D hops on Star-D jet and flies away.
2008-02-15 04:35 < yao_ziyuan> is obama's "phone bank" a phone book that allows supporters to spam supporters who published their phone numbers?
2008-02-15 04:45 < Pwhdavey> These are terrible times
2008-02-15 04:48 < bumm13> ok....
2008-02-15 05:13 < Mike_H> zocky: msg
2008-02-15 06:08 < SQLDb> OverlordQ: what'd you need?
2008-02-15 07:28 < bumm13> ```````````````
2008-02-15 07:28 < bumm13> (oops)
2008-02-15 08:28 < zocky> wow, [[savanna]] is a shitty article
2008-02-15 08:28 < zocky> it's all about conservation, and practically nothing about what it is
2008-02-15 08:28 < zocky> plus, it has pearls like "Savannas are subject to regular fires and the ecosystem appears to be the result of human use of fire."
2008-02-15 08:30 < Hildanknight> I'm trying to link to, and quote, a diff. However, since links to diffs are opened and closed with single square brackets, using [sic] or paraphrasings breaks the link. Any suggestions on how I can resolve this?
2008-02-15 08:36 < autocracy> Jesus: does this mean plagues is coming?
2008-02-15 08:36 < autocracy> 'cause i read about that... sounded crappy
2008-02-15 08:37 < Jesus> autocracy: no, it means the people in #gaygeeks need to stop choosing to be gay and all will be good :)
2008-02-15 08:37 * Jesus hi-5's autocracy
2008-02-15 08:42 < Jesus> brb, picking up my son from school
2008-02-15 08:43 < mlm42> Hildanknight: use <nowiki>[sic]</nowiki>
2008-02-15 08:44 < Hildanknight> Thanks, Mlm42! :D
2008-02-15 08:44 < mlm42> np
2008-02-15 08:44 * Jesus drifts after Hildanknight
2008-02-15 08:50 < JessicaTaylor> ?
2008-02-15 08:50 < JessicaTaylor> Its Jebus
2008-02-15 08:50 < JessicaTaylor> :o
2008-02-15 09:28 < MessedRocker> hello ho
2008-02-15 09:31 < Sfan00> Hello
2008-02-15 09:31 < Sfan00> Anyone here recall Linka - as in the construction kit?
2008-02-15 09:33 < MessedRocker> no
2008-02-15 09:34 < MessedRocker> or as Kelly would say, death to construction kits!!
2008-02-15 09:34 < Sfan00> Must have been a Uk thing then
2008-02-15 09:34 < Sfan00> :)
2008-02-15 09:35 < Sfan00> Disambigged [[Linka]]
2008-02-15 09:36 < elusive_p> I believe I figured it out
2008-02-15 09:36 < bumm13> hiya MessedRocker
2008-02-15 09:37 < MessedRocker> hi bumm
2008-02-15 09:37 < MessedRocker> is my birthday today
2008-02-15 09:38 < Sfan00> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linka
2008-02-15 09:38 < Sfan00> Anyone care to help?
2008-02-15 09:39 < bumm13> \o/
2008-02-15 09:40 < NotACow> DEATH TO HELP
2008-02-15 09:40 < Leslie_school> APA documents an authors last name and first initial, for androgyny. What about asian names, like Jiang Yu? i realize that their surname is the first part, so should it be Jiang, Y?
2008-02-15 09:44 < elusive_p> leslie: its a guideline, the first name is short
2008-02-15 09:44 < NotACow> nerp
2008-02-15 09:46 < NotACow> DEATH TO POOT
2008-02-15 09:46 < elusive_p> notabull
2008-02-15 09:47 < kim> I hadn't noticed that PROD had been heavily restricted
2008-02-15 09:47 < elusive_p> Prod I
2008-02-15 09:47 < kim> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Proposed_deletion#PROD_scales.2C_so_scale_it.21
2008-02-15 09:47 < kim> so I'd like to unrestrict and replace as much of the infrastructure as possible
2008-02-15 09:48 < kim> Hello Miranda
2008-02-15 09:48 < Miranda> hi kim, how are you
2008-02-15 09:48 < kim> I'm good
2008-02-15 09:48 < kim> very tired .. skipped somesleep ^^;;
2008-02-15 09:48 < kim> other than that fine
2008-02-15 09:48 < kim> well, sleepy, not tired
2008-02-15 09:48 < Miranda> yeah
2008-02-15 09:48 < kim> there's a difference :-P
2008-02-15 09:49 < Aqwis> kim, how the hell would you delete controversial nn/n articles with prod?
2008-02-15 09:49 < kim> Aqwis, by loosening the "remove only once" rule
2008-02-15 09:49 < Aqwis> ok?
