@KitFox I'm just glad to have a mammal in office to represent my interests.

Two mammals.

Well I have to run home and ... two mammals?

But you're a bird-man, aintcha?

@ΜετάEd Well, sim is a kitten.

Oh.

And there's a vole along with my fox.

Ok then, one mammal and one insane mammal.

Everybody's got to have representation.

giddy with delight

But kittens are insane.

Have fun, y'all. I'll be back later after I run home to let out the dog.

And the microwave is possessed. Just sayin'.

Our microwave interferes with my Internet connection.

It's relatively obnoxious.

The microwave used to interfere with the voices in my head, but then I got the copper hat.

Smart thinking, that's what I like to see in a mod.

giggles

It's so weird to see my name in blue.

Yeah, it's going to take some getting used to.

It's distracting.

I no rite?

Yay.

So you're not blue yet?

I keep flailing around, pressing buttons, and running into things.

Or do I have to refresh?

Refresh, silly.

I will do it, this one time.

Yay, blue!

So if the site blows up, that's probably my fault.

It's OK.

Haha, my dog is under my brother's bed.

We're getting a bit of thunder.

I'm not your dog.

Oh, the other one.

I wasn't talking about you!

exasperated sigh

OK then.

@KitFox Of course it's your fault. But I see what you did there. Trying to divert attention by drawing attention to yourself so that the whole notion of you being involved with site detonation seems impossible, almost laughable. And yet ... we will keep an eye on you.

We will.

Hmm, I wonder what this does?

Noooo— <silence>

awaits explosions

> ... we did some additional testing using our Retina MacBook Pro review unit, which seemed to lose approximately 38 percent of its previous 8-hour runtime after installing Mountain Lion.

I wonder what kept Apple from properly testing this.

It doesn't appear to be rare.

Wow, that's pathetic.

Luckily I do not have the Retina MBP.

> As we noted last week, numerous MacBook, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air users had begun reporting that the battery life reported by their systems was significantly lower after upgrading to Mountain Lion.

You don't have any of those machines?

Hmm. I will unplug my machine and see what happens.

Do you remember how fast it used to drain?

I will put my backlight on 25 % and my brightness at 37.5 %.

Wow, when did YouTube get so shitty? You search for a movie clip and get a random collection of unrelated garbage.

> Apple was not able to confirm to Ars that a fix was forthcoming.

Looks good so far.

How can you tell so soon?

99 % battery life, says 7:31 remaining.

What the hell?

It is said to report stuff incorrectly too.

6:18?

It decreased like that!?

It's clear: Apple doesn't just want most of the money in the world. It wants all the money. Now.

Of course.

5:40?!!!

Instead, it will get less money.

I am not making this up, kids.

@Mahnax Okay, I think we have a winner.

Oh, 5:43.

Yippee.

phew

So it used to be closer to 7:30?

This is stupid. I could get almost the full eight hours out of it on Lion.

@Cerberus Some of us have wieners. Kit only has access to one.

5:10.

5:51…?

I am confuse.

@Mahnax You sure? I mean, if the OS used to say that you could get 8 hours, that doesn't mean anything unless you actually tested it for 8 hours?

@Cerberus Yeah, I used to time it.

@Robusto If she wanted more, she could no doubt get them.

@Mahnax Ah OK.

What's your % now?

97 %.

Okay.

Aaand we're back to 5:40. This is magical.

So 2 percentage points down in 3 minutes.

We'll see where we are in ten minutes.

That makes 2:30 hours of uptime total, am I wrong?

Sort of.

Perhaps the percentage is not correctly displayed either.

We'll see, I guess.

Because that would be a bit on the extreme side.

If it's any consolation, I have a feeling Windows 8 will be the biggest flop yet seen in OS land.

I read that you can't even boot straight to desktop any more (!).

Oh, goodness. Windows 8 looks like junk.

Yeah.

If you're using Windows for the beauty and elegance of it all, you're using it for the wrong reason.

It looks like a touch OS, i.e. nothing you can be productive on.

@Shog9 Exactly.

hey, congrats @KitFox and @simchona

@Cerberus Ayup.

