[Log started by inky Mon Sep 13 13:33:00 1999] Alex says (to mamster), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that mamster is not wearing pants. Also, like a monkey, only taller. Also, funky. Also, wearing a husk. Also, the chief. HAIL TO THE CHEF. Also, not the guy with the cat at http://www.amazon.com/covers/1/86/100/152/1861001525.l.gif. Also, hasn't washed his hair since the late seventies. Also, the closest thing America has to royalty -- King Monkey. Also, the sunshine of your life." mamster says, "Thanks, bird." inky says, "feel free to log these if they're going to be funny." mamster says, "OK." mamster says, "In my dream, neild and I were both going to Pomona College." Spatch says, "Hooray!" mamster says, "I'm not logging; someone else can." markm sings, "My Pomona" mamster says, "Or do you log afterwards? I'm not up on this robotic parrot technology." inky says (to Alex), "log mamster-dream 10" Alex exclaims, "Awwk! Log started!" mamster says, "One day, neild comes up to me, all pissed off." inky says, "that should have been "I Dream of Mamster", but whatever." mamster says, "He had heard from somebody that I called him a wimp." Gunther says (to inky), "s/mamster/neild/" mamster says, "So to prove to me that he wasn't a wimp, he took me to the mall that night." mamster says, "Only it wasn't the normal mall." inky says, "it was the TOUGH MALL." mamster says, "Well, it was, but it was infested with a large family of angry babboons." mamster says, "Er, baboons." Spatch says, "That'll show 'em!" inky says, "ok, reality is so much funnier than me that um." Steve says, "And the baboons were CRAZY!" mamster says, "So we're trying to buy all sorts of items, but we keep getting stuck in long lines, and the baboons are encroaching." mamster says, "Eventually the baboons beat the shit out of both of us." mamster says, "Thus proving that we are not wimps, or we are wimps, or something." mamster says, "The end." Adam says, "Here's my dream" Adam says, "I was at the house of my friend Greg, from high school" Limax exclaims, "YAY!!!! My new computer just arrived!!" Adam says, "Except that somehow he was also you" Gunther says (to Limax), "Shh! Story in progress!" markm asks (of Limax), "What kind is it?" Spatch says, "So you dreamt that a pack of angry baboons beat the shit out of you? That's excellent. I just dream about flying through tunnels on the back of large ponies." Adam says, "and his five-year-old brother was singing one of your songs, etc." Adam says, "So then I went walking somewhere with his dad" Gunther says, "SEE OUR BABOONS BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF YOU" K has connected to ifMUD. Limax keeps quiet. Adam says, "Who was this nice old guy with a neatly-trimmed white beard" K appears where it's at. Got two turntables and a microphone. Adam says, "We were walking up Tustin Avenue" Adam says, "And these two big Latino guys came up behind us" Adam says, "And one popped open a switchblade" Gunther says, "Wait, is this turning into pr0... oh." mamster laughs. Adam says, "And they went after the old guy first" Adam says, "And in true Costanza-like fashion, I calculated my strategy" Adam says, "That being -- I pushed the old guy at the toughs, and then ran away" PollBoy hollers, "mamster has changed the poll! Could someone please explain Ricky Martin to me again?" User On Idle The One True Costanza Gunther says (to Adam), "Damn! Now I totally have to rewrite my comp game, "Attack of the Big Latino Killers"" inky laughs. Hugo says (to Adam), "That is excellent." Adam says, "But one of the guys gave me this incredibly nasty look as I did the pushing part, and grabbed me" inky says, "my dad has this thing where his poems always end with "And then X ran away", so that's doubly good" inky says, "much like oreos" Adam says, "And then I saw him jab the knife at me" Adam says, "And I woke up" mamster asks (of inky), "Your dad writes poems about oreos?" Spatch says (to adam), "Wow." inky asks, "and was there a knife wound in your hand?" dfan says, "And then the oreo ran away" mamster says (to inky), "No, but he burnt his finger." ddyte says, "So I had this dream aboutlatino baboons." Adam says (to inky), "No, but I pushed my pillow at Katie and ran away" Ellison says, "yay dreams" Gunther asks (of steve), "um, where did you send it?" Jota arrives from the east. inky says, ""Epicurious Travel" SD" inky says, "or maybe it's just me" Steve says (to Gunther), "gschmidl@gmx.at" mamster says (to inky), "Well, 'epicurious' looks like 'bi-curious'." Adam laughs inky says, "yeah, that's what I'm thinking" Gunther says (to steve), "huh" (From Spatch) Adam says, "I woke up and Suzanne Pleshette turned on the light and told me not to eat any more Mexican food before going to bed." inky says, ""Epicurious gastronome sks pastry chefs"" Gunther says, "looks like this mail server is lagged a lot" (From Adam) mamster says, "Then I stepped on an epicurious gastropod." ddyte says, "vegetarian, meat curious" dfan says, "Weird dream: http://www2.thecia.net/users/dfan/writing/tb980720_brain.html" Adam says, "Wow" Gunther says (to dfan), "Wait, this is the plot to LOST HIGHWAY" mamster, on break, idles. markm says (to Gunther), "YM 'lost stairway'" Gunther says, "hee" markm says, "I've found that a common theme in dreams is the 'search for but never find it' motif." dfan says, "Also, the bottom dream in http://www.nondairy.com/slow/wave.cgi?jun97" inky says, "hmm" dfan says, "in which we discover that dfan looks like Richard Nixon" markm says, "I think it represents man's inhumanity to dreams or something." inky says, "the other dream I had saturday involved looking for an ice cream flavor I wanted, but as I went back and forth in the store, counter sections of icecream kept disappearing and getting replaced by fish" inky says, "but that one's pretty obvious." markm laughs. inky asks, "do the people from www.nondairy.com and www.milk.com get in fights?" markm asks (of inky), "The obvious part being that you prefer fish over ice cream?" Gunther says (to inky), "yes, on www.foodfight.com" inky says (to markm), "except in vancouver, where I can get fish icecream at that place by groc's house" markm says, "Ugh." Gunther says, "crab icecream!" Hugo says, "codcream" markm says, "I was gonna stop at DQ on the way home tonight, but now I think I'll give it a miss." inky says, "my work here is done!" inky flies off. Gunther says (to hugo), "Eeeagh!" Jota says, "DQ or Clam Kin -- you be the judge." Jota says, "King." Jota pushes the button on the typo tally. Bing! Jota exclaims, "It's the partially inverted number of the beast!" Gunther asks, "969?" Adam asks (of dfan), "Wait, when people submit these dreams, does Jesse ask for a visual reference, or just make up what the people look like?" Jota says, "966 (>X TALLY)" Gunther was too lazy dfan says (to Adam), "He asks for a visual reference. I gave him the two pictures on my home page, which may misrepresent me a little" Jota says (to Gunther), "Easier to type '"969?' than 'x tal'? Bah." Gunther says, "Man, you discover strange stuff on GMD every day" Gunther found the source code to HAUNT, the fourth ever released IF game. Spatch says, "I totally miss the ol BBS door "Food Fight"." inky asks, "?" Gunther asks (of inky), "to who?" inky says, "spatch" inky says, "also you" dfan asks (of inky), "?" inky says (to dfan), "thanks, I needed a second one." Hugo says, "Damn. Apparently this little Slashdot deluge is going to cost me a couple hundred bucks in transfer fees." Gunther says (to inky), "Wumpus -> Advent -> Adventureland -> Haunt -> Acheton -> MIT Zork" ddyte gives control to the Jewel. I used to be a FUNDAMENTALIST, but then I heard about the HIGH RADIATION LEVELS and bought an ENCYCLOPEDIA!! Earendil appears out of nowhere, now with fighting kung-fu action! Gunther asks (of Hugo), "??" Gunther says, "EEeagh!!" dfan asks, "Wumpus is an IF game?" Limax says, "Hey Earendil" markm asks (of Hugo), "Couple HUNDRED?" Adam says (to Kent), "Yow!" Limax asks (of dfan), "What would you call it?" Gunther asks, "Who changed this to 'asks of' and 'exclaims at'?" markm asks (of Hugo), "Who's your ISP?" Earendil says, "looked up the movie "My Dinner with Andre" on imdb. There's also a "My Dinner with Andre the Giant"" Jota greets Ear. Spatch says, "Food Fight was a little door game several dialup BBSes in my area had. It was more or less a fighting game, but set in a cafeteria, so you brought better kinds of food to throw at people as your character advanced" markm asks (of Gunther), "You did earlier today. Don't you remember?" Hugo says (to Gunther), "I have a ceiling of 500MB transfer. $0.50 a MB after that. So far, I've transferred 1.5 GB." dfan asks (of Limax), "Are we thinking of the same game? Like, you traverse a maze and the wumpus is in one of them?" Hugo says (to markm), "Local bastards, apparently." Gunther says (to Hugo), "Argh" Gunther says (to markm), "No" inky says (to Hugo), "neep" Kiz says (to Hugo), "umm, get a new ISP!" Spatch says, "!!!" markm says, "$.50/mb?!? Yowch." Gunther asks (of Hugo), "you pay if people d/l from you?" Earendil says (to markm), "that's several times what HD space per meg costs" markm says (to Earendil), "Thanks for the tip." Earendil says, "that's a darned lot" Hugo says, "Oops. $0.10/MB." Kiz says (to Hugo), "there are a zillion unlimited transfer deals. Simplenet has one; there's lots of better ones, I'm sure" markm says (to Hugo), "That's still insane. $0.01/Mb would be more reasonable." Jota says (to Hugo), "That's totally different." Earendil says (to hugo), "so you've paid about $100 just for downloads" inky asks, "they really offer unlimited transfer?" *** Your score has been divided by zero *** Gunther says, "Ken Dolan pays Transfer!" Ghogg arrives from the east. Ghogg waves. Gunther says, "HEY!!" dfan asks, "How about, like, transferring myself to California?" inky says, "I'm surprised anyone does" Jota greets Ghogg. Kiz says (to inky), "simplenet does. well, 'unlimited' within reason. I know one site that regularly got 100,000 hits a day that got kicked off" Jota asks (of dfan), "How many MB are you?" K says (to inky), "Unless they've got slashdot insurance. He." inky says (to Kiz), "right." dfan says (to Jota), "Less than unlimited." inky says (to K), "that's not a bad idea" dfan exclaims, "!" dfan exclaims, "!!" Gunther says (to Ghoggster), "Heys" dfan exclaims, "!!!" dfan says, "Hmm." Hugo says (to K), "Shoulda bought some of that, I guess." Hugo says (to Ghogg), "Heya." inky says, "I'd think you should be allowed some occasional flare-ups for free, though" K says (to Hugo), "Yup." Gunther asks (of ghogg), "got the final beta?" Kiz says (to inky), "yeah, they're all really deceptive about that. this site has been through three 'unlimited hits' deals, and each time they've explained about their traffic, been told it'll be fine, and then been evicted and threatened with fines." inky says, "bleah." inky says, "that's ridiculous." inky asks, "what site is it?" Steve slips away on the newly waxed floor. Please don't call me Reg - it's not my name. Jota asks (of inky), "Like X MB per , plus an extra 3X MB buffer over <5-20> ?" inky says (to Jota), "whatever, sure." (From Spatch) Kiz says, "The fact that it's hardcore porn is irrelevant, I think." Kiz says (to inky), "an x-files fiction archive. not sure if they're still around. latest home I know of was germany.gossamer.org" inky says, "ah, it is hardcore porn then." Kiz says, "indeed" Adam says, "Slow Wave is really good" markm wants to submit some of his dreams now. Gunther says, "tsd" Gunther says, "also, 'submit to'" Adam says, "HA! 