(One) Maelin wisps: I don't have any marking. Tomorrow is my first day there :P (One) Aikanaro wisps: Mark something anyway. (One) Aikanaro wisps: Judge each student on their facial expressions. (One) Insanity wisps: Mark your territory (One) Aikanaro wisps: And then judge each student on their facial expressions.
(One) Maelin wisps: Aikanaro! I am four episodes into GoT now and I am worried something bad is going to happen to Tyrion Lannister but I don't want any spoilers, just empathy and commiseration. (One) Aikanaro wisps: It is okay, Maelin. IT IS OKAY.
(One) Maelin wisps: Okay folks let's take a step back. Fifir, you seem to have a -wildly- skewed idea of the average wealth of people both in "the first world" and the entire world. People have found this pretty appalling. Are you interested in coming to understand what the world is really like? Do you think having an accurate understanding of the world you live in, and your place in it, is a worthy goal? (One) Wallsy wisps: I think what Maelin is asking, Fifir, is, do you want to live, like common people? Do you want do, what common people do?
(One) Vire wisps: http://www.fustercluck.org/misc/baboon_presenting_ass2.jpg (One) Maelin wisps: That is the worse picture with 'ass' in the name I have seen today.
(One) Maelin wisps: Forty-five seconds of intro so far. (One) Maelin wisps: Holy crap, a whole minute. That is pure laziness. (One) Seirou wisps: Hey, Half-Life had 45 minutes of intro. (One) Seirou wisps: A full hour if you count until the first enemy. (One) Seirou wisps: And people have orgasms just THINKING about that game.
(One) Maelin wisps: Emrys dreams of a world in which humans will not have to suffer the indignities of an organised society that requires public taxation of resources to provide services to its population. He longs for a better world, a world where people are not judged by the colour of their skin or the content of their character, but by the size and number of their guns.
(One) Maelin: If you were an employee at my business and I heard you making that joke, I would fire you on the spot. (One) Aikanaro: Maelin is like one of the Men in Black. Except instead of visiting people who've seen aliens and erasing their memories, he visits people who have made bad puns. (One) Aikanaro: I bet he's on his way to you now, Joey. (One) Joey: Pffft. Maelin likes me! =D (One) Joey: (I think.) (One) Maelin wisps: Unfortunately Joey there's no room for personal feelings in this line of work. (One) Aikanaro: Which is lucky, because Maelin does not possess any. (One) Curtana: Except those he framed, like bug collecters. (One) Aikanaro: That's what he does with all the puns he confiscates. He presses them and displays them under glass. (One) Maelin: Along with their creators. (One) Aikanaro: He is a bad man. :( (One) Maelin: Sometimes the world needs bad men to do the things the good men can't. (One) Maelin puts on his sunglasses and rides into the night.
(One) Maelin wisps: I won the "guess the number of jelly babies in the jar" contest at work today! :) (One) Wallsy wisps: Was the prize just the jelly beans or something worthwhile, Mae? (One) Maelin wisps: The jelly beans, but also, the jar! It's a pretty nice jar.
(One) Maelin: I use a maximised browser on one of my dual 1680x1050 widescreens. (One) Seirou: Yes, but we all know you're a colossal pervert, Maelin. (One) Siilaan: But we've already established you're a... (One) Siilaan: Yeah, that. (One) Maelin: I can't really see how that could possibly imply perversion. (One) Seirou: Of course not. You've no idea what decent human beings are like. (One) Siilaan: "Explain to me this human concept you call 'love'"
(One) Maelin: Someone had their album on at a party I went to recently and it seemed to be very funky, jazzy stuff. Is that typical of their stuff or a digression in style for that particular song that I noticed? (One) QBall: I find that hard to believe. (One) QBall: Maelin at a party...
