Sisyphysics

Kalimeris: Today I dragged a heavy cart up a hill, and it was relevant to what we're learning in Physics, so I e-mailed my professor about it.
Sentynel: So you did a lot of work?
Goosey: hehe
Kalimeris: I was like "Hi! Today I did this with a heavy cart, and it was great, because now I can complain about it in a more specific manner rather than just being grumpy. Education won today."
Kalimeris: He's a fairly laid back/happy guy so it was okay that I did this.
Kalimeris: I guess I did a lot of work. Maybe in the Physics sense of it?
TalkingDog: If you accidentally let it roll back down, it would be sisyphysics.
Kalimeris: Certainly not in the Help Desk sense of it. Well maybe also in the Help Desk sense of it. Usually I just sit here and stare at the wall, then exorcise demons from the printers when they start acting possessed.
Goosey: TD: LOL
Kalimeris: I almost didn't make it up the hill.
Sentynel: Kali: Yeah, that was the subtle pun. work = force * distance and all that.
TalkingDog: I took a sisyphysics class, but I missed the final and have to retake the whole thing.
Goosey: LOL LOL

Thumping Bass and Charity Claps

(Maryam was complaining about her neighbor's loud thumping music)

Sam: Maryam: Neighbors thumping bass is the worst experience you can have in a first world country.
Sentynel: Thumping tuna is totally okay, though.
Goosey: LOL
Sam: I endured that through college and the housing row we lived in afterward. It made me murderous.
Sam: It's now a major consideration in choosing wherever we move to. If it looks like I might have to endure thumping bass from someone, I don't live there.
Sam: It's not always easy to know, of course.
Sentynel: If I almost never hear thumping bass, does this mean it's mine annoying everyone else?
Sam: Bad memories of when I was in college and being woken up at 4am because the drunk idiots next door had a humongous stereo set up against my wall.
Sam: If I was playing music when they turned that thing on, I stopped being able to hear MY OWN music.
Sentynel: ...wow.
Sentynel: https://xkcd.com/368/
Sam: I can't even stand it now when a car goes by whose occupant is blasting a subwoofer too loud.
Sam: ...Like in that strip.
Sentynel: Precognitively relevant xkcd!
Sam: Precognitive Relevance would be a good name for a band.
Sentynel: Ooh, yes.
Sam: Or a tumblr, before you go and fetch that xkcd comic too.
Sentynel: LOL
Sentynel: Dammit.
Sentynel: I totally was as well.
Sam: Oh, go ahead.
Sentynel: https://xkcd.com/1025/
* Sam claps politely.
Sentynel: Thanks.
Goosey: LOL

Lotion

Goosey: 1) Realize hands need lotion
Goosey: 2) Push up sweater sleeves in preparation to apply lotion
Goosey: 3) Grab blanket because legs are cold
Goosey: 4) Roll down sleeves
Ticia: lol
Goosey: 1) Realize sleeves were up for a reason, but can't remember why
Goosey: *5)
Goosey: 6) Forget how to count
Sentynel: 22) Forget how to count
Ticia: HAHAHA

Spaghetti fencing!

LaZorra: So last night, I managed to stab myself under the fingernail with a piece of spaghetti.
LaZorra: I just decided to try to peel an orange with that finger.
Maryam: owww
Goosey: owwww
LaZorra: Yeah, turns out citric acid is kinda acidic...
Sentynel: With a piece of spaghetti?
Sentynel: Not that I'm not sympathetic, because citric acid in a cut hurts like nothing else, but seriously, spaghetti? =p
LaZorra: You say that as if it were an unusual occurance.
Goosey: Sent: I assume it's the dry stuff, pre-cooked
iwpg: I hope you mean uncooked... yes, that.
Sentynel: Yeah. But I'd still imagine it would be quite hard to stab oneself with it.
Sentynel: Although I haven't personally tried, so who knows.
LaZorra: It was actually post-cooked. It was stuck on my spatuala, and I couldn't get it off with my sponge, so I tried scraping it off with my thumb.
LaZorra: POKE SENTYNEL WITH SPAGHETTI
LaZorra: POKE POKE POKE
LaZorra: Yeah. And glued on. >.<
* Sentynel parries and ripostes.
Sentynel: Spaghetti fencing!
LaZorra: LOL
LaZorra: That mental image is HILARIOUS.
LaZorra: Most delicate fencing ever. You're disqualified if your strand breaks.
Goosey: LOL
Sentynel: Someone broke their sword in a match against me once. That was kinda hilarious.
LaZorra: SAM LADE, BENDER OF STEEL
Sentynel: The snapped parts didn't totally separate, it just sort of doubled back on itself.
Sentynel: My coach looked at it and goes "it's for those fancy shots where you do this.." and proceeded to wave it over my shoulder and stab me in the back with it.
Goosey: LOL
Sentynel: LaZ: They called me "the Blade", actually, for obvious reasons...
Sentynel: Which sounds an awful lot less silly when you're armoured and holding a sword.