'please give me back my normal head.'" inky blinks. (From Gunther) MM sings, "I wear this fucking mask / cos you can not handle me / Here is my real head!" Adam says, "The last one in Dec 97 has some relevance" mamster says, "Man, I love ciabatta." inky says, "lunch!" Adam says, "I made a ciabatta about a week ago" Adam says, "It was okay, but the 'Italian Bread' was more successful" Gunther says, "YM 'breed'" dfan says, "Yeah, Slow Wave is a lot of fun" mamster says, "Grand Central Ciabatta is a gift to the people of Seattle, and we should all throw panties at them." Ghogg says, "Must go." Ghogg waves. Ghogg goes home. This disconnect has been brought to you by Coke. mamster says, "Jeez, PowerPoint 98 for Mac has a naztee bug." Gunther asks, "It *runs* on a Mac?" mamster says, "Well, for certain values of 'runs'." mamster says, "If you do a Find, then for the rest of the session, every time you switch from PowerPoint to another app and then back, the Find window will pop back up." Adam says, "'I was entered into some donut-eating contest against celebrity dogs.'" NewsBoy hollers, "Extra! Extra! Hugo has posted message #15 to the bulletin board! Jaybird soon to be given WizBit!" Jota says (to mamster), "Clearly, this is the sort of thing that can only be discovered with *intensive* testing, which is well beyond the budget any software company is able to provide." mamster says (to Jota), "Of course." Hugo says, "All right, I'm on my way. Later, everyone." Jota asks (of Hugo), "Are you going to tell /.?" Hugo says (to Jota), "I did, under the 'Doesn't Work' thread. :)" Hugo waves. Hugo goes home. Hugo has disconnected from ifMUD. Limax says, "Pah." markm puts himself under the 'Doesn't Work' thread. mamster says, "Yay!" Ellison asks, "so Hugo's being charged because so many people are downloading his game and Hugo and what not?" markm says (to Ellison), "Or just visiting the page." mamster asks, "He's being charged with what?" Ellison says, "that totally sucks" markm says (to mamster), "He's being charged $0.10/Mb in transfer fees from his ISP." markm says, "(after the first 500 meg)" Ellison asks, "is that a monthly thing or what?" Adam says, "I thought it was $0.50" markm says, "He corrected it later." Adam says, "Ah" mamster says, "That's a lot of traffic. I'm jealous." markm says (to mamster), "Maybe you can convince him to make SH the official band of Hugo." Ellison says, "I guess he should get some sponsors or something... or find someplace better" Limax says, "Hm." markm says, "I have Sadie as my home page's official band, but the link is prolly way out of date." mamster says (to markm), "Well, I'm still in negotiations to make Sadie Hawkins the official band of the Alan Keyes campaign, which is much more lucrative, potentially." mamster says (to markm), "We have no page." markm sobs. Kiz asks, "port4000 broke?" Adam says, "Yes" mamster | Now, hold it RIGHT THERE. mamster | mamster | Democrats suck. Republicans suck. Red delicious apples suck. But the mamster | granny smith apple is the ideal to which all self-respecting apples should mamster | aspire, the crunchy, tart, juicy goodness that is Apple. mamster | mamster | Then again, I kind of like where this is leading. "That Ross Perot, he mamster | ain't no Rome Beauty." mamster | markm says, "heh" dfan says, "YAY! My Codex Seraphinianus arrived" mamster says, "Sadie Hawkins site is on hold pending band existing, although we'd still like to have control of sadie.retina.net back." Earendil asks (of dfan), "???" Earendil asks (of dfan), "where in the world did you find a copy??" (From markm) dfan says, "Now, at last, I can raise Ross Perot from the dead." mamster says, "My Codex Cornchex arrived, but I ate it." markm chuckles. (From Spatch) dfan says, "Now to summon a lesser demon and really have some fun!" dfan says (to Earendil), "http://moesbooks.com" Ivan says (to mamster), "Question for you." Ellison asks, "is Alan Keyes related to Deborah Keyes?" Earendil says (to dfan), "I thought it was nearly impossible to find" mamster says (to Ivan), "Shoot." Ivan asks (of mamster), "When you shipped stuff via UPS, did they pick up for you, or did you have to haul stuff to their location?" Adam says (to Ellison), "Read the bio" mamster says (to Ivan), "We hauled, but they'll pick up for $5." Ivan says, "Cool." mamster says, "We hauled because they said they would pack it. Turned out they lied, but whatever." Ivan says, "I gotta ship a computer to my dad." Gunther says (to dfan), "$435!?!?!?!?!?!" Earendil says (to gunther), "there are people that will pay more for it" Ellison says (to Adam), "oh, hehe... (and I had opened 'flowers' up just to get Deborah's name)" markm says, "If you haul it to Mailboxes Etc, they'll pack it for you." mamster says, "Mail Boxes does a shit packing job, though." dfan says (to Gunther), "Well, yeah." Gunther says (to dfan), "Madness!" dfan says (to Gunther), "Well, yeah." Earendil says (to gunther), "http://fatmac.ee.cornell.edu/~kevin/Codex/park.html" markm says, "South Codex Park" Earendil says, "in fact, the person that has the website I just mentioned is now having a romantic relationship with a good friend, who met him over the web" Gunther asks (of Earendil), "And this is?" Earendil says (to gunther), "pictures from the book that dfan bought" Gunther asks, "which is what?" You sent a kangaroo to do a man's work. Gunther says, "(what's in it?)" Steve 3:16 says I JUST STOLE YOUR UNDERPANTS. Earendil says (to gunther), "no one knows" Gunther says (to Earendil), "HA HA" Earendil says (to gunther), "I mean, the artist apparently invented his own entire language, maybe, and no one has ever deciphered it and he hasn't ever said if it really says anything, or what it says" Steve says, "re" Gunther asks (of ear), "So why in God's name would anyone pay $435 for it?" Earendil says (to gunther), "UT has a copy of it... some of the images are rather disturbing" Ellison asks, "wait, so why does the book cost so much?" Earendil says (to gunther), "it's quite rare and rather famous." thumper will make you - jump! jump! Daddy Mack'll make you - jump! jump! Earendil says (to ellison), "it was only printed once, in the 70s I think, by an Italian publisher..." dfan says, "Basically, it's an illustrated encyclopedia of an alien world, written in alien." Gunther asks, "also, 'disturbing images'?" Ellison asks, "if it has such a cult following, why hasn't there ever been a re-printing?" dfan says, "The author's a wacko" Kiz says, "this fish picture is quite cool" dfan says, "And there actually has been a reprinting. I think mine is from 1993 or something." (From Ellison) dfan says, "unfortunately, they only reprint five copies at a time." Earendil says (to ellison), "no idea... I heard about it when I was UT, in the 80s... we tracked down the book and looked through it... I've read about it a few times since. Hofstaeder mentions it in one of his books, I think I recall" Kiz says, "the date on this moes books thing is 93. but also says it was one of only 5000 printed" inky says, "I looked over at a cow-orker during lunch, and he was eating miss vickie's" inky says, "Zarf is big on the codex" Ivan says (to inky), "TSD. Very D." dfan asks (of inky), "Miss Vickie's what?" Earendil says (to dfan), "oh didn't know there was reprinting. The original run is very valuable" inky says, "I don't remember if he actually has one" Kiz says, "also says it's selling the Spanish edition" mamster says (to inky), "Yeah, my dad gets them near his office, or in his office, or something, but only plain, not salt and vin." inky says, "this one appeared to be salt and vinegar." inky says, "although I could be wrong." Spatch asks, "Is the codex alphabet translatable?" dfan says (to Spatch), "No one has." dfan says, "Clearly, someone needs to make piss and vinegar potato chips" dfan says (to Spatch), "I think someone figured out the number system though." inky says, "being in handwriting makes it trickier, of course." Gunther asks, "so, in other words, if I make up a language and write 500 pages of silly stuff, I can sell it for $400?" inky says (to Gunther), "if it's internally consistent, yeah." dfan says (to Gunther), "Right, just like you can write a novel and get a big advance just like Adam" Gunther says (to inky), "It's a four-dimensional geometric language, incomprehensible to normal humans." inky says, "I'm perfectly willing to believe that." Spatch says, "This is so cool." Ellison says (to Gunther), "also, like you can become a pRon star" Gunther shakes head in bewilderment. mamster says (to inky), "The S&V is a blue bag." lpsmith asks, "So has anyone who's like a professional linguist taken a crack at this?" mamster says (to inky), "If they are S&V, please ask where he got them." Spatch says (to gunther), "I don't think you have the requisite amount of whimsy in you for to pull something like this off." inky says (to mamster), "he got them from quizno's subs, 3rd and madison" mamster asks (of lpsmith), "Sure, don't all professional linquists take crack?" inky says (to mamster), "I don't remember if they were a blue bag, however." inky says (to Spatch), "well, either that, or when translated, all the pages would say "fuck you"" inky says, "also, "java sux"" Gunther says (to spatch), "how hard can it be? it's four-dimensional" Gunther says (to spatch), "So you can't see it anyway" mamster says (to inky), "Oh, great, thanks!" mamster says, "I like a Quizno anyway." dfan says, "Codex Schmidlinus" Adam says, "Schmidlinux is a frightening thought" dfan says, "When I see 'Schmidl', I keep on thinking someone was writing 'Schmidt' and forgot to cross the T" Gunther says, "haha" Gunther says (to Adam), "Hee" dfan says, "When I sign my name it looks kind of like