[13:59] <gamerchick02> how's everyone faring with the snow?
[14:46] <jrwren> too scared to go try and shovel.
[14:46] <jrwren> how about you?
[14:46] <gamerchick02> i went out for a paper and coffee at 8-ish and it's gotten worse. i'm chillin like a villian in my apartment and will probably go out and make sure my car still runs this afternoon
[14:47] <gamerchick02> i wish i'd brought my stupid work laptop home this weekend so i'd be prepared for something like this. ugh, i'm so dumb
[14:48] <gamerchick02> i was smart and went grocery shopping friday night. :-P
[14:49] <brousch> A paper?
[14:50] <gamerchick02> newspaper
[14:50] <gamerchick02> a publication that comes out daily or weekly with news in the form of print. usually has local and national news in it.
[14:50] <gamerchick02> :-P
[14:50] <gamerchick02> and comics.
[14:50] <brousch> http://www.quickmeme.com/img/98/98b39b21ff008afaa5cba1e79fc611b2ddb64b3f44f57e792397c517768f4433.jpg
[14:50] <gamerchick02> hee
[14:51] <gamerchick02> at least i don't get it delivered!
[14:51] <gamerchick02> :-P
[14:51] <gamerchick02> for those of you that have a Keurig 2.0: http://boingboing.net/2015/02/01/free-freedom-clip-turns-of.html
[15:20] <cmaloney> morn
[15:20] <gamerchick02> howdy cmaloney
[15:20] <cmaloney> We did our grocery shopping last night
[15:20] <gamerchick02> smart
[15:20] <cmaloney> so we had big breakfast and are now chillin'
[15:21] <gamerchick02> i figured it was gonna be crazy-crazy at meijer yesterday so i bucked up and went Friday night after work.
[15:22] <cmaloney> JoDee and I used to like to read the paper: http://image1.masterfile.com/getImage/846-02796722em-1950s-COUPLE-MAN-WOMAN-READING-NEWSPAPER---.jpg
[15:23] <gamerchick02> hee!
[15:23] <gamerchick02> do you have those awesome glasses?
[15:23] <cmaloney> But the kids now and their Internet these days: http://www.shorpy.com/files/images/SHORPY_5a19812u.jpg
[15:23] <gamerchick02> and are you a dapper dan man?
[15:24] <gamerchick02> LOL the screen so he can't see the TV. nice!
[15:24] <gamerchick02> and to think we now have TVs that cover a wall
[15:24] <cmaloney> So yeah, this morning we decided to have breakfast: https://thiswastv.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/lucy05.png
[15:25] <gamerchick02> (i love the vintage photos. for real though.)
[15:25] <gamerchick02> i might listen to my record player later.
[15:32] <cmaloney> https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/04/73/a3/0473a37a29c63d0ce188923d6a951366.jpg
[15:32] <cmaloney> http://siarchives.si.edu/sites/default/files/blog-attached-images/14434749379_03c76f6e7c_z.jpg
[15:32] <gamerchick02> exactly. though i don't have that awesome hair
[15:32] <gamerchick02> :)
[15:32] <gamerchick02> you don't have a record player?
[15:34] <cmaloney> I have one. It's in the closet
[15:35]  * cmaloney is a digital man
[15:35]  * gamerchick02 is too but i also like traditional media
[15:35] <cmaloney> http://retrothing.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83452989a69e2012876d29738970c-800wi
[15:36] <cmaloney> http://www.vinmag.com/online/media/gbu0/prodlg/AP1695-technics-cd-player-1980s.jpg
[15:36] <gamerchick02> for pure convenience i love digital but i like to have the options to pick up an older record and know that i can play it
[15:36] <gamerchick02> is that a CD drive?
[15:37] <cmaloney> They're all CD players
[15:37] <gamerchick02> nice.
