Conversation with vislab@conference.vislab.usyd.edu.au
(14:44:33) elau [elau@jabber.vislab.usyd.edu.au/Gaim] entered the room.
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(2005-12-09 16:51:09) elau: yep?
(2005-12-09 16:51:12) akumar: http://wiki.vislab.usyd.edu.au/moinwiki/WikiSandBox <- has some stuff on an IRC log
(2005-12-09 16:51:21) akumar: maybe you can use something similar for logbot
(2005-12-09 16:51:55) elau: hmm i'll ask steve to see what can be gotten from it
(2005-12-09 16:52:00) elau: if i save from gaim, it saves as html
(2005-12-09 16:52:05) akumar: hmm... make a log parse to convert to wiki format :D
(2005-12-09 16:52:33) elau: haha ok then
(2005-12-09 16:52:40) elau: cya im going
(2005-12-09 16:53:15) akumar: cya nick, john, logot
(2005-12-09 16:53:28) nickl: cya all
(2005-12-09 16:53:31) nickl: ... john
(2005-12-13 16:30:04) jstavrakakis: good morning
(2005-12-13 16:30:08) masa: hi john,
(2005-12-13 16:30:12) masa: is steve there?
(2005-12-13 16:34:05) masa: Since I'll be away from next week until 11/01/2006, I would like to have a farewell lunch for Nick this Thu.
(2005-12-13 16:34:32) jstavrakakis: um, steve and nick are preoccupied with a visitor
(2005-12-13 16:34:39) masa: visitor???
(2005-12-13 16:35:10) jstavrakakis: yes, they are showing her around ViSLAB
(2005-12-13 16:35:18) jstavrakakis: i dont know who though
(2005-12-13 16:35:19) masa: who is her?
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(14:58:35) praniga [praniga@jabber.vislab.usyd.edu.au/Gaim] entered the room.
(14:59:03) praniga: what r we doing here?
(14:59:08) elau: geeft
(14:59:15) praniga: ok
(14:59:18) elau: i've added the others
(14:59:20) elau: waiting
(14:59:22) praniga: there only seems to the 2 of us
(14:59:27) praniga: lol
(14:59:28) praniga: ok
(15:03:27) akumar [akumar@jabber.vislab.usyd.edu.au/Gaim] entered the room.
(15:03:37) akumar: heya
(15:03:57) akumar: sorry about that
(15:04:09) akumar: wasn't paying attention to gaim
(15:04:41) akumar: so
(15:04:49) akumar: what -are- we doing here?
(15:05:00) elau: discussing gift
(15:05:10) elau: still waiting for john
(15:05:16) akumar: a hah
(15:08:06) akumar: i think john's outside talking to someown
(15:08:10) akumar: someone*
(15:09:23) jstavrakakis [jstavrakakis@jabber.vislab.usyd.edu.au/Gaim] entered the room.
(15:09:34) jstavrakakis: hello
(15:09:39) jstavrakakis: masa was just here
(15:10:41) akumar: ahah
(15:10:48) akumar: anyway enoch
(15:10:54) akumar: the farewell lunch was today
(15:10:54) jstavrakakis: so is everyone still engaged?
(15:11:11) akumar: *raises eyebrow*
(15:11:25) jstavrakakis: what are the plans?
(15:11:31) akumar: no idea
(15:11:46) jstavrakakis: any new suggestions?
(15:13:44) jstavrakakis: it seems quite informal to just go into a chat room without having many people actually listening. Shall we hold this meeting at 4 or 5pm instead
(15:13:45) jstavrakakis: ?
(15:14:21) jstavrakakis: i vote 5pm
(15:14:28) akumar: i won't be here at 5 :P
(15:14:36) jstavrakakis: when then?
(15:14:40) akumar: but i can always read logs
(15:14:50) jstavrakakis: hmm, i suppose so
(15:15:05) jstavrakakis: when do you leave?
(15:19:01) praniga: well I think enoch initiated this and he should be the one conducting it
(15:19:08) jstavrakakis: this discussion area remains unsafe, i suggest email communication continues
(15:19:14) praniga: yeah
(15:19:34) jstavrakakis: but we can still decide on date of 'attack'
(15:20:12) elau: discussion area remains unsafe?
(15:20:27) elau: nick isn't going to see this unless he trawls through Logbot logs
(15:20:40) jstavrakakis: true
(15:20:53) jstavrakakis: i feel he will though, thats just him
(15:21:15) elau: there's always the last 20 or so lines repeated the next time someone logs in
(15:21:21) elau: we just have to make sure we chat crap at the end
(15:21:24) elau: :P
(15:21:25) jstavrakakis: good
(15:21:33) elau: ok, so what are the ideas!
