The DMZ

AviD

8:00 PM

@Iszi no, I would guess @Simon is a twoll.

Iszi

@ManishEarth I'm still not a mod. Though I've run once, and may yet again.

And I don't think @ScottPack has achieved modship anywhere.

AviD

@Iszi should I say it?

@Iszi do I really have to?

Iszi

@Simon

There.

AviD

@Iszi you forgot his mom.

Rоry McCune

@LucasKauffman in honour of our new scandanavian Rory I've changed my whisky choice to MackMyra.. don't have Norwegian whisky to hand so Swedish will have to do

Iszi

8:02 PM

@AviD No, we're talking about room regulars.

AviD

okay fine, but damn you for making me do this.

Iszi

@AviD You're doing @Simon's mom?

AviD

@Iszi @ScottPack has achieved modship... with @Simon's mom.

@Iszi what? no. eww.

doncha know the Bro code only permits a bro's hot aunt?

Iszi

@AviD What? You're @Simon brother? You multi fizzler!

AviD

see, now your statement is not making any sense.

Iszi

8:05 PM

@AviD We've already established you're doing @Simon's mom. And now you say you're supposed to be subject to some "Bro code" in relation to @Simon, therefore you're also @Simon's brother - hence, a literal "mooger fooger".

AviD

@Iszi again this makes no sense.

bro != brother.

Iszi

@AviD Umm... that's exactly what it's short for.

AviD

I am claiming a state of friendship with @Simon. Publicly.

Iszi

@AviD Ew.

AviD

heh.

Iszi

8:06 PM

That's just... too disgusting to even star.

3

TildalWave

5

AviD

hahahaha

Rоry McCune

@TildalWave cats and dogs lying together, whatever next!

Iszi

@TildalWave He's always been a bit eccentric. Makes sense that would extend to his orbit.

Martin Rory Ingesen

@RоryMcCune I am honored! I will make sure to get you some norwegian whisky once :)

@AviD Well. I didn't know Rory was the way of life before I joined the DMZ

AviD

8:13 PM

@MartinRoryIngesen see? :-)

anyway, welcome, hope you stick around.

We could always use another rory. We've been having a shortage of rories lately.

Martin Rory Ingesen

@AviD you know I'm not really named Rory, right?..

AviD

@MartinRoryIngesen your username says otherwise.

wait, was there rorydrama earlier today that I missed?

Martin Rory Ingesen

@AviD I'll play along! I asked if I changed my real middle name to Rory, if people would vote on me as a new mod.

AviD

@MartinRoryIngesen ahhhh. And, yes.

Martin Rory Ingesen

;D

AviD

8:16 PM

disappointed face

TildalWave

oh hey we have a new election candidate

Martin Rory Ingesen

Noou. I'm just a wannabe compared to everyone else. I've only been here for like.. 20 days. (10 consecutive though)

AviD

@TildalWave who is Romeo? Never heard of him, but he looks like Charles Bronson. He shows great promise.

@MartinRoryIngesen so is @Simon.

dammit, in interests of impartiality, do I need to lay off @Simon until the election?

TildalWave

> I have broad range of knowledge and experience (which is visible from my SE profile) [about 2.5k SE-wide rep]

AviD

@TildalWave and who's that guy @Terry?

@TildalWave cmon, its at least 3k.

but "broad" does not mean "lots of rep", it means "varied".

TildalWave

8:22 PM

@AviD OK then how about [have account on 7 SE communities]

Rоry McCune

@AviD well his mom at least

AviD

@TerryChia what does Jamie have against you?

@RоryMcCune hehe.

@RоryMcCune I guess you need to dial up your #simonbashing to offset my silence on the matter.

TildalWave

elections.stackexchange.com/#security.stackexchange

Rоry McCune

@AviD heh I actually think @Simon would make quite a good mod, he's active on the queues and jildies people along well

TildalWave

this now only makes @Simon look good

AviD

8:24 PM

@RоryMcCune I dont disagree.

I also don't agree.

Mostly because active mods should really refrain from publicly endorsing (or attacking) any candidate.

