[Log started by Jota Mon May 3 18:07:21 1999] zarf says, "I liked them." inky says, "no spoilers please" Jota hasn't played it through lately, so he's probably forgetting much. mcp_cone says (to inky), ""OK. s/octagonal/regular-polygonal" Adam reads zarf's each_turn post Jota says (to inky), "Don't waste the fribzal spell on the animated green rocking chair. You'll need it for the puzzle with the two dozen identical invoices." Ryan has disconnected. SOOOOOOOSIE IS A BOOOOGER BRAIN! Ryan has connected. You're a jerk, Dent. A real kneebiter. Ryan types in 'lounge', not realizing that he is already here! Ryan inky says, "mm.. bureaucracy, magic edition" mcp_cone says (to jota), "don't tell him about the fribzal spell! you have to get past the passive aggressive grue librarian to get to that" Jota exclaims (to mcp), "Don't mentiont he grue librarian! If you're going to do that, you might as well give away the ending, when you meet the sixty-foot slug with halitosis!" zarf says, "Someone's actually going to write this, I can tell." Jota certainly hopes so. Jota asks, "Someone logging?" inky says, "nuh-uh" Jota says (to Alex), "log spellbreaker 20" Alex exclaims, "Awwk! Log started!" Ryan asks, "Does that 'Ryan types in' message appear every time I log in?" Jarb says (to ryan), "also - i can't route all corknut mail to a mailbox - only to another host" Alex awwwks. "Want cork nut!" inky says, "only when you type lounge" Rob is often logging whenever he's on. (From thumper) C++ @emit DorianX says, "I don't need a compiler - write everything in binary." thumper pushes the button on the typo tally. Bing! Rob says, "OK, must dash. Fare the well." Rob says, "thee" Rob says, "somethin" Rob packs up his stuff, scoots the chair back into place, and walks out into the fresh air. I'm having a real problem with Bumblezina, I don't mind telling you. Jota :opens a portal to daveMUD, and slips through. Jota has disconnected. Jota votes to lynch Jota. No, wait -- Eeeagh! liza says, "Woo. I get promoted for the week with no salary compensation." inky asks, "any babes?" Grocible asks, "meaning what? more work and no more pay?" liza says (to inky), "Just THIS ONE RIGHT HERE." inky says, "yay" liza says (to Groc), "Of course. My boss will be in London." liza says, "Today I did the job of three different people." inky asks, "but you only ate lunch for one?" liza says, "I need to write a novel." Grocible says, "I need to write one too" Grocible says, "i think mine will be about a monkey" Adam laughs. Ryan says, "I need to write one as well." Grocible says, "laugha while you can, monkey boy" Ryan says, "Although right now I have two picture books in the works." Psmith whews. I can actually see floor in my room. Psmith says, "all this box-shifting and book-moving has actually been worthwhile." Grocible says, "some very impressive images in the new star wars trailers" inky asks (to Grocible), "by which you mean hairstyles?" Grocible says, "the kid has icky hair" Jarb has disconnected. Jarb defiantly jumps once, then twice, then thrice, and on the way down melts through the floor and disappears. Jarb has connected. Life is hard, anybody that tells you differently is trying to sell you something. Jarb says, "hmm - new isp connection has 10 minute idle disconnect" Bloodthorn has connected to ifMUD. Bloodthorn don't wanna work, he just wanna bang on de MUD all day. Grocible says, "okay. I'm going to get food" Bloodthorn says, "So full and yet so quiet." Ryan will bbl. Ryan has disconnected. Ryan I like disconnect,home. Do you like disconnect? SOOOOOOOSIE IS A BOOOOGER BRAIN! Jarb has disconnected. Jarb defiantly jumps once, then twice, then thrice, and on the way down melts through the floor and disappears. Jarb has connected. Life is hard, anybody that tells you differently is trying to sell you something. Jarb says, "grrr" Jota says (to BT), "Channelling, it seems." Bloodthorn asks (to Jarb), "Hey, why is it that when I access my information on the IF Library it can't find my game or library extentions or anything else really about me?" Jota decides it's time to go to bed, whether his timing is right or not. Jarb says (to bloodthorn), "because it's broken - um - the home page sort of explains this" Bloodthorn says (to Jarb), "Oh does it? I probably just over looked it." Jota says, "Good night, ifMUD." Psmith waves. Jota says (to Alex), "Sayonara, Mr. Goodbye." Alex exclaims (to Jota), "Awwk! Bye-bye!" liza says, "Okay, I'm working on something for Car Talk that's related to chiggers." mcp_cone says, "cheers" mcp_cone has disconnected. mcp_cone goes home. Sark! More coffee! lpsmith says, "OK, I'm gone." lpsmith Wave! inky says, "bye lp" inky asks (to liza), "so can you work in the tick-tick-tick joke?" lpsmith laughs. lpsmith has disconnected. lpsmith is gangled out of the room by a gaggle of giggling monks. The classic tale of Romeo and Juliet set against the background of a Linux box. Now with digital Frisbees! liza says (to inky), "Unfortunately, no. I'm too tired to be funny." (From inky) liza says "but I'm never too tired to be funky." inky asks, "what's the shelf life of lemon juice like?" Adam says (to inky), "More exciting than mine." zarf write not at address zero, nor read from it, lest ye be smitten. zarf says, "^:^;" inky says, "now that's a heck of a smiley" Adam says, "Oh, hey, I was on TV today" Adam says, "There was a reporter doing a live bit from the OUSD headquarters, and I drove into the shot looking for a parking place" Jarb says, "i was on TV once" Jarb says, "no - twice" Jarb says, "wait - three times" inky says, "area resident finds parking spot" liza says, "Okay, I'm outtie. Finally." inky asks, "OUSD?" inky says, "also, bye" Jarb waves. liza says (to Adam), "Yor a STAR!!!1" liza has disconnected. liza drinks the pure liquid of sleep knowledge. Adam says (to inky), "Orange Unified School District" inky asks, "what was the report about?" Adam says, "Dunno" Adam says, "I hope it was about low teacher salaries. Then my dumpster on wheels would illustrate that point nicely" zarf says, "Sigh. Just talked to goob about the server crash." zarf says, "He said, 'The gods were just fucking pigs. They put on their silver phalluses of power and 'had at the pork.''" Jarb says, "um" (From thumper) zarf says, "I told him I was jealous." zarf says, "Snort." zarf says, "So the admin in charge of the machine was lied to by the people *he* was getting backup service from... and the backup tape just happened to lose on the same week the hard drives melted down..." zarf says, "(BTW, the actual name of the esrver machine was 'pig.stalphonsos.com', which may explain some of the above)" Jarb says, "my wife missed her flight" zarf says, "foo" Jarb shakes his head Jarb says, "her luggage did not" Jarb says, "but they got her on a united flight that will arrive 25 minutes later than expected" Jarb says, "double foo" zarf says, "Think of it as an IF puzzle." inky asks, "mm?" inky asks, "so you get the luggage, then go get her?" Jarb says (to inky), "i'm not sure - i'm still frozen" Jarb says, "maybe i can get the luggage and have someone watch it while I retrieve the women" Jarb says, "> FLOYD, WATCH LUGGAGE" inky asks, "you can't carry the luggage with you to go get them?" Jarb says (to inky), "too much stuff, no" Jarb says, "not enough time to take it to the car either" inky says, "ah, yes." Adam says, "Wait" Jarb says, "i believe getting the bablefish would be easier" Adam asks, "If your luggage shows up without you, doesn't the airline stick it in their little office?" Adam asks, "Or are you worried that someone'll see it going around the carousel and help themselves?" Jarb says (to adam), "well - sort of worried - not too bad - but, ya never know" Jarb says, "grr" Jarb says, "she was too efficient in getting another flight" inky says, "heh" Adam asks, "Can't you take the luggage out to the car and have her hang out at the gate or some restaurant or something?" Adam says, "Until you can get back, that is" Jarb says, "ack - i'll just go get her - screw the luggage - it'll be there waiting when we get there" Grocible says, "back" (From Jarb) As you begin to walk away from the baggage carousel, a shady man inches closer to it. inky says, "presuambly the thief will still be busy trying to carry away the baggage by the time you get back" inky says, "I think I'd better go eat now" inky has disconnected. inky is killed by Texas. Essentially, I was wrestling with free will and fate as I ate my pizza. (From Jarb) As you begin to walk away from the baggage carousel, a shady man inches closer to the cart rack, pulling out the $1.25 for a baggage cart as he watches you walk away. Grocible says, "I'm getting more mail from various campervan places saying they're full up" Grocible says, "HA ha we already have a booking" Jarb says, "walk dog" in which dfan discovers usenet is made up mostly of cooks dfan arrives from the east. Adam says, "Phase One, in which dfan gets his oats" zarf asks, "Sow what?" Psmith says (to zarf), "We'll have no puns of that sort ear, thanking you kindly." DorianX says, "er. that last bit is i>=y" We take our icons very seriously in this class. DGlasser enters, carried by a stern monkey in a brown uniform. The monkey places him down gently, explains that no shipping charges are due, and walks out. DGlasser says, "hey hey hey" DGlasser doesn't understand the iVan readme. Ain't nothing better than dancing bradys!!!! Spatch here now! Spatch says, "yay" Psmith says, "Ok. Time for beddy-byes." zarf says, "Ok, I fixed one bug , finished reading a book, and my allergies are making me feel like I've been on a crying jag. I'm going to go home and be unproductive for the rest of the night." Psmith waves. Psmith has disconnected. Psmith wends his way back to the Alchymical Laboratory. Psmith isn't. DGlasser says, "hey spatch" DGlasser waves to zarf. Grocible says, "promo photos of the upcoming jennifer lopez album" zarf walks off through the wall; rich crimson light flares briefly around him. Zarf has disconnected from ifMUD. Grocible says, "boy do they go to great lengths to underemphasize her butt" DGlasser says (to groc), "also, butt " DGlasser says (to groc), "also, timing" Grocible says, "but she looks hypersexy in the photos of course" Miseri has connected to ifMUD. Miseri is sitting quietly nearby. You must not have noticed him entering the room. Miseri says, "Hello" DGlasser says, "Mis." Miseri asks (to DGlasser), "Yis?" Miseri says, "So ... I just played 'Lesson of the Tortoise' which I discovered lurking in my tads-games directory ...." DGlasser asks (to Mis), "Fun game, eh?" Miseri says (to DGlasser), "Oh yes." Miseri asks (to DGlasser), "Was it written for some comp or other?" DGlasser says (to Mis), "Nah, Whiz was just in a writing IF mood, I recall. He wrote some other short game, too." Miseri says, "ah" Miseri says, "Which reminds me ... must write game for comp99...." DGlasser says (to Mis), "Yeah, do so." DGlasser says, "Me too. I think I'll have time on a weekend to get started." Adam says, "Moose: An Autumn Romance by that guy from the animal-fucking MUD" Miseri says, "Also, must pick pseudonym." Grocible says, "furry-fucking, please" Miseri says (to Adam), "Heh. Starring Matt & Terry...." Grocible says, "my ex-gf's brother was a furry freak" Grocible says, "and I do mean freak" Miseri asks, "Hm. Did that guy with the animated cats decide to pick