UKC Quotes

14 June 2009, QUOTES-IRC-08 Link

[talking about Penguin bars]
<ferret> the cheap sainsbury's own brand ones I buy don't have jokes
<ferret> Sometimes I look at them and laugh a bit but it isn't the same

14 June 2009, QUOTES-IRC-08 Link

[talking about Stefan Kahrs]
<badsheepy> stefan himself actually is only 5 lines of haskell
<badsheepy> noone quite understands how it works, but theres lots of recursion
<badsheepy> and bizarrely, an ascii horse

14 June 2009, QUOTES-IRC-08 Link

<BleanD> OK, who has put SharePoint blows goats at the top of the search query list with 82 occurences?!

14 June 2009, QUOTES-IRC-08 Link

<evad> Wow, Unisys have a 16-socket server filled with 6-core Intel Xeons.
<evad> 96 processor cores!
<skel> what you going to do with all that?
<evad> Run screen and irssi, what else?

04 May 2009, QUOTES-CS-08 Link

Regulation on whistleblowing ...

1) ... is carefully designed for the right reasons.
2) ... is maybe a bit complex but it's a complex (legal) problem.
3) ... appears to be designed to dissuade whistleblowers.
4) ... on a Friday afternoon at 3? You've got to be kidding.

Eerke Boiten, in CO643 slides

04 May 2009, QUOTES-IRC-08 Link

<kimble> i suppose running the marathon's a lot like upgrading debian
<kimble> seems like a good idea at the time, then you go through hell, eventually leading to death or immense satisfaction

04 May 2009, QUOTES-IRC-08 Link

* Atuin eeps at online personality questionnaire to fill in for NATS :)
<BleanD> "Are you likely to go postal under stress?"
<kimble> "If so, the royal mail needs you!"

04 May 2009, QUOTES-IRC-08 Link

<Moof> mmmmmm
<Moof> this is good
<Kitty> aah, the lubricated chef returns
<Moof> Kitty: I'm more nigella than jamie
<SlimeyPete> Moof's a MILF?

04 May 2009, QUOTES-IRC-08 Link

[talking about girls' names]
<typo_> we should go back to cromwellian times
<typo_> patience virtue chastity
<ben> those names never work
<ben> the girls are always the opposite, I'm sure
<Stotty> today you could have names like Privacy ;)
<typo_> integrity
<OScully> or Human-Rights
<Stotty> let's stop there :)

04 May 2009, QUOTES-IRC-08 Link

<dubs|> i really must be more careful what I type in my browser
<SuperMatt> what did you do?
<dubs|> when in the office we type "tits" to get to the Titan Internet Team System
<dubs|> works slightly differently at home