A collection of the best quotes to come out tech cons and their surroundings.
Troll not lest ye be troll'd.
tc_ross, (Date Unknown)
He doesn't replace ideas
erik o, (Date Unknown)
If you throw enough people in front of it, eventually the bus starts to slow down.
isaac_su, 4.30.10
We prioritized uptime over cold water
iao, 7.16.10. This happened back when we had tyrone plugged into the rack. When the compressor kicked on one time it popped the fuse on the powerstrip and brought the rack down. Oops!
You're taking GIMP off the OSX loadset? Then how will people photoshop stuff?
tc_jonah, 2010.7.15
The best thing about macaroni and cheese is the cheese.
tc_jonah, 2010.7.21
The greasy wheel gets the squeak.
iao, 7.?.10
_I_ think I was just doing what the internet told me to do.
tc_peter, 8.6.10
That makes sense now that I've thought about it and seen how it works.
Anonymous, 8.18.10, identity lost to the sands of time, pretty sure it was a sysop tho.
Alright, well I'm gonna keep reading these man pages for a while so I can just come in tomorrow and implement the fuck out of it.
tc_jonah, 9.9.10 (Maximal Positive Mental Attitude Award)
tc_ross: Don't remove it, it's probably a dependency for something. tc_matt: Well it's a dependency for fucking us up right now.
tc_ross, tc_matt, 9.23.10
It's not an easter egg if you have to plant it yourself.
tc_peter, 10.5.10, regarding Chrome Pipes
If you put salt on it, it's pretty salty.
iao, fall 2010
It's not about winning an arm-wrestling competition, it's about being above arm-wrestling.
Frank Barber, 12.13.10 (...on Management)
When I was a vegan I learned: to eat pizza without the cheese is kind of a bummer.
Frank Barber, 1.26.11 (Metaphoricalism)
16:59 <@Pyro> Read from remote host grace: Connection timed out 16:59 <@Pyro> Connection to grace closed. 16:59 <@Pyro> tc_jonah@ada:~$ 16:59 <@Pyro> :( 16:59 <@Pyro> but, no, it was her time, we understand 17:00 <@Pyro> it was grace's 5time2go
tc_jonah, 2.16.11 upon the day of her passing
Fish in a barrel are still fish.
tc_peter, 2.17.11
Some people say "no pain, no gain". I just go for "no pain".
Frank Barber, 3.1.11
14:01 < false_rompler> ki cudi song marijuana is 4 minutes in 20 seconds long.
oh gee that is just so clever. I mean, how does one even
go about coming up with things like that?
14:11 < ramphi10> I don't get it...
14:11 < also_pope> i get it
14:12 <@Pyro> 4:20.
14:15 < false_rompler> ramphi10: 4:20 is how stoners signify which part of the
weed array should be smoked first. Weed[0:3] being
considered holy in there religon. so weed[4:20] is 16
pots which when divided by the first number of pots
accessed is that number, 4. Quite the numerologists eh?
14:15 < false_rompler> 20 also being signifigant as the average age when they
move into their parents basement.
14:16 < false_rompler> A sacred migration if you will
14:17 < boomzilla> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/420_(cannabis_culture)
14:17 < false_rompler> ramphi10: you on irc through your phone?
14:20 < false_rompler> the second half of the article is very offensive for
some reason
14:31 < ramphi10> false_rompler: on teh irc via teh cygwins
14:32 < ramphi10> So these weed arrays, are they statically allocated then?
14:34 < false_rompler> no. They are genreally accessed once and then freed.
They are malloc'd more often in the college function
14:37 < ramphi10> woah
14:50 < also_pope> i get it
14:50 < also_pope> oh
14:50 < also_pope> wait no i don't get it
14:57 < ramphi10> but if the whole array is freed, then how do they get so much
holy weed all the time?
15:22 < false_rompler> well they're python programmers, so they just loose the
reference to weed[4:20] and garbage collection takes
care of the rest
15:22 < false_rompler> some say its "cache" but that makes no sense
from #tesc 4/7/11
s: "how do we troubleshoot this?" b: "i'll trouble your chute..."
from a reported conversation between faculty (the names have been withheld to protect their innocence) 4/11/11
The wackos of the world could learn a lesson from Supernanny.
iao 4/11/11
16:16 < freedrull> yeah i list alot of crap in my resume.... 16:17 < freedrull> i guess it is kind of stupid putting "html" on there maybe 16:17 < summerquest> yeah, it's kinda like saying you're good with legos
#tesc 4/26/11
I was having this argument with this dude on an internet forum, and I felt like I had a really good point, but the dude was being a *total douche*.
overheard on campus 5/4/11, totally shocking that this would happen on the internet of all places..
I'm being pursued by malfunctioning technology!
