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2008-02-20 07:48 < Tanoshii> uh oh
2008-02-20 07:53 < Lycurgus> ah I see, so that would include stuff like Achewood
2008-02-20 07:54 * Tanoshii looks at the page
2008-02-20 07:54 < Tanoshii> I suppose you could
2008-02-20 07:54 * Tanoshii I was not familiar with it
2008-02-20 08:07 < Lycurgus> it's nothing of consequence, you needn't have been/be
2008-02-20 08:07 < Lycurgus> and everlasting, I think
2008-02-20 09:07 < Sfan00> hello
2008-02-20 09:12 < Sfan00> !admin - Backlog of CSD I8's
2008-02-20 09:15 < NotASpy> hmm, about time I wrote a tool to allow quick reviews of those images.
2008-02-20 09:16 < Sfan00> I'm currently running in bot-mode moving stuff i'd tagged for commons moves
2008-02-20 09:19 < NotASpy> it would only take an hour or so, might do that tonight, I think.
2008-02-20 09:20 < NotASpy> I can double check Flickr licences with my Flickr review tool at the rate of one image every 20-30 seconds, but it's needing a few extra buttons, now I've got a few extra buttons on Commons.
2008-02-20 09:21 < Sfan00> I'd eventually like to see single-click move to commons for suitable enwiki images
2008-02-20 09:21 < Sfan00> The 'Helper' I am using currently is partly heading in that direction
2008-02-20 09:22 < Sfan00> but it still needs a few manual operations
2008-02-20 09:22 < NotASpy> ideally, I could review and delete eligible photos from the CSD-I8 category at a similar rate. I could also use such a tool to add in en.wp upload details and source, those being the two biggest bugbears on commons.
2008-02-20 09:28 < NotACow> moo
2008-02-20 09:28 < NotACow> !moo
2008-02-20 09:28 < Bungle> moo: ([OS]: Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (5.1.2600)) - ([Uptime]: 4days 4hrs 43mins 59secs) - ([CPU]: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6400 @ 2.13GHz at 2131MHz ) - ([GFX]: NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS 512MB) - ([Res]: 1280x1024 32bit 60Hz) - ([RAM]: 924/2037.9MB (45.36%) [|||||-----]) - ([HDD]: C:\ 12.42GB/29.39GB D:\ 132.98GB/203.48GB) - ([NET]: Hamachi Network Interface - 100MB/s 17.94KB In 17.66KB Out)
2008-02-20 09:30 * Mark_Ryan stares at Bungle
2008-02-20 09:31 < Mark_Ryan> !moo
2008-02-20 09:31 < Bungle> moo: ([OS]: Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (5.1.2600)) - ([Uptime]: 4days 4hrs 46mins 59secs) - ([CPU]: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6400 @ 2.13GHz at 2131MHz ) - ([GFX]: NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS 512MB) - ([Res]: 1280x1024 32bit 60Hz) - ([RAM]: 923/2037.9MB (45.29%) [|||||-----]) - ([HDD]: C:\ 12.42GB/29.39GB D:\ 132.98GB/203.48GB) - ([NET]: Hamachi Network Interface - 100MB/s 17.94KB In 17.66KB Out)
2008-02-20 09:33 * NotACow snorts
2008-02-20 09:33 < NotACow> what the fuck was that?
2008-02-20 09:33 < Mark_Ryan> god knows
2008-02-20 09:33 < Mark_Ryan> who would have thought that telling an entire IRC channel every single thing there is to know about your computer was a good thing?
2008-02-20 09:34 < NotACow> Mark_Ryan: bragging rights
2008-02-20 09:34 < NotACow> Mark_Ryan: he has a DUAL CORE 6400 and you don't
2008-02-20 09:34 < NotACow> not to mention 2 gigabytes of RAM
2008-02-20 09:34 < NotACow> eat that penis
2008-02-20 09:35 * NotACow giggles
2008-02-20 09:35 * Mark_Ryan has a CELERON 2.1 GHz, with 256MB of RAM and INTEGRATED GRAPHICS
2008-02-20 09:35 < Mark_Ryan> isn't that sexy?
2008-02-20 09:35 < Cyrius> hm, decent earthquake in indonesia
2008-02-20 09:35 < NotACow> beats the daylights out of my Pentium 120 with 88 MB of RAM!
2008-02-20 09:36 < Mark_Ryan> Cyrius: that's not exactly a rare occurrence up there
2008-02-20 09:36 < Cyrius> a 7.5 is a bit unusual
2008-02-20 09:36 < NotACow> 239.20 bogomips!
2008-02-20 09:36 < Cyrius> 5.x magnitude is frequent
2008-02-20 09:36 < Bambi_BO1H> 4 day uptime? i have laptops with more then that *grin*
2008-02-20 09:37 < NotACow> 08:36:41 up 28 days, 8:14, 1 user, load average: 0.03, 0.10, 0.09
2008-02-20 09:37 < NotACow> kinda sucky
2008-02-20 09:37 < NotACow> i think we had a power failure
2008-02-20 09:37 < Bambi_BO1H> 01:07:49 up 78 days, 18:30, 10 users, load average: 0.06, 0.09, 0.09
2008-02-20 09:38 < Bambi_BO1H> yay for UPS (and boo for being to slack to reboot after a kernel update
2008-02-20 09:38 < NotACow> yeah, i need a UPS.
2008-02-20 09:38 < NotACow> but i need a jointer anda bandsaw, too
2008-02-20 09:38 < Mark_Ryan> Cyrius: if I recall correctly, Banda Aceh was also the epicentre of the boxing day earthquake/tsunami
2008-02-20 09:38 < Mark_Ryan> the big one, i mean
2008-02-20 09:38 < NotACow> i had a machine with 1000 days uptime once
2008-02-20 09:39 < Cyrius> this quake wasn't that close to there
2008-02-20 09:39 < Bambi_BO1H> NotACow: i didnt think the unix clock went that high
2008-02-20 09:39 < NotACow> Bambi_BO1H: it doesn't.
2008-02-20 09:39 < NotACow> Bambi_BO1H: it rolled over twice, iirc
2008-02-20 09:39 < Mark_Ryan> still, same general area. too seismic for my liking :)
2008-02-20 09:39 < kgoetz> NotACow: :)
2008-02-20 09:39 < Cyrius> agreed on both counts
2008-02-20 09:40 < Cyrius> "310 km (195 miles) SSE of Banda Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia"
2008-02-20 09:40 < NotACow> there was a good sized quake in calexico, too
2008-02-20 09:41 * Mark_Ryan happily lives in a place that hasn't felt an earthquake since the 1960s, has no active or dormant volcano within 1000 km, only gets hit by cyclones every 30 years or so, no big tornadoes...