Rоry McCune

@TildalWave that's a nice page, is it bad that my testers instinct is making me wonder what would happen if someone had put HTML / JS into their nomination forms

@AviD don't worry I'm sure everyone realises you're just joshing with @Simon

TildalWave

@RоryMcCune inorite? that was my first thought too LOL

Rоry McCune

@TildalWave heh

AviD

@RоryMcCune they would get elected

David Freitag

TildalWave

8:28 PM

@RоryMcCune s/Noteworthy Badges/Your Mom > Civic Duty (check)

Rоry McCune

@TildalWave lol that would be funny

Iszi

Who's this guy anyway?

security.stackexchange.com/election/3#post-93941

TildalWave

@DavidFreitag hehehe I really thought it's Acropolis at first :))

AviD

@DavidFreitag took me a while to realize what that is.

@TildalWave I was thinking Massada :-)

David Freitag

@AviD Really? I noticed it immediately, then wept.

AviD

8:31 PM

looks more roman than greek, anyway

@DavidFreitag looks similar to this:

Masada

Masada (Modern Hebrew מצדה metzadá "fortress") is an ancient fortification in the Southern District of Israel situated on top of an isolated rock plateau, akin to a mesa, on the eastern edge of the Judaean Desert, overlooking the Dead Sea. Herod the Great built palaces for himself on the mountain and fortified Masada between 37 and 31 BCE. According to Josephus, the Siege of Masada by troops of the Roman Empire towards the end of the First Jewish–Roman War ended in the mass suicide of the 960 Sicarii rebels and their families hiding there. Masada is located 20 kilometres (12 mi) east of Arad. Masada...

Rоry McCune

@TildalWave yeah I was thinking greco/roman, LOL

David Freitag

@AviD I didn't know ancient Israeli civilizations had giant DDR2 sockets

AviD

@DavidFreitag barricades, or maybe stadium

@DavidFreitag you cant tell me it doesnt look at least similar to this:

TildalWave

doesn't load for me

David Freitag

@AviD Maybe if someone knocked me over the head really hard, and then I squinted.

AviD

8:34 PM

@DavidFreitag and it was a roman fortress...

@TildalWave its the large version of that wp pic

TildalWave

I saw in the file name yup

Thomas Pornin

@AviD A Roman fortress in the then-Roman province on Judea, and famously occupied by Jewish rebels.

AviD

@ThomasPornin yup

even more famous when it stopped being ocuppied by them

or rather, the mass suicide of said rebels.

Thomas Pornin

Let it be known that when you rebel against the Empire... you'd better win.

AviD

hey @RoryAlsop when you plan your next family visit to Israel, you guys should hike up that mountain.

David Freitag

8:37 PM

@AviD Sorry, I must've found "is an ancient fortification in the Southern District of Israel" a bit confusing then.

TildalWave

that array of tightly packed capacitors looks like the giant's causeway

AviD

Not Claire though, she can ride up like a civilised person.

Rоry McCune

@AviD Rories don't do hiking in high temperatures

AviD

1 min ago, by Thomas Pornin

@AviD A Roman fortress in the then-Roman province on Judea, and famously occupied by Jewish rebels.

@RоryMcCune Rories' kids do

they would love it - its a killer hike.

Rоry McCune

@AviD sure they'll be young and still like warmness..

Martin Rory Ingesen

8:38 PM

killer

Rоry McCune

@AviD I like good hikes, but not in the heat...

AviD

@RоryMcCune also, thats why you start at 5am, before it heats up.

@RоryMcCune easily over 40C before noon, in the summer...

Rоry McCune

@AviD that would work, early mornings are the best walking times

David Freitag

@AviD Or at 7pm, just as it starts to cool down.

Rоry McCune

@AviD see that's like 2x max , not good

AviD

8:39 PM

@RоryMcCune also, why you go in April, or October.

@MartinRoryIngesen the footpath all the way up is literally called "the snake path".

> the Snake Trail leaves from the eastern (Dead Sea) side at the Masada Museum and gains approximately 300 metres (980 ft) in elevation

> Hikers frequently start an hour before sunrise when the park opens, to avoid the mid-day heat, which can exceed 43 °C (109 °F) in the summer. While a dawn hike up the Snake Path on the eastern side of the mountain (access via the Dead Sea Highway) is considered part of the "Masada experience," a cable car operates at the site for those who wish to avoid the physical exertion, but does not open until 8am.

