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[Thu Dec 30 10:15:18 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Greetings.
[Thu Dec 30 10:17:57 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Thu Dec 30 10:18:26 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): How's it going?
[Thu Dec 30 10:20:09 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Looking up stuff for travel.
[Thu Dec 30 10:21:03 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): For your France trip?
[Thu Dec 30 10:23:00 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yep.
[Thu Dec 30 10:24:42 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Gotta wonder why Bush is always on vacation...
[Thu Dec 30 10:25:15 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Probably acting in the nation's best interest by not doing anything dumb :)
[Thu Dec 30 10:28:57 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Well, yes, but you just wonder.
[Thu Dec 30 10:29:05 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Cool, wsola: Allows one to speed/slow audio without altering its pitch
[Thu Dec 30 10:29:21 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Cool
[Thu Dec 30 10:31:21 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I am watching a special on the worst 10 technological disasters.
[Thu Dec 30 10:39:05 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): What do you plan to see/do in France?
[Thu Dec 30 10:51:00 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Well, there's a conference.
[Thu Dec 30 10:51:02 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Also I'm skiing.
[Thu Dec 30 10:51:25 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Is skiing good there?
[Thu Dec 30 10:51:39 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Allegedly one of the best places in the world.
[Thu Dec 30 10:52:40 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Sweet. You're in for a treat.
[Thu Dec 30 10:53:35 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yep.  If I don't fall into a crevsase.
[Thu Dec 30 10:56:39 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): That would not be good.
[Thu Dec 30 10:58:01 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): It would be unfortunate.
[Thu Dec 30 10:58:32 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Bring a parachute.
[Thu Dec 30 11:00:13 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Probably not quite enough time for that.
[Thu Dec 30 11:04:46 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): If it were a cliff, maybe.
[Thu Dec 30 11:11:26 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Perhaps.  I think people do that.
[Thu Dec 30 11:13:29 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Ski off cliffs or bring parachutes?
[Thu Dec 30 11:14:01 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Parachute off cliffs.  Not with skis.
[Thu Dec 30 11:17:26 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Hmm, how many parachutes fail?
[Thu Dec 30 11:18:23 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): It happens, I guess.  When it's planes they have auxiliary parachutes.  But you can also have operator error.
[Thu Dec 30 11:20:54 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): An auxiliary parachute doesn't help if you're free falling and upon pulling the cord, it doesn't work.
[Thu Dec 30 11:31:59 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Apparently the problem more is that people can sometimes get in a bad rotation state when parachuting.
[Thu Dec 30 11:33:01 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): It would suck to be them
[Thu Dec 30 11:34:43 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Argh, why do these ski rental places not provide information on their web sites?
[Thu Dec 30 11:35:35 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): They won't to wait till you get there to find out how unreasonable their prices are, so you have no choice.
[Thu Dec 30 11:38:16 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Well, what's worse is that sometimes they say they give a discount, but that doesn't really help if you don't know how much the base price is.
[Thu Dec 30 11:38:38 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): True.
[Thu Dec 30 11:38:48 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): They probably change it with demand too.
[Thu Dec 30 11:43:54 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I am off for a bit, later.
[Thu Dec 30 11:44:05 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Good luck.
[Thu Dec 30 11:44:17 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): See you.
[Thu Dec 30 11:44:18 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): You could try calling, though you have to paid long distance.
[Thu Dec 30 14:16:43 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Hey.
[Thu Dec 30 14:23:05 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo
[Thu Dec 30 14:23:35 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): How goes your trip planning?
[Thu Dec 30 14:23:50 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Got distracted into camera buying.
[Thu Dec 30 14:24:22 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): That will help for your trip.
[Thu Dec 30 14:24:38 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yeah, current cameras just won't cut it.
[Thu Dec 30 14:25:08 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Your current or the cameras currently available?
[Thu Dec 30 14:26:56 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): The two current cameras we have here.
[Thu Dec 30 14:29:07 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): You can get pretty good ones for a couple hundread
[Thu Dec 30 14:29:42 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes, that's about what I'm looking at.  In particular I'm looking at the Sony DSC-W1 and the Canon A95.
[Thu Dec 30 14:34:01 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Isn't the DSCW1 $499 CDN?
[Thu Dec 30 14:34:53 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): they both seem to be around that price.
[Thu Dec 30 14:46:48 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): $300US
[Thu Dec 30 14:47:04 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): But I need to figure out if they have acceptable form factors.
[Thu Dec 30 14:47:31 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): *nod*
[Thu Dec 30 14:56:22 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Don't fall in any crevaces or I won't be seeing that dragon book :)
[Thu Dec 30 14:57:39 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Indeed.
[Thu Dec 30 15:07:01 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): How long are you there?
[Thu Dec 30 15:09:41 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Where?
[Thu Dec 30 15:10:34 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): France

>> Network buffer overflow: 63 lines of output to you have been lost <<
[Thu Dec 30 19:47:17 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): The guy staking out the place had a guard, a marked police vehicle, an unmarked security truck, a helicopter, and who knows what else watching him as he arrived.
[Thu Dec 30 19:47:32 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yep.
[Thu Dec 30 19:47:58 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): They also searched his house.
[Thu Dec 30 19:57:12 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Do anything else today?
[Thu Dec 30 19:57:20 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Some thinking on my research.
[Thu Dec 30 19:58:14 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): How's that progressing?
[Thu Dec 30 19:58:36 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Making some progress.
[Thu Dec 30 20:00:21 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Better than my reading progress.
[Thu Dec 30 20:01:00 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Start reading!
[Thu Dec 30 20:01:38 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Installing
[Thu Dec 30 20:10:06 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Reading and installing are mutually exclusive.
[Thu Dec 30 20:11:17 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Not if installing is sufficiently slow.
[Thu Dec 30 20:13:32 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Just fast enough.
[Thu Dec 30 20:14:02 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): I'm sure installing can wait.
[Thu Dec 30 20:14:09 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): You should read, not install.
[Thu Dec 30 20:15:37 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I hate having a non-working computer.
[Thu Dec 30 20:16:25 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Shouldn't have started, I guess.
[Thu Dec 30 20:17:44 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I should have it usuable in an hour or so.
[Thu Dec 30 20:29:06 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): When do you leave for France?
[Thu Dec 30 20:29:29 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Jan 6 or something.
[Thu Dec 30 20:30:39 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): What are you up to for New Years?
[Thu Dec 30 20:30:53 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Family dinner tomorrow evening is all, I think.
[Thu Dec 30 20:32:24 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): And I guess you'll be up into the new year anyway
[Thu Dec 30 20:32:50 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes.
[Thu Dec 30 21:25:58 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Do you think there are any revolutionary scientific discoveries left to be made or do you think stuff will continue incrementally?
[Thu Dec 30 21:28:49 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Of course there are more revolutions.
[Thu Dec 30 21:30:24 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Doesn't seem to have been much lately.
[Thu Dec 30 21:32:10 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): I'm pretty sure that's not true.
[Thu Dec 30 21:32:26 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Just haven't heard about it?
[Thu Dec 30 21:36:44 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Something like that.  For instance, biology?
[Thu Dec 30 21:38:14 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I guess it took decades for the most bri
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lliant thought in the history of mankind to be widely heard about.
[Thu Dec 30 21:42:04 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): I'm not sure if it is truly the most brilliant or the best-marketed.
[Thu Dec 30 21:43:26 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Could be. They predict it still wouldn't have been discovered yet today though.
[Thu Dec 30 21:44:37 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Perhaps.
[Thu Dec 30 21:45:18 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): But yes, you have a point in that marketing goes a long way./
[Thu Dec 30 21:49:58 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I wish there was a way to take a snapshop of the drive and then restore it by inserting a DVD.
[Thu Dec 30 21:50:14 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): There is, but it's not one-press.
[Thu Dec 30 21:50:40 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): What's the way? Windows friendly?
[Thu Dec 30 21:50:57 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): tar?  dump, restore?
[Thu Dec 30 21:51:59 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Hmm, I could make a DVD that has has a basic linux install with those tools and the data.
[Thu Dec 30 21:52:06 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes, you could do that.
[Thu Dec 30 21:52:26 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Can you get it just to take the inhabited portion of the disk instead of a full drive image?
[Thu Dec 30 21:52:41 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): However, if it's an ntfs partition, then you'll have inaccuracies in metadata.
[Thu Dec 30 21:53:00 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): True
[Thu Dec 30 21:53:06 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): tar will just take consumed space.
[Thu Dec 30 22:00:17 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): What camera did you get?
[Thu Dec 30 22:00:38 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Sony DSC-W1.  I think the AAs are more important than the stupid memory stick issue.
[Thu Dec 30 22:01:03 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): AA?
[Thu Dec 30 22:02:15 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Batteries.
[Thu Dec 30 22:02:20 2004 MST] FROM Myra (#8045): I hear you went to the lunch thing. 
[Thu Dec 30 22:02:54 2004 MST] TO Myra (#8045): Yep. Who from?
[Thu Dec 30 22:03:03 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Ah, it uses AA's?
[Thu Dec 30 22:03:10 2004 MST] FROM Myra (#8045): Mandos.
[Thu Dec 30 22:03:22 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes, it does.
[Thu Dec 30 22:04:08 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): That is both useful and annoying.
[Thu Dec 30 22:05:38 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Hm?
[Thu Dec 30 22:06:04 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Rechargeable batteries are nice but AA's are easy to find if you run into a problem.
[Thu Dec 30 22:06:44 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): I use rechargeable AAs.
[Thu Dec 30 22:07:13 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Then you often use a lot of runtime.
[Thu Dec 30 22:07:32 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Huh?
[Thu Dec 30 22:07:42 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): NiMHs are much better than alkalines.
[Thu Dec 30 22:08:08 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): You use NiMH AA's?
[Thu Dec 30 22:09:00 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes.
[Thu Dec 30 22:09:24 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Neat, didn't know they had them. I thought they only had those in fancy batteries.
[Thu Dec 30 22:09:43 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Nope.  They're pretty good.
[Thu Dec 30 22:09:56 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Do they have Lithium Ion AA's?
[Thu Dec 30 22:10:16 2004 MST] FROM Myra (#8045): how was the lunch thing?
[Thu Dec 30 22:10:22 2004 MST] TO Myra (#8045): Good.
[Thu Dec 30 22:11:12 2004 MST] FROM Myra (#8045): cool.. I was excited to hear about it.
[Thu Dec 30 22:11:30 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes, nonrechargeable.
[Thu Dec 30 22:11:32 2004 MST] FROM Myra (#8045): hey.hat did Santa bring you?  ER WHAT..
[Thu Dec 30 22:12:03 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Lithium Ion are rechargeable.
[Thu Dec 30 22:12:13 2004 MST] TO Myra (#8045): About the event or me going?
[Thu Dec 30 22:12:22 2004 MST] TO Myra (#8045): A really big monitor.
[Thu Dec 30 22:12:23 2004 MST] FROM Myra (#8045): all of the above.
[Thu Dec 30 22:15:18 2004 MST] FROM Myra (#8045): cool.. how big?
[Thu Dec 30 22:15:50 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): That's right, however, AA LiIons are nonrechargeable.  Co figure.
[Thu Dec 30 22:16:01 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Er, go.
[Thu Dec 30 22:16:43 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Rechargeable LIons beat NmMHs
[Thu Dec 30 22:17:49 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes, they do.  That's why my T40 has a LiIon.
[Thu Dec 30 22:24:14 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Accessible batteries are good though.
[Thu Dec 30 22:28:07 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes, you can't get Li-Ion AAs, rechargeable, as far as I know.
[Thu Dec 30 22:29:55 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): That sucks.
[Thu Dec 30 22:32:22 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Anyway, I need some sleep
[Thu Dec 30 22:32:55 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Ah, there are some, but they're not quite AA.
[Thu Dec 30 22:32:59 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): http://www.steves-digicams.com/nimh_batteries.html
[Thu Dec 30 22:33:14 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Sleep is good.
[Thu Dec 30 22:33:34 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Yep, even after not completing any reading.
[Thu Dec 30 22:34:34 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Get reading!
[Thu Dec 30 22:36:25 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Maybe I'll have plenty of time in the new year.
[Thu Dec 30 22:39:03 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Good night.
[Thu Dec 30 22:39:07 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Bye!
[Thu Dec 30 22:39:48 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Happy New Years Eve Day
[Thu Dec 30 22:39:53 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Hurrah!
[Fri Dec 31 15:18:26 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Happy New Years Eve
[Fri Dec 31 15:18:31 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Hurrah.
[Fri Dec 31 15:19:20 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): How's it going?
[Fri Dec 31 15:19:36 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Looking for a keyboard around here.
[Fri Dec 31 15:24:05 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Looking to buy or looking for a spare keyboard around your house?
[Fri Dec 31 15:24:55 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Spare keyboard with the appropriate connector
[Fri Dec 31 15:25:22 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): USB or PS/2?
[Fri Dec 31 15:30:21 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): PS/2
[Fri Dec 31 15:30:36 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): How old school
[Fri Dec 31 15:37:57 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Do anything today?
[Fri Dec 31 15:43:02 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Went downtown to eat pho and unsuccessfully change money.
[Fri Dec 31 15:43:20 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Why the lack of success? Didn't give them enough notice?
[Fri Dec 31 15:43:42 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Notice not required for changing 400Euros.  They are, however, required to be open and in business.
[Fri Dec 31 15:44:01 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Ah, out of business then?
[Fri Dec 31 15:44:11 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): That was the case at one place.
[Fri Dec 31 15:44:24 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Did you try a bank?
[Fri Dec 31 15:45:03 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): I think banks tend to be highly noncheap.
[Fri Dec 31 15:45:18 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Yes, true, but they tend to stay in business.
[Fri Dec 31 15:46:19 2004 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): But not open necessarily.  They were today.  But I'm not interested in noncheapness.
[Fri Dec 31 15:46:56 2004 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Well, I guess you'll have to wait

>> Network buffer overflow: 1039 lines of output to you have been lost <<
[Tue Jan 25 12:11:47 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): http://www.ottawaplus.ca/portal/profile.do?profileID=97053
[Tue Jan 25 12:15:02 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I guess that it's Malaysian and Indonesian food actually.
[Tue Jan 25 12:16:15 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yeah, these often are combined.  One thing that I've never seen outside .nl is a rice table.
[Tue Jan 25 12:17:44 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): What's a rice table?
[Tue Jan 25 12:17:54 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Wow, 80 items on their menu.
[Tue Jan 25 12:20:05 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): They are often combined since they were on the same trade route and got much of their cuisine from China and India. Then, they have their original items.
[Tue Jan 25 12:20:34 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes.
[Tue Jan 25 12:20:56 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): a rice table is like an a la carte menu with 10 items.
[Tue Jan 25 12:21:06 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Cool, sounds tasty.
[Tue Jan 25 12:21:28 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Malaysian is addict
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ive and I just had the limited lunch buffet.
[Tue Jan 25 12:22:27 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yep.
[Tue Jan 25 12:22:36 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Had it, I take it?
[Tue Jan 25 12:22:50 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Of course.
[Tue Jan 25 12:22:53 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050125.wemployees0125/BNStory/Business/
[Tue Jan 25 12:23:01 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): For instance, at the Penang chain in Boston.
[Tue Jan 25 12:24:31 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Hmm, I can relate to that.
[Tue Jan 25 12:42:41 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): It is amazing how many different kinds of tea there is.
[Tue Jan 25 12:43:53 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yep.
[Tue Jan 25 12:45:02 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): How do you edit a document and MOO at the same time?
[Tue Jan 25 12:47:12 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): interleaved.
[Tue Jan 25 13:25:06 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): 2 hours of pure Calculus ecstacy this evening.
[Tue Jan 25 13:26:12 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Hurrah.
[Tue Jan 25 13:26:47 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): So, when's the last time you integrated something? :)
[Tue Jan 25 13:27:46 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): A while ago.
[Tue Jan 25 13:28:02 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Like when you last took calculus 2? :)
[Tue Jan 25 13:28:54 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Nah, I took ODEs.
[Tue Jan 25 13:44:45 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): 
[Tue Jan 25 13:44:55 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Anyway, I am off, so I can go visit him during his office hour, later.
[Tue Jan 25 13:45:02 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Bye!
[Tue Jan 25 13:45:15 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): happy proposing.
[Tue Jan 25 18:01:42 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Tue Jan 25 18:01:47 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Sooooooo tired
[Tue Jan 25 18:02:27 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): How's it going?
[Tue Jan 25 18:02:32 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Work does that.  Sounds like a bad deal, doesn't it/
[Tue Jan 25 18:02:38 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Sure does.
[Tue Jan 25 18:02:44 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Think the two courses are worth it?
[Tue Jan 25 18:03:25 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes, I think that fulltime work is not, but your mileage may vary.

>> Network buffer overflow: 466 lines of output to you have been lost <<
[Tue Feb  1 13:22:30 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Only for 3 months though.
[Tue Feb  1 14:22:13 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): That's a wrap, later.
[Tue Feb  1 18:42:05 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Tue Feb  1 18:42:17 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Calculused?
[Tue Feb  1 18:42:24 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Calculused out
[Tue Feb  1 18:45:25 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Differential equationed out too
[Tue Feb  1 18:50:29 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): How was your evening?
[Tue Feb  1 18:53:49 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Proposal submitted.
[Tue Feb  1 18:54:09 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Go well?
[Tue Feb  1 18:56:31 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Sure.  It's pretty informal.
[Tue Feb  1 18:57:42 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Switchinc computers, back in a few.
[Tue Feb  1 18:57:57 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Go for it.
[Tue Feb  1 19:11:02 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): My problem with the questions is they were about something we hadn't learned yet.
[Tue Feb  1 19:11:16 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Where did these questions appear?
[Tue Feb  1 19:11:39 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): In the textbook in an earlier section.
[Tue Feb  1 19:13:54 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Strange.
[Tue Feb  1 19:14:29 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Yep, the textbook is in general.
[Tue Feb  1 19:15:50 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Feeling better this evening?
[Tue Feb  1 19:15:58 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yep.
[Tue Feb  1 19:20:30 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Good to hear.
[Tue Feb  1 19:21:05 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Is 6 - 8 glasses just unneccessary or harmful to the kidneys?
[Tue Feb  1 19:21:38 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Just unnecessary.
[Tue Feb  1 19:24:16 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Probably not such a good thing to drink excessive water regularly though.
[Tue Feb  1 19:24:20 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Nope.
[Tue Feb  1 19:25:27 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Of all the cuisines you've tried, which is your favorite?
[Tue Feb  1 19:27:32 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Hmm.  It depends on context.  Today I had Chinese food, which was quite nice; I haven't had any for a while.  It's not the thing to have in France for instance.
[Tue Feb  1 19:27:56 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Authentic chinese or Americanized?

>> Network buffer overflow: 517 lines of output to you have been lost <<
[Sun Feb 13 17:36:08 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): No, it won't work either.  Sigh.
[Sun Feb 13 17:36:17 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): So, how do you play it?
[Sun Feb 13 17:36:31 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): I boot Windows on my laptop (gasp)
[Sun Feb 13 17:36:49 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Good lord.
[Sun Feb 13 17:36:55 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): What's the game called?
[Sun Feb 13 17:39:42 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): King's Quest II.
[Sun Feb 13 17:40:12 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I thought it was a clone of it?
[Sun Feb 13 17:40:26 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): It is.
[Sun Feb 13 17:40:39 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): What's the clone called?
[Sun Feb 13 17:40:46 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): That's what it's called.
[Sun Feb 13 17:43:24 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Cool.
[Sun Feb 13 17:58:14 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Been playing all day?
[Sun Feb 13 17:59:03 2005 MST] FROM Myra (#8045): has a stomach ache.
[Sun Feb 13 17:59:09 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Nope, went to Trader Joe's, worked on my talk, and had pho.
[Sun Feb 13 18:01:34 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): What's Trader Joe's?
[Sun Feb 13 18:01:56 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Sells food.
[Sun Feb 13 18:02:05 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): What sort?
[Sun Feb 13 18:02:22 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Ingredients and frozen.
[Sun Feb 13 18:02:39 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Grocery store then?
[Sun Feb 13 18:03:55 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes.
[Sun Feb 13 18:04:12 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): But they're a bit different from typical grocery stores.  They private-label a lot of things.
[Sun Feb 13 18:09:09 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Cool
[Sun Feb 13 18:11:26 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I wish cooking food was faster.
[Sun Feb 13 18:11:39 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes, it's a problem.
[Sun Feb 13 18:11:49 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Took me about 3 - 4 hours.
[Sun Feb 13 18:16:18 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yeah.  That's why I don't cook.
[Sun Feb 13 18:25:29 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): When do you leave for Mtl?
[Sun Feb 13 18:27:30 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Wednesday.
[Sun Feb 13 18:35:21 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Any belated Valentines plans?
[Sun Feb 13 18:35:40 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Not really.
[Sun Feb 13 18:45:47 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Don't suppose you want to study some calculus for me? :)
[Sun Feb 13 18:48:02 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): I can study all the calculus I want, but it won't help you!
[Sun Feb 13 18:48:20 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Too badm huh?
[Sun Feb 13 18:48:33 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes.
[Sun Feb 13 18:50:23 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Reading this stuff is pretty time consuming.
[Sun Feb 13 18:51:26 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Less than doing.  I'm off.  See you.
[Mon Feb 14 08:29:09 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Mon Feb 14 08:29:23 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Good morning.
[Mon Feb 14 08:29:33 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): How's it going?
[Mon Feb 14 09:01:17 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): What's happening? Paper procrastination?
[Mon Feb 14 09:04:23 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Eating, but talk.
[Mon Feb 14 09:10:29 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): The windows GUI subversion client is 6x slower than the Unix command line client (on a machine that is 1/3rd the speed of the Windows box)
[Mon Feb 14 09:11:01 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): TortoiseSVN?
[Mon Feb 14 09:11:14 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Yep.
[Mon Feb 14 09:11:41 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): 45 minute checkount in Tortoise takes 8 minutes on Unix.
[Mon Feb 14 09:13:58 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Is it me or does that seem a bit slow?
[Mon Feb 14 09:14:
2000
07 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): That's slow.
[Mon Feb 14 09:14:21 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): The repository is 1.5 Gb, but still.
[Mon Feb 14 10:02:44 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Mmm, hot lobster sandwiches tonight.
[Mon Feb 14 10:03:03 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Nice.
[Mon Feb 14 10:03:29 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): We have a glut of lobster, so we have to use it before it goes bad.
[Mon Feb 14 10:21:35 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Paper paper paper?
[Mon Feb 14 10:21:53 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): er talk talk talk
[Mon Feb 14 10:24:50 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Lunch lunch lunch.
[Mon Feb 14 10:25:03 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I had left-overs left-overs left-overs.
[Mon Feb 14 10:39:31 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Do you think King's Quest would work as a Massively Multi-Player Game?
[Mon Feb 14 10:42:45 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): It could, but why.
[Mon Feb 14 10:42:47 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Ok, lunch.
[Mon Feb 14 10:42:53 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): LAter.
[Mon Feb 14 11:17:36 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Done lunch already?
[Mon Feb 14 11:17:45 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yep.
[Mon Feb 14 11:17:52 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): What did you have?
[Mon Feb 14 11:37:02 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Chicken ziti.
[Mon Feb 14 11:37:45 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Hmm, half the food you eat, I've never heard of.
[Mon Feb 14 11:39:50 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yep.
[Mon Feb 14 12:38:32 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Days more too slowly.
[Mon Feb 14 12:38:36 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): move
[Mon Feb 14 12:39:52 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Some would say it moves too quickly.
[Mon Feb 14 12:40:04 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Well they would have good jobs :)
[Mon Feb 14 12:42:58 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Or just jobs where they have too much to do.
[Mon Feb 14 12:43:07 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Yep.
[Mon Feb 14 12:48:53 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I think I know my problem, I didn't leave my desk for lunch.
[Mon Feb 14 12:52:31 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Sucks, man.
[Mon Feb 14 12:55:23 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): This is why packed lunches are evil.
[Mon Feb 14 13:32:50 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Hmm, I am starting to notice what you mean about individual days having no significance.
[Tue Feb 15 11:57:17 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Hey.
[Tue Feb 15 11:59:05 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Tue Feb 15 11:59:27 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): How's it going?
[Tue Feb 15 12:49:10 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): All ready for tomorrow's trip?
[Tue Feb 15 14:10:59 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Playing KQ?
[Tue Feb 15 14:17:12 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Alas, no.
[Tue Feb 15 14:21:57 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Anyway, snooze er lecture time.
[Tue Feb 15 19:19:19 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Tue Feb 15 19:20:21 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Hey.
[Tue Feb 15 19:24:35 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Judo this evening?
[Tue Feb 15 19:24:44 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Nope.  That's usually MWF.
[Tue Feb 15 19:25:03 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Although I could've gone to a class in brazilian jiu-jitsu at another club.
[Tue Feb 15 19:25:38 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): No fun?
[Tue Feb 15 19:25:46 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Should have rest days.
[Tue Feb 15 19:26:03 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): In general or for a tournament?
[Tue Feb 15 19:26:07 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): In general.
[Tue Feb 15 19:26:57 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): If I ever had a non-break, I'd need a break too.
[Tue Feb 15 19:27:07 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): You should!
[Tue Feb 15 19:29:44 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): No time.
[Tue Feb 15 19:29:51 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Gotta take care of your health.
[Tue Feb 15 19:30:00 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I am thinking of taking a general interest course, but that's not much exercise.
[Tue Feb 15 19:30:07 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Why would you do that?
[Tue Feb 15 19:30:18 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Why would I have to do what?
[Tue Feb 15 19:30:21 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Take a course?
[Tue Feb 15 19:31:16 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Uh-huh.
[Tue Feb 15 19:31:26 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): For the heck of it, it's a one evening cooking course.
[Tue Feb 15 19:31:38 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Ah.  Don't you have Calculus to do?
[Tue Feb 15 19:31:49 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Yep, I'll be doing that too.
[Tue Feb 15 19:34:16 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I need to be ready for that test in a week.
[Tue Feb 15 19:34:26 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): What is your status?
[Tue Feb 15 19:35:13 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Did 1/4th to 1/3rd of exercises.
[Tue Feb 15 19:35:56 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Gotta do more!
[Tue Feb 15 19:36:07 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I have a whole week!
[Tue Feb 15 19:38:31 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Get onto it!
[Tue Feb 15 19:38:49 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I just absorbed 2 hours of calculus :)
[Tue Feb 15 19:39:06 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): By doing two hours of caluculus?
[Tue Feb 15 19:39:30 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): No, 2 hours of lecture
[Tue Feb 15 19:39:35 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Gotta do!
[Tue Feb 15 19:40:14 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): If he didn't exhaust me so much :)
[Tue Feb 15 19:40:31 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Do do do!
[Tue Feb 15 19:41:03 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I am doing one question now, as we type.
[Tue Feb 15 19:41:22 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Good, good.
[Tue Feb 15 19:41:38 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I do have a lot of work to do.
[Tue Feb 15 19:42:25 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): That is correct.
[Tue Feb 15 19:42:34 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): However, if you do the work, then you get a good mark.
[Tue Feb 15 19:43:27 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): He said the test will be easy.
[Tue Feb 15 19:43:33 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Still gotta do the exercises.
[Tue Feb 15 19:43:37 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): How's the homework going?
[Tue Feb 15 19:44:22 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): DEs are hard.
[Tue Feb 15 19:45:53 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): How much reading should you do as ipposed to exercising?
[Tue Feb 15 19:46:39 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): As little reading as will let you complete the exercises.
[Tue Feb 15 19:47:05 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): So, if some of the questions are still not clear, I should be reading?
[Tue Feb 15 19:58:32 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Darn calc.
[Tue Feb 15 20:01:48 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I think I am unready.
[Tue Feb 15 20:02:39 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Get ready!
[Tue Feb 15 20:02:46 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Too late tonight.
[Tue Feb 15 20:03:07 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Tomorrow.
[Tue Feb 15 20:03:13 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): This DE should be straightforward. I probably need to read more.
[Tue Feb 15 20:03:35 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): What is it?
[Tue Feb 15 20:03:53 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): dy/dx = 1 - y^2
[Tue Feb 15 20:07:12 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Doesn't look like a integration by partial fractions.
[Tue Feb 15 20:07:53 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): What about a trig subst?
[Tue Feb 15 20:08:56 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Those were the first I tried. They are all for square roots or 1/(a^2 + x^2)
[Tue Feb 15 20:10:21 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Uh.
[Tue Feb 15 20:10:36 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): dy/1-y^2 = dx, no?
[Tue Feb 15 20:10:53 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Got that far.
[Tue Feb 15 20:12:18 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Ah, it's 1-y^2, not 1+x^2.
[Tue Feb 15 20:12:23 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Yep.
[Tue Feb 15 20:12:37 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I'll just look at it more closely tomorrow.
[Tue Feb 15 20:12:49 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I'll ask you if I still can't figure it out.
[Tue Feb 15 20:12:55 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): You do that.
[Tue Feb 15 20:15:06 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): IT's too easy to get behind
[Tue Feb 15 20:15:34 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Sure is.
[Tue Feb 15 20:17:09 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Atleast I've been doing some exercise. Anyway, time for bed.
[Tue Feb 15 20:18:07 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Bye!
[Tue Feb 15 20:18:37 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Talk to you in Mtl tomorrow.
[Tue Feb 15 20:19:45 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Indeed.
[Tue Feb 15 20:19:59 2005 MST] TO 
2000
whiz (#3135): LAter
[Tue Feb 15 20:20:05 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Bye!
[Wed Feb 16 13:44:17 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Welcome to Mtl.
[Wed Feb 16 13:44:41 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Wed Feb 16 13:44:54 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I miss calculated, 2 weeks less a day till midterm.
[Wed Feb 16 13:51:35 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): = plenty of time
[Wed Feb 16 14:02:27 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Start now!
[Wed Feb 16 14:02:51 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Will when I am home.
[Wed Feb 16 14:08:55 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Fly, bus, drive, or walk there?
[Wed Feb 16 17:27:53 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Thu Feb 17 08:04:12 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Good morning.
[Thu Feb 17 08:08:44 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Thu Feb 17 08:08:57 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Have fun at Judo?
[Thu Feb 17 08:17:38 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Sure.
[Thu Feb 17 18:56:26 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Hey.
[Thu Feb 17 18:56:37 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Thu Feb 17 19:16:47 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Hey hey
[Thu Feb 17 19:16:51 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo yo yo.
[Thu Feb 17 19:18:01 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Almost the end of the week, woo.
[Thu Feb 17 19:18:04 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Hurrah!
[Thu Feb 17 19:18:43 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Which means almost Calculus study time
[Thu Feb 17 19:18:49 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Hurrah!
[Thu Feb 17 19:19:56 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Not quite as hurrah-worthy.
[Thu Feb 17 19:20:53 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): How was your day on the town?
[Thu Feb 17 19:22:36 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Hurrah!  No more talk for a while.
[Thu Feb 17 19:22:59 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Good job.
[Thu Feb 17 19:36:11 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): How did it go?
[Thu Feb 17 19:36:26 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): I think it went ok.
[Thu Feb 17 19:36:35 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Good to hear.
[Thu Feb 17 19:36:43 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Hear any interesting talks?
[Thu Feb 17 19:37:13 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Nope, it was just all about me.
[Thu Feb 17 19:37:42 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Awesome. Stop and visit McGill?
[Thu Feb 17 19:38:13 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Nah, I'll drop by tomorrow.
[Thu Feb 17 19:38:44 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Cool. Still know many there?
[Thu Feb 17 19:38:50 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Uh-huh.
[Thu Feb 17 19:39:51 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Any idea when they send out acceptances?
[Thu Feb 17 19:40:36 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Of the job kind
[Thu Feb 17 19:40:46 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Don't know.  Soon, I hope.
[Thu Feb 17 19:41:06 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Get a chance to put the dragon in the box yet?
[Fri Feb 18 08:38:58 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Good morning.
[Fri Feb 18 08:38:59 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Fri Feb 18 08:39:53 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): You're becoming a morning person.
[Fri Feb 18 08:40:54 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Or something.
[Fri Feb 18 08:43:05 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): So, what's up for today besides McGill visitation?
[Fri Feb 18 08:52:51 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Nasty snowstorm there too?
[Fri Feb 18 08:53:27 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Uh, haven't looked outside yet.
[Fri Feb 18 08:53:44 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): It doubled my commute this morning.
[Fri Feb 18 08:54:05 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Sucks.
[Fri Feb 18 09:20:18 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): That's insane, people (not even managers) editing documents get a 3.4 Ghz machine with 2 Gb of RAM, while I am stuck with this slow system doing development.
[Fri Feb 18 09:30:07 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yeah, a common problem.
[Fri Feb 18 09:31:09 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Your company is sort of misenlightened, isn't it?
[Fri Feb 18 09:34:11 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Ever so slightly.
[Fri Feb 18 09:35:47 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Dude, you need a new company.  And a degree.
[Fri Feb 18 09:36:08 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Sure do.
[Fri Feb 18 09:41:09 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Another guy brought up a good point, I should be getting a new system every 6 months
[Fri Feb 18 09:43:32 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Uh-huh.
[Fri Feb 18 09:45:26 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Lunch time, later.
[Fri Feb 18 09:45:39 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): I guess I can mail a book today.
[Fri Feb 18 13:20:24 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Hey.
[Fri Feb 18 13:20:25 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Fri Feb 18 13:20:44 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): How's it going?
[Fri Feb 18 13:21:43 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Gotta run.  See you!
[Fri Feb 18 13:21:50 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): LAter.
[Fri Feb 18 20:16:51 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Mailed.
[Fri Feb 18 20:20:56 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Thanks!
[Fri Feb 18 20:21:20 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): It should probably arrive Monday.
[Fri Feb 18 20:22:08 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): I thought it took a few business days.
[Fri Feb 18 20:22:26 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Sure, that's the service guarantee, but Montreal isn't too far from Ottawa.
[Fri Feb 18 20:23:15 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I get stuff from Mississauga the next day when they ship it out the evening before.
[Fri Feb 18 20:23:18 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): That's true.  We'll see!
[Fri Feb 18 20:23:39 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): What are the damages?
[Fri Feb 18 20:23:54 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): $7.10.
[Fri Feb 18 20:24:12 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Sounds good. I'll mail you a cheque in Boston.
[Fri Feb 18 20:24:55 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Thanks for your help. It's greatly appreciated.
[Fri Feb 18 20:25:21 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): You can mail either to Boston or to Montreal.  I'll have to cash it in Mtl anywa.
[Fri Feb 18 20:25:47 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Ok, I'll mail to Mtl then. What's the address?
[Fri Feb 18 20:26:00 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): 2780 honore beaugrand, mtl que, h1l5y3
[Fri Feb 18 20:27:19 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Ok, I'll send it out early next week.
[Fri Feb 18 20:27:33 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Cool.
[Fri Feb 18 20:27:58 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Thanks again. It sure beats spending $45 in shipping :)
[Fri Feb 18 20:28:28 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Indeed.
[Fri Feb 18 20:28:55 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): So, how was the day?
[Fri Feb 18 20:29:50 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Good, good.  Didn't do any useful work, which is nice after giving a talk.  Actually I've been busy this week, what with the talk and the recitation.
[Fri Feb 18 20:30:36 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Talking does seem to be hard work.
[Fri Feb 18 20:31:29 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): I hear it gets less hard.
[Fri Feb 18 20:31:31 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Get any feedback?
[Fri Feb 18 20:31:36 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Nope!
[Fri Feb 18 20:32:24 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Did the audience seem interested?
[Fri Feb 18 20:35:19 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): I think so.  Except the guy who came in late and fell asleep.
[Fri Feb 18 20:35:29 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): But that always happens.  Sometimes people are just tired.  I've done it myeslf.
[Fri Feb 18 20:35:41 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): He probably just woke up when he came in
[Fri Feb 18 20:35:58 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): 3:30pm.
[Fri Feb 18 20:36:09 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): You never know
[Fri Feb 18 20:37:33 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): But there were something like 30-40 people there.
[Fri Feb 18 20:37:45 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): 1 odd ball is pretty good
[Fri Feb 18 20:39:32 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): But yeah, I can get pretty tired myself too even if the presentation is interesting.
[Fri Feb 18 20:45:15 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yeah.
[Fri Feb 18 21:01:29 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I figured out my calculus issue.
[Fri Feb 18 21:02:05 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): What was it?
[Fri Feb 18 21:05:34 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): ln() issues
[Fri Feb 18 21:06:49 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Ah.
[Fri Feb 18 21:18:58 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): What are you up to this weekend?
[Fri Feb 18 21:23:49 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Beating people up on Sunday.  No plan for tomorrow.
[Fri Feb 18 21:24:20 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Calculus for me tomorrow and brunch on Sunday and more calculus.
[Fri
2000
 Feb 18 21:25:35 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Hurrah.  Calculus!
[Fri Feb 18 21:25:38 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): What's the brunch?
[Fri Feb 18 21:26:46 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): At the Pepper Garden. They have pasta, regular breakfast stuff, roast beef au jus, omelettes a la carte, homemade soup, crepes a la carte, salads, and probably more that I forgot.
[Fri Feb 18 21:26:55 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Sounds like fun.
[Fri Feb 18 21:27:12 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Yep, it's the best brunch I've had. The food is really good.
[Fri Feb 18 21:31:13 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): So, what was the snow situation like in Mtl?
[Fri Feb 18 21:32:36 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): It's sort of unpleasant I guess to walk around.
[Fri Feb 18 21:37:33 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Anyway, I think I'll do some reading and then get some sleep.
[Sat Feb 19 13:25:03 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Hey.
[Sat Feb 19 13:33:41 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Sat Feb 19 13:33:55 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Was Lemony Snicket any good?
[Sat Feb 19 13:42:11 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Worth seeing?
[Sat Feb 19 13:42:43 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): ?
[Sat Feb 19 13:42:57 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Is Lemony Snicket's worth seeing?
[Sat Feb 19 13:44:04 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Sure.  It's all right.  There was something about it that left me sort of indifferent, but I can't figure out what it is.  But it's not a dumb movie.
[Sat Feb 19 13:44:28 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Cool, it's on at the new cheap cinema here.
[Sat Feb 19 13:44:43 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Is it any good?
[Sat Feb 19 13:44:53 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): The cinema, that is.
[Sat Feb 19 13:45:09 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Don't know, never been. I was thinking of doing this evening.
[Sat Feb 19 13:45:17 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Ah.
[Sat Feb 19 13:45:52 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): They buy out cinemas that closed down and reopen it with modern equipment and cheap prices ($3 matinees and $4.25 regular)
[Sat Feb 19 13:46:26 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): They don't show movies till a month or two after they open at normal cinemas.
[Sat Feb 19 13:47:23 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): A backlash to today's cinema prices.

