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[2005-11-15 17:42:00] - Sam: Wait, are they looking at you when you make eye contact for a second? Were they looking at you first? -Paul
[2005-11-15 17:41:18] - Sam: Well, I was mostly trash talking a couple of nights ago when we were playing Madden and you went for it on 4th and 20+ but I got the impression it upset you a bit. Maybe it's a similar situation. You should try telling him that he comes across as conceited sometimes. He might not realize it. -Paul
[2005-11-15 17:39:36] - paul: I'm talking about just 1 second eye contact, like kind of eye contact you make when you are walking in the hall way or in the street. If I stare, then I would understand why it would make them frown... -sam
[2005-11-15 17:38:39] - paul: this is more than trash talking. -sam
[2005-11-15 17:37:40] - Sam: Maybe he's just trash-talking and thinking that it's all in good fun. I know I enjoy trash-talking a lot and it would probably be pretty annoying if people thought I was being serious. -Paul
[2005-11-15 17:37:02] - Sam: I've been pretty lucky in that I've never really had problems with coworkers at any of the jobs I've been at. -Paul
[2005-11-15 17:34:04] - paul: he is also very annoying and conceited at work too -sam
[2005-11-15 17:33:09] - paul: he always braggs about how much he knows football, and make fun of people whenever they make trades. he has a way of really annoying the hack out of you. like his decisions are the best, and your decision are the worst. -sam
[2005-11-15 17:31:17] - is anyone having problems with co-workers? -sam
[2005-11-15 17:30:30] - sam: one of my old roommates. i doubt you know her (seeing as you dont know me). - aba
[2005-11-15 17:30:09] - Sam: I don't think anybody knows why women frown.
-Paul[2005-11-15 17:27:46] - Sam: What did he say about fantasy football that made you want to punch him? -Paul
[2005-11-15 17:25:48] - a: who is "royalgeekg" from livejournal -sam
[2005-11-15 17:20:04] - and why do women frown when i make eye contact with them? is that because i'm ugly? -sam
[2005-11-15 17:17:16] - my co-worker is driving me crazy over fantasy football. i almost punched him today. -sam
[2005-11-15 16:42:39] - Ah. Sarcasm. -Paul
[2005-11-15 16:35:44] - oh. bbspot is like an onion site. ~a
[2005-11-15 16:30:40] - though i'm not sure if i believe that article. ~a
[2005-11-15 16:30:00] - Sam: Not that I can recall. -Paul
[2005-11-15 16:29:30] - so . . . no more sharing of photos using our cameras ~a
[2005-11-15 16:29:10] - "People are sharing pictures all over the Internet without regard to copyright and trademarks. Just the other day I saw a Halloween photo of a kid dressed up like Yoda. Don't they know that Yoda's image is wholly owned by Lucasarts? That behavior needs to be stopped," said Sony Vice president of Copyright Protection Clay Wilkerson. ~a
[2005-11-15 16:24:48] - has anyone ever got into a heated argument over fantasy football? -sam
[2005-11-15 16:06:21] - "Will someone please marry Maureen Dowd?" asked one letter writer. "She has managed to spin her inability to find a suitable mate into a national crisis." lol. ~a
[2005-11-15 15:57:04] - Amy: Ok, thanks for the attempted suggestions.
-Paul[2005-11-15 15:55:31] - Paul: OK prob not the place to go then, sorry. I've only had mediocre experiences with other hosts/template places, so I can't recommend anything. -amy
[2005-11-15 15:49:25] - Amy: It's also possible she wants help with the design of it too, I'm not sure. -Paul
[2005-11-15 15:49:09] - Amy: Oh, sorry. I can see how it's ambiguous. I meant the second one. I have a coworker who wants to have a web page for her family and she wants them to be able to host it for her. -Paul
[2005-11-15 15:42:32] - a domain is about $8/yr there. -amy
[2005-11-15 15:42:23] - Paul: unsure if you meant suggestions for the company (e.g. suggestions to you if you are thinking starting one), or that you want people to suggest companies... i must be really tired, i really interpreted it the first way, initially. anyway, my domain is registered at godaddy.com and i believe they do some web hosting, too, but i don't know too much about it. -amy
[2005-11-15 15:05:17] - Dave: I wonder if she will get as much scorn over that comment as I did over my journal entry.
