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<sneakums> VMS's logical naming stuff is kinda like what the Amiga 
           did with assigns
<Atob> OR WHAT HITLER DID WITH POLAND
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<Atob> Oh, this sheet says it doesn't have to be done till
       Thursday the 4th of October.
<Atob> that's not till 2007.
<Atob> And I'm doing it like an idiot.
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<Atob> I'm omniscient, to the best of my knowledge.
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<Atob> Everything makes more sense once it's in an emacs buffer.
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<Atob> Thou whoreson Zed, thou unneccessary letter!
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<Atob> Everyone wastes their life. Achievement is a myth propagated 
       by advocates of the State.
<Atob> I'm bored, let's make a new chat room!!!
%
<Atob> Did you know that toast has the highest base weight of any substance 
       known to man?
<Atob> You could put a house on it and it'd still be "house on toast".
<Atob> Even in a vacuum.
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<Atob> Let's get nachos.
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<Atob> Anthrax Buddy.
<Atob> It looks like you're infecting a busy metropolis!
<Atob> Would you like to open a wizard?
%
<Atob> In France they call football "le football" but in Quebec they
       call it "le soccer".
%
<Atob> In the future we'll wear chrome jumpsuits and won't need lossy
       compression because our chrome jumpsuits will have hard drives
       in with four BILLION gigabytes.
<Atob> And gigabytes will be renamed zarquads.
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<Atob> Thunderbirds is set in the PAST but also the FUTURE.
%
<Atob> Germans spell everything funny.
<Atob> They spell "cinema" as "kino"
<Atob> And "Europe" as "a challenge"
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<Atob> When I die, I'm going to exit with a return code of MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
%
<Atob> I ate a roll.
<Atob> I ate, *am eating*, a roll.
<Atob> I do be eating rolls.
%
<Atob> Socrates is mortal.
<Atob> All men are not Socrates.
<Atob> All men are not mortal.
<Atob> Fallacy, fallacy, they've all got it fallacy.
%
<Atob> Mice aren't very useful in this day and age.
<Atob> They've been rendered mostly obsolete by keyboards.
<Atob> A wonderful invention, the keyboard.
<Atob> It's where I hang *all* my keys.
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<Atob> What's the best kernel in the world?
<sneakums> That very much depends on who you ask.
<Atob> I'm sure there must be a discussion forum of some kind that I
       could go to to get an objective value judgement!
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<Atob> Now I have a sheet and quilt mountain on my chair.
<Atob> This is like a puzzle.
<Atob> And I don't have all the pieces.
<Atob> And if I take the quilt off the chair then I'll leave the
       sheets behind and the pillows will eat them!
%
<Atob> I'm ripping an ELTON JOHN CD for my FATHER.
<Atob> He's given me a million CDs to do.
<Atob> That is, five.
%
<Atob> If Father Ted has taught me nothing else, and it hasn't, it's
       that all Irish people are hilarious priests and there's a
       cynical one and a stupid one and an old drunk one!
%
<Atob> The Liberal party has BOTH kinds of liberal in.
<Atob> Country AND western.
<Atob> I mean
<Atob> Social AND business.
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<Atob> <America> Are you looking at my bird?
%
<Atob> In the school yearbook it said that Keiran's hair colour is "blonde".
<Atob> In fact, it says "blonde" for all the blond haired males.
<Atob> I'm never going to that school again.
<Atob> They're incompetent.
%
<Atob> I hate getting sucked into the internet.
<Atob> There should be more dead ends.
%
<Atob> Sneakums's definition of "like" is "haven't got around to ignoring yet"
%
<Atob> I'm in love with mailleds.
<Atob> I should make the other LEDs be used for CPU load and network traffic
       or something geeky.
<Atob> Though then I'd probably miss the mail.
%
<Atob> "Q: I would like to send an E-mail to the Secretary-General to propose an
       idea for how to achieve global unity. What is his E-mail address?"
<Atob> Best FAQ question ever.
%
<Atob> "The pre-dawn protests constitute the biggest show of opposition to 
       Iran's clerics in months."
