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2008-04-18 11:48 < Lycurgus> s/./?/
2008-04-18 11:48 * Working_Cat breaks ThePolecat 's pole. thats gotta help
2008-04-18 11:49 < quanticle> Now what's really scary is stuff like this: http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2008/04/13/china-fallout-from-the-free-tibet-protests/
2008-04-18 11:49 < ThePolecat> I demand that you restore this pole immediately.
2008-04-18 11:49 < Working_Cat> Lycurgus: looking at a pic does not need knowledge of language
2008-04-18 11:49 * Working_Cat casts the pole into the fires of mount doom.
2008-04-18 11:49 < Working_Cat> thats certainly not from where it was forged, but since i was in the area....
2008-04-18 11:50 < quanticle> Am I the only one that's mildly creeped out by phrases like "human flesh search engine"?
2008-04-18 11:50 < Working_Cat> i guess, yeah.
2008-04-18 11:50 < ThePolecat> Brb.
2008-04-18 11:51 * ThePolecat is back
2008-04-18 11:51 < ThePolecat> HOW ARE YOU GENTLEMEN
2008-04-18 11:51 < WBOSITG> ThePolecat: fine.
2008-04-18 11:51 < Lycurgus> is this like paris hilton human flesh, or nazi lampshades type human flesh?
2008-04-18 11:51 < WBOSITG> Lycurgus: :?
2008-04-18 11:52 < ideogram> oooh, I want to use a search engine powered by paris hilton
2008-04-18 11:52 < Working_Cat> Lycurgus: valid question
2008-04-18 11:52 < ThePolecat> Artificial Stupidity?
2008-04-18 11:53 < ideogram> use a tiny font so she has to bend waaaay over to read it
2008-04-18 11:53 < JohnReaves> Lycurgus:This is tuck it between your legs and dance around with a skin suit on type human flesh
2008-04-18 11:53 < quanticle> Lycurgus: Nope. I can't read Chinese. I just read Chinese bloggers that happen to write in English.
2008-04-18 11:54 * ThePolecat tootles more vigorously
2008-04-18 11:54 < ThePolecat> "HORN-BUTTON: tootle horn melodiously at the dog who shall sport in roadway. If he continue, tootle him with vigor.""
2008-04-18 11:54 < WBOSITG> ...
2008-04-18 11:55 < ThePolecat> Nice grasp on the subjunctive though.
2008-04-18 11:55 < Lycurgus> JohnReaves: well allrighty then.
2008-04-18 11:56 < bumm13> honk honk!
2008-04-18 11:57 < bumm13> if I spoke Chinese, it would probably sound like that to native speakers
2008-04-18 11:57 < ThePolecat> gimme, gimme, gimme the tootle-toot blues
2008-04-18 11:57 < bumm13> only with inadvertent references to prostitutes
2008-04-18 11:58 < ThePolecat> I'd probably get the tones all wrong and say "Cauliflower iron, sway flax window!"
2008-04-18 11:59 < Lycurgus> actually there are stereotypes of chinese or westeren languages I could parody for you, but a sound channel would be required
2008-04-18 11:59 < Working_Cat> erm... how do i deop?
2008-04-18 11:59 < Lycurgus> westerners mock chinese due to it's ananlytic/digital nature
2008-04-18 12:00 < Working_Cat> HALP
2008-04-18 12:00 < Lycurgus> and chinese probably would mock western due to it's inflected/continuous nature
2008-04-18 12:00 < ThePolecat> German is usually mocked by it's frequent "-en" suffix and stuffy consonant clusters
2008-04-18 12:00 < ideogram> ask in #wikimedia-ops?
2008-04-18 12:00 < Lycurgus> the one sounds staccato to the ears of speakers of the other group
2008-04-18 12:01 < Lycurgus> and the other sounds mushy to speakers of the opposite one
2008-04-18 12:01 < ThePolecat> like Italian accents often feature a trailing -ah
2008-04-18 12:01 < ThePolecat> Yea, Chinese sounds staccato.
2008-04-18 12:01 < Lycurgus> Bei Jingers do that with -Er
2008-04-18 12:03 < ThePolecat> Tshermans tend to replace "th" with "z"
2008-04-18 12:03 < ThePolecat> and G with "Tsh"
2008-04-18 12:03 < ThePolecat> and "er" with "ah"
2008-04-18 12:03 < Working_Cat> heh
2008-04-18 12:03 < Working_Cat> phew
2008-04-18 12:03 < Working_Cat> noobs like me should never be given such ideas
2008-04-18 12:03 < ThePolecat> and in the case of Berlin, i with ü
2008-04-18 12:04 < ThePolecat> the Dutch accent in German is fun
2008-04-18 12:04 < ThePolecat> very earthy and wet
2008-04-18 12:04 < ThePolecat> haha
2008-04-18 12:04 < ThePolecat> s = sh
2008-04-18 12:04 < ThePolecat> u = ü
2008-04-18 12:04 < Lycurgus> yeah nederlands is da bomb
2008-04-18 12:05 < WBOSITG> Lycurgus: :D
2008-04-18 12:05 < ThePolecat> the Dutch overuse the -en suffix far more than we do
2008-04-18 12:06 < ThePolecat> "bromfietsen"
2008-04-18 12:06 < ThePolecat> in Danish it's "-er", which is even charminger
2008-04-18 12:06 < ThePolecat> "Kartofler" = potatoes
2008-04-18 12:07 < ThePolecat> "...albeit the meaning of the quote is still dubious."
2008-04-18 12:07 < Working_Cat> i wannt my amm teee veeee
2008-04-18 12:07 < ThePolecat> AH... people misusing the word "albeit"
2008-04-18 12:08 < ThePolecat> it's not used like "although"
2008-04-18 12:08 < ThePolecat> there's no verb after "albeit", never.
2008-04-18 12:08 < Working_Cat> who other than Dire Straits used to write meta-songs?
2008-04-18 12:09 < Working_Cat> i know atleast 3 from Dire Straits
2008-04-18 12:09 < ThePolecat> You should consult the List of songs with overt references to songs, if it still exists.
2008-04-18 12:09 < ThePolecat> :-D
2008-04-18 12:10 < Working_Cat> lol
2008-04-18 12:10 < Working_Cat> well there should be a list like that
2008-04-18 12:10 < ThePolecat> Despite its being; although. "He has a very good idea, albeit a strange one."
