[00:08] <bbwsubbie> hello everyone
[12:24] <brousch> cmaloney: I'm enjoying this Go game
[12:34] <cmaloney> brousch: Cool. :)
[12:34] <cmaloney> I'm finding more enjoyment in playing go than I have in playing chess.
[12:35] <cmaloney> Chess to me feels like a solved problem, or at least a series of opening moves that play out better than others.
[12:36] <cmaloney> Though JoDee and her sister are playing "chess" with friends.
[12:37] <cmaloney> so I've heard stories about "horsie", "the castle", and "the diagonal thingie"
[12:41] <brousch> I have not played much chess
[13:00] <cmaloney> Friend from high schoool named his machines after famous chess players
[13:00] <cmaloney> Alekhine, Kasparov
[13:01] <cmaloney> he was better than I was so I didn't provide much challenge for him
[13:01] <cmaloney> played against several chess computers.
[13:08] <cmaloney> Of course there were the off-the-shelf cheap chess computers from Excalibur that played incredibly naive chess at the lower levels, and took a lifetime to make a move at the higher levels. :)
[13:50] <jrwren> http://www.tickld.com/x/why-you-should-never-drunk-text-a-doctor-who-fa
[13:50] <bookiebot> http://goo.gl/kPEbiA - Why You Should Never Drunk Text A Doctor Who Fan. This Is Priceless
[14:03] <cmaloney> That seems canned
[14:05] <cmaloney> ColonelPanic001: Sadly I think a lot of that equipment was still in use when I was there.
[14:05] <cmaloney> was re: https://www.flickr.com/photos/waynestateuniversity/14664659259/in/photostream/
[14:05] <bookiebot> http://goo.gl/08utq2 - Engineering students in laboratory, circa 1970s | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
[14:05] <ColonelPanic001> cmaloney: didn't know you went to wayne
[14:06] <cmaloney> I worked there at the CoE
[14:06] <cmaloney> under Cliff Stallings
[14:06] <ColonelPanic001> ah, neat
[14:07] <ColonelPanic001> I've only been in the building twice. CS dept. was part of the college of liberal arts and sciences until after I graduated
[14:07] <cmaloney> When were you a student there?
[14:08] <ColonelPanic001> 2004-2008
[14:08] <ColonelPanic001> hired in C&IT in 2011
[14:08] <cmaloney> Ah, long after I was there.
[14:08] <ColonelPanic001> worked here 2011 - death
[14:08]  * cmaloney worked there from 1993ish to 1995.
[14:09] <ColonelPanic001> know any of the Thompson brothers?
[14:09] <cmaloney> ColonelPanic001: Didn't know you died yet.
[14:09] <ColonelPanic001> cmaloney: eventually, if my plans for immortallity don't work out
[14:09] <cmaloney> I know of the Thompson Twins. ;)
[14:09] <cmaloney> But yeah, that's ringing a bell
[14:09] <cmaloney> got a photo?
[14:09] <ColonelPanic001> I hope they do, though, because it'd be a huge waste of all this Blood of the Innocent
[14:10] <ColonelPanic001> hm, hang on, trying to remember which works over there
[14:10] <ColonelPanic001> I don't even know if he was there back then.
[14:10] <ColonelPanic001> there's five of them working in the university, four of them currently in C&IT.
[14:10] <ColonelPanic001> rob, david, michael, arg, who else?
[14:11] <cmaloney> Ah, we didn't do much with C&IT
[14:11] <ColonelPanic001> there's one that's been over there a while, but who knows back then
[14:11] <ColonelPanic001> Ah, Brian, I think it is
[14:12] <cmaloney> Brian Thompson? That name rings many a bell
[14:12] <cmaloney> Dude was a fucking electronics wiz.
[14:12] <ColonelPanic001> that may be him. I don't really know him personally
[14:12] <ColonelPanic001> his brother, Rob, is my boss
[14:12] <ColonelPanic001> David is more or less "lateral" from me in another group
[14:13] <ColonelPanic001> same more or less for Michael
[14:13] <ColonelPanic001> the three I know are all great guys though, pretty bright. I wouldn't be surprised at all if Brian was an "electronics wiz"
[14:14] <cmaloney> Yeah, though I was witness to some funny stuff
[14:14] <ColonelPanic001> (mildly) amusing story from Penguicon. One year I just had met a girl-i-know-in-high-school's boyfriend. I mentioned I worked at wsu (not even what division, etc). He says "Oh neat. Do you know Rob Thompson?"
[14:14] <cmaloney> Like the time they hooked a hard drive to a variable power supply.
[14:14] <ColonelPanic001> it was a little twilight-zone-ish
[14:14] <ColonelPanic001> hah
[14:15] <cmaloney> pro-tip: Chips can heat up enough to blow the top off of them.
[14:15] <ColonelPanic001> haha
[14:15] <cmaloney> Not to mention the electrical arcing
[14:15] <ColonelPanic001> this does sound like a thompson
[14:16] <cmaloney> God, fun times
[14:16] <cmaloney> Student-rate employment but man that was a great job
[14:16] <cmaloney> learned me a great UNIX there.
[14:16] <rick_h__> party party
[14:16] <rick_h__> one more day then HOLIDAY!
[14:16] <cmaloney> rick_h__: Awesome!
[14:16] <ColonelPanic001> holiday?