Schmidl, actually" Gunther | Welcome to SchmidLinux 2.2.10 Gunther | FUCK YOU: Steve | I was also, for a brief time, a Mormon. But I Steve | switched back to Judaism because the food Steve | was better. Gunther says, "back later" inky says (to Steve), "well, duh." inky says, "bye gunther" dfan says, "He switches back to Mormonism on Yom Kippur" mamster says, "Mmm...kippers." dfan says (to mamster), "YM Yum, Kippers" mamster says, "Gar, lag." Limax found out that his rehearsal is being displaced next Sunday by the end of High Holy Days. mamster says (to dfan), "Of course." inky asks, "rehearsal?" Limax says (to inky), "We rehearse our handbell choirs on Sunday nights." inky asks, "handbell?" Limax says (to inky), "www.agehr.org" inky says, "hey, you got a website." Please don't call me Reg - it's not my name. You sent a kangaroo to do a man's work. Limax says (to inky), "It's a set of tuned bells that people ring. An extension of change-ringing of the middle ages." Limax says (to inky), "Yep." lpsmith was in a handbell choir for a while. It was fun. mamster says, "Hmm...my net connection has gone completely jelly." inky says, "ok, I know what change-ringing is." dfan says, "I used to play handbell, but I like squash better." Limax says (to lps), "I've been doing it for about 7 or 8 years... I've lost track." Limax says (to dfan), "Heh." inky says, "squesh" dfan says, "Also, it hurts like hell hitting that bell around a court with your bare hand" Limax falls over. lpsmith says, "No, but he's a dead ringer for the last guy." inky says, "yay" Limax says, "Huh." lurd says, "There has to be a priest/handbell joke in there somewhere." Limax says (to lurd), "Dig deep." Steve says (to Limax), "Eww." He shouts the alien epithet, "She likes me for me!" and hurls himself to certain death below. Rob walks into the room, sets down his backpack and a cup of coffee, and takes his usual seat. Limax says, "Hey Rob." (From lurd) Limax says, "With my carpal tunnel syndrome acting up my doctor told me one of my hand-activities had to go. I sure am going to miss those bells." Rob says, "hiya limax" lurd says, "Hey rob." Limax says (to lurd), "That's digging very deep." Rob says, "hey lurd" Limax says (to lurd), "Actually, I don't have CTS, but I do have RSI." Rob says, "I spent my lunch break going to talk to somebody, so now I'm eating a sandwich at my desk" inky says, "aw" Limax says, "Huh." Limax will be doing the same. Rob says, "So I went to see this guy who's about to start making a movie, because he wanted my help with it." Ivan says, "I just have DTs." Rob says, "And he was pitching the idea, which was written on a board" (From Ivan) Rob says, "He needed a monkey for a crucial scene. I volunteered." Rob says, "and he gets to this point marked with a star" Rob says, "and says, 'There's an action sequence here, in which the heroine is chased by corn pirates'" (From mamster) Rob says, "And he points and me and says, 'You! You're the star, baby!' mamster says, "Damn, once again reality wins big-time." Rob says, "and I burst out laughing" mamster says (to Rob), "That fucking rocks." Rob says, "later I said 'I want to see this movie just because it has corn pirates in it'" Rob says (to mamster), "I thought of you, man." inky asks, "what on earth are corn pirates?" Ivan asks (of Rob), "So what, in his definition, is a corn pirate?" Limax exclaims, "Yay!! Corn Pirates!" Rob says, "I still don't know!" Ivan says, "Maybe Alex does." inky says, "also, my favorite scene in corn dungeon is when the corn pirate takes your treasures to the center of the corn maze" Ivan asks (of Alex), "What's a corn pirate?" Alex says (to Ivan), "Awwwk! Sorry, Alex doesn't know anything about it. (Teach me with "..Alex a corn pirate is funny.")" lurd says, "I was a teenage corn pirate." Limax says, "That's almost as bad as me calling a 'Cave Giant' a 'Cage Giant' when I used to DM D&D." mamster says, "Hey, time for me to go home." Rob says, "this is supposed to be some sort of comedy action movie that will prove the viability of doing a special effects film using desktop computer techniques for very little money." mamster says, "Bye, homies." inky says, "bye mamster" Limax says, "Bye mamster" Ivan says (to Limax), "I was a giant of the Texas cage circuit." lurd says, "bye mamster" Limax exclaims (at Ivan), "Hooray!" mamster says (to Rob), "If it furthers the twin towers of corn and pirate, I'm all for it." mamster has disconnected. mamster has been seen around the monkey house with a ratchet. I'm almost absolutely certain that something will happen today. K-Y don't want your love, don't want your money. All he wants is the keys to your Ferrari. Steve | If I were manager of the Greeks, I think that I Steve | would play Pythagoras at first base, actually, Steve | instead of shortstop. That way he could Steve | engineer the apt yet elusive 3-4-5 double play. Steve | endpaste Gunther is tired of inventing new ohomemsgs, so you'll have to cope with this one. Why don't you try border-running between the Turkish and the Greek part of Cyprus? Slow response times will be the least of your problems. Steve says, "bleh" inky says (to Steve), "yay" Ivan says, "Towering corn pirates frighten me." Ivan says, "Also, they stole my cardigan." Limax asks, "So how do you get rid of corn pirates? Butter?" lpsmith says, "You assault them." inky says, "ow." Limax likes his corn pirates with a little butter and salt. Limax says (to lps), "Heh." lpsmith says, "Alt: They're too tough to tassle with." Limax falls over. dfan says, "But husky" Limax says, "This just amaizes me." dfan says, "Plus, you don't want to meet up with their Colonel." Rob says, "boo" lurd exclaims, "yay!" Limax says, "Huh." dfan gets mixed signals Earendil says, "you have to be very careful when stalking corn pirates, if you don't want them to ear you" lurd says (to dfan), "Rob is just jealous he didn't think of that one." Limax says, "Hm." Limax asks, "So, did anyone call the corn maze a 'maize maze'?" Earendil asks (of limax), "isn't that its name?" Steve says, "Only every single person in the world." Earendil asks, "amazing maize maze or something?" Limax says (to Earendil), "Could be." Limax says (to Earendil), "I don't know. They don't have corn mazes around here." lurd says, "Also, you get rid of corn pirates by stalking them." Earendil asks (of limax), "where's that?" Limax says, "SF Bay Area... at least I've never seen any advertised." Earendil says, "also, in Britain, they don't call that stuff corn, so they have to use "maize"" dfan says, "Oh, good, something else to tweak Marvin about" Earendil says, "an english corn maze would be pretty dull, with the walls only going about waist high" Rob is working on a pun on the word 'nibblet' dfan says (to Earendil), "Also, it would be English" Limax says, "I've heard about a haunted cornfield near Stockton, but I've never gone there." inky says (to Limax), "do so" inky says, "corn is pretty scary up-close anyway" Limax asks (of inky), "You've been to it?" inky says, "it's got these little leg like roots" inky says, "no" inky says, "er, leg-like roots" Earendil exclaims, "I have a dream, an ultimate ambition, that I hope will someday make me rich: ... (dramatic music).... Candy Corn on the Cob!!" inky says, "that protude above the ground as if the stalk is slowly pulling itself out ready to scuttle afterwards" Grocible has connected to ifMUD. Earendil says, "with an edible husk" Grocible rocks and his feet rock too. Oh, Grocible also enters the lounge. Grocible stumbles in. Limax says, "Hey Groc." Doe has connected to ifMUD. Kiz says, "hiya Groc" Grocible says, "Afternoon." Ivan exclaims, "Burning Mancible!" disappears in a flash of green and a scent of forest glen. Grocible says, "Dat's moi." lurd asks (of rob), "What's taking so long with the niblet thing?" Steve says, "Also, Bruching Shuttlegrocs." Steve says, "Er, Brunching" Steve pushes the button on the typo tally. Bing! Grocible says, "Steve: That's pretty good." inky says, "there has been a delay, but your niblets will be processed in the order received" Grocible says, "Man. I completely do not want to be here today." Ivan says (to Grocible), "We love you too." Limax says (to Grocible), "Me neither, but this is my only escape from work." Grocible says, "Ivan: Thanks!" Limax says, "And I'm kidding." Grocible says, "here=werk" Limax says, "I'd rather be on here than at work." Steve | Ninjas, robots, monkeys = funny. Ivan asks (of Grocible), "When'd you get home?" Grocible says, "Ivan: Late Saturday night." Grocible says, "I went to bed around 2 AM and woke up at around 5 PM." Limax says, "Yuck." Grocible says, "I'm so exhausted." Grocible says, "Burning Man was fucking terrific, and I had a good road trip thereafter." Grocible says, "Though I'm now really concerned about finances. I shouldn't have taken that road trip." Rob says, "good to hear" (From inky) Grocible says "I may have to start selling office supplies." Grocible says, "Good idea!" Grocible says, "Like laptops." lpsmith read that as 'fiancees' first. Grocible says, "I'm also very concerned about fiancees as well." Limax exclaims (at Groc), "I'll take one!" Steve says (to Groc), "Honestly, I don't remember the last time you mentioned spending any amount of money that you could actually afford to spend." Duchess has connected to ifMUD. Duchess is monkeyed into the room by a gaggle of gangly spirits. Grocible says, "Steve: There is that." Limax says, "Hey Duchess." Grocible says, "Steve: My problem this time around is not spending money I don't have. Rather it's spending money I should have saved for NZ." Duchess waves a greeting lpsmith says (to Groc), "When your bank blows up you'll worry less." Steve says, "The man has a point." Grocible says, "Indeed." inky says, "maybe you'll get lucky and NZ's currency will plunge" Grocible says, "Last year when I got back from Burning Man I got the usual post-burn wistfulness and melancholia. But I didn't desperately want to go back. Right now I really wanna go back." Kiz goes home. The skelter of Helter, in summer choke / The birds flew safe from radioactive fallout Steve says, "http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/press99/kabobs.html" K says (to inky), "Ha. I don't think it's going to plunge much further." Rob says, "hm, I did a lot of work this morning, and now I'm losing focus" Zrblm. Spatch says, "oh my oh my oh my. first edition Firesign Theatre Big Book of Plays for sale." andyf crawls out of the primeval ooze. andyf says, "Ka-glonk." inky says, "hey" boucher goes home. "Oh, for heaven's sake," said Prak and died testily. Steve asks (of Spatch), "How much?" Kiz wanders in, looking a bit dazed and brushing