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2008-04-18 16:54 < gwern> 'In Dark City, Judge Learned Hand is - The Law!'
2008-04-18 16:55 < ThePolecat> LAW WEST OF THE PECOS - ICE COLD BEER
2008-04-18 16:55 < Mike_H> RAR
2008-04-18 16:55 * Mike_H got kicked off Skype
2008-04-18 16:55 < ThePolecat> You sang badly.
2008-04-18 16:55 < ThePolecat> :-P
2008-04-18 16:55 < Mike_H> Hey, Durova loved my impression of Billie Jean
2008-04-18 16:56 < gwern> durova is mildly nuts
2008-04-18 16:57 < Working_Cat> Mike_H: not the wiki wikkly?
2008-04-18 16:58 < Mike_H> yes
2008-04-18 16:58 < Working_Cat> how did you get kicked?
2008-04-18 16:58 < ThePolecat> A-ha-rrested on cho'ges of unemployment he was sittin' in the witness stand...
2008-04-18 16:58 < Mike_H> Working_Cat: Skype malfunctioned
2008-04-18 16:58 < Mike_H> nobody kicked me
2008-04-18 16:58 < Mike_H> the software did
2008-04-18 16:58 < Mike_H> :(
2008-04-18 16:58 < Working_Cat> Mike_H: boring
2008-04-18 16:58 < Working_Cat> ThePolecat: what accent is that
2008-04-18 16:59 < ThePolecat> Chuck Berry's.
2008-04-18 16:59 < ThePolecat> Brb.
2008-04-18 17:00 < Working_Cat> gwern: isnt mildly nuts like stating the obvious
2008-04-18 17:00 < Working_Cat> i mean come on! thats gotta be the bare minimum requirement
2008-04-18 17:01 < Working_Cat> stated bare minimum at any rate
2008-04-18 17:01 < Working_Cat> like "512 megs for vista"
2008-04-18 17:04 < Messedrocker> the AT&T browser Pogo requires 2GB of RAM
2008-04-18 17:04 < Messedrocker> and even then it runs like shit
2008-04-18 17:04 < ThePolecat> *Stones - Moonlight Mile
2008-04-18 17:07 < CORN> 3HELLO WIKIPALZ
2008-04-18 17:07 < CORN> ENOK|WALKER
2008-04-18 17:07 < CORN> SUP DUDE
2008-04-18 17:07 < gwern> Working_Cat: I felt it had to be said for those not passing familiar with Durova
2008-04-18 17:07 < enok|walker> yo pals
2008-04-18 17:07 < Cyrius> fix your capslock.
2008-04-18 17:08 < CORN> YO LOL DUDE I WISH I COULD MAN BUT THE FUNNIEST THING HAPPENED TO MY SHIFT BUTTON
2008-04-18 17:08 < CORN> MY GUINEA PIG PISSED ON MY KEYBOARD AND GUINEA PIG PISS IS STICKY
2008-04-18 17:08 < CORN> STUCK MY SHIFT KEY
2008-04-18 17:08 < Fou-Lu> WTF
2008-04-18 17:08 < enok|walker> then push caps lock to cancel it out
2008-04-18 17:08 < Fou-Lu> WHO ARE YOU CORN
2008-04-18 17:08 * ThePolecat calls Capt'n Obvious to the rescue
2008-04-18 17:08 < gwern> 'A more subtle benefit of fewer drivers is that there would be fewer crashes. Aaron Edlin and Pinar Mandic, in a paper I was proud to publish in the Journal of Political Economy, argue convincingly that each extra driver raises the insurance costs of other drivers by about $2,000. Their key point is that, if my car is not there to crash into, maybe a crash never happens. They conclude that the appropriate tax would generate $220 billion annually. ...
2008-04-18 17:09 < gwern> ... So, if they are right, reducing the number of crashes is a more important justification for a gas tax than reducing congestion. I’m not sure I believe this; it certainly is a result I never would have guessed to be true.'
2008-04-18 17:09 < ThePolecat> what's Fiu?
2008-04-18 17:09 < enok|walker> Florida International University apparently
2008-04-18 17:09 < ThePolecat> Oh, fair.
2008-04-18 17:11 < Working_Cat> gwern: i meant like anyone whos in this chan is more than slightly nutty
2008-04-18 17:11 < ThePolecat> *Them - Could You Would You (1966)
2008-04-18 17:11 < Mike_H> ThePolecat: A Florida school that sucks
2008-04-18 17:11 < ThePolecat> I see
2008-04-18 17:12 < ThePolecat> should be Florida School of Suckage then
2008-04-18 17:12 < Mike_H> there are schools that are worse though
2008-04-18 17:13 < ThePolecat> *Beatles - Please Please Me
2008-04-18 17:13 < ThePolecat> Still a brilliant song.
2008-04-18 17:14 * Mike_H pleases ThePolecat
2008-04-18 17:14 < ThePolecat> o.o the connotations.
2008-04-18 17:14 < Mike_H> :DD
2008-04-18 17:16 < ThePolecat> WP article points out the similarities with the Everlys' Cathy's Clown
2008-04-18 17:16 < ThePolecat> that's spot on, I never thought about it.
2008-04-18 17:16 < ThePolecat> brb
2008-04-18 17:19 < ThePolecat> *Gerry and the Pacemakers - How Do You Do It
2008-04-18 17:20 < patbam> hi. anyone know what's up with the scrollbars on the images at [[en:Västerbron]] ?
2008-04-18 17:22 < Working_Cat> aww crud, that bugger came on while i was actually working
2008-04-18 17:23 * ThePolecat plays random Brit-trash
2008-04-18 17:23 < ThePolecat> *Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas - From A Window
2008-04-18 17:23 < miranda> you know while I was making edits in my sandbox about community banning someone
2008-04-18 17:23 < miranda> someone inserted their comments when I didn't ask for comments
2008-04-18 17:24 < patbam> hmm i guess the point is to use the wide image template for panormamas... but in this case it doesn't seem warratned
2008-04-18 17:24 < Working_Cat> miranda: suck it up :P
2008-04-18 17:24 < miranda> yeah I did
2008-04-18 17:24 < miranda> and I removed the comments
2008-04-18 17:24 < Working_Cat> damn it
2008-04-18 17:24 < Mike_H> yay
2008-04-18 17:24 < Mike_H> NTWW
2008-04-18 17:24 < Mike_H> is recording now
2008-04-18 17:24 < miranda> >
2008-04-18 17:24 < denelson83> miranda: That's the same name as my sister
2008-04-18 17:24 < miranda> ?