<Atob> I like how that looks impressive till they added the "months".
%
<Atob> My console's caught a disease.
<Atob> I HOPE IT ISNT TERMINAL
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<philb> it's odd the way the only man who could truly explain the Iraq
        dossier in the Government vs BBC thing is now dead.
<chris> Not really.
<chris> IN ANY WAY
<philb> No?
<chris> No way, loads of people wanted him dead.
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<Gratitor> Holy thankfullness, ThanksMan.
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<Atob> Aquatic mammals are basically the terrestrial mammals of the sea.
%
<sneakums> So how did you 'lose' your private key?
<Atob> I accidentally ran `rm -rf /`
<Atob> The other week or so.
<Atob> I like to live dangerously. 
<Atob> I believe that that rm -rf / was part of a Russian roulette thing.
<Atob> [ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] == 0 ] && rm -rf / || echo "You live"
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<Atob> How do you make a Belgian waffle?
<Atob> Ask him about beer!
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<Atob> Man, this lunch is basically a comedy.
<Atob> Originally, I had two slices of bread in sandwich formation.
<Atob> The problem, of course, being that a structure that size is quite
       unwieldy.
<Atob> Obviously, I set about cutting the sandwich in half.
<Atob> But much to my horror, I managed to cut it in something other than
       halves.
<Atob> So basically I created a new problem without solving the old one.
<Atob> Now I have one part that's far too large, and one part that's far too
       small!
<Atob> I feel like Mr Bean.
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<chris> who(1)'s the cat(1) that won't cp(1) out, when there's Satan all about?
<chris> jesux
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-Global(services@services.slashnet.org)- Due to networking problems we lost 
          half the network; we are working on it and hope to have all restored 
          soon
<Atob> You fools, don't work on it, you lost the bad half!
<Atob> WE WON
<Atob> DON'T YOU SEE?!
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<chris> I'm going to write to my MEP.
<chris> You might think I'd have five MEPs
<chris> but actually
<chris> they combine
<chris> when they get to Strasbourg
<chris> and they become twenty seven feet tall
<chris> and they EAT BELGIAN DEPUTIES WHOLE!
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<chris>         <@Awt> 15 years for 3066 counts of accessory to murder? WTF
<chris>         <XDice> yeh, he missed that 3,067th strike law.
<chris>         <frash> hahaha
<chris> ^-- Useless Quotation of "hahaha"
<chris> I bet it was frash that submitted it.
<chris> What a prick.
<chris> I bet he didn't even laugh in real life.
<chris> It was probably more like
<chris> <XDice> I am incredibly funny and attractive.
<chris> <frash> Gosh, boss, I don't get it.... duuuuhhh
<chris> <XDice> Frash, you *idiot*, just quote me.
<chris> <frash> Duuuuh... okay, boss!
<chris> <Xdice> AND DONT QUOTE YOUSELF SAYING HAHAH
<chris> <frash> oops!
<chris> Man, I hate frash.
<sneakums> Me too.
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<Atob> How fast could a train travel?
<Atob> Like on ocean rails or under the sea.
<Atob> Ocean rails or, as they're called in some parts of the
       English-speaking world, "bridges".
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<sneakums> http://bash.org/?44985 <-- don't fuck with God
<Atob> Is that the duel?
<sneakums> Yes.
<Atob> great, I no longer have to read bash.org
<Atob> SINCE I KNOW EVERY ONE OFF BY HEART
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<Atob> [atob@groznick:/home/bod] find /home/bod
<Atob> /home/bod
<Atob> /home/bod/debian
<Atob> /home/bod/debian/perl
<Atob> /home/bod/debian/perl/perl-5.8.1
<Atob> /home/bod/debian/perl/perl-5.8.1/debian
<Atob> /home/bod/debian/perl/perl-5.8.1/debian/tmp
<Atob> /home/bod/debian/perl/perl-5.8.1/debian/tmp/usr
<Atob> /home/bod/debian/perl/perl-5.8.1/debian/tmp/usr/lib
<Atob> /home/bod/debian/perl/perl-5.8.1/debian/tmp/usr/lib/perl
<Atob> /home/bod/debian/perl/perl-5.8.1/debian/tmp/usr/lib/perl/5.8.1
<sneakums> ha ha
<sneakums> who's bod?