2008-02-20 09:41 < Cyrius> we just get hurricanes here
2008-02-20 09:41 < Cyrius> geologically stable though
2008-02-20 09:41 < Cyrius> minor tornadoes
2008-02-20 09:42 < Cyrius> I prefer my natural disasters to come with a few days warning
2008-02-20 09:47 < Mark_Ryan> yes, true, Cyrius
2008-02-20 09:48 * Mark_Ryan vaguely can't understand people who choose to live at the foot of volcanoes
2008-02-20 09:48 < kgoetz> *grin*
2008-02-20 09:48 * kgoetz doesnt get it either
2008-02-20 09:49 < Mark_Ryan> I mean, haven't they seen that B-grade movie "Volcano"? where a volcano erupts from underneat some city (possibly LA)?
2008-02-20 09:49 < Mark_Ryan> and they stop the flow of lava with concrete street barriers. that was funny
2008-02-20 09:50 < NotACow> Mark_Ryan: hey, concrete street barriers will at least slow down lava
2008-02-20 09:50 < kgoetz> never heard of it before, but it sounds b gread *grin*
2008-02-20 09:50 < NotACow> Mark_Ryan: concrete is remarkably tough stuff.
2008-02-20 09:50 < kgoetz> *grade
2008-02-20 09:50 < Cyrius> I think there were two of those movies released in the same year
2008-02-20 09:50 < NotACow> LAVADOME
2008-02-20 09:51 < Cyrius> Volcano, 1997, "A volcano erupts in downtown L.A., threatening to destroy the city."
2008-02-20 09:51 < Cyrius> starring Tommy Lee Jones and Anne Heche
2008-02-20 09:52 < Mark_Ryan> "Marc Savlov of the Austin Chronicle describes the film as "an embarrassment""
2008-02-20 09:57 < Cyrius> the first quote on imdb is kinda amusing http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120461/quotes
2008-02-20 09:57 * TheWeasel ominously warns of an earthquake at an undisclosed future date
2008-02-20 09:58 * TheWeasel checks what today's strongest earthquake is so far
2008-02-20 09:58 < Mark_Ryan> lol, Cyrius, true
2008-02-20 09:58 < Mark_Ryan> TheWeasel: SOLLOG SAYS SO
2008-02-20 09:59 < Cyrius> TheWeasel is SOLLOG
2008-02-20 09:59 < TheWeasel> Whatever that be,
2008-02-20 10:00 * Mark_Ryan is watching a compilation of Wilhelm Screams from movies over the years
2008-02-20 10:00 < kgoetz> Cyrius:1st or 2nd?
2008-02-20 10:00 < TheWeasel> MAP 7.5 2008/02/20 08:08:32 2.751 95.966 34.3 SIMEULUE, INDONESIA
2008-02-20 10:00 < TheWeasel> Holy crap, thats not trifling
2008-02-20 10:00 < Cyrius> kgoetz: what?
2008-02-20 10:01 < Mark_Ryan> Sollog is an internet loon who comes onto websites after major disasters and tells people that Sollog knew it was going to happen, and told the world in ridiculously vague Nostradamus-like predictions beforehand
2008-02-20 10:01 < Cyrius> TheWeasel: yes, it's what brought up disasters in the first place =)
2008-02-20 10:01 < TheWeasel> Oh.
2008-02-20 10:01 < TheWeasel> Okay.
2008-02-20 10:01 < TheWeasel> Heh, my inshtinct
2008-02-20 10:02 < TheWeasel> oh, an island west of Java
2008-02-20 10:04 < kgoetz> mmm. java getting buried in a volucano
2008-02-20 10:04 < kgoetz> *sp
2008-02-20 10:07 < aitherios> hello, is there documentation, beyond wikipedia tutorial articles, of wikicode?
2008-02-20 10:07 < kgoetz> night all
2008-02-20 10:08 < kgoetz> or morning, strictly speaking
2008-02-20 10:08 < publunch> afternoon here.
2008-02-20 10:08 < Sfan00> aitheros: Try the Mediawiki manual
2008-02-20 10:08 < aitherios> thkx!
2008-02-20 10:09 < Mark_Ryan> aitherios: If you click "help" on the left hand side of the Wikipedia screen, it will take you to the help files for MediaWiki
2008-02-20 10:09 < Mark_Ryan> well, Wikipedia and MediaWiki
2008-02-20 10:09 < Mark_Ryan> it's a mix of it all
2008-02-20 10:14 * bumm13 sucks on a cough drop
2008-02-20 10:16 < bumm13> (ah yes, February has 29 days this year...)
2008-02-20 10:17 < Mark_Ryan> [[Nationwide opinion polling for the Democratic Party 2008 presidential candidates]]
2008-02-20 10:17 * bumm13 boing
2008-02-20 10:17 < bumm13> wtf?
2008-02-20 10:17 < Mark_Ryan> i thought we had a [[WP:NOT]] for something like lists of numbers?
2008-02-20 10:18 < bumm13> that doesn't sound like a proper article title to me
2008-02-20 10:18 < AppleBoy> hi Mark_Ryan
2008-02-20 10:18 < Mark_Ryan> hi AppleBoy
2008-02-20 10:18 < AppleBoy> and bumm13
2008-02-20 10:18 < bumm13> Happy Leap Year!
2008-02-20 10:18 < AppleBoy> long time no see
2008-02-20 10:18 < Mark_Ryan> indeed :)
2008-02-20 10:19 * bumm13 's throat is sore :<
2008-02-20 10:19 < AppleBoy> I've been programming like crazy :/
2008-02-20 10:19 < AppleBoy> so close!
2008-02-20 10:28 < GaryKing> Hi, could someone point me to a Template that includes the current date into it? I'm creating a template and I'd like to know how to do this.
2008-02-20 10:29 < Gabriel> please help me: change color on background title for page [[Portal:Educatie/ctcnvk|Colegiul tehnicde comunicatii N.V. Karpen Bacau]]
2008-02-20 10:30 < GaryKing> ah got it
2008-02-20 10:30 < Gabriel> http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Educa%C5%A3ie/ctcnvk
2008-02-20 10:42 < Fabexplosive> hello
2008-02-20 10:48 < White_Cat> Mark_Ryan
2008-02-20 10:48 < White_Cat> talk to me
2008-02-20 10:48 < Mark_Ryan> hi
2008-02-20 10:48 < White_Cat> yay
2008-02-20 10:48 < White_Cat> Mark_Ryan pm :)
2008-02-20 10:49 < Mark_Ryan> who knew the simple act of saying 'hi' could instill so much joy in people
2008-02-20 10:51 < Pilotguy_aw> YAR!
2008-02-20 10:52 < Pilotguy_aw> ./whois sparro1
2008-02-20 10:52 < White_Cat> Rudget!i=5ac2f490@gateway/web/ajax/mibbit.com/x-1a4baaeef5f760b6
2008-02-20 10:52 < White_Cat> Ygramul!i=8b1e111b@gateway/web/ajax/mibbit.com/x-54b2e1c63f271863
2008-02-20 10:53 < White_Cat> :/
2008-02-20 10:53 < White_Cat> on #wikipedia-en
2008-02-20 10:53 * bumm13 teeth are in terrible pain :( :( :(
2008-02-20 10:53 * White_Cat licks them
2008-02-20 10:54 * Pilotguy_aw stabs NickServ
2008-02-20 11:13 < NotACow> POOT
2008-02-20 11:15 < quanticle> So does anyone know what the latest status is on the Wikileaks case?
