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[04:14:56] ski/rizon moin

[04:15:56] ski/rizon oh, right, sushi-chan .. someone said before that you're finally going to Japan (in Feb ?) .. but i forgot about it. how does it feel to finally travel ?

[04:16:28] ski/rizon heya sushi-chan,Saphir,jeff_stacey,foxy,FireWire

[04:16:34] ski/rizon ah, okay

[04:16:52] ski/rizon well, it sounds great ! :)

[04:18:32] ski/rizon hm, there's this monkey thing (?), i think .. but it seems less lethal

[04:18:57] ski/rizon so, you've planned which parts you want to visit ?

[04:19:15] ski/rizon outside of Tokyo, as well ?

[04:20:31] ski/rizon you'll see Fuji, i take it

[04:20:50] ski/rizon well, from a distance, maybe ?

[04:21:18] ski/rizon are there any famous monasteries or temples or palaces, outside near, apart from in Kyoto ?

[04:21:22] ski/rizon ah, i see

[04:21:38] ski/rizon yea, isn't that a maglev type train ?

[04:24:25] ski/rizon there's this game "Ghostwire", which takes place in Tokyo, and apparently with recognizable streets and squares and so on .. i was watching Gab Smolders play it, and she's lived in Japan. she said "oh, i've seen this, i've walked on this street. and there's supposed to be a [something] shop there, but they've changed that"

[04:25:00] ski/rizon (also including a square with a statue of a faithful dog .. i forgot its name)

[04:25:19] ski/rizon oh .. there's owl ones, too ?

[04:26:25] ski/rizon there used to be a place here, where they'd feed owl babies that had lost their parents, until they were old enough to be let free

[04:27:11] ski/rizon (they were in very large cages, with foliage inside)

[04:27:28] ski/rizon well .. they're both night predators

[04:27:32] ski/rizon hehe :)

[04:28:10] ski/rizon you have to have protection on your arm/wrist .. "bracers" of leather or so, to protect against the claws digging in, when it's sitting on your arm

[04:29:04] ski/rizon .. now i'm wondering if anyone has practiced birds of prey hunting, with owls, rather than hawks, &c.

[04:29:22] ski/rizon hm, i guess probably not, since they mostly hunt in the night. maybe if it was full moon

[04:30:03] ski/rizon (i guess s/babies/hatchlings/ is a more proper term)

[04:31:06] ski/rizon hm, now i'm wondering if the partway closing eyes comes from meaning "i trust you (enough) to not have to keep you under observation"

[04:32:45] ski/rizon hm

[04:33:25] ski/rizon it might be that they can understand some aspects of the phrases they pick up (e.g. tone .. and associating with simple things)

[04:33:49] ski/rizon i'm not sure of the apparatus used, if it's similar

[04:34:01] ski/rizon some birds like to imitate, though

[04:34:34] ski/rizon there's one bird, who's been known to imitate the sound of a camera clicking, and bzzing (old school camera). or the sound of a chain saw

[04:34:50] ski/rizon there are other birds, not just parrots

[04:35:55] ski/rizon perhaps they started imitating possible dangers, as warnings to relatives

[04:36:06] ski/rizon i know some monkeys do that

[04:36:23] ski/rizon imitate the sound of a snake, or bird of prey, or preying cat animal

[04:37:09] ski/rizon hm .. i wonder whether wolves have more varied sounds than dogs

[04:37:15] ski/rizon i'd suspect so

[04:37:45] ski/rizon dogs have lived quite long with humans, so they've not have as much need for as varied communication, i think

[04:37:55] ski/rizon (also cats)

[04:38:26] ski/rizon (you know, they say that humans chose dogs as pets, but cats were the ones choosing humans)

[04:39:49] ski/rizon same here ;)

[04:40:01] ski/rizon well, .. yes that

[04:40:18] ski/rizon cats mind their own business, more

[04:40:50] ski/rizon sometimes they'll keep you company. but they'll not expect attention from you most of the time, like dogs often can

[04:41:18] ski/rizon i've tried barking back, but somehow i think they misunderstand what i'm saying

