IRC log of swhack on 2001-12-13

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00:04:55 [Morbus]
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00:20:08 [AaronSw]
@ http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/nomic.htm
00:20:14 [chumpster]
A: Peter Suber, Nomic from AaronSw
00:20:27 [Morbus]
A::Awesome game, and an AmphetaDesk user.
00:20:28 [chumpster]
commented item A
00:20:34 [AaronSw]
Really? That's pretty cool.
00:20:40 [AaronSw]
A::We have to play this game sometime.
00:20:41 [chumpster]
commented item A
00:20:46 [Morbus]
A::Morbus actually tried to start a bulletin board game based on this once (link forthcoming).
00:20:48 [chumpster]
commented item A
00:20:51 [Morbus]
yeah, seriously. i was super suprised.
00:21:03 [Morbus]
i had it in my bookmarks for a super long time, and then he just came outta the blue with ampheta suggsetions.
00:21:08 [AaronSw]
deltab, sbp and us need to play sometime
00:21:09 [Morbus]
i was like "hey! you're the Nomic guy!" <G>
00:21:20 [Morbus]
yeah, i think we'd do a good one. better than this stupid message board one.
00:21:22 [Morbus]
lemme find the lin,.
00:21:22 [AaronSw]
Heh, he's done a lot of other cool stuff.
00:22:07 [Morbus]
yaeh, he has.
00:22:43 [AaronSw]
A::link via deltab in the [RDFIG chump|http://rdfig.xmlhack.com/].
00:22:43 [chumpster]
commented item A
00:22:59 [AaronSw]
k, gotta run
00:23:09 [Morbus]
fine!
00:25:41 [Morbus]
A::Ah, here's that [Message Board Nomic|http://www.scattergirl.com/ubb/Forum6/HTML/000047.html] that failed miserably.
00:25:43 [chumpster]
commented item A
00:26:33 [sbp]
* sbp sends a huge message to WAI ER; doesn't bother to check grammar or spelling. Nice and raw :-)
00:26:44 [sbp]
aaaaah, email
00:27:43 [Morbus]
hey sbpster.
00:27:47 [sbp]
Hi there
00:27:55 [sbp]
first rule of Nomic games: don't play them
00:28:00 [Morbus]
have you played them?
00:28:09 [sbp]
I repeat: first rule of Nomic games: don't play them
00:29:03 [Morbus]
* Morbus is currently listening to 'The Kult Konnection' on My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult's album 'The Reincarnation of Luna'.
00:29:03 [Morbus]
!itunes
00:30:15 [sbp]
cool, it's huge: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-er-ig/2001Dec/0038
00:31:29 [Morbus]
hey, sbpster, do you play games?
00:44:46 [sbp]
yes, I do
00:45:15 [Morbus]
i think i've finally found the game system to use for the web based game i want to build.
00:45:23 [Morbus]
and it has a good underground following, so they'll be an instant audience.
00:46:15 [sbp]
pointer?
00:46:44 [Morbus]
fudgerpg.com
00:47:00 [Morbus]
its a 96 page pdf file, of which we'd use about 30 pages of it. its designed to be messed up and tweaked.
00:47:09 [Morbus]
want me to go nuts on why i think this is "it"?
00:48:30 [sbp]
yes, please do
00:48:34 [Morbus]
mmkay.
00:48:46 [Morbus]
the game i had in mine is really just an open source combat system.
00:49:06 [Morbus]
think mortal kombat and street fighter a zillion fold, with moves, characters, arena's, and so forth creatable and addable by anyone.
00:49:25 [Morbus]
there'd also be an interesting little twist to get other people involved, but i'll talk about tht privately.
00:49:37 [Morbus]
anyways, why this fudge thing works is because its really pluginable.,
00:49:48 [Morbus]
there's no races or classes, but rather gifts, faults, skills, and so on.
00:50:09 [Morbus]
you create a character by taking these little individual features and adding them to your templaet.
00:50:29 [Morbus]
of course, we'd have character templates, that would be sample choices, based on the common fighter, mage, theif sort of ideals,.
00:50:37 [Morbus]
the other thing that's neat is there's no real leveling.
00:50:52 [Morbus]
rather, your skills, gifts, and faults are rated on a seven word scale, from terrible to superb.
00:51:24 [Morbus]
so, (and here's where we get into our own rules), when players earn experience, they can buy into their existing skills to try to raise their rating to the next level (each level 1.5 times more expensive than the last).
00:51:34 [Morbus]
or they can buy new skills that always start out at middle-1.
00:51:52 [Morbus]
most of the rest of the pdf deals with combat and role playing encounters.
00:52:11 [Morbus]
rpencounters would be really ignored in this combat simulation game, and the combat would be overhauled to be more internety.
00:52:35 [Morbus]
but because of this idea of skills, gifts, and faults, you can also create attacks, counter attacks, combo's, and defenses, all in the same pluginable sort of way.
00:52:41 [Morbus]
allowing people to further customize their character.
00:52:48 [Morbus]
ultimatley, the idea of this is that its a joke.
00:52:56 [Morbus]
a 1st level smurf should be able to beat a 1st level godzilla.
00:53:13 [Morbus]
in the old rule system i designed, with a sample combat app coded, this worked exactly as intended.
00:53:21 [sbp]
Ooh, this sounds... well... it sounds... oh, just read it: "In a Bunnies game, where the player characters are rabbits, [...]" - http://fudgerpg.com/fudge/FudgeNutshell.pdf
00:53:24 [Morbus]
i've yet to start actually coding a fudge/gift sort of thing.
00:53:28 [Morbus]
right exactly!
00:53:40 [Morbus]
as a rough example, a rabbut would be plaable in this game.
00:53:49 [Morbus]
which by the way, is called severe beating (.com of which i own).
00:53:57 [sbp]
neat
00:54:11 [Morbus]
so a rabbit, for instance, could win against godzilla, because of it's small size (so its harder to hit), plus perhaps it has the Gift of Burrow, where he can hide from godzilla.
00:54:28 [Morbus]
and on higher levels, he could buy a Gift of Reproducible, so that Godzilla could keep killing the bitch, but he'd keep replicating.
00:54:39 [sbp]
plus the gift of multiplications; can confuse Gozilla! Won't know which one to get
00:54:46 [Morbus]
certain gifts would be race specific (like replicating would be only for rabbits, etc.)
00:54:47 [sbp]
s/multiplications/multiplication/
00:54:57 [Morbus]
exactly, which would make the rabbit even harder to hit.
00:55:10 [Morbus]
the rabbit, being very dodgeful, would be easy as fuck to hit godzilla, cos he's huge
00:55:27 [Morbus]
so the battle would be insanely long, but a rabbit could kill godzilla just out of sheer survival in dodge skills.
00:55:55 [Morbus]
so, long story short,
00:56:10 [Morbus]
i'm probably going to start writing a dev diary for gamegrene, about all my thoughts on this, and start hammering out the xml, and crap.
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00:58:26 [sbp]
sorry, got disconnected...
00:58:29 [sbp]
* sbp reads logs
00:58:38 [GabeW]
uh, you didn't miss anything
00:58:51 [Morbus]
am I boring you, GabeW?
00:58:52 [Morbus]
;)
00:59:12 [GabeW]
no no
00:59:46 [GabeW]
i just didn't think he missed anyhthing - but I guess if he was idle for 3 minutes, he'd been gone longer than just when the disconnect notice came up
01:00:15 [sbp]
yep... I think I missed a single line
01:00:32 [GabeW]
Morbus: you never bore me
01:00:53 [Morbus]
oh? jeez, i'm honored, i think ;)
01:06:47 [GabeW]
I didn't mean to puff you up that much
01:06:52 [GabeW]
* GabeW is thinking of a mild insult
01:07:01 [Morbus]
oreilly and apple already did that - don't worry ;)
01:07:19 [GabeW]
in that case, I need to think of a bigger insult ;-)
01:07:44 [GabeW]
* GabeW really appreciates the Reggae channel on ATT Digital Cable ..
01:07:48 [sbp]
just say "Morbus, you suck", and be done with it
01:07:59 [Morbus]
no!
01:08:02 [Morbus]
i'm too frail for that!
01:08:07 [sbp]
Hmm...
01:08:12 [GabeW]
GabeW has changed the topic to: Deflate Morbus' ego here
01:08:19 [sbp]
How about: "Morbus, you suck a little bit"
01:08:33 [GabeW]
GabeW has changed the topic to: Morbus sucks somewhat
01:09:23 [Morbus]
i'm cracking!
01:09:23 [Morbus]
ooh. mt 1.3 is out!
01:09:23 [Morbus]
great, something else to do!
01:09:39 [sbp]
ah, "somewhat": delectable
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01:31:12 [wendy]
sbp - i've been unable to connect to irc.w3.org - know if others are having problems?
01:31:22 [wendy]
i got your comments on my slides from nick's log. thanks!
01:31:28 [wendy]
slides are still pretty rough.
01:32:17 [sbp]
* sbp waves to wendy neé wendyout
01:32:24 [sbp]
no problem
01:32:35 [sbp]
As for irc.w3.org, there does seem to be a problem :-)
01:32:39 [sbp]
same with dev.w3.org
01:33:03 [sbp]
the main site is alright, though
01:33:14 [wendy]
although, i can't save updated slides to it. argh.
01:33:30 [AaronSw]
hmm
01:36:15 [sbp]
Did you get my humungoid rant to w3c-wai-er-ig yet?
01:36:26 [AaronSw]
who?
01:36:31 [sbp]
not you
01:37:03 [sbp]
although you're free to answer :-)
01:37:26 [wendy]
i saw it, but I haven't read it yet.
01:37:42 [wendy]
Although, from a brief skim it seems you've solved all the issues i'm about to raise in my talk tomorrow. :)
01:37:53 [sbp]
heh, heh, heh; hope so
01:38:22 [sbp]
you can just bluff them
01:38:39 [sbp]
who is this talk to, anyway? What's it a part of/about?
01:38:54 [wendy]
the w3c team.
01:38:57 [wendy]
it a project review.
01:39:11 [sbp]
cool
01:39:18 [wendy]
yes, it should be.
01:39:26 [sbp]
:-)
01:39:30 [wendy]
I hope so anyway.
01:39:37 [sbp]
you sound nervous
01:39:49 [wendy]
I am. I'm still learning so much of this stuff.
01:39:58 [wendy]
But, making me teach others about it, is good.
01:40:07 [wendy]
It definitely raises awareness amongst the team, which is good.
01:40:17 [sbp]
yes, that is certainly a good factor...
01:50:06 [Morbus]
bah. my tummy hurts.
02:01:00 [wendy]
sbp - how is your EARL python API progressing?
02:05:31 [AaronSw]
whopee! My cool Google swag came.