2008-04-18 17:24 < Mike_H> and I'm on it!
2008-04-18 17:25 < Working_Cat> not the weasels weenie?
2008-04-18 17:25 < Mike_H> Working_Cat: Right.
2008-04-18 17:25 < Mike_H> I had that earlier.
2008-04-18 17:25 < Working_Cat> lol
2008-04-18 17:26 < denelson83> patbam: panormamas? Is that the kind of woman who always cooks for her children no matter how old they are?
2008-04-18 17:26 < patbam> denelson83: it's for a rare mental disorder which causes children to confuse their mothers with cookware
2008-04-18 17:26 < denelson83> heh
2008-04-18 17:27 < ThePolecat> "...which Orbison recorded for his posthumous 1989 album Mystery Girl."
2008-04-18 17:27 < ThePolecat> that sounds funny.
2008-04-18 17:27 < patbam> maybe it didn't to roy :P
2008-04-18 17:27 < ThePolecat> Well, to record a posthumous album should be fairly difficult.
2008-04-18 17:28 < ThePolecat> for practical reasons
2008-04-18 17:28 < patbam> but maybe he figured he was gonna pop off before the cover art got done.
2008-04-18 17:28 < patbam> that, or he was a kardecist
2008-04-18 17:29 < ThePolecat> Yup, still odd.
2008-04-18 17:29 < denelson83> Rearrange the letters in "Roy Orbison" and you get "sorry on bio"
2008-04-18 17:29 < ThePolecat> it apparently wasn't posthumous when he recorded it
2008-04-18 17:29 < patbam> how about: "which Orbison recorded for what was to be his posthumous 1989 album Mystery Girl."
2008-04-18 17:29 < patbam> not much better...
2008-04-18 17:30 < ThePolecat> no, there's got to be the word "release" in there somewhere
2008-04-18 17:30 < patbam> ThePolecat: which album is this?
2008-04-18 17:30 < patbam> er, article
2008-04-18 17:30 * patbam has brain issues today
2008-04-18 17:30 < ThePolecat> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Dreams_%28song%29
2008-04-18 17:31 < ThePolecat> last paragraph of the first section.
2008-04-18 17:31 < denelson83>  
2008-04-18 17:31 < ThePolecat> it's a minor awkwardness, but I thought it was interesting
2008-04-18 17:31 * denelson83 said something, but got censored
2008-04-18 17:32 < ThePolecat> denelson83: I agree that and , so it's .
2008-04-18 17:32 * ThePolecat gets carried away by people in plain clothes
2008-04-18 17:32 < denelson83> hehe
2008-04-18 17:32 * denelson83 counts four cats in channel
2008-04-18 17:33 < ThePolecat> The black helicopters are >not< on their way
2008-04-18 17:33 * Working_Cat thinks both of you need to the up your so that we dont have to in the .
2008-04-18 17:33 < denelson83> ROTFL
2008-04-18 17:33 < denelson83> I gotta put that on m:bash; that okay?
2008-04-18 17:34 * ThePolecat denies that right to free is stifled in this country.
2008-04-18 17:34 < Messedrocker> mOrOns
2008-04-18 17:34 < denelson83> morans, eh?
2008-04-18 17:34 * Ceiling_Cat stuffs ThePolecat like a turkey
2008-04-18 17:34 < ThePolecat> denelson83: GO USA
2008-04-18 17:35 < enok|walker> wat
2008-04-18 17:35 * denelson83 rearranges the letters in "GO USA"
2008-04-18 17:35 < denelson83> o, u gas
2008-04-18 17:35 < denelson83> stinky!
2008-04-18 17:36 < ThePolecat> Get a brain, morans.
2008-04-18 17:36 * ThePolecat always disliked the English word "moron" for some reason
2008-04-18 17:36 < enok|walker> transience = nectarines omg
2008-04-18 17:36 < denelson83> Now there's a good anagram
2008-04-18 17:37 < ThePolecat> Get a brain, morans = garment abrasion
2008-04-18 17:37 < denelson83> Of course, rearranging the letters in "presbyterians" gives you "Britney Spears"
2008-04-18 17:37 < ThePolecat> also "nearby priests".
2008-04-18 17:38 < Working_Cat> lol
2008-04-18 17:39 < enok|walker> i like this one: isometric eroticism
2008-04-18 17:39 * enok|walker is bored and has an anagrammer
2008-04-18 17:39 < denelson83> So do I
2008-04-18 17:40 * ThePolecat uses anagrams to discover new stuff on Wikipedia
2008-04-18 17:40 < ThePolecat> that and google.
2008-04-18 17:40 < ThePolecat> Don't ask.
2008-04-18 17:41 < patbam> ThePolecat: i cuoldn't resist... http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=In_Dreams_(song)&diff=206575150&oldid=203667516
2008-04-18 17:41 < patbam> what think thee
2008-04-18 17:41 < ThePolecat> brilliant
2008-04-18 17:41 < ThePolecat> haha
2008-04-18 17:41 * ThePolecat can sleep peacefully now
2008-04-18 17:41 < patbam> ThePolecat: now i can leave my apartmetn :P
2008-04-18 17:42 < ThePolecat> p.s.: it's "what thinkest thou"
2008-04-18 17:42 < enok|walker> ThePolecat: good idea, it helped me find this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ochlocracy
2008-04-18 17:42 < ThePolecat> yay
2008-04-18 17:42 * ThePolecat founds Plain Folks For Ochlocracy
2008-04-18 17:43 < ThePolecat> and if you're against us, you're just an elitist snob.
2008-04-18 17:43 < patbam> ThePolecat: not always :)
2008-04-18 17:44 < patbam> "I thou thee, thou traitor!" ...golly
2008-04-18 17:44 * ThePolecat thaws thee
2008-04-18 17:44 < patbam> "Don't thee tha them as thas thee!" teehee
2008-04-18 17:44 < denelson83> Rearrange the letters in "pomegranates" and you get "OMG! Nate rapes!"
