[01:49] <BotenAnna> for the evening krew, your wtf site link for the day. audiophiles O_O http://www.royaldevice.com/custom.htm
[05:25] <jyo> Huh. I suppose they're still working on Google Calendar integration before rolling out events in Google+.
[16:34] <BotenAnna> ~*good morning*~
[16:34] <bkerensa> Good Morning
[16:34]  * bkerensa will be in California for Christmas
[16:35]  * nhaines is dreaing of a brown Christmas.
[16:36] <bkerensa> nhaines: Brown?
[16:37] <nhaines> bkerensa: we only have four seasons down here: heatwave, earthquake, mudslide, and riot.
[16:37] <bkerensa> nhaines: Oh I know... I'm a true Californian ;)
[16:37] <bkerensa> Born in Sacramento
[16:37] <nhaines> also s/heatwave/wildfire/ is good too.  :)
[16:37] <bkerensa> My entire family is pretty much in California
[16:38] <bkerensa> ;) Family owns a city or two
[16:38] <bkerensa> Well mostly just Martinez, CA these days
[16:38] <bkerensa> ;)
[16:42] <pleia2> I like SF, we just have "nice" and "foggy"
[16:43] <bkerensa> pleia2: I think you some how have missed the rain
[16:43] <bkerensa> =o
[16:43] <pleia2> it hardly ever rains here
[16:44] <bkerensa> =o
[16:44] <pleia2> light mist at most (I'd say that's fog)
[16:44] <bkerensa> pleia2: How long have you been there now?
[16:44] <Faqtotum> no, rain is here in Sacramento, just not atm
[16:44] <pleia2> bkerensa: almost 2 years
[16:44] <bkerensa> wow
[16:44] <bkerensa> you must be having a dry spell
[16:44] <bkerensa> :D
[16:44] <bkerensa> It rained every October when I lived in SF
[16:45] <pleia2> we had a couple days of drizzle before I went to philly, but otherwise it's been beautiful and warm this month
[16:45] <bkerensa> one week it rained so bad in the Mission I swear a homeless person on Valencia Street got submerged
[16:45] <bkerensa> Hmm :D
[16:45] <bkerensa> No doubt it is mostly sunny but it seemed every October rain came but magically on all holidays it was dry
[16:46] <pleia2> we do our carpets in this building in the spring because they say the rainy season is january or feburary
[16:46] <bkerensa> Hmm
[16:46] <pleia2> but even then it doesn't rain a ton, just a few rainy days here and there
[16:46] <akk> We have had relatively dry winters these last couple years, at least down here in the south bay.
[16:46] <akk> No El Niño.
[16:46] <bkerensa> akk: Yeah I figured
[16:46] <bkerensa> :D
[16:46] <pleia2> and nothing like back east
[16:46] <pleia2> I think a rainy year in california is very different than a rainy year back east ;)
[16:47] <nhaines> pleia2: has it been two years already?
[16:47] <bkerensa> My family has a house in San Bruno and a block of houses in Martinez, CA
[16:47] <bkerensa> idk
[16:47]  * bkerensa needs to go visit soon :)
[16:47] <pleia2> nhaines: well, in february :)
[16:47] <akk> We don't get the heavy torrential rains or thunderstorms much ... we just get insistent overcast and rain for 3 months straight, in bad years.
[16:47] <bkerensa> akk: My grandmothers house in South San Francisco is worth so much $$$ now.... She has owned it for like 30 years and inherited it
[16:47] <bkerensa> =o
[16:48] <pleia2> back in philly you can set your watch to the 5PM tree-destroying thunderstorms in the spring :)
[16:48] <pleia2> I do miss the thunderstorms
[16:48] <akk> I love thunderstorms ... wish we had them.
[16:48] <bkerensa> pleia2: Colorado has epic thunderstorms
[16:48] <BotenAnna> thunder hit a tree in CA?
[16:48] <akk> New Mexico had some wonderful storms, and you barely even have to get wet (everything's dry again an hour after the storm passes).