up a mud account?" Miseri asks (to Grocible), "How freaky is that?" DGlasser disappears through the northeast arch. DGlasser has arrived. Duchess has connected to ifMUD. Duchess will make you - jump! jump! Mack Daddy'll make you - jump! jump! Duchess bounces in DGlasser says, "hey duchess" Duchess says (to hey), "dg and all" Miseri says, "Hello" Jarb says, "hmm" Duchess says (to jarb), "your daughter is finally coming back? :)" Miseri asks, "Hm?" Jarb says, "eventually - they missed their flight" I heard that one. It wasn't cocaine, it was a cat. Duchess asks (to jarb), "ouch. how much later is the next flight?" trikiw appears out of nowhere. Killer robotic players on the loose! Jarb says, "25 minutes" trikiw says, "hi" Duchess says (to jarb), "oh that is not too bad" Jarb says, "an eternity" Miseri says, "Darn it ... hold on while I go do some virtual housecleaning...." Duchess says (to jarb), "eep. sorry :)" DGlasser says, "Well, they'll be here" Miseri has disconnected. Miseri isn't here. That's odd. You must have missed him leaving. Or maybe he was never here to begin with. Miseri has disconnected from ifMUD. DGlasser says, "hey ricardo" Duchess says, "virtual housecleaning? hm" trikiw says, "hey Dave" DGlasser says (to Duchess), "It's 1999. We don't do housecleaning. We do... Virtual Housecleaning." Jarb says, "i have a physical reference for Mis now - picture a very young, thin Charlie Chan, in college." Duchess says (to dg), "try telling that to my mother. she will give a virtual beating, and then a virtual grounding. :)" Duchess says (to jarb), "charlie chan didn't have a beard, though" Jarb says (to duchess), "true, but i like the ref" Duchess grins Jarb says (to duchess), "it's more the 'properness', clothing, and accent, that make me think of Chan though" DGlasser asks, "What's in the new cheap and x glks?" Duchess says (to jarb), "the properness? i know what you mean. although i was thinking more of a young Confucius in college when I first saw him. But i know what you mean about being all proper" The Nth digit of pi is 4. We just don't know what N is. mef is a little tinpot country, short and stout. Here is his dictatorship, here is his corrupt government-controlled militia. Duchess got advice. mef says, "Hey, again." trikiw got existence. DGlasser says, "hey mef" mef asks (to dglasser), "Hey. So no chance of kidnapping you for dinner with ddyte in a couple of weeks, right?" DGlasser asks (to mef), "This is still a Tuesday night?" mef says (to dglasser), "Yeah." mamster is a little teapot, short and stout. Here is his handle, here is his spout. DGlasser says (to mef), "Then I must turn down the invitation." DGlasser turns up the invitation on mamster. Bloodthorn says, "Someone needs to write a decent murder mystery or horror game." mamster asks, "Oh, must you, though?" Adam says (to mamster), "Hey, tell Laurie that Cal renamed the Haste-Channing residence hall after Beverly Cleary" DGlasser says (to Blood), "I was going to write this great murder mystery, except all I could think of was information about the detective, and not about the story." I would seriously advise you not to try to come between me and my bear. Steve suspects a dog has eaten his underpants by now. That's what usually happens. mamster has disconnected. mamster has connected. mamster says, "Bleah." Adam says (to mamster), "Hey, tell Laurie that Cal renamed the Haste-Channing residence hall after Beverly Cleary" DGlasser says, "steve, remam" Steve says, "Hey." mamster says (to Adam), "'Cool!'" Bloodthorn says, "I've got some ideas but whatever I think up is HUGE. I need to think small." mamster says (to Blood), "Start by inventing a tastier peanut." DGlasser says (to Bloodthorn), "That too. It involved pianos. Specifically, people *playing* them. And lots of complicated scripts." (From Jarb) Bloodthron says, "I want to make an IF game about...Russian History" Duchess asks (to steve), "stacy there yet?" mef says (to blood), "Or a good five-cent nickel." Steve says (to Duchess), "Soon." DGlasser says (to mamster), "then make phonograph needles, of course" DGlasser lagaroony. Steve asks, "Where can I get residential phone numbers online?" Jarb asks (to steve), "is dave pacing yet?" mamster says, "I had a delicious lagaroony down at the Cajun restaurant." mef says (to steve), "www.four11.com" Steve says (to Jarb), "He's not here yet." mamster says (to Steve), "Or www.switchboard.com" Adam says, "Pac Bell has an excellent series of commercials running lately" Steve says, "Er, not here now." mef says, "My word, Israeli politics are weird." mamster asks, "Pac Bell meets Pac Man?" Steve says (to mef), "Gracias." Duchess says (to mamster), "pac man wins hands down" Adam says, "Pac-Belle was the working title for Ms. Pac-Man" mamster says (to Duch), "Well, sure." Jarb asks (to steve), "it's your b-day today, right?" mamster says (to Duch), "You and Kiz should accompany Laurie and Me to Sunday Night Improv some Sunday." Steve says (to Adam), "And it anagrams to 'Rocket Boys'." DGlasser says, "Paco Bell." Duchess says (to mamster), "well kiz is going to be kinda busy the next few sundays, but count me in :)" Adam says, "No, but it does anagram to 'Patti LaBelle'" trikiw asks (to Adam), "was the working title of the original Pac-Rhett?" mamster asks (to Duch), "OK. Is she in Detroit now, or not yet?" Duchess says (to mamster), "according to steve, on the road" mef asks, "Where is Dytie right now?" mamster says, "This is Steve-on-the-Road with your traffic report." Duchess asks (to mamster), "this is the same improv where you had a musical about you, right?" Steve says, "We expect her in the next hour." Steve says (to Jarb), "Also, yes." mamster says (to Duch), "Yeah. Laurie and I went last night and it was funny again." mamster says (to Steve), "HBD." Steve says, "Dytie's in his motel room." mamster says, "Dytie in the motel room, shoo fly shoo." mef says (to adam), "So I went hiking in Tilden Park yesterday. Climbed Wildcat Peak." Duchess finds it interesting that we are all talking about Kiz, forgetting that Neil is with her as well... Spatch asks, "Would it be wackily irreverent if Sunday Night Improv was held on a Thursday?" mef asks (to steve), "City?" Steve asks (to Duchess), "Aw, who the hell cares if that bastard Neil is with her?" Jarb asks (to duchess), "Neil who?" Duchess blinks Steve says (to mef), "Auburn Hills." Bloodthorn says, "I replayed the Colone's Bequest today. That's what got me on this murder mystery thing." mamster says, "Neil Sedaka can kiss my ass is what he can do." DGlasser asks (to Duchess), "Neil who?" Jarb says (to dg), "heh" dfan says (to Bloodthorn), "YM Colon" mamster says, "Colon's bequest? Ewww." Bloodthorn says, "No, I mean Colonel's Bequest." mef asks (to steve), "That doesn't help me. State?" Steve says (to mef), "Michigan. 10-15 minutes from here." DGlasser has disconnected. DGlasser goes home. A more sophisticated method of muffin affixation is needed before a reliable anti-gravity device can be produced. Bloodthorn says, "I still can't make super sleuth though." DorianX says, "I dunno. this whole 32-bit thing boggles me. I know that 16 bits is too small, but a 32-bit inform would have 16-bit globals, which means 2^16 4-bit variables. that's a LOT of space" mef says (to adam), "Then, I immediately got onto a plane and sat for six hours in a middle seat, i.e. no room. My entire body hurts." thumper asks (to dorianx), "What are you talking about?" DorianX says, "Well, take the Z-machien as an example" mamster says (to DX), "Um, that's 32K." DorianX says, "I meant 4-byte" thumper says, "There are no 4-bit variables in the z-machine now, and 32 bit z-machine wouldn't have any either." thumper says, "timing" (From Jarb) thumper kicks 32bit ASS thumper asks, "And why would you have 65536 global variables for 32 bit zmachine?" DorianX says, "I was presuming that the address space of global variables would remain one half of a machine word" thumper says, "It's not currently." DorianX asks, "Isn't it?" thumper says, "No." thumper says, "239 global variables." DorianX says, "there are 256 global variables" DorianX says, "timing" DorianX says, "globals share address spacwe with locals" thumper says, "Right, and the stack." DorianX asks, "And the stack?" thumper says, "Yes." DorianX did not realzie that Steve asks, "Hmm. Can I look up a phone number and see who has it?" thumper asks, "Why don't you read the z-machine standards documents, the T3 documents, and the glulx documents before you decide to make yet another machine when you don't understand any of the others?" Duchess says (to steve), "yahoo used to have that function i don't know if they still do" mamster says (to Steve), "Probably not easily, although there's probably a phreaky way to do so." Adam says (to Steve), "You could just call that number and ask, 'Who is this?'" mamster laughs. mef says (to steve), "Hang on, there is a website to do that:" Duchess asks (to adam), "if someone calls you randomly and asks who is this, would you tell the truth?" Duchess wouldn't mamster says, "I'd say, 'This is Jesus Christ.'" mamster says, "Oh, wait, that's what Mus would say." Adam says (to Fahmida), "That just goes to show that I am truthful and good and you are despicable liar" Jarb says (to steve), "look for a reverse directory" Adam says, "Insert an 'a' in there" Adam pushes the button on the typo tally. Bing! Duchess says (to adam), "yeah, that is why i will live older" Duchess says, "er longer i meant" mamster says (to Adam), "Nah, funnier without. Sounds like kung fu voice." DorianX asks (to thumper), "are you sure yuo don't mean the stack pointer?" thumper says, "There is no visible stack pointer, only the top of the stack." mamster says, "Bye, folken." thumper waves. mef says (to steve), "www.anywho.com" mamster says, "Wavers." DorianX asks, "So you only mean the single variable $00?" mamster has disconnected. mamster has been seen around the monkey house with a ratchet. thumper says, "Right." DorianX says, "Oh. I knew that. you had me worried. I thought my understandign fo the Z machine was horribly frommitzed" thumper says, "Also, I think probably 240, not 239 - miscount." DorianX says, "255-1-15" thumper says, "256-1-15" Steve says, "Hike!" DorianX says, "Irgh. subtraced the one once too many times" DorianX says, "In any case, the sum of the globals, locals, and stack pointer share an address space of one half-word" thumper asks, "Just by coincidence. Is there any compelling reason to make all opcodes that much larger?" DorianX says, "Well, it complicates thigns if the address space of variables isn't an even number of bytes" thumper asks, "Huh?" DorianX says, "You can't give the variables, say, a 10 bit address space" thumper asks, "You could, but is there any reason not to make it 8 bit, which isn't an even number of bytes?" Grocible says, ""And at a hotel in Madrid in 1973, he stripped during dinner and jumped into a huge tank containing goldfish."" DorianX says (to thumper), "replace "even number" with "integer number"" Steve says, "Fuck." Steve says (to mef), "Thanks anyway." DorianX says, "And you can't make it 8 bit, because that's what it is now and people are complaining that 240 globals and 15 locals isn't enough" Steve says, "Ok, I'm off to Dytie's room, IYKWIM." thumper says, "15 locals is more of a concern than 240 globals." Steve has disconnected. Steve slips away