00:16:07 GabeW has quit ("Client Exiting") 00:19:51 hey jer 00:36:10 redmonk (sid@ip68-2-179-170.ph.ph.cox.net) has joined #swhack 00:36:39 redmonk is now known as rm 00:51:02 hi aaron 00:51:05 wow, talk about latency 00:51:10 heh 00:51:28 I love how school as grown to absorb my entire life 00:51:31 and I still get B's 00:51:33 I've stopped caring 00:51:36 it's not that good 00:51:58 I mean, if I cared, and there were 32 hours in a day, I could have straight A's 00:52:03 School is weird like that. When I didn't try I got As, when I tried I got Bs. 00:52:11 well these are hard ass classes 00:52:23 I'm taking the hardest english, hardest history, and hardest math our school offers 00:52:33 so I suppose I brought it on myself 00:53:07 other two classes are field bio and ancient and mideval history 00:53:14 ar ethey english history and math, or Memorization of English Literature, Memorization of Historical Events and Memorization of Mathematical Facts? 00:53:16 a&m history is so easy I don't pay attention then I get B's 00:53:26 memorization all the time 00:53:33 yeah, they misname the classes 00:53:37 and one would think I'd be good at memorization, given all the programming libraries and APIs I know 00:53:46 but generally I just know what to use, not exactly how to use it 00:54:11 Yeah, I've noticed good programemrs build models in there head, not memorize straight facts. 00:54:27 so they know where to go to for informaiton, but don't necessarily know every detail 00:55:15 like today the teacher was fiddling with this problem for 10 minutes with me zoned out, then I zone back in and say "hey, isn't that an interest rate" and he almost shit his pants 00:55:32 it was something to do with the Root Test for convergance and he ended up with (1 + 1/n)^n 00:55:38 Heh! 00:55:55 and he was like "I think we figured out this one and it equals e, or something" 00:56:03 riiight 00:56:05 he basically figured out everything except that it was simple interest, or whatever it was 00:56:19 which is sorta funny, since you would think he would recognize it 00:56:25 since he advocates goddamn memorization 00:56:41 but yeah, i suck when I can't build mental models of problems 00:56:52 once I get it down in my head as to what's actually happening, I can figure out all the problems pretty easily 00:57:12 Yep. 00:58:01 I just realized that all I ate for dinner was two huge slabs of bread and orange juice 00:59:09 hehe 00:59:13 how much time do you spend in school aaron? 00:59:13 mac and cheese here 00:59:36 First term was two hours, now just one. 00:59:53 two hours a day? 00:59:53 I don't understand the whole college "hours" system yet 01:00:10 four days a week 01:00:15 oh 01:00:25 maybe I'll take a few college classes next year 01:00:29 who knows 01:00:36 hours == credits 01:00:38 I think I signed up to take linear algebra there next year, or something 01:00:38 usually 01:00:53 or maybe I put off linear algebra and multivariable calc until college 01:00:57 by hours I mean fifty minute periods during which i must sit down. 01:01:02 in fact they're called "credit hours" 01:01:23 ok 01:01:28 but if you have a "3 hour" class 01:01:34 do you go for 3 hours, four times a week? 01:01:40 * AaronSw is using nonstandard terminology 01:02:02 no, you usually go 3 hours once a week 01:02:06 as in a lab course 01:02:17 it's whacked 01:02:24 oh 01:02:26 hmm 01:02:34 usually an "n hour course" 01:02:40 means n hours / week 01:02:48 there are always exceptions 01:02:52 but that's a norm 01:03:01 I don't even know where I want to go to college, I've almost thought of not going and getting a job, or just going somewhere normal, not anywhere exceptional for college 01:03:21 School is so damn depressing I don't know if I want to put up with any more of it 01:03:45 Yeah, I know how you feel. 01:04:11 The college I go to was way easier, but it's not exactly one of the best colleges in America, if you know what I mean 01:04:43 The classes are harder, but there's a lot less busy work, so you have focused challenging activities, which aren't anywhere near as bad as high school. 