02:05:35 [AaronSw]
mucho thanks to jill
02:06:23 [AaronSw]
and i got a TiBook tote and tilt
02:06:59 [AaronSw]
ok, gonna install it now.. bbiab
02:13:36 [sbp]
EARL Python API - 'twould be nice to think of some techniques for making querying EARL faster, thinking about DanBri's node querything stuff. Optimization isn't particularly important though, and any decent RDF API will do what we need
02:14:07 [AaronSw]
*cough* RDFAPI
02:18:53 [sbp]
Got a touch of the Alzofratz there, Aaron?
02:18:57 [em]
sbp, have you looked into redfoot much?
02:19:17 [em]
* em returns from meetings lasting far too long
02:19:19 [AaronSw]
em speaks! you're not allowed to speak until you register that telecon, mister
02:19:34 [em]
* em goes back to email
02:19:42 [AaronSw]
;-)
02:22:28 [em]
* em waits for web for relavant stats .... hums to himself an odd tune
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02:24:24 [sbp]
Redfoot: no, I must sadly admit that I haven't... too engrossed in CWM and PlexRDF :-)
02:25:24 [AaronSw]
I think we definitely should combine Sparta and PlexRDF
02:29:03 [em]
arrrg.... somethign seems a bit odd with w3c.org machines at the moment
02:29:13 [AaronSw]
yes, we were noticing that earlier
02:29:43 [em]
AaronSw, sbp... can you do me a favor and relay a message to FrankM?
02:29:52 [AaronSw]
yep
02:29:56 [em]
RDF Primer teleconference logistics
02:30:02 [em]
Zakim Conference bridge
02:31:00 [em]
617.761.6200 passcode 7337 for 2001-12-13, 12:00 - 1:00 pm EST for RDF Primer discussion
02:31:23 [em]
agenda to follow
02:31:48 [em]
(insert appropriate cursing and appologies for network failure here)
02:31:54 [sbp]
How many people expected?
02:32:10 [em]
AaronSw, sbp, FrankM and me
02:32:10 [sbp]
er... and will I be dialled on? :-)
02:32:23 [AaronSw]
sent
02:32:24 [em]
if you would like, i'll conference you in
02:32:27 [em]
thanks AaronSw
02:32:28 [sbp]
ah, O.K.
02:33:27 [em]
err... ok to talk a bit about RDF primer here? not sure if this is crashing on channel or not...
02:33:42 [AaronSw]
nope, jsut fine
02:33:43 [AaronSw]
err just
02:33:48 [AaronSw]
but you're being logged to web
02:33:49 [sbp]
this channel has one rule: nothing is off-topic :-)
02:33:58 [em]
* em appologies for leaving bits o' metadata everywhere
02:34:04 [sbp]
yeah
02:34:18 [AaronSw]
'tis life
02:34:23 [AaronSw]
the machines will have to cope
02:34:37 [em]
nothing off topic :) ok... remind me to debate the fine points of space-time modelling perspective/philosophy sometime
02:34:43 [em]
but until then....
02:34:47 [em]
rdf primer
02:35:06 [em]
sbp, i like you suggestion re spliting these up into seperate pieces
02:35:09 [sbp]
* sbp was (still is) into Astrophysics; do yer worst
02:35:20 [AaronSw]
* AaronSw wonders if he should start selling HTTPAds on the swhack weblog
02:35:57 [em]
* em perspective is in cs/geography/anthopology interactions.... interesting to compare notes sometime
02:36:31 [sbp]
Yes, m12n of the primer is something that seems to be natural to me. It's obvious that you can't modularize as much as would be optimal, but I still think modularizing as much as possible would be beneficial
02:36:32 [em]
lack of resources keeping us from doing this..
02:36:43 [sbp]
and laziness
02:37:07 [em]
not sure if this will be addressed with you and frank (and in some part AaronSw.. not sure how much i can get him to commit)
02:37:34 [em]
laziness... perhaps i'm guilty of this as well... other fires have come up, and I have to pick my battles
02:37:54 [em]
point is, i'm very much welcoming help here as i'm a bit alone on this.
02:37:56 [sbp]
well, when I get the inspiration to write, then I write freely... it's just sitting down and thinking, ah, I must do that right now. There's always something for me to do, but whimsy usually wins over common sense
02:38:17 [sbp]
Hmm... it's strange; how many people were on the initial call? Have they all dropped out?
02:38:27 [sbp]
pick battles: very much so
02:38:34 [AaronSw]
sbp, you need to learn directed procrastination
02:38:40 [em]
6 people on original call.. very fe have produced
02:38:51 [em]
err... few
02:39:20 [em]
deliverables were all over the map, i'd like to regroup and reassess
02:39:27 [sbp]
procastrination is a part of agoraphobia, strangely enough. Another tidbit of metadata for y'all there...
02:39:48 [AaronSw]
err structured procrastination
02:39:50 [em]
* em notes this and tucks this into his 'process later' pile
02:40:00 [AaronSw]
hmm, i thought it was a part of life
02:40:07 [sbp]
My only action item was: light ontologies! Write, write, write... Whoopsy
02:40:20 [sbp]
life: yeah, but it's much more advanced in agoraphobics
02:40:44 [em]
light ontolgies... yes, less is more
02:40:46 [AaronSw]
link: http://www-csli.stanford.edu/%7Ejohn/procrastination.html
02:41:45 [em]
AaronSw, sbp... looking for suggestions for realisitc primer objectives... I still want to get the 'how do i create a schema in an afternoon' primer out the door
02:42:02 [sbp]
ooh, I was just about to suggest something on that order
02:42:21 [sbp]
Do you remember the person who took notes when they created their first schema?
02:42:23 [em]
* em thinks structured procrastination is better than unstructured procrastination
02:42:37 [em]
sbp, yes and no
02:42:41 [sbp]
Also, DanC has some notes on his homepage... let me retrieve and spew them into the #swhack stream
02:43:01 [sbp]
[[[
02:43:02 [sbp]
RDF primer ideas:
02:43:02 [sbp]
things versus their names
02:43:02 [sbp]
hmm... should all naming properties descend from rdfs:label? how about dc:title, dc:identifier? log:uri?
02:43:02 [sbp]
naming conventions: in addition to Class vs. property... what part of speech? isVersionOf versus version vs. hasVersion
02:43:02 [sbp]
comments: use full sentences! don't say "the size of the object". say "for size(X, Y) read: the size of X is Y."
02:43:04 [em]
i was there for RDF schema... not sure i'd recommend the process
02:43:07 [sbp]
]]] - http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
02:43:33 [AaronSw]
Hmm.
02:43:40 [em]
hmm.. not sure this helps
02:44:12 [em]
was thinking more of something the dc usage board is grappling with... rules for describing 'words'
02:44:22 [sbp]
the problem is that you (as SVL) are going to have to set out a realistic audience for the RDF Primer, IMO. You can't have it addressing everyone, you're ust going to have to say, "oh, well, this group and this other group", or it's going to be eclectic
02:44:32 [GabeW]
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02:44:40 [em]
is this an 'isa' thing, or a 'hasa' thing... if 'isa' go to blah, if 'hasa' goto foo
02:45:12 [sbp]
I'd personally like it to be more of an alms-basket of information. The Hints and Tips approach - except more like, "here are 700 hints and tips aranged into essaylets"
02:45:22 [sbp]
s/aranged/arranged/
02:45:28 [AaronSw]
One of the big problems em has I think is that the Primer prose is sorta going to be the spec.
02:45:34 [AaronSw]
I mean, I'm not going to point anyone to the model theory.
02:45:50 [sbp]
heh, heh, heh
02:45:51 [GabeW]
are we talkign about n3?
02:46:00 [AaronSw]
No, the RDF Primer.
02:46:05 [GabeW]
oh
02:46:36 [AaronSw]
I mean, I think the MT is great and Pat Hayes did an absolutely wonderful job.
02:46:53 [AaronSw]
But it confuses folks who aren't from that background.
02:46:56 [em]
no to eclectic... a primer's success is directly proportionate to the clarity of the intended audienc
02:46:58 [sbp]
But when someone asks me about RDF, I still fill out a prescription for them - choosing the artciles that are most suited (AFAICT) to them. I don't think the RDF Primer is ever going to be something for which I can say, "here, this is your definitive guide". But I do want it to be on almost every list
02:47:02 [AaronSw]
And most of the RDF target market isn't.
02:47:18 [AaronSw]
good point, sbp
02:47:34 [sbp]
eclectic: well, fair enough :-)
02:49:28 [sbp]
But people want the tough questions answered. Should I use lists a la first/rest/first/reast, or daml:collection? How do I assert and reify? How is label different to title? Should I use terms from other people's namespaces, or import and rename? Hash or slash? Tips like "a name is not a person" are *very* valuable too
02:50:10 [em]
my (personal) intented audience is the person that has heard a bit about RDF (wants to know more), and is interested in learning about how to create a schema and corresponding instance data in an afternoon... what are the rules, and recipes we can provide to allow people to create interoperable XML
02:50:17 [sbp]
The whole thing about RDF is getting people to think about the models that they're creating. And very often, there isn't one right or wrong way about modelling stuff... but there are better and worse ways
02:50:18 [em]
* em reads sbp point.
02:50:25 [sbp]
* sbp reads em's point
02:51:23 [sbp]
Heh, at the moment, I'd recommend reading the RDF Schema specification for that :-) It was funny, I'd skimmed it a couple of times and though "Hmm...", but when I read it, it was just simple stuff. Really simple
02:51:30 [AaronSw]
* AaronSw reads both points
02:51:57 [sbp]
The next weekend, I read the DAML specification, or rather, the walkthrough. The DAML walkthrough is really great, but you have to read about RDFS first
02:52:34 [AaronSw]
RDFS is long simple stuff.
02:52:47 [sbp]
And nothing can beat doing. But then, many people reading the primer will fit into either the "interested", or "looking at this for a specific goal" critera
02:53:01 [em]
modelling stuff... tough in general... i think we should recognize this up front and acknowledge this. Then provide guidences on some of the stuff we know how to do... RDFS is very simple. We'd go a long way in RDF adoption sby simply explaining this.
02:53:29 [AaronSw]
The other day I got an email from a fellow who wanted to add RDF to his categorized information on cropdusting. He had some questions which I think are good goals for the Primer.
02:53:35 [sbp]
long: well, it is a bit verbose. All you need to tell people is "there are some things called properties, some things called classes, here are some examples". A huge problem is the serialization of the examples... graphs would be better
02:53:50 [AaronSw]
namely: why should I do this? how do I do this? who can help me do this?
02:54:07 [sbp]
yeah, there's never any point in overcomplicating things. Specification are great for doing that
02:54:30 [sbp]
Sometimes, you just can't substitute community experience
02:54:36 [em]
* em gets messages from cropdusters, pigfarmers, florists, etc... similar problems/patterns in almost all of these emails
02:55:05 [em]
* em reads AaronSw's point and agrees
02:55:11 [sbp]
* sbp sends messages to these kind of people, telling them that if they have a problem, RDF is the answer... :-)
02:55:38 [AaronSw]
I'm clearly shorting the fellow quite a bit to make the point, but i think the primer should answer these questions with a minimum of hype
02:55:54 [em]
em to sbp... can you help me solve world hunger? ... sbp to em... RDF is the answer!
