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[2007-07-25 17:34:27] - gurkie: hehe, I sure hope so ^_^ -dave
[2007-07-25 16:50:44] - dave: but it was pretty
well worth the extra 100 bucks! ~gurkie[2007-07-25 16:28:18] - dave: I'm seriously thinking about driving up to see the World Championship in NY in December though
I also have a Magic friend up there I'd like to go with - vinnie[2007-07-25 16:26:09] - dave: yeah I knew. I was actually intending to go on Saturday and play in some of the side events, but I was invited to a party the same day. if I didn't live so far, I'd go on Sunday morning and watch the finals - vinnie
[2007-07-25 16:00:29] - gurkie: No I did, I bought it at amazon -dave
[2007-07-25 15:41:27] - dave: umm i doubt ill be buying one anytime soon... you didnt have time to buy it at amazon? ~gurkie
[2007-07-25 15:39:21] - 40985a72e8e05e30d232752d483ac8db04226d36 631dd31d98d11177cd1ef46833bdf582ad2c5029 c0838c02c65959c1fef44552eab6d92117ab64f0 c1390098
[2007-07-25 15:35:20] - gurkie: oh, and don't buy those things at a dept store. it was literally twice as expensive in a retail store -dave
[2007-07-25 15:34:53] - gurkie: and it was like $100 more than my original budget, but oh well -dave
[2007-07-25 15:34:32] - gurkie: yeah, she liked it a lot actually. it even looks like she can get away with wearing it everyday if she wants. The only thing is that she needs to get some of the links taken out before she can wear it -dave
[2007-07-25 14:59:16] - dave: interesting coworkers you have... i will refrain from commenting. On another note, did ur sis like her watch? ~gurkie
[2007-07-25 14:48:57] - gurkie: bizarrely enough, a coworker i ate with at lunch was like, i'm taking vacation for a four day weekend because i have friends coming in for the mtg nationals, hehe -dave
[2007-07-25 14:48:15] - gurkie: yes it's an mtg thing. -dave
[2007-07-25 14:45:09] - hmm. i dunno
~a[2007-07-25 14:40:05] - a: why would dave tell vinnie about baseball? unless im mistaken vinnie isnt that into baseball... ~gurkie
[2007-07-25 13:55:27] - i'm guessing. ~a
[2007-07-25 13:55:06] - gurkie: baseball. ~a
[2007-07-25 13:36:00] - dave: nationals for what? is this a mtg thing? ~gurkie
[2007-07-25 13:31:45] - vinnie: did you know that nationals are in baltimore this coming weekend? -dave
[2007-07-25 12:27:56] - aaron: xbox only? ~a
[2007-07-25 12:16:51] - whoa "istanbul (not constantinople)" is in Dance Dance Revolution Ultramix 3? - aaron
[2007-07-25 11:57:03] - sam: nice save. ~a
[2007-07-25 11:53:45] - gurkie: nah. i don't need a book for that!
-sam[2007-07-25 11:18:07] - I wasn't even sure what ballpark to place the orbs in on that level - vinnie
[2007-07-25 11:17:25] - I think I got stuck on 19 too. was that the one with the small box with the opening on the bottom? - vinnie
[2007-07-25 10:30:14] - aaron: Yeah, after a set period of time it fails, but the physics was cool. Theoretically it should be doable at various radii then, but mine was very tight, I think a further out orbit would be harder to sustain, even ignoring the debris of the board. -- Xpovos
[2007-07-25 10:15:18] - sam: does that mean you bought the book? ~gurkie
[2007-07-25 09:02:50] - xpovos: yeah i had it happen by accident on a few boards where the missile would just circle around a magnet indefinitely, eventually the missile vanished i think - aaron
[2007-07-25 08:48:30] - aaron: I got a complete true non-degenerative orbit on #16. That wasn't my intent, but I figured it was pretty cool. -- Xpovos
[2007-07-25 00:33:17] - gurkie: you guessed it right... I don't know why, but I find white women more attractive. -sam
[2007-07-24 22:37:42] - sam: if you dont mind me asking... why? are you considering dating a white girl (the book the question about mixed childhoods...) ~gurkie
[2007-07-24 19:58:44] - sam - no. I was born in Herndon, VA. And most of my neighborhood still lives there. And I was part of the Taiwanese Students Association in college, I definately noticed the cliques. ~gurkie
[2007-07-24 19:39:12] - Aaron: I think it would be hard to do to somebody else. -Paul
[2007-07-24 19:35:31] - paul: hmmm in the context of the WWF it seems like something you should be doing to someone else - aaron
[2007-07-24 19:32:18] - Aaron: Yes.