>> Network buffer overflow: 111 lines of output to you have been lost <<
[Tue Feb 22 08:46:10 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Tue Feb 22 08:46:18 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Public transit sucks.
[Tue Feb 22 08:46:32 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): No, no.  Bad public transit sucks.
[Tue Feb 22 08:46:39 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Good point.
[Tue Feb 22 08:47:15 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): missing an early bus by 30 seconds translates into arriving 30 minutes late.

>> Network buffer overflow: 175 lines of output to you have been lost <<
[Wed Feb 23 22:02:55 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Yep, I still have evenings. Anyway, I better get to bed before tomorrow's calculus is a write off also.
[Wed Feb 23 22:03:01 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): See you!
[Wed Feb 23 22:03:04 2005 MST] FROM Myra (#8045): that he had NO impulse control and that without a LOT of help, and medication.. he would get himself in BIG trouble.
[Wed Feb 23 22:03:40 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Good night.
[Wed Feb 23 22:04:00 2005 MST] TO Myra (#8045): That sucks.
[Wed Feb 23 22:04:24 2005 MST] TO Myra (#8045): Anyway, I really need to be getting to bed. Good night.
[Wed Feb 23 22:04:41 2005 MST] FROM Myra (#8045): take care.
[Wed Feb 23 22:04:49 2005 MST] TO Myra (#8045): You too.
[Wed Feb 23 22:04:57 2005 MST] FROM Myra (#8045): thanks.
[Thu Feb 24 08:55:25 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Thu Feb 24 09:09:58 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Good morning.
[Thu Feb 24 09:10:08 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): It's the morning after and I am surprisingly awake.
[Thu Feb 24 09:10:18 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Hurrah.
[Thu Feb 24 09:10:39 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): You'd think after 6 hours sleep, I'd be tired.
[Thu Feb 24 09:12:12 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): There are strange exceptions to this rule.
[Thu Feb 24 09:12:33 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I'll be feeling it this afternoon, I bet.
[Thu Feb 24 09:15:16 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Maybe eating Italian cooking at 10pm makes one less tired.
[Thu Feb 24 09:21:24 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): So, what's going on?
[Thu Feb 24 09:27:07 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Burning a DVD.
[Thu Feb 24 09:37:22 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): What of?
[Thu Feb 24 09:39:13 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Judo matches.
[Thu Feb 24 09:46:17 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Your Judo matches?
[Thu Feb 24 09:46:31 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yep.
[Thu Feb 24 09:46:38 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): cool
[Thu Feb 24 09:47:01 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Off to school.
[Thu Feb 24 09:47:09 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Have fun
[Thu Feb 24 10:54:02 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Half the day gone already
[Thu Feb 24 10:58:58 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Indeed.
[Thu Feb 24 10:59:20 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Now, just one more half and then 1/5th of a day of Calculus.
[Thu Feb 24 11:05:19 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Hurrah!
[Thu Feb 24 11:09:33 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Ever use Mozilla on Windows?
[Thu Feb 24 11:12:10 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yep.  Idling.
[Thu Feb 24 11:12:17 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Happy Idling.
[Thu Feb 24 13:18:33 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Hacking?
[Thu Feb 24 13:19:18 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): FIguring out what to hack.
[Thu Feb 24 13:26:24 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Good thinking. Directionless hacking isn't particularly useful normally.
[Thu Feb 24 13:26:57 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): That's quite true.
[Thu Feb 24 13:27:11 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): You could learn something from directionless hacking though.
[Fri Feb 25 13:19:02 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Hey.
[Fri Feb 25 13:19:33 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Fri Feb 25 13:19:45 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): How's it going?
[Fri Feb 25 13:20:05 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Should be doing something, like writing specs.
[Fri Feb 25 13:25:01 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Wow, I am so tired today.
[Fri Feb 25 17:03:24 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): How goes stuff?
[Fri Feb 25 17:04:21 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Time for judo soon.
[Fri Feb 25 17:05:03 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Cool.
[Fri Feb 25 17:05:18 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): People were talking about martial arts at lunch today.
[Fri Feb 25 17:06:57 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Which ones?
[Fri Feb 25 17:07:21 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Mostly karate. But they were saying they've never known any teacher of material arts to have a successful marriage.
[Fri Feb 25 17:10:52 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Well, what does one mean by successful.
[Fri Feb 25 17:11:02 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): I mean, I know plenty of non-divorced ones.
[Fri Feb 25 17:11:03 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): i.e. doesn't end in divorce.
[Fri Feb 25 17:11:24 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Maybe it's more karate-specific or too limited a sample.
[Fri Feb 25 17:11:55 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Perhaps.
[Fri Feb 25 17:13:22 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Doing anything exciting in Judo today?
[Fri Feb 25 17:18:23 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Nope.
[Sat Feb 26 14:55:06 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Tue Mar  1 11:05:52 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Hey hey
[Tue Mar  1 11:13:34 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Tue Mar  1 11:13:53 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): How's it going?
[Tue Mar  1 11:16:59 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Not bad.
[Tue Mar  1 11:17:22 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I'd be better if I didn't have a calculus midterm in 2:40
[Tue Mar  1 11:17:44 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Ready?
[Tue Mar  1 11:18:02 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Nope.
[Tue Mar  1 11:19:07 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Doh!
[Tue Mar  1 11:20:52 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Could potentially be worse.
[Tue Mar  1 11:21:49 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Calculus takes a lot of time to do.
[Tue Mar  1 11:22:03 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Yep, and I took a lot of time doing it, but not enough.
[Tue Mar  1 11:23:53 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Oh well.
[Tue Mar  1 11:24:03 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Also it's hard to bunch up.
[Tue Mar  1 11:24:14 2005 MST] TO whiz 
2000
(#3135): On the bright side, I did do quite a bit of studying over the last couple days.
[Tue Mar  1 11:26:22 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): \frac{4}{\sqrt{2}} = 2 \sqrt{2}?
[Tue Mar  1 11:31:32 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes, because 4 = \sqrt{2} \sqrt{2} 2
[Tue Mar  1 11:32:06 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Right, thank you.
[Tue Mar  1 11:32:33 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I probably wouldn't lose marks if I left it as 4 / \sqrt{2} anyway
[Tue Mar  1 11:35:37 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I even managed to find time to do a couple problems.
[Tue Mar  1 11:44:54 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): You seen http://www.worldjumpday.org/ ?
[Tue Mar  1 11:58:32 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): No, what's that about?
[Tue Mar  1 12:00:43 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): See the website, it's kind of funny
[Tue Mar  1 12:08:12 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): It would be kind of funny if the staggered jumping sends us on a collision course for the Sun.
[Tue Mar  1 12:34:07 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Go time, see ya.
[Tue Mar  1 12:35:41 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Calculus!
[Tue Mar  1 12:36:13 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Calculus, here I come.
[Tue Mar  1 18:50:53 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Hey.
[Tue Mar  1 18:52:13 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): How was it?
[Tue Mar  1 19:02:53 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): How was it?
[Tue Mar  1 19:02:56 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Not up to my standards.
[Tue Mar  1 19:03:03 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): You or the test?
[Tue Mar  1 19:03:09 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): My performance.
[Tue Mar  1 19:03:23 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): However, my standards are quite high.
[Tue Mar  1 19:03:24 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): There's always the final.  Which you can start studying for now.
[Tue Mar  1 19:03:32 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Is there a 100% final option?
[Tue Mar  1 19:03:41 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I started 5 minutes after my midterm :)
[Tue Mar  1 19:03:50 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): It's ok to give it a day or two.
[Tue Mar  1 19:04:07 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Not officially, but I bounced altering the weighting off the prof.
[Tue Mar  1 19:04:27 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Sometimes these things just happen, you know.
[Tue Mar  1 19:04:41 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): ie. someone with a 100% mark final gets an unexpectedly high mark.
[Tue Mar  1 19:05:15 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): He said if someone does really well on the final and not so well on the midterm, he'll take that into account.
[Tue Mar  1 19:05:26 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes.
[Tue Mar  1 19:05:33 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): What does 'not so well' mean?
[Tue Mar  1 19:06:02 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): He didn't give me anything specific, I'll try to extract it from him prior to the drop date.
[Tue Mar  1 19:06:10 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): How much is it worth?
[Tue Mar  1 19:06:16 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): 32%
[Tue Mar  1 19:06:39 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): for the midterm, 8% participation, remainder is final
[Tue Mar  1 19:06:42 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): It probably won't make much of a difference.
[Tue Mar  1 19:06:52 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): It does, 32% is a lot.
[Tue Mar  1 19:07:16 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes, but getting 80% rather than 90% isn't much of a difference in the final mark.
[Tue Mar  1 19:07:26 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): I'm assuming that this is what you mean by 'not so well'.
[Tue Mar  1 19:07:41 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): No, I mean like 72%
[Tue Mar  1 19:08:03 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): How did you get that number?
[Tue Mar  1 19:08:04 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I'd be happy with an 80%
[Tue Mar  1 19:08:28 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): It was a conservative estimate of the points I thought I'd earn.
[Tue Mar  1 19:08:46 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Ah.  Well, we'll see.
[Tue Mar  1 19:09:13 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes, 9% is significant.  6% less so.
[Tue Mar  1 19:09:41 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I am pretty sure I didn't get less than 65% nor more than 75%.
[Tue Mar  1 19:10:26 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): The final covers the whole course, which really helps the argument of it getting a higher weighting.
[Tue Mar  1 19:11:03 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): But yes, calculus is something that requires a lot of work.  Also people to work with.
[Tue Mar  1 19:11:13 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): People to work with?
[Tue Mar  1 19:11:26 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes.  Because if you have 2 people working, you can ask each other questions.
[Tue Mar  1 19:11:47 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I'll setup a study group.
[Tue Mar  1 19:12:37 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): This is true in general of math courses.
[Tue Mar  1 19:13:43 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): It just kind of drives you nuts when you know you should have got atleast 80% on the test.
[Tue Mar  1 19:13:49 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yeah, well, it happens.
[Tue Mar  1 19:14:21 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): I got 82% in Cal 2.
[Tue Mar  1 19:14:32 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Sweet, I'd be happy with that.
[Tue Mar  1 19:14:46 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I've dropped my A+ in all math courses goal.
[Tue Mar  1 19:15:14 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Math sort of gets harder for some reason.
[Tue Mar  1 19:15:21 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): But mostly it's just a question of more work.
[Tue Mar  1 19:15:42 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I just could not concentrate on the homework.
[Tue Mar  1 19:15:57 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Also a reason why study groups help.
[Tue Mar  1 19:16:20 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): YOu mean a non-distracting group?
[Tue Mar  1 19:16:36 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes.
[Tue Mar  1 19:18:19 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I think this is the first non-trivial math course I took.
[Tue Mar  1 19:18:39 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Perhaps.
[Tue Mar  1 19:19:04 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Calc 1 and Lin Alg 1 were reviews of HS mostly.
[Tue Mar  1 19:19:15 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yep.
[Tue Mar  1 19:19:27 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): So, what have you been up to?
[Tue Mar  1 19:19:36 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Trying to fix a bug in k3b.
[Tue Mar  1 19:19:41 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): k3b?
[Tue Mar  1 19:23:03 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Well, tomorrow, I am doing something totally unrelated to calculus.
[Tue Mar  1 19:23:18 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): What are you doing?
[Tue Mar  1 19:23:27 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Italian cooking
[Tue Mar  1 19:23:50 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Hope it's tasty.
[Tue Mar  1 19:24:14 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Should be, making some stuff I've never tried before.
[Tue Mar  1 19:24:18 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Like what?
[Tue Mar  1 19:24:35 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): risotto and polenta
[Tue Mar  1 19:25:02 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): I've had risotto and cooked polenta from, well, uncooked polenta.
[Tue Mar  1 19:25:14 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Any good?
[Tue Mar  1 19:25:23 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): It can be.  I haven't had it in a long time.
[Tue Mar  1 19:25:45 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Most things can be good or bad.
[Tue Mar  1 19:26:01 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Risotto is a lot of work to cook.
[Tue Mar  1 19:27:42 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): You can't just leave it, you need to stir it the entire time.
[Tue Mar  1 19:28:00 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Polenta?  I cut it into slices and put it in a heated pan.
[Tue Mar  1 19:28:07 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): No, risotto
[Tue Mar  1 19:28:13 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Polenta is a lot easier.
[Tue Mar  1 19:28:16 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Ah, right.
[Tue Mar  1 19:31:39 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): When you say uncooked polenta? Was it a mix or just the cornmeal?
[Tue Mar  1 19:32:25 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): It was the cornmeal.
[Tue Mar  1 19:35:24 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): YOu use KDE?
[Tue Mar  1 20:00:52 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): The next trick is to find time for stuff other than calculus.
[Tue Mar  1 20:01:05 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Well, the term is short.
[Tue Mar  1 20:01:20 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): The time betweem terms is even shorer.
[Tue Mar  1 20:01:24 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): shorter
[Tue Mar  1 20:01:28 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#31
2000
35): Well, there's summer.
[Tue Mar  1 20:01:39 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Unless one takes summer courses.
[Tue Mar  1 20:01:50 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): They still don't take all summer.
[Tue Mar  1 20:02:16 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): unfortunately, they take all but like a week
[Tue Mar  1 20:02:59 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Oh well.  Less commuting?
[Tue Mar  1 20:03:37 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): May 16th to Aug 12th + Exams. Two evenings per week.
[Wed Mar  2 10:14:59 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): How's it going?
[Wed Mar  2 14:49:29 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): What's happening?
[Wed Mar  2 22:40:29 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Good evening.
[Wed Mar  2 22:40:38 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Wed Mar  2 22:41:15 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Lesson of the evening: never eat a desert with 5 large coffee cups full of espresso before going to bed.
[Wed Mar  2 22:41:33 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Note that the desert contained the espresso.
[Wed Mar  2 22:42:11 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Wow, that's quite a dessert.
[Wed Mar  2 22:42:57 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Tiramisu (meaning "pick me up")
[Wed Mar  2 22:43:11 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Usually it doesn't have that much coffee.
[Wed Mar  2 22:44:03 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): The restaurant gave him 5 shots of espresso at first. He had to go back and get the full cups.
[Wed Mar  2 22:44:37 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I have to be up in 6 hours, dog.
[Wed Mar  2 22:44:40 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): er doh
[Wed Mar  2 22:44:51 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Looks like you'll be quite tired tomorrow!
[Wed Mar  2 22:45:10 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Ah well, not like I'm ever awake for Calculus anyway :)
[Wed Mar  2 22:45:38 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Doh!
[Wed Mar  2 22:47:15 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Atleast it was a fun, albeit long evening. What have you been up to?
[Wed Mar  2 22:47:21 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Brr.  Cold.
[Wed Mar  2 22:47:27 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Working on my web server.
[Wed Mar  2 22:47:33 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Coding one, you mean?
[Wed Mar  2 22:47:54 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I know, I just spent an hour busing and transgering.
[Wed Mar  2 22:49:29 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes.
[Wed Mar  2 22:49:38 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Who did you have dinner with?
[Wed Mar  2 22:49:57 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): The other people in my cooking class.
[Wed Mar  2 22:50:47 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): We get to eat what we made after.
[Wed Mar  2 22:53:02 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Nice.
[Wed Mar  2 22:53:37 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): It's actually quite relaxing to cook in a professional kitchen. You don't have to worry about the inadequacies of the equipment much.
[Wed Mar  2 22:54:25 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): How's your web server coming?
[Wed Mar  2 22:56:05 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes, I've cooked in professional-like kitchens before.  The web server is hobbled by an incorrect implementation of Sockets.bind in my code.
[Wed Mar  2 22:56:57 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Easy to fix or not so much?
[Wed Mar  2 23:00:26 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Dunno.
[Wed Mar  2 23:00:46 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Anywyam I think I'll try to sleep now. Good night.
[Wed Mar  2 23:01:51 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes and no.
[Wed Mar  2 23:02:14 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Good luck and night.
[Wed Mar  2 23:02:59 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Bye!
[Thu Mar  3 08:52:24 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): zzz!
[Thu Mar  3 08:52:30 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): No kidding.
[Thu Mar  3 08:52:36 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): What describes how I feel now.
[Thu Mar  3 08:52:43 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Good thing I drank a bucket of tea this morning.
[Thu Mar  3 08:53:50 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Good thing they only do that desert once
[Thu Mar  3 08:54:00 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yep.
[Thu Mar  3 08:54:19 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): How goes your web server?
[Thu Mar  3 08:55:32 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Well, seeing as how I just got up, it hsan't made much progress.
[Thu Mar  3 08:55:43 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Yes, but I don't know when you went to bed :)
[Thu Mar  3 08:56:51 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): 1, actually.
[Thu Mar  3 08:57:03 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): So, moment after me then
[Thu Mar  3 08:57:35 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yep.
[Thu Mar  3 08:57:56 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I bet you fell asleep more easily though.
[Thu Mar  3 09:00:37 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Sure did!
[Thu Mar  3 09:11:56 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): What's happening today? More Web Server stuff?
[Thu Mar  3 09:13:12 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Also going to Montreal.
[Thu Mar  3 09:14:59 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Cool, it seems like only 2 weeks that you were there last time
[Thu Mar  3 09:17:17 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): That's right.  But I need to fetch my snowshoes.
[Thu Mar  3 09:23:14 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): And your igloo ice cutting knife? :)
[Thu Mar  3 09:24:29 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Did you give up on skiing and go to snowshoeing?
[Thu Mar  3 09:25:20 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): No, I had snowshoes to climb up them mountain, the skis are for going down.
[Thu Mar  3 09:25:32 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Makes sense.
[Thu Mar  3 11:46:52 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): How long are you in Mtl for?
[Thu Mar  3 13:22:30 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I am not a big Polenta fan.
[Thu Mar  3 13:23:03 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Oh well!  It could use more flavour.
[Thu Mar  3 13:23:47 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Our Canadian processed cornmeal isn't very flavourful.
[Thu Mar  3 13:24:01 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Adding things to cook it in helps.
[Thu Mar  3 13:24:21 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Yep.
[Thu Mar  3 13:24:31 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Or doing pasta instead also helps :)
[Fri Mar  4 08:35:27 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Hey hey
[Sat Mar  5 17:14:39 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Sat Mar  5 17:25:04 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo yo.
[Sat Mar  5 17:25:19 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): How's it going?
[Sat Mar  5 17:26:08 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Hungry.  Skied all day today.
[Sat Mar  5 17:26:19 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Good skiing?
[Sat Mar  5 17:26:51 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yeah, it was pretty decent.
[Sat Mar  5 17:27:28 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Too bad the season is almost over, huh?
[Sat Mar  5 17:28:31 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yep.
[Sat Mar  5 17:29:59 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Where did you go skiing?
[Sat Mar  5 17:40:15 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Bromont.
[Sat Mar  5 18:01:00 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): How goes the hacking?
[Mon Mar  7 08:54:05 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Hey.
[Mon Mar  7 08:55:04 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Mon Mar  7 08:55:30 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): How's it going? Feel the Earth Quake yesterday?
[Mon Mar  7 08:55:51 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Nope.  Must've been in a car or something.
[Mon Mar  7 08:56:03 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): It was between 1:30am to 2:00am
[Mon Mar  7 08:56:14 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Not the whole time though
[Mon Mar  7 08:56:16 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Nope, in that case I was sleeping.  But I thought there was one yesterday evening.
[Mon Mar  7 08:56:36 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): This Earthquake was pretty tame, only 1.4
[Mon Mar  7 08:56:51 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Sounds hard to detect.
[Mon Mar  7 08:57:24 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Yep, but you could feel it. They even detected it in Boston.
[Mon Mar  7 08:57:40 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): 1.4 seems less than one would feel.
[Mon Mar  7 08:57:58 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I must be sensetive then :)
[Mon Mar  7 08:58:09 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I felt it and then confirmed with the news the next day
[Mon Mar  7 08:59:50 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I mainly noticed it because a glass cabinet on my desk was shaking for 10 seconds.
[Mon Mar  7 09:00:38 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Ah, that would be a clue.
[Mon Mar  7 09:01:05 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): 5.4.
[Mon Mar  7 09:01:12 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): 5.4?
[Mon Mar  7 09:01:51 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): It was 5.4, not 1.4?
[Mon Mar  7 09:01:55 2005 MST] F
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ROM whiz (#3135): Yes.  1.4 happens all the time.
[Mon Mar  7 09:02:41 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): But 5.4 was on Sunday morning.
[Mon Mar  7 09:02:59 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Yes, that's when it was. Saturday night.
[Mon Mar  7 09:03:06 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): 1:30am Sunday
[Mon Mar  7 09:04:48 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Right.
[Mon Mar  7 10:21:28 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Hey.
[Mon Mar  7 10:22:12 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): The interesting thing about logrithmic scales is that if it were a 5.5 quake, everyone would have likely felt it.
[Mon Mar  7 10:23:32 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): No, it's logarithmic on the integral part.
[Mon Mar  7 10:24:28 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Ah, then a 6.0 then
[Mon Mar  7 10:24:51 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): So .1 doesn't mean twice as powerful.
[Mon Mar  7 10:25:11 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Well, 6.4 would be twice as powerful.  I think it's base2, but maybe it's base10.  Not sure.
[Mon Mar  7 10:26:19 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): So is 6.4 2/5ths of the way between 6.0 and 7.0 then?
[Mon Mar  7 10:28:32 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Did you hear they found a cure for drowning?
[Mon Mar  7 10:28:43 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): The way I'd figure that out is by exponentiating e^6.0 and e^7.0 and e^6.4 and comparing these numbers.
[Mon Mar  7 10:29:16 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): If it's base e, then 6.4 is 50% more than 6.0.
[Mon Mar  7 10:29:44 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Drowning?  Hmm?
[Mon Mar  7 10:32:46 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): A guy drowned in mexico. The paramedics were unable to recitate him but noticed his chest moving slightly. He was flown to a hospital in the U.S., where he underwent a new experimental procedure involving bringing the body nearly to the freezing point. Three days later, he woke up and it looks like there's no damage.
[Mon Mar  7 10:33:39 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/news/021105_local_frozen.html
[Mon Mar  7 10:36:06 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yeah, they've used this sort of treatment in other categories of stuff.
[Mon Mar  7 10:37:13 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Soon death with will be a curable condition.
[Mon Mar  7 10:37:22 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): s/with//
[Mon Mar  7 10:40:03 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Not anytime soon.
[Mon Mar  7 10:40:21 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I'd be happy if they could in the next 50 years or so.
[Mon Mar  7 10:41:46 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): So, what's happening? Any hacking?
[Mon Mar  7 10:43:02 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes, of a talk.
[Mon Mar  7 10:43:49 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): When's your talk?
[Mon Mar  7 10:44:05 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Next Friday.
[Mon Mar  7 10:45:15 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Plenty of time then
[Mon Mar  7 11:10:26 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Who's the talk to be given to?
[Mon Mar  7 11:25:42 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): My computer seems to be as unstable as plutonium.
[Mon Mar  7 11:25:51 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Is it plugged into an outlet with a fridge?
[Mon Mar  7 11:26:12 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Nope, I'm at work.
[Mon Mar  7 11:26:37 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I think it's the fact that I am running Windows and haven't started from scrath in 2 years.
[Mon Mar  7 11:26:39 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Perhaps it just sucks, then.  Often poor power is a good way to get crashy computers.
[Mon Mar  7 11:36:42 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): You back in Boston?
[Mon Mar  7 16:20:00 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Mon Mar  7 16:24:38 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Mon Mar  7 16:25:28 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Anything new?

>> Network buffer overflow: 246 lines of output to you have been lost <<
[Thu Mar 10 12:03:04 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Got distracted by my officemate wondering if Perl regexps can do matching parens.  (Hint: pure regexps can't.)
[Thu Mar 10 12:03:45 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Can perl ones?
[Thu Mar 10 12:06:00 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Apparently, but it's gnarly (and wrong)
[Thu Mar 10 12:06:38 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): So, you're better off parsing it?
[Thu Mar 10 12:12:42 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes.
[Thu Mar 10 12:13:47 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Mmm parsing
[Thu Mar 10 12:14:41 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): You could get it to find a matching bracket using greedy and/or possessive quantifiers, can't you?
[Thu Mar 10 12:17:17 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Greedy is not what you want.
[Thu Mar 10 12:18:54 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Anyway, parsing is the way to go.
[Thu Mar 10 12:19:03 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes, it's all about the CFG.
[Thu Mar 10 12:19:28 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): bling bling
[Thu Mar 10 12:22:10 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Going to bed at 1 and waking up at 7 seems to not be a good thing.
[Thu Mar 10 12:24:57 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): It is not.
[Thu Mar 10 12:33:19 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I hear a rumour that I am next on the list for a new computer.
[Thu Mar 10 12:33:45 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): It would be nice to have not a rumour, but a computer.

>> Network buffer overflow: 557 lines of output to you have been lost <<
[Tue Mar 22 11:37:40 2005 MST] TO DixieChick (#8501): That's possible, I don't know. Reading the manual couldn't hurt though.
[Tue Mar 22 11:37:42 2005 MST] FROM DixieChick (#8501): I have been progging on MOOS for over 10 years, and never saw anything like that test.
[Tue Mar 22 11:39:26 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Not bad.
[Tue Mar 22 12:59:29 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): How's life?
[Tue Mar 22 13:58:36 2005 MST] FROM DixieChick (#8501): well, I gotta run - see you tomorrow
[Tue Mar 22 13:58:42 2005 MST] TO DixieChick (#8501): Bye
[Tue Mar 22 19:37:14 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Greetings Whiz.
[Tue Mar 22 19:39:11 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Hi Daryl.
[Tue Mar 22 19:40:00 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): What have you been up to?
[Tue Mar 22 19:42:48 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Currently I am working on my benchmark to get better results for my talk in two weeks.
[Tue Mar 22 19:47:08 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): No end to the talks, huh?
[Tue Mar 22 19:48:52 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): That should be the last one for a while.
[Tue Mar 22 19:49:40 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I am working on calculusing and getting stuff to work at work.
[Tue Mar 22 19:51:00 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): How's the calculus going?
[Tue Mar 22 19:53:31 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): It's going.
[Tue Mar 22 19:54:53 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Can you do all practice problems yet?
[Tue Mar 22 19:55:19 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Not yet.
[Tue Mar 22 19:56:10 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Well, get to it!
[Tue Mar 22 20:02:45 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Getting the right answer is overrated.
[Tue Mar 22 20:04:13 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): It seems to help for some reason.
[Tue Mar 22 20:05:46 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Yep.
[Tue Mar 22 20:27:35 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): When's the next Mtl trip?
[Tue Mar 22 20:28:11 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): April 10, from Scotland.
[Tue Mar 22 20:28:26 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): YOu get around.
[Tue Mar 22 20:28:57 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Sure do!
[Tue Mar 22 20:33:22 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Man, sometimes software drives me nuts.
[Tue Mar 22 20:34:41 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Sometimes?
[Tue Mar 22 20:36:38 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Ok, frequently :)
[Tue Mar 22 20:36:50 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Especially when there are errors when there shouldn't be though
[Tue Mar 22 20:38:00 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): WHen should the errors be there?
[Tue Mar 22 20:40:06 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Well, never :)
[Tue Mar 22 20:40:14 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): But this is likely a lack of documentation issue.
[Tue Mar 22 20:56:27 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): On the bright side, with this overtime, I should be able to extend my weekend
[Tue Mar 22 20:56:38 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): As opposed to getting paid for it?
[Tue Mar 22 20:58:16 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): They don't pay for overtime
[Tue Mar 22 20:58:53 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Chumps!
[Tue Mar 22 21:00:03 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Yep. I also need to work on my delegation skills, as the thing I am tryin
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g to fix now, I delegated.
[Tue Mar 22 21:01:10 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): It depends on who you delegate to, you see.
[Tue Mar 22 21:01:17 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Lots of calculus this weekend, eh?
[Tue Mar 22 21:02:01 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I haven't even figured out if I have the authority to delegate.
[Tue Mar 22 21:02:06 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Darn right.
[Tue Mar 22 21:02:49 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): If you ask someone to do something and the person does it, then yes.
[Tue Mar 22 21:03:24 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I have authority to divide work, does that give me the delegation power?
[Tue Mar 22 21:06:34 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Sure.
[Tue Mar 22 21:06:43 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): But really, it depends on if people do what you ask them to.
[Tue Mar 22 21:08:05 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Yep, and he would have, but we don't seem to have the same set of priorities in mind.
[Tue Mar 22 21:08:16 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): What are his priorities?
[Tue Mar 22 21:12:14 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Aesthetique changes, apparently.
[Tue Mar 22 21:14:04 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I guess getting 4000 unit tests working, so we can see where the real problems lie isn't nearly as important as getting rid of an annoying log message that appears occasionally.
[Tue Mar 22 21:18:15 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Anyway, bedtime, good night.
[Tue Mar 22 21:20:17 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Bye!
[Wed Mar 23 11:53:19 2005 MST] FROM DixieChick (#8501): waves hello
[Wed Mar 23 11:53:50 2005 MST] TO DixieChick (#8501): Hello.
[Wed Mar 23 11:53:53 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Hey.
[Wed Mar 23 11:54:18 2005 MST] FROM DixieChick (#8501): smiles.
[Wed Mar 23 12:11:19 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Know of any predefined Java grammars?
[Wed Mar 23 12:19:54 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes.
[Wed Mar 23 12:20:05 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Cool. Where?
[Wed Mar 23 12:23:00 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): . o O 0 (Don't say antlr)
[Wed Mar 23 12:29:06 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): There's one for JavaCUP.
[Wed Mar 23 12:29:20 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): You're being imprecise.  Compiler compiler in Java, or Java grammar?
[Wed Mar 23 12:32:50 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): All of the above.
[Wed Mar 23 12:33:57 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Java grammar in Java.
[Wed Mar 23 12:38:36 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I need to take 1000 java classes and move part of the constructor into a method.
[Wed Mar 23 13:07:37 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Eclipse.
[Wed Mar 23 13:07:51 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): But, yes, there are java grammars that do this.
[Wed Mar 23 13:32:54 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Any ideas of good ones?
[Wed Mar 23 13:33:25 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): See if eclipse can do what you want.
[Wed Mar 23 13:34:28 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Cool, I didn't know they had a parser.
[Wed Mar 23 13:35:11 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): They do.
[Wed Mar 23 13:55:59 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I didn't really want to modify 1057 files by hand.
[Wed Mar 23 13:57:27 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): That would be a bad idea.
[Wed Mar 23 14:05:31 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): It's a pretty mundane job.
[Wed Mar 23 14:05:36 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes.
[Wed Mar 23 14:07:21 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): The moral of the story is follow the spec.
[Wed Mar 23 14:07:27 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Oops.
[Wed Mar 23 14:10:59 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Do you remember what the Eclipse project was called?
[Wed Mar 23 14:21:51 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Eclipse.  www.eclipse.org.
[Wed Mar 23 14:27:34 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I mean the subproject.
[Wed Mar 23 15:01:03 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): IT should be so easy,
[Thu Mar 24 17:01:15 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Hey.
[Thu Mar 24 17:01:45 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo.  What's up?
[Thu Mar 24 17:02:23 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Trying to use Perl to do my code conversion.
[Thu Mar 24 17:02:40 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Does it work in most cases?
[Thu Mar 24 17:03:12 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Haven't got far enough yet.
[Thu Mar 24 17:03:27 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Eclipse has no suitable command?
[Thu Mar 24 17:07:07 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I thought you meant the framework. You meant the IDE?
[Thu Mar 24 17:07:32 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): yes.
[Thu Mar 24 17:07:34 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Food.
[Thu Mar 24 19:41:16 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Perl sucks.
[Thu Mar 24 19:41:35 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): So does http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050324.gtcopyrightmar24/BNStory/Technology/
[Thu Mar 24 19:41:44 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): I am trying to figure out what exactly is going on.
[Thu Mar 24 19:45:56 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Doh.
[Thu Mar 24 19:46:51 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Damn government.