2008-02-20 11:16 < Mark_Ryan> if you visit wikileaks.be you'll probably find out
2008-02-20 11:17 < NotACow> wikileaks?
2008-02-20 11:17 < Mark_Ryan> a wiki which encouraged people to anonymously leak stuff to them, NotACow
2008-02-20 11:17 < Mark_Ryan> some dodgy bank sued the wikileaks.com domain host and got a permanent inujunction closing that domain
2008-02-20 11:18 < Mark_Ryan> but the site is actually hosted in sweden or something so it's still accessible via other URLs
2008-02-20 11:19 < Heartwork> http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=56494 Liberalism is a mental disorder, lol.
2008-02-20 11:19 * Mark_Ryan goes to bed
2008-02-20 11:25 < anonick93> anyone around to answer a question?
2008-02-20 11:30 < Sfan00> Mark_Ryan: and by injucting wikileaks the banks is going to invoke the curse of Streisand..
2008-02-20 11:30 < Sfan00> I.E What's this bank got to hid if they are so agin Wikileaks?
2008-02-20 11:32 < NotASpy> well, it's very much a case of "damned if you do and damned if you don't" but with a bank, they're especially damned if they don't do anything, as it makes the allegations look more plausible, if they take action, the sorts of people these types of banks deal with will be slightly happier.
2008-02-20 11:35 < NotACow> ZIM, THE REFRESHING TASTE OF MONKEY SPUNK
2008-02-20 11:38 < Qst> :o
2008-02-20 11:38 < NotACow> so, any news from louisville?
2008-02-20 11:38 < NotACow> how many dead?
2008-02-20 11:39 < Qst> Do you mean the spaceship landing?
2008-02-20 11:41 * NotACow checks Qst's medication
2008-02-20 11:41 < Qst> ...
2008-02-20 11:47 < Sfan00> Any Aussies in?
2008-02-20 11:47 < Sfan00> I am needing some help generating a tag-set of bush features for OSM
2008-02-20 11:50 < Golbfoo> louisville?
2008-02-20 11:50 < Golbfoo> oh, school on lockdown
2008-02-20 11:56 < Golbfoo> So
2008-02-20 11:56 < Golbfoo> is WP:ACID the successor to the Collaboration of the Week?
2008-02-20 11:56 < Golbfoo> Yikes, it is. For a year and a half now. That's ad.
2008-02-20 11:56 < Golbfoo> sad.
2008-02-20 11:57 < Golbfoo> I enjoyed COTW, but my one nomination to ACID failed.
2008-02-20 11:57 < Aqwis> no, WP:AFD is the successor.
2008-02-20 11:57 < Golbfoo> Apparently no one agreed with me that [[Great Hanshin earthquake]] was a major subject worthy of expansion.
2008-02-20 11:59 < Fabexplosive> hey baa
2008-02-20 12:00 < NotASpider> "delete, non-notable seismic anomaly"
2008-02-20 12:00 < NotASpider> idiocy
2008-02-20 12:01 < NotASpider> actually it looks quite expanded
2008-02-20 12:01 < NotASpider> how long have you been working on it
2008-02-20 12:06 < Golbfoo> not at all
2008-02-20 12:06 < Golbfoo> but while browsing it some months ago i saw various shortcomings that could be resolved by having more eyes on it
2008-02-20 12:07 < Golbfoo> I just figured that considering the damage from this was 2-3x Katrina, and the deathtoll 3x, it deserved more than ... a 3 page article
2008-02-20 12:07 < mavhc> hire spiders
2008-02-20 12:08 < Golbfoo> The Katrina article is 12 pages, not counting the myriad subarticles.
2008-02-20 12:08 < White_Cat> people are idiotic on wikipedia. I suggest all idiots be deleted for being idiots. :P
2008-02-20 12:08 < Golbfoo> and it shows a strong systemic bias on Wikipedia
2008-02-20 12:08 < Golbfoo> not a pro-US one
2008-02-20 12:08 < NotACow> yeah, but katrina killed americans, and they count at least 5x as much as southeast asians.
2008-02-20 12:08 < White_Cat> Golbfoo Katrina had more news coverage than 911
2008-02-20 12:08 < Golbfoo> but rather, a recentism one
2008-02-20 12:08 < NotACow> probably more like 15x
2008-02-20 12:08 < mavhc> Golbfoo: of course the writer's strike is 6 times worse than 9/11
2008-02-20 12:09 < Golbfoo> the Indian Ocean Earthquake has an 8 page article, with subarticles
2008-02-20 12:09 < White_Cat> mavhc you can take my life, but not my TV show!
2008-02-20 12:09 < Golbfoo> but that happened after Wikipedia started
2008-02-20 12:09 < Golbfoo> whereas the Great Hanshin earthquake did not
2008-02-20 12:09 < White_Cat> Golbfoo I agree with you
2008-02-20 12:09 < White_Cat> :)
2008-02-20 12:09 < White_Cat> but me agreeing with you will not slience those people :)
2008-02-20 12:09 < Golbfoo> nor did Hurricane Andrew, which after expansion still has a woefully tiny article
2008-02-20 12:09 < White_Cat> Golbfoo to boldly write what noone has written before!
2008-02-20 12:09 < NotACow> i have a hurricane andrew t-shirt somewhere
2008-02-20 12:10 < White_Cat> NotACow the one you are wearing?
2008-02-20 12:10 < NotACow> White_Cat: no, it's a red cross fundraising t-shirt for hurricane andrew
2008-02-20 12:10 < NotACow> i paid $20 for it back in 1992
2008-02-20 12:10 < NotACow> it's orange.
2008-02-20 12:10 < Rinn> "I survived Hurricane Andrew and all I got was this lousy t-shirt!"
2008-02-20 12:10 < Golbez> are there any pre-wiki disasters that we have adequate coverage of?
2008-02-20 12:10 < NotACow> "Stand Strong Against the Wind" or something.
2008-02-20 12:11 < Golbez> 1906 San Francisco? 1900 Galveston? Camille? Lisbon?
2008-02-20 12:11 < NotACow> krakatoa
2008-02-20 12:11 < NotASpider> Golbfoo there are a lot of good editors from india, most of whom are fluent in english
2008-02-20 12:11 < NotACow> pompeii
2008-02-20 12:11 < NotACow> how about the K-T Event?
2008-02-20 12:12 < NotACow> when Q accidentially slammed an iridium-rich asteroid into the yucatan?
2008-02-20 12:12 < Golbez> ooh we have a winner
2008-02-20 12:12 < Golbez> [[1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens]] is featured!
2008-02-20 12:12 < NotACow> Golbez: that was kinda cool.
2008-02-20 12:12 < NotACow> Golbez: i remember watching that on TV
2008-02-20 12:12 < Golbez> Almost before my time.