-Paul[2007-07-24 19:30:37] - paul: DX chop? is that what it's called when you karate chop your nut sac with both hands - aaron
[2007-07-24 19:03:44] - gurkie: "i grew up in a neighborhood of former hippies who had converted to an Indian religion" is that northern california? -sam
[2007-07-24 19:00:14] - -sam
[2007-07-24 19:00:06] - gurkie: i meant to say... like koreans usually hang out with other koreans, chinese usually only hang out with other chinese, etc., eventhough they all speak english..
[2007-07-24 18:51:40] - gurkie: "in all asian groups of friends i often feel out of place" i also noticed that a lot of asians are very cliquish, even among the asians. like monstly koreans usually hang out with other koreans, usually only hang out with other chinese, etc., eventhough they all speak english.. -sam
[2007-07-24 18:06:03] - Aaron: The DX chop is your gesture for man? -Paul
[2007-07-24 17:57:51] - kaleb: i think that's where i stopped too, they add a lot of mechanics past that level... repulsors, and moving walls - aaron
[2007-07-24 17:57:16] - apparently our "man gesture" in Time's Up is based on some "suck it!" gesture from WWF... who made this happen? - aaron
[2007-07-24 17:34:19] - a: if im wrong you might want to talk to a psychiatrist... ~gurkie
[2007-07-24 17:34:00] - a: u do not... im guessing at poker (a group) you are perfectly at ease. ~gurkie
[2007-07-24 17:24:53] - aaron: It was smooth sailing until I got to level 19, which stopped me in my tracks. - Kaleb
[2007-07-24 17:13:35] - i feel out of place in all groups. ~a
[2007-07-24 16:38:02] - sam: also (since you asked im going to spill) in all Asian groups of friends I often feel out of place, large groups of white people dont make me feel as out of place. This is probably a product of my friends growing up, I always went to small private schools where we didnt have much diversity. ~gurkie
[2007-07-24 16:27:45] - sam: also keep in mind that i grew up in a neighborhood of former hippies who had converted to an Indian religion... being mixed was a very small part of what made me different from the normal kids. ~gurkie
[2007-07-24 16:27:41] - http://wickedpissahgames.com/?page_id=3 gravity pods - a good time sink if you find yourself too productive at work today - aaron
[2007-07-24 16:26:28] - Gurkie: No, I told you what I think Adrian and I are thinking about. -Paul
[2007-07-24 16:25:57] - gurkie: no. if anything, he lied to sam. ~a
[2007-07-24 16:24:48] - paul: did u lie to me about what you and adrian were thinking? ~gurkie
[2007-07-24 16:24:38] - sam: I meant a was trying to get me into trouble because I think he knows exactly what I'm thinking. -Paul
[2007-07-24 16:24:30] - sam: i wouldnt say so, but I was also fairly sheltered. I dont think I was really even aware of the fact that it was abnormal until college. And at that point I got a lot of people telling me how they find mixed people attractive
so it didnt bother me much. ~gurkie[2007-07-24 16:23:22] -
~a[2007-07-24 16:22:29] - a: sorry, i mind
-sam[2007-07-24 16:20:55] - paul: why will you get into trouble? -sam
[2007-07-24 16:20:15] - sam: if you don't mind me asking, are you a practical asian man? ~a
[2007-07-24 16:15:11] - a: You're trying to get me into trouble.
