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[2008-08-29 15:09:45] - vinnie: bahahaha. yeah, that's a good one. ~a
[2008-08-29 15:08:53] - vinnie: mine for on-a-roll was a little simpler cause i didn't need the extra platform: http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=1048200 ~a
[2008-08-29 15:08:39] - every time I think I've seen it all http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=1035567 - vinnie
[2008-08-29 14:51:28] - sorry old link there http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=1049078 - vinnie
[2008-08-29 14:50:51] - a: this is fun! I seem to be better at this than making regular contraptions http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=1048766 - vinnie
[2008-08-29 14:47:36] - a: how the hell did you do "higher"? I wanna see your solution for that one - vinnie
[2008-08-29 14:44:31] - vinnie: yay! i was thinking that THAT one would be hard. ~a
[2008-08-29 14:43:58] - a: http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=1048766 - vinnie
[2008-08-29 14:39:16] - hah! a bunch of them are. i even did "higher" without propulsion!!! ~a
[2008-08-29 14:25:38] - i wonder how many of them can be solved without propulsion? http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=1047976 ~a
[2008-08-29 14:19:12] - this is the most elaborate contraption I've yet made *hee hee* http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=1047662 - vinnie
[2008-08-29 14:17:08] - I think the right side is supposed to be easier, or at least the way it should go. the level name is u-turn after all. but I've seen a few now that go left, and a few that go right - vinnie
[2008-08-29 13:57:36] - paul: that was an abomination - aaron
[2008-08-29 13:24:59] - oops! wrong link. correct link ~a
[2008-08-29 13:23:45] - xpovos: there i fixed it for ya: best design ever ~a
[2008-08-29 13:22:05] - xpovos: you were so close! ~a
[2008-08-29 12:47:48] - Worst Design ever! http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=1044090 -- Xpovos
[2008-08-29 12:38:48] - aaron: It's like the russian double-negative. The more similar adjectives you slam in there, the more adjective-like the object is. Next up: very ginormous. -- Xpovos
[2008-08-29 12:34:34] - xpovos: well. except for profanity i guess - aaron
[2008-08-29 12:30:13] - xpovos: you don't usually portmanteau two words with the same meaning. like "funtertainment" - aaron
[2008-08-29 12:29:41] - man, mccain's vp pick is hot. ~a
[2008-08-29 12:11:32] - Ok, I'm having fun with this. Less because I get to show my design skills (nil), but my failures are spectacular, and funny. Even on some of the simpler ones. -- Xpovos
[2008-08-29 11:52:17] - Vinne: portmanteau for the win! -- Xpovos
[2008-08-29 11:43:01] - a: I haven't really tried unpossible yet. I've been skipping around to the interesting looking ones. -Paul
[2008-08-29 11:42:35] - a: Maybe I am crazy, but the right side seemed easier. I was saying the first tank was the elegant one. The second tank is the very definition of inelegant. For about 10 seconds I thought it was stuck.
-Paul[2008-08-29 10:48:51] - paul: omg, you actually went right. i wouldn't exactly call it elegant though; you barely made it to the goal. how did you do the one before it (unpossible)? ~a
[2008-08-29 10:39:08] - Vinnie: Thanks. Even though it was just a tank, I feel like it was a pretty elegant solution. -Paul
[2008-08-29 10:36:08] - http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=1039152 This is the new design I am most proud of. -Paul
[2008-08-29 10:28:18] - doesn't it sound made up? - vinnie
[2008-08-29 10:28:03] - omg I only just found out that "ginormous" is a real word http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ginormous I seriously thought it was a word that was invented a few years ago, something slang - vinnie
[2008-08-29 10:24:33] - paul: nice tank! that's one of the quickest solutions I've seen for that level - vinnie
[2008-08-29 10:10:18] - a: ha! that's pretty clever. - aaron
[2008-08-28 23:05:39] - the one right before it (unpossible) was much harder. even the simplest solutions i saw were pretty complicated. ~a
[2008-08-28 23:02:03] - aaron: that was like the last level, so it's no wonder that it was hard. my solution is here. i saw some solutions online that involved going right. but it's seems like going left is much easier. hell when i solved it, i didn't even see the road to the right. ~a
[2008-08-28 22:57:58] - dam how did you guys solve puzzles like "no u turn"? i didn't play too long but i got pretty stuck pretty early on in this game - aaron
[2008-08-28 19:23:43] - paul! that's exactly what i did. it even had the CCW in the front to force the front down. . . . i wish i had saved my solutions. some of them were pretty funny. even funnier though are the ones that fail miserably. ~a