02:56:03 [AaronSw]
:-)
02:56:07 [em]
* em thinks XML has already marketed this position
02:56:10 [AaronSw]
sbp solved it with cwm one day
02:56:14 [AaronSw]
he just fed everything into it
02:56:16 [sbp]
yes, that's true
02:56:37 [AaronSw]
xml solves world hunger but RDF provides the cute cartoon characters to go along with it.
02:57:02 [em]
* em glad to see sbp's use of rdf icons on his pages :)
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02:57:15 [em]
err... or maybe not
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02:57:31 [AaronSw]
Why's that?
02:57:47 [sbp]
* sbp catches up
02:57:59 [AaronSw]
sbp, you know infomesh.net has been coming soon for several years now. ;-)
02:58:00 [em]
* em trying to be cute wrt sbp leaving.. disregard
02:58:09 [AaronSw]
heh
02:58:27 [sbp]
logos: yeah, well, only on a couple of pages at the moment
02:58:41 [sbp]
I should put http://infomesh.net/2001/05/sw/ into my .sig, really
02:58:44 [em]
* em notes that w3c.org seems to be back up... quickly sends 60 messsages piled up
02:58:52 [sbp]
coming coon: well, it's all relative :-)
02:58:53 [AaronSw]
uh oh
02:59:14 [sbp]
heh, so whilst em crashes his SMTP server...
02:59:25 [em]
:)
02:59:32 [AaronSw]
* AaronSw dodges email barrage
02:59:53 [sbp]
oh, em, that reminds me: why is there no logo with "Semantic Web" on it?
03:00:27 [AaronSw]
* AaronSw edits logo to read "RDF Procrastinator"
03:00:34 [sbp]
heh, heh, heh
03:00:50 [em]
people that were working on RDF logo are also thinking abuot this... Semantic Web is a bit more difficult to iconify
03:01:04 [em]
* em would be happy with a description first!
03:01:06 [AaronSw]
It's a big web with a semantic trapped in it
03:01:48 [AaronSw]
The nice thing about the Semantic Web meme is that it makes it easy to explain my project to semwebbers
03:02:03 [AaronSw]
Thanks to sbp, I now just say I'm developing the Semantic Internet.
03:02:15 [sbp]
funny how most people who talk about the Semantic Web haven't got a clue about the higher principles. Bit annoying, sometimes
03:02:21 [em]
yeah... its to the non-semwebber people i'm worried about :)
03:02:36 [sbp]
Semantic Internet: heh, that *was* a good one, wasn't it? :-)
03:02:44 [AaronSw]
It really was.
03:02:59 [AaronSw]
I hope to use it at WWW10 devday
03:03:04 [AaronSw]
which i'm signed up for, right em?
03:03:18 [GabeW]
* GabeW is perusing google to see when his first usenet post was
03:03:28 [em]
err... www2002 yes (but only if you dont use that phrase)
03:03:29 [AaronSw]
GabeW is not the first ;)
03:03:35 [sbp]
heh, heh, heh
03:03:49 [AaronSw]
I can't say Semantic Internet? Aww, there goes my whole presentation.
03:04:05 [GabeW]
27 Sep 1990
03:04:18 [sbp]
pointer, Gabe?
03:04:53 [GabeW]
embarrassing - I was asking about a new Huey Lewis and the News album
03:04:53 [GabeW]
eheh
03:05:01 [GabeW]
ooh ooh
03:05:03 [GabeW]
12 Sep 1990
03:05:08 [AaronSw]
We found DanC's old utexas email address
03:05:21 [em]
* em thinks that dates GabeW on several levels :)
03:05:49 [AaronSw]
Oooh, "....Name the song title and performer for all three and win a million bucks..."
03:06:31 [em]
* em notes its bob marley
03:06:59 [sbp]
the problem is, anyone can get them all now using Google, or lyricsearch
03:07:04 [sbp]
.google "RDF Primer"
03:07:05 [xena]
"RDF Primer": http://www.w3.org/2001/09/rdfprimer/meetingnotes-20010927
03:07:11 [em]
* em thinks this actually mite have been a remake ... hmmm...
03:07:24 [em]
ek!
03:07:35 [em]
* em thinks google knows a bit too much
03:07:40 [sbp]
Heh, heh
03:07:50 [AaronSw]
Google knows all.
03:07:50 [sbp]
.google SWEO
03:07:50 [xena]
SWEO: http://www.techrepair.com/sweo.html
03:07:54 [sbp]
Pff
03:07:58 [em]
whew...
03:08:01 [sbp]
.google SWEO "Semantic Web"
03:08:02 [xena]
SWEO "Semantic Web": http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/EO
03:08:07 [AaronSw]
mwaha
03:08:09 [em]
doh!
03:08:17 [sbp]
:-)
03:08:31 [AaronSw]
why did you put the events list under it?
03:08:49 [wendy]
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03:09:04 [em]
ok, so if i launch this... who's willing to play? and by play i mean participate heavily... people are overcommitted as is.. how does this fit into the priority of things with this group?
03:09:29 [sbp]
* sbp is rather willing
03:09:32 [AaronSw]
* AaronSw too
03:09:39 [sbp]
So, it'll be me, you, Aaron... er...
03:09:44 [sbp]
:-)
03:09:55 [AaronSw]
DIdn't WL volunteer?
03:09:57 [AaronSw]
It's funny tho how my priorites have shifted after the Plex.
03:10:15 [em]
i've got a long list of people interested in lurking... very few willing to commit more important intellectual capitol
03:10:32 [sbp]
I'm not sure. I try to keep out of Working Group formation and destruction policies, because it's not something I want to mess about with :-)
03:10:47 [em]
Wl yes... but the patent thing scared him off a bit from w3c it seems
03:10:55 [AaronSw]
yes, it does
03:11:05 [sbp]
yeah, although he's been popping up occasionally
03:11:11 [AaronSw]
* AaronSw is willing to star in the "Semantic Web Sites that Work" video
03:11:25 [sbp]
DanBri is also rather good at this sort of SWEO stuff. Perhaps you can coax him
03:11:26 [AaronSw]
:-)
03:11:30 [em]
sbp, its not something *I* want to mess with; but i'm willing to sacrifice it for the greater SWEO good :)
03:11:46 [em]
danbri yes (but also overcommitted)
03:12:16 [AaronSw]
yeah, danbri seems to have fallen off the face of the earth because of the you-know-what
03:12:41 [em]
* em knows where danbri is at all times :)
03:13:05 [AaronSw]
you probably put one of those GPS taggers on him
03:13:06 [sbp]
Must be nice having the power to just wake up one day and think, "Hmm... I'll start a WG today, just for a laugh", though? :-)
03:13:16 [AaronSw]
I did that once.
03:13:21 [AaronSw]
We developed xKitchenSink
03:13:28 [AaronSw]
Not very pretty.
03:13:32 [sbp]
heh, heh. Yeah, with Jon Borden
03:13:52 [sbp]
.google XKitchenSink
03:13:53 [xena]
XKitchenSink: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200104/msg00001.html
03:14:07 [em]
* em thinks sbp:nice != em:nice
03:14:56 [sbp]
Aaron, I thought we agreed that that document was to be XKS Team confidential only? You're going to have to pay the price now
03:14:58 [em]
* em just now gets AaronSw's email... thanks
03:15:10 [AaronSw]
Uh oh.
03:15:27 [sbp]
:notEqualTo swn:converse daml:equivalentTo .
03:15:45 [em]
re SWEO... just for kicks... what are candidates? a fine-editorial-comb over SW tips comes to mind, others?
03:16:13 [sbp]
I really do like the "Semantic Web Sites that Work" suggestion
03:16:21 [em]
yes, me too
03:16:33 [AaronSw]
Oh, definitely.
03:16:40 [sbp]
Seriously, if you look at the work of WAI EO, they do some wonderful stuff. The little business card things are great
03:16:46 [em]
AaronSw, blogger direction comes to mind here
03:16:46 [AaronSw]
I think I should fly to, um, France to film it.
03:17:05 [AaronSw]
Blogger direction?
03:17:32 [em]
WAI EO, abslutely.... i give high marks to Judy
03:17:54 [em]
blogger... goes looking, perhaps has wrong term here
03:18:03 [AaronSw]
chumpster?
03:18:14 [sbp]
When I was chatting to TimBL on #rdfig the other day, all of a sudden I had this weird vision of data being just a URI away... it was weird; if the data is processable, and farily persistent, then you can create some pretty funky systems. Didn't bother writing it all down, although it did set me off converting my homepage to RDF, which I did (is now generated from and by N3!)
03:18:44 [AaronSw]
What do you mean?
03:18:50 [em]
* em notes sbp's recent post to this effect also came under this catagory
03:18:57 [sbp]
to me, http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/EO/talks screams out "make me from RDF, make me from RDF!"
03:19:06 [sbp]
post?
03:19:10 [em]
snoop!
03:19:16 [sbp]
heh, heh, heh
03:19:19 [em]
* em wonders where sbp found this
03:19:20 [AaronSw]
snoop?
03:20:10 [sbp]
Hmm... I honestly don't remember
03:20:45 [em]
* em notes to test in the future the average time it takes em to make something public and AaronSw, sbp, swgroup etc. to find it
03:21:02 [sbp]
heh, heh, heh. You'll need a good stopwatch
03:21:05 [AaronSw]
Well, like it might help if you didn't email us about it. ;-)
03:21:14 [em]
err.. did i?
03:21:19 [sbp]
did he?
03:21:24 [AaronSw]
Proabbly.
03:21:25 [em]
* em thinks that would be cheating
03:21:52 [em]
ahh... AaronSw.. it was blogspace (which screams to me as RDF) not blogger
03:21:59 [AaronSw]
ah
03:22:00 [em]
sorry for the confusion
03:22:29 [AaronSw]
Yeah, blogspace is very much rdfy
03:22:32 [em]
blogger coupled with mknot (?) looks really promising as a
03:22:41 [em]
'semantic web enabled site'
03:22:44 [AaronSw]
Hey, cool, ShelleyP uses the term blogspace on her blog
03:22:51 [em]
* em looks for mknot reference
03:23:18 [sbp]
* sbp greps email archives and IRC logs for talks reference
03:23:26 [em]
* em notes no dice... again has wrong name... keeps looking
03:24:00 [AaronSw]
mknot --- do you mean mnot's xpath->rss thing? or my html->rss thing?
03:24:28 [em]
nope.. mkdoc, http://mkdoc.com/
03:24:46 [em]
* em needs to get some sleep
03:25:07 [AaronSw]
Aha.
03:25:46 [AaronSw]
lol: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/12/12/ED199963.DTL
03:26:10 [em]
* em remebers his name is indeed 'eric', considers this a small success and heads off for bed .. night all
03:26:29 [AaronSw]
Heh heh heh.
03:26:30 [AaronSw]
'nite
03:28:10 [sbp]
c'ya em
03:28:56 [AaronSw]
Heh heh heh: http://web.0sil8.com/episodes/megway/
03:37:23 [sbp]
I wonder if that costs more or less than Segway?
