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Difficulty: Easy Monday, June 23, 2008

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CHAT LOG for Monday, June 23, 2008

12:09 am
Sudokay

Done
12:18 am
drwho

Difficulty score 22. No green.
12:28 am
WHB

Done
12:40 am
trueheart11

gogogo
12:54 am
trueheart11

done. no greens
3:30 am
yul

good morning avarybody
3:31 am
yul

everybody
3:48 am
yul

finally
3:48 am
yul

it's too early for me
3:48 am
yul

have a great day everybody
4:52 am
Voon

Go
4:53 am
Andy

go
5:11 am
kixx

go
5:13 am
Andy

done
5:13 am
Andy

no greens
5:16 am
Voon

Done no greens
5:19 am
eyeman

Done, no greens. (one red. Yea, red.)
5:30 am
kixx

done. no greens, pretty easy
6:31 am
smooth_pappa

start
6:41 am
smooth_pappa

done. no greens
6:55 am
spreadeagle

No-greener, but a little slow.......
7:04 am
Inge

done, donner, donnest
8:05 am
ypsigirl

done
11:13 am
RodeoRogue

go
11:23 am
RodeoRogue

done no greens.
11:41 am
kaosangel

Wow. Late Start.
11:53 am
kaosangel

Done
1:07 pm
sandbox74

commence
1:18 pm
sandbox74

terminate.. no greens
1:18 pm
sandbox74

what a meaty easy...
have a great Monday!!!
1:31 pm
helenkeller

go
1:39 pm
helenkeller

no green
4:45 pm
UnikeTheHunter

Go.
4:51 pm
hurshy

oh i know!
4:51 pm
UnikeTheHunter

What?
4:51 pm
hurshy

it WAS about emailing doc but you didn't know it
4:51 pm
hurshy

you were saying your screen was flashy
4:51 pm
hurshy

i mean flashing, really
4:51 pm
UnikeTheHunter

Oh yea.
4:52 pm
hurshy

is it still?
4:52 pm
UnikeTheHunter

No. I think I reinstalled Firefox or something that fixed it.
4:53 pm
hurshy

ah ok
4:53 pm
hurshy

i had been heroically trying to tell you at the time that that happened to me and i didn't remember how doc told me to fix it, but he DID tell me how and that you could email him.
4:54 pm
UnikeTheHunter

Oh, I see. Thanks for your concern.
4:54 pm
hurshy

np
4:56 pm
UnikeTheHunter

I had got this "new" (for me) computer so that I would have Windows XP, so I could do my tax. I copied some things from my old computer, but I haven't gone back in all this time to copy everything.
4:57 pm
hurshy

I need to do some computer copying myself this evening
4:58 pm
UnikeTheHunter

I used to be a techy who did all that stuff. But I just let it go now.
4:58 pm
hurshy

well mine will be pretty basic
4:58 pm
hurshy

and i'm only assuming that i can do it ...
5:00 pm
UnikeTheHunter

I'm getting today's puzzle pretty fast. But I'm always at least twice as long doing it as anybody else.
5:01 pm
hurshy

that's cause slow people don't post their times!
5:01 pm
UnikeTheHunter

Oh.
5:02 pm
hurshy

i mean, as a former psychology student... that would be my guess
5:02 pm
hurshy

not like i would know PERSONALLY ;)
5:02 pm
UnikeTheHunter

And I think some people type "Go" just before their last cell is done.
5:03 pm
hurshy

i'm sure on www.websudoku.com people paused and printed and then came back and filled in, because the average times on there are just ridiculous
5:04 pm
UnikeTheHunter

Today's puzzle, though called "easy" has some virtuals and dual virtuals.
5:05 pm
hurshy

and botheration, i have somehow messed it up.
5:05 pm
UnikeTheHunter

I do that sometime.
5:05 pm
hurshy

i need to make brownies to motivate myself.
5:06 pm
UnikeTheHunter

Why does that motivate you?
5:10 pm
UnikeTheHunter

Done, no greens.
5:21 pm
brittlefish.com

go
5:24 pm
hurshy

because brownies are yummy
5:24 pm
hurshy

yummy makes me happy
5:24 pm
hurshy

happy makes me better able to do stuff
5:25 pm
hurshy

the brownies are ... browning
5:25 pm
hurshy

except that's wrong because the batter starts out brown
5:25 pm
hurshy

well they are baking, anyway.
5:31 pm
hurshy

there, that time went much better
5:31 pm
hurshy

and all i did so far was lick the spoon!
5:32 pm
hurshy

and by spoon i mean that funny kitchen aid stirring thingy
5:36 pm
brittlefish.com

