#garfield Logs

Jun 21 2012

03:31 katsmeow-afk i shrank the size of all the pics on /garden.html , it's not as crisp, or zoomable, but it loads faster
06:02 katsmeow-afk David was a Japophile at the time, and his first question he put to Jackie was "Do you like sushi?" I expected her to evade that question as I had never mentioned sushi to her at all, but to my surprise she responded "Of course."
06:02 katsmeow-afk I couldn't believe her response and interrupted David's conversation to see what happened. She had a soft hit on the secondary phonetic index to "Do you like sex?" Sushi was phonetically close enough to sex to satisfy her!
06:02 katsmeow-afk it's an alice chatbot with defects, woohoo! :-/
06:09 katsmeow-afk Feb 22, 2012 � Saul Kripke resigned yesterday from his position as Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center.
06:20 katsmeow-afk �I want to start a conversation about conscious experience that doesn�t just turn into another opportunity for Ned Block to talk about how impressive his orgasms are.�
06:21 katsmeow-afk I don't know what 'affordances' are, but I do know it's pretty perverse to say the family dog goes around all day thinking, 'Is that F-able?' about every object it sees."
06:22 katsmeow-afk Like most philosophers, Jennifer McAdams refined a little uranium on the side. She never intended it to go too far; just a little fission in her garage, as a challenge, and maybe to keep down the electricity bill. Of course, things did go too far. The professor of logic and computer science mistook a drum of yellowcake for, well, yellow cake, and the rest is history.
06:23 katsmeow-afk A new study confirms what philosophers have long suspected: ordinary folk disapprove of violently killing innocent bystanders.
06:23 katsmeow-afk �Sure, people will say that pushing a man in front of a speeding trolley is wrong on paper,� says Greene, the study�s lead author. �But what happens when they actually get out there and kill a man? Still wrong? Nobody knew because nobody had tested it.�
06:23 katsmeow-afk most quotes from : http://fauxphilnews.wordpress.com/
06:25 katsmeow-afk Spivey said that the listeners started processing what they heard even before the entire word was spoken.
06:25 katsmeow-afk "When there was ambiguity, the participants briefly didn't know which picture was correct and so for several dozen milliseconds, they were in multiple states at once.
06:25 katsmeow-afk "In thinking of cognition as working as a biological organism does, on the other hand, you do not have to be in one state or another like a computer, but can have values in between -- you can be partially in one state and another, and then eventually gravitate to a unique interpretation, as in finally recognizing a spoken word," Spivey said.
06:26 katsmeow-afk unfortunately, fuzzy logic doesn't work well in puters, it leads to guessing without factual basis
06:28 tsmeow-afk curses at windows
06:30 katsmeow-afk damnit, the program runs for 4 days, i have captured all the public-user-generated data exceptons to winxp bitching "that's an invalid filename", and damned if the researchers don't make an invalid function name after 80 million calls
06:32 katsmeow-afk wth kind of functionma eis "en/be" ??
06:33 tsmeow-afk is pissed at the waste of cpu time and drive space this has ca
06:36 katsmeow-afk From: http://www.abcnews.go.com/US/baltimore-mother-sues-gps-tracking-company-technology-glitches/print?id=16610527
06:36 katsmeow-afk Downloaded: 2012/06/21 05:07
06:36 katsmeow-afk Family of Baltimore Girl Struck by Bullet Sues Ankle Monitoring Company
06:36 katsmeow-afk Raven Wyatt Shot by Juvenile Offender Offerder Wearing Ankle Monitor
06:36 katsmeow-afk " Offerder " ??
06:37 katsmeow-afk it's there on the webpage still : http://abcnews.go.com/US/baltimore-mother-sues-gps-tracking-company-technology-glitches/print?id=16610527
06:39 katsmeow-afk A study presented at the American Heart Association meeting last year found that having your teeth cleaned by a professional once a year lowers your risk of heart attack by 24 percent and stroke by 13 percent.
06:41 katsmeow-afk Another reason to floss every day: New York University researchers found that people who floss infrequently are three times more likely to develop stomach cancer.
