[04:47] <greg-g> I learned something awesome, flights.google.com is powered by LISP in the backend
[12:28] <snap-l> morning
[12:31] <rick_h_> morning
[13:26] <jrwren> greg-g: are you sure?  google is pretty anti-lisp.  did they aquire it?
[15:14] <greg-g> jrwren: yeah, ISA or something or other was the company they acquired
[15:14] <greg-g> jrwren: a googler lives with me and told me last night
[15:19] <jrwren> cool.
[15:20] <jrwren> like when yahoo aquired paul grahams store?
[15:20] <jrwren> and removed the lisp and destroyed it? :)
[15:20] <jrwren> google will probably do the same thing :p
[15:25] <greg-g> heh, hope not
[15:25] <greg-g> but man, flights.google.com is sooo much better than anything else I've tried
[15:25] <greg-g> the graph of cost variance by time, wonderful
[15:26] <jrwren> i just went to it and realized I have no destination.
[15:26] <jrwren> no where to go.
[15:26] <jrwren> i like home
[15:27] <greg-g> jrwren: :) the only trip I have planned is amsterdam in may for a MediaWiki hackathon
[15:27] <jrwren> hackathon, right.
[15:28] <greg-g> I'll be hacking
[15:28] <greg-g> .... my lungs out
[15:28] <rick_h_> dogsled driver!
[15:30] <jrwren> hahahah.
[15:30] <jrwren> smokeathon is more like it.
[15:30] <jrwren> is the hackathon at a coffee house?
[17:00] <snap-l> https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-OIt4kUWyqsE/UWVs_FdZsnI/AAAAAAAAWKs/ZnZd2uKxhg8/s554/wtfmcds.jpg
[19:52] <greg-g> wait, really, the new xbox console is seriously called xbox720?
[19:52] <greg-g> talk about version number inflation
[19:53] <snap-l> Why not?
[19:53] <greg-g> and people were mad at chrome/firefox!
[19:53] <snap-l> I'm sure then next one will be 1080
[19:53] <greg-g> will it be p or i?
[19:53] <greg-g> ;)
[19:53] <snap-l> But what's funny is I'm sure people will confuse it with not being 1080p
[19:53] <greg-g> 'zactly
[19:54] <snap-l> SO, the original was a 180
[19:54] <snap-l> The second one came around full circle
[19:55] <snap-l> and this new one has been around the block a few times.
[19:56] <snap-l> Or does it mean they're giving us the run-around on DRM and always-on? :)
[19:56] <snap-l> All I know is whomever does their marketing needs to be flogged
[19:57] <greg-g> yeah, just saw an article on that, but the 720 part is what inflammed me ;)
[19:58] <snap-l> Honestly, I can't think of a good reason to upgrade to the new consoles outside of habit
[19:59] <greg-g> go on, be a good consumer, follow the habit we spend millions marketing to make you believe it's just a habit
[20:10] <jrwren> xbox 1440
[20:10] <jhansonxi> I think they're just trying to stick to a circle theme, like Blu-Ray and "red ring of death"
[21:01] <snap-l> It's taking every last bit of my willpower to not write in the memo field of this check to the Treasury "For: a do-nothing congress, who'd rather prop up banks too big to fail instead of punishing them"
[21:02] <dzho> also, tl;dr
[21:02] <dzho> and "propping up" doesn't jibe with "do nothing"
[21:02] <dzho> more like "do the wrong thing"
[21:03] <dzho> except, of course, until I get my money out.  prop them up *until* then
[21:03] <greg-g> I've said it once and I'll say it again, this Dell XPS is the worst laptop I've had in a long time
[21:04] <snap-l> dzho: A door stop can still prop a door while remaining perfectly still
[21:08] <dzho> yes.
[21:14] <rick_h_> greg-g: :(
[21:14] <rick_h_> greg-g: I keep finding people that want to order one I have to scare away
[21:17] <greg-g> yay! ubuntu official support! what?! this is the worst kernel experience I've had in a long time!
[21:17] <greg-g> so bad
[21:17] <greg-g> "just install the PPA" A) isn't the right answer and B) still doesn't help
[21:28] <greg-g> hahaha: "There is zero overlap between developers who prefer IPAs and developers who prefer IDEs." - @hipsterhacker
[21:50] <jhansonxi> greg-g: What's the problem with the XPS?  I'm thinking of replacing my 10-year old Toshiba.
[21:51] <greg-g> horrible support from Ubuntu, heh
[21:52] <greg-g> jhansonxi: seriously, if you're thinking about an XPS, you actually want a Lenovo x-series
[21:53] <jhansonxi> I haven't started shopping seriously yet.  Not sure what I want.  I have a dead Inspiron 11z netbook that may be fixable but I probably need a bigger screen.  I've looked at some ZaReason models and other Linux vendors.
[21:55] <jhansonxi> There's also the Google chromebook