on the newly waxed floor. I like to build forts. Bye! thumper says, "If you have 240 globals, you're doing things wrong." DorianX says (to thumper), "possibly. Inform itself uses (or used to, it might have gotten better) 150 of them" *** Your score has been divided by zero *** Ghogg arrives from the east. Ghogg waves. People said, "You must be nuts, a little bit." They were the ones shaking their butts, the Summer of My Disco-Tent! Ellison falls from the sky! Such a silly! Ellison says, "heyas" thumper says (to dorianx), "If you want 32 bit z-machine, get graham's permission and implement's graham's suggested v9 (or something simpler) in inform, and I'll make necessary changes to nitfol, which are fairly minor." thumper says, "Note that changes to inform are nontrivial." Miseri has connected to ifMUD. Miseri is sitting quietly nearby. You must not have noticed him entering the room. Miseri says, "Hello" Ellison says, "hey Miseri" DorianX says, "I'm not trying to write a new IF- VM" Miseri says, "Hm. Lounge description is out of date." Ellison asks (to Miseri), "how's it going?" Miseri says (to Ellison), "So-so." thumper asks (to dorianx), "Hm?" Miseri says (to Ellison), "I don" Miseri asks (to Ellison), "I don't suppose you happen to know of any architects who could use a good gofer around the office...?" Ellison says (to Miseri), "only architects of death and destruction" DorianX says (to thumper), "I'm doing what I'm doing because I belive that what I will have to learn in order to write an interpreter and compiler will be helpful to me in doing my research project this summer" Miseri asks (to Ellison), "Really? Are they registered with the Order of Architects?" thumper asks (to dorianx), "So writing everything from scratch?" Duchess has disconnected. Duchess goes home. Duchess has disconnected from ifMUD. Ellison says (to Miseri), "um, is that a real thing or is that a RPG joke? if the latter, they're chaotically evil or something" DorianX says (to thumper), "because it's fun." Miseri says (to Ellison), "Both." Ellison says, "anyways, I guess I don't know any architects" thumper says (to dorianx), "So go make your own decisions and don't ask us and you'll learn why your decisions are bad on your own." Ellison asks (to Miseri), "except for maybe you, eh?" Miseri asks (to Ellison), "Not even lawful evil ones?" vaporware in da house. Ellison says, "hehe]" vaporware materializes with a shimmering special effect along with Captain Kirk. The overactor gives vaporware a good kick into the lounge, snarling " Don't ever ... switch PIES ... on my SHIP ... again!" and then promptly disappears. Ellison says, "hey vaporware" vaporware says, "yo." Miseri decides that it would be interesting to be lawful evil. Miseri says, "Hello" thumper says (to dorianx), "(I mean that literally, not as 'don't do that')" Ellison says, "man, I have a feeling that they only put this new DJ lady on the cover of this month's CMJ music monthly because she's kind of hto" Ellison says, "hot" Miseri says (to Ellison), "Someone should get her an air conditioner." Ellison says, "I don't really mind the fact that she's hot as much as the fact that it seems that, oftentimes, you have to be hot to get this kind of recognition" Grocible says, "heh. gob (band) are recording publicity announcements for some radio station called "the Bear". They keep shouting out THE BEAR over and over" Grocible says, "THE BEAR!" Grocible says, "THE BEAR!" Ellison says, "hey Groc" Miseri says (to Grocible), "Bears! " Grocible says, "hey ellison" Jarb says, "okay - all shaved and clean - time to go get women - probably won't be on again until tomorrow" Jarb has disconnected. Jarb goes home. Jarb defiantly jumps once, then twice, then thrice, and on the way down melts through the floor and disappears. Miseri exclaims (to Jarb), "Have fun!!" Adam asks, "What is it with Canada and radio stations named after animals?" Grocible says, "we're a country full of amateur naturalists" Adam asks, "The Fox, the Bear -- hey, wait, isn't that a pub?" Miseri says (to Adam), "Erm ... actually, I have yet to come across a radio station named after an animal...." dfan exclaims, "A man, a plan, a canal, a fox, a bear, a ebaxofalanacanal, Panama!" Grocible says, "actually the bear might be an american station I think" Grocible says, "like KBER or somesuch" Here to dance a little jig mcp_cone arrives from the east. Miseri says, "Hello" Grocible says, "yeah. salt lake city KBER - the Bear" Miseri asks (to Grocible), "Incidentally ... do you still have the goatee?" Grocible says, "there are other american radio stations that call themselves the Bear" Grocible says, "mis: I misplaced it" Adam says, "Hunh" Grocible says, "there's a "hog" and a "dog" in the southern US" Adam says, "The stations around here don't do that" Adam says, "They go by their call letters or frequency" Grocible says, "here they do different things" vaporware says, "KZZU is the zoo, which contains all other animals." Adam says, "So there's KROQ, KIIS, 106, 107, KRTH, umm..." Grocible says, "CBC radio 1 and 2" Grocible says, "Z95.3" Grocible says, "Rock 101" Grocible says, "99.3 The Fox" Grocible says, "etc" Ghogg asks, "Anyone of them 'The Llama'?" Adam says, "Does Vancouver have anything like KROQ? All the stations I heard that played modern rock also threw in a bunch of dinosaur stuff" Grocible says, "the closest thing to KROQ would be the Fox" Grocible says, "which does play dinosaur rock as well" Adam says, "Yeah, that's what I had on most of the time" Grocible says, "the canadian market is nowhere near as fragmented as the US market" Grocible says, "so stations tend to play more varied stuff" Grocible says, "that of course cuts both ways" Grocible says, "rock 101 is mainly dinosaur stuff with some "modern" rock" mcp_cone asks, "fragmented?" Grocible says, "z95 is all the chart-topping junk, but they play the usual schlock, urban, some dance" Miseri wonders how these radio stations come up with these letter combinations. Grocible says, "urban isn't a big market in canada" Grocible says, "mcp: yeah. you know, american stations tend to be extremely tightly focused as to what constitutes their "format"" Miseri says (to Grocible), "After much hacking and slashing, I now have a goatee. As opposed to a full beard." Grocible says, "mis: splendid" Grocible says, "mis: very 1994 of you :)" Miseri says (to Grocible), "What can I say? Nobody seemed to like the idea of muttonchop whiskers...." mcp_cone says (to groc), "mm-hmm. so fragmented means, like, segregated into disparate demographic markets, or something like that. raleigh area commercial music radio is so unspeakably awful that i have avoided even thinking about commercial music radio for some time" Adam says, "NC radio sucks" Grocible says, "mis: sometimes it's difficult to buck fashion trends complete. leads to increased social alienation from others" Adam says, "G105 plays a syndicated show Sunday nights that's okay" Miseri says, "My favourite radio station is 960 CFAC ... which apparently is only available in the Calgary area." Bloodthorn has disconnected. Bloodthorn goes home. Bloodthorn has disconnected from ifMUD. Grocible says, "mcp: I call it fragmentation disparagingly. some people may view it more positively as a way of targeting demographics more accurately, yeah" Grocible says, "CFAC? eeeagh!" Grocible says, "when I was in calgary that was just crappy country stuff" vaporware says, "The C stands for country." Miseri says (to Grocible), "Exactly." mcp_cone says (to adam), "i can believe it. what i've heard from g105 is strictly wallflowers/hootie/goo goo dolls crap. but that's all been weekdays, during the day" Grocible says, "z95 will play janet jackson, then googoo dolls, then sarah mclachlan, then cher, then melanie doane, then sky" mcp_cone says, "my hypothesis -- or maybe i copied it from the back of a cereal box or someplace -- about the success of those stations is this: ..." mcp_cone says, "... you know how it makes sense to consider what the leading brand is when you're buying a car? The Ford Taurus is the #1 seller, ergo it's 'safe' ..." mcp_cone says, "... i suspect that many people make their aesthetic/musical choices THE SAME WAY" Grocible says, "the fox will play u2, big wreck, moist, hole, offspring, tragically hip" schep returns triumphant from the calc final. Grocible says, "mcp: sure" mef says, "Oh. That's why my computer has been swapping to beat the band. Java was turned on in Netscape." Miseri says, "And of course there's this station in Chicago that plays Pink Floyd every chance it gets (much to ddyte's delight)...." mef asks, "I wonder why I did that?" Grocible says, "in seattle I was struck by all the golden oldies stations" mcp_cone congratulates schep. "Any cool questions? I'm *giving* a calc final this friday mcp_cone says, """ Grocible says, "in LA I was struck by all the 80s stations" schep says, "Wait, I didn't close that. That's the second time now." schep asks (to mcp), "What topics?" mcp_cone says (to schep), "multivariable; taylor polys/series; intro diff eq. it's a course for nonspecialists" Woe woe woe your boat, gently down the stweam. woe uses the Jedi mind trick to get in here without the monkey stormtrooper needing to see his identification. The cad! Grocible asks, "woe: not devil anymore?" Miseri says, "Hell-o..." mcp_cone says (to schep), "probably 200% simpler than what you took, given your presence in this mud" schep asks (to mcp), "Any diff-eq by taylor series?" woe says (to Groc), "Woe is me." Grocible says, "a tale of woe" woe says (to Groc), "It seemed funny at the time." woe exclaims (to Plus,), "I've got a room!" Grocible asks, "and now it's purely self-indulgent?" woe says, "Well..." woe says, "It's still called Hell, I didn't wanna give that up." Miseri asks (to woe), "A woom? where?" mcp_cone says (to schep), "Nope. This is majorly dumbed-down calc. I'm happy if -- I wish this were a nonexaggeration -- they had a good feeling for what a diff-eq *is*. OK, it's a slight exagg. but notsomuch" Grocible says, "a womb with a view" woe says (to Mis), "No, I don't have a womb." (From Adam) Keanu says, "woe." Grocible says, "keanu does shakespeare again" schep asks (to mcp), "So I'm guessing the hardest diff-eq would be like y'' + 3 y' + 2 y = 0?" woe says, "Hey, Midsummer Night's Dream with Callista Flockhart." woe says, "And Catwoman, what's her name." Miseri asks (to woe), "Where?" Adam | GHOST: You must avenge me! Blood for blood! Claudius must die! Adam | HAMLET: Whoa. woe says, "Movie." Grocible says, "michelle pfeiffer" Miseri says (to woe), "Michelle Pfeiffer" vaporware asks, "Michelle Pfeiffer?" Adam says, "Julie Newmar" woe says, "Michelle Pfeiffer." Adam says, "Oh, wait" (From Grocible) Adam says, "And I am Adam West." woe says, "And other assorted Hollywood stars who do Shakespeare." Grocible says, "I didn't see the Keanu Reeves Hamlet when he played here" mcp_cone says (to schep), "they have to solve separable DE, sketch qualitative solutions of autonomous DE, work with known models" Miseri asks (to woe), "Interesting. Who else?" Grocible says, ""Helihike Combine a helicopter flight to the Franz Josef Glacier with a guided walk amongst ice caves, pinnacles and seracs. Price per person: $NZ185"" mcp_cone says, "and verify solutions by plugging-in. these are, like, textiles and forestry majors here ..." Grocible asks, "seracs?" woe