Sherri Shulman 5/6/11 (w/ regard to her laptop and her tv and other things, presumably)
<bend>Do NICs need I/O shields? ... Things don't *need* to be grounded!
tc_ross, 5/12/11
I'm a vent-to specialist.
isaac_su, 5/12/11
14:53 < tennisquest> seems fun. I'm actually pretty pumped to graduate. 14:53 < tennisquest> maybe once i get 5 rejections I'll want to be a tech con for the rest of my life. 14:53 < tennisquest> not that I dont already... 14:56 < dunlop_> Dude, sorry to inform, but you already are a TechCon for life. TC don't diepffffffffff. Those are 14:57 < dunlop_> ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H. derp.
isaac_su, irssi #tesc, 5/31/11
< pape> well that was easy i didn't even have to call anyone < pape> got a con on facebook to boot up all the machines < pape> i have successfully reimaged the mac lab without pants on < tennisquest> that's a major win
tc_nathan, #tesc 6/6/11
13:41 <@Pyro> :D
13:43 <@Pyro> I was pretty impressed by that, given it was me talking over
voip, across the ocean, using my cell phone number in the states,
over the mobile network in denmark with a danish cell phone
tethered to my laptop via bluetooth
13:43 < peterquest> yeah, technology!
pyro, #tesc 6/13/11
the powers of my negative thinking have over come me momementarily, BUT I will not relent
eaux0rpass, #tesc 7/12/11, as transcribed by by false_rompler
10:26 <@Pyro> so... how'd you implement url ignoring? 10:27 <@Pyro> like, if I say 10:27 <@Pyro> www.ndnation.com/boards/showpost.php?b=politics;pid=249171;d=this 10:27 < coruscus> that will still get said. 10:27 < coruscus> it does a case-insensitive grep on whatever you or Pyro says. 10:27 <@Pyro> so just me then? 10:27 < coruscus> gah you or pape 10:27 <@Pyro> :P 10:28 < coruscus> autocomplete :/ 10:40 <@pape> you could write some regex that would recogize fully qualified domain names 10:40 <@pape> recognize* 10:41 < coruscus> pape: you could, too :) 10:43 <@Pyro> so what if I just say http in normal conversation? 10:43 <@Pyro> do you ignore that? 10:43 <@pape> http lulllll 10:44 <@pape> LINKTEST=`echo $CURRENTLINE | grep -i "http://"` 10:47 <@Pyro> http:// lol sucker 10:47 <@Pyro> http:// what a shitty coder 10:48 < coruscus> asshat. 10:48 <@Pyro> O WAIT HE CAN STILL READ THIS 10:48 <@Pyro> fuck. 10:48 <@Pyro> ;)
The Three Stooges working out their new routine on #TESC, 07/22/11
"i just love compiling kernels, i can't help it!"
nnyby, attributed (date unknown)
"I didn't put any fancy loading screen on startup because I think their stupid. My opinions don't matter any more so do it if you're a noob coddler."
tc_ross, 8/22/11 from #2963, his final unfinished task
pq: It's so nice outside. We need to figure out a way to have outdoor workstations. isaac: I've got an outdoor workstation for you. It's called a shovel and a new job. pq: :( :( :( :( :(
isaac_su, Summer 2011
You know, this business of administrator is as much art as technology.
sherri shulman, from a private email 9/23/11
14:59 <@Pyro> yeah, that's not hax, that's how permissions work
tc_jonah, #tesc 9/29/11
I think that they are approaching this job with a Windows 95 mentality.
Frank Barber, discussing a job applicant (whose application had a cover sheet with hideous clipart) 11/07/2011
13:37 < eaux0rpass> is ada still running?
13:37 < loocorez> looks down to me
13:44 < p_q_1> wat
13:47 < eaux0rpass> we're wondering if ada is running
13:48 <@Pyro> is up
13:48 <@Pyro> ada is up, sorry
13:48 < coruscus> are you sure? I'm having trouble accessing it
from here.
13:48 <@Pyro> I'm on ada atm
13:48 < coruscus> can't be. Are you sure?
13:48 <@Pyro> whois me.
13:48 < p_q_1> trollmore bro
13:49 < loocorez> ssh: connect to host boeste04ada.evergreen.edu
port 22: Connection refused
13:49 <@Pyro> tc_jonah@ada:~$ uptime 13:49:04 up 16 days, 22:08,
46 users, load average: 0.02, 0.03, 0.00
13:50 < eaux0rpass> so you say ada is still up and running
13:50 <@Pyro> yes.
13:50 < p_q_1> ahahaha
13:50 < eaux0rpass> AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! WEll you better go catch her!
13:51 < p_q_1> heyooooooooo
13:51 <@Pyro> har har
13:51 < p_q_1> all that setup
13:51 < eaux0rpass> Pyro, we got you so bad! Hey, do you have any
Price Albert in a can while we're at it!?
#tesc, 14 Nov 2011
08:56 < eaux0rpass> it's all fun and games until someone is permanently associated with chris havey's image 08:58 < rwblair> lol 08:58 < rwblair> maybe thats why ill never get a job :(
#tesc, 15 Nov 2011
Double-dose of TC_Nate today:
Sometimes it receives touches that i'm not touching it.
tc_nate, 2 Dec 2011, @AT&T-Rep regarding his malfunctioning fone.
14:02 < coruscus> 20:19 < ButtGordon> if you guys are worried about poop why not wall 100 newlines 14:03 < coruscus> because I will add you to ssh_hosts_deny
#tesc, 2 Dec 2011. lol. tc_nate demonstrating good instincts... think he meant DenyUsers tho ;D
I don't know if it's exponential, but it's a '''steep''' graph.
J Bolton, 4 Dec 2011, in regards to a particularly nasty function.
14:06 < rwblair> did you hear about when the regular expression meet a pretty
input stream? apparently it was AWKward. At least thats what
the stdio sed.
