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adlai: removed from rations... now
that's my laugh for
the day
adlai: these
things keep forever
adlai: "Also, a kosher variant of Spam, known as Loof (Hebrew: לוף, a Hebrew linguistic play on meatloaf), was produced by Richard Levi, and mostly used as part of field rations by
the Israel Defense Forces."
pete_dushenski: adlai: now why would spam be in
the idf in
the first place ?
ascii_field: omnivores 'are what
they eat' newsateleven
adlai: in
the idf, if bread sits on
the shelf next
to canned spam for long enough...
ascii_field was convinced
that his 'bear' had a snout, ate from a
trough
mircea_popescu: kinda gamey, like a pig
that grew up
thinking it's pheasant ?
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i am
told
that i did, but methinks it was a fraud
adlai: smallpox faded
to obscurity long before we learned how
to wage proper interkingdom war
ascii_field: adlai: by
this logic, eating raw bear meat is
the only reason 'we' aren't all dead of starvation, etc.
adlai: fwiw, according
to diamod, sleeping in barns (or herding in
the home) is
the only reason we're not all dead of smallpox
ascii_field: nubbins`: if i worked in a cubicle,
the last
thing i would do is buy a pogo and mess with it << what did you buy and play with instead? a nagant,
testing how it feels in
the mouth, as in mircea_popescu's 'dulap' story ?
mircea_popescu: still, "hard
to herd a herd"... you heard it here first
mircea_popescu: well what do you want
to, spherical chicken in vacuum ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_field ok, but you know... kinda hard
to herd a herd if you're so olfactorily intolerant
ascii_field: whereas i have zero patience with
the very concept of having
the very smell of a rabid dog in my home.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: i guess ascii_field has
telecom reviving AND self-upping magical powers
ascii_field: nubbins`: but i'll note
that
this is a problem with alf, not with walking away << i've noticed
that even you have exhausted your patience with
the bipedal rabid dog in your home...
pete_dushenski: but i'm not as cultured and worldly as i
think i am. just a soap opera star!
nubbins`: pete_dushenski sounds like we use different methods
to achieve same result
nubbins`: which btw i pronounce "usagi" in my head occasionally,
thanks bitcoin!
nubbins`: pete_dushenski i bring a smartphone instead of a laptop precisely
to limit my
tech usage
nubbins`: but... print shops are busy in
the summer, so if i wanna go somewhere, it's best
to go in
the spring... and it
turns out
three of my favourite musical acts were playing back-to-back nights in cleveland
pete_dushenski: there are always logs
to read,
travel stories
to share on contravex, emails
to send.
nubbins`: i usually aim for at least a week or
two
nubbins`: anyway,
this
trip is more of an indulgence
than most
pete_dushenski: so sure, i get
tired, but it doesn't send me home, just makes me want
to be productive while i'm away
pete_dushenski: but if you can make it past "tired"
there's always more
to explore and experience
nubbins`: everyone who
travels has a point at which
they become
tired. for some,
this is 6mos. for others, 1mo.
nubbins`: what sorta
travel, mostly resorts or "real"?
nubbins`: pete_dushenski you
traveled much?
pete_dushenski: nubbins`: how is it
that longer
trips don't suffice ? suffice for what ?
nubbins`: (protip: get yourself a flight rewards credit card /before/ you quit your office job.
they only check your annual salary when you first sign up)
nubbins`: longer
trips don't suffice for
the man of leisure
nubbins`: he's
taking a four-day vacation out of
the country.
pete_dushenski: nubbins`: oh you're busy nao ? what happened
to mr. man of leisure of
twodogslandia ?
nubbins`: rozal
that was
the most inept display of cloaking i've ever seen
pete_dushenski: in
taleb's books, he often refers
to his long, slow walks with mandelbrot, and how
the old man is
the only one who will walk slowly enough
to properly meditate with
nubbins`: itching
to
throw
that static bitcoind build onto one w/ an ssd
nubbins`: shame i don't have
time
to play with
these pogos
til next week
pete_dushenski: benoit's definitely in
the
taleb vein, or perhaps vice versa
nubbins`: pete_dushenski inorite? sold as "used", guessing
they're either (a) returns or (b) just damaged packaging and unsuitable for shelf
nubbins`: mandelbrot et al did much
to form my perceptions of
the world
pete_dushenski now wondering from whence mircea_popescu derives fiat profit in 5 jurisdictions
to keep
tax lawyers and accountants busy
nubbins`: too bad it's
the kinda dumb guy buying all
these, huh ;/
nubbins`: i'm always suspicious when Canada Post sends me an "item delivered" email and
the mailbox is empty
fluffypony: except
that it looks like
they're retarded
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: definitely afterwards, don't have enough
to say about it now
fluffypony: mats: because it's
the first one in ZA, I'm going
to be in Cape
Town anyway, and Micah Winkelspecht is
talking
mats: why would you soil yourself by association with
the likely demographic of con-goers?
assbot: Door
tix @ Bitcoin Africa conference: "only cash will be accepted". Bitcoin...you're doing it wrong! /hashtag/BitcoinAfrica15?src=hash
http://t.co/G66vzo8Etz fluffypony: so I'm going
to
the Bitcoin Africa conference on
Thursday
mats: its nice
to be
thanked for stuff i didn't do
adlai: "Thus, reading
this volume will not make you rich. But it will make you wiser—and may
thereby save you from getting poorer.
adlai: mats:
thank you for
the link,
the author may be one of
the only people (other
than personified Failure) able
to dissuade me
adlai: yeah dunno why amazon choose
to reword
that
adlai: "A Fractal View of Financial
Turbulence"?
mats is busy working
through "The Misbehavior of Markets"
☟︎ adlai: anthem is precisely
the correct dose of ayn rand for a healthy brain
adlai hasn't actually read
the book, didn't even crack
the cover
nubbins`: didn't
the galt idiots blow up some
train
tracks or smth?
adlai: mircea_popescu: no,
that's
the goal-withholding attack!
mircea_popescu: adlai i always understood it as
the much more subtle "well im on
the football
team now, why hassle
to score goals. hassle
to prevent anyone from scoring more
than me".
nubbins`: maybe once you get enough
toys it'll be a fair
trade.
nubbins`: but hey,
the
thing
that sucks and kills you *does* give you
the money
to buy
toys
adlai: mentsh
trakht, market lakht
adlai: then
the market price for widgets rises due
to lack of supply, and company finds itself with sales
totalling $251k
nubbins`: i didn't quit 9-5 because i wanted
to stick it
to
the
tax man. i quit it because it sucked and it was killing me.
adlai: ie, "my company could sell $300k on
the open market, but
then it would be in a higher corporate
tax bracket, so we'll only sell $200k of widgets"
adlai: aiui, which is only from
the internet as i don't physically live in libertardia,
this meme was mainly coined by/for business owners reducing
their business's "salary"
nubbins`: 'cause you don't get
taxed based on how hard you work up here in canada.
nubbins`: adlai so salary is
the word,
then?
nubbins`: ("but nubs, you sit around on irc all day" ...think about
that)