2008-04-18 12:10 < ThePolecat> that's the correct use
2008-04-18 12:10 < ThePolecat> There once was a list like that
2008-04-18 12:10 < ThePolecat> it was kind of a running joke around 2005.
2008-04-18 12:10 < Working_Cat> i demand that someone create a list like that, so i can look at it once and forget about it
2008-04-18 12:11 < Working_Cat> awww
2008-04-18 12:11 < Working_Cat> ThePolecat: moar info plz :)
2008-04-18 12:11 < ThePolecat> I don't remember much more, except that a majority deemed it a bad joke.
2008-04-18 12:11 < ThePolecat> I'm not sure what happened to it
2008-04-18 12:13 < ThePolecat> "List of repetitive songs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"
2008-04-18 12:14 < ThePolecat> God, I love this encyclopedia.
2008-04-18 12:16 < ThePolecat> "I don't think I can take it/cause it took so long to make it/and I'll never have that recipe again"
2008-04-18 12:17 < Lycurgus> Oh noes!
2008-04-18 12:17 < ThePolecat> quite possibly the most blatantly ridiculous lyrics ever committed to paper
2008-04-18 12:18 * Working_Cat is not a cat
2008-04-18 12:18 < Lycurgus> a pussy then.
2008-04-18 12:18 * ThePolecat sees a dogfight imminent.
2008-04-18 12:19 < Lycurgus> oder, moo?
2008-04-18 12:19 < ThePolecat> Kuhkampf.
2008-04-18 12:19 < Lycurgus> <- don't mess with knife fight monkey.
2008-04-18 12:19 < ThePolecat> Die Schlacht am Kuh-Fluss.
2008-04-18 12:20 * ThePolecat moves to HIC SVNT DRACONES
2008-04-18 12:23 < ThePolecat> "Schlacht" is a nice word; eight letters, seven consonants.
2008-04-18 12:23 < ThePolecat> Hic etiam homines magna cornua habentes longitudine quatuor pedum, et sunt etiam serpentes tante magnitudinis, ut unum bovem comedant integrum.
2008-04-18 12:24 < ThePolecat> b) sounds vaguely doable
2008-04-18 12:24 < ThePolecat> a) is just talking out of one's arse.
2008-04-18 12:24 < Working_Cat> wtf is with minessotta and all the weird internet guys
2008-04-18 12:25 < ThePolecat> if you're going to the north country fair/where the tubes get filled by all kinds of crap/...
2008-04-18 12:26 < Working_Cat> iii waanntt myyy ammm teeee veeeee
2008-04-18 12:26 < ThePolecat> I'ma go eating.
2008-04-18 12:26 < ThePolecat> Brb.
2008-04-18 12:26 < ThePolecat> After that, I'll go a-wassailing.
2008-04-18 12:28 * ThePolecat finds it odd that we have both
2008-04-18 12:28 < ThePolecat> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassail
2008-04-18 12:28 < ThePolecat> and
2008-04-18 12:28 < ThePolecat> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassailing
2008-04-18 12:35 < Cyrius> substantial aftershock on that illinois earthquake
2008-04-18 12:38 < kenlyric> 4.6
2008-04-18 12:48 < Juliancolton> What was the 2000th FA?
2008-04-18 12:48 < Banareh> can someone change the brunei article to previous edit?
2008-04-18 12:51 < Banareh> nvm, i think i remember how to do it now >.<
2008-04-18 12:55 < danny> I noticed that there is a cite error on the "Big Bang" article. How should that be fixed? Should I just use {{fact}} instead of the mistake?
2008-04-18 12:56 < Juliancolton> Let me look
2008-04-18 12:56 < Juliancolton> You can use {{fact}}, or you can look through the article for the correct ref name
2008-04-18 12:57 < danny> I can't seem to find the correct ref name.
2008-04-18 12:57 < Aqwis> let's see
2008-04-18 13:00 < Juliancolton> Or, you can add {{Template:Citations broken}} to the section with the busted ref
2008-04-18 13:00 < Cream> brb, Huggling vandals
2008-04-18 13:01 < danny> Juliancolton, I'll do that and hope someone fixes it.
2008-04-18 13:05 < Aqwis> the guy who added the citation *probably* meant to write wmap3year instead of wmap1year, but it's not a very good idea of changing it to that without being sure
2008-04-18 13:16 < ThePolecat> argh
2008-04-18 13:16 < ThePolecat> people who use "recently" in articles
2008-04-18 13:17 < rainman-sr> maybe they mean "within last millenium"
2008-04-18 13:17 < rainman-sr> as in recently on geological scale :P
2008-04-18 13:18 * ThePolecat assumes they mean "in the last year"
2008-04-18 13:19 < ThePolecat> but I have no idea when it was added
2008-04-18 13:35 * Working_Cat is unaffiliated
2008-04-18 13:37 < Lycurgus> it should be easy enough to fix, the broken cite should be clear.
2008-04-18 13:44 < Lycurgus> done.
2008-04-18 13:45 < Lycurgus> Aqwis: I assumed you were correct.
2008-04-18 13:50 < ThePolecat> "Đorđe Martinović (also spelled Djordje Martinović; Serbian: Ђорђе Мартиновић) (1929 - 6 September 2000) was a Serbian farmer from Kosovo who was at the centre of a notorious incident in May 1985, when he was treated for injuries caused by the forceful insertion of a glass bottle into his anus. The Martinović affair, as it became known, turned into a cause célèbre in...
2008-04-18 13:50 < ThePolecat> ...Serbian politics. Although the facts of the incident remained in dispute for years afterwards, it played a significant role in worsening ethnic tensions between Kosovo's Serbian and Albanian populations."
2008-04-18 13:51 < ThePolecat> "On 1 May 1985, Đorđe Martinović, a fifty-six-year-old resident of the Kosovo town of Gnjilane, arrived at the local hospital with a broken bottle wedged in his rectum. He claimed that he had been attacked by two Albanian-speaking men while he was working in his field. After being interviewed by a Yugoslav People's Army colonel, Martinović reportedly admitted that his injuries had been...
2008-04-18 13:51 < ThePolecat> ...self-inflicted in a botched attempt at masturbation."
2008-04-18 13:51 * ThePolecat gets cut off for this is a family channel
2008-04-18 13:52 < Lycurgus> apparently lodged foreign objects are the main entertainment in ERs
2008-04-18 13:53 < ThePolecat> Nationalism is good for lulz after all.