03:37:32 [AaronSw]
Heh!
03:41:31 [GabeW]
that picture is very san francisco
03:41:58 [sbp]
yeah
03:44:29 [GabeW]
its wierd - sf is so distinct - I'm not sure if its the houses the streets, or what
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04:23:39 [sbp]
* sbp sends RDF verions of the talks page to em...
04:23:50 [sbp]
s/verions/versions/
04:23:53 [AaronSw]
heh heh heh
04:24:00 [AaronSw]
* AaronSw reviews the rules of Nomic
04:24:17 [sbp]
the first rule is not to play Nomic!
04:24:25 [AaronSw]
That's not true.
04:24:34 [AaronSw]
The first rule is "All players must agree to any changes to the game."
04:24:40 [AaronSw]
And I did not agree to your rule!
04:26:21 [sbp]
That's not the first rule, at all
04:26:47 [AaronSw]
I disagree. deltab will have to come in as judge.
04:26:48 [AaronSw]
deltab?
04:27:47 [AaronSw]
How do I find out when I can see the Gemenids?
04:28:35 [sbp]
logster, grep 2-7 -i geminids
04:29:00 [logster]
I'm logging. I found 1 answer for '-i geminids' (showing 2...1)
04:30:01 [AaronSw]
heh
04:30:08 [sbp]
logster, grep -i 2-7 geminids
04:30:14 [logster]
I'm logging. I found 4 answers for 'geminids' (showing 2...4)
04:30:15 [logster]
2) 2001-12-09 04:26:50 <chumpster> B: http://www.spaceweather.com/meteors/geminids/observingtips.html from AaronSw
04:30:16 [logster]
3) 2001-12-09 04:26:43 <AaronSw> @ http://www.spaceweather.com/meteors/geminids/observingtips.html
04:30:18 [sbp]
2 to 1 indeed...
04:32:35 [AaronSw]
.time
04:32:35 [xena]
2001/12/13 04:34:08.84768 Universal
04:32:50 [AaronSw]
so 10PM tomorrow for us
04:35:44 [AaronSw]
so 24 hrs - 37 min
04:35:59 [sbp]
same for me
04:36:12 [sbp]
er, time to go, that is
04:36:24 [sbp]
well, a little less, perhaps
04:36:32 [sbp]
more like 23 hours
04:37:29 [sbp]
even less than that, now :-)
04:37:37 [AaronSw]
heh
04:38:52 [sbp]
* sbp waits for RDF Primer telecon agenda... excited
04:38:59 [AaronSw]
Heh.
04:39:16 [AaronSw]
@ http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast07dec_1.htm
04:39:21 [chumpster]
B: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast07dec_1.htm from AaronSw
04:39:34 [AaronSw]
B:|Geminids Start Tomorrow
04:39:35 [chumpster]
titled item B
04:39:48 [AaronSw]
B::Tips on [observing the Geminids|http://comets.amsmeteors.org/meteors/showers/geminidobs.html].
04:39:49 [chumpster]
commented item B
04:40:06 [AaronSw]
B::and some [more detailed tips|http://www.spaceweather.com/meteors/geminids/observingtips.html] on where and when.
04:40:08 [chumpster]
commented item B
04:41:36 [sbp]
B::cf. a [http://science.msfc.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast08dec_1.htm|related talk]
04:41:37 [chumpster]
commented item B
04:58:40 [sbp]
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05:00:05 [AaronSw]
* AaronSw goes off to sleep
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14:35:51 [Morbus]
i do not suck somewhat!
14:36:34 [carter.openprojects.net]
carter.openprojects.net has changed the topic to: Morbus does not suck somewhat
14:36:53 [Morbus]
yay!
14:37:04 [Morbus]
how are you?
14:37:09 [AaronSw]
ok
14:54:47 [scipient]
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14:54:54 [AaronSw]
hey scipient
14:54:59 [scipient]
hello
14:55:02 [Morbus]
hey there.
14:55:10 [scipient]
just curious what this channel is about
14:56:27 [tansaku]
Hi all
14:56:30 [AaronSw]
it's the offtopic channel
14:56:33 [AaronSw]
hi tansaku
14:57:22 [tansaku]
hi AaronSw, you wanna see the latest phase of bot evolution in #Decent?
14:57:57 [Morbus]
hey tansaku,
15:02:35 [tansaku]
hey Morbus
15:21:33 [AaronSw]
hmm, now google is whacking my other server, it seems
15:22:29 [Morbus]
heh, heh.
15:22:41 [Morbus]
go complain to jillium ;)
15:22:42 [AaronSw]
actually it seems to be hitting them both at once
15:22:43 [AaronSw]
great
15:22:48 [AaronSw]
that's what i'm doing
15:22:50 [Morbus]
:)
15:23:17 [AaronSw]
.google scooter-w3
15:23:17 [xena]
scooter-w3: http://codoh.com/counter/logs/%20.html
15:28:05 [AaronSw]
aha!
15:28:07 [AaronSw]
i found the bug
15:28:15 [Morbus]
what bug?
15:28:40 [AaronSw]
the reason for google to hammer my server
15:28:48 [Morbus]
cos you're super cool?
15:28:56 [AaronSw]
haha
15:31:23 [tansaku]
.time gmt
15:31:23 [xena]
Dec. 13, 2001 3:32 pm GMT
15:31:30 [AaronSw]
.time jst
15:31:30 [xena]
Dec. 14, 2001 12:33 am GMT+9
15:31:55 [tansaku]
* tansaku is just phoning the uk
15:39:29 [Morbus]
soo, what was the bug?
15:41:40 [AaronSw]
some other stupid site on the internet was generating all these crazy links to my site
15:42:17 [Morbus]
heh.
15:42:38 [AaronSw]
it gets better tho
15:45:45 [Morbus]
must i prompt you for everything?
15:45:49 [Morbus]
go on, go on!
15:47:56 [AaronSw]
just a sec
15:48:08 [AaronSw]
i have to fix things first
15:48:41 [sbp]
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15:49:19 [AaronSw]
hey sbp
15:49:32 [AaronSw]
sbp, catch up on my crazy story in the logs
15:49:33 [AaronSw]
.time
15:49:33 [xena]
2001/12/13 15:51:06.39636 Universal
15:49:35 [sbp]
Hi there
15:49:39 [AaronSw]
.time est
15:49:40 [xena]
Dec. 13, 2001 10:51 am US/Eastern
15:49:53 [Morbus]
hey sbpster
15:50:07 [AaronSw]
so it turns out that the other screwed up server...
15:50:18 [AaronSw]
...happened to be another server of mine!
15:51:17 [AaronSw]
basically I'd get a page and then put up a list of links with all the pages that page linked to.
15:51:29 [AaronSw]
so google would recursively crawl the entire web thru my server
15:51:41 [sbp]
heh, heh, heh
15:51:43 [AaronSw]
but my link-generating algorithm was screwed up
15:51:50 [Morbus]
heh....
15:51:56 [AaronSw]
and returned really wrong links for a lot of stuff
15:52:09 [AaronSw]
so not only would it crawl the web, it'd crawl the wrong web
15:52:11 [Morbus]
i've almost completed gamegrene.com using movabletype. it's nice.
15:52:29 [AaronSw]
but to make it even better, every page it got back from this web thing
15:52:34 [AaronSw]
has a link to my website
15:52:45 [AaronSw]
which is probably part of why my pagerank is so high!
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16:00:56 [AaronSw]
@ http://www.eff.org/
16:01:55 [chumpster]
C: EFF Homepage from AaronSw
16:02:04 [AaronSw]
C:|Support the EFF!
16:02:05 [chumpster]
titled item C
16:02:08 [AaronSw]
C::Larry Lessing Wants You!
16:02:10 [chumpster]
commented item C
16:02:18 [Morbus]
heh!
16:02:23 [AaronSw]
C::+[Powered By Freedom|http://www.io.com/images/PoweredByFreedom.gif]
16:02:24 [chumpster]
commented item C
16:03:10 [Morbus]
i added his latest book to my wishlist :)
16:03:10 [AaronSw]
i saw :0
16:03:10 [Morbus]
what the?
16:03:10 [Morbus]
you looking at my wishlist? what the hell for?
16:03:10 [Morbus]
<g>
16:03:57 [Morbus]
i love perl.
16:04:02 [Morbus]
sigh, i wish i could code perl at work all day.
16:04:57 [AaronSw]
heh
16:05:44 [sbp]
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16:05:49 [Morbus]
sb
16:05:52 [Morbus]
wb
16:05:54 [sbp]
Aaron, are you there?
16:05:55 [sbp]
ty
16:05:59 [AaronSw]
hi
16:06:06 [AaronSw]
i have another hour, right?
16:06:13 [sbp]
er... no, it's now
16:06:19 [AaronSw]
oh, shoot
16:06:21 [sbp]
and no one's dialled me up either :-)
16:06:25 [sbp]
heh, heh, heh
16:06:33 [AaronSw]
are you sure?
16:06:38 [AaronSw]
.time est
16:06:39 [xena]
Dec. 13, 2001 11:08 am US/Eastern
16:06:40 [em]
sbp, rdf primer?
16:06:41 [AaronSw]
i thought it was at 12
16:06:48 [em]
rdf primer is in an hour
16:06:51 [sbp]
Oh, Hi em
16:06:53 [AaronSw]
see!
16:06:58 [sbp]
ah, phew. Worked it out wrong
16:07:03 [AaronSw]
:-)
16:07:06 [em]
* em but is encouraged by sbp's enthusiasm :)
16:07:11 [sbp]
lol
16:07:16 [AaronSw]
whew
16:07:21 [Morbus]
i wanna go!
16:07:32 [AaronSw]
get your company to join the w3c
16:07:45 [sbp]
yeah, like mine *cough* *cough*
16:07:47 [AaronSw]
logster, grep -i w3c.*dial
16:08:16 [logster]
I'm logging. I found 2 answers for 'w3c.*dial'
16:08:17 [logster]
0) 2001-12-13 16:07:47 <AaronSw> logster, grep -i w3c.*dial
16:08:18 [logster]
1) 2001-09-25 23:47:44 <AaronSw> Aha! W3C Teleconference Bridge Dialout dial in dial-in http://www.w3.org/1998/12/bridge/dialout.php3
16:08:21 [em]
go as in attend, or go as in 'run away'.. each could be a valid response wrt the primer :)
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16:08:27 [em]
it depends on the size of the co, AaronSw.
16:08:35 [Morbus]
what about a size of 1, em? <G>
16:08:41 [AaronSw]
yeah, yah
16:09:06 [em]
* em been working on the individual participation model for some time... no worky yet
16:09:36 [sbp]
individuals can join as affiliates
16:09:49 [AaronSw]
* AaronSw wonders if this indiv. participation model includes funds for flying to France
16:09:54 [em]
Morbus, how much contact do you have working with content providers of rss 1.0 feeds?
16:10:03 [em]
alas no AaronSw...