asks (to Mis), "What you want names?" Miseri says (to Grocible), "Don't ask me" Grocible says, "hm. ah. a "castellated mass" into which a glacier is divided at steep points" Miseri says (to woe), "Well ... just curious. Wondering if there were any inappropriate casting calls in there." (From mcp_cone) Keanu Reeves picks up the skull, stares at it and says, "Whoa." woe asks, "What's the web site for E!?" Ellison says, "http://www.eonline.com" Ellison asks, "right?" Grocible says, "http://www.eonline.com/" Grocible says, "POWER 104" Grocible says, "THE ISLAND'S BEST ROCK - THE Q!" trikiw has disconnected. trikiw goes home. trikiw goes flopbot Miseri queues up to get onto the island's best rock. woe says, "Kevin Kline." woe says, "Rupert Everett" woe asks, "Who's that?" Grocible asks, "everett is english isn't he?" woe says, "Stanley Tucci" Grocible says, "gay chiselled-jawed hunky english guy. i think. unless I'm mistaking him with someone else" woe says, "Hm, prettyboy." Ellison says, "Stanley Tucci is pretty cool, i say" woe says (to Ellison), "So you do." woe waits for Stan's pic to show up on the E! page. Ellison says, "he was pretty much the only thing good about 'montana'" (From woe) Ellison says, "And Wyoming, too." schep says (to mcp), "All right, I've got a fun taylor series. Have them find the first five terms of 1/(1-x-x^2). See if anyone notices what's up." mcp_cone asks (to schep), "at zero?" schep says, "Yes." woe says, "They list ALLY MCBEAL for Calista as a 1998 comedy film." woe says, "Limits of their database structure, I would say." schep says (to mcp), "Of course, it has a small radius of convergence, but that's not the point." Besides saving damsels in distress, what else does his good hand fight for? Possession of the television remote control. Ellison says, "maybe they meant her movie 'milk and something' or 'milk something'" inky strides in amidst the fog and gloom. Three monkey witches follow him, ooking in iambic pentameter. After calling inky the "Thane of Quendor", the witches abruptly exeunt, leaving the fog to dissipate. inky says, "blert" Ellison says, "heya inky" mcp_cone asks (to schep), "are they all zero or something?" Miseri says, "Hello" schep says (to mcp), "1+x+2x^2+3x^3+5x^4+8x^5+..." Grocible says, "okay. later" Grocible has disconnected. Grocible goes home. Grocible has disconnected from ifMUD. woe says, "Woah--I mean, Woe," and heads for Hell. mcp_cone says (to schep), "coefficients = fibonacci numbers, i take it. my students wouldn't get it , i'm afraid" woe walks into the room, saying, "And then I showed the little girl the picture of the nun and she said, 'That's what I wanna be.'" inky asks, "so did he get a campervan?" mcp_cone says, "cool series though" Miseri asks, "Incidentally ... that Noah's Ark thingy was for TV, right? Anyone catch it?" woe says (to Mis), "It drowned." Ellison says (to Miseri), "not I... but I hear it wasn't so good... I think I walked saw a scene with a monkey when someone in my family was watching it yesterday" Ellison says, "get rid of 'walked'" dfan says, "I am trying to get my company to name its next product 'Groovemonkey'." schep says, "Hm, this is also a different way to find lim n->infinity F_n+1/F_n" inky asks, "and is it working?" dfan says (to inky), "The CEO is up for it." Miseri says, "Really ... hm. I thought it looked like it would be pretty good." Adam says (to dfan), "That'll never work. It's gotta be the Groovemonkey 5000" woe says, "Groovemonkey 2000 - how to monkey away all your Y2K worries." dfan says, "He sez they'll love it in Japan." mcp_cone says (to schep), "i take it there are two ways of finding the radius of convergence of that series" dfan asks (to mcp_cone), "You can just see when the denominator crosses 0, no?" mcp_cone asks (to dfan), "???" mcp_cone asks (to schep), "F_n = nth fibonacci number , yes?" dfan says (to mcp_cone), "To find the radius of convergence of the series." woe says, "Okay, everybody mention a topic I can think about tonight as I go to bed instead of worrying about work." dfan says (to woe), "Peanut butter" inky says, "worry about y2k" mcp_cone woe global warming inky says, "then worry about whether it's trite to be worrying about it" Lonewolf has connected to ifMUD. Lonewolf appears out of nowhere. Killer robotic players on the loose! Lonewolf says, "hey .. uh ..folks." woe says (to inky), "Actually, the project I was on before I was pulled off it to work on my current project was our company's Y2K assurance project." woe says (to dfan), "I like peanut butter." inky asks, "what's your current project?" dfan asks (to mcp_cone), "Were you still talking about 1/(1-x-x^2) ?" woe says (to inky), "In short, it's taking the functionality a 3rd party was providing to an existing site and re-creating that functionality using our own technology." inky says, "ah" mcp_cone says (to dfan), "yes we were. DOH! i focused too closely on the series. am better at algebra than analysis, fortunately ... but am perhaps getting senile" woe says, "Was supposed to be easy. Turns out to be bloody difficult." Miseri says, "hello..." dfan says (to mcp_cone), "Heh, I forget how to find the radius of convergence of a series, so I have to look for shortcuts" Lonewolf says, "whee, the dow sailed past 11,000. I can't wait for a stock market crash and a postapocalyptic future. I'll be well prepared, thanks to all of the bad movies I've screened as president of the b movie club." Miseri says (to Lonewolf), "Eh" Ellison says, "hehe" Ellison says, "alright, bbiab" Ellison has disconnected. Ellison spontaneously bursts into flame... After several painful minutes, all that's left is ash, which blows away in a gentle, magical breeze. The other night, he said, "I want something REAL in my life! And if epilepsy is it, I fucking want it!" Miseri says, "Which reminds me that one of these days I really have to see Plan 9 From Outer Space" Lonewolf says, "Don't forget to see Plan 10 From Outer Space, billed as 'not the sequel to plan 9'." Bruce has connected to ifMUD. Bruce has disconnected from ifMUD. Miseri says, "Hm." inky says, "um" thumper says, "MmM" dfan says, "Fa la la la la" inky says, "and I'm glad we got that one established." Miseri approaches inky with a fountain pen filler. inky asks, "?" mcp_cone says, "gotta run" mcp_cone has disconnected. mcp_cone goes home. Sark! More coffee! inky says, "ah" Miseri says (to inky), "....nothing...." Adam says, "Hmmmm" Adam says, "Death isn't as immediate in Inform as one might hope" inky asks, "no?" Adam says, "In this latest test run, the player dies, then three other things happen, and then comes the *** You have died *** message" thumper says (to inky), "The current parsing stage finishes before you die." inky says, "heh" Miseri asks (to Adam), "What three things?" (From dfan) Adam says, "Then the intro screen comes up." inky says, "perhaps you should switch to animalib" Adam says, "I guess I can correct it on a case-by-case basis" Adam says (to Mis), "That would be telling" thumper says (to adam), "You can take the zarf approach and have your own death routine instead of using deadflag." Adam says, "Nah, for now I'll just test for deadflag before continuing the rest of the each_turn block" dfan says, "The Zarf Approach [tentative title]" Miseri says, "Mm. Whatever." Adam says, "IE, if (deadflag ~= 0) { don't do anything; the player's head has esploded; }" woe says, "G'night all." inky says, "byebye" woe says, "Mm, peanut butter and Y2k." woe asks, "Any other suggestions before I go?" thumper asks, "breathe regularly?" Adam says, "Whoops, that didn't work" Adam says, "Gotta fix up the each_turns of other objects in the room" Adam says, "Foop" thumper says, "You could adjust the library routine which calls the each_turns." Miseri says (to woe), "Can't think of any ... have fun...." woe has disconnected. woe says, "Woah--I mean, Woe," and heads for Hell. woe has never been to Lake Woebegone, for obvious reasons. Adam says, "There." dfan says, "There, there." inky has disconnected. inky is killed by Texas. Essentially, I was wrestling with free will and fate as I ate my pizza. Besides saving damsels in distress, what else does his good hand fight for? Possession of the television remote control. inky uses the Jedi mind trick to get in here without the monkey stormtrooper needing to see his identification. The cad! inky says, "umf." Your sword's blowing glue! Let me try that again. Your sword's glowing blue! WeirdBeard Miseri asks, "?" Miseri says, "Hello" WeirdBeard says, "I've decided to be subtle for now." inky says, "hey wub" Zarf has connected to ifMUD. zarf walks in through the wall. Behind him, light shines briefly through, deep blue this time of day. inky says, "re-you" zarf says, "Well, I'm not watching TV." thumper exclaims, "And speaking of the stat in cheapglk not being portable, it's zarf!" zarf asks (to thumper), "Nobody's sent in a bug report, have they?" thumper says, "I guess not." thumper says, "I don't know if you would call it a bug as you document that you know it's unixish. Jarb, a while ago, couldn't get it to compile under win32, so I just told him to take it out, as floyd, which he was trying to compile with it, didn't use it." Miseri asks, "Hm ... is there a way to run html-tads games in DOS?" inky says, "not that I know of" thumper says, "In non-html mode." inky says, "well" inky says, "yeah" Miseri says, "And without all those tags showing up...." dfan says, "html-tads + non-html = non-tads" inky says, "if you get a new version of the runtime it'll handle the tags correctly" inky says, "(ie, not show them)" inky says, "or non-html-tads" zarf says (to thumper), "is it posix? (the book I have which would say is at the office.)" thumper says (to zarf), "It's SVr4, SVID, POSIX, X/OPEN, BSD 4.3... but not ANSI." dfan says (to inky), "No, the html and -html cancel" inky says, "aha" zarf says, "I guess Win32 can bite me, then. :)" inky says, "(as so many great programmers have said before him)" (From WeirdBeard) BITE ZARF (From WeirdBeard) That doesn't agree with you zarf says, "Also, I have eaten soup. Cream of mushroom. Tasty, but makes one thirsty." Miseri asks, "But ... does the new runtime run in DOS?" inky says (to Mis), "it should" inky says (to Mis), "or, rather, there should be one that does" inky looks. zarf asks, "DOSGlkTADS...?" inky says, "tadsrun_230.zip should work, for instance" The ghoul is summoned from beyond the grave! markm slips into the room quietly. markm says, "hey" inky says, "howdy" markm asks, "What's goin on?" mef says (to zarf), "That's 'cause it has enough sodium to make your heart skip beats." zarf says (to mef), "No, I only put in a half-pinch." mef says (to zarf), "Ah, well done." mef says, "I am addicted to Krupnick mushroom-barley soup mix. Yummy, but dangerous." markm says, "tT shrooms!" zarf says (to mef), "More like that it called for two cups of milk, but I put in a cup of water and a cup of whipping cream." Miseri says, "Hello." Miseri runs off to look for dostads mef says (to zarf), "Heh." (From dfan) Robert Palmer sings, "Might as well face it, you're addicted to Krupnick mushroom-barley soup mix... hmm... that doesn't scan..." mef says, "I made a soup that called for cream, but to which I added soy milk, on Friday. Most unsatisfactory." markm says, "ugh" zarf says, "Butterfat." zarf says, "Goob says that there is a god of butterfat, and I am His