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[2010-06-25 16:27:03] - a: what do you mean by mouse gestures? -nina
[2010-06-25 16:25:14] - nina: do you use mouse gestures of any kind in windows? ~a
[2010-06-25 15:52:45] - aaron: I think you are right, I think even people who love apple realize that apple's policies are very restrictive... ~gurkie
[2010-06-25 15:29:14] - i don't think that's biased. i think that's the truth. however, i think i'm biased. - aaron
[2010-06-25 15:28:26] - a: usually the comments even things out. there are pro-apple and anti-apple people on slashdot. they seem to have the shared viewpoint of "yeah, apple's ipod/ipad/iphone policies are draconian, if you don't like them, don't buy their stuff" - aaron
[2010-06-25 15:27:43] - a: yeah, it's largely to do with the track pad. since it's multi touch there are all kinds of functionalities you can do with 1 finger, 2 fingers, 3 fingers, and 4 fingers. everything from clearing your screen with a swipe, to zooming, rotating images, scrolling left and right, and up and down, it just makes the experience better. -nina
[2010-06-25 15:24:27] - aaron: yeah i know it probably poisons my mind. it especially worries me when i read slashdot and i see things that are overtly biased. ~a
[2010-06-25 15:23:41] - nina: "going back to my Dell and not being able to do all the things I can do with my MacBook" do you have an example? ~a
[2010-06-25 15:20:37] - a: heh heh
you've been reading a lot of slashdot? - aaron[2010-06-25 15:15:54] - Nina: Wow, an iPad AND an iPhone4? Sure you don't want to pick up a MacBook or an AppleTV while you're at it? -Paul
[2010-06-25 15:14:09] - -nina
[2010-06-25 15:14:04] - a: my company exclusively uses Apples for everything, and they have a very high standard for design. Apple is great for designers, and in terms of user interface, Apple is really pretty amazing. it sucks going back to my Dell and not being able to do all the things I can do with my MacBook. i still have some issues with Apple, but overall i'm pretty happy with them. -ni
[2010-06-25 15:06:55] - nina: that's so weird, these last six months have convinced me that i should never buy an apple product. . . . at least not in the foreseeable future. ~a
[2010-06-25 14:33:46] - daniel: yeah, i've been seeing all the reports. yellow splotches on the screen, volume buttons misplaced, and the antenna problem. but, my colleague got an iPhone and his works fine. i'll take my chances and assume that most of them are in proper working order, and that only a handful (more than there should be by a company like Apple) are havin problems. -nina
[2010-06-25 14:32:11] - Nina: careful how you hold it! http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/apple-responds-over-iphone-4-reception-issues-youre-holding-th/ -Daniel
[2010-06-25 14:29:18] - paul: i will be getting an iPhone 4, but only b/c i accidentally destroyed my iPhone 3G. These last 6 months have really turned me into an Apple aficionado. -nina
[2010-06-25 14:06:57] - mig: yeah i know. imho it shows kind of a lack of respect for your fans/audience/whomever. i mean, as an artist, yeah you're going to have strong opinions about your own work, and you might get defensive about it sometimes. but if you know you're the type to get defensive, you shouldn't ask for peoples opinions - aaron
[2010-06-25 13:57:38] - Nina: Hopefully you're not getting one by going to an apple store. Otherwise.... that's terrible timing.
-Paul[2010-06-25 13:51:15] - aaron: awwww, i got it. ~a
[2010-06-25 13:45:08] - aaron: shirt.woot.com is the winning shirt... The one tomorrow will be whichever had the highest number of votes... ~gurkie
[2010-06-25 13:25:17] - aaron: so yeah what was the point of the vote to begin with then? - mig
[2010-06-25 13:23:18] - aaron: too bad! - mig
[2010-06-25 13:23:09] - gurkie: also which shirt did they pick? - aaron
[2010-06-25 13:20:35] - it reminds me of the "moustache on or off" quote from sealab. i don't think anyone but miguel will get that but it's really appropriate so i'm throwing it out there anyway - aaron
[2010-06-25 13:19:38] - they decided the #1 voted song (watch us work it) didn't belong in the top 12, so they removed it from the album. they also decided that three of the four lowest-rated songs were undervalued, and they put them on the album anyways. and they even said, "final album will consist of the 12 songs voted on by fans", so they just like... lied - aaron
[2010-06-25 13:17:13] - gurkie: tsk! they did that with their album too, i don't know why they're being so dumb about that stuff. they had all of the tracks on their album ranked by fans and test audiences to figure out which 12 would be on the album. it was out of 16 tracks. - aaron
[2010-06-25 12:58:00] - winning devo shirt (as picked by devo) was ranked 22nd in terms of votes, somehow I am not surprised it didnt sell out... ~gurkie
[2010-06-25 12:49:00] - i'm getting an iPad! -nina
[2010-06-25 11:02:14] - apparently this dog (vid 1 vid 2) bites off your license plate if you honk at him. and he sits in the road like a jerk! what a bad dog - aaron
[2010-06-25 10:43:08] - paul: it used to be the "information age" exhibit in the national museum of american history! (link link link, this out front). but it was closed in 2006. ~a
[2010-06-25 10:33:21] - ARGH Why does Amazon have Bones Season 5 and Netflix doesnt!!! ~gurkie
[2010-06-25 09:30:51] - Xpovos: GoGo Gadget Toggle
[2010-06-25 09:25:29] - http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-20008807-52.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20 "In search of geek treasures in Washington" Anybody got any ideas? -Paul
[2010-06-24 15:02:47] - Stephen: They almost pulled off a draw, I have to imagine it was only voted down by 4 or 5 votes. -Paul
[2010-06-24 14:02:02] - Daniel, Paul: I agree. Which is good, I have more of a vested interest in the World Cup than in your Diplomacy game. That said, I'm still hoping for a successful Austro-Italian alliance. - Stephen
[2010-06-24 13:59:28] - Yeah, I have to imagine that Germany has a much better shot in the World Cup than they do in the current Diplomacy game.