-Paul[2007-07-24 16:13:57] - paul: if you don't mind me asking, are you half white and half asian? ~a
[2007-07-24 15:59:13] - gurkie: did you have any problems socially when growing up because you were mixed? -sam
[2007-07-24 15:19:00] - sam: yes... why? ~gurkie
[2007-07-24 15:13:17] - a: Are you thinking what I'm thinking? -Paul
[2007-07-24 15:07:12] -
~a[2007-07-24 15:01:22] - gurkie: if you don't mind me asking, are you half white and half asian? -sam
[2007-07-24 12:41:54] - Big Brother can save you money. The nice thing about truckers is if you can make them pee in a cup you can make them do anything. -- Xpovos
[2007-07-24 12:34:11] - Paul: Sorry, my life is consumed by SSAS, not SSIS. -- Xpovos
[2007-07-24 10:52:40] - a: It's ok, I figured it's a long shot and I think I have some things to try now. Thanks. -Paul
[2007-07-24 10:31:27] - hmmm. well i use visual studio a lot, but not SSIS, sorry. ~a
[2007-07-24 09:49:30] - a: SQL Server Integration Services, I think. -Paul
[2007-07-24 09:48:55] - Suzhou Singapore International School? ~a
[2007-07-24 09:45:12] - Xpovos: Not bad on 3M. I have a few stocks of my own like that which I wanted to buy but didn't. -Paul
[2007-07-24 09:40:22] - I figure it's a long shot, but does anybody here know anything about SSIS editors for Visual Studio? -Paul
[2007-07-23 21:16:00] - sam: i like how they package it with "the complete A**holes guide to picking up chicks."~gurkie
[2007-07-23 20:00:29] - http://www.videlectrix.com/wheresanegg.html new h*r flash game - where's an egg? - aaron
[2007-07-23 19:31:23] - wow, i didn't know there was a book for How to Date a White Woman: A Practical Guide for Asian Men -sam
[2007-07-23 17:27:24] - a: Are you going to eat dinner before we meet tonight? -Paul
[2007-07-23 16:01:02] - and not clown fundamentals. ~a
[2007-07-23 15:55:06] - a: Ow. I'd sort of considered it, but never thought seriously about buying any. Glad I didn't. I may look at them in a week or so, though, because this is bound to have improved their fundamentals. -- Xpovos
[2007-07-23 15:48:18] - i hope nobody owns netflix anymore. ~a
[2007-07-23 15:28:03] - Paul: Yesterday I mentioned 3M. For the record, since I called it 3M is up 28% with an additional 3% dividend yield. To be fair, most of that is in the past 3 months, but still, better than SIRI, huh? -- Xpovos
[2007-07-23 15:20:23] - Paul: You certainly get more test data. -- Xpovos
[2007-07-23 15:06:36] - Xpovos: Because it would be better to test on this one than the other one. -Paul
[2007-07-23 15:05:54] - Paul: More to the question: if there's another server, why is he testing on this one? -- Xpovos
[2007-07-23 14:22:48] - a: Ah, ok.
-Paul[2007-07-23 14:18:27] - paul: if and when. ~a
[2007-07-23 14:18:17] - and fyi, i'll probably be testing out new stuff all day. expect the message board to break periodically. ~a
[2007-07-23 14:18:11] - a: There's another server? -Paul
[2007-07-23 14:17:29] - i was forgetting that if you negate a number twice, that it isn't negative anymore
~a[2007-07-23 14:17:17] - a: Hehehe, it's ok. I thought I broke it at first by misplacing my question mark. -Paul
[2007-07-23 14:16:21] - i promise that testing new stuff out will only happen on this server.