>> Network buffer overflow: 470 lines of output to you have been lost <<
[Thu Mar 31 08:47:35 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Japan likes its robots.
[Thu Mar 31 08:47:53 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes.  And news isn't always bad.
[Thu Mar 31 08:48:03 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): True. Depends where you look
[Thu Mar 31 11:04:58 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Mmmm tasty
[Thu Mar 31 11:14:06 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Nice.
[Thu Mar 31 11:14:14 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): garlicy too
[Thu Mar 31 11:49:10 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): You seem to have to take Abstract Algebra for CS, but they don't call it that.
[Thu Mar 31 12:00:48 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Sometimes they do.  But yeah.
[Thu Mar 31 19:14:31 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Hey.
[Thu Mar 31 19:16:07 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Thu Mar 31 19:21:16 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): How's it going?
[Thu Mar 31 19:22:47 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Ever take functional analysis?
[Thu Mar 31 19:46:30 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Prepared for your talk?
[Thu Mar 31 19:47:14 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Progress is slow.
[Thu Mar 31 19:47:56 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I know the feeling.
[Thu Mar 31 19:48:30 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I have plenty of projects that go at a snail's pace.
[Thu Mar 31 19:48:41 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes.  But sometimes there are hard deadlines!
[Thu Mar 31 19:48:51 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Yep, I usually don't have that problem though.
[Thu Mar 31 19:49:36 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): They use baby Hungerford for CS.
[Thu Mar 31 19:49:52 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yeah.  The CS algebra course at McGill was more babyish than that.
[Thu Mar 31 19:51:54 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Cool.
[Thu Mar 31 19:54:28 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): My calc prof seems to really think functional analysis is important.
[Thu Mar 31 19:55:30 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): It's important to some people.
[Thu Mar 31 19:55:33 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): I never took it.
[Thu Mar 31 19:56:11 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I had a discussion with him about the hierarchy of functions.
[Thu Mar 31 19:56:51 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Hm?
[Thu Mar 31 19:56:56 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): What was the most important math class to you?
[Thu Mar 31 19:57:49 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): He was telling me how functions are grouped into a hierarchy based on how they can be expressed (i.e. only by power series, etc..)
[Thu Mar 31 19:58:16 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Ah.  Yes.  Well, what do you mean by important?
[Thu Mar 31 19:58:23 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Useful
[Thu Mar 31 19:59:16 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): And the meaning of transcendental.
[Thu Mar 31 20:00:27 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): mmm. transcendental.
[Thu Mar 31 20:00:50 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): It kind of means uber irrational.
[Thu Mar 31 20:01:34 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes.  It's worse than algebraic.
[Thu Mar 31 20:01:56 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Yep.
[Thu Mar 31 20:03:39 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Math is fun but the problems suck :)
[Thu Mar 31 20:04:21 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): That's like saying I'm going to climb Everest except for the uphill part.
[Thu Mar 31 20:04:36 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I know, I was half joking.
[Thu Mar 31 20:05:09 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): MOst things that are worthwhile take some work
[Thu Mar 31 20:13:45 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): You 
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know, maybe I am crazy to switch into CS.
[Thu Mar 31 20:18:17 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Crazy in that I am likely closer to a Commerce degree.
[Thu Mar 31 20:19:21 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): What's the delta?
[Thu Mar 31 20:19:51 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): See, the other thing is that I'm pretty skeptical of the benefits of a commerce degree.
[Thu Mar 31 20:20:20 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I am not saying it is at all useful, but since it is a degree, it has value as such.
[Thu Mar 31 20:20:36 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): I like to believe that degrees should be useful.
[Thu Mar 31 20:20:50 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): So do I, but I need to get out of University.
[Thu Mar 31 20:21:03 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): I guess so.  How much would you have to do for a commerce degree?
[Thu Mar 31 20:21:09 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Some of us are grad students for a long time.
[Thu Mar 31 20:21:42 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Let me rephrase, I need to get out of this ugrad degree.
[Thu Mar 31 20:21:50 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): 9.5 more credits for business
[Thu Mar 31 20:21:53 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): 12 for commerce
[Thu Mar 31 20:26:51 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I guess it's not that huge.
[Thu Mar 31 20:31:41 2005 MST] TO Rain (#2349): Hey!
[Thu Mar 31 20:31:51 2005 MST] FROM Rain (#2349): hey :)
[Thu Mar 31 20:31:55 2005 MST] TO Rain (#2349): Long time, no Amy!
[Thu Mar 31 20:32:35 2005 MST] TO Rain (#2349): How are you?
[Thu Mar 31 20:32:47 2005 MST] FROM Rain (#2349): pretty good, you?
[Thu Mar 31 20:33:00 2005 MST] TO Rain (#2349): Good, what's new?
[Fri Apr  1 07:24:12 2005 MST] FROM DixieChick (#8501): smiles and waves at you.
[Fri Apr  1 07:24:18 2005 MST] TO DixieChick (#8501): Hey.
[Fri Apr  1 09:32:49 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Fri Apr  1 09:32:50 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Good morning.
[Fri Apr  1 09:32:53 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): That was fast.
[Fri Apr  1 09:34:52 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I hate inconsistent test results!
[Fri Apr  1 09:35:36 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Doh!
[Fri Apr  1 09:35:52 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): It's passing every time in my development environment.
[Fri Apr  1 11:13:09 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Hey.
[Fri Apr  1 11:36:53 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Gmail is increasing storage.
[Fri Apr  1 11:37:21 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yeah, I saw.
[Fri Apr  1 11:37:42 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Yes, but this is only the first increase, there are more coming very soon.
[Fri Apr  1 21:00:41 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Fri Apr  1 21:00:42 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): DOn't you love Tax time?
[Fri Apr  1 21:00:57 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): US taxes done.
[Fri Apr  1 21:01:24 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I just finished my CDN taxes. Yey, refund! :)
[Fri Apr  1 21:01:42 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Whee!  It seems that I misdid my US taxes.  I wonder what'll happen.
[Fri Apr  1 21:02:30 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): How badly? To your benefit or theirs?
[Fri Apr  1 21:03:08 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): I filed resident taxes, apparently I'm still supposed to file nonresident taxes this year.  I think it causes me to get some more money than otherwise.
[Fri Apr  1 21:04:39 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): You may want to refile or something. I wouldn't want to give the IRS a reason to audit you.
[Fri Apr  1 21:05:11 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): That would be irksome.
[Fri Apr  1 21:05:23 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): On the other hand, I may be allowed to elect to be treated as a resident alien.
[Fri Apr  1 21:05:38 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Could be, I wouldn't know.
[Fri Apr  1 21:10:23 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Financial day for me
[Fri Apr  1 21:10:41 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Calculus?
[Fri Apr  1 21:13:04 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): I read a bit of it
[Fri Apr  1 21:13:56 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): There is no read, there is only do.
[Fri Apr  1 21:14:06 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Some read too
[Fri Apr  1 21:18:38 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): That sucks, tax software can no longer automatically file your return.
[Fri Apr  1 21:18:49 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Really?  Is that true of all tax software?
[Fri Apr  1 21:19:08 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): New this year: The CRA requires you to use the NETFILE service separately from QuickTax.
[Fri Apr  1 21:19:11 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Sounds likely.
[Fri Apr  1 21:19:25 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Well, it takes one more step.
[Fri Apr  1 21:20:06 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Yes, but it's inconvenient.
[Fri Apr  1 21:20:13 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Somewhat.
[Fri Apr  1 21:23:43 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Atleast you can save your tax return as a PDF.
[Fri Apr  1 21:26:10 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): There, filed. Now, I don't have to worry again for a year.
[Fri Apr  1 21:27:37 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Isn't it kind of wimpy to only have 1 form to file?
[Fri Apr  1 21:44:49 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Sure is.
[Fri Apr  1 22:03:27 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Only 18 pages of tax return
[Fri Apr  1 22:06:34 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): Ever get a credit report?
[Fri Apr  1 22:06:44 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Nope.
[Fri Apr  1 22:08:01 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): IT's normally worth requesting every year or so to make sure there is no one else masquerading as you.
[Fri Apr  1 22:08:08 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): It is.
[Fri Apr  1 22:08:47 2005 MST] TO whiz (#3135): If you snail mail the request, they have to provide it for free.
[Fri Apr  1 22:08:58 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): Yeah.  In Canada.  Not in the US.
[Fri Apr  1 22:09:08 2005 MST] FROM whiz (#3135): It's one of those things that one ought to do, for sure.

>> Network buffer overflow: 432 lines of output to you have been lost <<
[Tue Apr 12 09:05:20 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Sucks, huh.
[Tue Apr 12 09:05:47 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yep, I wish I had a more secluded office, so I could nap :)
[Tue Apr 12 09:05:58 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I'd be all in favour of napping.
[Tue Apr 12 09:06:15 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I'm sure my employer wouldn't be.
[Tue Apr 12 09:07:21 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): No, because they're stupid.
[Tue Apr 12 09:07:43 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Pretty much, yes.
[Tue Apr 12 09:09:14 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): you'd think 4 cups of tea would wake me up.
[Tue Apr 12 09:09:20 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): You'd think so.
[Tue Apr 12 09:10:12 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I wouldn't be surprise if at some point today, myself and my cube mate were both sleeping. He was up working until 2am.
[Tue Apr 12 09:10:25 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Nice.
[Tue Apr 12 09:10:46 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): No overtime either.
[Tue Apr 12 09:11:06 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Of course.
[Tue Apr 12 09:14:40 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Ever had margherita pizza?
[Tue Apr 12 09:15:45 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes, though I can't remember what it is right now.
[Tue Apr 12 09:16:51 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Traditional Italian pizza with chopped tomatoes, mozarella (preferably buffalo), parmesan-reggiano, olive oil, and basil.
[Tue Apr 12 09:17:48 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I think so.
[Tue Apr 12 09:18:01 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): It's one tasty pizza.
[Tue Apr 12 09:18:40 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I just made it the other day
[Tue Apr 12 09:19:08 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Well, I'm off to downtown now.  See you later!
[Tue Apr 12 09:19:43 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Have fun
[Tue Apr 12 13:05:28 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Hey.
[Tue Apr 12 13:07:27 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Tue Apr 12 13:08:19 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): How was DT?
[Tue Apr 12 13:42:12 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I wonder if Eclipse would work well with two processors.
[Tue Apr 12 13:42:51 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): No clue.
[Tue Apr 12 13:43:25 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): It can do automatic background builds, which start to become time consuming when you have 15 projects to build.
[Tue Apr 12 13:44:21 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): No point figuring it out though, since work will never buy dual CPU machines.
[Tue Apr 12 13:46:06 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Because work is stupid.
[Tue Apr 12
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 13:46:19 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Exactly.
[Tue Apr 12 13:46:49 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): For the IDE to function this smothely while it builds, you'd think they'd have to spawn a seperate process.
[Tue Apr 12 13:48:57 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Well, it could also be threaded.
[Tue Apr 12 13:49:03 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): But, yes.
[Tue Apr 12 13:50:05 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Does it have to be a sepereate process or will a thread do to take advantage of 2 CPUs?
[Tue Apr 12 13:50:28 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Threads should, too.
[Tue Apr 12 13:56:27 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Well, I don't think I'll do any more 6:30AM calculus sessions, if it drains me this much.
[Tue Apr 12 14:02:35 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): It would be ok if you worked less.
[Tue Apr 12 14:10:24 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yep.
[Tue Apr 12 14:25:44 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): So, did Aeroplan fix you up?
[Tue Apr 12 14:44:34 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): No, I didn't call them yet.
[Wed Apr 13 11:17:53 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Hey.
[Wed Apr 13 11:17:59 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): G'day.
[Wed Apr 13 11:18:12 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): How's it going?
[Wed Apr 13 11:19:26 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Not bad.  What's up?
[Wed Apr 13 11:19:57 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Just eating a sub.
[Wed Apr 13 11:20:55 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): They emailed me a coupon for $1 off and a free cookie, so how could I refuse?
[Wed Apr 13 11:22:12 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Heh.
[Wed Apr 13 11:23:49 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I also think I'm doing calculus in my sleep, which either means I'm good or really tired. Likely the latter.
[Wed Apr 13 11:44:55 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Do you think it's a good sign of a juice's purity, when natural flavours is the second last thing in a list of 8 ingredients with colouring following it?
[Wed Apr 13 11:45:46 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): It's hard to tell.
[Wed Apr 13 11:46:48 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I think work is serving us inferior juices.
[Wed Apr 13 11:47:22 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): This one sure doesn't taste much like a raspberry.
[Wed Apr 13 11:47:53 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Well, no.
[Wed Apr 13 11:47:58 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I bet it's mainly apple juice.
[Wed Apr 13 11:48:11 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yep.
[Wed Apr 13 11:48:43 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Well, mainly sugar, but the first juice listed is apple.
[Wed Apr 13 11:49:49 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes.
[Wed Apr 13 11:50:37 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): So, what's new?
[Wed Apr 13 11:51:45 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Not much.  Doing various stuff.
[Wed Apr 13 11:52:56 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I've been doing too much calculus for much to be new.
[Wed Apr 13 11:58:38 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Well, that's good.
[Wed Apr 13 12:01:22 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): It increases my justification for getting annoyed at getting less than 80% though.
[Wed Apr 13 12:04:25 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes.  There's not really any reason to.
[Wed Apr 13 12:04:28 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Shoulda practiced earlier, but you still have the final.
[Wed Apr 13 12:05:11 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I did do some prep earlier. And I'm preparing for the final now, there is nothing else.
[Wed Apr 13 12:06:36 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes.
[Wed Apr 13 12:32:08 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Do you feel the same way about software and book piracy as music piracy?
[Wed Apr 13 14:11:12 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Wed Apr 13 14:11:32 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Wed Apr 13 14:11:57 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I have a feeling that Eclipse will drive me nuts before this is through.
[Wed Apr 13 14:12:06 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Doh.
[Wed Apr 13 14:12:20 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Autobuild with 15 projects is not pretty.
[Wed Apr 13 14:12:46 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I guess not.
[Wed Apr 13 14:15:21 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Oh well, atleast it's not my fault if my productivity tanks.
[Wed Apr 13 14:20:22 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Do you think they'll ever pass the anti-piracy laws here?
[Wed Apr 13 14:20:50 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Who knows.  I hope not.
[Wed Apr 13 14:21:35 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Are you against all forms of digital copyright or just for music?
[Wed Apr 13 14:23:23 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Many forms of digital copyright are not well-founded.
[Wed Apr 13 14:23:36 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Like which for example?
[Wed Apr 13 14:23:56 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): ebooks are kind of silly.
[Wed Apr 13 14:24:11 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): It's completely stupid to pass anti-circumvention legislation about them.
[Wed Apr 13 14:24:49 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): What do you think publishers should do? Not publish ebooks or drm?
[Wed Apr 13 14:25:48 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Not use DRM.
[Wed Apr 13 14:26:19 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): So, make knowledge free?
[Wed Apr 13 14:26:51 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I think people can try to charge for information, but it may not necessarily work.
[Wed Apr 13 14:27:22 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): A lot of effort does go into the production of a book.
[Wed Apr 13 14:28:03 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): That's true.
[Wed Apr 13 14:28:49 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Making knowledge understandable is not always easy.
[Wed Apr 13 14:29:13 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I have tons of ebooks, but I find it difficult to just sit at a computer screen and read.
[Wed Apr 13 14:30:33 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I don't think ebooks are a particularly good way to have books.  But there ought to be some way to make things work out.  DRM is not it.
[Wed Apr 13 14:30:49 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yes, I hate DRM.
[Wed Apr 13 14:31:15 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I'm rather pissed that Manning is implemention such a solution.
[Wed Apr 13 14:31:23 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): ...implementing...
[Wed Apr 13 14:31:32 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Manning?
[Wed Apr 13 14:31:43 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Publisher of Java books.
[Wed Apr 13 14:32:19 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Ah.  This doesn't seem to be the right way to do things.
[Wed Apr 13 14:33:04 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): They're concerned that every book they've ever published are showing up on file swapping sites.
[Wed Apr 13 14:33:48 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes, well, it's hard to stop that.
[Wed Apr 13 14:34:14 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Even if you don't produce an ebook, the books still seem to find their way online.
[Wed Apr 13 14:38:16 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes, that's also true.
[Wed Apr 13 14:40:29 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I think the main problem with books is that they're charging far too much.
[Wed Apr 13 14:40:45 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): And making unneccessary updates.
[Wed Apr 13 14:41:46 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): That's textbooks, more than others.
[Wed Apr 13 14:42:07 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yep, but non-fiction books are expensive in general.
[Wed Apr 13 14:42:53 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Except for the mass market ones.
[Wed Apr 13 14:46:02 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yep.
[Wed Apr 13 14:46:15 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): And they really do cost money to produce.
[Wed Apr 13 14:46:26 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Anyway, I think I'll go home now or something.
[Wed Apr 13 14:46:34 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Books only cost like $5 to produce.
[Wed Apr 13 14:46:36 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): See ya.
[Wed Apr 13 17:36:29 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Hey.
[Wed Apr 13 17:37:26 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Bye!
[Wed Apr 13 17:37:50 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Bye.
[Wed Apr 13 20:01:33 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): How was Judo?
[Wed Apr 13 20:02:33 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): It was all right.
[Wed Apr 13 20:03:52 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): IT's hard not to screw up reduction formulas.
[Wed Apr 13 20:05:05 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes, linear algebra also has this property.
[Wed Apr 13 20:05:50 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I've down the question twice and got different wrong answer each time. It also takes a long time to do.
[Wed Apr 13 20:07:18 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Sucks.  That's why you have to keep on doing it.  You g
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et faster.
[Wed Apr 13 20:15:03 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): When's your next trip?
[Wed Apr 13 20:15:44 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Um, I'm going to Sept-Iles in May.
[Wed Apr 13 20:16:18 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): You won't be able to easily get to NS this summer.
[Wed Apr 13 20:23:44 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Why not?
[Wed Apr 13 20:26:10 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): They cancelled the Portland, Maine ferry for the season.
[Wed Apr 13 20:31:53 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Apparently, due to excessive mold.
[Wed Apr 13 20:37:18 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Anyway, I'm off, see ya.
[Thu Apr 14 09:04:56 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Good morning.
[Thu Apr 14 09:09:01 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Thu Apr 14 09:09:41 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I think I just set a new record, I broke a Windows app beyond repair in 3 minutes after receiving it.
[Thu Apr 14 09:09:45 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Nice.
[Thu Apr 14 09:09:54 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): YOu have to love Lotus Notes
[Thu Apr 14 09:10:32 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): No I don't!
[Thu Apr 14 09:10:54 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Me either.
[Thu Apr 14 14:02:45 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Hey.
[Thu Apr 14 14:02:52 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): See you!
[Thu Apr 14 14:53:37 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Bye.
[Fri Apr 15 08:31:13 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Good morning.
[Fri Apr 15 08:43:31 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Fri Apr 15 08:43:38 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): What's going on?
[Fri Apr 15 08:43:59 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Not much.  Heading downtown eventually.
[Fri Apr 15 08:44:30 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Good old downtown. I don't think I've been to a downtown in 3 months.
[Fri Apr 15 08:46:08 2005 MDT] FROM DixieChick (#8501): waves to you.
[Fri Apr 15 08:46:08 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Whee, suburbs.
[Fri Apr 15 08:46:50 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yep. And urbanized central areas.
[Fri Apr 15 08:56:45 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Downtown is passe.
[Fri Apr 15 09:01:53 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I think that you're thinking about suburbs.
[Fri Apr 15 09:02:01 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): COuld be.
[Fri Apr 15 09:02:23 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): You can't have a BBQ downtown though.
[Fri Apr 15 09:03:41 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Balconies, or parks.
[Fri Apr 15 09:03:53 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Or indoor grills.
[Fri Apr 15 09:04:14 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Somehow it's not quite the same, but sure.
[Fri Apr 15 09:04:20 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): True enough.
[Fri Apr 15 09:11:28 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Did you hear about the student who 'hacked' into the University of California's grade system to change his grades?
[Fri Apr 15 09:11:46 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): No.  This isn't especially surprising, though.
[Fri Apr 15 09:11:58 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Actually, maybe I did hear about it.
[Fri Apr 15 09:12:00 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yawn.
[Fri Apr 15 09:12:46 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): He worked at an insurrance company, so he was able to get the teachers social security number and birthdate and thus reset their password.
[Fri Apr 15 09:13:00 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): She actually.
[Fri Apr 15 09:13:23 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Ok.  Time to go downtown.  See you later.
[Fri Apr 15 09:13:27 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Have fun.
[Sat Apr 16 13:37:32 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Hey
[Sat Apr 16 13:39:00 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Sat Apr 16 13:39:24 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): How's it going?
[Sat Apr 16 13:40:12 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Need to go out to Toys R Us now, to get a skipping rope.
[Sat Apr 16 13:40:18 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Calculus?
[Sat Apr 16 13:40:24 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Trying.
[Sat Apr 16 13:40:31 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): What do you need a skipping rope for?
[Sat Apr 16 13:41:17 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Sushi's sister.
[Sat Apr 16 13:41:44 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): How old is Sushi's sister? In Mtl?
[Sat Apr 16 13:43:14 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes, she's like 11 or something.
[Sat Apr 16 13:43:30 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): That's pretty young.
[Sat Apr 16 13:43:57 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yep.
[Sat Apr 16 13:44:00 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): See you.
[Sat Apr 16 13:44:05 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Have fun
[Sat Apr 16 17:34:29 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Hey.
[Sat Apr 16 17:39:12 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Sat Apr 16 17:41:20 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): How's it goign?
[Sat Apr 16 17:44:58 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Pretty full.
[Sat Apr 16 17:45:25 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): What did you have?
[Sat Apr 16 18:14:19 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Mussels and stuff.
[Sat Apr 16 18:16:20 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Burgers and salad here.
[Sat Apr 16 18:19:01 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Not as good!
[Sat Apr 16 18:20:22 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Well, they were BBQed.
[Sat Apr 16 18:21:06 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Better, but not quite!
[Sat Apr 16 18:21:33 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I did make homemade pasta sauce but no one had any apetite left.
[Sat Apr 16 18:25:27 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): This exam could go either way.
[Sat Apr 16 18:25:45 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Well, not really, at this rate, it's more likely to not be pretty.
[Sat Apr 16 18:26:28 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Oops.  Uh oh!
[Sat Apr 16 18:26:46 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Well, what can I say.
[Sat Apr 16 18:27:02 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I have a time machine that you can borrow? :)
[Sat Apr 16 18:27:38 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I can say that, but it won't help you.
[Sat Apr 16 18:28:32 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Heck, maybe I'm just a pessimist though. If I can keep squeezing work from this weekend, I could get an initial run through of much of the material.
[Sat Apr 16 18:29:55 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): That would be a good start.  When's the exam?
[Sat Apr 16 18:30:01 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Friday
[Sat Apr 16 18:36:09 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes, that would be fine if you didn't have to work this week.
[Sat Apr 16 18:36:31 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Doh, huh?
[Sat Apr 16 18:37:28 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Doh.
[Sat Apr 16 18:38:02 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I just need a miracle.
[Sat Apr 16 18:40:49 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Or vacation.
[Sat Apr 16 18:40:55 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Or that.
[Sat Apr 16 18:41:02 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yeah.
[Sat Apr 16 18:41:08 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Well worth it, I'd think.
[Sat Apr 16 18:41:20 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Why is that?
[Sat Apr 16 18:41:33 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): How much vacation?
[Sat Apr 16 18:41:59 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): To get a decent mark in calculus?  It's hard to say how much would be useful.
[Sat Apr 16 18:42:22 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Do you think a day would be useful?
[Sat Apr 16 18:45:18 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes.
[Sat Apr 16 18:45:32 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I can probably get Thursday off.
[Sat Apr 16 18:48:22 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): 1 day off isn't bad, but 5 days off would be expensive.
[Sat Apr 16 18:49:56 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yeah.  Thursday would help, but maybe Wednesday more (sink-in time.)
[Sat Apr 16 18:50:24 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yeah, that's not a problem.
[Sat Apr 16 18:52:06 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I'm taking the summer off after this (except for my two CS courses that I'm challenging).
[Sat Apr 16 18:55:46 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): There, I just booked off Thursday.
[Sat Apr 16 18:56:19 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): er Wednesday
[Sat Apr 16 18:56:28 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Maybe I shoudl just be sick that day instead :)
[Sat Apr 16 19:03:09 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Perhaps.
[Sat Apr 16 19:15:50 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Wow, My dad now has 60 Gb worth of MP3's.
[Sat Apr 16 19:18:27 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): That's quite a lot.
[Sat Apr 16 19:20:13 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yep, you could still get an iPod big enough though.
[Sat Apr 16 19:23:29 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes, yes you could.  Where did he get all these mp3s?
[Sat Apr 16 19:23:51 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): BitTorrent
[Sat Apr 16 19:26:11 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): The iPod 
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Shuffle is cool, but not as much space.
[Sat Apr 16 19:35:41 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): That collection is going to take quite some time to organize.
[Sat Apr 16 19:47:56 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes, yes it is.
[Sat Apr 16 20:28:55 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Nice weather there today?
[Sat Apr 16 20:29:52 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Sure was.
[Sat Apr 16 20:30:06 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Must have been in the low 20's atleast.
[Sat Apr 16 20:30:14 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yep.
[Sat Apr 16 20:31:10 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Who needs Cancun with weather like this?
[Sat Apr 16 20:36:04 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): December?  January?
[Sat Apr 16 20:36:45 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yes, but I meant around now :)
[Sat Apr 16 20:36:51 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I'd prefer Florida actually.
[Sat Apr 16 20:40:14 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Hurricanes.
[Sat Apr 16 20:43:06 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yes, not during Hurricane season.
[Sat Apr 16 20:44:06 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Not during hurricane season.
[Sat Apr 16 20:49:08 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Cancun isn't perfect either.
[Sat Apr 16 20:52:01 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): What's the problem with Cancun?
[Sat Apr 16 20:54:43 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Diseases
[Sat Apr 16 20:59:12 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): And crazy high school kids on spring break.
[Sat Apr 16 20:59:53 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Well, some would consider that an advantage.
[Sat Apr 16 21:01:05 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): It all depends how you look at it.
[Sat Apr 16 21:02:25 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I suppose it does.
[Sat Apr 16 21:05:17 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Anyway, time for some bedtime differential equation reading.
[Sat Apr 16 21:06:55 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Hurrah.
[Sat Apr 16 21:08:49 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Later.
[Sat Apr 16 21:08:53 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Bye!
[Sun Apr 17 14:32:06 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Hey.
[Sun Apr 17 14:42:53 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Calculus?
[Sun Apr 17 14:43:05 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Sure am.
[Sun Apr 17 14:43:23 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Off to fly a kite.  (I think you lose.)
[Sun Apr 17 14:43:34 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): in that kite flying is more fun than calculus.  But less uesful.
[Sun Apr 17 19:32:22 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): How was the calculus of kite flying?
[Sun Apr 17 19:32:37 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I found that my lines were tangled.
[Sun Apr 17 19:33:01 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Discontinuous functions, eh?
[Sun Apr 17 19:33:08 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Oh, too continuous, I think.
[Sun Apr 17 19:34:56 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): My interest level function has a derivative much less than 0.
[Sun Apr 17 19:35:32 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): It's all about setting clear, achievable goals.
[Sun Apr 17 19:35:48 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Like I will get an A+ on the final? :)
[Sun Apr 17 19:39:32 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): One can get A+ in calculus.  However, this may not be the case for you.
[Sun Apr 17 19:39:41 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Why not?
[Sun Apr 17 19:40:34 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Well, it depends on how much calculus you know, doesn't it?
[Sun Apr 17 19:41:20 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I think I could get an A+, but my problem is time and lack of super whiz focus.
[Sun Apr 17 19:42:17 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yep.
[Sun Apr 17 19:42:45 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Almost done my differential equations tutorials.
[Sun Apr 17 19:43:43 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): A good start.
[Sun Apr 17 19:44:54 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I hope one day off is enough.
[Sun Apr 17 19:45:48 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): More is always better, but hey.
[Sun Apr 17 19:47:10 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): You need to trade off between work and study time.
[Sun Apr 17 19:48:07 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Well, I don't, but yeah.
[Sun Apr 17 19:48:45 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Because you're done studying for life :)
[Sun Apr 17 19:49:08 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yeah!
[Sun Apr 17 19:50:27 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I wish I were in your boat.
[Sun Apr 17 19:50:32 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yep!
[Sun Apr 17 19:50:42 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Gotta get there.  You could, for instance, listen to my advice.

>> Network buffer overflow: 115 lines of output to you have been lost <<
[Mon Apr 18 10:01:24 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I was joking about the dictator part.
[Mon Apr 18 10:01:37 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Have you ever seen SCIgen (CS Paper Generator)?
[Mon Apr 18 10:01:55 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Dictators wouldn't be bad if they were somehow benevolent.  But that's hard to ensure.

