386) <Taneb> Turned out he got recursion, he just didn't get the return statement
392) <Taneb> Cut to February  <Taneb> War were declared  <Taneb> A galaxy in turmoil  <Taneb> Anyway, Febuary '10
393) <Taneb> I can't afford one of those!  <Taneb> A grandchild, not a laser printer
399) <fizzie> There's that saying that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. [...] <Taneb> You've just gave me a different result [...] <fizzie> It's always insane to expect different results, even when it's likely to occur.
400) <Taneb> Someone with that sort of grasp of logic shouldn't be allowed anything more computationally powerful than a plastic spoon
402) <Taneb> Look, I often walk my dog through a field with cows in it. And I punched myself in the face once.
408) <Taneb> So... God has jizzed on everything?  <oklopol> have you even READ the bible?
410) <Taneb> This staircase is very good for correcting people's opininons about communism
414) <NihilistDandy> Non sequitur is my forte  <NihilistDandy> On-topic discussion is my piano  <Taneb> Bowls of sugary breakfast cereal is my mezzoforte  <Taneb> Full fat milk is my pianissimo  <Taneb> On which note, I'm hungry
432) <Taneb> So it's like... Rummy mixed with... breakout?
434) <Taneb> Well, I'm now experimenting with clients  <fizzie> It doesn't sound like good PR to say that out loud.
435) <Taneb> I combined the wholegrain breakfast and chocolatey breakfast for maximum breakfast efficiency
441) <Phantom_Hoover> OK, Taneb's been taken by a mood and he needs raw emeralds.  <Phantom_Hoover> It's been fun knowing him.
442) <Phantom_Hoover> Taneb's been hit by melancholy.  <Phantom_Hoover> He didn't have any friends, fortunatel.y
468) <Taneb> Maybe if you try diplomacy.  <Taneb> Pointy steel diplomacy
473) <Taneb> I think it's fizzie against everyone atm  <Taneb> AND EVERYONE IS WINNING  <Taneb> EXCEPT FIZZIE
521) <Taneb> Just goes to show, the Beatles are more interesting than green vegetables.
526) <Taneb> I think this has taught us one thing. We can't teach itidus20 lambda calculus by comittee
529) <Taneb> Mayor says we need to make aluminum items  <Phantom_Hoover> Taneb, PH says you need to make lava items.
697) <Taneb> I swear my dreams are becoming increasingly rave + computer science oriented
716) <Taneb> I saw a Finnair plane today  <ion> In a smoking rubble?  <Taneb> Close.  <Taneb> Heathrow Airport
724) <Taneb> hang on I have bright idea  <Taneb> navajo to f me 1 in 3 people
725) <Taneb> profanity specialities
726) <Taneb> thank you verse I'm not quite innocent
766) <Taneb> Phantom_Hoover, like Glasgow but nicer  <Taneb> So, not like Glasgow at all
830) <Taneb> Gordon Moore's expected lifespan doubles every 18 months
872) <GreyKnight> Taneb: The other day on the channel I came up with BRAINLISPCODE, a LOLCODE-style LISP with an embedded bf derivative.  I thought you should know. :-I
877) <Taneb> That's the problem with Tumblr  <Taneb> All the porn titles are taken by non-porn people
897) <shachaf> Taneb: STOP TRYING TO GET LENS INTO EVERYTHING  <shachaf> Bike: You should use lens!  <Taneb> NEVER  <Bike> shachaf: i'm getting mixed messages here 
915) <elliott> well what is time  <elliott> imo: an illusion [...] <Taneb> elliott, I think it's more like a burrito  <Taneb> If you have too much of time you get ill  <Taneb> But damn it felt good  <Taneb> You only get out what you put in, unless your time was made by someone else, which isn't as fun  <ais523> burritos don't work like that!  
939) <Taneb> I'm a story about the prohibition of chocolate
940) <ais523> did you know that likes follow you around the internet and steal your browser?  <Taneb> I thought that was Phantom_Hoover
1000) <Taneb> I've also pretended to be Queen Elizabeth the first, but that was a desperate plea for attention
1059) <Taneb> I would like to learn how to use a sword  <Taneb> And also how to ride a unicycle  <Taneb> Perhaps not at the same time
1106) <Taneb> I... I think I've just registered mathsfacts.tumblr.com  <ais523> Taneb: because all the porn names were taken?  <Taneb> Yeah
1107) <shachaf> "Well, that was fun" -- Taneb "atriq" Ngevd
1126) <Taneb> kmc, I was trying to go to a sci-fi and fantasy society social, and I went to the wrong bar  <Taneb> Wound up at my university's fetish society  <Taneb> Didn't realise for an hour and a half
1139) <Taneb> I may write a compliant interpreter just for the hell of it  <FireFly> Taneb: stop complianing
1145) <Taneb> Well, get him  <Phantom_Hoover> her!  <Taneb> Well, get her  <Taneb> Hang on  <Taneb> Since when is Liam Neeson a "her"/  <Phantom_Hoover> oh i thought you meant my dad's godmother
1149) <Taneb> I am NOT in the mood for binomial expansion
1155) <Taneb> Note to self: if a recipe says "serves 4", I am not physically able to eat it all in one sitting
1160) <Taneb> Last night I had a dream that someone wrote such bad Haskell code he accidentally summoned the Great Old Ones and I had to fix the Haskell code and save the day
1175) <fungot> Taneb: mr president, commissioner, i would like to be caught by fishermen from guinea, [...]
1186) <Taneb> Help I don't know PHP and I am no longer sure that is a good thing
1188) <oerjan> in that thread Taneb admits to his sins.  i know this because that comment showed up in my friends list  <Taneb> oerjan, today I pushed 217 lines of documentation into lens [...] <edwardk> Say 10 Hail Marys and make 3 more lens commits and your sins shall be forgiven.
1192) <Taneb> Have some advice!  <Taneb> If you are running to give someone a hug  <Taneb> And they look like they are preparing to rugby tackle you  <Taneb> Abort hug immediately.  <Taneb> Seriously, my jaw still hurts
1204) <int-e> The people of Procrasti hereby resolve to lodge a formal complaint with Taneb and nortti about their ridicule of Procasti's glorious nation... later.