2008-02-20 12:13 < NotASpider> lol against the wind
2008-02-20 12:13 < NotASpider> damn you bob seger
2008-02-20 12:13 < NotACow> NotASpider: if you lol against the wind, bugs may fly up your nose
2008-02-20 12:13 < NotASpider> we were young and strong, we were lol'ing against the wind
2008-02-20 12:13 < NotASpider> sorry
2008-02-20 12:14 < Golbez> Hurricane Floyd is featured at least
2008-02-20 12:14 < Golbez> so is Iniki
2008-02-20 12:15 < Golbez> but we have a single featured artucle on an earthquake - 2004 Indian Ocean.
2008-02-20 12:18 < Golbez> What about Lisbon? Hanshin? Northridge? Loma Prieta? New Madrid? Great Chilean? Great Kanto? Taiwan?
2008-02-20 12:18 < Golbez> Severe recentism can be seen on the list of earthquakes on [[earthquake]] - as many are listed for the 21st century (7 years old) as for the entire 20th century, and most of the 21st century ones are less damaging/notable ones.
2008-02-20 12:20 < NotASpider> "recentism" usually boils down to "ease of sourcing"
2008-02-20 12:21 < NotASpider> not "presumption of greater importance"
2008-02-20 12:21 < Golbez> sourcing is 100% possible, but it's harder, yes
2008-02-20 12:21 < Golbez> so people abandon the older ones in exchange for working on "easy" articles
2008-02-20 12:22 < NotASpider> depends on what you have access to, and are interested in
2008-02-20 12:22 < White_Cat> Golbez
2008-02-20 12:22 < White_Cat> well
2008-02-20 12:22 < White_Cat> people dont live in wooden houses anymore
2008-02-20 12:22 < Golbez> considering i can find on the internet information about obscure territorial officials, i think people should be able to find stuff about the most expensive natural disaster in history
2008-02-20 12:23 < White_Cat> Golbez in the past they built skyscrapers out of wood
2008-02-20 12:23 < mavhc> people who live in wooden houses shouldn't throw flaming torches
2008-02-20 12:23 < NotASpider> and they played nintendo by candle-light
2008-02-20 12:23 < White_Cat> NotASpider indeed
2008-02-20 12:23 < Golbez> silly they had no electricity for nintendo
2008-02-20 12:23 < Golbez> they played game boy
2008-02-20 12:23 < White_Cat> ah right
2008-02-20 12:24 < White_Cat> candle light powered gameboy
2008-02-20 12:24 < Crispy> Hand crank gameboy?
2008-02-20 12:24 * White_Cat cranks Crispy
2008-02-20 12:24 < White_Cat> if abacuses can be predicesors of computers, why not?
2008-02-20 12:24 < Golbez> or maybe even smaller but still notable things like the Halifax explosion
2008-02-20 12:24 < Golbez> hey actually that's not a bad article
2008-02-20 12:24 < White_Cat> Golbez of course it isnt
2008-02-20 12:24 < Golbez> that might be close to featurable
2008-02-20 12:24 < White_Cat> everyone cares about Halifax
2008-02-20 12:25 < White_Cat> Golbez nah
2008-02-20 12:25 < White_Cat> its not really well sourced :)
2008-02-20 12:25 < Golbez> i said close. =p
2008-02-20 12:25 < Golbez> and might.
2008-02-20 12:25 * Cyrius could go back and fix up the New London School explosion article more
2008-02-20 12:25 < White_Cat> Golbez by the way
2008-02-20 12:25 < White_Cat> would you care to look into this ani thread?
2008-02-20 12:25 < Golbez> New London?
2008-02-20 12:25 < Golbez> ahh the gas leak
2008-02-20 12:25 < Golbez> White_Cat- link me
2008-02-20 12:25 < White_Cat> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#White_Cat
2008-02-20 12:26 < White_Cat> Since I have 880 edits to ani...
2008-02-20 12:26 < Golbez> nice to see that Bath School disaster is featured
2008-02-20 12:26 * NotASpider has to wonder if a wood trade center wouldn't still be mostly intact
2008-02-20 12:26 < White_Cat> NotASpider only if the planes were out of wood
2008-02-20 12:26 < White_Cat> and carried coal as fuel
2008-02-20 12:26 < Golbez> NotASpider- the plane would have sliced right through, the upper 25 stories would have fallen to the ground
2008-02-20 12:27 < NotASpider> so...
2008-02-20 12:27 < NotASpider> mostly intact
2008-02-20 12:27 < Golbez> and the plane would have probably crashed slightly further away
2008-02-20 12:27 < White_Cat> Golbez or
2008-02-20 12:27 < White_Cat> if we had WTC made out of cheese
2008-02-20 12:27 < Golbez> depends on if the upper 25 fell over or fell straight down.
2008-02-20 12:27 < White_Cat> the plane woud bouce off
2008-02-20 12:27 < Golbez> however
2008-02-20 12:28 < NotASpider> bang zoom, to the moon
2008-02-20 12:28 < Golbez> the second one would have probably collapsed
2008-02-20 12:28 < White_Cat> Golbez I think not
2008-02-20 12:28 < Golbez> since it was at an angle, the upper 40 stories would be leaning on the lower as they fell and probably take a good portion of the lower half with it
2008-02-20 12:28 < White_Cat> the plane would probably fly right through it
2008-02-20 12:28 < White_Cat> WTC colappsed because they are well built
2008-02-20 12:28 < White_Cat> so well that they eaten up the planes
2008-02-20 12:29 * Cyrius builds the velveeta tower
2008-02-20 12:29 < White_Cat> Cyrius I like that tower in Silver
2008-02-20 12:29 < White_Cat> it wobbles
2008-02-20 12:29 < Cyrius> ?
2008-02-20 12:31 < White_Cat> the tin tower
2008-02-20 12:32 < White_Cat> http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=255
2008-02-20 12:33 < White_Cat> <3 17
2008-02-20 12:35 < quanticle> Heh. This conversation sounds like the plot of "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs"
2008-02-20 12:36 < Rinn> I love that book.
2008-02-20 12:36 < quanticle> I do too. In fact, I think I own it.
2008-02-20 12:37 < White_Cat> quanticle you think too much
2008-02-20 12:37 < White_Cat> Golbez like?
2008-02-20 12:40 < quanticle> Huh? Usually my problem is that I don't think enough.
2008-02-20 12:50 < publunch> ggreer == [[Germaine Greer]]
2008-02-20 12:52 < ggreer> publunch: who?
2008-02-20 12:53 < ggreer> she seems slightly more likable than hillary clinton
2008-02-20 12:53 < publunch> She writes in the Guardian. What she says is interesting, even though I can't always understand or agree with what she writes.
2008-02-20 12:54 < publunch> So that's not you?
2008-02-20 12:54 < ggreer> no, I'm geoff greer
2008-02-20 12:54 < publunch> ah
2008-02-20 12:54 < ggreer> a software engineer in san jose
2008-02-20 12:54 < publunch> I see.
