Crazy On Tap

I have

7 Aug 08 22:52:35 GMT

JoC: a !@#()@&#()@#@#@# eyelash or something in my eye.

It has been there since yesterday.

@#@#()$&#()$*@#($@*#_$(@#(@$&(!_@&!!!!

YC and Sathy

7 Aug 08 21:35:50 GMT

: That could work, right?

Chandler

7 Aug 08 21:35:22 GMT

df: Every now and then I try this project out (it's the subject of the very interesting book "Dreaming in Code" -- recommended read). Just tried the RC1.

I truly feel a little embarrassed for that team. Wow, what a tough project to work on.

So, after YaleChick was impregnated by the rogue cop who raped

7 Aug 08 21:02:57 GMT

muppet: and beat her, why didn't she get an abortion?

After the child was stolen by faeries, why didn't she alert the authorities?

Overall I'm seeing some terrible, inexcusable parenting coming from YC's corner. What the fuck is going on in her cum-filled head?

Saying goodbye (for now)

7 Aug 08 20:46:40 GMT

Rick Tang: Yup. It's my turn.

My mom will come home tonight, and I need to reserve energy to take care of her AND work effectively in the office.

Despite of my *silly* behaviors here, I don't mean to upset anybody, but apparently I have upset someone.

STH, I wish to get along with you, but it seems like there is a distance between us that neither of us can figure exactly the underlying reason. Well, that's life.

YC, Good luck, I don't think it's a nice idea to date that asshole cop. But it's your life. Take care.

Oh, Aaron. 'Prudes' annoy the crap out of you. Too bad, I hope I don't :)

"How about simply refraining from posting if you..

7 Aug 08 20:30:41 GMT

whistle: ..don't know what you're talking about? It doesn't require the time committment you're suggesting, yet you can also refrain from putting your foot in your mouth. "

its funny. up until recently I had absolutely no time for YC, the threads about her were almost insanely repetitive, boring and pointless.
I assumed that the reason that they were so popular was simply that the underlying ideas were sufficiently simplistic that the stupider members of the community felt they could usefully contribute.

...but increasingly I am liking her...

her muppet baiting is particularly entertaining. I cant tell yet whether she will win out or be driven mad by muppets constant hounding, but it really is going to be fun finding out...

go YC!

you guys are awesome

7 Aug 08 20:20:54 GMT

the great purple: I have thoroughly enjoyed today's threads. My day has been totally sucky, and you all have been the first thing all day to make me smile. Thanks. :-)

Wife said I could have this

7 Aug 08 20:20:09 GMT

Clay Dowling: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Motorcycles___1996-Honda-Magna-750_W0QQitemZ110277494757QQddnZMotorcyclesQQddiZ2283QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item110277494757&

Going to go check it out this weekend if the guy will be around.

Oh my God, do you ever read my post!?

7 Aug 08 20:09:35 GMT

CommunityCollegeChick: I demand that everyone here drop what they're doing, read ALL my posts and respond something logical? Is that too much to ask. After all, it's MY forum, it resolves all around ME, so everyone should talk to ME in the way that I want.

MY forum, about ME, that's why it's named after ME.

God you guys are so stupid! And condoms feel nasty.

In case you don't know, YC is not

7 Aug 08 19:59:17 GMT

Rick Tang: a lawyer.

Thank you.

We should list a "30 facts about YC".

Haay.............ulp!

7 Aug 08 19:53:16 GMT

: Fuck Microsoft and fuck Windows. I need a desktop linux distro that I can get for free.

I have an Intel p4. Which distro am I going to need that I don't have to build from source?

Will my VGA drivers and DVD controllers disk that I got when I bought the PC work with the linux distro or will I need something else?

I tested it, the code is fine

7 Aug 08 19:50:28 GMT

Oskar: But it doesn't work!!!!

I find it amusing

7 Aug 08 19:29:52 GMT

Aaron: In a forum full of people who deal with absolute logic on a daily basis with the most literal of machines created by human beings, a person who deals with the ambiguities of human created law somehow imagines that we fail to comprehend logic.

The death of quality in music

7 Aug 08 19:17:52 GMT

xampl: With the decline of CD sales and the increase of online music sales, I can't help wonder about the people buying MP3s and downloading them:

Don't you realize you're giving up CD quality in favor of a format which isn't even as good as LP records were?

Everyone went through a lot of pain and expense trading in their record collections for the same titles on CD in order to get stellar sound quality, and here you are going back the other way.

Yes, going from LP to CD was not only an increase in sound quality & convenience, but you're going too far on the convenience side of things -- why have music you can take with you when it sounds like crap?