-Paul[2010-06-24 13:53:19] - Stephen: Boooooo. I'm not very confident in Englands chances in the soccer game but my game in Dip is going mostly ok so far. -Daniel
[2010-06-24 13:45:35] - Paul: And they're playing on Sunday. Whoever wins the game shall win Diplomacy! - STephen
[2010-06-24 13:42:49] - http://g.sports.yahoo.com/soccer/world-cup/blog/dirty-tackle/post/Australian-man-living-inside-giant-Jabulani-ball?urn=sow,251020 url says it all. - mig
[2010-06-24 13:37:31] - So I guess Germany and England are the only Diplomacy countries that are still left in the World Cup? Go Germany!
-Paul[2010-06-24 13:29:40] - Oh man, I definitely can't wear my "Italia 2010" shirt now. Last place??? - Stephen
[2010-06-24 13:18:42] - daniel: ah, I didn't know how much/if you could bump into other players. since you can, it makes sense that this is not a strategy - vinnie
[2010-06-24 13:14:28] - aaron: yep! I extrapolated - vinnie
[2010-06-24 12:26:22] - has anybody heard anything about the motorola droid x? - aaron
[2010-06-24 12:13:19] - vinnie: was that in response to this? http://m950.photobucket.com/albumview/albums/turinpt/ronaldo-goal2.gif.html?src=www - aaron
[2010-06-24 11:56:11] - vinnie: as long as the ball does not touch your arms, it's legal. - mig
[2010-06-24 11:50:41] - Russia and Germany are sworn enemies 4ev. Have we had one game where they got along? -Daniel
[2010-06-24 11:50:15] - Vinnie: I don't think so, but it wouldn't be super effective since you can bump other players and it would be impossible to keep it there while being run into. Assuming I understand correctly what you mean. -Daniel
[2010-06-24 11:30:37] - this is gonna sound ridiculous, but is there some rule in soccer that prevents someone from just carrying the ball on their back? - vinnie
[2010-06-24 11:02:13] - paul: okay! bffs 4ev . . . . . russia <3 germany- aaron
[2010-06-24 10:13:27] - Aaron: and I finally got Berlin back, so now we can finally end this silly little squabble between us. -Paul
[2010-06-24 10:12:43] - Aaron: What's wrong? You finally got Sweden, which is what all of the past 50 turns have been about, right?
-Paul[2010-06-24 10:09:34] - paul: you almost had a stupid turn. if only andrew had put in his order stupidly
- aaron[2010-06-24 10:00:11] - Xpovos: Maybe my account got flagged for some reason. -Paul
[2010-06-24 09:59:26] - Aaron: Damn! We almost had an awesome turn. If only Andrew had put his order in correctly. -Paul
[2010-06-24 09:57:46] - Paul: I didn't notice any problems, and I was on my phone and a netbook on a public network. So, looks like something special just for you... -- Xpovos
[2010-06-24 09:56:12] - Pierce: Heh, of course I know that. It's google.adplannet.smolensk.rx -Paul
[2010-06-24 09:46:26] - Paul: you know the site isn't google.adplannet.smolensk.ru, right? - pierce
[2010-06-24 09:29:40] - paul: i just accessed my google calendar OK - aaron
[2010-06-24 09:27:15] - Has anybody else been having issues with google sites today and yesterday? I keep being asked to verify my password whenever I do anything and yesterday, it seemed to be stuck in a loop on google calendar... asking me to verify my password over and over again. -Paul
[2010-06-23 16:12:02] - of course as soon as I write that, Serbia scores, looks like USA v. Ghana on Saturday. - mig
[2010-06-23 16:08:57] - The Aussies are making Group D interesting, if they can pick up another goal and Germany gets another score, they can actually sneak into 2nd place in Group D. - mig
[2010-06-23 16:05:57] - mig: but are they wild lions are farmed lions? - aaron
[2010-06-23 15:43:05] - http://g.sports.yahoo.com/soccer/world-cup/blog/dirty-tackle/post/Arizona-restaurant-sells-lion-burgers-in-odd-Wor?urn=sow,250682 lion burgers ... yum! - mig
[2010-06-23 12:14:20] - I'm sad - slovenia
[2010-06-23 12:14:07] - GGGGGGGGGGGGOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
[2010-06-23 12:09:14] - looks like yahoo sports has been /.'d - mig
[2010-06-23 12:03:05] - stephen: yeah i would have been upset if we tied 1-0, particularly after our previous 3-2 tie - aaron
[2010-06-23 11:57:39] - I'm glad I waited another minute before posting something about yet another U.S. tie... - Stephen
[2010-06-23 10:47:34] - god, sometimes i say such stupid things. it happens at least a few times a week that i say things that are so completely moronic that they are beyond the pale. on this morning, i implied that one of my coworkers was fat to his face. really we should give licenses for being able to speak. ~a
[2010-06-23 10:12:08] - gurkie: sent - aaron
[2010-06-23 09:58:39] - aaron: can you email me your address? ~gurkie
[2010-06-22 23:32:45] - aaron: But lawyers know about parody restrictions and would not sue over non-existant products. I admit, it's not clear. I'm not suggesting the lawyers thought there was actual unicorn meat, but that they thought that you could actually purchase the product claiming to be unicorn meat. -- Xpovos
