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The Evil Greebo

13:48

Morning

Aarthi Devanathan Ψ

allo allo

what's going on?

The Evil Greebo

I have a prescription for eardrops - 4 drops, 4 times a day

Aarthi Devanathan Ψ

yes?

The Evil Greebo

how the hell am I supposed to count the drops when I'm putting them in my OWN EAR?

and i'm going to look really silly with my head down on my desk for 5 minutes this morning

Aarthi Devanathan Ψ

@TheEvilGreebo oh. UH. Mirror?

@TheEvilGreebo lol yes. slacking at work so early! ;)

The Evil Greebo

13:54

i'm supposed to insert the tip of the dropper into the ear enough to touch the base of the canal... need someone to look straight down intot he ear to count drops...

ok putting my head down for 5 minutes per doctor's orders

eyeroll

Aarthi Devanathan Ψ

byeee

The Evil Greebo

bah 3 mins will have to do

Aarthi Devanathan Ψ

lololol

The Evil Greebo

my desk was decidedly uncomfortable

Aarthi Devanathan Ψ

@TheEvilGreebo yours doesn't move like ours do, huh?

The Evil Greebo

14:10

your desk moves?

how do you write?

Aarthi Devanathan Ψ

not constantly! i can shift it up and down.

The Evil Greebo

ah, no, mine is fixed to a cubical wall

Aarthi Devanathan Ψ

@TheEvilGreebo :( sadfaces!

The Evil Greebo

I appreciate your sympathy. :)

Aarthi Devanathan Ψ

@TheEvilGreebo everywhere should have nice things like we do

The Evil Greebo

14:20

envy

Aarthi Devanathan Ψ

awww

sadly the best i can do is send you pencils. :(

The Evil Greebo

What kind of pencils?

Aarthi Devanathan Ψ

@TheEvilGreebo carpenter's pencils!

with the diy branding and logo

from like last week

The Evil Greebo

I like pencils :D

I accept your offer of pencils. Please fax them to me.

Aarthi Devanathan Ψ

Sep 20 at 19:53, by Aarthi Devanathan Ψ

@TheEvilGreebo laughs faxing MIGHT be hard.

The Evil Greebo

14:23

Stop your complaining, this is a problem solving site! Solve some problems!

nice pencil - like the color

sigh Fine, EMAIL will work.

Aarthi Devanathan Ψ

@TheEvilGreebo it's quite nice, actually!

@TheEvilGreebo :O i hope you have a 3d printer, then

The Evil Greebo

Even if I did I don't think they'd write well in that case

Aarthi Devanathan Ψ

true.

The Evil Greebo

Well then we seem to be at an impasse.

Aarthi Devanathan Ψ

@TheEvilGreebo unless you trust USPS.

The Evil Greebo

14:31

Trust the Government. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

mmmmmokay

have you been posting winners of the giveaway items?

Aarthi Devanathan Ψ

14:59

@TheEvilGreebo not yet, so far as I can see.

The Evil Greebo

That sander DOES look nice but I'll refrain, I have sanders and someone else can use it more than me

Aarthi Devanathan Ψ

@TheEvilGreebo tomorrow's the impact driver.

The Evil Greebo

What's Friday?

Aarthi Devanathan Ψ

@TheEvilGreebo milwaukee drill

The Evil Greebo

Nice prices :)

Aarthi Devanathan Ψ

15:07

@TheEvilGreebo laughs yeah, @BMitch and @KarlKatzke were great and helped me out a lot.

The Evil Greebo

nice

What I need is a new compound miter w/ a stand... can you arrange that for a giveaway? ;)

Aarthi Devanathan Ψ

15:26

@TheEvilGreebo lol uhhhhhh

The Evil Greebo

You're going to waffle, aren't you? I can tell!

Aarthi Devanathan Ψ

@TheEvilGreebo start a blog, get 64mil hits a year, and i'll do it.

The Evil Greebo

I happen to be a web programmer. I can set it up to get 65 mil hits in a DAY... so... YOU'RE ON! :)

BMitch

@TheEvilGreebo note that 63.999mil of those hits should be from people, not the apache benchmark tool.

@AarthiDevanathan, don't make technical deals with nerds, they always find a technicality

Aarthi Devanathan Ψ

@BMitch rimshot

@BMitch thank you for clarifying by the way.

@TheEvilGreebo oh god, what have i done.

BMitch

15:34

I can get 64mil hits for diy se, but I don't think the web admin would be very happy with me

Aarthi Devanathan Ψ

@BMitch lol possibly not.

BMitch

I used to apache benchmark spammer websites until I literally melted my network switch.

Karl Katzke

Hehehehe. That sounds like something I'd do.

The Evil Greebo

@BMitch You think I can't make Apache think they're 65 mil distinct hits? snort

Aarthi Devanathan Ψ

@BMitch oh god. how. i didn't even think that was possible OH HEY @KARL.

Karl Katzke

15:36

My ISP has started metering though. :(

The Evil Greebo

@AarthiDevanathanΨ Surrender now and just buy me the saw and stand. ;)

Karl Katzke

@TheEvilGreebo Depends on where they come from. 65 million hits all coming from an Amazon ECC IP?

BMitch

yeah, I cut back when I needed my VOIP to work

Aarthi Devanathan Ψ

@TheEvilGreebo nevarrrrr

@KarlKatzke he works for amazon?

