[00:35] <cmaloney> Evening
[00:43] <rick_h_> party
[00:44] <gamerchick02> a snow party
[01:06] <jrwren_> lol at someone going off on whoopsie in #ubuntu-server
[01:06] <jrwren_> sounds just like our Dr. Watson conversation
[01:19] <Havenstance> good evening
[01:30] <cmaloney> OK, archive.org just yelled at me because I didn't use leading zeroes for the date for my podcast.
[01:30] <cmaloney> [2014] [1] [6] instead of [2014] [01] [06]
[01:30] <gamerchick02> ugh
[01:31] <cmaloney> I didn't realize they'd legalized pot in CA because they're smoking some strong shit to enforce that.
[01:31] <gamerchick02> heh
[01:38] <cmaloney> greg-g: Your blog is showing a 500 error
[01:40] <Havenstance> good evening
[01:40] <gamerchick02> howdy havenstance
[01:40] <cmaloney> Havenstance: howdy.
[01:41] <Havenstance> how's everyone tonight?
[01:41] <gamerchick02> lol cmaloney we're on the same wavelength
[01:41] <gamerchick02> cold. but ok
[01:41] <Havenstance> i hear ya there, I just got back from town
[01:41] <Havenstance> church sign said -15
[01:42] <gamerchick02> brrrrr
[01:42] <jrwren_> cmaloney: CA, CO, they are close enough :)
[01:42] <Havenstance> i think the worst part was home from town I was stuck behind a car with Florida plates...
[01:43] <Havenstance> dude was going 5mph on a main highway....
[01:43] <gamerchick02> ugh
[01:45] <cmaloney> jrwren_: Not even secondhand buzzes can account for that. ;)
[01:46] <gamerchick02> geez. that's crazy
[01:50] <Havenstance> ah, time to retreat to wow. My taxi has arrived :)
[01:50] <cmaloney> have fun!
[01:51] <Havenstance> eh, its whatever. cursed reason i still have a Windows partition...
[01:58] <gamerchick02> hah, havenstance. i have a windows partition too.i think a lot of people do
[02:02] <jrwren_> the stupid linksys $300 openwrt router is an attack on open source. They want to suggest that open source is too expensive.
[02:05] <cmaloney> jrwren_: OK, CO is way too far to explain that outburst. ;)
[03:00] <jrwren_> cmaloney: lol
[03:00] <jrwren_> greg-g: http://thefire.org/article/9865.html thoughts?
[03:04] <cmaloney> jrwren_: If anyone asked me in college when I discovered my sexual identiy I think I would have left some form of smart-ass answer
[03:04] <cmaloney> That's nobody's business.
[03:05] <cmaloney> Also I'm pretty sure it's not a single point in time
[03:17] <_stink_> i had a small experience like this during freshman orientation at WMU 13 years ago.
[03:18] <_stink_> about racism.
[03:18] <_stink_> orientation leaders, way out of their element and undertrained, asked to push a policital agenda
[03:18] <_stink_> political
[03:42] <rick_h_> heh, erica is having a fit that our weather station is reporting -14 outside
[03:42] <rick_h_> and that there's frost on the inside of the doorwalls
[03:43] <jrwren_> its COLD
[03:44] <rick_h_> yep
[03:44] <jrwren_> cmaloney: apparently smart-ass answers were met with badgering follow ups until questions were answered
[03:50] <_stink_> just sent it to a cousin-in-law who is a residence hall director in Wisconsin for her thoughts.
[04:56] <cmaloney> Sorry, but you're not my shrink, you're not my lover, and you're certainly not my pastor.
[04:57] <cmaloney> And in all of those cases it's up to me to decide if I'll open up to you.
[11:18] <cmaloney> Brrrrrrrrr.
[12:34] <rick_h_> no, this is well beyond Brrrrrrrrrr
[12:34] <rick_h_> "#$#@$#@$#@%#@%#$#@$@# it's cold"
[12:34] <rick_h_> somehow feels more appropriate
[12:42] <cmaloney> heh
[12:42] <cmaloney> I'm working from home today.
[12:43] <cmaloney> We have the heater on at 70F
[12:43] <cmaloney> and I have a sweater on because it's still chilly in here.
[12:43] <cmaloney> Our house has pretty shit insulation
[13:02] <rick_h_> damn, had to call the dealer to figure out how to get into the touareg
[13:02] <rick_h_> won't listen for keyfob
[13:02] <rick_h_> and the subaru won't start
[13:02] <rick_h_> but find the secret panel and it's going yay
[13:03] <cmaloney> I think it's secretly saying "fuck you"
[13:05] <rick_h_> erica's unhappy that she can't park in the garage right now
[13:05] <rick_h_> I'm in deep daddy trouble
[13:05] <cmaloney> rick_h_: ruh roh
[13:06] <rick_h_> yea, "why does your car start and not mine"
[13:06] <rick_h_> "if my car was in the garage would it start?"