Prophet." mef says, "So I added lots of cumin so it at least had flavor, if not butterfat." Ghogg has disconnected. Ghogg goes home. Not only is the PuckMaster a common sense solution for your chip management problems, it pays for itself in the process! markm says (to mef), "Consider yourself fortunate that you missed the milk/sour cream discussion at Jarb's." markm says, "sumer is a cumin in, loud sing cukoo." dfan says, "Milk comes from the Indo-European root 'melg': to stroke, press out, wipe off" markm says, "God, that's obscure." zarf says (to markm), "Nah." dfan says (to markm), "Eh, I got it." markm says, "Cool." markm tries a bold experiment of running zMUD and VC++ at the same time. mef says, "So I ate most excellent sashimi in Berkeley last week. It's about half the price compared with the east coast..." You're a jerk, Dent. A real kneebiter. Ryan runs into the room, waving his arms wildly and warning everyone about the Terror of TOFU! markm says, "hey ryan" Ryan says, "hey markm." Lonewolf says (to markm), "zmud has misbehaved lately with me; possibly it doesn't like being run at the same time as Alpha Centauri or Civ: Call to Power.." Adam asks, "Call to Power is out? Any good?" dfan asks (to Lonewolf), "Whoa, CTP came out?" markm says (to lone), "Well, hopefully I won't have to perform this experiment any longer. As soon as my linux box arrives, i'll be running tf." inky says, "perhaps it's alpha centauri and call to power that don't like working together" Ryan says, "Y'know, I'm almost certain that with NT server 4, you can set up the "nobody" alias to reroute all messages to a specified address rather than send a generic "there is no such user" message." dfan is glad to be using the same client under both Windows and Linux. Ryan says, "but, now that i think about it, probably nobody cares." inky asks, "mm?" dfan says, "Emacs-Lisp package that a friend wrote and I hacked on some" Lonewolf climbs down a ladder and disappears out of sight. Lonewolf emerges from an inconspicuous hole. Lonewolf says, "doh" Lonewolf says, "re: call to power" Miseri cheers. "I think I can now play Arrival!" inky says, "enh" Miseri says, "See you later, folks." inky says, "bye" markm says, "wave" Miseri arrives ... someplace else. Miseri has disconnected. Miseri isn't here. That's odd. You must have missed him leaving. Or maybe he was never here to begin with. Miseri has disconnected from ifMUD. Lonewolf says, "in my opinion it has great potential, but I looked at it with a hostile eye when I realized that it was coded so as to allow complete control with the mouse - keyboard is totally optional. I became very frustrated at the non-intuitive keyboard shortcuts, and lack of easy display for information that I wanted to know right away" inky asks, "a mud client where you don't use the mouse?" inky asks, "don't you have to, you know, type and stuff?" Lonewolf says, "i.e. 'One of your cities is in danger of rioting!' Great. Which one? Could you tell me why it's in danger of rioting? It took me a while to get used to its interface, given that I (wrongly) assumed that it would be relatively similar to Civ or Civ 2." zarf says (to lw), "Heh. For a minute, I thought you werw talking about _Arrival_." Lonewolf says (to inky), "civ: call to power" inky says, "oh. duh." markm says, "Multiple Misunderstanding Theatre" Lonewolf says, "When I become more familiar with it, I'm sure I'll enjoy it - I'm just stuck in the mindset of 'They screwed up civ' while I fight their view of how the game 'should be'." dfan says (to Lonewolf), "Betcha they screwed up Civ." mef says, "Yeah. Well, I have the luxury of extra time to spend on something other than computer games -- I can't run any of the new stuff. :-)" Adam asks (to inky), "Left-click: 'I like a monkey!'; right-click: 'Want cork nut!'. What more do you need?" Lonewolf says (to dfan), "Damn right they did." Alex awwwks. "Want cork nut!" markm chuckles. Bruce has connected to ifMUD. Lonewolf desperately tries to decide if he wants to kill more time on ifmud, close out all the other apps and play CTP, or sleep .. blissful sleep. Bruce has arrived. zarf says (to bruce), "hey hey." markm says, "Bruce!" (From Ryan) Adam is here. He says, "I like a monkey!" Bruce waves. Lonewolf says (to bruce), "hideli hodeli." mef says (to adam), "Double click: Eaagh!" dfan says, "The good news is that Amazon actually has one reader comment on Principia Mathematica." dfan says, "The bad news is that it reads like this:" Bruce exclaims (to zarf), "Y bstrd, y stll hv m vwls!" dfan | The ultimate question may be, "Did God made all these things up, and wait Russel-Whitehead to prove it, or God had not created such things, but it's on everybody's mind.... but if you're not as genius as these 2 mathematicians, then why we didn't doubt all the things that are challenged by this book." Lonewolf goes to check for comments on the Summa Theologica, on a whim. zarf says (to bruce), "Nyeaeaaaahaa." markm says (to dfan), "But that made perfect sense." (From mef) English language cries! Bruce exclaims (to zarf), "Stp t! Y'r sng hm ll p!" Bruce steals--er, borrows--some vowels from the Hawaiians. zarf says, "The vowels had their revenge. They blew up the ifarchive/eblong server." zarf says, "I suppose." Bruce says, "All that vocalization...it's dangerous. Along with trenchcoats and the Internet." Adam says, "Argh. I hate it when spiders pretend to fly" inky says, "I don't know why / they pretend to fly" Ryan says, "Perhaps she'll die." zarf says (to inky), "yay." Bruce says, "I sure wish I'd die/Before I got one in my eye." Lonewolf says, "those silly spiders / their attempts at flight are sad / cherry blossoms fall" zarf says, frantically, "Cumin seed! Cumin *seed*!" Bruce says, "She's my black market baby; she's a diamond that wants to stay coal." Ryan says, "Oooooooooooooooh, I need a dirty woman!" dfan says, "Cherry blossoms fall / but falling faster still are / Spiders that can't fly" Lonewolf says (to dfan), "heehee" Bruce exclaims, "Spiders! Spiders! Yuck! / They have way too many legs / Spiders creep me out!" People said, "You must be nuts, a little bit." They were the ones shaking their butts, the Summer of My Disco-Tent! Ellison falls from the sky! Such a silly! Ellison says, "heyas" dfan exclaims (to Ellison), "Eeeagh! Spider!" Ellison says, "Must Stop..!" zarf says, "...you are my hero..." Ellison says, "hehe" Bruce sighs. Tom Waits. Ahhhh. "I'm gonna love you / Till the wheels come off / Oh yeah." dfan says (to Bruce), "Damn, I keep forgetting to pick up the new one." Bruce exclaims (to dfan), "Get it! Get it! Get it!" Lurd arrives and looks around excitedly. He glances around the room and asks, "Is this where we buy the advance Star Wars tickets? lurd enters, enthusiastically enraptured by the ensuing entropy. Whatever that means. dfan says (to Bruce), "Yeah, I've heard nothing but good things." Ryan says, "Step on spider!" lurd says, "hello" Ryan says, "Hi, lurd." Bruce waves. zarf says, "Just got an old John McCutcheon album on CD. I haven't listened to it in years. Amazing how music takes one back." zarf says, "I used to be much less bitter." Bruce says (to zarf), "I *still* can't listen to Tori Amos, because of who I used to listen to her with." inky says, "mm" inky says, "Y KANT BRUCE LISTEN" Bruce says (to dfan), "Well, it isn't as groundbreaking as Bone Machine. But GOD DAMN it's nice." What IS reality, after all? Just something we all agree on to keep from going mad. (From Ellison) zarf says, "listening to it makes me want to release all of my other Infologic games.." Ellison asks, "er, what were they called?" Caoif arrives in the Lounge from a hole in the wall, which closes behind him and vanishes without a trace. inky says, "hi" Caoif nods. Adam says, "I can't listen to Tori Amos, because I don't like the way she sings." Ellison says, "I can't listen to her, because i don't like her lyrics... she doesn't talk about forty ouncers and hanging with her homies enough" Adam says (to Ellison), "Infobom" zarf has posted a new message to the bulletin board. Type "bb" to list it. Bruce says (to dfan), "From "Chocolate Jesus": "When the weather gets rough / And it's whiskey in the shade / It's best to wrap your savior / Up in cellophane. / He flows like the big muddy / But that's OK. / Pour him over ice cream / For a nice parfait."" Bruce says, "Speaking of whiskey....I'll be idling while I go get a tumbler." Caoif says (to zarf), "sounds like you put all your eggs into nonexistant baskets." Ellison reads zarf's bulletin board post and growls, "alright, who do we kill...." dfan says, "I can't listen to Tori Amos, because I'm deaf." (From inky) dfan says "Then I met a man who had no feet." Ellison says, "I HAVE NO HEARS AND I MUST LISTEN TO TORI" Ellison says, "dammit, ears" Ellison pushes the button on the typo tally. Bing! inky says, "that was a funny typo" Ellison says, "yay 700" markm says, "Yay 700!" Adam says (to Ellison), "There was a bit on 'Family Guy' where the gu and the dog are listening to a police scanner. 'We have a drive-by shooting at the corner of Franklin and 15th, apparently a drug deal gone sour -- please send backup,' it says. Dog looks at guy. 'Is it me, or is rap just getting lazy?'" Lonewolf says (to adam), "One dead, three wounded." inky says, "geez" Ellison says, "hehe" Adam says (to L), "Yeah, something like that" markm says (to adam), "I cracked up at that line." Bruce sighs deeply. "Whiskey." Lonewolf loves that show. Ryan doesn't get it. dfan says, "Last Episode was enh, but it always has great throwaway one-liners." Adam says, "I assume the evil baby will grow tiresome at some point, but it hasn't happened yet" zarf says, catching up, "Who to kill is someone at datahaven.com -- I think. Don't know exactly who, anyway. Bruce says, "Evil babies never grow tiresome." dfan says (to Adam), "'Nine long months in that uterine gulag'" Caoif says (to zarf), "Next time you set yup something THIS important, keep some backups of your own just in case." Ellison says (to zarf), "well it sucks... but at this time, I want to extend my gratitude for setting up such a great mirror in the first place" zarf says (to caoif), "Er, look. We *did* arrange to get backups of our own. This is why we are pissed." (From dfan) Caoif says (to zarf), "Also, my condolences." Bruce says (to zarf), "I think he means, on your own media, under your own pillow." Ellison says (to Bruce), "hehe" Caoif says (to Bruce), "That is sort of what I meant." Bruce asks (to zarf), "Do backups and etcetera of your Thoughts Of Days exist?" Caoif says, "What I meant its" Caoif says (to .What), "I" (From thumper) Caoif says, "But I keep my backups in my pants." (From inky) Caoif says "Except I meant under the bed altogether." inky says (to thumper), "ok, that was funnier." Caoif says, "Please. In all seriousness, what I meant to say is that you shouldn't trust others to do your backups FOR you like that." (From Bruce) Caoif says, "Or, I would, if I *wore* pants." Ellison says, "for extreme cases of backups, I'd suggest a good laxative" dfan backs up his brane and goes to sleep. inky says, "bye" Ellison says, "g'nite dfan" Bruce dumps his brane. dfan has disconnected. dfan goes home. Recently I had the pleasure of sampling an actual barrel of monkeys, and you know what? It really was a lot of fun! schep says (to Bruce), "How could he wear them? He has too