-Paul[2005-11-15 15:00:58] - "she added puckishly, "you know we need you in the way we need ice cream, you'll be more ornamental." " -dave
[2005-11-15 15:00:02] - http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/books/11/15/dowd.men.necessary/index.html Times columnist writes book "Are Men Necessary?" -dave
[2005-11-15 14:49:21] - Anybody have any suggestions for a company where somebody can register a domain and have them host their webpage and possibly provide templates and other such things? -Paul
[2005-11-15 13:29:39] - cool, that's what I wanted to hear. See you there.
- pierce[2005-11-15 12:06:40] - pierce: melissa is going to be in town over thanksgiving, and she said she would go to the rereunion thing with me. hopefully we will see you there.
- aba[2005-11-15 11:33:05] - http://money.cnn.com/2005/11/14/real_estate/buying_selling/prices_going_south/index.htm?cnn=yes outlook sours for real estate -dave
[2005-11-15 07:39:31] - http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051113-5560.html MIT Phd's write program that predicts whether a song will be popular or not -dave
[2005-11-15 07:37:43] - http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051111-5557.html Sony drops DRM software -dave
[2005-11-15 07:37:12] - http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051112-5558.html Xbox 360 to eventually be 100% backwards compatible -dave
[2005-11-14 20:21:12] - I'm surprised Kennedy's wasn't lower. I thought he had a very low approval rating after the Bay of Pigs fiasco. -paul
[2005-11-14 20:20:01] - I think FDR was also fairly unpopular during the beginning and Clinton had a fairly disastrous first couple of months in office if I remember correctly. -Paul
[2005-11-14 20:19:16] - aba: I think a lot of the presidents who are well-thought of now were not particularly well thought of at the time. Lincoln was terribly unpopular for much of his term, for instance. -paul
[2005-11-14 20:11:26] - from the all time list: "Reagan: 35% late January, 1983" thats interesting considering how "beloved" reagan was made out to be..... - aba
[2005-11-14 17:52:12] - a: you ruined my joke
[2005-11-14 17:51:11] - *** vinnie likes saying his own name!
[2005-11-14 17:51:00] - bush approval at all-time low ~a
[2005-11-14 17:36:49] - *** aaron might go for the cheap drinks!
[2005-11-14 17:28:26] - *** amy has done no such thing!
[2005-11-14 17:10:45] - pierce: blame amy! she's the one that drags me along on all these awesome trips
- vinnie[2005-11-14 16:37:33] - vinnie: why is it that you waited until we were no longer roommates to be travelling all the damn time?
- pierce[2005-11-14 16:15:00] - pierce: i might go since i was out of the country for the one last year. - aba
[2005-11-14 16:11:23] - incidentally, I won't be around for it anyway - vinnie
[2005-11-14 16:09:57] - pierce: I certainly don't think it's pathetic to want to go though. if you know a bunch of people are coming who you wouldn't normally see, then I understand. I guess I'm trying to say my enjoyment was more the surprise of seeing people I hadn't seen in so long, not seeing specific people - vinnie
[2005-11-14 16:07:46] - pierce: yeah I agree with Amy. I think I found last year's reunion fun because I hadn't seen those people in so long. but a gap of a year doesn't seem to offer the same appeal and so I think less people will come. and probably even less people will come because those people don't go - vinnie
[2005-11-14 16:04:57] - "oh my god, has it really been 6.5 years? it seems like only 0.78 years ago we were celebrating our 5.5 year reunion! how are your wife and 2.3 kids?" - pierce
[2005-11-14 16:03:09] - i wonder if having reunions too often becomes detrimental such that... people will no longer see them as being a special occasion, then you will have less attendance to each one, rather than having EVERYONE show up at a 10-year because it's all special and it's been so many years, etc. ...do you know what i mean? -amy