[2010-06-22 15:47:09] - Things are looking good for S. Korea right now - mig
[2010-06-22 15:29:42] - aaron: did you order by votes? that way you can see the favs which I tend to find to be the best... ~gurkie
[2010-06-22 15:09:15] - xpovos: the lawyers didn't think it was a real product, they were just upset about infringement on their slogan "the other white meat". if i printed a shirt that said "unicorns the other white meat" they'd have been upset too, it's their slogan and they have some legal rights over it - aaron
[2010-06-22 15:04:21] - gurkie: ahhhhhh!!!! great shirts - aaron
[2010-06-22 12:50:36] - of course Maradona is certifiably insane, so I guess you never know. - mig
[2010-06-22 12:49:13] - with Maradona in charge, they probably don't take this game off. S. Korea still has a slight edge on qualifying as long as they beat Nigeria, which I think they will. - mig
[2010-06-22 12:45:39] - The question for the afternoon matches, IMO, is how much does Argentina rest, and what are the consequences? If they rest to the point that Greece beats them unfairly--ugly. -- Xpovos
[2010-06-22 12:40:37] - I had mixed feelings about Group A. Watching France crash and burn was amusing, but it was sad to see the host nation not make it through to the next stage, though I've been liking what I've seen so far from both Uruguay and Mexico, though it's been dampened a bit by the fact that RSA and France were just not good teams to begin with. - mig
[2010-06-22 12:17:22] - Paul: For RSA to make a strong play to eliminate Mexico. When I first posted they were up 2-0 and Uruguay was up 1-0. At that point it looked good, particularly with the French red card. I though RSA could easily score a few more goals in the second half, but France showed some spirit finally and didn't just play good defense, but actually scored a goal of their own.--
[2010-06-22 11:55:54] - Xpovos: What exactly are you hoping for? Just for France to lose? -Paul
[2010-06-22 11:23:42] - Today's early World Cup games are going pretty much just as I'd hoped.
-- Xpovos[2010-06-22 10:52:01] - aaron: http://shirt.woot.com/derby/ has a Devo theme this week... All the entrants are making de-evolution themed shirts with Devo centric images... Or something ~gurkie
[2010-06-22 10:31:29] - aaron: not sure who said its impossible for it to be 100% if it was me I was more thinking the RT Community reviews rather than the Critics reviews.. If you look the community for those movies are at about 97% ~gurkie
[2010-06-22 10:07:21] - aaron: Yeah, it was clearly a dumb thing for them to do. There was some legitimate confusion, but the bottom line was that no lawyer in the world should have been that gullible, even for a generally pretty gullible species. -- Xpovos
[2010-06-22 09:56:23] - err sorry shouldn't they send that specific facebook user a "cease and desist"? also i don't totally understand the idea behind trying to stop people from using your slogans for parody purposes. what's the opposite of viral marketing? ...antibiotic marketing? - aaron
[2010-06-22 09:55:01] - xpovos: so the cease and desist was based on someone else's facebook page? ... should they sue that other guy? - aaron
[2010-06-22 09:21:28] - http://www.thinkgeek.com/blog/2010/06/officially-our-bestever-cease.html Lawyers are fun. -- Xpovos
[2010-06-21 17:01:41] - iirc dark knight pulled something like that when it came out, too - aaron
[2010-06-21 17:01:26] - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435761/ heh heh it also has a 9.4 at imdb, we'll see how long that lasts - aaron
[2010-06-21 16:29:53] - Aaron: Well, I didn't say anything about it being impossible for a movie to get 100%, but I am pretty shocked. I didn't think it would be possible to get so many critics to agree that a movie is good as soon as it comes out. -Paul
[2010-06-21 16:28:54] - vinnie: but aggregator sites don't really tell you which films are "great films", they just tell you which films are disliked by the smallest portion of the population. i think that's really important for things like movies (and board games) which are enjoyed socially; i think it's less important for things like music/video games which are enjoyed individually - aaron
[2010-06-21 16:27:02] - vinnie: i agree, when it comes to a reviewer-by-reviewer basis nobody knows which albums are "five stars" at the time of their release. i would even say that about myself actually
- aaron[2010-06-21 16:25:11] - paul: no, these are the original films; the reviews date to the early 2000's.... for some reason it doesn't list anything before january 1st 2000 but i think it's a glitch in their web site - aaron
[2010-06-21 16:15:20] - aaron: Are these reviews of the 3D re-releases of the movies? -Paul