2008-02-20 12:54 < ggreer> kind of not the same person
2008-02-20 12:54 < publunch> no
2008-02-20 12:55 * Ceiling_Cat watches publunch
2008-02-20 12:55 < publunch> miaow
2008-02-20 12:58 < NotASpider> anybody know of a decent wiki farm with no "approval process"
2008-02-20 13:01 < NotASpider> and by decent, i mean not using an ancient version of mediawiki
2008-02-20 13:01 < quanticle> NotASpider: Why don't you host the wiki yourself? Its not that hard to set up MediaWiki
2008-02-20 13:02 < NotASpider> $$$
2008-02-20 13:02 < quanticle> Ah.
2008-02-20 13:02 < quanticle> Have you looked at WikiDot?
2008-02-20 13:03 < quanticle> WikiDot has been released under the GNU Affero license for hosted services....
2008-02-20 13:04 < NotASpider> and know-how too. i was able to figure out how to install it on my own computer, but wouldn't know where to begin installing it on a remote server
2008-02-20 13:05 < NotASpider> i used the "WOS" instructions at mediawiki.org
2008-02-20 13:12 < flightless> >>
2008-02-20 13:12 < flightless> ^_^ hi all
2008-02-20 13:12 < Sfan00> !admin backlog of CSD I8's
2008-02-20 13:13 < NotASpider> of course i'm not concerned about how easy or hard it is to transfer the existing content, as there's not a lot of it, and it's all mine anyway so i'm not concerned about the full edit history
2008-02-20 13:14 < NotASpider> several minutes of copying and pasting would be fine. having to convert to a different markup format less so
2008-02-20 13:14 < flightless> Why do people feel it nessicary to put pointless entries into the wiki?
2008-02-20 13:15 < NotASpider> flightless, i assume you are talking about user pages :p
2008-02-20 13:15 < Ceiling_Cat> I wonder...
2008-02-20 13:15 < NotASpider> delete all users
2008-02-20 13:15 * Ceiling_Cat wonders if he's blocked a million IPs yet
2008-02-20 13:15 < Ceiling_Cat> I've gotta be getting close
2008-02-20 13:16 < flightless> some idiot put that pediatricians must sell weed for 4 years for their training...
2008-02-20 13:16 < flightless> it just makes me sad sometimes
2008-02-20 13:16 < Ceiling_Cat> DOH
2008-02-20 13:17 < NotASpider> well tuition doesn't pay itself, flightless
2008-02-20 13:17 < Ceiling_Cat> ~917504 since last march
2008-02-20 13:17 < Sfan00> flightless: thats bordering on libellous
2008-02-20 13:17 < Ceiling_Cat> so I need to quickly block another 100,000 IPs
2008-02-20 13:17 < Sfan00> Block the offending user
2008-02-20 13:17 < Ceiling_Cat> oh wait
2008-02-20 13:18 < flightless> mm...I'm still new... how do i block the offending users?
2008-02-20 13:18 * Ceiling_Cat finds another 1179648 he blocked earlier
2008-02-20 13:18 < NotASpider> two /16's would
2008-02-20 13:18 < Ceiling_Cat> NotASpider - no, it wouldn't
2008-02-20 13:18 < Ceiling_Cat> one /16 = 65,536 IPs
2008-02-20 13:18 < Ceiling_Cat> I've blocked 34 of them :)
2008-02-20 13:18 < Sfan00> You find thier user page , anc find the tag that says block
2008-02-20 13:18 < Sfan00> :)
2008-02-20 13:18 < NotASpider> you said you had 100 thousand to go
2008-02-20 13:18 < Sfan00> Seek consensus though
2008-02-20 13:18 < Sfan00> :)
2008-02-20 13:19 < Ceiling_Cat> Sfan00 - I counted back to october 2006
2008-02-20 13:19 < Sfan00> I hope you revreted the edit though
2008-02-20 13:19 < Sfan00> Ceiling_Cat; ?
2008-02-20 13:19 < Ceiling_Cat> I blocked 14 (=917504) class B's since March 2007; if you go back to October 2006, the number goes up to 34
2008-02-20 13:19 < flightless> can I do that for IP adresses too?
2008-02-20 13:20 < Sfan00> if you have an account yes
2008-02-20 13:20 < Ceiling_Cat> any admin can issue a range block, but if you don't have checkuser, it's a very risky thing to do
2008-02-20 13:20 < Sfan00> But don't block withotu aksing what the admins think :)
2008-02-20 13:20 < Ceiling_Cat> because you don't really know how many innocent people are on a range
2008-02-20 13:20 < Sfan00> It could be newbie that doesn't know playing wiki-pranks is bad form
2008-02-20 13:21 < NotASpider> and if they are innocent, there's no reason to know about them
2008-02-20 13:21 < flightless> hmm.... looks like this IP has been causing problems in the past already...
2008-02-20 13:22 < Sfan00> WP:ANI?
2008-02-20 13:23 < NotASpider> if there is a mixture of good and bad edits over a long period of time it's probably used by more than one person
2008-02-20 13:23 < MrZ-man> Ceiling_Cat: you know that unblock-en-l has been getting a ton of account requests from one of the ranges that you blocked?
2008-02-20 13:24 < MrZ-man> or maybe it was more than one with the same block summary
2008-02-20 13:25 < NotASpider> quanticle, any idea if scribblewiki is worth its salt
2008-02-20 13:25 < Ceiling_Cat> MrZ-man - I blocked a number of them with the same summary
2008-02-20 13:25 < Ceiling_Cat> however, I think one particular range was causing the trouble
2008-02-20 13:25 < Ceiling_Cat> 66.215.0.0/16
2008-02-20 13:25 < Ceiling_Cat> I changed it to 66.215.0.0/18 the other day
2008-02-20 13:25 < Tony_Sidaway> Is the webby thingie playing silly buggers again?
2008-02-20 13:26 < NotASpider> ted stevens got his tubes tied
2008-02-20 13:26 < Ceiling_Cat> oh, is there news regarding his pending indictment?
2008-02-20 13:27 < Tony_Sidaway> I think *my* tubes are in a mess. but only the ones connected to webbypaedia.
2008-02-20 13:28 < Sir48> "The escort vessels, which were too few in number and often lacking in endurance, had no answer to multiple submarines attacking..." could anyone explain the meaning of "lacking in endurance"?
2008-02-20 13:29 < NotASpider> i haven't checked for news on him, just making an obvious jab about internets having technical difficulties
2008-02-20 13:29 < Ceiling_Cat> Sir48 - in a naval sense, lacking in 'endurance' typically means being unable to stay at sea for very long
2008-02-20 13:29 < Ceiling_Cat> or in a more general military sense, having a large number of maintence to operational hours
2008-02-20 13:29 < Sir48> thx, Ceiling_Cat
2008-02-20 13:29 < Sfan00> Sir48: It means they didn't stand up to well in a long batlle.. and as ceilin cat points out unable to stay st sea for long
2008-02-20 13:30 < NotASpider> probably fuel, water, food, other consumables
2008-02-20 13:38 < NotASpy> not all the ships would be suitable for open sea patrols in poor weather and sea conditions too.
