#garfield Logs

Apr 28 2012

14:34 tsmeow-afk wonders if rue would be advertising for females to apply if he could not have sex with
14:50 rue_house everyone else seems to have a partner
14:50 katsmeow-afk but you limited your ad to females, which implies "sex" , not "partner"
14:52 rue_house its looked on funny to have a partner of the same sex
14:53 katsmeow-afk many business partners are *not* different-sex
14:55 katsmeow-afk but if a female applied, under the criteria there would be no sex, would that be an acceptable partnership for you?
14:55 rue_house something seems wrong with the idea of a male attacking a female and infecting her with bacteria
14:56 katsmeow-afk huh?
14:56 rue_house esp when you look at the consiquinces
14:57 katsmeow-afk i wasn't asking about attacks or bacteia
14:57 rue_house what kinda sex did you mean then!?
14:58 katsmeow-afk <blink> why did you specify female then? would these woman do? http://www.banderasnews.com/0610/images/beautyqueen.jpg http://afp.google.com/media/ALeqM5iUeZQD5I_60drgN57SuifdvtVnLg?size=s2
14:59 rue_house I doubt they know computer programming or have any understanding of physics
14:59 rue_house so, no thanks
15:00 katsmeow-afk i am merely asking why the partner must be female, if there's no sex involved
15:01 rue_house I'm having a hard time generating a concrete answer
15:01 tsmeow-afk
15:01 rue_house what is the significance of 'marrige'?
15:01 katsmeow-afk it's a legal contract to share things
15:02 rue_house why do people need a legal contract to share?
15:03 katsmeow-afk because the law demands it, for taxes, hospital visits, private informations, finances like credit cards
15:03 katsmeow-afk child ownership
15:03 rue_house I have to go make a cable for someone...
15:04 katsmeow-afk also real important for inheritance
15:06 tsmeow-afk points to the increasing number of people getting married in the usa, then honeymooning in other couontries where the woman dies, and the husband returns home to remarry 4 months l
15:12 katsmeow-afk when zhanx marries, his wife will be entitled to financial income (until she remarries) if he dies in uniform
15:13 rue_house then what a will for?
15:14 katsmeow-afk few people make an enforceable will
15:16 rue_house few people have the gumption to stick to it enough to finish anything
15:17 katsmeow-afk but yet, you advertise for any human with female body parts
15:19 rue_house I attribute a number of problems to the fact I'm kinda lonley and put to much weight on the value of having a 'normal' life (the cookie cutter kind) but I think that I would need a partner who would understand me, findine anyone who understands me is a challange
15:19 rue_house so far I'v learned that almost all females read books and dream of traveling
15:19 rue_house and almost NONE play guitar
15:21 katsmeow-afk there's some nice lesbians i have met who play guitar really well, but hence asking you about the no-sex criteria
15:21 rue_house you and robotgrrl are the only technically compitent females I can canfirm exist in north america
15:21 rue_house huh
15:21 rue_house any of them program computers?
15:21 katsmeow-afk no
15:21 rue_house huh
15:21 katsmeow-afk but they do read books and dream of traveling ;-)
15:21 rue_house ugh
15:22 rue_house "the nice thing to do is the right thing to do"
15:22 rue_house I been thinking about nice
15:22 katsmeow-afk there is anotehr female online who signs as "kat", a prof at some uni, who also is involved in Ai, but i lost track of her
15:23 katsmeow-afk there's also what's her nick who did the commodore computer clone, she's a millionaire
15:23 rue_house 90+% of the things I can think of that are 'nice' from someone involve them donating resources of some sort to others
15:23 katsmeow-afk and what-her-nick ay MIT Ai-Robotics lab
15:23 rue_house I think thats robotgrrl
15:24 rue_house but yes, I know of her
15:24 rue_house started a computer company and sold it etc etc
15:24 katsmeow-afk no, i am thinking of the woman that has developed several robotic that get national media attention
15:24 rue_house yea
15:25 rue_house I was hoping that xkcd was a girl, but its not
15:25 tsmeow-afk
15:25 rue_house but it got me thinking that doing something along the lines to get that much techical recognition might be one of the only viable methods of finding the prson I'm looking for
15:26 rue_house its a lot of work
15:26 rue_house and I really dont like 'putting myself out there' which I'v had to be doing way too much of letley
15:26 rue_house you know why Im on irc, right?
15:26 katsmeow-afk to get known?
15:26 rue_house nope
15:27 katsmeow-afk i dunno
15:27 katsmeow-afk if you wanted sex, you'd be on dalnet
15:28 rue_house the thought train worked something like: 1) want to find someone like me 2) someone like me would be doing the same things I am 3) someone like me would be looking for someone like themselfs 4) if I go to a place where people of my interests congregate, they may also congregate to the same place, therefore I could meet them.