(One) Maelin: You know, if you took a guy who had a daughter, and you impregnated her with his sperm, and the child was a girl, and you impregnated -her- with his sperm, and so on and so on, eventually you would arrive at a son who is the clone of the original man. (One) Triana: Way ahead of you, Maelin. (One) Explain: No, Maelin. There's about 100 new mutations per person. (One) Maelin: Oh well mutations yeah (One) Pit: No you wouldn't. Even without mutations, you'd get double genes instead of both the original ones. (One) Maelin: But from a naive recombinant perspective it's true :) (One) Hagi: Also... the mitochondrial DNA would be different :p (One) Maelin: OKAY FINE SO THERE ARE SOME KINKS TO WORK OUT (One) Thakh: That certainly IS a kink, Maelin.
(One) Kefka: bah... threadless are having a $9 for everything sale, but they seem to have gotten themselves ddosed because of it (One) Frailbeth: ddosed? (One) Maelin: Threadless? (One) Aikanaro: $9?
(One) Amtrak wisps: seeing as there are no cabbies,taxis, or limos on duty, is there anyone that could help a newbie get from BP to AM? I have some money I can pay with. (One) Landon wisps: I can help (One) Maelin wisps: I can act like a taxi, if you like. Ask me for a lift. (One) Amtrak wisps: Could I have a lift please? :) (One) Maelin wisps: No, I'm off duty.
(One) Eko: Darn, I'm only 3.25% toward getting Unexpected Guest (One) Maelin: Man the xp rewards for achievements are so laughable. (One) Eko: I care more about acquiring titles than exps. (One) Eko: "Unexpected Eko" has a nice ring to it (One) Eko: a nice ring to it (One) Eko: ring to it (One) Eko: it
(One) Maelin: Someone or other at berrameet was vegan. (One) Taffyd: I hope the endless meat pizzas accomodated them :p (One) Siilaan also wonders how do you get endless meat. (One) Siilaan: (Quiet there in the back rows.)
(One) Zexium wisps: what is up with you (One) Maelin wisps: Nothing is up with Grimrak, or at least that's what all the ladies tell us. (One) Grimrak wisps: Yeah, well...you ever notice how cool kids are all 'yo let's talk about stuff' and Maelin is all 'yo lets talk about maths and how I'm right'
(One) Maelin wisps: I feel like, even though I have made it to midnight and thus now have my dignity intact no matter what, it would be a betrayal of the fact that I haven't gone to bed before 2am for months to go to bed now at 20 minutes past midnight. (One) Siilaan wisps: If you go to sleep now nobody will ever love you.
(One) Maelin: Yep. Averaging 8 or 9 FPS with 7 dwarves on a 3x3 map. I think DF is going to have to go on the list with Bioshock 2 and Mass Effect 2 as games that I will have to wait to get home to play :( (One) PTHAG wisps: did you turn on the uh (One) PTHAG: option (One) PTHAG: thing (One) Maelin wisps: Oh yeah good thinking. :| (One) PTHAG: ty
(One) Maelin: hey who wants to spend the next ten minutes going "what..." and "I don't..." and trailing off in confusion www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/Cycles/ (One) Aikanaro: There was nothing odd about the animation you posted, Maelin. (One) Aikanaro: It was just a fun day by the seaside. (One) Aikanaro: It is always like that.
(One) Maelin: So, have we isolated the culprit in yesterday's enormous downtime? (One) emsenn wisps: we're narrowed it down to two (One) emsenn: it's either your face, or your mom.
(One) Siilaan: "What right do I, a blogger whose mascot is a giant smiling enema bottle, have to make fun of these colon cleansing antitoxin crusaders?" (One) Siilaan: Best sentence I read all day. (One) Aikanaro: I read that yesterday. (One) Aikanaro: You are behind the times. (One) Maelin: It's not his fault, Aik. Souvlakia gets the internet a day late.