2008-04-18 17:45 < ThePolecat> On a dhow.
2008-04-18 17:45 < Working_Cat> >_<
2008-04-18 17:45 < patbam> aha! the quakers. they use it that way sometimes. i declare myself absolve of grammatical crimes.
2008-04-18 17:45 < patbam> *absolved
2008-04-18 17:45 < patbam> oe, the irony.
2008-04-18 17:45 < Working_Cat> you people are making me lol in my cubicle
2008-04-18 17:45 < Working_Cat> patbam: spelling != grammar
2008-04-18 17:45 < patbam> grammer != grammar
2008-04-18 17:46 < patbam> except for quakers. teauxtally okay there.
2008-04-18 17:46 < ThePolecat> IT'S NORMAL FOLKS GRAMMER, MORAN!
2008-04-18 17:46 < Working_Cat> patbam != british apparently
2008-04-18 17:46 < ThePolecat> it comes from the gut.
2008-04-18 17:46 < Working_Cat> also patbam has an evil ISP
2008-04-18 17:46 < patbam> Working_Cat: true that. lucky me
2008-04-18 17:47 < ThePolecat> Are you starting a campaign?
2008-04-18 17:47 < ThePolecat> haha
2008-04-18 17:47 < enok|walker> from pomegranates I got G, Astroman pee
2008-04-18 17:47 * denelson83 has never heard of Purple IRC
2008-04-18 17:47 < ThePolecat> Pomegrenade = "deeper mango"
2008-04-18 17:47 < enok|walker> omg
2008-04-18 17:47 < denelson83> tasty kaboom!
2008-04-18 17:47 < ThePolecat> OYG?
2008-04-18 17:47 < Working_Cat> purple irc = ripple cur
2008-04-18 17:48 < denelson83> cur?
2008-04-18 17:48 < ThePolecat> what's cur?
2008-04-18 17:48 < Working_Cat> er, cripple
2008-04-18 17:48 < denelson83> u r cripple?
2008-04-18 17:48 < Working_Cat> i have dyslexia :P
2008-04-18 17:48 < patbam> shakespeare's dog
2008-04-18 17:48 < ThePolecat> dyslexia = daily sex
2008-04-18 17:48 < Working_Cat> ThePolecat: i wish
2008-04-18 17:49 < ThePolecat> haha
2008-04-18 17:49 < Working_Cat> not unless i shell out 150 bucks every day
2008-04-18 17:49 < miranda> denelson83: pidgin?
2008-04-18 17:49 < Working_Cat> pig din
2008-04-18 17:49 < denelson83> Rearrange the letters in "Apple Macintosh" and you get "maple capon shit"
2008-04-18 17:49 < Working_Cat> miranda = mad rina
2008-04-18 17:50 < miranda> miranda = drama llama
2008-04-18 17:50 < ThePolecat> Apple Macintosh = "complaints heap"
2008-04-18 17:50 < enok|walker> Microsoft Windows = Conformist Widows
2008-04-18 17:50 < denelson83> The United States of America = counterfeit shit made at sea
2008-04-18 17:51 < enok|walker> wate i think you cheated on that one
2008-04-18 17:51 < enok|walker> wait no i see the f :/
2008-04-18 17:52 < Messedrocker> ThePolecat, that's Windows, not Macintosh
2008-04-18 17:52 < ThePolecat> Microsoft Windows = "Crown of its wisdom"
2008-04-18 17:52 < Messedrocker> rap artist --> rapist art
2008-04-18 17:52 * ThePolecat plugs MS like there's no tomorrow at all
2008-04-18 17:52 < enok|walker> Microsoft Windows = Wows in Discomfort =
2008-04-18 17:54 * ThePolecat remembers the one on Iain Duncan Smith
2008-04-18 17:54 < ThePolecat> "I sin and I ain't much"
2008-04-18 17:55 < ThePolecat> Not sure if he's still about.
2008-04-18 17:56 < patbam> byebye kids
2008-04-18 17:56 < ThePolecat> cheers.
2008-04-18 17:57 < Messedrocker> do an anagram of "MessedRocker"
2008-04-18 17:57 < Spraf> does anyone here live in london
2008-04-18 17:57 < Spraf> is off topic even allowd
2008-04-18 17:57 < Spraf> D:
2008-04-18 17:57 < Messedrocker> Spraf, this is THE off-topic channel
2008-04-18 17:57 < Spraf> !
2008-04-18 17:57 < Spraf> so does anyone live in london
2008-04-18 17:57 < ThePolecat> Messedrocker = Smokers' creed.
2008-04-18 17:58 < ThePolecat> "Rocks seem red"
2008-04-18 17:58 < ThePolecat> "mere red socks"
2008-04-18 17:58 < OverlordQ> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz5cl131KTk
2008-04-18 17:59 < enok|walker> I, President George Bush -> sieged super big throne ZOMG
2008-04-18 17:59 < Working_Cat> wheres the Z in there
2008-04-18 17:59 < ThePolecat> added for extra oomph
2008-04-18 18:00 < Messedrocker> the "ZOMG" is just extra oomph
2008-04-18 18:01 < ThePolecat> Nobody mentioned its primary function of adding extra oomph yet, I believe.
2008-04-18 18:01 < Messedrocker> "ZOMG" is not part of the anagram
2008-04-18 18:03 * ThePolecat feels like a dead pan
2008-04-18 18:04 < enok|walker> "ZOMG" is not part of the anagram = amiga farthing spermatozoon
2008-04-18 18:05 < ThePolecat> Forget anthozoan pragmatism.
2008-04-18 18:06 < ThePolecat> More amazing footpath grants.
2008-04-18 18:06 < ThePolecat> Forgot another amazing stamp.
2008-04-18 18:06 < enok|walker> rad
2008-04-18 18:07 < ThePolecat> Amazing German-sort footpath.
2008-04-18 18:07 < ThePolecat> among amazing reports of that
2008-04-18 18:07 < ThePolecat> Yes, I shut up now.
2008-04-18 18:07 < ThePolecat> :-)
2008-04-18 18:07 < enok|walker> haha
2008-04-18 18:07 * bumm13 personally like the Amiga one
2008-04-18 18:08 < ThePolecat> but farthing is a noun!