>> Network buffer overflow: 149 lines of output to you have been lost <<
[Wed Apr 20 08:37:18 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): With some tacked on tree stuff.
[Wed Apr 20 08:37:36 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Oops.  Well, maybe it's not so worthwhile.  It depends on the school.  For instance, CS251 at McGill is worth it.
[Wed Apr 20 08:38:35 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): There is some rudimentary math, but the real stuff is in the Algorithm Analysis course.
[Wed Apr 20 08:39:09 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Right.
[Wed Apr 20 08:39:49 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): You think they're trying to make this a sufficient pain such that most people in their right mind will just take the damn course?
[Wed Apr 20 08:40:24 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I don't know.
[Wed Apr 20 08:40:29 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Ok, I'm off.  See you later.
[Wed Apr 20 08:40:34 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): LAter.
[Wed Apr 20 11:31:17 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): How's it going?
[Wed Apr 20 11:32:50 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Work work work.
[Wed Apr 20 11:33:23 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): That beats wondering if you'll finish enough calculus in time :)
[Wed Apr 20 11:34:44 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes.  Yes, it does.
[Wed Apr 20 13:54:16 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): 8 more study hours left today.
[Wed Apr 20 13:55:18 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Whee!
[Wed Apr 20 13:55:22 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): How goes studying?
[Wed Apr 20 13:55:46 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I think time remaining may be less than time required.
[Wed Apr 20 13:56:07 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): It's amazing how much productivity you can get when there isn't anymore time though.
[Wed Apr 20 13:56:54 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes, indeed.
[Wed Apr 20 13:57:34 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I don't feel comfortable with the param/polar unit but I need to get back to series/sequences.
[Wed Apr 20 13:59:09 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Indeed.
[Wed Apr 20 13:59:19 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Good thing you took a day off today, eh?
[Wed Apr 20 13:59:28 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Sure is.
[Wed Apr 20 13:59:38 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I'll see if I can take off early tomorrow.
[Wed Apr 20 14:00:50 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yeah, that would help.  It's time to go sailing.
[Wed Apr 20 14:01:03 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Have fun
[Thu Apr 21 08:04:50 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Hey.
[Thu Apr 21 08:14:51 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): 12 hours of calculus yesterday
[Thu Apr 21 08:15:52 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Nice.  And 24 hours till the exam?
[Thu Apr 21 08:17:01 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): 40.25 hours actually
[Thu Apr 21 08:18:05 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Er 30.25
[Thu Apr 21 08:39:32 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Calcul-ass puts the ass in asymptotic notation.
[Thu Apr 21 08:51:17 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Whee.
[Thu Apr 21 08:57:22 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Good thinking about taking Wednesday off instead of Thursday.
[Thu Apr 21 08:57:44 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yeah.  Of course, I only give good advice.
[Thu Apr 21 08:58:21 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): :)
[Thu Apr 21 08:58:36 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I think I'll blow off work early and try to get another 6 - 7 hours of review.
[Thu Apr 21 09:00:03 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes, sounds like a good idea to me.
[Thu Apr 21 09:00:28 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Blowing off the whole days is a bit much but if I could get several extra hours, it could make all the difference.
[Thu Apr 21 09:00:45 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes, it co
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uld.
[Thu Apr 21 09:00:45 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I think I'm almost on route to an A+ with respect to preperation.
[Thu Apr 21 09:00:54 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I forgot those damn series tests though.
[Thu Apr 21 09:01:20 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): More work!  More work!
[Thu Apr 21 09:02:01 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): However, I can remember the inverse trig sub stuff and the polar/param eqn stuff.
[Thu Apr 21 09:05:33 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): What are the changes I'll remember this on Saturday morning? :)
[Thu Apr 21 09:05:56 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Oh, you'll remember how terrible the exam was.
[Thu Apr 21 09:06:02 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Or! How well you answered all the questions!
[Thu Apr 21 09:06:55 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): The questions should be relatively straightforward.
[Thu Apr 21 09:07:13 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yeah.
[Thu Apr 21 09:07:19 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Too bad I didn't have time to do more practice problems thoug.
[Thu Apr 21 09:11:06 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Always a problem.
[Thu Apr 21 09:12:36 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): How was the sailing?
[Thu Apr 21 09:16:03 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Nice.  I also ran into my roommate, who was trying to take a sailing lesson.
[Thu Apr 21 09:17:51 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): You have quite the sailing culture there.
[Thu Apr 21 09:21:41 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): How so?
[Thu Apr 21 09:22:49 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Well, you seem to have a lot of sailors.
[Thu Apr 21 09:23:34 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes, we do.
[Thu Apr 21 09:32:00 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Freedom shall be nice.
[Thu Apr 21 09:32:20 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I think the correct word is 'will'.  But I'm off to school now.  SEe you!
[Thu Apr 21 11:28:41 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): How goes Academic stuff?
[Thu Apr 21 11:31:54 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I'm currently procrastinating on reading a paper.
[Thu Apr 21 11:32:05 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I'm an expert at procrastinating.
[Thu Apr 21 12:49:09 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): You could sail and read.
[Thu Apr 21 15:36:11 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Hey.
[Thu Apr 21 19:16:08 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I'm slowly going crazy.
[Thu Apr 21 19:16:16 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Fortunately it's not too much longer.
[Thu Apr 21 19:16:23 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Nope, not at all.
[Thu Apr 21 19:20:20 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Since my brain is almost saturated.
[Thu Apr 21 20:01:12 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): That's a wrap, later.
[Fri Apr 22 09:13:33 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Good morning.
[Fri Apr 22 09:19:53 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Fri Apr 22 21:51:53 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Done done done!
[Fri Apr 22 21:51:55 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): How was it?
[Fri Apr 22 21:52:02 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): (Hurrah!)
[Fri Apr 22 21:52:35 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): bounded below by a B+ and above by an A+, unless I really had a bad calculation day.
[Fri Apr 22 21:52:53 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): That's good.  Did you get to check your answers?
[Fri Apr 22 21:53:00 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): (And is that your exam mark or your final mark?)
[Fri Apr 22 21:53:17 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Most of them.
[Fri Apr 22 21:53:31 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Good, good.  That's the nice thing about integration.
[Fri Apr 22 21:53:34 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I was too busy fixing one to check the last two.
[Fri Apr 22 21:53:47 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): How many questions were there?
[Fri Apr 22 21:54:01 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Unfortunately, most of the stuff wasn't simple integration.
[Fri Apr 22 21:54:07 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): 10
[Fri Apr 22 21:55:03 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): No, of course not.  But they're hard to answer without integration!
[Fri Apr 22 21:55:12 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Now you can take a break!
[Fri Apr 22 21:55:47 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Sometimes when you differentiate, does it not always appear the same at first?
[Fri Apr 22 21:55:55 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes.
[Fri Apr 22 21:58:32 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Argh, I think I may have messed up the the inverse substitution.
[Fri Apr 22 21:58:53 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): It happens.
[Fri Apr 22 21:59:12 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I needed a high mark on that exam.
[Fri Apr 22 21:59:29 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): But that was just one question, right?  Was that one of the two non-checked questions?
[Fri Apr 22 21:59:50 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): No, it was checked. It was also only 1/3rd of a question.
[Fri Apr 22 22:00:10 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): It was more like 30 questions on the exam
[Fri Apr 22 22:05:45 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Darn, my identity was off
[Fri Apr 22 22:05:57 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Oops.  Oh well.  Probably not such a big deal.
[Fri Apr 22 22:06:36 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Maybe he'll give me most of the marks, since my process was all right, I just missed one number in the identity.
[Fri Apr 22 22:06:52 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): That should be mostly all right.
[Fri Apr 22 22:07:31 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Now, I hope I didn't make any more of those.
[Fri Apr 22 22:07:46 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Actually, I think I did, I used the identity twice.
[Fri Apr 22 22:07:47 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I guess you'll find out soon.
[Fri Apr 22 22:10:31 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Well, I got the right answer now, but that doesn't help me much :)
[Fri Apr 22 22:11:26 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): But now you can enjoy your weekend!
[Fri Apr 22 22:11:30 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): It's amazing how tired 4.5 hours of exam writing will make you.
[Fri Apr 22 22:11:36 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I know, freedom!
[Fri Apr 22 22:11:38 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): That's a long exam.  I always had 3-hour exams.
[Fri Apr 22 22:12:17 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): So, what's the next thing in calculus? Intermediate Calculus?
[Fri Apr 22 22:12:26 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yeah.  It's easier, actually.
[Fri Apr 22 22:12:53 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): At least the integrals are easier.
[Fri Apr 22 22:13:27 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Then analysis, which is harder.
[Fri Apr 22 22:13:33 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes, yes it is.
[Fri Apr 22 22:14:23 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): What have you been up to?
[Fri Apr 22 22:27:43 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Any sailing today?
[Fri Apr 22 22:30:28 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yeah.  I'm not very good at racing at the moment.
[Fri Apr 22 22:31:27 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Do you plan to enter a competition?
[Fri Apr 22 22:32:42 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Well, I am entering one in France, but I'm just crew for that one.
[Fri Apr 22 22:35:56 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): That syttill takes skill.
[Fri Apr 22 22:37:24 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes, it does.  But not as much.
[Fri Apr 22 22:38:22 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I'm exhausted. I think I'm going to sleep. Good night.
[Fri Apr 22 22:38:25 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Bye!
[Fri Apr 22 22:38:37 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Have a good night.
[Sat Apr 23 10:55:16 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Hey.
[Sat Apr 23 10:55:28 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Sat Apr 23 10:55:35 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Free! :)
[Sat Apr 23 10:55:39 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Indeed.
[Sat Apr 23 10:55:43 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I'ts quite rainy here.
[Sat Apr 23 10:55:51 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Same here.
[Sat Apr 23 10:57:03 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Unfortunately, I don't think I have any food.  Oops.
[Sat Apr 23 10:57:26 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): You have to keep TV dinners for emergencies like these
[Sat Apr 23 10:57:31 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yeah.  Well.
[Sat Apr 23 10:57:39 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I don't eat TV dinners in general.
[Sat Apr 23 10:57:59 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Some of the newer ones aren't bad.
[Sat Apr 23 11:00:14 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Now, I have to figure out what do with my free tmie
[Sat Apr 23 11:01:36 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Now would be a good time for cooking class, but I guess that didn't work out so well, eh.
[Sat Apr 23 11:02:04 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Why wou
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ld I want to do cooking now that I don't need to procrastinate? :)
[Sat Apr 23 11:03:15 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): To get tasty food?
[Sat Apr 23 11:03:22 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I suppose I could actually *cook* something.  Maybe.
[Sat Apr 23 11:03:36 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Goopd point.
[Sat Apr 23 11:04:36 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I should study calculus in my free time :)
[Sat Apr 23 11:04:57 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Ha.
[Sat Apr 23 11:05:04 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I think this weekend is good for not working.
[Sat Apr 23 11:06:08 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I thought that would be pretty funny. Yep, I slept in. I might do a bit light reading. Watch some TV.
[Sat Apr 23 11:26:16 2005 MDT] FROM DixieChick (#8501): waves
[Sat Apr 23 11:26:49 2005 MDT] TO DixieChick (#8501): Hello.
[Sat Apr 23 12:04:25 2005 MDT] FROM DixieChick (#8501): waves again.
[Sat Apr 23 12:04:31 2005 MDT] TO DixieChick (#8501): Hello.
[Sat Apr 23 12:04:32 2005 MDT] FROM DixieChick (#8501): smiles.
[Sat Apr 23 12:43:56 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): You're buying it?
[Sat Apr 23 16:23:12 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Greetings.
[Sat Apr 23 16:23:23 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Sat Apr 23 16:24:02 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): It's funny that things I wanted to do pre-exam are not boring.
[Sat Apr 23 16:24:41 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Hm?
[Sat Apr 23 16:24:59 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): TV seems boring.
[Sat Apr 23 16:25:17 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): It's good for procrastination though.
[Sat Apr 23 16:26:15 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes.  Did you mean 'boring' and not 'not boring'?
[Sat Apr 23 16:26:32 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yes.
[Sat Apr 23 16:27:41 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Anything exciting in the paper?
[Sat Apr 23 16:28:14 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Paper?
[Sat Apr 23 16:28:27 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Newspaper
[Sat Apr 23 16:28:32 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Hm?
[Sat Apr 23 16:28:51 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): You said you were going to read the paper.
[Sat Apr 23 16:29:11 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): A paper.
[Sat Apr 23 16:29:26 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Ah, ok.
[Sat Apr 23 16:31:33 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I'm just waiting for supper.
[Sat Apr 23 16:43:29 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Is the weather suposed to be nicer tomorrow?
[Sat Apr 23 16:43:38 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Nope.
[Sat Apr 23 16:44:39 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): This sucks for a first weekend off :)
[Sat Apr 23 16:46:11 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): It's taunting you.
[Sat Apr 23 16:46:56 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yep, maybe if I study calculus, the weather will look up
[Sat Apr 23 16:47:41 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): You could try that, but I bet it won't work.
[Sun Apr 24 20:26:25 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Hey.
[Mon Apr 25 10:04:31 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Mon Apr 25 10:10:14 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Hey.
[Mon Apr 25 10:11:19 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): How's it gonig?
[Mon Apr 25 10:13:09 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): This building is falling apart: the water doesn't work and there were panhandlers in the lobby this morning.
[Mon Apr 25 10:34:05 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Doh.
[Mon Apr 25 10:34:19 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Maybe we can use this to get our rent down :)
[Mon Apr 25 10:39:00 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Perhaps.
[Mon Apr 25 10:39:19 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Anything exciting going on?
[Mon Apr 25 10:43:42 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Nope!
[Mon Apr 25 10:44:10 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I wonder when I'll get my calc results.
[Mon Apr 25 10:44:30 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Soon, probably.
[Mon Apr 25 10:45:18 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Seeing that he is highly chumpy and has another two exams being written this week.

>> Network buffer overflow: 379 lines of output to you have been lost <<
[Sat Apr 30 14:28:15 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): That's fine.
[Sat Apr 30 14:28:30 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Implementing algorithms probably is pretty useful.
[Sat Apr 30 14:28:52 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): The new generics feature is great for sorting algorithms.
[Sat Apr 30 14:33:42 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): It's great for many things.
[Sat Apr 30 14:34:04 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yep, JAva 5.0 has a lot of nifty stuff.
[Sat Apr 30 14:34:51 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I'm still working on unsaticfying my sorting algorithm implementation, so you can pass in the sorting algorithm of your choice.
[Sat Apr 30 14:35:32 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Use O'Caml.
[Sat Apr 30 14:35:40 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Why?
[Sat Apr 30 14:40:34 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Functional programming is great for passing in sorting functions like that.
[Sat Apr 30 14:40:59 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): It may not be a bad idea to implement algorithms in different types of languages.
[Sat Apr 30 14:42:18 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): It isn't a bad idea.
[Sat Apr 30 14:46:12 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Since (a) it shouldn't involve much extra work since you've already implemented it once; and (b) I work entirely in one language now, I should make sure I don't get typecast.
[Sat Apr 30 14:47:04 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Not a problem for enlightened employers.
[Sat Apr 30 14:47:08 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Oh, wait.
[Sat Apr 30 14:47:52 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I heard a good quote the other day: "[our] managers are all escaped mental patients"
[Sat Apr 30 14:53:11 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yeah.
[Sat Apr 30 14:53:34 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): It's not hard to pass in function objects in Java. What makes it hard is supporting comparable objects and comparators.
[Sat Apr 30 14:59:20 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): How so?  And, yes, you can just do like Comparable does.
[Sat Apr 30 15:00:18 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Getting generics to do both on the same class.
[Sat Apr 30 15:03:22 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I'm confused from your description.
[Sat Apr 30 15:04:10 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Cool, nevermind, it's easy.
[Sat Apr 30 15:38:00 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Do anything today?
[Sat Apr 30 15:44:49 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Why is O'Caml better than Lisp or Scheme?
[Sat Apr 30 15:49:54 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Typed.
[Sat Apr 30 16:02:19 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Too bad they didn't have an Eclipse plugin for O'Caml.
[Sat Apr 30 16:52:34 2005 MDT] FROM Myra (#8045): hello.  How's everything?
[Sat Apr 30 16:53:18 2005 MDT] TO Myra (#8045): Hey, good, you?
[Sat Apr 30 16:54:16 2005 MDT] FROM Myra (#8045): I'm fine, thanks.  I'm recovering from a BUNCH of stitches across the back of my head.
[Sat Apr 30 16:54:25 2005 MDT] FROM Myra (#8045): that kitchen counter'll never be the same.
[Sat Apr 30 16:54:48 2005 MDT] FROM Myra (#8045): stitches go from ear to ear.
[Sat Apr 30 16:55:19 2005 MDT] FROM Myra (#8045): how is school?
[Sat Apr 30 16:55:32 2005 MDT] FROM Myra (#8045): much better than High School, eh?
[Sat Apr 30 16:56:43 2005 MDT] TO Myra (#8045): Ouch.
[Sat Apr 30 16:56:47 2005 MDT] TO Myra (#8045): It's all good.
[Sat Apr 30 16:57:38 2005 MDT] FROM Myra (#8045): when is it over for the summer?  When do you graduate?  Mud is graduating soon but Catspaw is staying an extra year.  She's calling it a victory lap.
[Sat Apr 30 16:57:52 2005 MDT] TO Myra (#8045): Some day
[Sat Apr 30 16:58:01 2005 MDT] FROM Myra (#8045): pokes you.
[Sat Apr 30 16:58:14 2005 MDT] FROM Myra (#8045): how's your social life?
[Sat Apr 30 16:58:15 2005 MDT] TO Myra (#8045): I'm going part time and working full time.
[Sat Apr 30 16:58:19 2005 MDT] TO Myra (#8045): Fine.
[Sat Apr 30 16:58:43 2005 MDT] FROM Myra (#8045): Ohhh.. ok.. so it'll take a bit longer but you'll have a lot of experience and a good start on the future.
[Sat Apr 30 16:59:04 2005 MDT] TO Myra (#8045): I'm already getting more than a university grad would.
[Sat Apr 30 16:59:29 2005 MDT] FROM Myra (#8045): excellent!
[Sat Apr 30 17:00:09 2005 MDT] FROM Myra (#8045): you ought to go back to that High School counselor and show him/her your check..  tell 'em, I'm doing pretty darn good,eh?
[Sat Apr 30 17:01:07 2005 MDT] TO Myra (#8045): What high school counselor?
[Sat Apr 30 17:01:29 2005 MDT] FROM My
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ra (#8045): didn't someone at high school give you a bit of a hard time your last year there?
[Sat Apr 30 17:02:22 2005 MDT] TO Myra (#8045): A teacher, which I helped to force into retirement.
[Sat Apr 30 17:02:36 2005 MDT] FROM Myra (#8045): oh? woo.. can ya call 'im?
[Sat Apr 30 17:02:54 2005 MDT] TO Myra (#8045): Nope.
[Sat Apr 30 17:03:18 2005 MDT] FROM Myra (#8045): smiles.
[Sat Apr 30 17:03:24 2005 MDT] FROM Myra (#8045): so what are you up to tonight?
[Sat Apr 30 17:03:43 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Not much
[Sat Apr 30 17:03:57 2005 MDT] TO Myra (#8045): Not much
[Sat Apr 30 17:04:41 2005 MDT] FROM Myra (#8045): me either.  I did nothing all day.
[Sat Apr 30 20:26:10 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Hey.
[Sat Apr 30 21:06:29 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Mmm merge sort.
[Sat Apr 30 21:06:41 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): mmm.
[Sat Apr 30 21:07:17 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): It really is a lot faster.
[Sat Apr 30 21:27:05 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): the benefit of delegating small lists to insertion sort seems neglible.
[Sat Apr 30 21:27:20 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Just use an array for small lists.
[Sat Apr 30 21:33:14 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): As opposed to a collection?
[Sat Apr 30 21:33:40 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): ArrayList is fine.
[Sat Apr 30 21:34:06 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Ok, that's what I've been using.
[Sat Apr 30 21:34:40 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): The difference between using merge sort for list segments that are 15 or less or using insertion sort isn't really noticeable.
[Sat Apr 30 21:35:19 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Not much is.
[Sat Apr 30 21:35:50 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): So, why do they bother?
[Sat Apr 30 21:36:26 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): It's more like 100, I think.
[Sat Apr 30 21:38:15 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Nope, that makes it much slower.
[Sat Apr 30 21:39:42 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Dunno.
[Sat Apr 30 21:39:54 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Maybe I have a really bad implementation of insertion sort.
[Sat Apr 30 21:44:17 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Linux still behaving nicely?
[Sat Apr 30 21:52:48 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I changed some ext3 partitions to reiserfs.
[Sat Apr 30 21:57:47 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Well, time for bed, good night.
[Sat Apr 30 21:58:06 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): bye!
[Sat Apr 30 21:58:17 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Later.
[Sun May  1 18:00:24 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Sun May  1 18:00:45 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Hey.
[Sun May  1 18:01:04 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Homemade pizza is tasty.
[Sun May  1 18:05:05 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Indeed.
[Sun May  1 18:05:56 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): How's it going?
[Sun May  1 18:09:51 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Eating would be a good idea.
[Sun May  1 18:11:20 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Sure is
[Sun May  1 18:17:32 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Do anything today?
[Sun May  1 18:18:13 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Sailed.
[Sun May  1 18:19:00 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Cool, I cleaned the basement, which isn't much fun.
[Sun May  1 18:20:10 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): On average, significantly less fun than sailing.
[Sun May  1 18:20:29 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Puts a damper on studying algorithms too.
[Sun May  1 18:21:16 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Wouldn't have to do it if you move out.
[Sun May  1 18:21:45 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I'd still have enough mess to clean up, but true, nothing like the disaster of a basement.
[Sun May  1 18:22:19 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Did you cause this mess?
[Sun May  1 18:22:28 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Nope.
[Sun May  1 18:22:45 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Gee.  That's sort of irksome.
[Sun May  1 18:22:56 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Muchly.
[Sun May  1 18:23:18 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Who did/
[Sun May  1 18:24:27 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Mother and sister.
[Mon May  2 09:16:24 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Good morning.
[Mon May  2 09:16:34 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Mon May  2 09:18:15 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): It's going to be hard to break the habit of checking my marks every couple hours when it's finally posted.
[Mon May  2 09:18:32 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Heh.  A per-day granuarlarity is probably all you need.
[Mon May  2 09:24:58 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yes, but then I dont' see it as it happens :)
[Mon May  2 09:25:31 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yeah, well, it might all happen at night.
[Mon May  2 09:25:34 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Too bad they didn't just email you when your results were in.
[Mon May  2 09:25:57 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Nope, it gets posted when the secretary enters the mark print out into the system.
[Mon May  2 09:26:16 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Ah.  Some systems are batch systems.
[Mon May  2 09:26:47 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I've seen the marks get posted in the middle of the day before, so I don't think this one is batch.
[Mon May  2 09:31:26 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Probably not.
[Mon May  2 09:32:47 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): It must be nice not to have to worry about marks.
[Mon May  2 09:33:03 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Well, there's still conference/journal accept/reject decisions.  But yeah.
[Mon May  2 09:33:12 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): It's not like you're a bad person if your paper is rejected.
[Mon May  2 09:33:32 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Often you're just unlucky.
[Mon May  2 09:33:46 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Sometimes.  Sometimes your papers just suck.  Sometimes you're also lucky too.
[Mon May  2 09:34:00 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): And sometimes a machine wrote your paper.
[Mon May  2 09:34:04 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Often not.
[Mon May  2 09:36:16 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): So, when are you going shopping or did you order the stuff online?
[Mon May  2 11:16:27 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Hey.
[Mon May  2 11:16:30 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): G'day.
[Mon May  2 11:16:58 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Good lunch?
[Mon May  2 11:19:17 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yep.
[Mon May  2 11:23:46 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): So, when do you start teaching courses?
[Mon May  2 11:23:50 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): When I get a job.
[Mon May  2 11:24:15 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): You could always be an MIT sessional while you're waiting.
[Mon May  2 11:24:29 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Not really.
[Mon May  2 11:24:36 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Or not.
[Mon May  2 11:24:37 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): MIT doesn't really do sessionals.
[Mon May  2 11:24:45 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): All tenured?
[Mon May  2 11:25:19 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Tenure-track.
[Mon May  2 11:25:31 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Right.
[Mon May  2 11:25:39 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I guess this is what happens when you have money.
[Mon May  2 11:25:49 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yep.
[Mon May  2 11:28:11 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Does this result in better instruction quality?
[Mon May  2 11:28:15 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I don't think so.
[Mon May  2 11:28:31 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): You'd think it could often make the instruction worse.
[Mon May  2 11:28:36 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Probably better research though.
[Mon May  2 11:32:53 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Hmm, ever look at the EnumSet in JDK 1.5?
[Mon May  2 11:36:39 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Ah, ok, it's design isn't quite as bad as this book made it look.
[Mon May  2 16:33:01 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Hey, how's it going?
[Mon May  2 16:35:06 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Eating would be good.
[Mon May  2 16:38:56 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I agree.
[Mon May  2 16:48:02 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): What are you going to eat?
[Mon May  2 17:17:38 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I ate a chili verde quesadilla from Anna's Taquiera.
[Mon May  2 18:52:12 2005 MDT] TO Rain (#2349): Amy!!! :)
[Mon May  2 20:14:34 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Good night.
[Mon May  2 20:14:48 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Is that a greetings or a partintgs?
[Mon May  2 20:15:01 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Parting.
[Mon May  2 20:15:23 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Our language is kind of ambiguous at times, isn't it?
[Mon May  2 20:16:32 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes.
[Mon Ma
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y  2 20:16:35 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): See you later!
[Mon May  2 20:16:46 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): See ya.
[Tue May  3 10:28:06 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Results! Results! Results! :)
[Tue May  3 10:28:11 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yay?
[Tue May  3 10:28:17 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): A Yay
[Tue May  3 10:28:22 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): A Yay
[Tue May  3 10:28:30 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Calculus is hard, but doable.
[Tue May  3 10:28:41 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): My lowest math mark ever but still acceptable :)
[Tue May  3 10:29:47 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Indeed.
[Tue May  3 10:30:05 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I must have done really well on the final and/or my midterm mark must have been given a lower weight.
[Tue May  3 10:30:43 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Using the posted weightings, I'd have to get a 95 on the exam to get an A.
[Tue May  3 10:32:04 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): So, I must have got between an 88 and a 95 on the final.
[Tue May  3 10:33:10 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I'm glad I took the time off.
[Tue May  3 10:34:38 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): He probably adjusted the weighting slightly, but yeah.  See?  Listening to me is good!
[Tue May  3 10:36:02 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yep, very good.
[Tue May  3 10:36:29 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): He said he may even cut it in half if you did much better on the final.
[Tue May  3 10:38:03 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Now, I can safely say that I don't hate Calculus II.
[Tue May  3 10:39:10 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Hurrah.  Now you're a happy guy, right?
[Tue May  3 10:39:18 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): You bet.

>> Network buffer overflow: 419 lines of output to you have been lost <<
[Sun May 15 18:30:46 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Ah.
[Sun May 15 18:30:57 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): They felt it would be inappropriate in lue of the Pope's passing.
[Sun May 15 18:32:06 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): in lieu
[Sun May 15 18:35:58 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): You should catch it sometimes
[Sun May 15 18:36:31 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Sometimes I see it at dom's.
[Sun May 15 18:37:37 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I've seen every episode about twice :)
[Sun May 15 18:37:58 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): It is entertaining.
[Sun May 15 18:38:10 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Quite, most of them.
[Sun May 15 18:52:52 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I can see why they didn't show this one.
[Sun May 15 18:53:46 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Ha.
[Sun May 15 18:54:11 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): All about Catholicism.
[Sun May 15 18:54:24 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): There's a lot to say about the RC Church.
[Sun May 15 18:54:31 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): And about RC Cola but that's less relevant.
[Sun May 15 18:55:56 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): What is there to say about RC Cola?
[Sun May 15 18:56:28 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Well, it's always 3rd after Pepsi and Coke.  So apparently in some places the major bottlers conspire to make it taste especially bad.
[Sun May 15 18:57:39 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): As a result or to make it 3rd best?
[Sun May 15 19:11:33 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Sucks to be RC
[Sun May 15 19:23:32 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): That's interesting, Lucas had full control over the new movies.
[Sun May 15 19:24:00 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): That doesn't surprise me.
[Sun May 15 19:24:22 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): So, JarJar was his fault.
[Sun May 15 19:25:37 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yep.
[Sun May 15 19:25:40 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): He's not going to make the third triology that fans want.
[Sun May 15 19:27:12 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Well, until he gets bored or something.
[Sun May 15 19:27:34 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): He wants to be done with big movies and make little artsy flicks.
[Sun May 15 19:27:44 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): So he says.
[Sun May 15 19:28:01 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yep, it's like retirement, people mostly get bored of it quickly.
[Sun May 15 19:30:41 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): 2 years and they want to work again.
[Sun May 15 19:31:59 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Not my dad.
[Sun May 15 19:32:11 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): How long has he been retired?
[Sun May 15 19:32:49 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): A couple of years.
[Sun May 15 19:33:00 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I don't think my dad could ever.
[Sun May 15 19:33:53 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): It depends on the person.
[Sun May 15 19:37:16 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Could you ever retire?
[Sun May 15 19:37:38 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yeah, if I had money.
[Sun May 15 19:40:09 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Money is good
[Sun May 15 19:43:12 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): What are you up to till you leave?
[Sun May 15 19:58:30 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Well, it helps with doing stuff.  I'm going to collect timing data, I guess.
[Sun May 15 20:08:04 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): What kind of benchmarks are you taking anyway?
[Sun May 15 20:08:40 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): How long it takes to run my analysis with and without optimization.
[Sun May 15 20:08:51 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): You need a practical number?
[Sun May 15 20:09:22 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Updating the numbers in my VMCAI paper.  You can look at that, if you'd like.
[Sun May 15 20:09:32 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Cool.
[Sun May 15 20:20:52 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): In 2 sentences, what does the MOO roadmap say?
[Sun May 15 20:21:51 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Various technical fixes.  With minimal social impact.
[Sun May 15 20:26:25 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Anything exciting on *gen in the last 3 years?
[Sun May 15 20:27:10 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Er, I don't remember.
[Sun May 15 20:27:24 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I'm sure there's been something.
[Sun May 15 20:27:27 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Neither do I, mainly since I haven't read it.
[Sun May 15 20:28:54 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Indeed.
[Sun May 15 20:30:50 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): What do you think of the roadmap?
[Sun May 15 20:31:59 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I think it's pretty unobjectionable.  It's unclear that it's sufficient, but many things are necessary.
[Sun May 15 20:33:10 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Who is going to supply the required effort?
[Sun May 15 20:36:32 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Dax, for the most part.  I've offered to help with the server hacks, since it would be in line with my area of expertise.
[Sun May 15 20:36:50 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): She'll be busy.
[Sun May 15 20:37:00 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Dax is now a he.
[Sun May 15 20:37:06 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Good to hear.
[Sun May 15 20:37:43 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Maybe we've moved beyond what a MOO can offer us and we need another Core.
[Sun May 15 20:37:54 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Another core?  Or something else?
[Sun May 15 20:38:10 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Something else.
[Sun May 15 20:38:28 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): There seems to be little evidence for this assertion.  These assertions, though, are notoriously hard to verify.
[Sun May 15 20:39:35 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): How old is MOO now? 15 years?
[Sun May 15 20:41:24 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): It's about 11-12 years old.
[Sun May 15 20:42:11 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): The problem is there doesn't seem to be anything that is any better for what we want.
[Sun May 15 20:42:58 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I don't think there is.  Newer isn't necessarily better.
[Sun May 15 20:43:11 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Nope, not neccessarily.
[Sun May 15 20:43:30 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): But one of our big problems is that we don't support newer access technologies.
[Sun May 15 20:43:47 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Anyway, time for a shower and some sleep, later.
[Sun May 15 20:44:28 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): See you.
[Sun May 15 20:44:35 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): LAter.
[Mon May 16 08:48:02 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Morning.
[Mon May 16 13:22:04 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): What's going on?
[Mon May 16 13:23:13 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Writing text.  I suppose I should be runnin benchmarks to.
[Mon May 16 13:23:22 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Multi-tasking.
[Mon May 16 1
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9:46:58 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): (greet whiz)
[Tue May 17 19:37:59 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Hey.
[Tue May 17 19:38:35 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Tue May 17 19:38:45 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): how's it going?
[Tue May 17 20:44:39 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): So, tomorrow is the big day.
[Tue May 17 20:45:20 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): For SW?
[Tue May 17 20:45:44 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): No, for your trip to France, isn't it?
[Tue May 17 20:47:08 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): that too!
[Tue May 17 20:47:27 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): What big day is it for SW?
[Tue May 17 20:49:13 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Star wars?
[Tue May 17 20:49:36 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Ah, that SW. No, it's Thursday.
[Tue May 17 20:53:21 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Thursday afternoon shall be a write off.
[Tue May 17 20:57:34 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Anyway, time for bed. Good night.
[Tue May 17 20:59:02 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Bye!
[Tue May 17 20:59:10 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Have fun sailing.
[Tue May 17 21:00:11 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Thanks!
[Tue May 17 21:00:39 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): And win! :)
[Tue May 17 21:02:02 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Ha.
[Tue May 17 21:02:20 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Anyway, see ya.
[Wed May 18 11:45:34 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Hey.
[Wed May 18 11:56:06 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): See you.
[Fri May 27 12:23:23 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Hey. Welcome back.
[Sat May 28 17:55:18 2005 MDT] FROM Myra (#8045): hi there.. were you able to get on yesterday?
[Sat May 28 17:55:25 2005 MDT] TO Myra (#8045): Nope.
[Sat May 28 18:00:59 2005 MDT] FROM Myra (#8045): me either.
[Sat May 28 19:02:29 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Hey hey.
[Sat May 28 19:02:44 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Sat May 28 19:03:00 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): How was France?
[Sat May 28 19:04:55 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Nice.
[Sat May 28 19:05:02 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): How did the race go?
[Sat May 28 19:05:09 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): It's hard to make a boat go fast...
[Sat May 28 19:05:18 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Sure is.
[Sat May 28 19:05:38 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Mother nature is at the helm unfortunately.
[Sat May 28 19:06:03 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Well, no, we have a real helmsman.
[Sat May 28 19:06:18 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yes, but mtiher nature has the real control.
[Sat May 28 19:06:29 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Well, there's still a lot that you can do.
[Sat May 28 19:07:20 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yes.
[Sat May 28 19:09:55 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Do any interesting sighseeing?
[Sat May 28 19:10:12 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Some.  More Paris, the Jardins de Versailles...
[Sat May 28 19:11:38 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Have any good french food or wine?
[Sat May 28 19:11:45 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Quite a bit.
[Sat May 28 19:12:21 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): And you came back to a broken Moo?
[Sat May 28 19:12:44 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Well, I was back on Thursday.
[Sat May 28 19:12:55 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Ah, ok.
[Sat May 28 19:16:23 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Anything else exciting happen?
[Sat May 28 19:17:03 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Hmm.  I had lunch with an admiral.
[Sat May 28 19:17:34 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Cool, from what navy?
[Sat May 28 19:17:41 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): French.
[Sat May 28 19:18:16 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Was he sailing?
[Sat May 28 19:18:47 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): NOpe.
[Sat May 28 19:20:41 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Did he have anything interesting to say?
[Sat May 28 19:21:41 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Well, he did have things to say about the EU Constitution.
[Sat May 28 19:22:14 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Does he only have to work 25 hours / week?
[Sat May 28 19:26:02 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): No.  And it's 35 anyway.  Which he thought was a dumb idea.
[Sat May 28 19:28:38 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yes, in general. Though, I wouldn't mind being able to work less hours.
[Sat May 28 19:30:02 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): The arguments for it don't seem to be well founded in practice.  But I think you work too much.
[Sat May 28 19:30:37 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Less than a lot of people at my company in the last few weeks.
[Sat May 28 19:33:29 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Darn deadlines.
[Sat May 28 19:34:12 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): How come?
[Sat May 28 19:35:01 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): People are working long hours to try to get stuff done for a release.
[Sat May 28 19:37:12 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): But I'm Mr. No Deadlines.
[Sat May 28 19:37:42 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Hurrah.
[Sat May 28 19:40:12 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Any word from McGill yet?
[Sat May 28 19:40:58 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes.  I got a rejection letter.  With a handwritten postscript.
[Sat May 28 19:41:23 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Doh.
[Sat May 28 19:41:34 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Was the postscript any more positive than the letter?
[Sat May 28 19:41:55 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Blah blah blah timing blah blah.
[Sat May 28 19:42:09 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Let us know what you do and keep an eye out for McGill in the future.
[Sat May 28 19:42:10 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Ah, well, maybe next time.
[Sat May 28 19:44:55 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes.  We shall see.
[Sat May 28 19:45:19 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): They rejected my sister too, but not quite for the same position.
[Sat May 28 19:46:43 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Which one?  B.*?
[Sat May 28 19:46:55 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yes, B everything.
[Sat May 28 19:47:00 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Doh.
[Sat May 28 19:47:10 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Not even arts.
[Sat May 28 19:47:21 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): However, Queens accepted her in anything, go figure.
[Sat May 28 19:47:51 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Perhaps Queen's is just easier to get into.
[Sat May 28 19:50:15 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Apparently not, McGill just doesn't seem to like Ontarians.
[Sat May 28 19:50:36 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Queens and McGill are in the top 5 in Canada, some would put Queens at #1.
[Sat May 28 19:50:40 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): They actually looked at all OACs back when, instead of top 6, like Ontario universities.  This is now moot.
[Sat May 28 19:50:48 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Not for research, that's for sure.
[Sat May 28 19:51:19 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Nope, that's true.
[Sat May 28 19:51:33 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): She's thinking of doing Engineering and Commerce.
[Sat May 28 19:51:59 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I guess they can't be good in everything.
[Sat May 28 19:52:31 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Apparently, they accept from all other provinces first then accept Ontarians.
[Sat May 28 19:53:06 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): McGill has perhaps too many Ontarians already.
[Sat May 28 19:53:48 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): A little rejection isn't such a bad thing.
[Sat May 28 19:54:00 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): It's not terrible.
[Sat May 28 19:54:21 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): IT can be a strong motivating factor.
[Sat May 28 19:55:58 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): So, postgrad?
[Sat May 28 19:56:03 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Huh?
[Sat May 28 19:56:12 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): For you?
[Sat May 28 19:56:21 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): You mean postdoc?  Nah.
[Sat May 28 19:56:28 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Right.
[Sat May 28 19:56:50 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Sadly enough, she'll probably get her degree before me.
[Sat May 28 19:57:19 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Silly work!
[Sat May 28 19:58:19 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Oh well, it's not hurting anything.
[Sat May 28 19:59:50 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Well, it's not that helpful either, I think.  But that's just my opinion.
[Sat May 28 20:00:35 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Working is what most people do for their life.
[Sat May 28 20:00:53 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes.  And?
[Sat May 28 20:01:07 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): So, I'm doing what most people do.
[Sat May 28 20:01:35 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): That doesn't mean that it's a priori good or bad.
[Sat May 28 20:06:51 2005 
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[Sat May 28 20:07:10 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Well, you know what I think.
[Sat May 28 20:07:20 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Chosing what to learn is useful.
[Sat May 28 20:07:32 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Well interesting atleast.
[Sat May 28 20:08:47 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I think it's useful.
[Sat May 28 20:09:30 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I don't know if finding time or figuring out what to focus is harder though.
[Sat May 28 20:10:10 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): They're both hard.
[Sat May 28 20:10:21 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): So is focusing,.
[Sat May 28 20:13:02 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Algorithms, Lisp, OO Design, Caml, Compilers, Code Generation, who can decide :)
[Sat May 28 20:16:05 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Just pick one randomlyl
[Sat May 28 20:16:48 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I guess that could work.
[Sat May 28 20:25:54 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Do they give you a big enough stipend for all this travelling?
[Sat May 28 20:26:54 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Apparently.  Well, some of my travel is paid for.
[Sat May 28 20:27:20 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): They ought to even be able to pay for some of my France trip, since I gave a talk.
[Sat May 28 20:28:11 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): The one you just went on?
[Sat May 28 20:28:47 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): yes.  In fact I don't know how many of my 17 flight segments this year I paid for.  I guess I could check that.
[Sat May 28 20:29:30 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Were half of them to Mtl? :)
[Sat May 28 20:30:17 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Hmm.  19 segments this year (20.8k Aeroplan miles).
[Sat May 28 20:30:37 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): You're a frequent flyer.
[Sat May 28 20:30:40 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Since my last segment, France and Sept-Iles I paid (8 segments); Edinburgh I didn't pay.
[Sat May 28 20:30:45 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes, but not Prestige yet.
[Sat May 28 20:32:13 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Another Mtl-Boston segment paid by school, and a Paris flight by school.  So about 50%.
[Sat May 28 20:32:43 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Why did they pay for Mtl-Boston?
[Sat May 28 20:34:33 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Because I was coming back from a conference.
[Sat May 28 20:34:37 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): via Montreal.
[Sat May 28 20:35:08 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): You have to love non-cheap institutions.
[Sat May 28 20:35:30 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Sure do!
[Sat May 28 20:35:45 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): My company would probably make me hitchhike :)
[Sat May 28 20:36:16 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Probably.  Unless you were a senior manager.  In which case they'd fly you first class.
[Sat May 28 20:36:55 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yep.
[Sat May 28 20:38:47 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Atleast I don't need to travel for my job.
[Sat May 28 20:39:01 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Business travel is supposed to get boring fast.
[Sat May 28 20:39:23 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Well, so is staying at home.  But business travel can suck, depending on how you do it.
[Sat May 28 20:39:53 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): On my company's business trips, you're normall working the whole time you're gone.
[Sat May 28 20:40:19 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes, well, that's your company.
[Sat May 28 20:40:30 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I'm going to Chicago mid-June.
[Sat May 28 20:42:29 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): We seem to have no project management experience in the company.
[Sat May 28 20:42:48 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): That's unfortunate.  Is your company going to go under as a result?
[Sat May 28 20:43:46 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): No problems yet. Maybe they just don't handle people well but they keep things running.
[Sat May 28 20:43:59 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Perhaps.  Or maybe you're just lucky so far.
[Sat May 28 20:44:20 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): You never know.
[Sat May 28 20:44:53 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): We know longer have an HR department, so no one is looking out for us human resources.
[Sat May 28 20:44:58 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): no longer.
[Sat May 28 20:45:13 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): ?!
[Sat May 28 20:45:58 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): HR depts don't always do anything useful, but it seems somehow bad to not have one.  It can be sort of shortsighted to not meet these needs.
[Sat May 28 20:48:45 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): The HR manager quit to move on to a bigger flock of human resources and they didn't bother replacing her.
[Sat May 28 20:49:19 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): What about HR minions?
[Sat May 28 20:49:28 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Don't have any.
[Sat May 28 20:50:08 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Er.
[Sat May 28 20:51:06 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): The HR manager wasn't a people manager, how ironic is that?
[Sat May 28 20:52:16 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): You mean she lacked skillz?
[Sat May 28 20:52:44 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): No, I mean the manager of human resources didn't manage any human resources directly.
[Sat May 28 20:52:51 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Oh.  Right.  Well.
[Sat May 28 20:53:23 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I don't know what the difference betweena good and a bad HR manager. Though, I could probably notice a really bad one.
[Sat May 28 20:54:09 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Catbert, I think.
[Sat May 28 20:54:22 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yes, yes, indeed. That would be an extreme example :)
[Sat May 28 20:54:38 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I bet every place of work has their share of problems.
[Sat May 28 20:55:16 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes, but they're not equivalently bad.
[Sat May 28 20:56:23 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): My job isn't too bad, despite getting paid too little.
[Sat May 28 20:56:32 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Well, that's not so good, is it?
[Sat May 28 20:56:42 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I mean, it makes the point of working not so useful.
[Sat May 28 20:56:56 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): PResumably, it should be fixed in September.
[Sat May 28 20:57:16 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Haven't you heard that one before?
[Sat May 28 20:58:17 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Not exactly.
[Sat May 28 21:00:15 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): They only once promised me more money and didn't follow through.
[Sat May 28 21:00:27 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Ah.
[Sat May 28 21:00:35 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): When I first started.
[Sat May 28 21:00:53 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): However, I have been underpaid since the beginning. Mind you, don't most people think they're underpaid?
[Sat May 28 21:01:31 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): What should a Sr. Developer be making, do you think?
[Sat May 28 21:01:50 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Er, I think it's typically between 55 and 70k.  Or something.
[Sat May 28 21:02:28 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yep, I'll be in that range in September, hopefully.
[Sat May 28 21:02:38 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): But I'm not an expert.
[Sat May 28 21:03:08 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Personally, I think I'm wroth something in the 70's but I'm biased.
[Sat May 28 21:03:26 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Best way to demonstrate that is with a job offer.
[Sat May 28 21:03:40 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): They won't match it.
[Sat May 28 21:03:48 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): How come?
[Sat May 28 21:04:02 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Their HR system makes that impossible.
[Sat May 28 21:04:41 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): What system?
[Sat May 28 21:04:49 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Their payscales.
[Sat May 28 21:05:14 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Salary is fixed based on level. It's impossible to go past level 3.
[Sat May 28 21:05:52 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Ah.  Well, that has good and bad aspects.