[2008-08-28 17:48:00] - vinnie: I actually did the same thing on that Mission to Mars map (with the two circles), except I didn't have that extra immobile wheel. These are impressive though. - Kaleb
[2008-08-28 17:19:31] - a: I agree, I definitely struggle with the puzzles that require a little more original thinking than just moving in a straight line. -Paul
[2008-08-28 17:19:00] - a: http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=1007895 This is the tank I am most proud of so far. -Paul
[2008-08-28 13:08:09] - but basically a simple tank doesn't work when the goal is above or below you. or when there's no platform whatsoever between you and the goal. . . . unpossible is interesting because there is a platform but there's not enough room in your workspace to create a simple ramp to get up the barrier outside of your workspace. ~a
[2008-08-28 13:05:30] - paul: i think i spent too much time on it last night . . . ~a
[2008-08-28 10:44:12] - a: I've only done about 5 of the puzzles so far. Haven't had to think too hard yet.
-Paul[2008-08-28 10:39:18] - but you're right, an embarrassingly large number of them could be solved by just going forward. ~a
[2008-08-28 10:38:34] - paul: the simple tanks don't work on a number of them. simple tank doesn't work on unpossible, or tube, or four balls, or handling, or the last one. and probably a number of others. ~a
[2008-08-28 10:31:17] - Vinnie: Wow, some of those are amazing. Mine so far have all been variations of simple tanks.
-Paul[2008-08-28 09:33:04] - probably my absolute favorite one. no u-turn http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=879849 - vinnie
[2008-08-28 09:32:12] - walker http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=865620 - vinnie
[2008-08-28 09:31:07] - stand-up http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=679734 - vinnie
[2008-08-28 09:30:36] - my solutions all worked, but they seem less elegant. ~a
[2008-08-28 09:29:43] - whoever made those solutions is a more creative person than me. ~a
[2008-08-28 09:29:24] - probably should have labelled these. flip-flop http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=629989 - vinnie
[2008-08-28 09:27:39] - http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=753511 - vinnie
[2008-08-28 09:27:10] - http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=746751 - vinnie
[2008-08-28 09:24:54] - http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=700215 - vinnie
[2008-08-28 09:24:12] - http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=717729 - vinnie
[2008-08-28 09:22:36] - I'm gonna post some of the cooler ones I saw. prepare for spam! http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=663006 - vinnie
[2008-08-28 09:18:47] - paul/a: there's a thread on OCRemix about that game, along with links to some unbelievable contraptions. I actually gaped and/or laughed out loud at some of the things you can do in the game - vinnie
[2008-08-27 21:22:46] - paul: omg, that's very cool. ~a
[2008-08-27 19:35:30] - (and yes, the browsing was in firefox) - pierce
[2008-08-27 19:34:49] - at the time the symptoms showed up, I was just browsing the web normally. no porn or anything, no executables, no email attachments. the possibility remains that the system was infected before the symptoms showed up. - pierce
[2008-08-27 19:33:31] - just as a heads-up, guys, I got prompted to install SP3 two nights ago, did so, and the next morning that system got VIRUS'D hardcore. maybe I did something stupid to get myself infected, but I can't for the life of me think what it might have been. - pierce
[2008-08-27 18:04:40] - http://fantasticcontraption.com/game/Contraption.swf This was a pretty fun distraction. -Paul
[2008-08-27 16:50:40] - my work computer has xp on one of its partitions. fyi, that partition only has service pack 2 (the tech department usually updates to the newest stuff when it makes sense to do so). ~a
[2008-08-27 16:48:24] - such a foolish assumption. ~a
[2008-08-27 16:37:22] - a: The service pack was released back in April. If it's on Automatic Update, I assume they've tested it enough, but I want to make sure. - Kaleb
[2008-08-27 16:33:02] - kaleb: then what are you doing installing a recently released service pack from microsoft? ~a
[2008-08-27 16:32:01] - aba: I just don't want the bugs that crash my computer or anything crazy. - Kaleb
[2008-08-27 16:29:12] - kaleb: that's very odd. i thought microsoft was trying to dump all support for xp. for instance, they're making it increasingly difficult to purchase (i.e. pay them money) for xp. if vista wasn't such a miserable failure, i'd understand microsoft wanting to deprecate old software, but that obviously is merely a hypothetical. ~a
[2008-08-27 16:25:17] - kaleb: does MS ever fix _all_ the bugs in anything?