01:04:54 yeah 01:04:54 well, virginia has some great colleges 01:04:54 but I don't know if I want to go to a great college 01:04:54 my theory is, most of the people get get into great colleges, at least the ones I know 01:05:13 are so fucking self absorbed and idiotic with incredible schoolwork drives just because they have nothing better to do with their time 01:05:15 get get? 01:05:31 * sbp found that, too 01:05:38 I mean... for all of the stuff I've learned up until now 01:05:46 there is no reason I don't have a 100 average except I'm too lazy 01:06:05 now some of the higher level math, like the stuff knuth can just rattle on about for 50 pages without taking a breath, some of that stuff is hard 01:06:13 but these aren't the kind of kids who can do that anyways 01:06:44 so I don't know, I think I'll just go somewhere normal that gives me enough leverage to do my own thing while I'm in college 01:07:05 yeah, that's what's depressing: getting your standards lowered and seeing kids who succeed while still not understanding 01:07:09 heh. like me 01:07:19 that really could have done with a "#" 01:07:29 hey, you understand 01:07:35 or i'll drop out and make art like this and become famous: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/mondrian/ 01:07:35 and your standards are way too high 01:07:40 (to sbp) 01:07:44 no, no, I mean the thing before 01:07:51 oh. 01:08:01 I went through this a million times, though 01:08:04 Sorry jeremiah, we already used up the world's Mondrian budget. 01:08:11 it just ended up being a bit more complicated at the end 01:08:12 haha 01:08:20 well then I'll be the next Jasper Johns 01:08:25 J: become agoraphobic, and then moan 01:08:25 I actually like his art too 01:08:34 heh. he steals lightbulbs! 01:08:50 well, my friend and I were talking today about this military conference 01:08:53 that my mom wants me to go to 01:08:56 and I thought about it 01:09:09 I would love to just drive a tank and blow shit up for a living 01:09:50 oh no, we're losing a third coder to the military 01:10:05 I could code for the military 01:10:06 jeremiah, it's not all fun and games. sometimes you have to reload the tank. 01:10:11 yeah 01:10:12 well... 01:10:18 coffe party 2010: 01:10:31 "so... my name is barbra, I'm in accounting at Lyman and Lyman, what do you do for a living" 01:10:50 "well barbra, you know that bomb that they used to suck the air out of the lungs of 100,000 people and then incinerate their bodies?" 01:10:51 "yes" 01:10:54 "I created that" 01:11:04 "I have to go over here now" 01:11:07 yeah 01:11:10 exactly 01:11:34 "Join the Army, travel to exotic places, meet exotic people, and kill them!" 01:11:49 There's a reason Ender is just a kid. 01:11:56 yep 01:11:59 scary 01:12:15 ooh I found the exact quote: "Join the Army: travel to exotic distant lands, meet exciting, unusual people and kill them." 01:12:31 what's that from? 01:12:35 http://www.ag.wastholm.net/aphorism/A-2562 01:12:45 that's a badly ungramaticalized unsentence 01:12:48 it's anonymous, but apparently someone got it from somewhere 01:12:57 especially if you're Dutch 01:13:15 yeah that is pretty bad grammer 01:13:52 I'd change it to: "Join the army! Kill stuff!" 01:14:02 See, that's not funny. 01:14:05 it is! 01:14:07 yeah, we have these recruiters at our school a lot 01:14:11 Yeah, you're right. 01:14:14 heh, heh 01:14:20 since I live near the biggest military buildup in the US 01:14:23 and therefore... probably the world 01:14:32 You live in Tora Bora caves? 01:14:44 Afghanistan belongs to the US now? 01:14:44 I want to walk up to one of them, and say "if I join the army now, how long until I can gut one of those goddamn afghan pigs?" 01:14:55 lol 01:14:56 and make them give me a number 01:15:22 j: live where? 01:15:22 I hear that going to work for the army disqualifies you for contientious objector status. 