[2010-06-21 16:10:18] - and when I say "new stuff never gets a perfect score" I mean even on some non-aggregate review sites. rolling stone with its five star scale probably gives out a handful of five stars a year, but I saw a thread recently about how the only albums given 10.0 on pitchfork.com in the last five years or so have been reissues - vinnie
[2010-06-21 16:07:20] - that said, I know rottentomatoes does include reviews that were written at the time too, so it's very impressive that even movies from the past like toy story can get 100% - vinnie
[2010-06-21 16:06:13] - If your sample size is 50, you're going to get a lot more unanimous votes than if your sample size is 5000. I'm curious what the highest and lowest ratings within the past, say, three years have been. -- Xpovos
[2010-06-21 16:05:17] - aaron: I wasn't the one talking about it but I would find it very hard to believe a movie with more than say... 20 reviews that was made after rottentomatoes started would get 100%. you see it happen with all kinds of review sites, new stuff never gets a perfect score. the best movies/music/anything are decided years afterward - vinnie
[2010-06-21 16:04:58] - aaron: I wasn't there, but I think that the age of the movie has to also a factor. Rotten Tomatoes now scours all kinds of review pages and sites that it couldn't and didn't for movies that were released at or before their own existence. Similarly, even a movie as bad as Jonah Hex (see previous comments on this board) couldn't stay at 0%, nor could TS3 stay at 100%. -- X
[2010-06-21 15:47:47] - i don't remember who at poker was talking about how it was impossible for a movie to get 100% on rotten tomatoes, but here are two examples - aaron
[2010-06-21 15:17:30] - (http://www.aporter.org/msg/?action=prev&prev=103750#103980) - aaron
[2010-06-21 15:16:36] - daniel: never trust paul ever
he is a bad person who will shit in your clock - aaron[2010-06-21 15:09:33] - Englands tourism continues with the current stop being Denmark. How long will this vacation last? Who knows! Outside of my home SC's I'm not sure I've held an SC for more than 2 years. -Daniel
[2010-06-21 14:46:27] - mig: 7 pages? Sheesh. -- Xpovos
[2010-06-21 14:02:00] - http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2010/06/ars-reviews-ios-4-whats-new-and-notable.ars/ review of iOS 4 - mig
[2010-06-21 13:15:26] - since the title's joke is kind of ruined without capitalization, i'll just say there were some very sophomoric jokes made in my office following the discovery of a "P Input Stream" class - aaron
[2010-06-21 12:27:24] - a: oh yeah, crystal castles. the concert is at the 9:30 club, august 20 at 9:30pm (at least that's what my notes say although that time seems suspicious). you can check out sound clips on myspace and they also have some mp3 downloads and stuff - aaron
[2010-06-21 11:37:23] - aaron: Honestly, though, I just need to take a quick detour through Rumania so I can get to Turkey. I hope you don't mind. My friends enjoyed the week spent in Warsaw so much that we figured we would vacation in Constantinople next. -Paul
[2010-06-21 11:36:36] - aaron: I could say the same thing about Finland. You could've had Sweden last turn, you know. -Paul
[2010-06-21 11:36:19] - . . . link ~a
[2010-06-21 11:31:33] - aaron: yes that's what i meant. the "open source definition" is what they call it. ~a
[2010-06-21 11:00:17] - paul: galicia, paul? really? what did i ever do to you - aaron
[2010-06-21 10:08:45] - a: it meets some people's definitions of open source, and not others. i don't think it meets the official definition as set forth by the "open source initiative" so maybe that's what you meant - aaron
[2010-06-21 10:03:53] - a: well, that's fair. the game's source code can be downloaded. i guess that's all i meant - aaron
[2010-06-20 19:34:00] - title: Thanks. Insanity comes. -- Xpovos
[2010-06-20 09:44:21] - aaron: i'd hardly call it open source. it's license doesn't meet the open source definition. also, it seems to work fiiine in wiiine. ~a
[2010-06-20 01:33:20] - vinnie: http://www.engrish.com/2010/01/we-are-breads/ (i posted this awhile back but it's buried, so here it is again) - aaron
[2010-06-19 15:27:53] - oh i have. one of my friends was talking about that game at poker last night! ~a
[2010-06-19 12:06:07] - http://www.spelunkyworld.com/ has anybody heard of spelunky? it's a open source roguelike platform game for windows. so it's randomly generated every time and no two games are the same. it's really hard, i've gotten to about level 5 so far - aaron
[2010-06-18 15:49:10] - "in case you havent found it already in honor of Toy story 3 we wrote ANDY on the bottom of your foot while you were passed out on the couch." nice. ~a
[2010-06-18 15:43:51] - amy: Katie reads it regularly. I didn't find it funny enough to warrant reading in general.
