From: Andrew Stein <steinlink@gmail.com>
To: barriticus@gmail.com

Andrew: she says you should call her
Andrew: also, i saw anna this morning
Andrew: http://blag.xkcd.com/2008/01/14/robot9000-and-xkcd-signal-attacking-noise-in-chat/
Andrew: This is why xkcd is awesome
Andrew: I'm going to go check the channel out, before it gets too crowded
Andrew: like how 4chan is filled with newfags, and myspace is now flooded with spam (though it sucked in the first place)
Andrew: you could do a broader post on how online communities turn to shit
me: huh, maybe I'll do a post on this
Andrew: look for a field that says "hostname" or "server" or somethign like that
Andrew: try going to the server list and editing that entry
Andrew: you probably named the server "irc.fooneitc.net" without actually telling xchat to connect to host irc.foonetic.net
Andrew: I dont remember the syntax in xchat for adding servers, but I remember it being confusing
Andrew: irc.foonetic.net
me: I did
Andrew: add a server
me: xchat keeps telling me "unknown host"
me: how the fuck do I connect to the channel?
me: nah, working on this first post, will try again in a bit
Andrew: did you get on?
Andrew: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/12/1312258&from=rss <http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/12/1312258&from=rss>
Andrew: I mean, hah
Andrew: no you are!
me: "No, you're confusing the Uncertainty Principle with the Observer Effect"
me: I love the replies
Andrew: that may be because most of the people on the channel came because of the blog annopuncement and are jsut testing the system out
Andrew: its actually kindof interesting, though I still classify most of this as inane chatter
Andrew: it certainly seems more relevent now, for some reason
Andrew: that could be done
me: set up a democratic-anarchist info processing thing
me: a simple version, though
me: some sort of multi-user information management deal like what we talked about
Andrew: any cool ideas for a short project?
Andrew: thinking about a web/chat/message board thing
Andrew: Im going to write a short web project to teach myself
Andrew: I need to learn this new programming language called Ruby
me: say, "What I like about Mitt Romney is the consistent positions that he's held over the past ten years."
Andrew: they are starting to talk about the future, and the possibility that the uniquity rules may accelerate the evolution of a new meme-language
Andrew: you touched off a firestorm, they are eating that shit up
Andrew: haha
Andrew: let me try it
me: "I love Windows!"
me: I've got a unique chat line
me: in fact, we should make all household decisions ranging from what to do on the weekends to ideas for Josh's video game based on a software-based constitution that you write with Ruby
Andrew: you should check this board out, I dig it
Andrew: how's that for unique chat?
Andrew: I write gay anthro erotica. I'm sure that wouldn't fit anyone's preferences here. :P Though the longer stories I'm working on won't have any erotica in them, they're still anthro related.
me: to coordinate grand plans
me: we should use it among the three of us
Andrew: south park
me: what?
Andrew: with her? nice
Andrew: nice
me: next post will be on xkcd
me: ignore formatting errors
me: http://blog.riight.com/
me: blog has begun
me: oic
Andrew: someone already said "the system works"
me: for obvious joke regarding chat format?
Andrew: for repeating
me: why would they mute you?
Andrew: I have to wait for it to wear off
Andrew: afterwords I said "The system works!" and got muted
Andrew: haha
Andrew: nice
Andrew: nice