[01:00] <Nvoid> hello
[01:01] <crashsystems> greetings
[01:09] <DarkwingDuck> Heya
[03:49] <MarkDude> http://tedxhayward.eventbrite.com/
[03:50] <MarkDude> Tedx next Thur
[03:50] <MarkDude> free
[03:51] <seidos> i was really bored so i whipped this up last night:  http://i.imgur.com/dVyC3.png
[03:51] <seidos> i wasn't going to show you guys, but, eh, why not, it's friday :D
[03:51] <seidos> it's more for pleia2 and DarkwingDuck though
[03:54] <seidos> actually, that's not true, i wasn't that bored, i just thought it would be cool to visualize it
[03:55] <MarkDude> lol
[03:56] <seidos> i was thinking of grepping irc logs for laughter, to see if i could make more
[03:56] <seidos> unfortunately, my nickname isn't a character
[03:57]  * MarkDude had some questions for ple ia2 and figured I would wait for the dust to settle from the \return trip 
[03:58] <seidos> oh
[04:02] <akk> Long ago somebody had a stylesheet for chatzilla that showed icons for each person in the IRC channel.
[04:02] <akk> It wasn't quite as fun as MS Comic Chat, but a step in that direction.
[04:05] <seidos> i think it would be cool if it were an animated cartoon
[04:05] <seidos> it's like, free scripts!
[04:05] <seidos> actually, i think there are probably other channels where that would work better on
[04:06] <akk> MS Comic Chat was pretty amazing ... characters would change direction, join each other in the frame when they were talking to each other,e tc.
[04:06] <akk> Dunno why they ditched it.
[04:06] <akk> Never seen an opensource equivalent.
[04:06] <seidos> hmmm, i think i remember some comic thing in yahoo, but it doesn't sound that sophisticated
[04:07] <seidos> maybe i could figure out a way to automate the creation of such "comics"
[04:08] <seidos> it would probably take me years, but perhaps someday
[04:10] <akk> seidos, what did you use for the balloon outlines? They look nice.
[04:11] <seidos> akk: nothing impressive, just a graphic from images.google.com
[04:12] <seidos> what i meant to say was, a fabulously stupendous super awesome graphic from google images! \o/
[04:14] <akk> I always wanted to write a gimp plug-in to do cartoon balloons (it's too many steps making them manually) but never got to a state I was happy with.
[04:16] <seidos> i can't even imagine
[04:18] <akk> It would just be a rounded-rectangle (white background, black border) plus a triangle pointing the right way. The only trick is specifying the location of the triangle.
[04:19] <akk> I couldn't think of a good way to do that then, but now that I've done Arrow Designer I think I could do a cartoon balloon plug-in similarly.
[04:22] <seidos> mmhm
[04:27] <seidos> actually, i wonder how they made this speech balloon now
[04:27] <seidos> i wonder if they drew it then scanned it, or used a tablet
[04:31] <seidos> tablet==digital writing input device
[04:32] <akk> I bet it's generated by a program.
[04:45] <seidos> hmmm
[04:45] <seidos> maybe i'll think about it some more later
[14:06] <pleia2> coming home :)
[14:06]  * pleia2 in Munich waiting for flight to SFO
[23:48] <ryaxnb> I'm at the durbin concert
[23:48] <ryaxnb> anyone else here