(19:30:53) gil levy: the co-ops next to my dorm last year had lots of chickens that walked around freely
(19:31:09) gil levy: i was walking to class once and one jumped right in front of me
(19:31:24) gil levy: i was so scared
(19:31:26) gil levy: i felt like a chicken

(15:21:08) matin: holy shit what is that word
(15:21:12) matin: that means "screw-up"
(15:21:14) matin: and sounds like plunder
(15:21:48) froystig: blunder?
(15:21:53) matin: blunder
(15:21:54) matin: yes

(00:42:52) mees: my mother came into my basement
(00:42:54) mees: to feed the cake
(00:42:56) mees: who woke her
(00:43:02) mees: i was very confused though
(00:43:13) mees: because something charged down the stairs and into the bathroom and i couldn't see what
(00:43:13) froystig: wait, what?
(00:43:16) mees: so i played a sneaking up game
(00:43:20) mees: oh
(00:43:23) mees: sorry
(00:43:27) mees: the cake is really a cat
(00:43:29) mees: we don't feed cakes

"But it isn't 'it is'."
-- Mees, regarding "its".

(23:03:34) matin: I must to the airport
(23:03:38) matin: ttyl
(23:03:43) froystig: you must what to the airport?
(23:03:47) froystig: be kind?
(23:04:06) matin: I'm musting

(20:35:14) christos mantoulidis: tomato tomato
(20:35:18) christos mantoulidis: hmmm that doesn't work

(18:47:10) jasonaue: i assume it stanford for interest
(18:47:13) jasonaue: eh wtf
(18:47:17) jasonaue: i assume it stands for interest

(21:50:45) matin: clearly you were meant
(21:50:55) matin: to frolick naked and dumb
(21:51:05) matin: as a Hobbesian savage

(23:14:34) david tobin: I should write medical forms
(23:14:59) david tobin: there are a lot of jobs that would be worth having for a week

"I want to point out that this is completely rigorous."
-- Modern algebra professor, in a lecture on rings of fractions of a commutative ring.

(01:20:07) christos mantoulidis: it's time to sleep for me
(01:20:10) christos mantoulidis: so... gnight!
(01:20:13) froystig: good night!
(01:20:25) christos mantoulidis has signed off.
(01:31:45) christos mantoulidis has signed on.
(01:32:57) christos mantoulidis: you know what i hate
(01:32:59) christos mantoulidis: when i'm like
(01:33:00) christos mantoulidis: i give up
(01:33:02) christos mantoulidis: i'm going to bed
(01:33:05) christos mantoulidis: this problem has beaten me
(01:33:10) christos mantoulidis: and then i solve it on my way to the shower
(01:33:19) christos mantoulidis: and then run back to test my hypothesis half naked

(17:08:30) froystig: i still don't know fourier
(17:08:34) christos mantoulidis: really
(17:08:41) christos mantoulidis: well there's not much to know
(17:08:44) christos mantoulidis: it's like power series
(17:08:48) christos mantoulidis: only more of a pain
(17:08:51) froystig: lol
(17:08:54) froystig: i mean what it's useful for
(17:08:59) christos mantoulidis: problem sets

(14:59:18) froystig: f them.
(14:59:59) froystig: at least g and h generate the same fing subgroup
(15:00:13) shivaram: hahaha
(15:00:20) shivaram: when people fail you, there's always mathematical truth!

(16:56:44) christos mantoulidis: vim dr_api.c
(16:56:46) christos mantoulidis: ooops
(16:56:50) christos mantoulidis: you are not my terminal

(19:48:42) christos mantoulidis: you know why I love C?
(19:48:44) christos mantoulidis: because given int arr[10];
(19:49:15) christos mantoulidis: arr[3]
(19:49:22) christos mantoulidis: = *(arr + 3)
(19:49:30) christos mantoulidis: = *(3 + arr)
(19:49:40) christos mantoulidis: = *drrrrrrrrrrums* 3[arr]

(20:39:49) dan robinson: anyway, i found out CS is in my blood!
(20:40:52) froystig: oh
(20:40:57) froystig: are you going to major in it now, then?
(21:10:24) dan robinson: no i found out that my great grandpa was
(21:10:33) dan robinson: a traveling salesman!!!

(00:15:59) shivaram has signed off.
(00:19:18) shivaram has signed on.
(00:19:37) shivaram: i'm at my parents' house on my old machine
(00:19:52) shivaram: which periodically gets bluescreened by its wireless card driver

(19:38:30) matin: dude I woke up this morning
(19:39:00) matin: and one of my tabs in firefox was the "Modernist poetry in English" article in wikipedia
(19:39:13) matin: I have absolutely no idea how I got there
(19:39:24) matin: don't drink and wiki

[paraphrase] If you've ever interviewed for a job and then never really heard back from the company...
-- Automata & complexity theory professor, in a lecture on (non-recursive) recursively enumerable languages.

(16:35:43) edluong: feynman's algorithm does not halt

(22:21:22) jasonaue: maybe they have some algorithms or AI stuff they put in their ap. but i'm not sure if AI/algorithms programming is fun anyway
(22:21:27) jasonaue: if anything it seems particually hellish
(22:21:55) jasonaue: you just get really cryptic bugs that are impossible to debug, and you spend so much time with the nitty gritty of implementing the algorithms, that you don't get to appreciate the pleasure of their beauty
(22:22:36) jasonaue: honestly, i'm still looking for a solution to the human condition
(22:22:38) jasonaue: if you find one, let me know

(03:02:57) froystig: good night!
(03:03:08) christos mantoulidis: same
[...]
(03:25:05) froystig: still not asleep yet? me neither...
(03:25:32) christos mantoulidis: oh
(03:25:34) christos mantoulidis: sleep
(03:25:35) christos mantoulidis: right
(03:25:36) christos mantoulidis: i forgot

[2:30 AM on a Tuesday]
me: Were you going to get us something to drink?
mees: Were you going to get me some grapes?
mees: ... and a fan?

(22:57:34) shivaram: the one bad thing about living away from your parents:
(22:57:42) shivaram: when you run out of toothpaste, there's just no toothpaste

(00:36:05) shivaram: it's become totally impossible for me to care about my work
(00:37:37) frew: Hehe
(00:37:39) frew: I know the feeling
(00:37:49) frew: What's causing it for you?
(00:45:55) froystig: probably that he's seeing the end.
(00:46:08) frew: Hehe
(00:46:09) frew: Yeah
(01:12:44) shivaram: yeah, i'm not sure
(01:13:15) shivaram: i guess all my work can be divided into two categories
(01:14:05) shivaram: fuck, can't finish that thought
(01:14:07) shivaram: never mind

(21:41:08) mgaeta: i was confused
(21:41:21) mgaeta: "why was that woman waving at me?"
(21:41:24) mgaeta: i mean that your hair is really long
(21:43:34) froystig: thanks for clarifying

froy@box:~$ fortune
You will get what you deserve.
froy@box:~$ fortune
You will wish you hadn't.