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6:00 AM
you have, I assume, watched all of Babylon 5 at some point?
 
Including the movies
(and lost tales, and the one season series after B5 that was killed off)
 
Crusade
pity, I wanted to see what would happen with that technomage
 
yeah
but proper space opera dosen't get any love any more
 
@JourneymanGeek it barely got love then
 
Would have loved another season of space above and beyond... or anything with spacefighters
True, though i suppose thats true for science fiction in general
 
6:05 AM
there was a new one that had promise
rummages
Defying Gravity
one season, then killed.
 
ongoing or one season?
 
it had potential -- kinda fucked over by constant flashback-ing with the characters (that bugs me), if it was allowed to go into a second season and explore the NOW-plot development it probably would have been great
 
eh
flashbacks and the 80s style recap episode are lazy storytelling
I think there was ONE show that did a flashback in a coherent way (Sanctuary - had an entire episode set in the past)
 
that's not a flashback
These are like - we've got some astronauts. One is having drama. Let's have a flashback to a time in training when this same astronaut had similar drama, and gives a stilted explanation that's obviously contrived
in the immortal words of The Robot Devil, "You can't just have your characters announce how they feel! That makes me fee angry! "
 
6:11 AM
I don't think B5 gets enough credit for that - JMS almost never resorted to contrived "Here, let me waste 10 minutes of a 45 minute story giving you stilted exposition" crap
and I think that made it all the more rewarding when we DID find things out (cough*Ivonova*cough)
 
lol
I had such a crush on ivonova
 
who the hell didn't?
 
but i seem to like that fictional type. The Queen Alpha Bitch ;p
and Aeryn Sun from farscape, and Angua from discworld ;p
well the last is literally so...
 
It doesn't hurt that claudia christian is easy on the eyes too
 
ya
and the sheer badassery, especially when was fighting the shadow-earth hybrid vessels...
 
6:15 AM
Claudia Black too now that I think about it... but that could just be the hot outfits they dressed her in as Aeryn Sun - she wasn't quite as hot in SG1
@JourneymanGeek she had the BEST lines.
well... actually Lyta Alexander had some pretty awesome lines in season 4/season 5
"I don't like what I'm hearing here! I'm not a great liar! I'm a terrible liar! I don't know who's been saying these things but I want you to know when we get back I am gonna sue somebody! I don't know who and I don't know how but by GOD I am gonna sue somebody ! "
 
XD. she did
Lyta looked perpetually lost
 
well... not after she went crazy
then she just looked.... crazy
mikeg@flexo% sudo portupgrade -arR
Password:
Wrong!  You cheating scum!
Password:
Are you on drugs?
Password:
I should really learn to type my password...
also I never get my custom insults :(
 
6:35 AM
lol
 
/me blinks at imagemagick coredump
ImageMagick YOU IGNORANT SLUT!
YOU WILL RESIZE MY GODDAMNED GRAPHICS!
I SHALL NOT BE BESTED BY A GLORIFIED HEADLESS PHOTOSHOP!

BRING FORTH MY DEBUGGER OF GOD-LIKE POWERS, THAT I MAY SHOVE SHARP OBJECTS INTO IMAGEMAGICK'S SENSITIVE AREAS AND FORCE IT TO DO MY BIDDING!
(...or I could recompile it -- for some reason it's 2 patch levels behind even after the pirate portupgrade...)
 
@voretaq7 Stand by for cold-blooded cute:
 
@WesleyDavid ...
the next time my gecko is pleasuring himself with his tail flung up behind his ears I'm posting a photo of the event.
 
Please do.
 
I'll have to invite someone with delicate sensibilities over.
... or I could just go visit my parents. Their turtle whacks off in his water dish every night around dinner time...
 
6:41 AM
None of my animals ever whacked off. =(
 
You never had a reptile.
 
Well, cauterizing their reproductive organs might have had something to do with that.
 
whoever said reptiles don't enjoy sex must have never had males.
 
Honestly, I'm considering either getting into fish or getting a leeezard.
 