01:15:31 heh. I'd like to go up to someone with a larger serial number than me and go, "in your face 98234509!" 01:15:45 rm: south-eastern virginia 01:15:48 hehhe 01:15:50 williamsburg, actually 01:15:58 just moved from thre 4 months ago 01:16:02 pertsmouth 01:16:06 er, portsmouth 01:16:11 Aaron: unless you're a medic/nurse 01:16:19 within an hour's drive from a big CIA Base(camp peary), Langley Air-Force Base and Newport news shipbuilding 01:16:26 rm: I'm in williamsburg 01:16:43 norfolk naval base, oceana naval air station 01:16:50 quanitico is south 01:16:53 no 01:16:54 yeah 01:16:55 north 01:16:59 well, we have everything basically 01:17:03 yep 01:17:07 grew up there 01:17:12 then the... entire US government 3 miles north 01:17:29 nah, not all of it. some live in california because the weather is better. 01:17:30 my dad's an architect and gets 60% of his work from .mil/.gov 01:17:42 anyway gotta run 01:17:47 rm has quit ("seeya") 01:17:54 I like how our world has become classified by tlds. 01:18:00 yeah 01:18:02 "Oh, I live in .ca" 01:18:02 all of the really "cool" politicians hang out on the west coast... 01:18:36 "Well my brain is like a jellyfish in the ocean of my head because I drank too much tequila and I woke up seeing red." 01:18:46 heh. Jellyfish! 01:18:57 Heh heh 01:19:06 yeah 01:19:14 you're going to become a pirate soon, which is quite ironic 01:19:20 I am? 01:19:24 sure 01:19:28 Arrgh, pirates. 01:19:36 aaaaaar, matey 01:19:51 yeah, shiver me filesharing 01:19:54 Make 'em swaaab da poop deck! 01:20:06 Homer: Is the poop deck really what I think it is? 01:20:43 that accent sounds like an inner city swede 01:20:58 well, it's being typed 01:21:04 but in general, we use that phrase a lot 01:21:10 to suggest punishments for our teacher to use 01:21:18 heh, heh 01:21:37 step-poppa ranting about military asking his age before he applies 01:21:40 ::sigh:: 01:21:49 we'd be like, "send us home early! deprive us of an education!" 01:21:49 My old teacher would hang us upside down from the ceiling by our toenails. Ah, the good old days. 01:22:29 the other day, we were sitting there in class during an awkward pause and the teacher was feeling all proud of himself 01:22:32 I like how school suspends kids as punishment. They call that a punishment? 01:22:41 and I say: "so mr critzer, when are you going to get a real job?" 01:22:46 lol 01:22:50 Oooooh, diss. 01:22:59 yeah, he deserved it 01:23:12 suspension isn't a punishment if you don't care about your grades 01:23:12 Tip: Don't say that to the road test examiner at the DMV. 01:23:16 and those kids taht do don't get suspended 01:23:27 I never had one, my driving school did the exam for me 01:23:28 it was nice 01:23:33 tansaku (~sam@n144-190.tokyu-net.catv.ne.jp) has joined #swhack 01:23:35 That's weird. 01:23:39 bizzare 01:24:06 booooy you in da sowth, down heauh we do act a lil' diffent, and ya can deal wit it, son 01:24:26 * sbp wonders if that's some kind of Swahili 01:24:33 South African, certainly 01:25:03 Heh. 01:25:19 I wanna be able to run as fast as Alan Turing someday 01:25:24 lol! 01:25:40 the guy was fast 01:25:43 sbp has changed the topic to: I wanna be able to run as fast as Alan Turing someday 01:25:48 jeremiah, we'd call you the Turing Machine 01:25:59 "He runs so fast, he's like a machine." "Yes, a Turing Machine." 01:26:16 "He's the fastest guy in the universe." "Yes, a Universal Turing Machine." 01:26:17 http://www.turing.org.uk/turing/scrapbook/run.html 01:26:44 "Alan Turing never got the computer up and running, but he himself was running with tremendous energy and speed." 