- aba[2008-08-27 16:19:27] - Windows XP Service Pack 3 is now on Windows Automatic Updates. Have they fixed all the bugs in it yet? - Kaleb
[2008-08-27 09:32:23] - xpovos: yeah i know their was the exception for injuries, far as i know tyrod is fine though. - mig
[2008-08-27 08:35:50] - mig: I think the redshirt rules get switched around with some frequency. Regardless, at least for a while it's been allowable to redshirt a player if they get injured in such a way as to miss the entire season, even if they played before. Kind of like a one-time college level I.R. list. -- Xpovos
[2008-08-27 00:57:45] - i didn't know you could redshirt someone after they started playing... - mig
[2008-08-26 19:26:41] - Paul: Good God, that means the drinking game is back on! -- Xpovos
[2008-08-26 16:41:35] - Xpovos: Nah, I think he was a Junior last year. I definitely knew he was going to be in the QB mix this year. -Paul
[2008-08-26 16:23:28] - When I saw this headline, I figured it must have been from last year! Beamer names Glennon starter. Wasn't Glennon a senior? -- Xpovos
[2008-08-26 13:14:31] - vinnie: yeah and wtf is "ultrasound graphics synthesis" anyway? - aaron
[2008-08-26 13:06:24] - aaron: I love the retro-futuristic grid lines on the side. I think they used that design on the boxes for the NES and NES accessories in the late 80s - vinnie
[2008-08-26 11:48:44] - mig: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:MegaMan9PromoArt.JPG Mega Man 9 promo art - aaron
[2008-08-26 10:07:28] - sure. ~a
[2008-08-26 09:30:41] - a: This week is bad, but maybe we can try to catch it next week? -Paul
[2008-08-25 19:07:27] - pierce: Thanks! -- Xpovos
[2008-08-25 19:02:24] - xpovos: I was waaaaaay out of the loop, but got the nutshell version from mig. congratulations! - pierce
[2008-08-25 14:40:32] - As gas prices rise, people drive less, and motorist fatalities are way down. -- Xpovos
[2008-08-25 14:39:56] - a: I thought I'd copied you on the e-mail distro list, maybe I missed, or sent to a spam account? It's gone well. Completely indescribable in 255 chraracters or less.
-- Xpovos[2008-08-25 12:49:47] - paul: i'm busy the next few weekends, so i'd prefer a weekday. ~a
[2008-08-25 12:47:21] - paul: i want to see it. ~a
[2008-08-25 12:47:12] - xpovos: your nine months is up? if so, how did it go? ~a
[2008-08-25 12:46:38] - xpovos: you're stuck at home? ~a
[2008-08-25 12:20:51] - Paul: I want to see it, but I think I'm pretty much stuck at home for the forseeable... -- Xpovos
[2008-08-25 12:00:20] - http://www.iousathemovie.com/ Anybody want to see this? Looks like it's showing at the Regal Fairfax Town Center. -Paul
[2008-08-25 10:15:12] - vinnie: i was still surprised that it had any hits. apparently some people on the internet actually do that whole "middle name as a nickname" thing. - aaron
[2008-08-25 09:57:39] - haha, I thought that link would have zero results. 74 is still pretty low. I could put in some generic name like Harry Brown and it would be easier to describe and guess - vinnie
[2008-08-25 00:28:42] - http://www.google.com/search?q="ted+the+motor+city+madman+nugent"
[2008-08-24 12:05:38] - pierce: To be fair, you don't have to be a chemist or a physicist to be impressed by it; see below, many people are. But, even most chemists and physicists basically just ignore it... Alas. -- Xpovos
[2008-08-24 12:04:18] - aaron:
-- Xpovos[2008-08-24 09:59:04] - aaron: too funny! ~dee
[2008-08-24 00:14:37] - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzSpPaCIG0g usain bolt celebrates early... very early - aaron
[2008-08-23 21:52:34] - it'll be pathetic if it goes anywhere. http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/born_in_the_usa.html - pierce
[2008-08-23 18:28:50] - http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9920 it'll be interesting if this goes anywhere. - mig
[2008-08-23 13:27:05] - I tend to ignore them because I'm not a chemist or physicist. - pierce
[2008-08-23 00:15:06] - Yeah, the physical properties of water are some of the most exciting in all of chemistry, and we tend to ignore them because water is so commonplace. -- Xpovos
[2008-08-22 17:29:17] - a: Me too.
