| tdr112 | hey zmoylan-hp | 00:22 |
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| zmoylan-hp | all well tdr112? | 00:24 |
| peruz | how are you | 01:05 |
| zmoylan-hp | grand, yourself peruz? | 01:13 |
| peruz | awesome. | 01:14 |
| peruz | submitted dissertation today | 01:15 |
| zmoylan-hp | what are you studying? | 01:15 |
| peruz | Medieval history | 01:16 |
| peruz | my purview is ireland during the viking era | 01:16 |
| zmoylan-hp | still is the viking era :-) | 01:16 |
| peruz | :D | 01:17 |
| peruz | well particularly 794-1014 | 01:17 |
| zmoylan-hp | anniversary this year should be interesting in dublin | 01:17 |
| peruz | Yes. | 01:29 |
| peruz | Are you a Gerald of Wales fan? | 01:29 |
| zmoylan-hp | name isn't ringing a bell... goes to look | 01:33 |
| zmoylan-hp | have vaguely heard of him and seen him referenced to in some historical works. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_of_Wales | 01:35 |
| peruz | yes. | 01:36 |
| zmoylan-hp | more familiar with the annals of the four masters | 01:38 |
| peruz | feel free to ask away anything about viking era in ireland | 01:39 |
| peruz | try to answer to the best of my ability | 01:39 |
| peruz | or vikings in general | 01:39 |
| zmoylan-hp | more a fan of the celts than the vikings :-) | 01:40 |
| zmoylan-hp | always loved slaine in 2000ad | 01:40 |
| peruz | :D | 01:42 |
| peruz | I read a lot of things about the celts | 01:42 |
| peruz | took a lot of classes | 01:43 |
| zmoylan-hp | they were a bunch of absolute nutters. but what a history | 01:43 |
| peruz | i havent read that | 01:44 |
| peruz | thats a comic book right? | 01:44 |
| peruz | I read the World of Celts by Simon James awhile ago | 01:45 |
| peruz | its a condensed overview of the celtic world | 01:45 |
| zmoylan-hp | yup, british scifi comic from 70s. you'll probably be familiar with character judge dredd | 01:45 |
| peruz | from theoretical beginnings to modern Celts and from fighting Rome to farming practicies. | 01:45 |
| zmoylan-hp | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sl%C3%A1ine_%28comics%29 worth a read if you can get your mitts on collections | 01:46 |
| zmoylan-hp | through time travel he makes it to clontarf. wonderful story wonderfully drawn | 01:47 |
| peruz | lovely. | 02:04 |
| AndrewMcC | Upgraded my laptop to trusty this morning. Got some errors about dpkg dependencies. Does anyone know where bugs are filed against the upgrade process? | 12:59 |
| AndrewMcC | Ah found it I think: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty/+bugs | 13:05 |
| peruz | hello | 16:17 |
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