01:28:12 * sbp could run a 5 and a half minute mile when much younger 01:28:12 That's worse than my joke." 01:29:01 nice 01:29:05 I can run about a 6 now 01:29:10 heh, cool 01:29:11 working my way downwards, working on speed now 01:29:25 I was working on endurance/distance earlier 01:29:30 yeah... running middle distance is a much different skill to long distance 01:29:34 yeah 01:30:04 coach wants me to do the 2 mile, or something 01:30:13 problem is: my team is really really good, we have some of the best runners in the nation 01:30:17 * AaronSw is away 01:30:26 ugh... well, at least they'll spur you on 01:30:39 our 4x8 (I think that's the event) team is 6th in the country, going to nationals I think this weekend 01:30:51 yeah, and I'll get fast if i work at it 01:31:23 how much do you walk/run per day now? 01:31:34 * sbp used to do 3/1 long ago 01:31:53 remind me again how the system works 01:32:00 the first number is the runners, right? 01:32:05 and the second is the meters in hundreds? 01:32:16 miles walked/miles ran 01:32:30 I ment for track events, heh 01:32:39 oh, heh, heh 01:32:49 legs x meters 01:33:17 I was running 5 a day, walking maybe 1/2 a mile a while back, I did 5 in about 50 minutes, which is slow, might have been a little more than 5 miles 01:33:34 let me think about today's running 01:33:38 I think it was about 5 miles, but much faster 01:34:03 well, I suppose you have to do quite a few if you're focussing on endurance 01:34:07 probably running consistant 8 minute miles now, because I have to, and then I can get down to 7 during a workout, 6 is still prettymuch an all out sprint 01:34:13 where do you run? town/country? preference? 01:34:33 I'm on the track team, but I run everywhere, my town is like a suburb of nowhere 01:34:41 so it's urban and somewhat rural 01:34:48 that's useful 01:34:49 it's one of the big tourist draws on the east 01:35:06 but today I ran... on sidewalks, on a track, through back country woods and mud, and also across a big field 01:35:08 perhaps I'll visit one day :-) 01:35:22 williamsburg was the seat of the first english colony to the US 01:35:39 argh, I'll be getting my map, then... 01:36:01 haha 01:36:35 ah, got it. Just by Norfolk 01:36:37 yeah 01:36:45 have you been to the US? 01:37:09 once 01:37:18 hmm 01:37:22 I can't imagine not living here 01:37:26 but I want to move I think 01:37:41 me neither 01:37:53 to somewhere in europe, even though that sounds goofy and romantic 01:38:00 more like somewhere in cold ass northern europe, I think 01:38:50 scandinavia? 01:38:58 finland 01:38:59 iceland 01:39:02 netherlands 01:39:06 germany 01:39:07 tansaku2 has quit (Read error: 110 (Connection timed out)) 01:41:31 or something like that 01:42:30 [OLM] 01:42:48 Hmm... trying to find a word on Google that has 500-1000 results 01:42:55 hmm 02:22:23 GabeW (~Gabe@12-236-237-100.client.attbi.com) has joined #swhack 02:27:02 time for sleep 02:27:04 seeya 02:28:45 c'ya 02:30:22 * AaronSw is bacj 02:30:24 err back 02:35:56 GabeW has quit ("Client Exiting") 02:45:44 tips on insulting people, part 1: Sentence Length variation. Vary the lengths of your sentences, dumbwad! e.g. "You suck. You really, really, really, really, really, really, really, suck." 02:47:32 Hmm... I wonder if there really is a hints and tips guide out there somewhere? 02:47:32 GabeW (~Gabe@12-236-237-100.client.attbi.com) has joined #swhack 02:48:37 heh, this is quite marvellous: http://homepages.msn.com/MSNGamingZone/goumaster/ 02:48:49 it's half way between funny-funny, and funny-funny 02:49:12 """Well I am only 11, I speak 15 languages, can beat a master chess bloke at rugby, can proppel my self at light-speed(therefore travelling in time), and finally I can eat pie.""" 02:52:58 heh, no wonder semplesh.com wasn't working 02:53:06 i think i was pointing it at the espians server 02:53:09 SeanP (sbp@m173-mp1-cvx3b.pop.ntl.com) has joined #swhack 02:53:15 Hi Sean 02:53:15 * AaronSw smacks forehead 02:53:18 Hi 02:53:23 Uh oh, not this again. 