>> Network buffer overflow: 279 lines of output to you have been lost <<
[Mon May 30 20:54:51 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): or carbonated drinks for that matter, but less than I don't like carbonated water.
[Mon May 30 20:55:18 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Carbonated water is an aquired tasted and some are better than others.
[Mon May 30 20:58:02 2005 MDT] FROM Myra (#8045): Ms. Canada just won Miss Universe
[Mon May 30 20:58:09 20
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05 MDT] TO Myra (#8045): Cool.
[Mon May 30 20:58:20 2005 MDT] TO Myra (#8045): We're a purdy bunch.
[Mon May 30 20:58:57 2005 MDT] FROM Myra (#8045): laughs
[Mon May 30 21:00:50 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Anyway, time for bed, good night.
[Tue May 31 08:14:37 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Good morning.
[Tue May 31 08:14:54 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Tue May 31 08:15:35 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): How's it going?
[Tue May 31 08:16:38 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Wow, both bathrooms were in use.
[Tue May 31 08:17:31 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Bathroom contention!
[Tue May 31 08:19:16 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Indeed.
[Tue May 31 08:26:20 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): How many people share the two bathrooms? 4?
[Tue May 31 08:26:25 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): 3.
[Tue May 31 08:51:54 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): That must be rare then.
[Tue May 31 08:52:10 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/mjwti/
[Tue May 31 08:57:11 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Not everyone is good at being an entrepreneur.
[Tue May 31 08:57:27 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): It beats being unemployed :)
[Tue May 31 08:57:28 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): It's kind of irksome that (in some peoples' opinions) everyone's expected to be one these days.
[Tue May 31 08:58:15 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Doh.
[Tue May 31 09:24:57 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Doing anything interesting today?
[Tue May 31 09:27:36 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yeah, I think I"ll start by going to school.
[Tue May 31 09:27:49 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Always a god way to start the day.
[Tue May 31 10:08:09 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Hey.
[Tue May 31 10:08:58 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Subversion doesn't do branching as well as I'd like.
[Tue May 31 10:13:12 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): MErging to/from branches that is
[Tue May 31 16:23:40 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Tue May 31 18:11:55 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): C++ is so inelegant.
[Tue May 31 18:14:25 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yup.
[Tue May 31 18:15:13 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I've got to remember it all for the end of the month.
[Tue May 31 18:17:55 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): mMm.  Challenge exam.
[Tue May 31 18:18:21 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Should be easy, right?
[Tue May 31 18:25:20 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yeah.
[Tue May 31 18:25:26 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Is it pass/fail?
[Tue May 31 18:26:16 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yep.
[Tue May 31 18:27:05 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): 70% pass, I beleive.
[Tue May 31 18:28:34 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): That's pretty good.
[Tue May 31 18:29:14 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Maybe it's 75. Somewhere thereabouts.
[Tue May 31 18:29:47 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Then, I've got the other half of the summer to review C.
[Tue May 31 18:30:11 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I should probably write a program or two instead of just reading notes.
[Tue May 31 18:33:17 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Wow, an operator I've never seen before in the first 22 pages of the slides.
[Tue May 31 18:34:37 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes, you should.
[Tue May 31 18:35:52 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Ever seen the .* operator?
[Tue May 31 18:37:10 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): No.
[Tue May 31 18:39:49 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Neither had I.
[Tue May 31 18:44:11 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): No Judo tonight?
[Tue May 31 18:44:17 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Not on Tuesday nights.
[Tue May 31 18:44:50 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): 3 nights a week?
[Tue May 31 18:47:07 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): 3-4, depending.
[Tue May 31 18:53:11 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): How much biking do you do in a week?
[Tue May 31 18:54:04 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Not that much, really.  Just to judo, which is 15 minutes each way.
[Tue May 31 18:54:39 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): see you
[Tue May 31 19:12:04 2005 MDT] FROM Loonie_Guest (#412): hi
[Tue May 31 19:17:40 2005 MDT] TO Loonie_Guest (#412): Hello.
[Tue May 31 19:17:45 2005 MDT] FROM Loonie_Guest (#412): yay. hi
[Tue May 31 19:17:59 2005 MDT] FROM Loonie_Guest (#412): thanks. hey this is moo canada with over 100 young canadians?
[Tue May 31 19:18:00 2005 MDT] TO Loonie_Guest (#412): How are you?
[Tue May 31 19:18:16 2005 MDT] FROM Loonie_Guest (#412): smashing, thanks. 
[Tue May 31 19:18:39 2005 MDT] TO Loonie_Guest (#412): 1335 to be exact, though not all active.
[Tue May 31 19:19:15 2005 MDT] FROM Loonie_Guest (#412): lovely. I expected it to be bigger. 
[Tue May 31 19:19:47 2005 MDT] FROM Loonie_Guest (#412): this other guy wont awnser my pages.
[Tue May 31 19:20:14 2005 MDT] TO Loonie_Guest (#412): Who won't?
[Tue May 31 19:20:32 2005 MDT] TO Loonie_Guest (#412): Myra is friendly.
[Tue May 31 19:20:38 2005 MDT] FROM Loonie_Guest (#412): the guy who keeps changing names.
[Tue May 31 19:22:44 2005 MDT] FROM Loonie_Guest (#412): can i make a character? Or is it sorta-- closed?
[Tue May 31 19:22:58 2005 MDT] TO Loonie_Guest (#412): Nope, it's open.
[Tue May 31 19:23:08 2005 MDT] FROM Loonie_Guest (#412): how?
[Tue May 31 19:23:42 2005 MDT] TO Loonie_Guest (#412): I haven't done it in 10 years, not quite sure :)
[Tue May 31 19:23:51 2005 MDT] FROM Loonie_Guest (#412): 10 years?
[Tue May 31 19:24:04 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): 10 years and 8 months
[Tue May 31 19:24:12 2005 MDT] TO Loonie_Guest (#412): 10 years and 8 months
[Tue May 31 19:24:25 2005 MDT] FROM Loonie_Guest (#412): you own this moo?
[Tue May 31 19:24:36 2005 MDT] TO Loonie_Guest (#412): Nope.
[Tue May 31 19:24:42 2005 MDT] FROM Loonie_Guest (#412): who does?
[Tue May 31 19:24:53 2005 MDT] FROM Loonie_Guest (#412): who is the oldest?
[Tue May 31 19:26:40 2005 MDT] TO Loonie_Guest (#412): I don't really know who would be said to own it and there are quite a few people who have been around for awhile.
[Tue May 31 19:27:05 2005 MDT] FROM Loonie_Guest (#412): hum.. well do you think <I>/someone/</I> could tell me how to make a characer
[Tue May 31 19:28:30 2005 MDT] TO Loonie_Guest (#412): Type: @request
[Tue May 31 19:29:19 2005 MDT] FROM Loonie_Guest (#412): your canadian?
[Tue May 31 19:29:25 2005 MDT] FROM Loonie_Guest (#412): :pats your head.
[Tue May 31 19:29:34 2005 MDT] TO Loonie_Guest (#412): Yes.
[Tue May 31 19:29:47 2005 MDT] FROM Loonie_Guest (#412): thats cute.
[Tue May 31 19:30:13 2005 MDT] TO Loonie_Guest (#412): What is?
[Tue May 31 19:31:04 2005 MDT] FROM Loonie_Guest (#412): :shrugs "Canada... dunno. Just trying to end the conversatin so i can go gcreate a character. :Points to the name changer: will this guy ever talk?"
[Tue May 31 19:31:18 2005 MDT] TO Loonie_Guest (#412): Not likely.
[Tue May 31 19:31:28 2005 MDT] FROM Loonie_Guest (#412): why not?
[Tue May 31 19:31:46 2005 MDT] TO Loonie_Guest (#412): Don't know.
[Tue May 31 19:32:07 2005 MDT] FROM Loonie_Guest (#412): does he ever talk to you?
[Tue May 31 19:32:39 2005 MDT] TO Loonie_Guest (#412): Never met him.
[Tue May 31 19:33:03 2005 MDT] FROM Loonie_Guest (#412): your a peach. I will bbiab.
[Wed Jun  1 08:21:43 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Good morning.
[Wed Jun  1 08:21:48 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Wed Jun  1 08:23:02 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): No bathroom contention today?
[Wed Jun  1 08:23:23 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Nope.  One dudce is moving out, actually.
[Wed Jun  1 08:47:38 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Are you getting another one?
[Wed Jun  1 08:49:01 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Huh?
[Wed Jun  1 08:49:11 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Are you getting a replacement dude.
[Wed Jun  1 08:49:34 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Ah.  Yes.
[Wed Jun  1 08:52:11 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Is there a vacant room or is there only 3 rooms in your suite?
[Wed Jun  1 08:53:38 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): 3-room suite.
[Wed Jun  1 08:53:55 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): That's pretty nice. I think they're all 4-rooms at Carleton.
[Wed Jun  1 08:55:01 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): This building has a wide variety of room types.
[Wed Jun  1 08:55:21 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Is it a modern building?
[Wed Jun  1 08:56:08 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Renovated in '91.
[Wed Jun  1 08:58:12 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Cool. Only 14 years old.
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Wed Jun  1 09:03:33 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): It's hard to keep stuff new for long.
[Wed Jun  1 09:05:22 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Well, I think I need a parser.
[Wed Jun  1 09:18:06 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Do you think antlr or sablecc is easier to learn to use quickly?
[Wed Jun  1 09:19:05 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): THey're actually both pretty simple.
[Wed Jun  1 09:19:19 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): All I need to do is parse a Java interface.
[Wed Jun  1 09:19:21 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Except when you get a shift-reduce conflict.
[Wed Jun  1 09:31:13 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I should be able to use the pre-built grammar for Java.
[Wed Jun  1 09:31:50 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Correct.
[Wed Jun  1 09:32:01 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Go reusability.
[Wed Jun  1 09:32:42 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I need to get information out of an interface since Java doesn't publish it to the class file.
[Wed Jun  1 09:38:54 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Any idea what license SableCC is under?
[Wed Jun  1 09:41:15 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): GPL
[Wed Jun  1 09:41:23 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Or LGPL + exception.  But I think GPL.
[Wed Jun  1 09:43:10 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Hmm, Antlr seems to have moved to a more restrictive license in Antlr 3. From you can do whatever you want with the source to the BSD license.
[Wed Jun  1 09:45:43 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): BSD is just more clear.  It's not restrictive at all.
[Wed Jun  1 09:46:23 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): compared to GPL, it's definately not restrictive, but it is more restrictive than you can do whatever the hell you want with our code.
[Wed Jun  1 09:47:25 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): It's just clearer.  It's pretty close to 'can do whatever you want'.
[Wed Jun  1 09:47:57 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yep. It essentially is except it indicates: (a) we get credit and (b) we are not liable for problems.
[Wed Jun  1 09:48:14 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): And even credit is not so onerous.
[Wed Jun  1 09:48:22 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Nope.
[Wed Jun  1 09:48:43 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I think I'll have to use Antlr for licensing reasons and due to the larger community surrounding it.
[Wed Jun  1 09:48:57 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): It's a fine tool, I'm sure.
[Wed Jun  1 09:49:04 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Though I do like the fact that SableCC has an updated Eclipse plugin.
[Wed Jun  1 09:52:04 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Atleast I should be able to not worry about building a tree grammar.
[Wed Jun  1 09:52:34 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Actually, no, I'll probably need one.
[Wed Jun  1 10:45:16 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Mmmm lunch
[Wed Jun  1 13:30:02 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): How did you learn Caml?
[Wed Jun  1 13:47:06 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Hacking.
[Wed Jun  1 13:51:16 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): They have a book but only in French.
[Wed Jun  1 13:57:01 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): No, it's also translated (online).
[Wed Jun  1 13:57:10 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Cool.
[Wed Jun  1 16:17:38 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): How's it going?
[Wed Jun  1 16:18:16 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): THinking is hard.
[Wed Jun  1 16:18:38 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): No kidding, what are you thinking about?
[Thu Jun  2 08:30:13 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Thu Jun  2 08:30:18 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Hey, how's it going?
[Thu Jun  2 08:30:25 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Not bad.  What's up?
[Thu Jun  2 08:30:51 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Just looking at a new version of some software. Nothing too exciting really. Yourself?
[Thu Jun  2 08:32:28 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Reading the Globe & Mail.
[Thu Jun  2 08:32:36 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Any interesting news?
[Thu Jun  2 08:34:00 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Nah, not really.
[Thu Jun  2 08:36:44 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Seems to often be the way.
[Thu Jun  2 10:28:00 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Done the Globe yet?
[Thu Jun  2 10:29:15 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yep.  Also, had lunch.
[Thu Jun  2 17:29:38 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Hey.
[Thu Jun  2 18:49:17 2005 MDT] FROM Quadir (#9780): yo
[Thu Jun  2 20:29:25 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Hey hey, how was Judo?
[Thu Jun  2 20:29:36 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Thursday.  No judo.  Had food at the Elephant Walk.
[Thu Jun  2 20:29:46 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): What kind of food is that? African?
[Thu Jun  2 20:30:02 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): French/Cambodian.
[Thu Jun  2 20:30:27 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Interesting. Good?
[Thu Jun  2 20:32:51 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): All the stories on the news today seemed to be drug related: study-enhancing drugs and age-reducing drugs.
[Thu Jun  2 20:41:23 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I need some calculus-enhaving drugs :)
[Fri Jun  3 07:34:02 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Fri Jun  3 07:42:04 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Hey!
[Fri Jun  3 07:42:15 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): You're up early this morning.
[Fri Jun  3 07:42:27 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): So I am.  I seem to be relatively variable these days.
[Fri Jun  3 07:42:50 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): You're probably still recovering from France.
[Fri Jun  3 07:43:25 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): That's unlikely, actually, since it's been a week already.
[Fri Jun  3 07:43:44 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yes, but when you get into a routine it's sometimes harder to break.
[Fri Jun  3 07:43:50 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I ran into my Calculus 2 prof yesterday.
[Fri Jun  3 07:44:01 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Well, yesterday I got up at 10:30 or 11 or something.
[Fri Jun  3 07:44:09 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Cal 2?  Which one?  The one which you took?
[Fri Jun  3 07:44:18 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yep, the one I just took.
[Fri Jun  3 07:44:27 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): You are a radical variable then :)
[Fri Jun  3 07:44:45 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Any interesting conversation?
[Fri Jun  3 07:45:02 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): He remembered that I did exceptionally well on the final.
[Fri Jun  3 07:45:10 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Nice.
[Fri Jun  3 07:45:28 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): He was disappointed with the class on average though, as most people didn't learn form their midterm mistakes.
[Fri Jun  3 07:45:44 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I guess you sure did!
[Fri Jun  3 07:46:05 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yep, I put in insane amounts of prep for that exam.
[Fri Jun  3 07:47:08 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yep.  Which seems to have paid off.
[Fri Jun  3 07:47:46 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Darn right. It must be hard to be a prof when most students don't put in sufficient effort.
[Fri Jun  3 07:47:57 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Atleast I know that I didn't get bell curved up.
[Fri Jun  3 07:48:03 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): talldarkandmysterious.ca is all about that.
[Fri Jun  3 07:48:33 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Not only that, but people email you and complain.  She gives people names.  Like 'My Life is Hard, and So Is Math'.
[Fri Jun  3 07:48:35 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I had to make a last minute run to campus to deal with some challenge paperwork due tomorrow.
[Fri Jun  3 07:48:43 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Whee.
[Fri Jun  3 07:48:52 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Today is Commencement day here.
[Fri Jun  3 07:49:09 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Cool, does that mean there is free food around? :)
[Fri Jun  3 07:49:29 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yesterday and today.  Plus we went out to the Elephant Walk yesterday, which was quite tasty.  (French Cambodian).
[Fri Jun  3 07:49:49 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Oh, to celebrate some leaving Grad students?
[Fri Jun  3 07:50:03 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Darko's gone.  He started at UIUC in January actually.  But, yes.
[Fri Jun  3 07:50:08 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): He's back for commencement.
[Fri Jun  3 07:50:29 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Cool, so you're at the top of the grad student ladder now, aren't you?
[Fri Jun  3 07:50:39 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): No, Brian and Alex have been here for a year longer.
[Fri Jun  3 07:50:52 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Brian's got an offer from UC Irvine.
[Fri Jun  3 07:51:27 2005 MDT] TO 
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whiz (#3135): It must not be too difficult to get a job after graduating from a PhD at MIT.
[Fri Jun  3 07:52:14 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): You'd think that, wouldn't you.  Alas.
[Fri Jun  3 07:52:23 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Well, you're picky :)
[Fri Jun  3 07:52:24 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): It depends on what type of job you want, actually.

>> Network buffer overflow: 336 lines of output to you have been lost <<
[Sat Jun  4 16:17:22 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): But this is sort of a moot point.  $250C.
[Sat Jun  4 16:17:48 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Well, you can tour Halifax.
[Sat Jun  4 16:18:03 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): On public transit :)
[Sat Jun  4 16:18:11 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): That seems doable.
[Sat Jun  4 16:18:29 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Well, it's only $64 to decrease the layover to 6 hours total for both ways.
[Sat Jun  4 16:18:59 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): That's fine, I guess.
[Sat Jun  4 16:19:19 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Actually I need to increase the layover for my flight to Japan, 35m is really too close.  I'll show up at the airport early and go, like, 'dudes!'
[Sat Jun  4 16:19:39 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): 35m is way too close.
[Sat Jun  4 16:19:46 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): (even for me)
[Sat Jun  4 16:19:57 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): What's the contingency plan if you miss the connection?
[Sat Jun  4 16:20:09 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): They are forced to put you on another flight, but it might be the next day.
[Sat Jun  4 16:20:24 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Are there any earlier flights?
[Sat Jun  4 16:20:27 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): However, I can show up at the airport earlier and say 'you want to put me on an earlier flight. duh'
[Sat Jun  4 16:20:32 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes, it's to chicago.
[Sat Jun  4 16:21:38 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): This reminds me of my Provincetown experience.  Did you see the page?
[Sat Jun  4 16:22:05 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): What page?
[Sat Jun  4 16:23:20 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): You could call now and there would be less chance that the flight would already be full.
[Sat Jun  4 16:24:00 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): plam.csail.mit.edu, it's linked 'how to get to a workshop'
[Sat Jun  4 16:24:14 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Changes prior to departure date have different rules.
[Sat Jun  4 16:24:23 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): e.g. those that would cost me money.
[Sat Jun  4 16:24:50 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Ah, with some packages/airlines, it doesn't.
[Sat Jun  4 16:25:01 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Supper time, back later.
[Sat Jun  4 16:25:03 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): It is pretty rare that this happens for the prices I tend to pay.
[Sat Jun  4 16:25:26 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): See ya.
[Sat Jun  4 16:25:31 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Bye!
[Sat Jun  4 20:31:16 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Everything after rcs_id should go away.
[Sat Jun  4 21:11:23 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): 
[Sat Jun  4 21:11:28 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Hey.
[Sat Jun  4 21:12:31 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Sat Jun  4 21:12:59 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): So much for a fast dinner, we had guests.
[Sat Jun  4 21:14:49 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Was it tasty?
[Sat Jun  4 21:15:04 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yep, very.
[Sat Jun  4 21:15:32 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Morocan chicken on rice, coleslaw, salad, and ginger bread for desert.
[Sat Jun  4 21:15:47 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Nice.
[Sat Jun  4 21:16:10 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): My uncles and two of their friends were there.
[Sun Jun  5 11:28:49 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Hey.
[Sun Jun  5 11:28:56 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Sun Jun  5 11:29:06 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): How's it going?
[Sun Jun  5 11:29:19 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Working on fontconfig.
[Sun Jun  5 11:29:42 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Building functionality or configuring?
[Sun Jun  5 11:30:03 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Building functionality.  There's a GNOME Bounty on that.
[Sun Jun  5 11:30:31 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Cool, what are you adding?
[Sun Jun  5 11:30:50 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Something to allow the cache data to be mmapped.
[Sun Jun  5 11:31:33 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I'm studying for work.
[Sun Jun  5 11:31:47 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Erm?
[Sun Jun  5 11:32:43 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Well, it's generic stuff too. Looking at UML2, Enterprise Integration and such.
[Sun Jun  5 11:32:51 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): This sounds rather boring.
[Sun Jun  5 11:36:32 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yep, but one must stay up to date.
[Sun Jun  5 11:40:57 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Hmm, it is quite annoying that all the air conditioner's cool air seems to be distributed to the bottom two floors.
[Sun Jun  5 11:41:12 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I bet.  We have a rather powerful AC unit here.
[Sun Jun  5 11:41:43 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): You'd have to in order to cool your entire building.
[Sun Jun  5 11:41:52 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I need some more BTU's darnit!
[Sun Jun  5 11:42:20 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Or BTU removal, I guess.
[Sun Jun  5 11:43:02 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I think the problem may be that heat rises.
[Sun Jun  5 11:43:18 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes, yes it does.
[Sun Jun  5 11:43:46 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I wonder if an AC would be more effective on the top floor.
[Sun Jun  5 11:44:02 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): It never is, for some reason.
[Sun Jun  5 11:44:49 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Good thing I got rid of my hot CRT monitor.
[Sun Jun  5 11:45:01 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): CRTs suck.
[Sun Jun  5 11:45:32 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): This is the sound of me not arguing :
[Sun Jun  5 11:46:21 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Indeed.
[Sun Jun  5 11:51:58 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): How is your 20" widescreen LCD working for you?
[Sun Jun  5 11:52:32 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Well, it's quite satisfactory.  Computers haven't worked nearly as well (cf: yesterday's CF failure).
[Sun Jun  5 11:53:10 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Computers have more stuff to go wrong.
[Sun Jun  5 11:55:34 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Ever heard of the Pentium D?
[Sun Jun  5 11:56:23 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): No.
[Sun Jun  5 11:57:14 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Apparently it truly enables the CPU to do two things at once
[Sun Jun  5 11:57:56 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): That's probably good, or something.
[Sun Jun  5 11:58:18 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Two execution cores in one CPU. It's supposed to be the evolution of Hyperthreads.
[Sun Jun  5 12:06:51 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Looks like the AMD processor is better.
[Sun Jun  5 12:07:21 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): In some ways, I guess.  Of course, here I am using a VIA.
[Sun Jun  5 12:07:41 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Wow, that's unorthodox.
[Sun Jun  5 12:07:49 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Fanless, dude.
[Sun Jun  5 12:08:20 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Good point.
[Sun Jun  5 12:08:58 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): How do you use Debian for a desktop machine? I can't get it right, whereas RedHat just works for me out of the box.
[Sun Jun  5 12:10:07 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): RedHat?  Eh?  You mean Fedora?
[Sun Jun  5 12:10:16 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): It just works for me.  Well, maybe I kick it sometimes.  What's your questino?
[Sun Jun  5 12:11:37 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yes. It wasn't a specific question. I've just tried to setup a Debian workstation, but it doesn't support the latest version of Gnome, it doesn't look as pretty as Fedora's blue curve, and I could get it to do a widescreen resolution.
[Sun Jun  5 12:11:48 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): And it doesn't support XOrg out of the box.
[Sun Jun  5 12:12:23 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes.  ubuntu does, though.
[Sun Jun  5 12:12:33 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): ubuntu?
[Sun Jun  5 12:12:34 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): This is kind of annoying, but hopefully Debian will support Xorg soon.
[Sun Jun  5 12:12:44 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): ubuntu is a debian-derived distribution that's pretty good.
[Sun Jun  5 12:12:58 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): You can compile it under Debian and su
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ch though, but that's work.
[Sun Jun  5 12:13:19 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Sure is.
[Sun Jun  5 12:15:40 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Apparently the dual core processors are almost equivelant to what a full dual processor machine can do.
[Sun Jun  5 12:16:11 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): They might be better in some ways.
[Sun Jun  5 12:16:39 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Well, with respect to cost, yes.
[Sun Jun  5 12:17:15 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): The AMD's are also better due to lower power consumption, less heat, and they didn't have to drop the speeds from the single processor max (i.e. 3.2 instead of 3.8)
[Sun Jun  5 12:19:53 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): They have 3.8GHz processors now?
[Sun Jun  5 12:20:24 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Sure do.
[Sun Jun  5 12:20:36 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): They're really expensive though.
[Sun Jun  5 12:31:05 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Good thing they have something new on the horizon since CPU won't be getting much faster in the near future.
[Sun Jun  5 12:31:11 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): That's right.
[Sun Jun  5 12:31:24 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Can they even reach 4.0 now?
[Sun Jun  5 12:31:42 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Dunno.
[Sun Jun  5 12:33:13 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Does the average user really need two CPUs though?
[Sun Jun  5 14:11:04 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): How long of biking does it take to run out of that first kind of energy?
[Sun Jun  5 14:11:24 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): You mean anaerobic?  Biking isn't very anaerobic.
[Sun Jun  5 14:13:50 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): How come it gets more tiring after several minutes though?
[Sun Jun  5 14:14:33 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Well, aerobic system starts working after 2 minutes.
[Sun Jun  5 14:15:26 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Can the amount of anaerobic energy be increased?
[Sun Jun  5 14:15:33 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yeah.  But not the duration.
[Sun Jun  5 14:15:43 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): That sucks.
[Sun Jun  5 14:15:54 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): But your aerobic system can become better, too.
[Sun Jun  5 14:16:31 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I guess, Le Tour de France is a good example of that.
[Sun Jun  5 14:16:53 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): But there's still a transition between anaerobic and aerobic.
[Sun Jun  5 14:17:46 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): How fast can you bike?
[Sun Jun  5 14:18:37 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Well, that actually depends on if I'm riding a $25 bike or not.
[Sun Jun  5 14:18:51 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): You use a $25 bike?
[Sun Jun  5 14:18:55 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Correct.
[Sun Jun  5 14:19:03 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Used?
[Sun Jun  5 14:19:12 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yeah.  Two for $55 or something on someone's lawn.
[Sun Jun  5 14:19:34 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Cool, decent bike?
[Sun Jun  5 14:19:48 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Not really.
[Sun Jun  5 14:20:14 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I guess you wouldn't expect much for $25.
[Sun Jun  5 14:20:28 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Not going to upgrade?
[Sun Jun  5 14:20:33 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Why would I?  I just bike in town.
[Sun Jun  5 14:20:44 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): But my former roommate made some noises about giving me his nice bike.
[Sun Jun  5 14:20:52 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Didn't want it?
[Sun Jun  5 14:21:10 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Well, only when he leaves for Japan.  Which should be any day now.
[Sun Jun  5 14:22:10 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Mine was a couple hundread I think
[Sun Jun  5 14:22:21 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): That's standard, yes.
[Sun Jun  5 14:23:28 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Darn expensive bikes
[Sun Jun  5 14:28:25 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Anyway, I should probably make some food, see ya.
[Sun Jun  5 17:55:55 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Sun Jun  5 17:57:18 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): G'\day.
[Sun Jun  5 17:57:58 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): What's up? How goes the fontconfig?
[Sun Jun  5 17:58:08 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Converting stuff to stuff.  (Yeah!)
[Sun Jun  5 17:58:33 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Mmm conversions
[Sun Jun  5 18:00:41 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Coding in C?
[Sun Jun  5 18:00:59 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yeah.  C is kind of unfortunate in some ways.
[Sun Jun  5 18:02:05 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Even more unfortunate than C++
[Sun Jun  5 18:16:26 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Mmm, work tomorrow.
[Sun Jun  5 18:16:39 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I guess that's how it works, eh.
[Sun Jun  5 18:16:45 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yep.
[Mon Jun  6 06:35:14 2005 MDT] FROM DixieChick (#8501): waves.
[Mon Jun  6 06:35:20 2005 MDT] TO DixieChick (#8501): Hello.
[Mon Jun  6 06:35:48 2005 MDT] FROM DixieChick (#8501): heya - how are ya?
[Mon Jun  6 06:36:03 2005 MDT] TO DixieChick (#8501): Good, you?
[Mon Jun  6 06:40:35 2005 MDT] FROM DixieChick (#8501): pretty good ;) working today <B>*kinda sux, but its my Friday*</B>
[Mon Jun  6 08:45:50 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Good morning.
[Mon Jun  6 08:45:51 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Mon Jun  6 08:46:00 2005 MDT] FROM DixieChick (#8501): waves.
[Mon Jun  6 08:46:04 2005 MDT] TO DixieChick (#8501): Hello.
[Mon Jun  6 16:29:10 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Hey, what's up?
[Mon Jun  6 19:21:14 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Mon Jun  6 19:21:43 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Mon Jun  6 19:23:33 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): How are things?
[Mon Jun  6 19:23:54 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): fontconfig hacking!
[Mon Jun  6 19:24:36 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): That's quite the project.
[Mon Jun  6 19:25:33 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Well, it's not such a big project.
[Mon Jun  6 19:26:17 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): But all development seems to take quite some time.
[Mon Jun  6 19:28:34 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes.
[Mon Jun  6 19:32:35 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Average development progress is apparently only 10 lines / day
[Mon Jun  6 19:33:22 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): That includes debugging, I bet.
[Mon Jun  6 19:33:39 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): And testing, design, sleeping on the job, probably.
[Mon Jun  6 19:35:21 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): My average has been about 0 lines / day lately.
[Mon Jun  6 19:36:56 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): However, I haven't been coding lately either at work.
[Mon Jun  6 19:37:07 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Wha5t have you been doing?
[Mon Jun  6 19:37:40 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Configuration, research, and design meetings
[Mon Jun  6 19:38:05 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): It's amazing how little coding I have to do.
[Mon Jun  6 19:38:32 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yeah.
[Mon Jun  6 19:39:22 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Anyway, I have to do some coding starting in the next week or so.
[Mon Jun  6 19:41:48 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Is it fun?
[Mon Jun  6 19:42:02 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): The new project, or not coding?

>> Network buffer overflow: 102 lines of output to you have been lost <<
[Thu Jun 16 19:29:28 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Group of how many?
[Thu Jun 16 19:29:44 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): 8. We were their first big group. i.e. more than 4.
[Thu Jun 16 19:29:59 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Nice.
[Thu Jun 16 19:31:12 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I almost downgraded to a Siemens router and then saw the extreme error.
[Thu Jun 16 19:31:21 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Why would yo do that?
[Thu Jun 16 19:31:35 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): They were giving it away free and it had a built-in DSL modem.
[Thu Jun 16 19:32:43 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Ah.  But still not so good, huh.
[Thu Jun 16 19:32:55 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Disaster, I'm returning it.
[Thu Jun 16 19:33:09 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Right.
[Thu Jun 16 19:33:41 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I did upgrade my high speed connection though.
[Thu Jun 16 19:33:54 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): To what?
[Thu Jun 16 19:34:02 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): 4 mbps
[Thu Jun 16 19:34:36 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Not as fast as mine.
[Thu Jun 16 19:34:43 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Optical? :)
[Thu Jun 16 19:39:33 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): 3 to 4 seems to make a surprisingly big difference.
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 Jun 16 19:44:05 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Perhaps it wasn't really 3 before.
[Thu Jun 16 19:44:25 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Could be. It doubles web page loading speed.
[Thu Jun 16 20:04:36 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I somehow managed to get cheaper transport to NS
[Thu Jun 16 20:05:09 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): What is your plan?
[Thu Jun 16 20:05:38 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): The Air Canada prices came down for the near optimal flights.
[Thu Jun 16 20:08:52 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes, I noticed that too.  I'm going to book a ticket to Montreal for July.
[Thu Jun 16 20:09:07 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Cool.
[Thu Jun 16 20:09:21 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): the flight I wanted in came down from $200 to $109
[Thu Jun 16 20:12:10 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yeah.  Nice.