2008-04-18 18:08 < ThePolecat> what is an amiga farthing?
2008-04-18 18:08 < bumm13> nothing :)
2008-04-18 18:09 < ThePolecat> Germany "gray men"
2008-04-18 18:09 < bumm13> from outer space!
2008-04-18 18:11 < ThePolecat> United States of America: "It's same after education"
2008-04-18 18:11 < ThePolecat> brb
2008-04-18 18:12 < gwern> 'The original green card became a yellow card when the System/370 was introduced, and later a yellow booklet. An anecdote from IBM refers to a scene that took place in a programmers' terminal room at Yorktown in 1978. A luser overheard one of the programmers ask another “Do you have a green card?” The other grunted and passed the first a thick yellow booklet. At this point the luser turned a delicate shade of olive and rapidly left the room, ...
2008-04-18 18:12 < gwern> ... never to return.'
2008-04-18 18:12 < Messedrocker> do St. Kitts and Nevis next
2008-04-18 18:12 < ThePolecat> Teach the controversy on the so called St. Kitts and Nevis theory!
2008-04-18 18:13 < ThePolecat> Saint Kitts and Nevis: Instant naked visits
2008-04-18 18:14 < ThePolecat> Oh, I read that as "do St Kitts and Nevis exist?"
2008-04-18 18:14 < ThePolecat> so I accidentally did the Right Thing (tm)
2008-04-18 18:15 < ThePolecat> Switzerland = newt lizards
2008-04-18 18:16 < Messedrocker> here's a challenge
2008-04-18 18:16 < Messedrocker> do "Iraq"
2008-04-18 18:17 < gwern> http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/fractalcookies <-- wtf fractal cookies
2008-04-18 18:17 < enok|walker> Ra IQ
2008-04-18 18:18 < ThePolecat> Republic of Iraq = Acquire for blip.
2008-04-18 18:18 < ThePolecat> Equip bar, frolic.
2008-04-18 18:18 < Messedrocker> or Acquirer of Blip
2008-04-18 18:19 < Messedrocker> i meant, just 'IRAQ'
2008-04-18 18:19 < ThePolecat> What enok said.
2008-04-18 18:19 * ThePolecat personally likes "equip bar, frolic"
2008-04-18 18:20 < ThePolecat> Thailand "land a hit"
2008-04-18 18:21 < gwern> http://homepages.nyu.edu/~iav202/powers/powers.html <-- I am such a fan of philosopher action figures
2008-04-18 18:21 < Messedrocker> more like
2008-04-18 18:21 < Messedrocker> land a tranny
2008-04-18 18:21 < gwern> http://homepages.nyu.edu/~iav202/powers/augustine.html 'Awful Augustine': Weaknesses: inability to do anything that will earn the divine grace necessary to make up for original sin'
2008-04-18 18:21 < ThePolecat> then land in prison.
2008-04-18 18:21 < gwern> '
2008-04-18 18:22 < gwern> Notes: W. V. Quine� is a ruthless warrior who always follows the Maxim of Maximal Mutilation. When he races into battle, his war cry "GAVAGAI!" pierces the air, terrifying his foes, even though no one knows what it means. '
2008-04-18 18:22 < gwern> <-- BRILLIANT
2008-04-18 18:22 < ThePolecat> Mongolia = Igloo man
2008-04-18 18:25 * ThePolecat definitely wants a Schopenhauer action figure
2008-04-18 18:26 < ThePolecat> European arch-thrush
2008-04-18 18:26 < gwern> man, disgaea 2 is such a crazy game
2008-04-18 18:30 < enok|walker> Damn I should have started working on this like 8 hours ago >_>
2008-04-18 18:44 < denelson83> Rearrange the letters in "Stephen Colbert" and you get "blotch pretense"
2008-04-18 18:49 < Lycurgus> denelson83: do you not see conservatism as a personality defect?
2008-04-18 18:50 < Lycurgus> actually a character flaw
2008-04-18 18:50 < denelson83> heh
2008-04-18 18:50 < Messedrocker> Lycurgus, do you not see that Stephen Colbert's conservatism is an act?
2008-04-18 18:51 < Arwen> <Lycurgus> denelson83: do you not see conservatism as a personality defect? <-- how so?
2008-04-18 18:51 < Lycurgus> the common one underlying greed, bigotry, and every other kind of backwardness.
2008-04-18 18:51 < Arwen> I think it's good to be inherently conservative. Don't fix problems that don't exist. Don't create complex solutions when a simple one works.
2008-04-18 18:52 < Lycurgus> it is backwardness as a conscious political stance
2008-04-18 18:52 < Arwen> how so?
2008-04-18 18:52 < Lycurgus> yes, parodied by Colbert, who I don't find funny
2008-04-18 18:52 < Arwen> Just because we *could* have government monitoring of all people at all time doesn't make it a good thing.
2008-04-18 18:52 < denelson83> Hey, rearrange the letters in "church of scientology" and you get "cyclone grouch of shit"
2008-04-18 18:52 < Arwen> haha
2008-04-18 18:52 < OverlordQ> lol
2008-04-18 18:52 < Lycurgus> that kind of broad humor I don't find funny
2008-04-18 18:53 < Lycurgus> benny hill maybe but that was a long time ago
2008-04-18 18:53 * denelson83 assumes Lycurgus is American
2008-04-18 18:53 < Lycurgus> I guess, that's it. It's neither subtle nor broad really. And to me just not really funny.
2008-04-18 18:54 < Lycurgus> the same tired schtick over and over
2008-04-18 18:54 < denelson83> HA! - http://fukung.net/v/5976/earthwikii.jpg
2008-04-18 18:55 < Lycurgus> I meant Colbert. The anagram was mildly amusing.
2008-04-18 18:55 < Arwen> "The most secret documents of the Church of Scientology are stored aboard a permanent cruiser in the Atlantic Ocean." <-- SOMEONE GET THE TORPEDOES
2008-04-18 18:56 * denelson83 sics the flying spaghetti monster on xenu
2008-04-18 18:56 < Lycurgus> what are those vids of whatsisname banging minors?
2008-04-18 18:56 < denelson83> quiet, you!