[15:37] <gamerchick02> i don't have a portable cd player anymore
[15:37] <cmaloney> "1980s cd player" in google
[15:37] <cmaloney> of course you don't. You have a phone that is 10x capable
[15:37] <gamerchick02> :)
[15:38] <cmaloney> http://www.acquris.se/images/sony_d-50_portable_cd-player_9.jpg
[15:38] <cmaloney> Why would you carry around a single-purpose device?
[15:38] <gamerchick02> and an ipad and an ipod (but i'm not using the ipod much anymore since i got a 32gb microsd card for my phone.
[15:38] <gamerchick02> )
[15:39] <gamerchick02> sometimes the single purpose device does a good job (think a trusty timex watch that gives the time and date).
[15:39] <cmaloney> My 5 disc changer is in storage at the moment
[15:39] <gamerchick02> i've got a 6-disc changer in the car
[15:39] <cmaloney> Yeah, I di like my 5 disc changer
[15:39] <gamerchick02> i WISH i had a bluetooth adapter or an aux in for my my car so so so bad
[15:40] <cmaloney> but http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTIwMFgxNTk5/z/uBgAAOSwa39UvZAp/$_35.JPG
[15:40] <cmaloney> That's the one I have
[15:40] <cmaloney> Best player I've ever owned
[15:41] <gamerchick02> that's your car radio?
[15:41] <cmaloney> Sounds amazing
[15:41] <cmaloney> Nah, that's a separate CD player for my stereo
[15:41] <gamerchick02> oh cool
[15:41] <gamerchick02> i have a sony three piece that i got in college. i love it.
[15:41] <cmaloney> Problem is I have the Squeezebox now so I never use it
[15:41] <gamerchick02> i can't do "loud" in my apartment lest i piss off my neighbors
[15:42] <cmaloney> understood
[15:43] <cmaloney> bbiab
[15:43] <gamerchick02> how do you like the squeezebox?
[15:43] <gamerchick02> ok!
[16:25] <cmaloney> I <3 it
[16:25] <cmaloney> Unfortunately Logitech discontinued the hardware, but you can still find them rather inexpensively
[16:25] <cmaloney> and there are computer-based clients so you can play your library on your computer
[16:26] <gamerchick02> ooo
[16:26] <gamerchick02> so it's like a hard drive that streams to speakers?
[16:26] <cmaloney> IN a sense
[16:26] <cmaloney> it's a whole eco-system comparable to iTunes or Sonos
[16:26] <gamerchick02> ah
[16:26] <cmaloney> but with a heavier OSS component
[16:26] <gamerchick02> itunes is evil
[16:26] <cmaloney> the server / clients are OSS
[16:26] <cmaloney> even the hardware models
[16:27] <gamerchick02> nice
[16:27] <cmaloney> It's a little clunky to get set up but once you have it set up it's quite nice
[16:27] <cmaloney> so not something that I'd give my non-technically adept relatives but something that once they had some help setting up it works nicely.
[16:28] <gamerchick02> hrm that sounds neat. i'd love to be able to stream my music on my computer to a set of speakers in my living room (my computer is in the second bedroom in my apartment)
[16:28] <cmaloney> Supports internet radio
[16:28] <gamerchick02> ooo
[16:28] <cmaloney> and Pandora (with MySqueezebox, iirc)
[16:28] <gamerchick02> i have so much to listen to it's insane
[16:29] <cmaloney> http://www.linuxjournaldigital.com/linuxjournal/201209?pg=73#pg71
[16:29] <cmaloney> I wrote an article for Linux Journal describing the Squeezebox
[16:36] <gamerchick02> woo thanks
[16:36] <cmaloney> np
[16:36] <cmaloney> If you have any questions LMK (PM me, or email: craig@decafbad.net). I love to wax eloquent about the Squeezebox
[16:36] <gamerchick02> hee. i might give it a go
[16:37] <gamerchick02> or i might not. i'd love to get this kind of thing going in my mom's house
[16:37] <cmaloney> It's great because I can listen to my stuff at work and JoDee can (and has) turned on the radio in the basement and listened to something else
[16:37] <cmaloney> and I've used it for parties to play music
[16:37] <gamerchick02> oooh yeah
[16:38] <gamerchick02> yeah no disc switching!