@WesleyDavid that... would tend to put an animal off of the whole sexing thing.
My fish is far more affectionate than my lizard
(who right now is sitting half-in/half-out of his hiding rock, staring at me. I can only assume he's thinking "IT'S TWO IN THE MORNING TURN OFF THAT LIGHT SO I CAN EAT!")
oh for the love of kittens ImageMagick - you're failing your own tests? REALLY?
 
6:45 AM
@voretaq7 The how did who?
@voretaq7 I know a girl who has a house filled with aquariums. She swears the fish love her. I think she's insane. She is from east Tennessee so a clinical diagnosis is just a formality.
 
@WesleyDavid ImageMagick is being a dildo again.
or still
 
7:00 AM
splort I giggled: linuxatemyram.com
 
@WesleyDavid first time you've seen that?
my troubleshooting has led me to libjpeg and libgs
have I mentioned that graphics are satan's sweaty ballsack and the entire world should be reduced to 80x25 ASCII?
 
@voretaq7 Yes that is the first time I've seen that. I'm a POSIX nublet. And...
@voretaq7 ...I'll kill you first.
But you're a nice egg, so I'll make it quick.
 
*HURLS CORE FILES AT YOU*
SNIFF MY DUMPS! :-P
/me waits for the postscript interpreter to compile.... It's an excuse to upgrade to gs9
"let's fix the code that generates thumbnails for the blog" I told myself. "It's been broken for 2 years, you can't be lazy forever" I said. "It'll be EASY" I said.
NEVER listen to me.
BAD me. You know better!
 
@voretaq7 I didn't just buy a 24" 1900x1200 IPS monitor to hear you bitch out graphics. =P
 
@WesleyDavid STFU AND MAKE WITH THE INSTALLING OF ASCII QUAKE4!
 
7:09 AM
@voretaq7 ASCII Quake? Really? ¬_¬
 
@WesleyDavid They don't let me do neuroscience anymore
Ethics violation. Something about not being able to get informed consent from users because they're too stupid.
or maybe it was "You can't just taser them until they give in".
 
@voretaq7 There's a difference't between "can" and "shouldn't" - I remind people of that all the time.
Usually buys me enough time to run for an exit.
 
waits for ImageMagick tests....
FAIL: tests/validate-formats-in-memory.sh! IMAGEMAGICK YOU IGNORANT SLUT!
 
@voretaq7 "Solve the Happy Ending Problem with a positive composite number for consent. Solve with a prime number for denial of consent."
"Failure to solve the problem is an implicit granting of consent."
 
@WesleyDavid Failure to solve the problem indicates the subject is unsuitable for testing and shall be terminated.
 
7:18 AM
I think this monitor is going to contribute to the death of a measurable portion of my rods and cones.
*Don't look at the light!!*
I can't help it. It's so beautiful!!


***ZATTT***
FUCKING. MARKDOWN.
3
 
Markdown rage gets a star.
 
I don't think markdown likes text that is in a block with a shift-return
 
I think Markdown and ImageMagick are fornicating.
 
@voretaq7 Oh! Oh! I want to name their child!!
 
@WesleyDavid Markdown breaks in multiline chat.
@WesleyDavid any names I could think of would get me banned from chat
so go right ahead
 
7:20 AM
@voretaq7 Now you tell me. ¬_¬
 
...watch the star wall...
:-)
^^ This is Markdown ^^
 
@voretaq7 Okay, I think if Markdown and ImageMagick have a baby, it would definitely be a NMS.
And would probably be adopted by HP.
And then kidnapped by IBM.
I definitely see an NBC mini series.
It would then have a troubled high school and skip class to smoke schwag and drink wine coolers.
 
:P
 
Then markdown pulls up in a beat up Iroc-Z and takes her to see Winger.
Except it's the 2011 Winger.
And the Iroc-Z is really a Chevy Vega he hot wired from the scrap yard.
I'm way more into this fantasy than I should be. <_<
@voretaq7 More Lizard cuteness: imgur.com/r/pics/YIVHo
Wait... did you make it on Reddit lately?? =)
 
7:36 AM
@WesleyDavid mrr?
 
I see lizards. I think you. Yes, I'm simple minded.
 
8:35 AM
G'day
 
Morning. I've been mostly absent the past few days. Has anyone replaced Chopper as a mod yet?
 