2008-04-18 18:57 < denelson83> I'll mine your bang
2008-04-18 18:57 < Lycurgus> *Ron Hubbard
2008-04-18 19:04 < Aqwis> http://www.snopes.com/lost/fraction.htm O_o
2008-04-18 19:09 < CrazyChemGuy> I feel really dumb right now. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aspirin&diff=206589193&oldid=206588785
2008-04-18 19:15 < kj> what is a small city that is completely surrounded by a bigger city called?
2008-04-18 19:16 < Miranda|away> suburban
2008-04-18 19:17 < Miranda|away> or suburb
2008-04-18 19:17 < Miranda|away> zzz...
2008-04-18 19:17 < kj> a suburb includes cities that are are on the outskirts of a city
2008-04-18 19:18 < kj> i am talking about the equivalent of a landlocked country on a city basis
2008-04-18 19:18 < kj> i am talking about the equivalent of a landlocked country on a city level
2008-04-18 19:18 < Veinor> I don't think there's a word for that.
2008-04-18 19:18 < Jocke_Pirat> Is there even an instance where this happens?
2008-04-18 19:19 < Cyrius> pretty sure there's a few in Houston
2008-04-18 19:19 < kj> san antonio surrounds Castle Hills, Alamo Heights, Olmos Park, and several other cities
2008-04-18 19:20 < kj> san antonio also surrounds Balcones Heights, Grey Forest, Leon Valley, and Terrell Hills
2008-04-18 19:20 < kj> ....
2008-04-18 19:21 < kj> If anyone even knows a slang word for this concept it will be useful
2008-04-18 19:21 < kj> to know it
2008-04-18 19:22 * Cyrius doesn't know
2008-04-18 19:25 < kj> enclave?
2008-04-18 19:25 < kj> maybe
2008-04-18 19:25 < kj> is that the right word
2008-04-18 19:25 < Cyrius> it's close but I don't know if it's right
2008-04-18 19:25 < kj> it seems an enclave is bigger than a city
2008-04-18 19:26 < kj> from what i know about enclaves
2008-04-18 19:29 < kj> I just found out there is a city named Beverly hills
2008-04-18 19:29 < kj> Beverly hillbillies all makes sense know
2008-04-18 19:30 < ST47> Why are there funky red lines around changes in diffs now?
2008-04-18 19:31 < ST47> It's like there's another crappy diff engine working over the mediawiki softwar
2008-04-18 19:38 < Lucifer_Cat> /msg nickserv identify cnhgarfield
2008-04-18 19:39 < Lucifer_Cat> nevermind
2008-04-18 19:39 < Lucifer_Cat> time to change the password
2008-04-18 19:40 * Ceiling_Cat latches onto Lucifer_Cat's face
2008-04-18 19:40 * Ceiling_Cat facehuggles Lucifer_Cat furiously
2008-04-18 19:40 < Lucifer_Cat> ZOMG FACERAPE
2008-04-18 19:40 < Ceiling_Cat> every time you facerape Lucifer_Cat, an angel gets his wings
2008-04-18 19:41 < Lucifer_Cat> i thought it was 'angles wipes using his wings'
2008-04-18 19:41 < Lucifer_Cat> ugh the facerape is making me type horribly
2008-04-18 19:42 < Ceiling_Cat> it's all right - after enough times through the process, you barely notice it
2008-04-18 19:42 < Lucifer_Cat> Ceiling_Cat: I got forty red white and blue shoe strings and a thousand telephones that don't ring...
2008-04-18 19:42 < Lucifer_Cat> Do you know where I can get rid of these things?
2008-04-18 19:42 < Ceiling_Cat> goodwill
2008-04-18 19:43 < Lucifer_Cat> a free huggle to whoever gets the answer right
2008-04-18 19:43 < Lucifer_Cat> without googling
2008-04-18 19:43 * Ceiling_Cat shrugs
2008-04-18 19:43 * Lucifer_Cat huggles Ceiling_Cat nonetheless
2008-04-18 19:44 * Not_the_NSA O_Os Ceiling_Cat
2008-04-18 19:45 < Lucifer_Cat> ▬
2008-04-18 19:45 < Lucifer_Cat> ▓
2008-04-18 19:45 < Lucifer_Cat> ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓
2008-04-18 19:46 < Lucifer_Cat> heh, text based bar graph ;)
2008-04-18 19:47 < Lucifer_Cat> how do you see the list of people who can op up to the occassion?
2008-04-18 19:47 < Ceiling_Cat> with: /msg chanserv access #wikipedia list
2008-04-18 19:49 < Mike_H> Ceiling_Cat: Ask Durova to invite you
2008-04-18 19:49 < Mike_H> to the new conference call
2008-04-18 19:49 < Mike_H> on Skype
2008-04-18 19:55 < Lucifer_Cat> invite me invite me
2008-04-18 19:55 < Lucifer_Cat> as long as its not about weasels weiner
2008-04-18 19:57 * Lucifer_Cat is rated at 40 MegaFonzies
2008-04-18 19:57 < Lucifer_Cat> its interesting though. i'd say coolness would be measured in milli and micro Fonzies
2008-04-18 19:57 < Lucifer_Cat> like Amperes i suppose
2008-04-18 19:58 < Krimpet> Lucifer_Cat: I thought farads were the huge unit?
2008-04-18 19:59 * Lucifer_Cat is lucky enough to have chosen the ONE filed of engineering/science that does not deal with a lot of units
2008-04-18 19:59 < Lucifer_Cat> except for a couple of stupid base 8 units
2008-04-18 20:00 < Lucifer_Cat> but then, a picoFonzie would be about as cool as me...
2008-04-18 20:00 < Lucifer_Cat> ... which is hardly cool at all
2008-04-18 20:03 < Lucifer_Cat> where IS everyone?
2008-04-18 20:07 < CDN_Bobby> no idea
2008-04-18 20:07 < CDN_Bobby> maybe they're bashful? ha
2008-04-18 20:07 < Ceiling_Cat> skype
2008-04-18 20:07 * Ceiling_Cat is doing the wikipedia weekly ATM
2008-04-18 20:08 < Lucifer_Cat> invite me/ link me
2008-04-18 20:08 < Lucifer_Cat> i like listening to it
2008-04-18 20:23 < denelson83> "Some say he actually invented liquid nitrogen, and that he has brake pads sewn into the soles of his feet."
