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rick_h_happy thanksgiving, hope everyone got their fill of yummies today00:00
snap-lThanks. Am overstuffed00:05
rick_h_yea, I didn't follow the rules tonight at all00:15
rick_h_hmmm, pie and cupcake...00:15
snap-lheh00:25
brouschwe ate at 1. i want a turkey sammich now but would surely explode00:55
gamerchick02how's everyone's turkey day going?02:14
jjesseawesome and yours?02:21
gamerchick02good02:22
gamerchick02just got lubuntu installed on the netbook02:22
gamerchick02i'm liking it. and irc in pidgin isn't too bad...02:22
jjesseoh cool02:22
jjessei'm just trying to figure out my new shiny macbook air :)02:22
gamerchick02macbook air?02:25
gamerchick02nice02:26
gamerchick02i'm not a huge fan of macs... though i haven't tried an Air.02:26
gamerchick02i need a good, light twitter/identi.ca app for lubuntu.02:26
gamerchick02this is hard to find02:26
gamerchick02and no, gwibber isn't a good alternative. i've been using the pidgin plugins but it's hard to follow what's going on.02:29
gamerchick02hrm02:29
jjesseyeah macbook air'02:34
jjesse13 inch 4 gigs of ram02:34
jjessei7 processor02:34
gamerchick02nice02:34
jjesseit is super fast02:34
gamerchick02sounds like it02:34
jjesseits a work device :)02:35
jjesseso i didn't have to buy it02:35
gamerchick02ah02:35
jjessewhich makes it even nicer02:35
gamerchick02i have an HP Elitebook for work, but it's running... windows XP02:35
gamerchick02i feel like i'm trying to eat steak with a spoon with it.02:35
jjesseboo upgrade to windows 702:35
gamerchick02yeah, that is nice!02:35
gamerchick02i can't!02:36
jjessedouble boo02:36
gamerchick02it's locked down more than a federal prison02:36
jjessethat sucks02:36
gamerchick027 is supposed to be coming.... they say.02:36
jjessebeen there and done that02:36
jjessemaybe by the time windows 8 is up02:36
jjesseout02:36
gamerchick02well, i need it for some specialized stuff.02:36
gamerchick02lol jjesse02:37
gamerchick02probably02:37
jjessebeta release for 8 at CES in 201202:37
gamerchick02wow02:37
gamerchick02i don't mind 7.02:37
jjessebrb laundyr02:37
gamerchick02how are you liking OSX?02:37
gamerchick02ok02:37
gamerchick02does anyone know of an easy way to extract my notes from tomboy to straight text so i can import them to something else (lighter, preferably)?02:43
jjessei am liking it02:46
jjessethere are some things that are a bit frustrting02:46
jjesselooks like bzr doesn't work w/ lion02:47
jjesseso don't know what is going to happen for ubuntu-doc work02:47
gamerchick02eeep02:48
gamerchick02ugh. i don't want to run tomboy on this machine (it'll bog it down) but i want to export all my notes. i'll have to wait til i have my other laptop02:49
gamerchick02i have tomboy on there02:49
gamerchick02and maybe i can extract with it02:49
jjesseoh02:49
gamerchick02my notes are stored in dropbox so that's not a problem02:49
jjessei switched over to evernote02:50
jjessedoes that work on ubuntu?02:50
gamerchick02i have them but not in a format i can use02:50
gamerchick02evernote? no02:50
gamerchick02nevernote is a java app that sort of works02:50
jjesseoh bummer on that02:50
gamerchick02but you can use the app in a browser02:50
jjesseoh ok02:50
gamerchick02i do like to have the option to use it if i don't have internet though02:50
jjesseyeah i used it on my Windows 7 build, my android phone and my ipad02:51
jjesseused to use OneNote when I was Windows only02:51
gamerchick02oooh02:51
gamerchick02nice02:51
gamerchick02i've heard good things about onenote02:51
jjessei love onenote02:51
jjesseits awesome02:51
gamerchick02i'm thinking of springpad02:51
gamerchick02but again, i want an app that will work without internet02:52
jjessenever heard of that02:52
gamerchick02i case i need it02:52
gamerchick02www.springpad.com02:52
gamerchick02i think02:52
gamerchick02my brother is awesome02:54
gamerchick02he set up opendns on our router02:54
jjesse45 minutes left in copying office for Mac over corporate vpn02:54