02:53:27 wha? wha? 02:53:45 yeah, we're so bored that we're speaking to ourself 02:53:51 heh. Quite true 02:54:05 actually, I just wanted to quiz him 02:54:11 quiz me? on what? 02:54:17 er... you should already know 02:54:24 SeanBP (aaronsw@mewtwo.espnow.com) has joined #swhack 02:54:30 argh! 02:54:30 Hey guys 02:54:36 man, this is just weird 02:54:52 Attack of the sbp's! 02:54:59 heh, heh 02:55:08 It's not fair to laugh at your own jokes 02:55:20 it's not fair to critcize your own jokes, either 02:55:24 agreed 02:55:34 true 02:55:43 SeanBP has quit (Client Quit) 02:55:59 Hmm, that didn't work right 02:56:02 I just wanted to interview myself for an article in Newsweek 02:56:13 er... you mean for your homepage, surely? 02:56:16 shut up 02:56:19 MAke me 02:56:25 * sbp smacks self 02:56:35 self.smack() you mean 02:56:38 heh! 02:56:52 that wasn't funny 02:56:59 pff, what do you know? 02:57:20 We should get KevinH on some time to talk to Morbus 02:57:23 actually, I had a transcript prepared. I knew you'd feck it up 02:57:30 heh, yeah 02:57:38 You prepared a transcript? sheesh 02:57:46 I'm quite odd like that 02:57:52 he is! he really is 02:57:59 * AaronSw imagines KevinH with slicked-back hair, a leather jacket, and absolutely nothing intelligent to say 02:58:10 ok, i'll be quiet now and you can go thru the script 02:58:14 isn't that Morbus? 02:58:41 no, he's got a taste of how mcuh it'll suck now. I'm sure he'll bork this window soon 02:58:47 you got that right 02:58:53 SeanP has quit () 02:58:59 window.bork()? 02:59:02 and off he goes. Well... to here 02:59:06 yep 03:05:56 * AaronSw checks his stats 03:07:02 Wow, I get a lot of hits. 03:07:37 5 hits from people searching for "school rules" and 2 for "wacko blog" 03:08:04 two hits for "embarassing photos" 03:08:29 heh, two for "Student council" "popularity contest" 03:08:53 1 for "short people photos dot com" 03:09:12 one for plex 03:09:30 most people visit my site on WinNT 03:09:50 that means I can insult them 03:09:55 lol 03:10:17 i'm afraid to run this on the swhack logs 03:10:25 i don't want to know what kind of referers they get 03:10:38 wow, saldwithsteve has given me 59 hits 03:10:43 and plexnow.com has given me 481 03:11:46 saldwithsteve? 03:12:00 oh, he linked to my cube 03:12:07 cube? 03:12:22 you have a cube? why was I not informed? 03:14:21 i told you like three times 03:14:30 but that's not what I was talking about 03:14:40 specifically, he linked to http://www.aaronsw.com/photos/uk2001/IMG_1119.JPG/view 03:16:24 when did you tell me that? 03:28:30 wow, this transcript is actually quite funy all of a sudden. All I did was change a few lines, and make liberal use of the word "spankified" 03:31:44 Heh 03:31:51 I told you both of those things a while back 03:33:37 you lie! 03:33:50 well i typed them into the channel, same thing 03:34:01 sorry, I don't believe you 03:34:23 why is the NeXT cube called a cube when it's not cubular? 03:34:48 what is it then? 03:34:52 man, the first 7 lines of this transcript are so funny 03:35:05 it's just lumpy 03:35:10 not a cubular 03:35:25 s/a // 03:36:37 looks cubular to me 03:36:49 relatively so 03:36:52 here's a better picture: http://www.lowendmac.com/next/cube.html 03:38:40 Pff 03:39:11 wow, my CD player just arsed out 03:40:22 wow, so many good uk photos 03:43:58 this bit is crap, but I'm archiving it here for poseriority:- 03:43:58 Q: What do you think of Ain El-Meelkin? 03:43:59 A: He's a nice guy; we've chatted a few times on IRC 03:43:59 Q: What's your favourite suffix? 03:43:59 A: -oid. Possibly followed by -ariffic. Like "smegoidariffic" 03:43:59 Q: -ied is quite good too though, isn't it? 03:44:00 A: Hmm... as in spankified? I suppose so 03:57:29 GabeW has quit ("Client Exiting") 04:19:29 BenSw (~yoda@12-249-96-16.client.attbi.com) has joined #swhack 04:22:13 Hello 04:23:22 Hi Ben 04:41:27 deltab has quit (Read error: 110 (Connection timed out)) 04:41:36 xena has quit (Read error: 110 (Connection timed out)) 05:03:23 GabeW (~Gabe@12-236-237-100.client.attbi.com) has joined #swhack 05:08:56 aargh! deltab timed out 05:09:00 and xena... hmm 05:09:20 * AaronSw looks for the mu2 is down! mu2 is down! channel 05:31:58 argh... I need xena 05:35:55 deltab (deltab@mewtwo.espnow.com) has joined #swhack 05:44:30 xena (xena@mewtwo.espnow.com) has joined #swhack 05:53:55