2008-04-18 20:39 < Ceogar> i love you guys
2008-04-18 20:40 < Lucifer_Cat> Ceogar: why
2008-04-18 20:40 < Ceogar> wikipedia is nice
2008-04-18 20:41 < MECU> anyone want to fix this disambig problem? http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Three-and-out&action=history
2008-04-18 20:42 < Ceiling_Cat> Ceogar - you're welcome
2008-04-18 20:42 < Ceogar> Ceiling_Cat im not new or anything, just wanted to say that
2008-04-18 20:43 < Ceogar> =D
2008-04-18 20:48 * MECU might get some good pictures of encyclopedic people tomorrow
2008-04-18 20:48 * Ceiling_Cat watches MECU
2008-04-18 20:48 < MECU> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_McCartney for one
2008-04-18 20:52 < Ceiling_Cat> MAOR KATZ?
2008-04-18 20:52 < Lucifer_Cat> Messedrocker: phail :P
2008-04-18 20:53 < Messedrocker> why am i fail
2008-04-18 20:53 * Lucifer_Cat huggles Ceogar
2008-04-18 20:53 < Lucifer_Cat> 'time'
2008-04-18 20:53 * Ceiling_Cat takes pixxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
2008-04-18 20:53 < Lucifer_Cat> i said huggles, not fuggles
2008-04-18 20:54 < Ceiling_Cat> See also: http://furry.wikia.com/wiki/Yiff
2008-04-18 20:55 < MECU> Every time a free image is uploaded to Wikipedia, a kitten dies. Please upload free to Commons.
2008-04-18 20:55 < Lucifer_Cat> lol
2008-04-18 20:55 < Lucifer_Cat> \
2008-04-18 20:58 < Ceiling_Cat> but if people upload too many pixxxxxxx, kittens will go extinct
2008-04-18 20:58 < Ceiling_Cat> and then nobody will be able ot masturbate because there will be no kittens for god to smite
2008-04-18 20:58 < Lucifer_Cat> Ceiling_Cat: nooo he means, in order to preserve kittens, upload to Commons
2008-04-18 20:58 < Lucifer_Cat> atleast i THINK thats what he mean
2008-04-18 20:58 < Lucifer_Cat> *means
2008-04-18 21:03 < Lucifer_Cat> 902 gfdl fsf wmf cc by sa
2008-04-18 21:03 < Lucifer_Cat> none of that made any sense to me :S
2008-04-18 21:04 < Veinor> the only bit I don't get is 902
2008-04-18 21:04 < Lucifer_Cat> lol
2008-04-18 21:04 < Veinor> :|
2008-04-18 21:04 < Lucifer_Cat> thats the time in EDT
2008-04-18 21:05 < Veinor> Well screw EDT.
2008-04-18 21:05 < Krimpet> Lucifer_Cat: you posted that at 9:03. :p
2008-04-18 21:06 < Lucifer_Cat> iposted at 902
2008-04-18 21:06 < Lucifer_Cat> lag
2008-04-18 21:13 < Lucifer_Cat> tawker: meow
2008-04-18 21:16 < Ceiling_Cat> you must be at least this furry: <------- ==^o.o^== -------> to chat in the channel
2008-04-18 21:19 < Lubaf> "The first hour of last night's debate was a 60-minute master class in questions that elevate out-of context remarks and trivial, insipid miscues into subjects of national discourse...which is my job! Stop doing my job!" - Jon Stewart
2008-04-18 21:38 < Lucifer_Cat> Lubaf: lol. i miss JOn
2008-04-18 21:41 < tawker> Ceiling_Cat: so, we finally got you on a podcast :D
2008-04-18 21:41 < tawker> welcome Lucifer_Cat too
2008-04-18 21:44 * gwern wonders whether Lucifer_Cat yiffs in hell
2008-04-18 21:44 < Lucifer_Cat> lol tawker "just wrap ot"
2008-04-18 21:44 < Lucifer_Cat> *it
2008-04-18 21:45 < Lucifer_Cat> gwern: Alabama. Close enough?
2008-04-18 21:47 < gwern> Lucifer_Cat: eh. close enough as makes little difference
2008-04-18 21:48 < MECU> it should be illegal for WikiProject to tag images as under the WikiProject on the talk page
2008-04-18 21:48 < Lucifer_Cat> lol "We say it differently in the non-heartland - the 'fly-to states' if you will..."
2008-04-18 21:49 < gwern> fly-over states
2008-04-18 21:49 < Lubaf> Ceiling_Cat: You about?
2008-04-18 21:49 < Lubaf> White_Cat_Zzz: You get that issue resolved?
2008-04-18 21:50 < Lubaf> Lucifer_Cat: You and Ceiling_Cat going to fight anytime soon?
2008-04-18 21:50 < Lubaf> Brown_Cat: You're not here right now, are you?
2008-04-18 21:50 < Lucifer_Cat> why?
2008-04-18 21:50 < Lucifer_Cat> Lubaf: brownie got banned
2008-04-18 21:51 < Lucifer_Cat> Lubaf: why would i fight with the Ceiling_Cat? hes not pissing on my territory. im in the basement.
2008-04-18 21:51 < Lubaf> Fair enough.
2008-04-18 21:52 < spuin> huuuh
2008-04-18 21:52 < Ceiling_Cat> Lubaf - Lucifer_Cat likes to be shaven bald and huggled
2008-04-18 21:52 < Lucifer_Cat> >_<
2008-04-18 21:52 < Ceiling_Cat> no fighting
2008-04-18 21:52 < Ceiling_Cat> http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/funny-pictures-sarcastic-hairless-cat.jpg
2008-04-18 21:52 < Lucifer_Cat> i like it as much as bubba likes learning a foreign language
2008-04-18 21:52 < Lubaf> Lucifer_Cat: I was just thinking you were bitter over http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/funny-pictures-lucifer-cat-on-floor.jpg
2008-04-18 21:53 < spuin> hard night
2008-04-18 21:53 < Lucifer_Cat> Lubaf: lulz
2008-04-18 21:54 < Cyrius> so, my cat appears to like biscuits
2008-04-18 21:54 < Cyrius> that's southern american biscuits
2008-04-18 21:54 < spuin> hes ninja
2008-04-18 21:54 < Cyrius> I let him sniff one, he went nuts
2008-04-18 21:54 < spuin> ./she
2008-04-18 21:54 < Cyrius> he ate a bit out of my hand
2008-04-18 21:54 < Cyrius> never had a cat that would eat out of my hand before
2008-04-18 21:55 < Lubaf> Cyrius: They will for certain kinds of treats.