<Atob> I don't know.
<sneakums> isn't it your machine?
<Atob> Yes.
<Atob> I think it's me.
<Atob> But I don't know why.
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<Atob> When I stop bouncing I feel like I'm falling.
<Luke> You are Sonic the Hedgehog and I claim my $5.
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<Atob> Blogs are the bane of my googling life.
%
<matticus> man pigdog hasn't been updated for three months
<matticus> what's with that?
<Atob> I don't know.
<Atob> OR EVEN CARE
<Atob> I can't stomach such outdated material.
<Atob> It's like watching repeats of the news.
<Atob> Or reading the Bible.
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<Atob> I like how every decision that matters is made by judges, these days.
<Atob> We just need a written constitution so they can decide on the laws.
<Atob> It is also my opinion that the judiciary should act as referee in 
       association football matches and as host on televesion game shows.
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<Atob> "We're developing the social individualist meta-context for the future."
<Atob> Yes, friends!  The social individualist meta-context for the FUTURE!
%
<chris> a alphabetically be in organised sentence should words
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<Atob> My computer fan is annoying me.
<Atob> I wish it would shut up.
<Atob> I'm going to kick it a few times.
<Atob> That sure didn't work.
<Atob> Unless the objective was to wake my parents up.
<Atob> In which case, it worked just swell.
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<Atob> There sure are a lot of white people in Cardiff.
%
<Atob> I like how people use the term "fascist dictator" with an emphasis on 
       the "fascist".
<Atob> As if other dictators are basically good guys who torture people as
       part of some hilarious madcap chain of events.
<Atob> Comrade Stalin, we accidentally tortured seventeen of your political 
       opponents, killing five!
<Atob> *STALIN SLAPS HIS FACE*
<Atob> *MUSIC: Wap wap waaaaap*
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<sneakums> "Justice Y. V. Chandrachud explained that he had a ``diamond hard,
           diamond bright faith'' in the Government. (More recently he
           demonstrated a similar touching faith in our cricketers over
           allegations of match-fixing)."
<Atob> im diamond hard and i touch ur faith
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<deblon> what are you downloading?
<Atob> Debian installer.
<Atob> Although, to be fair, I hardly know 'er.
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<Atob> Queen Victoria signed the declaration of war against Russia in 1853 as 
       "Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, Ireland, Berwick-upon-Tweed and all 
       British Dominions".
<Atob> But she signed the peace treaty without Berwick-upon-Tweed.
<Atob> So technically, there's a case to be made saying that
       Berwick-upon-Tweed is currently at war with Russia.
<Torsten> What's so special about Berwick-upon-Tweed?
<Atob> It kept getting transferred between Scotland and England.
<Torsten> Who did it end up with?
<Atob> It's technically part of England, these days, but I like to lay in bed 
       and pretend that the Reform Act of 1885 never happened.
<Atob> Oh.
<Atob> A peace treaty was signed between the Soviet Union and the Mayor of 
       Berwick-upon-Tweed in 1966. 
<Atob> This is the sort of thing that children should be taught in school.
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<Atob> [atob@groznick:~] hey, install xpdf && thanks
<Atob> Setting up lesstif2 (0.93.94-1) ...
<Atob> Setting up libpaper1 (1.1.13) ...
<Atob> Setting up t1lib1 (1.3.1-6) ...
<Atob> Setting up xpdf-common (2.03-2) ...
<Atob> Setting up xpdf-reader (2.03-2) ...
<Atob> Setting up xpdf-utils (2.03-2) ...
<Atob> Setting up xpdf (2.03-2) ...
<Atob> You're welcome.
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<Atob> 3~1~1~1~1~1~1~1~1~1~1~1~1~1~1~1~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~
<Atob> Sorry, I was waltzing.
<Atob> Waltzing my tilde.
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<Atob> "British man faces 'dirty bomb' charges"
<Atob> Dirty, dirty bomb.
