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

me: hey
Andrew: hey
me: Red Dead Redemption is out and not available for PCs.
Andrew: yourself
Andrew: yes, this is true
me: You plan on buying a Playstation 3 at some point. Since that is the case, y
Andrew: it loks awesome as hell
me: you should get one now
me: and play that game
me: it just makes sense
me: also
me: have you looked at the Project PM google docs yet?
me: even if so, you should look again, people are contributing a lot
me: which is why we're looking into setting up a wikia
me: also, buy red dead redemption
Andrew: i promise there is nothing id rather do
me: that's not true
me: you would prefer to convince yourself that it would somehow destroy your life to buy one
Andrew: I swear, this summer ill get a tv and a ps3
me: you're only hurting yourself
me: did you see the docs?
Andrew: no
me: I just sent you invites, take a look at both
me: we've brought in a couple more really high-level people in just the last few days also
me: and I'm now delegating project leadership
me: a retired lawyer out of Chicago is running the Africa Development Project
me: oh, also
me: it turns out
me: that a former editor of nerve.com who likes me and whom I've stayed in contact with
me: has started his own media outlet
me: which was profiled in the NYT last week along with True/Slant
me: not that great or innovative
me: just pays writers a percentage of ad rev
me: anyway, though, we got back in touch today
me: I'm seeing about working with him on this
me: maybe he'd be interested in incorporating the network scehmatic
me: or perhaps would want to use your software as well and would pay you to set it up or whatever
me: if so, we should go with him over True/Slant if possible
Andrew: he hasnt launched yet? no programmers?
me: he's launched
me: fairly recently
me: I'll ask him about the status on that
Andrew: just send me the domain
me: early enough in that they would probably consider doing something different in terms of their software and setup
me: http://thefastertimes.com/
me: they could definitely use our help
me: oh, and I need a huge favor from you
me: can you figure out what I need to download in able to use my laptop video camera?
me: as in, could you provide me a link or something to the exact thing I need?
me: I want to make some videos of me not on heroin this time and giving short talks on Project PM in order to describe it more succinctly and in a more accessible manner
Andrew: whats wrong with your webcam?
me: so, if you could take a few minutes some point soon to help me figure out how linux could accomplish that, it would be appreciated
me: well, with Linux installed, there is no software to access it, it would seem
Andrew: sure there is
Andrew: click on the ubuntu software center thing and search for web cam
Andrew: there's a program in there, i think its called cheese
me: ah ha, there is
me: thanks
me: you're a hero
Andrew: ekiga and pidgin also have cameras
me: ah-so
me: also
me: one more thing before I forget
me: there's a remake of Final fantasy 2 for the DS
me: apparently they did a really good job on it
Andrew: yeah, its also out for iphone
me: I advise you to play it somehow
me: put it on your iphone and play it on the train if necessary
me: because that was a really great game
Andrew: are you sure you are thinking of ffii?
Andrew: because the snes one is ffiv
me: I know, I was calling it by its American name
me: also, I don't seem to be able to properly unpack rar packages, any ideas on that?
me: I downloaded a couple programs
me: that allegedly do it
Andrew: ok, this looks awesome
Andrew: im certain you can find a rar util for ubuntu without lmgtfy.com
me: ffIV looks awesome?
me: no, as I wrote in non-coding actual human language, I downloaded a couple of programs that are those things I'm not asking you to find
me: what I'm asking is if there is commonly difficulties encountered with using rar programs
Andrew: yes, ffiv
me: also
me: check out the awesome, internet friendly reforms being promised by Nick Clegg, new Liberal Democrat deputy prime minister in England
me: and yeah, play the ffIV
me: they added a whole new element to character customization
Andrew: and fucking 3d
me: what's a check sum error?
Andrew: data corruption
me: or something else, because I think I forgot the exact words cause I'm stoned
me: I see
me: oh, I think it was because I got disconnected
me: disregard, I'll re-download
me: oh
Andrew: a check sum is an irreversible hash function over a ring
me: no it's not, stop lying
me: also
Andrew: so it is semi-uniqeu for any generator
me: Final Fantasy Tactics 2
me: for DS
me: you should play that
Andrew: tactics 2?
me: Tactics advance 2
Andrew: ah
me: I've played it
me: it's the best of all of them
Andrew: i wasnt a fan of tactics advance
me: yeah, but this is different
me: much more nuance, better, prettier, tons more content and customization
me: deeper game
me: I played it and going to do so again when I can get my linux ds emu to play fast enough