[16:38] <cmaloney> Yep
[16:38] <cmaloney> Great for Wagnerian Opera
[16:38] <gamerchick02> great for... anything really. hah
[16:39] <cmaloney> There's also a Smart Mix plugin that I use for creating automatic playlists
[16:39] <gamerchick02> that's only if your music is tagged properly *snerk*
[16:39] <cmaloney> so i tell it what genere I want it to use and tweak a few parameters and it'll play my library
[16:39] <gamerchick02> i'm working on that with Musicbrainz Picard
[16:39] <cmaloney> I try to tag everything with Musicbrainz. :)
[16:40] <gamerchick02> +1 to Musicbrainz
[16:40] <cmaloney> But yeah, if I hear something I don't want to hear in my mix it's my own damn fault for having it on my drive
[16:40] <gamerchick02> hee yes.
[16:41] <cmaloney> (You can set it to use external sources, or your own library)
[16:41] <gamerchick02> very nice!
[16:41] <cmaloney> So I won't have to worry about someone thinking that Nickelback is Dath Metal
[16:41] <gamerchick02> oh lordy. Nickelback is horrible
[16:41] <cmaloney> It scratches an itch that I don't have nor care to ever explore.
[16:42] <cmaloney> Works for some, not my taste
[16:42] <gamerchick02> it's... boring
[16:42] <gamerchick02> i dunno
[16:42] <cmaloney> If I were a frustrated 12 year old who thought Axe cologne was awesome and needed some inspiration on how to be an asshole in my later years I think Nickelback would fit that itch
[16:43] <cmaloney> but none of that is relevant to me
[16:43] <cmaloney> I'm already the asshole I want to be.
[16:43] <gamerchick02> you need that on a t-shirt
[16:43] <gamerchick02> "I'm already the asshole I want to be."
[16:43] <cmaloney> ;)
[16:58] <gamerchick02> gonna restart to fix something brb
[17:13] <gamerchick02> back
[17:23] <jrwren> shovelling session #1 done.
[17:23] <gamerchick02> success?
[17:26] <jrwren> yes.
[17:26] <gamerchick02> awesome. i'm going out later and i'll clean the car off and shovel behind it
[17:26] <gamerchick02> i mean i'm not going out but i'll go out to clean the car off.
[17:26] <gamerchick02> sorry i'm unclear. ahem
[18:17] <cmaloney> Sadly I think I'm going to need to shovel soon
[18:17] <cmaloney> unless a band of feral children happen by my house loooking for alms
[18:17] <gamerchick02> HAH
[18:18] <gamerchick02> good luck
[18:20] <akelling> HOw much snow you guys get up in MI?
[18:20] <gamerchick02> depends on location but Auburn Hills is due for 4 to 7 inches
[18:20] <akelling> wow
[18:20] <gamerchick02> south of 59 probably 6-10
[18:20] <akelling> Woke up with 4 inchs here in Colorado. Was not expecting that.
[18:20] <gamerchick02> south of 94, i think they said 9-12
[18:21] <akelling> Thats some snow
[18:21] <gamerchick02> yeah
[18:21] <akelling> My dog was not ammused this morning to say the least
[18:22] <gamerchick02> LOL
[18:22] <gamerchick02> i can see it "yay outside"
[18:22] <gamerchick02> "WAIT WHAT IS THIS?!?!?!?"
[18:25] <akelling> lol that about how it went down.
[18:26] <gamerchick02> :)
[18:26] <akelling> blurry pic but here she is this morning. https://content-na.drive.amazonaws.com/cdproxy/templink/BxAVY3L6kxI5FW71hYBMK3K4c2Fiz-8MW6kqqKrchBULAYspN?viewBox=1366
[18:28] <gamerchick02> :) cute dog!