14:07 < eaux0rpass> was dir a joke there? i didn't cat it.
14:09 < rwblair> you must not grep it then.
14:10 < arthurdent> these puns are fscking awful
14:15 < rwblair> just wget some better ones!
14:25 < rwblair> heres no telneting how many we can come up with!
14:25 < rwblair> itll be a linux pun bash
14:25 < eaux0rpass> tch! whatever
#tesc, 12 Dec 2011
What I learned this morning is that equal does not equal equal equal.
Erik Ordway, 22 Dec 2011. A tough lesson in troubleshooting.
16:32 < p_q> guys i'm running putty on windows 95 16:32 < p_q> my new OS of choice 16:34 <@pape> WINDOWS 95 SON 16:34 <@Pyro> how did you get 95?! I thought they were only up to 7!!
#tesc, 12 Jan 2012
This isn't dischordant, it's chordant as fuck!
overcasi, 24 Jan 2012, regarding Coil - Time Machines.
I'm not the only lunatic here, okay?
Sherri Shulman, 31 Jan 2012, regarding file permissions.
My life is a series of unfortunate haircuts.
tc_nate, 14 Feb 2012
Havent you known me long enough to realize i'm never interested in anything practical?
Sherri Shulman, 23 Feb 2012
It gets more intuitive as you use it.
tc_nate, 5 Mar 2012
Mad hacks, leet skills, and numbers for letters.
tc_nathan, 8 Mar 2012, on how he got an especially poorly-documented program running.
Getting older unfortunately means spending more time in the bathroom.
Frank Barber, 9 Mar 2012, just shy of his 39th bday.
We'll be the rats sinking the fleeing ship.
Isaac, 16 Mar 2012, regarding OFS, natch.
08:07 <@Pyro> mornin' 08:07 <@pape> MORNIN 08:07 <@pape> whoa capslock 08:08 <@Pyro> cruise control for cool
#tesc, 28 Mar 2012
15:19 < dunlop_> a job gnome appears and initiates Needless Loadset Request 15:21 < dunlop_> You cast Light RTFM and job gnome is repelled. 15:53 <@pape> You gain aura of temporal distortion ward 15:53 <@pape> Job gnome casts summon undergradate student 15:54 <@pape> Your aura of temporal distortion ward has diminished 15:54 <@pape> undergraduate* 15:57 < arthurdent> that's what happened
#tesc, 28 Mar 2012, a two-fer day! This stuff is still funny.
Lunch is the incentive to come to work.
Frank Barber, 12 Apr 2012, discussing motivation.
13:14 < p_q> my level of precision is obviously higher than ping's
179392 packets transmitted, 179313 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
p_q, 13 apr 2012, regarding this interesting math reported by ping:
Do I have to put pants on to do that?
tc_nathan, 11 May 2012, deciding whether to steal food from freshman registration day
10:29 < coruscus> is there anything we can do to troll the freshmen? 10:29 < rootcanal> enroll them at TESC
Phil, 11 May 2012
If I can wiggle it, I can move it.
Paul Potasnik, 18 May 2012, He's the furniture guy, duh.....
Average is below average.
tc_nate, 7 June 2012, regarding the average speed of most bike riders, but reflecting a larger view on life, I believe.
14:40 < arthurdent> I'll definitely be buying one when they come out 14:40 < arthurdent> that is the only way you can be sure you get a version with hackable firmware 14:40 < dilBy> that is the only way you can be sure you get a version with buttable firmbutt 14:40 < arthurdent> wat 14:40 < pape> buttable firmbutt
dilby, 7 June 2012 RE: Wii-u
14:59 < pipecork> how do i excel spreadsheet? 14:59 < dilBy> pipecork: how do i excel buttsheet? 15:13 < arthurdent> owned
dilby, 8 June 2012, nuff said
Know where you are before you do stuff.
tc_nathan, 25 June 2012, pretty much true always.
14:54 < pshmell> i miss dilby 14:59 -!- dilBy [~dilBy@4gods.nl] has joined #tesc 15:01 < Tranquil1armot> dont you mean 'i butt dilby'? 15:03 < athena087> Tranquil1armot: dont you butt 'i butt dilby'? 15:03 < dilBy> athena087: Tranquil1armot: dont you butt 'i butt butt'?
dilby, 29 June 2012, demonstrating impeccable timing 2x
Before you use the Adobe Application Manager Enterprise Edition (Application Manager) to make packages, you need to do a good deal of thinking and planning.
Adobe, on "thinking and planning", May 2012
Are you ready for me to put the thingy over the other thingy thingy?
tc_nick, 18 Jul 2012, the only appropriate response: "I am _totally_ ready for you to do that".
That's what life is... you obtain a series of scratches that you learn to live with.
overcasi, 23 Jul 2012, mental physical emotional, it's symbological.
I mean... it's not _right_, but that's how it is.
overcasi, 2 Aug 2012, Inspired by Tacoma.
It's not broken, it's just annoying.
tc_paul, 6 Aug 2012, lab upgrade time inspires this kind of reaction.
My life is unscriptable.
Frank Barber, 7 Aug 2012, Classic Frank Barber.
Even the most complex coding problems succumb to the programmers most powerful weapon: vigorous handwaving
dunlop, 14 Aug 2012
I know what I'm doing, don't worry...
tc_paul, 20 Aug 2012, obvious famous last words. Nothing bad happened... this time!