2008-04-18 13:53 < Lycurgus> at least that's what I was told when they took the toothpick out of my foot at the second ER I went to
2008-04-18 13:53 < Working_Cat> you sure it was your foot?
2008-04-18 13:53 < Lycurgus> (had to walk or rather limp out of the first)
2008-04-18 13:53 < ThePolecat> "Tkachiev admits that he leads a racy, if not hedonistic, lifestyle and finds it difficult to cope with lengthy tournaments at long time controls."
2008-04-18 13:54 < Lycurgus> yes, and if it hadn't broken off it would have gone all the way thru
2008-04-18 13:54 < ThePolecat> I can't for the life of me imagine he said "Sorry, my hedonistic lifestyle doesn't allow me to work."
2008-04-18 13:55 < Lycurgus> issat tennis?
2008-04-18 13:55 < ThePolecat> Chess.
2008-04-18 13:55 < ThePolecat> Tennis dunnae have time controls.
2008-04-18 13:55 < Lycurgus> no?
2008-04-18 13:55 < ThePolecat> No.
2008-04-18 13:55 < Lycurgus> moves quickly enough I guess
2008-04-18 13:56 < ThePolecat> it's not "Okay, this was the two hour mark, set is up, Mr Tsonga."
2008-04-18 13:56 < Working_Cat> that one in sydney/melbourne lasted like 5 hours or so dinnit
2008-04-18 13:56 < ThePolecat> did.
2008-04-18 13:56 < ThePolecat> would kind of suck to forfeit the rest of the set
2008-04-18 13:57 < Lycurgus> in a bad way, huh?
2008-04-18 13:57 < ThePolecat> Quite.
2008-04-18 13:59 < ThePolecat> Do people seriously still write "Frankfurt-on-the-Main"?
2008-04-18 14:02 < Working_Cat> wassatmean?
2008-04-18 14:02 < Aqwis> no, they write Frankfurt am Main
2008-04-18 14:02 < lazulilasher> if they're differentiating between frankfurt in badenburg
2008-04-18 14:02 < ThePolecat> Anglified name of a German city
2008-04-18 14:02 < ThePolecat> Frankfurt-on-the-Oder
2008-04-18 14:02 < ThePolecat> :-D
2008-04-18 14:03 < lazulilasher> we could have pittsburgh-in-pennsylvania and pittsburgh-in-kansas
2008-04-18 14:04 < ThePolecat> Springfield-on-the-Sangamon
2008-04-18 14:04 < ThePolecat> and Springfield-on-the-Connecticut
2008-04-18 14:06 < ThePolecat> unless there's a connection with Poland, few people will ever talk about Frankfurt (East)
2008-04-18 14:08 < ThePolecat> It's funny, on the list of largest US cities, Pasadena, TX and Pasadena, CA are right next to each other
2008-04-18 14:15 < ThePolecat> "...was a profilic goalscorer throughout his career."
2008-04-18 14:15 * ThePolecat chuckles
2008-04-18 14:16 < Golbez> so people in des moines felt that quake.. i don't recall it, but i was asleep.
2008-04-18 14:17 < ThePolecat> Des Moines to be renamed "Iowanisch-München"
2008-04-18 14:17 < ThePolecat> :-D
2008-04-18 14:17 < Golbez> can't detect anything in the department that was shaken by it =p
2008-04-18 14:17 < ThePolecat> yea, 5.2 at the epicentre is pretty decent
2008-04-18 14:17 < Golbez> er, apartmen
2008-04-18 14:18 < Golbez> well it was pretty far from me - but farther from des moines, so i'm peeved i didn't notice it. :P
2008-04-18 14:18 < Working_Cat> heh, everyone at my company now knows theres theres some creature by my name on the development team :P
2008-04-18 14:19 < Golbez> haha
2008-04-18 14:19 < Lycurgus> name of "Working_Cat"?
2008-04-18 14:19 < Lycurgus> *by the
2008-04-18 14:19 < Working_Cat> Lycurgus: yeah
2008-04-18 14:20 < Working_Cat> i just fixed 6 bugs and released a new version of the product up for review....
2008-04-18 14:20 < Lycurgus> as sole author?
2008-04-18 14:21 < Lycurgus> what product?
2008-04-18 14:21 < Working_Cat> and each of those actions sent out an email to like everyone even remotely associated to the project across 4 continents
2008-04-18 14:21 < Lycurgus> mediawiki?
2008-04-18 14:21 < Working_Cat> Lycurgus: yeah sole, but they were like minor fixes anyways.
2008-04-18 14:21 < Lycurgus> (just installed 1.12)
2008-04-18 14:21 < Working_Cat> Lycurgus: "at my company"
2008-04-18 14:22 < Lycurgus> using svn going forward to ease future merges
2008-04-18 14:23 < Lycurgus> the update/migration proces are still kina raggedy
2008-04-18 14:23 < Lycurgus> but the db migration works which is the main thing
2008-04-18 14:23 < Lycurgus> (went from 1.7 to 1.12)
2008-04-18 14:24 < Working_Cat> Ze Poal Katt
2008-04-18 14:24 < Lycurgus> they need an automatic sking and config file merge
2008-04-18 14:24 < Lycurgus> *skin
2008-04-18 14:25 < Lycurgus> *migrator
2008-04-18 14:25 * ThePolecat flips bird to camera and causes a scandal
2008-04-18 14:25 < ThePolecat> Brb.
2008-04-18 14:27 < ThePolecat> Ze Polka-t is in ze haus!
2008-04-18 14:27 < ThePolecat> Polecat (short for polka-dot)...
2008-04-18 14:32 < ThePolecat> Sorry, the above should have read "creates controversy"
2008-04-18 14:38 < Working_Cat> meh
2008-04-18 14:42 < Lycurgus> is monday a holiday?
2008-04-18 14:42 < Lycurgus> (US)
2008-04-18 14:43 < Working_Cat> not here
2008-04-18 14:43 < Working_Cat> for what btw?
2008-04-18 14:44 < quanticle> Lycurgus: Is Monday a holiday over there?
2008-04-18 14:44 < Lycurgus> appears to be on my job.
2008-04-18 14:45 < quanticle> Lycurgus: Floating holiday?
2008-04-18 14:46 < Lycurgus> no I don't think so but may be instituion anniversary (it's a Uni)
2008-04-18 14:47 < Working_Cat> ooohhh thats why. I'm at a Multi
2008-04-18 14:47 < Lycurgus> *institution
2008-04-18 14:49 < Lycurgus> it's a new england thing, Patriots Day
2008-04-18 14:51 < Lycurgus> ([[Patriots' Day]])
2008-04-18 14:51 < The359> The Patriots suck
2008-04-18 14:53 < debian> Hello
2008-04-18 14:53 < Lycurgus> only MA,MN, and WI observe it.
