[02:28] <rick_h_> cmaloney: yea, the codex alera stuff is ok. Nice quiet story time. Not mind bending, but kept interesting enough. Every once in a while I'd catch myself going "Oooh, good word there, well played"
[02:28] <rick_h_> audible reader did a pretty good job with it
[02:28] <cmaloney> Very cool.
[02:28] <cmaloney> Jim Butcher does write rather well
[02:29] <rick_h_> yea, the writing, as far as structure and such is really well done
[02:30] <rick_h_> the story is ok. It's not epic, but it's above your average by a notch.
[02:30] <rick_h_> and like everything, you have to mentally just skip over a few things :)
[02:30] <cmaloney> Sadly there's a lot of middling fantasy out there.
[02:30] <cmaloney> I did like Dragon's Ring and Dog and Dragon
[02:30] <rick_h_> meh, I read some middling stuff. It's casual time for me so I probably put up with more than some
[02:31] <cmaloney> Not sure it's stand-out but it definitely had some humor to it
[02:32] <rick_h_> I just put The Hurog Duology on my wishlist to go through next
[02:32] <rick_h_> rated pretty high
[02:33] <cmaloney> Will check it out
[02:33] <rick_h_> I've got the first book to something like 4 series downloaded to check out
[02:33] <rick_h_> figure read the first and if it's any good go through the rest
[02:33] <rick_h_> which is what ended up happening with codex alera
[02:33] <cmaloney> I'm half-assedly reading The Lord of the Isles
[02:34] <rick_h_> hmm, 3 stars
[02:34] <cmaloney> it's part of a longer series
[02:34] <cmaloney> Written well but starting off really slowly.
[13:15] <cmaloney> Good morning
[13:18] <rick_h_> morning
[13:18] <rick_h_> nothing like starting the morning off buying woot wine. I feel like I should be sneaky buying alcohol at 8am http://wine.woot.com/offers/harvest-moon-rrv-pinot-noir-3
[13:41] <cmaloney> rick_h_: What posessed you? :)
[13:41] <rick_h_> :)
[13:41] <cmaloney> Sounds like it'll be a middling wine
[13:41] <rick_h_> well ratings on cellertracker are low 80s to low 90s
[13:42] <rick_h_> and I like other pinots from that area of sonoma
[13:42] <cmaloney> rick_h_: Piece of advice: Winde scores are rubbish
[13:42] <rick_h_> :)
[13:42] <rick_h_> point is mainly some people like it and I like some from that area
[13:42] <cmaloney> I used to go by those scores and frankly I don't think there's any difference between an 88 and a 92
[13:42] <rick_h_> it's all personal taste
[13:43] <cmaloney> rick_h_: Yeah, no worries. Will be interested to see what pans out. :)
[13:44] <cmaloney> Just feels like a fire-sale on a not-particularly-outstanding year.
[13:44] <rick_h_> well, this is my second one
[13:45] <rick_h_> the first one came with a nice note from the vinyard "come out and taste our wines, join our wine club, get more wine here"
[13:45] <rick_h_> so feels more like a sales/trial kind of thing
[13:45] <rick_h_> based on that one buy
[13:45] <cmaloney> Ah, OK.
[13:45] <cmaloney> It's a wine business card. ;)
[13:46] <rick_h_> yea, "buy two get one free and check out our catalog"
[18:36] <cmaloney> brousch: http://dadmetal.bandcamp.com/album/dad-metal-vol-i
[18:39] <brousch> Might be worth getting my headphones out to listen to at work
[18:40] <greg-g> hah
[20:17] <cmaloney> rick_h_: Stop trying to woo my wife with numbers. ;)
[20:19] <rick_h_> oh boy, whoops
[20:19] <rick_h_> too
[20:19] <rick_h_> damn phone
[20:20] <brousch> It was too funny to ignore
[20:20] <rick_h_> I completely missed it
[20:21] <brousch> Now I have to turn my lewd remark into a frowny face
[20:39] <cmaloney> hah
[21:12] <rick_h_> hah, and the sounds of 10,000 technophiles screaming 'noooooo' is heard across the land http://www.engadget.com/2014/01/13/google-acquires-nest/?ncid=rss_truncated
[21:13] <greg-g> lol
[21:14] <rick_h_> it does make me hold out hope for connected home gadgets though
[21:14] <rick_h_> googleio showed off all that stuff 2 years ago and been nadda since
[21:15] <brousch> Just make your own with raspberrypis and sensors
[21:15] <rick_h_> I've got enough to do than dealing with a bunch of little rpi programming and such
[21:15] <greg-g> one company to rule your whole life. from your kids photos to your house temperature (oh, and did we mention that we have the audio recording from those thermostats? oh yeah, that too)
[21:15] <greg-g> ;)
[21:16] <rick_h_> yea, double edged sword. I just want to be able to control it all from my phone. Each company doing their own thing is annoying
[21:16] <rick_h_> but hate to put all your eggs in the one basket
[21:16] <greg-g> :)
[21:16] <greg-g> speaking of rpis, I kinda want to get one to treat as a mini server
[21:16] <jrwren> omg, google!!! I blame NEST for selling to them :)
[21:17] <jrwren> greg-g: $29 at microcenter right now. get two!
[21:17] <brousch> You'll also need an SD card (class 10)
[21:17] <greg-g> was thinking about getting the NOOB card
[21:18] <greg-g> I want as little futzing time as possible
[21:18] <brousch> bah, you just use dd to write the image
[21:18] <greg-g> sure
[21:18] <greg-g> ok
[21:18] <brousch> dd bs=4M if=myrpi.img of=/dev/sdb
[21:18] <greg-g> after that, install ArkOS or something and play
[21:18] <jrwren> beagleboneblack was pretty good server OOTB.
[21:18]  * greg-g looks
[21:18] <jrwren> it comes with onboard storage, so just plug it in, it DHCPs and you can SSH to it.
[21:19] <brousch> No, the image is the base OS, usually rpi debian edition
[21:19] <greg-g> brousch: ArkOS installs on top of that, I believe, no? or did I misunderstand ArkOS?
[21:20] <brousch> I hadn't heard of arkos
[21:20] <greg-g> https://arkos.io/
[21:20] <greg-g> I guess it is the whole OS
[21:20] <greg-g> but yeah, dd that on to the sd card
[21:22] <brousch> greg-g: It looks like ArkOS has a script you download and run on your desktop. It creates the arkos image on the SD
[21:22] <brousch> I assume it does the dd for you
[21:22] <brousch> But there are crazy installers and such that are for people who don't know how to dd an image. I find them harder to use and less reliable than dd
[21:27]  * greg-g nods
[21:40] <jrwren> wtf is ArkOS?
[21:40] <jrwren> i've only used openelec :]
[21:47] <greg-g> jrwren: the new sexy in self-hosted stuff
[22:21] <rick_h_> http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2014/01/a-better-way-to-explore-and-learn-on.html is interesting. Building tooling on top of github to overcome UI issues
[22:22] <rick_h_> I wonder how this will work over time as big players get into github since it's closed.