splinters off her clothes. Grocible says, "Hey Kizaroo." Kiz says, "me back" Spatch says (to steve), "$57.50 is their asking price, VG condition" andyf says (to Kiz), "Heya." Steve says, "Yow." Rob says, "Vaguely Ground-up" K goes home. K has disconnected from ifMUD. Grocible asks, "Also, today's only Monday, isn't it?" Rob says, "Vandalized by Gorillas" Rob says, "Urgh, yes." Grocible says, "The people I hung out with at BM this year frequent a certain club on Thursdays." andyf says (to Grocible), "Alas, yes." Grocible says, "It'd be groovy to see those folks again. Especially, of course, all the devastatingly cute chyx." inky asks, "are they in vancouver?" Grocible says, "Yeah." andyf says (to Grocible), "Well, then..." Grocible says, "Most already had boyfriends and none were interested in me. But they were all really cute and mostly very nice. So." Spatch asks (of groc), "So you had a good Burning Man time, then?" Grocible says, "Spatch: Fabulous time." Ivan says (to Grocible), "nancy's roommate went too." inky says, "in time you will be able to sk00l them in arts d'amour." Grocible says, "Ivan: Cool." "Your name isn't Mr. Pinkster. It's Mr. Stinkster." mcp enters and quickly changes his name to one character in protest of extremely long lounge odrops. (From Rob) Grocible says, "I still have this special lingering burning sensation." Grocible says, "Spatch: I had one of the best times I've had in years." inky says, "hey hey" Grocible says, "Last year I went alone, took photos, observed stuff, looked at art installations during the day, etc." mcp says, "hi. odropping in briefly" Grocible says, "This year I went alone, met up with a bunch of groovy folks, partied and consumed this and that all night, and slept during the day." (From Ivan) Grocible says, "This year I tripped my fucking head off and had orgies in the desert." Grocible says, "This year was therefore more fun." Grocible says, "Ivan: Sadly, no orgies." (From mcp) The Surgeon General warns that consumption of this and that is dangerous to your health. Spatch says (to groc), "Excellent! My pal KT went and she said she had a most marvelous time, too." andyf says (to Grocible), "Sounds fun. I think my cousin went this year." We both know what memories can bring... they bring diamonds and rust. Gunther falls from the floor into the lounge. Gunther says, "re" andyf says (to Grocible), "Maybe I'll go with her next year." Earendil goes home. Earendil has disconnected from ifMUD. Rob says, "Blah. Image I had in mind of this web page doesn't seem to want to turn into reality." andyf is intruigued by deserts. andyf says, "I've never been to one." inky says, "hmm" andyf says, "(unless you count the badlands in southern Alberta)." inky says, "oh, duh. I was in one in israel. that counts." "If you spend your whole time thinking about the universe, you tend to forget the less important bits of it. Like your pants." Sargent arrives from the east. Sargent says, "Hihi sociologists." mcp asks (of sarge), "hey. sociologist?" inky says, "heya" mcp asks (of everyone), "Did the MUD always put 'of' into question descriptions?" Gunther says, "no" Grocible says, "Back." Sargent says (to mcp), "Just a word beginning with 's'." inky says, "heya sarge" Grocible says, "Deserts are interesting." Gunther says, "yay!!" andyf says (to inky), "Heh. Yeah." Grocible says, "I seriously overexerted myself in Death Valley, hiking through the dunes." Gunther says, "http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=159114855" mcp mmhmms Grocible says, "When I got back I found that it was something like 45 degrees C. In the shade." inky says, "weh" Sargent says, "Wow." andyf says (to Grocible), "Yeesh. Sounds like a place to visit in the winter." Duchess is out. talk to you later Duchess says, "bye" andyf says (to Duchess), "See ya." Grocible says, "The high point of the day was something like 47-50 degrees, or around 120 degrees F." Sargent says, "Bye." Sargent says, "I highly recommend the card game "Set"." inky says, "mmhmm" inky says, "I like a set." mcp asks (of sarge), "is it anything like fluxx?" Sargent says (to inky), "Oddly enough, so does Thoth." Sargent says (to mcp), "Not really. I think you'd like it, what with the math and all." Limax says, "Bye Duchess." inky says, "I knew this conservative christian couple who played set instead of smoochin' while they were dating." Sargent says, "Ah. Here we go: http://www.contagiousdreams.com/Reviews/Set.html" inky says, "and today they're married, so." mcp says, "it looks familiar" lpsmith exclaims (at Sarge), "Yay Set!" lpsmith exclaims (at inky), "So it works!" inky says, "apparently, yeah." Ivan says (to inky), "Yay, set." Ivan says, "I've programmed Set." mcp bites his tongue not to make a bad pun lpsmith says (to mcp), "That's just your ESP kicking in." Ivan asks, "How did that come up?" schep exclaims, "Set? Cool!" andyf reads the page. Limax says, "I've never played Set." andyf says, "Hey, Set's just like one of the puzzles in System's Twilight." Ivan says (to Sargent), "I made a freeware version of Set several years ago." Sargent asks (of Ivan), "Freeware card game?" Ivan asks (of Sargent), "Yes?" schep has the deck, but no computer game. Good enough. Limax says, "It looks like fun." Sargent says (to Ivan), "No, I'm asking if you made a card version or computer." Ivan says (to Sargent), "Mac only. Later, I did a web-based version." Ivan says (to Sargent), "Ah. Electronic." schep says (to Limax), "Very addicting." Ivan says (to Sargent), "The web version was done in an old version of Shockwave that isn't supported anymore. I need to update it." Grocible says, "Heh. Coworker commenting on my hair." inky asks (of Groc), ""uuugly"?" Grocible says, "His name is Aleks and he's from East Germany or somewhere - "You vill have female troubles. It looks better zan normal."" schep says, "And the strangest thing seems to be that the average 5-year-old can regularly beat the average adult, once both learn the rules." Adam asks (of NeilK), "Menopause?" andyf says (to Grocible), "Heh." inky says (to Groc), "his name is Aleks, and he vants cork nuttes" Alex awwwks. "Want cork nut!" Grocible says, "Adam: Bloating." Grocible says, "Or rather, water retention." Adam says, "Okay, I don't like 'of'." Gunther says (to Adam), "Me neither" Grocible asks, "Of?" andyf is trying to picture a blond Grocible. lpsmith says (to Adam), "I thought I'd give it a go, but I don't think I like it either." Adam asks, "Actually, is there a saymode setting where I can always 'say' stuff? Even questions?" Gunther asks (of Groc), "of?" Gunther asks, "see?" mcp says, "ewwww. set and fluxx have both won awards frommensa." andyf asks, "Odd image. Is there a pic anywhere?" Grocible says, "Oh, OK." (From mcp) 4 out of 5 elitist snobs play Set! Gunther says, "also, 'exclaims (at...)" Gunther says, "'" Grocible says, "I took some photos of myself with a wide-angle lens to record the historic moment." Sargent says (to mcp), "They're still good." lpsmith says, "If we're gonna change stuff, I'd say just make it "Foo asks bar, "question?" "" Grocible says, "I also stood in front of a Joshua tree, so perhaps I should convert the image to grainy black and white and make it an album cover." Come on let's go and find ourselves a frog. Boy, will I ever see them in a new light! inky says, "mensa isn't all that elitist" boucher arrives from the east. mcp says (to sarge), "of course. heck, they'd still be good if nazis recommended it" Sargent says (to inky), "Yeah, they'll let anyone in." Limax says, "Shit... I'm starting to get the 'You're too old to change jobs' routine." Grocible asks, "inky: If it's not elitist then what is it?" Ivan asks (of Grocible), "That's a stupid idea. Who would ever do that?" Sargent says (to inky), "Unless you don't do well on standardized tests." Grocible says, "Ivan: Good point." schep resets the Godwin counter for the mud. inky says, "I didn't say it wasn't elitist. But it's not any more elitist than, say, the mud, or any of the mailing lists I'm on" Grocible says, "inky: That doesn't make much sense." (From dfan) inky says, "Like the mensa list I'm on" I was dropping a lightbulb one day, and it hit a desk and busted. (From Gunther) inky says, "iq200andmore@elitlist.net" Grocible says, "I thought you had to provide some evidence that you'd scored a certain score on an IQ test for them to let you in." Sargent says (to inky), "Really? It seems to me that Mensa has an additional requirement besides 'find out about us and the joining procedures'." Duchess goes home. Duchess has disconnected from ifMUD. Grocible says, "Whereas we let any idiot join the MUD." inky says (to Sargent), "yeah, but so do we" inky says, "even if it's not explicit" Sargent asks, "?" Jaybird suddenly appears from out of everywhere! Gunther asks (of inky), "liking monkeys?" Adam asks, "Does 'pradesh' mean 'state'?" Jaybird exclaims, "Wow, full mud today!" Grocible says, "Adam: Yeah." Grocible says, "Or something like that." Grocible says, "Himachal Pradesh." dfan says (to inky), "Well, you have to basically just not be a jerk." inky says (to dfan), "mmhmm" dfan says, "And even they stick around." inky says, "heh" Gunther says, "and even total j... yeah" Grocible says, "Uttar Pradesh is another one, I think. But I didn't go there." dfan says (to Gunther), "FUCK YOU" Gunther says (to dfan), "I disagree. Fuck YOU!" inky says, "perhaps I'm fuzzing the issue by conflating people who aren't allowed to stay with people who choose not to stay" Grocible says, "Better than inflating them, I suppose." Gunther says, "do u like the mud circle one ()yes ()no ()dunno" Sargent says (to inky), "Yeah, you're mixing up elitist with snobbery." Limax says (to Gunther), "Depends if there's water or not." inky says, "heh" (From dfan) Sargent says (to inky), "You dimwit." Jaybird says (to dfan,Gunther,Inky,others), "Hi." Limax says, "Hey JB." Gunther says (to Jaybird, nobody else), "Hi." Limax removes his pressure suit, and explodes into millions of pieces. dfan mutters (to himself) Grocible says, "Hrm. Rhys (Nettwerk artist) is buying himself a flat-panel display." Gunther asks, "Fulber?" Grocible says, "Yeah." Gunther says, "Yay" Grocible says, "He's lugging gear around to record vocals for his new album, and he says he's tired of hauling big monitors." Gunther says, "Also, Rhys is A Cool Name." Grocible says, "I suggested he buy the new Apple Cinema Display, but he balked at $5K US." Grocible asks, "Or is it $4K?" (From Spatch) Grocible says, "Also, porn looks incredible on one of those things." dfan | - Oranges are better than apples. dfan | - Orange juice is better than apple juice. dfan | - All the bands with "Orange" in