(15:22:00) elau: art / pen / certificate
(15:22:04) jstavrakakis: yes
(15:22:11) akumar: mmhmm
(15:22:41) elau: the certificate can be easily arranged, but what about the other part?
(15:22:42) jstavrakakis: so are we voting for it?
(15:22:48) elau: where can we get pen with engraving?
(15:22:58) elau: we'll take it to a vote later, but just flesh out some details first
(15:23:18) jstavrakakis: im told that you can take it to a watchmaker and they do it for you there and then
(15:23:24) jstavrakakis: takes 5-10 mins
(15:23:29) jstavrakakis: need to confirm though
(15:23:46) jstavrakakis: i shall investigate tomorrow
(15:23:54) elau: hmm ok
(15:24:23) elau: how much is that likely to cost?
(15:24:53) jstavrakakis: not sure on that one, but shouldnt be more than $20
(15:24:58) jstavrakakis: hopefully...
(15:25:13) praniga: the negraving or the pen
(15:25:16) praniga: ?
(15:25:20) praniga: *engraving
(15:25:21) jstavrakakis: engraving
(15:25:21) elau: that's the pen
(15:25:26) elau: oh right
(15:25:34) jstavrakakis: the pen can be as expensive as you want
(15:25:51) jstavrakakis: a decent one is at least $20
(15:25:57) praniga: can they engrave in anything
(15:25:58) praniga: ?
(15:26:05) praniga: as in any material?
(15:26:07) elau: hmm is he likely to like a pen?
(15:26:10) jstavrakakis: they should be able to, depends on the skill
(15:26:15) akumar: hmm
(15:26:18) elau: he strikes me as someone who would type everything if he could
(15:26:25) akumar: yeah i guess he would type
(15:26:26) elau: and he uses pencil for his diagrams
(15:26:37) praniga: lol
(15:26:48) akumar: but a good pen is good for looking professional in business meetings though
(15:26:53) praniga: yeah i don;t think nick is the pen sorta person
(15:27:27) elau: that's true, it looks nice
(15:27:59) elau: or is there anything usyd-ish we could get?
(15:28:07) jstavrakakis: well, i feel the certificate is used as more of a funny thing but less appreciated as a pen.
(15:28:27) elau: yeh, we cant just give certificate :P
(15:28:49) praniga: certificate is more snetimental though
(15:28:50) jstavrakakis: still, Im yet to know about what sort of art you had in mind
(15:28:59) praniga: too late for that
(15:29:08) praniga: I don;t think we can get it here in time
(15:29:21) jstavrakakis: what is it?
(15:29:28) elau: shop.deviantart.com
(15:29:30) praniga: art
(15:29:37) elau: take a look at the 3D section
(15:29:39) akumar: shipping could takle a while
(15:29:43) elau: shipping is 6 days
(15:29:44) akumar: esp this close to christmas
(15:29:46) elau: we'll get it in time, just in time
(15:29:53) akumar: 6 working days?
(15:30:12) akumar: not if its 6 working days
(15:30:20) praniga: when is nick last day here?
(15:30:29) jstavrakakis: wednesday
(15:30:39) praniga: no way we'll be able to get it in time
(15:30:41) jstavrakakis: oh wait, in sydney its 22nd
(15:30:43) elau: but he leaving sydney on christmas day
(15:30:54) elau: there's an express service, 3 days
(15:31:00) praniga: yeah but u want to give it to him at the party
(15:31:03) jstavrakakis: ok, let me clarify, his contract for vislab ends on wednesday
(15:31:04) elau: party was today wasnt it?
(15:31:12) akumar: lunch was today
(15:31:14) akumar: *burps*
(15:31:18) jstavrakakis: it was just a farewell lunch from Masa
(15:31:19) elau: heh
(15:31:20) praniga: the farewell gathering
(15:31:21) elau: oh right
(15:31:42) jstavrakakis: Masa wont be here next week or tomorrow, so we had it today
(15:31:47) elau: oh i see
(15:31:57) elau: hmm darn that means we cant get masa to sign the certificate
(15:32:01) elau: unless we get him to email it to us :D
(15:32:13) praniga: yeah
(15:32:36) praniga: by the way thanx to all the guys at vislab for inviting us to lunch (fists waving)
(15:32:42) elau: actually they did invite us
(15:32:46) elau: i just read the email wrong
(15:32:49) jstavrakakis: hey, i emailed members
(15:32:50) elau: mea culpa
(15:32:58) jstavrakakis: ?