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<chris> It's very hard to talk in a channel that hasn't been tobbed up at all.
<chris> Nobody understands me.
<chris> It's horrible.
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[2003Dec25 10:49:45] <Atob> Man, BBC 1 has Christian stuff on.
[2003Dec25 10:49:55] <Atob> They hijack everything.
[2003Dec25 10:49:57] <Atob> IS NOTHING SACRED?!
[2003Dec25 10:50:14] <Atob> They'll be religiousising Easter next.
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<Atob> If I had a veto I'd use it all the time.
<Atob> I'd just be all, "Hey, that's an interesting prop- VETO"
<Atob> And then laugh.
<Atob> Someone should make me the Queen.
<Atob> I'd veto every god damn law going.
<Atob> And then they'd try to abolish me
<Atob> and I'd veto their abolition!
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<Atob> I don't believe in relationships.
<Atob> I'm like UDP.
<Atob> Every interaction I make is a single packet.
<Atob> just by itself
<Atob> That means that I need to write error control myself.
<Atob> Error control for my *heart*.
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<Atob> Socialists are all, "Everything'll be great if we just cast the
       right spells".
<Atob> Free marketers are all, "Everything'll be great, the spell's
       already a-runnin'!"
<Atob> It's like in Harry Potter.
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<Atob> I have the latest issue of THE ECONOMIST on my bed, when I'm ready
       for a dose of capitalist pig propaganda.
%
<Atob> You know what I hate?
<Atob> I hate it when, in films or commercial advertisements, business people
       say "the Germans" without pronouncing it as "ze Chermans".
%
<Atob> Why did the cow blush?
<deblon> tell me
<Atob> Because the milkweed.
<deblon> hahaha, i hate you
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<chris> I founded a Republic independent of the Yoke of the English 
        imperialists and all I got was this lousy Taoiseach.
%
<Atob> How tall are you, sneakums, is it 6`43"?
<sneakums> About sixish footish, I think.
<Atob> How much do you weigh, is it x?
<sneakums> Yes, where X is too bloody much.
<sneakums> I *know* I'm overweight.
<sneakums> It's doing something about it is the problem.
<Atob> I'm working out a regime for you.
<sneakums> I'll never keep to it.
<Atob> I prescribe four months of living on *ash*.
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<Atob> I hate the internet so much.
<Atob> I also hate talking to people.
<Atob> I'm a fish out of water in a world I never made.
%
<Atob> There should be a word for that period of panic between hitting scroll 
       lock and realising that you've hit scroll lock.
%
<Atob> Drinking ready to serve custard straight out of the carton is like 
       suckling on Christ's nipple.
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<Atob> Holy crap.
<Atob> You know that feeling you get when you wake up after drinking a lot the 
       night before and, after a few minutes, you realise that you did 
       something incredibly crazy last night?
<Atob> I just had that, except I wasn't drinking and I learnt Java.
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<Atob> German's just Dutch passed through a ARE YOU LOOKING AT MEIN BIRD filter.
%
<Atob> I don't think that being in this Libertarian Socialist community is 
       enriching my life, much.
<Atob> Nobody responded to my "my favrout libertarion socielist is tolkien 
       because his elves r hawt" post.
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<drdink> \
<drdink> \
<Atob> No, drdink.
<Atob> There is no escape.
%
<Atob> I hate it when I get a new mail
<Atob> so I open up mutt
<Atob> and start reading it
<Atob> But then I get bored and go back to IRC.
<Atob> Then I notice I've got a new mail, so I open up mutt.
<Atob> By the time I've finished reading it I have three mutts open.
%
<Atob> I hate it when mozilla stops working properly
<Atob> and every mouse click does something I don't want it to do.
<Atob> Then I realise that my leg's on the ctrl key.
<watson> You scare me.
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<Atob> "Tides kill 18 cockle pickers"
<Atob> A tragic yet hilarious event.
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<chris> Hey, there's a language called "Entsy".
<chris>   Entsy
<chris>        n : the Uralic language spoken by the Yeniseian people [syn:
<chris>              {Enets}, {Entsi}, {Yenisei}, {Yenisei-Samoyed},
<chris>              {Yeniseian}]
<chris> Best language ever.