07:03 katsmeow-afk i think,, just like 87% of statistics are made up as needed, so are studies and researches :-|
07:05 katsmeow-afk CausesDesire(full_bladder,urinate) ,, i disagree, it's not a desire to urinate, it's a need, as in "i need to stop everything and urinate, even tho i'd rather not"
07:05 katsmeow-afk so i cannot justify a computer thinking these things like a human does, because it's plain wrong
07:05 katsmeow-afk comments?
07:07 tsmeow-afk restarts the week-long program running with new traps for idiot researcher's mist
07:11 katsmeow-afk idiot input : [[Prisoners]] can [['scape from jail]]
17:10 rue_work http://www.wedophones.com/Manuals/Mitel/SX50/Mitel%20SX-50%20DPABX%20Installation%20And%20Maintenance%20Training%20Course%20%28%20low%20res%20%29.PDF
17:40 tsmeow-afk runs around the room and hugs zhanx, Tom, rue (in no particular reverse alphabetical order), because wanting to take a day off to rest a sore body means work has been getting
17:41 Tom_itx yeah
17:42 Tom_itx i'm short on the kbd tonight as well
17:43 katsmeow-afk any comments n http://designerthinking.com/images/benchpsu/DSCF2753m.jpg ?
17:44 Tom_itx you're making good progress
17:45 katsmeow-afk i cannot think of any way to optomise airflow with those transformers in there
17:46 katsmeow-afk i rearranged stuff all morning
17:46 katsmeow-afk even with the heatsinks like that, no fan i have is really willing to blow air thru them
17:47 katsmeow-afk any ideas?
17:48 Tom_itx elevate them
17:48 katsmeow-afk elevate them?
17:49 katsmeow-afk the right set is centered vertically
18:23 katsmeow-afk Tom ?
18:28 katsmeow-afk :-/
18:30 katsmeow-afk i wonder what those fans are in the crate of free Sparkle brand puter psu are good for
18:33 rue_work http://usedphonebuyer.com/Manuals/Mitel/Mitel%20SX-50%20General%20Description.pdf
18:38 katsmeow-afk a phone manual?
18:40 rue_work that tells me the impossable-to-find command to disable an incomming line!
18:41 e_work expl
18:44 katsmeow-afk kool
18:45 tsmeow-afk sweeps rue up and pours him out in front of the robot reassembler
18:55 zhanx evening
18:57 zhanx i am crushing hopes and dreams today of people
18:59 katsmeow-afk i was just thinking of asking you to track down someone in ROTC and let him know if he was egging houses and stealing water pumps, you'd go all drill sargent on his ass
18:59 zhanx nice
18:59 zhanx i would
19:00 katsmeow-afk he's a bright kid in a bad environment, 6ft tall etc at age 15
19:00 zhanx k
19:01 zhanx right now i am in the mood to break his spirit for life
19:01 katsmeow-afk i dunno his last name :-(
19:02 zhanx doesnt help me then
19:02 katsmeow-afk lives on Forest Drive with a Eustis Fl address, but it's nowhere near Eustis, it's closer to Deland Fl
19:02 katsmeow-afk first name is Doug
19:02 katsmeow-afk is in ROTC
19:02 katsmeow-afk i dunno what school
19:02 zhanx not alot to work with
19:02 zhanx ROTC is not fully in the system
19:03 katsmeow-afk i know, i didn't care much, cause i thought i'd be there for some years and would have time to get data
19:03 zhanx but ROTC will be here soon to train, give a discription
19:03 zhanx description
19:04 zhanx if i see a match i will light him up
19:04 katsmeow-afk fla rotc will be there soon?
19:04 zhanx east coast rotc all come here
19:04 katsmeow-afk high school rotc?