2008-04-18 14:53 < Working_Cat> heh heh heh Patriots... 16-1
2008-04-18 14:54 < Lycurgus> s/MN/ME/
2008-04-18 15:03 < Working_Cat> blurb
2008-04-18 15:05 < ThePolecat> *Eric Andersen - Violets of Dawn
2008-04-18 15:06 * Mike_H NP: Andy Gibb - (Our Love) Don't Throw It All Away (1978)
2008-04-18 15:07 < ThePolecat> I think Andy Warhol hit on Andersen when he recorded in New York, I don't remember where I read it.
2008-04-18 15:10 < ThePolecat> *plays the Stones' Dead Flowers on acoustic, Townes-like
2008-04-18 15:10 < The359> oh lovely
2008-04-18 15:10 < The359> Cannibal Holocaust is on the front page
2008-04-18 15:10 < The359> how many complaints have we received so far?
2008-04-18 15:11 < ThePolecat> at least there's no picture there.
2008-04-18 15:12 < ThePolecat> Note to self, it's bad to show a "similar" aircraft of another airline in connection with a plane crash
2008-04-18 15:12 < kenlyric> lol
2008-04-18 15:12 < ThePolecat> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Hewa_Bora_Airways_crash
2008-04-18 15:12 < ThePolecat> that's kind of awkward.
2008-04-18 15:12 < Mike_H> kenlyric......
2008-04-18 15:12 < The359> yeah, I've noticed that a lot
2008-04-18 15:12 < Mike_H> tulibu dibu douchoo.......
2008-04-18 15:13 < kenlyric> Mike_H: huh?
2008-04-18 15:13 < Mike_H> kenlyric.....kenlyric meju more......
2008-04-18 15:13 < kenlyric> stop making up words
2008-04-18 15:13 < Mike_H> I am singing the Mariah Carey song "Ken Lyric"
2008-04-18 15:14 < ThePolecat> the master of masturbatory melismas
2008-04-18 15:14 < kenlyric> why did you call that a mariah carey song?
2008-04-18 15:14 < kenlyric> did that talentless bitch cover it?
2008-04-18 15:15 < Mike_H> because it is.
2008-04-18 15:15 < ThePolecat> Who made the original?
2008-04-18 15:15 * ThePolecat doesn't even find her "hot", but has a European taste in women
2008-04-18 15:16 * White_Cat thinks ThePolecat is a beta tester
2008-04-18 15:16 < ThePolecat> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Nyiragongo#Latest_2002_eruption
2008-04-18 15:16 < shimgray> ThePolecat: what, a little garlic, some butter?
2008-04-18 15:16 < Mike_H> ThePolecat: The original is from Valentina Hasan
2008-04-18 15:16 < White_Cat> Hasan is a poor choice to name a girl
2008-04-18 15:16 < ThePolecat> it's a last name
2008-04-18 15:17 < Working_Cat> lol
2008-04-18 15:17 < kenlyric> odd
2008-04-18 15:17 < kenlyric> googles say it's Ken Lee
2008-04-18 15:18 < Mike_H> kenlyric: It's called artistic license
2008-04-18 15:18 < Cream> fat sally lee?
2008-04-18 15:19 < kenlyric> you're not an artist
2008-04-18 15:19 < ThePolecat> Heh... "Gruber" is the most common last name in Austria, followed by Huber
2008-04-18 15:19 < kenlyric> you're an abomination before desecrating me in that way.
2008-04-18 15:19 < ThePolecat> pseudo-cool American college students would probably say "Woah, uber!"
2008-04-18 15:19 < Mike_H> We wouldn't say uber unless it was hyphenated with another word.
2008-04-18 15:19 < Mike_H> "That test was uber-hard!
2008-04-18 15:19 < Mike_H> "
2008-04-18 15:20 < ThePolecat> I've seen it isolated.
2008-04-18 15:20 < Mike_H> It's not a popular thing to say.
2008-04-18 15:20 < ThePolecat> "über" isn't used in that way in German at all, anyway
2008-04-18 15:20 < Mike_H> and most people don't gather that uber doesn't mean "super"
2008-04-18 15:20 < ThePolecat> :-)
2008-04-18 15:20 < Mike_H> it means "over"
2008-04-18 15:20 < ThePolecat> yea, "above-"
2008-04-18 15:20 < ThePolecat> Well, that's of course what "super" means in Latin.
2008-04-18 15:20 < ThePolecat> it's just not something you'd say in German
2008-04-18 15:21 < Mike_H> ThePolecat: That's been popular slang here for a while
2008-04-18 15:21 < Mike_H> probably at least since the 1980s.
2008-04-18 15:21 < ThePolecat> to be cool in some fashion
2008-04-18 15:21 < ThePolecat> "Dude, she is way uber."
2008-04-18 15:21 < ThePolecat> :-D
2008-04-18 15:22 < Mike_H> You would be such a foreigner if you said that here :P
2008-04-18 15:22 < kalila> What's the rule on removing comments from your discussion page?
2008-04-18 15:22 < ThePolecat> Über usually carries a connotation of "excessive, too"
2008-04-18 15:23 < Mike_H> Yeah, when it's used here
2008-04-18 15:23 < ThePolecat> "Übermaß" = excess
2008-04-18 15:23 < Mike_H> it's a synonym for super
2008-04-18 15:23 < ThePolecat> funny how those things happen :-)
2008-04-18 15:25 < The_sunder_king> hello one of the image bots have made a mistake tagging a fair use image as "an orphan" when it isn't
2008-04-18 15:26 < The359> http://praxeology.net/would-we-have.PNG Morons...
2008-04-18 15:26 < Lycurgus> any swedish speakers present?
2008-04-18 15:26 < The_sunder_king> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Safc_badge.png can someone remove "the orphan deletion tag" from that image as it is not orphan
2008-04-18 15:27 < kalila> guys... What's the rule on deleting comments from your own discussion page? please ?
2008-04-18 15:27 < Lycurgus> by others?
2008-04-18 15:27 < Janitor> The_sunder_king, please refrain from vandalising my talk page
2008-04-18 15:27 < The359> you can do it, but it's usually frowned upon, kalila
2008-04-18 15:27 < The359> what sort of comments are they?
