[03:13] <rick_h__> cmaloney: :)
[03:23]  * cmaloney loves a good pen though
[11:56] <cmaloney> Good morning
[11:56] <rick_h__> party
[12:00] <cmaloney> re: my home phone: nice thing is it uses Bluetooth so I can upload my contacts to it from my cell phone
[12:01] <rick_h__> what is this 'home phone' thing you speak of?
[12:01] <cmaloney> Har har
[12:01] <cmaloney> Silly, it's the phone that telemarketers use to try to sell us shit
[12:01] <rick_h__> seriously, I think that's down to a 1 in 10 kind of thing
[12:03] <cmaloney> rick_h__: Yeah, trouble is our parents come from an era where one picks up the phone, yells at whomever else is on the party line, and then asks the operator to connect them.
[12:03] <rick_h__> heh, how does this help?
[12:04] <cmaloney> JoDee's dad especially gets very confused while using his cell phone
[12:04] <cmaloney> so we have one number (The home number) for him to call
[12:04] <cmaloney> Direct line, no BS.
[12:05] <cmaloney> if I had my druthers I'd move to cell-phones entirely.
[12:05] <cmaloney> or at least everything through Ting.
[12:05] <cmaloney> But considering our stellar receiption in the past I'm leery to do that.
[12:06] <cmaloney> So we pay WOW! an extra few $$ a month for a land-line
[12:06] <cmaloney> (VOIP, so we're not complete luddites)
[12:26] <brousch> My god, man. Next you'll tell me you write with a quill and ink well on parchment
[12:27] <rick_h__> cmaloney: heh, google voice have it ring both your cells
[12:27] <rick_h__> but yea, need good reception
[12:31] <cmaloney> rick_h__: Yeah, but I don't trust Google Voice to connect in all cases
[12:32] <cmaloney> And generally speaking whenever JoDee's dad calls it's for her.
[12:33] <cmaloney> So the land-line is the "either of us, but more than likely JoDee" line
[12:34] <mrgoodcat> what's a party line?
[12:35] <mrgoodcat> shared telephone line?
[12:36] <cmaloney> Good lord man, have you never seen I Love Lucy?
[12:42] <jrwren> I wonder if telemarketers will eventually pay for peoples home phones.
[14:27] <cmaloney> Just upgraded to 14.04 and already I want to shoot the "More Suggestions"
[14:30] <brousch> More Suggestions?
[14:32] <cmaloney> The online searching
[14:32] <brousch> Eh?
[14:32] <cmaloney> Fortunately I figured out how to turn it off without resorting to scripts
[14:32] <brousch> Wait, is this a Unity thing?
[14:32] <cmaloney> Unity.
[14:32] <rick_h__> you have to use unity and not turn off the AMZ stuff
[14:32] <brousch> ew
[14:33] <cmaloney> Yeah, there's a switch that will turn off the searches
[14:34] <cmaloney> Which is lovely when you're searching the dash for "privacy" and it shows you the history of privacy on wikipedia and album suggestions with the word privacy in them.
[14:36] <cmaloney> "I see this is an emergency. Here are albums with the word "Emergency" in them.
[14:36] <cmaloney> "Did you know that the world's first recorded emergency was ..."
[14:37] <cmaloney> "You won't believe what these emergency workers did to save this cute kitten from a tree"
[14:37] <brousch> 10 hottest emergency nurses
[14:37] <cmaloney> Maybe in your searches.
[14:38] <cmaloney> OK, I shouldn't laugh, but this "all staff" note is precious
[14:39] <cmaloney> apparently someone is flushing hand towels in the toilets and causing them to overflow
[14:39] <cmaloney> Please use the restroom facilities and paper products as intended. Thanks everyone.
[14:39] <brousch> Some people have a lot of territory to wipe. TP just ain't big enough
[19:50] <cmaloney> .np squeekyhoho
[19:50] <cmaloney> mrgoodcat: Thine bot doth not provideth me with mine currently playing track as I requested.
[19:50] <mrgoodcat> hrm
[19:50] <mrgoodcat> .echo test
[19:50] <mrgoodcat> seems dead
[19:51] <rick_h__> killed it!
[19:51] <cmaloney> Seems missing
[19:51] <cmaloney> Bah, now noone will know I was listening to Devastation
[19:51] <cmaloney> *sigh*
[19:52] <mrgoodcat> .np squeekyhoho
[19:52] <bookiebot> squeekyhoho's current track - Scum by Napalm Death on Scum
[19:52] <cmaloney> Too late now
[19:53] <cmaloney> the moment is gone
[19:54] <cmaloney> .np squeekyhoho
[19:54] <bookiebot> squeekyhoho's current track - Dismantle the Dictator by Revocation on Existence Is Futile