14:44 < arthulia> well I do know what i'm doing but for some reason the final results are unpredictable
arthulia nee arthurdent, 28 Aug 2012, demonstrating the beauty of innocence.
"I'm super interested in this idea of my butt, but i don't really know what it is."
anonymous faculty member, 12 Sep 2012, no explanation needed.
13:30 < pshmell> "grampa sweaterquest's phone doesn't even have telenutrification, he eats old-style food"
pshmell, 13 Sep 2012, global first occurrence of telenutrification as a concept. Groundbreaking moment! Future generations: "You are Welcome".
So if you don't have an inductively defined set, you can't use induction to prove things about that set...looks around room
...why are you smiling?!
sherri, 25 Sep 2012, logic lecture
Do you want some emptiness? Don't take too much!
arunc, 27 Sep 2012, upon absorbing the tc_office morning vibe
... I like how there are some really config-gy config files.
tc_nick, 27 Sep 2012, needed to invent the word 'config-gy' in order to describe the file /etc/modules on Debian
His brain is a bermuda triangle.
frank, 4 Oct 2012, because it's a place where good ideas go to die. Some greener was doing like 3 ridiculous things at once, including long-boarding.
You can't spell 'permaculture' without 'cult'.
tc_paul, 8 Oct 2012, regarding the permaculture convergence.
09:38 < p_q> Bart and I are pretty similar. I'm a Full Stack Pancake Eater. 09:39 < pape_> haha 09:40 < p_q> existential dread graph is good. i think in 05 he remembered the empty set
p_q, 12 Oct 2012, maybe neither of these will make sense in 2 years, but they were both funny at the time. Regarding Bart Sitek and Bret Victor
Sherri: One of the things I like about induction is that it's always neat. Anon student: When it works... Sherri: It always works.
Sherri demonstrating the infallibility of mathematical induction.
Mad Libs are grammatically correct, but they have no syntactical meaning-- and that's why they are funny.
Sherri explains humor Oct 17 2012
Engineered to be 'ok'
isaac, 19 Oct 2012, a good standard to live by
Everything's wacky in equal measure....
isaac, 24 Oct 2012, regarding wackiness of email specifically.
It should be just a simple little python script....
tc_codi, 25 Oct 2012, Famous last words!
11:52 < pshmell> woah what if all the supermassive black holes coalesce eventually but actually thermo law is preserved by the
imminent explosion of all matter in the universe
11:52 < pshmell> and that has always been happening
11:53 < pshmell> and our big bang is really the nth big bang
11:53 < dilBy> pshmell: and our big bang is really the nth big tomato
11:53 < athena087> lol
pshmell got philosotrolled, 25 Oct 2012
09:09 < arthurdent> it was really momentary
09:09 < arthurdent> i guess i already said that
09:11 <@Pyro> how momentary was it?
09:11 < arthurdent> like really momentary
09:11 <@Pyro> hmm, sounds pretty momentary
09:12 < arthurdent> it was.. probably not more than a little bit, but definitely less than a while
09:12 <@Pyro> so like a little while?
09:13 < arthurdent> not quite a little while, it was pretty brief,
09:13 < arthurdent> getting more specific, it was not long enough to disconnect my terminal but it was long
enough to make me think my terminal got disconnected
09:13 <@Pyro> whoa, let's not get too specific here
#tesc, 26 Oct 2012, morning comedy routine
13:51 < dunlop> is this "cyber bullying"? 13:51 < dunlop> it's scary.... 13:54 < arthurdent> oh god am i a cyber bully? 13:55 < arthurdent> dunlop i here you liek website 13:55 < arthurdent> only noob like website 13:56 <@Pyro> :'( 13:56 < arthurdent> Pyro: you gonna go cry to your browser? huh? 13:56 <@Pyro> :'( 13:56 < arthurdent> gimmie all ur bitcoins 13:56 <@Pyro> :'( 13:57 < dunlop> lol. cute
#tesc, 26 Oct 2012, afternoon comedy routine
12:59 <@arthurdent> everyone else from network services is home or out sick 12:59 <@arthurdent> i removed the vulnerability though 12:59 <@arthurdent> nobody can get root on chomsky now 13:00 <@arthurdent> including me
#tesc, 2 Nov 2012, arthurdent breaks some stuff
tc_nik: wow, that's a lot of symbols, i don't think i can remember them all. phil: Nobody expects you to. that's not what "knowing how something works" is called.
sysopffice, 5 Nov 2012, how learning works, sorta
I can't remember what it normally looks like, but I think it looks normal.
dr paul williams, 14 Nov 2012, Another successful diagnosis
16:20 < lolwatdo420bot> 420 16:20 < coruscus> 420 16:20 < Johandry> o_O 16:20 < eaux0rpass> 420 16:20 < arthurdent> 420 16:20 < athena087> 420 16:20 < coruscus> merry 420! 16:20 < eaux0rpass> all praises due 16:20 < Johandry> ... 16:20 < Johandry> WTF!! 16:20 < psmell> 420 16:20 < arthurdent> \o/ 420, amirite? 16:20 < lolwatdo420bot> arthurdent: \o 16:20 < lolwatdo420bot> arthurdent: o/ 16:20 < lolwatdo420bot> arthurdent: urite. 16:20 < psmell> yay 16:20 < coruscus> yo Johandry are you gonna celebrate 420 with us or wat16:20 < Johandry> what is 420!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Johandry entered #tesc at 4:12...what happened next is only history.