[2005-11-14 15:52:13] - yeah, a 6.5 year reunion is pretty weird. ~a
[2005-11-14 15:50:16] - well, now you have. - pierce
[2005-11-14 15:37:05] - Pierce: I haven't heard anything about it. -paul
[2005-11-14 15:36:02] - Heh... who's going to the Class of '99 Re-reunion? Am I pathetic for wanting to go? - pierce
[2005-11-14 13:31:18] - a: Not that I know of. -Paul
[2005-11-14 13:31:09] - Sam: If we win out, then I think it would be likely that we would be ranked higher than Miami (since they would have two losses to our one). -Paul
[2005-11-14 13:28:37] - paul: if FSU beats miami for the ACC title, then do you think VT could be ranked higher than miami? -sam
[2005-11-14 13:26:01] - paul: did you donate to emily's list? ~a
[2005-11-14 13:15:59] - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/13/AR2005111301165.html "Spiegel said the geese problem has abated somewhat since summer, when he threatened his neighbor with a lawsuit if the man didn't stop the handouts." -Paul
[2005-11-14 12:28:46] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily%27s_List Wow, I had never heard of this PAC and yet it's larger than the NRA? -Paul
[2005-11-14 12:09:32] - Sam: The winner of the ACC championship game is the ACC champion regardless of records. -Paul
[2005-11-14 11:45:37] - if FSU finishs with 3 losses, miami and VT finish with 1 loss each, then FSU and miami will play in the ACC championship game. then if FSU beat miami at the ACC championship game, FSU will have 3 losses miami will have 2 losses, and VT will still have only 1 loss. will FSU still be the ACC champion? -sam
[2005-11-14 11:11:43] - i believe before the ou-ksu game some bcs people basically said that mathematcally it would be impossible for oklahoma to drop out of the #1 spot. - mig
[2005-11-14 11:11:07] - sam: that was an anomoly. what happened was with oklahoma was that they were so far ahead in the computer rankings that losing didn't drop their rankings all that much. - mig
[2005-11-14 10:48:55] - mig: i wasn't sure if the conf championship games count into the rankings -sam
[2005-11-14 10:48:05] - mig: but oklahoma didn't when they lost to KSU in the conference chanpionship game -sam
[2005-11-14 09:55:18] - sam: yes, you typically fall from the rankings if you lose... - mig
[2005-11-14 09:25:18] - a: i'll just get rid of that website. -sam
[2005-11-14 09:24:48] - a: oops, i thought i deleted that account at paypal. -sam
[2005-11-14 09:23:43] - if miami and FSU play in the ACC championship game and miami loses, will miami fall from their rankings? -sam
[2005-11-12 18:43:57] - liser
[2005-11-12 16:38:20] - sam: if this is just a project and not a real store, then why does it actually forward to paypal? ~a
[2005-11-12 16:08:52] - sam: done. ~a
[2005-11-12 14:28:47] - a: could you add the song below to http://sam.w.aporter.org/Stuff/ -sam
[2005-11-11 19:50:04] - I just finished a new song. Enjoy. http://filebox.vt.edu/users/sapatton/Lions/SamPatton-Finished.mp3 -sam
[2005-11-11 16:38:28] - a: of course there is more to life than money.... but it makes life harder if you are short on money. -sam
[2005-11-11 16:36:26] - a: i'm just saying i need to save money to buy a house. -sam
[2005-11-11 15:07:33] - sam: there is more to life than money. ~a
[2005-11-11 15:05:35] - sam: he will only play this year if the eagles release him outright, which looks unlikely. - mig
[2005-11-11 14:53:10] - Sam: I think I'll be free later in the evening tonight but I don't really have anything planned yet. -Paul
[2005-11-11 14:46:39] - is anyone doing anything tonight? -sam
[2005-11-11 14:43:25] - mig: do you think TO will get to play this year? if so, when? -sam
[2005-11-11 14:41:16] - a: i'm living with my parents... housing in northern va is way too expensive!!!! i'm trying to save some money... -sam
