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| 00:17.54 | elg | -chat |
| 00:17.55 | brac | my dad is correct usage. |
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| 03:38.02 | brac | incorrect usage, ask for help using 'brac: help chat' |
| 03:38.21 | harleypig | omg ... kidney infections suck monkey poop. |
| 03:38.43 | harleypig | ~onjoin harleypig *moan* |
| 03:38.43 | ibot | harleypig: ok |
| 03:43.40 | harleypig | Cool. Check this out: http://www.myspace.com/harleypig |
| 03:43.50 | harleypig | I didn't do it ... just found it on a lark. |
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| 04:38.00 | Tene | k3b is acting insane. |
| 04:38.06 | Tene | It keeps claiming that it can't find growisofs |
| 04:38.14 | Tene | It doesn't have any problems finding anything else in /usr/bin/ |
| 04:38.24 | Tene | growisofs can be run fine as a normal user |
| 04:38.27 | Tene | any ideas? |
| 04:39.23 | harleypig | Don't you have to tell k3b, as a root user, who can do root activities? |
| 04:39.49 | harleypig | It's been awhile since I used k3b, but I remember having problems along those lines. |
| 04:40.07 | Tene | I've tried running it as root. No luck. |
| 04:40.31 | herlo | I never have to run it as root, no problems... |
| 04:41.34 | harleypig | Oh. Well, no help from me I'm afraid. What's the exact text of the error message? |
| 04:42.56 | Tene | Mmph. Closed it now and I'm just using nautilus. |
| 04:43.21 | Tene | It said "Cannot find growisofs. Need growisofs to burn dvds. Go install dvd+rw-tools." ocelot. |
| 04:43.44 | Tene | There's a panel in the config for external programs, and it finds other executables in /usr/bin/, but not growisofs. |
| 04:43.56 | harleypig | k3b has it's own path? |
| 04:44.39 | harleypig | Oh. Have you tried entering the path manually (I know, stupid question ...) |
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| 04:55.36 | elg | -seen levi |
| 04:55.37 | brac | levi was last seen 3 days, 11 hours, 25 minutes and 57 seconds ago, saying Well, the music industry is finally starting to realize that DRM is futile and stupid. Perhaps the movie industry will wise up in a few years, too. |
| 04:55.41 | elg | -seen levi_home |
| 04:55.42 | brac | levi_home was last seen 23 hours, 7 minutes and 14 seconds ago, saying Then I've got to replace all the drywall I've torn out, clean up and repair the remaining drywall in the room that was damaged from removing fixtures, take the toilet out, tile the floor, paint the walls, install the new sink and vanity, paint and install new baseboards, put the toilet back in, and install the |
| 04:55.42 | brac | shower doors. |
| 04:55.54 | elg | that must be where he is :-) |
| 04:56.02 | elg | -lart Jayce^ |
| 04:59.23 | nick125_lappy | <PROTECTED> |
| 04:59.24 | nick125_lappy | er |
| 05:04.38 | levi_home | That is indeed where I was. |
| 05:05.23 | levi_home | Well, doing the stuff before the 'then' part I said there. |
| 05:05.37 | levi_home | Tomorrow will be the 'then' stuff. |
| 05:34.49 | elg | i'm trying to figure out how to determine if a union of regexes anchored at the start of input could match upon reading more input |
| 05:35.22 | elg | It works fine if you read the whole stream to EOF, but there's no way of saying that (that I can find) with ruby's rather sparse Regexp API |
| 05:35.55 | elg | and I don't really feel like writing my own regular expression engine |
| 05:37.16 | levi_home | Aww, whyever not? |
| 05:38.24 | elg | it wouldn't be hard to write a simple regex engine, that only understands concat, (), [], and * |
| 05:38.47 | elg | but that'd be so boring. it'd be so much nicer if I could use "real" (pcre) |
| 05:39.32 | elg | regexes |
| 05:39.55 | elg | but parsing and simulating pcres is not my idea of fun |