16:10:41 [em]
AaronSw, whats the story with HGW?
16:10:42 [AaronSw]
* AaronSw loves hyperlinked Entourage
16:10:50 [em]
err.. HWG
16:10:55 [Morbus]
em, about the only people i have contacts with would be AaronSw, funnily enough.
16:11:15 [AaronSw]
they got bought out, their AC rep left, and i'm afraid to talk to them about it 'cuz they'll probably stop paying w3c bills if i remind them
16:11:15 [Morbus]
does mike krus produce 1.0? i thought he did somewhere.
16:11:33 [em]
yep, appreciate the honesty... thats what i thought
16:11:56 [em]
* em takes call
16:13:22 [AaronSw]
* AaronSw gets sbp's dialout thingy set up
16:13:29 [AaronSw]
Zakim status: http://www.w3.org/1998/12/bridge/Zakim.html
16:14:45 [AaronSw]
* AaronSw wonders if we should take primer notes in here during the call
16:15:10 [AaronSw]
* AaronSw also wonders what #swhack is all about
16:15:23 [AaronSw]
err #swatch
16:18:09 [AaronSw]
* AaronSw would checkout the zakimbot but realizes he doesn't know the address of the CAS server.
16:18:53 [Morbus]
wow. that's a first.
16:19:02 [Morbus]
i use got an ugly win3.1 sorta crash with eudora.
16:19:14 [Morbus]
you know, that ugly white box with the craptacular dos font ;)
16:19:33 [AaronSw]
ooh
16:21:56 [em]
* em still on phone... AaronSw wrt rdf primer notes... is this channel logged?
16:22:01 [AaronSw]
yes
16:22:10 [em]
and where is the url?
16:22:16 [AaronSw]
logster, bookmark
16:22:16 [AaronSw]
See http://blogspace.com/swhack/chatlogs/2001-12-13#T16-22-16
16:23:38 [em]
just out of curiousity... what's this channel for exactly? rdfig getting a bit big for you? :)
16:23:44 [AaronSw]
heh
16:24:10 [AaronSw]
it's really the offtopic channel
16:24:21 [AaronSw]
sbp and i were having interesting private chats and we wanted to log them
16:24:27 [AaronSw]
and then all these other people snuck in!
16:24:37 [em]
* em would like to see a 'weekly chump' rdfig message go to www-rdf-interest and invite people... a lot of people still dont know about the irc chat
16:24:49 [AaronSw]
yeah, that'd be a good idea
16:24:54 [AaronSw]
you should add that to annoChump
16:25:16 [sbp]
* sbp seconds the idea
16:25:21 [Morbus]
gasp!
16:25:23 [Morbus]
i'm a loser?
16:25:26 [em]
yep, its in the 'to-do' pile, which translatres into the 'i'll only get to do this on a long plance trip' pile
16:25:40 [AaronSw]
see! long plane trips are good for something
16:26:14 [em]
Morbus, any plans for writing a web-based version of amphetadesk?
16:26:22 [Morbus]
yup, em, there is.
16:26:28 [em]
oh... pointers?
16:26:30 [AaronSw]
umm, isn't amphetadesk web-based?
16:26:30 [Morbus]
user based too, so that it could be daemonized for an isp.
16:26:38 [Morbus]
AaronSw, she means cgi-based, nif sorta thing
16:26:43 [em]
yep
16:26:44 [AaronSw]
ah
16:27:03 [Morbus]
there's been talks about it, but nothing concrete. lemme pull up a url for ya.
16:27:12 [AaronSw]
* AaronSw sees Morbus shares his tendency to refer to people he hasn't met in the female
16:27:18 [sbp]
heh, heh, heh
16:28:06 [em]
* em thinks this tendency is not a bad one...
16:28:29 [sbp]
Morbus has a lot of tendencies
16:29:10 [AaronSw]
yeah, altho the people you're talking about tend to look at you a little funny
16:29:44 [Morbus]
heh. i see em and think emily
16:29:52 [sbp]
well, about half of them, you'd suppose. It would be just the same the other way around
16:30:05 [em]
err... if i can handle being called 'maestro', i can handle being called 'she'
16:30:17 [sbp]
I think either "Emma", or "ElectroMagnetic"
16:30:20 [AaronSw]
heh heh heh
16:30:22 [AaronSw]
not really, since most folks online tend to be male
16:30:28 [sbp]
true
16:30:54 [AaronSw]
but for some reason i just can't stop myself from thinking rillian and atariboy are female
16:31:13 [AaronSw]
altho i'm getting better with rillian
16:31:32 [AaronSw]
perhaps i should just use zir and zie.
16:32:53 [Morbus]
em: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=449629&group_id=21649&atid=372522
16:33:12 [Morbus]
em: did we talk a long time ago about ampheta in rdfig?
16:33:17 [Morbus]
i dont think i ever made the assoc. until now.
16:33:22 [Morbus]
sheesh.
16:33:28 [AaronSw]
yeah, you did
16:33:54 [Morbus]
em: that also contains an rc. script if you want to stop and start ampheta every hour to force a channel refresh.
16:33:58 [AaronSw]
anyone know if there's a macspeech demo?
16:34:01 [Morbus]
but that feature is being built into the next version.
16:35:35 [Morbus]
sbp, what other tendencies do i have, hmm?
16:35:41 [Morbus]
and hey, did you finish that silly doc i sent you?
16:36:10 [AaronSw]
you have a tendency to second-guess yourself
16:36:36 [Morbus]
i do? no i don't!.
16:36:40 [Morbus]
oh wait. yeah, i suppose i do.
16:36:40 [Morbus]
<G>
16:37:06 [sbp]
or do you?
16:37:11 [Morbus]
*pop!*
16:37:14 [Morbus]
:)
16:37:20 [sbp]
Sorry, I was playing TSRTS, and it's difficult to stop once you get going...
16:37:26 [sbp]
yeah, I read the doc through
16:37:27 [Morbus]
tstrs?
16:37:41 [sbp]
and as for tendencies, well, you second guess yourself a lot
16:37:43 [sbp]
.google TSRTS
16:37:44 [xena]
TSRTS: http://www.ledzeppelin.ru/forum/posts/71.html
16:39:18 [sbp]
better reference: http://www.led-zeppelin.org/tablature/files/t-8-3-g.html
16:39:33 [Morbus]
ah.
16:42:11 [sbp]
Hmm... that Tab seems quite off to me
16:42:39 [sbp]
Aaron, where are the RDF test cases?
16:42:48 [AaronSw]
.google rdf test cases
16:42:50 [xena]
rdf test cases: http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-rdf-testcases-20010912
16:43:24 [AaronSw]
also http://www.w3.org/2000/10/rdf-tests/
16:43:36 [AaronSw]
entourages notes i have 15 minutes
16:49:45 [sbp]
Gotta run
16:50:08 [AaronSw]
sbp!
16:50:11 [AaronSw]
should i call you now?
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16:56:01 [AaronSw]
+SeanPalmer
16:56:15 [AaronSw]
+AaronSw
16:56:55 [AaronSw]
+FrankM
16:57:51 [em]
* em dials
16:58:28 [AaronSw]
+EricM
16:58:53 [AaronSw]
eric: have the bridge for a little longer than an hour if necessary
16:59:09 [AaronSw]
long story short: i need help
16:59:19 [AaronSw]
... frank is only one who delievered from first telecon
16:59:30 [AaronSw]
... grabbed stuff from Aaron and sbp, had trouble integrating
16:59:43 [AaronSw]
... realized it could be 3 diff. primers
17:00:19 [AaronSw]
... wants to compare notes
17:01:21 [AaronSw]
frank: (was some material on reification)
17:02:19 [AaronSw]
aaron: want a doc to point developers too
17:02:33 [AaronSw]
eric: when they ask me about rdf they ask:
17:02:36 [AaronSw]
- why is this important?
17:02:39 [AaronSw]
- how do I do it?
17:02:45 [AaronSw]
- who else is doing it?
17:02:46 [AaronSw]
- where is it being used?
17:02:48 [AaronSw]
- what tools can help me?
17:03:21 [AaronSw]
.. should we partition?
17:04:52 [AaronSw]
sbp: look at rdf schema
17:04:57 [AaronSw]
err xml schema
17:05:03 [AaronSw]
we chould do: history, introduction
17:05:09 [AaronSw]
serialization, namespaces, etc
17:05:15 [AaronSw]
daml, ontology stuff
17:05:20 [AaronSw]
... m12n is necessary
17:05:31 [AaronSw]
... want something that's not too big to start and work thru
17:05:34 [AaronSw]
and then move on
17:06:02 [AaronSw]
sbp clarifies: three separate documents
17:06:28 [AaronSw]
frank: what i imagined was to say what rdf _is_
17:07:16 [AaronSw]
... how do you model things? what are the general idea?
17:07:20 [AaronSw]
... then have some applications
17:07:50 [AaronSw]
... once you have that core, you can have modules on tools, who's using it
17:07:54 [AaronSw]
... introduction to the model theory
17:08:19 [AaronSw]
... need a core explanation, sorta like what M&S tries to do
17:08:28 [AaronSw]
... don't want to mix some stuff up
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17:09:10 [AaronSw]
em: intro to the model theory wouldn't be helpful here
17:09:18 [AaronSw]
... but would it be?
17:09:37 [AaronSw]
... some really get it, others say you're taking a complex thing and making it completely inaccessible
17:09:49 [AaronSw]
frank: primer doesn't stand alone
17:10:04 [AaronSw]
eric: dependencies... what needs to be included?
17:10:41 [AaronSw]
... primer might say what they're there for
17:10:48 [AaronSw]
frank: put into context
17:11:00 [AaronSw]
em: wasn't initially going after that, but it does make sense
17:11:26 [AaronSw]
... sorta going after web architecture
17:11:54 [AaronSw]
... identifying things with uris, xml introduction, context on why we structure things in this way and benefits
17:12:20 [AaronSw]
sbp: yeah, that's aaron's stuff
17:12:29 [AaronSw]
... shows how rdf came up -- with xml and namespaces and uris
17:12:32 [em]
* em appologies for mushing your guys together
17:12:33 [AaronSw]
... and how data fits together
17:12:37 [AaronSw]
no prob
17:12:48 [AaronSw]
sbp: there are other things that come with it
17:13:17 [AaronSw]
sbp: lots of philo discussions that get missed
17:13:46 [AaronSw]
eric: intended audience?
17:15:14 [AaronSw]
sbp: i think me a year ago would be good model
17:15:24 [AaronSw]
... i knew about xhtml, someone mentioned the semantic web on xml-dev
17:15:35 [AaronSw]
... the only document was timbl's semweb roadmap, and some stuff on xml.com
17:15:40 [AaronSw]
.. i read it, but it wasn't enough
17:15:48 [AaronSw]
... i had to talk to people like aaron and so forth
17:15:55 [AaronSw]
... the breaking point was timbl's notation3 primer
17:16:08 [AaronSw]
... from there to m&s, rdfs, daml
17:16:20 [AaronSw]
... want a central point to link to all of these things
17:16:45 [AaronSw]
frank: i'm targetting it towards a collection of people...