2008-04-18 21:55 < Lucifer_Cat> Cyrius: cats dont love you
2008-04-18 21:55 < Lubaf> Cyrius: Are you named for Peres or Filis?
2008-04-18 21:56 * Lubaf wonders if anybody knows what he's talking about.
2008-04-18 21:56 < Cyrius> no idea what you're talking about
2008-04-18 21:57 < Lubaf> Cyrius: I'll take that as a "You should be less stoner-like in your logic".
2008-04-18 21:57 < Cyrius> http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/funny-pictures-hover-rhino.jpg
2008-04-18 21:57 * bumm13 �
2008-04-18 21:58 < bumm13> heh, nice spam-blocker advoidance here - "Henrietta Kaiser -- Increase your copulation organ"
2008-04-18 22:00 < bumm13> (nevermind that that could be the female organ :P )
2008-04-18 22:00 < uberpenguin> who is henrietta and why does she sound hot?
2008-04-18 22:00 < uberpenguin> link plz
2008-04-18 22:00 < Messedrocker> why would someone want a larger vagina
2008-04-18 22:01 < uberpenguin> to lord it over their friends duh
2008-04-18 22:01 < bumm13> heh
2008-04-18 22:01 < bumm13> Messedrocker: well, nobody, I'm just being a bit pedantic
2008-04-18 22:03 < Lycurgus> did anybody see the popes UN speech? what language was it in?
2008-04-18 22:03 < bumm13> hiya uberpenguin
2008-04-18 22:03 < Messedrocker> depends
2008-04-18 22:03 < Messedrocker> does it sound like a pissed off man clearing his throat?
2008-04-18 22:04 < Lycurgus> it wasn't german or english sounded like maybe italian just caught a snippet
2008-04-18 22:05 < Cyrius> "As well as his native German, Benedict XVI fluently speaks Italian, French, English, Spanish and Latin, and has a knowledge of Portuguese."
2008-04-18 22:05 < spuin> ops
2008-04-18 22:05 < Lycurgus> could have been spanish or italian
2008-04-18 22:05 < Cyrius> or latin!
2008-04-18 22:05 < Lycurgus> or portugues, latin I thought of but that's absurd
2008-04-18 22:06 < bumm13> couldn't some of those in that phrase be put in alphabetical order?
2008-04-18 22:06 < Lycurgus> and I don't think the UN has translators for it
2008-04-18 22:07 < Lycurgus> other than that I would have been surprised if he tried it (latin), the ridiculous ole bastard
2008-04-18 22:07 < Lycurgus> *wouldn't
2008-04-18 22:07 < gwern> Lycurgus: that would've been awesome
2008-04-18 22:07 < Cyrius> spanish is one of the official languages of the UN
2008-04-18 22:07 * ThePolecat is back
2008-04-18 22:08 < Cyrius> italian is not
2008-04-18 22:08 < arcimboldo_> I watched some snippets which were French and English
2008-04-18 22:08 < Cyrius> french is as well
2008-04-18 22:08 < uberpenguin> bumm13: hey
2008-04-18 22:08 < uberpenguin> bumm13: http://mattb.alwayssleeping.com/images/theremin/theremin_27.jpg
2008-04-18 22:08 < ThePolecat> The pope speaks English about as fluently as I eat hamburgers.
2008-04-18 22:08 < ThePolecat> Okay, bad simile.
2008-04-18 22:08 < uberpenguin> http://mattb.alwayssleeping.com/images/theremin/theremin_29.jpg
2008-04-18 22:08 * arcimboldo_ still wonders whether the North Korean delegation attended
2008-04-18 22:08 < Cyrius> how fluent is that?
2008-04-18 22:08 < ThePolecat> Not bloody very.
2008-04-18 22:08 < ThePolecat> Okay, again, no sense.
2008-04-18 22:09 < ThePolecat> But his accent is funny
2008-04-18 22:09 * bumm13 looks at pic
2008-04-18 22:09 < bumm13> nice :D
2008-04-18 22:09 * bumm13 wishes he could build stuff :<
2008-04-18 22:10 < uberpenguin> I wish this thing worked :P
2008-04-18 22:10 < bumm13> ok, it's not working yet?
2008-04-18 22:10 < bumm13> *oh
2008-04-18 22:11 * bumm13 thought it was finished
2008-04-18 22:11 < arcimboldo_> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOSyl3nerOE&feature=related
2008-04-18 22:11 < Lycurgus> so I guess it must have been spanish
2008-04-18 22:12 < nadis> hi, Lycurgus
2008-04-18 22:12 < Lycurgus> hello nadis
2008-04-18 22:12 < uberpenguin> something went amiss in the transition from breadboard to that
2008-04-18 22:12 < uberpenguin> nah, I'm not even done wiring it
2008-04-18 22:12 < bumm13> aww
2008-04-18 22:12 < uberpenguin> but there are some problems with it that I'll need to figure out next wek
2008-04-18 22:12 < uberpenguin> *week
2008-04-18 22:12 < bumm13> I see
2008-04-18 22:13 < nadis> i'm still thinking about your words, Lycurgus
2008-04-18 22:13 * Lycurgus had breadboard Z80s, do people still do that?