(15:33:03) elau: mea culpa = my fault
(15:33:07) jstavrakakis: oh
(15:33:28) jstavrakakis: it was short notice, sorry. I had only found out that day
(15:33:39) praniga: u mean today
(15:33:46) elau: as for artwork, i thought it would be appropriate if it's the 3D stuff and he's got abstractish art in his place anyway
(15:33:46) jstavrakakis: yesterday
(15:33:57) elau: yeh it was in the last couple of lines in the chat room
(15:34:04) jstavrakakis: yes
(15:34:04) elau: haha when i saw it i went, uh oh
(15:34:20) praniga: well no one emailed me
(15:34:24) akumar: they emailed us.. well john did heh
(15:34:28) praniga: I don;t think they did anyway
(15:34:32) elau: it should have been sent via vislab account?
(15:34:42) elau: anyway dw, it's over
(15:34:56) praniga: yeah yeah
(15:35:38) elau: so art, pen, or an artistic pen?
(15:36:09) jstavrakakis: i do remember seeing him with some hobby art at his place, any ideas there?
(15:37:02) elau: what's hobby art?
(15:37:26) akumar: yeah what is it?
(15:37:45) jstavrakakis: he made some paintings of his own
(15:38:15) elau: is that the weird looking painting of a person near the tv?
(15:38:57) jstavrakakis: he showed me and matt in one of his other rooms
(15:39:04) elau: oh i see
(15:39:08) elau: what are they like?
(15:40:10) jstavrakakis: drawings of usually one person in an environment like a city, or forest. quite an imagination though
(15:41:56) praniga: lol
(15:42:17) jstavrakakis: i guess that was expected from Nick
(15:42:29) jstavrakakis: multi-talented bastard
(15:43:54) praniga: yeah
(15:44:06) akumar: heh
(15:44:28) praniga: i wanted to give a soldering iron or some hardware thing engraved with "Abt the only thing u can't do"
(15:44:47) jstavrakakis: haha
(15:46:32) jstavrakakis: anything we can give him that is graphics oriented?
(15:46:42) jstavrakakis: i was scrambling my brain about that before
(15:48:29) elau: hmmmm
(15:49:12) elau: there's a book in kinokuniya with cool CG drawings
(15:49:18) elau: it's a little pricey though
(15:49:22) elau: very nice however
(15:51:10) jstavrakakis: sounds goo
(15:51:12) jstavrakakis: *good
(15:52:12) elau: is chiqui at vislab atm?
(15:52:18) akumar: chiqui?
(15:52:24) elau: chiqui = matthew
(15:52:25) jstavrakakis: im not there, im in g88
(15:52:29) elau: ahh
(15:52:33) jstavrakakis: ash?
(15:52:33) akumar: lemme check
(15:52:45) akumar: nup
(15:52:46) akumar: gone
(15:52:50) elau: ok
(15:53:35) qche [qche@jabber.vislab.usyd.edu.au/Gaim] entered the room.
(15:53:41) qche: heloc
(15:53:44) jstavrakakis: whoa!
(15:53:44) qche: whats up?
(15:53:46) elau: amazing, as if by magic
(15:53:50) jstavrakakis: i konw
(15:53:54) elau: we mention his name and he shows up
(15:54:01) qche: i am the genie
(15:54:06) qche: you are granted 3 wishes
(15:54:07) jstavrakakis: he answers to the whipsers of jabber
(15:54:08) elau: i bet ash was covering for him ;) he was just ignoring us until now right?
(15:54:15) qche: they must not include girl or sex in them tho
(15:54:20) qche: no i was in the toilet
(15:54:29) qche: anyway
(15:54:31) qche: gift right?
(15:54:36) qche: how we gonna do it?
(15:55:18) elau: we intend to give him a fake certificate
(15:55:20) elau: in addition
(15:55:23) qche: a pen?
(15:55:32) jstavrakakis: do you have suggestions
(15:55:39) elau: the current ideas are: pen, artwork, hobby art, that CG artwork book we saw at kino
(15:55:43) elau: any other ideas?
(15:55:49) akumar: he just walked in
(15:55:53) akumar: i had to distract nick
(15:55:56) akumar: speaking of which
(15:55:58) elau: lol
(15:56:05) akumar: nick may log in at any time
(15:56:09) qche: ooo
(15:56:10) akumar: hge knows something is up in here
(15:56:15) elau: he does?