[2005-11-11 13:35:11] - a: It's true that home prices rarely go down, but they also gave an example in the opening paragraphs of an area where they did go down. -Paul
[2005-11-11 13:33:43] - i assumed (before re-reading the entire paragraph) that they were stating that home PRICES have declined sharply (when in fact home prices have gone up sharply). in the next sentence, they say (mostly) that home prices rarely go down. ~a
[2005-11-11 13:26:51] - Sam: I'm renting. -Paul
[2005-11-11 13:25:38] - a: How is that 100% false? -Paul
[2005-11-11 13:24:53] - Sam: Perhaps, but if he's splitting carries with Jones, I don't think he'll put up as good stats as Ricky. I think the Patriots run defense is a bit weaker than the Eagles. -Paul
[2005-11-11 13:23:22] - errr TO will be with somebody next year i mean to say. - mig
[2005-11-11 13:23:03] - sam: TO will be somebody next year. All this talk about no team wanting him is just bullocks. - mig
[2005-11-11 12:50:30] - sam: how about you? ~a
[2005-11-11 12:50:08] - gurkie and i bought our apartments (condo). aaron, paul, pierce, vinnie, amy, dave, and travis are renting. miguel, dewey, john, and andrew are living at parents. right? ~a
[2005-11-11 12:44:29] - how many here are either living with their parents, renting an apt, or bought your own home? -sam
[2005-11-11 12:39:07] - a: did you buy the place you are living in right now? it wasn't a rent? -sam
[2005-11-11 12:37:38] - dave: the price of my home has gone up 7% in the last year. not great, but it's still a large chunk of change. ~a
[2005-11-11 12:36:36] - if you were in battles, but not really engaged with the enemy, does it still count as a veteran status? -sam
[2005-11-11 12:32:38] - "New data released yesterday show that in the past year, home sales in the Washington region have declined sharply" bahahaha. ok, that much is 100% false. ~a
[2005-11-11 12:32:35] - btw, what is a veteran? people who fought in battles? -sam
[2005-11-11 12:31:23] - dave: it usually cools in fall/winter -sam
[2005-11-11 12:30:37] - of course i'm biased. but i'll still end up being right in the end. ~a
[2005-11-11 12:30:19] - dave: all speculative crap. the housing market is not cooling. ~a
[2005-11-11 12:27:12] - paul: but marion barber looked pretty good... maybe even better than jones... -sam
[2005-11-11 12:26:20] - i mean we should pay respect not she... -sam
[2005-11-11 12:25:59] - vinnie: but the president of your and my company sent out an email saying she should pay respect to the veterans! -sam
[2005-11-11 12:24:26] - a: i'm at work too -sam
[2005-11-11 12:23:56] - a: I'm at work. we don't respect no veterans here, no sir - vinnie
[2005-11-11 12:21:05] - Sam: If I had to guess, I would say not this year, but I really have no idea. -Paul
[2005-11-11 12:20:37] - Sam: Then I would probably go with Ricky. -Paul
[2005-11-11 12:17:10] - btw, when do you think TO will play again (it'll probably with another team)? -sam
[2005-11-11 12:12:16] - paul: both ricky and marion are going to be spliting carries with other backs. -sam
[2005-11-11 12:00:15] - yeah, ricky has some vulture potential against the pats d. - mig
[2005-11-11 11:56:40] - a: i am home but aaron is at work. - mig
[2005-11-11 11:55:21] - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/10/AR2005111002241.html Housing market cooling -dave
[2005-11-11 11:53:37] - Sam: If Marion Barber is the uncontested starter, I might go with him. If both are going to split carries, I might go with Ricky. -Paul
[2005-11-11 11:53:04] - Sam: Is Marion Barber going to start this week? I thought I heard Julius Jones was coming back. -Paul
[2005-11-11 11:52:41] - Heh, I guess I'm the only person with a full workload today. Although actually I'm spending most of the day on recruiting-related work so it should be a little more enjoyable than normal. -Paul