I've double-dipped many a carrot in my day.
tc_paul, 20 Nov 2012, ... ... a moment of zen
If the wheel was so good in the first place then why did I reinvent it?
rwb, late 2012, re cnc_submit
It's not black magic, it's only dark gray magic...
Isaac Overcast, Dec 2012, on Euler's Identity
09:16 < p_q> Nothing ruins your Thursday like realizing it's only Tuesday :/
p_q, 11 Dec 12, auto-troll
09:25 -!- weissr [~weissr@ada.evergreen.edu] has joined #tesc 09:25 < weissr> help msg 09:26 < weissr> help 09:26 < weissr> msg lolwatdo420bot 09:27 -!- weissr [~weissr@ada.evergreen.edu] has quit [Client Quit]
#tesc, 12/14/12 --- NEVR FRGET --- 09:26 < weissr> msg lolwatdo420bot
21:05 <@p_q> all programs can be optimized, and all programs have bugs; therefore all programs can be optimized to one line that doesnât work.
p_q, 12/18/12, a moment of zen
16:24 < eaux0rpass> is there a lot of botnets @ evergreeen p_q 16:24 <@p_q> just rootcanal i think 16:24 <@p_q> rootcanal is powered by a 300 machine botnet 16:25 < eaux0rpass> that explains why rootcanal can't say human-sounding things 16:25 < eaux0rpass> only like "lol but wat had do tho amirite" 16:25 <@p_q> yeah and "that bot sounds super oppressive"
#tesc, 1/22/13 on why Evergreen's internet would go down without the packet shaper
09:43 <@scopequest> http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/math/digit/m57885161/huge-prime-c.html <- 22MB of txt ... 09:46 <@scopequest> as i scroll through those digits, the magical nature of infinity fills me with wonder and existential dread
#tesc, 2/5/13, p_q staring into the void
12:02 < o-o-o\`> i forgot about prolog 12:04 <@scopequest> just backtrack to the point where you remember it and go from there
#tesc, 2/6/13, p_q bein so meta
15:29 < devilquest> DrLesPurce: i like u 15:29 < DrLesPurce> Why don't you enroll in this upcoming program: From Gothic Foundations of Change Towards Growing Freewriting 15:29 < devilquest> DrLesPurce: because that sounds like some bullshit 15:29 < DrLesPurce> Talk to my mustache. 15:30 < devilquest> touchee.
#tesc, 2/10/13
"Higher is better."
tc_bill, 2/11/13, on the reddit ama
12:38 < rootcanal> aren't we all botinators at some level though if you think about it? 12:39 < arthurdent> Well you can barely pass the Turing test, so I'm not surprised you'd say that.
#tesc, 2/13/13, zinger!
14:48 <@peterquest> no running code is borked 14:48 <@peterquest> it just has weird specs
p_q, 2/14/13, infinite wisdom.
15:11 <@freedrull> one time i made this array 15:11 <@freedrull> it was like 15:11 <@freedrull> HUUUUUUUUMOUNGGUOUSSSS 15:24 <@peterquest> i did that once i was like [1..] OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH 15:24 <@peterquest> *stares into space* 15:24 < TranquilMarmot> hey man watch out that's, like, an infinite array 15:24 <@peterquest> nah you just havent gotten to the end yet 15:25 < TranquilMarmot> whoa thats deep 15:26 <@peterquest> blowin minds 15:26 <@peterquest> it's the evergreen way 15:28 < arthurdent> [] 15:28 <@peterquest> OH GOD 15:28 <@peterquest> IM FREAKING OUT 15:29 <@peterquest> empty set so scary
#tesc, 2/14/13, [] strikes again
It's not virtualbox that I hate, it's the guy who wrote it.
tc_nick, 2/27/13, re: proper placement of aggression.
11:38 < arthurdent> hmm this site kinda simplifies things beyond how it actually works :/ 11:40 < pape> does it 11:41 < pape> tell me more 11:41 < arthurdent> well it leaves out routing entirely and makes it look like all computers live in ring networks 11:41 < pape> does it 11:43 < arthurdent> it also does a speed test with 490 Kbs... 11:44 < arthurdent> and is made entirely in flash :( 11:44 < pape> tell me more 11:44 < arthurdent> it thinks a big video conference ties up the internet 11:45 < arthurdent> i wish there was a date on this 11:46 < pape> do you
#tesc, 3/1/13, old fashioned lulz
I got this for a costume party where the theme was "Wow!" or "Damn!"... and I went for "Wow!" AND "Damn!".
tc_paul, 3/7/13, describing fashion choice for the day, kind of the dude version of this.
06:55 < rwblair> fun fact: no one who has ever written a wordpress plugin knows about bigO
rwblair, 3/26/13
In matters of fashion go with the flow.
tc_paul, 4.5.13, wrt node.js... quoting T. Jefferson (apparently)
Everything that lead me here started with techno.
tc_duncan, 4.5.13
11:37 < athena087> if i were to name my band after a coreutil, i'd name it "uptime" 11:39 < coruscus> yeah uptime "shred"s 11:39 < coruscus> rimshot.gif 11:51 < dunlop> athena087: what kind of music does 'uptime' play? 11:52 < dunlop> ps - i like that name. good idea. other contenders for coreutil bands? 11:52 < athena087> really, really long songs. 11:52 < athena087> like, songs that shoot for world records in length 11:52 < dunlop> LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That rulz 11:53 < coruscus> there's already a band named after a coreutil 11:53 < coruscus> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_(band)
#tesc, 4.8.13, old fashioned fun
13:44 < dunlop> How many keystrokes does an average hacker type in a year? 13:44 < dunlop> fuckin lot, shit of lot i'll bet 13:45 <@Pyro> yeah, damn.