17:16:53 [AaronSw]
... i want to speak similar to sbp, but i'm not sean
17:16:57 [AaronSw]
... i come with a different background
17:17:12 [AaronSw]
... i found it was interesting when you get to talking about tech like rdf
17:17:18 [AaronSw]
... it's the intersection of DB, Web, KR
17:17:30 [AaronSw]
... certain things are interesting based on your background
17:17:45 [AaronSw]
... i took the tact from the data model section
17:17:49 [AaronSw]
... people used to databases
17:18:14 [AaronSw]
... neat stuff is exciting issues about identifying things on the web
17:18:33 [AaronSw]
... that's when things get interesting
17:18:45 [AaronSw]
... want to go to folks used to dealing with large data
17:19:01 [AaronSw]
... then you got to point out the URI business
17:19:17 [AaronSw]
... i'm trying to get the data folks on board
17:20:49 [AaronSw]
aaron: same explanation doesn't work for all groups
17:20:53 [AaronSw]
[missed stuff]
17:21:04 [AaronSw]
frank: object dbs allow behavior in the db
17:21:13 [AaronSw]
(for db people)
17:21:17 [AaronSw]
for oo people it's persistence
17:21:26 [AaronSw]
... it's the same problem -- different ramifications for each
17:22:51 [AaronSw]
aaron: i want to aim at app developers and get them to store data
17:23:08 [AaronSw]
eric: me too -- i have an audience that aren't sold on this stuff
17:23:14 [AaronSw]
... we (this group) are sold
17:23:32 [AaronSw]
... but i want this aimed at the folks saying: why is this important? what are the recipies?
17:23:47 [AaronSw]
... just tell me how do I do it?
17:24:21 [AaronSw]
... some things we need to clarify. serious issues with going to do it
17:24:40 [AaronSw]
sbp: use cases are good for that
17:24:50 [AaronSw]
... they show it works, and show how someone else did it
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17:25:47 [AaronSw]
aaron: have a cookbook like perl and python
17:25:55 [AaronSw]
eric: for me it's a cookbook -- there are patterns that i see
17:26:07 [AaronSw]
... writing some of those recipies down
17:26:17 [AaronSw]
... would benefit so many people
17:26:22 [AaronSw]
... DC never had recipies
17:26:26 [AaronSw]
... and made some mistakes
17:26:43 [AaronSw]
... same mistakes being repeated
17:26:59 [AaronSw]
aaron: it's a pattern language and we need to write it down
17:27:22 [AaronSw]
frank: there are some data modelling idioms covered in M&S we need to cover
17:27:54 [AaronSw]
... when do you use a container or repeated attributes?
17:27:58 [AaronSw]
eric: is it is-a or has-a?
17:28:14 [AaronSw]
... a sorta follow the trail kind of thing
17:28:20 [AaronSw]
... controlled vocabularies
17:28:31 [AaronSw]
... i have seven things about this topic
17:28:48 [AaronSw]
Python Cookbook: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python
17:29:16 [AaronSw]
... need to tackle the 80/20 stuff
17:29:31 [AaronSw]
... help groups confusing author string and persons
17:29:49 [AaronSw]
eric: 30 minutes left, how do we fill it in?
17:30:36 [AaronSw]
frank: cookbook is arbitrarily extensible
17:30:46 [AaronSw]
... we get the basic stuff down in the primer, but we could have another document
17:31:01 [AaronSw]
... don't want to get in the way
17:31:30 [AaronSw]
eric: i view the rdf and rdf schema separation as a managerial one, not a technical one
17:31:34 [AaronSw]
... we need to group logically, not by specs
17:32:09 [AaronSw]
* AaronSw agrees
17:32:49 [AaronSw]
sbp: one of the best rdf skills is playing mix and match and choosing the right terms
17:34:42 [AaronSw]
aaron: have primer being core background and point towards cookbook as evolving resouce
17:34:47 [AaronSw]
... perhaps ask aspn for help with this
17:34:52 [AaronSw]
... but not a w3c deliverable
17:35:00 [AaronSw]
eric: good point, we keep learning more
17:35:12 [AaronSw]
frank: recipies include not just idioms, but in fact whole schemas
17:36:34 [AaronSw]
sbp: i looked at the daml ontology list and many have errors and mistakes
17:36:57 [AaronSw]
... we can't throw them to the cookbook without teaching them first
17:37:12 [AaronSw]
... serialization is the most annoying part
17:37:23 [AaronSw]
eric: the people who get rdf the most, imo, are those who've never seen xml
17:38:02 [AaronSw]
frank: i'm looking at the rdf core wg page
17:38:24 [AaronSw]
... what the primer at least has to do is all of the explanation that the m&S does
17:38:31 [AaronSw]
because no one else will do that
17:39:34 [AaronSw]
frank: does the primer need to cover rdf/xml?
17:40:09 [AaronSw]
aaron: i want to make xml optional
17:40:19 [AaronSw]
sbp: perhaps have a flowchart
17:41:07 [AaronSw]
eric: in M&S we did some things for historical reasons we don't need to do anymore
17:41:24 [AaronSw]
... no such thing as abbreviated syntax
17:41:29 [AaronSw]
... no id
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17:41:58 [AaronSw]
eric: some things we can do to make it easier to swallow
17:42:04 [AaronSw]
(it = rdf/xml
17:42:20 [AaronSw]
... we need some kind of this is what it looks like kind of thing
17:43:03 [AaronSw]
eric: n-triples, then xml
17:43:15 [AaronSw]
... ntriples in the sense of: this is a simple sentence
17:44:26 [AaronSw]
... show the comparison between n-triples, rdf/xml, and arcs and nodes
17:44:57 [AaronSw]
... we now have the tools to spit out all those formats plus svg and png
17:45:32 [AaronSw]
aaron: very cool to have a "other representations" web service
17:46:03 [AaronSw]
aaron: i got the sense that we're looking at giving people the background they need to dig in
17:46:08 [AaronSw]
sbp: getting into the rdf mess
17:46:40 [AaronSw]
my doc:
17:46:45 [AaronSw]
rdf's place in webarch
17:47:10 [AaronSw]
frank: i have a problem starting off with soemthing other than rdf
17:47:15 [AaronSw]
eric: absolutely
17:47:25 [AaronSw]
... introduction should be all about rdf
17:47:34 [AaronSw]
... start off with an example
17:47:43 [AaronSw]
... but the next section should go into the context of the web
17:48:06 [AaronSw]
... we're building off of the web here
17:48:22 [AaronSw]
... different from my days in sgml
17:48:40 [AaronSw]
... building off of the web helps
17:48:49 [AaronSw]
... showing at goals
17:49:37 [AaronSw]
frank: once you have a bit to talk about the data model
17:49:52 [AaronSw]
... natural hook to attach the explanation of uris
17:49:57 [AaronSw]
... and explain a resource
17:50:55 [AaronSw]
aaron: have a narrative to hold things together
17:51:06 [AaronSw]
sbp: URIs identifying things are a huge leap for people
17:51:42 [AaronSw]
frank: you should re-read my data model thhing
17:51:56 [AaronSw]
... starts with URLs but shows useful relationships
17:52:07 [AaronSw]
... but then uses uris
17:52:15 [AaronSw]
... show predicates are uris
17:52:46 [AaronSw]
[rum analogy]
17:53:25 [AaronSw]
eric: frank's thing could be a whole document by itself
17:53:36 [AaronSw]
frank: is this the right material? is it going to slow?
17:55:06 [AaronSw]
frank's doc: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-rdfcore-wg/2001Oct/att-0236/01-primermodel7.html
17:55:30 [AaronSw]
eric: need some outline for tomorrow's telecon
17:55:40 [AaronSw]
... seems aaron and frank are saying similar things on a different outline
17:59:48 [AaronSw]
eric: more text than we know what to do wiht
17:59:53 [AaronSw]
... need a storyline/outline
18:01:05 [AaronSw]
eric: can people commit time up until the 20th
18:01:15 [AaronSw]
yes all around
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18:02:21 [AaronSw]
telecons seem helpful
18:02:28 [AaronSw]
eric: take discussion to email until we get an outline
18:02:33 [AaronSw]
... see how far we get on that.
18:02:45 [AaronSw]
... once we feel comfortable, put some meat on the bone
18:03:27 [AaronSw]
... cc www-archive
18:03:46 [em]
AaronSw, can you start the ball off by sending these excellent notes?
18:03:53 [AaronSw]
sure
18:04:01 [AaronSw]
will do
18:04:05 [AaronSw]
and cc www-arhchive
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for primer: pointer to community
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18:27:55 [AaronSw]
http://www.mozilla.org/blue-sky/misc/199805/intertwingle.html
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18:47:49 [AaronSw]
logster, bookmark
18:47:49 [AaronSw]
See http://blogspace.com/swhack/chatlogs/2001-12-13#T18-47-49
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18:49:53 [AaronSw]
well, hello there
18:50:11 [sbp]
* sbp waves
18:50:13 [sbp]
heh, hi there
18:50:17 [sbp]
fancy meeting you here
18:50:26 [GabeW]
fancy meeting *anyone* here
18:50:27 [AaronSw]
quite odd, isn't it?
18:50:37 [AaronSw]
links for mr. palmer:
18:50:37 [AaronSw]
http://www.mozilla.org/blue-sky/misc/199805/intertwingle.html
18:50:49 [sbp]
ah, enchanting
18:50:49 [AaronSw]
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?RdfPrimerOutine
18:50:58 [sbp]
Outine?
18:51:08 [sbp]
Perhaps there should be an "l" in there somewhere?
18:51:10 [GabeW]
you guys using c2's wiki,eh?
18:51:25 [sbp]
yeah, we like the retro 90's charm
18:51:38 [AaronSw]
ah, perhaps my lack of an l is why it was deleted.
18:51:53 [sbp]
that appears to be a distinct possibility :-)
18:52:21 [AaronSw]
* AaronSw fights with wiki.db
18:52:31 [AaronSw]
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?RdfPrimerOutline
18:52:34 [sbp]
wow, Frank's done his outline already!
18:52:48 [sbp]
we've slipped behind!
18:52:51 [AaronSw]
indeed!
18:52:55 [AaronSw]
we better get cracking
18:53:02 [sbp]
you mean: hacking
18:53:28 [AaronSw]
indeed
18:54:13 [AaronSw]
where did you say you were off to?
18:54:29 [sbp]
I'll be off to watch The Simpsons in about 3 minutes time
18:54:37 [AaronSw]
ah, right then
18:55:23 [AaronSw]
* AaronSw sends IRC log
18:55:41 [sbp]
* sbp runs through the log, tries the Python cookbook
18:56:36 [sbp]
Hmm.. I appear to have found this before, when I was looking for something else (can't remember what - must have been when I was first getting into Python)
18:56:57 [GabeW]
what?
18:57:10 [sbp]
huh?