>> Network buffer overflow: 340 lines of output to you have been lost <<
[Tue Jun 28 10:36:20 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Good lunch?
[Tue Jun 28 10:37:13 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): It was all right.
[Tue Jun 28 10:38:53 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): It is quite hot out there
[Tue Jun 28 10:39:20 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Feels like 41C here.
[Tue Jun 28 10:41:14 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): It's 23C here.
[Tue Jun 28 10:41:20 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Lucky.
[Tue Jun 28 10:43:25 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): We could use a big body of water to moderate our temperature.
[Tue Jun 28 10:44:06 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes, that always helps.
[Tue Jun 28 10:45:59 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): However, the ocean seems to moderate NS too much.
[Tue Jun 28 10:49:46 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I think it just makes it cold.
[Tue Jun 28 10:50:18 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): but then you have BC. I think it likely depends on many factors.
[Tue Jun 28 10:52:44 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I hope I stay awake for my exam tonight.
[Tue Jun 28 10:55:22 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Adrenalin tends to help.
[Tue Jun 28 10:55:30 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Gulf streams.
[Tue Jun 28 10:55:43 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): It's hard to sustain adrenalin for 3+ hours.
[Tue Jun 28 11:01:57 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): What are you going to do now that you're done with fontconfig?
[Tue Jun 28 20:40:39 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Done.
[Tue Jun 28 20:42:32 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Hurrah, was it easy?
[Tue Jun 28 20:42:45 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Not easy but not overly complex.
[Tue Jun 28 20:42:52 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I made two errors that I am aware of.
[Tue Jun 28 20:43:58 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Important ones?
[Tue Jun 28 20:44:16 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): That's somewhat subjective in a syntax course.
[Tue Jun 28 20:44:51 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Is this pass/fail?
[Tue Jun 28 20:45:02 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I forgot to qualify a class with a template parameter and I got the scope of a temporary object wrong.
[Tue Jun 28 20:45:04 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yep.
[Tue Jun 28 20:45:18 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I don't know how high the pass mark is though.
[Tue Jun 28 20:45:20 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Ah.  That's not too bad.
[Tue Jun 28 20:45:59 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): These are both things I would have looked up.
[Tue Jun 28 20:48:12 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Anyway, bed time, good night.
[Tue Jun 28 20:48:19 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Bye!
[Tue Jun 28 20:48:42 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Bye.
[Mon Jul  4 19:25:57 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Hey.
[Mon Jul  4 19:26:20 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Mon Jul  4 19:26:45 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): How's it going? In Japan?
[Mon Jul  4 19:26:50 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yep.
[Mon Jul  4 19:27:00 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Having fun?
[Mon Jul  4 19:27:08 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135):  $#&(*#987#$&(*#@&$(*# rain.
[Mon Jul  4 19:27:15 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): However it is not currently raining.
[Mon Jul  4 19:27:17 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yuck.
[Mon Jul  4 19:27:31 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Have you tried out the train there?
[Mon Jul  4 19:28:28 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Not the shinkansen, only the commuter rail.
[Mon Jul  4 19:29:21 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): the first thing is the Subway?
[Mon Jul  4 19:29:28 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): No, that's the high speed train.
[Mon Jul  4 19:29:44 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Ah.
[Mon Jul  4 19:29:53 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Is that one intercity?
[Mon Jul  4 19:30:05 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Japan is supposed to have one of the best transit systems around
[Mon Jul  4 19:30:45 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes, shinkansen goes across Japan.
[Mon Jul  4 19:31:45 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Tokyo's public transit is supposed to be one of the world's best. And apparently, they serve alcohol?
[Mon Jul  4 19:32:06 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Bye!
[Fri Jul  8 20:23:20 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Hey.
[Fri Jul  8 20:31:50 2005 MDT] FROM Myra (#8045): hello.
[Mon Jul 11 19:26:28 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Hey. Still in Japan?
[Mon Jul 11 19:26:32 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Nope, just got back.
[Mon Jul 11 19:26:41 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Welcome back. How was the trip?
[Mon Jul 11 19:27:21 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Interesting, although low on culture shock value.  Showering now.
[Mon Jul 11 19:38:36 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Now trying to figure out if I'm going to have enough money for the rest of the month.
[Mon Jul 11 19:42:35 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Great.  Looks like I'm all set.
[Mon Jul 11 19:58:50 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): After all you spent in Japan?
[Mon Jul 11 19:59:04 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Money is good
[Mon Jul 11 19:59:05 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yep.
[Mon Jul 11 19:59:25 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): What did you see?
[Mon Jul 11 19:59:50 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Rainy temples, castles, springs...
[Mon Jul 11 20:00:07 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Tasty springs?
[Mon Jul 11 20:00:25 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Or the springy type?
[Mon Jul 11 20:00:45 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Colourful.
[Mon Jul 11 20:02:11 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Did you see the Tokyo Mass Transit system?
[Mon Jul 11 20:02:24 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yep.  And Japan in general.  It's pretty advanced.
[Mon Jul 11 20:03:05 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): It's come along way from having people stuff you into the train? :)
[Mon Jul 11 20:03:21 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I don't know how it is in rush hour.  But certainly waits were very rare even for intercity trains.
[Mon Jul 11 20:03:48 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Were the train packed?
[Mon Jul 11 20:03:57 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): No.
[Mon Jul 11 20:04:06 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Was intercity travel affordable?
[Mon Jul 11 20:05:30 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): It was sort of pricy in absolute terms, but not in terms of distance per dollar (I think).  I mean, it was, I guess, 16000 yen ($175C) for 800km.
[Mon Jul 11 20:06:45 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): We actually would have broken even on a JR pass, but we didn't have precise travel plans until we were there.
[Mon Jul 11 20:07:18 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): It's too bad we don't have bullet trains in Canada.
[Mon Jul 11 20:08:56 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I'd settle for trains that have dedicated lines, not freight lines.
[Mon Jul 11 20:11:54 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): With what we have, train travel is not practical outside of ontario-quebec.
[Mon Jul 11 20:12:11 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Well, it can be like a cruise on wheels.  But it is not a practical mode of transport in general.
[Mon Jul 11 20:12:32 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): If you had a fast train, it could be practical.
[Mon Jul 11 20:12:46 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): And if it weren't more expensive than flying.
[Mon Jul 11 20:13:22 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes, well.
[Mon Jul 11 20:13:58 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Ah well, my flight to N.S. should work well.
[Mon Jul 11 20:15:11 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Indeed.
[Mon Jul 11 20:16:26 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Good to be back?
[Mon Jul 11 20:17:05 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes.  Now I'm going to bed.
[Mon Jul 11 20:17:13 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Good night.
[Tue Jul 12 08:49:11 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): G'day
2000
.
[Tue Jul 12 08:49:11 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Good morning.
[Tue Jul 12 08:49:34 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Gradually adjusting to the time difference?
[Tue Jul 12 08:49:43 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yep.
[Tue Jul 12 08:50:18 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Were the London bombings as big news in Japan?
[Tue Jul 12 08:50:28 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yeah.  Not that I was watching a lot of news.
[Tue Jul 12 08:51:08 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): So, are you all relaxed and ready for another 6 months of research?
[Tue Jul 12 08:52:05 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Do they have mandatory professor retirement in the U.S.?
[Tue Jul 12 08:54:17 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): It depends on the place, I think.
[Tue Jul 12 08:54:56 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Here it appears to be that law that they kick you out at 65.
[Tue Jul 12 08:56:49 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Which kind of sucks for the profs that don't want to leave.
[Tue Jul 12 08:57:19 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Well, once I have a job, that won't be a concern of mine for 38 years.  I'm sure things will change by then.
[Tue Jul 12 08:57:31 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Not that profs can't work once retired.
[Tue Jul 12 08:57:46 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Just, well, not paid.
[Tue Jul 12 09:01:19 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): They can't get paid for working after retirement?&amp;gt;
[Tue Jul 12 09:02:11 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Hmm, do you think many profs actually teach for 38 years?
[Tue Jul 12 09:02:25 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Well do prof like things really.
[Tue Jul 12 09:07:19 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Some get washed-up.
[Tue Jul 12 09:07:26 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): So you never get paid for research, really.
[Tue Jul 12 09:08:12 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Once you retire, you can still take students and apply for grants.  You get a pension, and can teach classes for money.
[Tue Jul 12 09:08:33 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Some seem to come back as sessionals, professor emereti, or graduate student supervisors.
[Tue Jul 12 09:08:59 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yeah.
[Tue Jul 12 09:09:25 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Carleton wanted to stop paying retired profs for supervising grad students, which was not well received.
[Tue Jul 12 09:09:37 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Profs get paid for supervising grad students?
[Tue Jul 12 09:10:05 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Apparently, math profs do?
[Tue Jul 12 09:10:21 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Or did.
[Tue Jul 12 09:10:24 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Huh.
[Tue Jul 12 09:11:25 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Dont' know how it worked. Maybe it's too hard to get math grants?
[Tue Jul 12 09:12:14 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Do Professor Emereti get paid?
[Tue Jul 12 09:12:23 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): No.  They get pensions.
[Tue Jul 12 09:12:36 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): If you were a good boy or girl during your career, then you get named Prof Emeritus.
[Tue Jul 12 09:12:49 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): But you never get your own salary from grants in Canada.
[Tue Jul 12 09:13:02 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): So, it's just an honorary title with no $$$?
[Tue Jul 12 09:13:24 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yep.
[Tue Jul 12 09:13:52 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I dont' know what the story is then. He was getting some income that they threatened to stop.
[Tue Jul 12 09:16:14 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I hope Knuth has a good pention.
[Tue Jul 12 09:16:24 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): pension
[Tue Jul 12 09:18:29 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I don't know.  Maybe he gets royalties or something.
[Tue Jul 12 09:18:42 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): That's true.
[Tue Jul 12 09:19:27 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): He probably doesn't need that much money for his lifestyle, however I thought I heard something about him having a fair amount of money himself (through inheritance or something)
[Tue Jul 12 09:25:34 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Do you think Calculus with Theory is synonymous with Introductory Analysis?
[Tue Jul 12 09:29:03 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Sounds about right.
[Tue Jul 12 09:29:30 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Especially since the subsequent analysis courses use Rudin.
[Tue Jul 12 09:29:49 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Mind you, analysis at MIT uses rudin.
[Tue Jul 12 09:29:59 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I'm referring to MIT :)

>> Network buffer overflow: 397 lines of output to you have been lost <<
[Sat Jul 16 21:15:26 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Sheesh!
[Sat Jul 16 21:15:46 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): It's a moral objection :)
[Sat Jul 16 21:15:58 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I hate when asian restaurants only give you chop sticks too.
[Sat Jul 16 21:16:01 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): ...
[Sat Jul 16 21:16:49 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): C'mon!  That's no fun!
[Sat Jul 16 21:17:03 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Or maybe I just don't like my dough sour :)
[Sat Jul 16 21:17:21 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Well, if I wanted to go on a short-term diet, using chopsticks would be a good way.
[Sat Jul 16 21:18:24 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Until you figured out how to use them.
[Sat Jul 16 21:18:44 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Which I highly recommend.
[Sat Jul 16 21:21:13 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yes, that's why I said short term.
[Sat Jul 16 21:22:14 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Chop sticks don't work well with rice thoguh.
[Sat Jul 16 21:22:29 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Bowls.
[Sat Jul 16 21:25:04 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): We do need more food selection next work though.
[Sat Jul 16 21:31:44 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Iew
[Sat Jul 16 22:00:06 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Anyway time for bed, good night.
[Sat Jul 16 22:15:03 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Bye!
[Sun Jul 17 10:51:30 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Hey.
[Sun Jul 17 12:40:06 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Greetings.
[Sun Jul 17 12:44:13 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Wow, I was just looking up my profs and noticed one sessional lecturer is teaching 6 courses in a term, that sounds nasty.
[Sun Jul 17 12:53:05 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Indeed.  And doesn't pay that well.  But not too bad if there are repeats.
[Sun Jul 17 12:53:21 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): 3 distinc courses of2 sections each.
[Sun Jul 17 12:53:44 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Him and his wife are doing the same thing. Maybe they need to make up for the time they took off.
[Sun Jul 17 12:57:10 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Ouch.
[Sun Jul 17 12:57:38 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): So much for a personal life.
[Sun Jul 17 13:00:17 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Why would anyone ever want to become a lecturer?
[Sun Jul 17 13:12:00 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I wouldn't, so don't ask me.
[Sun Jul 17 14:00:02 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Hmm, Firefox crash.
[Sun Jul 17 14:01:50 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Rare, but happens.
[Sun Jul 17 14:02:11 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): It was taking 350 Mb of RAM and made it difficult to kill even.
[Sun Jul 17 14:05:51 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Anyway, my eyes cxan't stare at this screen any longer, so see you later.
[Sun Jul 17 18:10:24 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Hey.
[Sun Jul 17 18:17:07 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): G'day.
[Sun Jul 17 18:17:52 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): How was dinner?
[Sun Jul 17 18:20:01 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I need more than a slice of pizza (which was more than enough for lunch).
[Sun Jul 17 18:20:21 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): That's the problem with pizza, one serving is never enough.
[Sun Jul 17 18:24:09 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Well, it seems to vary quite a bit.
[Sun Jul 17 18:24:24 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Eggplant, some cheese which I can't remember, and garlic.
[Sun Jul 17 18:24:59 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Tasty.
[Sun Jul 17 18:27:20 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I just made tasty but quick pasta.
[Sun Jul 17 18:30:21 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): That works.  Although sometimes you end up hungry again.
[Sun Jul 17 18:31:11 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Ever make pasta sauce?
[Sun Jul 17 18:40:18 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I just realized, to my disappointment, that I forgot all the stats I learned less than a year ago.
[Sun Jul 17 18:42:06 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Oops.  No, I have not, but it's
2000
 not hard, I'm told.
[Sun Jul 17 18:43:20 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I've got a fairly fast recipe that will give you some very tasty sauce.
[Sun Jul 17 18:58:46 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I bet it is tastier than canned sauce.  I also bet it starts with tomato paste.
[Sun Jul 17 19:00:04 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Much tastier and I never use tomato paste.
[Sun Jul 17 19:00:26 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): What do you use?
[Sun Jul 17 19:00:28 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): It's very rarely used in tomato sauces.
[Sun Jul 17 19:00:35 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Canned diced tomatos.
[Sun Jul 17 19:00:52 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Ah.  That should work too.
[Sun Jul 17 19:01:32 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): They aren't as good as fresh, but they are a lot less work and they don't taste that much worse.
[Sun Jul 17 19:03:22 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Right.
[Sun Jul 17 19:04:12 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): 15 minutes to make a tasty sauce isn't bad.
[Sun Jul 17 19:38:03 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): It is pretty reasonable.
[Sun Jul 17 19:40:59 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I'm trying to determine the value of two books listed on eBay.
[Sun Jul 17 19:45:17 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): How rare are they?
[Sun Jul 17 19:46:14 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): One is out of print and I can only find one other copy on the iternet but more expensive. The other is a current queueing theory textbook.
[Sun Jul 17 19:47:36 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): The hard question is (a) how current it still is and (b) is the same material covered as well by a current book.
[Sun Jul 17 19:57:45 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Do you really need to learn queueing theory at the moment?
[Sun Jul 17 19:58:55 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Helps for performance evaluation and the book won't likely ever be any cheaper.

>> Network buffer overflow: 501 lines of output to you have been lost <<
[Tue Aug  2 18:49:41 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yep.  It happens sometimes.
[Tue Aug  2 18:50:04 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): But pretty rarely. actually.
[Tue Aug  2 18:50:21 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Everyone is alright, thankfully.
[Tue Aug  2 18:50:45 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Well, no fatalities.  Some injuries, I think.
[Tue Aug  2 18:51:00 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yes, but they didn't sound serious.
[Tue Aug  2 18:51:12 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Plane crashes of that type are often survivable.
[Tue Aug  2 18:51:25 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yep, on the news, it looked pretty bad though.
[Tue Aug  2 18:51:41 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yeah, but so do car crashes I guess.
[Tue Aug  2 18:52:13 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yes, but if you're on a highway, those often don't turn out well.
[Tue Aug  2 18:52:19 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): That's true
[Tue Aug  2 18:52:30 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): The plane must be very fire resistant.
[Tue Aug  2 18:53:07 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): It probably is, also they probably promptly evacuated.
[Tue Aug  2 18:54:23 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yes, it's not a good idea to stay inside anything that is burning.
[Tue Aug  2 18:59:08 2005 MDT] FROM MountainAvens_Guest (#405): Andrew? o.o
[Tue Aug  2 19:00:20 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Oh, right, there's this thing about rebooting computers.
[Tue Aug  2 19:00:24 2005 MDT] TO MountainAvens_Guest (#405): Nope.
[Tue Aug  2 19:00:31 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): It seems to disconnect you
[Tue Aug  2 19:00:31 2005 MDT] FROM MountainAvens_Guest (#405): Sorry about that.
[Tue Aug  2 19:00:51 2005 MDT] TO MountainAvens_Guest (#405): No problem.
[Tue Aug  2 19:03:31 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Too bad computers didn't have to reboot
[Tue Aug  2 19:04:00 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): 22 minor injuries.  Yeah, it was actually a loose DVI cable.  Oops, I didn't need to reboot.
[Tue Aug  2 19:04:04 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): http://www.airfrance.ca/presse/fr/yto50802_2.htm
[Tue Aug  2 19:10:56 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): That's good
[Tue Aug  2 19:12:28 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I just went to the dinner theatre.
[Tue Aug  2 19:14:13 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Was it any good?  What was the play?
[Tue Aug  2 19:14:52 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): the play was more glue for the music numbers
[Tue Aug  2 19:15:17 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Musical, yes.
[Tue Aug  2 19:15:43 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): It was about an anniversary
[Tue Aug  2 19:16:01 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): And they sung songs from a 25 year period.
[Tue Aug  2 19:18:17 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): It was funny and entertaining.
[Tue Aug  2 19:20:32 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Cool.
[Tue Aug  2 19:22:19 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Good thing you weren't coming home from France instead of Mtl
[Tue Aug  2 19:31:38 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Back in Boston yet?
[Tue Aug  2 19:33:38 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yeah.  I suppose that I meant to suggest, earlier, that not flying into Pearson meant flying into boston, but that doesn't follow at all.
[Tue Aug  2 19:34:11 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Was there a stop over that they didn't make?
[Tue Aug  2 19:34:40 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): No, direct Montreal - Boston.
[Tue Aug  2 19:44:20 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Ah, I see.
[Tue Aug  2 19:46:07 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Working on any papers now?
[Tue Aug  2 19:47:02 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Soon, but not yet.  First I have to run a programming contest.
[Tue Aug  2 19:47:32 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Ah right, looking forward to that?
[Tue Aug  2 19:48:51 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Not especially.
[Tue Aug  2 19:53:18 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Didn't expect so
[Tue Aug  2 19:53:53 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Being volunteered is never fnu
[Tue Aug  2 19:54:07 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Apparently some money is attached.
[Tue Aug  2 19:54:15 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): At least previous people have got money.
[Tue Aug  2 19:54:22 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Being bored is supposed to be good for relaxation, isn't it?
[Tue Aug  2 19:54:27 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Much money?
[Tue Aug  2 19:54:45 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Hey, it's not tomorrow.  It's Thursday.  Gee, what was I worrying about.
[Tue Aug  2 19:54:47 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): No idea.
[Tue Aug  2 19:57:18 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): A day to relax then! :)
[Tue Aug  2 19:57:35 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): However, I should find my laptop power adapter.  I wonder where it is.
[Tue Aug  2 19:57:54 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): You should invent a laptop power adaptor detector.
[Tue Aug  2 19:59:10 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Viktor works pretty well.
[Tue Aug  2 20:00:45 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): adaptor hound, is he?
[Tue Aug  2 20:05:39 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Only 1 more day and I'm on route to the big city.
[Tue Aug  2 20:15:24 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Nah, I just left it there.
[Tue Aug  2 20:15:35 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Do you prefer NS or Ottawa?  Well, Ottawa isn't that big.
[Tue Aug  2 20:15:47 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Ottawa
[Tue Aug  2 20:15:55 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I'm not in the most exciting place in NS though
[Tue Aug  2 20:16:54 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): No.  No you aren't.
[Tue Aug  2 20:17:00 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): What about, say, Toronto or NYC?

>> Network buffer overflow: 4 lines of output to you have been lost <<
[Tue Aug  2 20:20:56 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yep
[Tue Aug  2 20:21:10 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Toronto isn't quite as personalityful.
[Tue Aug  2 20:21:47 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Hogtown.
[Tue Aug  2 20:25:19 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I bet Boston has some spunk.
[Tue Aug  2 20:26:00 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): It has a bunch of personalities, I guess.  Most cities do, actually.
[Tue Aug  2 20:26:32 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): (cf mhum's second-to-latest blog entry, I think. mhum.blogspot.com)
[Tue Aug  2 20:26:46 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Anyway, Yarmouth has a boring personality.
[Tue Aug  2 20:28:22 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): It's small.
[Tue Aug  2 21:10:36 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Taking any more vacation soon?
[Tue Aug  2 21:13:53 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Haven't got any planned.
[Tue Aug  2 21:14:04 2
2000
005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I guess it just pops up then
[Tue Aug  2 21:15:12 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yeah.
[Tue Aug  2 21:15:23 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I mean, I'll probably fly to visit Mandos for a weekend.
[Tue Aug  2 21:15:40 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Where's he these days?
[Tue Aug  2 21:16:10 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Washington, DC.
[Tue Aug  2 21:27:36 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Anyway, time for bed, good night now.l
[Wed Aug  3 12:54:59 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Hey.
[Wed Aug  3 13:06:00 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Wed Aug  3 13:27:22 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): What's up?
[Wed Aug  3 13:28:47 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Doing more stupid programming contest problems.
[Wed Aug  3 13:30:14 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): You're writing the problems?
[Wed Aug  3 13:37:05 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I'm using some canned problems but writing sample solutions.
[Wed Aug  3 13:41:37 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Ok, so you have to prep them for a contest or what?
[Wed Aug  3 13:43:17 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes.  Well, I think it's a good idea to have sample solutions.
[Wed Aug  3 13:43:31 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yep, especially if you can't solve them
[Wed Aug  3 13:44:38 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): They've been solved before (these are canned problems).

>> Network buffer overflow: 466 lines of output to you have been lost <<
[Mon Aug  8 20:28:28 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Interesting.  is it true?
[Mon Aug  8 20:28:44 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Seems low to a lot of people.
[Mon Aug  8 20:29:07 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Their scales were all designed out of the HR person's laziness
[Mon Aug  8 20:29:18 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): How does the scale work?
[Mon Aug  8 20:30:55 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): There are three levels junior, intermediate, and senior. Senior is extremely difficult to get regardless of how good you are. You get paid for whatever level you are put at regardless of your abilities.
[Mon Aug  8 20:31:09 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): That's not very graded.
[Mon Aug  8 20:32:10 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): There are 2 additional levels of "software developer" but they're absolutely impossible to ever reach.
[Mon Aug  8 20:32:19 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Then comes management.
[Mon Aug  8 20:33:18 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): In each grade, there are subgrades with minor differences in pay.
[Mon Aug  8 20:34:50 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Jr. makes $46 - $52, Intermediate makes $55 to $62, and Sr. makes $67 to $76.
[Mon Aug  8 20:35:31 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): That seems a bit low.
[Mon Aug  8 20:35:44 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): That's what I thought, especially sine most of the developers are in the Jr range.
[Mon Aug  8 20:36:00 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Cheep!  Cheep!
[Mon Aug  8 20:37:09 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): They do have variable pay (bonuses) but it's been more than once that they've elected not to pay them.
[Mon Aug  8 20:38:16 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): And according to their own doc, they pay $2k less than the Ottawa average for all staff positions.
[Mon Aug  8 20:38:55 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Some positions, it's as low as $20k below average.
[Mon Aug  8 20:40:21 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Sucky.
[Mon Aug  8 20:40:43 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yep.
[Mon Aug  8 20:41:07 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I've been promised a senior position in September though.
[Mon Aug  8 20:41:44 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): That would be good when it materializes.
[Mon Aug  8 20:41:55 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): when and if
[Mon Aug  8 20:43:35 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): If I could find a job paying the same or more at a big company or maybe even government, I'd seriously considor it.
[Mon Aug  8 20:44:44 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Indeed.
[Mon Aug  8 20:45:33 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Or I could just stop buying lunch every day and save a fortune
[Mon Aug  8 20:46:02 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): But is it worth it.  I don't.
[Mon Aug  8 20:46:36 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): It's true, to buy the stuff to make sandwiches probably costs $4 / meal as opposed to maybe $6 for takeout. And you get a lot more variety and healthier food.

>> Network buffer overflow: 506 lines of output to you have been lost <<
[Fri Aug 12 12:26:26 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Ever head of 'Learning Commons'?
[Fri Aug 12 12:27:28 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Memorial Libraries often have the disadvantage that the memoree is not around to enjoy the library.
[Fri Aug 12 12:27:33 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Is that like Science Commons?
[Fri Aug 12 12:27:57 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Well, it could start off without the Memorial :)
[Fri Aug 12 12:29:01 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): No clue, it's some brainwave from Harvard turned buzzword. But it seems to mean putting lot's of study space near books and technological resources, along with accessible resource people on different subjects.
[Fri Aug 12 12:30:42 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Ah.  No clue.
[Fri Aug 12 12:31:33 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Hmm, I donated a book 7 months ago and it's still hasn't hit the shelves yet.
[Fri Aug 12 12:31:43 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): It takes a while, I imagine.
[Fri Aug 12 12:32:07 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): the one I donated a week later seems to have been there for months now :)
[Fri Aug 12 12:32:17 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Maybe they just didn't like it.
[Fri Aug 12 12:33:03 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Impossible, it's a current compiler text.
[Fri Aug 12 12:34:05 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Oh well!  I guess they suk!
[Fri Aug 12 12:34:17 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): How goes the laundry?
[Fri Aug 12 12:46:38 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Hmm, I feel like having a giant Oatmeal cookie.
[Fri Aug 12 12:47:06 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): mmm.  oatmeal.
[Fri Aug 12 12:47:15 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Wait!  Actually, oatmeal isn't tasty!
[Fri Aug 12 12:50:38 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): It can be :)
[Fri Aug 12 12:50:46 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): No money though, so no problem :)
[Fri Aug 12 12:51:14 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): You'd think that it would be an effective way of losing weight.  But it isn't!
[Fri Aug 12 12:51:47 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Oatmeal or lack of money?
[Fri Aug 12 12:54:13 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): lack of movie.
[Fri Aug 12 12:55:08 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I bet I have enough change for a muffin though.
[Fri Aug 12 12:55:35 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): That's way worse for you (see, lack of money doesn't work)
[Fri Aug 12 12:59:17 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): They have low fat muffins that are healthier.
[Fri Aug 12 13:00:10 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yeah, still not that great.
[Fri Aug 12 13:01:16 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): 2.5 g of fat is actually pretty impressive for a muffin.
[Fri Aug 12 13:01:56 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): It's about standard I think.
[Fri Aug 12 13:02:57 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): 14 g is standard
[Fri Aug 12 13:03:26 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Eh?
[Fri Aug 12 13:03:39 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): That's a lot, I think.
[Fri Aug 12 13:03:49 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): for a small muffin
[Fri Aug 12 13:05:02 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Some are as high as 23 :)
[Fri Aug 12 13:05:10 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Anyway, back in a little, see ya.
[Fri Aug 12 13:05:25 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Bye!
[Fri Aug 12 13:06:06 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Bye.
[Fri Aug 12 13:29:52 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Mmm container filled with fruit.
[Fri Aug 12 13:32:00 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): That ought to be healthy.
[Fri Aug 12 13:32:52 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yep. It's pretty convenient and it has just strawberries and pineapple instead of adding filler melon.
[Fri Aug 12 13:33:42 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Nice.  Pineapple is basically pure sugar, which makes it tasty!
[Fri Aug 12 13:34:05 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Which means it's not as healthy, but atleast it's naturally unhealthy :)
[Fri Aug 12 13:34:18 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Correct.
[Fri Aug 12 13:35:05 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I tend to considor real fruit healthy regardless of sugar content and not worry about the details.
[Fri A
2000
ug 12 13:35:23 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Aren't most fruits high in sugar content?
[Fri Aug 12 13:35:36 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Fruits are ok, fruit juice is not nearly as good for you as you might think.
[Fri Aug 12 13:36:17 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yes, I don't considor that quite the same. It's extremely hige in sugar.
[Fri Aug 12 13:37:07 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Even one small orange juice, one of the healthier juices, per day is supposed to not be a good idea.
[Fri Aug 12 13:37:26 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): It's probably better than a cookie.
[Fri Aug 12 13:37:44 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I'd say. Much better than going for a soda.
[Fri Aug 12 13:37:54 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Not calorie-wise, but vitamin-wise.
[Fri Aug 12 13:38:21 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): It's fairly similar in calories. If you're going to have that many calories, you might as well get something positive out of it.
[Fri Aug 12 13:38:38 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I think it's 50% more calorific, but I might be wrong.
[Fri Aug 12 13:39:13 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): for indentical amounts?
[Fri Aug 12 13:39:25 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yeah.
[Fri Aug 12 13:39:34 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I may be thinking of Gatorade.
[Fri Aug 12 13:43:52 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): 0.46 Kcal / ml of OJ, 0.43 Kcal / ml of Coke.
[Fri Aug 12 13:44:18 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I guess it's not an order of magnitude, only 8%.
[Fri Aug 12 13:44:26 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Er, 7%.
[Fri Aug 12 13:44:55 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): So, given the choice, you're probably better off with something a bit more natural.
[Fri Aug 12 13:44:58 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Uh-huh.
[Fri Aug 12 13:45:01 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): 47 Kcal in my tea.
[Fri Aug 12 13:45:06 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): That much?
[Fri Aug 12 13:45:09 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Sugar?
[Fri Aug 12 13:45:13 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yep
[Fri Aug 12 13:45:24 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): 0.4 grams of fat
[Fri Aug 12 13:45:30 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): From where?
[Fri Aug 12 13:45:36 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): milk
[Fri Aug 12 13:46:11 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): A single/single coffee has 1 order of magnitude more fat.
[Fri Aug 12 13:46:14 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Right.
[Fri Aug 12 13:46:34 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): And 3x the calories
[Fri Aug 12 13:49:05 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): And I still don't feel like working after my stack :)
[Fri Aug 12 13:49:08 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): er snack
[Fri Aug 12 13:49:11 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): CS on the brain
[Fri Aug 12 13:49:12 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Darn.
[Fri Aug 12 13:50:28 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): What can you do?
[Fri Aug 12 13:51:26 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Hmm, after 3.5 months of summer, I didn't get around to studying any topic I wanted to (i.e. algorithms, analayis, performance evaluation, statistics)
[Fri Aug 12 13:51:39 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Surprising, isn't it?
[Fri Aug 12 13:52:28 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): It's both surprising and expected actually. I naively thought I'd get something done this summer in May, but in retrospect, it was naive.
[Fri Aug 12 13:54:00 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes, well.  Did you get anything done?
[Fri Aug 12 13:55:00 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Neglible amounts of stuff.
[Fri Aug 12 13:55:57 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Oh well.  The most efficient way to learn an undergrad curriculum is probably being a fulltime student.
[Fri Aug 12 13:56:48 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I don't seem to learn well when there isn't an exam hanging over my head, and even then...
[Fri Aug 12 13:57:11 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): It's tough.

>> Network buffer overflow: 121 lines of output to you have been lost <<
[Tue Aug 16 18:20:28 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes, well.  It's slow & clunky.
[Tue Aug 16 18:20:46 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): So is MS Office :)
[Tue Aug 16 18:21:38 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Indeed.  It's not as slow, though (yes, that means that OO really suxors)
[Tue Aug 16 18:22:30 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Hmm, one assignment asks to lookup arguments to unix commands in the man pages. What do you think the odds are that he expects us to remember them?
[Tue Aug 16 18:24:17 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Probably pretty low, but you can probably remember them anyway; it's a good idea.
[Tue Aug 16 18:24:44 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): ls, ls -l have always been good enough for me.
[Tue Aug 16 18:26:19 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Good thing GNU adds long option names
[Tue Aug 16 18:27:10 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I guess so.
[Tue Aug 16 18:43:36 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): The FAQ is quite useful, thanks.
[Tue Aug 16 18:43:42 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Indeed.
[Tue Aug 16 19:41:11 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Well, this is the first time I've had to multiple decimal numbers by hand in about 10 years.
[Tue Aug 16 19:41:29 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): It builds cahracter.
[Tue Aug 16 19:41:46 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Not according to some experts.
[Tue Aug 16 19:53:35 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Sadly enough, I like Impress better than PowerPoint. It's much faster and more featureful.
[Tue Aug 16 19:53:53 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Is it really?
[Tue Aug 16 19:54:36 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Actually, it may not be more featureful, but the design is better and hence the features are more accessible.

>> Network buffer overflow: 5 lines of output to you have been lost <<
[Tue Aug 16 19:56:35 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Not hard, I guess.
[Tue Aug 16 19:56:58 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Excel is not-so-good.
[Tue Aug 16 19:57:02 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): er PowerPoint
[Tue Aug 16 19:57:03 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): What about gnumeric?
[Tue Aug 16 19:57:12 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes, I hate Powerpoint quite a lot.
[Tue Aug 16 19:57:14 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Excel isn't too bad
[Tue Aug 16 19:57:23 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Who doesn't?
[Tue Aug 16 19:57:36 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Uh, I don't know.
[Tue Aug 16 19:58:22 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Well having no point of reference, Excel isn't terrible.
[Tue Aug 16 20:42:57 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Anyway, I'm off, good night.
[Wed Aug 17 08:59:05 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Hey.
[Wed Aug 17 09:12:58 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Did you enjoy the C snippets?  Actually it was <B>*still*</B> wrong.
[Wed Aug 17 09:13:38 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I'm saving it till after the exam for fear of pushing out a detail that could be on the exam :)
[Wed Aug 17 09:15:00 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Well, it <B>*is*</B> a question that one could conceivably ask on a C exam.  I just think that the degree of difficulty is too high.
[Wed Aug 17 09:16:16 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): *nod*

>> Network buffer overflow: 1 line of output to you has been lost <<
[Wed Aug 17 09:25:55 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Good stuff.

