[06:52] <MooDoo> howdy all
[07:58] <SuperMatt> morning all
[07:59] <SuperMatt> officially in to my last month
[08:02] <MooDoo> SuperMatt: excellent :) bet you can't wait to finish ;0
[08:14] <SuperMatt> Indeed not. I think the next two weeks will be me actually working, then after that I will be slacking to the max
[08:15] <MooDoo> lol :)
[08:40] <diddledan> moo
[08:40] <SuperMatt> doo
[08:43] <MooDoo> :)
[08:51] <SuperMatt> Today, I'll mostly be watching a quake champions tournament, because I have naff-all else to do: https://imgur.com/MrNqwOi
[08:51] <diddledan> haha. nice
[08:51] <diddledan> esports are getting quite professional these days
[08:52] <MooDoo> diddledan: you'd be surprised, they have been for years :)
[08:52] <SuperMatt> I find it very funny that the presenters are wearing shirts and blazers in an attempt to legitimise eports
[08:52] <SuperMatt> *esports
[08:53] <MooDoo>  theres a thing to try and get esports into the olympics lol
[08:53] <SuperMatt> I've always thought that olympic sports should show survival skills
[08:54] <SuperMatt> esports do no such thing
[08:56] <diddledan> the 100m sprint is survival of outrunning a lion?
[08:57] <diddledan> I'm not sure how gymnastics would fit into that paradigm
[08:57] <diddledan> e.g. the pommel horse
[08:57] <SuperMatt> The pommel horse would skill of leaping over boulders
[09:52] <brobostigon> morning boys and girls.
[09:57] <MooDoo> morning brobostigon :)
[10:04] <brobostigon> morning MooDoo
[17:48] <diddledan> perfect depiction of IT:  https://usercontent.irccloud-cdn.com/file/FsqWjhDv/
[17:51] <daftykins> diddledan: Mischief helped me paint again up on the scaffold today, well... mostly she was a gymnast climbing the ladder on *both* sides - https://imgur.com/a/6HVWO
[17:51] <diddledan> kitty says your Dee Eye Whys are bad
[17:51] <daftykins> she'd never!
[17:52] <daftykins> mostly she'd enquire as to why i'm up faffing about with a brush instead of providing a warm lap on the sofa
[17:52] <diddledan> aww, warm lap cat ftw
[18:01] <diddledan> lol, where do folk find funny images for their conference talks?!  https://usercontent.irccloud-cdn.com/file/bATUzADp/
[18:02] <daftykins> 9gag? ;)
[18:02] <diddledan> shush! I'm blind!
[19:59] <daftykins> goodness, called out to a clients because they had TV troubles, get there - the TV remote had been switched over to control 'STB' so power wasn't turning it on, cycle it back to 'TV' and it was fine ;)
[20:00] <zmoylan-pi> time to travel there and back?
[20:00] <daftykins> already did yeah, in fairness they're only 600m up the road ;)
[20:01] <zmoylan-pi> not too bad then... not a 12hour drive there, flip a switch and 12 hours back...
[20:01] <daftykins> also a funny request from there "can't book the hyatt in San Francisco, site says 'access denied' can you fix please?"
[20:01] <daftykins> sec let me just go and get my keys to the internet...
[20:02] <daftykins> oh zmoylan-pi i gave them to you last!
[20:02] <zmoylan-pi> i'd have to make a prilgrimage to big ben were the internet is stored to fix it... extra hassle now that the scaffolding is in place...
[20:03] <zmoylan-pi> i think the scaffolding is blocking the signal.... :-P ::intends to use that excuse in near future::
[20:04] <daftykins> :D
[20:07] <foobarry> can anyone recommend a male grooming shaver type thing? not the big clippers but the small ones the size of a toothpaste tube?
[20:07] <foobarry> for diong neck hair and sideburns etc
[20:08] <foobarry> the beard trimmer on my electric shaver does not suffice
[20:08] <zmoylan-pi> be honest... you want to shave your teams name into your back hair... :-D
[20:09] <foobarry> yep
[20:09] <foobarry> i don't have back hair though :P
[20:09] <foobarry> my barbers ones are nice but i dont know what make they are
[20:10] <foobarry> lots on amazon. don't know whats a good one
[20:10] <daftykins> that's right, out of sight, out of mind ;)
[20:10] <daftykins> reviews any clue? not that such can be trusted...
