The Boop Hall of Fame

Posted on October 16, 2006 by vidar

The Boop Hall of Fame

Here are some quotes from #botfu where boop stays eerily on topic.

<vidaroni> boop: the game is over. it’s time for you to confess.
<boop> vidaroni: i never faked!

<docpi> boop: Next thing we now, you willbe put up on a paysite on the web.
<boop> docpi: the sadistic monster, bought me a link to mirc?

<sx-work> boop, un litro de cerveza por favor
<boop> sx-work: and his hyperactive bladder.

<vidaroni> nightypoo
<vidaroni> boop: sleep tight
<boop> vidaroni: natt. and also prepared meself some breakfast.

<vidaroni> hrm, i’ve turned into such an early bird
<vidaroni> boop: where is night owl vidar?
<boop> vidaroni: a good old self, i guess we laugh of somewhat different pages.

<vidarino> boop: let’s bring that bitch down, baby!
<boop> vidarino: the titanic? so there are no doubts about transactions since they got the recognition it deserves.

<vidarino> boop: you down and durty dog, you.
<boop> vidarino: that’s the hottest fad these days, not for sale either.

<vidarino> boop: you’re just plain nasty.
<boop> vidarino: if it rings your bell.

<CyBeR> http://w-ber.ormgas.com/vpenis.sh
<docpi> that already looks supsicious.
<docpi> boop: what will I find htere?
<boop> docpi: as long as it’s the web was bandwidth killer numero uno.

<docpi> boop: Don’t ask. Swallow.
<boop> docpi: gtg have a reason.

<docpi> Some bad host you are to your food.
<pippin> boop: I am an evil host
<boop> pippin: and yes, he should filter himself a luscious all-carbohydrate breakfast.

<docpi> boop: You be our witness that you never really had anything to laugh about.
<boop> docpi: perhaps not. it’s a darn long printout.

<vidarino> hmm, i think “lithp” is more accurate, though
<docpi> or lishp
<docpi> boop: look! dialects!
<boop> docpi: wth was that nastynørsk?

<vidarino> boop: bushes and vote counters don’t mix.
<boop> vidarino: i’m guesing there’s some overlap in these lists anyway.

<docpi> vidarino: oh, judging from boop’s reply, you must be Darth Sidious’s understudy.
<vidarino> boop: oh noes, he is on to us!
<boop> vidarino: kanskje like greit på den sida? and here it’s almost entertaining inbetween…
<vidarino> 8|
<Safari_Al> vidarino, translation?
<vidarino> “it might be just as good on that side”

<karlmag> boop: what’s wrong with him?
<boop> karlmag: no problem with the tiny bladder.
<karlmag> I guess that’s a good thing…
<karlmag> boop: don’t you think so?
<boop> karlmag: now we even get freshly-dumped cores!
<karlmag> boop: from where?
<boop> karlmag: it was. no-only.
<karlmag> boop: you sure about that?
<boop> karlmag: it’s almost a whole while before anything near you was necessary to form this judgment?
<karlmag> boop: you’re scary
<boop> karlmag: sounds like bucketloads of fun.

(Boop loves The Lord of the Rings as much as any of us;)
<syngin> boop: don’t hurt him until he gives us our preciousssss
<boop> syngin: to make the question. for rohan!!! and my mouse.

<vidarino> boop: the precious hates the landline!
<boop> vidarino: but it’s attached to it. unless you are zen-centered with your cleavage…

<vidarium> boop: leave my ear alone, you twisted freak!
<boop> vidarium: my precious. mbn?

(This one won’t make much sense unless you have seen Don Hertzfeldt’s wonderful cartoon Rejected. If you haven’t, you must! Highly recommended!)
<vidarino> boop: are you feeling fat and sassy?
<boop> vidarino: i might just hack that in a non-funny movie.
* syngin whispers to vidarino: i think her spoon is too big.
<vidarino> I AM A BANANA!
<vidarino> boop: is your anus bleeding?
<boop> vidarino: hvar koster tjenester ditt?
…
<vidarino> translated: “how much are your services?”
<vidarino> => 8|

(And speaking of same movie:)
<syngin> Yes. Watch. Laugh. Cry. Enjoy.
<syngin> boop: Don’s the Bomb, huh?
<boop> syngin: 223333 is the way you like turn-off-brain-and-sit-back movies.

<vidarino> i think i’ll manage without pr0table pr0n.
<vidarino> find some live streams instead. less storage.
<vidarino> boop: i’m recruiting customers for your new site here.
<boop> vidarino: and your damn bl0g.

<docpi> maybe boop is a chicken and has bird flu
<docpi> boop: Can you say “Gesundheit”?
<boop> docpi: handing out biological samples is against the eur, and that is including me.

<vidarino> boop: you are very cunning.
<boop> vidarino: the ninth wonder of the industry.

<vidar> boop: they’re coming to get me!
<boop> vidar: the times, they try to console the crestfallen girls of today want other things,…
<vidar> boop: really? what do they want?
<boop> vidar: bed linens or underwear? docpi more generous than vidar.

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Laban

Posted on October 10, 2006 by vidar

The size of our family has increased yet again.

