IRC log of Cochineal on 2011-08-03

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03:09:07 [gadgetgrl]blood-c is what i'm watching
03:09:22 [gadgetgrl]i'm wondering if it's similar in all
03:11:30 [Puyopuyo]Blood+ was more of a long-running drama than a monster of the week.
03:11:32 [Puyopuyo]I'd have to see Blood-C.
03:11:39 [Puyopuyo]And Blood wasn't at all, as it was a movie.
03:14:17 [Pipian]whee
03:14:17 [Pipian]almost done with season 2 of breaking bad
03:14:17 [Pipian]one
03:14:17 [Pipian]disc
03:14:17 [Pipian]at
03:14:17 [Pipian]a
03:14:17 [Pipian]time
03:14:50 [Puyopuyo]...don't you have several more seasons to go?
03:16:01 [Pipian]… yes.
03:16:09 [Pipian]But I'm taking a break after this one
03:16:13 [Pipian]To watch some movies instead
03:16:20 [Puyopuyo]Ah
03:16:31 [Pipian]And also The Wire
03:16:45 [Pipian]Because apparently it is good and I have heard practically everyone I know recommend it
03:16:55 [Pipian]And by practically everyone I know
03:17:19 [Pipian]I mean no one in this channel
03:17:19 [Puyopuyo]You better not mean your brother.
03:17:19 [Pipian]He's not the only one
03:17:23 [Pipian]I've seen at least two other reccomendations
03:24:59 [gadgetgrl]i've had various friends recommend it as well
03:25:08 [gadgetgrl]i was supposed to get it in the fall...but the harddrive exchange never happened
03:26:00 [gadgetgrl]i ended up watching dexter instead
03:29:05 [Puyopuyo]Heh
03:35:19 [Pipian]So instead of Breaking Bad, I watched The Red Balloon last night
03:41:06 [Puyopuyo]...I don't think I liked that movie.
03:41:12 [Puyopuyo]I recall seeing it twice.
03:41:20 [Pipian]COMING OF AGE
03:41:20 [Puyopuyo]When I was very young.
03:41:31 [Puyopuyo]I recall thinking it was depressing, meaningless, and why the hell was I watching it, I was only 6.
03:41:32 [Pipian]Or something
03:41:51 [Puyopuyo]And then the ending was entirely bizarre, and what about all of the children who lost their balloons?
03:42:05 [Puyopuyo]How was this a fair ending? Why did he deserve all of the balloons?
03:42:17 [Pipian]Sam
03:42:22 [Pipian]You don't understand balloon logic
03:42:29 [Pipian]He liked the balloon
03:42:33 [Pipian]Therefore balloons liked him
03:42:38 [Pipian]And therefore he deserved them all
03:42:40 [Pipian]or something
03:42:44 [Pipian]It's balloon logic
03:42:48 [Pipian]It's not supposed to make senes
03:44:31 [Pipian]But no, really it was the standard "Don't be a jerk kid who steals other peoples' balloons. Be a good kid."
03:47:28 [Puyopuyo]All I got out of it was "If something bad happens to someone else, I suffer for it"
03:48:05 [Puyopuyo]If I'm going to watch anything from my friggen childhood, at least I'd want to watch The Snowman.
03:48:22 [Puyopuyo]And that was a friggen CHRISTMAS SPECIAL.
03:48:43 [Pipian]Sam
03:49:03 [Pipian]That is a weird moral to draw out of it
03:50:56 [Pipian]I am pretty sure that is the opposite moral actually
03:50:59 [Pipian]:-|
03:56:51 [Puyopuyo]Well, they had a shot of a kid holding a balloon, and it leaving his hand to go and join our protagonist's friggen harem of balloons.
03:57:02 [Puyopuyo]He didn't need the hundred he ended up with. He only needed one!
03:57:22 [Puyopuyo]One could have magically flown over to him, WITHOUT SHOWING SOME POOR BASTARD GETTING HIS BALLOON TAKEN FOR A METAPHYSICAL MORAL.