[16:49] <BotenAnna> welp, whole state is gonna burn down
[16:49]  * bkerensa wants to avoid thunderstorms at all costs... I was in a thunderstorm in Colorado and was like "Uhhh we dont have thunderstorms like this in California"
[16:49] <BotenAnna> i never truly experienced a thunderstorm until i lived in korea, CA doesn't have thunderstorms like other places
[16:49] <akk> BotenAnna: I had some friends in South SJ who had a backyard tree explode when lightning hit it, a few years ago. So it does happen occasionally.
[16:50] <bkerensa> pleia2: Do you like Mexican Food?
[16:50] <BotenAnna> like normally a little thunder, rain, it's calming. but a serious thunderstorm? holy shit you feel like suddenly you will be hit with lightning and die
[16:50] <pleia2> bkerensa: from time to time
[16:50] <bkerensa> pleia2: Allow me to suggest http://www.yelp.com/biz/taqueria-cancun-san-francisco-4 (Taqueria Cancun) they have two locations in SF and it is the best I have ever had :)
[16:50] <pleia2> bkerensa: yep, been there :)
[16:50] <bkerensa> I used to eat their nearly everyday
[16:50] <bkerensa> :D
[16:51] <bkerensa> And Sushi... Go to Todai in SV
[16:51] <bkerensa> :D
[16:51] <BotenAnna> "are there lightning rods in this city? on our house? it's installed right? there's no way the lightning will hit the metal rod and poor construction will ignite the house or somethingohgodohgodohgodohgod"
[16:51] <bkerensa> I cant remember if it is in Milpitas or Sunnyvale
[16:51] <pleia2> we go to a small sushi place where my fiance has known the chef for several years
[16:52] <bkerensa> pleia2: Nice... Thats the best way I imagine then :) I like going places where I know the cooks or owners
[16:52] <akk> Is Todai still around? I thought they all closed.
[16:52] <bkerensa> akk: WHAT?
[16:52] <bkerensa> they closed the one in Portland
[16:52] <bkerensa> =o
[16:52] <bkerensa> but I thought it was just this one
[16:52] <bkerensa> :(
[16:52] <akk> I know the couple I used to go to are gone.
[16:53]  * bkerensa shakes fist at Sushi gods
[16:53] <akk> But mostly in SoCal (Todai is a big group celebratory thing for me -- too expensive and excessive for just a casual dinner)
[16:53] <akk> But I think the Vellco one was gone last time I was by there.
[16:53] <bkerensa> well if Todai is gone then I guess the best Sushi in California for me atleast is Osaka on Castro in SF
[16:54] <bkerensa> akk: Well I used to go there for my birthday and whenever I visited my mom when she lived in Sunnyvale.... I liked the eat till you x.x and die
[16:54] <bkerensa> :D
[16:57] <Faqtotum> i went to the Todai in daly city shortly after they first opened, and i wasn't impressed
[16:57] <akk> I think it's been tough for Japanese places lately ... Miyake closed this past year, and that was a Cupertino institution for 20+ years.
[16:58] <bkerensa> akk: Hmm do you know if Sushi Lovers still exists?
[16:59] <akk> That sounds familiar but I can't remember why.
[16:59] <akk> Where was it?
[16:59] <bkerensa> Milpitas and Santa Clara
[16:59] <bkerensa> My mom favored them :D
[17:00] <bkerensa> But then again my mom was born in Japan so ;)
[17:00] <akk> Oh, I think I may have been to the Milpitas one. But googling on it gives the first two hits saying CLOSED.
[17:03] <Faqtotum> bbiab
[17:23] <BotenAnna> maybe its all the doctor who ive been watching but im really starting to see the appeal of tea and some kind of crackers
[17:41] <nhaines> BotenAnna: what about biscuits?
[17:41] <BotenAnna> crumpets
[17:42] <BotenAnna> also, a lil' morning lols: http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltmobeRRqC1qa6xn7o1_500.jpg
[17:42] <nhaines> I think I'm out of English tea cookies, but I also don't think I need to have a huge bag of cookies at my desk.
[17:42] <BotenAnna> yeah i want the crackers but
[17:42] <BotenAnna> i don't have any
[17:42] <BotenAnna> and i think this is a good thing
[17:51] <jtatum> fish fingers and custard
[19:30] <jyo> pleia2: So the Nexus One finally rides off into the Ice Cream Sandwich-less sunset, eh?