their names are better than all the dfan | bands with "Apple" in their names. mcp says, "bbl" mcp goes home. "Said one student, 'I'm still going to eat junk food. I'm a kid.'" Adam scratches his head Jaybird asks (of alex), "What's new?" Alex says (to Jaybird), "Lately, people have taught me about No cork nut right now. We, /., slashdot, and a corn pirate." Adam asks, "There's a Smashing Orange and a Green Apple Quick Step, yes?" Grocible says, "Fiona Apple." Grocible says, "She isn't a band, though." Grocible says, "There's an Agent Orange, I think." Jaybird asks, "Hey when was that change made to the mud?" inky says (to Jaybird), "today" Gunther says, "eeeagh!!" Gunther | According to the merchandise webstore Hot Topic explained in their Noise section of the site. The Fragile will consist of slightly different versions of songs on each of the vinyl, cassette and CD copies of the disc. andyf says (to Grocible), "There's Rhymes With Orange." Steve says, "The Apples in Stereo are far better than, say, Orange 9mm." dfan says, "There's a Blood Oranges, I think" andyf says, "Oops, gotta go." andyf waves andyf goes home to sulk. Back to the primordial soup with you, buddy! Grocible says, "Oh yeah. Rhymes with Orange." dfan says (to Steve), "I can never remember which of those bands I've heard." Jaybird goes southwest to play with toys. Jaybird arrives from the Toyshop, landing in a heap after being flung from the Sit 'n' Spin. Grocible says, "This Handspring Visor thing sounds interesting." Steve asks (of dfan), "Which Elephant 6 bands, you mean?" inky asks (of Groc), "?" Limax enters from the west. Limax says, "That's better." Grocible says, "It's the Palm OS handheld made by the company started by the two people who founded Palm, then left." dfan says (to Steve), "Yeah. The Apples In Stereo, Neutral Milk Hotel, Olivia Tremor Control, etc." Grocible says, "http://macweek.zdnet.com/1999/09/05/newvisor.html" Jaybird asks (of inky), "So did you change anything else or are you even responsible for the 'asks of' change?" inky says (to Jaybird), "markm put in "of" and then Jota put in "exclaims at"" inky says (to Jay), "I think we may be changing back." Gunther says (to inky), "YAY!" inky says, "all I did was fix alex to not break on them" Steve says (to dfan), "Hmm. I've heard just about all of them, I believe." Grocible says, "Well I don't mind the "of" myself. Though I don't care one way or the other." dfan says, "I think it should be 'near' instead of 'of'" Steve says, "Wait, I haven't heard Beulah." Steve says, "Or however that's spelled." Adam | Q) Why won't the gujju jeweler sell anything to the UP ka bhayiya? Adam | A) The bhayiya kept giving gujju a bunch of hair each time the gujju Adam | asked for KESH. Jaybird asks (of limax), "So did you or are you ever gonna get more space for Floyd?" dfan says (to Adam), "Try rot13" Adam says, "Racist humor is someone less funny when you've never heard of the ethnic group involved" Adam says, "somewhat" Adam says, "I cannot type today" Sargent says, "Much humor is less funny when you don't know the subjects involved." Gunther says (to dfan), "Try ROTFL. Actually, no." Gunther says (to Groc), "Sounds interesting indeed." Adam | Many moons ago, the first time I went to McDonald I did not Adam | know what was meant by the phrase "to go" ( which means to take the Adam | food away and not eat there ). The girl at the counter asked me "to Adam | go?" and I thought she was asking me to leave! Adam | I was upset and retorted " I have come here to eat, why should Adam | I go?" It took some explaining on both sides before I could place my Adam | order. Grocible asks, "Adam: UP being Uttar Pradesh?" Adam says (to NeilK), "Maybe -- don't really know" inky says (to Adam), "yay" Grocible says, "When I was in India HP was sometimes Himachal Pradesh." Grocible says, "And not a computer/calculator/etc firm or a brand of sauce." Adam | The reply to "Thank you" is "You are welcome" and not "Mention Adam | not". But if you say thanks to someone like a sales girl, she is more Adam | likely to say "Uh-ha". Grocible says, "The way Indians sort of shake their heads to mean "yes" is very odd initially." Ivan says, "I frequently say uh-ha to mean thank you." Gunther says, "mhmmm" (From lurd) Gunther says, "I frequently say uh-ha to mean FUCK YOU!" Jaybird says (to gunther), "On the subject of old games, specifically Dungeon, have you ever noticed that some Unix system's Dungeon, probably the one ported to Fortran IV then to C, probably isn't the complete version? Zdungeon, for one, which was taken from the original MDL sources at MIT, had a mat at the start location, but the one on at least some Unix systems doesn't." Grocible asks, "You mean sort of "uh-huh"?" Gunther says (to Lurd), "No, I say "FUCK YOU" to mean "FUCK YOU". Also, fuck you." lurd says (to gunther), "uh-ha" (From Gunther) Puff Daddy says (to Lurd), "Aha. Yeah." At the BASEBALL game the ORIOLES won. DYTIE and HOLLY and KIZ were all happy. NEILD was cranky. Grocible says, "Ivan: http://www.applefritter.com/hacks/dlz3/" Ivan says (to Grocible), "Yeah, someone showed me that today." Ivan says (to Grocible), "Pretty neat." Grocible says, "It's cute." Ivan says (to Grocible), "It'd fit the ambience of my place. I'd buy one." Gunther asks, "what is it?" Adam | Use of horn (also known as the sonic fender or aural amulet): Adam | Adam | Cars (IV,1,a-c): Adam | Adam | 1.Short blasts (urgent) indicate supremacy, IE in clearing dogs, rickshaws and pedestrians from path. Adam | 2.Long blasts (desperate) denote supplication, IE to oncoming truck: "I am going too fast to stop, so unless you slow down we shall both die". Adam | In extreme cases this may be accompanied by flashing of headlights (frantic). Adam | 3.Single blast (casual) means: "I have seen someone out of India's 870 million whom I recognise", "There is a bird in the road (which at this Adam | speed could go through my windscreen)" or "I have not blown my horn for several minutes." Jaybird says, "And I guess with the release of Zdungeon we have come full circle. The Zmachine was originally invented so that Zork could be implemented in a small space. Granted, Z5 wasn't out yet so Infocom couldn't implement the whole thing in, hehe." Ivan says (to Gunther), "Mac 7600 mounted in an old radio cabinet." Adam says, "Hmm -- that was too long a paste for what really is only funny at the very end" Gunther says (to Adam), "Also, TSD" Grocible says, "Driving in India is pretty wacky." Spatch says (to adam), "Dave Barry had a distilled version of that joke when he said New York drivers honk their horn for one of three messages: 1. The light is green. 2. The light is red. 3. This vehicle is equipped with a horn." Adam says (to Spatch), "Hee hee hee" Gunther says, "Ah, the famous New York Second, the shortest span of time known to the universe." Adam says, "My grandfather was killed in an auto accident in India before I was born" Grocible says, "The last day I was there I needed to take a trip to Old Delhi or somewhere very quickly." Grocible says, "So a friend and I hopped into an autorickshaw." Gunther says, "The time period between "the light turns green" and "the taxi behind you blasts the horn"" inky asks (of Groc), "a what?" Grocible says, "And went at insane speeds down twisty streets. It should have been terrifying but it was actually kind of exhilarating." Gunther says (to inky), "motorized rickshaw" Gunther says, "i'd guess" Ivan says, "The only trouble with autorickshaws is how hard it is to get the sandwiches out of the little windows as they whiz down the street." Spatch says (to ivan), "That was obscure and cryptic, but satisfying." Ivan exclaims (at Spatch), "Yaay!" inky says, "I don't get it." Rob says, "automat jokes?! sheesh" inky says, "perhaps because I am a bad person" inky says, "oh." Rob says, "Ivan1953 dazzles you with his humor" (From Spatch) Ivan1953 says, "I knew he was a commie cause he wasn't wearing a hat!" Rob says, "heh" Rob says, "I feel like when you get an MST3K joke that goes over everyone else's heads in the room" markm says, "I'm old enough to have eaten in an automat." inky says, "Hatless Commies" Gunther says (to markm), "Nowadays, they're called "McDonald's"" inky asks, "so automats are not the same thing as vending machines?" Rob says, "Sort... of." markm says, "There's a SF show on our PBS channel called 'Space Station Unity'. They've got an automat on board." dfan says (to inky), "Oh, good god, no." Gunther asks (of inky), "Have you seen DARK CITY?" Spatch says (to inky), "automats were constantly replenished. fully-functional kitchens and all." inky says (to Gunther), "nuh-uh" Gunther says, "Hmm." markm says (to inky), "Automats are what you put under your feet in your car." Gunther says, "There's one in that film" inky asks (of Spatch), "like, built-in automatic kitchens?" Gunther says (to markm), "Hee!" markm says (to inky), "Imagine P.O. Boxes, with glass covers." Gunther says (to inky), "Like tons of little boxes, all alike, behind each of which is fresh food. You insert coin, open flap, eat." markm says (to inky), "And you put money in to open them." Ivan says (to inky), "Like vending machines, but the kitchen is hidden behind a wall of them." inky asks, "do people work in the kitchen?" Ivan says, "Yes." Gunther can take a quick screenshot in a few minutes. markm says (to inky), "And instead of postal workers, you have kitchen people back there putting stuff in the boxes." inky says, "so it really is just like mcdonald's" Rob says, "hm, some sort of spasmic arm motion just threw water all over the place" Ivan says (to inky), "Except that they served a wider variety of food." Gunther says (to inky), "only there's no waiter to take the order" Gunther says, "or clerk, or whatchamaycallit" Ivan says (to inky), "Any sort of thing you could get in a diner." Limax says (to Gunther), "Watchamacallit is a candy bar." Gunther says (to limax), "...