2008-02-20 13:41 < Sfan00> NotASpy: esp the North Atlantic ... :)
2008-02-20 13:42 < Ceiling_Cat> grrrr
2008-02-20 13:42 < Ceiling_Cat> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Joe_Rosenthal&curid=3383424&diff=192852138&oldid=122815535
2008-02-20 13:42 < Ceiling_Cat> Edits like that irritate me to no end
2008-02-20 13:43 < Ceiling_Cat> How is that not spamming?
2008-02-20 13:43 < ggreer> how did I not know that kawasaki came out with a redesigned ninja 250 this year?
2008-02-20 13:43 < ggreer> man, now I want a new one instead of a used one
2008-02-20 13:43 < Ceiling_Cat> I mean, does that article have anything to do with religion? No.
2008-02-20 13:43 < Ceiling_Cat> Is wikiproject:religion ever going to improve that article in the slightest? No.
2008-02-20 13:44 < ggreer> Ceiling_Cat: yeah, that kind of stuff is annoying
2008-02-20 13:46 < bumm13> hiya ggreer
2008-02-20 13:46 < ggreer> yo
2008-02-20 13:54 < quanticle> NotASpider: I have no idea
2008-02-20 13:55 < flightless> so, is there a way to edit multiple bad entries at once?
2008-02-20 13:56 < NotASpy> flightless: do you have a link to these bad entries ?
2008-02-20 13:57 < flightless> yeah, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/209.149.52.32
2008-02-20 13:57 < NotASpy> they've all been fixed.
2008-02-20 13:57 < flightless> I've edited a couple...
2008-02-20 13:58 < flightless> holly cow, really?
2008-02-20 13:59 < NotASpy> other people have removed whatever that chap was adding.
2008-02-20 14:00 < flightless> wow,cool
2008-02-20 14:01 < flightless> Like I said, I'm new to this community. It's kinda cool to see what happens behind the scenes at wikipedia
2008-02-20 14:01 < AppleBoy> anyone here use mac os x and willing to test a package for me?
2008-02-20 14:01 < flightless> Thanks, NotASpy
2008-02-20 14:02 < NotASpy> no problems. Because everybody can edit, it means that some people add material and others can then remove it. It's like leaving a Word document open on a computer in a shopping centre, really.
2008-02-20 14:04 < quanticle> Well, given that analogy, I'd say Wikipedia does much better than leaving a word doc. open at a shopping center...
2008-02-20 14:05 < Golbez> 6.2 earthquake just off the greek coast
2008-02-20 14:06 * Mahlzahn wonders what analogy that might have been
2008-02-20 14:06 < NotASpy> oh, that'll be more internet cables broken then.
2008-02-20 14:06 < Golbez> only if the quake was caused by a ship's anchor
2008-02-20 14:07 < NotASpy> ah, but the last lot of cables that broke couldn't be traced to a ship's anchor.
2008-02-20 14:07 < Mahlzahn> Its all those UFOs who've been dropping anchor lately.
2008-02-20 14:08 < NotASpy> they couldn't even trace the ships responsible and the Greek authorities said there was no ships in the area when the last cables broke. Cue conspiracy theories when it emerged only Israel and Iran were unaffected.
2008-02-20 14:11 < Ceiling_Cat> robert byrd will become the longest serving congressman ever next year
2008-02-20 14:11 < Ceiling_Cat> neat
2008-02-20 14:11 < Ceiling_Cat> not many people can say they've been in congress upwards of 60 years
2008-02-20 14:12 < bumm13> and he has such a wonderful voting record! ;p
2008-02-20 14:12 < Ceiling_Cat> :)
2008-02-20 14:13 < bumm13> Ceiling_Cat: did you see the thing with Ted Stevens wearing a wig in some hobby/crafts contest?
2008-02-20 14:18 < bumm13> http://www.ktuu.com/global/story.asp?s=7886203
2008-02-20 14:18 < NotASpy> inflation in Zimbabwe's just hit 100,000%
2008-02-20 14:19 < bumm13> \o/
2008-02-20 14:20 < bumm13> Zimbabwe = teh screwedx0rs
2008-02-20 14:23 < nuckk> Lets see if you guys are any better at banning this time
2008-02-20 14:23 < nuckk> Learn to ban, wikif4gs. ROFL PWNT
2008-02-20 14:23 < nuckk> syntaxerror55 GerardM Karlprof Sfan00_ GerardM- gg tawker caboose Mahlzahn ST47 flightless K__ leileilol Jacek_Kendysz Tony_Sidaway Qst bah sparro1 Nichibutsu spuin jackster Ashfire908 VRAG Ceiling_Cat neoecs ggreer cc_toide Ullmann Spartaz szczepan DerHexer Malffi ejmeza Rinn David-Mestel nevermore NotASpider __aib skenmy NotASpy Ningyou Reedy_Boy Fabexplosive SJFriedl Golbez GDonato cannsado Texou Bunny AzaTht `6og kenlyric kgoetz
2008-02-20 14:23 < nuckk> kgoetz_ Platonides Aeternus werdan7 Ksero Sfan00 qbjunkie Thasc jurtti- Undeference CoJaBo Gurumasa Luigi30 cremepuff222 PhilKC Tanoshii Wile_E_Coyote Heartwork someone24354 Zarock facefaceface Riffage Gwern-away Casull SparreZ Sir48 Falc Starnestommy deelkar|afk lucasbfr Kwitschibo te mammix NastyAccident ancjr STalKer-Y AppleBoy fnordus Leslie_S Mike_H RichiH wooz SQLDb noclip FrancoGG tarbo A_TOKINA UnFred yanstheman Olipro sleeping_cat
2008-02-20 14:23 < nuckk> Bungle zocky somebody minerale Arwen sargun_screen prixels NeoServer Suva Scott5114 lymeca _sj_ SonicAD__ AsemIdle shazza shza Ziron Ceogar jhattara HawkeV__ protocoldoug aimaz HockeyInJune str4nd Polar twmi aloril wimt Kvant Cobi Inke webs jaydeearm Simon- HardDisk_WP ArmyMan jakl felipe` Elisson Bovlb zzxc Crimedog Reath Crazytales leighbrodie peh Thx thedj Morlark proppi @dircbot earthnative The359 Pilotguy_aw evanseeds nalioth nenolod
2008-02-20 14:23 < DerHexer> hurra!
2008-02-20 14:23 < neoecs> >:[
2008-02-20 14:23 < Qst> ...
2008-02-20 14:24 < jakl> :]
2008-02-20 14:24 < tawker> come on, its flooding....
2008-02-20 14:24 < DerHexer> öhm
2008-02-20 14:24 < SJFriedl> what the heck was that?
2008-02-20 14:24 < wimt> An annoying person ;-)
2008-02-20 14:24 < tomaw> tawker: hm?