[18:33] <akelling> That she is.
[19:12] <cmaloney> Alas, no feral children in the neighborhood
[19:13] <cmaloney> So I'm going to need to shovel
[19:13] <cmaloney> bah
[19:13] <gamerchick02> at first glance that looked like "ferel chicken"
[19:13] <gamerchick02> anyway, enjoy your shovelling!
[19:57] <cmaloney> Heh
[19:57] <cmaloney> If they know how to shovel I'll take it
[19:59] <cmaloney> JoDee's making hot cocoa. It's all good
[20:14] <gamerchick02> :) yay for cocoa!
[20:14] <cmaloney> https://plus.google.com/+CraigMaloney/posts/D1E9P2Lig75
[20:16] <gamerchick02> what's it been named?
[20:16] <cmaloney> Our winter storm
[20:16] <cmaloney> apparently they went and named it
[20:16] <gamerchick02> oh joy
[20:39] <cmaloney> Well, my shoveling went *poof*
[20:46] <gamerchick02> yeah, it's getting crazy out there
[20:46] <gamerchick02> after rathole radio i'm going to see if i can clean off the car and clean behind it but if i can't get out tomorrow i'll call it in. this sucks.
[21:19] <havenstance2> greetings from Pittsburgh everyone :)
[21:20] <havenstance2> cmaloney I noticed they named that... I kinda chuckled didn't know we were naming storms now
[21:33] <cmaloney> Yeah I think I'm working from home tomorrow
[21:33] <cmaloney> Next door just fired up their snowblower
[21:56] <gamerchick02> i forgot my computer
[21:56] <gamerchick02> yay another day of no pay!!!
[21:57] <gamerchick02> >_<
[21:57] <gamerchick02> i hate hate hate missing work
[21:59] <gamerchick02> i've actually set my alarm 45 minutes early so maybe i can make it in for normal time
[22:22] <havenstance2> what's the weather like in MI today?
[22:22] <havenstance2> I imagine its pretty bad looking out my window
[22:24] <gamerchick02> it is
[22:25] <gamerchick02> it's been snowing on and off. right now it's "on"
[22:25] <gamerchick02> and the piles are getting deeper in front of my apartment building. not sure if i should get up at the arse-crack of dawn tomorrow or beg off, but i'm going to at least try to get in.
[22:26] <havenstance2> yeah I moved to Pittsburgh, its been freezing rain here all day
[22:26] <gamerchick02> *nods*
[22:26] <gamerchick02> sorry about that. it's almost worse.
[22:27] <havenstance2> worst part is nobody knows how to drive here...
[22:28] <gamerchick02> ugh
[22:28] <havenstance2> I thought Michigan had the worlds worst drivers, until I came to Pittsburgh
[22:28] <gamerchick02> i'm debating. if i can't get out i'll text in. my boss is cool about that. i feel bad that i left my laptop at work though. i could at least get started at 7 if i had it with me...
[22:29] <gamerchick02> Ohio. my ex is a shit driver
[22:29] <havenstance2> I'll hand that to you too Ohio is pretty bad
[22:29] <havenstance2> worst part about Pittsburgh is you get Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia drivers all in one place
[22:30] <gamerchick02> oh no!
[22:30] <havenstance2> its not a normal day if I don't get cut off at least 5 times on the way to work.... and I'm not talking the car merge in front of you, I'm talking they start when they are only half way passed your car
[22:30] <gamerchick02> good god
[22:30] <havenstance2> forcing you to lock up the breaks or hit the edge of the road
[22:30] <gamerchick02> time to invest in that hummer you always dreamed of
[22:31] <havenstance2> im thinking of buying a F350 and putting a brush guard on it :)
[22:31] <gamerchick02> hah!
