2014.01.18 01:00 - the feeling of expectation confounded

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[01:05] Qt Core: Hi Wol
[01:05] Wol Euler: buongiorno, qt
[01:06] Wol Euler: how are you today?
[01:06] Qt Core: better :-)
[01:06] Wol Euler smiles.
[01:07] Wol Euler: I'm glad to hear that
[01:07] Qt Core: even if there is a strange feel of lack when you expect to have to fight and you don't, silly human mind
[01:08] Wol Euler nods.
[01:08] Wol Euler: so true
[01:10] Wol Euler: that is the feeling of an expectation being confounded :)

[01:11] Qt Core: yes, but one would expect that the lack of a bad thing would give a good feeling...
[01:11] Wol Euler nods.
[01:11] Wol Euler: it's odd, isn't it? missing something that one doesn't actually want to have
[01:12] Qt Core: it is probably the idea that it would stiill happen, but at an unplanned time
[01:12] Wol Euler: yep

[01:14] Qt Core: how was that quote "we want well defined areas of uncertainty" (from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ) or something like that
[01:14] Qt Core: brb
[01:17] Qt Core: back, your outfit has a weird (in a good way) 1920/1930 alien feeling :-)
[01:19] Wol Euler smiles.
[01:19] Wol Euler: thanks, I guess :)
[01:20] Wol Euler: I hadn't thought of that myself
[01:21] Wol Euler: I've spent hours searching for a proper cowbell sound to put in this collar.
[01:22] Wol Euler: I hadn't imagined it could be so difficult to find
[01:22] Qt Core: ohh that was the idea ? i thought about aliens as as a human that would be a severe skin issue ;-)
[01:23] Wol Euler: well, it is a cow/girl rather than an alien as such :)
[01:24] Qt Core: going literally, are we ? ;-)
[01:24] Wol Euler smiles.

[01:27] Wol Euler: alien skin ... why do we assume that aliens would be smooth-skinned rather than furry (at least up until Star Wars)?
[01:27] Qt Core: production costs ?
[01:28] Wol Euler laughs.
[01:28] Wol Euler: yes, you're probably right
[01:31] Qt Core: thinking about that it seems (to me) that humans lost their fur quite fast (in a species history time scale that is)
[01:32] Wol Euler nods.
[01:33] Wol Euler: there were a large number of large changes between whatever prececed Neanderthals and us
[01:35] Qt Core: something in our genes clicked and boosted the evolution,
[01:35] Wol Euler: I suppose the apes were already losing hair compared to other species. Chimps and gorillas have hair rather than thick fur like a dog
[01:40] Qt Core: at the cellphone with office where a server switch isn't going as planned...
[01:40] Wol Euler smiles.
[01:40] Wol Euler: no worries, take your time
[01:44] Qt Core: and we are speaking about our own main server
[02:01] Qt Core: ok, nt fully solved but (probably) on their way
[02:02] Wol Euler smiles.
[02:02] Wol Euler: good :)
[02:02] Qt Core: if we are lucky we would not be able to work on monday ;-)
[02:02] Wol Euler: heheheheh
[02:02] Wol Euler: well, I wish you that (perhaps)
[02:04] Qt Core: ok, time to go... somewere my phone has no reception ;-)
[02:04] Wol Euler laughs.
[02:04] Wol Euler: enjoy the day, qt
[02:05] Qt Core: i'll try, you too. bye