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[02:08:57] ski careful with your arms

[02:15:52] ski skip what ?

[02:18:14] ski s/shallows/shallots/

[02:18:25] ski (i guess that was shallow of me)

[04:02:34] ski (is old colby like new colby's old man ?)

[04:03:02] ski there's several ?

[04:03:12] ski two old, and one new ?

[04:03:20] ski are they your older brothers ?

[04:03:33] ski two older brothers, got it

[04:06:38] ski if you fence with them ?

[04:07:52] ski (after polishing it, with wood polish)

[04:11:49] ski played any of the other ones, in the series ?

[04:12:19] ski (fwiw, the pegleg is attached to a pirate, when you do it)

[04:12:28] ski ah .. nice :)

[04:12:51] ski there's a recent one, too, that i haven't played

[04:14:13] ski the main guy responsible for story and so, came back to the series, for the most recent one, after being away after I and II

[04:14:20] ski (Gilbert something ?)

[04:15:39] ski (iirc, the most recent one would be VI)

[04:15:58] ski came out last year, i think

[04:16:41] ski anyway, it's (mostly) a nice series .. reknown for its humor

[04:16:59] ski (and .. unlike Sierra games, you couldn't really die, or softlock yourself)

[04:17:31] ski darkness ?

[04:17:53] ski you mean like there being ghosts in the game, and so ?

[04:18:32] ski oh .. puzzles that make little sense, or is very hard to think of / figure out, itym

[04:18:42] ski cons

[04:21:24] ski .. i think there was mainly one, perhaps a few more, puzzles, in MI I, that you couldn't really figure out logically

[04:22:43] ski dramo : like root beer ?

[04:25:15] ski i'm sure ComputerTech would like some

[04:25:47] ski well, he already likes beer ?

[04:26:41] ski well .. i guess elderberries are dark

[04:26:56] ski my brother played Oblivion

[04:27:21] ski perhaps berries in a nice pie

[04:29:12] ski isnn't he our pie-r ?

[04:32:20] ski are there many pies, in cajun cuisine ?

[04:34:48] ski duck toast

[04:47:32] ski well, i guess ComputerTech's isn't that artistic, either ?

[04:48:22] ski (.. although, perhaps programming counts towards that ?)

[04:48:48] ski like compose ?

[04:49:06] ski in a program ?

[04:49:23] ski that's nice :)

[04:51:24] ski help with programming ?

[04:51:30] ski Tcl ?

[04:52:16] ski i'm sure ComputerTech would like to show you all the ropes in Tcl

[04:54:12] ski to program, you not that seldom need an obsessive attention to detail

[04:58:53] ski is it harder or easier to keep quiet, when not sober ?

[04:59:13] ski interesting

[05:00:02] ski .. and then you have to guard their embarresing, or painful, secrets, too

[05:00:28] ski some people feel a need to brag, or just to air stuff, with somebody

[05:01:54] ski yeh

[05:03:02] ski i do program some

[05:03:36] ski nice to meet you too :p

[05:09:32] ski "azn" ?

[05:13:06] ski did they start hitting you back, ComputerTech ?

[05:13:41] ski my brother once biked into a bus stop wall .. while falling asleep

[05:14:29] ski i've fallen asleep, while being outside, walking, on my way home

[05:15:07] ski (somehow kept walking .. waking up, being confused, mixing up dream imagery with surrounding scenery, then repeat again and again)

[05:16:30] ski oh .. another time, i was speeding down a steepish slope, in a park, in the middle of the night, hitting a fence they'd erected across the road, toppling it

[05:17:07] ski (there was some kind of music festival or something. i didn't care about it, i just wanted past. some other times, i climbed over the fence (maybe two metres high), with bike and all)

[05:18:01] ski (well, there were no music playing at that time i toppled the fence. just some guards behind the fence)

[05:18:27] ski .. iirc, i actually did topple it, more than once .. but next time might have been the following year

[05:19:46] ski there were these concrete blocks at the base of the fence, to keep it sturdy .. apparently not sturdy enough, for a maniac to come crashing into it with full speed, after the hill slope

[05:19:50] ski sure, ChRoNiC

[05:20:09] ski i didn't feel like taking the long way around

[05:20:56] ski also, iirc, in the will of the person who donated the park to the city, there's a condition that says that it must be kept open to the public

[05:21:46] ski which it appears that the city is ignoring, nowadays, when letting private festivals fence off part of the park, for some consecutive days

[05:21:59] ski yea, sure. maybe 80 years ago, or something. maybe longer, i don't recall

[05:23:32] ski ChRoNiC : well, some times, when i'm going in a particular direction, i do take a detour, in the middle of the night, through a small patch of wood, and then an adjoining graveyard .. it's quite peaceful. and it's nice that there's no street lights in the patch of wood (i turn off my bike lights completely, as well)

[05:23:49] ski more or less, ChRoNiC. after getting it to the top

[05:26:21] ski (one other time, i managed to get locked inside an allotment gardening place .. so i climbed over with bike, to get out, that time too)

[05:26:53] ski (i was helping someone with their garden .. and i didn't have a key for the gate, that time. it was open earlier in the day)

[05:28:29] ski heh

[05:28:55] ski .. i guess i can be a bit stubborn, at times

[05:29:27] ski ouch

[05:29:42] ski .. so you were hanging, upside down, like the hanged man ?

[05:30:15] ski wossat ?