~a[2007-07-23 14:16:20] - a: I thought we were having nostalgia week or something - vinnie
[2007-07-23 14:15:54] - gah, sorry i broke the message board, paul. i've been trying to revamp some of the old things. ~a
[2007-07-23 14:09:24] - yeah, that sounds fine. ~a
[2007-07-23 14:07:57] - Whoops.
-Paul[2007-07-23 13:56:26] - a: Ok, do you want to meet at my place at 8pm tonight then? -Paul?
[2007-07-23 13:35:07] - paul: tonight is fine, yesh. ~a
[2007-07-23 11:42:18] - Gurkie: Ok, sorry, I give up. I'm dumb.
-Paul[2007-07-23 11:40:41] - paul: before you ask yes the quote was SAID by Aaron... Hence me signing his name... ~gurkie
[2007-07-23 11:39:57] - paul: "yes i took a quote from my house and posted it on the msg board signing aar's name" it was a QUOTE that I posted, Why is this difficult for you to understand? it was just a funny excerpt from a conversation... ~gurkie
[2007-07-23 11:24:21] - Gurkie: I thought you said you posted that. -Paul
[2007-07-23 11:22:40] - Paul: what OTHER aaron would have said he thinks my friends have scary boyfriends and followed it up with a comment to his boyfriend named Kaleb???? ~gurkie
[2007-07-23 11:21:19] - Paul: He was saying it in reference to boyfriends of some of my other friends, not really in reference to Vinnie/Adrian (i think
) probably more my friend who is dating a man 16 yrs her elder who is twice divorced and has three kids... ~gurkie[2007-07-23 11:18:39] - Gurkie: The Aaron we both know? Why would he say that? I'm so confused. -Paul
[2007-07-23 11:16:47] - paul: are you serious? "aaron thinks my friends have scary boyfriends" AARON thinks it ~gurkie
[2007-07-23 11:14:43] - Gurkie: Ok.... Who said your friends have scary boyfriends? -Paul
[2007-07-23 10:56:45] - paul: a conversation at my house.... ~gurkie
[2007-07-23 10:44:23] - Gurkie: I guess that makes some sense, but I still don't know where your comment about scary boyfriends comes from. -Paul
[2007-07-23 10:43:22] - I am can be free around 7:30-8 tonight or around 7pm tomorrow. I would prefer tonight but I can also do Tuesday. -Paul
[2007-07-23 10:25:02] - paul: my 3 posts were linked (one signed as aaron). pierce was referring to me signing aarons name, adrian was responding to pierce they are linked... The one about the question i think refers to being pretty while crying. ~gurkie
[2007-07-23 10:08:16] - paul: they both work for me. my thing at 5:00 is tyson's corner so assuming the traffic isn't horrible, then making it by 7 should be fine. ~a
[2007-07-23 09:34:56] - a: Are we meeting tonight or tomorrow? -Paul
[2007-07-23 09:30:32] - Is it just me, or do the last 6 or so posts seem to have nothing to do with each other? -Paul
[2007-07-23 07:59:27] - gurkie: I think I might've missed the question, but if I didn't, it's Jon Crosby -- Xpovos
[2007-07-23 07:00:57] - pierce: i do. ~a
[2007-07-23 00:02:04] - you mean you guys don't have to log in with a SecurID keyfob and password that resets every week in order to sign posts with your name? - pierce
[2007-07-22 23:57:36] - yes i took a quote from my house and posted it on the msg board signing aar's name... ~gurkie
[2007-07-22 23:57:04] - kaleb: im so glad im not one of gurkie's friends or you would be a 38 year old turkish transvestite -aaron
[2007-07-22 23:57:02] - aaron thinks my friends have scary boyfriends (sorry vinnie and adrian) and so.... ~gurkie
[2007-07-22 14:31:02] - BTVS + rocky horror picture show (mandatory registration; bugmenot link) ~a
[2007-07-22 04:20:59] - wl
[2007-07-22 01:01:27] - I OWN AOEUIDHTNS.COM (not actually me) ~a
[2007-07-21 23:32:29] - a: k. - pierce
[2007-07-21 23:24:32] - pierce: i did not restrict the message board from google. ~a
