[14:57:06] {ormus} maximus walks in the front door: “i am the kegmaster. are you the tapkeeper?”
[14:57:12] {ormus} it’s oktoberfest at haddaway, boys!!
[14:58:11] {nule} mmm
[14:59:06] * ormus dangles a beer stein in front of nule
[14:59:09] {ormus} noooooooooooooooool
[14:59:14] {ormus} it’s waiting for you
[14:59:29] {maximus} all my hopes and dreams for this evening have quickly come to fruition
[14:59:35] {maximus} i hath found heaven
[14:59:40] {maximus} in a pint glass

[14:17:46] {nule} i do miss having some science magazines around
[14:17:54] {nule} i haven’t found good substitutes for those online
[14:18:14] {ormus} i ream ‘em for the articles
[14:18:34] {nule} ream them
[14:18:36] {nule} i like it
[14:19:00] {nule} anyway, did you see miss oxolate ’08 in last months SciAm?
[14:19:03] {nule} what a hottie
[14:20:43] {ormus} lol
[14:20:58] {baal} most journals are online
[14:21:03] {baal} oh, wait
[14:21:10] {baal} like that sort of mag
[14:21:22] * baal goes back to his hole
[14:21:22] {nule} i also took the quiz “find your ideal fundamental particle”
[14:21:37] {nule} i totally have a crush on the higg’s boson now
[14:21:37] {baal} I just got a ticket from Ransom Gardner
[14:21:50] {baal} which doesn’t exist =P
[14:21:57] {ormus} lol
[14:21:59] {ormus} nice, nule
[14:22:15] {baal} I like getting tickets like “user is still having issues with the app”
[14:22:20] {baal} that’s helpful
[14:22:25] {ormus} i was always into the more exotic neutrino
[14:22:29] {ormus} i have a thing for ethnic types
[14:22:43] {nule} yeah, i just got an email “the database tables stopped working”
[14:22:49] {nule} lazy f@#$s, get back to work!
[14:23:05] {nule} oh, you’re a cheeky one, mus!
[14:23:05] {baal} once you go muon, you never go back?
[14:23:51] {nule} “10 tips to find your mate’s center of gravity!” was so naughty
[14:24:35] {ormus} :)
[14:25:11] {baal} app uses 512 mb of ram on the client (web start), server has 4 gb of ram
[14:25:18] {baal} how many users do you think you can put on one server
[14:25:42] * baal cues up the Jeapordy theme
[14:25:59] {baal} Jeopardy
[14:26:00] {baal} gd
[14:26:54] {baal} ding
[14:27:17] {baal} the answer we were looking for is 40
[14:27:24] {ormus} lol
[14:27:30] {nule} 40!
[14:27:33] {baal} 4096/512 = fourty
[14:27:38] {nule} fourty

[11:17:18] {ormus} wow
[11:17:27] {ormus} heh…that hacked up web page actually validates
[11:17:44] {ormus} suckers!
[11:29:07] {ormus} hey baal:
[11:29:10] {ormus} One of the issues surrounding the GIF format is that the LZW algorithm was protected in the USA by a patent held by the company Unisys. The Unisys LZW patent expired in the USA on June 20, 2003. LZW patents are expired in Canada, France, Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Japan.
[11:39:03] {nule} LZW isn’t expired everywhere yet.
[11:39:32] {nule} And I think the bigger issue is that PNGs are technically better, unless you want to do the gif98a animation.
[11:40:07] {ormus} yeah, seems like pngs are better in about every way
[11:40:12] {ormus} compress better, too, evidently
[11:40:29] {baal} yep
[11:40:31] {baal} png is good
[11:40:33] {baal} ™
[11:40:50] {ormus} uhoh…there goes the neighborhood…
[11:40:50] {baal} freaking unisys
[11:40:54] * baal hates unisys
[11:41:03] {ormus} *baal stabs unisys
[11:41:53] {baal} gee, thanks ormus
[11:42:01] * baal stabs unisys again for good measure

[17:06:08] {nule} beer needs to be in the fridge for longer than 15 minutes to be drinkable, really
[17:06:19] {nule} at least molson canuck
[17:06:19] {baal} unless it’s already cold
[17:06:41] {ormus} here, i’ll hold him down, nule
[17:06:43] {baal} i’m really starting to loathe this place
[17:06:52] {baal} “whats wrong ?”
[17:06:54] {baal} “i’m beat”
[17:06:56] {baal} “why”
[17:07:06] {baal} “oh, you mean besides being in here for the past 3 weekends?”
[17:07:10] {baal} “that’s just how life is”
[17:07:16] {baal} “not mine, b!tch”
[17:07:22] {ormus} no?
[17:07:29] * ormus looks at the last few weeks of baal’s life
[17:07:45] {nule} with friends like you, ormus…
[17:07:51] {baal} .
[17:07:53] {ormus} yeah, i know
[17:08:17] {ormus} if i weren’t so damned cute…
[17:08:27] {baal} i hate everyone
[17:08:34] * nule grabs the ormus’ cheeks and squeezes
[17:08:37] {nule} no the other cheeks
[17:08:37] {ormus} teehee
[17:08:48] {nule} that’s better
[17:32:40] {baal} i hate you milkman ormus

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[15:36:12] {thot_associate}: and hey! i could do it, if i had direction!
[15:36:28] {thot_associate}: I’m not stubid….as much as you would love to beleave
[15:36:47] {ormus}: lord
[15:37:15] {ormus}: i know
[15:37:21] {ormus}: but what a way to prove your point
[15:37:24] {ormus}: stubid?
[15:38:25] {thot_associate}: haha
[15:38:46] {thot_associate}: shuve it

[15:39:41]  * nhn does the dubious dance
[15:40:15]  * ormus reluctantly joins in
[15:46:29]  * nhn eyes ormus skeptically
[15:46:41]  * ormus hesitates

[09:40:19] {nule} .
[09:40:29] {baal} there’s the nule
[09:40:37] {nule} what, huh?
[09:40:50] * nule rolls over and goes back to sleep
[09:41:07] * baal pokes nule with his shock rifle
[09:41:18] * ormus takes off nule’s santa hat and smacks him with it
[09:41:35] * nule snores loudly.
[09:42:09] * baal lobs a flak shell into nules bed
[09:43:15] * baal notices nule pulling a crazy maximus
[09:43:30] * baal drops to the sea floor and goes silent

[11:38:37] {baal} I used to think love was a candle light dinner and a good glass of wine with a special someone
[11:38:40] {baal} that’s false
[11:38:47] {maximus} heh
[11:39:15] {baal} love is getting up at 4:00 AM to clean diarrhea out of someones pants while they scream at you

[10:22:06] {ormus} okay, tell me this isn’t keeping it real: i’m at baal’s on the ibook, the den
of inequity a stairway away, nothing to do but lan and drink and currently stirring my coffee with
two SCSI adapters that just arrived FedEx