2008-02-15 09:49 < kim> if you allow people to put a prod tag up, you can discuss it on the talk page, like any other tag
2008-02-15 09:50 < elusive_p> kim: concern about enforcement?
2008-02-15 09:50 < Aqwis> then what is the difference from afd?
2008-02-15 09:50 < kim> Aqwis, more likely to have normal discussion, less new pages made, it scales?
2008-02-15 09:50 < Aqwis> to me it just sounds like too much drama for no real gain
2008-02-15 09:50 < elusive_p> kim: rules are guides are helpful more and more
2008-02-15 09:50 < Aqwis> but ok
2008-02-15 09:50 < kim> and by it scales
2008-02-15 09:51 < kim> I mean it scales automagically
2008-02-15 09:51 < kim> no creating case pages
2008-02-15 09:51 < kim> no tracking changes
2008-02-15 09:51 < elusive_p> kim: structure is good. enuff
2008-02-15 09:51 < kim> no closings
2008-02-15 09:51 < kim> elusive_p, we ahve an entire wikistructure, why are people trying to create a new structure from scratch, that isn't even supported by software?
2008-02-15 09:51 < kim> elusive_p, use the existing structure as much as possible
2008-02-15 09:52 < elusive_p> kim: combinations confuse my pal
2008-02-15 09:52 < kim> elusive_p, especially when the wiki-structure scales almost indefinitely, and the made up stuff does not
2008-02-15 09:52 < kim> elusive_p, eh?
2008-02-15 09:52 * NotACow snorts
2008-02-15 09:52 < elusive_p> kim: we have a platform
2008-02-15 09:52 < NotACow> wikistructure doesn't scale at all
2008-02-15 09:52 < kim> NotACow, didn't you to numbers on taht?
2008-02-15 09:52 < kim> that?
2008-02-15 09:52 < elusive_p> notacow: yup
2008-02-15 09:53 < NotACow> kim: i don't know what you're talking about
2008-02-15 09:53 < NotACow> it's plainly obvious that wikipedia methodology doesn't scale.
2008-02-15 09:53 < kim> NotACow, ok, in that case you're just plain wrong :-P
2008-02-15 09:53 < kim> NotACow, there are 2 million pages created
2008-02-15 09:53 < NotACow> kim: i'm familiar wit the study on editing
2008-02-15 09:53 < kim> it scales very well
2008-02-15 09:53 < kim> despite the community, as opposed to thanks to the community
2008-02-15 09:53 < NotACow> kim: it demonstrated that most articles are edited by a small nmber of editors, which means there's no scaling required.
2008-02-15 09:53 < elusive_p> kim: if we have zero dominators like you want, chaos is loose
2008-02-15 09:53 < kim> the community is less capable of scaling
2008-02-15 09:54 < kim> NotACow, errr? It means that the structure provided by the wiki scales very well. Because we have 1000s of editors, but most don't need to see each other ever
2008-02-15 09:54 < NotACow> community processes that involve more than a handful of people, however, scale very poorly and very quickly descend into a miasma of unorganized, inchoate shouting
2008-02-15 09:54 < kim> NotACow, either way is fine
2008-02-15 09:54 < NotACow> kim: that's not scaling.
2008-02-15 09:54 < kim> NotACow, yes, so Don't Do That
2008-02-15 09:54 < kim> NotACow, hence have prod replace everything else
2008-02-15 09:55 < NotACow> kim: you can't have global coherency that way
2008-02-15 09:55 < elusive_p> kim: everything else
2008-02-15 09:55 < kim> since PROD also only touches a small part of everything
2008-02-15 09:55 < kim> NotACow, I don't NEED global coherency
2008-02-15 09:55 < elusive_p> kim kim kim
2008-02-15 09:55 < elusive_p> are you cloning now?
2008-02-15 09:55 < kim> NotACow, the system can be massively parallel
2008-02-15 09:55 < Aqwis> ignore NotACow ;[
2008-02-15 09:56 < kim> NotACow, in fact, it *is* massively parrallel, despite many attempts to hobble it
2008-02-15 09:56 < kim> NotACow, I think at least some of the slowdown in growth is due to this tendency of people to destroy the very system which makes wikipedia possible
2008-02-15 09:56 < elusive_p> kim: thats big of you lol...