2008-04-18 15:28 < Penwhale> kalila: normally, you archive them, unless it's outright offensive/personal attack
2008-04-18 15:28 < kalila> insulting
2008-04-18 15:28 < The359> yes
2008-04-18 15:28 < The359> delete
2008-04-18 15:28 < The_sunder_king> Janitor what are you on about?
2008-04-18 15:28 < kalila> thanks guys
2008-04-18 15:29 < Janitor> the same dribble you placed around wikia which CU proved was you popped up @ wikipedia
2008-04-18 15:29 < The_sunder_king> eh? no
2008-04-18 15:29 < Janitor> <The_sunder_king> oompapa is victorious
2008-04-18 15:29 * The_sunder_king types /ignore Janitor
2008-04-18 15:30 < Janitor> I doubt it
2008-04-18 15:30 < The_sunder_king> you've just made that up
2008-04-18 15:30 < Janitor> sure, I could have
2008-04-18 15:30 < Janitor> but you're a banned sockpuppet master
2008-04-18 15:30 < Janitor> so its not that much of a stretch from your usual behaviour
2008-04-18 15:31 < Penwhale> kalila: are you there?
2008-04-18 15:35 * ThePolecat tries to add some more common-last-name translations in German but fails because they all belong to Germanic law
2008-04-18 15:38 < ThePolecat> What, drama already over?
2008-04-18 15:39 < ThePolecat> I was just getting comfortable.
2008-04-18 15:39 < ThePolecat> I want my money b...wait, I didn't pay any.
2008-04-18 15:39 < Working_Cat> heh my grades were uber-average?
2008-04-18 15:39 < Working_Cat> <actually they were WAY uber average :P )
2008-04-18 15:40 * ThePolecat 's are uber-mediocre
2008-04-18 15:40 * ThePolecat demands the introduction of "unter" as a prefix
2008-04-18 15:40 < Working_Cat> is anyone misbehaving?
2008-04-18 15:41 < Working_Cat> ThePolecat: whats "mother" in german?
2008-04-18 15:41 < Working_Cat> mutter?
2008-04-18 15:41 < ThePolecat> yes
2008-04-18 15:41 < Working_Cat> heh, guess
2008-04-18 15:41 < Working_Cat> which is cool.... Mata, Mother, Mutter
2008-04-18 15:42 < ThePolecat> all from "mater", obviously
2008-04-18 15:42 < Working_Cat> mater being?
2008-04-18 15:42 < ThePolecat> and I suspect there's an even older IE root.
2008-04-18 15:42 < ThePolecat> Latin
2008-04-18 15:42 < Working_Cat> k
2008-04-18 15:42 < Working_Cat> Mata is Sanskrit btw.
2008-04-18 15:43 < ThePolecat> Oh, there you go.
2008-04-18 15:43 < ThePolecat> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centum-Satem_isogloss
2008-04-18 15:43 < ThePolecat> fun stuff.
2008-04-18 15:46 < ThePolecat> but then, my language like English is fairly far from "centum"
2008-04-18 15:46 < Working_Cat> i wonder if theres a timeline of languages somewhere
2008-04-18 15:46 < Working_Cat> i wanna know which ones came first
2008-04-18 15:47 < Working_Cat> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Entebbe <---- i read a story on this when i was a kid
2008-04-18 15:47 < Working_Cat> that was iirc, my first introduction to Israel
2008-04-18 15:48 < ThePolecat> That was probably the very nadir of left-wing terrorism.
2008-04-18 15:48 < ThePolecat> where even the European kind showed its anti-semitism for the first time.
2008-04-18 15:48 < Working_Cat> well yeah, Israel totally kicked ass that time
2008-04-18 15:49 < Working_Cat> what I like best about Israel is that how it consistently kicks major ass despite having odds routinely stacked against it.
2008-04-18 15:49 < [21655]> United States is allied with it
2008-04-18 15:49 < [21655]> of COURSE they kick ass
2008-04-18 15:49 < Working_Cat> some of its policies are ofcourse extreme
2008-04-18 15:49 < ThePolecat> it tends to overdo things quite often.
2008-04-18 15:49 < ThePolecat> yea.
2008-04-18 15:49 < [21655]> yes
2008-04-18 15:50 < ThePolecat> but that satisfies fans of the "unorthodox cop" movies.
2008-04-18 15:50 < Working_Cat> Preston, well but theres only so much US can do
2008-04-18 15:50 < Working_Cat> also considering how often US gets its own ass kicked
2008-04-18 15:50 < [21655]> thank god I knew you were addressing me
2008-04-18 15:51 < [21655]> I live nowhere near MD,, but, yeah you're right
2008-04-18 15:51 < Working_Cat> lol yeah, get used to it :P
2008-04-18 15:51 < ThePolecat> the US is perfect per definition, especially before elections.
2008-04-18 15:51 * [21655] would stalk preston, but he uninstalled chatzilla
2008-04-18 15:51 < ThePolecat> so shush
2008-04-18 15:51 * [21655] better get it back
2008-04-18 15:51 < kenlyric> israel never has the odds stacked agtainst it.
2008-04-18 15:52 < Working_Cat> kenlyric...
2008-04-18 15:52 < kenlyric> they always vastly outpower their enemies
2008-04-18 15:52 < ThePolecat> Not for a long time anyway.
2008-04-18 15:52 < Working_Cat> mind elaborating
2008-04-18 15:52 < ThePolecat> Well, they didn't in 1967.
2008-04-18 15:52 < ThePolecat> since then they've caught up quite a bit.
2008-04-18 15:52 < Working_Cat> kenlyric: there have been times when they had substantially smaller armies
2008-04-18 15:52 < kenlyric> smaller armies
2008-04-18 15:52 < kenlyric> but much better arms
2008-04-18 15:52 < kenlyric> *much much better*
2008-04-18 15:52 < Working_Cat> now ofcourse they have a big thing piled up
2008-04-18 15:53 < Working_Cat> kenlyric: in 60s they werent all that much better thoguh
2008-04-18 15:53 < ThePolecat> and rather cautious allies.
2008-04-18 15:53 < ThePolecat> back then
2008-04-18 15:53 < Working_Cat> yeah, US didnt so openly support Israeli Badassery back then
2008-04-18 15:53 < kenlyric> don't forget they have god on their side!
2008-04-18 15:53 < Working_Cat> kenlyric: lol
2008-04-18 15:54 < ThePolecat> Well, they don't know what's good for them, of course.