[13:06] <rick_h_> I'll have to find a way to get her car started today :/
[13:07] <cmaloney> rick_h_: Well, on the plus side you might get to drive the Subaru again until it does. ;)
[14:14] <cmaloney> http://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/introduce-yourself/1388
[14:32] <brousch> I'm tired of shoveling
[14:32] <cmaloney> Yep.
[14:34] <brousch> Spent an hour last night, and another hour this morning
[14:34] <cmaloney> brousch: Lake-effect?
[14:34] <cmaloney> Luckily we haven't had the snow outside of Sunday->Monday.
[14:34] <cmaloney> (knock on Ikea)
[14:37] <brousch> Drifting and plow effect
[14:37] <brousch> How do I subscribe to this forum to get email notifications of new posts and topics? http://discourse.ubuntu.com/category/local-teams/ubuntu-michigan
[14:45] <cmaloney> I think it'll automatically send you a digest if you haven't been on there in a while.
[14:46] <cmaloney> Not sure how to sub to a particular forum
[14:46] <cmaloney> ACtually I think you can watch a category
[14:47] <cmaloney> Here's how that works.
[14:47] <cmaloney> Go to your settings
[14:47] <cmaloney> under categories there's watched, tracked and muted
[14:48] <cmaloney> Under tracked type "Ubuntu michigan" and it'll send you notifications for each topic posted.
[14:48] <brousch> Good enough
[14:49] <brousch> Though there should really be a "Track this Category" button on the category page
[14:55] <cmaloney> Yeah, that would be helpful
[16:53] <greg-g> cmaloney: should be better now :/
[16:53] <greg-g> bad .htaccess
[16:54] <rick_h_>  /ban cmaloney
[16:54] <rick_h_> seems a bad rule :P
[17:07] <cmaloney> I'm ?
[17:07] <cmaloney> greg-g: Cool. Thanks. :)
[17:08] <cmaloney> rick_h_: Yeah, make me have to work to see your content. :)
[17:08] <cmaloney> That seems to be the Hollywood way. :)
[18:05] <cmaloney> http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/01/app-store-sales-surpassed-10-billion-in-2013-apple-says/
[18:05] <cmaloney> It's good to be king
[18:06] <brousch> Money money money
[18:07] <cmaloney> Hey, it were up to me I'd control to toll booth and have everyone pay me to pass through.
[18:09] <brousch> It is up to you. You have just chosen to focus on other things
[18:10] <cmaloney> There's nothing more lonely than a toll booth on an empty road.
[18:10] <cmaloney> save for two toll booths.
[18:29] <rick_h_> damn cold, new battery acquired. Now to warm up long enough to go back out and install the dippy thing
[18:30] <brousch> Battery for your big-ass snow blower?
[18:32] <rick_h_> no, wife's subaru
[18:32] <rick_h_> orignal 09 battery went kaput and helped get me in trouble this morning
[18:32] <brousch> Heh, my wife's was a bit hesitant this morning
[18:33] <brousch> Hm, also a 2009
[18:33] <rick_h_> the touareg won't respond to the keyfob in the cold
[18:33] <rick_h_> but once I found the secret panel to pop off to get access to a key hole, she started, but the diesel was rough starting
[18:34] <rick_h_> but at least one of the cars got going this morning and all that's wrong with the other is the battery
[18:34] <brousch> I wondered about that. Don't they use plug-in heaters for diesels in Canada?
[18:34] <rick_h_> yea
[18:34] <brousch> There's a VW Golf TDI on my street. He doesn't seem to have had trouble
[18:34] <rick_h_> co-worker is up there and they use block heaters and blankets, but that's an 'option' down here because you're not supposed to need it :/
[18:35] <rick_h_> I didn't say it had trouble starting, just that it was a far cry from the smooth purr it normally is
[18:35] <brousch> Right
[18:36] <brousch> Well if it started today, I'd say it will never be a problem
[18:36] <rick_h_> yea, exactly. all uphill from here...I hope
[18:36] <brousch> I'm considering the Golf TDI for my next car, so I keep an eye on the neighbor's experience
[18:37] <rick_h_> I'll probably get the wife a wagon tdi for her next car at this point
[18:37] <rick_h_> we'll see I guess in a few years though
[19:39] <rick_h_> jcastro: meant to thank you for the bounty and plug on the monitor askubuntu thing
[19:39] <brousch> Did it work?
[19:39] <jcastro> did it work?