2008-02-15 09:58 < elusive_p> kim: in any case, write it down and propose it
2008-02-15 10:00 < kim> elusive_p, already there :-)
2008-02-15 10:08 < Mark_Ryan> my laptop cord is dying :(
2008-02-15 10:08 < Mark_Ryan> now I have to buy a new power supply thing for $100 or more
2008-02-15 10:09 < Mark_Ryan> when the laptop itself cost only about $900 like 4 years ago, it's almost not worth it
2008-02-15 10:10 < kim> indeed
2008-02-15 10:10 < kim> get yourself a cool new laptop :-)
2008-02-15 10:10 < Mark_Ryan> mm, but I also need a new desktop computer too :P i can't make my parents buy two
2008-02-15 10:11 < Mark_Ryan> but I also need to buy a replacement fan for the laptop too, as the current one is painfully noisy, especially in classes at uni
2008-02-15 10:11 < bumm13> aww :(
2008-02-15 10:11 < bumm13> hiya Mark_Ryan
2008-02-15 10:11 < Mark_Ryan> it's really quite embarrassing :)
2008-02-15 10:11 < Mark_Ryan> hi bumm13
2008-02-15 10:12 < bumm13> I found this old speech synthesis program for MS-DOS while perusing the Intarwebz
2008-02-15 10:12 < kim> Mark_Ryan, everyone needs 2 machines
2008-02-15 10:12 < Mark_Ryan> is it bad, bumm13?
2008-02-15 10:12 < kim> Mark_Ryan, or buy 1 expensive laptop, perhaps
2008-02-15 10:12 < bumm13> actually, it's decent for its time
2008-02-15 10:12 < Mark_Ryan> in high school I played with a Windows 95 Plus! program called "Talk It"
2008-02-15 10:13 < bumm13> (nothing spectacular, but decent)
2008-02-15 10:13 < Mark_Ryan> it was on the computer in the physics lab, and had lots of options like "singing boy" and "singing man"
2008-02-15 10:13 < bumm13> heh
2008-02-15 10:13 < Mark_Ryan> we had a lot of fun with that program. making it say things spontaneously in the middle of class
2008-02-15 10:13 < bumm13> this uses some special DOS driver and programs made by Creative Labs (who made the whole SoundBlaster series of sound cards)
2008-02-15 10:14 < bumm13> oh, of course :)
2008-02-15 10:14 < Mark_Ryan> dos sound, what, like wolf3d-style?
2008-02-15 10:14 < bumm13> anyway, the program works using the DOSBox emulator :-)
2008-02-15 10:14 < bumm13> mmm, not sure if it's that fancy ;)
2008-02-15 10:14 < kim> bumm13, there's also festival for speech synth
2008-02-15 10:15 * kim should check out voice recognition software some more as well again
2008-02-15 10:15 < bumm13> the synthesized voice sounds Japanese :x
2008-02-15 10:15 * kim so wants to make a star-trek type user interface ;-)
2008-02-15 10:15 < bumm13> the driver/etc. comes with 2 programs
2008-02-15 10:15 < Mark_Ryan> i wonder how far speech synthesis has come since those days
2008-02-15 10:15 < Mark_Ryan> if it's actually vaguely normal, i mean
2008-02-15 10:15 < bumm13> a basic "parrot back to the user" talking program
2008-02-15 10:15 < bumm13> and an ELIZA knockoff ;)
2008-02-15 10:15 < kim> Mark_Ryan, it's not very popular, so possibly not that good
2008-02-15 10:16 < bumm13> Mark_Ryan: it only seems to have come a little ways since then
2008-02-15 10:16 < Mark_Ryan> Windows XP has a screen reader built in, but it's pretty hopeless
2008-02-15 10:16 < bumm13> (this dates backt to 1991)
2008-02-15 10:16 < bumm13> *back
2008-02-15 10:16 < Mark_Ryan> oh wow
2008-02-15 10:16 < Mark_Ryan> retro :)
2008-02-15 10:16 < bumm13> heh, indeed
2008-02-15 10:17 < bumm13> there's even an article about the ELIZA knockoff on WP :-)
2008-02-15 10:17 < bumm13> [[Dr. Sbaitso]]
2008-02-15 10:17 < Mark_Ryan> Eliza is great
2008-02-15 10:17 < Mark_Ryan> This is interesting. Please continue.
2008-02-15 10:17 < Mark_Ryan> What makes you say that there's even an article about the ELIZA knockoff on WP :-)?
2008-02-15 10:17 < Mark_Ryan> :P
2008-02-15 10:18 < bumm13> because I found it already :P
2008-02-15 10:18 < bumm13> :P
2008-02-15 10:18 < kim> bumm13, you sound positive
2008-02-15 10:18 < bumm13> but let's talk about what makes you say that there's even an article
2008-02-15 10:18 < bumm13> ;)
2008-02-15 10:19 < kim> 2 elisas having a conversation might be interesting?
2008-02-15 10:19 < bumm13> the scary thing is that I was reading the X-Entertainment website a lot yesterday...
2008-02-15 10:19 < bumm13> then I went looking for something else via Google
2008-02-15 10:19 < kim> xemacs had a psychoanalyse ziggy option somewhere...