2008-02-20 14:24 < wimt> tomaw, same IP
2008-02-20 14:24 < Suva> Neat
2008-02-20 14:24 < syntaxerror55> D:< nuck
2008-02-20 14:24 < Qst> Wimt: Definitely true
2008-02-20 14:25 < neoecs> write a bot that kicks if someone writes more than say 4 nicks in one message.
2008-02-20 14:25 < wimt> Well AntiSpamMeta detected it
2008-02-20 14:25 < Golbez> neoecs- it would never trigger in time, so no point in it
2008-02-20 14:25 * Ashfire908 was wondering why someone would bother me right now, when no one normally bothers me.
2008-02-20 14:25 < wimt> Ashfire908, hehe
2008-02-20 14:26 < Suva> Aha, Ashfire908 is a secret FBI agent
2008-02-20 14:26 < SJFriedl> You mean there are people that hang around on the internet and do things just to be disruptive to others?
2008-02-20 14:26 < SJFriedl> wow
2008-02-20 14:26 < Tanoshii> What is going on?
2008-02-20 14:26 < SJFriedl> next thing you'll tell me that women can vote, or some other such nonsense.
2008-02-20 14:26 < neoecs> Golbez, maybe.
2008-02-20 14:26 * AppleBoy misses ops
2008-02-20 14:27 < Suva> SJFriedl: In estonia ONLY women can vote
2008-02-20 14:27 < Leslie_S> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Wasserstoffeinf%C3%BCllstutzen_eines_BMW.jpg
2008-02-20 14:27 < Leslie_S> that is pretty awesome.
2008-02-20 14:27 < Suva> Cause men have better things to do :P
2008-02-20 14:27 * Ashfire908 arrests Suva for blowing his cover
2008-02-20 14:29 < Suva> Ashfire908: You can't I am out of your jurisdiction! :P
2008-02-20 14:30 < crisco> nice try
2008-02-20 14:30 < crisco> Learn to ban, wikif4gs. ROFL PWNT
2008-02-20 14:30 < crisco> syntaxerror55 GerardM Karlprof Sfan00_ GerardM- gg tawker caboose Mahlzahn ST47 flightless K__ leileilol Jacek_Kendysz Tony_Sidaway Qst bah sparro1 Nichibutsu spuin jackster Ashfire908 VRAG Ceiling_Cat neoecs ggreer cc_toide Ullmann Spartaz szczepan DerHexer Malffi ejmeza Rinn David-Mestel nevermore NotASpider __aib skenmy NotASpy Ningyou Reedy_Boy Fabexplosive SJFriedl Golbez GDonato cannsado Texou Bunny AzaTht `6og kenlyric kgoetz
2008-02-20 14:30 < crisco> kgoetz_ Platonides Aeternus werdan7 Ksero Sfan00 qbjunkie Thasc jurtti- Undeference CoJaBo Gurumasa Luigi30 cremepuff222 PhilKC Tanoshii Wile_E_Coyote Heartwork someone24354 Zarock facefaceface Riffage Gwern-away Casull SparreZ Sir48 Falc Starnestommy deelkar|afk lucasbfr Kwitschibo te mammix NastyAccident ancjr STalKer-Y AppleBoy fnordus Leslie_S Mike_H RichiH wooz SQLDb noclip FrancoGG tarbo A_TOKINA UnFred yanstheman Olipro sleeping_cat
2008-02-20 14:30 < Qst> Here we go
2008-02-20 14:30 < Tanoshii> ?
2008-02-20 14:30 < szczepan> ...
2008-02-20 14:30 < DerHexer> congrats wimt ;)
2008-02-20 14:30 < Golbez> exactly how can we 'learn to ban' if he uses a different zombie every time
2008-02-20 14:30 * skenmy yawns
2008-02-20 14:30 < Qst> Get a girlfriend, Crisco
2008-02-20 14:30 < Pilotguy_aw> BLOP
2008-02-20 14:30 < wimt> DerHexer, heh
2008-02-20 14:31 < caboose> crisco : Did someone drop a duece in your eyes and piss you off?
2008-02-20 14:32 < Tanoshii> Already gone
2008-02-20 14:32 < bumm13> he's gone
2008-02-20 14:32 < Golbez> caboose- slowpoke
2008-02-20 14:35 < Lubaf> Zero Punctuation at midnight tonight.
2008-02-20 14:35 < Lubaf> Anyway.
2008-02-20 14:35 < Lubaf> How's Civilization?
2008-02-20 14:37 < Pilotguy> ./whatis civilization
2008-02-20 14:39 * Lubaf attacks Pilotguy's Trireme with his Chariots.
2008-02-20 14:40 * Pilotguy hasn't played that in forever
2008-02-20 14:43 < Mahlzahn> bumm13: any reason why +R isn't set by default? :)
2008-02-20 14:45 < quanticle> Wait. A trireme is a boat, while a chariout is a land vehicle
2008-02-20 15:05 < Lubaf> quanticle: I know that, and you know that, but Pilotguy doesn't.
2008-02-20 15:05 < Lubaf> Let's avoid remedying that situation, shall we?
2008-02-20 15:06 < Lubaf> And besides, the Trireme might be in a city.
2008-02-20 15:09 < quanticle> Lubaf: Well you still need ranged weapons to attack, and I don't think chariots can do that
2008-02-20 15:11 < eth01> mark_ryan, hmm?
2008-02-20 15:11 < eth01> damn not here.
2008-02-20 15:13 < Pilotguy> O_O
2008-02-20 15:15 < quanticle> #_#
2008-02-20 15:15 < eth01> thats a new one.
2008-02-20 15:15 < eth01> ;099;
2008-02-20 15:15 < eth01> just as nonunderstanding.
2008-02-20 15:15 < eth01> nonsensical even
2008-02-20 15:17 < britta> seems like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_serving_sites should be deleted, but i'm not sure if it's right for speedy or prod or afd
2008-02-20 15:17 < eth01> i'll look.
2008-02-20 15:18 < eth01> yeah, seems pretty pointless.
2008-02-20 15:29 < Golbez> that article is pointless because it neglects zombocom
2008-02-20 15:29 < Golbez> you can do anything... at zombocom.
2008-02-20 15:30 < Mike_H> Golbez: Want to hear what's going to be performed on loop when I go to Hell?
2008-02-20 15:30 < Mike_H> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME3LRTVXWkQ
2008-02-20 15:31 < Golbez> not by Rihanna?
2008-02-20 15:31 < Mike_H> Golbez: worse than Rihanna
2008-02-20 15:31 < Ceiling_Cat> dear jesus we have to omany wikis
2008-02-20 15:31 < Mike_H> click on it :<
2008-02-20 15:31 < Ceiling_Cat> too many*
2008-02-20 15:32 * Ceiling_Cat is losing the ability to keep track of them all
2008-02-20 15:32 < Ceiling_Cat> private wikis, that is
2008-02-20 15:32 * Ceiling_Cat notes with amusement that in wikiland, someone stature is proportional to the number of private wikis he has access too
2008-02-20 15:32 < Ceiling_Cat> someone's*
2008-02-20 15:41 < bumm13> Mike_H: yay white bread television!