2008-04-18 15:54 < [21655]> back again
2008-04-18 15:54 < ThePolecat> They threw out Pat Robertson and his theme park!
2008-04-18 15:54 < [21655]> you guys were saying?
2008-04-18 15:54 < ThePolecat> (biblical)
2008-04-18 15:54 < kenlyric> wrong god!
2008-04-18 15:55 < ThePolecat> Pat Robertson was being a dick is all.
2008-04-18 15:55 < kenlyric> there's a shock
2008-04-18 15:55 < Gracenotes> !admin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Lulzwut
2008-04-18 15:55 * Gracenotes waves
2008-04-18 15:55 < ThePolecat> Init.
2008-04-18 15:55 < Golbez> looking
2008-04-18 15:55 < Gracenotes> not sure if it's block-worthy... but dear Lord, the user needs to slow down and use valid reasons :|
2008-04-18 15:55 * [21655] is no admin but will look
2008-04-18 15:55 < Mike_H> ThePolecat: do you have Skype? :o
2008-04-18 15:55 < Golbez> oh, it's block worthy
2008-04-18 15:55 < ThePolecat> Not on this machine.
2008-04-18 15:55 < Golbez> at the very least, to slow him down
2008-04-18 15:55 < Mike_H> you should get it!
2008-04-18 15:56 < Gracenotes> Golbez: yes. as Ryulong would say, "4chan troll"...
2008-04-18 15:56 < Mike_H> I only have these headphones for like two more hours
2008-04-18 15:56 < Mike_H> and I want everyone to hear my dulcet tones
2008-04-18 15:56 < [21655]> reverted
2008-04-18 15:56 < Gracenotes> thanks
2008-04-18 15:56 < [21655]> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion/Log/2008_April_15&diff=206555970&oldid=206555650
2008-04-18 15:56 < ThePolecat> hehe
2008-04-18 15:56 < ThePolecat> o.o
2008-04-18 15:56 < [21655]> dammit, my summary ad didn't change
2008-04-18 15:56 < [21655]> still redlinked cuz i typed 216555--three fives
2008-04-18 15:57 < Working_Cat> i'd say most races would have given up if 90% of them were killed off in like 5 years
2008-04-18 15:57 < Golbez> i'm officially declaring this a [[wp:duck]] block
2008-04-18 15:57 < [21655]> can I just rb them all?
2008-04-18 15:58 < [21655]> rbk*
2008-04-18 15:58 < Golbez> sure
2008-04-18 15:58 < Gracenotes> [21655]: ah, I've already rolled back some
2008-04-18 15:58 < Gracenotes> I think all are done. thanks :)
2008-04-18 15:58 < [21655]> gyarrrgh!
2008-04-18 15:58 < [21655]> thanks
2008-04-18 15:58 < ThePolecat> "The lead story on the January 5, 2006, edition of The 700 Club was Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's hospitalization for a severe stroke. After the story, Robertson said that Sharon's illness was possibly retribution from God for his recent drive to give more land to the Palestinians. He also claimed former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin's 1995 assassination may have occurred for the same...
2008-04-18 15:58 < ThePolecat> ...reason.[27]"
2008-04-18 15:59 < ThePolecat> "On January 11, Israel responded by announcing that Robertson would be banned from involvement in a project to build a Christian tourist attraction and pilgrimage site near the Sea of Galilee known as the Christian Heritage Center."
2008-04-18 15:59 < ThePolecat> that thing
2008-04-18 15:59 < Gracenotes> now, back to TFD voting. Thanks again, [21655] and Golbez
2008-04-18 15:59 < Working_Cat> ThePolecat: well deserved ban
2008-04-18 15:59 < ThePolecat> Indeedy.
2008-04-18 15:59 < [21655]> YW Gracenotes
2008-04-18 15:59 < Golbez> no problem
2008-04-18 16:00 < Working_Cat> 1. Its just stupid to say some head of state died/strok'd cuz of "divine retribution"
2008-04-18 16:00 < Working_Cat> 0. Divine retribution. WTF
2008-04-18 16:00 < ThePolecat> Or to call for the killing of Chavez, for that matter.
2008-04-18 16:01 < ThePolecat> "You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense. I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist."
2008-04-18 16:01 < Working_Cat> i really fail to understand those kind of people who demonstrate on streets and TV proclaiming their religion is the right one...
2008-04-18 16:01 < ThePolecat> I love that guy.
2008-04-18 16:01 < kalila> if somebody is banned for life from wp, is there a remose for them to get back, and how?
2008-04-18 16:02 < Working_Cat> kalila: no way back in. thats it. shut out. gone. forever. dead. buried.
2008-04-18 16:02 < Working_Cat> kalila: also, i have no idea, someone more informed can help you.
2008-04-18 16:03 < kalila> thanks Working_Cat
2008-04-18 16:03 < kalila> anyone else might comment?
2008-04-18 16:04 < Working_Cat> heh heh i love it when people say "our package of religion+beliefs+books is the right one" and then feel the need to ban anything fictional that they think is against their beliefs.
2008-04-18 16:04 < kalila> Penwhale: any comment on the above?
2008-04-18 16:04 < kenlyric> oh, you mean like most poeple?
2008-04-18 16:04 < Working_Cat> and theres usually a bunch of such nuts in every religion
2008-04-18 16:04 < ThePolecat> Rousseau. Those who are right don't need to be tolerant.
2008-04-18 16:04 < kenlyric> or even not in a religion
2008-04-18 16:04 < Working_Cat> kenlyric: "most" people dont call for ban on harry potter
2008-04-18 16:04 < kenlyric> we have the Carmel moms around here
2008-04-18 16:05 < kenlyric> they're not really affiliated with any religion, but nudity makes them queasy
2008-04-18 16:05 < kenlyric> they shut down art shows.
2008-04-18 16:05 < Working_Cat> kenlyric: c'mon, nudity is really creepy at times
2008-04-18 16:05 < kenlyric> so little tommy doesn't see a marble breast
2008-04-18 16:05 < Working_Cat> though i do wanna kick people who want to ban an art exhibition
2008-04-18 16:05 < kenlyric> "I told you she was soft on full frontal nudity"
2008-04-18 16:06 < ThePolecat> Ashcroft had a nude statue dressed.