[20:10] <zmoylan-pi> some people are naturally hairer than others :-) https://imgur.com/gallery/s1Ih4
[20:14] <foobarry> https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B072MQCK3B?ref=emc_b_5_t
[20:14] <foobarry> thinking this one
[20:14] <foobarry> surely u guys must have one?
[20:14] <daftykins> i'm still facial hair challenged at 32 years young
[20:15] <ali1234> the big hair clippers are sooo good for beard trimming tho
[20:15] <daftykins> foobarry: this advert on twitch is always going on about the philips one-blade or something
[20:15] <daftykins> https://www.amazon.co.uk/Philips-OneBlade-Trimmer-Exclusive-Bathroom/dp/B01FFSI7XI/
[20:16] <zmoylan-pi> ask someone with a beard? http://bestbeardever.com/need-a-great-sideburn-trimmer-there-are-two-ways-to-go/
[20:17] <foobarry> thats interesting daftykins , never seen one like that
[20:18] <zmoylan-pi> whatever this guy uses... http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/07/15/article-2693149-1FA9D7C000000578-572_634x562.jpg
[20:18] <foobarry> my neck is v sensitive and comes out in weals
[20:18] <foobarry> so i use remington foil shaver
[20:19] <diddledan> not publicly accessible, but I'm indexing the ubuntu irc logs:  https://usercontent.irccloud-cdn.com/file/zRfcfN4k/
[20:19] <foobarry> ewww see the guys bleeding throat on the reviews?
[20:19] <daftykins> D:
[20:20] <zmoylan-pi> the manly way to do it.... :-P
[20:20] <zmoylan-pi> i do remember seeing pics of desert rats shaving in petrol in wwii as water was so scarce...
[20:21] <daftykins> wowzer
[20:21] <diddledan> brbrb gonna reboob to plug a sata dic in
[20:27] <daftykins> you're getting worse :P
[20:31] <diddledan> that's unpossible!
[20:32] <zmoylan-pi> diddledan just knows how to craunch a marmoset
[20:33] <zmoylan-pi> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_As_She_Is_Spoke
[20:42] <foobarry> amazon still accept vine reviews? grrr
[20:42] <foobarry> not only that but they always appear so high up
[20:43] <foobarry> first 30 reviews i've checked so far
[20:44] <foobarry> oh wow , it's nearly every one out of the 100 or so
[20:45] <daftykins> every one that what?
[20:48] <foobarry> "vine review of free product"
[20:49] <foobarry> i skip those because they didn't pay for the product
[20:49] <foobarry> it really devalues amazon and the brands they sell to have reviewers who got free stuff
[20:49] <daftykins> ah i see
[20:50] <daftykins> mmm didn't they stop that eventually? i thought i heard something about it
[20:50] <zmoylan-pi> there was talk of downgrading such reviews... as to if it happened or not...
[20:57] <zmoylan-pi> voyager firing up thrusters dormant longer than a lot of folk in this channel have been alive... https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/12/after-37-years-voyager-has-fired-up-its-trajectory-thrusters/
[20:57] <daftykins> :O
[20:58] <daftykins> wowzer
[20:59] <zmoylan-pi> be very thankful it's not running windows... think of all those service patches...
[21:11] <daftykins> or a Linux distro, sending all those recompiled utils to fix core functions (:
[21:12] <zmoylan-pi> be thankful they're not compiling gentoo on a 70s processor... :-)
[21:15] <foobarry> when i'm watching computerphile, i always wonder where all the fanfold line printer paper comes from
[21:16] <foobarry> they always write on it. is it left over stock from the 90s?
[21:17] <daftykins> haha the ol' tractor fed stuff eh? i think my Dad brought home one of those with the Apple II's back in the day
[21:17] <daftykins> i remember he insisted on printing out the text-based adventure game BASIC to error check it
[21:18] <foobarry> when i was at uni i used to get a line printout from the unix machines and then write the new code by hand using pen and type it up the next day in the lab
[21:18] <foobarry> manual debugging
[21:19] <foobarry> mid 90s..no PC at the house
[21:19] <zmoylan-pi> there will always be a need for fan fold printer paper... i worked for companies in 80s that printed off their entire database week after week in case their computers were subject to emp
[21:19] <foobarry> and did the EMP every happen?