[2007-07-21 22:54:14] - http://aporter.org/msg/?action=post&post=googlespam
[2007-07-21 22:51:53] - a: I thought you had a robots.txt set up to restrict indexing of the message board. is googlebot ignoring it? - pierce
[2007-07-21 22:37:50] - ok ok, i denied the GET method when posting a message. ~a
[2007-07-21 22:34:19] - stereotype
[2007-07-21 22:24:38] - unbearable
[2007-07-21 22:24:20] - laughable
[2007-07-21 22:18:31] - tactile
[2007-07-21 22:08:41] - youtube
[2007-07-21 21:58:40] - mboard
[2007-07-21 21:58:26] - docid
[2007-07-21 21:57:21] - google: go away! ~a
[2007-07-21 21:54:58] - harassed
[2007-07-21 21:50:42] - assaulted
[2007-07-21 21:37:44] - lol, who said that? and I liked book 7
~gurkie[2007-07-20 16:16:40] - I didn't want to hurt you, but you're pretty when you cry.
[2007-07-20 15:49:17] - pierce: cause its fun to see you cry. ~gurkie
[2007-07-20 15:29:54] - a: why do you say things to hurt me? - pierce
[2007-07-20 15:13:18] - (not the "except Neville." thing. that wasn't funny) ~a
[2007-07-20 15:12:52] - (by "that" i meant the link you addressed to aaron) ~a
[2007-07-20 15:12:02] - pierce: that's entirely too funny. we need to start a "too funny for work" acronym. i think i'll call it tffw. ~a
[2007-07-20 15:02:26] - *it'd - pierce
[2007-07-20 15:02:18] - gurkie: it's be even better if she arbitrarily added "errr, except Neville." - pierce
[2007-07-20 14:55:09] - how funny would it be if JKRowling actually had "and harry potter and all his wizard friends went straight to Hell for practicing magic" as the last sentance of the book. That would be so awesomely hilarious! ~gurkie
[2007-07-20 14:49:14] - aaron: if you don't enjoy this, I'll eat my hat. - pierce
[2007-07-20 13:58:49] - mig: this article about that checkers thing talks about tournament play which apparently "now starts with three moves chosen at random". i had never heard that, but apparently the new chess program has trouble playing that modification of checkers. ~a
[2007-07-20 13:52:58] - Scary: http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/basis-capital-hedge-fund-misses/story.aspx?guid=%7BCB19FA67-ACAB-4DAE-A024-8E40B23811A0%7D -- Xpovos
[2007-07-20 11:54:33] - dave: and they say it's crazy to think that the NBA is fixed... - mig
[2007-07-20 11:46:43] - http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070716/full/070716-13.html checkers solved. - mig
[2007-07-20 11:22:48] - http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/basketball/nba/07/20/bc.bkn.bettingprobe.ap/index.html?cnn=yes FBI investigating veteran NBA ref for making bets on games, even ones he officiated in -dave
[2007-07-20 10:37:08] - gurkie: in a way, it's telling us what it wants to find more about. it wants to search on those terms so it can get detailed information about what's on the message board. but it has failed. its failure amuses me. ~a
[2007-07-20 10:24:59] - pierce: im probably seeing hairspray on sunday! With John Travolta and Michelle Pfieffer (sp?) how can I pass they are comparing it to Grease and those 2 were in Grease 1 and 2!!! ~Gurkie
[2007-07-20 10:23:45] - and why did i write googlebot in quotes? (rhetorical question.) ~gurkie
[2007-07-20 10:23:08] - why is "googlebot " filling this field in with names and such? me confused ~gurkie
[2007-07-20 10:11:55] - pierce: no, googlebot leaves hidden fields as-is. right now there is one; there used to be two and google seems to be using an old version of the form because it's filling in both. ~a
[2007-07-20 09:19:07] - First chance: I have two tickets for the July 30 Slayer & Marilyn Manson concert at the Merriweather Post Pavillion. Due to unforseen circumstances, I will be unable to attend. Anyone here want them? -- Xpovos