[22:31] <gamerchick02> get a Ram 4500
[22:31] <gamerchick02> dualie.
[22:31] <gamerchick02> that'll stop em.
[22:32] <havenstance2> yeah lol, unfortunately the Ram's transmissions aren't the most reliable in the world.
[22:32] <havenstance2> dodge usually stands beside them though so I'll give them that
[22:32] <gamerchick02> they're much better than they were
[22:32] <havenstance2> fair argument, I'd actually consider buying a dodge today
[22:32] <havenstance2> friend of mine had one of the BAD ones....
[22:32] <gamerchick02> (i work at Chrysler so i might be biased)
[22:32] <havenstance2> :)
[22:32] <havenstance2> understandable
[22:33] <gamerchick02> BUT i do know they've been working super hard on the quality
[22:33] <havenstance2> one thing I'll hand Chrysler though, when those transmissions go bad now, they have been helping replace them
[22:33] <havenstance2> even the old ones, my buddy had a 2006 dodge ram, lost the transmission because a mounting bolt failed.
[22:34] <havenstance2> Chrysler replaced it for him
[22:34] <gamerchick02> ooo
[22:34] <havenstance2> I was impressed
[22:34] <gamerchick02> good on Chrysler!
[22:34] <gamerchick02> good luck getting that out of GM
[22:34] <gamerchick02> hah
[22:35] <havenstance2> Dealership discovered it was a broken bolt that they had supposidly replaced once before.... so they gave him a new trans, I'd bet it was rebuilt but even still
[22:35] <havenstance2> it worked and he didn't have to pay for it, i was exteremely impressed.
[22:36] <gamerchick02> yeah, they usually will replace with rebuilt in an old truck.
[22:36] <havenstance2> I have been contemplating buying a Dodge Charger tho :)
[22:36] <gamerchick02> i'm proud they're staying by their work. even if it was crap before.
[22:36] <gamerchick02> i think that's RWD. not good in this snow
[22:36] <havenstance2> yeah, sand tubes help with that though
[22:37] <havenstance2> I was born and raised by Traverse City, Michigan
[22:37] <havenstance2> so snow is nothing new to me, but its like people out here don't understand anything about it
[22:37] <havenstance2> and 3-4 inches, is a major deal apparently
[22:38] <gamerchick02> 3-4 inches is nothing round here
[22:38] <havenstance2> lol I don't even panic up north until I hear 2-4 feet :)
[22:39] <gamerchick02> well in the metro detroit area they can't handle 6 much less anything related to feet.
[22:39] <gamerchick02> i'm hoping things will be cleaned up tomorrow afternoon but that might be a pipe dream.
[22:39] <gamerchick02> ugh
[22:40] <havenstance2> town i lived in was in the snowbelt
[22:40] <havenstance2> wasn't uncommon to wake up to a foot of fresh snow
[22:40] <havenstance2> 3-4 inches was almost daily though
[22:41] <gamerchick02> well i don't have 4WD so i may not be leaving tomorrow.
[22:42] <havenstance2> home depot sells sand tubes
[22:42] <havenstance2> put 6 of them in your trunk in the winter, and it helps alot with the snow
[22:42] <gamerchick02> i don't have a truck. i have a Mazda 3
[22:42] <havenstance2> it wont cure all your RWD Woes, but it does help quite a bit :)
[22:43] <gamerchick02> hah yeah, it will!
[22:43] <havenstance2> I did it with a Lincoln Towncar :)
[22:43] <gamerchick02> also kitty litter
[22:43] <havenstance2> yeah Kitty Litter works too
[22:43] <havenstance2> but the sand tubes are easier to manage
[22:44] <gamerchick02> yeah
[22:44] <havenstance2> easier to store in the summer time
[22:44] <havenstance2> Mazda 3 though, you could probably get away with 2-3 sand bags, iirc those aren't very heavy cars
[22:44] <gamerchick02> true!