-Paul[2008-08-22 16:38:13] - "it turns out that no matter what you do, at -38 °C even the purest supercooled water spontaneously turns into ice (with a little audible 'bang' no less)" no fucking way. i want to see water bang! ~a
[2008-08-22 16:26:46] - wow that makes no sense. i wonder in what circumstances it DOESN'T happen. if you disallow evaporation (by removing air from the equation) and remove many of the impurities from the water, will the effect still happen? ~a
[2008-08-22 15:21:40] - kaleb: http://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/22/5-really-weird-things-about-water/ here's that thing i was telling you about hot water freezing faster... - aaron
[2008-08-22 14:28:23] - a: One time I had a graphics card that kept screwing up royally until it died. I looked in the case to see if I could spot anything wrong, and I saw the graphics card's fan laying on the bottom of the case; it had broken/melted off.. - Kaleb
[2008-08-22 13:27:26] - well my pentium3 finally died. cause of death not yet determined, but it wasn't the hard drive. it was most likely the graphics card, or motherboard since i'm not seeing ANYTHING on boot-up. no post-screen. nothing. i've moved the message board, the wiki site, and my email over to another machine. hopefully this machine won't die again too. ~a
[2008-08-21 16:16:31] - wait, what? the usb3 spec is out? i thought that was going to get delayed like a year or it was going to fork or something. ~a
[2008-08-21 15:26:02] - aaron: I'll be there - vinnie
[2008-08-21 14:04:21] - i won't be there, sry. ~a
[2008-08-21 14:00:47] - ddr_people: ITG? haven't been able to reach james yet, so he might not make it- aaron
[2008-08-21 12:32:37] - aaron: yeah, many open source projects don't care if you take them seriously or not since they often don't benefit (much) from their use. ~a
[2008-08-21 12:24:02] - a: wow. "screaming monkey" might rival "bouncy castle", as far as project names that are awkward to bring up in a serious meeting - aaron
[2008-08-20 17:33:24] - dude, mozilla (who developed firefox) is designing a plugin for microsoft's web browser. now microsoft needs to start writing firefox extensions. this is so cool! ~a
[2008-08-20 17:14:56] - the plummeting dollar might dissuade a tiny bit of outsourcing, but it drastically hurts our economy in the short term. in the long term, nobody knows. ~a
[2008-08-20 17:00:38] - a: i thought the plummeting dollar was cutting into that a little - aaron
[2008-08-20 15:10:25] - maybe. and not to confuse the issue further, but i think over-outsourcing is hurting the local job market (from our perspective) ~a
[2008-08-20 14:59:23] - a: that's a good point, but has the technology sector been slowing as much as the rest of the economy? I don't know where to look for that information. - pierce
[2008-08-20 09:44:24] - it also looks like that salary.com is giving us numbers for dc in general. i got the same numbers for 22314 (alexandria) as 20006 (washington, dc). ~a
[2008-08-20 09:26:28] - what i find interesting about salary.com is that software engineers get 10%/year raises. that is assuming we've been having an average economy which isn't true. since the economy has been going down, it makes salaries determined in better times look abnormally high put up against salaries determined more recently. ~a
[2008-08-20 09:04:29] - Aarce: Cool, thanks guys. I agree that the title is a little odd, which is why I was asking for other opinions since there wasn't an exact match on places like salary.com. -Paul
[2008-08-20 09:03:28] - Pierce: All I can think of to do is to shake my head and smile. -Paul
[2008-08-20 09:03:15] - paul: i agree with pierce. somewhere around $75,000 seems about right to me. assuming you're not actually talking about a therapist - aaron
[2008-08-19 19:20:43] - I'll also echo that "SQL Programmer Analyst" is more screwed up than most titles. Are you offering therapy to SQL programmers? Maybe you should cleverly add "therapist" into the title and become the world's first SQL Programmer Analrapist. - pierce
[2008-08-19 19:18:45] - paul: salary.com says about $60-75k (probably on the higher end) for "Application Systems Analyst II-III". That's up through about five years' experience. At six years, you'll be at the low range of ASA IV, which starts at $87k. This is all bullshit though, because I've never had a title in my life that was standardized against anything in particular. - pierce
[2008-08-19 17:58:20] - Nevermind then, I'll figure it out myself. Thanks.