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<chris> Let's go to the Urals.
<chris> We can hop back and forth between Asia and Europe.
<chris> Or you can stay in Europe
<chris> and I'll say, "See you next continent!" and run to Asia.
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<caycos> they're very cool
<caycos> if you're interested in knowing where all the waste transfer stations 
         in victoria are, anyway
<Atob> I'm only interested in one waste transfer station
<Atob> and I'm sitting on it
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<Atob> "Able to work and looking for work?"
<Atob> Why, that's me!
%
<Atob> "Sunnis and Shias must play an equal part in a new Iraq"
<Atob> WRONG
<Atob> I should start marking headlines.
<Atob> Like a teacher.
<Atob> MUST TRY HARDER
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<Atob> Domestication of the noodle was one of the kickstarts for human
       development.
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<Atob> What's safesearch.exe?
<Screwtape> Some horrible spyware, I bet.
<Atob> Yeah.
<Atob> NO INTERNET ACCESS FOR YOU
<Atob> Good old zone alarm.
<rasher> I hate zone alarm
<Atob> It's horrendous.
<Atob> But it's better than a kick in the teeth.
<Atob> And now I can load IE without being redirected to spam!
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<mikegrb> is the bot used during forums on this network open source?
<Atob> mikegrb: Are you?
<Atob> I want to see your source, mikegrb.
<Atob> Actually, I saw enough of her last night.
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<Atob> I have three pre-1996 CPUs in a brown bubblewrap envelope under my bed, 
       "just in case".
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<Atob>  Directory of C:\christopher
<Atob> 11/04/2004  04:39       <DIR>          music
<Atob> 30/04/2004  20:27       <DIR>          sheet music
<Atob> the one is for storing songs and the other is for storing songs
       that aren't very good.
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<Atob> When I grow up I want to be a Lemming.
<Atob> I love it when I save 100% AND use a blocker.
<Atob> It makes me feel like the number one biscuit in coolio heap.
%
<Atob> Not a single German bomb has landed on New York since Rumsfeld took over.
%
<Atob> Beans on toast is the nicest thing to happen to me in years.
<deblon> what do you put on your beans?
<Atob> Nothing.
<Atob> What kind of pervert puts things on beans?
<Atob> Then it'd be foo on beans on toast.
<Atob> That's too many layers, it'd be unstable.
<Atob> So many beans
<Atob> I got more bread to finish off the survivors.
<Atob> Bathing suit season be damned.
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<Atob> I try to be an intelligent, informed animal.
%
<Atob> Eat my unsigned shorts.
%
<Atob> M-theory is like a poorly constructed house built on a swamp.
<Atob> "M-theory is a solution proposed for the unknown theory of
       everything which would combine all five superstring theories
       and 11-dimensional supergravity together."
<Atob> Maybe if you add loads of non-falsifiable hypotheses together
       you'll hit jackpot!
%
<Atob> Having a computer is great.
<Atob> I could display goat porn and nobody could do anything about it.
%
<Atob> There was some guy at the bus stop with a "not my president" T-shirt.
<Atob> I was so drunk that I actually complimented him on it.
%
<Atob> Sometimes I hate states so much.
<Atob> It's like they're tightrope walking above our heads
<Atob> and the fatter they get, the more likely it is for us to suddenly
       find ourselves with a face full of arse.
%
<Atob> Abstraction's a wonderful thing.
<Atob> It turns real life into stories.
%
<Atob> I'm a big bag of shite.
%
<Atob> I joined a secular national socialist party and all I got was
       this lousy totalitarianism.
%
<Atob> Would you like to ride on my boat?
<Atob> It'd be great.
<Atob> We could eat maggoty biscuits and you could bugger me silly.
<Atob> ARRR
<Atob> We could have beards!
%
<Atob> Why would I want my children to have ears on their arms?
<Atob> God damn, that'd be horrible.
%
<Atob> I've had a 365 day weekend.
<Atob> More than that, really.
<Atob> I finished my exams and then sat down for a bit.