Maybe I'll just switch to Ubuntu.

@Cerberus I'm actually quite productive on touch devices, as long as I'm just reading. The keyboard-cover on the Surface tablet is a smart idea there.

Now I just need to find a 30" LCD touch-screen to go with my oversized trackball and Model M

@Shog9 That'd probably be too heavy to hold

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Hold it? I'd lean on it.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 nods, giggles, runs away

@kit would you want to chat with reg or waiwai about like "how to use the mod tools"?

OK, 94 %, 5:48.

@simchona Yeah.

@Shog9 @reg @waiwai can either of you have a chat with me and kit about how to use the mod tools?

@Mahnax Or XP.

@Cerberus Never.

BRB.

@Shog9 Reading simple text files can be OK. But a large screen and a decent keyboard (so no small laptop keyboards or somesuch) and a mouse are really superior to all the rest.

@Mahnax You've lost power?

Invert the shield polarity while you still can.

@simchona Feeling a bit overwhelmed?

@Shog9 There is a lot of reading.

@KitFox ask anything - we"re all here to help

@Shog9 I feel that reading all the material first is due diligence.

Except that I messed with the room name earlier in a power-crazed fugue state.

But I fixed it.

@KitFox Uh-huh. You know things will never be the same now.

It's just weird. I didn't think I'd get elected.

I didn't either, if that helps

It does. Thank you.

I have had a crazy day.

@KitFox Careful; I'm not sure that's ever been done. No idea what would happen as a result - you might turn into some kind of super-moderator and destroy us all.

@Shog9 I don't want to blow it all up

@simchona No worries; if you're unsure of how something works, just ask.

@Shog9 Wow, I can read old flags?

@simchona Yup.

@simchona Time will tell. FWIW, I rather resented waiwai when he was appointed last summer, mostly because of the ugly situation that caused Kosmonaut to leave, but he appears to have kept quiet and done a capable job.

@simchona Finally, you have a chance to find out all the dirt that folks have been saying about you in private.

@Robusto I still want to listen to you about acting better.

@Shog9 There are "terrorist" comments. Huh. Never could have expected that

@simchona just don't forget about that moderator agreement that sez you won't go spilling the beans to all and sundry ;-)

@Shog9 True dat.

@simchona Thing One: Being a moderator isn't about you now. It's about what you can do to help make the site better. Before all you had was the ability to talk about the problems you saw. Now you can actually do something about them.

@Robusto But I'm not perfect. I'm not about to go on a rampage.

@simchona What, if you were perfect you would go on a rampage?

@Robusto It'd be sparkly.

@Robusto Excellent point. No more, "it's just one vote, the decision is made by others".

"He governs best who governs least." — Thomas Jefferson

makes note to keep quiet and do capable job

then @Shog will never suspect super-modness

Oh right, the 5 Cs.

So I can't kick other mods, eh?

I was hoping to kick you for practice.

Mwuhahahaha

Oh dear. Kit's turning evil.

@KitFox OK, for starters, we all know you're going to fail at the "keep quiet" part. But we forgive you.

Aww, thanks.

@simchona Turning evil? You haven't been paying attention, have you?

@KitFox Kit who?

@Robusto Same here.

@JasperLoy Oh, thanks, but I think you've been kicked enough.

@JasperLoy Only when I was openly abused.

@simchona By the way, can you go moderate the kitchen now? We men have more important stuff to do.

@Cerberus Le gasp! Are you trg?

puts on commie hats

I am going to go moderate my husband. Good night, yo. See you tomorrow.

@KitFox Don't tie him up too tight!

You don't say.

He was funny, in a way.

@Cerberus He liked you two :p

@simchona Really?

Perhaps because we didn't argue with him?

@JasperLoy He was annoying.

@Cerberus And you never voted to close his questions.

Didn't I?

Not sure you did.

@KitFox You can, but I won't tell you how ;-P

Can't you see that now, with your super powers?

@Cerberus That doesn't seem like using my powers for a real purpose

listening to Sim's fervent mouse clicks, trying to find the option...

Uh-huh.

You couldn't find it, eh.

I guess I have to refresh for technicolor?

Yuppers.