-Paul[2008-08-19 17:04:01] - to summarize my point and anon's point: your title doesn't define your capabilities. ~a
[2008-08-19 16:44:17] - SQL Programmer Analyst? what the fuck does that mean?
[2008-08-19 16:31:52] - seriously though, how the heck would any of us know how much a programmer analyst should make. what you want to know is how much we all make.
~a[2008-08-19 16:29:58] - someone working in reston with, say, 5 years of experience, hates liberals, and drives an echo? ~a
[2008-08-19 16:16:22] - Anybody here have any thoughts on how much a SQL Programmer Analyst working in Reston should be making in a year? -Paul
[2008-08-18 14:15:02] - anon: fixed, thanks. i was playing around with that this morning before work and forgot to switch it back. ~a
[2008-08-18 13:47:50] - "/home/adrian/pics/password/lists/index/../../../svg/.thumb/list-s.png Warning: assert(): Assertion failed in /home/adrian/media/pics/meta/db/makepics-mainindex.inc on line 164"
[2008-08-18 10:44:30] - a: Annoying, my unicode (hex) symbol got transliterated into a completely different and wholly inappropriate one. -- Xpovos
[2008-08-18 10:43:41] - a: I think ç works better. But that's less a spelling... -- Xpovos
[2008-08-18 10:22:19] - xpovos: eee ~a
[2008-08-18 09:20:37] - I was doing 'OK' until I tried to spell 'e'. -- Xpovos
[2008-08-17 19:40:40] - aaron: how do you spell the other letters? ~a
[2008-08-17 19:05:07] - pierce: it's spelled "aitch", and there's only one correct spelling/pronounciation. so sayeth the scrabble gods - aaron
[2008-08-15 16:52:33] - former. ~a
[2008-08-15 16:12:37] - do you guys pronounce the letter H "aych", or "haych"? - pierce
[2008-08-15 12:41:39] - a: Forked_tongue Reptiles smell using the tip of their tongue, and a forked tongue allows them to sense from which direction a smell is coming - aaron
[2008-08-15 07:19:29] - Sounds like I missed a fun dinner. -- Xpovos
[2008-08-14 21:46:54] - vinnie: you should have come to dinner. we worked all these out in the food court. ~a
[2008-08-14 20:02:01] - if you put a mirror on the ground and you have some text on the wall above the mirror, the text will be reflected vertically in the mirror. aaron thought this confused things even more so maybe you should disregard it - vinnie
[2008-08-14 17:14:55] - vinnie: if you place a mirror on the ground it does what now? ~a
[2008-08-14 17:03:38] - yeah I found an interesting explanation: if you place a mirror on the ground, it reverses up and down. I think that gets to the heart of the question - vinnie
[2008-08-14 17:02:47] - a: and a lot of people that say "omg what a stupid question!" I sort of hate the internet sometimes - vinnie
[2008-08-14 17:00:27] - aaron: exactly. everything often ends up left-right flipped because we typically walk around and rotate things left-right. god, i googled this question and found very many wrong or incomplete explanations for this effect. ~a
[2008-08-14 16:57:47] - a: oh!! if you climbed over a window vertically, like spiderman, instead of walking around it horizontally, the P would look like a b... hmm i wonder if that has something to do with it - aaron
[2008-08-14 16:54:39] - although I'm not sure why we both thought of that. it's not a very good example of a problem where the answer is obvious but the explanation is not - vinnie
[2008-08-14 16:53:09] - aaron: haha I was just thinking of the Monty Hall problem as an example of that - vinnie
[2008-08-14 16:52:24] - did i get that backwards? horizontal lines of symmetry... vertical lines of symmetry... - aaron
[2008-08-14 16:52:07] - *their = they're ~a
[2008-08-14 16:52:02] - don't use "E" and "M" because they confuse the issue when their incorrectly used. use a "P". when you flip a "P" top-to-bottom to look at it in the mirror, it shows up as a "b" ~a
[2008-08-14 16:51:41] - vinnie: yeah, I get that, but it still doesn't explain why objects with vertical lines of symmetry appear "unchanged" but objects with horizontal lines of symmetry appear "flipped"... shouldn't they both appear flipped? - aaron