| 05:40.50 | levi_home | Yeah, it would probably not be worth the time. |
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| 06:05.27 | elg | i could wrap libpcre I suppose |
| 06:05.46 | elg | just the pieces I need - basically 1 function and a constant. wouldn't be too hard with swig |
| 06:24.24 | levi_home | Time for me to sleep. Got a lot of work to do tomorrow. |
| 06:25.57 | elg | me too. the sleep part anyway ;-) |
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| 12:35.37 | ibot | cowers in fear |
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| 13:25.41 | graphyx | http://www.sciam.com/print_version.cfm?articleID=77129353-E7F2-99DF-37738629167B4856 |
| 13:26.04 | graphyx | my bs meter just got pegged on that article. |
| 13:45.07 | ^Migs^ | hahaha: |
| 13:45.11 | ^Migs^ | http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/guinness_forced_to?utm_source=onion_rss_daily |
| 13:45.54 | ^Migs^ | honestly, I find that sciam article confusing |
| 13:46.45 | ^Migs^ | maybe I'm just stupid |
| 13:47.01 | graphyx | I think I figured it out |
| 13:47.14 | graphyx | but it still doesn't seem supported by logic |
| 13:48.38 | ^Migs^ | it probably isn't, to be honest |
| 13:48.54 | ^Migs^ | but at least people are trying to innovate, and that's always good |
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| 13:52.11 | ^Migs^ | http://www.theonion.com/content/video/new_abortion_bill_to_require |
| 13:52.44 | graphyx | one of my friends has a really good bumper sticker. |
| 13:53.01 | graphyx | I support the rights of unborn women. |
| 13:54.10 | ^Migs^ | good one |
| 13:56.03 | ^Migs^ | http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=49839&in_page_id=2 |
| 13:56.06 | brac | [Umbrella saves girl from 6th floor fall | Metro.co.uk] |
| 13:57.48 | graphyx | I read that one and aparently the umbrella also caused her to fall. |
| 14:02.01 | ^Migs^ | buildings should be required to have trampolines installed around their bases |
| 14:03.30 | graphyx | Are you from cartoon land? |
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| 14:07.42 | ^Migs^ | why? what do you propose we have around our buildings? concrete and asphalt? |
| 14:07.50 | ^Migs^ | that's clearly a safety hazard |
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| 14:20.55 | ^Migs^ | has anyone ever used a good online bank with stock trading options? |
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| 15:01.25 | sjansen | If it's on Planet Utah, I guess it's official enough. |
| 15:02.32 | sjansen | What, wait... redbeard isn't online? How'm I supposed to congratulate the punk. |
| 15:02.32 | sjansen | ? |
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| 15:08.40 | sjansen | ~steal lukfugl's cat |
| 15:08.52 | ibot | ACTION grabs lukfugl's cat and gives it to sjansen |
| 15:12.18 | Jayce^ | sjansen, don't encourage him... it's the last thing we need |
| 15:14.59 | graphyx | its not like he is even here. |
| 15:17.08 | graphyx | elg: I love that jabber asterisk connection. |
| 15:17.15 | graphyx | It is good for even when you aren't home... |
| 15:17.38 | graphyx | now you just need one that notifies you when someone on irc chats you |
| 15:17.43 | elg | and when you get home from a night on the town and sit down with your laptop you know if anyone called |
| 15:17.54 | jsmith | Yeah, Asterisk rocks! |
| 15:18.01 | graphyx | and you would have all communications centered in one application. |
| 15:18.06 | graphyx | that would rock. |
| 15:18.18 | jsmith | (as well as a few Jabber developers as well) |
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| 15:19.59 | graphyx | ~happyBirthday lukfugl |
| 15:20.04 | tensai | jsmith: are you at devcon? |
| 15:20.22 | graphyx | ~sing happy birthday lukfugl |
| 15:20.31 | graphyx | ~die! |