Karl Katzke

@AarthiDevanathanΨ No -- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud -- you can rent CPUs to do things like host websites. Or spam websites.

The Evil Greebo

15:37

@KarlKatzke I'm not sure what that is, so I'll go with "no" ;)

bah, spoofing is more fun :P

Karl Katzke

aws.amazon.com/ec2

@TheEvilGreebo We were looking at saws and stands, but I think I vetoed all of them because they were either of limited utility -- 10 inch single-bevel chop boxes are really only good for the most basic of trim work -- and the budget didn't let us get something really nice.

Aarthi Devanathan Ψ

@KarlKatzke that looks like it's DDoS-ready

BMitch

I think Amazon has a great business model, rent out web site time to spammers, and to the spam fighters trying to bring down the spam sites.... profit!

Karl Katzke

@AarthiDevanathanΨ They sort of frown on DDOS/spamming. It's a good way to go to jail because they work closely with the feds.

The Evil Greebo

@KarlKatzke Agreed - I have a 10" and its just not up to the job. I want a nice 12" compound slider

I also want to win the lottery, but see where that's gotten me so far... :/

Karl Katzke

15:41

@TheEvilGreebo That's what I told Aarthi, which is why one isn't offered.

The Evil Greebo

One with a laser sight is even better, i was really bummed when mine burned out

Karl Katzke

I don't actually use the laser sight ever... I don't trust them to stay in alignment.

Aarthi Devanathan Ψ

@KarlKatzke wait, refresh my memory on this again?

Karl Katzke

@AarthiDevanathanΨ Whenabouts was the conversation where we talked about which tools to offer in the giveaway? 2 weeks ago? 3?

Aarthi Devanathan Ψ

@KarlKatzke yeah that was like last week

The Evil Greebo

15:43

Mine was perfectly aligned - exactly on the left side of the blade. It was sweet

Aarthi Devanathan Ψ

i meant more, I remember us talking about the saws, but i don't remember talking about 12" compound sliders

Karl Katzke

I have a bad memory, so I don't remember when it was.

The Evil Greebo

A 12" compound slider would have been way more than a 10" single bevel

Karl Katzke

chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/111/2011/9/15

Aarthi Devanathan Ψ

@TheEvilGreebo that's true. it came to, what, like $500 for that alone?

oh yeaaaah

The Evil Greebo

15:45

That sounds like the neighborhood

Aarthi Devanathan Ψ

i remember this now

Alex said to go wit hthe less expensive one

Karl Katzke

Specifically look down to where I pasted in the link for the deWalt one.

The Evil Greebo

That DeWalt would do nicely - 10" slider will suffice ;)

Karl Katzke

Hehe. I think it was out of the budget. :(

Aarthi Devanathan Ψ

mmhmm. well, we didn't want to spend that much on a single giveaway. 10% of the budget there? ehhhh

Karl Katzke

15:56

izzacly

The Evil Greebo

16:59

bored

Aarthi Devanathan Ψ

:(

Karl Katzke

<-- busy. and sick.

Aarthi Devanathan Ψ

17:14

aww

The Evil Greebo

<-- has a painful ear infection

Aarthi Devanathan Ψ

:(

The Evil Greebo

Not fair, Karl got an Awww

/jealous

Karl Katzke

:( I just have a cold/flu bug that's been going around.

But in an on-call week, the liklihood of me getting enough rest to get over it ...

Aarthi Devanathan Ψ

everyone is ill of late.

The Evil Greebo

17:32

i actually think I got my ear infection from working on the kitchen. I think some old gross food dirt from under the old sink got in my ear while I was under the sink

but who knows

Aarthi Devanathan Ψ

D:

Karl Katzke

Ah, the hazards of home improvement.

The Evil Greebo

Actually I know dirt got in there cause I saw it when I cleaned my ear w/ a qtip

i just think it was gross old food dirt

Aarthi Devanathan Ψ

so i'm going to vacate this conversation for a little while lest i, too, revisit lunch in a bad way.

Karl Katzke

Yeah, that'll definitely do it.

The Evil Greebo

17:40

sorry, tmi there I'm sure

Karl Katzke

Not to me. :) Or really anyone that gets dirty on a regular basis.

Here's what I looked like after cutting a hole for a fan vent in a friend's roof...

The Evil Greebo

You have a third eye

Karl Katzke

The other guys helping this guy with his place made fun of me like you can't believe for wearing that dorky headlamp while I was working ... until they realized how handy it was to have both hands free to work, and started borrowing.

*borrowing it

The Evil Greebo

Oh no I appreciate the head lamp completely.

But in the picture it looks dorky. ;)

Karl Katzke

It looks dorky all the time, not just in the picture. The picture was taken just after I'd crawled down out of the attic and was trying to catch my breath. I had so much crap in my hair, beard, and all over my arms and chest from cutting that hole that I had to go outside and wash myself off with the hose.

The Evil Greebo

17:49

BTDT

We sprayed cellulose insulation into the attic a couple years back - OH MY GOSH the dust...

Karl Katzke

Spraying cellulouse is a tyvek-suit-and-full-face-respirator job.

The Evil Greebo

For us it was a long sleeves and a basic dust mask job

the dust sticking to the light pull chain was an inch thick... that was neat

Karl Katzke

Yeah, spraying any insulation material from now on for me is a tyvek suit job. I had a bunch of skin irritation problems from working up in the "greenfiber" stuff that's spread in my attic.

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