[19:39] <rick_h_> yea, I've got one giant display. It's hacky as can be
[19:40] <brousch> nice
[19:40] <rick_h_> jcastro: http://uploads.mitechie.com/current_status.png
[19:41] <brousch> Not 4 960px columns?
[19:41] <rick_h_> not currently
[19:41] <rick_h_> :)
[19:41] <rick_h_> I have to up the font size so I go two or three splits wide and two tall
[19:41] <rick_h_> so when I'm heavily working I've got a 6x6 grid
[19:42] <rick_h_> err, 3x3 grid or 6 workspaces
[19:44] <brousch> up the font size?!?!
[19:44] <rick_h_> yea
[19:44] <rick_h_> that's 14pt in the screenshot I thihnk
[19:44] <rick_h_> think
[19:44] <rick_h_> from 10
[19:44] <brousch> Who are you and what have you done with rick_h_?
[19:44] <rick_h_> or was it 8/9
[19:44] <rick_h_> but no anti aliasing or type hinting
[19:57] <cmaloney> Very cool
[20:12] <jrwren> hello from codemash
[20:12] <rick_h_> jrwren: get some bacon for me
[20:12] <jrwren> already had some :)
[20:18] <brousch> Now have some for me
[20:19] <widox> rick_h_: that's purdy -- you like the monitor overall?
[20:20] <rick_h_> widox: yea, I'm happy with it. It's a mixed bag as not everything plays nice.
[20:20] <rick_h_> but everything cli is beautiful
[20:20] <rick_h_> chrome and such needs some <3 but it'll get there
[20:21] <brousch> Why are there problems?
[20:21] <rick_h_> the UI components of gui apps
[20:21] <rick_h_> they don't scale for high dpi screens
[20:21] <brousch> ah
[20:21] <rick_h_> so with fonts/cli I can just bump the font sizes
[20:21] <rick_h_> but I can't tell chrome "scale your UX to 1.5 normal size
[20:22] <brousch> Supposedly you can adjust KDE for it
[20:22] <rick_h_> only if it's using that toolkit
[20:26] <widox> ahh
[20:27] <widox> rick_h_: does zooming in your browswer make things better?
[20:57] <cmaloney> rick_h_: Your pipes are freezing?
[21:03] <rick_h_> widox: often times yes
[21:03] <rick_h_> widox: it depends on the site and how they setup their fonts
[21:04] <rick_h_> cmaloney: yea, we've got our kitchen pipes that run between the wall in the closet of my basement up to the kitchen
[21:04] <rick_h_> cmaloney: they freeze and I've got to stick a space heater in my office closet to warm the space behind it
[21:05] <rick_h_> so right now, I'm space heating my office closet, go me
[21:05] <cmaloney> woo woo
[21:06] <rick_h_> battery in the subie replaced, up to the gas station, and filled her up with the good stuff
[21:06] <rick_h_> work done today: meh ... fixing life: go go go
[21:29] <rick_h_> jcastro: ruh roh http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/07/yahoo-announces-that-it-has-acquired-intelligent-homescreen-startup-aviate/
[21:30] <rick_h_> at least they're not killing it off to start I guess
[21:30] <jcastro> It didn't really last long on my phone
[21:30] <jcastro> a week or so
[21:31] <jcastro> it wasn't bad
[21:31] <rick_h_> orly?
[21:31] <jcastro> but it wasn't like, WOW
[21:31] <rick_h_> oh, I'm still using it
[21:31] <rick_h_> yea, but it's better than the default home screen stuff
[21:31] <jcastro> it tries to be too smart
[21:31] <jcastro> like, I want my wife's icon on the launcher
[21:31] <jcastro> but it's like "you are at work, you only added her to this other context."
[21:31] <rick_h_> "ok google now, call erica"
[21:31] <rick_h_> gotcha
[21:31] <jcastro> you use voice stuff?
[21:31] <jcastro> lol
[21:31] <rick_h_> hell yea
[21:32] <rick_h_> all the time, I set more alarms and reminders now that ever
[21:32] <rick_h_> "ok google now, reminder me to turn off the crock pot in 5 hrs"
[21:32] <rick_h_> "ok google now, reminder me to call the auto glass place tomrrow afternoon"
[21:32] <rick_h_> I wish it did better at music playback stuff and I'd use it there as well, but it's not right
[21:33] <rick_h_> texting via voice is better now that you can send without clicking
[22:12] <cmaloney> I'm still using it as well
[22:13] <cmaloney> but Yahoo will likely neglect it to death
[22:13] <cmaloney> or worse.
[22:14] <cmaloney> "You're at work. Here's the apps that everyone else at work are using. I like purple. POST TO FLICKR?"
[23:36] <gamerchick02> i made it to work today!