Martin Rory Ingesen

Are you reading this off Wikipedia, or do you actually possess this domain knowledge? @AviD

AviD

@MartinRoryIngesen most of it I know, details are copied off wikipedia

part of the local history

ah, here's a good shot of it!

that little white squiggly line up the left side...

David Freitag

@AviD nopenopenope

AviD

heh. cant say I blame you.

David Freitag

It would be fine if I didn't have asthma.

AviD

8:44 PM

I'll ride up in the cable car with the wives, whlle @Rory takes the kids up the long way.

@DavidFreitag oh yeah, just breathing the dry, dusty air on the top would be hellish.

David Freitag

I would literally need a scuba tank full of albuterol.

@AviD If I took the cable car up, I would be fine. But as son as I add the work of hiking on top of that my lungs would give up and run away

Jeff Ferland

8:57 PM

@Iszi I think the conclusion was that would have been too depressing

One critical cultural thing was to never discourage people from kicking off the outage process when there was an outage.

Rоry McCune

9:12 PM

hey @RoryAlsop have you seen this? shetlandreelgin.com/shop

David Freitag

@RоryMcCune Wauw they only ship to UK.

Rоry McCune

@DavidFreitag yeah very new for now I guess, hopefully if they do well they can expand a bit!

David Freitag

Perhaps I'll buy a bottle and bribe one of the rories to ship it to me...

Rоry McCune

@DavidFreitag heh, well I may have just bought a bottle, so I'll let you know what it's like when I get it :)

Rory Alsop

@AviD pronounced as per the digit, or as per the speech impediment?

@AviD when the temperature gets below zero and there's snow - sure :-)

@AviD sneaky of you - you'd be trying to impress that captive audience with your...bounce

@RоryMcCune mmm - let us know what it's like. (Or - keep some for when we come and visit)

Rоry McCune

9:22 PM

@RoryAlsop will do :)

AviD

@RoryAlsop as per the Erfworld reference.

Sorry, it was subtle.

@RoryAlsop haha nooope, you'd throw me off the mountain

if she didnt do it first

Rory Alsop

@AviD actually - that's most likely :-)

@AviD hmm - I know not this erfworld

AviD

besides, rumours to the contrary notwithstanding, the tigger is a perfect gentleman.

David Freitag

rasterbator.net

AviD

oo Imma start referring to myself in the third tigger.

David Freitag

9:27 PM

It is SFW despite what the link might tell you.

AviD

@RoryAlsop archives.erfworld.com

@RoryAlsop quick spoiler-free (-ish) summary: Real world human gets magicked into a D&D type world.

David Freitag

@AviD I got bored after a few pages.

AviD

@DavidFreitag then skip ahead, and go back when feel compelled.

I think he gets sucked in on like page 20-ish or so.

David Freitag

Honestly I couldn't be bothered. I don't really need another place to waste time.

AviD

@DavidFreitag pls

@AviD 17

David Freitag

9:32 PM

It's bad enough that when I fall into imgur days can waft by like minutes.

@RоryMcCune How come you didn't pint he nominations link? Now I have to search for it!

AviD

9:54 PM

@DavidFreitag its right there on the homepage

David Freitag

@AviD But it could be 4" from my mouse.

AviD

hehe @RoryAlsop just noticed your edits on @Iszi. Very cute, +1.

Rory Alsop

10:16 PM

@AviD see me? Subtle, that's me :-)

@AviD ooh - I have read this

(probably @RоryMcCune's fault)

Rory Alsop

10:27 PM

Who is Romeo? A surprising leftfield entrant with no meta or review activity here...

AviD

@RoryAlsop according to Hollywood rules, he will win.

also known as the "Mighty Ducks principle".

Rory Alsop

10:42 PM

Dammit - discovered a new time sink :reddit.com/r/tifu

Nsfw natch

AviD

heh

@RoryAlsop Damn you.

David Freitag

36 secs ago, by AviD

@RoryAlsop Damn you.

Oh god some of these are freaking hysterical.

Terry Chia

11:50 PM

@AviD I have no idea. I don't recognize that name.

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