[2008-08-14 16:50:40] - it's like the monty hall problem where i recognize it's true, and i can recite explanations, but i just can't really understand them - aaron
[2008-08-14 16:50:18] - we're seeing the wrong side of the words, so to speak. hmm, maybe this isn't the clearest explanation - vinnie
[2008-08-14 16:49:35] - the mirror inverts front to back, rather than left to right or up to down. so when we see words, it's like looking through a transparent object, like ~a said - vinnie
[2008-08-14 16:49:27] - aaron: transparent objects are flipped left-to-right too! that's so weird. i don't know what you mean by "you flipped it"... i can't flip a letter E top-to-bottom and have it come out like it looks in a mirror... how can i "flip it the other way"? - aaron
[2008-08-14 16:47:48] - hehe this is one of those questions where the answer seems obvious but it's so hard to put into words. I googled it myself and the best response I found was... (con't) - vinnie
[2008-08-14 16:46:37] - another way of thinking about it is: it's only left-to-right flipped because YOU FLIPPED IT left-to-right to look at it in the mirror. if you had flipped it the other way, it would appear top-to-bottom flipped. ~a
[2008-08-14 16:44:57] - aaron: looking at a transparent object from the back *appears* flipped left to right also (and not top to bottom). the mirror is no different from the transparent object from the back. does that make sense? ~a
[2008-08-14 16:12:55] - a: it's definitely flipped left to right! - aaron
[2008-08-14 16:12:28] - a: but a letter M still looks like a letter M in a mirror, but the letter E doesn't look like a letter E anymore... - aaron
[2008-08-14 15:21:56] - title: good question. "The image you see in a mirror is actually reversed front-to-back through the plane of the mirror. Or in other words, the up-down and left-right directions stay the same, but the front-back direction is reversed. We interpret it as a horizontal rotation because that kind of movement of physical objects is more familiar to us." ~a
[2008-08-14 14:43:58] - aaron: yeah I'll be there - vinnie
[2008-08-14 14:32:05] - yo. ~a
[2008-08-14 12:36:09] - ddr_people: pump-it-up @ sfm! who's in - aaron
[2008-08-14 11:10:08] - Aaron: Yeah, the few pictures I have seen actually look pretty good, and I'm glad Stephen Chow is involved. I also think Bulma looks surprisingly similar to her anime character. -Paul
[2008-08-14 09:44:07] - paul: goku's hair looks surprisingly good. i didn't think that would make the toon-to-real-life transation super well - aaron
[2008-08-13 20:26:25] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonball_(film) Did anybody else know they were making a live-action DragonBall movie that has James Marsters in it? -Paul
[2008-08-13 20:22:14] - Pierce: That is a pretty good response. -Paul
[2008-08-13 17:01:30] - paul: I think the best response to that whole issue was from the A.V. Club: http://www.avclub.com/content/hater/ben_stiller_rides_the_satire?utm_source=avclub_rss_daily - pierce
[2008-08-13 15:24:04] - http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/08/12/shriver.thunder/index.html?iref=mpstoryview I love the second comment: "How retarded..." -Paul
[2008-08-13 12:42:16] - Spanish basketball team poses for offensive picture http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/blog/fourth_place_medal/post/Spanish-basketball-team-poses-for-offensive-pict;_ylt=Ahi9pdii1ZGGYadDq2Rwc0PHKZt4?urn=oly -sam
[2008-08-13 11:48:08] - http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article4488157.ece nintendo game designer forbidden from speaking about his hobbies, lest anyone else come up with a best-selling game from knowing them. - mig
[2008-08-13 10:53:43] - a: i should have thought to check wiktionary, thanks - aaron
[2008-08-13 10:18:57] - aaron: here's the etymology you're looking for ~a
