2012.01.21 01:00 - Mélange

Wol Euler was guardian for this session.

Korel Laloix: MIght be time for bed.
Korel Laloix: Bozho
Wol Euler: good morning, korel
Korel Laloix: Morning... smiles
Wol Euler: this round world and its timezones are a continual surprise to me
Wol Euler: I know how it works, but somehow ...
Korel Laloix: We have a lot of oversees clients, and that messes us up a lot.
Wol Euler nods.
Korel Laloix: But I do see the purpose.
Wol Euler: mmhmm, have to be awake when they are if you are going to be useful to them :)
Korel Laloix: Yes, but getting texts at 3 am on my personal phone from clients that are wonering why we are not in the office is annoying.
Wol Euler laughs.
Korel Laloix: Would really like o get some sleep, but just not feeling it.
Wol Euler: good morning, observerm
Korel Laloix: And can't get my brain to shut off either.
Wol Euler: :(
Wol Euler: I find hot chocolate and a really dull book do wonders for that :)
Korel Laloix: My new shrink is calling mmy sleep issues parasomnia vs insomnia.

--BELL--

Korel Laloix: Chocolate wakes me up... and I am out of almond milk anyway.
Korel Laloix: osiyo ob
Korel Laloix: Might just go for another run.
Korel Laloix: That might tired me down.
Wol Euler nods.
Wol Euler: I hope you'll be able to sleep, korel
Korel Laloix: Me as well.
Wol Euler smiles.
Korel Laloix: Sort of normal for me really.
Korel Laloix: When big changes happenin my schedule or life, it takes a while for it to settle down.
Wol Euler: mmhmm
Wol Euler: morning, boxy
Alfred Kelberry: hi :)
Alfred Kelberry: oh my :)
Korel Laloix: osiyo
Alfred Kelberry: ms. wol :)
Alfred Kelberry: um, what is it today, woly? :)
Alfred Kelberry: fracture?
Wol Euler: saturday
Wol Euler: yep
Alfred Kelberry: aha :)
Alfred Kelberry: a "theme session"?
Wol Euler: no, just the usual fun
Alfred Kelberry: ah
Wol Euler: there may be themes to the music
Alfred Kelberry: kori :)
Korel Laloix: Heya
Korel Laloix: OK... going to go get dressed... so will either go run or go to bed.... lol
Alfred Kelberry: you be good
Wol Euler: hehehe
Korel Laloix: Take care all... Goonight.
Wol Euler: either way, goodnight, get some sleep :)
Korel Laloix: caio
Alfred Kelberry: wait, does it mean she just was naked here
Wol Euler: RL dressed
Alfred Kelberry: uh oh, ms. wol is in the mood :)
Alfred Kelberry: ok, what do i do? :)
Wol Euler: just trying to figure out how to crack this whip :)
Wol Euler: some people like that :)
Alfred Kelberry: i think you're doing a great job :)
Alfred Kelberry: no work today?
Wol Euler: nope
Alfred Kelberry: good
Wol Euler: hardly ever work on saturdays
Alfred Kelberry: whip day then
Alfred Kelberry: i missed the friday session. did you guys do anything special?
Wol Euler: not much
Wol Euler: the 1am or 1pm?
Alfred Kelberry: pm, i think
Wol Euler: some chat, some vuvuleza, a little onigokko, then it turned serious :)
Alfred Kelberry: whenever is mayhem happening
Wol Euler: irregularly
Alfred Kelberry: what kind of serious?
Alfred Kelberry: as in bad ass serious?
Wol Euler: intense "philosophical" discussions
Alfred Kelberry: ah
Alfred Kelberry: that
Wol Euler: people clearly pasting in paragraphs that they'd written somewhere else, long before
Alfred Kelberry: hmm
Wol Euler: (I'll edit this :)
Alfred Kelberry: (do not edit this)
Wol Euler: I got bored of that pretty quickly
Wol Euler: :-P
Wol Euler: so went shopping and dancing with Aggers
Alfred Kelberry: ah, neat
Alfred Kelberry: how is she?
Wol Euler: pretty well
Alfred Kelberry: ballsy as usual?
Wol Euler: ,mhmm
Alfred Kelberry: good :)