Not that I know of
 
I was thinking of publicly calling for you to be named... any objection?
 
There will be an election soon I'm sure
 
Not soon enough.
 
8:49 AM
the team have plenty to think about - leave em to it atm
@Ward I got out on the bike twice recently - once only 5 miles but the next was 20 :)
 
Picked my daughter up from school on Monday, but it was cold. She didn't like it much. Unless there happens to be a nice sunny afternoon, the tandem's probably going to parked until after the solstice.
 
I may get an opportunity to get out tomorrow - it will depend on how roads are gritted and whether the roads dry out
 
@Iain Ok, but I had a great meta post almost fully written in my head.
I'd like to get out solo, but w/ Christmas prep it's going to be busy.
 
I think the max temperature is going to be 3C / 37F so I'll get to test some of my winter gear
@Ward thanks - We're pretty much sorted for Christmas but with only the two of us to worry about it's easy :)
 
 
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10:09 AM
@voretaq7 apparently it does I used about 20 on old closed questions early this morning and I'm showing as having use 0 right now. This neatly explains my low downvote total
 
 
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12:11 PM
hey guys
 
Afternoon @rabbid
 
afternoon @Ben
although it is midnight where i am
:)
can i connect to this room via a chat client?
 
omg.... type in the run box.. fail!
@rabbid No, it's the web interface only
But as web interfaces go for chat rooms, it's probably the best I've seen
 
it is indeed
make a web app window for it :P
 
Heh yeah, that works I guess :P
 
12:50 PM
Which is the better gaming platform - Xbox 360 or PS3 ?
 
pfo
you have to judge that by the games you want to play
certain franchises are available only on one of them
 
@pfo I was asked this by a friend - I don't know what they want to play but if the a game is available on both platforms which is best ?
 
pfo
Xbox live costs money AFAIR
sony doesn't charge anything for playing the games online
i guess Xbox 360 has the upper hand in terms of graphics as the PS3 is much harder to program for
 
1:07 PM
Plus you have the whole PSN debacle earlier in the year to bear in mind. That's certainly done mega-damage of my opinion of them as a company, to the point I'm not sure I'd ever buy a PlayStation now
 
1:52 PM
@BenPilbrow Yeah.. That trust has been blown so hard. That, and Playstations run sooo hot.
 
2:24 PM
 
So I set the wrong alarm on my phone, and didn't wake up in time to get a doctor's appt for today. Have to wait for Monday...
 
@Holocryptic ew, that sucks
 
yeah, I should have enough pain meds to make it there but after that I'm boned
 
@Holocryptic :(
 
I'll just have to try and take it easy. No house work. Not that I mind that....
 
2:36 PM
@BenPilbrow oh lawl
 
I know. Can we get some downvotes on this answer please. I wouldn't normally encourage this, but enough should apply some sort of asking/answering ban on them, and you'll get that -1 back when it's deleted, which should be pretty soon
@tombull89 was tempting to point out the syntax error with the missing semicolon, but I resisted :P
 
@BenPilbrow chuckle now that would be priceless.
What's he trying to do, some sort of injection? Hoping the code hasn't been stripped?
 
I would imagine he's testing to see if the pages will run code in <script> tags. Testing to see if he can do some sort of XSS, XSRF or something else beginning with an X lol
 
@BenPilbrow too late now (I flagged it as NAA) but offensive may be a better option
 
@Iain yeah, I flagged it as not an answer too - couldn't see a more appropriate reason
Meh, they'll get nuked sooner or later
 
2:43 PM
Of all the sites to do it on...although I think in the beginning days of SE they got stung by not checking XSS.
 
yep
 
@Iain christmas spirit, huh?
 
@Holocryptic ho ho ho
:)
 
haha
I'll take a new 16TB SAN for my house please
I've been good all year, except for that time where I was a racist
 
@Holocryptic I'll take a new 16TB SSD SAN for my house please
MOAR SPEED
 
2:47 PM
MOAR FAILUR
 
@Holocryptic true.
 
@Iain Ghost of Christmas Past?
 