[2007-07-20 02:18:02] - holy crap, rottentomatoes has a 96% for hairspray out of over 70 reviews. if you'd told me that would be true a few months ago, when I first found out that it will feature john travolta as an overweight housewife, I wouldn't have believed you. - pierce
[2007-07-19 23:03:36] - a: as a slightly less effective method, you could create a hidden form field that's empty and reject any message board submissions that fill it (since they're almost certainly automated). I'm not sure how much actual effect that would have, maybe googlebot leaves hidden fields as-is, but it might work. - pierce
[2007-07-19 23:02:18] - a: it's certainly impolite! POST is meant to be used for mutating operations, so if you're sending a bot around automatically submitting POST requests then you seem to be indifferent to the havoc it will wreak. - pierce
[2007-07-19 22:39:33] - pierce: i actually intentionally allowed the GET method. you're right though! (a) they are using the GET method even though the message board specifically requests the POST method. (b) i'm not sure if i agree that it would be bad form to use the POST method. ~a
[2007-07-19 21:15:29] - gurkie: I suspect it's intended to be "for practicing witchcraft," but /title has a more restrictive character limit than the message board input box. - pierce
[2007-07-19 21:13:58] - a: you could just restrict GET submissions. I have to assume googlebot never uses POST because (a) the URLs they use for that would be useless in search results, and (b) we're all supposed to assume that POST submissions have side effects, so that would be bad form on their part. - pierce
[2007-07-19 20:16:15] - yards
[2007-07-19 20:15:57] - xpovos
[2007-07-19 19:47:23] - aaron/xpovos: it's posting things because it doesn't realize that it's posting things. googlebot thinks this text input is a search bar i'm guessing. if it keeps this up i guess i'll have to ban it or something. ~a
[2007-07-19 19:28:33] - sfm
[2007-07-19 19:28:17] - flimsy
[2007-07-19 19:25:17] - a: why did it post things?! - aaron
[2007-07-19 19:25:14] - a: Wtf? -- Xpovos
[2007-07-19 19:25:03] - a: for real? - aaron
[2007-07-19 19:17:50] - haha, the googlebot attacks! ~a
[2007-07-19 19:00:50] - voanews
[2007-07-19 19:00:10] - stereotypical
[2007-07-19 18:59:47] - redesigns
[2007-07-19 18:59:16] - monopolistic
[2007-07-19 18:58:37] - mindboggling
[2007-07-19 18:58:20] - mig
[2007-07-19 18:58:09] - joking
[2007-07-19 18:57:49] - gurkie
[2007-07-19 18:57:32] - cho
[2007-07-19 18:57:18] - akamai
[2007-07-19 18:51:08] - fainting
[2007-07-19 18:50:50] - arresting
[2007-07-19 18:50:25] - accusing
[2007-07-19 18:37:20] - accusation
[2007-07-19 18:37:06] - aba
[2007-07-19 16:42:10] - title: for p? ~gurkie
[2007-07-19 15:54:32] - *"thereby indicates" - pierce
[2007-07-19 15:54:07] - awww, someone knocked off the only title I'd ever gotten into the stats page (I think). - pierce
[2007-07-19 15:53:27] - honestly, the last page probably doesn't contain any spoilers. at most it probably mentions a character or two and thereby indicating that they do not die over the course of the novel, but the big twists and climax were likely a chapter or two earlier. - pierce
[2007-07-19 15:32:32] - gurkie: Yeah, they will, but it happens anyway, I know. It's not so much (to me) that people got it early, but the fact that someone is reading it over the air. -- Xpovos
[2007-07-19 15:27:32] - xpovos: apparently people who ordered through deepdiscount got their books today and yesterday... so they are like eh we bought it ahead of time and now we will read it... I heard deep discount is getting in trouble for mailing the books too early ~gurkie