>> Network buffer overflow: 294 lines of output to you have been lost <<
[Fri Aug 19 16:13:06 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I have atleast 2 - 3 each of 3rd and 4th years.
[Fri Aug 19 16:14:56 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Which is doable in a year, probably, or something.
[Fri Aug 19 16:16:19 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): At the end of this term, I'll only be 8.0 credits short.
[Fri Aug 19 16:18:53 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Think you'll teach intro to compilers?
[Fri Aug 19 16:20:04 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes.
[Fri Aug 19 16:20:14 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Heck, you can do 8.0 credits in a full-time year.
[Fri Aug 19 16:20:18 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Well, almost.
[Fri Aug 19 16:20:25 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): An overload is 6.0
[Fri Aug 19 16:24:16 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I could just challenge the whole degree.
[Fri Aug 19 16:27:46 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): How many years till you think you'll be  on the tenure track?
[Fri Aug 19 16:30:09 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): 1
[Fri Aug 19 16:31:13 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Think at McGill?
[Fri Aug 19 16:35:33 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): It's always hard to get a job at a particular place.
[Fri Aug 19 16:35:43 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): *nod*
[Fri Aug 19 16:37:47 2005 MD
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T] TO whiz (#3135): What are your second choices?
[Fri Aug 19 16:41:14 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Well, I'm going to apply everywhere.
[Fri Aug 19 16:41:44 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Where would you prefer over other places?
[Fri Aug 19 16:50:05 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I like places in Canada, for instance.
[Fri Aug 19 16:50:16 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Decent research universties.
[Fri Aug 19 16:50:19 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I figured that.
[Fri Aug 19 16:50:26 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Would you be willing to go out west?
[Fri Aug 19 16:51:52 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): It's much less worse than other possibilities.
[Fri Aug 19 16:52:14 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Like south?
[Fri Aug 19 16:52:37 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Midwest?
[Fri Aug 19 16:52:49 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): South as in US
[Fri Aug 19 16:55:50 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Some parts of the US are not too terrible.
[Fri Aug 19 16:56:02 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): You don't seem to be understanding how sucky it is to look for an academic job.
[Fri Aug 19 16:56:40 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Ah, I thought you meant earlier that you didn't want to look in the U.S.
[Fri Aug 19 16:56:54 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yes, I can imagine how hard it is to find a CS prof job right now.
[Fri Aug 19 16:57:18 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I'd rather not, but it also sucks to be without a job.
[Fri Aug 19 16:57:40 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): True enough.
[Fri Aug 19 16:57:47 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): On the bright side, once you're in, you're in
[Fri Aug 19 16:58:38 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Well, at least for 6 years.
[Fri Aug 19 17:00:06 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yes
[Fri Aug 19 17:00:16 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Do they fire people right before they would get tenure?
[Fri Aug 19 17:00:50 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): No.  It's two 3-year contracts typically.
[Fri Aug 19 17:01:57 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): So, that gives them two opportunities to boot you out?
[Fri Aug 19 17:03:27 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes, but you have to really suk to not get renewed.
[Fri Aug 19 17:05:30 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): What if you got enough student complaints?
[Fri Aug 19 17:13:08 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Doubtful.
[Fri Aug 19 17:13:24 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Didn't think so
[Fri Aug 19 17:15:18 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yep.  Ok, off sailing!
[Sat Aug 20 20:33:54 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Sat Aug 20 20:33:58 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Sat Aug 20 20:34:47 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I just got back from 45 minutes outside Mtl
[Sat Aug 20 20:35:58 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Was that the same place as before?
[Sat Aug 20 20:36:48 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): St. Eugene, yep.
[Sat Aug 20 20:37:46 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Was it more enjoyable this time, since you didn't have any pressing deadlines?
[Sat Aug 20 20:38:15 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Wasn't bad, since I negotiated out the overnight stay and the morning in Mtl
[Sat Aug 20 20:40:30 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Food is always excellent.
[Sat Aug 20 20:41:04 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Did other members of your family stay overnight?
[Sat Aug 20 20:41:11 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): A morning in Mtl isn't too bad, all things considered.
[Sat Aug 20 20:41:29 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yes, but then half the weekend just disappeared.
[Sat Aug 20 20:41:32 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I wish my fanless computer was faster.
[Sat Aug 20 20:41:35 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): That's true.
[Sat Aug 20 20:41:41 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): No members of my immediate family did.
[Sat Aug 20 20:41:48 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Watercool it?
[Sat Aug 20 20:42:17 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Nope!  It runs at 533MHz.
[Sat Aug 20 20:43:00 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yipes, that is slow!
[Sat Aug 20 20:43:47 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Well, that I'm mostly conceried about is that it's slow with respect to displaying pictures over Ethernet.  I don't know why.
[Sat Aug 20 20:44:19 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Well, it's definately not that the HDD must be defragged.
[Sat Aug 20 20:44:27 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): 256MB of solid storage.
[Sat Aug 20 20:44:41 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I know, that's why I said it wasn't that.
[Sat Aug 20 20:44:50 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Maybe the Ethernet is running slow?
[Sat Aug 20 20:45:18 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I don't think so.
[Sat Aug 20 20:48:10 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): The processor is pretty old school, that's likely the problem.
[Sat Aug 20 20:48:24 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I don't know.  That may be the problem.  It's a VIA processor.
[Sat Aug 20 20:48:35 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yes.
[Sat Aug 20 20:51:46 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): What's the plan?
[Sat Aug 20 20:57:58 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I'm just writing some email to arrange an Oxford visit.
[Sat Aug 20 20:58:11 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Oxford visit with who?
[Sat Aug 20 20:58:21 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Prof. Oege de Moor.
[Sat Aug 20 20:58:27 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Giving talk.
[Sat Aug 20 20:59:29 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Oxford in England?
[Sat Aug 20 21:01:02 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Uh-huh.
[Sat Aug 20 21:06:17 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): That should be fun.
[Sat Aug 20 21:11:25 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): What will you be talking about?
[Sat Aug 20 21:11:48 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): My research on the Hob framework.  Not sure exactly what.
[Sat Aug 20 21:12:01 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Is this quite a long time away?
[Sat Aug 20 21:13:19 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): October 14.
[Sat Aug 20 21:13:47 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Fun stuff, another trip to Europe.
[Sat Aug 20 21:14:53 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): #4 this year, I think.
[Sat Aug 20 21:15:11 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I got to get in on this scam :)
[Sat Aug 20 21:18:15 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): You need to get a degree!
[Sat Aug 20 21:18:34 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I'll have it in about 6 years.
[Sat Aug 20 21:19:14 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): That's a long time.
[Sat Aug 20 21:19:55 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Maybe I can get a year off my sentence with good behaviour.
[Sat Aug 20 21:20:16 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): e.g. a few challenges.
[Sat Aug 20 21:20:27 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I think i'm going to bed now.  Windsurfing tomorrow at 7.
[Sat Aug 20 21:20:44 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Textbook buying in a dark alley at noon for me.
[Sat Aug 20 21:21:08 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Have fun!
[Sat Aug 20 21:22:14 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yeah, it should be interesting.  Enjoy textbook buying.
[Sat Aug 20 21:22:23 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): For that price, I will! :)
[Sat Aug 20 21:22:38 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Got to get the book for Jit's class.
[Sat Aug 20 21:24:40 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): $80 off a $140 book isn't too shabby.
[Sat Aug 20 21:24:57 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yep.
[Sat Aug 20 21:25:00 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Bye!
[Sat Aug 20 21:25:03 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Bye
[Mon Aug 22 08:38:55 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Mon Aug 22 08:39:00 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Good morning.
[Mon Aug 22 08:40:29 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): How was it yesterday?
[Mon Aug 22 08:40:49 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I was in the water a lot.  But I managed to windsurf in two directions at the end of the day.
[Mon Aug 22 08:40:59 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Fun?
[Mon Aug 22 08:44:39 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes, but not as fun as when you're actually good at it.
[Mon Aug 22 08:45:22 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): That comes in trime.
[Mon Aug 22 08:50:33 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Did you wind surf all day?
[Mon Aug 22 08:54:00 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): There was a longish break in the afternoon, but pasically.
[Mon Aug 22 08:58:10 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Sounds more fun than my textbook buying and pasta making.
[Mon Aug 22 09:00:21 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): This is quite likely, yes.
[Mon Aug 22 09:02:45 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Did you succeed?
[Mon Aug 22 09:03:09 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yep. Made 16 servings of pasta sauce and scored a great textbook deal.
[Mon Aug 
2000
22 09:03:16 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Good, good.
[Mon Aug 22 09:03:37 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Actually 30 servings
[Mon Aug 22 09:05:43 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): That's quite a bit.
[Mon Aug 22 09:05:49 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): It would be way too much for me
[Mon Aug 22 09:06:26 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): We frooze all but 6 servings. We got a giant bag of basil free, and you have to use it immediately or it goes bad.
[Mon Aug 22 09:06:47 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): If it's not still growing.  Or something.
[Mon Aug 22 09:07:07 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yes, you can put it in water but that only keeps it a weke.
[Mon Aug 22 09:07:27 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Or in the ground.
[Mon Aug 22 09:07:35 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yep, but that wasn't an option.
[Mon Aug 22 09:07:44 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): No, that only works if it's in plant form.
[Mon Aug 22 09:09:17 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): It was about 2 hours before we got it.
[Mon Aug 22 09:13:10 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): That's not quite helpful for preserving it.  Oh well.
[Mon Aug 22 09:13:21 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): At least you got good pasta sauce, right?
[Mon Aug 22 09:13:31 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I hope so, haven't tried the pesto yet.
[Mon Aug 22 09:13:59 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): It's gotta be tasty...
[Mon Aug 22 09:14:06 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I concur.
[Mon Aug 22 09:15:42 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Think any more than 1.0 credits per term is possible working full time?
[Mon Aug 22 09:16:19 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Commerce, sure, since there's no intellectual content.
[Mon Aug 22 09:16:40 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Unfortunately, they won't let me into their courses.
[Mon Aug 22 09:17:04 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I can't a price break on my bus pass if I pickup an extra 0.5 credits per term.
[Mon Aug 22 09:24:07 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I get...
[Mon Aug 22 09:25:28 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Any exciting plans for todya?
[Mon Aug 22 09:30:31 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes, but the extra 0.5 credits is probably not worth your sanity.
[Mon Aug 22 09:30:42 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): It would, however, accelerate your progress towards your degree.
[Mon Aug 22 09:30:51 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I could always try it and then drop if it didn't work.
[Mon Aug 22 09:31:52 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Doesn't that obviate any savings from your bus pass?
[Mon Aug 22 09:32:41 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Nope, there is no post-acquisition communication.
[Mon Aug 22 09:33:14 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I meant in terms of wasted money for course.
[Mon Aug 22 09:33:42 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): You get your money back if you drop before the end of September
[Mon Aug 22 09:33:54 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): That works, then.
[Mon Aug 22 09:34:16 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): It's like $360 of savings.
[Mon Aug 22 09:34:59 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): But which classes?
[Mon Aug 22 09:35:25 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I'm thinking Stats II in the fall and haven't figured out what works in the winter.
[Mon Aug 22 09:35:41 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Non-majors stats is pretty easy.
[Mon Aug 22 09:36:22 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yep, but unfortunately doesn't exactly help me get closer to my degree.
[Mon Aug 22 09:36:33 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): That's sort of non useful then.
[Mon Aug 22 09:36:53 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): It's required for 2 courses that I want to use as required courses however.
[Mon Aug 22 09:37:06 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): But it doesn't itself contribute to my degree.
[Mon Aug 22 09:37:18 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Well, it sort of helps then.
[Mon Aug 22 09:37:27 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Well, actually it could kick an existing course out of its slot.
[Mon Aug 22 09:37:37 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Kind of irksome, isn't it?
[Mon Aug 22 09:38:05 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I assume they'll use the one with the highest mark in that slot.
[Mon Aug 22 09:38:19 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Any 2nd year math/stats of stats II
[Mon Aug 22 09:38:34 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): s/of/or
[Mon Aug 22 09:39:14 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): What's your current mark in that slot?
[Mon Aug 22 09:39:22 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Only an A
[Mon Aug 22 09:39:31 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Darn.
[Mon Aug 22 09:40:03 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): It's pretty close to my lowest mark :)
[Mon Aug 22 09:40:15 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Math is hard.
[Mon Aug 22 09:40:29 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Not introductory stats or calc.
[Mon Aug 22 09:40:36 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Those courses are not, indeed, hard.
[Mon Aug 22 09:40:47 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Is Discrete Structures 'hard'?
[Mon Aug 22 09:54:24 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Ever read Kernighan & Ritchie?
[Mon Aug 22 09:54:50 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I think I've read bits.  It's pretty light.
[Mon Aug 22 10:00:47 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Good light or insufficient substance light?
[Mon Aug 22 10:01:06 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Good light.
[Mon Aug 22 10:03:16 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Not many computer books from 1988 are still current today
[Mon Aug 22 10:03:40 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I guess it helps when the language doesn't evolve much, huh?
[Mon Aug 22 10:04:05 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Computer Science books aren't too bad, e.g. algorithms.
[Mon Aug 22 10:04:13 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Only silly language books like JAVA 1.5!!!
[Mon Aug 22 10:04:42 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): True but they come up with new useful algorithms.
[Mon Aug 22 10:05:16 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Very few for undergrads.
[Mon Aug 22 10:05:56 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Anyway, I'm off to school.
[Mon Aug 22 10:06:02 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): CLRS changed somewhat in 10 years
[Mon Aug 22 10:06:11 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes, but pedagogy more than research results.
[Mon Aug 22 11:08:58 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Welcome back
[Mon Aug 22 11:25:02 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Mon Aug 22 11:26:12 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Mmm strawberries and pineapple.
[Mon Aug 22 11:26:22 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): mmm.
[Mon Aug 22 11:26:48 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Did you know they 'made' gold kiwis?
[Mon Aug 22 11:28:52 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): No, I didn't.
[Mon Aug 22 11:29:32 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Neither did I, but now Costco just started carrying boxes with a split of both varieties.
[Mon Aug 22 11:30:49 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): They're not bad, they're a bit sweeter than their green cousins.
[Mon Aug 22 11:33:28 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Ah, this explains why we haven't heard of it, it's a brand product of genetic engineering.
[Mon Aug 22 11:34:08 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): So, made is the right word.
[Mon Aug 22 11:34:16 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): http://www.zesprikiwi.com/goldkiwi.htm
[Mon Aug 22 11:35:04 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Weird.
[Mon Aug 22 11:38:12 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): What will they think of next? A red kiwi?
[Mon Aug 22 11:38:27 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Hmm, I'd like to see a blue orange
[Mon Aug 22 11:39:11 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): It's probably not very appetizing.
[Mon Aug 22 11:39:27 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): What isn't? The gold kiwi or a blue orange?
[Mon Aug 22 11:40:46 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Blue orange.
[Mon Aug 22 11:41:10 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): No, probably not, but it would be kind of funny, seeing that the fruit is named after its colour.
[Mon Aug 22 11:41:41 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes.
[Mon Aug 22 11:42:39 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Hacking this 'aft?
[Mon Aug 22 11:47:38 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Nope.  Structuring a paper.
[Mon Aug 22 11:48:32 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): That's always the most annoying part, isn't it?
[Mon Aug 22 11:51:55 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Nah.
[Mon Aug 22 11:53:46 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Ever worked with Python?
[Mon Aug 22 11:55:42 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Nope!
[Mon Aug 22 11:56:01 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): It seems like a better choice than Perl.
[Mon Aug 22 12:42:42 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): That's awful, there is a 20 kph speed limit on bike paths in Ottaw
2000
a.
[Mon Aug 22 12:44:24 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): They're not meant for fast biking.  Use the streets.
[Mon Aug 22 12:45:03 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Too bad.
[Mon Aug 22 12:45:26 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): A lot of the streets aren't bike friendly either.
[Mon Aug 22 12:46:15 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes, but you can make them more so by behaviour.
[Mon Aug 22 12:46:26 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): some paths are meant for commuting.
[Mon Aug 22 12:46:38 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): But if it's 8am on a weekday, they probably won't enforce speed limits.
[Mon Aug 22 12:47:03 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I dont' think they ever do really. They're only patrolled by first aiders.
[Mon Aug 22 12:47:13 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): It depends on the city, probably.
[Mon Aug 22 12:47:22 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Hmm, there
[Mon Aug 22 12:47:37 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Hmm, there's an organization trying to build an 18,000 Km bike trail across Canada.
[Mon Aug 22 12:47:53 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): There's quite a bit of this trail in Mtl, yes.
[Mon Aug 22 12:48:35 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Well, much of Ottawa is covered by existing bike trail now, so it's probably in the network
[Mon Aug 22 12:49:00 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes.  It goes pretty far already, I think.
[Mon Aug 22 12:53:28 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): It would only take about 56.25 days to bike across Canada.
[Mon Aug 22 12:54:19 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Maxamillian did it.
[Mon Aug 22 12:54:30 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): wow, that's crazy.
[Mon Aug 22 12:54:35 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): How long did it take him?
[Mon Aug 22 12:54:54 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): A summer.
[Mon Aug 22 12:54:55 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Cake
[Mon Aug 22 12:55:51 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Free cake?
[Mon Aug 22 13:37:30 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Good cake?
[Mon Aug 22 13:37:52 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yep.
[Mon Aug 22 13:37:56 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): German chocolate.
[Mon Aug 22 13:38:16 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): We had rhubarb cake yesterday, which was quite tasty.
[Mon Aug 22 13:39:27 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Usually it's pie with rhubarb, isn't it?
[Mon Aug 22 13:42:13 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): You can make all sorts of things with Rhubarb. Strawberry/Rhubard Pie is common though.
[Mon Aug 22 13:42:46 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Rhubard needs to be paired with something sweet.
[Mon Aug 22 13:46:36 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): So it seems.
[Mon Aug 22 13:47:00 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): It's very non-sweet.
[Mon Aug 22 13:48:57 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Anyway, it's very good in cake form with cinnamon and sugar.
[Mon Aug 22 13:49:08 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Nice.
[Mon Aug 22 13:50:17 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Day almost over.
[Mon Aug 22 13:59:11 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): It is.
[Mon Aug 22 14:08:39 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I need this day to be over.
[Mon Aug 22 14:09:19 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): How come?
[Mon Aug 22 14:09:29 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): All this work is making me tired :)
[Mon Aug 22 14:14:02 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): long day
[Mon Aug 22 14:43:23 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Home time, see ya.
[Mon Aug 22 14:43:45 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): bye!
[Mon Aug 22 19:46:59 2005 MDT] FROM Myra (#8045): will you fly to NY and beat up my local phone provider please?  They are charging me a penalty because they owe ME money AND they're charging me tax on the tax they charge.  Can you come here and whoop 'em upside the head please?
[Mon Aug 22 19:53:40 2005 MDT] TO Myra (#8045): Wow, that's nasty. I might be able to hit them with a rock from here.
[Mon Aug 22 19:54:17 2005 MDT] FROM Myra (#8045): ok.. start warming up your throwing arm. K?
[Mon Aug 22 19:54:45 2005 MDT] TO Myra (#8045): Will do.
[Mon Aug 22 19:55:30 2005 MDT] TO Myra (#8045): Did you try going ape shit on them and asking for a supervisor?

>> Network buffer overflow: 346 lines of output to you have been lost <<
[Mon Aug 29 07:49:52 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Uh-huh.
[Mon Aug 29 07:52:09 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): That is a pretty nasty policy.
[Mon Aug 29 07:52:25 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yup.
[Mon Aug 29 07:52:45 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): But that sort of policy is pretty common.
[Mon Aug 29 07:53:47 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Like for taxes for example.
[Mon Aug 29 07:55:14 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Well, for taxes there's actually a lawful requirement to pay.
[Mon Aug 29 07:56:00 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): It's worse when there is no lawful requirement to pay but you suggest that there is.
[Mon Aug 29 07:56:21 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): True enough.
[Mon Aug 29 07:58:00 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Not just extortion, but misleading extortion.
[Mon Aug 29 08:00:24 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Mmmm misleading extortion
[Mon Aug 29 08:01:48 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Shouldn't they be seeking out another source of info before just paying?
[Mon Aug 29 08:02:19 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): You would think so, wouldn't you.
[Mon Aug 29 08:02:52 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): They need like an anti-copyright person to represent the universities.
[Mon Aug 29 08:02:57 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Also there's extortion in the amount of text you can excerpt before paying copyright fees.  Nice, huh.  The publishers will say, like, you know, more than 2 letters, but that's not actually true except in their fantasy world.
[Mon Aug 29 08:05:25 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): 2 letter (as in characters)?
[Mon Aug 29 08:07:45 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I was exaggerating.  Actually they say like more than 3 lines.
[Mon Aug 29 08:08:19 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): What is it really?
[Mon Aug 29 08:10:34 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): It depends on the judge.
[Mon Aug 29 08:11:21 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): You have to love the consistency of our lay system?
[Mon Aug 29 08:12:29 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): There's something to be said for systems with people involved.  They're better at making reasonable judgements than computers.  However, they can also be expensive.
[Mon Aug 29 08:13:48 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yes, it's pretty expensive to find out how many lines you can use in a particular case.
[Mon Aug 29 08:13:52 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Uh-huh.
[Mon Aug 29 08:17:37 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): So, why are you up so early?
[Mon Aug 29 08:18:53 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Waiting for a ride to Boston.
[Mon Aug 29 08:18:59 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Well, I'm codriving, but yeah.
[Mon Aug 29 08:19:02 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Cool, who with?
[Mon Aug 29 08:19:30 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Derek Rayside, another MIT student.
[Mon Aug 29 08:19:37 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Cool, from McGill also?
[Mon Aug 29 08:22:14 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): He did an exchange term at McGill, but he's from Waterloo.
[Mon Aug 29 08:22:47 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): So, I take it he's just visiting people from McGill then?
[Mon Aug 29 08:23:40 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): No, we went to this memorial service on Friday.
[Mon Aug 29 08:23:49 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Ah.
[Mon Aug 29 08:37:06 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): When are you supposed to get picked up?
[Mon Aug 29 08:37:53 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): He left from Beaconsfield at 10.
[Mon Aug 29 08:38:21 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): How long a drive is it?
[Mon Aug 29 08:39:44 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): 35 minutes
[Mon Aug 29 08:39:57 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I ment Mtl to Boston :)
[Mon Aug 29 08:40:05 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): But Derek takes a while to do things sometimes.  About 5.5 hors.
[Mon Aug 29 08:40:09 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): +u
[Mon Aug 29 08:41:17 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Not os bad
[Mon Aug 29 08:41:30 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Indeed.
[Mon Aug 29 08:43:49 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Derek probably stopped somewhere on the way in
[Mon Aug 29 08:45:31 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I don't know.  I tihnk he's just slow.
[Mon Aug 29 08:45:43 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): YOu better do most of the driving :)
[Mon Aug 29 08:48:02 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Once he gets onto the highway it's not so bad.
[Mon Aug 29 08:49:47
2000
 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Maybe he's biking there
[Mon Aug 29 08:49:59 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): That would make it hard to drive to Boston.
[Mon Aug 29 08:50:15 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): true enough.
[Mon Aug 29 08:50:21 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Or he has a smart car
[Mon Aug 29 08:50:37 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): No, we rented the car in Boston.
[Mon Aug 29 08:50:45 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Ah, ok.
[Mon Aug 29 08:50:55 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Would you have flown if he wasn't coming?
[Mon Aug 29 08:51:59 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Probably not.  I don't know.
[Mon Aug 29 08:53:51 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Ok.  Time to go.
[Mon Aug 29 17:13:46 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Welcome to Boston
[Mon Aug 29 17:16:59 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yep.  Derek is kind of slow.
[Mon Aug 29 17:17:12 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): How much longer did it take than it should have?
[Mon Aug 29 17:17:28 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Well, it's not the driving part, it's the getting organized to drive.  Off to judo.
[Mon Aug 29 17:17:39 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Enjoy!
[Tue Aug 30 09:04:02 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Good morning
[Tue Aug 30 09:04:25 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Tue Aug 30 09:04:35 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Nice not to have a slow driver today?
[Tue Aug 30 09:06:21 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Derek is a fast driver.  However, it takes a long time to get him started.
[Tue Aug 30 09:07:01 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): It's all about momentum
[Tue Aug 30 09:08:57 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Or about being reasonably quick about stuff.
[Tue Aug 30 09:09:29 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Well, you just need to get the momentum going faster.
[Tue Aug 30 09:09:48 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yeah.
[Tue Aug 30 09:13:47 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): What's happening today in Boston?
[Tue Aug 30 09:23:10 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): This looks like our company: http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/images/dilbert2005081130814.jpg
[Tue Aug 30 09:28:26 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes, nice.
[Tue Aug 30 09:29:07 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Appropriately enough, we're doing our dissatisfaction audits now.
[Tue Aug 30 09:32:29 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Hurrah!
[Tue Aug 30 09:32:57 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): (a) they're not anonymous, (b) they make no difference, they're for show
[Tue Aug 30 09:46:29 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Lunch (or something)
[Tue Aug 30 09:46:33 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): ENjoy
[Tue Aug 30 10:19:30 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Must have been something, since that was pretty short for lunch
[Tue Aug 30 10:56:28 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yeah, now I've had lunch.
[Tue Aug 30 11:15:23 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Now, I have as well
[Tue Aug 30 11:16:33 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Now, I'm consuming a smoothies with green tea.
[Tue Aug 30 11:21:46 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Nice.
[Tue Aug 30 11:22:14 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): It's quite tasty, but it should be when it only has ice, fruit puree, and green tea.
[Tue Aug 30 11:25:15 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): What's up this afternoon? Done fc hacking?
[Tue Aug 30 11:29:05 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes.  So, more web server hacking.
[Tue Aug 30 11:29:23 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): That will be one good web server when you're done
[Tue Aug 30 11:29:53 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Or something.
[Tue Aug 30 11:42:11 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Is your specification language based on propositional logic?
[Tue Aug 30 11:47:20 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Set specifications.
[Tue Aug 30 11:47:30 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Cool
[Tue Aug 30 11:48:17 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): http://plam.csail.mit.edu/svn/repos/trunk/benchmarks/httpd/hdlliter.sl 
[Tue Aug 30 11:48:54 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): It's a pretty grammar
[Tue Aug 30 11:49:46 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Got to reboot, back in 5- 10
[Tue Aug 30 12:05:22 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Darn software upgrades.
[Tue Aug 30 12:05:57 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Darn Windows software upgrade.
[Tue Aug 30 12:06:27 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I had to let the system admin remote desktop in, so I had to logout
[Tue Aug 30 12:07:13 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Under Linux, he could have connected while I Was on.
[Tue Aug 30 12:08:42 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Uh-huh.
[Tue Aug 30 12:09:19 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Even Windows should be able to do it. It's an artificial restriction placed on it by Micro$oft.
[Tue Aug 30 12:18:04 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): It might involve serious system redesign.
[Tue Aug 30 12:18:10 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): e.g. static pointers or something.
[Tue Aug 30 12:19:21 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): What might?
[Tue Aug 30 12:27:15 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): One-login-per-machine.
[Tue Aug 30 12:27:25 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Windows 2003 server supports it
[Tue Aug 30 12:30:01 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I guess it's on purpose then.
[Tue Aug 30 12:30:10 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yep, that's why I said it was their decision
[Tue Aug 30 12:31:13 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): They want more $$$
[Tue Aug 30 12:33:52 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yeah, of course.
[Tue Aug 30 12:36:10 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Go Linux
[Tue Aug 30 12:48:39 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): So, how do you get into fun CS stuff?
[Tue Aug 30 12:52:12 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Take 300- and 400-level CS classes.
[Tue Aug 30 12:52:33 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): That being more interesting or the prereqs for more interesting stuff?
[Tue Aug 30 12:53:41 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): It's much more interesting than 1st and 2nd year courses.
[Tue Aug 30 12:53:55 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I hope so.
[Tue Aug 30 12:54:06 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): It can't be any worse
[Tue Aug 30 12:54:20 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I submitted my ADT challenge request today
[Tue Aug 30 12:54:41 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yeah, it's a problem that 1st year classes are dumb.  I think they're much less dumb at McGill.
[Tue Aug 30 12:55:08 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Maybe I should go retake them at McGill :)
[Tue Aug 30 13:01:37 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Business granted me access to their course
[Tue Aug 30 13:05:24 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Whee.
[Tue Aug 30 13:06:02 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): 3 weeks and one ombudsperson later
[Tue Aug 30 13:06:29 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I guess they suck, huh.
[Tue Aug 30 13:06:41 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I can't wait till next year
[Tue Aug 30 13:12:39 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): For what reason?
[Tue Aug 30 13:13:11 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Will probably have the same problem.
[Tue Aug 30 13:24:27 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): How much more pain?
[Tue Aug 30 13:24:50 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): We'll see, maybe I'll be lucky and they'll give me access to a full course again
[Tue Aug 30 13:26:02 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): But how many more do you need?
[Tue Aug 30 13:26:17 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): 2
[Tue Aug 30 13:27:06 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Starting?
[Tue Aug 30 13:27:38 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): What do you mean by starting?
[Tue Aug 30 13:29:20 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Does that include this term?
[Tue Aug 30 13:29:28 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Nope
[Tue Aug 30 13:31:40 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): So two more incidents of pain.  How unfortunate!
[Tue Aug 30 13:31:47 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Quite
[Tue Aug 30 13:34:48 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Could be worse, like 20 courses
[Tue Aug 30 13:37:28 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Ick.

