The Testing Chat III: The Time of Great Chatting

[Flagg]

Revenge is a dish best served cold.
-Ancient Klingon Proverb

Didn't Tony Soprano say that revenge is like serving cold cuts?

Uncle Ben... Uncle Ben... *THUMP*

[Ralin]

Woah. WOAH.

So, for the longest time I've thought I was spelling 'grey' wrong. Because every time I did I would remember it was spelled 'gray.' Or vice-versa.

And I finally got around to looking it up, and it turns out both are considered acceptable spellings.

My mind. It is fucking blown.

[Stofsk]

next you'll be saying colour isn't spelt with a 'u'

[adr]

It isn't!

[RogueIce]

You and your unnecessary letters.

[Oxymoron]

Yu an' yur unecesary leters.

FTFY

[adr]

A few days ago, I was wikipediaing and came up on article called anti-sexuality, and from that, followed a link to a Russian website which compared sex to drugs and suggested we should all abstain absolutely.

As I read it, a picture came into my mind.... the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode titled "Let He Who Is Without Sin". I pictured the author as being those guys yelling at the people on Risa and started to feel silly that I'm even bothering to read their FAQ.

But then I realized... the role I'd be filling in that picture would be none other than Mr. Worf. I'll take it!

[evilsoup]

wasn't there a christian sect that believed in complete celibacy
they didn't last very long

[Kryten]

wasn't there a christian sect that believed in complete celibacy
they didn't last very long

The shakers, yeah. They lasted for quite a while through adoptions, but adoption by religious groups was banned in the 60s, and now the entire group is composed of three octogenarians.

[timmy]

So my bro/drummer/the IT guy at work just walked back in the door from lunch, pulling his earphones off as he did. 'I was just listening to the siren that is Shirley Manson.'

Call me fat(I don't mind)

But

Can we get Shirley Manson as the Siren class in the next Borderlands?



One of you guys is in good with Gearbox/T2, right?

[Oxymoron]

Goddammit are those network plug annoying... Seems like I'll have to buy new ones pretty quick.

[Questor]

Goddammit are those network plug annoying... Seems like I'll have to buy new ones pretty quick.

I've read that there are some places they just won't work, where the waveform on the power is too noisy for them to create a decent signal.

[Oxymoron]

After some theoretical analysis of the situation, it seems my problem comes less from the plug themsleves (I could still ping my internet box through the plugs) than from the internet box itself (unplugging and re-plugging the box "fixed" the issue).

The problem being that this is happening more an more often, and while I couldn't access the internet, the two other internet users in the house house had no problem reaching google's homepage.

So I think there is somewhere some kind of interaction.

It may the fact there's a number of computers running on the house's power network, but I doubt it could be the primary cause for this situation - we've been running this setup for years, and though the problem always existed to some extent it has never been this bad.

[The Spartan]

The shakers, yeah. They lasted for quite a while through adoptions, but adoption by religious groups was banned in the 60s, and now the entire group is composed of three octogenarians.

Their legacy lives on through furniture.

[Oxymoron]

I now have the confirmation that my class is composed of a bunch of morons.

In personal project class (free of teacher supervision), they spent a whole thirty minutes turning the classroom into a battlefield throwing lego technic wheels at each other, which is enough, but wait, it gets even better :

One on of my comrades whose project involve working on an ARDrone found it funny to have it fly into my face. Repeatedly.

Let me reiterate : that piece of shit flew something with rapidly rotating proppeler on my face. I hurt my hand repelling it. Hurt like a motherfucker.

I cordially warned him to not reiterate the experience lest he would not have a drone to work on anymore. It seems I haven't been taken seriously. We shall see about that tomorrow. And he better not complain if his toy get destroyed in the process.

[RyanThunder]

Er, if you don't mind my asking, how old are you?

[Oxymoron]

22, 23 in July.


And they all have the same age as me, minus a year or two.

[Oxymoron]

They're younger on avergae because I "lost" two years of my post-secondary cursus (one failed year, and one re-orientation)

[Oxymoron]

And when I said that I "cordially warned him", that's not a figure of speech. I was very cordial in telling him, in polite but understandable terms, that I'd inflict violence upon his drone if he were to get it too close to me once again.

From his bewilderment when I told him so, I got the impression that he did not understand the seriousness of the warning from my tone.


The strangest thing is that everyone knows I am not one they should get on the bad side of, and I have, I think, made expressively clear that I did not want to be any part of their bullshit. It is as if they had the desire to test me.

Such idiocy...

[Oxymoron]

context : the drone in question

[RogueIce]

...Apple seriously makes a mini spy drone for their iPhones and related accessories?

[Oxymoron]

It's not an Apple product, it's made by another company.

It's just that the go-to application to actually pilot the drone is an iOS / Android app.

[Oxymoron]

I mean, part of that guy's project is making it so that he can pilot the drone through an Xbox 360 controller with his computer.

[timmy]

Le quadricoptère!

I really like the way that rolls off the tongue

[Oxymoron]

I'm currently having some sort of argument on another website...

In a setting were technology (robots, AIs, ...) and magic are widely used, based on a crossover of two settings which are not known for either their "hardness", consistency, or making sense in the first place,

I'm currently talking with someone who treats it as some sort of hard sci-fi stuff where everything is perfectly logical and must add up lest everything be RUINED UP FOREVER.

And he's using the same kind of rhetoric than people from the Less Wrong community, which is famous for having produced "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality"

In short, it's midnight on a wednesday morning, I haven't run today, and I'm losing my time with someone who doesn't understand that stories do not need to be completely thought out in their worldbuilding from A to Z in their littlest detail for it to be enjoyable.