[2005-11-11 11:33:56] - a: I am but I'm probably going to bail after lunch... both of my clients are off today, and I already had my meeting for today with a person who has now left for a four-week vacation out of the country. - pierce
[2005-11-11 11:28:56] - a: I'm at work. -Paul
[2005-11-11 11:24:35] - a: i'm at work but going home soon (i hope) -amy
[2005-11-11 11:09:49] - should i start marion barber (playing against PHI) or Ricky Williams (playing against NE)? -sam
[2005-11-11 10:51:16] - is anybody at work today? ~a
[2005-11-10 16:28:11] - aaron: interesting. i was only clicking on the camera-circles. -amy
[2005-11-10 16:18:41] - amy: Clicking the map zooms in for me. - aaron
[2005-11-10 15:12:33] - mig: oh... righteo. that's good then. - pierce
[2005-11-10 14:25:17] - pierce: yeah, any time after 630. ~a
[2005-11-10 14:19:11] - pierce: actually the max is 15. seeing how as if i don't go it won't happen, i'll probably be going then. - mig
[2005-11-10 13:35:59] - Paul: Whenever the boycott takes effect and with whoever will go with me. -- Xpovos
[2005-11-10 13:30:17] - weird typo... anyway, UBRS is Upper Blackrock Spire, a World of Warcraft instance. It requires like 20 people, so I'm trying to make sure we're going to have the numbers. - pierce
[2005-11-10 13:29:09] - a: sounds good... tomorrow night then? - piperce
[2005-11-10 13:01:16] - a: yeah i tried to get it to zoom in but i couldn't figure out how and then gave up .p much more useful with the zoom in. -amy
[2005-11-10 12:57:38] - the navigation isn't that bad (my link is to a zoomed in version near me). my complaint is the ratio of good cameras to broken cameras near me is like 1:4. ~a
[2005-11-10 12:56:03] - amy:
i use that every day. ~a[2005-11-10 12:41:59] - http://trafficland.com/findacam/trafficvideo.php?uid=0&map=100 traffic cameras of 66, 495, etc. would be cool if navigation weren't crap -amy
[2005-11-10 12:29:01] - Vinnie: Yeah, I struggled with that one for a bit. First there's the negative connotation (girls vs. women), then there's the real vs. fictional, and finally there's the human vs. mouse... -- Xpovos
[2005-11-10 12:25:33] - pierce: lori has been sick this week (which is why i didn't invite you over). she should be better by friday if you want to come over then. ~a
[2005-11-10 12:25:01] - UBRS? ~a
[2005-11-10 12:13:01] - mig: you're doing UBRS with us tonight, right? - pierce
[2005-11-10 11:54:48] - tla is a three letter acronym. ~a
[2005-11-10 10:37:00] - i do too have a soul
~a[2005-11-10 10:32:49] - aaron: more bad news. i'll be late. like 630ish. ~a
[2005-11-10 10:31:18] - Xpovos: When are you going and for how long and with who? -Paul
[2005-11-10 10:17:12] - also sorry adrian and aaron, but no DDR for me today. it's think at the rate we're going with the album, I'll end up skipping every Thurs this month. but I'll be so there in Dec! - vinnie
[2005-11-10 10:16:04] - xpovos: "girls" - vinnie
[2005-11-10 08:57:44] - http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article325560.ece usgov used chemical weapons in fallujah. what was it again that they condemned hussein for? - mig
[2005-11-09 13:23:27] - Oddly enough Gadget is one of the few girls Paul and I agree on. -- Xpovos
[2005-11-09 13:21:49] - Paul: It's warm there. And beachy. -- Xpovos
[2005-11-09 11:15:07] - http://anterras.net/CDRR/gadget_archive.html Internet Gadget Archive. I didn't click on any of the links, so it could quite possibly be NSFW. Viewer beware. -paul
[2005-11-09 11:12:20] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_%27n_Dale_Rescue_Rangers "The character is arguably the most popular introduced in the series and has a steady fanbase in the Internet." Regarding Gadget, of course. -paul
[2005-11-09 11:12:01] - Amy: I was somewhat surprised that I wasn't the only one that had a crush on her. Andrew and I found out about each other's attraction to her in an amusing way.