18:57:18 [AaronSw]
<AaronSw> Python Cookbook: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python
18:57:25 [sbp]
* sbp runs out of time
18:57:31 [AaronSw]
c'ya
18:57:38 [sbp]
Well, gotta run. I'll be back in about an hour, probably
18:57:40 [sbp]
c'ya
18:57:46 [AaronSw]
ta ta
18:57:50 [sbp]
:-)
18:57:54 [AaronSw]
;)
18:58:42 [lilo]
[Global Notice] Repeating the message for those lost in the confusion. We began experiencing severe network problems with one of our main rotation servers and we've removed the server from the rotation and shut it down. Apologies for the inconvenience. If you'd like to help and have a server with excellent connectivity, please take a look at http://openprojects.net/sponsoring_servers.shtml .... thanks.
18:58:49 [GabeW]
i was trying to figure out what sbp was talking about when he said "I appear to have found this before"
18:59:02 [AaronSw]
I believe he was referring to the cookbook
18:59:21 [GabeW]
ooooh
18:59:33 [AaronSw]
* AaronSw is glad they didn't take down his server.
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19:24:38 [Morbus]
teleconn still on?
19:24:45 [AaronSw]
nope
19:24:56 [Morbus]
poo.
19:25:00 [Morbus]
logster, where am i?
19:25:00 [Morbus]
See http://blogspace.com/swhack/chatlogs/2001-12-13#T19-25-00
19:25:12 [carter.openprojects.net]
carter.openprojects.net has changed the topic to: Tea, anyone? My tea?
19:25:14 [Morbus]
thanks, logster
19:25:47 [Morbus]
were you transcribing that yourself? or voice to text?
19:26:42 [AaronSw]
no, by hand
19:27:08 [Morbus]
nice.
19:27:12 [Morbus]
impressive, rather.
19:27:17 [AaronSw]
thanks
19:27:23 [AaronSw]
i missed a bunch towards the end
19:27:32 [Morbus]
your fingers were probably getting tired ;)
19:27:49 [AaronSw]
yeah :)
19:36:34 [Morbus]
i'm sure it cycles down to a slower speed.
19:36:46 [Morbus]
i mean, 12 processors, and no battery monitoring?
19:36:55 [GabeW]
oh, I dont mean dead battery
19:36:58 [GabeW]
I mean, failed battery
19:37:00 [GabeW]
it happens
19:37:09 [GabeW]
what about a failed motor in one wheel?
19:37:15 [Morbus]
you go in circles.
19:37:18 [GabeW]
hehehe
19:37:22 [Morbus]
"my invention even handles disorientation!"
19:37:24 [GabeW]
thats no fun at 12 mph
19:37:25 [Morbus]
"water in the inner ear!"
19:37:30 [Morbus]
"drunkenness!"
19:37:31 [Morbus]
<G>
19:37:39 [AaronSw]
GabeW, backup batteries!
19:39:26 [GabeW]
I still think the faceplant issue is rather serious
19:40:00 [Morbus]
s/ei/ie/
19:42:04 [GabeW]
thieving is a word
19:42:28 [AaronSw]
man, the logs are going to be so strange
19:42:45 [Morbus]
oh please.
19:42:57 [Morbus]
i'm sure they said that back then too, only with Milton instead of Shakespeare.
19:43:06 [Morbus]
of course, i dunno if the timeline is right on that, but you know ;)
19:43:39 [Morbus]
logs strange? not at all! we're giving an example of internet decay, when threads of conversation disappear into comment land.
19:43:57 [GabeW]
faceplanting, thieving
19:44:06 [GabeW]
shakespeare
19:44:12 [Morbus]
facethieving, planting.
19:44:19 [GabeW]
that'd be an interesting google query
19:44:27 [AaronSw]
Shakesepare didn't have a dictionary, so he had no way of knowing what was a word.
19:44:34 [GabeW]
.google faceplanting thieving shakespeare
19:44:38 [GabeW]
dammit
19:44:53 [AaronSw]
where in the world is xena?
19:45:03 [Morbus]
that may be true, AaronSw, but that... she flooded out when you were transcribing.
19:45:05 [AaronSw]
Your search - faceplanting thieving shakespeare - did not match any documents.
19:45:09 [GabeW]
probably next to Carmen San Diego
19:45:28 [GabeW]
* GabeW waits for the groans
19:45:36 [AaronSw]
groan
19:45:40 [Morbus]
where in the world is? do you have that theme song?
19:45:43 [Morbus]
i have it around here somewhere.
19:45:49 [Morbus]
i used to play that game. loved it to death.
19:45:53 [AaronSw]
me too
19:46:05 [Morbus]
hey, did you ever play Number/Word Munchers and Oregon Trail?
19:46:08 [Morbus]
those were some of my favorites too.
19:46:10 [AaronSw]
yeah!
19:46:13 [Morbus]
and there was this fishing game too.
19:46:16 [xena]
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19:46:19 [Morbus]
where you were a fish and had to eat the right shit.
19:46:32 [AaronSw]
i don't remember that
19:46:33 [Morbus]
and if you played enough, you could tell a bird was coming just because of a split second pause inthe sounds.
19:46:36 [Morbus]
it was awesome :)
19:46:36 [GabeW]
geezuz kids
19:46:39 [AaronSw]
they had all those games in 1st grade
19:46:43 [Morbus]
yeah!
19:46:48 [Morbus]
i played them forever. i loved it.
19:46:49 [GabeW]
Carmen San Diego was way after my childhood
19:46:58 [AaronSw]
heh heh he
19:47:05 [AaronSw]
come on, you can admit it GabeW
19:47:12 [Morbus]
heh, heh.
19:47:21 [Morbus]
welp, afk for abit. gotta make some envelopes on a diff box
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19:59:51 [AaronSw]
hello
20:00:25 [sbp]
Hi
20:01:05 [AaronSw]
i put up a sketch at that outline page
20:01:30 [sbp]
* sbp catches up on stuff
20:01:50 [sbp]
ooh, sprockets
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20:07:07 [sbp]
* sbp adds two small notes to the primer outline
20:09:02 [sbp]
* sbp plays "Whiskey From The Glass"
20:09:58 [AaronSw]
good points
20:10:24 [sbp]
what do you mean by "Introduction to basics of RDF" - it's a significant step that's missing from Frank's outline
20:10:36 [sbp]
s/F"/F"?/
20:10:59 [AaronSw]
i mean like, rdf is made up of triples, each portion is a resource
20:11:04 [AaronSw]
that sort of thing
20:12:11 [sbp]
right. So, it's the whole "here's the RDF data model" thing. The odd thing about that is how it confuses the OOP folk...
20:13:05 [AaronSw]
hmm, it does?
20:14:12 [sbp]
Yeah, because they think of classes as OOPS classes, with string attribute values, and the fact that you have contraints on the properties rather than the classes drives them nuts
20:14:18 [sbp]
heh: "OOPS"
20:14:23 [AaronSw]
heh
20:17:18 [Morbus]
ok.
20:17:21 [Morbus]
whoo. that was fun.
20:17:43 [AaronSw]
Heh.
20:18:02 [Morbus]
man. i love the spam i get.
20:18:03 [Morbus]
[[[
20:18:03 [Morbus]
FREE INTERNET BROADCAST TALK ON:
20:18:04 [Morbus]
Tuesday, December 18, 2001, at 7 PM (CST)
20:18:04 [Morbus]
http://www.originsofevil.com/
20:18:04 [Morbus]
Fallen Angels, Originators of Evil on Planet Earth?
20:18:04 [Morbus]
]]]
20:18:10 [AaronSw]
lol
20:18:26 [AaronSw]
they must have googled for evil teletubbies or something
20:18:46 [sbp]
heh, heh, heh
20:23:45 [Morbus]
:)
20:23:53 [Morbus]
i love the terms people find me by.
20:24:00 [Morbus]
such a wealth of weirdness :)
20:24:16 [Morbus]
i met that scattergirl chick because she looked for "devil image" at i.google.
20:24:48 [sbp]
* sbp wonders why scats was searching for that
20:24:58 [Morbus]
she works for a design agency.
20:25:03 [Morbus]
she designs crap all day long.
20:25:25 [sbp]
Tea?
20:25:32 [AaronSw]
My tea?
20:26:53 [sbp]
yeah
20:27:02 [sbp]
what's up with that?
20:27:21 [AaronSw]
It's sort of a pun on mit
20:27:35 [Morbus]
is that what this is?
20:27:41 [Morbus]
oh. i never would have guessed that.
20:28:01 [Morbus]
so, sbp, what'd you think of that word doc i sent?
20:28:41 [sbp]
you want: Hmm... My Tea?
20:29:00 [carter.openprojects.net]
carter.openprojects.net has changed the topic to: Hmm... My tea?
20:29:12 [Morbus]
or "Collagen In My Tea?"
20:29:29 [sbp]
good, but I've had to bung it on the back shelf temporarily. And anyway, I can't discuss it in public, you said :-)
20:29:43 [Morbus]
heheh. well, everythiing but the ... .. audience participation thing i said.
20:29:58 [sbp]
ah, fair enough
20:30:11 [sbp]
THe Godzilla thing still cracks me up
20:30:15 [Morbus]
and hey, the danza/megway thing was pretty lame, as expected.
20:30:18 [Morbus]
heheh :) ...
20:31:03 [AaronSw]
word doc?
20:32:09 [Morbus]
yah. its the beginning of a design doc for that game i was blthering on about las tnight
20:32:16 [AaronSw]
aha
20:33:48 [Morbus]
and the secrecy is only cos i don't want someone else to screw it up.
20:33:59 [Morbus]
i think its a really neat idea, i would just hate to see it in someone else's hands.
20:34:14 [AaronSw]
hmm
20:34:18 [Morbus]
hmm?
20:34:34 [AaronSw]
do you have to question everything? ;-)
20:35:31 [Morbus]
is that a bad thing? ;)
20:35:53 [AaronSw]
What does it look like?
20:36:09 [sbp]
what does what look like?
20:36:21 [Morbus]
oh come now, you're telling me you're that blind?
20:36:41 [AaronSw]
have you ever thought that maybe you're the one who's blind?
20:36:57 [Morbus]
hey, who do you think you are?!
20:37:01 [sbp]
can someone please enlighten me as to what's going on?
20:37:07 [Morbus]
should we tell him?
20:37:17 [AaronSw]
what do you think?
20:37:23 [Morbus]
logster, where am i?
20:37:23 [Morbus]
See http://blogspace.com/swhack/chatlogs/2001-12-13#T20-37-23
20:37:46 [Morbus]
sbp, why do you want to know?
20:38:03 [sbp]
I take it you're just playing some stupid game where you just keep asking each other questions?
20:38:09 [sbp]
do you know how silly you're all being?
20:38:24 [AaronSw]
don't you think you're just contributing to the silliness?
20:38:42 [sbp]
did you ever stop to think that I might like a bit of silliness now and then?
20:38:49 [AaronSw]
Heh: http://www.cartoonbank.com/newyorkistan.asp
20:38:58 [AaronSw]
Why would I think about that?