Unclog your ears, sit down, and actually LISTEN to the music. Dammit.

Just so there's no backtracking

7 Aug 08 18:56:11 GMT

Aaron: YC, here, I'm just fucking with you:

I know you love college kids because they're always right, say exactly what they mean, and aren't prudes at all, compared to us old fogeys. None of us have ever been your age, we skipped those years, so we can't possibly know what you're talking about. We've never had problems getting dates, either, so we can't know what it's like to have trouble with that, but our experience in it is irrelevant, so there's really no need to listen to us at all.

anybody know the answer to this one

7 Aug 08 18:48:17 GMT

sharkfish: http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?dotnet.12.663867.0

???

YC strikes back!

7 Aug 08 18:34:23 GMT

Rick Tang: It's fun to watch.

Although it's not fun to see the cop 'coaxed' her into having sex without condom again.

Liberal Justice

7 Aug 08 18:31:12 GMT

df: http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/473683

In two years this guy will undoubtedly be out and about again. Presuming that someone from an earlier victim's family -- now as certain as certain can be that he raped and killed their daughter/sister/friend, doesn't extinguish his existence.

While there are certainly exceptions, in many areas there is an overwhelming bulk of people who never have any trouble at all with the law. And then there's a tiny percentage of people who just go in and out, compiling an unending rapsheet that people simply tolerate.

Congratulations to YC

7 Aug 08 17:30:43 GMT

Bot Berlin: For responding to the vitriolic CoT members. That takes courage to self analyze yourself as well as attempt to fend off criticism.

Remember, CoT is a virtual community, not a real one.

That is all.

Let the Salem Witch Trials and Christian Fundalemism begin

7 Aug 08 17:13:40 GMT

Bot L Berlin: http://www.crazyontap.com/topic.php?TopicId=38908#486320

YC went from describing a dating issue to being rotten as deemed by Rick. And Rick is righteous by the way.

Where are you guys going to burn her so that her STDs will fly into the hair.

Bring your bibles too.

Yet another democrat bond skipping democrat

7 Aug 08 17:03:40 GMT

Bot L Berlin: http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/17120142/detail.html

"Judge Ronald Giles sent Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to Wayne County Jail for failing to notify the court of his trip
to Canada and violating the terms of his bond."

Is this repost dildoage?

There are two types of onions

7 Aug 08 16:44:55 GMT

Rick Tang: Some are nice inside (e.g. Rick) and some are ... rotten (e.g. YC)

Yet another sexually deviant Republican

7 Aug 08 16:32:58 GMT

Lombrado: Seen on reddit:

Yet another sexually deviant Republican - Scott Muschany (R) indicted for raping his mistresses' 14 yr-old daughter while she watched.

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/missouristatenews/story/3D590F8A376046948625749D0070B9D8?OpenDocument

The "joke" persists that Democrats don't know anything about creating "real" sexual scandals.

Consumerism / Americanism

7 Aug 08 15:27:25 GMT

df: http://www.kottke.org/08/08/the-1000-iphone-app

"Plus, buying more than you need as an indication of wealth is practically an American core value for a growing segment of the population"

Taking shots at Americans (primarily _by_ Americans who think they're above the fold somehow) is easy and cheap, but this whole consumerism = American thing seems particularly tiring.

Ostentatious displays of wealth aren't evident elsewhere in the world? They haven't been evident throughout the history of mankind? The gems and jewels of ancient Egypt. The elaborate artefacts of the Mayans. The grand palaces and trappings of royalty in England. The exclusive, no-way-in caste system of India and the outward displays of the same to make people know their position.

It isn't an American invention, and it is hardly an American monopoly.

More fun in Detroit

7 Aug 08 15:11:05 GMT

xampl: The mayor has been jailed for violating the terms of his bond.

http://www.wral.com/news/national_world/national/story/3343627/

OK, if the judge says you can't leave town, but you take a trip to Canada & back, what's he going to do to you?

I think it's obvious to everyone here

7 Aug 08 15:10:33 GMT

muppet: That the only way for Yale Chick to TRULY be understood on this or any forum is to bite the bullet and post some full frontal nudity already. I mean, it's inevitable anyway so let's spare everyone many more months of heartache and misunderstandings and just Git R Done.

YC

7 Aug 08 14:41:38 GMT

Aaron: Did you ever stop and think that maybe we're being deliberately obtuse? That we totally get what you're trying to say and we're just fucking with you?

Repost for poor stupid YaleChick's benefit

7 Aug 08 14:37:28 GMT

muppet: >I don't post all of the details at once because I don't want to. I reveal them when I deem it appropriate. I am quite able to write. If you're really not able to cope when you receive an additional piece of information, how have you made it through life thus far?