<Atob> A year later, I'm still sitting.
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<sneakums> Wow, these patch leads are great.
<sneakums> "This product contains chemicals, including lead, known to the State 
           of California to cause birth defects or other reproductive harm. 
           /Wash hands after handling./"
<Atob> Known to the State of California!
<Atob> You can't fool the State of California.
<Atob> It knows *everything*.
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<Atob> I'm back.
<Atob> It all went well.
<Atob> I got back in, did some pitta-fu with lettuce and fake mayo.
<Atob> Then I had to attend to my brother's RANDOM NOSEBLEED
<Atob> Then I came upstairs and sat down on my bed.
<Atob> then I said, "I'm back"
<Atob> "It all went well."
<Atob> "I got back in, did some pitta-fu with lettuce and fake mayo."
<Atob> "Then I had to attend to my brother's RANDOM NOSEBLEED"
<Atob> "Then I came upstairs and sat down on my bed."
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*** Netsplit radon.slashnet.org <-> coruscant.slashnet.org
<Atob> OH NO
<Atob> THERE WAS A SPLIT
<Atob> IN MY NET
<Atob> HOW WILL I CATCH
<Atob> A HALIBUT NOW
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<Atob> Shampoo for your real friends.
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<Atob> I technically have an "information systems" lecture at 1600.
<Atob> Let's play "how much am I NOT going to be there?"
<Atob> I'll start.
<Atob> Really really loads.
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<Atob> To me, utopia is vaguely synonymous with mango juice.
%
<Atob> Hey, the single European currency frees up a lot of names for people.
<Atob> Lira's a pretty name.
<Atob> I'm going ot name my children Lira-Peseta and Mark Franc.
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<Atob> The thing about Java is that it should be shot like a dog.
<Atob> A DOG
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<chris> Kim, you bore me to death.
<sneakums> You, sir, are a Sikh in a baja Volkswagen bug.
<sneakums> Oh, sorry.
<sneakums> that was for the dishwasher
<chris> VW
<sneakums> he says volkswagen in the song
<chris> I can't keep track of these wretched songs.
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<chris> "Late binding" sounds like a digestive problem.
%
<Atob> I like how the XP start menu has sophisticated AI that allows it to 
       emulate a retard.
%
<Atob> Oh man, my computer totally surprised me.
<Atob> $ cat /etc/motd
<Atob> Linux groznick 2.6.7 #15 Sun Oct 10 14:52:08 BST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
<Atob> __        _______ _     ____ ___  __  __ _____   ____    _    ____ _  __
<Atob> \ \      / / ____| |   / ___/ _ \|  \/  | ____| | __ )  / \  / ___| |/ /
<Atob>  \ \ /\ / /|  _| | |  | |  | | | | |\/| |  _|   |  _ \ / _ \| |   | ' /
<Atob>   \ V  V / | |___| |__| |__| |_| | |  | | |___  | |_) / ___ \ |___| . \
<Atob>    \_/\_/  |_____|_____\____\___/|_|  |_|_____| |____/_/   \_\____|_|\_\
<Atob> I forgot I'd done it.
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<Atob> CMPS1B23 - FUNDAMENTALS OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS
<Atob> COURSE-GRADED EXERCISE 1
<Atob> Case Study
<Atob> Spring-time Places is a medium-sized independent travel agency with
<Atob> Let me stop you right there.
<Atob> a) fuck you.
<Atob> There's no b), really.
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<Atob> Well, that was unpleasant.
<Atob> WARNING: DO NOT FLUSH A UEA VILLAGE POD TOILET IF YOU'RE SITTING ON IT
<Atob> (and have a penis)
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<Atob> [atob@groznick:~] while true
<Atob> while> do
<Atob> while> eject /dev/cdrom
<Atob> while> eject /dev/dvd
<Atob> while> eject -t /dev/cdrom
<Atob> while> eject -t /dev/dvd
<Atob> while> done
<Atob> If I close my eyes it's like I live in a robot factory!
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<Atob> The thought of a fully aquatic mammal just turns me on.