[05:31:05] ski ohh .. never heard

[05:31:30] ski what was on the other side of the fence ?

[05:32:02] ski mm

[05:33:33] ski hm, come to think of it. one other time, i climbed up a somewhat steep cliffside (partly walking, partly climbing a little. it wasn't all climbing), with bike .. to get to a patch of trees on top. i was exploring a part of the city i hadn't really been much in

[05:34:02] ski makes sense, ChRoNiC

[05:38:22] ski one time, when hiking in the mountains, we wanted to cross a deepish stream with strong currents. for some reason, there was a high (maybe five metres ?) fence, crossing the stream nearby. so, we climbed up on it, with full backpacks (food, clothes, tent, trash, &c.), then across the stream

[05:39:46] ski mm, i see, ChRoNiC

[05:40:09] ski yeap, sure

[05:40:19] ski it didn't feel *that* risky

[05:40:26] ski .. i remember another time, that did, though

[05:41:15] ski that trip, we were going by car, and stopping it at places, to go up in the mountains, visit glaciers, over the day, or sometimes a couple of days

[05:42:01] ski anyway, we had been walking up a valley, and came up to a glacier there. the front was maybe eight metres high, and steep. ice blocks were lying beneath it

[05:42:46] ski we climbed atop one of those ice blocks (maybe one and a half metre high), while one of us took a pic of the occasion, with the glacier front towering over us

[05:43:02] ski a few minutes later, that part of the front collapsed down just where we'd been standing

[05:45:53] ski anyway .. after that (it was a sunny day, quite warm, for being in the mountains .. i guess possibly around 30 °C / 86 °F), we were going down into a "cauldron"-shaped valley, with a lake in the middle (turquoise, non-transparent, undoubtely from all the rock powder coming from the glacier, it slowly crawling over the bedrock)

[05:46:21] ski the left side of the valley wasn't as steep as the right side, but it was still somewhat steep (and steeper, further up)

[05:47:21] ski that side consisted of mostly flat slabs of stone, all being tilted towards the lake. we discovered that it was crossed by many small trickles of water, and many of those were quite slippery, due to algae growing in them

[05:47:46] ski when we'd gotten out into that, *that* felt quite scary

[05:48:11] ski one misstep, and the person would have slided all the way down into the ice-cold lake, with full backpack on

[05:48:40] ski we had to take one step at a time, carefully shifting weight, trying to test the ground with our walking staves, as we went

[05:49:09] ski several times, we had to, slowly, retreat, to try anew, higher up, or lower down, since there were just too many tricklets with algae at that place

[05:51:11] ski once we finally made it to the far end, we climbed up a somewhat steeper, but shelved, and covered with grass and moss and the like, slope up a bit, then down on the other side, having to jump down sometimes two metres to get from one shelf to the next below, until we got down to a (somewhat steepish, but not icehard) patch of snow .. and then, at the bottom, we noticed some caves, that we explored for

[05:51:17] ski a short while (apparently, the air, for some reason, was warmer, inside that. dunno why), before continuing

[05:51:48] ski anyway, jumping down the shelves felt *much* safer than crossing the algae tricklets, even though the shelves weren't *that* wide

[05:52:38] ski (i guess it's possible we had some slight euphoria/high, after getting past the algae, as well)

[05:53:42] ski .. i think i must've been 18, during this trip

[05:54:19] ski it is gorgeous, out there, high in the mountains, though :D

[05:54:49] ski scandinavia

[06:07:53] ski "Well, we all gotta die sometime, isn't that so? There are dangers to be sure: 20 m. deep crevasses hidden under snow, even deeper moulins (up to a few m. wide vertical shafts in the ice), unexpected ice avalanches, etc. I don't recommend novices to get onto glaciers on their own without the right equipment and competent guides."

[06:08:03] ski "But it is so gorgeous there: ice with a color so blue it almost beggars description -- even in bad weather; savagely crevassed icefalls with ice towers reminiscent of fantasy castles; meandering meltwater streams incised into the ice surface; cracking and creaking noises; vast, gently undulating pristine snowfields in the upper parts -- glaciers seem almost alive."

[06:08:09] ski "Oh, excuse me -- I got carried away. Happens sometimes when I write about glaciers. Anyway, it's really nice there."

[06:08:13] ski -- my brother

[07:08:18] ski try shaking the automat ?

[08:13:12] ski ("misser", or "miser" ?)

[08:15:49] ski ty, ComputerServe

[08:19:03] ski herald : anything for a little juicy drama, eh ? ;)

[08:20:00] ski Peorth : nice quote

[16:55:48] ski i'm fine, ty, Hotties :)

[16:55:52] ski hello glutenFree777

[16:56:08] ski herald : yes

[16:56:51] ski jmjl : .. griefers ?

[16:58:11] ski what brings you here, glutenFree777 ?

[16:58:31] ski und du, Hotties ?

[17:26:47] ski curious

[17:56:06] ski don't they have sheep, rather than asses ?

[17:59:47] ski well .. i'd say it does

[18:00:23] ski reminds me of a kids' book, about a Kangaroo without a pocket

[18:00:54] ski wait .. are those pics from CT ?

[18:03:43] ski "no comment" would have been fine, as well

[18:06:47] ski ohayo, ComputerTech

[18:08:08] ski you could try a Rorschach

[18:09:53] ski yes, that

[18:11:13] ski i'm sure CT's ass would be willing

[18:18:47] ski vielen dank

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