-- Xpovos[2010-06-18 15:17:01] - has anyone heard of this site? http://textsfromlastnight.com/ i saw it on a facebook ad just now, i think the page of "best nights" is fairly funny: http://textsfromlastnight.com/Texts-From-Best-Nights-Today.html not as good as bash.org but i loled at some. -amy
[2010-06-18 11:42:07] - Wow, soccer is tons more exciting when you're just listening to it on the radio and aren't entirely sure which players are on which team. All you have to go by is how excited the announcers' voices get.
-Paul[2010-06-18 11:38:50] - ha! subtitle was a great quote that i had forgotten about from an ok movie. ~a
[2010-06-18 11:34:29] - "Everyone seems to be sleepwalking through this film. Except for Megan Fox, who is such a terrible actress that she couldn't even act like she's sleepwalking." zing! - pierce
[2010-06-18 10:44:05] - i would see a 3d show. ~a
[2010-06-18 10:35:56] - I would see a 2d show. - pierce
[2010-06-18 10:12:26] - title: Thats why the games I've pirated in my life were games I would not have bought. If a game is good though its worth supporting it, aside from the money its like a vote so the industry knows I liked that game enough. -Daniel
[2010-06-18 09:44:37] - Aaron: I should probably see the first two before I see the third one, so I think I'll have to pass. Sorry. -Paul
[2010-06-18 09:34:07] - aaron: definitely want to see it, though I don't think I want to do 3D again
if you guys are seeing a 2D show, I'm in - vinnie[2010-06-18 09:05:23] - Aaron: I want to see it but can't do an evening show until after the 27th - pierce
[2010-06-18 08:57:28] - anybody else want to see toy story 3? not this weekend but maybe later when the kids quiet down. or maybe if they have a 12 am showing or some nonsense - aaron
[2010-06-17 23:28:09] - well the former got a rare F on avclub, where the reviewer said it basically looked like they ran out of time and stitched together what they'd filmed as best they could. the latter is pixar. nuff said. - pierce
[2010-06-17 22:00:33] - aaron: you'd think five years later they'd come out with a new cpu. ~a
[2010-06-17 21:59:03] - very weird numbers on rotten tomatoes. jonah hex has a 0% (out of 26) and toy story 3 has a 100% (out of 81). ~a
[2010-06-17 18:35:20] - a: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSP#Models there's been some new PSP models but they've all got the same specs... just different features - aaron
[2010-06-17 17:34:28] - the psp? is there a psp2? or are you guys talking about the 2004 version? ~a
[2010-06-17 17:18:06] - Aaron: Virtual Boy... now there was a console flop... -Paul
[2010-06-17 17:11:05] - nina: plus if rad racer, 3d world runner, and the virtual boy are any indication, nintendo knows how to do 3D right and they're going to put together an awesome product - aaron
[2010-06-17 17:08:47] - nina: i don't care as much about the 3D as i care about the better hardware and graphics; and it plays digital movies, and it's a 3D camera. we'll see what the price point is but if it's priced comparably to previous nintendo handhelds, it's going to destroy the PSP - aaron
[2010-06-17 16:46:24] - aaron: i don't think i'm quite on the 3D band wagon. Everyone says Avatar broke the mold, but I'm not sure if it really makes the experience that much better. Even with the 3DS, you have to look past the screen to get the 3D effect, and apparently the quality isn't that awesome. it's innovative, but not game changing from what i hear. -nina
[2010-06-17 16:10:26] - aaron: Just this year? The Wii and DS have been kicking Microsoft and Sony's ass for a few years now.
-Paul[2010-06-17 16:07:01] - nina: a little; the 3DS seems cool! not a good year to be sony or microsoft. - aaron
[2010-06-17 15:51:28] - anyone following the E3 coverage? -nina
[2010-06-17 13:54:17] - ah compared to MA... ~gurkie
[2010-06-17 13:53:40] - gurkie: Moreso than Massachusetts. Massachusetts has a Republican senator now, sure, but he's a very liberal one. California has a Republican governor.. and a pretty conservative one at that. -- Xpovos
[2010-06-17 13:50:59] - Stephen: California is a swing state?? ~gurkie
[2010-06-17 11:56:02] - Paul: California is more of a swing state, so yes, he's rooting for the Lakers. - Stephen
[2010-06-17 11:41:13] - Go Slovenia! - Danilo Türk
[2010-06-17 11:40:07] - Not that it would surprise me at all, but do we know for sure that our president is rooting for the Lakers? -Paul
[2010-06-17 11:16:43] - Go Celtics! - Greg Norman
[2010-06-17 10:38:22] - Go Lakers!