[2008-08-13 10:17:19] - aaron: apparently it had already been added to wiktionary before it was deleted from wikipedia. also, the result of the deletion discussion, was that it was to be redirected to shit but it seems like nobody got around to doing that. ~a
[2008-08-13 09:23:43] - pierce: also, although i probably don't want to know the origin of the phrase "shit eating grin", i'm disappointed that it doesn't have an entry in wikipedia - aaron
[2008-08-13 09:22:47] - pierce: yeah, you're right. if you imagine someone designing a prank, "oh we're going to make it look like she's being proposed to, and then laugh at her because she's not!" it would be unthinkable. the fact that the focus is on the guy makes it seem less awful than it really is - aaron
[2008-08-13 04:02:36] - yes, that's the best kind of prank: one that has the most hurtful impact on someone other than the "target". worst is the guy's shit-eating grin the whole time. what a sad, sad asshole. - pierce
[2008-08-12 16:58:19] - paul: Yeah, it gets very very bad - aaron
[2008-08-12 12:08:08] - Aaron: Oh, that was terrible. I had to stop halfway through. Couldn't stand to see what happened next. -Paul
[2008-08-12 11:48:47] - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMHidjDB_Uk yankee stadium proposal prank - aaron
[2008-08-12 08:01:30] - xpovos: fixed. -title
[2008-08-11 21:57:28] - title: One is a form of government, the other is not. -- Xpovos
[2008-08-11 21:06:24] - paul: one retard? ~a
[2008-08-11 20:33:17] - a: Person. -Paul
[2008-08-11 19:03:33] - paul: one what? ~a
[2008-08-11 16:14:36] - Aaron: One might say that. -Paul
[2008-08-11 13:42:45] - paul: playing retard's advocate? - aaron
[2008-08-11 13:39:18] - All this deliberation is silly. -- Xpovos
[2008-08-11 13:22:36] - Or... I was being deliberately dense. Much like how a deliberatly cuts himself. -Paul
[2008-08-11 11:30:42] - a: I got a msg from paul saying "You agree that Adrian is a cutter?", me thinks xpovos is right... Paul is that slow ~gukie
[2008-08-11 11:28:13] - a: Your logic is fautly. Paul is that slow. -- Xpovos
[2008-08-11 11:12:19] - nobody is that slow. ~a
[2008-08-11 10:54:51] - in case anyone is as slow as paul i wasnt agreeing that a's a cutter... ~gurkie
[2008-08-11 10:13:05] - xpovos: i agree. ~gurkie
[2008-08-11 08:04:34] - xpovos: well the injury isn't exactly "deliberate". ~a
[2008-08-10 20:59:12] - a: You're a cutter? -- Xpovos
[2008-08-10 16:30:34] - oof! i cut up my left arm. three times. and my left leg. three times. i seem to hate the left? the last time i cut up the right side of my body was october. ~a
[2008-08-08 20:30:36] - gurkie: I think Paul needs a PS3.
-- Xpovos[2008-08-08 16:37:20] - paul: that would suck... maybe i need an iphone and that red gem.... ~gurkie
[2008-08-08 11:12:34] - http://www.crn.com/retail/210000236 'I Am Rich' Goes Broke In Apple Store -Paul
[2008-08-07 14:53:23] - kaleb: you coming to itg? - aaron
[2008-08-07 14:25:44] - aaron : I saw that recently. Thanks. - Kaleb
[2008-08-07 14:07:36] - aaron: gotta stay late today, so I'm gonna miss DDR - vinnie
[2008-08-07 12:12:42] - gurkie: it was no problem, gym ended early anyway. - aaron
[2008-08-07 11:38:49] - aaron: oops sorry I didnt mean to make u leave the gym early, I didnt see your post at all... ~gurkie
[2008-08-07 10:26:25] - ddr_people: itg@5:45? - aaron
[2008-08-07 09:12:23] - kaleb: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843 apparently there's a firebug for FF3 now - aaron
[2008-08-07 01:35:16] - seagoenglishocean australia head car yes white student steven deliver you water
[2008-08-06 17:48:05] - gurkie: yes, i'm going to the gym at 7:00 so i will probably get there at like 8:40 again... - aaron
[2008-08-06 14:26:23] - gurkie: I'm coming over tonight if Aaron is. - Kaleb
[2008-08-06 14:16:55] - aaron: sytycd starts at 8... are you coming over? ~gurkie
[2008-08-06 10:36:32] - wouldn't want the neighbor's cat to be eavesdropping.