[19:30] <pleia2> jyo: I don't know that it's been confirmed
[19:30] <pleia2> I wouldn't be surprised though
[19:31] <pleia2> it's ashame, the only real problem with the nexus one is the internal storage, otherwise it's still one of the higher power androids out there
[20:22] <nhaines> jyo: citation needed!
[20:22] <nhaines> pleia2: My Nexus One and my G2 are getting ICS.  :)
[20:26] <pleia2> I assumed he meant OTA :)
[20:28] <nhaines> pleia2: boo http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/8848669/Android-upgrade-for-Google-Nexus-S-in-weeks.html
[20:29] <nhaines> But yeah, I'm getting it anyway.  :)
[20:36] <pleia2> sadness
[20:36] <pleia2> my fiance should be getting the galaxy/prime for holiday work gift, at which point I might make a play for his S ;)
[20:37] <pleia2> but I really do love the One
[20:37] <pleia2> the S is all plasticy and meh
[20:39] <nhaines> Yeah, metal and glass is where it's at.
[20:39] <nhaines> I love my G2 but I'm pretty sure it won't get an update.
[21:03] <bkerensa> G2 a phone?
[21:03] <nhaines> bkerensa: yes, the T-Mobile G2, by HTC.
[21:03] <bkerensa> oh :D
[21:04]  * bkerensa has a iphone.... HTC offered me a inspire but it was for I think t-mobile and I use ATT
[21:04] <bkerensa> =/
[21:04] <bkerensa> seems like T-Mobile gets cool phones
[21:04] <nhaines> I will take the inspire!  :P
[21:04] <nhaines> yeah, T-Mobile's doing pretty good as far as Android goes.
[21:19] <BotenAnna> my nexus one is awesome but I'm excite to get something new around marchish. the nexus prime looks p cool, if i'm thinking of the right one. the one that was just announced
[21:19] <nhaines> BotenAnna: Galaxy Nexus :P
[21:20] <BotenAnna> yeah probs that one
[21:20] <BotenAnna> i'm suspicious of samsung but the main line Nexus phones tend to have less BS so I guess I'll see how it's received
[21:20] <BotenAnna> and hey something shinier may happen by then!
[21:21] <BotenAnna> i'd love an xperia play kind of thing but I think the new hardware revision is only available on verizon or something dumb :(
[21:26] <nhaines> I'll wait for HTC.
[21:48] <BotenAnna> how long is the wait though :(
[21:48] <BotenAnna> how long
[21:48] <nhaines> I will wait... FOREVER
[22:23] <jtatum> who wants to live forevahhhhh
[22:24] <jtatum> ooo wants to live forevahhhh!! aaaaaaaaahhhhh!
[22:24] <pleia2> who needs forever anyway
[22:39] <BotenAnna> i will wait...until I get tired of my otherwise awesome N1 having about 2k of internal memory for apps
[22:40] <BotenAnna> which is until about several months ago :V
[22:44] <pleia2> I don't even bother exaggerating, 200M is pathetic :)
[22:45] <pleia2> particularly when google thinks it's a good idea to release their 25M G+ app that you can't move to external
[22:45] <nhaines> pleia2: I thought they fixed that?  :)
[22:45]  * pleia2 checks again
[22:46] <pleia2> ooh yay!
[22:47] <BotenAnna> I was so excited to be a consumer whore and buy everything on tap tap
[22:47] <BotenAnna> but the dang thing takes like 25MB of memory and i think stores all the songs in app memory >=(
[22:47] <BotenAnna> and you can't move to SD
[22:47] <BotenAnna> oh well that probably saved me like $50 of poorly thought out impulse purchases
[22:48] <pleia2> heh
[22:48] <BotenAnna> also why is locking screen just causing gnome-screensaver to take up 99% cpu and otherwise do nothing and I have to manually kill the process to be able to use my computer again :(
[22:48] <BotenAnna> lock the desktop, in deed
[22:48] <BotenAnna> *indeed
 well you told it to lock the desktop didn't you?
[22:51] <BotenAnna> *nhaines
[22:51] <BotenAnna> had to get that response out of the way :V
[22:58] <nhaines> Truth in advertising!  :V
[23:03] <pleia2> lol