[04:42:03] ski/rizon some cats apparently sometimes jump up and curl up around your neck, when you're sitting in a chair

[04:42:23] ski/rizon (lying on your shoulders, basically)

[04:45:45] ski/rizon sortof like a fur .. whatever-its-called, like a scarf, sortof, and you put around your neck .. only living

[13:18:34] ski/rizon having two disjoint duck hunt games in the same channel would be confusing

[13:20:38] ski/rizon well, if there's a duck in one game but not the other, then if they use the same shooting command, you'd make a go at one of them, while risking getting your gun confiscated in the other

[14:25:30] ski/rizon whatcha cooking, ComputerTech ?

[14:27:20] ski/rizon oh, you meant chief/boss ?

[14:27:42] ski/rizon oy vey, Saphir :)

[14:29:59] ski/rizon someone mentioned some mathy problem based on poker hands .. i was trying to understand it

[14:30:39] ski/rizon something about expected number of hands to get a straight, flush, full-house, or somesuch

[14:31:29] ski/rizon (.. also, getting hungry)

[14:58:13] ski/rizon ComputerTech : sounds nice (the cooking) :)

[16:27:34] ski/rizon what sortof game, BlueyHealer ?

[16:28:48] ski/rizon they didn't notice someone sneaking up on them ?

[16:29:31] ski/rizon why wouldn't it ?

[16:29:48] ski/rizon .. ouch

[16:30:03] ski/rizon takes dedication, i would presume

[16:30:06] ski/rizon heya h4 :)

[16:30:45] ski/rizon we were just discussing inept playmates in FPSes

[16:32:49] ski/rizon let's spam people's topic line with blaring colors ;)

[16:33:33] ski/rizon (.. i'm not sure how many clients actually supports this. terminal ones, i'd assume, if they support the colors and markup at all .. but possibly not GUI ones ?)

[16:34:31] ski/rizon i think they commonly do ?

[16:35:00] ski/rizon (but since they typically display topic in the same place as the rest of the text, either they'd support colors and markup for both, or for neither)

[16:36:12] ski/rizon well, looks like Irssi at least strips away the fancy markers, in the top-of-screen topic line for the currently focused channel (window)

[16:36:39] ski/rizon ircII, possibly ?

[16:38:01] ski/rizon BlueyHealer : ah, so it does display color in the separate GUI topic line ?

[16:39:03] ski/rizon (fun fact, X-Chat, which preceded HexChat, was inspired by AmiIRC, on the Amiga)

[16:39:12] ski/rizon BlueyHealer : ah, so it does display color in the separate GUI topic line ?

[16:40:24] ski/rizon iirc there's one IRC client for C64, using Contiki ? .. or maybe i'm thinking of Wheels

[16:40:52] ski/rizon presumably

[16:41:28] ski/rizon i tried it, very briefly, wildting2 .. never really got into it

[16:41:35] ski/rizon (then i got into IRC, instead)

[16:42:43] ski/rizon sometimes i chat a bit with someone who'd doing stuff with LogicMUD/LogicMOO, which is (afaiui) about using advanced logic and knowledge representation, to (e.g.) enable MUD-like stuff (amongst other things, i think)

[16:44:19] ski/rizon Harzilein : oh, what is LambdaMOOs distinguishing ideas or features ?

[16:44:39] ski/rizon Peorth : oh, i was thinking it might have to be spelled `Harzilein/technet' ..

[16:46:03] ski/rizon wildting2 : nice try, with including at least some colors and bold :)

[16:48:30] ski/rizon moose

[16:49:19] ski/rizon huh ?

[16:51:29] ski/rizon are brit actors in Hollywood relatively common ?

[16:52:25] ski/rizon southern U.S. or southern Eire ?