It's not that we can't cope with new information, and you either know this or again, you're seriously maladjusted. The only issue Peter or most people here are expressing (other than that you're a cum-dumpster, which is laughable because you can't even do THAT right) is that you post a scenario, receive feedback, then whine and bitch about the feedback you've received and only THEN offer up eleventh-hour "evidence" that everyone is wrong and why doesn't everyone understand me cry cry moan moan.

The reasons the advice/comments you've received don't match your 'reality' are one or more of the following:

* when you don't hear what you want to hear, you manufacture new details in order to appear more correct, more intelligent, more righteous, or whatever.

* you deliberately leave out details simply so that you have something to argue about when you later include them.

* you are so maladjusted and inable to communicate with fellow human beings that you simply do not know which details are relevant.

It has nothing to do with any inability on our part to handle new information. YOU are the one throwing a hissy fit when you change the entire landscape of a discussion with some new revelation and nobody was psychic enough to know better in the first place.

Idiot.

Still unemployed

7 Aug 08 14:37:23 GMT

Michael B: Unemployment consists of eating, drinking, reading, and working out. It's a lot like being employed, except there's no work.

Watching all of the other people go about their busy lives around me is so fascinating. I do know, however, that my smug carefree attitude will come to an end soon and that I will have to rejoin their ranks. But for the moment I'll deny any relation to them whatsoever and maintain an illusory superiority.

Are you

7 Aug 08 14:27:59 GMT

: my Mommy?

Mooommmy...

sometimes life sucks

7 Aug 08 13:38:48 GMT

the great purple: I had a long conversation with my mom last night about people whose children have died. Years later and they're still not over it (as in, able to live a relatively normal life) ... everything reminds them of their child, they are still angry at God for what he's taken away from them, etc.

Obama unfazed by Lunatic at Rally

7 Aug 08 12:47:51 GMT

Clay Dowling: http://blog.cleveland.com/openers/2008/08/obama_unfazed_by_heckler.html

Obama starts to speak, so guy starts shouting that he's disrespecting the flag by not starting with the pledge of allegiance. Obama responds by asking the guy to lead the crowd in the pledge.

You gotta watch the video to the end, because this guy is a complete nutjob, and the guy with the camera makes a point of giving him enough rope.

Please critique my retirement plan

7 Aug 08 12:28:24 GMT

Welcome to Walmart: Seeing how I haven't managed to save enough for retirement, I've had to adjust my plans.

The plan is: I'll continue working until I can't work anymore. Then I'll suck on the barrel of a shotgun.

So .. whaddaya think?

Torchwood

7 Aug 08 11:40:20 GMT

muppet: Kinda sucks. The only reason for watching it is that it fills in some of the new Doctor Who canon, and that's slim justification.

The black chick in the cyberman get-up was strangely hot, however.

Omigod, we're being invaded!

7 Aug 08 11:22:43 GMT

man on the stair: http://www.ultrafeel.tv/ufo-cropcircles-sexy-alien-switzerland/

New Job

7 Aug 08 10:11:03 GMT

what are you waiting for?: So you may remember my post about my current job two/three weeks ago seeking advice. Well I took it and found a new job.

I'm going to be a Mac Engineer and Programmer around London.

Get an iPhone, MacBook Pro and travel card plus I don't have to wear a suit/tie.

Happy Days :-)

" I've never before witnessed adults so unable to correctly...

7 Aug 08 09:03:36 GMT

whistle: ...understand the English language and respond to a specific argument."

another brilliant point. heh. peter nailed her, and she nailed CoT.

to my mind it is defensible, its like the kind of conversations you see on programing forums from time to time. newbie programmer asks "how do I do this?" and is somewhat surprised when, from their POV, every response talks about something other than the original topic.

the problem is, of course, that nobody is responsible for either answering your question, sticking to your topic, or responding to a specific argument.

if you expected them to, thats your problem.

what you will, occasionally, find here is some interesting conversation and exchanges.

...and, possibly, a little abuse. having sucked every last morsel of entertainment out of you, they will react with savage ferocity once they suspect its all finished, and you *haven't* taken their advice, *or* admitted how brilliant it was, or *even bothered to thank them for the time they took out of their day*

if you keep posting, and not taking their advice, some of the rather more disturbed people on here will even begin to actively hate you.

stay anonymous, sweetie, but enjoy the forum.

Are these two phrases the same?

7 Aug 08 07:37:37 GMT

Ward: "Is the price negotiable?"

"Is there any room to negotiate on the price?"