pause
5:46 pm
hurshy

i love paws
6:05 pm
hurshy

AND triple chocolate hot fudge brownie sundaes
6:12 pm
hurshy

boy did THAT hit the spot
6:39 pm
hurshy

imagine if you had a really really good brain... so good that you wouldn't figure out where the numbers go little by little, you'd just see all the connections and impossibilities all at once
6:39 pm
hurshy

that would be neat.
6:40 pm
hurshy

i guess that's how God does sudoku.
6:40 pm
artlady

hmmm...
6:41 pm
hurshy

hi artlady, how are you?
6:41 pm
artlady

Doing well. How about you?
6:42 pm
hurshy

i am pretty good!
6:42 pm
artlady

That's just great!
6:42 pm
hurshy

thank you
6:43 pm
artlady

Just catching up on the games I missed the past few days.
6:44 pm
hurshy

i'm catching up on the games i missed the past few weeks
6:44 pm
artlady

Sudoku forgives us if we don't pay it daily homage.
6:44 pm
artlady

ooh, you have me beat!
6:44 pm
hurshy

unlike babble, the unrelenting tide of which waits for no man
6:44 pm
artlady

Yes, and it depresses me that I can't keep up with it.
6:44 pm
artlady

But not too much.
6:45 pm
hurshy

aw, why? just means you have a life
6:45 pm
hurshy

i'm actually proud of myself for having the self-restraint to forgo babble several times over the last few weeks and not care!
6:46 pm
hurshy

in fact there was one grid - and it was only like 80 something - that i started and FORGOT TO FINISH - and i didn't think it was a big deal!
6:46 pm
artlady

I don't think I've played since last summer. I can't start one without trying to finish.
6:46 pm
artlady

Wow, you have such self-restraint!
6:47 pm
hurshy

but not when it comes to triple chocolate hot fudge brownie sundaes
6:47 pm
artlady

I can't have those. Enjoy them for me, please!
6:48 pm
hurshy

i did! lol
6:48 pm
hurshy

are you diabetic?
6:48 pm
artlady

yes
6:48 pm
hurshy

ah
6:48 pm
hurshy

i had a friend who was just allergic to chocolate
6:48 pm
hurshy

she used to sniff our candy bar wrappers
6:48 pm
artlady

I can still have a wee bite of chocolate now and then, though.
6:49 pm
artlady

I'm not allergic to anything ...
6:49 pm
artlady

except bigots
6:49 pm
artlady

liars
6:49 pm
hurshy

i'm only allergic to one thing, and i don't know what it is
6:49 pm
artlady

idiots
6:49 pm
hurshy

artlady, have you been dating lately?
6:49 pm
artlady

oh? How do you know you're allergic? (Hope it's not cats!)
6:50 pm
artlady

no, lol
6:50 pm
artlady

facing my 30th anniversary (but I wasn't referring to my husband with those earlier comments!)
6:50 pm
hurshy

no, it's not cats... when i was trying on bridesmaid's dresses for my best friend's wedding about 5 years ago, i had hives afterwards
6:50 pm
hurshy

i dunno if someone else who tried it on had some weird lotion or something on, or what
6:51 pm
artlady

strange!
6:51 pm
hurshy

i have a question
6:52 pm
artlady

?
6:52 pm
hurshy

well, my husband and i were separated for just over a year, and now we have reconciled
6:52 pm
hurshy

next year would be our tenth anniversary... but does it count as ten, or only nine?
6:53 pm
artlady

Hmmm...you were still married, so it's still the 10th anniversary of your wedding day, right?
6:53 pm
hurshy

yes, but you know, usually people think of having made it through 10 years together
6:53 pm
artlady

Together with a pause...
6:54 pm
hurshy

i just don't want to be... you know... dishonest
6:54 pm
artlady

You've been married 10 years. Who cares what others think? I hope you are h appier now
6:55 pm
hurshy

i'm real happy with our condo and my job, and it's pleasant being around him. i'm just working on convincing myself that sex isn't everything and that maybe it can improve anyway.
6:55 pm
artlady

(that wasn't supposed to be happier with a pause... h appier, I just hit the space key accidentally...freudian slip???)
6:56 pm
artlady