many backups." Caoif says, "Especially if it's important data. Murphy's Law decrees that the more important something is, the more likely someone's going to screw it up." Ryan says (to Caoif), "Murphy's Law decrees that your backup media will become corrupted, too." zarf says, "I trusted people who are, *really are* better at this stuff than I am. I know nothing about system administration. If I was taking responsibility for that stuff, it would be a disservice." Ellison says (to Ryan), "hehe, good point" (From mef) Caoif says, "For more important data security tips, subscribe to my lecture series for $19.95 plus shipping and handling. Available only on ifMUD! Bruce says (to zarf), "Let them take responsibility. But keep backups of the REALLY important stuff yourself, too. You want a job done right, do it your damn self." zarf says, "Also, and not incidentally, that machines was the only large-scale data space I have access to without storage fees." Ryan says (to zarf), "Also, keep backups of your backups, in case they get corrupted." Caoif asks (to zarf), "I don't know as much about this stuff as you do, but couldn't you have saved some of it on disk or something?" (From inky) Caoif says "Sorry, didn't mean to get your back up." Ryan says (to zarf), "And keep hard copies of the backups of the backups." Adam asks (to Bruce), "Then how come when I tried to make this birdhouse I ended up with the roof nailed to my face?" thumper says, "Also, keep backups of your pants in case you leave them at home" zarf says, "Third note: I keep multipel backups of my own projects. I lost zero source code." Bruce asks (to Adam), "Well, maybe you were trying a postmodern birdhouse?" Ryan says, "Uh, hang on... back up a minute here... :)" Ellison says (to zarf), "also, keep your backup in a guarded lab next to a shnazzy teleportation thingy, where no bad people can get at it" (From inky) zarf says "My files are all safe, but my coffee machine doesn't work anymore." Ellison says, "hehe" schep says, "yay." Caoif asks (to Ellison), "In one of those 'Mission Impossible' type rooms?" Ryan says (to Caoif), "No, in one of those [SPOILER] type rooms." Ellison says (to Ryan), "hehe" Ryan says, "(I carefully coded taht statement so only those who hadn't played the game mentioned would see [SPOILER].)" zarf says, "Anyway, the more you people convince me it's my fault, the more I am not motivated to ever bother fixing the sites. So SHUT UP." mef applauds and whistles. inky says, "the emperor is wearing [NOTHING]" Adam says, "YM 'SHUT THE BLANKITY BLANKITY UP' HTH" inky says, "yay" zarf says (to adam), "no I don't." schep says (to Ryan), "Oh, I thought you did spoil it." Ellison says, "which, in Steve talk, translates to 'FUCK YOU'" Bruce says (to zarf), "Or, given that this is the IF-MUD, maybe you mean "Fuck! Shut the fucking fuck up, you fucking fuckers!"" zarf says, "Not thta either." Bruce asks (to zarf), "So: Did Thoughts Of Days get lost forever? Or do you have copies?" mef says, "Local ifMUD wrests artistic control from area zarf; indignation ensues." zarf says, "I have copies." Ellison says (to zarf), "or maybe 'THIS ONE GOES OUT TO MY HOMEY 2 PHAT JACK... PEACE OUT'" Ryan says (to zarf), "Yay for ifarchive.org! Long live zarf!" Bruce whews. (From Caoif) zarf says, "Of course I don't have copies!" zarf says, "Also the game reviews." Bruce whews again. Adam says, "I lost all the chicken comp stuff when Retina got deleted" schep says (to Caoif), "That would be funnier if zarf hadn't just said he has copies. No, wait. It wouldn't." Ryan gives Adam a Twizzler. Caoif asks (to adam), "So Floyd has the only existing copies of chicken comp games?" inky says, "it would have been funnier if he had to restore his pants from tape" Adam says (to Caoif), "No, the games are on GMD" Adam says (to Caoif), "But the whole presentation aspect of it is gone" mef says, "Oh, CokeIsIt just got permanently filed on gmd. Woohoo." Adam says (to inky), "I've restored my pants with duct tape many a time" mef says, "I had a friend in college who had one pair of sneakers that he'd owned for six or seven years. It consisted largely of duct tape and Shoe Goo." Ryan says, "I ought to do that. Eventually, I could have pants that are entirely covered with duct tape." (From markm) Adam says, "And, now that I've been paid, I can afford MANY rolls of duct tape." mef says (to ryan), "The chyx love that." Ryan says (to mef), "I bet they do." Ryan says, "It probably screams 'GEEK!' but I couldn't tell, because I have no fashion sense." markm says, "I have a little fasion sense. Fortunately I keep it locked away in a dank dungeon." Ryan says, "Yay!" Bruce says, "I had fashion sense once, but I ate it when my paycheck was late." inky says, "mm" Lonewolf says, "c'mon, leno, just do your headlines so I can sleep." mef says, "Ow. My legs are killing me." (From Caoif) The police arrive to arrest mef's legs for murder. Gordy has connected to ifMUD. Ryan says (to mef), "At least we'll have a prime suspect or two." (From inky) The police then drag off Caoif for killing the joke. mef says, "Heh." Gordy arrives from the east. Adam says, "Idle Legs" Adam says, "Apparently 'Idle Hands' utterly bombed at the box office" mef says, "Just climbed a small mountain yesterday in Tilden Park in Berkeley, then sat on an airplane, unable to stretch, for 6 hours." Ryan says, "I love legs / From my head down to my eggs." (From Caoif) Iago says, "Now THERE's a surprise for you!" inky asks, "public's just not in the mood for teen serial killers, eh?" Adam says (to mef), "Oik." WeirdBeard has disconnected. WeirdBeard attempts to eat his sword. I don't think it would agree with him. Sometimes I do stupid stuff, and I don't even know why...as if my body were controlled by some demented, sadistic puppet-master. mef says (to adam), "Indeed. (Wildcat Peak. Starting from someplace way down below near a lake." Caoif says (to inky), "The previews made it look like it was a pretty dumb movie anyway." mef says (to adam), ")" markm says, "I thought Seth Green's scenes in the preview made the film look pretty good." mef starts to download the Inform 6.21 source, then remembers that his C compiler is on a zip disk, and the zip drive isn't connected right now. markm says, "And the flying cat, of course." Caoif says (to markm), "I'm sure Jarb probably thinks it's a good movie. Cattus Atrox was his confession of his deep hatred for cats." Caoif asks (to alex), "Jarb?" Alex says (to Caoif), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that Jarb is weeta's daddy. Also, a MS-SQL sadist. Also, LIONS. Also, a werewolf. Also, a cat hater who is going to be fed to lions by cat lovers for Cattus Atrox. Also, likes a ddyte." inky says, "um, actually, he has a cat." inky says, "which he's very fond of." vaporware is surprised that whichsys goes into so much detail about LADS. (From thumper) inky says, "Well, fond of eating at least." markm says, "I can't say anything bad about Jarb any more. He cooked up one killer BBQ." Bruce asks, "LADS?" inky says (to vaporware), "I like an out-of-date document" mef says (to adam), "It was a redeye flight, and I was (of course) in a middle seat between two rather large people." (From inky) markm says "Also, I don't want him to feed me to a lion." vaporware says (to Bruce), "Some insane little thing I found on a 5 1/4" disk back in the day and sent to raif." markm says, "There's that." mef says (to adam), "Tilden Park was very nice, though." Adam asks (to mef), "I confess that the name escapes me. Where is it?" mef says (to adam), "Berkeley Hills. Basically, above and to the left of the university as you face toward the hills." mef says (to adam), "Inspiration Point is also there..." (From Adam) Fonz says, "Ayyyy!" Adam asks, "So, um, by the C then?" Caoif asks (to Fonz), "When was the last time you worked?" mef says (to adam), "The entrance is north on Spruce or something." mef says (to adam), "Dunno. What's the C? (I'm not a Berkeleyan, just there for a week.)" Adam says, "The C is a big wooden letter C up in the hills overlooking the stadium." mef says (to adam), "Oh. No idea. But it's very large -- lots of trails and canyons and an artificial lake and peaks and stuff." Bruce says (to mef), "Wow. That's a BIG FUCKIN' C." Ellison asks, "question: I bought a CD-R from Yamaha, the CRW4416E to be exact... on their web page, they only describe the CRW4416EZ... what does that mean? that I got an older version?" Adam says, "The latter one is E-Z" Caoif says (to Adam), "Sounds like something out of Sesame Street." Ryan asks (to Bruce), "Is that a quote?" Adam says (to Bruce), "Sounds like my last report card." Bruce says, "No. Just, y'know, if it's got an artificial lake and peaks and stuff...." lurd says (to Ellison), "You got the non-Zarf model." Lonewolf says, "g'night folks, time to succumb to physiological pressures." inky says, "bye lone" markm says, "Bye" Ryan says (to Bruce), "When my brother was in Washington D.C. looking at Cleopatra's needle, there were two guys standing there looking at in in awe. One said, 'That's a BIG FUCKING NEEDLE!' The other said, 'Yeah. You could make a BIG FUCKING SWEATER.'" lurd says (to lonewolf), "Bye" markm gets one bug fixed in his vc++ proggy and decides to settle down to read raif. Bruce shakes his head. inky says (to Ryan), "excellent" Adam says, "Somehow I read 'Cleopatra's needle' as 'the Washington Monument'" Caoif goes southwest to play with toys. Caoif arrives from the Toyshop, dazzling you with hot yo-yo action. mef says (to adam), "Me too." Ryan asks (to Adam), "Clever of you. Can you read 'my family's favorite tree' as 'the night we sent out for pizza' too?" mef says (to ryan), "Buy me enough beer, and sure." vaporware says, "ooh, Snack's even in whichsys as 'reportedly in preparation'. I can only imagine the countless number of new authors who've read this in the past few years and are waiting for me to write a parser so that they can start work." inky asks, "so have you written one?" vaporware says (to inky), "If only." Bruce says, "I can read read 'Daddy's Cap Is On Backwards' as a stinging indictment of US domestic policy on the inner cities." Ryan says (to Bruce), "Bravo!" vaporware says (to inky), "I'm giving serious thought to giving up on the parts of the parser I have now and writing a lame cop-out version. The advantage is that I can work on the rest of the library; the disadvantage is that I'll probably end up stuck with a parser that has no functionality." Ryan sings, "I know you have a live piranha in your pants, you can't fool me, you live to skeletonise cows with your pants..." Lonewolf says (to ryan), "nothing's more fun than a rabid wombat in your pants." Lonewolf has a strange dream, is scared, and returns to ifmud. Adam says, "Oh, I had a strange dream a while back" Adam says, "Well, there was the one where we were all at a golf resort and thumper was a four-year-old albino" Adam says, "But after that, I had a dream which I think is supposed to be symbolic or something" inky says (to vaporware), "well, if you're planning on writing it all eventually, you might as well be working on something you feel like working on" Adam says, "In that I was with a bunch of people and we were going somewhere cross-country" zarf says, "Okay, this is creepy. I'm extracting eblong files from google.com, one at a time." (From inky) Adam says "And we were in a campervan