January 2009
37 posts
kyle: I really hope I don't have to deal with a kidney stone
mattly: kyle: apparently they only occur in 10% of males, and recurrently so (this is my fourth) in 3%
kyle: well that's good to know
mattly: man, i should start a list of all the parts of my life i fall 2 standard deviations away from the norm
kyle: I mean, not for you
mattly: heh
rick: man you drew the short straw
rick: stones and titanus
rick: or whatever that ear ringing thing is calle
mattly: yeah i got a referral for a urologist, based on some other issues I'm afraid my prostate might be inflamed
mattly: :(
mattly: tintinitus
rick: dude, uhhh
mattly: TMI?
rick: tit+anus heh
trevor: titanus is an affliction that turns you into an ancient greek hero - tinnitus is the ear thing
mattly: yeah, i can never spell that
rick: tintinitus
kyle: dude I want titanus
December 2008
44 posts
“You can choose a Lisp for the busy person, a Lisp for someone without much time,...”
– Stevey’s Blog Rants: Ejacs: a JavaScript interpreter for Emacs
“A simple rule-of-thumb applies here: if the word “Pro” appears in...”
– blog | analogindustries.com
“As a bonus it also lets you edit text”
– Meet Emacs
“It boggled my mind that programmers would get
all gangsta about OOP”
– ZSFA — 2008-12-25
jstad: REAL REASON: Ezra's dog wised up to the fact he was an internet celebrity and the posterboy for Merb. He then decided to renegotiate his contract with the team and demanded too much. Therefore we are rebranding under the Rails brand, to prevent a doggie boycott.
“The students duplicate the victim’s license plate on glossy paper using a...”
– Hack the Panopticon to Punish Your Enemies | Beyond the Beyond from Wired.com
“WE WON. bringing a douchebag like that to speak at the inauguration is a sign of...”
– Giles Bowkett: Obama Still Rocks: Rick Warren Rant
“Think of it: Sitting back for 8-10 months, (even a few years), maybe friending...”
– There’s something going down on Facebook. Pay attention. | SquaredPeg
court3nay: "gilesgoatboy: the major netflix use case for me: renting embarassing shit i wouldn't dream of picking up at the store"
court3nay: haha
rick: giles dude, your netflix friends can see your embarassing shit on your history
rick: its even worse
mattly: hahahaha
giles: hahaha
giles: uh 0h
rick: who cares if some random blockbuster clerk sees you rent bikini car wash
rick: oh yea, OR ENCHANTED hahaha
court3nay: if you HAVE netflix friends
rick: yea i have a few
rick: that seems weird to me though
court3nay: heh
giles: no netflix friends for me. seems kind of completely unnecessary
rick: i have some boxee friends too.. semi random people that now know i watched men in black a few weeks ago when i couldnt sleep
giles: it's like having friends on walgreens.com
court3nay: sup dawgs
towski: sup dawg
mattly: we heard you like travelling, so we put a trip in your trip so you can travel while you travel
towski: you heard wrong
“600 miles from the United States, and five hours from Manhattan, you have...”
– Foreign Policy: A World Enslaved
#couchdb
cmlenz: what happened to our CIA bot?
jan____: cmlenz: got nicked by the NSA bot.
jan____: which itself is invisible
joshdavey: lol I love how everyone who works with Ruby knows exactly when they started
“The father basically attacked police officers as they were trying to take the...”
– Houston - Hair Balls - Police Get The Wrong House In Galveston, Allegedly Assault 12-Year-Old Girl (the police officers did not identify themselves as such, probably because they know they do not deserve to be representatives of the law)
“The fact that you can create web applications that resemble desktop applications...”
– Bill Higgins :: the Uncanny Valley of user interface design
davisp: and when I said perl, I meant python
davisp: I am now going to have to go cleanse my mouth with soap
“Now, sing along: “You will never ever ever ever / own this much gear.” What?...”