[2007-07-19 15:23:43] - gurkie: That's like insanely evil. I saw a review of the new book earlier today. That I can almost understand. A scoop-review. Makes a certain kind of perverse sense. And he gave stuff away, but nothing unexpected (to me) so I can live with that. But reading the last page on-air before the release? That's just assinine. -- Xpovos
[2007-07-19 14:37:34] - avoid the radio too! 99.5 is reading the last page around 8:20 AM. I hate the radio! Tomorrow = minimal communication with the world I am just HOPING I can avoid hearing it ~gurkie
[2007-07-19 14:21:32] - pierce: that sucks
I think tomorrow I'm basically going to try to avoid the Internet (though I think this will be easier in theory than practice) - vinnie[2007-07-19 14:14:49] - a: i'm skipping DDR too - aaron
[2007-07-19 14:13:15] - three different sites have spoiled the new harry potter for me so far today. granted, I was less wary after seeing the first one, but still... why with the intentional asshattery, humanity? - pierce
[2007-07-19 13:36:22] - I'm skipping DDR today again. sorry y'all - vinnie
[2007-07-19 11:05:50] - a: Pretty cool. -Paul
[2007-07-19 10:56:45] - paul: it's fairly efficient code. i imagine a large number. i doubt you'd run into trouble until you were posting hundreds of messages per second. ~a
[2007-07-19 10:38:48] - a: Nice. I imagine it's not a huge strain at all on the machine to process hits and posts? How many message boards do you think a single machine could host and still have reasonable performance? -Paul
[2007-07-19 10:29:07] - right now that machine has about 85gb of free space. ~a
[2007-07-19 10:27:35] - paul: yep. ~a
[2007-07-19 10:07:37] - a: Nice. So you could have like thousands of message boards the same size as this one and it could all fit on a hard drive you could buy for under $80 at a retail store... -Paul
[2007-07-19 09:55:25] - 2.7mb if you remove some of the unnecessary metadata. ~a
[2007-07-19 09:52:18] - compressed, the file size is 3mb. ~a
[2007-07-19 09:49:37] - paul: nope. ~a
[2007-07-19 09:33:16] - a: Wow, only 13mb for all the entirety of the message board back to college? That's not bad. Is it compressed at all? -Paul
[2007-07-18 23:08:56] - paul: the main datafile is 13mb. the other datafiles account for less than 500kb. ~a
[2007-07-18 23:06:37] - paul: the benefits would be realized when programming new/additional features. ~a
[2007-07-18 17:02:38] - I think I would've been more amused if the soundtrack was actually the guy playing the level, rather than just narrating the replay. he did a good job simulating video game frustration though. (ninja gaiden black has been giving me similar conniptions) - pierce
[2007-07-18 16:53:45] - kaleb: then it started getting depressing cause he made it less and less far, he keeps dying at the very first jump! it's terrible. it makes me want to play Lost Levels though - aaron
[2007-07-18 16:53:11] - kaleb: ahhh i don't know why but for me it just got funnier and funnier, at least up through about the 20 minute mark - aaron
[2007-07-18 15:36:54] - aaron: I watched parts of this one about a month ago when Andrew and I were checking out various ROM hacks and speedruns, but I wouldn't sit through all 20+ minutes of it. - Kaleb
[2007-07-18 12:13:54] - http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6204903272262158881 a guy plays a really hard hack for SMB1... it's better with headphones or speakers cause he's spouting profanity the whole time - aaron
[2007-07-18 11:54:22] - Xpovos: Wow, sucks to be somebody with money in those funds. -Paul
[2007-07-18 11:37:53] - Paul: http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ao3.vbiiZJZM basically it's the start of the destruction of the mortgage-based CDOs, similar to what Jubak's been talking about for months. -- Xpovos
