(void) summary hurty
claw
2001-10-05
Pizza, peeking and
pulses
(void) summary hurty
knee
2001-09-28
Sex, death, busyness,
speeches, fragments
(void) summary hurty
shoe
2001-09-21
Music (old, grey and
bad), more politics
(void) summary hurty
buns
2001-09-14
That cultural event and
foreshadowing
(void) summary wordy
2001-09-07
Feeling cultured,
Macintosh passions,
hi-tech stats
(void) summary in the
summertime
2001-08-31
Books, hypnosis,
falling Romans and
uptime
(void) summary
nathan-hate
2001-08-24
Dick size wars, window
managers and oddball
scientists
(void) summary smutty
heaven
2001-08-17
Commercials, wild
cheese, bouncy and
layering
(void) summary bent? he
fix
2001-08-10
Gay test, Nethack,
babies and exposure
(void) summary when
arrive
2001-08-03
Rough notes,
controversy and
lateness
(void) summary
plentyful
2001-07-27
Tomorrow's World, porn
and prostitution
(void) summary plenty
free
2001-07-20
Number stations, more
guns and scaffolding
(void) summary hentai
teeth
2001-07-13
Everybody cracks, stats
attack and we rap
(void) summary bendy
fun
2001-07-06
Currency, driving,
bedbugs and scopeware
(void) summary plenty
2001-06-29
Script tamers, schools,
crap after and zero
(void) summary sign
stream
2001-06-22
it come with it every
day at Oven
(void) summary time
cube
2001-06-15
Daynal vs the world,
candidates and
explosions
(void) summary severed
dreams
2001-06-08
Daily format, subs and
unsubs, fireworks and
drinking
(void) summary thick
teens
2001-06-01
Platoon, imaging,
guerrillas and funny
money
(void) summary pit
fiend
2001-05-25
too short! nuclear war,
lileks and YALT
(void) summary tureen
2001-05-18
t-shirts, chippies and
PG-13 films
(void) summary hurting
2001-05-11
Summaries, veal and
hinternets too
(void) summary delve
2001-05-04
Facts, links and guest
lists
(void) summary
unleavened
2001-04-27
Razors, magick, Rand
and drugs
(void) summary den
2001-04-20
Eighties music, speedy
cars and food
(void) summary lime
2001-04-13
Instructions, beeps and
monkeys
(void) summary eats
2001-04-06
File sharing, burnout
and beauty
(void) summary serpents
2001-03-26
Earthlights, tees and
OS X
(void) summary sicks
2001-03-19
Memes, lizards, walks
and rips
(void) summary fife
2001-03-12
Rudeness, art and
creation
for summary in (void)
2001-03-05
Coupons, novels and
digests
(void) summary three of
some
2001-02-26
Spices, jobs and ads
(void) summary returns
2001-02-19
Ridley, youth and
photos
(void) weekly summary,
february
2001-02-12
Games, plates and
gadgets
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This summary is brought to you by The Clash and The Celibate Rifles.
Daynal argued with lots of people. No change there then. Although
she did say some useful things about positive discrimination, which
ABS followed up to most eloquently. Daynal and Rob Jones got into a
right ding-dong. Chris Devers told everyone to calm down, and William
Wilson thought Rob and Daynal were 'cute, like an old married couple'.
William Wilson told us everything there is to know about Angband.
Arp said he would try to work "constraint satisfaction" into
conversation and ABS said "stochastic electrodynamics". I have no idea
what that means, but it sounds dead impressive. The thread talked
about whips, being free vs being happy, juvenile giggling, and the
etymology of 'Fnar'. No-one mentioned Viz, surprisingly.
There was a DSW-by-proxy as people talked about driving vewwy vewwy
fast from one merkan city to another. This was a hang-over from the
previous week.
ARP was assimilated by the Daily Mail.
Following on from last week's thread on "In The Company Of Men" we
moved to 16th century drama, but soon devolved into gouging peoples
eyes out and pissing in the sockets.
No-one understood The Onion:
<http://www.theonion.com/onion3728/kids_sleepy_land.html>;.
Are we all hideously out-of-touch or is The Onion disappearing up its
own arse? Vote now!
Todd Larason posted a summary, which lead to a Paul Mison Mac Infoburst.
His apprentice Richard Clamp filled in some details. So now you know
everything there is to know about how the caps lock key works on a Mac.