and couldn't get laid." Adam says, "And I knew which freeways to take, but they kept disregarding my instructions and taking the wrong ones" Adam says, "And then they piled out of the van in the wrong city" Adam says, "And got lost" Adam says, "And I kept giving them instructions as to how to get back to the van, but they kept going the wrong way" Adam says, "Idiots" inky asks, "did you know the people?" markm says, "Sounds like a frustrating dream." (From Ryan) Dr. Evil says, "I'm surrounded by freaking idiots." Adam says (to inky), "Um, yeah, I think so" inky says, "when you woke up, I mean" Adam says, "Oh. Um. I don't recall who they were off-hand. A mix of various acquaintances and family members, I think" Bruce exclaims (to inky), "Silly! They weren't there anymore!" Ellison says (to Bruce), "hehe" I would seriously advise you not to try to come between me and my bear. Steve suspects a dog has eaten his underpants by now. That's what usually happens. Steve says, "Heylo." Ellison says, "heya Steve... er, wait, I mean, FUCK YOU" inky says, "hey" markm says, "hey steve" markm asks, "kiz arrived yet?" Steve says, "I got a neild here, as well." Steve says (to markm), "Indeed." Ryan says (to Ellison), "SHUT THE BLA- Oh, never mind." Ellison says (to neild), "FUCK YOU" markm says, "woo" (From Spatch) mini-mart guy says, "Dude, I just figured it out. They're fuckin CLAY, man." Steve says (to Elisspom), "FUCK YOU" iVan slides down through a heretofore unnoticed hole in the ceiling and lands with a solid *thump*. Steve says, "(This is neild/. As you can tell by the typos)" iVan waves. Ellison says, "heya iVan" Caoif goes home. All life's a stage, so just consider me a player. See you. markm says, "Area neild gets used to new keyboard." Ellison says, "hehe" (From iVan) THIS... is neild. THIS... is your BRAIN... on neild. DO YOU LOVE HOCKEY, KIDS, AND MAKING MONEY? (From iVan) Get the picture? neild came to get down, came to get down, so get off your seat and jump around! Bruce waves. neild exclaims, "Woohoo! My very own window!" Bruce asks (to neild), "Hey: about the 13th: can youse guys get the 4:17 from Penn Station, arriving Princeton Jct. at 5:13 ?" markm says, "If I ever have an if fest at my place, I see I'm gonna have to provide several computers." neild asks, "Shouldn't we update this lounge desc?" neild says (to Bruce), "I'm in Detroit. There is no penn Station here." neild says, "Also, I'm not in Detroit, I'm in Clarkston. Also, this keyboard is all rattly." Gordy has disconnected. Gordy goes home. Gordy has disconnected from ifMUD. Bruce says (to neild), "Well, on May 13th." markm says, "I looked up Clarkston on my atlas earlier today, but couldn't find it. According to the index it's north & west of Detroit, but..." neild says (to Bruce), "We can do anything we damn well please. We'" neild says, "We're free American citizens! (Er, except for ddyte.)" Bruce says (to neild), "Hence, I suggest the 4:17 train." Ellison says (to markm), "yeah, have an if fest some year... that'd be rockin" neild says (to Bruce), "Well, fine then." Ryan says, "I think we should work on organising an IFCon for next summer." Bruce nods. markm asks (to neild), "You guys planning on taking a trip to Windsor?" neild says (to markm), "We watched the Windsor evening news just now." Ellison asks, "didn't somebody say something about Foobler having an IF something sometime? like, kind of organized and stuff? or was that a dream?" inky says, "umf" neild asks (to markm), "There was -- hey, Steve, what's goinjg on in QWindsor?" inky asks, "wasn't he going to an infocom get-together? but that's different, right?" (From neild) Steve says, "Prostitution." inky says, "but it's ok, because it's canada" neild says, "There was something else, though. Something that didn't involve blue explosions." markm says, "heh" (From Ryan) Steve says, "We're all eating out kitchen appliances to eradicate the poltergeists." Ellison asks, "Infocom, as in, for the Imps?" inky says, "yeah" inky says, "but he might have something else planned" (From Ryan) Steve says, "Er, our." neild says, "The Detroit news had blue explosions, a dead hockey player, and a burning car. It was great." inky says, "I 'spect it'll eventually work out to a con per coast" Ryan pushes the button on the typo tally. Bing! Ellison says, "I don't know where I heard something.... maybe it was a dream..." Bruce thinks we should have an IF-con, with blackjack! And hookers! neild says, "Somebody say something funny, dammit. I'm in fucking Michigan." markm chuckles. Bruce exclaims, "Forget the IF-con! And the blackjack!" Ellison says (to Bruce), "hehe" (From Adam) Grocible says, "Burning Car? Man, I'm *there*!" markm says (to neild), "Here's something funny: Earlier today, ddyte was saying how great Detroit was." inky laughs. Bruce asks, "Was he on crack?" Adam says (to Bruce), "The thing that's great about Detroit is all the crack." inky says, "ddyte is still" Ellison says, "he liked Milwaukee, too... or so he said..." markm says, "hee" Ryan asks, "That Detroit dude rolled his car over, didn't he?" inky says, "in a continuous rosy cloud ever since he got to the US" Adam says (to inky), "No, he hated Los Angeles." markm says (to ell), "Milwaukee ain't all that bad to visit." Adam asks, "But then, who doesn't?" markm says, "I know, I've visited." Ellison says (to markm), "cool" Ellison says, "that's good to know" Ryan says, "Ddyte likes Detroit? Sheesh. I wonder what he'd say about Cinncinnatti." mef says, "Wow. I don't have to do too much to impress him with Philadelphia, then..." (From markm) Ryan says, "However it's spelled." lurd liked Cinncinatti the one weekend he spent there. mef says, "OK, time to go. Later." Bruce says (to mef), "Just show him the Liberty Bel." mef has disconnected. mef goes home. "When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it." -- Clarence Darrow Adam says, "He'd say, 'Cciinncciinnaattii is great!'" Bruce says, "Darn. Missed." Ellison says, "and now, since ddyte liked it so much, 'the safehouse' (the spy-oriented restaurant) is all that much cooler to me" Ryan says (to markm), "Synsinnatey." markm says, "Close enough." neild was off watching exploding sheep. This Michigan is great! Ryan says, "Heh." lurd thinks an IF themed restaurant would be cool. Ryan asks (to lurd), "With a troll with an axe as the bouncer?" lurd exclaims, "yes!" Ryan says, "Floyd as the Maitre d'." Ellison says, "we can do costumes at our IF con... it'll rival Gen Con!" lurd says, "And Tracy as watiress." Bruce says, "I'll have the grue burger."" Ryan has never actually played whatever game Floyd is in. Ellison says (to Ryan), "Blow Job Driftin' Floyd" markm says (to Ryan), "Planetfall & Stationfall." Ellison says, "alright, so that wasn't funny" Bruce exclaims, "This not what Floyd meant, when Floyd said 'Huck Bucka Beanstalk'!" Ryan asks (to markm), "Oh, okay. Those are in Lost Treasures, right?" markm says, "I believe so, yes." (From Bruce) Floyd says, "Oooh. That *big*. Good thing Implementors not give Floyd gag reflex!" Ryan asks (to Ellison), "Do we have to dress up as one of our own characters?" Bruce claims the Mimesis plant. lurd says, "If you build an IF restaurant the bathrooms should be in a maze." Ryan says, "You are in a maze of twisty little bathroom stalls, all alike." neild waves a piece of Steve's birthday cake tauntingly at thje mud denizens. Adam says (to lurd), "I suspect that there would be plenty of, er, dropped items in such a case." markm says (to steve), "Oh, right, happy birthday!" lurd says, "maybe bad idea" (From Adam) Police say, "Happy 23rd!" Ryan says, "And the windows should be boarded up. The menus should me pamphlets taht say 'Welcome to ZORK!'" markm says, "Also, yesterday's was Whizzard's and Jaybirds." inky says, "sheesh" Adam says, "Wow. Jaybird's old enough to drive." Steve asks (to markm), "Right, so where's my cork nut, then?" Alex awwwks. "Want cork nut!" Adam says, "Er... that is..." markm says (to steve), "I deleted it again." Ellison asks, "oh, yeah, it's still his birthday and stuff.... but not over there, right?" inky says (to Steve), "heh" (From Bruce) Which turd do you mean, the gooey turd, the corn-studded turd, or the two-tone turd? Ryan says (to inky), "Add Alex to the birthday list? :)" lurd says, "And it would have to have a large, prominent, animatronic grey parrot." inky says, "I don't know when alex's birthday was." Bruce asks, "Where is the birthday list?" Adam asks, "Besides, would you count from when he was born or when he was hatched?" neild says (to inky), "Steve says you're a bad parent." markm says (to bruce), "x calendar" iVan says (to Adam), "Hatched." Bruce waves. Bedtime. Ellison says, "g'nite, Bruce!" Adam says, "'Hatched' is such a great word" Bruce has disconnected. Bruce goes home. Bruce has disconnected from ifMUD. neild says (to Bruce), "Wave" neild says, "I am typing poorly on a keyaboard" iVan says (to Adam), "A fiendish plot was hatched." Ryan asks (to neild), "YM 'Jeyboaard'?" Ryan says (to Adam), "Put it on the Good Words thingy." neild says (to Ryan), "No, Jayboaard's birthday was yesterday." lurd clicks by Jerry Springer show, stops in shock, looking at grown man in diaper. inky says, "Jayboaard Presennta" Adam says (to lurd), "Do a Usenet or Deja search on 'adult baby'" inky says, "or "evil baby"" lurd says, "ummm, I'm scared now." Ryan says, "or 'hey baby'" inky says, "btw, www.babydance.com would combine two internet fads into one" Ellison says, "or 'HEY THERE LADY'" inky says (to Ryan), "^there" Ryan asks (to inky), "I only recognise the dancing baby fad. What else do you mean?" lurd says, "Is this a well know fetish thing? because I have never heard of this before." Ellison says (to inky), "timing, sort of... but yours was better" Adam says (to lurd), "Yes" inky says (to Ryan), "you never got pointed at www.hamsterdance.com" inky asks (to Ryan), "?" Adam says (to lurd), "Also known as 'infantilism', but they don't like it" Ryan says (to inky), "Oh, yeah I have." Adam says, "The name, that is" Ryan says (to inky), "In fact, I saw the hampsterdance before it had a domain." inky says, ""that name sounds so juvenile"" inky asks (to Ryan), "was this before it was cool?" lurd thinks that maybe it was a good thing growing up relatively sheltered. iVan says, "I can't believe there's a hampsterdance merchandise page." Ryan says (to inky), "just before it got cool, i think." lurd asks, "You guys are not making this up are you?" Ryan says (to lurd), "nope." Adam says (to lurd), "Well, if you want to be *really* sheltered, be an adult baby" inky says, "the teletubbies are the first example of mainstream adult babies" Ellison says, "oh, but we haven't seen the last" Ryan says, "Didn't Howard Stern do something with a diaper? (ANd, can he be counted as 'mainstream'?)" inky says, "IN THE GRIM FUTURE, THERE ARE ONLY ADULT BABIES" vaporware says, "CDnow carries a soundtrack called SEX-O-RAMA with porn music on it." Ryan asks (to vaporware), "been searching for it long?" Ryan says, "TSD, didn't it." vaporware says (to Ryan), "Passively." zarf says, "Hi. Back." inky says, "yeah I bet." inky says, "ok, I've been totally blowing off this paper. time to buckle down" inky has disconnected. inky is killed by Texas. Essentially, I was wrestling with free will and fate as I ate my pizza. zarf says, "Oh, look who's no so logged on now, mister