<Atob> I mean, a cetacean is practically human!
<Atob> Compared with, say, a frog.
<Atob> And yet they're like big old mammalian boats.
<Atob> BOATS
<Atob> I wish I were a boat.
*** Atob is now known as Aboat
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<Atob> Java doesn't have Python array indexing
<Atob> What's with that?
<Atob> It's like they deliberately don't want me to code using delicious filth.
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<Atob> A big dog stole my manhood.
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* fuzzie runs around nakeeed
* Screwtape makes more tea.
<Atob> Causality, ladies and gentlemen.
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<chris> I wonder how long it'd be before a police identikit artist guy
        realised that you're describing him.
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<Atob> Man, the hours for the parcel collection thing are 6:30 to 13:00
<Atob> I can't even arrange redelivery.
<Atob> This is the worst thing to ever happen to me.
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<Atob> I will now improvise a poem dedicated to Kraftwerk
<Atob> If I had / a musical wish / I would wish for to meet the German foursome 
       / I'd look at them / for seven minutes long / and ask how they got so 
       awesome
<Atob> by Christopher Dilip Amin, age 20 1/2 and 3 days
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<Atob> There are two kinds of celebrities.
<Atob> Celebrities who are Scientologists and celebrities who own Macs.
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<Atob> So, you're a Buddhist because your grandmother joined a Christian cult.
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<atob> I obtained the hostname of the network service computerz
<atob> I went to the tech guy with the dirtiest T-shirt
<atob> That's the way to get results.
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<clavicle> create two VLANs.
<atob> Yeah, I guess.
<atob> It depends on how scared I am of people hacking my Gibson to punch 
       their monkeys.
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<atob> "You have a swap partition, but it needs to be initialized and activated. 
       Swap is very important to the Hurd."
<atob> You wouldn't *like* it if the Hurd didn't have swap.
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* caycos looks up Kate Winslet and is worried by a movie called
	 Gnomeo and Juliet
<atob> I think you'll find it's called GNOMEo and GNUliet.
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<atob> My housemate showed me the imdb forum for the Matrix once
<atob> and came across a guy who seemed to be profoundly affected by a "OMG 
       MAYBE THE MATRIX IS REAL POST"
<atob> And wrote something along the lines of "shit, what's the point of my 
       degree?"
<atob> The punchline being of course that degrees are always pointless, in all 
       possible universes.
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I've been picking up my guitar more, and finding my voice again a
bit.  Partly because I played some songs at the Philosophy Christmas
party again (this time they were about Wittgenstein's beetle in a box
and Kant and Hume getting into a fight down the pub, respectively).

		-- Atob
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<atob> I totally have 4 OSen on my laptop.
<atob> In order of nerdiness: Debian, Ubuntu, OS X and Windows.
<blorpy> i think most nerds use windows
<atob> oh yeah, blorpy?
<atob> well most people with heart problems use unassisted hearts, but that 
       doesn't mean that systems involving a pacemaker aren't more related to 
       people with heart problems!
* atob king of analogy
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* res0 heads over to the freebsd machine
<atob> Spit on it for me.
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<atob> I just looked at my school timetable
<atob> and I have this class only on the odd weeks
<atob> So I thought, "oh noes, I can't remember if the weeks are zero
       or one based :o"
<atob> I am a nerd.
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* atob smashes his lute over #tron
<atob> i told u i was bardcore
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<atob> I had to explain to someone "rofl" and "lmao" the other day.
<atob> I felt like I was raping a deer.
<atob> Destroying a beautiful innocence.
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<atob> Ik dreef mijn tractor door je hooiberg, vorige nacht.
<atob> (ooh aah ooh aah)
<atob> Ik heb een gloednieuw maaidorser, en ik zal je de sleutel geven.
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<atob> I have smuggled a can of cheap lager into the 24 hour computer
       lab at the University of East Anglia.
<atob> And they can't catch me, because I'm using SSL IRC.
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<atob> Riding high on the wave of mediocre lowlifes.
<atob> That's education.
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<atob> I need to get Wii homebrew set up.
<atob> This is going to teach me patience, I think.
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