(Intermud) Maelin: Yeah apparently a lot of people have weird personal space issues. (Intermud) Elspeth: Yeah Maelin, but getting into my bed in the middle of the night and snuggling was just not on. (Intermud) Maelin: You didn't complain at the time, Els! (Intermud) Elspeth: Only coz you paid me a tuppence
(One) Maelin: (hey kids, abusing bugs is bad, no matter how profitable or fun it may be, you will probably maybe get caught and punished or perhaps not! so don't do it i guess)
(One) Maelin wisps: Anybody know how to use GIMP? How do you give text an outline in one colour? (One) Aikanaro wisps: The GIMP is actually a version of one of those programs that uses the power of your processor during downtime to search for cures to cancer and aliens and so on. (One) Aikanaro wisps: Except it runs on frustration. (One) Cthulhu wisps: no-one knows how to use gimp, including the developers. (One) Aikanaro wisps: And instead of finding a cure for cancer, it's engaged in coming up with complicated new UI mechanisms that nobody likes. (One) Cthulhu wisps: except the developers.
(One) Maelin wisps: Worst case is not the key, average case is the key. Dang you computer scientists don't know crap about probability :P (One) Pit wisps: Yes, but for the complexity of your algorithm, you must optimise the worst case complexity. (One) Aikanaro wisps: I have a funny story about probability, Maelin. (One) Maelin wisps: No, you must optimise the average case complexity :P (One) Aikanaro wisps: Imagine you have three boxes, two of which contain goats. (One) Pit wisps: And I'm a mathematician as well as a computer scientist, Maelin. :) (One) Maelin wisps: The average case complexity is the one you expect to get EVERY SINGLE TIME. (One) Aikanaro wisps: The third contains the abstract concept of love. (One) Beale wisps: As morphised as a third goat. (One) Jessie wisps: if you open the box, does it die? (One) Tony wisps: Only if you stab it (One) Aikanaro wisps: If you open the box the abstract concept of love will always be in one of the two boxes you didn't choose, Jessie. (One) Aikanaro wisps: And then you spend the rest of your life regretting your choice. :o( (One) Drakkos wisps that it :-(
(One) Maelin wisps: THese "wear seatbelts" ads that I just found on youtube are kind of dishonest. (One) Therion wisps: Most advertising is. (One) Maelin wisps: They show you all these horrible tragedies that can occur, families being broken, friends losing friends, etc (One) Maelin wisps: But they DON'T show you the results in added efficiency that people get EVERY DAY by not bothering to waste all that time clicking in seatbelts and unclicking them. (One) Isolde wisps: it just feels weird when i start the car without a seatbelt on. like i went out without a bra or something. (One) Taffyd wisps: why, that could add up to like, 15 or 20 minutes over your entire lfie (One) Maelin wisps: You never see videos showing Dad running late, making it to the ball game to see his son kick the winning goal JUST IN TIME because he didn't have to waste time with the seatbelt. (One) Katata wisps: how odd.. connected to the DW page and it had me logged in as someone else (One) Maelin wisps: wait where is emrys (One) Isolde wisps: probably out without a bra (One) Maelin wisps: GOddamnit this has all been for naught >:(
(One) Amtrak wisps: seeing as there are no cabbies,taxis, or limos on duty, is there anyone that could help a newbie get from BP to AM? I have some money I can pay with. (One) Landon wisps: I can help (One) Maelin wisps: I can act like a taxi, if you like. Ask me for a lift. (One) Amtrak wisps: Could I have a lift please? :) (One) Maelin wisps: No, I'm off duty.
(One) Maelin wisps: Anybody know how to use GIMP? How do you give text an outline in one colour? (One) Aikanaro wisps: The GIMP is actually a version of one of those programs that uses the power of your processor during downtime to search for cures to cancer and aliens and so on. (One) Aikanaro wisps: Except it runs on frustration. (One) Cthulhu wisps: no-one knows how to use gimp, including the developers. (One) Aikanaro wisps: And instead of finding a cure for cancer, it's engaged in coming up with complicated new UI mechanisms that nobody likes. (One) Cthulhu wisps: except the developers.