The DMZ

nealmcb

01:15

@ScottPack Sorry Scott. We're required to report you now...

:)

Scott Pack

For what? I was referring to @RoryAlsop.

nealmcb

@ScottPack You're putting little Rory down? Now we really need to report it....

Scott Pack

Well, on the plus side, this hole I dug myself proves my shovel is in good working order for the start of gardening season.

Iszi

01:33

@ScottPack Hole? To bury your euthanized child?

Rory Alsop

07:47

@ScottPack :-)

@ScottPack NVD says - CVSS v2 Base Score:7.8, Impact Subscore: 7.8, Exploitability Subscore: 8.6

Scott Pack

11:30

Yeah, I noticed that too.

I couldn't add them up in any way and get the 13 odd number.

Morning Gents.

Rory Alsop

@ScottPack ello

Scott Pack

Guvna

Rory Alsop

LOL - the global ubiquity of cockney dialect :-)

Scott Pack

According to popular media there are precisely 2 English accents: Cockney and Received

Rory Alsop

hahahaha - that'll please the Brummies, Scousers, Weegies, Cheuchters et al no end

Scott Pack

11:39

Wow, ok, I have no freaking clue what you just said

Hm. This past weekend you had both the summer time switch and the infinity length commute. How did that go?

Rory Alsop

well the summertime switch seemed to help the kids stay in bed until a reasonable hour, but the commute was 2 hours longer than it should have been because of delays on planes and trains. Meh

Brummies - folks from Birmingham, in the English midlands - very distinctive accent

Scousers - from Liverpool

Weegies - Glasgow

Cheuchter - middle Scottish

very different accents - mine is a combination of RP and Edinburgh scottish

Scott Pack

Then there's you people from the City. Put your pinky down!

oi. Travel time. bbiab

Rory Alsop

ttfn

Scott Pack

12:16

I was just about to refer to you as Midlothian, but then thought to check the maps.

Rory Alsop

technically speaking I'm an Orcadian, but referred to as a Ferrylouper cheuchter :-)

meaning someone who went south across the water to central Scotland, ending up in West Lothian

Scott Pack

Before you came to civilization, sure.

Rory Alsop

absolutely

Scott Pack

When we were in Curry a few years ago, the male of the couple we stayed with, had grown up on one of the Western islands.

Can't remember which one.

That was a very depressing morning as he told us about it, and why as a 19 year old he left.

Rory Alsop

Well, the western isles are a tad bleak, and even Orkney (which I do love) is more a place for growing up and retiring than doing anything exciting in the middle

At least Orkney isn't as restrictive and insular as the western isles

Scott Pack

12:23

My memory indicates he had to learn English before coming over, but that might be incorrect.

Rory Alsop

ahh - one of those 2 islands. Very gaelic.

Scott Pack

I'm actually glad the weather was poor that morning. It gave us a chance to sit and chat with them. Very interesting fellow, but yeah, sounded all a bit depressing.

Rory Alsop

15:19

just found this: genius! end result, spilled coca cola on my desk :-)

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A: RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags

You can't parse [X]HTML with regex. Because HTML can't be parsed by regex. Regex is not a tool that can be used to correctly parse HTML. As I have answered in HTML-and-regex questions here so many times before, the use of regex will not allow you to consume HTML. Regular expressions are a tool th...

Scott Pack

15:34

I've seen that one before, me thinks.

While that one encourages amusing memories of the Old Ones, this one is suitably snarky.

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A: RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags

While it is true that asking regexes to parse arbitrary HTML is like asking Paris Hilton to write an operating system, it's sometimes appropriate to parse a limited, known set of HTML. If you have a small set of HTML pages that you want to scrape data from and then stuff into a database, regex...

Rory Alsop

@ScottPack Yep - somehow I had missed that whole piece. So it amused me during lunch today

Scott Pack

Speaking of lunch, it's about that time.

Rory Alsop

along with the memes thread on meta se

Scott Pack

linkages?

Rory Alsop

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Q: The Many Memes of Meta

The term "Internet Meme" is used to describe a catchphrase or concept that spreads quickly from person to person via the Internet (see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme_(Internet) for more details) Stack Overflow and now even more predominantly Meta Stack Overflow has seen more than its fair share of ...

Scott Pack

15:42

So what's up with this whole 'Jon Skeet' thing?

Rory Alsop

isn't he "the dude"?

Scott Pack

He wears jellies, writes cheques for <$1 and smokes a lot of pot?

Rory Alsop

msmvps.com/blogs/jon_skeet/archive/2009/01/15/…

@ScottPack your answer is best

Scott Pack

If there's one thing I know and respect, it's the Lebowski.

Rory Alsop

we are nihilists - we believe in nothing

Scott Pack

15:46

I think they used "nothing" instead of "anything". That might require some, ahem, fact checking :)

nealmcb

@RoryAlsop That's a pretty sophisticated attack on your desk!

Scott Pack

@nealmcb Social engineering at it's most subtle!

Rory Alsop

@ScottPack like that, you mean:-)

@nealmcb yup

Zalgo comes and dirties my desk

Scott Pack

@RoryAlsop More like scheduling a time to painstakingly review the footage.

Rory Alsop

need to check bandwidth at my hotel - I feel the Dude requires space on my hard drive

Scott Pack

16:39

I should attempt a white russian sometime.

Iszi

17:24

Don't you just love it when one of your less-often used accounts' passwords expire, and then the only way you find out is after waiting 1.5+ hours for a tool to finish its job only to see in the report that your credentials failed?

Then, you have to call the help desk to get the account unlocked (because of course, the tool doesn't know how to stop before the threshold is hit) and change the password like you should have done a week ago, and then wait another 1.5+ hours for the tool to run again!