--BELL--

Alfred Kelberry: i feel like listening to the grease song
Wol Euler: eh?
Alfred Kelberry: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndqc7dN74e0
Alfred Kelberry: :)
Wol Euler: heh, I wonder whose voice that is Travolta is lip-syncing to
Alfred Kelberry: don't! just dance with me :)
Alfred Kelberry: haha
Alfred Kelberry: nice :)
Wol Euler: hehehehe
Alfred Kelberry: you always have a fitting dance up your sleeve :)
Alfred Kelberry: that was good :)
Wol Euler: nice idea, boxy
Wol Euler: that was fun
Alfred Kelberry: i think you hit me at least 5 times :)
Wol Euler: unintentional :) only once on purpose
Alfred Kelberry: :)
Alfred Kelberry: where is everyone?
Wol Euler: elsewhere :)
Wol Euler: sleeping probably
Wol Euler: heh, even Observerm has left
Alfred Kelberry: usually more folks at this time
Wol Euler: it varies
Wol Euler: I'm alone here often enough
Alfred Kelberry: aww
Alfred Kelberry: what are you up to today?
Wol Euler: the usual, some shopping then a few levels of WoW then fracture
Alfred Kelberry: gah, that wow :)
Wol Euler smiles.
Alfred Kelberry: is it still popular?
Wol Euler: I've no idea :)
Wol Euler: there seem to be people buying and playing it still
Alfred Kelberry: i'd play larry
Alfred Kelberry: that was a fun game
Wol Euler: leisure suit larry?

--BELL--

Alfred Kelberry: question: do you have any ideas on how to "kill hollywood" - in terms of competition?
Alfred Kelberry: and yes :)
Wol Euler: no, I don't
Wol Euler: sorry
Wol Euler: I think the way to kill Hollywood is in distribution
Alfred Kelberry: probably someone from the industry would know
Wol Euler: because the world already produces far more films than hollywood does
Alfred Kelberry: hmm
Wol Euler: what#s needed is to make them available
Wol Euler: which is where Hollywood succeeds so well
Alfred Kelberry: that would help too :)
Alfred Kelberry: 2 random kisses - rare :)
Wol Euler smiles.
Alfred Kelberry: did you read about the bird flu virus that the scientists altered to be more contagious?
Wol Euler: no
Wol Euler: what a strange idea
Alfred Kelberry: pretty scary
Alfred Kelberry: well, it's not really, cause the virus does mutate on its own, adapting to the environment. they just look ahead.
Wol Euler raises an eyebrow.
Alfred Kelberry: the scary part is how easy it was to achieve
Alfred Kelberry: imagine, the regular strain had a death rate of more than 50% - unheard of
Wol Euler: yeah, and that wasn't high enough for them
Alfred Kelberry: this new supervirus can be indeed deadly
Wol Euler: how much do you want to bet that this particular piece of research had military funding?
Alfred Kelberry: yea
Alfred Kelberry: although, the bio panel asked the scientists to keep the exact procedure a secret
Wol Euler: "of course the weaponized germs will stop at the border of [country we are at war with], they would never spread to other places."

--BELL--

Alfred Kelberry: that's rather interesting work, i imagine, to create procedures for handling and storage of such materials
Alfred Kelberry: a lot of variables have to be accounted for
Wol Euler nods.
Alfred Kelberry: akin to architect a high story building :)
Wol Euler: with the difference that the building won't cause a worldwide plague if the power goes off for a day
Wol Euler: usually
Alfred Kelberry: sometimes you wonder how this thing actually does not fall :)
Wol Euler: the playgoda?
Alfred Kelberry: rl buildings
Wol Euler: ah
Wol Euler: well, they do, often enough
Alfred Kelberry: insane amounts of force
Wol Euler: earthquakes, high winds, decay
Alfred Kelberry: yea
Wol Euler: but usually that is because they were badly made
Wol Euler: a strong enough force will bring down any building, obviously, but "normal" effects should never cause the devastation that is seen in e.g. China or the Middle East
Alfred Kelberry: or the standards were not sturdy enough?
Wol Euler: after their earthquakes
Wol Euler: either bad standards or (in the case of China) simply not enforced. Officials were bribed not to notice infringements
Wol Euler: I suspect that is the case in Lebanon and Haiti too
Alfred Kelberry: meh
Alfred Kelberry: i suppose they execute those types without much investigation
Wol Euler: I hope so, but frankly I doubt it
Wol Euler: once bribery becomes established, it consumes all honesty
Alfred Kelberry: true
Wol Euler: the corrupt officials would just bribe their jaolers or the judges
Alfred Kelberry: we should build something
Alfred Kelberry: how can we enhance the logger?
Wol Euler: many suggestions have been made

