http://www.dc101.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=104673&article=9154018
< arcas> ^^ guy broke into someone's house to do laundry
< arcas> no longer has a clean record
< lway> that was a dirty thing to do
< lway> there's no way to soften this up, he's a son of a bleach
< dblaine> maybe a stiff sentence will serve as a detergants to others
< dblaine> detergent to others :(
< dblaine> fuck i'm terrible at this!
< lway> you're starch raving mad :)
< dblaine> few kinks to iron out
< lway> there you go. you're out of the spin cycle
< arcas> I can see this tide of bad puns is gaining speed.
< dblaine> yup we need to end this and say A L L that's All
< dblaine> we've got loads of other things to do, after all
< arcas> just need to bounce this pun off you and then I'm washing my hands of it and moving on
< lway> I fold

<carson> He says "I use the number of months left until I can retire as the number on the end of my normal password."

< nug> I like how when I get an e-mail from the Admin Assistant saying 
"Car Lights on in Bldg. 82 Parking Lot" how I read to make sure it isn't mine and 
when I see it is acutally a white ford taurus I immediately think . o O ( idiot )

< andersca> Xach: i thought that minecraft 1.8 would be out this week
< andersca> Xach: even took friday off :(
< Xach> whaaat
< Xach> you don't fucking play minecraft!
< andersca> yes i do
< andersca> even downloaded the steve jobs player skin
< Xach> why don't you ever talk about it?
< andersca> too busy playing!

< andersca> Xach: below 170 pounds for the first time!
< pretsel> wow. your birth must have been a very traumatic event
< andersca> :|
< Xach>  you should see his mom
< andersca> now now

< andersca> how are you this fine morning
< Xach> not very good!
< Xach> i was wearing a cotton tank top shirt yesterday and i told shanna "guess who i look like!"
< Xach> the answer was "vin diesel" of course
< Xach> do you know what she said?
< andersca> what did she say
< Xach> Hank Hill :(
< andersca> LOL
< andersca> well that sure as hell made my day
< andersca> i tell you what!

The authors of the paper* even give a concise set of directions to 
use if you are ever trapped in a box and need to know if you are 
still on Earth or merely accelerating in deep space: 
"The procedure for an observer equipped with a means of measuring 
local acceleration and an Unruh-Dewitt detector for measuring 
temperature is as follows: (i) Measure the local acceleration. 
(ii) Insert this into (eq. 8). (iii) Measure the temperature via
 the Unruh-Dewitt detector. If the temperature is higher than 
that calculated in step (ii) then one is in a gravitational 
field and not in an accelerating frame." 

- http://arst.ch/qo2
* Physical Review Letters, 2011. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.081102

Arabic also treats the glottal stop (a soundless catch in the throat) 
as a regular consonant. Glottal stops are everywhere in English 
but we are not trained to hear them, so a long portion of one of  
your first Arabic classes will be devoted to blowing your mind 
with the fact that English words like 'apple' and 'elegant' do not 
start with a vowel.

http://idlewords.com/2011/08/why_arabic_is_terrific.htm

< dblaine> so motherfuckers on these windows instances thought they had it locked down
< dblaine> but i figured out how to set the screensaver timeout to 30,000 seconds
<@steveny> that reminds me of
<@steveny> http://fortunes.nugnug.net:3002/flog/view/5762
<@steveny> looking at that fortune, I guess the cache expired last year sometime

<dbday> yup. i love being on the wikipedia new pages feed
<dbday> you get some good shit before it dies
<dbday> yesterday was the entry for the donkleton: half donkey/half skeleton
<Xach> haha
<Xach> would you run from it, or try to ride it into the haunted part of the grand canyon?
<Xach> that is the donkleton dilemma