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user114359

23:14

No, wrong computer. I have four computers on my desk and it is on my personal laptop, not this desktop.

user114359

Now I can be all badass like Tank in The Matrix and have three LCDs going at once!

user114359

Although I do wonder where a post-apocalyptic underground society got the technology for LCD flat panels and hover-ships.

whatsisname

LCD flat panels are probably a pretty "meh" technology if you've got a sentient computer system

and uplinks directly into your brain

though they have a pretty godawful refresh rate it seemed lol

user114359

These are people dressed in scraps for clothing

Shog9

In the future, poor people collect 30" LCDs along the roadside and trade them for food.

durron597

23:21

@Shog9 In Soviet Russia, 30" LCDs trade YOU!

user114359

@Shog9 Please don't spoil the new Mad Max movie for me!

user20683

@Snowman A South African woman reenacts her childhood with a British companion

user20683

whatsisname

in the movie where they're watching neo fight morpheus on the monitors the monitors have like 2hz frame rate

Shog9

Why the hell is Amazon accepting preorders for used merch?!!

user20683

23:23

@Shog9 Truman's Axiom. If you can't convince them, confuse them.

Shog9

wait, this isn't The Tavern

I blame you, for putting The in the name

I wondered why durron was here.

user114359

This is just a bunch of Programmer nerds hanging out on a Friday night

durron597

@Shog9 Hey I'm in the Tavern sometimes

whatsisname

not me for much longer

user20683

some of us are presumably drunk

user20683

23:24

or getting there

user114359

Not me yet

user15026

Not me, no money for that

user20683

not I at all

user20683

I don't desire the only booze I have

user20683

it is amazingly terrible

Shog9

23:24

I see how it is: I have to drink for all of you.

user114359

Waiting for my wife to get home then it is whiskey + grilling

user114359

But you see I have to wait, if I do too much whiskey first things don't end well. Like tripping coming in the door and dropping food all over the kitchen floor bad. Not that I have ever done that, of course.

durron597

@Shog9 I'm still at the office bleh

Vodka soon though.

user20683

@Snowman mix whiskey into BBQ sauce. You won't be sorry.

durron597

@WorldEngineer what bad-booze is that?

user114359

23:27

@WorldEngineer I have done that before. Because Jack Daniels BBQ sauce is too "meh." Mixing in the real thing is pretty sweet.

user20683

@durron597 This vileness

user20683

user15026

@Shog9 Taking one for the team, huh?

durron597

@WorldEngineer srsly?

user114359

I also like sauteeing ground sirloin with a dash of Jack and using it to make spaghetti sauce. I have given myself a buzz from eating pasta that way.

Shog9

23:28

@AshleyNunn the sacrifices I make for you people...

user20683

@durron597 my aunt gave me a bottle a couple of christmas ago

user15026

@WorldEngineer eeergh, yeah, that's not something to drink straight really.

user20683

@AshleyNunn not something to drink at all

user15026

@Shog9 I don't want to speak for the others, but I know I appreciate your sacrifice.

durron597

@WorldEngineer Could make fun chocolate milk out of it, perhaps?

user114359

23:28

That would be a mixer for froo-froo drinks.

user20683

I generally like herbal flavors

user20683

I'm a gin person

user20683

or Ouzo

user15026

@durron597 That might work.

user114359

Either that or a coffee mixer

whatsisname

23:29

im out of here

durron597

@WorldEngineer Ugh I ran out of sapphire

Shog9

@Snowman it's good in coffee, yes

user15026

@Snowman I love froo-froo drinks :D

user114359

@whatsisname making a run for the liquor store?

durron597

Gotta remember to get more soon

user20683

23:29

@Snowman that was the idea my aunt had

whatsisname

just for home, got plenty of booze in stock

user20683

I suppose I could make some coffee and mix it in

user15026

I want either something with an umbrella, or a really nice dark beer. :P

durron597

@AshleyNunn I have abandoned dark beers in favor of ipas

Shog9

of course, so is whiskey. And brandy. And vodka.

user114359

23:30

@AshleyNunn I will walk up to a bar and order a froo-froo drink with a shot of whiskey as a chaser. I get some funny reactions when I do that, but nobody ever threatens to revoke my man card.

user15026

@durron597 Those are good too :)

durron597

more tasty, less filling (so I can drink more of them, obviously)

user15026

@Snowman Oh, that works :)

user15026

@durron597 Oh, thats a tactic I had not considered!

durron597

@AshleyNunn I drink one guinness and I don't want anything more

Shog9

23:31

@AshleyNunn you could always put an umbrella in your beer.

durron597

But with IPAs that doesn't happen.

user20683

@AshleyNunn Look up "Black Velvet Cocktail"

user15026

Once I have employment, I am going to take myself to a local pub thing (its in the park where the ducks are!) and just...drink all the craft beers and umbrella drinks!

user15026

@Shog9 I could! Might make it hard to drink, if it's in a bottle though.

Shog9

pour into a schooner glass

user20683

23:32

@AshleyNunn how about I bring you whatever the max I can get into canada is and then we drink for the WB's amusement on camera?

durron597

Ok that's it, time to go to where my booze is. GN all

user15026

@WorldEngineer I don't think that is enough to get me interestingly drunk. My tolerance is pretty high :P

user20683

For reference, I am a Legendary Lightweight

user114359

Why does Visio pick the dumbest way to route arrows? Like I have two boxes right next to each other and I want a straight inheritance arrow between them. Visio routes that arrow through France and back again to get from point A to point B.

user15026

@Shog9 That would work.

Shog9

23:33

@Snowman drop Visio and don't look back.

user15026

@WorldEngineer That sounds reasonably tasty, though I'd not use Guinness because I find it boring

user114359

@Shog9 What do you suggest I use for UML?

Shog9

Drop that too

user20683

@AshleyNunn I'd use Black Rasputin

Shog9

actually, drop that first. Visio is less bad

user20683

23:33

or MacAustlin Imperial

user20683

Then there's the In Fashion which is a Kriek+a citrus liquer + Bourbon

user114359

@Shog9 eh, class diagrams can be useful. Not in a "I need 900 pages of waterfall documentation useful" but "I want to model this tricky module" useful or "I want to explain something to this guy" useful.

user15026

My goal, when I have some more space, is to get enough interesting things to make my own umbrella drinks in my house.

user20683

@Snowman or I need a powerpoint background to gesture at

Shog9

UML is occasionally useful as a machine-generated format for existing codebases. Never seen it go well as an input though.

user20683

23:35

@Shog9 input into BAs and watch bullshit come out

user114359

I only use it in a whiteboard fashion to explain a design to someone.

Shog9

and see, on an actual whiteboard you can route the arrows whereever you damn well please. Even put amusing loops in them to signify the abject confusion that will soon follow.

But yeah - you wouldn't write an essay by first diagramming all the sentences you planned on writing. At best, you'd write an outline. Using text.

user20683

23:57

Buckethead has released some stuff on Band Camp. I'd forgotten just how good a guitarist he is