asciilifeform: you can always tell who can't do arithmetic by where walls of ornate clocks with ~3 zones hang. e.g. u.s. army briefing rooms.

asciilifeform: heatbleed - not diffused, has a loving motherland, 26km from where i sit.

asciilifeform: where is MIZ ZOU? bagdad? kandahar?

asciilifeform: to whom does this matter.

asciilifeform: why do people always ask 'how many warm bodies' ??

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: his wall markings. two wired, one forbes... http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yBIeh7Wug54/UChVTKXKxaI/AAAAAAAAEP4/4or9ZxvENlI/s1600/vargas6.jpg

asciilifeform: wait gurls where

asciilifeform: alexsanjose: kakobrekla author of bitbet.

asciilifeform: mein Führer.

asciilifeform: today i lined up a bunch of inglischers and had them try reading Ro street signs, menus, etc. from photographs.

asciilifeform: alexsanjose: simplified portuguese << as in 'africaans' vs dutch ?

asciilifeform: i notice that the folks who are innocent of python et al can still work a spreadshit. somebody maybe post a spreadshit for them.

asciilifeform: other fun feature, in my eyes, is that a prediction market has an... action market, 'inside, wiggling to get out.'

asciilifeform: this'll be like yeltsin, standing on tank, saying '-former- soviet union.'

asciilifeform: (re: price wtf)

asciilifeform: http://www.mirrorpix.com/webgate/preview.php?UURL=5f26f3f6959bc55c7f5a2d0f178fa26b&IMGID=00204661

asciilifeform: alexsanjose: it takes about the same titanic intellectual effort as operating... a lift.

asciilifeform: alexsanjose: what was your guess? zimbabwe dollars?

asciilifeform: 'Fairy Tales are blamed for teaching children that there are such things as monsters. Children already know that there are monsters. What Fairy Tales really teach is that monsters can be killed.'

asciilifeform: same.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: lich << yes!

asciilifeform: http://www.davno.ru/assets/images/posters/big/poster-1967a.jpg

asciilifeform: ('lenin - lived, lenin - lives, lenin - shall live!')

asciilifeform: reincarnated, and died again << 'Ленин - жил, Ленин - жив, Ленин - будет жить!'

asciilifeform: (for some reason i always thought of this situation as 'rotor/stators')

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: rick and morty do timisoara << lol! morty is 'rotor'!

asciilifeform: i was recently accused of being rick, from 'rick and morty'

asciilifeform: negative

asciilifeform: you can always tell who the 'mean girlz' are

asciilifeform: anyone who ever took part in the academia racket knows that 'anonymous referees' is a crock o'shit

asciilifeform: linked off my site's sidebar.

asciilifeform: him.

asciilifeform: doron zeilberger.

asciilifeform: that'd go great with laser.

asciilifeform: ;;google water torch

asciilifeform: (down side - might end up 'Darkman')

asciilifeform: apparently cuts sheet steel!

asciilifeform: re: cooking with acetylene - fellow DIY crackpot suggested to me, hooking an oxygen cylinder to the air intake of laser cutter in place of compressor

asciilifeform: but, why.

asciilifeform: no distillation byproduct oils, no hangover.

asciilifeform: the brits already have a monstrosity where you breathe EtOH through a mask

asciilifeform: and wtf the point of solid ethanol? snorting?

asciilifeform: re: arbitrage people - i've an arbitrobot, common lisp, sits sadly, 'cockpit glass to the sky, wings with holes'

asciilifeform: like many other useful things

asciilifeform: it sort of existed without me

asciilifeform: chemistry, i didn't invent.

asciilifeform: why.

asciilifeform: ;;google clathrate

asciilifeform: re: solid alcohol: the word is clathrate.

asciilifeform: lul, don't, it's horrifying

asciilifeform: yours truly as bored schoolboy

asciilifeform: http://www.halfbakery.com/user/dsm

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: re: rocketing out of pesthole - http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Home_20Escape_20Vehicle

asciilifeform: even mailing cheques, nowadays one generally uses bank feature that autoprints one and mails

asciilifeform: aye

asciilifeform: can't recall the last time using stamp

asciilifeform: lol

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: one day (tm) we rocket straight out of this pisshole, never look back.

asciilifeform: like washington housing.

asciilifeform: the prices are merely reflective of scarcity.

asciilifeform: they don't

asciilifeform: this is how people get the idea that giant sums move in the prison

asciilifeform: russian prison

asciilifeform: letmeguess

asciilifeform: i had to explain that these are not issued at the airport.

asciilifeform: me colleagues, viewing photos: 'damnit skip to the next one with the girl!'

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: or build glider.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: in case you missed: http://loper-os.org/pub/humans

asciilifeform: used to be, you had to understand maxwell's equations to fuck with electronics

asciilifeform: ;;google lumped approximation

asciilifeform: http://abstrusegoose.com/564 << this (unfortunately minus the second half!) actually happened.

asciilifeform: ;;google trading sardines

asciilifeform: waiting for a bright fellow to make next step.

asciilifeform: someone already sells toilets with 'garbage disposal'

asciilifeform: save plumber some work.

asciilifeform: save the bother of walking

asciilifeform: why does your flat need both a toilet and kitchen sink?

asciilifeform: it's not unlike toilet in the kitchen.

asciilifeform: the concept of 'private key' is apparently high mathematics to some people.

asciilifeform: 'encrypted'

asciilifeform: 'google buys phuctor', news at 11.

asciilifeform: 'products bought by other people having your private key...'

asciilifeform: the gurl?

asciilifeform: seriously, how much radiation damage someone would need, to swallow this crap

asciilifeform: 'google buys keybase'

asciilifeform: next news:

asciilifeform: 'integrating into gmail'

asciilifeform: then it was found that creatures merely do 'bang-bang correction' when 'solving' the motion equations.

asciilifeform: there was, if i recall, suspicion that higher animals (e.g. dog catching ball) can crunch diff. equations - until high speed photography developed

asciilifeform: waiting for 'study confirms man can do math'

asciilifeform: but i'm not a princess

asciilifeform: yeah mine was dead too

asciilifeform: http://travel.cnn.com/tokyo/shop/sound-princess-loo-001106

asciilifeform: ;;google otohime

asciilifeform: last thing i expected to find

asciilifeform: speaking of chamber pot - anyone else's hotel room had... an Otohime!?!?

asciilifeform: (mocsny - http://www.myrsky.net/danimal-archive-part-1/index.html)

asciilifeform: 'It would be interesting to do a study on men who need Viagra to have sex with their partners. How many of those same men are able to wank off to porn (whatever variety they like, but most likely it would feature women from the most physically attractive 1%) without chemical assistance?'

asciilifeform: herr mocsny had a good point about this

asciilifeform: yah, but you can make it report for duty, prove ownership.