#tesc, 4/10/13, philosophy
Fix one problem, make another.
tc_codi, 4/17/13, at one with the universe.
I like licorice alot. Licorice is like my chocolate
tc_duncan, 4/18/13
if you know what you're looking for it's really easy to find stuff
tc_duncan, 4/18/13, obtaining zen mastery && a two-fer day!
I feel like an idiot whenever i read articles about procrastination.
tc_nick, 4/22/13, <head explodes>
hot topic is where memes go to die
tc_paul, 4/22/13, seems obvious, but deserves recognition for pith
I don't know what it's doing but it's not doing the right thing.
roger, 4/29/13, re: teh game he and paul were working on
I just did the craziest pipe of my life
tc_duncan, 5/2/13, upon discovering awk
Brian: Why is this here? <pause> Isaac: Where else would it be?
... 5/9/13, i guess you had to be there
I'll take Jerry Garcia over my boss any day.
Jesse, 5/15/13
The funny thing about doing things is that when you do them they happen, which is great!
tc_paul, 5/17/13, wisdom
Everything does something, doesn't it?
tc_paul, 5/20/13, vibrations
(12:00:25 PM) Erik Ordway: I dub they snack. (12:01:22 PM) Erik Ordway: running in to town to get some welding done. (1:11:49 PM) Erik Ordway: brrr
Erik Ordway, 5/21/13, makin the cut. First place: "weirdest solo conversation in a chat box".
... just keep flexing it.
Dylan Houston, 5/22/13, recovery strategy for his spring-broken ankle
12:21 <@p_q> also this feels like some standard type of tc_behavior that needs a word or phrase to describe it: 12:21 <@p_q> 18:07 < rootcanal> puppet's nice 12:21 <@p_q> 18:07 < rootcanal> why'd you choose it over chef? 12:21 <@p_q> 18:08 < dunkaroo> there was no ticket about chef
p_q, 5/27/13, rightfully pointing out that this was a meaningful interaction.
I don't know how it got fixed... just enough restarts I guess.
tc_nick, 6/25/13, the diff btw a hacker and a newb is knowing how many is 'enough'.
<arthurdent> why is c so hard??? :( <arthurdent> why is c++ so awful?? <arthurdent> actually i think i know the answer to both of those questions <loocorez> just learn ruby man <loocorez> ruby's low level <loocorez> in a high level sorta way
loocorez, 7/8/13, the philosophical argument for ruby
I'm stoked.
tc_duncan, 7/22/13, ... ... all day, e'ry day
I'm stoked.
Graham Cruser Marsh, 7/22/13, not fallin far from that tree!
It's amazing how well computers don't work
tc_pearson, 8/9/13
I commented the code.... that's kind of like documentation.
tc_nick, 8/21/13, uh dream on bru
I am not superstitious but I believe in superstition.
AC Austin, Friday, Sep 13th 2013
It should be where it should be!
dunlop, 09/19/13, say it with conviction.
Your brain stack is nondeterministic.
dunlop, 09/19/13, inspired by tc_nick
I've never been a fan of homework.
nacnud, 9/27/13, too regimented
I'll see it when i believe it.
Isaac_su, 10/10/14, manifesting
It's been less than a minute for sooooo long.
nacnud, 10/11/13, zen'd out.
Never be satisfied with the amount of blood you're wading in, it could always be deeper.
Master thumbs, 11/6/13, on how to be the best.
Now i can eat pastries with renewed vigor.
p-tone, 11/21/13, upon recieval of a filling from the dentist.
I've done lots of acid, but I'm not retarded.
Jesse, 12/2/13, ...jury may still be out ;)
... you plug one internets into it and like sixty internets come out.
Duncan Marsh, 12/19/13, explaining "what is a switch" to a noob.
Nah, it's totally safe! I'm on a wheely chair.
Duncan Marsh, 1/6/14, doing some Evel Knievel shit
Gargantuan is honkin'
nacnud, 1/6/14, no explanation necessary
Dude, if you have weak support from the whole internet that's not a good sign.
nacnud, 1/7/14, re: aioli and maynnaise... don't ask.
I got cheap pants!
angel, 1/13/14, she got cheap pants
If nobody had eyes, neither would I.
Paul Williams, 1/16/14, still got the magic.
Its all just like legos at a certain point.
issac_su, 1/17/14, preaching truth
What would happen if you tried to get a divorce with out ever getting married..?!
issac_su, 1/17/14, serious su_smerk
there's always bigger dogs
&
some people always ruin it for the rest of us
unattributed, but in the presence of vadi & nina, 1/17/14
dwm: "you just have to be organized and have time, thats the secret to making a cool website" me: "... ... thats the secret to doing _anything_ cool"
derp, 1/23/2014, just funny
Is this a recording of my dish washer? I think this is the rinse cycle.
dylan, 1/23/2014, re: pharmakon, pwnd
With great power comes considerable confusion.