-Paul[2005-11-09 11:10:11] - Xpovos: Please tell me that's not the only reason. -Paul
[2005-11-09 10:55:26] - Gadget's hot. -- Xpovos
[2005-11-09 10:47:27] - i wonder if i can use javascript to get that figure down some. ~a
[2005-11-09 10:44:50] - Paul: Huh. So it's *not* unusual for a guy to have a crush on Gadget. I had a friend who had her as his background for all four years of college. Well, three years; the last was Celes from FF6 -_-; -amy
[2005-11-09 10:36:19] - for anybody who cares, i tried to just put the static wikipedia html on a dvd, and it's 16gb uncompressed (WITHOUT images, image pages, talk pages, category pages, template pages) ~a
[2005-11-09 10:16:50] - Paul: To spite the boycott, mostly. -- Xpovos
[2005-11-09 09:57:51] - from what i'm reading it says all you gotta do is enclose your text in <html></html> to turn on html rendering. Haven't seen an actual working example yet... - mig
[2005-11-09 09:52:12] - a: oh i misread the question ... but yeah aaron is right i think jlabels can output html, i've just never done it before. - mig
[2005-11-09 09:50:27] - a: <applet width="$w" height="$h" code="$FullyQualifiedMainClassName" archive="$JarsInClassPath"/> - mig
[2005-11-09 09:48:49] - a: Never done that... But a lot of swing components are HTML-compatible. Meaning you can set a JLabel's text, for instance, to [html][body....] etc and it will apply the appropriate styles and stuff - aaron
[2005-11-09 09:37:46] - for you applet writers (miguel and aaron, i'm looking at you), is there a way you can get an applet to display an html page? i'm making an applet that generates wiki html offline. i want to be sure i can display the html once it's generated. thanks. ~a
[2005-11-09 09:25:02] - Now where's Darkwing Duck on DVD? -Paul
[2005-11-09 09:24:53] - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000AXWGRM/002-2214513-2611215?v=glance&n=130&n=507846&s=dvd&v=glance Mmmmmm, Gadget... -Paul
[2005-11-09 09:06:12] - Xpovos: Why are you going to Aruba? -Paul
[2005-11-09 09:06:02] - Sam: Because he was probably bored. -Paul
[2005-11-09 08:45:52] - Who wants to go to Aruba with me? -- Xpovos
[2005-11-08 20:47:12] - Did the police not check the ID? I mean, c'mon, they're all 5'7" blone blue-eyed, etc, but there are differences! Check her cup size!! -- Xpvoos
[2005-11-08 17:51:06] - funny basketball player http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20051105/capt.fng10811050259.nets_raptors___fng108.jpg -sam
[2005-11-08 17:45:42] - so phil jackson is back to coach the lakers? why? -sam
[2005-11-08 17:36:42] - Two Carolina Panthers cheerleaders were arrested at a bar where witnesses told police the women were having sex in a restroom stall, angering patrons waiting in line. http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news;_ylt=AtDYXP7p6KANM8rf2L1quKFDubYF?slug=ap-panthers-cheerleadersarrested&prov=ap&type=lgns -sam
[2005-11-08 14:08:10] - aaron: I listened to some clips of said unknown opening act and they sound not bad. how about let's leave fair lakes at 7:30 and get dinner in DC somewhere? that way hopefully we can get parking at the 9:30 club rather than on some random street - vinnie
[2005-11-08 14:03:58] - a: I didn't notice him at all. -Paul
[2005-11-08 13:59:27] - i recognized adam west in the commercial for the second eppisode. was he in the first eppisode too? ~a
[2005-11-08 13:36:48] - Aaron: I thought it was pretty funny. A little more clever than I thought. Had some dull moments, though. I also didn't like the voices for many of the characters. -Paul
[2005-11-08 11:39:40] - what did you think of boondocks? - aaron
[2005-11-08 11:33:22] - paul: Watched boondocks last night. What did you think of it? - aaron
[2005-11-08 11:31:27] - vinnie: Anytime is good for me. I'll leave it up to you regarding the opening act. - aaron
[2005-11-08 10:55:14] - oh, and it's got sounds, so that might make it nsfw. - pierce
[2005-11-08 10:49:43] - homestar halloween costumes... one picture at the end is mildly suggestive but should be safe for any workplace besides focus on the family. http://homestarrunner.com/costumes05.html - pierce
[2005-11-08 09:15:06] - aaron: what time do you want to leave for the show? sfa go on at 10, there's an opening act that I've never heard of at 8:45 - vinnie
[2005-11-07 19:31:42] - a: sure, we can try it. - mig
[2005-11-07 18:49:51] - mig: i got your webpage to work without the 8080 here. do you want me to switch your main page over to using that? ~a