[2010-06-16 20:04:58] - (brand is panasonic and all the TVs support 1080p, fyi) - pierce
[2010-06-16 20:00:54] - not a bad deal, $845 for a 42" TV (larger sizes available), a netflix/amazon streaming capable blu-ray player, and three blu-ray movies (including some of the better star treks) by combining two specials. just in case anyone's interested: http://amzn.to/bLkhGK http://amzn.to/dzf9vv - pierce
[2010-06-16 17:21:34] - gurkie: i'll be over around 6:30, i'll shoot to be a little later than that in case you get stuck in traffic - aaron
[2010-06-16 17:21:02] - You guys seen this? http://www.wimp.com/sixthtechnology/ -- Xpovos
[2010-06-16 16:41:58] - lunch followed by a long meeting in a dimly lit room makes little sense... me so sleepy! ~gurkie
[2010-06-16 16:20:10] - SYTYCD_People: I should be home by 6:30 hopefully 6... But transportation around here gets annoying! You are welcome to come over earlier, since we are doing dinner it should be earlier... Ive been in meetings so havent really been able to plan. Sorry. ~gurkie
[2010-06-16 15:43:00] - http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jun/15/epidemic-growth-of-net-porn-cited/ Title explains why (hint: it's for the children), but the what is more important. Giving the government, 'absolute control' over the internet. -- Xpovos
[2010-06-16 13:40:36] - pierce: oh hey i didn't get the joke, thanks. ~a
[2010-06-16 13:39:56] - aaron, vinnie, and pierce: good advice, thanks. what is the difference between being defensive and being self-deprecating? oh right, they're opposites. opposites are easy to differentiate. ~a
[2010-06-16 13:08:17] - a: and if their responses are defensive in nature, that's a red flag - aaron
[2010-06-16 13:07:29] - a: one cue is how much they're pushing the conversation forward, how much they're talking. often times people who are annoyed-annoyed will either withdraw themselves from the conversation - aaron
[2010-06-16 12:59:54] - vinnie: screw you. - pierce
[2010-06-16 12:45:07] - a: I would just ask Pierce which one he is - vinnie
[2010-06-16 12:34:25] - in general, how do you tell the difference between someone who is jokingly-annoyed and actually-annoyed? sometimes the difference is minimal. . . . as someone who's acted jokingly-annoyed and actually-annoyed i guess i'd understand if someone had trouble telling them apart. ~a
[2010-06-16 12:09:55] - http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/06/hands-on-with-the-nintendo-3ds-it-works-and-works-well.ars article on the new Nintendo 3DS. - mig
[2010-06-16 11:59:00] - a: oh! i'll have to dee vee arr it - aaron
[2010-06-16 11:37:41] - oh, hey, devo is going to be on the colbert report tonight. ~a
[2010-06-16 10:57:29] - a straight guy in love with a lesbian. -title
[2010-06-16 10:36:58] - title: haha who made you? who likes "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia"? - vinnie
[2010-06-16 09:31:05] - gurkie: yeah I was thinking we could do dinner - vinnie
[2010-06-16 09:24:48] - amy: you can always come over when u get back... or call and see how far we are... ~gurkie
[2010-06-16 09:22:41] - SYTYCD_People: Do you want dinner before the show? We could go eat somewhere and watch on time delay... ~gurkie
[2010-06-16 09:21:46] - aaron: um how would that help??? ~gurkie
[2010-06-15 22:59:42] - xpovos: no, i thought along those lines too - aaron
[2010-06-15 22:58:21] - aaron: Kind of like Marcy Gray, only more ambiguous. I think any thoughts I had that it was a dude fled when I read the lyrics. Not just, "I could never be your woman" but, "I could never be the right type of girl for you". And the relationship seems to be described in purely heterosexual terms. But I'm probably biased there. -- Xpovos
[2010-06-15 22:50:22] - aaron: I'd always assumed it was a woman with a very deep voice. -- Xpovos
[2010-06-15 21:56:19] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Your_Woman did anybody but me ever wonder why this song was sung by a guy instead of a girl? i like the "straight guy in love with a lesbian" interp i think that makes the most sense - aaron
[2010-06-15 18:58:21] - bahaha.
