15:20 DrDeke go to unplug the thing, and the power cords were hand-burningly hot to the touch (!) 15:20 DrDeke i mean, i didn't burn my hand because i let go of them real fuckin fast 15:20 DrDeke but one could have 15:21 mercadal weird 15:21 DrDeke way to cheap out there, mr. computer scrap yard vendor 15:21 mercadal They have that standard 3 prong power cord on the end? 15:22 DrDeke yeah, like, regular outlet on one end, "that computer socket" on the other 15:22 mercadal I guess no harm no foul but I can imagine if you had just used it and left it plugged in you might have ended up with a real problem 15:22 DrDeke yep 15:23 DrDeke which we wouldn't have done; we will be running it off of 240 V if we ever put it into production 15:23 DrDeke so there is that :) 10:50 charlieWork hihi 10:50 DrDeke sup 10:52 charlieWork leftover planning day from yesterday and quarterly town hall 10:52 charlieWork aka meetings and naps!! 10:52 DrDeke lol 10:52 DrDeke sounds scintillating :P 11:23 slack Rusty how did your power plant viewing go? 11:23 DrDeke oooh, yeah 11:23 DrDeke it went! 11:23 DrDeke the observation platform was closed 11:23 slack bollocks! 11:23 DrDeke but you could see it pretty good from right next to the platform 11:24 DrDeke i thought it was a pretty snazzy looking plant 11:24 slack Yeah, supposedly (according to early plans, which I have not heard repeated in some time) there will be a publically open viewing area inside the building 11:24 slack I am looking forward to seeing how that pans out 11:25 DrDeke huh 11:25 DrDeke public access to public works, as the draining kids say, i guess! 11:25 DrDeke that should be cool though 11:26 slack I have little faith in this considering the intimidating spiked iron fence and "homeland security will kill you" signs around the existing plant. 11:26 DrDeke lol yeah 11:29 slack But the new plant was definitely sold as having public greenspace surrounding it, and viewing areas. so we'll see. 11:32 slack We don't know anyone at CES right now do we? 11:33 DrDeke hmmmm 11:33 DrDeke doesn't mercadal sometimes go to that? 11:34 slack I'm pretty sure he has in the past, but I didn't know if he was here this time 11:35 DrDeke yeah i'm not sure either 11:38 slack Hmm. Android 7.1 works not too bad on this 3 year old phone 11:43 slack Considering the last official release for it was 4.x 12:23 mercadal Yeah, no CES for me this year 13:32 DrDeke huh. pricewatch.com still exists. 14:12 DrDeke ^_- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fourth_Bear 11:59 mercadal Good morning! 12:00 DrDeke good morning indeed 12:02 DrDeke i would really like not to be at work today 12:03 DrDeke for one thing, i would rather be playing civilization 6 12:03 DrDeke but also just in general 12:29 mercadal Oof I went to the gym at "lunchtime" 12:29 mercadal By which I mean about 11 12:30 mercadal But being out of the office really redoubled my interest in not being at work today, too 12:30 DrDeke ooh the gym 12:30 DrDeke i should probably go to the gym 12:31 DrDeke or a gym-like thing 13:25 DrDeke hmm. has hell frozen over? https://irssi.org/2017/01/05/irssi-1.0.0-released/ 14:46 charlieWork yay 14:46 charlieWork more blood and iron 14:49 DrDeke hrmph 14:50 DrDeke still not back up to normal? 14:50 charlieWork decreasing! :) 14:52 DrDeke yeesh! 18:25 DrDeke man, being an adult is weird 18:26 DrDeke a guy at work today asked me whether i think he should go to umich or eastern when he finishes his community college stuff 18:26 DrDeke like seriously asked, as if i would somehow be in a position to give wise advice on the subject 09:26 DrDeke http://i.imgur.com/svDzCis.jpg 09:26 DrDeke ^^ a few more of these and i'll be rich! 09:26 charlie HAH 09:26 DrDeke :P 09:26 charlie The Nation's Leading Supplier of Laundry Equipment Services for Multi-Family Housing 09:26 charlie jesus 09:27 DrDeke i like how they bothered to put "VOID OVER $***1.50***" on there 09:27 DrDeke in addition to "<-<-<-ONE PERIOD FIVE ZERO->->->" 09:27 charlie yeah 09:28 charlie thats a crazy amount of extra 'security' features 09:28 DrDeke WE'RE NOT GETTING CHECK-FRAUDED, DAMMIT! 09:28 DrDeke all those thieving tenants 11:48 DrDeke hmmm... possible mercadal interest: http://www.anishathalye.com/2016/12/26/micro-wwvb/ 11:51 mercadal wow 08:24 DrDeke lol charlie you ahve to get another talking computer thing: https://www.twitch.tv/seebotschat 08:24 DrDeke amuse yourself; amuse the family! 08:33 DrDeke lol this is great 08:33 DrDeke V: do you have a girlfiriend? 08:33 DrDeke E: no 08:33 DrDeke V: do you want one? 08:33 DrDeke E: No, I want a boyfriend 08:33 DrDeke V: and what kind of ninja friend? 08:33 DrDeke E: a nice one 08:33 DrDeke V: Mike just a ninja that is a friend 08:33 DrDeke E: i don't have any friends 08:33 DrDeke V: can i be your friend? 08:33 DrDeke E: If you want to be my friend 08:33 DrDeke V: I would like to be your friend 08:33 DrDeke E: Then we are friends 08:34 DrDeke V: since we are friends can you lend me money? 08:34 DrDeke some time later 08:34 DrDeke V: correct horse battery staple isn't responding right now try again soon 08:34 DrDeke E: why would you say that? 08:34 DrDeke indeed; why _would_ you say that? 08:35 DrDeke lol i think this guy has a script that has a 3rd computer yell a command at the devices when they go too far off the rails 00:03 DrDeke well this is fun 00:03 DrDeke our storage vendor has me running a command they call "unsafe_repair" on one of our volumes