[05:44] <thatgraemeguy> morning peoples
[08:02] <inetpro> good mornings thatgraemeguy
[08:02] <inetpro> oh and hi to everyone else as well
[08:03] <thatgraemeguy> 'lo
[08:03] <inetpro> how's the weather down in the Cape?
[08:04] <thatgraemeguy> cool and slightly rainy today, but has been quite decent lately. hot but not unbearably so mostly
[08:05] <thatgraemeguy> mid-Feb through March is typically when we have the unbearable heat
[08:11] <inetpro> hmm... do you normally get rain this time of year?
[08:12]  * inetpro thought you guys get more rain during Winter
[08:13] <thatgraemeguy> correct. although it isn't terribly unusual to get a shower or two in december
[08:14] <magellanic> greets
[08:14] <thatgraemeguy> http://www.yr.no/place/South_Africa/Western_Cape/Brackenfell/statistics.html
[08:22] <inetpro> hi magellanic
[08:41] <MaNI> summer has been wetter this year than the previous 5 or so here in gordons bay
[08:41] <MaNI> and less windy
[08:42] <MaNI> but still they are pusing ahead with 'water restrictions' - admittedly winter was not quite as wet as usual - I'd love to see the actual rainfall stats for the year vs last year, it seems crazy when city of cape town calls us a "water scarce region"
[08:49] <Kerbero> Did it rain at all there during december?
[08:49] <Kerbero> oh, i see it is today
[08:51] <MaNI> today, last weekend, a few other days as well
[08:51] <MaNI> pretty light stuff though
[08:54] <Kerbero> hmm, it's raining quite hard in stellenbosch at the moment
[08:54] <Kerbero> according to measurements that are plying past my eyes
[08:56] <MaNI> Part of me really thinks this whole water restriction thing is just another money grab and/or CoCT not wanting to admit they haven't been spending money on improving water infastructure or something - doesn't help that they don't give any actual facts/statistics with any of their announcements
[08:59] <magellanic> so the water restrictions is real :p I got an sms about it and thought it was spam
[09:22] <MaNI> heh, nope real :p
[09:25] <magellanic> I have never heard of water restrictions here, so when I saw it, surprised me
[10:09] <MaNI> they must have a different definition of "semi-arid" to everyone else
[10:10] <MaNI> "However, given that Cape Town is situated in a semi-arid area, it is important that we are not complacent."
[10:48] <inetpro> they probably thinking when there's drought in one part of the country then everywhere else should follow the same rules of water restrictions
[12:39] <superfly> MaNI: the problem is not the peninsula, the problem is further out. Once you get past the Drakenstein mountains, everything is pretty dry
[12:55] <MaNI> yeah sure, no disputing that, its still quite a distortion of facts to say the whole "cape town is water scarce and in a semi-arid area" thing though
[13:03] <magellanic> they do have some kind of info at https://www.capetown.gov.za/en/Water/Pages/Where-does-my-water-come-from.aspx and https://www.capetown.gov.za/en/Water/Pages/WeeklyDamLevels.aspx
[13:05] <magellanic> I wish they'd improve this site
[13:08] <superfly> magellanic: telling me -_-
[13:30] <Kilos> sjoe
[13:30] <Kilos> sad here all day with only tinuvamac showing
[13:30] <Kilos> restarted konversation and you all came back
[13:30] <Kilos> wb everyone
[13:32] <magellanic> hi Kilos 
[13:47] <superfly> (says the one who came back)
[13:52] <zipper> superfly: Are you super fly like super hot or are you an extraordinary housefly?
[13:53] <superfly> zipper: actually, I'm a llama, but I like to keep that under wraps.
[13:54] <zipper> superfly: :) I know a girl who looks a little like a Llama. She's cute.
[13:54] <zipper> Way to go
[13:55] <zipper> Hey I'm having issues scrobbling from rhythmbox. Everytime I try to setup my rhythmbox with last.fm I get the error that my token has expired.
[13:56] <zipper> However, I am on arch. Is anyone else experiencing this?
[13:56] <superfly> I haven't scrobbled in ages...
[13:58] <zipper> superfly: I can't not scrobble.
[13:59] <MaNI> magellanic, yeah, though dam levels are only half the picture - for all I know they have huge dam leaks and thats why the levels are low, or they are deliberately letting some out so they can charge more, or the dams are just terribly positioned, I think proper precipitation statistics are a better source - struggling to find such a thing though
[14:00] <MaNI> information on things in general is pretty hard to come by, government and universities etc. really needs to do a better job at making information accessible
[14:04] <zipper> Hey South Africans see this: http://venturesafrica.com/how-a-drug-can-help-prevent-5000-girls-being-infected-with-hiv-every-week/
[14:04] <zipper> It's about SA
[14:04] <zipper> Does this channel have an IRC bot?
[14:05] <zipper> If you want one you can have https://github.com/nairobilug/nairobi-bot
[14:06] <magellanic> MaNI: sure, but western cape has been better about, they have the whole open data portal initiative going. write to them and request it
[14:13] <Kilos> haha
[14:15] <Kilos> zipper we have a python bot
[14:16] <Kilos> nick is maaz
[14:16] <zipper> Oh
[14:16] <zipper> Kilos: I just didn't see any action when I posted a URL so I was curious.
[14:16] <Kilos> maybe ptown peeps can start thinking about going home
[14:16] <zipper> It's all good.
[14:16] <Kilos> storm brewing
[14:17] <Kilos> inetpro ^^
[14:48] <Kilos> hmm... big boom booms here
[14:48] <Kilos> missed tower so far
[14:48] <Kilos> oops
[14:48] <Kilos> power just went and returned
[14:49] <Kilos> few drops falling
[14:49] <Kilos> wind cool after a scorching day
[14:52] <inetpro> eish! Too late for me... will have to wait it out
[15:01] <Kilos> i warned you in time man
[15:01] <Kilos> raining lekker now
[15:01] <Kilos> but big wind so it wont last long
[15:03] <Kilos> wait rather inetpro hailing too now
[15:06] <Kilos> [pwer gone
[15:06] <Kilos> wbb
[16:14] <kulelu88> hey guys
[18:16] <superfly> hi kulelu88
[19:58] <aalston> sup
[19:58] <aalston> lol, for anyone who says bandwidth isn't needed, I just saw the first 4k tv series torrent Ive ever seen, 13 episodes, 180 gig
[22:16] <melodie> hi
[23:00] <kulelu88> bonjour melodie 
[23:06] <melodie> bonjour kulelu88 !
[23:06] <melodie> ça va ?
[23:07] <kulelu88> ca va e tu? melodie 
[23:10] <melodie> bien merci kulelu88 
[23:10] <melodie> que fais-tu ces jours-ci ?
[23:10] <melodie> (what do you do these days?)
[23:42] <melodie> wb kulelu88 :)