[22:45] <havenstance2> I'd just put em in the trunk around the Spare Tire Compartment :)
[22:45] <gamerchick02> my car is FWD. i'm usually ok as long as the snow is lower than the clearance on my car
[22:45] <havenstance2> yeah, you have a foot of snow on the ground yet?
[22:46] <gamerchick02> i don't think so. not yet.
[22:46] <gamerchick02> 6 inches probably but it's been blowing around.
[22:46] <gamerchick02> depends on where you measure it. :-P
[22:46] <havenstance2> typically with a FWD anything, usually around a foot of snow can cause problems
[22:46] <havenstance2> especially when it drifts
[22:46] <gamerchick02> yeah
[22:47] <havenstance2> I have a Cavalier and a Malibu Maxx
[22:47] <havenstance2> the Cavalier was my favorite car for the winter
[22:47] <gamerchick02> :)
[22:47] <havenstance2> the Mailbu is surprisingly okay in the snow
[22:48] <havenstance2> but that cavalier I only ever got it stuck once so I don't know how much snow exactly was its nemesis but a 3 foot drift buried it :)
[22:48] <havenstance2> all you could see was the back half the car sticking out LOL
[22:48] <gamerchick02> i've never gotten stuck with the MAzda.
[22:48] <gamerchick02> no i take that back
[22:48] <gamerchick02> i was stuck in the lot because of the ice. i couldn't get any grip to get out of my spot
[22:49] <havenstance2> that's understandable, I'm learning here when they say freezing rain, they mean it
[22:49] <gamerchick02> yeah. i prefer snow to freezing rain.
[22:49] <havenstance2> these mountain roads are flat scary in the mornings after Freezing Rain
[22:49] <gamerchick02> geez
[22:50] <havenstance2> now the snow, I do fine in, in fact 3 inches of snow I'm heading to work getting looks from plow drivers like I'm nuts
[22:50] <havenstance2> they plow here with pickups basically, and salt with converted trash trucks
[22:50] <gamerchick02> :) we'll see if i can get out tomorrow.
[22:50] <gamerchick02> it's times like that when i wish i had a 4WD Jeep
[22:50] <havenstance2> I think you should be fine :)
[22:50] <havenstance2> I'd buy one just to keep in the yard lol
[22:50] <gamerchick02> lol!
[22:50] <gamerchick02> jeeps are cool
[22:51] <gamerchick02> shit gas mileage but cool
[22:51] <havenstance2> newer jeeps get between 20-25mpg
[22:51] <havenstance2> not great, but not bad for a jeep
[22:51] <havenstance2> considering some of the older ones you were lucky to see 10 LOL
[22:52] <gamerchick02> i get 25/30 in the Mazda. got 36/40 in the Saturn (granted it had a shit engine in it and the quality was crap. but good gas mileage)
[22:52] <havenstance2> yeah, I get about 29 in the malibu
[22:52] <havenstance2> I got over 30 in the cavalier though
[22:52] <havenstance2> was pretty close to the saturn
[22:53] <gamerchick02> they were the same car after saturn merged totally with GM
[22:53] <havenstance2> I came through Detroit last weekend, hit Telegraph Ave on 75 at 5:02pm
[22:53] <havenstance2> took almost 3 hours to get from Telegraph to Royal Oak...
[22:53] <gamerchick02> like i said though, quality was crap. engine mounts rattled off pretty much every two years.
[22:54] <gamerchick02> ugh. three hours. welcome to rush hour
[22:54] <havenstance2> yeah that Cavalier was the same way, I eventually put a lock washer and 2 nuts on it to hold it
[22:54] <gamerchick02> that would work!
[22:54] <havenstance2> Wayze said there was an accident up by 8 mile but when I got there all I saw was a car going on a flat bed
[22:55] <havenstance2> anyway, off to the Super Bowl party, have a good night :)
[22:55] <gamerchick02> ok have fun!