#" Limax asks (of Gunther), "Hm?" Rob says, "Shee, I remember when that was a new candy bar that they were heavily promoting to introduce it." Gunther says (to limax), "mis-spelled '...'" Limax says (to Rob), "So do I." Limax says (to Gunther), "Ah." Spatch says, "How's it go? Bauzendu. [sp?]" Limax says (to Rob), "If I remember correctly, it's now a defunct candy bar." Rob says, "I'm sure spatch remembers it too..." Gunther says, "This is an EX-candy bar" dfan asks, "Whatchamacallits are gone??" Rob says, "bereft of life, it rests in peace" Limax liked the taste of them. Rob says, "I only ate one or two of them, despite the heavy ad campaign" Limax says (to Rob), "I waited until the ad campaign was over." Ivan says, ""Watchamacallit is still available." Limax asks (of Ivan), "Is it?" markm says, "They still show up in our vending machines once and a while." Spatch says, "i've enjoyed Whatchamacallit bars in the recent past." markm says, "Of course, this is Iowa, so." Limax says (to markm), "'nuff said." Adam says, "They put caramel in it around 1990" Adam says, "My favorite US candy bar, Bar None, seems to be defunct" Sargent says, "Pictures of Sargent at this fall's physics picnic: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~fr/picnic/p2.jpg and p4.jpg." Rob asks, "whatchamacallit was a Hershey product, wasn't/isn't it?" Kiz says (to Sarge), "but do they bounce? that's the real question" Sargent says, "The real answer is: no." Kiz sobs inky says, "I don't recognize you without your jaw moving up and down" Spatch says, "I think Bar None was also a Hershey product, too" dfan says, "I've been sort of ambivalent about candy bars, recently" Limax says (to Spatch), "Yes." Grocible says, "The worst part of being the US for me this time was the dearth of decent chocolate bars in convenience stores." dfan asks, "Do they still make Skor?" Limax says, "I think it was Bar None that I enjoyed...." Kiz asks (of Sarge), "also, eeeagh! hanging from ropes is a typical picnic activity for you?" Grocible says, "Of course all my BM compadres were gasping for Canadian cigarettes." Grocible says, "Next time I'll take a carton or two of Canadian smokes, to trade for sexual favours or something." inky asks, "there's a difference?" dfan says (to Grocible), "s/for/after smoking/" Limax asks (of Spatch), "Bar Nones are no longer made, yes?" inky asks, "after smoking sexual favors?" Limax says (to dfan), "Yes. I rememeber seeing Skor recently." inky says, "eeeagh! none bar!" inky has disconnected. inky talks in his new tongue language. The wrench is fine for hybrids and monkeys but not that useful with exploding cyborgs. inky says, "wait, that doesn't work" Spatch says (to limax), "I'm not sure if Bar Nones are gone. hee, inky." dfan says, "I think all chocolate bars should be slightly refrigerated." Sargent says (to Kiz), "No, but there was a rope available at the after-picnic party. c.f. pic1.jpg" Sargent says, "er, p1.jpg" Adam says, "p4 needs a speech bubble saying, 'Welcome to my Ha-Hacienda, Batman!'" K-Y decides that he'll just be going now. I'm almost absolutely certain that something has happened today. inky says (to Adam), "yay" Spatch asks, "Is that Andy Richter on the right?" markm says, "Andy Rooney." Adam says (to dfan), "I have started putting chocolate in the fridge rather than the cupboard" Sargent says, "no, but Mike does bear a strong resemblance to him." dfan says, "Unfortunately it makes it a little harder to taste." Adam says (to dfan), "Right, but that just means you leave it out for five minutes before digging in" Adam says, "Whereas if it's soft and you throw it in the fridge, it's no good" Grocible says, "inky: Also, yeah. Autorickshaw is a kind of three-wheeled motorbike thing with a canopy over it. There's room for two people to sit crammed in at the back." inky asks (of Groc), "speaking of photos, do you have photos of mjr anywhere?" Grocible says, "No." Grocible says, "I took a snapshot of Mike, Bonnie and Chris at their (Chris 'n' Bonnie's) house, but I haven't developed the roll yet" Gunther says, "yay" Grocible says, "I fear the photo may not have come out at all, but we'll see." inky says, "oy" Gunther says, "MJR CAN NOT BE PHOTOGRAPHED" Sargent says (to Grocible), "You'll discover that his image cannot be captured on film." Grocible says, "The living room was a bit dark, and I had no flash on the camera." Grocible says, "Here's a typical photo of an autorickshaw: http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/stanmer/394/_autorickshaw.html" Grocible says, "You'll notice it's painted in black and yellow. Taxis in India are always painted black and yellow." inky says, "that looks terrifying" Grocible says, "You get used to it. :)" Grocible says, "They zip around Indian cities at insane speeds, weaving in and out of traffic." Grocible says, "Producing foul clouds of smoke." Gunther lags horribly. BIAB Gunther is tired of inventing new ohomemsgs, so you'll have to cope with this one. Set the world on fire / Then you will be free Grocible says, "And they're really noisy." Pretending to guide me, you led me astray / I will never sway Gunther falls from the floor into the lounge. Gunther says, "Aaah... much better" Adam looks at the picture Adam says, "My goodness" Adam says, "I'm coughing already" Grocible says, "Of course you then have to haggle with the driver about fares." Gunther says, "no... this won't do. see you tomorrow" Gunther waves. Grocible says, "Though it's supposed to be on a meter like a regular taxi." Rob says, "Argh." lurd says, "I think I have cookie crumbs in my mouse. As I roll it, this horrible crunching noise comes out." Limax asks (of lurd), "You're feeding your mouse?" Rob says, "#html + #rant = #GRrRr" Limax says (to Rob), "Heh." Grocible says, "I like this page." Grocible says, "http://www.sover.net/~toml/indiadir.html" Grocible says, ""If you offer a direction, he may simply confirm it, relieved that he doesn't have to reveal his ignorance of what you're talking about, or simply glad to give you pleasure by reassuring you about your correctness, when you are really headed completely wongly!" Rob says, "I make a table on a blank page, and the table and cell widths I'm entering are having seemingly random effect. The only thing not random is that it is always wrong." inky says (to Groc), "this sounds like an IF game" Sargent says, "Losing Your Grip 2: Headed Wongly" dfan | I'm on a mission. I'm trying to compile a list of all the songs with dfan | the word 'monkey' in them. Grocible says, "It definitely fits with my experience." Grocible says, "Indian perception of directions and such does not mesh with Western conceptions thereof." Grocible says, "Which leads a lot of Western travellers to think that India is full of liars." Rob says, "even the Beatles had a song with the word 'monkey' in it" Grocible says, "But it's obviously more complicated than that." dfan | Sorry, only "monkey," not ape, gorilla, chimpanzee, babboon, or anything else that's related. Monkey must be used in the song, not just the title. dfan exclaims, "Here's his collection: http://www2.crosswinds.net/~abdominalyeti/monkey.html" Grocible says, "inky: that page does contain an IF reference, btw." MARA gave DYTIE her usual warnings. DYTIE and his CAT, HOLLY, then left the building to go see BASEBALL -- DYTIE's favorite game! Along the way they met KIZ and NEILD. inky asks, "twisty passages?" You hear a strange, distant "Boing" BoingBall is my favourite... ah, forget it. I got nothin here. Rob asks, "Genesis - Tonight, Tonight, Tonight'?" Grocible says, "inky: Well he was close." ddyte runs back to the left field wall and makes a phenomenal catch! BoingBall says, "yo" inky says, "hey hey" Grocible asks, "Speaking of Genesis, I did mention Phil Collins' daughter at BM, yes?" lurd says, "hey bb,dd" markm says, "OK, time to go home." markm says, "Later." Limax says (to markm), "Bye" inky says, "byebye" lurd says, "bye" markm does a spit-take, falls over backwards, trips on a banana peel, and disappears. He sinks back into the ground from whence he came. BoingBall says, "by"" lurd says, "actually, I'm going home too. bye" lurd goes home. Hungry? Try Our Double Meat (only $ .99 extra). Hugo has connected to ifMUD. Limax says, "Damn." Hugo appears in a flash of blue light, and then flashes you. Grocible says, "Hey Hugo. I took a photo for you on the road." BoingBall asks, "Is there some sort of in-joke connected with lurd's disconnect?" Rob says, "hm, it's Netscape that's drawing the table wrong." Grocible says, "It's a freeway exit sign pointing to HUGO." Rob asks, "Phil Collins' daughter was at BM?" ghira has connected to ifMUD. Grocible says, "Rob: She was part of my camp yeah." Hugo asks (of Grocible), "Was I anywhere nearby?" ghira runs into the room, waving its arms wildly and warning everyone about the Terror of TOFU! ghira says, "evening" inky says, "hey" Grocible says, ""In Japan, audiences like to leave a movie and go "Huh? I didn't understand that. I must see the film again and pick up on what I missed the first time." In America, if that happens to an audience, the reaction is "Huh? I didn't understand that. It must e a total pile of shit."" ghira asks, "how do I write on the bulletin board?" BoingBall says (to ghira), "hi" Grocible says, "Hugo: I dunno." ddyte says, "In Australia, we just throw stuff at the screen." Jaybird goes home. Jaybird has disconnected from ifMUD. How unseemly! Grocible says, "Adam: http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com/display.cgi?id=4341" ghira says, "groc: ta" Papaya. Rory fails to spot a black helicopter. ghira says, "gunther tells me people here have been asking him for hints on the Phoenix games. I'm probably the person to ask. I'll put a message on the bb about this, I suppose" Rory says, "hey" inky says, "hi" Rob asks, "Ahr, what's wrong with Netscape?" Limax says, "Hello" NewsBoy hollers, "Extra! Extra! ghira has posted message #16 to the bulletin board! If you don't want to read the paper, use it to wrap your fish!" NewsBoy hollers, "Extra! Extra! ghira has posted message #17 to the bulletin board! Insert a naughty double entendre here!" ghira says, "hmm..." BoingBall says (to ghira), "I read a thing in New Scientist Feedback about the Cambridge U. Phoenix system" ghira says, "hadn't realised the whole message had to be in one line" inky says, "try bb del = 16" Hi! I'm Ed Winchester! Dilbon shines! ghira says, "bb: "help god"" Ivan says (to Grocible), "In America, the audience is usually right about that." inky says (to Ivan), "heh" BoingBall says (to ghira), "Yup. :)" ghira says, "boing: yes, I remember "help god". there was also "help sex", "help bus" and some other odd ones" Adam says (to NeilK), "Sorry" BoingBall asks (of Dilbon), "Fast Show Night?" Dilbon says, "Evening." ghira says, "inky: thanks" Adam says (to NeilK), "Don't want to read anything about it before I see it" Dilbon says (to Boing), "Well, Fast Show rocks.