gamerchick02earthlink has shit dns02:54
gamerchick02eeep02:54
jjessei bet02:54
gamerchick02but springpad looks cool02:54
jjessewell its a 1.2 gb iso02:55
gamerchick02wow02:56
gamerchick02yeah02:56
jjessewondering if my vpn will die when i stop for the night?02:58
gamerchick02not sure02:59
jjessei bet it will02:59
gamerchick02ooooh. i'm finally moving this weekend02:59
gamerchick02:)02:59
jjessesomewhere nice?03:00
gamerchick02got my apartment (finally)03:00
jjesseyay03:00
gamerchick02Auburn Hills Apartments03:00
jjessecool03:00
gamerchick02yeah03:00
jjessegoing to freak people by having the terminal open full screen sometime03:00
jjesseand be like yeah i just run the shell :)03:00
gamerchick02nice03:01
gamerchick02i'm doing all my chat via pidgin, which isn't ideal but heck03:01
gamerchick02it works03:01
gamerchick02and pidgin's irc has gotten better it seems. since the last time i tried03:01
gamerchick02it03:01
jjessei'm using XChat Azure03:02
jjessewhatever that is03:02
gamerchick02sounds like xchat for mac.03:03
gamerchick02i could have gone with irssii or something but i like pidgin03:03
gamerchick02oh dear god the Target commercial for black friday is annoying03:04
jjesseall holiday commercials are anoying03:04
jjessedid you see the mace's justin bieber one?03:04
jjessethe app store in os x lion really doesn't have anything useful in it does it?03:06
jjessei want these programs and have to go to the web instead of the app store03:06
jjesseseems silly to me03:06
jjesseand this whole download a file and drag it to an icon or something03:08
jjessewierd03:08
gamerchick02no. i don't pay much attention to commercials03:09
gamerchick02i've never used the app store03:09
gamerchick02the only app store i use is the android one03:09
jjessethe iOS store has a bunch of useful stuff, but very little in the mac os x app store i want to sue03:10
jjesseoh well off to bed thanks for chatting03:10
gamerchick02ok see ya!03:10
rick_h_morning all11:50
brouschug12:01
rick_h_yes, I'm with ya there12:05
rick_h_hmm, so my package made it to Pontiac, and since they're not sending ground out today/tomorrow I wonder if they'll let me pick it up12:06
rick_h_ah damn, it's closed today and tomorrow12:09
rick_h_brousch: ping, do you have IE handy?12:24
brouschi can steal my wife's computer12:52
rick_h_that's ok12:53
rick_h_thanks12:53
brouschwow, epic post on jjesse's google+13:29
brouschhttps://plus.google.com/115940769113439717190/posts/Vyhi6zYeHiV13:29
brouschit will have you punching babies (not just puppies)13:30
rick_h_ah crap, black friday deal on the kindle DX15:05
brouschcolor or diaf15:05
rick_h_heh, sorry I prefer to read15:06
rick_h_I've grown up past all those color picture books I give my son :)15:06
snap-lGood morning15:09
rick_h_recovered snap-l ?15:09
snap-lYeah, able to look at food again15:10
snap-lwas actually a very nice Thanksgiving15:10
snap-lUh oh, Kindle DX is $25915:12
snap-lI think I can hear rick_h_ making the case for itnow.15:13
rick_h_I've been doing it alreay...wife wants a pdf reader15:13
rick_h_tempted to get it "for her" and see if it works15:13
rick_h_if not, I get it and I've got to find her a tabler15:13
rick_h_tablet15:13
snap-lsly. ;)15:14
brouschmagazines are color too15:17
rick_h_yea, but hers are medical journals. I think non-color would work in actual use15:17
brouschand the interwebz15:17
rick_h_and if not, then all the sooner it gets to me15:17
rick_h_brousch: heh, yes...but really color is far down the list of useful bits like battery life, readability, and weight15:18
brouschyoutube15:18
brouschnetflix15:18
rick_h_lol, that's what computers and roku are for15:18
rick_h_I hear the average house has a ton of TVs15:18
rick_h_:)15:18
brouschwe have 115:18
snap-lWe have one TV15:18
snap-land it's pretty much a monitor for the Wii15:19
brouschmy coworkers have more TVs than people in their house15:19
snap-land the DVD player.15:19
snap-lI've never understood that15:19