– Create Digital Music » How They Work - NIN: Echoplex, Rehearsing Live with Lemur
“A good deal that used to be a great deal is not nearly as good as an awful deal...”
– Dan Gilbert researches happiness | Video on TED.com
kyle: I think I always had this image in my head when people say "million dollar home"
trevor: ah... you thought it would be *so* extravagant that it would come with a little guy tugging at your arm saying "the plane, the plane!" right?
kyle: yeah, something like that
kyle: or maybe perhaps, even flooring
“By this logic 37Signals should redo all their sites to optimally support IE6”
– Why you should mix records on crap speakers - (37signals)
“Here, then, was the difference between fantasy finance and fantasy football”
– The End of Wall Street’s Boom - National Business News - Portfolio.com
kyle: ugh, the way 37s cheats dropshadows everywhere secretly drives me absolutely insane
kyle: [[pic]]
mattly: gah
mattly: srsly if you can't do a drop shadow well don't do it at all
justin: kyle: I pointed that out earlier this morning. it's not offset.
kyle: no, they call it their style
kyle: they've been doing this since basecamp launched
Jeremy M.: our style defies the realities of physics!!
mattly: i wonder if they threaten to sue anyone else who similarly defies physics
mattly: or taste
“According to Mr. Fitzgerald, “When I say ‘bleep,’ he...”
– Andy Borowitz: Blagojevich Offers Senate Seat to Arresting Officer
mattly: well, off to go do some grocery shopping and maybe head to REI to see about some gloves
•bleything cry
technoweenie: heh
bleything: I'm seriously snowed in :(
technoweenie: you're a grown man and you seriously just typed "/me cry"
bleything: yes
Watchyou don’t have an information overload problem, you have a filtering problem
2008 Music List
I’ve decided to publish this now because I’m in the midst of sifting through my music library, finding stuff i haven’t listened to in over a year and listening to it, deleting it if I don’t want it anymore. Numbering among the casualties is The Beatles (aka the White Album), because I honestly think it’s their worst release after Get Back, and the sheer fact that I...
“Abbey Road is such a perfectly constructed album that choosing just one song...”
– IGN: The Beatles Game Wish List
out of context
rick: hey courtenay
rick: if function drinks taste like pee
rick: how do you know this?
court3nay: yeah
court3nay: how do i know?
court3nay: because i drink pee
mattly: link?
“The excuses made by the CEOs and spokesmen of BigCell for their failures remind...”
– The New Adventures of Mr Stephen Fry
“Maybe I can pass as one of them if I wear a fake one and speak exclusively in...”
– Nuklear Power - Home of 8-bit Theater
court3nay: i made a "garry's car" resource
Tv: heh, garry's car reminds me of Lotus Notes
Tv: where you would invite meeting rooms to meetings
Tv: and they might decline ;)
“Hackers from the LinuxOnAnything.nl Web site successfully installed Linux on a...”
– BBspot - Hackers Successfully Install Linux on a Potato (and here you thought linux nerds were zealots)
“The Internet is the greatest generation gap since rock and roll.”
– Why Obama Should Keep His BlackBerry - WSJ.com
“Who has the authority to limit functionality of my devices, and how do they get...”
– I’ve Seen the Future, and It Has a Kill Switch
“In this case (and among other things), it’s Windows. Microsoft may be an...”
– Capistrano 2.5.3 - Capistrano | Google Groups (via @gruber)
“This was fucking up on a scale known only to a select few groups in history,...”
– Requiem for a Maverick : Rolling Stone
“People disputed this caption, largely because a couple people considered it...”
– Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (on the caption for a picture of a cow on the Cow Tipping page)
“claims that UK-wikipedians are set to re-establish the British empire by moving...”
– Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“I’m not sure what’s scarier here: The fact that these guys have gone out of...”
– OhGizmo! » Archive » Rifle Mountable Chainsaws Scream ‘Safety First’
“The People’s Communist Republic of WikipediaⓀ, commonly shortened to...”
– Wikipedia - Encyclopedia Dramatica