I'd say that the first one is more blunt, the second one is more tactful. My wife thinks they're exactly the same.

How do you wash blueberries

7 Aug 08 06:42:46 GMT

Ward: I only do it once a year, and every year I mostly do it the same way, but I'm always trying new variations.

Note that this is for washing a lot of blueberries for freezing, not just one little tub.

I use a salad spinner, it seems to work pretty well to put the berries in the basket, fill the whole thing with water and basically just stir them around. Some of the leaves and twigs float on top and I can pour them off w/out losing any berries. Other stuff sinks to the bottom and is left behind when I lift the basket out of the water.

I can pull out a lot of the dead berries while doing this, others I get later in the process.

I did one batch today where the basket was petty much totally full, and then one batch where it was about 1/2 full. They both seemed to work ok, I don't think it took much longer to do the full basket, so that would give me better throughput overall.

Anyway, once all the loose debris is out, I lift the basket, shake it to get rid of most water, and pour the berries out onto a cookie sheet for freezing. It doesn't take long to pull out the bad berries when they're spread out one layer deep. I pull of any stems that are attached to the berries at the same time.

It took a bit less than 1/2 hour to do about 3 cookie trays worth of berries, but I have no idea if that's making good time or painfully slow.

Discuss!

Has the poor economy changed your habits at all?

7 Aug 08 04:59:58 GMT

Bot Berlin Wall Germany: EOM

thank you, YaleChick

7 Aug 08 02:33:06 GMT

sharkfish: For providing us with hours of entertainment at your expense.

May I ask, are you getting anything out of this. If so, what?

:)

freaky phone happening

7 Aug 08 02:29:53 GMT

sharkfish: My land line is a cordless. It was laying on the couch, minding its own business. Out of the blue, the number 6 showed up again and again on the display. I pressed the on/off hook button and the numbers would disappear then come back again.

The number 6 wasn't stuck or sticky.

I took the battery out. The numbers still showed, all 6's.

WTF.

Peter's observation

7 Aug 08 01:58:57 GMT

Rick aka 'The sexist': "She seems to have the mental maturity of a teenager, not someone in their 20s. Each of her posts are like onions: full of layers and they make one cry at the stupidity. And we have to peel the layers ourselves - just like dealing with a teenager. Did she live in a box/prison for the first 23 years of her life and just got released last year? Is "she" a performance art piece like "90 day jane" to push our buttons?"

When Peter's say something, we should all pay attention :)

seeing men cry

7 Aug 08 01:02:09 GMT

sharkfish: I can usually keep a stiff upper lip in any situation. Unless I see a man cry.

Men crying gets me EVERY damn time.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7544985.stm

:)

I'm hoping you'll tell me what makes you cry.

What is the site for mock web data for forums

6 Aug 08 22:02:27 GMT

Bot L Berlin: What is the site/term for mock web text data?

It was kind of like pig latin. Just a jumbling of random text. But there is an actual term. If you are a real web developer, you know what I am talking about. E.g.

Test paragraph of text:

kjsldj ljljd lkj ks klj slj ka lkjskljsl bob abc lkjsdj slkj l skljlsjd lsd dog cats sldjfskj.

Suicide

6 Aug 08 21:59:08 GMT

Rick Tang: What can you do if someone you love have threatened to commit suicide?

Aaron is not happy today

6 Aug 08 21:47:55 GMT

Rick Tang: What happened, Aaron?

I was just thinking of this 5 seconds ago

6 Aug 08 20:10:19 GMT

son of parnas: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/mloovi_translate_any_rss_feed.php - Mloovi: Translate Any RSS Feed Into 24 Languages

Bizarre. There was a match for blog in a language I didn't understand I was thinking, he why not a translated feed. Well here we go!

HIV incidence

6 Aug 08 20:05:12 GMT

Rick Tang: If you are not black, gay or drug user then go for it?

http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/surveillance/incidence.htm

web research people - is this true?

6 Aug 08 19:27:40 GMT

the great purple: "Only four countries in the world don't have some form of paid leave for new mothers: Papua New Guinea, Swaziland, Lesotho, and the United States."

From an e-mail forward that I got. Is this true?

Beijing is now pollution free!

6 Aug 08 18:09:11 GMT

Skeptic: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/olympics/article4470968.ece

"Four US Olympic cyclists who caused an outcry when they arrived at Beijing airport wearing smog masks have today apologised to Games organisers. The four - Mike Friedman, Bobby Lee, Sarah Hammer and Jennie Reed - said that they were wearing the masks because of pollution fears, a touchy subject for the Chinese authorities."