Rob Jones's posting of 'Two Goodies' - Skipstone and Ion - led to a
small user-interface war, some gentle vi-vs-emacs, a couple of other
minimalist window managers,
http://www.muhri.net/skipstone/
http://www.students.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/
http://evilwm.sourceforge.net/
http://www.google.com/search?q=ratpoison+window+manager
and how vim is getting worse^W^Wbecoming more like emacs.
Duncan came back from Yugoslavia only to be told he'd lost his job.
ABS would have recruited him for a secret society but didn't. D's
mention of the Tesla museum led to Daynal posting conspiracy theories.
Apparently, "[Tesla] was the only real scientist the world has
produced so far". Other names of note: da Vinci, Dirac (French, anti-
particles), Dyson (spheres, vacuum cleaners), Bucky Fuller. Red Alert,
magnetic cars, hover bikes, Scottish UFOs being funded by the US govt.
Arp's photographs from the state51 party prompted Yet Another
Photography Thread. Luckily, this one didn't get all technical and
wibbly, instead it was more of a spot-the-voider-in-the-drug-induced-
photos competition. Sigue Sigue Sputnik were mentioned, as was some
of that 'dance' music by someone called "The Scientist" that the
young people play nowadays.
Alex vented about how utterly shit the web is. Everyone agreed.
There was another DSW, this time about how hard people had had it back
in the old days. Bank sites are particularly bad apparently, but at
least they offer useful things like "services for your lifestyle" in
a vain hope that customers won't spot that the banking services don't
work. Chris Heathcote pays all his bills whilst naked and drunk.
If you think that's a disturbing image, imagine Yours Truly writing
this summary in the buff. Later, in another thread, Ian Malpass
got upset at Macromedia and Unipalm. #include <flash.thread>. And
in yet another thread, Arp wanted the internet dead.
Tracey Emin was spotted in the Anchor at Bankside. Investigation
reveals that she's one of those Turner Prize-type modern pseudo-artists.
Simon Batistoni ranted quite beautifully about Nathans. Matt Jones
said too much, but he left out the X-No-Archive header so we knoe that
his fantasties will come back to haunt him when $future_employer or
$future_wife checks up on him with Google. Simon Batistoni summarised
the sub-thread (Emin -> Nathans -> marketing execs -> cloning ->
cannibalism) - all seems reasonable to me. In yet more thread cross-
over, Arp listened to Peter Cook (who he?) talk about "digging up the
infant bodies of Christ's failed resurrections and cloning them,
whilst playing nethack".
Arp tried to start Yet Another Yet Another Photography Thread, but
his passing mention of the Renault Kangoo was enough to spawn brief
mention of other silly names for cars, and for Arp to claim that
the new Jensen is a rip-off of the TVR Speed Six. In the usual voidy
way, we veered further off-topic to talk about how CTRL-L worked
and a brief editor tutorial. Emacs was argued about. Again.
Chris Devers uses telnet. Michael Stevens mentioned about the YAPC
password sniffing session. You really can't be too paranoid.
Stuart Wyatt returned. He's working too hard, for a fucked company.
But he does have a New! Shiny! G4 and says he'll get some more choonz
together for his album soon.
Arp remembered Ginger (imdb: new power source/meeja hype/mad inventor)
which prompted Stuart Wyatt to talk about those funky wheel chairs
which could climb stairs. What I want to know is when we'll have
killer robots which can do the same.
(time_t)1e9 parties were mentioned. Nothing was organised. Hint hint.
Messages o' the week:
http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010813/044052.html -
<20010817125139.C18189@cloudband.com> - Niklas Nordebo
http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010813/044088.html -
<F180sebmspH2q6DqaJY00009052@hotmail.com> - Daynal
http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010820/044162.html -
<Pine.LNX.4.21.0108201704520.4198-100000@moot.vx-labs.org> - Arp
http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010820/044233.html -
<20010822120142.A3074@tunnard.provenart.com> - Simon Batistoni
Links o' the week:
http://hopestardust.homestead.com/Poct.html - Matt Jones
http://www.citroen.mb.ca/june00/59german/index.html - arp
http://www.c3f.com/mostfh01.html - Chris Heathcote
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_379850.html?menu=news.quirkies -
void@vacant.co.uk
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