| 15:20.33 | ibot | !lart graphyx |
| 15:20.56 | jsmith | tensai: Of course :-) |
| 15:22.09 | tensai | jsmith: we tried to talk the company into sending us, but no luck :( |
| 15:31.36 | maquis | ~quote amzn |
| 15:33.30 | graphyx | ~google you lose! thanks for playing |
| 15:43.28 | lukfugl | graphyx: you're late |
| 15:44.58 | ^Migs^ | http://i0005.photobucket.com/albums/0005/icanhascheezburger/128241779803750000_79a7a79b-367d-43.jpg |
| 15:44.59 | ^Migs^ | hahahaha |
| 15:56.32 | sjansen | ~quote scox |
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| 16:00.40 | tensai | stupid australians sending me 100 pop3 logins per second |
| 16:01.33 | elg | you want more? |
| 16:01.39 | findlay | send them back pop4's |
| 16:03.56 | findlay | or a case of otter pops |
| 16:05.17 | ^Migs^ | http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=52570&src=site-marq |
| 16:09.09 | lukfugl | ibot: ^Migs^ is also a 'furvert' |
| 16:09.11 | ibot | lukfugl: okay |
| 16:15.07 | lukfugl | ~^Migs^ |
| 16:15.10 | ibot | ^migs^ is, like, a 'furvert' |
| 16:17.25 | rsimpkins | ~quote omtr |
| 16:17.43 | rsimpkins | wow, we are up quite a big from last I checked. |
| 16:28.13 | Jayce^ | ~quote UNTD |
| 16:30.24 | lukfugl | ~quote goog |
| 16:31.44 | findlay | ~quote haha |
| 16:33.35 | lukfugl | ~quote IBM |
| 16:35.43 | Jayce^ | ~quote BRK-A |
| 16:35.56 | Jayce^ | yes, that's real.. |
| 16:36.31 | ^Migs^ | wtf |
| 16:36.42 | Jayce^ | warren buffets company |
| 16:36.51 | Jayce^ | $109.8k per share |
| 16:36.58 | ^Migs^ | up from what? |
| 16:37.12 | ^Migs^ | oh, nm, hehe |
| 16:37.46 | ^Migs^ | that's insane |
| 16:52.54 | elg | grr. googles new "note this" thing is getting on my nerves |
| 16:53.16 | elg | you can't bookmark http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=ftp%3A%2F%2Fwww.cocolab.com%2Fproducts%2Fcocktail%2Fdoc.pdf%2Fell-bnf.pdf&ei=wh1TRuPAI4yajgH3w-HLDA&usg=AFrqEzfYnPFUi-gLYMs1A-QFyyDpqnVNAw&sig2=zzSiQF7CwS6MqMvRs1OJOw |
| 16:53.30 | elg | well you can bookmark it, but it doesn't make for a good footnote |
| 16:54.43 | findlay | elg: I usually find there's lots of garbage you can trim out of google urls |
| 16:54.52 | findlay | and have it still work |
| 16:54.57 | elg | i don't care |
| 16:55.03 | elg | I want to right click and get a link I can paste |
| 16:55.05 | elg | I don't want to doctor it |
| 16:56.25 | elg | the best part is it starts out as the original link (so it shows up as a normal link in the status bar) but then javascript transforms it when you click on it |
| 17:00.59 | elg | so it taunts you |
| 17:01.35 | findlay | urls should always be absolute unless you have a good reason |
| 17:18.09 | sjansen | No they shouldn't. |
| 17:18.30 | sjansen | URLs should always work. Absolute or relative, use whatever's least likely to break. |
| 17:18.53 | sjansen | A strong argument could be made that absolute should never be used unless you have a very good reason. |
| 17:19.14 | sjansen | I hate Web apps that hard code absolute paths so that I can't put them in a sub-directory. |
| 17:22.33 | findlay | sjansen: by absolute I meant not modified by the server |
| 17:23.45 | findlay | an URL is the literal address of something, not the magic key that triggers the server for the real resource |
| 17:25.07 | rsimpkins | findlay: huh? |
| 17:25.57 | rsimpkins | findlay: I think your internets are cloged. The Interenet isn't a truck, like a dump truck. It is a series of tubes. ;-) |
| 17:26.33 | findlay | rsimpkins: I dislike it when websites gratuitiously take license to rewrite urls in a cryptic manner |
| 17:30.04 | rsimpkins | Man the stock market is so confusing to me. |
| 17:30.31 | rsimpkins | It is a battle between the bulls and the bears, and why one wins over the other is beyond my comprehension. |