Erik O, 2/4/14, re: canvas
I don't have a ''bench'' on my team.
isaac, 2/11/14, after dylan volunteered to be on his team.
It's just going to progressively get worse, unless it gets better.
Erik Ordway, 2/12/14, about covers all cases.
... we could script it manually
tc_nick, 2/24/14, the kind of creative thinking that we like to see.
...which produced the following chatter on #tesc:
15:21 < p_q_> i prefer that the production of my scripts be automated.
15:21 < p_q_> ./write_script.sh
15:22 < numberten> where do you get the write_script script?
15:22 < numberten> write_script_writer.sh ?
15:22 < p_q_> eventually it will generate itself
15:22 < p_q_> it's kinda like a quine
15:23 * p_q_ head explodes
...
16:09 < dunlop_> p_q_: lol! contemplate the empty set. it will provide a
calming effect on too much recursion.
16:09 < arthurdent> {}
16:09 < p_q_> now i'm just terrified.
I don't throw darts!
nacnud, 3/5/14, in a kind of "god doesn't play dice with the universe" sense.
Makes the mega-hertz go across the spit berryier
issac_super_user, 3/14/14, tells new tc_krew to lick pc boards when deborking
The future is yesterday's tomorrow.
isaac_su, 3/19/14, eyecandy of today
I'm gonna man up the touch page. heh heh heh.
tc_zack, 3/20/14, autocomedy
Why reimplement a pig thats already a pig if we can switch to beef?
Erik Ordway, 3/20/14, "Knowing Erik I think he still has a pork bias" <- Rip
Two of y'all and double quad sysops.
nacnud, 3/29/14, inventing a new way of counting humans, when there were 10 of us in the office at once.
If you didn't try really hard then you didn't try hard enough.
isaac_su, 4/2/14, zen'd out
tc_zack: "What's BitLocker?" tc_peter: "It's a box you uncheck."
4/4/14, lol
damn dude i just found a jackpot of cool things to click!
nacnud le terrible, 4/14/14, nacnud strikes again
If someone said "do you want some banana bread without bananas in it?" I'd be like "Bread!? ... Ok!"
Emily Horton, 4/17/14, it was funny at the time
Watching you swim is like watching you aquatically fall down the stairs.
dylan, 4/18/14, bridget irish, pwnd
Diddy as in "p-diddy-diddy" or diddy as in "some other diddy".
tc_amber, 5/7/14, the more diddies the better
Maybe I'm a squirrel.
nacnud, 5/8/14, explains alot.
Its less about being good and more about being entertaining.
tc_peter, 5/9/14, can't remember context but dylan ended up the target one way or the other.
What if somebody put ME into verbose mode with 4 "dash vees"?
nacnud, 5/15/14, depends on the base install.
I'm like the Miles Davis of trolling you.
isaac, 5/21/14, regarding the improvisational nature of his insults to dylan. Followed by mimed sax playing?
<with eagerness> let's see if we can't get this shit to break.
isaac, 5/27/14, winning the award for positive mental attitude
Its Jamming, jamming, jamming, and 2 minutes later its jamming again."
Chris Granado, 5/29/14, not bob marley edit: possibly inspired by this: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CJgF5r5UYAA2Afe.jpg
The Temple of Gnar is in *here*. <points to brain>
You know what i learned about taking care of business? it costs hells of money.
Saltines are the bomb!
nacnud, 5/30/14, friday trifecta
A brace from the ripper:
With great responsibility comes a new parking space.
rip, 6/4/14, leadership wisdom.
[He's] breaking the bottle on the bow of the boat when no one's there at night.
rip, 6/4/14, poetry re: isaac's tactics for saying goodbye.
Every problem gets the solution it deserves.
dunlop, 6/13/14, how to turn off screen sleep in linux? watch -n 60 xdotool mousemove 0 0 &
Aptitude is kind of a mystery to me.
tc_nick, 6/16/14, autotroll!
Teamwork is tight.
nacnud, 6/18/14, classic dwm.
Nacnud: No homework for the rest of my life!! Dunlop: Yr homework now is get a job motherfucker.
in conversation, 6/19/14, welcome to school of hard knox.
I've seen some big ass dogs... like WAY bigger than that carpet <points at carpet in sysop office>
nacnud, 7/7/14, homerun to deep left-center...
I'm only cherried out when they run out of cherries.
iao, 7/8/14 after three weeks of cherries every day on whether or not we need more cherries.
In Smite i'm definitely the butt saver and not the... butt .. taker?
dylan, 7/14/14, goin back to bein a butt-taker!
peter: asking me how awk works is like googling it while wearing drunk goggles... <moments pass> nacnud: UnGH! Awkin' without the internet dude!
team effort, 7/17/14, just overheard, randomnesss..
i want to touch every file on this machine.
peter-su, 8/11/14
More is enough.
kasia s, 8/13/14, I said "Use less"... lol!
Anyways the moral of the story was live life like you're time traveling.
sherri shulman, 10/6/14, Wise words before Logic
I've been burnin a buncha cals today... learnin..
Lindsay Schief, 10/8/14, on the rigors of academia.