It was not enough to apologize - these troublemakers should be banned from the games because of their insult!

jquery ui vs extjs?

6 Aug 08 17:51:27 GMT

son of parnas: Jquery for all it's vaunted syntax seems to have a pretty limited set of components. I don't really see how you could build a UI with it and not have to do most of the work yourself. Any experience with it?

Web Unit Test Frameworks

6 Aug 08 14:20:08 GMT

Bot L Berlin: Do you use them. Something of the form of.

[div id="myData"]
My Data
[/div]

WebUnitTest.equals("My Data", getDiv("myData");

Something along those lines except normally the page is more complicated.

That is about as close as you are going to get checking if your code is working compared to the user specifications.

And it isn't really unit testing but behavior testing.

I was sexually harrassed this morning

6 Aug 08 13:59:14 GMT

JustGoingToWork: So I go into the entrance of my office building, about 7 feet behind someone else. I don't really notice them as I'm busy checking my email on my PDA to be ready for what awaits in the office.

Since I'm only up a couple of floors, I take the stairs as I do every day. These are secondary stairs, so the stairway is thin and steep with multiple small flights.

The person in front of me is also taking the stairs. As they round the second flight, I hear them basically RUN up the stairs.

Weird, but whatever.

I finally get to the top, and a haggardly old woman, dressed much to young for her age with a ridiculous looking skirt, is standing there scowling at me. She makes some dramatic "HRUMPH!" and enters her office.

I'm dumbfounded, and then realize that this idiot is implying that I was somehow lasciviously leering up her skirt or something (as frightening as the image is in my mind). Maybe she thinks I was taking pics for some sort of internet horror show with my PDA.

Listen, old bag - I've seen a lot of pussy. I've seen a lot of ass. I don't even bother to look up the skirts of nice looking women, much less ugly specimens such as yourself. As much as you like to make yourself feel sexual and desired by pretending that everyone is ogling you, please realize that they actually aren't. The idea of seeing your 'goodies' disturbs me greatly, and would probably turn me a little gay.

I don't appreciate being sexually harassed when I'm just trying to get to work, so save your pretend sexuality shit. If you actually saw me leering at you, or taking a pic, sure, but just to sexually harass me like that...fuck that shit.

McCain offers wife for topless beauty pageant

6 Aug 08 13:32:36 GMT

Clay Dowling (from bushes): http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/207172.php/

Sadly, she didn't actually enter, and there are no photos. Dammit.

database design, what does this offer?

6 Aug 08 11:01:17 GMT

whistle: in a DoS thread:

http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?design.4.662718.14

this was said:
"Yeah, I'd make a new table deptassignments with a primary key of the two columns

CREATE TABLE deptassignments
{
empno INT
deptno INT
PrimaryKey(empno, deptno)
}
"

Ive seen that kind of thing done fairly frequently, but I am really not getting it.
I assume my complete lack of an actual CS education is biting my ass here.

what does making the primary key the concat of the other two add to the solution?

heh. changing the rules of the game

6 Aug 08 10:34:56 GMT

whistle: last year some assholes attacked and killed a diary owner in auckland after robbing him, despite the fact he had followed their orders.

just now a christchurch diary owner saw off 2 machete wielding maniacs by shooting them repeatedly in the face with a gas powered slug gun.

apparently he bought it after the earlier killing, he no longer had any faith in the idea that following orders would let him live through it.

the impact of 9/11 on airplane hostage situations written small.

I love it. I am also moved by the raw courage of the shopkeepers wife who apparently passed him the gun.

Speaking of ironies, Iraq

6 Aug 08 07:33:42 GMT

lorb: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hK2pu_ltnYxSXwUMkC0jVysV04eAD92CGJQG0

Here's another link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/06/world/middleeast/06surplus.html?bl&ex=1218168000&en=13e70dd4b3a5f45b&ei=5087%0A

'Iraqi government with a cumulative budget surplus of as much as $79 billion by year’s end'

I'm tempted to blurt out something akin to "The surge is working!"

"First ... (the) relative shortage of trained budgetary, procurement and other staff with the necessary technical skills as a factor limiting the Iraqi government's ability to plan and execute its capital spending," the GAO said, adding that a second problem is the government's weak accounting systems.

Well I'll be, now I can't even get a job over _there_ because I lack 5 yrs. J2EE experience. harhar.

Need a way to stop the cyclic rebirth of memes

6 Aug 08 07:29:51 GMT

Ward: It's sharky's fault, she mentioned memes...