| 17:31.01 | findlay | they don't even play the same sport |
| 17:31.07 | sjansen | Anyone that tells you they truly understand the stock market is a liar or a fool. |
| 17:31.27 | rsimpkins | sjansen: or warren buffet. ;) |
| 17:32.34 | rsimpkins | I love it, if you ever do 'figure it out' the SEC comes knocking on your door - with a search warrent. |
| 17:32.57 | sjansen | ~dict warrent |
| 17:33.32 | rsimpkins | sjansen: you are giving me grief about my spelling? |
| 17:33.33 | graphyx | ~dict warrant |
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| 17:33.57 | tensai | ibot: warrent is a giant, living tree arrayed in battle gear and smelling of sjansen |
| 17:34.06 | ibot | okay, tensai |
| 17:35.04 | sjansen | ~warrent tensai |
| 17:35.07 | ibot | ACTION summons a grove fierce living trees to surround and then crush tensai |
| 17:35.29 | findlay | ~ent sjansen |
| 17:36.01 | tensai | sjansen: oh, you even put in a grammatical error and everything |
| 17:36.20 | tensai | you're nothing if not thorough |
| 17:36.21 | sjansen | heh |
| 17:36.53 | tensai | ~ent $foo is <action> talks $foo to death |
| 17:36.55 | ibot | okay, tensai |
| 17:42.25 | Jayce^ | http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/070513.html <-- RE Ent jokes |
| 17:43.52 | ^Migs^ | wow...how...nerdy |
| 17:44.52 | tensai | sheldon is good for nerdy |
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| 18:44.34 | tensai | anybody used rockbox? I tried it out on my new mp3 player and found it interesting but lacking. |
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| 19:13.21 | graphyx | lukfugl: elg this one is up your alley. |
| 19:24.06 | mheath | Afternoon! |
| 19:24.14 | Lone_Wanderer | It is indeed the afternoon ;) |
| 19:24.20 | graphyx | yep it is. |
| 19:24.22 | Lone_Wanderer | mheath: Do you know anything about special forces? |
| 19:24.38 | mheath | Not particularly. O.o Why? |
| 19:24.54 | Lone_Wanderer | What I'm wondering specifically is, if I enlist on the special forces track, will I have to take the qualifying physical before or after basic? |
| 19:25.04 | mheath | Uh, I can tell you the way the Navy does it |
| 19:25.11 | mheath | With their Enlist-as-a-Seal option |
| 19:25.22 | Lone_Wanderer | (There's a new deal where you can enlist and go to SFQC immediately after boot camp.) |
| 19:25.28 | Lone_Wanderer | It's probably basically the same as that, yeah. |
| 19:26.05 | mheath | With the Navy, you sign up as a Seal, and I believe there is some fairly basic but higher than normal standards you have to pass before shipping off....nothing bad, though... |
| 19:26.14 | mheath | But while they were in bootcamp, they had to go to extra PT sessions in the early morning |
| 19:26.21 | Lone_Wanderer | ok |
| 19:26.30 | mheath | And then, while in bootcamp, they had to pass a really difficult physical test |
| 19:26.37 | mheath | I really, really wouldn't recommend it |
| 19:26.45 | mheath | Unless your very confident of your physical abilities |
| 19:27.03 | Lone_Wanderer | The only thing I'm worried about (aside from actually passing all the tests) is that right now, I'm not in good enough shape to do the 100 push ups and situps and run the two miles in 12 minutes. |
| 19:27.06 | mheath | I know the way the Navy does it, if you don't make it (and the majority of people don't) you get reclassed into whatever job they want to put you into |
| 19:27.13 | Lone_Wanderer | O_O |
| 19:27.15 | Lone_Wanderer | You don't get to pick? |
| 19:27.26 | mheath | No. |
| 19:27.38 | Lone_Wanderer | Ouch. |
| 19:27.55 | mheath | Majortity of people who try that and don't make Seal end up going to the fleet undesignated |
| 19:27.56 | Lone_Wanderer | I'm confident that I can *get* into good enough shape for it. |