For some reason, today feels like Monday.

Scott Pack

Or you change your password on the server, but not your saved credentials for email on at least one of -- phone, laptop, desktop, and home desktop.

Rory Alsop

17:58

@ScottPack yes, yes you should!

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Scott Pack

I think I got ruined on the notion back in college for having, what I think was, Khaluha and coffee once.

Rory Alsop

kahlua is one of the staples in my spirits cupboard

along with various rums, baileys, absinthe, creme de cassis.......etc

I miss working in a cocktail bar

Scott Pack

Other than wine and beer I tend to just keep Emmet's and (scotch|bourbon)

Rory Alsop

mmmmm - whisky

Scott Pack

18:00

I don't much care for the taste of Baileys. Too sweet.

Rory Alsop

in the student area I'm currently staying in they do cans of Jack Daniels and coke

for £2

Scott Pack

Not too shabby

Rory Alsop

after dinner I plan JD&coke and a pack of Pringles crisps

Scott Pack

I am real keen on a nice Sailor Jerry and coke

Rory Alsop

yep - works for me

Scott Pack

18:03

That's some good spiced rum right there.

Yummo.

I don't know why, but spiced rum is my drink of choice for winter.

Mulled cider with spiced rum? Now that's an excellent afternoon.

Rory Alsop

One of the great traditions from back home is the Bride's Cog - orkneyjar.com/tradition/weddings/wedding4.htm - I especially like the quote: "The Orcadian guests still watch with a wry smile as an unsuspecting incomer gulps down great mouthfuls of cog, blissfully unaware of the consequences of their actions."

It has various recipes, but the one we had at our wedding was basically mulled spirits

:-)

Scott Pack

I presume it's some kind of grog that has a very low freezing point, but doesn't taste like it?

Rory Alsop

it is usually made from spirits available in normal off-licence's (as Orkney's traditional brew is whisky - the Highland Park and the Scapa are our two distilleries)

we don't have akvavit like they have in Denmark

Scott Pack

Or ouzo

Rory Alsop

18:19

or Kaersk in Norway, or Pisco in Chile - everywhere seems to have something awful that warms you up. I like the countries that do nice drinks (rum, whisky etc)

Iszi

19:04

Urgh. Finally that scan is done and I can go back to the office.

I wonder, does your guys' discussion of various liquors above count as "food"?

Scott Pack

I would consider it food, yes.

@RoryAlsop Except for poverty, rampant racism, fiddling, and barefoot tapdancing, this is about the closest thing that my people have to unique culture.

community.berea.edu/appalachianheritage/issues/fall2004/…

It's food, so it should be on-topic here.

Iszi

19:41

I should start wearing earplugs when I go to that server room. Fan noise has got my tinnitus flared up again.

Scott Pack

19:55

What?

Rory Alsop

@ScottPack - ooo, that looks nice!

Scott Pack

Yeah, good stuff.

My mother's people came from the Tennessee mountains. I have fond memories of visiting my grandmother and her always having one of those ready when we arrived.

Rory Alsop

There is an "American" restaurant in Edinburgh - but I don't know whether it is region independent. Will have to have a look

Scott Pack

I would absolutely love to receive a report.

I know how much we totally fuck up ethnic foods. Should be fun to see what ours turns out to be.

Iszi

I suppose it shouldn't surprise me that other countries have "American" restaurants, just the same as we have <Insert Culture Here> restaurants. But, for some reason, it does.

Rory Alsop

20:09

I mean we have Old Orleans - southern restaurant chain that doesn't appear to be that close to the real thing

And then of course we have the spawn of satan - McDonalds

Scott Pack

And PizzaHut

I'm embarrassed to say that while in Edinburgh, we actually ate at an Applebees.

We were starving for dinner, and couldn't find anything that served food!

Every place we found turned out to be a "pub" that stopped selling food at 3pm, pulled out all the tables, and turned into an American bar.

Rory Alsop

there is an Applebees?

I did eat at a nice one in Cleveland once

Scott Pack

I thought it was an Applebees

If you're ever in Cleveland again let me know. My in-laws are up there. I'll see if we can work something out so I can buy you a beer.

Looks like it was a Friday's.

maps.google.com/…

Rory Alsop

20:37

ahhh - the classic TGI Fridays :-)

Scott Pack

On the plus side, I was able to get a Stella.

Probably the best beer I managed to find in that town.

While being on our own and just wondering around the city and country side was fun, having someone tell us where to go would have definitely been useful.

Rory Alsop

20:58

@ScottPack Stella :-) That's a lager...Edinburgh is a good city for proper Real Ale

well if you make it over here again, let me know in advance and I'll sort out a tour/suitable locations

it does help

Scott Pack

Based on the places I wandered into I had an option of Bud Lite or Stella.

Like I said, not knowing where to go :)

Rory Alsop

I think that's why I had such a crap time in New York - was there with a client and no-one to see the sights with

Scott Pack

We've talked about traveling again. Definitely a lot harder now.

Rory Alsop

yeah - I hear you with that. travel with 3 kids is way too expensive

Scott Pack

I'll bet.

We flew down to see my folks, just with the one kid. That felt like it almost broke us.

Rory Alsop

21:02

heh

Scott Pack

Of course, the downside is that it's a 15 hour drive. Without the child padding.

Quittin time. Evening gents.

And @Iszi.

Rory Alsop

Have a good one

Iszi

@ScottPack Not far behind. L8rz

Eeeww... sounds like I'll be driving into some nasty rain & hail.

I can hear it coming now too. Better get while the gettin's good. L8r @RoryAlsop.

Rory Alsop

l8r

Iszi

22:39

Well, looks like I missed the hail but the rain was pretty harsh for a bit there.

Scott Pack

Starting a few months early, eh?

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