"teh intarnets" "pron" and "pwnage" were driving my wife crazy 'cause she'd never seen where they came from. It only took a short email to explain, but it wouldn't work verbally - the humor (and of LOLcats) is in the misspelling.

ending slavery without war

6 Aug 08 07:22:24 GMT

whistle: http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo146.html

its a nice read.

war really is an incredibly expensive war to change anything. it would have been cheaper in Iraq to have carpeted the entire country in one dollar bills one foot deep.

someone I know once suggested that as an exit strategy. lets leave in style.

Dear f

6 Aug 08 05:34:19 GMT

Fat Joe: I love you; I'd love to have a child with you. Wish God Almighty had given me a vagina instead of this fat cock.

Bestest regards,
Fat Joe

Result from STD clinic in NYC

6 Aug 08 04:13:43 GMT

303 Ninth Avenue(28th Street): yc doesn't have any STDs.

Our doctors, however, are extremely suspicious that she might be a SERIOUS psycho.

Dark Knight. No spoilers

6 Aug 08 04:08:59 GMT

sharkfish: Batman's voice is really fake.

Joker was not very scary. Just violent.

I thought the female star was not really very attractive.

Twin's

6 Aug 08 03:46:25 GMT

,...,: porn.

That's what I need.

German music

6 Aug 08 03:37:13 GMT

sharkfish: I have a house tune that has German lyrics and it is very motivating.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNNBXd0CPdk

Where can I get more like this.

She says, "but the

6 Aug 08 02:40:53 GMT

Sal Paradise: sex was great!"

I call bullshit without any prejudice.

now that muppet is back

6 Aug 08 02:00:06 GMT

f: will you fuckers leave me alone?

http://crazyontap.com/topic.php?TopicId=38806&Posts=6

Holy shit! Paris Hilton is smarter than McObama combined

6 Aug 08 01:23:40 GMT

Sal Paradise: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/05/paris-hilton-responds-to_n_117137.html

introducing people IRL to internet memes

6 Aug 08 00:42:53 GMT

sharkfish: I find internet memes difficult to describe and communicate in real life.

I find I want to send the person a link rather than go through the discourse of explaining it.

Someone I see regularly at the bus stop has two cats. Somehow, she had never heard of LOLCats.

So I and a couple of other folks spent fifteen minutes trying to explain the concept and phenomena.

We sounded like complete idiots, heh.

"It's a collection of pictures being traded on the internet that feature cats and other cute animals in various human like positions. They are accompanied with captions in this pidgin'-like English, or language you would use to talk to a child or mimic a child. Trust us, it is very funny. No we are not idiots. It IS funny. No Really."

I recommend this book list

6 Aug 08 00:20:02 GMT

sharkfish: http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4282430/

270 great science books. Wow. Some really good good stuff like Feynman's lectures, Dawkins, high quality ebooks, not scans.

Code Monkey

6 Aug 08 00:14:42 GMT

the great purple: Have you seen this? I liked it. :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Wy7gRGgeA

I think it is time

5 Aug 08 23:57:03 GMT

sharkfish: for a colon cleanse.

How to pick a colon cleansing place?

Is it official?

5 Aug 08 21:44:29 GMT

Sal Paradise: is HE back?

corn rows = criminal

5 Aug 08 21:26:14 GMT

sharkfish: "wrapped in small rubber bands that appeared to be the same type as those in his corn rows"

from Ask MeFi

http://ask.metafilter.com/98399/Sold-my-car-to-a-criminal

Clearly, with corn rows, he must be a criminal!

Orgasms on Tap

5 Aug 08 21:21:44 GMT

Oh Dear: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/3395507.stm

What's the story with Rick

5 Aug 08 21:18:35 GMT

Sal Paradise: Tang? is he suffering from extreme case of retardation?

Microwave popcorn

5 Aug 08 20:09:17 GMT

xampl: Best one?

I like the Orville Reddenbacher SmartPop Kettle Corn.

bliss is over I think

5 Aug 08 18:41:12 GMT

sharkfish: I'm perfectly annoyed with the world right now.

.NET question

5 Aug 08 18:40:42 GMT

sharkfish: Any way to rename System.Data.SqlClient to MySql.Data.MySqlClient with a "using" statement so I don't have to go through reams of code doing search and replace and rename everything?

I may be a prude, but not a

5 Aug 08 18:08:30 GMT

Rick Tang: sexist.

Thank you.

So, I took our spending data from the last two years

5 Aug 08 16:30:44 GMT

muppet: And hammered it into a budget with a nearly $1000 monthly surplus (not including yearly expenses like clothing and fuel oil, which are offset by "extra" paychecks and tax refunds anyway).

We've consumed some of that surplus by replacing one of the cars, but not most of it.