^" BoingBall says, "They dropped Ed Winchester pretty fast, though" Dilbon says, "He got repetitive." Dilbon says, "On the other hand, everything is." BoingBall says, "That's part of the joke, with most of them" ddyte says, "Most of the Fast Show is repetitive, yeah. I found it hilarious at first viewing, less so every time since." BoingBall says, "The Fast Show Live video's pretty good though" ghira says, "dilbon: Ed Winchester was a better idea than some of the stuff in series 3. e.g. the Duke of Wherever in girls schools, and that vampire thing, and Dave Angel, eco-warrior" Dilbon says, "I sort of liked that Duke." BoingBall says, "I was surprised to see Johnny Depp though..." Kiwi. Papaya. Rory types in 'lounge', not realizing that he is already here! Rory is obviously confused. Please be kind to him. Dilbon says, "I'm allergic to kiwi." ghira says, "dilbon: the Duke wasn't as bad as the vampire or Dave Angel, at least." Dilbon says, "Dave Angel was a bit boring, yes. And that Arthur Atkinson or whateve.r" Rory says (to dilbon), "i was on your webpage" BoingBall says, "I'm looking forward to Monty Python night in October" Dilbon says (to Rory), "Not a lot of interesting stuff there." Rory asks (of bb), "what's Monty python night?" ghira says, "dilbon: Arthur Atkinson was ok once" ddyte says, "I liked Arthur Atkinson's unsuccessful sitcom, Blame Arthur." BoingBall says (to Rory), "In Britain." Dilbon says, "Maybe I just didn't get it." ghira says, "dilbon: I don't like Colin Hunt much either." BoingBall says, "I think it'll be sold to other countries at some point though" Rory says (to b), "ah. i love Monty python" ghira says, "dilbon: Janine is good. Also Ralph and Ted, until the bit with the moped." Rory says (to dil), "i heard your'e in the army" Dilbon asks, "Is Ralph gay and in love with Ted?" Dilbon says (to Rory), "I was five years ago." ghira says, "dilbon: obviously" BoingBall says (to Dilbon), "Yup" Ivan says, "I loved George Carlin's bit in Ralph and Ted's Excellent Adventure." Dilbon says (to Rory), "I think I need a more recent pictur." BoingBall says, "My favourite bits are Chanel 9 and the old guy who talks gibberish" Spatch says (to ivan), "STATION!" ghira says, "truckload of interesting cheeses" Dilbon says, "Chanel 9 was great at the beginning." Rory asks (of dil), "oh. What's with the crackers for the backround?" Gunther is tired of inventing new ohomemsgs, so you'll have to cope with this one. Set the world on fire / Then you will be free Dilbon says (to Rory), "I scanned one cracker. Ate it afterwards." Rory laughs BoingBall says, "Halepa rata, ethethethethethethetheth, Chris Waddle." ghira says, "sminky pinky" BoingBall says, "full of meaty goodness" Spatch says, "goddammit, I want a drawing tablet." ghira says, "right. I can't focus on the screen any more, so I should probably go" Dilbon asks (of ghira), "Tired? Sloshed?" BoingBall says (to ghira), "To say something (to someone), try .. [string]" Limax says, "Our receptionise just delivered the latest issue of Game Week to my desk." inky asks, "game week?" Limax says, "s/e/t" ghira says (to boing), "sorry, I keep forgetting" ghira says (to dilbon), "tired. plus optician told me today that my left eye has strange stuff forming in it" Dilbon says, "Yikes." BoingBall says, "You should get a better optician" Limax says (to inky), "Insider's newsmagazine for electronic games." Kiwi. Papaya. ghira says (to dilbon), "quite" Rory types in 'lounge', not realizing that he is already here! Rory is obviously confused. Please be kind to him. ghira asks (of boingball), "a better optician wouldn't tell me about it?" Rory says, "igot disconnected" BoingBall says, "A better optician would be more specific than 'strange stuff'" ghira says (to boingball), "the optician was more specific than that" BoingBall says, "oh, right" Dilbon says, "Strange stuff is accurate enough for most of us." ghira says (to dilbon), "quite" BoingBall goes southwest to play with toys. BoingBall arrives from the Toyshop, pants full of Monopoly money. ghira says (to boingball), "more to the point, optician said that there's nothing that can be done about it, since current problem caused by the stuff is quite minor, and the things which could in theory be done to clean it out would all do too much damage for it to be sensible now. remedies should only be considered several years down the road when they're less bad than larger amounts of stuff" Kiz goes home. ghira says, "anyway. I'm off" ghira says, "ttfn" ghira goes home. ghira has disconnected from ifMUD. BoingBall says, "I've gotta go now" inky says, "byebye" Limax says, "Bye, BB." BoingBall goes home. BoingBall explodes messily. Be our guest, be our guest, put our @boot skills to the test. Steve slips away on the newly waxed floor. Please don't call me Reg - it's not my name. Guest1 arrives from the east. Limax says, "Hey Guest." Guest1 says, "hello" Sargent says, "Oh gosh." Limax asks (of Sarge), "What?" The skelter of Helter, in summer choke / The birds flew safe from radioactive fallout Sargent says, "I've started testing some of the competition games that have already been sent to me." Sargent says, "I believe I've found this year's Commute." Sargent says, "I can say no more." Guest1 says, "Heh. Also, damn -- no more anonymous guesting :)" Grocible says, "You're jeopardizing the contest, Sarge!" Limax says (to Sarge), "Oh... I thought you found major bugs." Kiz wanders in, looking a bit dazed and brushing splinters off her clothes. Guest1 clicked the wrong link in Pueblo. Limax says, "Hey Kiz" Guest1 says, "also, bye" Limax says (to Sargent), "Also, I don't understand the reference." Limax says, "Bye, Guest." Sargent says (to Limax), "Go play Commute! from the 98 comp." Limax says (to Sarge), "Okay." Adam says, "Then reset your system clock." Sargent says, "Then reset -- yeah." Limax asks (of Adam), "Huh?" inky says, "commute set the computer clock to the game-time" Grocible says, "Wow. Normally I don't like caesar salads, but I'm totally enjoying the one I'm eating now." Limax says, "Oh... what a dastardly thing to do." Sargent says, "And then a cop would pull your computer over." Limax says (to Groc), "Yay, I think." Hugo says, "Soylent Caesar." The skelter of Helter, in summer choke / The birds flew safe from radioactive fallout Grocible says, "I'm eating freshly barbecued tuna with a caesar salad. Which I bought from a barbecued fish place down by Granville Island - out in the glorious sunshine." Grocible says, "So there are some positive aspects to being back in Vancouver." Spatch goes home. I asked Finley what kind of lint is available to a culture without dryers. For once he had no answer, and so we moved on. Grocible says, "I really hope this weather holds up for neild's visit." Kiz is no longer homeless :D ddyte says, "Yay!!!" Grocible says, "Kiz: woohoo!" inky asks, "because you're in neild's place?" Kiz says, "very happy me :)" (From ddyte) Grocible says, "I hope it rains like hell for Kiz and ddyte tho. I hate them." Grocible asks, "New cardboard box?" Limax exclaims (at Kiz), "Yay!!!" Kiz says (to inky), "well, that, but I now have someplace to go after neil gets back :)" Grocible says, "dd: No need to hope." Kiz says, "nice 2br share in Chelsea" Adam says (to NeilK), "In NYC, that'd be $1100/month" Kiz says (to Adam), "plus first month, last month, and 15% broker's fee" Adam asks, "What is 'share'?" inky says (to Adam), "you don't get the house, just every other foot" Grocible says, "Adam: It's what friends do." ddyte says, "Someone else lives in another room." Grocible says, "Man. The whole broker fee bullshit is just gross." Kiz says, "I have a roommate. She's nice--works at another mag. my publisher used to run. She has the other bedroom." Adam says, "Ah" Grocible says, "Here's me not moving to NYC or Boston." dfan asks, "15% of what?" Kiz says, "the broker fee bullshit is insane" Kiz says (to dfan), "the annual rent price" dfan exclaims, "!" Adam asks, "Annual??" Kiz says, "used to be just one month's rent. not anymore" Kiz says, "Annual." dfan says, "I thought it was bad in boston (one month's rent)." Adam says, "Christmas." Kiz says, "that's why this place is so sick." Grocible says, "Yeesh." dfan says, "15% is insane." Grocible says, "Scamarama." Kiz says, "15% in manhattan, 12% in brooklyn, 10%-one month's rent in Queens" ddyte says, "But they pay you in Staten Island." dfan asks, "What's one month, 8 1/3 %?" inky says, "1 month's rent is 8.3%" inky says, "yeah" inky says, "so this is like two months' rent" Rory grabs on to the bottom of a SWAT helicopter and is lifted into the sky, up, up, and away. Kiwi. Kiz says, "yup" Rob says, "Gad." inky says, "if I ever move to NY, I'm staying in a hotel the whole time" Kiz says, "*and* they make money off the landlord, often" Grocible says, "They'll be demanding annual tithes next." dfan says, "At least here in Boston, it used to be that the landlord might pay the fee, or split it with the tenant, if he wanted to sell it bad enough. Now the tenant always pays." dfan exclaims, "The landlord has to pay too??!!" dfan says, "Here it's one month, and they don't care who they get it from" Kiz says (to dfan), "at some brokerages. most it's just the tenant, but they're starting to go after the landlords" dfan says, "Holy crap" Limax says, "Ah, I see... commute is an MS-DOS game. No wonder it resets the system clock." Adam asks, "What is this 'brokering' bit?" Adam asks, "What do they do?" dfan says, "Well, I feel less sorry for myself now." inky says (to Adam), "break stuff" dfan says (to Adam), "They help you find an apartment." inky says, "" Adam asks, "What if you don't need help?" inky says, "they're real estate agents" ddyte says, "'help' = give you some phone numbers and let you do the work" Grocible says, "Adam: A way to make tenants go broke." inky says, "in some places you can't just look in the paper or whatever for listings" Grocible says, "Adam: You don't have a choice." DorianX asks, "Hey, in what capacity would a physicist's research lead him into the study of cosmic radiation?" dfan says (to Adam), "Then you look in the classifieds, and go direct to the landlord, and don't pay" ddyte says (to adam), "You won;t get anyone's phone number without a broker." Adam says, "rent.net, man" dfan says, "I tried that first. Then I gave up and went to a real estate agent." inky says (to DX), "searching for the perfect suntan" dfan says, "that = classifieds" Grocible says, "Man. That was an *excellent* lunch!" Kiz says (to Adam), "rent.net has *nothing* in NYC that's decent. If it's not listed with a broker, something is hideously wrong with it" Adam says, "Well, if you're looking for something decent, that rules out the eastern seaboard" Sargent says (to DX), "Plasma physicist. Astrophysicist." inky says, "I wouldn't mind something indecent, even if I had to be in a sitcom" Grocible says, "inky on the real world." dfan says, "Landlords now are tending to list only with real estate agents because that means that they don't have to bother with setting up visits and and showing the place themselves, and these days they don't have to pay the agent anything because