| 19:28.04 | Lone_Wanderer | But I'm not there right now. |
| 19:28.13 | mheath | Lone_Wanderer: Then go into a normal program |
| 19:28.25 | mheath | Thats the conventional way - that used to be the only way up until a few years ago. |
| 19:28.36 | mheath | Switch over later, if you still want to do it and are ready. |
| 19:28.57 | Lone_Wanderer | Don't you have to wait three years to do that? |
| 19:29.04 | Lone_Wanderer | Because in three years I'll be 31. |
| 19:29.13 | Lone_Wanderer | So it's basically now or never. |
| 19:29.23 | mheath | I don't know. Talk to a recruiter. |
| 19:29.32 | Lone_Wanderer | k |
| 19:29.42 | mheath | Careful with recruiters though |
| 19:29.54 | Lone_Wanderer | Yeah, they'll tell you anything. |
| 19:29.55 | mheath | Do your research. Read up on stuff on the internet. |
| 19:30.12 | Lone_Wanderer | I've also picked up a "blackletter law" book on contract law. |
| 19:30.20 | mheath | They tend to lie a lot about how easy/hard it is to switch from one job to another |
| 19:30.25 | Lone_Wanderer | So when I get to MEPS and they give me a contract I can read and actually understand it. |
| 19:31.05 | mheath | For example, I know a few poeple her training to be Nukes who signed up for Nuke because they were going to do special warfare but weren't ready. The recruiter told them it'd be easy to switch from Nuke. |
| 19:31.24 | mheath | Nuke is the _one_ job in the Navy that you can not possibly switch to Special Warfare from :P |
| 19:31.40 | Lone_Wanderer | That sucks. |
| 19:31.57 | Lone_Wanderer | Do you know how Green Berets and Navy SEals compare, roughly? |
| 19:32.04 | Lone_Wanderer | Is one more highly trained than the other, or are they about the same? |
| 19:32.10 | mheath | I have no idea. They both do very different things. |
| 19:32.16 | Lone_Wanderer | k |
| 19:32.39 | mheath | I'll warn you: I have no experience with any of this. I'm not special warfare. I'm not warfare. I'm going to school to be a nuclear reactor operator. |
| 19:32.54 | mheath | I can only tell what I saw of the special warfare programs while at boot camp, and what I know of it all myself. |
| 19:33.05 | Lone_Wanderer | You can't be in the military without picking up on things though. |
| 19:33.07 | Lone_Wanderer | And DW isn't around. |
| 19:33.31 | mheath | Heh, you probably won't find much in your enlistment contract, by the way. |
| 19:33.36 | mheath | They really don't say much |
| 19:34.04 | Lone_Wanderer | k |
| 19:34.08 | mheath | Actually, your actual enlistment contract says almost nothing, except that you are listing in <branch> for <years> years, and your signature agreeing to the enlistment oath. |
| 19:34.15 | Lone_Wanderer | Is most of it just in the military laws or whatnot? |
| 19:34.41 | mheath | Lone_Wanderer: Well, you'll usually have an appendix added on to your enlistment contract. |
| 19:34.44 | mheath | Related to your job |
| 19:34.46 | Lone_Wanderer | k |
| 19:34.57 | mheath | To give you an example, when I signed up with the USMC |
| 19:35.06 | mheath | I signed an Infantry Field agreement |
| 19:36.13 | mheath | Saying that I was guaranteed infantry, I was guaranteed a chance to try for Force Recon (but not guaranteed a spot in), I was not getting an enlistment bonus, that kind of thing. |
| 19:36.14 | Lone_Wanderer | If I may ask, why did you go into the infantry if you knew about your knee problems? |
| 19:36.15 | mheath | I did not know about my knee problems. |
| 19:36.29 | mheath | I'd had one issue with my knee that may have been related, but it was the result of a provoked accident at work. |
| 19:36.41 | mheath | I really hadn't had any problems with it. |
| 19:36.48 | Lone_Wanderer | ahh ok |
| 19:36.54 | Lone_Wanderer | that sucks |
| 19:37.04 | mheath | What made you decide special forces? |
