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Knot_Yeti: dun matter for the dc
BingoBoingo: Knot_Yeti: Also moar Niggers in the county PD
Knot_Yeti: lordy im having trouble putting this beer and grinder down
Knot_Yeti: <BingoBoingo> Fuck KC, I was hoping you'd have an StL solution. Or maybe CoMo << flat, no earthquakes, reliable oil for the gennies, it's in every american seven-niner's uptime plan
assbot: The Continued Pussification of the American Male
Knot_Yeti: <KRS-1> Anyone care to share your thoughts on this article? I know many of you aren't America, but perhaps you can relate afterall. http://boldanddetermined.com/2011/11/10/the-continued-pussification-of-the-american-male/ << holy KRS-1
gribble: Currently authenticated from hostmask Azelphur!~Azelphur@azelphur.com. Trust relationship from user ben_vulpes to user Azelphur: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 6 via 3 connections. Graph: http://b-otc.com/stg?source=ben_vulpes&dest=Azelphur | WoT data: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=Azelphur | Rated since: Mon Apr 9 00:11:58 2012
BingoBoingo: Also the chance Wisconsin does not win out the rest of its schedule is so remote that people who want to bet on it need to bitc to the Big 1G
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: What, you think the dark run the game of baskets?
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Westchester | mostly suburban county bordering the bronx to the south and fairfield county, ct to the north. largely perceived as a haven for wealthy investment bankers, ...
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BingoBoingo: Back in JUly this year I had a week with 90 minutes of sleep
ben_vulpes: although i never had the oportunity to discover what a "true" or "honest" cycle might look like, i just beat it until it submitted to what i wanted from my life
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Half the year I can make them feel lazy. Unfortunatley for me the half they aren't looking
ben_vulpes: hey i'm shoehorning my own cycle into the american business routine too asciilifeform
asciilifeform: some folks have approximately 24h clock, think we're malingerers. what can i say.
BingoBoingo: I dunno that any advanced primate has a set schedule
BingoBoingo: Winter though I have week long days. Summer I have day long weeks
asciilifeform: the difference between 'rarely' and 'never' is often more palpable than between 'daily' and 'rarely.'
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: don't misunderstand the original gripe. the bell is annoying precisely because it rings - rarely.
asciilifeform: reduction to practice - another matter.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: many things 'can be had' in principle - e.g., mircea_popescu's kit.
BingoBoingo: loll Torstein
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> bell is used by other people to ruin your sleep. in exchange for food & housing. << f/h can be had without signing that contract. contract that includes "bells" should carry a markup adequate to compensate for the interruption of critical bio processes
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: Consecutive days walking is a metric too, right?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Today an old colleague commented that i lost weight. Did not know the proper response to that.
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo, asciilifeform: walking does not take one to the edge of the performance envelope.
decimation: asciilifeform: also recommended by taleb. seems reasonable to do what humans have been doing for millennia
assbot: Can You Feel Anything When I Do This?, by Robert Sheckley
decimation: I suspect that the fantasy-plans for "contingency usg" would be a hilarious read
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: Week I graduated college the world wiggled every other day. Maybe my life stalled out because it stopped???
dub: my work week looks like ass for the rest of the year
decimation: lol http://washingtonexaminer.com/lights-out-house-plan-would-protect-nations-electricity-from-solar-flare-nuclear-bomb/article/2532038 << " Officials said that the legislation, provided in advance to Secrets, will include information from a recent EMP commission report that "contemporary U.S. society is not structured, nor does it have the means, to provide for the needs of nearly 300 million Americans without electricity.'':
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> ben_vulpes: exercise and regularity of schedule << exercise, easy; regularity of schedule is a dream to me, on account of my profession.
dub: what the fuck is this net slowdown shit
ben_vulpes: ah, i was only privy to the botnet inspector gig and NSA.
ben_vulpes: <BingoBoingo> ben_vulpes: The video wiggles only because the world does << yeah, but have you seen the de-wiggler in action?