2008-04-18 16:06 < kenlyric> there's a simpson's episode that applies here :)
2008-04-18 16:06 < Working_Cat> i you think marble busts are bad.... DONT TAKE YOUR KID TO THE DAMN SHOW
2008-04-18 16:06 < kenlyric> those women in that show are the Carmel Moms
2008-04-18 16:06 < kenlyric> Working_Cat: oh, they had ads for it on billboards
2008-04-18 16:06 < kenlyric> with armless chicks and boobies
2008-04-18 16:07 < Lady_Aleena> Is there an administrator here with whom I can have a private conversation about a possible conflict of interest when it comes to a certain group of articles?
2008-04-18 16:07 < Working_Cat> well, coming from a conservative part of the world, i can see how people can react
2008-04-18 16:08 * ThePolecat objects to women without arms more than nudity
2008-04-18 16:08 < ThePolecat> cause it's said "the right of the people to bear arms..."
2008-04-18 16:08 < Golbez> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Lulzwut&diff=206556497&oldid=206556349
2008-04-18 16:08 < Golbez> Gracenotes, i think the block was warranted. =p
2008-04-18 16:09 < kenlyric> people always manage to miss the "well-regulated militia.
2008-04-18 16:09 < kenlyric> particularly the "well-regulated" part
2008-04-18 16:09 < kenlyric> national guard = a well regulated militia
2008-04-18 16:09 < Gracenotes> Golbez: argh, I had the misfortune of having popcorn in my mouth while reading that. very nearly spewed all over the keyboard
2008-04-18 16:10 < Golbez> haha
2008-04-18 16:10 < Golbez> kenlyric- but the question is
2008-04-18 16:10 < Golbez> is the right to bear arms universal ('shall not be infringed'), or does it apply only to these well-regulated militiae
2008-04-18 16:11 < Golbez> let's ponder if the first amendment read "the ability of people to complain about the government being paramount, the right of free speech shall not be infringed" would people suggest that meant you had free speech only when complaining about the government?
2008-04-18 16:11 < ThePolecat> So if you're not in the militia, it's okay for the government to saw off your arms?
2008-04-18 16:12 < Working_Cat> ThePolecat: if ure not in the militia, the govt has a pretty darn good reason to saw off your arms
2008-04-18 16:12 < Working_Cat> "if you arent one of us, you are one of them"
2008-04-18 16:13 < ThePolecat> Ritch-ratch
2008-04-18 16:13 < Working_Cat> riff-raff
2008-04-18 16:16 < kenlyric> street rat
2008-04-18 16:18 < ThePolecat> rififi chez les gens.
2008-04-18 16:22 * ThePolecat makes it out of committee and gets unequivocally passed
2008-04-18 16:25 < Lubaf> [[WP:DUH]] needs more links.
2008-04-18 16:25 < Lubaf> Anybody got any suggestions of places I could pimp it?
2008-04-18 16:25 < Messedrocker> is there a WP:COCK
2008-04-18 16:25 < Gracenotes> Messedrocker: no. sorry to disappoint
2008-04-18 16:26 < Messedrocker> "Wikipedia:Creation of Open-Content Kendra]]
2008-04-18 16:28 < ThePolecat> Yea, so few words in English with an initial K
2008-04-18 16:28 < Messedrocker> here's one
2008-04-18 16:28 < Messedrocker> Kraut
2008-04-18 16:28 < ThePolecat> that's a German word.
2008-04-18 16:28 < Lubaf> King?
2008-04-18 16:28 < Messedrocker> Cook Open-Source Kraut
2008-04-18 16:29 < Lubaf> Kipper?
2008-04-18 16:29 < Messedrocker> ThePolecat, we Anglos have re-engineered it as an ethnic slur against you. Sorry.
2008-04-18 16:29 < Lubaf> Kill?
2008-04-18 16:29 < Lubaf> Knowledge?
2008-04-18 16:29 < Messedrocker> yes!!
2008-04-18 16:29 * ThePolecat is not released under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation license, sorry.
2008-04-18 16:29 < Lubaf> Knee?
2008-04-18 16:29 < Lubaf> Knock?
2008-04-18 16:29 < Lubaf> Knuth?
2008-04-18 16:30 < Messedrocker> DON KNUTH
2008-04-18 16:30 < Gracenotes> ThePolecat: maybe not, but I have a patent on your DNA
2008-04-18 16:30 < Lubaf> Krunk?
2008-04-18 16:30 < Lubaf> Krill?
2008-04-18 16:30 < Lubaf> Kat?
2008-04-18 16:30 < Gracenotes> ThePolecat: I own .2% percent of your genetic code and expect you to pay royalties for continued use
2008-04-18 16:30 < Lubaf> Knapsack?
2008-04-18 16:30 < Messedrocker> KAT WALSH
2008-04-18 16:30 < Lubaf> Knickers?
2008-04-18 16:30 < Sceptre> Gracenotes: :o
2008-04-18 16:30 < Lubaf> Klink?
2008-04-18 16:30 < Sceptre> THE KAT IN THE HAT
2008-04-18 16:30 < Sceptre> AND ALSO THE SCAT IN THE HAT
2008-04-18 16:30 * ThePolecat gets a DMCA note
2008-04-18 16:30 < Messedrocker> Oh yeah, Gracenotes? Well I own YOU! Tend to my chickens!
2008-04-18 16:31 < Lubaf> Kombat?
2008-04-18 16:31 < Messedrocker> MORTAL KOMBAT
2008-04-18 16:31 < Sceptre> BABALITY!
2008-04-18 16:31 < Lubaf> Kar?
2008-04-18 16:31 < Lubaf> Kreep?
2008-04-18 16:31 < Gracenotes> cease and desist, senor Polecat
2008-04-18 16:31 < Lubaf> Kilometer?
2008-04-18 16:31 < Lubaf> Kilogram?
2008-04-18 16:31 < Lubaf> Kilokiller?
2008-04-18 16:31 < Lubaf> Kilokitten?
2008-04-18 16:31 < Lubaf> Kittens?
2008-04-18 16:32 < Lubaf> Kicker?
2008-04-18 16:32 < ThePolecat> "We urge you to desist from metabolizing immediately, failing which we should be forced to..."
2008-04-18 16:32 < Lubaf> Kome on, somebody must have some words that kontinue from the letter k.
