2009.03.12 (Thursday) ... 16:13 < _mitch> Pretty quiet on the wheel with Toks gone... 16:15 < _mitch> I think I've discovered the solution to global warming. 16:15 < _mitch> Flying. Trees. 16:15 < _mitch> How's that for a slice of fried gold? 16:16 < _mitch> They'll consume carbon dioxide, emit molecular oxygen *and* reflect the sun's rays back into space. 16:18 < _mitch> 100 years from now, instead of being neck-deep in Dutch, polar bears and warm water, as they're predicting, we'll be snoozing lazily on verdent hillsides and staring up into a sky full of puffy, green clouds. 16:21 < _mitch> If we can also work out a way for them to drop some kind of fruit that's both edible and convertable into a fuel source, we've got it made. 16:28 <@benny> flying trees 16:29 <@benny> i want to see your proof of concept 16:32 < _mitch> Dumbo. Dumbo is my POC on this one. 16:32 <@benny> are u confusing elephants with trees? i know they both ahve trunks, but... 16:33 < _mitch> If that fucker can fly with just a single feather, we should be able to get a whole forrest in the air for the price of a single crow. 16:33 < _mitch> And crows are cheap. 16:33 < _mitch> Trunks. Nice one. ... 2009.09.24 (Thursday) ... 15:39 < Amy> Everyone liked my cake at work. 15:39 < Amy> But I still have half to bring home. =( 15:40 < Amy> I guess Paul will eat it. 15:40 < _mitch> Yeah, or me. 15:40 < _mitch> I don't know what that guy's frowning about. 15:41 < Amy> It's the frown of my gut. 15:41 < Amy> The gut speaks on its own. 15:42 < _mitch> I would think your gut would be happy for half a left-over cake. 15:42 < _mitch> And that something less tangible (say your pride or self-image) would be upset at its zeal. 15:44 < Amy> No. It's less happy because of its growing mass. 15:44 < Amy> The tongue is happier than the gut. 15:45 < _mitch> Okay, now it's getting complicated. 15:45 < _mitch> Whenever you delve into the internicine politics of the digestive system, it's complicated. 15:46 < _mitch> Or, really, the entire alimentary tract. 15:46 < _mitch> All kinds of sabatoge and intrigue. 15:48 < Amy> Tongue = happy, gut = not. 15:49 < Amy> =P, =) ( , ) =( 15:49 < Amy> Then my sister started talking about delicious dried cuttlefish snacks. 15:49 < _mitch> When you put it that way, it *does* seem pretty simple. 15:50 < Amy> It is simple. 15:50 < Amy> You're making it complicated. ... 2011.08.17 ... 13:10 < _mitch> Fuck it. I'm buying one of these. 13:13 < _mitch> Or I could probably just hack their site and get one for free: 13:13 < _mitch> Remote Login failed! Please try again. 13:13 < _mitch> Source: d:\http\TI-estore\App_Data\Logs\20110817_181301_SAMLResponse.xml Mail: brenda@ti.com PermanentId: 1187458@ti.com FirstName: Brenda LastName: Guzman Company: Texas Instruments Address1: 5950 Canoga Ave. Suite 430 Address2: City: State: Zip: 91367 Country: Phone: 818-596-1620 13:22 <@plhw> how'd you trigger that? 13:23 < _mitch> Tried to buy a watch. 13:23 < _mitch> Filled out a basic form and it lost its shit. 13:24 <@plhw> Hah 13:26 < _mitch> Since it's obviously running off a windows machine and getting its data from an XML file, it must be high-quality. 13:30 <@plhw> proper grown up security engineering 13:31 < _mitch> Maybe you didn't hear me: Windows? *X*ML? This is the future. 13:31 < _mitch> And it's on the D drive, so it's completely isolated from the rest of the machine. 13:34 <@plhw> true, no access to that floppy on the A drive 13:38 < _mitch> A: was often the 5 1/4". 13:38 < _mitch> B: was the 3 1/2". 13:38 < _mitch> C: was the HDD 13:38 <@plhw> D: the XML database 13:38 < _mitch> D: was a 10M Bernoulli drive, for a while. 13:38 < _mitch> I'm reliving my childhood, here. 13:38 <@plhw> Wheres the 100mb jaz drive go then!? 13:39 < _mitch> Jesus, man... this was 1992. 13:39 < _mitch> You march back to '92 and find me a Jazz drive. 13:39 < _mitch> Those Bernoulli drives were the size of a modern laptop and held 10M. 13:39 <@plhw> ok 3 years too early 13:40 < _mitch> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernoulli_drive 13:40 < _mitch> I'm describing the lower picture. 13:41 <@plhw> Darth Vaders storage cartridge of choice 13:43 < _mitch> http://www.brutman.com/Bernoulli_Box/Bernoulli_Box_A220H.html 13:43 < _mitch> That thing was the size of the Laserjet II printer, which, if you remember those things, were the size of a large microwave oven. 13:43 < _mitch> Probably pulled as much current and weighed twice as much. 13:43 <@plhw> that disk really is huge 13:56 <@toks> that's what... she... 13:56 <@toks> meh, too easy ...