[2007-07-18 11:21:35] - Xpovos: BSC? Not sure, haven't been following it. -Paul
[2007-07-18 11:20:20] - What do you guys think of the Bear Sterns melt-down? --Xpovos
[2007-07-18 11:03:38] - Aaron: Yeah, I'm pretty sure I've heard of people getting into trouble for animal cruelty. -Paul
[2007-07-18 11:03:19] - a: How big is the data file for the message board? -Paul
[2007-07-18 09:46:32] - paul: just googling around it seems like there's been law suits against companies like petco for animal cruelty, so yeah i think it's against the law - aaron
[2007-07-18 09:32:08] - Aaron: Not absolutely sure, but I would be very surprised if killing dogs in an inhumane was was legal. Isn't animal cruelty against the law? -Paul
[2007-07-18 09:32:08] - paul: hmm okay i think you're right - aaron
[2007-07-18 09:31:19] - paul: are you sure? - aaron
[2007-07-18 09:20:37] - Dave: I'm pretty sure it is illegal to kill dogs in an inhumane way. -Paul
[2007-07-18 09:13:13] - a: Would there be huge benefits to putting it into mysql? -Paul
[2007-07-18 08:28:28] - which is important when the file has 80,000 lines in it.
~a[2007-07-18 08:27:50] - paul: the datafiles are structured such that you can skip to an arbitrary line in the message board without having to read through the entire file. in other words, to read the last 20 lines of the file, you look something up that lets you jump strait to the 20th line from the end of the file. ~a
[2007-07-18 08:24:56] - paul: i've been meaning to put the data into mysql, but the requirements for the message board are simple enough that a database isn't 100% necessary. ~a
[2007-07-18 07:45:33] - http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2007/07/17/2007-07-17_giseles_assets_dwarf_arods.html always wondered how much they made. Apparently Bundchen makes $33M a year. Amusingly more than A-Rod -dave
[2007-07-18 07:42:00] - pierce: some of the new i've been reading on that is interesting - a lot of times they've focused on the extreme ways he killed dogs. Although I admit that the ways he killed some dogs is disturbing, is it illegal to kill a dog in an "inhumane" way? -dave
[2007-07-17 22:01:36] - a: And everything is stored in data files? There are no databases or anything else? I would imagine it scales pretty easily then. -Paul
[2007-07-17 21:51:36] - i could probably have something like that set up in less than a day assuming i wasn't terribly busy. ~a
[2007-07-17 21:50:23] - paul: not terribly hard, no. ~a
[2007-07-17 21:42:25] - a: How easy do you think it would be to add security with respect to having people log in and whatnot? -Paul
[2007-07-17 21:42:02] - a: Wondering how easy it is to host on a server. -Paul
[2007-07-17 21:18:34] - why? ~a
[2007-07-17 21:18:31] - paul: it was perl 1999-2002 it's been php 2003-2007. ~a
[2007-07-17 19:28:12] - Michael Vick indicted on the dogfighting charges. - pierce
[2007-07-17 16:41:04] - Xpovos: I found your response to Paul (re:English, mostly.) very amusing. ~gurkie
[2007-07-17 15:56:37] - gurkie: non sequitor? -- Xpovos
[2007-07-17 15:46:13] - Xpovos: me likey! ~gurkie
[2007-07-17 15:33:53] - Sabotage lol - "Tired of waiting for parliament to act on their demands, railroad workers walked off their jobs all across the country. The French government responded by drafting the strikers into the army and then ordering them back to work." - aaron
[2007-07-17 14:14:19] - Paul: Mostly.
-- BpemR[2007-07-17 14:04:54] - Xpovos: Ironically, the joke is made by the person who claims his name is greek, or russian, or something odd. -Paul
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