12:26 < pape> hey i just saw a tesc bus driving through downtown port townsend with a bunch of people with bandanas and patchwork
pants
12:26 < pape> was it a program about stereotypes about evergreen
#tesc humor, 10/9/14
He's pipin' some serious bag.
Dylan Houston, 10/9/14, referring to the bagpiper in red square.
This is the problem with children; they use up all your data!
I think star trek has all the metaphors for life
sherri shulman, 10/13/14, Best one-liners of that particular Logic lecture.
<+dunk-ster> i made the mistake off riding down hill for like 9 miles, then relized why its called capitol hillllll
nacnud, 10/17/14, there's only one way to learn
They don't want the human touch, they want the ''Dylan'' touch.
rip, 11/19/14, encouraging noob-coddling, or maybe implying he's a robot.
I dont think you should change anything you don't fully understand.
ramphi, 12/9/14, on the joys of software development meetings. translation: "dont touch my code"
curiosity trolled the cat.
ravzac, 1/5/15, on whether or not to open a prank'd office
If Hercules could kill that thing with all the heads then so can I.
Emily Horton, 1/30/15, Regarding the bounty hunters coming to reclaim student loans
I'm a complete asshole when I'm the victim.
E.O., 2/11/15, regarding catastrophe training, but maybe just generally.
13:57 <@Pyro> op? 13:57 < mike_pizza> Pyro: yes pls 13:58 -!- mode/#tesc [-o mike_pizza] by Pyro 13:58 < mike_pizza> hmm.. you should get your + key checked out 13:58 <@Pyro> yeah, I mean, I keep typing + but it just doesn't go through 13:58 <@Pyro> like I type /mode +o mike_pizza, and it just deops you 13:59 < mike_pizza> it looks like it might actually be sending '-' 13:59 < mike_pizza> try typing + now 13:59 < mike_pizza> Pyro: btw, im doing this troubleshooting free of charge 13:59 <@Pyro> + 13:59 <@Pyro> yeah, see it's a + 13:59 < mike_pizza> that worked 13:59 < mike_pizza> op me again 14:00 -!- mode/#tesc [-o mike_pizza] by Pyro 14:00 <@Pyro> /mode +o mike_pizza 14:00 < mike_pizza> starting to think this may be some sort of prank 14:00 <@Pyro> see, just doesn't work man, I'm sorry 14:00 < mike_pizza> do i need to get weissr in here? 14:00 <@Pyro> I don't think he has op 14:01 -!- mode/#tesc [-o mike_pizza] by pape 14:01 <@pape> i swear i pressed + 14:01 <@Pyro> weird, right? 14:01 <@pape> super weird 14:02 < mike_pizza> this is cyberbullying 14:50 -!- mode/#tesc [-o mike_pizza] by p_q 14:50 <@p_q> that might be the weirdest thing i've ever seen
#tesc hijinks, 2/26/15
... I'm all like, business-dunky.
nacnud 3/2/15, visiting!! describing the cardigan and nice shoes he wears to class. like business-cas, but more chill.
your job is to be the wizard of stackoverflow.
nacnud 3/2/15, on what it's like to be a software developer.
1964?! What were they programming on... wood??
ravzac, 3/19/15, on how old BASIC is. Response: "Well.. sorta."
It sounds complicated because i'm using words.
tc_isaak, 3/19/15, telepathy still not an option unfortunately.
It's either not very random or the most random.
tc_zack, 6/9/15, on the nature of randomness when we added 15 "random" albums to pfunk and it picked the same one twice in a row.
So far so good.. I mean.. so far not so good.
tc_martin, 6/23/15, same thing
once you know what you're doing, it's just doing what you know.
tc_noah, 7/1/15, variation on a theme of learning
That's at least a 4-pizza couch.
tc_trevor, 7/9/15, on the complexities of a pizzaconomy
If you say it _should_ work, it's not gonna work.
tc_josh, 8/19/15, on confidence. maybe start trying "this WILL work."
It's not broken but we're still gonna try and fix it.
tc_josh, 09/01/15, demonstrating prototypical sysop behavior
I'm still trying to figure out why the matrix even exists.
tc_isaak, 09/25/15, deep on so many levels. /mindblown /contemplate[]
I'm avoiding using words.
ordwaye,10/22/15, since they are confusing
he's just a gmail address that's mad at me.
dylan,11/10/15, service-level agreement
Working on this makes me hate Windows more and more each day
tc_matthew, 4/26/16, on the joys of using MDT
It works good when it works.
tc_josh, 6/29/16 re: tc_cheese, which hasn't worked for months
16:31 rblor> operator is too agressive of a term for evergreen. You should consider switching to systems consensus builders or systems arbitrators
rwblair, 6/29/16 #tesc, good point. suspiciously close to 4:20 too..
To be honest, i haven't caught nearly as many pokemon since i ran out of cigarettes..
tc_noah, 7/13/16, on the nature of addiction
if everyone had to do everything we'd never get anything done.
tc_matthew, 12/12/16, exploring the hierarchies of management
pq: what should we name it? tc_matthew: how about tc_notourproblem?
4/18/17, they learn so quickly... (re: hostname for GPU box donated to the college by richard/melissa nivala)
i like it when things work. so when it works it's good, and when it doesn't it's not.
tc_matthew, 4/21/17, so astute
"linux ducks"
tc_michelle, 12/13/17, referring to the images of tux that appear in a gentoo install lollllll