2008-04-18 16:32 < Messedrocker> I will never forget the change I had with my dad:
2008-04-18 16:32 < Messedrocker> <me> Sonny Bono is the man who's responsible for extending copyright beyond death
2008-04-18 16:32 < Messedrocker> <dad> and he tested it by promptly dying
2008-04-18 16:33 < Lycurgus> engish tends to use "c" for the "K" sound (when it's not being used for "s" or "ch")
2008-04-18 16:33 < kenlyric> poor sonny bono
2008-04-18 16:33 < kenlyric> we extended copyright beyond death in the 70s
2008-04-18 16:33 < ThePolecat> Lycurgus: That's korrekt.
2008-04-18 16:33 < kenlyric> he only extended it so much farther beyond death
2008-04-18 16:33 < kwertii> orthographic convention.. "cing" would be pronounced "sing", so we get "king"
2008-04-18 16:35 < ThePolecat> except to sound cool.
2008-04-18 16:35 < ThePolecat> like in "kwik"
2008-04-18 16:36 < Lycurgus> I wonder what kind of odds Obama is getting in vegas these days?
2008-04-18 16:36 < ThePolecat> He isn't fabulous enough for Vegas.
2008-04-18 16:36 < Lycurgus> oh they had the odds I think 8-5 about a year ago
2008-04-18 16:36 < Arwen> VOTE OBAMA 2008
2008-04-18 16:37 < Lycurgus> should have reversed by now
2008-04-18 16:37 < Messedrocker> oBaMa
2008-04-18 16:38 < denelson83> o-bama-lama-ding-dong
2008-04-18 16:38 * Gracenotes wonders if Messedrocker is just bitter
2008-04-18 16:38 < Leslie_S> LOL, i accidently started a business today
2008-04-18 16:39 < Gracenotes> Leslie_S: ah, filled out a sole proprietorship form in your sleep? happens all the time...
2008-04-18 16:39 < Messedrocker> no Gracenotes
2008-04-18 16:39 < Messedrocker> i have tired
2008-04-18 16:39 < Leslie_S> Gracenotes no, but it started with....a friend who i owe money asked if i wanted to detail his car for him, to work off some of the money i owe him.
2008-04-18 16:39 < Leslie_S> The full rubbing it out and polishing and waxing
2008-04-18 16:39 < ThePolecat> Tiring is a good start anyway.
2008-04-18 16:40 < Leslie_S> And then another guy saw me doign it, said i was doign a good job, and asked what id charge him
2008-04-18 16:40 * ThePolecat publishes to a beer-reviewed journal
2008-04-18 16:40 < Leslie_S> and he looked at it when i was done and liked it, and well....im gonna do his. :P
2008-04-18 16:40 < Lycurgus> "detail my car" is that any way to treat a lady ... oder?
2008-04-18 16:40 < Leslie_S> both of these cars have had spot paint work done, so theres some spots that are dull
2008-04-18 16:41 < Leslie_S> Lycurgus meh, he was nice about it. it was either that or pay him in cash, :P :P
2008-04-18 16:41 < Leslie_S> and its not like i havent done this before
2008-04-18 16:42 < ThePolecat> Wowzers, brb.
2008-04-18 16:43 < Leslie_S> im charging $10/hour at the moment, but im gonna go up in price for the next customer
2008-04-18 16:43 < ggreer> maybe they just like to watch you bend over?
2008-04-18 16:46 < ThePolecat> Wow, American legal decisions are so poetic
2008-04-18 16:47 < ThePolecat> I like it
2008-04-18 16:47 < ggreer> ThePolecat: it's the only public outlet most judges have
2008-04-18 16:47 < ThePolecat> haha
2008-04-18 16:47 < ThePolecat> yea
2008-04-18 16:47 < ThePolecat> but they're paid for the decidin', not the poetrifyin'
2008-04-18 16:48 < ggreer> also judges tend to be smart. you can't practice law for decades without some smartness getting on you
2008-04-18 16:48 < ThePolecat> Well, smartness in law hasn't got much to do with vividness of delivery
2008-04-18 16:49 < ThePolecat> French decisions for instance are prosaic to the extreme
2008-04-18 16:49 < ThePolecat> but even here things are a great deal drier than in America
2008-04-18 16:50 < Lycurgus> post-singularity the objectivity of the law will be assured by it's machine implementation
2008-04-18 16:50 < ThePolecat> the French high court issues "tableaus", few decisions exceed two pages
2008-04-18 16:50 < Lycurgus> *its
2008-04-18 16:50 < ggreer> scalia is my favorite justice. that guy is such a huge douche but he's so funny
2008-04-18 16:50 < ThePolecat> computer law will be awful.
2008-04-18 16:50 < ThePolecat> Yep.
2008-04-18 16:50 < ThePolecat> great stylist.
2008-04-18 16:50 < Lycurgus> yeah he's one seriously ugly hooman.
2008-04-18 16:51 < gwern> I dunno. executable law and contracts scare me, but that might just be from reading Charles Stross's sci-fi
2008-04-18 16:51 < ggreer> I name all my computers at home after supreme court justices. roberts is my router
2008-04-18 16:51 < ThePolecat> haha
2008-04-18 16:51 < ggreer> I used to name them after elements. .1 was hydrogen, .2 was helium etc etc
2008-04-18 16:51 < ThePolecat> Ginsberg handles international traffic?
2008-04-18 16:52 < gwern> ggreer: I like some judge names
2008-04-18 16:52 < gwern> like 'Learned Hand', that is such an awesome name
2008-04-18 16:52 < ggreer> it's actually a clever method if you have fewer than 100 machines and they all need static addresses
2008-04-18 16:52 < gwern> I mean, it should be illegal to have such a badass name while other people are named 'Robert' or 'Ruth'
2008-04-18 16:52 < gwern> ggreer: why, because after 100 the names start getting provisional?
2008-04-18 16:53 < Working_Cat> \o/ im gonna do my second build of the week!
2008-04-18 16:53 < ggreer> there are only 118 elements
2008-04-18 16:53 < ThePolecat> you'd sound like a comic character.
2008-04-18 16:53 < ggreer> and at that point you have so many machines that you should probably make the hostnames have numbers in them
2008-04-18 16:54 < ggreer> elements also have the advantage of short alternate hostnames
2008-04-18 16:54 < ggreer> so you could go to h.example.com for hydrogen, he.example.com for helium, etc etc
2008-04-18 16:54 < gwern> ThePolecat: you say it like that'd be such a bad thing
2008-04-18 16:54 < ThePolecat> Indeed I do.
2008-04-18 16:54 < ThePolecat> :-D
2008-04-18 16:54 < ThePolecat> but that's strictly me.