snap-lthen again, we have more monitors and laptops than people in this house.15:19
rick_h_heh, well we've got 3 though only two in use. Upstairs/downstairs and workout area in basement15:19
rick_h_ah, ie time done...close the wife's laptop15:21
snap-lNeed some clorox wipes? :)15:23
rick_h_purell15:23
brouschor tissues?15:23
rick_h_:P15:23
brouschi think we're going to the muppets today15:23
rick_h_you suck!15:23
rick_h_:P15:23
rick_h_I'm planning on finding a place to see it in AL15:24
snap-lNeed someone to give some recon on the movie15:24
rick_h_sahme the boy is just a little too young15:24
rick_h_snap-l: mpirnat saw it, reviewed ok (at least the < 140char twitter review)15:24
snap-lYeah, I'm not likely to see it in the theaters.15:24
brouschthis will be G's first theater movie, other than little museum movies15:25
brouschonce again beaten to the punch https://plus.google.com/108952536790629690817/posts/Ygc2SoyWkin16:18
rick_h_brousch: lol16:20
snap-lhttps://plus.google.com/u/0/114999238419187496486/posts/P7TQLV2VouA <- Just laid down the gauntlet.17:21
rick_h_lol17:26
rick_h_hardly hair17:26
rick_h_fair17:26
snap-lWell, unfortunately it isn't a fair bet at all17:28
snap-lI'd love nothing more than to use free alternatives17:28
snap-lbut when i've seen members of the free software community chased away because they weren't "freetarded" enough, that pisses me off17:28
rick_h_Blazeix: https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+filebug hit no I need to report a new bug and the auto sizing textarea is there17:44
rick_h_now the work to get it to spread across the rest of the site17:44
snap-lrick_h_: Very nice. :)17:57
rick_h_:)18:01
snap-lHey rick_h_, I heard you like pie, so I found someone who baked a cherry, apple, and pumpkin pie inside of a cake.18:12
snap-lSo you can eat pie while you eat cake.18:12
snap-l(Cherpumple)18:12
rick_h_snap-l: heh, thanks18:31
snap-lLeave it to us to push the boundaries of food science in ways that will kill us18:33
gamerchick02howdy. you're all not shopping up a storm?18:37
gamerchick02;)18:37
gamerchick02i'm playing with lubuntu. nice on the netbook, especially when you hide the taskbar.18:37
rick_h_nope, no shopping today18:39
rick_h_just work18:39
snap-lGod no, not going anywhere near a shopping plavcw18:39
rick_h_did make it to the coffee shop for the afternoon though18:40
gamerchick02nice18:40
gamerchick02anyone running bitlbee in here?18:40
gamerchick02i'm not shopping at all18:40
snap-lNot in a while18:40
gamerchick02:)18:40
gamerchick02i'm thinking about it because pidin is kinda resource hungry and i feel like being (somewhat) geeky and running chat through irc18:41
snap-lbrb, going to play some arcade games w/ JoDee.18:41
rick_h_I used to18:41
gamerchick02i *am* using xchat, only because i can't seem to figure out irsii18:41
gamerchick02blah18:41
rick_h_snap-l: let her win ;P18:41
rick_h_heh, irssi isn't bad18:41
snap-lrick_h_: You don't seem to understand18:41
gamerchick02snap-l that sounds like fun18:41
snap-lJoDee lets me win on occasion. :)18:41
rick_h_I run that with bitlebee for a bit, but ended up not using chat much so just left it alone18:42
snap-lrick_h_: I told you the MOrtal Kombat III story.18:42
rick_h_snap-l: ok, well make sure ot suck up nicely then to get a victory or two18:42
gamerchick02rick_h_ cool. i'll try it and if it doesn't work, i can always disable the service18:44
gamerchick02*shrug*18:44
gamerchick02i'm trying to do things lighter on this netbook18:44
gamerchick02lubuntu is about the right speed for it. hah!18:44
rick_h_greg-g: heh, party pooper19:20
jcastrothinkup charm ready!20:05
rick_h_sweet20:06
snap-lGot my Smarthome wall-switch in the mail today.21:38
brouschdagnabit, a year ago i wrote a sci-fi book plot revolving around this idea http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/11/25/143222/rethinking-rail-travel-boarding-a-moving-train22:46

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