| 19:37.19 | Lone_Wanderer | A couple of things. |
| 19:37.37 | Lone_Wanderer | I was just looking over the list of MOS's that were available and saw the special forces ones on there. |
| 19:37.45 | Lone_Wanderer | So I started looking into it. |
| 19:37.57 | Lone_Wanderer | Mostly I just want to know if I can do it or not. |
| 19:38.18 | Lone_Wanderer | But also, I figure if I do the medical program, I'll learn things I can apply later. |
| 19:38.55 | mheath | Think about it carefully. It's a big decision - years of your life. |
| 19:38.56 | Lone_Wanderer | I don't know if you've heard of Greg Mortenson or not - http://www.threecupsoftea.com/Intro.php |
| 19:38.59 | mheath | You talking to a recruiter already? |
| 19:38.59 | brac | [Three Cups of Tea - Viking 2006] |
| 19:39.03 | Lone_Wanderer | Yeah. |
| 19:39.10 | mheath | When you going down to MEPS? |
| 19:39.28 | mheath | Or is that not planned yet? |
| 19:39.32 | Lone_Wanderer | I don't know, I have to get some medical papers from my doctor first and they said it can take "seven days to two weeks" to get them. |
| 19:39.45 | Lone_Wanderer | Which is retarded because all they have to do is pick up my file, walk in back and photocopy the papers. |
| 19:40.27 | mheath | haha, welcome to the military. Hurry up and wait. |
| 19:40.29 | Lone_Wanderer | Anyway, Greg Mortenson goes to tiny villages and builds schools there. |
| 19:40.37 | Lone_Wanderer | It's not a military doctor though, which is why it bugs me. |
| 19:40.48 | mheath | Oh, I misread. |
| 19:41.13 | Lone_Wanderer | I'd like to do something like that, and I figure becoming a special forces medic would teach me the things I'll need to know to do it. |
| 19:41.58 | mheath | Lone_Wanderer: Army Medic? Looked into Navy FMF Corpsman? |
| 19:42.19 | Lone_Wanderer | No. |
| 19:42.33 | Lone_Wanderer | SF Medic is not really comparable to a GI medic though. |
| 19:42.53 | mheath | I think you might like that. Give you both of what you're looking for - medical skills, etc. plus give you a lot of accomplishment, seeing if you can do it/succeed at it. |
| 19:42.55 | Lone_Wanderer | They get trained in veterinary, dental, public sanitation, etc. |
| 19:43.02 | mheath | ah. |
| 19:43.45 | Lone_Wanderer | The impression I get is that, in addition to just serving as a medic for the people on their team, they work as a doctor/vet for people in the areas where their team is deployed. |
| 19:44.21 | Lone_Wanderer | So I might be screening people for service, setting up a water sanitation plant, teaching people how to select chickens or cows for breeding healthier stock, etc. |
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| 19:44.50 | Lone_Wanderer | That's what I'm hoping anyway. |
| 19:44.52 | mheath | Lone_Wanderer: How many pushups and situps can you do in 2 minutes? How many pullups (untimed)? How fast do you run 3 miles? |
| 19:45.20 | Lone_Wanderer | I don't know how fast I can run three miles. |
| 19:45.38 | mheath | Welll, 1 mile then? |
| 19:45.39 | Lone_Wanderer | I can do 25 pushups and 40 situps. (I just barely started working out a few days ago.) |
| 19:46.01 | Lone_Wanderer | Don't know that either, I haven't timed myself yet. I don't even know where there's a track I can go to measure out a mile. |
| 19:46.03 | mheath | Woah. |
| 19:46.11 | Lone_Wanderer | I know, I suck :( |
| 19:46.36 | mheath | Uh, defintely don't try to sign up as special forces with that stuff. |
| 19:47.09 | mheath | Because if they do it like the Navy does it at all, you'll fail your pfa once you get to bootcamp and be reclassed into some bad job you don't want |
| 19:47.28 | Lone_Wanderer | So I need to be in shape as soon as I hit boot camp? |
| 19:47.45 | Lone_Wanderer | If that's the case, I'll pick a later date for boot camp :p |