5-hour sheep

goldfishy: Anyway, I should try grabbing the 5 hours sheep still available to me so I can function tomorrow - because apparently that is desirable?
goldfishy: Night night
Nyperold: Seeya!
Randy: Sleep!
Randy: night!
goldfishy has left.
wintermute: A five-hour sheep?
Nyperold: You know, before the alamb goes off.
wintermute: She mutton be very tired.
Nyperold: Wool, that's to be expected.
Sentynel: These puns are bleating awful.
Randy: You could say they are baaaad
Goosey: Bet you guys feel sheepish.
wintermute: That's not a pun.
Goosey: Says ewe.

Telling Dave

Goosey: hahahah http://www.rantsfrommommyland.com/2010/12/is-there-app-for-baby-dialing.html
Sentynel: Goosey: LOL LOL
Goosey: Seriously this is the best blog ever.
Dave: But my blog has WAY more swears!
Goosey: Dave: Your blog only has WAY more technical swears. If we count almost-swears-but-not-cause-we-can-say-these-in-front-of-the-kids they are way ahead of you.
Dave: Darn.
Sam: She told you.
Goosey: Now I feel bad.
Dave: I have been told.
Dave: Wait, feel bad about what?
Goosey: For telling you.
Dave: Telling me I don't swear enough?
Dave: Don't be silly.
Goosey: hehehe
Sam: It hurtses the Daveses feelingses.
Sam: Yess it doess.
Goosey: lol
Dave: I'll just have to try harder to swear more in the future, that's all.

Face Removal

Dave: That reminds me of the visa stamp I got in my passport the first time I visited New Zealand.
Dave: Or, well, I got it every time I visited. But it was only funny the first time.
Rose_Monster: What did it say?
Dave: It said something like how I had to be out of the country by one month of the date stamped below, or FACE REMOVAL.
Maryam: LOL
Sam: LOL LOL
Dave: I thought taking my face off was a pretty harsh punishment for overstaying my visa.
Sam: That sounds severe.
Maryam: That'd make sure I was out of the country by that time.
Sentynel: My NZ immigration stamp says "face deportation".
goldfishy: Sounds effective!

Country Music

Goosey: Oh my gosh. So we're playing music in Turntable.
Goosey: Somebody starts playin "Every Rose Has it's Thorn" by Poison.
Goosey: Noob asks "Is this country? ew."
Sentynel: o_o
Goosey: The entire room: "..."
Sam: ...
Goosey: If you can't tell the difference between a monster ballad and a country song, there is something wrong in your brain.
Sam: "Every cowboy sings a sad, sad song." <-------------- COUNTRY LYRICS
Sam: THAT MEANS = COUNTRY SONG
Goosey: LOL LOL
Sam: In all seriousness, that's probably what made him think that. Not that that's any excuse.
Goosey: Probably.

(I'm still kind of floored by this. Wow.)

It ALL the things!

ThePhan: The last five ChaCha questions I got have been: one about cars, one about fishing, one about a chemistry equation, one about world politics, and one about football.
Randy: hehe
ThePhan: It's like they're trying to it ALL of the things I know nothing about.
Goosey: lol
ThePhan: ...It?
Goosey: LOL
Nyperold: Try to it ALL of the things!
ThePhan: I can't even remember what verb I was going for.
Sentynel: Hit?
ThePhan: Hit! I bet that was it
* Sentynel translates ThePhan for ThePhan.
* ThePhan bets the next one is a math question.

Up

Dave has entered.
Dave: N00BZ
Goosey: Hiya Dave
Dave: WHAT IS == UP?
Goosey: I didn't have to pay a parking ticket!
Sentynel: The direction away from the local dominant centre of mass.
Ticia: Your face.
Goosey: LOL I love you people.

Bouts of WordPress

LaZorra: One of many things I hate a bout WordPress.
* Sentynel hates bouts of WordPress too.
LaZorra: Yeah. I have to take like six aspirin every time they come up.