[16:55:14] ski/rizon they forgot to say `!list'

[16:56:13] ski/rizon ₄

[17:05:41] ski/rizon Saphir : it's a thing, to have (i think), bots entering a channel, saying "ciao a tutti", and then "!list" (excepting to get a warez-related response, i think)

[17:06:11] ski/rizon on a programming channel, someone made a script to auto-reply with an URL to information about the language, when someone says "!list"

[17:06:24] ski/rizon (well, actually, it was randomized between a few different links)

[17:06:38] ski/rizon sure's, Saphir

[17:08:10] ski/rizon oh wait, it's the other way around

[17:09:03] ski/rizon accuracy

[17:30:42] ski/rizon well, the newish electric newline thing is annoying ..

[17:31:25] ski/rizon what was wrong with having `C-j' indent for you, but a plain `RET'/`C-m' just insert the honest-to-God newline ?

[17:33:19] ski/rizon maybe that's why they're trying to get inside the cozy warmth of the house ?

[17:33:53] ski/rizon bork bork bork

[17:34:15] ski/rizon ranking's gone up and down

[17:35:37] ski/rizon s/rage/rank/

[17:36:36] ski/rizon ComputerTech : You fight like a dairy farmer.

[17:37:40] ski/rizon maybe you should think twice before asking such a question .. do you really want to know ?

[17:45:58] ski/rizon scrambled eggs is nice :)

[17:46:29] ski/rizon ("die in ihren eigenen Darm gepresst wurde" ;)

[17:47:35] ski/rizon h4, what about that person ?

[17:53:09] ski/rizon Durum wheat ?

[18:12:11] ski/rizon bonsoir

[18:13:09] ski/rizon eight now !?

[18:13:19] ski/rizon oh, misread

[18:13:36] ski/rizon read it as "8 (legged children)", rather than "(8 legged) children"

[18:39:11] ski/rizon too cold for that

[18:39:31] ski/rizon did you ever use shampoo in the sea, or a lake ?

[18:39:47] ski/rizon (or a river, i guess)

[18:41:27] ski/rizon on the inside, or the outside ?

[18:44:27] ski/rizon sushi-chan : when you were talking about half-human, half-spider, i was thinking of driders <https://i.pinimg.com/originals/af/86/cf/af86cf0077390b01854cc5084b50fb92.jpg>,<https://i.pinimg.com/originals/04/07/17/040717838095bd5d77518f9b7e4d82ef.jpg>,<https://i.pinimg.com/originals/6f/8b/06/6f8b06a1e6c8d1064a692cc4b55ed0a8.jpg>

[18:57:46] ski/rizon sushi-chan needs to vent a bit

[18:58:59] ski/rizon sushi-chan : "rant","rage". more uncontrollably let anger or frustration out (verbally), in an effort to calm oneself

[18:59:19] ski/rizon "get it off one's heart"

[18:59:43] ski/rizon i'd think he's unlikely to, sushi-chan

[19:04:47] ski/rizon kids do need to learn boundaries .. but physical violence is very likely to have contra-productive, or otherwise harmful, consequences, if not outright physical injury

[19:05:34] ski/rizon sushi-chan : do you feel more calm, now ?

[19:07:06] ski/rizon привет

[19:07:37] ski/rizon yes, CrystalMath

[19:08:41] ski/rizon you used to play with VC, BlueyHealer ?

[19:11:06] ski/rizon hm, what does "free-to-play" (whatever that is) have to do with VC ?

[19:11:54] ski/rizon BlueyHealer : hm, but people who started using it earlier, can still use it ?

[19:12:04] ski/rizon VC bots ?

[19:13:30] ski/rizon mm. makes sense, BlueyHealer

[19:15:19] ski/rizon hm, wouldn't there already be some money on a gift card ?

[19:15:42] ski/rizon oh, i guess you meant for recompense

[19:16:49] ski/rizon mm, guess both would work

[19:19:40] ski/rizon how do you mean ?

[19:20:10] ski/rizon shock, sushi-chan ?

[19:21:20] ski/rizon poor spiders wouldn't want to miss their caretaker

[19:22:01] ski/rizon sushi-chan : if you feel you need to, sure, go ahead. we like talking to you, but if you need to, that's fine

[19:22:40] ski/rizon sushi-chan often does have an ability to engender conversations in here

[19:22:53] ski/rizon heh, that too :)

[19:23:09] ski/rizon maybe take a walk, sushi-chan ?