[2010-06-15 18:15:49] - gurkie: also, it sounds like you already got your question answered, but next time (if you are running cygwin) you can cd to the directory and type "banner 8====D", and it will print a giant ascii cock and balls - aaron
[2010-06-15 17:52:00] - urm hmm u guys are smart... I deleted the files though and started new downloads... already... ~gurkie
[2010-06-15 17:49:56] - Gurkie: if you have cygwin installed you can cd to the directory then type "wget -c [URL]" and it'll continue the download. - pierce
[2010-06-15 17:33:58] - http lets you complete partial downloads. you can request a "range" (general info). some browsers implement this, but i'm not sure if they all implement it natively. ~a
[2010-06-15 17:19:23] - after downloading 500 mb of the 1000 mb of software I need for work my download stopped... and the files were unusable (as they are incomplete)
~gurkie[2010-06-15 16:29:04] - title: that commercial is cute... ~gurkie
[2010-06-15 14:59:28] - vinnie: heh heh yeah it sounds great too. i'm ordering it today - aaron
[2010-06-15 14:29:24] - aaron: dunno if you already heard but the new DEVO album is out today. the e-mail I got says "DEVO will be streaming their entire album Something for Everybody as the soundtrack to a live cat party from Warner Bros. Records." not exactly sure what means - vinnie
[2010-06-15 14:27:38] - http://blogs.ocweekly.com/stickaforkinit/five-great/five-ways-to-tell-youre-eating/ five ways to tell if you're eating american mexican. mmmmmm american mexican. this made me super hungry. - aaron
[2010-06-15 12:10:42] - You're such a softie, Paul. - pierce
[2010-06-15 11:58:44] - http://reason.com/blog/2010/06/15/i-love-living-in-the-future-un This is pretty cool. Apparently doctors found a way for an 8 month old deaf baby to hear for the first time. It's an understated video, but I love the expression on the baby's face. -Paul
[2010-06-15 11:52:50] - mig: ...maybe the voting machine meant to count "53" votes but it messed up
100,053 is a suspiciously round number - aaron[2010-06-15 11:51:24] - mig: yeah, that's a really hard one. it's the only reason i give the "thousands of republicans voting in the wrong primary" any consideration at all. i can't imagine hundreds of thousands of democratic voters voting for a random guy. well, there were only two dem candidates... maybe it was some kind of "notbush" effect? - aaron
[2010-06-15 11:47:39] - motivation for an actual democrat to vote for greene. - mig
[2010-06-15 11:46:26] - mig: do you mean the "one vote never matters" kind of logic? - aaron
[2010-06-15 11:45:33] - mig: i don't understand. "the motivation for them voting"? you mean what was the motivation for the republicans voting for a democratic underdog? i don't understand your argument - aaron
[2010-06-15 11:16:18] - stephen: ok that's what I thought it meant. - mig
[2010-06-15 11:10:29] - mig: An open primary usually means you can vote in the primary regardless of your political affiliation. You can only vote in one, though. Virginia has open primaries, but many (most?) states do not. - Stephen
[2010-06-15 11:01:01] - maybe his hundreds (or thousdands?) of fliers made a good impression? - mig
[2010-06-15 10:59:55] - there is something overall weird about the entire situation though. Unless no actual democrats voted at all in the primary, I'm not sure what was the motivation for them voting. - mig
[2010-06-15 10:59:01] - mig: i agree, that's why i posted the link to the wikipedia article which lists the raw numbers. they look comparable to the previous election, if anything they're more skewed towards republicans. it's hard to account for things like, low voter turnout because of a lack of interest in the primaries, and stuff like that. so really, who knows - aaron
[2010-06-15 10:57:14] - I'm not making a claim I'm just theorizing that if there was some sort of republican conspiracy to elect Greene, that you might see an abnormally low or abnormally high vote totals for either primary, which imo would make it obvious something weird is going on. - mig
[2010-06-15 10:49:34] - aaron: I guess. I just am surprised that many people care that much that they would go and vote in the primary of another party, just to make their landslide victory in the general election even easier. -Paul
[2010-06-15 10:47:41] - pierce: what was the comment like? i agree that if tens of thousands of GOP members had arranged to vote for the same guy there would be some evidence of it. is that what he was saying? - aaron
[2010-06-15 10:46:56] - a: does "open" mean you can vote in both? that's not made clear. - mig
[2010-06-15 10:38:49] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_election_in_South_Carolina,_2010 here's the raw numbers for the 2010 primary if anyone wants to come up with any other conspiracy theories. republicans outvoted dems 3 to 1. but it's a really weird anomaly. really curious how this guy got voted - aaron
[2010-06-15 10:32:14] - I think fivethirtyeight had a post basically ruling out an organized "spoiler effect" from the SC GOP, but it probably didn't account for a more natural distribution caused by spoiling being a common practice. The questions about the candidate himself (regardless of his vote total) point to something fishy, though. - pierce
[2010-06-15 10:31:05] - mig: here's a source for the point i was making, that the republican primary was a landslide victory, so republican voters would have crossed over. it's not at all an uncommon practice. do you have a source for your claim? - aar
[2010-06-15 10:30:20] - mig: the article said it was an open primary. ~a
[2010-06-15 10:29:45] - mig: i'm confused, what kind of discrepancies do you think you'd see if "that was going on"? and how do you know it wasn't going on? - aaron
[2010-06-15 10:29:09] - it's moot since there's no way in hell SC was going to elect a democratic senator anyway, so it's not as big a deal as the article might imply. it's like the new york giants playing contact football with some second graders, and then trying to rig the coin toss - aaron
[2010-06-15 10:25:40] - and even if that did happen, you'd see much greater discrepancies between the voting totals of both primaries, which make it pretty obvious something funny was going on. - mig
[2010-06-15 10:25:27] - paul: apparently, when a primary isn't contested (DeMint won the SC republican primary 83% to 17%) it's common practice to vote for the opposing party's primary to elevate a weaker candidate, it's almost definitely what happened here - aaron
[2010-06-15 10:24:34] - aaron: possible. it depends on how the primaries work in SC. Even if it is open, I doubt they let you vote in both the democratic and republican primary, in which case I'd find that scenario unlikely. - mig
[2010-06-15 10:23:09] - aaron: Oh, I must've missed that somehow. Still, that seems like it would be extremely hard to pull off... convincing that many people to show up to vote for somebody in another party's primary just as a political ploy. -Paul
[2010-06-15 10:19:06] - paul: the article states one possibility... that 100,000 republicans voted for him - aaron
[2010-06-15 10:07:56] - a: Yeah, it's such a bizarre story. The more I read about it, the more confused I get. Even if he's a Republican plant... how did he win? -Paul
[2010-06-15 09:39:08] - wearing a green t-shirt from a 1993 family reunion . . . "hundreds," then pauses. "maybe thousands. hundreds. maybe a hundred. i don't know exactly." wtf? ~a
[2010-06-14 18:27:28] - nice.