--BELL--

Wol Euler: the one I'd go for is to find a way to track more than 16 visitors
Wol Euler: reliably
Alfred Kelberry: sl limitation?
Wol Euler: yeah, it uses the LSL scanning function, wihc only returns <= 16 avatars
Alfred Kelberry: any way to do it without 2 scanners?
Wol Euler: given that a scanner only returns 16 avatars, the answer appears to be "no"
Alfred Kelberry: you can set the sensor cone
Alfred Kelberry: so they don't overlap
Wol Euler: we could try going back to the very first version, which just captured all chat on channel 0
Wol Euler: to be honest I don't remember the details of why that failed, but it did: continually ran into memory limits and crashed
Alfred Kelberry: eek
Wol Euler: that was before mono, so it might be better now
Alfred Kelberry: what was the problem with the channel 0?
Wol Euler: none at all :)
Wol Euler: we speak in channel 0
Wol Euler: channel 0 is what it wants to listen to
Alfred Kelberry: yes, i mean, why did you change it?
Wol Euler: because it kept crashing!
Alfred Kelberry: ah! thought you meant the 2 sensors
Wol Euler: we hoped that by splitting the functions between administration and capturing data, we could avoid crashess
Wol Euler: and that did work
Wol Euler: but there is only one administrator = one scanner
Wol Euler: the trouble with multiple scanners is that they have to talk to each other.
Wol Euler: because avatars move around
Alfred Kelberry: new rule: avs don't move - problem solved :)
Wol Euler: you don'T want scanner 2 starting a process to listen to Fred when scanner 1 has already noticed him, just because he moved seats
Wol Euler: :-P
Wol Euler: actually if you want to change something, put a "nag" function into the 15 minute bell
Wol Euler: let it give a 10 second (say) grace period after ringing, then after that everone who speaks should get a "shut up please" notice in IM
Alfred Kelberry: ha!
Alfred Kelberry: that's invasive
Wol Euler: oh, and forbidding people to change seats isn`t? :-P
Alfred Kelberry: that is a feature :)
Wol Euler makes a rude noise with her tongue.
Alfred Kelberry: well
Alfred Kelberry: we could auto-create pages maybe
Alfred Kelberry: do something on the server side
Wol Euler: ask Calvino, he allegedly started working on that
Alfred Kelberry: when?
Wol Euler: but I would ask whether you are solving a real issue, or just making an amusing project
Wol Euler: dunno, over a year ago
Alfred Kelberry: the latter :)
Alfred Kelberry: ah, i guess we can say that it's stalled :)
Wol Euler: probably
Alfred Kelberry: mmm
Alfred Kelberry: yes, please
Alfred Kelberry: :)
Alfred Kelberry: short hair fit well with the whip :)
Wol Euler: (trying to get a good photo of the movement)
Alfred Kelberry: :)
Alfred Kelberry: any luck?
Wol Euler: middling
Alfred Kelberry: ok, carry on :)
Wol Euler: do you use windows, boxy?
Wol Euler: or linux?
Alfred Kelberry: as well
Alfred Kelberry: both
Alfred Kelberry: even mac at times (meh)
Wol Euler: okay, so you know when you open a folder that contains images, Windows goes mad for a few minutes trying to create thumbnails for all of the images, just in case you *might* want to look at one of them?
Wol Euler: how do I stop that?
Alfred Kelberry: er, do not use explorer :)
Wol Euler: or, equally valid, how do I tell it to keep the goddamned thumbnails? why recreate them each time? windows is such stupid shit
Alfred Kelberry: or you can use the list view
Alfred Kelberry: i'm pretty sure it caches them
Wol Euler: but I am in the list view!
Wol Euler: it still spends ages doing *something* to all the images' icons

--BELL--

Wol Euler: and it does that aftresh every time I open that folder
Alfred Kelberry: it could be something else of the hundred things that it does
Alfred Kelberry: i use total commander on windows
Wol Euler: stupid
Alfred Kelberry: disable icons, etc
Wol Euler: aaaaaah
Alfred Kelberry: blazingly fast
Wol Euler: oh, in TC
Alfred Kelberry: basically "ls" :)
Wol Euler: heh, yes, I want tat
Alfred Kelberry: it has tabs and a bunch of other neat featuers to aid your file productivity
Alfred Kelberry: sadly nothing like it on linux - mere clone attempts
Alfred Kelberry: mucommander is nice though - but java :/
Alfred Kelberry: oh, and the text editor i use is "sublime text 2" - the best thing i've seen
Alfred Kelberry: i'm not hardcore enough to do vi full time :)
Wol Euler: yeah, I preferred vedit
Wol Euler: vi is too rude
Alfred Kelberry: :)
Wol Euler: meh, forecast for the next six days is: rain
Alfred Kelberry: neat
Wol Euler: :-P
Alfred Kelberry: it's good for eating out in a nice company and looking out at the drops on the windows :)
Wol Euler: heheheheheh
Wol Euler: but you have to get to that restaurant

--BELL--

Wol Euler: speaking of which, I have to get going, shopping waits for no woman
Wol Euler: not even one with a whip
Alfred Kelberry: :)
Alfred Kelberry: shopping comes to a woman with a whip :)
Alfred Kelberry: me watns a cake
Alfred Kelberry: *goes to get one*
Wol Euler: heheh
Wol Euler: bye boxy, enjoy the cake
Wol Euler: I hope it isn't a lie :)