[19:23:26] ski/rizon (some fresh air and nature)

[19:24:40] ski/rizon take care

[19:31:35] ski/rizon it's winter

[19:32:06] ski/rizon below freezing, over there, yet ?

[19:32:21] ski/rizon (how's house insulation and heating ?)

[19:33:23] ski/rizon we had a bit snow, maybe two weeks ago .. melted after a few days, though

[19:33:33] ski/rizon ComputerTech : yes, i know. that's why i asked

[19:33:52] ski/rizon ComputerTech : iow how it is in Poland, as compared to at home

[19:34:21] ski/rizon (i think you mentioned niece before ?)

[19:34:26] ski/rizon sounds like fun :)

[19:34:39] ski/rizon (you said something about reading bedtime story, i think)

[19:35:02] ski/rizon heh .. well

[19:35:22] ski/rizon no gloves ?

[19:35:56] ski/rizon ouch

[19:36:02] ski/rizon especially if it was damp snow

[19:36:50] ski/rizon she helped a bit with the snowmen ?

[19:37:35] ski/rizon (well, i think there's another, proper term for it. when you roll a bunch of large snowballs together, and then excavate that)

[19:38:21] ski/rizon (i think a proper igloo uses ice blocks ? or at least snow blocks that are deliberately placed as walls .. rather than excavating)

[19:38:37] ski/rizon you can put those "heat candles" inside, for light

[19:39:02] ski/rizon (you know, the thick, rather flat, ones, standing in a small metal container)

[19:39:31] ski/rizon maybe in January, or February

[19:40:19] ski/rizon yea, there was some winters in the 90s, or 80s. and i think around 2010 or so, that had a lot of snow, or staying a long time

[19:42:00] ski/rizon one day in November, in 1995, it snowed a lot, on a thursday evening. next day, trams had gotten stuck, weren't going. and much of the streets were not usable by cars, buses. apparently they called on radio to cancel school, and most workers (non-essential) didn't have to get to work

[19:42:56] ski/rizon my mother walked to her workplace, at the art museum (she was a teacher, but had taken a few years off to work elsewhere). she hadn't heard about most people not needing to get to work

[19:44:09] ski/rizon fun :)

[19:45:15] ski/rizon oy c0ded

[19:46:21] ski/rizon oh, i remember one winter (at least), when the sea froze. one day we went for a picnic outing, to a nearby lake. it took some time to get the fire (for grilling sausages) started. we also walked on the ice on the lake. some people had rollerblades and sails

[19:46:27] ski/rizon it was -20 °C

[19:46:59] ski/rizon (that'd be -4 °F)

[19:47:07] ski/rizon it broke ?

[19:47:20] ski/rizon now, BlueyHealer ?

[19:48:27] ski/rizon ah, it's called "Troy town", in english .. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_Town>

[19:48:45] ski/rizon in the mediterranean area, you'll sometimes see that pattern drawn, or carved, into walls

[19:50:03] ski/rizon (it's also called "Maiden Dance". some folk customs involve dancing in circles around a maiden in the middle. there may also be a relation to Ariadne, in the Minoan myth with Minotauros, on Crete)

[19:50:19] ski/rizon BlueyHealer : sorry, that was in response to h4 (re thermometre)

[19:52:26] ski/rizon <https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Trojeborg%2C_Nordisk_familjebok.png>

[19:52:29] ski/rizon <https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/Labyrint_vid%2C_Fr%C3%B6jels_kyrka%2C_Gotland.jpg>

[19:52:36] ski/rizon <https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/Labyrint.jpg>

[19:54:04] ski/rizon h4 : once, i mistakenly used a mercury thermometre, to check the temperature in some cooking (i think i was heating something up in a pot .. maybe water heating, with a vessel sunk partly into the water)

[19:54:23] ski/rizon .. anyway, the termometre broke, the mercury/quicksilver spilling out

[20:00:48] ski/rizon i was young and stupid/thoughtless

[20:03:48] ski/rizon yea, this was as a bit old, even then

[20:03:54] ski/rizon s/this/this one/

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