We've found a way to finance our new boiler (old one cracked) for no interest for a year, and we can easily pay it off before then so the financing will only cost us like $200 (min charge).

I started scrubbing the exterior of the house with a long handled brush soaked in some warm water and bleach. The portions I've done are about 5 shades lighter now, almost the original color of the house.

We should be completely out of credit card debt in less than 4 years. So that's something, anyway. Wish I could come up with a realistic way of speeding that up. Morale is important.

For shark (or anyone checking up on ISP)

5 Aug 08 15:43:01 GMT

JoC: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10006174-2.html

This is cool. I like that people will keep tabs on the services rendered at the least. It's too easy for people to get ripped off and not even know what they are really getting.

Bastards. Other than instituting some asinine jerk's authority, could keepers actually show sanity?

Update on cop guy

5 Aug 08 14:29:53 GMT

YaleChick: We went out again last night. I don't think I'm going to see him anymore, though he seems to want to see me. I apologized for the vomiting incident and said I was so embarassed and he laughed and said it wasn't a problem at all. He said he was working all weekend and didn't get my text (prob not true).

In any case, we went to a kinda well-lit bar this time and I noticed he's really hot. I'd never really seem him in broad daylight before because all of our dates were at night. But we don't really have much to talk about and I could see our conversation topics drying up.

Thoughts? He seems like a really nice guy who actually likes me, but I don't know if the compatability is there. Then again, I think it might be good to date him to a)get experience w/ guys and relationships and b)Philo and others think I have a desperate vibe. If I had a bf, that would prob. be toned down and maybe I could meet a more suitable guy in the meantime. But it would be really mean to use him in that way, right?

For YaleChick: March of Shame

5 Aug 08 11:13:35 GMT

Fan boy: http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1825142

"In this species, self-destructive instincts run deep"

Is that Morgan Freeman doing the voice over?

No means no

5 Aug 08 06:08:13 GMT

Rick Tang: Right?

Term of Service

5 Aug 08 06:04:46 GMT

Rick Tang: 1) Only one term. The owner will not monitor the board for illegal activity.

Hi, I thought y'all might like these free books on philosophy

5 Aug 08 05:01:07 GMT

Stefan Molyneux, MA: http://www.freedomainradio.com/free

They are just great. I wrote them! :)

I'll keep this in case I have a daughter

5 Aug 08 04:58:38 GMT

Rick Tang: "I don't consider myself raped, but I guess what he did was kinda sketchy.

Without getting too graphic,

I never really intended to have sex with him, but I did let him coax me into taking my clothes off.

I figured we'd just mess around (since no condoms had been produced and he never asked me if I wanted to have sex). However, he just started having sex with me (without a condom on!)

I freaked out and said we should use a condom...

I figured at that point we might as well finish,

he said he didn't have one, we kind of went back and forth about it a bit and I kept making him stop but then he talked me into letting him finish."

That's standard case of 'date rape', even if this guy is a cop.

But he will get away with it because of YC.

Sigh.

my head

5 Aug 08 03:49:42 GMT

sharkfish: is finally back into my own side project.

The hardest thing for me to do is focus. And I have several things to juggle:

1. exercise routine
2. work
3. relationship
4. social/friendship
5. work-related study/practice

I don't know how I'm going to do any of these well all at the same time.

how's your gaydar

5 Aug 08 03:47:24 GMT

sharkfish: take the challenge quiz
http://overheadproductions.net/gaydarchallenge/

my score = 70%. Of course, I could be lying. :)

http://theirtoys.com/gaydarquiz/gd8.php?cost=70

My next transportation device

5 Aug 08 02:28:49 GMT

son of parnas: http://conceptships.blogspot.com/

JMeter, nice tool

5 Aug 08 02:26:39 GMT

Bot Berlin Wall Germany: http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/

Pretty nice if you are doing load testing.

It is a java GUI so it is kind of memory intensive. But, it works fine on my linux machine, not so great when I use windows.

CoT = bunch of boring, suburbanite losers.

5 Aug 08 02:19:37 GMT

ff: yup

ps
she'll live

was i wrong

5 Aug 08 00:00:29 GMT

sharkfish: I think I handled this all wrong.

Developer handed off a code base to me a couple weeks ago, I'm just now getting to look at it.

He walks up behind me, I can't see him. He says "yo you doin' it all wrong we need a delegate there...!" or some shit.

So I was not in the mood. I giggled for his pleasure, and said "you know, I'm used to being head bitch programmer, so unless you have something interesting and on my level to offer, back the fuck up."