>> Network buffer overflow: 383 lines of output to you have been lost <<
[Mon Sep  5 16:25:38 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Is it usual to not write code as part of CS research or does more research include code?
[Mon Sep  5 16:26:45 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): It depends on what subfield.
[Mon Sep  5 16:27:02 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Compiler research normally includes codes or atleast a grammar?
[Mon Sep  5 16:28:55 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Well, Viktor doesn't really code.  Grammars are just not important, though.
[Mon Sep  5 16:29:22 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Wasn't Viktor more mathematical than you liked in your research?
[Mon Sep  5 16:30:20 20
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05 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes.
[Mon Sep  5 16:31:31 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Do you use much math at all?
[Mon Sep  5 16:32:31 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Sometimes I write proofs.  Not often.
[Mon Sep  5 17:31:06 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): My bike appears to be defective
[Mon Sep  5 17:31:21 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): What is the nature of the defect?
[Mon Sep  5 17:32:15 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Friction between the brakes and wheel at certain points along the wheel. I think it may be two points, which leads me to believe the wheel could be on an angel.
[Mon Sep  5 17:32:17 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): angle
[Mon Sep  5 17:32:29 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Your wheel is apparently off true.
[Mon Sep  5 17:32:59 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Had that before? Is there an easy fix?
[Mon Sep  5 17:33:10 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): It's not too difficult, but requires a tool and some work.
[Mon Sep  5 17:33:22 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Some meaning &amp;gt; 30 minutes?
[Mon Sep  5 17:33:27 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): http://www.kenkifer.com/bikepages/skills/spokes.htm
[Mon Sep  5 17:33:42 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Well, if you have some experience, then it goes faster.
[Mon Sep  5 17:34:08 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I'll have to bring it to the shop tomorrow.
[Mon Sep  5 17:34:49 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): As it's relatively new, you may be able to make them do it for you for free.
[Mon Sep  5 17:34:58 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): 'off true' is what your problem is, though.
[Mon Sep  5 17:35:18 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Sounds good, I'll sound like I know what I'm talking about then.
[Mon Sep  5 17:35:31 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): The bike includes free tuneups and repairs for a year.
[Mon Sep  5 17:37:00 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Uh-huh.
[Mon Sep  5 17:38:02 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): The pad on my pedal has almost fallen off also and there are other adjustments that are supposed to be done after the 6 weeks point anyway,
[Mon Sep  5 17:38:46 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Indeed.
[Mon Sep  5 17:40:49 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Has any research ever been done to link programming language grammars and psychology?
[Mon Sep  5 17:41:13 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I'm sure.
[Mon Sep  5 17:41:18 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): But I don't care about it.
[Mon Sep  5 17:41:32 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): So, where's the perfect programming language? :)
[Mon Sep  5 17:41:55 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): There is none.
[Mon Sep  5 17:43:12 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): We ought to be able to design one.
[Mon Sep  5 17:44:48 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): You'd think so, eh.
[Mon Sep  5 17:44:55 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I love Ruby's 'x, y = y, x' syntax
[Mon Sep  5 17:45:02 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): MOO is kind of like that too.
[Mon Sep  5 17:45:12 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yes, that's true.
[Mon Sep  5 17:45:22 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): However, they haven't done a good job at perfect apps either
[Mon Sep  5 17:46:07 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Not really.
[Mon Sep  5 17:47:02 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Their code block feature is also very nify: [ 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 ].each {|i| puts i }
[Mon Sep  5 17:47:27 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Sort of like a lambda function.
[Mon Sep  5 17:48:35 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Indeed.
[Mon Sep  5 17:51:39 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): What language did you write your compiler in?
[Mon Sep  5 17:51:46 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): O'Caml.
[Mon Sep  5 17:52:02 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): You're a big fan of that language.
[Mon Sep  5 17:52:24 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yep.
[Mon Sep  5 17:52:43 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Did you start on it before the O'Reilly book was written?
[Mon Sep  5 17:57:50 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I'll have to read up on it some day, if I ever find time
[Mon Sep  5 21:11:39 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Mon Sep  5 21:11:46 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Mon Sep  5 21:12:02 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): How's it going/
[Mon Sep  5 21:13:23 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Think it's safe to ride a bike with a wheel that is off true?
[Mon Sep  5 21:14:27 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Sure.
[Mon Sep  5 21:25:40 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Do much today?
[Mon Sep  5 21:25:52 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes, my webserver properly serves zipped pages now.
[Mon Sep  5 21:25:58 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Sweet.
[Mon Sep  5 21:29:00 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): why didn't it before?
[Mon Sep  5 21:29:22 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): No hooks, and then incorrect header/footer information.
[Mon Sep  5 21:30:11 2005 MDT] FROM Myra (#8045): I just watched the tail end of the most BIZARRE television show.
[Mon Sep  5 21:30:34 2005 MDT] FROM Myra (#8045): a guy dated 3 moms to decide which of their SONS he wanted to date!!!!!!!!!111
[Mon Sep  5 21:31:48 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): http://plam.csail.mit.edu:8020 is the web server.
[Mon Sep  5 21:43:13 2005 MDT] TO Myra (#8045): Crazy.
[Mon Sep  5 21:43:18 2005 MDT] FROM Myra (#8045): totally..
[Mon Sep  5 21:43:32 2005 MDT] FROM Myra (#8045): and the guy he picked looked like a slimy snake.
[Mon Sep  5 21:43:42 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Self-hosting then?
[Mon Sep  5 21:43:47 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): It is.
[Mon Sep  5 21:46:34 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Thanks to Google Maps, I just did the whole bike ride to Montreal without leaving my chair.
[Mon Sep  5 21:46:44 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): And I didn't even break a sweat.
[Mon Sep  5 21:46:51 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Less calories burned for sure.
[Mon Sep  5 21:46:57 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Just a few less
[Mon Sep  5 21:47:16 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): did you ever end up on major highways along your trip?
[Mon Sep  5 21:47:32 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Once I ended up briefly on the 417.
[Mon Sep  5 21:48:43 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): This route is on the 17 for a few clicks
[Mon Sep  5 21:50:30 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): 17 is all right.
[Mon Sep  5 22:02:30 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): The route tries to avoid it most of the way
[Mon Sep  5 22:03:58 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I think I'll head to bed, good night.
[Mon Sep  5 22:04:26 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Bye!
[Mon Sep  5 22:04:34 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): See ya
[Tue Sep  6 13:30:35 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): What a day
[Tue Sep  6 13:30:39 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Eh?
[Tue Sep  6 13:31:11 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I've been on the move ever since 10:30. My front wheel wasn't actually off true.
[Tue Sep  6 13:31:23 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Was there actually a problem?
[Tue Sep  6 13:31:43 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yep, the wheel wasn't put on properly and the brake cable was twisted.
[Tue Sep  6 13:32:50 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): The back wheel, however, was massively off true.
[Tue Sep  6 13:33:28 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Ah.  I guess you could've spotted that with some experience.
[Tue Sep  6 13:33:55 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yep, but I didn't have the tools and the experience to fix all that rapidly. And they'd do it for free, it's just a 11km ride.
[Tue Sep  6 13:34:08 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Right.  But it's good at least to know what the problem is.
[Tue Sep  6 13:34:56 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Absolutely, I was initially thinking the wheel might not be on properly before I knew what off true meant.
[Tue Sep  6 13:35:39 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Apparently, once your wheel goes off true, you only have about 1.5 years of life left in it. You can never completely fix.
[Tue Sep  6 13:39:02 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Then when I was taking the bus to lunch, someone proposed to their girlfriend on the packed bus.
[Tue Sep  6 13:41:23 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Well, that probably depends on what you intend to do with the wheel.
[Tue Sep  6 13:43:37 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): http://www.randonneurs.bc.ca/results/time_res.html
[Tue Sep  6 13:43:41 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Also, people rebuild wheels.
[Tue Sep  6 13:45:14 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): e.g. http://www.sheldonbrown.com/wheelbuild.html
[Tue Sep  6 13:46:09 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Atleast a replacement is only $60 though
[Tue Sep  6 13:4
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6:22 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Eeps.
[Tue Sep  6 13:46:33 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Also http://www.kenkifer.com/bikepages/skills/spokes.htm
[Tue Sep  6 13:46:37 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Is that bad?
[Tue Sep  6 13:46:49 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): $60 is kind of pricey.  For me.
[Tue Sep  6 13:47:34 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Apparently, it's a consumable, especially with all those darn potholes.
[Tue Sep  6 13:48:47 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Usually we replace wheels when too many spokes are broken, I guess.  My dad fixes wheels.
[Tue Sep  6 13:49:00 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Atleast it will last 1.5 years more or so.
[Tue Sep  6 13:49:21 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): The guy in the shop said eventually you won't be able to return it sufficiently close to trueness.
[Tue Sep  6 13:55:04 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): What did you do today? Web server, web server, web server?
[Tue Sep  6 13:56:30 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Trying to write about it.
[Tue Sep  6 13:56:43 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I guess it also depends on one's definition of sufficiently close.  But you can also replace spokes.
[Tue Sep  6 13:57:04 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yes, maybe he's not entirely sure of what he's saying.
[Tue Sep  6 13:57:23 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): That would be surprising.
[Tue Sep  6 14:06:29 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Sheesh.  http://www.randonneurs.bc.ca/newsletter/submissions_2005/032_how-far-did-they-ride_brian-list.html
[Tue Sep  6 14:08:51 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): True enough, he seemed to know his way around a bike.
[Tue Sep  6 14:09:54 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): But he probably has different metrics.
[Tue Sep  6 14:10:22 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Could be.
[Tue Sep  6 14:10:35 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I can't believe I wrecked a tire in 1 month of usage.
[Tue Sep  6 14:11:05 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): km count?
[Tue Sep  6 14:12:11 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): 70 km
[Tue Sep  6 14:12:24 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): That's pretty low for wrecking a tire.
[Tue Sep  6 14:12:34 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Must be a lot of potholes in Orleans
[Tue Sep  6 14:12:52 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Perhaps you ride too close to the curb.
[Tue Sep  6 14:13:33 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Maybe
[Tue Sep  6 14:13:39 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): How close do you ride?
[Tue Sep  6 14:15:25 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Far enough to avoid the potholes, I think there's a steep falloff.
[Tue Sep  6 14:17:12 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): So, the point just before where the majority of drivers just start honking at you?
[Tue Sep  6 14:18:52 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Sure.  Also if there really are too many potholes, just take the lane.
[Tue Sep  6 14:21:38 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Most are near the curb but some are pretty far form it
[Tue Sep  6 14:25:20 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes, those you just have to dodge.
[Tue Sep  6 14:25:57 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I should have taken an extra day off, I didn't get anything done today
[Tue Sep  6 14:29:00 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Oh well!
[Tue Sep  6 14:29:20 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yep, can't do much
[Tue Sep  6 15:39:32 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): So, why does a PhD take so long?
[Tue Sep  6 16:15:28 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Argh, a Windows certain application makes my connection drop periodically. I bet that doesn't happen on Linux.
[Tue Sep  6 16:15:38 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Nope!
[Tue Sep  6 16:15:53 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): It's quite irksome.
[Tue Sep  6 16:18:29 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I bet.
[Tue Sep  6 18:05:22 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Hey, what's up?
[Tue Sep  6 18:05:37 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Not much.  Probably will work on the paper later on.
[Tue Sep  6 18:06:11 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I just set record times on my library trip, but it only got me home 20 seconds faster.
[Tue Sep  6 18:06:57 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Oh well!
[Tue Sep  6 18:07:08 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Darn stops! :)
[Tue Sep  6 18:07:15 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Indeed.
[Tue Sep  6 18:07:23 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I must have got a good workout going from 0 to 27 five times.
[Tue Sep  6 18:07:50 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): It's kind of a pain, but yeah.
[Tue Sep  6 18:12:34 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): So, could one in theory just work on research specifically for their Ph.D. and fast track? I know it probably isn't a good idea though.
[Tue Sep  6 18:12:42 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): From where?

>> Network buffer overflow: 412 lines of output to you have been lost <<
[Mon Sep 19 20:27:03 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): How was the Segway? :)
[Mon Sep 19 20:27:20 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Quite neat.  If I had money, I'd get one.
[Mon Sep 19 20:27:39 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): More efficient than walking?
[Mon Sep 19 20:27:46 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yep.
[Mon Sep 19 20:27:53 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Except, well, money.
[Mon Sep 19 20:27:57 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yeah.
[Mon Sep 19 20:28:05 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Good thing it doesn't run on gas.
[Mon Sep 19 20:28:15 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Electricity remains fairly affordable.
[Mon Sep 19 20:28:39 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): We're still using some fairly nasty sources of energy though
[Mon Sep 19 20:28:52 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Hydro is not perfect, but it's not disastrous.
[Mon Sep 19 20:29:16 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Nuclear isn't bad when it works :)
[Mon Sep 19 20:29:51 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Canadian reactors (CANDU) are pretty safe in terms of failure modes.  But waste is a bit of a problem.  However, coal produces more radioactivity.
[Mon Sep 19 20:30:07 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): And it produces pollution too
[Mon Sep 19 20:30:17 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): How much waste comes out of a Nuclear power plant?
[Mon Sep 19 20:30:27 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I don't konw.  But it lasts a while.
[Mon Sep 19 20:30:33 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Sure does
[Mon Sep 19 20:33:23 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): How fast will a Segway go?
[Mon Sep 19 20:33:31 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): 19.2 km/h.
[Mon Sep 19 20:34:25 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Wow, I thought they were limited to 10 or so clicks.
[Mon Sep 19 20:34:55 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Nope!  Still slower than a bike. But for e.g. Mandos' commute that would be ideal.
[Mon Sep 19 20:35:12 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): IT's a lot less work than a bike too
[Mon Sep 19 20:35:16 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): How long does a charge last?
[Mon Sep 19 20:42:37 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Do you use boiling water for green tea?
[Mon Sep 19 20:42:41 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes.
[Mon Sep 19 20:42:55 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Apparently it's supposed to be 80C
[Mon Sep 19 20:47:07 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Anyway, time for bed, good night
[Mon Sep 19 20:47:18 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Bye!
[Mon Sep 19 20:47:54 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I should get me a segway
[Mon Sep 19 20:48:20 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): They're fun.  Pictures tomorrow.
[Mon Sep 19 20:48:25 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Cool
[Tue Sep 20 11:23:37 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Hey.
[Tue Sep 20 12:29:35 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Mmmm fresh green tea.
[Tue Sep 20 12:35:44 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): That's nice.
[Tue Sep 20 12:36:45 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): A guy here just imported 2Kg from Japan.
[Tue Sep 20 12:37:08 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Nice.
[Tue Sep 20 12:45:39 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Ever had popcorn tea?
[Tue Sep 20 12:48:18 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Nope!
[Tue Sep 20 12:49:09 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): http://www.asiafood.org/genmaicha.cfm
[Tue Sep 20 14:25:48 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): DOne research yet?
[Tue Sep 20 14:34:52 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): It's never done.
[Tue Sep 20 14:38:13 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Doh
[Tue Sep 20 16:02:50 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): How's it going?
[Tue Sep 20 16:09:06 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Just revising a paper.
[Tue Sep 20 16:09:14 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): And then break?
[Tue Sep 20 16:17:06 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Well, then research statement.
[Tue Sep 20 16:17:12 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Off t
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o help Marco buy a bike.
[Wed Sep 21 09:18:38 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Good morning.
[Wed Sep 21 11:00:18 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Mmmm lunch
[Wed Sep 21 11:01:29 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Lunch.
[Wed Sep 21 11:01:37 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): What did you have?
[Wed Sep 21 11:01:52 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): pasta.  This is a problem, because I'll be hungry later.
[Wed Sep 21 11:02:08 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Pasta doesn't fill you up?
[Wed Sep 21 11:02:22 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Have a piece of fruit later?
[Wed Sep 21 11:05:06 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Since I moved to 8pm dinner, I've had the problem of lunch not lasting long enough.
[Wed Sep 21 11:07:14 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I don't really like fruit.
[Wed Sep 21 11:07:19 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Especially when hungry.
[Wed Sep 21 11:07:34 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): And it definitely doesn't fill you up.  Pasta always leads to hunger later.
[Wed Sep 21 11:07:36 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Well, some satisfying snack then
[Wed Sep 21 11:08:00 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Doesn't Americanized chinese food do the same as well?
[Wed Sep 21 11:08:53 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Maybe that's why the Italians use pasta for a side dish mostly.
[Wed Sep 21 11:09:01 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I think so.
[Wed Sep 21 11:34:38 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Ah well, atleast pasta is good.
[Wed Sep 21 11:37:20 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Sure.
[Thu Sep 22 09:44:00 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Good morning.
[Thu Sep 22 11:49:46 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): What's up?
[Thu Sep 22 17:13:58 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Thu Sep 22 17:50:04 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): How's it going?
[Thu Sep 22 17:50:36 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Not bad.
[Thu Sep 22 18:01:22 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Did I tell you about my Performance Review?
[Thu Sep 22 18:05:51 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): You did not.  How was it?
[Thu Sep 22 18:06:46 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I got rated very good. Got a fair size raise but my boss still broke his promise of promoting me to seniour developer.
[Thu Sep 22 18:06:57 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): That's not cool.
[Thu Sep 22 18:07:24 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Apparently, I have not been at the company long enough.
[Thu Sep 22 18:08:22 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): However, they promoted atleast one person who has been at the company much shorter than me.
[Thu Sep 22 18:08:49 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yay!  Non-credible!
[Thu Sep 22 18:09:53 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yep, and he couldn't tell me the required number of years at the company and the officialy published policy indicated 3 years of experience (not neccessarily at the company).
[Thu Sep 22 18:10:45 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I still think you should find another job.
[Thu Sep 22 18:10:58 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): No degree = no job
[Thu Sep 22 18:11:59 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): There's a straightforward solution to that as well.
[Thu Sep 22 18:12:18 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Costs 22% more than last time I considored it though.
[Thu Sep 22 18:12:37 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes, that's kind of unfortunate.  Sucks to be in Ontario that way.
[Thu Sep 22 18:12:46 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Or is that your raise?
[Thu Sep 22 18:12:49 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Raise
[Thu Sep 22 18:12:58 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): That's a substantial raise.
[Thu Sep 22 18:13:12 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Tuition is still neglible in my evalaution of the situation.
[Thu Sep 22 18:13:40 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Right.
[Thu Sep 22 18:13:51 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yes, it's a good salary. However, I wasn't making that much to begin with and he still broke a promise, which would cost only $3k/year to honour.
[Thu Sep 22 18:14:42 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes, that's not cool.
[Thu Sep 22 18:15:31 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): He's said two things: (1) I don't think you are as valuable as our seniour developers and (2) you have no chance of making any further significant advancements.
[Thu Sep 22 18:15:51 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Sounds like it's time to quit.
[Thu Sep 22 18:16:03 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yep.
[Thu Sep 22 18:16:37 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I just need a place to go
[Thu Sep 22 18:16:41 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yeah.
[Thu Sep 22 18:16:56 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): The problem is I'd now be giving up a fairly decent salary.
[Thu Sep 22 18:17:28 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): What about self-esteem?
[Thu Sep 22 18:17:43 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I know my value.
[Thu Sep 22 18:18:15 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): On another note, my boss cut-and-pasted the same review comments for all his employees.
[Thu Sep 22 18:18:23 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Would that be more than what they're paying you?
[Thu Sep 22 18:18:30 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yep.
[Thu Sep 22 18:18:40 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): If only you could get another job.
[Thu Sep 22 18:18:58 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): You need contacts or a degree for that.
[Thu Sep 22 18:19:36 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Preferably both.
[Thu Sep 22 18:19:45 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Later.
[Thu Sep 22 18:19:53 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): LEaving?
[Thu Sep 22 18:20:02 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): kendo
[Thu Sep 22 18:20:06 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Have fnu
[Thu Sep 22 20:13:17 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): How was Kendo?
[Thu Sep 22 20:14:02 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): It was all right.  Hopefully it'll help me be the appropriate weight on Saturday.
[Thu Sep 22 20:14:27 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): To compete in a certain bracket?
[Thu Sep 22 20:15:36 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yep.
[Thu Sep 22 20:15:51 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Cool
[Thu Sep 22 20:16:18 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Someone at work goes to Toronto every couple weeks for training in some sport that starts with a K, it may be Kendo
[Thu Sep 22 20:16:43 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Are you going to kick some butt?
[Thu Sep 22 20:16:56 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): That's the plan.
[Thu Sep 22 20:19:39 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Doing both Judo and Kendo now?
[Thu Sep 22 20:23:09 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Occasional kendo.
[Thu Sep 22 20:23:40 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): But now you're good enough to compete in it?
[Thu Sep 22 20:25:23 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Well, I have competed in kendo a bit.  But it's a judo competition this weekend.
[Thu Sep 22 20:26:08 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Oh, I see.
[Thu Sep 22 20:30:53 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): So, you want to throw some butt them
[Thu Sep 22 20:31:40 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): That would be correct.
[Thu Sep 22 20:32:27 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Does iced tea taste anything like tea that's lost its heat?
[Thu Sep 22 20:32:51 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): No, it's iced.
[Thu Sep 22 20:33:41 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I know but does it taste anything like cold tea?
[Thu Sep 22 20:34:18 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Well, you mean room temperature tea?
[Thu Sep 22 20:34:40 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yes.
[Thu Sep 22 20:34:53 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Relatively cold compared to normal drinking temperature.
[Thu Sep 22 20:34:55 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I don't think the taste is quite the same.
[Thu Sep 22 20:36:00 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Good, I'm not a fan of room temperature tea.
[Thu Sep 22 20:38:21 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I should try iced green tea some day
[Thu Sep 22 20:38:40 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Sobe makes sugary iced green tea.  Which is not the same, I guess, as non-sweet tea.
[Thu Sep 22 20:39:29 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): True enough. Is that what all Sobe beverages are?
[Thu Sep 22 20:40:02 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I think most are.
[Thu Sep 22 20:40:13 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Ah, so, that's what they are
[Thu Sep 22 20:40:18 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yep.
[Thu Sep 22 20:42:43 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Jit does seem to be a pretty good teacher. He actually teaches tutorials himself.
[Thu Sep 22 20:43:14 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Nice.  Is he boring?
[Thu Sep 22 20:43:52 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I dont' find him that boring but I participate in the lectures, which helps.
[Thu Sep
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 22 20:44:02 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Sure does.
[Thu Sep 22 20:45:00 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): You get a lot more out of the class when you're doing the problems in it and you have a good grasp of the material. You can even spot errors that the prof makes.
[Thu Sep 22 20:45:39 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes, although the errors are usually pretty minor.  (Most of the time.)
[Thu Sep 22 20:46:36 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Jit made a fairly significant one that made his answer clearly wrong.
[Thu Sep 22 20:46:45 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): He reversed the quantifiers.
[Thu Sep 22 20:47:07 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Oops.  Gotta avoid doing that.
[Thu Sep 22 20:48:01 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yep, and since he didn't discuss the importance of quantifier ordering, it could have messed some people up.
[Thu Sep 22 20:49:02 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I've never actually been sufficiently caught up to get anything out of the lecture, it sheds new light on their value. However, one could also argue that I already new the material and hence didn't need the lecture.
[Thu Sep 22 20:49:14 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): It reinforces the importance of the material.
[Thu Sep 22 20:49:55 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): And it forces me to do exercises with time constraints, which sounds a lot like certain evaluations required by a math course.
[Thu Sep 22 20:51:18 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I like how Jit is always willing to listen to feedback regarding the learning process and how he also encourages it.
[Thu Sep 22 20:52:49 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): That's good.
[Thu Sep 22 20:54:18 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): 18 unique (within the week) hours of office hours between the prof and TA seems a bit excessive to me, but what can you do?
[Thu Sep 22 20:57:07 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): How many students are there?
[Thu Sep 22 20:57:16 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): 100 - 150
[Thu Sep 22 20:57:45 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): No excuse for not coming to office hours.  How many TAs are there?
[Thu Sep 22 20:58:13 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): 5 doing office hours and a 6th to help with tutorials.
[Thu Sep 22 20:58:48 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I've got an excuse not to go, no office hours at workable times for me.
[Thu Sep 22 20:59:10 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Sucks to be you!
[Thu Sep 22 20:59:31 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): However, the prof's office hours do work, so sucks to be him.
[Thu Sep 22 20:59:45 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I don't tend to have many questions though.
[Thu Sep 22 21:01:24 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yeah, that's probably a good thing.  This class isn't too hard, is it?
[Thu Sep 22 21:01:51 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): For me, nope. Some people find it difficult though.

>> Network buffer overflow: 393 lines of output to you have been lost <<
[Wed Oct  5 11:10:41 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Coordinating with a friend in Geneva.
[Wed Oct  5 11:15:53 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Cool, what about? Another trip?
[Wed Oct  5 11:18:44 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yeah, I'm going to Zurich on Sunday.
[Wed Oct  5 11:18:56 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Damn, you travel a lot.
[Wed Oct  5 11:19:40 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yup.  40k miles this year.
[Wed Oct  5 11:19:51 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): This trip is to Oxford and Zurich.  I should prepare my talk for Oxford.
[Wed Oct  5 11:19:52 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Enough for a free flight yet?
[Wed Oct  5 11:20:05 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Talking about compilers?
[Wed Oct  5 11:20:06 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes, I have 80k Aeroplan miles.  I could allegedly get a quite nice flight, I guess.
[Wed Oct  5 11:21:39 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Or you can use it for upgrades?
[Wed Oct  5 11:30:22 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): No.  There are upgrade certs.  Aeroplan miles don't work for upgrades.
[Wed Oct  5 11:30:47 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Ah, ok.
[Wed Oct  5 11:56:20 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Home time, see ya
[Wed Oct  5 11:56:23 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): er class time
[Thu Oct  6 09:26:40 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Good morning.
[Thu Oct  6 09:27:03 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Thu Oct  6 09:28:36 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): What's going on? We're getting free pizza today.
[Thu Oct  6 09:30:03 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I've successfully installed a 2 GB flash card into my fanless computer.  This was a hassle, as it always is.
[Thu Oct  6 09:30:03 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Why's the MOO laggy these days?
[Thu Oct  6 09:30:15 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Seems fast to me.
[Thu Oct  6 09:30:22 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Maybe it's your connection?
[Thu Oct  6 09:30:28 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Right, what I was asking is if it's just me.
[Thu Oct  6 09:30:36 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I didn't state that very well.
[Thu Oct  6 09:31:08 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Must be the 2Gb flash card :)
[Thu Oct  6 09:31:25 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Nah, I was having this problem before too.
[Thu Oct  6 09:32:15 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Apparently, they're supposed to have 16Gb flash cards coming out in the next few years.
[Thu Oct  6 09:34:28 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Flash, and indeed all storage in general, has been improving faster than Moore's law.
[Thu Oct  6 09:34:47 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): HDD's are still slow though.
[Thu Oct  6 09:34:58 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I just got some lag there for a second.
[Thu Oct  6 09:37:24 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Hard drives aren't <B>*that*</B> slow.
[Thu Oct  6 09:37:40 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Compared to memory, they are.
[Thu Oct  6 09:43:39 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Well, sure, but they're still pretty fast.
[Thu Oct  6 09:44:42 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): If you go 15k RPM SCSI, yes
[Thu Oct  6 09:46:31 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): It depends on what you mean by fast.  Is it really a limiting factor?
[Thu Oct  6 09:47:28 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): In some applications, i.e. database, yes.
[Thu Oct  6 09:51:50 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Definitely.  But this is not a limiting factor for me.
[Thu Oct  6 09:52:28 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): It slows down large compilations.
[Thu Oct  6 09:52:28 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): It's the limiting factor in my daily build.
[Thu Oct  6 09:53:02 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Isn't an algorithmic improvement going to be more helpful than any storage space improvements?
[Thu Oct  6 09:53:29 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): The CPU is only at 100% for a matter of seconds during the build.
[Thu Oct  6 09:53:54 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes, I mean algorithmic in the sense of calling things more smartly.
[Thu Oct  6 09:54:17 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Potentially
[Thu Oct  6 10:06:46 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): See you later.
[Thu Oct  6 10:42:22 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Hey.
[Thu Oct  6 10:42:34 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Thu Oct  6 10:43:59 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): The pizza novelty seems to wear off after you've eaten it.
[Thu Oct  6 10:45:12 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Oh well.
[Thu Oct  6 10:45:54 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Home of the greasiest pizza in Ottawa.
[Thu Oct  6 10:49:07 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yuck.
[Thu Oct  6 10:49:28 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yep. I don't tend to eat there often, evne though they've grown to 19 locations in OTtawa.
[Thu Oct  6 10:51:27 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): What did you have for lunch?
[Thu Oct  6 10:52:33 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): mole chicken at whitehead.
[Thu Oct  6 10:52:56 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): What's mole chicken?
[Thu Oct  6 10:56:17 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Um, http://www.globalgourmet.com/destinations/mexico/chicmole.html
[Thu Oct  6 10:57:55 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Cool
[Thu Oct  6 10:58:33 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I know almost nothing about Mexican food, so that explains it.
[Thu Oct  6 11:07:36 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): What do you think is characteristic of the computer science approach to a problem?
[Thu Oct  6 11:10:19 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Algorithms.
[Thu Oct  6 11:10:39 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): And their analysis, yes. Elegance. Anything else?
[Thu Oct  6 11:13:26 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I suspec
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t that everything else shows up in other human endeavours as well.
[Thu Oct  6 11:15:10 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I'm curious about the differences between the engineering and CS approach to development.
[Thu Oct  6 11:15:47 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Engineers are good at getting stuff done quickly, but not neccessarily elegantly.
[Thu Oct  6 11:15:48 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Well, you probably ought to ask a real engineer.
[Thu Oct  6 11:16:05 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Elegant = within e.g. budget constraints.
[Thu Oct  6 11:16:05 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I did, now I'm asking a real computer scientist.
[Thu Oct  6 11:17:05 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Sure, there are tradeoffs, but a computer scientist will try to make the most elegant design possible.
[Thu Oct  6 11:17:05 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Within his/her constraints.
[Thu Oct  6 11:18:45 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I think that you need to be able to do both to develop good software efficiently.
[Thu Oct  6 11:20:47 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Perhaps it's also important to do that in engineering too.  I don't know.
[Thu Oct  6 11:22:47 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Likely.
[Thu Oct  6 11:23:20 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Gantt charts and cutting and pasting only get you so far.
[Thu Oct  6 11:25:50 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): If you don't think about data structures and algorithms upfront, you have the potential for a really slow program.
[Thu Oct  6 11:26:25 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes.
[Thu Oct  6 11:27:00 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Like the thought that ArrayList fits all here.
[Thu Oct  6 11:27:33 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): On another note, Jit's dad had a building named after him at some University in Montreal.
[Thu Oct  6 11:33:42 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): what's the last name?
[Thu Oct  6 11:33:42 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): ArrayList is pretty good.
[Thu Oct  6 11:33:55 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Bose
[Thu Oct  6 11:34:04 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Sure, but not universally applicable.
[Thu Oct  6 11:34:25 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): I use it most of the time but I think about why first.
[Thu Oct  6 11:37:39 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Right.
[Thu Oct  6 11:37:39 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I implemented a move-to-front list for fontconfig yesterday.
[Thu Oct  6 11:37:39 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): He just retired from the Physics department last week. It's the first time they named a building after someone who is still alive and didn't pay them millions.
[Thu Oct  6 11:38:46 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Officially, anyway.  There's always been the Shatner building, which was an unofficial name.
[Thu Oct  6 11:39:20 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yes. It's not at McGill. I'm not sure which University, but it's French.
[Thu Oct  6 11:47:20 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Powerpoint makes me angry.
[Thu Oct  6 11:47:52 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): What about this presentation makes you angry&amp;gt;?
[Thu Oct  6 12:00:42 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Using PPT.
[Thu Oct  6 12:02:13 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): So, if they used a competiting product, you wouldn't mind?
[Thu Oct  6 12:04:11 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Huh?
[Thu Oct  6 12:04:55 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Do you just hate PPT because it is PPT or because it is presentation software?&amp;gt;
[Thu Oct  6 12:12:30 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Because it behaves badly.
[Thu Oct  6 13:59:00 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Configuring stuff sucks.
[Thu Oct  6 14:00:15 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yes.
[Thu Oct  6 14:00:43 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Especially when they decide to make a version of the software completely non-backwards compatible.
[Thu Oct  6 14:08:06 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Nonfree software?
[Thu Oct  6 14:08:19 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Very non-free.
[Thu Oct  6 16:16:18 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Ready for Europe?
[Fri Oct  7 08:30:51 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Good morning.
[Fri Oct  7 08:30:58 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Fri Oct  7 08:31:20 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Almost Turkey Day weekend
[Fri Oct  7 08:33:39 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): What's up?
[Fri Oct  7 08:33:48 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Now in Mtl.
[Fri Oct  7 08:34:05 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Cool. You sure get around.
[Fri Oct  7 08:34:30 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yep.
[Fri Oct  7 08:34:48 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): And you leave tomorrow for Europe?
[Fri Oct  7 08:36:07 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Sunday.
[Fri Oct  7 08:36:35 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Cool. So Turkey on Sat night?
[Fri Oct  7 09:08:06 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Jit made assignment #2 hard.
[Fri Oct  7 09:34:38 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): No turkey; I have to weigh in on Sunday morning.
[Fri Oct  7 09:34:54 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Ah.
[Fri Oct  7 09:35:09 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Leftovers later, I guess.
[Fri Oct  7 09:36:49 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Actually, my family doesn't really do turkey at all.
[Fri Oct  7 09:52:39 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Cool, any traditions then?
[Fri Oct  7 09:55:22 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Um, Christmas presents?
[Fri Oct  7 14:11:43 2005 MDT] FROM Mandos (#8165): Hello other brother Daryl!
[Fri Oct  7 14:12:14 2005 MDT] TO Mandos (#8165): Hey, how's it going?
[Fri Oct  7 14:29:28 2005 MDT] FROM Mandos (#8165): wow laggy
[Fri Oct  7 16:05:20 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Fri Oct  7 16:05:33 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): G'day.
[Fri Oct  7 16:06:15 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): What's up? How's Mtl?
[Fri Oct  7 16:22:51 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Rainy.
[Fri Oct  7 16:23:22 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Same here
[Fri Oct  7 16:24:16 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Mmm immitation Chinese food tonight.
[Fri Oct  7 16:24:29 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Mmm.  Pho.
[Fri Oct  7 16:24:56 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Is real Chinese food better than immitation stuff?
[Fri Oct  7 16:25:17 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): It depends.  Some imitation chinese is really bad, but some is kind of tasty.  And it also depends on the region of China.
[Fri Oct  7 16:25:44 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): If you fry stuff, it can't taste that bad.
[Fri Oct  7 17:24:06 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): No bad for a Chinese take-out place in a strip mall.
[Fri Oct  7 17:24:37 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I suppose.  See you later!
[Fri Oct  7 17:24:44 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): See ya
[Sat Oct  8 15:01:59 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Sat Oct  8 15:02:09 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Hey.
[Sat Oct  8 15:22:07 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Yo.
[Sat Oct  8 15:41:05 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Ready for your trip?
[Sat Oct  8 15:41:45 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Nope!
[Sat Oct  8 15:45:41 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): That's for tonight?
[Sat Oct  8 16:09:29 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Tomorrow.
[Sat Oct  8 16:12:52 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): What have you been up to today?
[Sat Oct  8 17:07:07 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Fixed up one of my talks.
[Sat Oct  8 17:07:18 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Now I'll send off the NSERC postdoc app.
[Sat Oct  8 17:17:36 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Go NSERC
[Sat Oct  8 17:21:23 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Sounds more fun than my discrete assignment doing
[Sat Oct  8 17:21:47 2005 MDT] TO Rain (#2349): Amy!!!
[Sat Oct  8 17:21:52 2005 MDT] TO Rain (#2349): Happy Thanksgiving!
[Sat Oct  8 17:22:03 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Probably.
[Sat Oct  8 17:22:11 2005 MDT] TO Rain (#2349): Hey.
[Sat Oct  8 17:22:18 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Some of his questions are hard.
[Sat Oct  8 17:33:58 2005 MDT] TO Rain (#2349): How's it going?
[Sat Oct  8 17:34:15 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Going to do any Judo in Europe?
[Sat Oct  8 17:34:34 2005 MDT] FROM Rain (#2349): pretty good, bought a car today!
[Sat Oct  8 17:34:44 2005 MDT] TO Rain (#2349): Sweet! What kind?
[Sat Oct  8 17:35:07 2005 MDT] FROM Rain (#2349): A Smart car
[Sat Oct  8 17:35:21 2005 MDT] TO Rain (#2349): Awesome.
[Sat Oct  8 17:35:44 2005 MDT] TO Rain (#2349): How's it working for you?
[Sat Oct  8 17:36:06 2005 MDT] FROM Rain (#2349): but I'll only get it end of March
[Sat Oct  8 17:36:22 2005 MDT] TO Rain (#2349): Why? Do they have to custom make it?
[Sat Oct  8 1
cbe
7:36:27 2005 MDT] FROM Rain (#2349): they build it in Europe and then ship it here
[Sat Oct  8 17:37:14 2005 MDT] TO Rain (#2349): cool.
[Sat Oct  8 17:37:28 2005 MDT] TO Rain (#2349): What will you do till then?
[Sat Oct  8 17:37:45 2005 MDT] FROM Rain (#2349): take the bus and get my license ;)
[Sat Oct  8 17:38:49 2005 MDT] FROM Rain (#2349): what's new with you?
[Sat Oct  8 17:40:33 2005 MDT] TO Rain (#2349): You bought a car before you had your license?
[Sat Oct  8 17:41:24 2005 MDT] TO Rain (#2349): I'm just working working working
[Sat Oct  8 17:43:20 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Don't think so - no bag capacity.
[Sat Oct  8 17:44:41 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): That sucks, you'd have a whole country of new people to beat up
[Sat Oct  8 17:45:09 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Indeed.
[Sat Oct  8 17:47:27 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): How long are you there? 1 week or 2?
[Sat Oct  8 17:47:47 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): 10 days.
[Sat Oct  8 17:48:11 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Cool
[Sat Oct  8 17:48:51 2005 MDT] FROM Rain (#2349): yup :)
[Sat Oct  8 17:49:01 2005 MDT] TO Rain (#2349): I thought they wouldn't actually let you dothat
[Sat Oct  8 18:16:19 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): And now for FCAR.  Whee.
[Sat Oct  8 18:17:43 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): FCAR?
[Sat Oct  8 18:18:08 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): It's like NSERC, but for Quebec.
[Sat Oct  8 18:18:42 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Ah, cool
[Sat Oct  8 18:18:47 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Everything is different in Quenec
[Sat Oct  8 18:18:53 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Quebec
[Sat Oct  8 18:20:46 2005 MDT] FROM Rain (#2349): yup apparently they do :)
[Sat Oct  8 18:21:16 2005 MDT] TO Rain (#2349): Are SmartCars expensive?
[Sat Oct  8 18:21:38 2005 MDT] FROM Rain (#2349): the less expensive is like 17,000$
[Sat Oct  8 18:22:01 2005 MDT] TO Rain (#2349): What's the difference between the cheap ones and the expensive ones?
[Sat Oct  8 18:22:09 2005 MDT] TO Rain (#2349): Doesn't seem practical to make them to order
[Sat Oct  8 18:22:10 2005 MDT] FROM Rain (#2349): mine is 19,000$ something..
[Sat Oct  8 18:22:50 2005 MDT] FROM Rain (#2349): but I added thng in it..
[Sat Oct  8 18:23:41 2005 MDT] FROM Rain (#2349): anyways I've got to get going, see you around Daryl xx
[Sat Oct  8 18:23:50 2005 MDT] TO Rain (#2349): See you soon, I hope! :)
[Sat Oct  8 18:28:48 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Hmm, apparently yawning is actually contagious.
[Sat Oct  8 18:30:28 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): I heard this a long time ago.
[Sat Oct  8 18:31:02 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): They did a test on TV
[Sat Oct  8 18:34:23 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Now they're testing which side buttered toast most oftenly drops on
[Sat Oct  8 18:36:48 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): There's also been a paper on that.
[Sat Oct  8 18:37:03 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): On yawning or toast?
[Sat Oct  8 18:38:35 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Toast.
[Sat Oct  8 18:39:05 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): Cool, they're also testing if a toy car or a real car wins in a race.
[Sat Oct  8 18:40:30 2005 MDT] FROM whiz (#3135): Whee, they sound like they're gunning for an Ig Nobel.
[Sat Oct  8 18:40:47 2005 MDT] TO whiz (#3135): They're Myth Busters, they do this for a living.

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