inky." Ellison says, "while at school last year, the house i was at had a satellite thing, and someone was surfing through the channels and stopped for a bit on the Playboy channel... this pRon used the music from 'Mean Streets', a game from the 80s... I thought that was pretty funny" Ryan asks, "If you combined mef and lurd, would you get led or murf?" (From Steve) Ellison says, "That was the only video game music they used, trust me, I stuck around." Ellison says, "hehe" Ryan says (to Steve), "There's no shame in watching cheesy pr0n movies for fun!" (From neild) Ellison says, "That wasn't funny. Wait, I'm not me." neild says, "Mmm... cheesy prawns." lurd says, "Does anyone know if Sargent is still going to do the IF newsletter from Miningco. The sign up link is gone." Duchess has connected to ifMUD. lurd says, "nevermind found it." Duchess is spirited into the room by a gang of giggling monkeys. neild exclaims (to Duchess), "Yay!" Duchess bounces in Duchess says (to neil), "you are on vacation! get off the mud! :)" Ellison says (to neild), "yeah, take ddyte's example!" neild says (to Ellison), "I tried, but Kiz was busy." Duchess asks (to neil), "how was the drive? enjoyed the scenic view of pennsylvania?" Ellison says, "ha!" neild says (to Duchess), "Yes. We saw Insane Clown Posse vans." zarf asks, "Folk in Pennsylvania?" Ryan wants to start the official Sadie fan club. Duchess wonders if neil means he passed by a circus or something Duchess says (to zarf), "no, they passed through on their way to michigan" neild says (to Duchess), "Yes, that's EXACTLY WHAT I MEAN." neild asks (to zarf), "We waved. Didn't you see us?" Duchess asks (to neil), "are you guys up to anything tonight or just getting some sleep?" neild says (to Duchess), "I can't speak for ddyte and kiz." zarf says (to neild), "I was busy being abused by ifmud denizens." neild says (to Duchess), "Me, I'm sitting here with Steve talking to you." neild says (to zarf), "No, that's Kiz." (From Ellison) neild says, "we were thinking of walking around downtown, quoting Robocop and stuff." Duchess says (to neil), "dd will prolly not budge from her side for the week...not surprised there." Duchess exclaims (to ell), "ha!" (From markm) neild says, "If I could, it would sound something like 'mmff-m*smack*mff'" Ryan says, "Sarah and I practiced doing some walks from the Ministry of Silly Walks the other day." Duchess asks (to neil), "so what are your plans for tomorrow then?" neild says (to Duchess), "Sleep. Wake. Sleep some more." Duchess says (to neil), "sounds heavenly" Steve says, "Also, bear porn bear porn bear." neild says, "Eventually a ballgame." Duchess asks (to neil), "who is playing?" Duchess asks (to neil), "tigers?" Ryan asks (to Steve), "Isn't that illegal in most states?" neild screams "Tigers!" at Duchess and ... nah, old joke. (From Duchess) Steve boasts, "Not in *my* state!" Duchess smiles Ryan says, "Lions and/or tigers and/or bears, oh my!" neild says, "So anyway: Basically, tomorrow morning I try to rouse Steve from his stupor. Then we drive to Auburn Hills and turn the hose on ddyte and Kiz." neild says, "Then we eat." Duchess says (to neil), "hearty i hope" Adam says, "I suspect the hose is already turned on" Duchess pretends she didn't see that neild says (to Adam), "You can do better than that." Adam says (to neild), "Yeah, yeah" Adam says, "Look, they can't all be classics." Duchess says (to adam), "but adam! we expect better things, more, from you. :)" Duchess says, "you can't let us down now" zarf says, "Some of them can be buckets of ice water, I do dearly hope." neild exclaims (to Adam), "This isn't Turner Movie Classics? Now I don't believe in anything!" Ellison says, "ha!" Ellison says, "I do love those 'now I don't believe in anything's..." Ryan gets more comfortable and risks falling asleep before he can log off. Duchess hms. Maybe I should get kiz to buy me a tigers cap before she leaves... Duchess says, "i was so bummed when i realized i forgot to buy me a cubs cap last weekend" Adam says (to Fahmida), "They're available in New York, you realize" neild asks (to Duchess), "you want a Tiger Stadium Fan Club t-0shirt or something?" Duchess says (to adam), "yeah, but there is just something about knowing that i got the cap from *there* where there is" Duchess says, "er, insert 'no matter' before the 'where'" Duchess asks (to neild), "now that is tempting except i don't need another t-shirt. that's why i was thinking of asking her to get the cap. you guys are in the area until thursday right?" Duchess says (to neil), "i will just think about it for now" neild says (to Duchess), "Thursday morning." Duchess nods. I will remember that. Duchess asks (to neil), "btw i meant to ask you, is your band going to be playing in brooklyn/manhattan again anytime soon?" Duchess says (to neil), "i missed the last one and i would like to go again" neild says (to Duchess), "Yes, this Saturday. But I'll be in Boston." Duchess asks (to neil), "is there going to be a sub for you then?" neild says (to Duchess), "Mmm... sub." Ellison says, "hehe" Duchess says (to neil), "okay okay, maybe the term is backup" Duchess says, "i wasn't thinking" neild says, "Mmm... backup. Wait, that's not food." Ryan asks, "understudy?" Duchess says (to ryan), "that is theater" Duchess asks (to neil), "alternate?" Ryan asks, "understrummy?" zarf decides 'backup' is a dirty word this week. neild says (to Duchess), "Maybe later." Duchess nods. Ok. lurd says, "Good night" Ryan asks (to zarf), "should we all scream when we see it, like on the pee-wee herman show?" lurd has disconnected. lurd goes home. Time to make the cookies Duchess says (to lurd), "later" Duchess says, "timing" zarf says (to ryan), "Yes please." Duchess says, "hm, i would like to make cookies like lurd" Ryan says (to zarf), "Okay." neild says (to Duchess), "Anyway: Our next gig at Manitoba's will be on June July mumblesomething." Ryan says (to Duchess), "He makes lots of cookies. Every time he logs off, in fact." Ellison says, "ddyte and I were supposed to make cookies for inky... we forgot" Duchess says (to ryan), "scream in my presence and you will feel the wrath of the duchess" Duchess says (to ell), "hm. no one ever makes cookies for me. :(" Duchess says (to neil), "manitoba? cool" Ryan says (to duchess), "watch me." neild watches Ryan. "Done yet?" neild waits. neild waits. Ellison says (to Duchess), "I guess you don't come off as a cookie-deprived individual like inky... but now we know, and knowing is half the battle" neild waits. Ryan says, "well, no. somebody has to inadvertently use the evil word." neild says, "Feh." Duchess asks (to ell), "he is deprived and i am not?" Ryan says, "purposeful uses of it don't count." neild says (to Ellison), "Also, the waiting is the hardest part." Duchess hmphs. what's the use of looking small and tiny if people don't feel the urge to feed you? neild feeds Duchess cookies that say "Eat Me." Ryan says (to Duchess), "Small *and* tiny? Wow." Ellison says, "I feel that i really should make some cookies sometime within the next couple days... t'would make me feel like I'm doing some good for the world and stuff" Duchess says, "that's it, i am going to a geneticist (sp?) tomorrow and get some growth hormones" Duchess says (to neil), "thank you :)" Duchess says (to ell), "fed ex a couple for us academics..." Duchess says (to ell), "cookies would help me get through exams" Ryan says, "Freihofer's makes the best fruit cookies." Ryan says, "Also, bedtime for me." Ellison says, "g'nite Ryan" Ryan somersaults. Ryan has disconnected. Ryan I like disconnect,home. Do you like disconnect? Searching for my lost shaker of salt. Duchess comes running back Duchess says, "my god, i almost burnt my apartment down..." Duchess says, "you people are way too distracting (not that it excuses my absent-minded-ness)" (From Ellison) Duchess says, "it started with the cat, then..." vaporware has disconnected. vaporware goes home. vaporware outta da house. neild says, "Quick, someone tell me if Echonyc is working." Duchess exclaims (to ell), "not so loud! steve might hear you!" neild says, "(That was Steve. On my behalf, though)" neild says, "(For those scoring at home.)" Duchess asks (to neil), "stupid ques...what is echonyc?" neild says, "(Or even for ddyte and Kiz, scoring -- okay, I'll drop it now.)" Ellison says, "seems to be up for me" neild says (to Duchess), "It's a dessert topping." Ellison says, "and hehe" Duchess says (to neil), "that makes what ell said sound really dirty" schep says, "It pingz gud." Ellison says, "I meant it only in the dirtiest sense possible" neild says (to schep), "I can't telnet. Boo." neild asks (to Ellison), "Which is the dirtiest sense again? Touch?" Duchess says (to ell), "was it you that was talking about the seven senses? i never did find out what the seventh one was" neild says (to Duchess), "Bashful." Duchess says (to neil), "oh, i thought it was grumpy" Duchess shrugs. Goes to show you how much she knows. neild says (to Duchess), "No, zarf's idle." Ellison tried to think of a joke incorporating XTC's 'Senses Working Overtime' but failed miserably Ellison says (to neild), "hehe" markm says, "Speaking of idle, I have to take my idle hands outta here. It's Tuesday already." markm says, "wave, folks" Duchess says (to markm), "i know" Duchess waves to mark neild exclaims (to markm), "You weren't even here!" markm trips over his own feet. Ellison says, "see ya, mark" He sinks back into the ground from whence he came. Ellison says, "i should be leaving soon enough, too, if i knew what was good for me... I'll probably be around for another hour at least, though" Duchess has just blown 106 dollars for developing photos. they better be good... neild read that as "just blown" -- oh, *really* never mind. zarf tries to think of a suitably dirty comment on 'blown'... neild gets there first. neild says (to zarf), "Yay." neild says (to zarf), "Also, HA ha." Duchess wonders what the male equivalent of a vibrator is...seems like ppl here tonight need it! zarf isn't going to answer *that*. Ellison asks (to Duchess), "FurryMUCK?" neild says (to Duchess), "We're all just jealous, y'know." Duchess poses (to zarf): Duchess grins Duchess says (to neil), "uh-huh." Duchess drats. the golden statue of elvis didn't come out! zarf asks, "of?" zarf says, "No, never mind." neild asks, "The Golden Statue of Elvis is gay??????????" zarf says, "I'm going to sleep." Duchess laughs neild exclaims, "Sleepy zarf is funny!" Ellison says, "g'nite zarf" Ellison says, "hehe" Duchess says (to neil), "actually the statue was really not a statue" zarf says (to neild), "I hope not." zarf walks off through the wall; pale green light flares briefly around him. Zarf has disconnected from ifMUD. neild asks (to Duchess), "Was it a jar?" Duchess says (to neil), "no it was a man painted in gold paint pretending to be a mechanical statue" neild says (to Duchess), "No, that's Star Wars you're thinking of." Duchess says (to neil), "we spent hours arguing whether it was real man or a real machine" Duchess poses (to neil): Duchess laughs Ellison asks, "how do you do that public posing?" Duchess says (to ell), "syntax: ..nameofpersontoposeto :pose" Ellison says, "carazy" Duchess says, "now i really need to find a scanner...these pix are cool :)" Duchess says, "chicago pix came out especially nice :)" [Log finished Tue May 4 00:22:38 1999]