Ha, just noticed the Gravatar @Iain lol
Reminds me, I have one of my WeeMee with a santa hat on somewhere. Pardon me for stealing your idea, but if I find it I'll likely do the same :-)
 
@WesleyDavid We actually have a pretty good dupe of that on sec.se
 
 
2:55 PM
@Iain thanks, I found the old one anyway :-)
Heh, do you think we can do the whole Choppertar thing all over again, but with Santa hats instead?
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that's what I was thinking
Then when people say we're curmudgeonly we can say "Santa hats, your argument is invalid!"
lets see if I can do this... I'm not good at photo manipulation in the slightest
 
@Holocryptic I made my Choppertar in MS paint. It will be fine :P
 
@Holocryptic I use this pixlr.com
 
Hey, easier than pulling out my zippered mask and using the gimp
Of course, figuring out how to make the background transparent on that santa hat is less than trivial.
 
3:10 PM
@ScottPack gimme a sec and I'll try and do a PNG of it with a transparent BG
 
Excellent
 
@Holocryptic
 
@Iain Bless you
 
3:18 PM
and done
 
There we go. Now just have to wait for gravatar to do its magic.
 
I'm sure the caching will catch up sooner or later
 
Yeah, mine only took about 5 mins
 
So while that happens. Time to vacuum. Yay for weekend chores.
 
@RobMoir You need a santa hat on your pony, STAT
 
3:21 PM
@RobMoir!
 
Yes I do... Given my cruddy graphics skills this could be amusing
Hi @scott
 
@Iain OMG LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWLLLLLLLLLLL
thats going on twitter
 
ok photoshop time
 
@RobMoir Chop chop
 
ok, we have santification
 
3:27 PM
Yes, soon, soon our santorium will be complete.
 
careful buddy
 
@ScottPack the music to that time lapse photography you posted on G+ is called Sunshine - Adagio in D Minor btw
 
@Iain Wow, that's a bit back there. How did you identify it?
 
@ScottPack the link you shared wasn't the original so I tracked down Dustin Farrell's site and found it on there
 
how long does it take for a change to show up?
 
3:37 PM
a few minutes or so
 
^ that's the plan
 
Nicely done
 
:-)
 
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Q: It's Santa Time!

HolocrypticLet's do this. What with the DramaLlama being out in full force, I think it's time to take a breather and bring the funny back. To wit: I propose the Santification of your gravatars till after the new year. Some of us have already gotten started. You can use the image as your baseline. Now ge...

 
@RobMoir TIME=$(bc $(date) + ${CACHETIMEOUT})
 
3:38 PM
writing christmas cards today, what fun
 
@RobMoir I like the tree
 
thanks, i wanted to put something extra in the space!
 
I think you need some "oontz oontz" speech balloons.
 
no, more DWUB DWUB DWUB DWUB TZZZTZZTZZZ DWUB DWUB DWUB
 
@Holocryptic I think you got too many steps in that dub
 
3:45 PM
could be. I never professed to be proficient at it
 
@Holocryptic For the record, my starting point for the term 'Santorium" was "sanctorum", not Santorum.
 
@ScottPack allegedly
 
yay santafied my pony!
 
sweeeeet
the plan is wurking
 
@Holocryptic are you trying to take over the world again? Don't you remember what happened last time?!?!!!!
 
3:51 PM
This makes up for spending hours writing cards
 
I do. But I will not stop until world domination is mine!
 
user image
2
eventually
 
nice
 
haha
 
There we go
 
4:01 PM
aha! Found it!
Nov 14 at 11:39, by Robert Moir
user image
 
i love that comic
 
I've liked what I seen. I should read it regularly
 
if you like comics and animation in general there's lots of good stuff on the web like that
 
Well, this seems bad. My WAP just restarted, and appears to have reset it's settings.
 
that sounds annoying scott
 
4:04 PM
@ScottPack Replace it with a younger, hotter WAP. That'll teach it.
 
@Holocryptic Still single, eh? :)
 
Perpetually
 
bacardi oakheart. mmm
 
I need to get me some Sailor Jerry this weekend.
It's the holidays. That there be rum&coke season.
 
yes
i have rum, vodka, brandy, southern comfort, beer and wine. I think I'm prepared for all eventualities
3
 
4:09 PM
SoCo? Phaw! I recommend you look for some Blanton's
 
never seen that here in the uk, though to be fair its not like i've been looking. But I love southern comfort
lemonade, lime, southern comfort. Happy times
 
I think they tend to make fairly small runs.
I've never had that. Could be pleasant.
 
actually, its a bit ghetto but ice cold 7 up is a nice mixer for it too
its very nice
 
Generally, I find SoCo too rough to drink, but I haven't ever mixed it.
 