[2005-11-07 15:32:58] - a: whenever's fine for you... I'm rude enough to invite myself over, but not quite rude enough to decide when it best fits your schedule for you. - pierce
[2005-11-07 14:30:33] - pierce: i have gym on monday and wednesday until 8:00ish and ddr on thursday until 8:30ish. ~a
[2005-11-07 14:29:10] - pierce: ok. when? ~a
[2005-11-07 14:27:00] - a: okay, I'm inviting myself to your place sometime before you erase it. - pierce
[2005-11-07 14:00:24] - i recorded boondocks. but i mistakingly decided to watch it at midnight (and fell asleep). the first 5 minutes were pretty good. ~a
[2005-11-07 13:30:04] - this is %s, by the way - pierce
[2005-11-07 13:29:43] - a: I remember you or lori mentioning you were going to tape something... was it boondocks? because I forgot to set it to record
[2005-11-07 13:26:49] - paul: Taped it. Will probably watch tonight. - aaron
[2005-11-07 13:17:43] - Anybody else see Boondocks last night? -Paul
[2005-11-07 13:05:38] - a: I wonder if it's possibly still under warranty or anything like that. RAM shouldn't be failing like that. -Paul
[2005-11-07 12:36:46] - paul: me neither. it was new ram too (well ~2 years old). i have some 6 year old ram that still works well. ~a
[2005-11-07 11:58:49] - a: Interesting, I've never had RAM die on me before. -Paul
[2005-11-07 10:29:27] - i'm sure at this point nobody cares, but i figured out what was wrong with the other machine (the one that doesn't run the webpages). it was the ram that died (i had two dimms and only one of them died, so until i can get around to buying another i'll just run with 512mb) ~a
[2005-11-05 17:45:08] - pierce: happy? seriously though, the i have a few backups of the picture database and i'm trying to piece together what's on the live drive (that died) and the bacups. ~a
[2005-11-04 17:43:50] - a: I realized that after I posted... but decided it would probably make it worse if I said so. -- Xpovos
[2005-11-04 17:38:38] - where are these thousands of new pics I was promised by the link? - pierce
[2005-11-04 16:40:26] - a: At work, I would imagine.
-Paul[2005-11-04 16:33:58] - where is everybody? ~a
[2005-11-04 12:05:27] - oops, i took the message board down and then forgot about it.
~a[2005-11-03 16:58:01] - well. not a joke really, but a quote that was facetiously taken out of context. ~a
[2005-11-03 16:56:54] - xpovos: it was a joke. ~a
[2005-11-03 16:35:21] - a: No, it's not. The speed of light through a constant medium (e.g. a vacuum) is constant. The speed of light changes as it goes through different materials. If light didn't slow down as it hit stuff it would be very bizarre and destroy modern science. -- Xpovos
[2005-11-03 16:34:07] - the speed of light is constant, people!
~a[2005-11-03 16:14:54] - http://www.tgdaily.com/2005/11/03/ibm_slows_down_light/index.html IBM slows down light on an IC -dave
[2005-11-03 16:14:42] - Xpovos: I heard about that. Kinda came out of nowhere. -Paul
[2005-11-03 15:53:32] - Rotty has knee surgery Out for at least a week, probably 2. -- Xpovos
[2005-11-03 15:18:53] - a: I don't know if I would necessarily say it's bad. I just wanted to bring it to your attention. -Paul
[2005-11-03 15:09:02] - ok. is that bad? ~a
[2005-11-03 15:01:06] - a: That perhaps you are overlooking the main point in favor of a less important minor point? -Paul
[2005-11-03 14:52:00] - paul: what's your point? ~a
[2005-11-03 14:21:41] - a: Perhaps, but the main point of the article seemed to be entirely different from what you are talking about. -Paul
[2005-11-03 14:20:08] - http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051101/ts_nm/food_beef_recall_dc "Quaker Maid Meats Inc. on Tuesday said it would voluntarily recall 94,400 pounds of frozen ground beef panties" -Paul
[2005-11-03 14:18:32] - a: yes, kind of morphed those 2 formats into one for a second. - mig
[2005-11-03 14:17:38] - mig: hd-ray? you mean hddvd? ~a
[2005-11-03 14:16:29] - it's already common-knowledge now that these units are going to be gimped compared to newer models that'll have hd-ray available to them. You might as well get rid of your first gen units sold as fast as you can rather than risk getting stuck with them before your newer model comes out or is nearing release. - mig
[2005-11-03 14:14:40] - now that i recall the ps2 debacle was a bit different. what ms is doing isn't as insidious as it sounds, but given the some other factors, it probably isn't a good idea for them to do this. - mig
