vinnie: heh heh yep you'd always challenge, especially in a two player game. knowing the exact contents of your opponents hand is invaluable especially if they're about to go out - aaron
wild draw four challenge? never heard of this rule, seems like it would just slow the game down or be used as a strategy to find out the hand of a player who was close to going out - vinnie
(from Uno_(card_game)#Penalties) - aaron
gurkie: heh yeah i have nothing against house rules; usually when i'm playing with people i'll be like "well these are the *real* rules but let's play your way, since i don't care". it especially comes into play for uno, i've never known anybody who played with the bizarre 2-card penalty for playing a draw-four out of sequence - aaron
aaron: again house rule. I dont think that playing with house rules or a variant on the "official rules" is a bad thing. I only brought up the official rules since A kept making a point of saying his rules were the official ones. ~gurkie
Bryan: Im glad you liked it I believe Rothfuss will be in Springfield VA this weekend doing a book signing. ~gurkie
gurkie: it's too bad that "you win the game by shooting the moon" rule isn't a real rule, that sounded fun - aaron
a: you can make up for it by getting me some donuts. - pierce
Gurkie: I really enjoyed The Name of the Wind 
-Bryan
a: eh, I wasnt positive that you were wrong... I thought it unlikely that you were right on all counts though since my grandparents used to go play every week and I had grown up playing with them... also I did think screw the dealer and ten and under were house rules rather than official rules. And I was wrong about tied going to both ~gurkie
i apologize for being such a dick. ~a
gurkie: yeah. ok so i was wrong on all counts. ~a
also shows tied game goes to no one and no mention of partners... No screw the dealer (dealer has to bid) and no ten and under... ~gurkie
a: http://www.hoylegaming.com/rules.php?id=25 Official rules show shooting the moon as different but no dealing rules and low going to whoever takes the low card not based on whose hand holds the card... ~gurkie
mig: yes, happy real birthday - vinnie
mig: happy birthday! ~gurkie
still waiting on those donuts, jerk. - pierce
"Darnit, Adrian! Why don't html tags work? Oh, and bring some donuts to techlab, too."
bored bored bored. ~a
gurkie: Lockheed Martin (LMT). Not 16%, but not shabby. -- Xpovos
old news but it's alledged that chinese hackers compromised the gmail accounts of some journalists - aaron
a: yeah they thought they were getting hacked by employees working for the chinese government - aaron
a: from what I recall, the hacking incident on gmail awhile back was originally thought to have been perpetrated from people within chinese government. - mig
why would google pull out of china because of the hacking? ~a
a: google's not pulling out 'cause of the censorship, i thought they were pulling out because of the hacking? - aaron
either way i'm glad google is taking a stand. ~a
china and google unlikely to find a compromise. it seems to me like china is acting unreasonable in this respect. on the other hand, if some chinese company had come to the US, following our laws would be axiomatic in my mind. ~a
kaleb: so you're waking up in the a.m again i see 
- aaron
music created using iPhone - http://mashable.com/2010/03/10/pixietea-iphone/ -nina
Xpovos, gurkie: Thanks for the welcome. CA, and Ventura County in particular, is very nice, as usual. - Kaleb
a: Yes, I'm using ShareBuilder. Of course I also have a 401(k) with a lot more $ in it, but that's a different subject. - Kaleb
kaleb: welcome back... how is ca? ~gurkie
xpovos: sadly BKS is not up 16% since I bought it... What was the alternative that you bought? ~gurkie
xpovos: wait what bn is up? I bought a lot of that! Cause of the Nook ~gurkie
Xpovos: I think Gurkie bought some Barnes and Noble stock, although it could be Borders. Which one had the new e-reader? -Paul
I'm happy with my purchase, but I should've gone with Barnes & Noble (BKS) they're up 16% with a dividend too since I bought the alternative. C'est la vie. -- Xpovos
a: And the video played pretty well (a few stutters, but far from a side-show type performance), so I don't think it's necessarily a cpu/video card issue. -Paul
a: Not to dig up this issue again, but I was playing around with my netbook last night and I was able to sometimes get the video to play for some of my video files by playing around with having drop down menus open when it circled around to play a second time. -Paul
My biggest portfolio update of the past 6 months or so is having lost a ton of money on Palm stock. Ouch! -Paul
So, it'll be good to refresh that topic. Particularly since the market seems to be over the massive jitters of a year and a half ago. -- Xpovos
Kaleb: Good to hear from you again. We haven't talked portfolios in a while--something I was just bemusing about with Paul a little while ago. -- Xpovos
haha. yes! do you remember me? so, hey, your portfolio is online or what? ~a
Remember me? I have a portfolio now! Now I can discuss it with you guys and talk about how it "took a hit". My protfolio is pretty small though; I could fit it inside my coat. - Kaleb
paul: well, particularly if it's endangered, it should be common sense - aaron
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/03/11/california.whale.meat.charge/index.html?hpt=Sbin I actually didn,t know it was illegal to serve whale meat in this country. -Paul
mig: ahhhhh ;_; 
;_; ;_; ;_; ;_; ;_; ;_; ;_; ;_; ;_; ;_; - aaron
http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Single-Sign-On.aspx the bit at the end really made me sad. - mig
some on /. mentioned (and I don't know if this is actually true or not) that some meats require salting as part of their preparation to be considered kosher ... so um, yeah good luck trying to ban salt. - mig
a: Yeah, mplayer mostly just crashed, although I think it ran without crashing once but did the same thing (blank screen with sound). -Paul