2008-04-18 22:13 < bumm13> just don't do what Steve Wozniak did when he and his friend built a simple computer in 1970
2008-04-18 22:13 < nadis> you must be a linguist if you are really an American
2008-04-18 22:13 < bumm13> the AC power supply wasn't wired in correctly and it burned up all the chips on the computer's main board
2008-04-18 22:13 < Messedrocker> ahhh
2008-04-18 22:13 < Cyrius> "and his friend"
2008-04-18 22:14 < bumm13> well, his friend assisted ;)
2008-04-18 22:14 < Lycurgus> no, I'm just not stupid like most Americans have been up until about now
2008-04-18 22:14 < Lycurgus> i figure there will be some movement on that soon
2008-04-18 22:14 < Lycurgus> not enough but some
2008-04-18 22:15 < nadis> i mean your Chinese is excellent
2008-04-18 22:15 < Lycurgus> the big opportunity is in China
2008-04-18 22:15 < Lucifer_Cat> mmm my food was excellent
2008-04-18 22:15 < uberpenguin> bumm13: http://mattb.alwayssleeping.com/images/theremin/theremin_10.jpg
2008-04-18 22:15 < uberpenguin> that's what it looked like when I developed it
2008-04-18 22:15 < Lucifer_Cat> MuzzledRocker, waddap
2008-04-18 22:16 < uberpenguin> something between there and fancy-looking box has gone wrong, it seems
2008-04-18 22:16 < Lycurgus> where stupid never really was in fashion and scholarlyness has always (with brief exceptions) been respected
2008-04-18 22:16 < uberpenguin> probably the mixer circuit, which is very finnicky
2008-04-18 22:16 < Lycurgus> *stupidity
2008-04-18 22:16 < bumm13> "Steve Wozniak and his high-school friend Bill Hernandez build a computer out of parts rejected by local companies, ending up with a box with lights and switches (similar to the Altair 8800 that would not appear until 1975). They called it the "Cream Soda Computer", since that was their drink of choice while they were building it. The first demonstration of the computer burned up the power supply."
2008-04-18 22:17 < Messedrocker> ah, his HS friend
2008-04-18 22:17 < Lycurgus> but my Chinese is neglible at the moment altough I am learning. Your english is fine. Note there's another Beijinge, yao_ziyuan who is on sometimes.
2008-04-18 22:17 < bumm13> yep
2008-04-18 22:17 < Messedrocker> steve jobs is his college friend i believe
2008-04-18 22:17 < bumm13> well, he grew up in the same area as Jobs
2008-04-18 22:18 < Lycurgus> *beijinger
2008-04-18 22:18 < bumm13> had the same electronics courses in high school
2008-04-18 22:18 < nadis> i live in south China
2008-04-18 22:18 < Lycurgus> (actually I just assumed you were from Beijing)
2008-04-18 22:18 < nadis> hehe
2008-04-18 22:18 < bumm13> so actually they were high school friends as well
2008-04-18 22:19 < bumm13> I think Woz dropped out of Berkeley back then, can't remember
2008-04-18 22:19 < bumm13> and Jobs spent some time at Reed College in Portland, Oregon
2008-04-18 22:19 < Lycurgus> *negligible
2008-04-18 22:21 * Lucifer_Cat muzzles Messedrocker
2008-04-18 22:24 < Lucifer_Cat> damn Skype
2008-04-18 22:25 < Lucifer_Cat> i have no idea whats going on
2008-04-18 22:26 < ThePolecat> Damnit.
2008-04-18 22:27 < Lucifer_Cat> WHIZZLE!!!
2008-04-18 22:27 < Lucifer_Cat> whydamnit?
2008-04-18 22:35 * kreme pokes Ceiling_Cat
2008-04-18 22:37 < ThePolecat> If at first you don't succeed..
2008-04-18 22:37 < ThePolecat> It appears you're not Chuck Norris!
2008-04-18 22:38 < bumm13> :#
2008-04-18 22:38 < Cyrius> chuck norris sucks
2008-04-18 22:38 < bumm13> Chuck Norris is an 80s relic
2008-04-18 22:38 < bumm13> (save for Walker, Texas Ranger)
2008-04-18 22:39 < Mike_H> Everyone should talk to me on Skype!
2008-04-18 22:39 * Cream is no stranger to love
2008-04-18 22:39 < ThePolecat> Mike is Skype-happy
2008-04-18 22:39 < Fennec> Mike_H: Skype, eh?
2008-04-18 22:39 < Cyrius> Cream: that rather seems like the wrong thing for you to be saying
2008-04-18 22:39 < Mike_H> yeah :DD
2008-04-18 22:39 < Fennec> do we have to /talk/?
2008-04-18 22:40 < Fennec> >.>
2008-04-18 22:40 * bumm13 's cat is now fed
2008-04-18 22:40 < ThePolecat> Oh, she passed the FBI employment aptitude test?
2008-04-18 22:40 < bumm13> meowf!
2008-04-18 22:41 < bumm13> (cat scratches ThePolecat)
2008-04-18 22:41 * Lycurgus knows the game and is gonna play it
2008-04-18 22:41 < ThePolecat> haha
2008-04-18 22:44 < ThePolecat> Yay, Devastatin' Dave the Turntable Slave
2008-04-18 22:45 * bumm13 also notes that his cat is male
2008-04-18 22:46 * Not_the_NSA O_Os Ceiling_Cat
2008-04-18 22:46 * ThePolecat watches terrible album covers
2008-04-18 22:48 < ThePolecat> I guess Rep. Hall's (D-NY) band Orleans still places quite near the top
2008-04-18 22:55 * bumm13 NP: Booker T & the MGs - Green Onions (1962)
2008-04-18 22:56 * Cream hugs bumm13
2008-04-18 22:56 < bumm13> :o
2008-04-18 22:57 < hardtodrink> bumm12
2008-04-18 22:57 < hardtodrink> bum13
2008-04-18 22:57 < hardtodrink> bumm13
2008-04-18 22:57 < Cream> okay
2008-04-18 22:57 < Cream> I'm out
2008-04-18 22:57 < Cream> <3
2008-04-18 22:58 < denelson83> FBI employment aptitude test? What a FEAT
2008-04-18 23:01 < bumm13> denelson83: are most B.C. baseball types Blue Jays fans? (curious)
2008-04-18 23:02 < bumm13> I know baseball isn't all that popular in Canada (especially nowadays)
2008-04-18 23:02 < tawker> bumm13: yeah
2008-04-18 23:02 < tawker> bumm13: MLB isn't big here
2008-04-18 23:02 < tawker> at all
2008-04-18 23:02 < tawker> NHL is everything
2008-04-18 23:02 < bumm13> naturally
2008-04-18 23:03 < bumm13> Vancouver has a NHL team *and* a WHL (CHL/major-junior) team, IIRC
2008-04-18 23:03 < tawker> bumm13: correct
2008-04-18 23:03 < tawker> we have NHL, WHL, CFL
2008-04-18 23:03 < bumm13> yeah, Canuck football ;)