[2005-11-03 14:05:51] - i.e. they wouldn't tell norwegian retailers to sell out of their stock if they wanted to merely govern the overall stock. ~a
[2005-11-03 14:04:50] - paul: i don't think that's what ms is thinking. ms is thinking that they can generate buzz by making an *immediate* sellout. ~a
[2005-11-03 14:02:44] - a: "The idea seems to be that would-be Xbox 360 buyers will be less unhappy with a steady but limited supply of consoles than a massive sell-off followed buy a drought." -Paul
[2005-11-03 14:00:59] - well it wasn't intentional iirc, but still it was almost a total disaster. - mig
[2005-11-03 14:00:29] - didn't sony try this and didn't it end up being an almost total disaster? - mig
[2005-11-03 13:57:48] - "In addition to limiting the per-store stock of consoles and having the retailers prepare to prominently note the unit's 'sold out' status, Microsoft has allegedly asked Norwegian retailers to sign an agreement that they'll sell out of the consoles on the launch date." ~a
[2005-11-03 13:57:21] - "To ensure an immediate 'sellout' of the Xbox 360 on launch day (therefore getting lots of media buzz about their new console), Microsoft will simply restrict the supply down to a trickle." (from slashdot) ~a
[2005-11-03 12:28:02] - mig: well unless you did something differently, the only change i know about is that this is a stock kernel. ~a
[2005-11-03 12:19:46] - a: i've reinstalled tomcat and for some reason it's now only spawning one process entry instead of a dozens of them .... don't know what i was doing before to make it do that. - mig
[2005-11-03 11:22:16] - Vinnie: Actually, that's one of the more reasonable trades that the Sports Guy has made up for Thomas. -Paul
[2005-11-03 11:21:36] - Dave: I love pee pee
-Paul[2005-11-03 10:55:56] - dave: "Good news, I just traded four first-rounders, Penny Hardaway and cash for Zack Randolph!" oh man, that cracked me up - vinnie
[2005-11-02 22:29:19] - everybody: added back in the missing 104 lines. and fixed the stupid php apostrophe problem. ~a
[2005-11-02 16:42:56] - Pierce: C'mon, P/E is never far from the mind of the young and hip! -- Xpovos
[2005-11-02 16:42:36] - Dave: I don't think I got a single one of his references. And... of course, I think I knew maybe half the people mentioned... -- Xpovos
[2005-11-02 16:29:12] - http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/051102 contains amusing sports gal comment on paul pierce -dave
[2005-11-02 14:31:39] - a: I guess I was just confused... I thought that P/E conversation was from like a month or two ago. - pierce
[2005-11-02 13:35:11] - heh. right. links aren't going to work until i fix the apostrophe problem.
~a[2005-11-02 13:34:53] - <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/02/bush.pockets.ap/index.html">what does bush keep in his pockets</a> ~a
[2005-11-02 12:28:58] - the hd-crash was just one of my two major problems. the other major problem seems to be a motherboard problem on the other computer. ~a
[2005-11-02 12:16:49] - a: Wow, sorry. Didn't realize it was a HD-crash that did all the nasty stuff. I had a killer one myself a few months ago. Looks like you're better prepared for it than I was. -- Xpovos
[2005-11-02 11:51:16] - pierce: basically all the live data is on a harddrive that "works". more specifically, all of the data is intact but the drive tends to "turn itself off" (or at least ignore the computer) for extended periods of time. which means i can access the data really, i just can't use it in production. ~a
[2005-11-02 11:48:14] - and by long way back, you mean one week, right? i mean i do automatic backups on sundays, so one week back isn't too bad . . . but i didn't actually lose the live data anyways. ~a
[2005-11-02 11:43:33] - pierce: actually, i was able to recover it. i just forgot. ... and my ssh server is misconfigured so i can't fix it until tonight. i'll fix that and the apostrophe problem. ~a
[2005-11-02 11:34:29] - http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051101-5514.html some Sony BMG disks install rootkits on PC -dave
[2005-11-02 11:13:05] - ook, this is a long way back... I guess you weren't able to recover the live data, sorry to hear that adrian. - pierce
[2005-11-02 02:42:18] - amy/mig/vinnie/sam: sigh. very slowly stuff will come back. some things may be missing or misconfigured. let me know if i can help, but please fix stuff yourself if you are able. ~a
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