One of Linda’s online friends recently found a litter of kittens in her garage and announced the find online, asking for adopters. In a dramatic surge of mushiness, Linda managed to talk me into rescuing one of them, and this saturday we took a trip to Stavanger to pick him up. After a lengthy debate about names, we finally settled on Laban, after a friendly little ghost from one of Marius’ books. Disappointingly ungeeky, but such is life.

And in an unprecedented display of generosity, I have uploaded some pictures to Flickr for your enjoyment.

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The fine art of asskicking

Posted on September 21, 2006 by vidar

Haugesund isn’t a particularly large city, and hence is often deprived of many of the benefits of big city life. The lack of good concerts has long been a pet irk of mine. But things have apparently changed! Earlier this week, Bryan Adams came to town – and while he’s not anywhere near my cup of tea, nobody can argue that he’s not a big name. Yesterday, however, glam-, hair- and horror metal veterans W.A.S.P. dropped by, which is right up my alley!

And boy, do they still know their stuff! (I use the term “they” loosely, since the main song-writer and vocalist, Blackie Lawless, is the only one remaining of the original line-up, but the rest of the band did a great job as well.) What really sold the gig for me was the play list. Almost nothing but golden oldies, from the early 90s and back to the very beginning, which is exactly when I discovered the band. Except for one track, which was brand new, it was like a live “best of” compilation. Perfect!

The band also put the scaremongering pietists to shame and delivered nothing but a rock solid concert, almost devoid of special effects. I say almost, because the microphone stand was a sight to behold! (The local newspaper claimed that seeing the stand was worth the entry fee alone.) The band’s show in the earlier days included liberal amounts of skulls and fake blood, but that was how you provoked back then. An image like that would be nothing but cheesy these days, I suppose. (On a related note, I wish the black metal bands would lose the ridiculous corpse paint. Yes, yes, I know they’re supposed to look “dead” and all, but we all know they really aren’t!)

Conclusion: Top score from me. Minus one small point for not playing a longer set. 70 minutes (or so) was a bit too short for my tastes. Oh well.

PS! One things that certainly should not go unmentioned is their support band for the Norwegian gigs, Triosphere. Thunderous and powerful heavy metal, just the way your deity of choice intended it to be. (I guess this is a good time to admit that I tend to be a sucker for metal bands fronted by women. But only the good ones! (Good bands, that is. Ahum.)) Anyway, their debut album is out in October. Do check it out. I know I will!

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Updates and stuff

Posted on September 11, 2006 by vidar

Eek, time is running away from me again. It has been close to two months since my last confession. Eh, blog-entry. (I still hate the name “blog”, by the way. Just so you know.)

Much of my spare time has been spent offline lately. Partly due to us trying to convince Marte to kick the habit of demanding food during the nights – a probject which we declared a failure after about three weeks of little to no sleep for any of us. Our excuse was that she wasn’t putting on enough weight, so maybe she actually needs the extra meal.

Oh, and speaking of Marte, no less than two teeth popped up just before the weekend!

In other news, we are redecorating the top floor of the house. Luckily I was mentally present enough to remember to take a “before”-picture before we had actually disassembled the whole room. And equally clever taking an “after”-picture before we went and filled the room with all sorts of crap again:

Before After

(No, Tim, the one with the horrible colours is the “before” one. ;-) )

Bands that rock these days: Scar Symmetry, Trivium (thanks, Mel!), Slumber

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Nokia 770 OS2006 beta

Posted on June 12, 2006 by vidar

Old news for most of whom it concerns, but I’d like to air some thoughts about it nonetheless.

My impression so far – again, as a hacker, not an end user: I like it, and I like it alot. The refreshed look-and-feel is one thing, as well as the integrated IM and Google Talk, but to me the underlying system bits are more interesting.

First, though, the device feels much more responsive. Both when navigating around on the device itself as well as when using the web browser. Good job to whomever did that.

And the new Application Manager is very nice, and having a proper package repository system up and running is invaluable. I’m very pleased they decided to drop the /var/lib/install model from the earlier versions. Also, being able to use “apt” to cleanly remove parts of the stock system, e.g. games and RSS-reader (which I’m sure are nice, but I don’t really use them) is very handy.

As for the “beta” part of the release name, I haven’t found any showstopping bugs or flaws yet, so things are really looking promising. Great work, team. Looking forward to the final release!

One small disappointment, though. It was a bit sad to see binary compatibility with ARMedslack packages go (it was incredibly handy to just drop a few precompiled binaries into /home/user/bin and off you go), but I guess the switch was done in the name of the greater good.

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The end of an era

Posted on June 12, 2006 by vidar

Pi, our gerbil died today, peacefully curled up in her sleep, a few weeks shy of four years old. Her health had been declining steadily for a few weeks now, so we knew it had to happen sooner or later. I suppose the recent heat wave gave her the final nudge into peaceful retirement.

Anyway, she had lived a long and full gerbil life. She was mother to no less than nine children, and grandmother to god-knows-how-many. (Five of her children were given away to friends and a pet shop, and one of the ones we kept was lucky enough to get to provide genetic material to one of my sister’s females. So Pi’s family tree has got branches way into the unknown. Which is kind of cool to know.)

Thanks for sticking around, Pi. It’s been great knowing you!

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