4:11 PM
it mixes well. I like it with coke or lemon & lime
clever
right i haven't had lunch yet and i'm starving so its off to make an early dinner i think
later folks!
 
Have a lovely evening, @Rob
 
4:32 PM
In creditkarma.com's faq: "Our office is protected by a 30lb beagle."
 
@TylerShads Have you ever met a beagle? Those things are LAAIIZZEE
 
hahaha
 
5:09 PM
@MikeyB @tombull89 I see a disturbing lack of santa hat on you
There's even a Meta post on it, which makes it official and stuff
 
@Holocryptic Heh. I'm considering finding it, digging out my SF shirt and retaking the picture.
But at the moment I have a sick little girl on my lap :(
 
@MikeyB Bah, just edit in the hat
Also, that sux0rs
 
@Holocryptic I don't have meh GIMP handy! (I'm in Windows, aka GameOS)
 
I have GIMP on my windows box
quit making excuses son
Also, @Iain linked an online photo editor above
 
@MikeyB paint.net
 
5:17 PM
Nobody has mentioned Paint.net, so I'll share some love for that too :-)
 
@BenPilbrow flagged for jinx
 
Meh, you got me by a whole second :-)
 
@Ward you dirty heathen! Fix your gravatar! That's an order!
 
I'm surprised no one has made a SE wide gravatar changer that finds an arc and puts a santa hat on it
 
@TylerShads Oh right, I do have that installed
 
5:21 PM
I think that's easier cause you can use the magic wand tool to delete all the white space instead of doing it free hand
 
How do I tell paint.net to change a colour to transparent?
 
Magic wand tool, click the white-space, press delete
if you use the one that I have, should only have to do it about 3-4 times
 
@BenPilbrow That better be a great fucking download, as I just had to go through 5 different web pages to find the actual program to download
 
Give me a minute, I just got up.
 
@TylerShads Oooh, change flood mode from contig to global
 
5:23 PM
@Holocryptic take paint + photoshop
though, never used GIMP so I can't say how much better than that it is
 
After staying up 'til 4am reading the last two days of chat transcripts to see what I missed.
 
@Ward Yeah... a lot of hullabaloo. I'm trying to not think about it
 
Know what you missed? You missed coming in here with a santa-hat on your gravatar!
 
@Holocryptic yeah agreed, that always catches me out and annoys me, but I think it's worth it
 
@BenPilbrow As much as I try to avoid clicking giant green download buttons, sometimes they still get me
 
5:26 PM
Yes I know, it's a particularly bad download page
 
waves hand "This is not the download button you are looking for"
 
haha, yeah I found it. Install just finished
 
They gots to gets their ads revenues before letting you download it!
 
DAMN YOU INTERNETS!
 
5:37 PM
 
ooo, combo effect. Now post on meta
@David If you want to hang out in here, you need a santa hat
 
Gentlemen, refresh your pages.
 
ooo, already took effect
 
Didn't need to, surprisingly
 
yeah, I think there's some new integration with Gravatar
 
5:43 PM
Slick.
 
Man I suck at editing photos
 
@Holocryptic I'm a tiny bit sad that inline boobs are no longer allowed.
Is there a way, w/in Gravatar, to see your large size image once you've uploaded and cropped it?
 
@Ward For meta I just posted the image I ended up with.
 
I've got the images as I saved them after my usual shitty image editing, using those.
 
@Ward view your profile with the image selected (on the gravatar site)
 
5:58 PM
@Holocryptic Perfect.
 
@Ward Yeah, me too. But I'm used to being disappointed in life.
 
Would it be going against the no-boobs concensus to use one of those pics of yayahan in an elf costume?
 
hmmmm
 
and just because it amuses me so much elfyourself.jibjab.com/view/RaxwkboJaQDqrbp8qmgz
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I'm not sure
 

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