2008-02-15 10:19 < bumm13> and found a link talking about this program.....at the X-Entertainment website :-p
2008-02-15 10:19 < kim> have you guys ever encountered Azile?
2008-02-15 10:20 < bumm13> anyway, it works under emulation, which is cool
2008-02-15 10:20 < bumm13> another useful time-waster :)
2008-02-15 10:21 < Mark_Ryan> hey, the IP address of en.wikipedia.org is supposedly 208.80.152.2. But when you go to http://208.80.152.2, it says the wiki does not exist. how do you get to the english wikipedia via its IP address?
2008-02-15 10:21 < Mark_Ryan> or is that not possible?
2008-02-15 10:22 < wimt> Mark_Ryan, I think the browser normally sends the hostname which lets the server know which wiki to display
2008-02-15 10:22 < bumm13> oh dear...
2008-02-15 10:22 < wimt> So without doing that manually (which would be rather hard, though not impossible) you can't access it by IP
2008-02-15 10:22 < Mark_Ryan> so does that mean you can't do some URL trick with the IP?
2008-02-15 10:22 < bumm13> Uncyclopedia has an article about the program as well :s
2008-02-15 10:22 < Mark_Ryan> okay, fair enough
2008-02-15 10:22 * kim can't find any chats with azile
2008-02-15 10:23 < bumm13> and some moron at ED has that program's name as their username ;p
2008-02-15 10:23 < Fabexplosive> hello
2008-02-15 10:24 < kim> bumm13, hahahaha!
2008-02-15 10:25 < bumm13> hiya Fabexplosive
2008-02-15 10:25 < Fabexplosive> heya bumm13
2008-02-15 10:25 < bumm13> heh --- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0124232/
2008-02-15 10:26 < bumm13> (Trivia: ) "The voice of the Security bots was generated by a now-obsolete computer program called "Dr. Sbaitso", which was a demonstration/test for the Sound Blaster sound card. Dr. Sbaitso took the form of a psychiatrist that would take the user's input and return a bit of dubious advice (that was often nonsensical) through the computer's speakers, and could also be told to repeat the user's input."
2008-02-15 10:26 < bumm13> oops, minor floodage :#
2008-02-15 10:32 < MessedRocker> moooooooo
2008-02-15 10:36 < Scarian> bash.org quote:
2008-02-15 10:36 < Scarian> <JonTG> Man, my penis is so big if I laid it out on a keyboard it'd go all the way from A to Z
2008-02-15 10:36 < Scarian> <JonTG> wait, shit
2008-02-15 10:36 < Miranda> lol
2008-02-15 10:36 < xahlee> for a windmill like this one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Windmill_harlem.jpg can the top rotate to face wind direction?
2008-02-15 10:43 < Scarian> Miranda: I think some of those are made up, tbh.
2008-02-15 10:43 < Sfan00> Scarian: Continuing to clean out underdogs links?
2008-02-15 10:43 < Sfan00> :0
2008-02-15 10:44 < Sfan00> I cleaned out another bath this morning along with some other site :)
2008-02-15 10:44 < Scarian> Sfan00: ugh... I gave up ages ago...
2008-02-15 10:44 < Scarian> It's so tiresome.
2008-02-15 10:44 < Scarian> Sorry :/
2008-02-15 10:44 < TheWeasel> huh
2008-02-15 10:44 < TheWeasel> hm
2008-02-15 10:44 * TheWeasel wasnt prompted to authorize sef
2008-02-15 10:44 < TheWeasel> *self
2008-02-15 10:44 < TheWeasel> oh well
2008-02-15 10:45 < bumm13> hiya Weasel
2008-02-15 10:45 < TheWeasel> hey dur
2008-02-15 10:46 * TheWeasel wants to browse another department's faculty but their servers are dysfunctional
2008-02-15 10:46 < NotACow> DEATH TO DYSFUNCTIONAL SERVERS
2008-02-15 10:47 < TheWeasel> well, materially same department, different university
2008-02-15 10:47 < NotACow> you have cross-university departments?
2008-02-15 10:47 < TheWeasel> Heh, I'd rather things were dysfunctional than dead.
2008-02-15 10:47 < NotACow> the politics there must be quite challenging
2008-02-15 10:47 < TheWeasel> no, I just wanted to be in shock and awe
2008-02-15 10:47 < TheWeasel> and wallow in my own department's mediocrity
2008-02-15 10:48 < NotACow> TheWeasel: you're not allowed to be in shock and awe, that's privileged to members of the united states military. booyah!
2008-02-15 10:48 < TheWeasel> U-S-A! U-S-A!
2008-02-15 10:48 < TheWeasel> Now I'm mostly wallowing in the fucked-uppedness of someone else's servers
2008-02-15 10:50 < TheWeasel> Ah! Heureka.