Heavy Metal Toys

Discussing the aliens from Toy Story

Maryam: THE CLAAAWWWW
* TalkingDog somehow imagined Maryam saying that in a death metal growl. *blink*
Maryam: LOL
Maryam: Look, here they come... headbang furiously!
Goosey: LOL LOL
goldfishy: Hahaha that would be hilarious - Maryam singing a death metal tribute to Toy Story
goldfishy: Ohohoh! And then her follow up single could be about Up entitled "SQUIRREL!"
Goosey: fishy: YES
Maryam: Unfortunately I just do not have a death metaly voice.
goldfishy: Hmm well we will find someone with an appropriate voice, make them record it, and you can lip sync!
TalkingDog: WHO WILL GO. WHO WILL STAY. IT IS NOT FOR US TO SAY. ALL MUST HEED THE GREAT ONE'S LAW. BEND NOW TO ITS IRON WILL, THE CLAAAAAWWWWWWWWW.
goldfishy: Rink Unions will never be the same again...
Sentynel: TD: I'd totally listen to that.
Maryam: TD: ahahahaha
* goldfishy HIGH-FIVES TD!
goldfishy: Me too!
Goosey: TD: WIN

Moaning brains

Goosey: GAH BRAINS SHOT OP AND LET ME WORK
Sentynel: Are your brains moaning "zombiiiiiiies...."?
Maryam: LOL
Goosey: LOL

Crooked glasses and dumb bugs

LaZorra: Okay, I've lost my focus. I think that means it's time to change coffee shops. :-p
LaZorra is away.
* Sentynel adjusts LaZ's glasses
LaZorra has left.

(an hour and a half passes)

LaZorra has entered.
Sentynel: LaZ!
LaZorra: Dude, it took me FOREVER to get here because for some reason I couldn't see straight.
Sentynel: LOL
LaZorra: And then I realize, it's because my glasses are all out of whack.
Sentynel: I wondered what happened to you.
LaZorra: It's the weirdest thing.
Sentynel: Tell you what is weird - the bug I'm looking at at the moment.
Sentynel: Apparently, it can't count above a day.

(Funny thing here is, my brain interprets this as him complaining about an insect that can't count. Then I realize he's talking about code.

Sentynel: The playlist length goes all screwy if it's over a day.
Sentynel: 23 hours, 59 minutes, 59 seconds? Absolutely fine.
LaZorra: YOUR FACE is weird.
Sentynel: Add a track and it jumps to 2 days, 1 hour.
Sentynel: And nothing above that does anything logical at all.
LaZorra: (Especially through these glasses.)
Sentynel: HOW RUDE
LaZorra: Sent. O.o
LaZorra: (that's what your face looks like)
Sentynel: LOL
iwpg: LOL
Goosey: LOL LOL

Movie warning

Goosey: Hallo!
Goosey: So, last night . . . saw the first 20 minutes of Harry Potter . . .
Goosey: But my sister wasn't feeling well . . . and she threw up. :(
Goosey: So we got refund tickets and will see the movie Monday night.
* Sentynel makes note - "don't see Harry Potter, will make you vomit."

Stop hitting yourself!

Sentynel: You ever woken up with an arm completely numb?
Goosey: LOL yeah. Not comfy.
Goosey: Especially when you are trying to turn off the alarm before your roommate kills you.
Sentynel: Mostly my problem is I don't entirely twig that it's completely numb, and try and move it.
Sentynel: Getting no feedback, more muscle power is applied
Sentynel: Which results in my slightly rubbery, unresponsive hand impacting my face at great velocity.
Sentynel: This happens annoyingly frequently.
Goosey: LOL
Maryam: You're the only person I know of to play the "stop hitting yourself!" game with yourself.
Goosey: LOL LOL
Sentynel: Maryam: LOL. I shall remember that next time it happens and crack myself up while nursing a sore nose.

Brain drain

Sentynel: Also, my resting heart rate is so low that if I stand up suddenly all the brain drains out of my blood, which in severe cases can lead to straight-up collapsing, and failing that rapid sitting down and waiting for my vision to return.
Sentynel: Um.
Sentynel: *blood drains out of my brain
Goosey: LOL LOL LOL
Maryam: LOL!
Goosey: SENT HAS BRAIN DRAIN
Maryam: Do zombies have a high brain level in their blood?
Goosey: LOL

Sentynel's Maroks

* Sentynel communicates solely in sentences ending in exclamation maroks!
Sentynel: ...
Sentynel: *marks

Cabbage

Goosey: Morning! I got cabbages!
Sentynel: Cabbage does not belong in any excited sentence ever.
Goosey: It does when you will be making a delicious corned beef and cabbage dinner for your brother's St. Patty's Day Party tonight.
Sentynel: Cabbage does not belong in anything described as delicious either.
* Sentynel shudders

Cheater

* Sentynel blinks
Sentynel: I can read Greek.
Sentynel: I'm not sure entirely when this happened.
Sentynel: But the title to one of the songs on one of today's new albums is in Greek, and I can read it.
LaZorra: ...
LaZorra: QUICK
LaZorra: TRY SHOOTING LASERS OUT OF YOUR EYES
* Sentynel focuses really hard, then cheats and tucks his laser pointer behind his ear