(15:56:19) elau: how come
(15:56:25) elau: stop giving him shifty looks then ;)
(15:56:28) akumar: well when matt walked in kinda yelled at him :p
(15:56:29) jstavrakakis: quick type meaningless garbage so he wont see it
(15:56:34) akumar: GARBAGE
(15:56:38) qche: 2345
(15:56:41) akumar: knock knock
(15:56:42) qche: 6232
(15:56:43) jstavrakakis: garbage ack
(15:56:48) elau: twinkle twinkle little star
(15:56:49) qche: o shit thats my pin
(15:56:54) elau: how i wonder what me are
(15:56:56) qche: o shit i shouldnt have said that
(15:56:57) akumar: who's there
(15:57:02) jstavrakakis: grant me a wish Matt
(15:57:02) qche: im matt
(15:57:06) akumar: hahahaha
(15:57:06) qche: what do you want?
(15:57:10) qche: a can of coke?
(15:57:10) jstavrakakis: give me a new family
(15:57:11) akumar: lettuce
(15:57:11) elau: i want chicks
(15:57:14) akumar: lettuce who
(15:57:18) qche: a new family?
(15:57:19) akumar: lettuce in and you'll see
(15:57:24) elau: bwahahaha
(15:57:25) qche: whats wrong with your current one?
(15:57:29) elau: they're Greek
(15:57:36) qche: whats wrong with greek
(15:57:36) jstavrakakis: the random numbers were bad
(15:57:42) qche: greek has an interesting history
(15:57:46) jstavrakakis: it needed a new seed
(15:57:47) qche: what do you want then
(15:57:48) akumar: mmmm chicks
(15:57:54) elau: ditto ash
(15:57:56) qche: i can give you a family in azerbaijan
(15:58:01) qche: but they're pretty poor
(15:58:06) qche: and theres one in dafur
(15:58:10) qche: o wait their dead
(15:58:11) akumar: anyway... maybe he's not logging in... matt you're almost behind him so keep an eye out :P
(15:58:19) jstavrakakis: hmm, how about Iceland?
(15:58:22) qche: hmmm
(15:58:25) qche: iceland is good
(15:58:30) jstavrakakis: i like cold
(15:58:31) qche: scandanavians are usualyl cool
(15:58:31) akumar: iceland is all green
(15:58:36) elau: iceland is pink
(15:58:39) elau: pink i say\
(15:58:45) jstavrakakis: greenland is white
(15:58:51) qche: but yeah out of your own interest ill let you have your current family
(15:59:00) akumar: matt is afk
(15:59:05) jstavrakakis: what sort of genie are you!
(15:59:08) elau: well since probability of nick logging in > 0, P(Nick logging in while we discuss) -> 1 as t -> \infty
(15:59:14) elau: so let's get a move on!
(15:59:30) akumar: *moves*
(15:59:40) jstavrakakis: *nods*
(15:59:56) praniga: enoch when did u become interested in chics
(15:59:59) praniga: ?
(16:00:00) praniga: :P
(16:00:05) elau: when i saw you
(16:00:20) praniga: oooohhhh enoch
(16:00:26) jstavrakakis: are you guys sitting next to eachother?
(16:00:30) praniga: yes
(16:00:33) akumar: maybe we should leave these two alone :p
(16:00:34) jstavrakakis: haha
(16:00:35) elau: he's sitting on my lap
(16:00:43) akumar: *steps back slowly*
(16:00:46) jstavrakakis: paperclip wars begin!
(16:00:51) praniga: lol
(16:01:30) elau: hmm let's type really long messages in here and see if we can get Logbot to buffer overflow
(16:01:32) elau: muahahaha
(16:01:44) praniga: u idiot there is no buffer
(16:01:52) praniga: all goes into file
(16:01:54) praniga: :p
(16:01:57) elau: dang
(16:02:16) akumar: hmm
(16:02:17) akumar: maybe
(16:02:22) akumar: we can make the file so bigf
(16:02:27) akumar: it takes up the whole disk
(16:02:30) praniga: lol
(16:02:43) praniga: do the calculations
(16:02:50) praniga: it'll prob take a while
(16:02:55) praniga: a very long while
(16:02:57) akumar: copy and paste?
(16:03:10) akumar: ohhh
(16:03:17) akumar: maybe write an applescript to do it
(16:03:24) praniga: i think the server would have atleast 50 gigs of free space
(16:03:26) akumar: so i don't even have to be there
(16:03:34) praniga: thats cheating
(16:03:38) akumar: only 50billion characters or so
(16:03:46) elau: where's Logbot located?
(16:03:51) elau: on Steve's machine?