[14:16] <rick_h__> bah, vacation, damn europeans messing with me
[14:17] <ColonelPanic001> I suspected that translation
[14:17] <cmaloney> hol-i-dayyyyyy
[14:17] <ColonelPanic001> but thought maybe I missed something
[14:17] <ColonelPanic001> I have a day off next week, but not for holiday stuff. Just doctory stuff. Not nearly as fun
[14:17] <ColonelPanic001> saving up vacation time for November, when I'll be gone for weeks
[14:17] <ColonelPanic001> and will probably start freaking out from lack of office
[14:20] <cmaloney> I can honestly say there haven't been many times I freaked out due to lack of office
[14:20] <ColonelPanic001> I get bored
[14:20] <ColonelPanic001> just not used to it
[14:21] <ColonelPanic001> my honeymoon was probably the first time since I was 16 I had more than a week off of work||school
[14:21] <cmaloney> Try unemployment sometime.
[14:21] <cmaloney> It's the weirdest thing. Suddenly the weekends don't mean quite so much.
[14:22] <cmaloney> 'cept you get to hang out with your working friends.
[14:22] <ColonelPanic001> I sorta tried once - when I was switching jobs, I tried to start a week after I'd leave the current one. They were pushy about starting sooner :\
[14:22] <ColonelPanic001> yeah, I don't imagine it's fun
[14:22] <cmaloney> Let's just say I watched way too much Jerry Springer
[14:22] <cmaloney> religiously.
[14:22] <ColonelPanic001> as long as that time went to good use, then
[14:23] <cmaloney> Yep. Had all the time in the world to cure cancer and make the world a better place
[14:23] <cmaloney> but said "fuck it" and watched the world burn
[14:23] <ColonelPanic001> oh good, I have this lump, may as well ask you abo... oh
[14:23]  * ColonelPanic001 zips up again then
[14:23] <cmaloney> Have you always had it?
[14:24] <ColonelPanic001> it's the weirdest thing - yes, and there's two of them
[14:24] <cmaloney> Hairy?
[14:24] <ColonelPanic001> my god, you *are* an expert
[14:24] <cmaloney> I think you'll be fine. You're just an ass. :)
[14:24] <ColonelPanic001> terminally
[14:25] <cmaloney> Well, it was either that or a male.
[14:25] <cmaloney> Depending on which way the moon goes.
[14:26] <ColonelPanic001> heh
[14:29] <brousch> I feel like I could get so many projects done if I was unemployed during the school year
[14:29] <ColonelPanic001> I always think that, but then I have a week off and I don't do crap
[14:30] <cmaloney> ++
[14:30] <ColonelPanic001> "oh man if I had six months without work I'd do so much cool stuff and work on some open source stuff, etc"
[14:30] <ColonelPanic001> never happens
[14:30] <brousch> You just sit around and wank all day?
[14:30] <ColonelPanic001> mostly
[14:31] <cmaloney> Have to eat sometime
[14:31] <ColonelPanic001> I mean, eventually
[19:29] <rick_h__> evening
[19:30] <brousch> Incorrect. It is 3:30pm in this channel
[19:31] <rick_h__> :P
[19:31] <rick_h__>  /time
[19:31] <rick_h__> 19:31             Freenoderajaniemi.freenode.net Thursday August 7 2014 -- 19:31:18 +00:00
[19:31] <rick_h__> hmm, seems 7:31pm to me
[19:31] <rick_h__> in this channel :P
[19:32] <brousch> No. This channel is for Michigan. You will abide by Michigan time here.
[19:32] <rick_h__> but I asked the channel what time it was?
[19:36] <brousch> I'm hooking electronic components to my RPi and controlling them with Python. This is fun and a different use of PYthon for me
[19:37] <jrwren> brousch: YAY!
[19:38] <brousch> Hm, maybe I can get this working as a tent security system for camping tomorrow
[19:39] <brousch> I have a passive IR motion sensor that triggers a camera right now. Need to add a flash for night time
[19:57] <greg-g> what's the word for unstated/ignored problems that... sacred cows, thanks
[20:18] <brousch> Random thought: Why do they not offer child care in movie theaters?
[20:18] <greg-g> brousch: million dollar idea there
[20:18] <brousch> You watch a movie while your kid plays/watches some other movie. Give the parent a vibrating pager for emergencies (to discourage constant phone checking)
[20:28] <brousch> I really don't see why this isn't a thing. Hardest part would be lining up correct number of sitters, but I think there would be plenty of full time licensed day care providers who would want to moonlight regularly.
[20:29] <brousch> Require a reservation to use the service and you know how many sitters you need
[20:29] <greg-g> Do you think people would do that instead of getting a sitter so they can also go out for a quick dinner before hand?
[20:30] <greg-g> or whatever
[20:30] <brousch> Yeah, often I just want to watch a movie and don't care about dinner
[20:30] <brousch> Finding a sitter for 3 hours can be annoying
[20:30] <greg-g> yeah
[20:30] <brousch> And then you have to monitor your phone in case there's a problem
[20:30] <greg-g> yeah
[20:34] <brousch> I think you could do it for roughly the price of a movie ticket per kid
[21:06] <jrwren> brousch: great idea!
[21:07] <jrwren> I find night care in general to be lacking in teh world.
[21:07] <jrwren> we have day care, why not night care?
[21:58] <brousch> Apparently 2 theater chains out west were doing it a few years ago