03:57:52 [Puyopuyo]It sucks that the main character got his balloon taken by a jerk and damaged and then it was no longer floating and then he stomped on it, but come on.
03:58:07 [Puyopuyo]What right does that give him for everyone else's balloons to deprive their children?
03:58:31 [Pipian]Haha
03:58:38 [Puyopuyo](Yes, I'm the sort of person who worries about the lesser characters. Everything works out fine for the protagonists, but what about the extras?)
03:58:59 [Puyopuyo]It's part of why I've always hated Zora's Domain in Ocarina of Time. IT NEVER FUCKING UNFREEZES.
03:59:07 [Pipian]True
03:59:19 [Puyopuyo]There is something to be said for showing that things work out for the poor extras.
03:59:31 [Puyopuyo]As much of what goes on is entirely the protagonist's fault.
03:59:37 [Puyopuyo]So yes. I did not like The Red Balloon.
03:59:48 [Puyopuyo]Because everyone else loses their balloons just so that one boy may have all of them.
04:00:04 [Puyopuyo]And that's a dictatorship. A balloonist dictatorship.
04:00:19 [Puyopuyo]...hrm. No.
04:02:11 [Puyopuyo]A balloonist totalitarianist regime. There.
04:02:13 [Puyopuyo]Er, totalitarian
04:02:21 [Pipian]Haha
04:02:30 [Puyopuyo]One man, ALL THE BALLOONS.
04:07:51 [Pipian]What can I say? Lucky kid.
04:10:38 [Puyopuyo]He's a despot, that's what he is. "I HAVE NO BALLOON. ALL OF YOURS SHALL BE MINE."
04:18:48 [nathanbp|laptop]........
04:19:10 [nathanbp|laptop]that is a totally bizarre thing to read as I tab into chat
04:19:20 [Puyopuyo]You have to have seen the movie.
04:22:58 [nathanbp|laptop]so I tried scoring some hands of mahjong
04:23:05 [Puyopuyo]And?
04:23:34 [nathanbp|laptop]but I kept getting enough han that how much fu I had didn't matter
04:24:01 [Puyopuyo]Heh. That's annoying for scoring.
04:24:09 [nathanbp|laptop]well it makes scoring really easy
04:24:16 [nathanbp|laptop]it just makes practising counting fu hard
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04:24:52 [nathanbp|laptop]also fu get rounded up so that also makes it hard to be sure that you're right
04:26:15 [Puyopuyo]Heh.
04:56:12 [gadgetgrl]more people should have more interesting names...it makes data entry that much more interesting :p
04:57:27 [Puyopuyo]?
04:59:00 [gadgetgrl]someone's name was capcha...it was a minor break in other more complicated long names
04:59:32 [gadgetgrl]i need to automate a process, but lotus agents isn't something i'm looking forward to
04:59:44 [Pipian]MapReduce!
04:59:47 [Pipian]Oh right
04:59:50 [Pipian]Not at Google :-|
05:00:02 [gadgetgrl]:p
05:00:15 [Puyopuyo]>_>
05:00:26 [Pipian](Also that's not a direct answer anyway considering that MapReduce doesn't AUTOMATE anything.)
05:05:46 [gadgetgrl]what does it do?
05:07:29 [Pipian]It's just a way to work on massive amounts of data in parallel across hundreds, if not thousands of machines
05:07:38 [gadgetgrl]that and south american names who decide to use their ENTIRE 3-4 names suck :p
05:07:42 [gadgetgrl]ah
05:08:08 [gadgetgrl]so one reason google doesn't own a mainframe :p
05:08:34 [Pipian]Google's got so much data to work with a mainframe is basically a drop in a torrent.
05:09:23 [Pipian]It's cheaper and more efficient to just have hundreds of thousands of high-end servers which probably only cost a couple thousand dollars a piece TOPS.
05:09:41 [Pipian]And almost certainly less as I believe we design our own hardware
05:11:05 [Pipian]Also
05:11:16 [gadgetgrl]and software, yes
05:11:33 [Pipian]Well, that fact goes without saying
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