(16:03:55) praniga: no idea
(16:03:55) akumar: no one ever said we played fair
(16:04:05) elau: perl -E "fork while fork"
(16:04:12) akumar: bwahahaha
(16:04:15) praniga: assumming u can type 5 characters per second
(16:04:15) elau: although we'll probably never step foot in vislab again if we do that
(16:04:16) elau: hahahaha
(16:04:28) jstavrakakis: maybe for Nicks gift we surrender this transcript to him, i think hell appreciate our collaborative efforts
(16:04:35) elau: that's actually a great idea
(16:04:39) akumar: good idea john :D
(16:04:47) jstavrakakis: yes, hell be reading what i type right now!
(16:04:49) elau: after all, it's the thought that counts
(16:04:50) jstavrakakis: and laugh
(16:04:54) elau: ^^
(16:04:56) praniga: lol
(16:04:58) praniga: true true
(16:05:05) akumar: hey nick... laugh
(16:05:08) akumar: out loud
(16:05:14) jstavrakakis: i cant hear you
(16:05:15) elau: it's LOL you n00b
(16:05:19) akumar: SCREAM
(16:05:54) praniga: last comment shall be "we deliberated for ages but were too lazy to get u anything so u shall have the deliberation"
(16:06:04) jstavrakakis: haha
(16:06:19) elau: so he can imagine the gifts that he could've gotten ;)
(16:06:32) jstavrakakis: "the most powerful gift we can give you is our IP for the thoughts on the gift"
(16:06:37) praniga: not much consolation is it though
(16:06:42) praniga: lol
(16:06:44) akumar: hah
(16:06:54) praniga: brb
(16:07:30) elau: k
(16:09:06) akumar: brb
(16:13:01) jstavrakakis: so if we were getting a pen with an engraved message. What would it say?
(16:15:36) praniga: well I'm off
(16:15:45) praniga: had enough of lazying around for the day
(16:15:53) jstavrakakis: its not 5pm yet!
(16:15:57) praniga: let me know what u decide
(16:16:00) praniga: so
(16:16:12) praniga: I have a "flexible work environment"
(16:16:26) jstavrakakis: i have w3 at 5
(16:16:41) praniga: i.e come and go as u pliz but get the work done
(16:16:42) akumar: back
(16:16:43) praniga: w3?
(16:16:55) jstavrakakis: err...work related program
(16:16:56) akumar: warcraft 3?
(16:16:59) akumar: ahh :(
(16:17:13) praniga: work realted problem?
(16:17:18) praniga: or warcraft?
(16:17:39) jstavrakakis: no of course not that, what sort of person do you think I am. Oh, btw hi Masa
(16:17:49) elau: hi masa? HIDE!
(16:18:01) jstavrakakis: minimise!
(16:18:08) praniga: lol
(16:18:08) elau: perhaps the pen should say "Good Riddance"?
(16:18:13) elau: :D
(16:18:36) jstavrakakis: haha
(16:18:38) praniga: well i'm off
(16:18:40) jstavrakakis: ok
(16:18:41) elau: bah
(16:18:47) praniga: have fun wid WARCRAFT john
(16:18:52) elau: you're ripping NICTA off, dont you feel bad?
(16:19:01) jstavrakakis: quick enoch launch a stationary based attack
(16:19:08) praniga: man I'm a week ahead of schedule
(16:19:24) jstavrakakis: CRT monitor counts...
(16:19:24) praniga: and i don't have access to the dev board
(16:19:44) elau: oh i see
(16:20:44) praniga: and u shouldn't e saying anything u went of at 12:30 yesterday
(16:20:51) praniga: *be
(16:20:56) elau: no i didnt, you just imagined it
(16:21:04) elau: i was working uhh remotely yeh?
(16:21:54) praniga: through the wireless neural interconnect eh
(16:23:41) elau: actually we should give the gift a codename, let's refer to it as the bung from now on
(16:23:58) praniga: the bung?
(16:24:05) praniga: we're not hippies
(16:24:15) akumar: cya parnesh heh
(16:25:03) elau: bye.............
(16:25:33) praniga left the room.
(16:25:55) akumar: so
(16:26:15) elau: so
(16:26:36) akumar: *crickets*
(16:28:41) akumar: did we decide anything?
(16:30:02) elau: parnesh suggests getting a strawberry mooussecake
(16:30:29) elau: where strawberry mooussecake = gstring
(16:30:43) elau: (he's using my terminal)
(16:30:45) elau: (bwahahaha)
(16:34:38) elau: anyway enough rambling for today... signing off
(16:34:43) elau: (i'll save a copy :P)