2008-02-20 15:49 < britta> so what do you guys think, speedy/prod/afd http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_serving_sites ?
2008-02-20 15:50 < Aqwis> sigh, nickserv
2008-02-20 15:50 < Aqwis> keep
2008-02-20 15:51 < britta> what? why
2008-02-20 15:51 < Aqwis> look for more sources at least
2008-02-20 15:51 < Aqwis> i think i've heard about the term before
2008-02-20 15:51 < britta> i did. googlesearching the phrase gives nothing else much
2008-02-20 15:52 < britta> there's a use of the phrase in a wired article from a couple years ago but it's not the same thing
2008-02-20 15:52 < Aqwis> hmz
2008-02-20 15:54 < Golbez> woo i beat darwinia
2008-02-20 15:58 < Golbez> to celebrate, anyone wanna play Defcon? :P
2008-02-20 16:00 < Lubaf> [[WP:SURPRISING]] needs more Duhbell.
2008-02-20 16:00 < Lubaf> Anybody care to offer any help on that?
2008-02-20 16:03 < Ceiling_Cat> Lubaf - [[Image:Transgender at NYC Gay Pride Parade by David Shankbone.jpg]] would be the perfect image for that page
2008-02-20 16:03 < Ceiling_Cat> :P
2008-02-20 16:04 < Lubaf> Ceiling_Cat: There are people who might be legitimately surprised by that.
2008-02-20 16:04 < Lubaf> [[WP:SURPRISING]] is about things that should *not* be surprising.
2008-02-20 16:04 < NotACow> blap!
2008-02-20 16:05 < NotACow> wikipedia has too many stupid policy articles.
2008-02-20 16:05 < Lubaf> If there was a banner behind "her" that said something about Transwomen or Transgender, that'd be valid as an image for [[WP:SURPRISING]].
2008-02-20 16:06 < Lubaf> Since there isn't, it isn'For example, For example,
2008-02-20 16:06 < Lubaf> $#&*(&*(#$
2008-02-20 16:06 < NotASpider> wikipedia has too many shortcuts from adjectives
2008-02-20 16:06 < Lubaf> NotACow, NotASpider: This is a straightforward special case.
2008-02-20 16:07 < Lubaf> It points to [[Wikipedia:Things that should not be surprising]]
2008-02-20 16:07 < Lubaf> Which is about things about Wikipedia people find surprising, but, if you give it some thought, shouldn't be that surprising.
2008-02-20 16:08 < bluefoxicy> god Guitar Center sucks so bad
2008-02-20 16:08 < NotASpider> SURPRISING, USEFUL, INTERESTING, HARMLESS, etc.
2008-02-20 16:09 < bluefoxicy> Would it be lawsuitable if I bought the domain name "guitarfaggots.com" and made the * record a CNAME to guitarcenter.com
2008-02-20 16:10 < shimgray> Yes.
2008-02-20 16:10 < shimgray> Would anyone win, god knows.
2008-02-20 16:10 < bluefoxicy> or perhaps guitarassrape.com
2008-02-20 16:10 < shimgray> Everything is lawsuitable, just not everything has a chance of success...
2008-02-20 16:10 < NotASpider> LAME
2008-02-20 16:26 < Mike_H> <Mike_H> Cher, Tina Turner and Kate Smith singing a Beatles medley.
2008-02-20 16:26 < Mike_H> <Mike_H> Fabulous
2008-02-20 16:26 < Mike_H> <Mike_H> or frightful?
2008-02-20 16:27 < Mahlzahn> britta: I've speedied (nonsense *and* spam) it
2008-02-20 16:29 < Mahlzahn> Mike_H: fabulously frightful
2008-02-20 16:42 < Mike_H> Mahlzahn: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtV3lx4eT5w
2008-02-20 16:43 < Mahlzahn> I fear to look. :)
2008-02-20 16:43 < Mike_H> Mahlzahn: Well, it is mildly upsetting to see that Kate Smith is the biggest diva of the three.
2008-02-20 16:43 < Mahlzahn> but I have a good excuse. My soundcard is on the blink.
2008-02-20 16:43 < Mike_H> In her ostrich feather boa frock.
2008-02-20 16:43 < Mahlzahn> haha
2008-02-20 16:44 < Mahlzahn> ok, thats worth a look. :)
2008-02-20 16:44 < Mike_H> someone posted on the comments
2008-02-20 16:44 < Mike_H> "Kate Smith...or Dame Edna? You decide"
2008-02-20 16:47 < Mike_H> Mahlzahn: Now Cher, Tina and Kate are singing Hey Jude
2008-02-20 16:47 < Mike_H> la
2008-02-20 16:47 < Mike_H> la la
2008-02-20 16:47 < Mike_H> la la la la
2008-02-20 16:47 < Mike_H> la la la la
2008-02-20 16:47 < Mike_H> Hey Jude :<
2008-02-20 16:54 < Mahlzahn> oh lawd. Dame Edna it is. And Cher looks like a belly dancer from the 10th century.
2008-02-20 16:55 < Mike_H> Mahlzahn: And Tina Turner was dancing like she was gonna drop a baby from her loins
2008-02-20 16:55 < kenlyric> sweety?
2008-02-20 16:55 < kenlyric> darling?
2008-02-20 16:56 < brown_cat> GRRR
2008-02-20 16:56 * brown_cat walks over AppleBoy
2008-02-20 16:57 * brown_cat screams at the ops for making users have to identify before talking >:(
2008-02-20 16:57 < Mahlzahn> Mike_H: was this at a Bar Mitzvah or what?
2008-02-20 16:57 < Mike_H> Mahlzahn: it was some special
2008-02-20 16:57 < Mike_H> like The Kate Smith 100th Birthday Smile-Time Variety Hour or something
2008-02-20 16:58 * AppleBoy kicks brown_cat
2008-02-20 16:59 < Mahlzahn> I give her credit for getting on stage with the "young 'uns"
2008-02-20 16:59 * brown_cat cuddles AppleBoy :D
2008-02-20 16:59 < kenlyric> http://xkcd.com/386/
2008-02-20 16:59 < AppleBoy> that's scary
2008-02-20 16:59 < kenlyric> brown_cat: what are you talking about?
2008-02-20 16:59 < AppleBoy> because I'm pretty certain you're a guy, and I don't swing that way
2008-02-20 16:59 < brown_cat> kenlyric: when I join, I couldn't talk because my nick wasn't registered
2008-02-20 17:00 < kenlyric> you can't talk in the channel without a registered nick?
2008-02-20 17:00 < kenlyric> that's new
2008-02-20 17:00 < brown_cat> mhm
2008-02-20 17:00 < brown_cat> exactly
2008-02-20 17:00 < kenlyric> yeah, someone punch them in the gut
2008-02-20 17:00 < brown_cat> AppleBoy: we all know you're a man skank also, it's not like i'm gonna try and hook with you -_-
2008-02-20 17:00 < kenlyric> I thought you meant the /msg limitations, which are a freenode thing.
2008-02-20 17:00 < brown_cat> nup