20:39:23 [Morbus]
[[[ 01,0010[15:40] cialadybug: 01do you know of a play called waiting for godot? that irc log reminds me of it.]]]
20:39:27 [sbp]
heh, heh
20:39:40 [sbp]
which IRC log?
20:39:44 [AaronSw]
Does she like Stoppard?
20:40:09 [Morbus]
[[[
20:40:10 [Morbus]
01,0010[15:41] cialadybug: 01ack
20:40:10 [Morbus]
04[15:41] morbus_iff: 01just keep refreshing. you're part of the chat now ;)
20:40:10 [Morbus]
10[15:41] cialadybug: 01how'd i get on there?
20:40:11 [Morbus]
]]]
20:40:27 [AaronSw]
heh heh
20:40:30 [Morbus]
01,0010[15:41] cialadybug: 01i do like stoppard.
20:40:30 [AaronSw]
@ http://www.cartoonbank.com/newyorkistan.asp
20:40:34 [chumpster]
D: Cartoonbank.com - New Yorkistan Cover from AaronSw
20:40:39 [Morbus]
who is stoppard?
20:40:42 [GabeW]
hey, can you guys point me to a site that is using RSS that a "suit" would recognize?
20:40:47 [GabeW]
Tom Stoppard
20:40:50 [GabeW]
playwright
20:40:51 [AaronSw]
D:See also this [New York Times Cover|http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/08/arts/design/08NOTE.html].
20:40:56 [GabeW]
.google Tom Stoppard
20:40:57 [xena]
Tom Stoppard: http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/9432/stoppard
20:41:09 [AaronSw]
author of "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead"
20:41:14 [sbp]
lol @ refreshing
20:41:31 [sbp]
I pity the poor fools whose minds are warped by reading these logs
20:41:38 [sbp]
no offence, cialadybug
20:41:42 [GabeW]
* GabeW was a theater minor in undergrad
20:42:35 [AaronSw]
Cool.
20:44:06 [Morbus]
god, what the hell is wrong with me.
20:44:07 [GabeW]
anyway, to repeat my questoin
20:44:11 [GabeW]
hey, can you guys point me to a site that is using RSS that a "suit" would recognize?
20:44:15 [Morbus]
cialadybug asked me who sbp was, and i said "a good friend".
20:44:27 [Morbus]
gabew, look into syndic8.com, but a good one might be salon.com.
20:44:35 [sbp]
ugh, poor you
20:44:58 [Morbus]
i know!
20:45:04 [Morbus]
i cant believe i lied to her! she's a nice person.
20:45:18 [AaronSw]
GabeW, Red Harring?
20:45:33 [Morbus]
s/har/her/
20:45:40 [AaronSw]
ah, whatever
20:45:45 [AaronSw]
didn't they go bankrupt?
20:45:48 [GabeW]
aren't they out of business?
20:46:07 [Morbus]
no, going bankrupt was a red herring.
20:46:13 [Morbus]
they operate an ice cream factory now
20:46:15 [GabeW]
hahaahahah
20:46:24 [AaronSw]
D::And [this letter|http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/13/opinion/L13YORK.html].
20:46:25 [chumpster]
commented item D
20:46:33 [sbp]
heh, heh, heh. Don't forget she's probably reading this
20:46:35 [sbp]
* sbp waves
20:47:33 [sbp]
.google "]Open Space Movement"
20:47:34 [xena]
"]Open Space Movement": http://www.openspacemovement.org
20:49:21 [sbp]
s/]//
20:51:45 [sbp]
.google ww2online
20:51:45 [xena]
ww2online: http://www.hq.wwiionline.com
20:52:10 [Morbus]
LOL!
20:52:12 [Morbus]
"01,0010[15:52] cialadybug: 01is this sbp guy your mortal enemy or what?"
20:52:17 [sbp]
lol!
20:52:30 [AaronSw]
Heh: http://www.cartoonbank.com/chast_intro/images/006.jpg
20:53:23 [sbp]
text version?
20:53:35 [Morbus]
yeah, sure, just put .txt on the end there ;)
20:54:34 [AaronSw]
it's a cartoon site! they don't believe in text
20:55:09 [sbp]
they don't believe in accessiblity? That's not good
21:01:39 [sbp]
D&D summed up in one beautiful phrase: """ME: "Hold on a fucking second here-"""" - http://somethingawful.com/
21:02:36 [Morbus]
hehe
21:09:59 [AaronSw]
sbp, you think i should send that Rdf Primer Outline stuff to the group?
21:10:10 [Morbus]
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21:10:16 [sbp]
at least to www-archive, IMO
21:10:25 [AaronSw]
ok
21:15:24 [AaronSw]
sbp, I've edited the page a bit -- what do you think?
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21:21:15 [sbp]
sorry...
21:21:42 [sbp]
the new RDF Primer Outline is good. Dunno whether the links to the community should go in the intro or the "what now?" section
21:21:58 [sbp]
I guess a few of them could into the introduction, with a more comprehensive reference at the bottom
21:22:06 [AaronSw]
Yeah, that could work.
21:22:28 [AaronSw]
I was inclined to put them at the bottom because you get the feeling of: Well that was fun, where do I go next?
21:22:33 [sbp]
we don't want people to feel as if the document is isolated soemhow; rather that it's a "definitive" bit of primer material, but here are some places of escape
21:22:40 [AaronSw]
Hmm.
21:22:42 [sbp]
yeah, I agree that most of it should go at the bottom
21:22:56 [sbp]
it's always the case that you read something and think "great, but now what?"
21:23:07 [sbp]
but the status should be clear from the beginning - open and friendly
21:23:20 [AaronSw]
Yea, it'd be good to say at the top that "this document doesn't stand alone. see these other pages and ask these folks for help."
21:24:05 [sbp]
yeah
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22:16:12 [MorbusIff]
and on this day, at 5:17, morbus' head doth pop.
22:16:12 [MorbusIff]
man, look at all the people in the room.
22:22:46 [GabeW]
there should be a well-agreed-upon protocol for bots to identify themselves upon the request of a user
22:22:56 [MorbusIff]
i agree.
22:23:03 [MorbusIff]
i've been meaning to write a bot.
22:23:16 [GabeW]
I should just be able to say "bots!" and each bot should say "I am a bot"
22:23:29 [GabeW]
bots!
22:37:00 [MorbusIff]
43% rayon,<br>34% acrylic,<br>19% polyester,<br>4% cotton
22:37:03 [MorbusIff]
oop. hqahaha.
22:37:08 [MorbusIff]
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-tipcss2/index.html
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23:14:49 [AaronSw]
howdy
23:15:46 [AaronSw]
ugh, it
23:15:46 [AaronSw]
it's all clowdy out
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23:20:28 [sbp]
ooh, nice new phenomic word: "clowdy"
23:20:34 [Morbus]
bah
23:20:49 [AaronSw]
heh
23:21:21 [sbp]
pfnürgn, Morbus?
23:21:53 [AaronSw]
I needed clowdy to rhyme with howdy.
23:21:58 [sbp]
and dowdy
23:22:05 [sbp]
.wn dowdy
23:22:06 [xena]
dowdy defined as:
23:22:07 [xena]
- adj 1: lacking in smartness or taste; "a dowdy gray outfit"; "a clean and sunny but completely dowdy room"
23:22:08 [xena]
- 2: primly out of date; "nothing so frumpish as last year's gambling game" [syn: {frumpy}, {frumpish}] n : deep-dish apple dessert covered with a rich crust [syn: {pandowdy}]
23:22:31 [AaronSw]
frumpish seems awfully phenomic.
23:22:47 [sbp]
it sounds too germanesque
23:23:03 [sbp]
heh, heh, I meant Germanic, but it sounds better Frenchized
23:23:25 [AaronSw]
Heh heh.
23:23:39 [AaronSw]
I think Stephen E. Dowdy, the Earl of URL(tm) might take offense. http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~dowdy/
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23:23:52 [sbp]
.google frumpy etymology
23:23:52 [xena]
frumpy etymology: http://www.flakmag.com/about/letters00.html
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23:29:54 [Morbus]
wow, this is getting annoying
23:35:34 [AaronSw]
stupid isp ;)
23:36:05 [Morbus]
heh, heh.
23:36:10 [Morbus]
actually, its my stupid usb modem.
23:36:18 [Morbus]
for some odd reason, when it sends out a decent amount of data, it freezes.
23:36:30 [AaronSw]
ah, that
23:36:31 [Morbus]
anyways, the next version of os x is 10.1.2, right? i'm having a brain cramp.
23:36:43 [AaronSw]
it should be... it's not out yet, is it?
23:37:03 [Morbus]
no. should be out real soon. the developer one has been seeded.
23:37:27 [AaronSw]
Hmm
23:46:28 [sbp]
A, did you get the P intro?
23:47:21 [sbp]
yo, A-ster, are you there?
23:48:59 [AaronSw]
I did indeed.
23:49:08 [AaronSw]
Heh, look at these links we've gotten:
23:49:15 [AaronSw]
anchor tag# of times
23:49:15 [AaronSw]
swhack weblog2
23:49:15 [AaronSw]
aaron swarz1
23:49:15 [AaronSw]
aaron1
23:49:15 [AaronSw]
aaron's running a chump bot1
23:49:24 [AaronSw]
people can't spell my name, apparently
23:49:39 [Morbus]
hhehe
23:50:19 [AaronSw]
According to http://blogdex.media.mit.edu/browseSource.asp?url=http://blogspace.com/swhack/weblog/
23:50:32 [Morbus]
change that url= to ego= AaronSw.
23:50:43 [sbp]
heh, heh, heh
23:50:46 [AaronSw]
heh heh
23:50:46 [Morbus]
no, seriously.
23:50:48 [Morbus]
it's new.
23:50:49 [AaronSw]
no, it's a different link
23:50:51 [sbp]
at the misspelling
23:50:51 [Morbus]
i'm not joking.
23:51:00 [AaronSw]
i know -- that's what i'm doing now
23:51:03 [Morbus]
ah.
23:51:23 [AaronSw]
doesn't seem to quite work for us tho
23:52:00 [AaronSw]
i guess since we don't have any socnet links
23:55:38 [sbp]
we don't? oh man, what a shame
23:55:48 [AaronSw]
what would we link to?
23:55:57 [AaronSw]
the chumps i guess...
23:57:54 [sbp]
Hmm... let's review the people that we have in here
23:59:25 [Morbus]
i cant see the user list for some reason.
23:59:29 [sbp]
AaronSw - owner, creator, and master of the #swhack kingdom. Aaron "Two Monitors" Swartz has reigned supreme over #swhack, enforcing his Big Brother-esque philosophies by logging us straight to the Web. He also runs a health farm in Minnesota, but we don't like to talk about that
23:59:42 [AaronSw]
Heh heh heh.
23:59:49 [AaronSw]
Ooh: morfran: And the Pants cult will be enjoying a mass suicide on the 13th May 2002.
23:59:51 [Morbus]
don't forget that he likes to reinvent history.