[2008-08-06 10:28:26] - to eachother.
[2008-08-06 10:08:25] - to each other or to you?
[2008-08-05 17:43:39] - i had a dream where i was trying to get my dog and my cat to talk using SSL
[2008-08-05 16:20:45] - vinnie: I think I could have, if I had been diligent about listing them one after another... but then again who knows. I didnt want to do the work for it~gurkie
[2008-08-05 16:00:11] - gurkie: good thing you didn't buy five copies. unless you think you could have sold them all by now - vinnie
[2008-08-05 15:34:34] - ~gurkie
[2008-08-05 15:34:28] - aaron: seriously I could have saved over 50 bucks on that stupid game! And it would have had English rules! GRRRR!!!
[2008-08-05 15:34:03] - a: yes I already bought it, and I blame you
hence the fricking a.. ~gurkie[2008-08-05 14:20:53] - $$$
- aaron[2008-08-05 14:20:40] - gurkie: I experienced one of those moments last week.... Polysics latest album Karate House just had a domestic release out of nowhere, a year-and-a-half after its japanese release - aaron
[2008-08-05 13:18:30] - also, i assume this means you already bought it. ~a
[2008-08-05 13:17:58] - gurkie: what does "A" stand for? ~a
[2008-08-05 12:43:02] - FRICKING A, Nordic Countries is going on sale from Days of Wonder ~gurkie
[2008-08-04 09:27:57] - The entire season of Firefly on DVD for $18 on amazon gold box deals for today.
-Paul[2008-08-04 09:27:05] - Kaleb: You're welcome. -Paul
[2008-08-04 07:48:35] - vinnie: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Pop-up_Potpourri_0x3a__Announced_By_God.aspx - aaron
[2008-08-04 02:32:03] - paul: Thanks for taking out my pizza box trash. - Kaleb
[2008-08-04 02:31:51] - dave: Thanks for the $5. - Kaleb
[2008-08-02 13:54:29] - a: Game Parlor. There are other shops in various locations, but Game Parlor is in Woodbridge and Chantilly so it works for me. -- Xpovos
[2008-08-02 12:52:29] - where does one buy games like ticket to ride? (brick and mortar) ~a
[2008-08-02 12:11:59] - i was talking to my aunt on thursday. she was telling me about a board game that she really liked to play with her family called "the train game". i was thinking is this anything like ticket to ride?. so i asked "do you mean ticket to ride?" she said "no, 'the train game'". it turns out it indeed was ticket to ride.
~a[2008-08-02 12:04:47] - "this made me think of you http://xkcd.com/457/" (directed at me by jdb)
~a[2008-08-01 18:51:45] - aaron: regarding negative publicity (NP), you know what they say... there's no such thing as bad publicity. In other words, P=NP. - pierce
[2008-08-01 15:09:56] - aaron: oh someone submitted that? guess I'm not surprised, wonder if it was the same software - vinnie
[2008-08-01 14:57:59] - vinnie: ha ha! i remember that one from the real site. Did you know? Could not find tips file! that one made me laugh so hard - aaron
[2008-08-01 14:30:53] - lol had a dailywtf moment just now on a startup tip: Did you know? Could not find c:\Informatica\PowerCenter8.1.1\bin - vinnie
[2008-08-01 12:56:01] - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/13/AR2008071301799.html two killed on double-decker bus accident in DC... someone brought this up on wednesday - aaron
[2008-08-01 12:24:02] - xpovos: oh i know he harped. but he did nothing, and there were things he could have done to rectify the situation. He could have done what he is doing now a few years back, just on a smaller scale. - mig
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