[2010-06-14 18:19:01] - irony: (adj) of, resembling, relating to, or tasting much like iron. eg: "the anvil was delicious, but irony."
[2010-06-14 14:56:27] - apparently not. ~a
[2010-06-14 14:46:45] - a: Heh, you didn't just read her short bio thing at the bottom? "Ina Fried has changed beats several times, changed genders once..." -Paul
[2010-06-14 14:45:08] - a: Don't worry, Aerosmith has got you covered. -- Xpovos
[2010-06-14 14:31:45] - paul: hmm, i was going to say that ina fried looks like a dude. but then i read wikipedia. my fleeting thoughts are insensitive. ~a
[2010-06-14 14:07:04] - http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-20007629-56.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20 Vuvuzela? There's an app for that. -Paul
[2010-06-14 13:11:06] - yeah in person those vuvuzelas are probably intolerable - vinnie
[2010-06-14 12:46:48] - aaron: Well, there's probably also cultural and temporal distinctions. I remember reading an article recently that the amount of banter between (or more accurately by) baseball commentators being quantitatively shown to be significantly (like 60%) higher between the 1950s and now. -- Xpovos
[2010-06-14 12:36:10] - xpovos: really? i've heard south american "soccer" commentators are like the chattiest commentators of any sport, ever. i'm surprised that you'd choose soccer as a sport with quiet commentators - aaron
[2010-06-14 12:20:31] - It must be this idea that dead air somehow scares the viewer. Sad. -- Xpovos
[2010-06-14 12:19:59] - Paul: But then you'd miss out on all the witty banter from the commentators! I really found them annoying, myself. Generally soccer commentators are better than U.S. sports commentators. Keep quiet, let the game play, give some exposition, and a handful of storylines. These guys were chattering away the whole game. Hello, we're hear to watch soccer, not listen to you.
[2010-06-14 12:10:51] - I'm not a big fan of them either, but I find a few drinks are enough to drown them out. Still it really detracts from watching on TV, I can't imagine how annoying it is in person. - mig
[2010-06-14 12:07:56] - Xpovos: I wouldn't have a major issue with them keeping them around due to the cultural issues, but I definitely find them very annoying and it's going to really reduce my enjoyment of the games to the point where I wonder if it's better to watch them on mute. -Paul
[2010-06-14 12:05:15] - http://www.nbcwashington.com/around-town/real-estate/Is_The_White_House_for_Sale_-96258284.html -- Xpovos
[2010-06-14 12:04:45] - I have no problem with the vuvuzelas. They're definitely annoying, but I see them as ingrained in the culture as well. I'd rather have heard more of the crowd, though, occasionally I could hear a team song coming through or the occasional "U.S.A." chant. Which must have been pretty impressive to get through the vuvuzelas. -- Xpovos
[2010-06-14 12:04:04] - aaron: i really enjoyed the noise. I thought there were just a lot of people that brought brass instruments (trombones, trumpets, etc.) to the game and were wailing on them. Reminded me of my marching band days in the stands. -nina
[2010-06-14 11:59:51] - paul: yeah i just mentally tuned it out but it did drown out the crowd - aaron
[2010-06-14 11:44:12] - Aaron: People in DC were "playing" vuvuzelas after the US/England game. Such a weird noise! - Stephen
[2010-06-14 11:43:02] - Aaron: I watched about half of the England/USA game and I could not figure out what the noise was. I thought it was really annoying on TV even with the noise filters, so I can only imagine what it sounds like in person. I definitely would prefer they not have it, because I couldn't even hear the crowd cheering. -Paul
[2010-06-14 11:40:01] - aaron: haha, Any and I were watching part of the US-England game over lunch on Saturday and we both heard that drone. I thought it was a machine in the restaurant - vinnie
[2010-06-14 11:28:36] - http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/worldhaveyoursay/2010/06/on_air_should_the_vuvuzela_be.html should the vuvuzela be banned at the world cup - aaron
[2010-06-11 18:24:11] - a: I recommend a healthy dose of seppuku. That has a chance to restore the balance and create a new true majority that we'll feel oppressed by and rebel against with anti-social behavior and general grumpiness. -- Xpovos
[2010-06-11 16:37:48] - xpovos: OH NO! what will we do? how will we live? ~a
[2010-06-11 16:19:18] - Stephen: Im not going but I replied yes
~gurkie[2010-06-11 15:59:48] - Majority: welcome to the plurality. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704312104575298512006681060.html -- Xpovos
[2010-06-11 15:51:46] - gurkie: You already said you weren't going, so you'd better change your RSVP ASAP
- Stephen[2010-06-11 15:39:56] - a: you should take pics on the mechanical bull! Or get someone to video you and see how long you last! ~gurkie
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