BingoBoingo: Who needs TEMPEST wen you window leaks screen contents
decimation: EMP from ionospheric H-bomb is a bigger threat to small electronics, but can be defended as ascii points out
decimation: it's not the initial flare, it's the geomagnetic storm, which is mainly a threat to equipment attached to long conductors
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asciilifeform: upme_boolcrap: tough one.
upme_boolcrap: i want a solar flare that will destroy every electric instrument on earth
decimation: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ << there was a strong solare flare from an earth-facing sunspot at 1745 utc, could produce a nasty geomagnetic storm in a few days
assbot: HOTEL HELL S02E08 - Murphys Hotel - Watch Online For Free on TubePlus
BingoBoingo: Oh, a Brian Goss, maybe the one from this space? >> http://www.tubeplus.me/player/2149175/Hotel_Hell/season_2/episode_8/Murphys_Hotel/?huid=hxpyursy1xh9
decimation: ideally the distro should come from ascii's software-priests
BingoBoingo: Well ideas of adult and distro tend to run contrary to each other
decimation: agreed, there is an unfilled space for an 'adult' source distro
chalbersma: It's been a fun gents. I'm going to call it a night. You guys have a good one.
asciilifeform not particularly enamoured of gentoo, but there is no real alternative.
decimation: sounds legit. I second diametric in that discussion the other day, I like arch as a former gentoo user
decimation: so you 'emerge' once and then do everything else by hand?
asciilifeform: or forget about the crazies and run alone.
decimation: except if you use gentoo, occasion decisions by crazies wipe out your house, then rebuild...
asciilifeform: set up once, then live. like building house.
decimation: I bet it was a pain in the ass to setup xconf
asciilifeform: nothing terribly peculiar
decimation: are all of those displays driven from one machine?
decimation: what's the quartile in the upper right? just terminals?
asciilifeform: no emacs in this picture.
decimation: lol you dedicate one screen to emacs :)
asciilifeform: decimation: they stack well.
decimation: I see you keep a few 4:3 displays too
assbot: imgur: the simple image sharer
asciilifeform: decimation, BingoBoingo, others - http://imgur.com/mA3Jknc << possibly only good thing about lcd, you can do this.
assbot: Logged on 25-12-2013 21:26:27; asciilifeform: at some point 'the bezzle' becomes real, the cartoon wolf looks down and finally obeys gravity, goes splat off the cliff.
chalbersma: So what's next on this P2Pool server?
upme_boolcrap: are too expensive
upme_boolcrap: yeah houses in the city
decimation: I was talking with a guy who worked near the Googleplex the other day - apparently he knows people that commute 3 hours each way
upme_boolcrap: too far for me to drive each day
decimation: ah well that would be okay then
upme_boolcrap: its 1.15 hours to work
decimation: sounds crazy to me
decimation: I've heard of people commuting from west virginia to the dc area
upme_boolcrap: its not to far out there
upme_boolcrap: i live in the hills
upme_boolcrap: i hope to grow at least 60 next year
decimation: a good sweet watermelon is one of the pleasures of the end of summer
upme_boolcrap: stan did i tell u yet
upme_boolcrap: oh thank u sir.
BingoBoingo: No, those aren't black, those are Abbo
BingoBoingo: decimation: Only Liberia still has true blacks
decimation: no led/lcd has a true black
decimation: it's true, I miss the contrast ratio for one thing
asciilifeform: decimation: i decided, and then some time later came to believe that was wrong - and it was too late.
decimation: then I became addicted to the extra square feet of space
decimation: asciilifeform: I carried that thing over many moves, finally decided lcds were good enough to replace it
asciilifeform: put it this way. either you're a grown man and can pick up 50kg like feather - or - you're a cripple, and someone hangs around who can pick up -you- (to put in bedpan) - and this person will carry your display.
BingoBoingo: It was the GUI that corresponded to what the machine offered.
BingoBoingo: Exactly. Mac OS 7 was the shit.
asciilifeform: who cares what their display weighs? how often, it moves !?
BingoBoingo: FUKU... or whatever my coinbr referal code is. I'm trying to get library work nao.
decimation: I actually worked in a library in my youth, I quite enjoyed the spring keyboard and the 'peripheral' laser scanner
asciilifeform also saw this ☟︎
decimation remembers every pos and library using said terminals growing up, only to be replaced with buggy-ass windows for no reason ☟︎
BingoBoingo: <decimation> probably the way to find those cheap is to find some library or other such institution 'upgrading' to microshit << Interesting you mention this nao, get back to me in 2 weeks
decimation: probably the way to find those cheap is to find some library or other such institution 'upgrading' to microshit
asciilifeform: not that it makes more than a few pennies' difference to anyone