| airurando | nice to see tdr112 is still in the channel even | 13:20 |
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| zmoylan-len | why? | 13:20 |
| airurando | even though he is far far away. | 13:20 |
| zmoylan-len | ah | 13:21 |
| airurando | tdr112 is in Houston Texas | 13:21 |
| zmoylan-len | ooooooh | 13:21 |
| czajkowski | aloha | 13:28 |
| czajkowski | hows folks ? | 13:28 |
| zmoylan-len | hi, czajkowski, you confused th gods of weather by travelling early this year i see :-) | 13:29 |
| czajkowski | I know | 13:32 |
| czajkowski | and it got pay back on the way back | 13:33 |
| czajkowski | awful sailing | 13:33 |
| zmoylan-len | but the boat made it, no stuck in port for yonks. the boat is almost unstoppable | 13:34 |
| zmoylan-len | whereas the papers where full of pics of people sleeping on airport floors | 13:34 |
| czajkowski | our orignially ferry was canceled | 13:39 |
| czajkowski | was told get on the 2:45am one | 13:39 |
| czajkowski | and that was at 5pm | 13:39 |
| czajkowski | so queue packing and a 5 hr drive | 13:39 |
| czajkowski | then it never left till 6:30 due to laoding it up and the issues leaving the port | 13:40 |
| czajkowski | coming back the drive from castleconnell to rosslare was full of flooded roads at 5am | 13:40 |
| czajkowski | and a ferry crossing that left me dying | 13:40 |
| ebel | you just don't have the luck | 13:41 |
| czajkowski | nope | 13:42 |
| czajkowski | not at all | 13:42 |
| czajkowski | I also had broncitis and sinus infection over the holidays | 13:42 |
| zmoylan-len | saw that on your twitter, hopefully better now | 13:43 |
| czajkowski | yup just about | 13:53 |
| slashbel | We also found the xmas time travelling very tiring. I think it would be better to visit family at another time of year | 13:53 |
| slashbel | hope you're better now czajkowski | 13:53 |
| czajkowski | yeah but cannot not visit them either | 13:57 |
| czajkowski | and as it is | 13:57 |
| czajkowski | I've got an xmas dinner this sunday with my other half famiy | 13:57 |
| zmoylan-len | halloween trip, drop off crimbo pressies. no insane travel with the rest of the planet | 13:58 |
| slashbel | aye zmoylan-len, or i might try a trip at the start of spring next time | 13:58 |
| slashbel | it will introduce my family to the concept of spring starting on a scheduled date | 13:59 |
| zmoylan-len | spring is the time of bad weather | 13:59 |
| czajkowski | FOSDEM time!!! | 13:59 |
| slashbel | wrong | 14:00 |
| slashbel | spring in Ireland starts on 1 Feb | 14:00 |
| slashbel | spring in England starts when the daffodils come out | 14:00 |
| slashbel | so by that definition, Spring will have nice weather | 14:01 |
| slashbel | s/England/England & Wales/ ← Wales being found of daffodils | 14:01 |
| zmoylan-len | yes but we had three 'springs' in 2013 where weather was warm and nice and then horrible cold winter was back | 14:02 |
| slashbel | likewise, Autumn starts when the leaves fall of the trees, Winter starts when there is frost on the ground and Summer starts when the Morris Men come out | 14:02 |
| zmoylan-len | really mucked up plants last year | 14:02 |
| czajkowski | hens took care of my plants | 14:03 |
| czajkowski | by nibbling them | 14:03 |
| slashbel | did you get revenge by nibbligg on the hens? | 14:03 |
| zmoylan-len | i did find my book of heroic failures and confirmed the story about the different pay scales for men and women for equal pay officer http://pastebin.com/S40u5XZG | 14:05 |
| ebel | zmoylan-len: yes I found a scan of that book | 14:07 |
| zmoylan-len | me too. pdf on scribd i think i was | 14:07 |
| czajkowski | slashbel: aye I set bash on them | 14:07 |
| ebel | zmoylan-len: but I couldn't find a primary source for it | 14:08 |
| zmoylan-len | have been looking for a paper copy for last 10 years | 14:08 |
| zmoylan-len | i do know that some of the other stories in the book made headlines at the time. i trust it. the ones he couldn't nail down he put in a chapter labelled unabled to track down | 14:08 |
| ebel | would be great for the large newspapers to be scanned and OCRed | 14:09 |
| zmoylan-len | they have archives but i suspect they're trying to work out a way to make money of allowing access to them | 14:12 |
| slashbel | https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/animal-shelters-stretched-but-expecting-surge-in-abandoned-pets-1.1650852 ← i had hoped we were well passed the stage of people buying dogs as christmas presents | 14:43 |
| zmoylan-len | unfortunately kids still ask santa for pets | 14:49 |
| slashbel | kids are stupid | 14:55 |
| slashbel | and the parents even worse for giving the kids anything they ask for | 14:55 |
| zmoylan-len | but if you want to stop the cruelty you have to put out the message that santa doesnt give kids pets | 14:55 |
| slashbel | and no harm in a few prosecutions too | 14:57 |
| ebel | "Dogs can survive in the North Pole, so Santa can't bring you any!" | 14:58 |
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