[21:19] <zmoylan-pi> i'll put money down they still are
[21:19] <zmoylan-pi> of course not, but there disaster recovery was designed in case it did
[21:20] <zmoylan-pi> just train up cockroaches to replace the fried humans and keep going
[21:20] <foobarry> https://youtu.be/qjZuI0FT9Z8?t=425 they write on it every episode
[21:20] <zmoylan-pi> i did see their disaster recovery in operation when building next door collapesed while it was been demolished and crashed into their accounts department
[21:21] <zmoylan-pi> the server we had just installed took rock to the case. and water on motherboard. carpet destroyed, windows knocked in, desks broken.
[21:22] <daftykins> foobarry: wowzer
[21:22] <zmoylan-pi> as we rebuilt server. swarms of electricians, carpet folk, carpenters, window frame guys and glaziers came through and fixed it for monday
[21:23] <diddledan> EMP? that reminds me of a 90s cult-ish sci-fi called Dark Angel
[21:23] <diddledan> supposedly set in a murrica post EMPping
[21:23] <daftykins> diddledan: the premise behind that sounds a lot like Stranger Things o0
[21:24] <zmoylan-pi> there's a few books now posing such senarios
[21:24] <diddledan> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Angel_(TV_series)
[21:27] <zmoylan-pi> eventually some mad bugger will do it so even civilian electronics will need some form of hardening
[21:33] <zmoylan-pi> just think... no more cat videos...
[21:33] <diddledan> stand back, I'm making it hard!
[21:33] <diddledan> ..ened*
[21:35]  * daftykins groans
[21:36] <zmoylan-pi> don't you'll only excite diddledan
[21:36] <daftykins> that's true
[21:36] <zmoylan-pi> when in doubt confuse them, make distressed camel noises...
[21:38] <daftykins> that's a sacred animal in Guernsey
[21:42] <zmoylan-pi> getting one for christmas? a bugger to fit in the oven... :-)
[21:42] <zmoylan-pi> you'll be going on camel sandwiches for months...
[21:44] <daftykins> :)
[21:46] <zmoylan-pi> 2-3 days just to get through a drumstick...
[21:48]  * diddledan makes camel noises: WAAAAGGGGHHHHHH
[21:49]  * zmoylan-pi nods to daftykins 
[21:49] <zmoylan-pi> quick, i'll get the onions and stuffing.... :-P
[21:50] <daftykins> and some kind of gag to stop the spitting
[21:51] <zmoylan-pi> what do you think the onions are for?
[21:51] <daftykins> ah haaaa
[21:51] <zmoylan-pi> not my first camel stuffing... :-P
[21:51]  * daftykins prods m0nkey_ 
[21:52] <daftykins> oi you're not fulfilling your obligations as not-shauno enough :)
[22:18] <zmoylan-pi> maybe we've fallen behind in our hobnob payments to m0nkey_
[22:20] <daftykins> :)
[22:22] <zmoylan-pi> i was sure they'd not notice the switch to generic hibnibs...
[22:24] <daftykins> i've not heard of those!
[22:25] <zmoylan-pi> i couldn't think of the generics i see in aldi/lidl... oaties i think... so i made up hibnibs...
[23:00] <christel> -1
[23:03] <daftykins> o0
[23:04] <daftykins> christel: did you deduct zmoylan-pi a point for his made up biscuit name? :)
[23:04]  * zmoylan-pi restores balance to the channel... +1
[23:04] <daftykins> phew ;)
[23:06] <zmoylan-pi> wouldn't want the channel going off on a tangent...
[23:06] <christel> oops
[23:06] <christel> hahaha
[23:06] <christel> yes
[23:06] <zmoylan-pi> but that would merely be a sine of the times...
[23:07] <daftykins> oh dear oh dear oh dear
[23:07] <daftykins> easy, we're nearly at our 2017 quota of puns
[23:07] <zmoylan-pi> and we'd have no iota of how to correct things...
[23:09]  * zmoylan-pi celebrates €4 win on lotto.... \o/
[23:09] <daftykins> quick, 4 more tickets
[23:36] <zmoylan-pi> sure a few million would be nice... i could buy that netbook i have my eye on... :-)
[23:36] <daftykins> eww
[23:38] <zmoylan-pi> and 2 macbooks to make a solid clamshell case for it... :-D
[23:40] <daftykins> as long as you cover the logo!
[23:41] <daftykins> i've got a serious craptop in right now, an Acer E1 that needs a new screen thrown in
[23:41] <zmoylan-pi> those are on the inside and ripped out so you can insert some cables... :-)