19:04 zhanx summer training
19:04 katsmeow-afk oh
19:04 zhanx ALL from 7ht grade up
19:05 katsmeow-afk ok, quiet, blond, tall but not thin, slim, good physical potential, 15 yrs old (?) from Eustis , first name Doug
19:05 zhanx k
19:05 zhanx i got 3 days with them to train them on vehicles
19:06 katsmeow-afk if you trained this guy, in 10 yrs he might beat your butt, if you taught him all your tricks
19:06 katsmeow-afk you'd be 10 yrs older, he'd be 25
19:06 zhanx true but i got experience
19:07 zhanx and it would take ten years to teach him everything
19:07 katsmeow-afk yeas, hence i said 10 yrs :-)
19:07 zhanx and only if he is a fast learner
19:07 katsmeow-afk anyhoo, it would just tweak his head for you to know about him already
19:07 zhanx yep
19:07 katsmeow-afk he is, and he seems to want to learn
19:07 zhanx i did it once before at lewis
19:08 katsmeow-afk there is so much common stuff he isn't getting here he is
19:08 zhanx shocked at 14 year old, his dad called me
19:08 zhanx its common tho for that
19:08 zhanx basics are lacking these days
19:09 zhanx heck i was the only to qualify in my unit on every weapon expert this go around, which is not normal
19:11 katsmeow-afk afaik, his dad is all about watching tv, the neighborhood kids are older and getting into trouble with law, and all should be tossed in jail imho
19:12 zhanx happens
19:12 zhanx i see them all the time
19:13 zhanx i try to make men of them
19:13 katsmeow-afk yeas, well, i hate to see waste
19:13 zhanx from what i hear i am good at it
19:13 katsmeow-afk hence i speak to you :-)
19:13 zhanx since i spent 5 hours with the cg today
19:13 zhanx and the only person he had zero questions for after briefing was me.
19:14 tsmeow-afk
19:14 zhanx i can articulate what i need to do is all
19:14 katsmeow-afk yeas
19:14 zhanx i only had 47 slides, everyone else had 105 or more
19:14 katsmeow-afk see rue, speeling counst!
19:14 zhanx the cg was like only 47?
19:15 zhanx no i can't spell brain dont workie like that
19:15 zhanx it manages pain and outside the box thinking awesome, not spelling
19:16 katsmeow-afk spelling correctly any more IS outside the box
19:16 zhanx true but i am only 80% able to spell good, which in our day was good
19:16 zhanx now days
19:16 zhanx not so good
19:16 zhanx like 34%
19:19 katsmeow-afk <cough>
19:20 katsmeow-afk "spell well"
19:20 katsmeow-afk "spell" is a verb, you need a adverb to modify it ("well"), but "good" is an adjective </smartass>
19:25 katsmeow-afk sorry
19:26 katsmeow-afk i taught a computer to parse english, all the grammar rules from multiple high school and college books, even from 50 yrs ago, when they actually worked hard to get it right
19:30 rue_mohr !bookmark mitel manual phone system
21:24 rue_mohr zhanx,
21:24 rue_mohr I think I can offend you }:)
21:24 rue_mohr http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7jlFZhprU4
21:24 rue_mohr hahahah
21:40 rue_mohr iamturnip-afk, aha! I just remmebered about that code!
21:40 rue_mohr where is the chap working on it!
21:53 zhanx nope
21:57 rue_mohr ?
21:58 rue_mohr 8I need a crossover network cable, STAT!
21:58 e_mohr fumbles the crim
22:29 zhanx just got a phone call
22:30 zhanx I am now the head motor sgt for 10th mtn div
22:30 zhanx getting promoted monday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
22:31 zhanx rue_mohr:
22:33 rue_mohr good stuff
22:33 rue_mohr but you have to stop soon, cause I wont vote for you for president
22:34 zhanx lol
22:34 rue_mohr :)
22:34 rue_mohr cause I'm in canada :P
22:34 zhanx you cant cause of that
22:34 rue_mohr I dont know why, they let dead people vote
22:35 rue_mohr flyback voted 4 times
22:35 rue_mohr for bush
22:35 zhanx lol
22:35 rue_mohr (per election)
22:36 rue_mohr he didn't say it, but I bet he has 4 fake ID's
22:37 zhanx k