15:29 rue_house WELL ITS NOT WORKING
15:29 rue_house I thought rif was like me, but he wasn't, got a trip to aus out of it!
15:29 katsmeow-afk instead you find Tom, me, flyback, and zhanx :-(
15:29 rue_house your fine people that I'm glad to know
15:30 katsmeow-afk but you can't have sex with us,, hence the question about the advertising
15:30 rue_house the best I get around here is people who comment " thats the strangest metal I'v ever seen" re solder
15:30 katsmeow-afk lol
15:30 katsmeow-afk hell, irl, i'd never metion solder for fear of being burned on the evening's trash fire
15:31 rue_house irc is a bit bottlenecked, there is something about someone hanging ovler my shoulder while I'm sldering and telling me I'm doing it wrong that irc cant make up for
15:32 katsmeow-afk you need robots for that, any one of us cold have it lean over you and tell you you're doing it wrong, but again, no sex
15:33 rue_house hah, I'm determined to come down there sometime to help you work on a project one day, you aren't gonna think I'm doing it for sex are you?
15:33 katsmeow-afk i'd like to be able to admire someone else's work, eat dinner with them, forage thru the garden for lunch, go to town shopping together, etc
15:33 rue_house yea
15:34 katsmeow-afk no one here irl does anything admirable, they won't let me have a garden, and most i would not be caught dead with
15:35 rue_house I expect to be shot at while at the gate trying to work out if I have the right place, thats how I'd know i'v got the right address :)
15:35 rue_house a guy was supposed to be here a half hour ago
15:36 katsmeow-afk i ned to go do things irl again, even tho ic annot find the soldering iron, and need to fasten some 14awg stranded to some 10awg solid, and i *know* the wirenuts will cut the stranded to bits
15:36 katsmeow-afk i ask first, before shooting
15:36 katsmeow-afk i try to be polite
15:37 katsmeow-afk the iron and solder is still in boxes
15:37 katsmeow-afk anyhoo, bbl
19:31 zhanx just got home
20:01 katsmeow-afk how was it for you?
21:06 katsmeow-afk ...
21:41 zhanx bad
21:41 zhanx get my orders to escort my soldier to his burial
21:42 zhanx had to go back in to work to see the casualty assistance office
21:42 zhanx something like that
21:58 zhanx rue_house: home?
21:58 zhanx katsmeow-afk: ?
22:18 katsmeow-afk wait,, your solder?
22:19 zhanx soldier
22:19 katsmeow-afk tyop
22:19 katsmeow-afk typo
22:19 zhanx one assigned to my squad
22:19 katsmeow-afk how did that happen?!
22:20 zhanx he was with another soldier in my squad at his house, took that soldiers gun from behind the couch and shot himself in the face
22:20 katsmeow-afk it's sorta a rule, no dying allowed unless in actual combat
22:20 katsmeow-afk shit!
22:21 zhanx i got to clean up the mess
22:21 katsmeow-afk it couldn't have been an accident, the soldIer should know how to treat a gun
22:22 zhanx it wasn't
22:23 katsmeow-afk anyone know why? coldn't he have been released from duty or something?
22:24 katsmeow-afk was your boss on his ass as well?
22:25 katsmeow-afk i guess i wonder if this will get swept under the rug like all the otehrs
22:25 zhanx it was a shock, etc and no its not
22:26 katsmeow-afk ok
22:26 zhanx the local police just said done and walked away 10 minutes after getting there
22:27 katsmeow-afk didn't check for powder residue or print or anything?
22:27 zhanx nothing
22:27 katsmeow-afk it's gonna be swept under the rug
22:27 zhanx army cid is checking all that and pulled the bullet out of the ceiling
22:28 katsmeow-afk the bullet isn't all that important, the discharge residue on the shooter's hand is, so is the prints on the gun
22:28 zhanx yep
22:28 zhanx cid is the ones not sweeping it
22:28 zhanx they dont agree
22:28 katsmeow-afk k
22:29 tsmeow-afk is sorry for this happe
22:32 zhanx still numb
22:33 tsmeow-afk
22:33 katsmeow-afk best you can do is change things so it cannot happen again
22:34 zhanx the thing is right now
22:35 zhanx what do i tell tell the family when i meet them
22:35 katsmeow-afk condolences, service record, respect
22:37 katsmeow-afk hopefully, find out why it happened
22:37 katsmeow-afk they wil want to know
22:41 katsmeow-afk 2 or 3 people prolly know why, but gtting them to talk could be impossible
22:58 katsmeow-afk Tom? how goes the hub and disk?
23:53 rue_house zhanx, :(