I'm with this translation

4 Aug 08 23:57:49 GMT

sharkfish: wuzzup yawl dis ya gurl lala commin up outa roseburg, ill be n eugene dis weekend wit a homegurl . WE LOOKIN FO STRICKLY BLACK DUDES.. we both dun mess wit no whiteboiz so datz da deal..we finna b n eugene dis friday and maybe saturday it depends on who we kick it wit...den we gone 2 portland..dis b ya gurl lala ima b n da first 2 pix den datz mi homegurl jessica n da next 2 pix..if u likes and u wanna meet up friday lemme know.we gon hit taboo da hottest club out der* so if u black sexi and iz a real azz nigga..hit us up!!

_____________________

Translation:

How are things, everybody? My name is Lala, born and raised in Roseburg. I will be traveling to Eugene over the weekend with an associate of mine. The two of us would like to be courted by African Americans, preferably. The both of us would like to avoid any Caucasian men, so please none apply. Again, we shall be temporarily located in Eugene, any certain days depending on with whom we spend our time. Afterwards we shall travel to Portland. If you have forgotten, I am Lala, and my portrait is supplied hitherto. My associate Jessica's portrait follows mine. Should you like what you see, gentlemen, please contact me on my cellular phone so we may meet. My associate and I shall be frequenting the parlour known as Taboo, a most popular locale. Again, if you are African American, and you consider yourself attractive, and despise theatrics or personal trickery to gain your entry into my panty-leggings, please contact us. Much obliged!

http://www.reddit.com/comments/6uuuw/learn_how_to_spell_biatch_w_pics/

Stereotyping: Black/White interracial couples part 3

4 Aug 08 22:31:15 GMT

Bot Berlin Wall Germany: I have come to the conclusion based on my own myopic observations; there are two black and white couples on the Black Male/White Female side.

1. There is the Big white girl and the black male (of any weight). Normally the poor/redneck big white girl.

2. The Big, Muscular Athletic Black guy and the white Blond model girlfriend. E.g. see the relationships for most professional sports players. (Is Tiger Woods muscular now?).

On the other side of the spectrum. In Atlanta at least, I think the White Male / Black Female it seems to be more normal. I see many normal looking professional Black women with young suburbanite White Males. Go figure.

I guess for scenario 1; The white girl feels that the black guy will treat her better where the white male tend to lean towards skinny women.

For scenario 2; the white women want that Mandingo brother. Maybe they believe that the action is better? But only if the male is visibly muscular.

On the regular black male and regular white female. Say two professionals or former college buddies or something. The black women are sucking up these guys or maybe in 2008, old traditions and conservative thinking is still prevalent.

My closest contact with interracial couples is with my Uncle and a good friend in highschool; both break convention.

A. Uncle has married three times. 1. White Female, Professional from IBM. 2. White Female he met while he was a personal trainer. 3. Mixed female (black/white). Ironically, my uncle went from IBM dork to muscular and owned an athletic studio.
B. Friend had parents Black Male/White Female. I know the dad worked with IBM as well as a Chemistry professor. Something like.

1. Aaron, No this isn't the norm and no I am not serious (not really anyway, hehe...giggle)
2. STH, Same thing
3. Sharkish, Yes, I am a moron.

I am posting this because this is crazy on tap?

Yale heads are dizzy

4 Aug 08 21:35:00 GMT

what are you pranging for?: YaleChick is jokes, some girl going on long about dating, men, relationships etc etc and all the old boys here are running around replying to her everyother thread. Hillarious.

That education worked well eh? Daddys little girl.

Anyway YC go get checked out, we have all done it and you hopefully won't have AIDS. Don't listen to all these old fuckers and their fear. You know whats good.

Young, dumb and full of cum.

Good insight. Covers startup and working fulltime

4 Aug 08 21:04:16 GMT

Bot L Berlin: Yep, that is about it.

We are screwed.

http://foohack.com/2008/08/why-im-not-working-on-my-startup-yet/

This is why you shouldn't code in bars

4 Aug 08 20:28:45 GMT

Bot L Berlin: http://www.reddit.com/comments/6uv5z/ask_reddit_i_think_my_macbook_was_stolen_last/

Well at least I know that I can see into the future. Just can't keep up with my stuff.

http://www.crazyontap.com/topic.php?TopicId=38483&Posts=19

Aaron's thread on AIDS

4 Aug 08 20:02:32 GMT

Dan Denman: Another good reason why banging whores is a lot safer than drunken sluts you meet at a bar or match.com. The YaleChick types probably have all sorts STDs whereas high class call girls always have protected sex.

Speaking of call girls, I think it's about time for me to call. I forgot where I left my damn Cialis pills!