[09:14] <rmg51> Morning
[10:26] <JonathanD> morning.
[11:09] <lazyPower> o/
[12:06] <teddy-dbear> Morning peoples, dogs, turkeys, hamsters and everything else
[13:52] <ChinnoDog> It is always morning in here.
[13:54] <waltman> ChinnoDog: Morning.
[17:11] <ChinnoDog> I ran out of morning an hour and 15 minutes ago.
[17:15] <pleia2> I didn't
[17:15] <pleia2> good morning waltman!
[17:18] <waltman> pleia2: Good afternoon!
[17:19] <pleia2> :)
[17:20] <waltman> Some Drexel friends are indoctrinating me into the cult of Ingress.
[17:20] <pleia2> haha
[17:21] <pleia2> I've resisted because I'm afraid it would take over my life (and drain my phone battery)
[17:21] <waltman> yeah, it makes my poor iPhone very hot
[17:22] <waltman> granted, right now it feels like 100F out there in Philly :(
[17:22] <pleia2> ick
[17:22] <pleia2> I was in Darmstadt last week and it was in the 80s and 90s, and they don't have AC
[17:22] <waltman> I'm trying to think of it as an excuse to do some more walking at lunch.
[17:22] <waltman> ugh
[17:22] <pleia2> apparently it doesn't get that hot often, and power is mega expensive there anyway
[17:23] <pleia2> /more/ walking??
[17:23] <waltman> yes!
[17:23] <pleia2> when it's 100 I don't even move :)
[17:23] <pleia2> hehe
[17:23] <waltman> well, officially it's only 89
[17:24] <waltman> I've got 5338 steps today so far.
[17:24] <pleia2> nice
[17:24] <waltman> most of that is my commute
[17:24] <pleia2> when I stop being sick, I hope to get back up in the rankings (gallbladder comes out tomorrow! yay!)
[17:26] <waltman> good luck!
[17:27] <pleia2> thanks :)
[17:27] <pleia2> I'm gonna watch Repo! tonight in preparation
[17:28] <ChinnoDog> Isn't that a movie about reposessed organs?
[17:28] <pleia2> yep
[17:29] <ChinnoDog> I don't think I've seen it but I remember reading the description on Netflix.
[17:29] <pleia2> it's gross, scary and awesome
[17:29] <ChinnoDog> I will have to watch it.
[17:30] <pleia2> plus I'm a sucker for musicals (and I have a massive crush on Anthony Head)
[17:30] <ChinnoDog> I just installed Ingress on my phone. I hope I don't regret this.
[17:39] <ChinnoDog> waltman: I need a clever agent name. Suggestions?
[17:39] <waltman> I confess I just picked "waltman"
[17:40] <pleia2> hehe
[17:40] <ChinnoDog> C'mon now. Where is the creativity?
[17:40] <pleia2> I have friends who wake up at 2am and drive a half hour to capture things, or whatever
[17:40] <pleia2> crazies
[17:40] <pleia2> (I'd totally do that, save me)
[17:41] <ChinnoDog> lol. I don't know what this game is. I only installed it because it was mentioned.
[17:41] <ChinnoDog> It sounds like something I wanted to build a long time ago so I had to try it.
[17:41] <waltman> It's not really obvious what you're supposed to do.
[17:45] <ChinnoDog> Knowing me it will take me the rest of the day to come up with an agent name.
[17:45] <pleia2> lol
[17:45] <pleia2> that's why I use the waltman method of name picking
[17:46] <pleia2> except for on my xbox where someone already has pleia2 :(
[17:46] <ChinnoDog> Someone took ChinnoDog on xbox. Thinks you never thought could happen...
[17:46] <ChinnoDog> s/thinks/things/
[17:47] <ChinnoDog> k and g are not even close to each other on my keyboard yet I make that typo a lot. I must have a short circuit.
[17:47] <pleia2> me too
[18:19] <ChinnoDog> waltman: So.. what faction do I want to be part of?
[18:20] <waltman> The two people I know in the game are green, so that's what I picked.
[18:20] <waltman> green good, blue bad :)
[18:21] <ChinnoDog> Ok, I am gree now
[18:21] <ChinnoDog> green
[18:21] <waltman> yay!
[18:21] <waltman> ChinnoDog: where are you located?
[18:22] <ChinnoDog> Manassas, VA
[18:22] <waltman> There are a ton of portals around Drexel, but out in the burbs where I live they're few and far between.
[18:23] <ChinnoDog> I don't know what that means yet
[18:23] <waltman> If you're lucky one of the more experienced green folks in your area will notice you and invite you to a meetup. Philly just had a green meetup for newbies last night.
[18:23] <waltman> There are tutorials in the game you can work through.
[18:26] <ChinnoDog> A "green meetup"...
[18:26] <ChinnoDog> Are all the little white dots other players?
[18:26] <waltman> no.
[18:26] <ChinnoDog> What are they then?
[18:26] <waltman> They basically energy to recharge your "health".
[18:28] <waltman> it takes power (xm) to do things. When you walk around, any little dots near you are attracted to you and restore your xm.
[18:28] <waltman> it's "exotic matter" being released by the "portals"
[18:29] <waltman> but really it's gamification to get you to walk :)
[18:29] <ChinnoDog> So.. when does this become fun?
[18:31] <waltman> Umm, there are some cool graphics and sound effects when you do things to portals.
[18:31] <waltman> The point of the game, afaict, is to claim portals (usually tied to local landmarks) and link them together. The other side tries to prevent you from doing that.
[18:32] <waltman> You can fire at portals controlled by the other faction and knock them out and claim them for your faction.
[18:37] <ChinnoDog> What do I get for this?
[18:37] <ChinnoDog> High score?
[18:39] <waltman> Get more exercise? Meet new nerdy friends?
[18:42] <ChinnoDog> My level of enthusiasm for this is waning. I don't need a silly game like this to do that.
[19:17] <adom> hey, someone teach me what " -- " does plox
[19:18] <adom> i.e. mosh --ssh="ssh -p 2222" adam@supercoolserver.com -- screen -dr oldscreensession
[19:18] <adom> it SSHs to the server and starts a screen session, but i only get /bin/sh and have to run /bin/bash for some reason.
[19:19] <adom> I'm convinced its the "--" part, I just want to learn how it works.
[19:19] <adom> Like magnets.
[19:19] <adom> Tried Googling, but pretty hard thing to search for.
[19:47] <adom> Will check back...