| 19:47.59 | mheath | Lone_Wanderer: I'd recommend it. Try to at least be able to pass a standard PFA before you ship, regardless of what your job is. |
| 19:48.10 | Lone_Wanderer | What's the standard PFA? |
| 19:48.18 | Lone_Wanderer | 100/100/12 minutes is a perfect score I think. |
| 19:48.40 | mheath | I don't know what they are for the Army. Give me a second to look it up. |
| 19:48.42 | mheath | Lone_Wanderer: uh, no. |
| 19:48.43 | graphyx | physical fittness |
| 19:48.44 | mheath | Your 28? |
| 19:49.04 | Lone_Wanderer | I am yeah. |
| 19:49.21 | Lone_Wanderer | But to get into the special forces you need to pass it for the 19-21 age range. |
| 19:49.27 | Lone_Wanderer | Regardless of how old you are. |
| 19:49.39 | mheath | *17-21 |
| 19:50.24 | mheath | yeah, perfect score is 100 pushups, 100 situps, and 2 miles in 13 minutes |
| 19:51.59 | mheath | minimum for you to pass Army boot camp is 30 pushups, 36 situps, and 2 miles in 17:54 |
| 19:52.18 | mheath | (thats a normal PFA for your age group; not the special forces thing) |
| 19:52.32 | mheath | It'll help a lot if you're able to pass that before shipping off. |
| 19:52.43 | mheath | If you're slightly less than that, thats OK, they do work you out a lot in boot camp. |
| 19:53.49 | graphyx | 2 miles in 17:54 shouldn't be too bad. |
| 19:54.17 | graphyx | I worked out for 6 weeks (running), quit for 6 weeks and ran a 10k in 1'1" |
| 19:55.32 | Lone_Wanderer | I should be able to do that within a week or two. |
| 19:56.02 | Lone_Wanderer | Like I said, I haven't really started working out yet, and there's usually a sharp increase right at the start of working out. |
| 19:58.04 | graphyx | and that day was a bad day for running. everyone was slow. |
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| 20:15.32 | lukfugl | graphyx: what was it that would be right up my alley? |
| 20:22.26 | mheath | This is rediculous. |
| 20:22.52 | mheath | Downloading a patch for one of my games. |
| 20:23.04 | mheath | My roomate gets back after me and starts doownloading the same patch. |
| 20:24.02 | mheath | Only my router decides to priooritize him |
| 20:24.34 | mheath | So his downooad is almost done and my internet connection is completely worthless. I can even use Putty here, really, because its crawling. Takes a good 10 seconds for anything to appear. |
| 20:24.56 | Lone_Wanderer | ridiculous. no e. |
| 20:27.53 | mheath | Typo. I can't see anything I'm typing until 10 minutes after |
| 20:28.10 | graphyx | lukfugl: game theory for Traveler's dilemma or prisoner's dilemma. |
| 20:28.36 | graphyx | mheath: is it your router or his? |
| 20:30.43 | mheath | My router. |
| 20:31.11 | graphyx | Well just get on there and ban his ip until your dl finishes. |
| 20:32.49 | Lone_Wanderer | rofl: http://www.specialoperations.com/Humor/Alligator.html |
| 20:32.50 | brac | [Special Operations.Com] |
| 20:33.04 | findlay | does anybody here know how to work adobe ilustriator? |
| 20:33.15 | mheath | tWhat do you mean, work it? |
| 20:33.25 | Lone_Wanderer | Is Ilustriator a program that produces ilustrious images? |
| 20:33.42 | findlay | I try to open a svg image in it and it shows up empty |
| 20:33.50 | findlay | I hate proprietary software |
| 20:37.02 | findlay | so, nobody knows I guess |
| 20:37.17 | findlay | I'm getting out of this crazy place |
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| 23:36.57 | harleypig | Anyone know of a website that I can download mp3s of specific scales--my son has a b flat trumpet and is arguing with me over how the b flat scale sounds. |
| 23:37.16 | harleypig | I obviously don't know anything about anything. |
| 23:37.32 | harleypig | Gawd, I'm gonna hate the next 15 years aren't I. |
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