the tenants are desperate enough that they will." Grocible says, "Real World moves to Spokane." Sargent says (to inky), "You'll have to never wear your shirt when you're at home." DorianX asks, "Any specific related topics that have gotten interesting recently?" inky says (to DX), "deducing the age of the universe from sunspots" Sargent says (to DX), "Um. Solar wind/soliton formation is not that interesting, but might be what you're looking for." Kiz says, "yup, exactly what dfan said" Grocible says, "The Solitons were my favourite Dr. Who baddies." ddyte says (to groc), "yay" Limax says (to Groc), "Heh." Sargent | Rodan Sargent | Advantage: French sculptor puns. Disadvantage: No arms, no teeth, no breath Sargent | rays, just big flappy wings. DorianX says, "Possibly. I'm just looking for something plausible that a fictional physicist might be a specialist in that would lead the radiation-interested evildoers to kidnap him" Sargent says, "Today's Brunching rating rocks." Sargent says, "http://www.brunching.com/ratings/rate-godzillaenemies.html for the interested." The skelter of Helter, in summer choke / The birds flew safe from radioactive fallout Rob asks, "Ok, what did I hit such that TAB switches between Win98 windows, instead of acting functionally within an application?" Rob asks, "and what do I hit to get it back to normal?" inky asks, "alt?" Ivan says, "http://www.interactcreative.com/pepsikiosk/" schep says, "Sometimes keyboards can get messed up. Try pushing many keys at once." Guest1 goes home. Bring a heart that's full of wonder and a cork nut for Alex. Ivan says, "To see the latest project I'm doing with my dad." Ivan says, "Check the storyboard links." Grocible says, "Ivan: You iBook pusher, you." inky says, "these seem to end fairly abruptly" inky says, "I'm feeling a lack of resolution and catharsis here." Limax says (to Ivan), "Interesting." Ellison asks (of Ivan), "do you like John Sloat?" Grocible says, "ivan: Rumoured Kihei iMacs sound intriguing." inky asks, "kihei?" Limax asks (of Ivan), "So why is your email address the same as John Sloat's?" ddyte says, "Maybe the endings would be better with "then I woke up"." Grocible says, "inky: Codename for the next gen of iMac." Zarf has connected to ifMUD. zarf walks in through the wall. Behind him, light shines briefly through, rich crimson this time of day. zarf says, "Hum." Limax says, "Hello zarf." ddyte says, "Hey z" Ivan says (to Grocible), "Heehee." Ivan says (to Ellison), "He's my boss. Great guy." inky says, "afternoon." Ivan says (to Limax), "Whoops." Ivan says (to Limax), "Copy & paste error." Limax says (to Ivan), "Actually, the link is to your address." Ivan says (to Grocible), "I gave my dad pics of Apple hardware for all computer reference, though the desktop monitors didn't end up looking like the new Mac screens." DorianX asks, "So what's intreguing about the new iMac?" Ivan says (to Grocible), "You think if I phoned up Apple and told them about this, they'd send me an iBook? The CD it's for is going to 14 million people." Ellison says (to Ivan), "cool" Kiz goes home. inky says, "hmm" inky says, "slashdot claims after y2k is funny." Grocible says, "Ivan: No, but it's worth a try, isn't it? :)" Ivan says, "Also, the official easter egg password for the Pepsi Center kiosk software is now... 'egg'." Dilbon is no more. Canada. Sargent asks (of inky), "Examples?" Ellison asks, "so when 2000 comes, how many of my programs won't work?" DorianX says (to ellison), "That depends" ddyte says (to ell), "All of them, due to you house esploding." DorianX says, "(On how many programs you have)" inky says, "well, this is the archive, apparently: http://geekculture.com/geekycomics/Aftery2k/y2Karchives/archivemain.html" Adam says, "Wait, Jennifer mentioned the after-Y2K thing here" inky says, "mmhmm" Grocible asks, "Jennifer?" Alex says (to Grocible), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that Jennifer is Jearl. Also, Chaos. Also, Degnaredmi. Also, Jearl is Jennifer-Prime; these others are secondary Jennifers." inky says, "I didn't think it was funny then either" inky says, "yay" Adam says, "It's just http://www.after-y2k.com/ , sez she" Ellison asks (of Ivan), "so what easter egg are you putting in?" Ellison says, "ah, so Jearl is Chaos... i was wondering about that" Adam says, "No" Grocible says, "Oh, Jearl. Right." Adam says, "Chaos is a secondary Jennifer" Grocible says, "Adam's insistence on RL names throws me yet again." Adam says, "I suppose Degna712 or whatever would be a tertiary one" inky asks, "tertiary?" Adam says, "Tertiary:3::secondary:2" inky says, "right" Hugo goes home. Hugo has disconnected from ifMUD. Ivan has disconnected. Ivan Ê inky says, "I'm just unclear how you categorize people" Grocible asks, "inky: How cute they are?" Sargent takes five. Mark Hamill is unable to express any emotion deeper than, "I'm wearing pants." inky says (to Groc), "awful cute." inky says, "damn." inky says, "that should have been (to Yoda)" inky says, "no, that wouldn't have been funny either. never mind." "Your name isn't Mr. Pinkster. It's Mr. Stinkster." mcp comes out of the closet. No, the other closet. No, no: the *other* closet! inky says, "mm" inky says, "right." Grocible says, "So I drove 5156 km on the road trip." Grocible says, "3200 miles." inky says, "not bad." ddyte asks, "And lost how many disposable cameras?" Grocible says, "Two were not returned." Grocible says, "One was." Grocible says, "One I misplaced in the car and didn't distribute, and one I used myself." "Loud Apocalypse Hoboken, bottomless Coke, free steak dinner, free air conditioning, a semi-comfortable chair, and a task list including the words "little kid picking nose animation". How could life be better?" - John R. Sheffield Ryan has a different point of reference. He doesn't move, and the lounge comes to him. ddyte says, "Cool that one was returned, I guess. I wonder if the others ended up on the fire." Ivan lands from above. Ivan says, "Woo-ee! My Mac just freaked out in a major way before crashing." Ivan says, "Also, I blame society." Grocible says, "ARGH!" Grocible says, "I'm dealing with Clueless Coworker on the phone again." Grocible says, "And I'm having difficulty masking my impatience." dfan says, "Work done" dfan goes home. Arr! Please give me a hose-pipe so I can stop saying 'Arr'. Please, let me end the torment. Also, welcome to my space station. Grocible asks, "I can understand clueless newbies having difficulty with concepts and vocabulary. But why can't they get it into their thick little heads that you have to be precise in describing computer problems?" inky says (to Groc), "try using a captain kirk mask painted white" Grocible says, "eg: "It's not working" is not a helpful thing to say." Grocible says, "inky: I could go home and tear off the shrinkwrap from my Suspended box." inky says, "woo." Limax says (to Ivan), "I'm having trouble understanding the DSL storyboards, or the point of it. Maybe I should just check out the finished product." Grocible says, "Limax: Try a few more tequilas." Limax says (to Groc), "Thanks for the advice. I'll just throw some more ice in the blender as well." boucher says, "Mmm...bye-bye time." boucher says, "Few hours." boucher goes home. "Oh, for heaven's sake," said Prak and died testily. ddyte says, "brekky - back in a few" Ryan says (to zarf), "You know, that glk icon is just the cutest thing I've ever seen." inky asks, "cute as a bug?" zarf says, "Heh. Thanks." Your sword's blowing glue! Let me try that again. Your sword's glowing blue! WeirdBeard Ryan says (to inky), "Something like that." WeirdBeard says, "Hi" Rob contemplates taking this work home tonight. Hrrm. ddyte says, "I still haven't seen the ABNO icon." WeirdBeard wonders which of the permanent lounge items could be used to kill somebody. Ryan says (to WeirdBeard), "Pullcord, definitely." Grocible says, "dd: I was disgusted by it, personally. The filthiest icon imaginable!" WeirdBeard says, "Pullcord it is." ddyte resolves to purchase a Mac for this purpose. ddyte says (to groc), "Excellent." Rob pulls a secret cord and a piece of popcorn bops WeirdBeard on the head. mcp goes home. "Said one student, 'I'm still going to eat junk food. I'm a kid.'" Jota pushes a concealed button. An unseen bell goes *bing*! Jota wonders whom WB is planning to kill off. lpsmith pushes the hidden button and an unseen buzzer makes an inaudible noise. WeirdBeard says (to jota), "New ohome" Jota says (to WB), "Aha..." WeirdBeard says (to jota), "With a Clue/ifMUD tie-in." Jota asks, "What is the regexp for 'foo', except *not* at the beginning of a line?" Jota says (to WB), "Nift." inky says, ".+foo" inky says, "er, in fact, .foo" Jota asks, "But won't .+foo match everything up to and including foo?" Be our guest, be our guest, put our @boot skills to the test. Jota asks, "As in, making $1 set to something more than just 'foo'?" Jota says, "So to speak." WeirdBeard has disconnected. WeirdBeard accuses, "It was Alex, in the lounge, with the pullcord!" Sometimes I do stupid stuff, and I don't even know why...as if my body were controlled by some demented, sadistic puppet-master. ddyte says, "Area newsserver has been dead for 4 days :/" That I travelled by myself a Chrysler, it seats approximately 20, thus high haste and bring your money of jukebox! Spatch here now! Limax says (to WB), "Okay...." Guest1 arrives from the east. Jota greets the Guest. Limax says, "Hey Guest." WeirdBeard says, "Hi" Ryan says, "My thumb just went 'pop' and now it feels uncomfortable and the knuckle is swelling." ddyte says (to spatch), "Yo." Spatch says, "boingy" inky says (to Ryan), "eep" Guest1 greets everybody Limax says (to Ryan), "Uh oh." WeirdBeard says, "Don't steal our stuff." inky asks (of Ryan), "ice it?" Ryan says, "Yeah." Spatch says (to ddyte), "Howdy!" ddyte says (to spatch), "I dread to think what babelized Dark Side of the Moon lyrics might look like." WeirdBeard says (to guest), "Just kidding." The statue had been blackened with sootand apon other things greenish. Spatch asks (of ddyte), "You want I should try?" dfan arrives from the east. ddyte says (to spatch), "I'm sickened, but I can;t say no." dfan goes home. Arr! Please give me a hose-pipe so I can stop saying 'Arr'. Please, let me end the torment. Also, welcome to my space station. Jota greets dfan. Limax says, "Bye, dfan." Spatch says (to ddyte), "Breathe, breathe in the sky. Don't be afraid to worry." ddyte says, "Yay!" Limax asks (of Spatch), "Which cut?" Limax asks, "The first one?" ddyte says (to spatch), "Now we must record ourselves singing this in a bad French accent." dfan arrives from the east. [Log finished Mon Sep 13 18:20:58 1999]