Ah, well I haven't believed sex was everything for many many years. But that's my own problem. My husband wishes I thought it was everything! ;-)
6:56 pm
hurshy

well... maybe i should say then... that sex isn't ... a major thing
6:57 pm
hurshy

and
6:57 pm
hurshy

now
6:57 pm
hurshy

we
6:57 pm
hurshy

must
6:57 pm
hurshy

get
6:57 pm
hurshy

embarrassing
6:57 pm
hurshy

topics
6:58 pm
hurshy

off
6:58 pm
hurshy

the
6:58 pm
hurshy

screen
6:58 pm
artlady

how
6:58 pm
artlady

true
6:58 pm
artlady

you
6:58 pm
artlady

are
6:58 pm
artlady

doing
6:58 pm
artlady

a
6:58 pm
artlady

good
6:58 pm
artlady

job
6:58 pm
artlady

of
6:58 pm
artlady

that!
6:58 pm
hurshy

thank
6:58 pm
hurshy

you
6:58 pm
artlady

except it's really strange seeing my face repeated over and over like that. Ugh
6:59 pm
hurshy

yes
6:59 pm
hurshy

but it can't be helped if nobody else will talk with us
6:59 pm
artlady

I was just at a meeting and we were working on a web portal and the guy in charge posted a picture on it of my talking to the group (he was demonstrating how easy it was), but he forgot to take it off.
6:59 pm
hurshy

ugh
7:00 pm
kangabrat

i'll say hi now! (didn't want to interrupt earlier).
7:00 pm
artlady

now I'm on the site in the middle of saying a word--you know how your face gets all twisted up? Well, mine is frozen that way.
7:00 pm
artlady

at least online, lol
7:00 pm
hurshy

h'lo kanga
7:00 pm
artlady

greetings, kangabrat!
7:00 pm
hurshy

goodness artlady, i'm sorry! too bad he didn't pick some narcissistic male to post
7:01 pm
artlady

Well, males in general are greatly under-represented in our profession...
7:01 pm
artlady

not sure how many of them are narcissistic
7:01 pm
artlady

how are you, kanga?
7:02 pm
kangabrat

well, thanks artlady. putting off work!
7:03 pm
artlady

chuckle! I can identify with that. I'm supposed to be typing up the minutes from the meeting I was at. All 19 pages of them. ugh
7:03 pm
artlady

My own fault for being a fast typist...
7:03 pm
hurshy

what kind of a nutty meeting has 19 pages of notes???
7:04 pm
kangabrat

i don't admit to being able to type any more. get's one in all kinds of trouble.
7:04 pm
artlady

I had the great pleasure of going to Little Rock, Arkansas (first time in Arkansas). Seriously, it was a pleasure, but I took the minutes for the meeting and now have to clean them up. It lasted 3 days.
7:04 pm
hurshy

goodness me
7:04 pm
kangabrat

my work is looking like fun, now!
7:04 pm
artlady

My own fault!
7:05 pm
hurshy

well, i'm going to take a break from sudoku to watch american gladiators (yay!), so, ttfn
7:05 pm
artlady

No, it was a great meeting. All the leaders in art education associations from the central part of the U.S.
7:05 pm
artlady

ciao, hursh!
7:05 pm
kangabrat

bye, hurshy.
7:26 pm
Phil

start
7:35 pm
Phil

done, nice easy
7:56 pm
Madi95

hello? Anyone here? I'm new.
7:57 pm
torgone

Nope .. Nobody here ..
8:00 pm
Madi95

oh. hello
8:00 pm
Madi95

is this like normal sudoku?
8:02 pm
torgone

It's sudoku .. The rankings tend towards a little tougher than the ones you see in books or on a lot of websites ..
8:03 pm
hurshy

you're not new madi, it's the same ol' babble crowd by and large :)
8:03 pm
Madi95

new to iron sudoku
8:03 pm
torgone

I thought I had seen that name before ..
8:03 pm
Madi95

i'm a babble addict, that much is true
8:09 pm
hurshy

we're all one big (sometimes) happy family
8:11 pm
torgone

Sing it!! o/` We are family o/`
8:11 pm
hurshy

i got all my servos with me
8:12 pm
Madi95

we are family!
8:12 pm
Madi95

Get up everybody and sing!
8:12 pm
Inge

I am just passing through. What kind of pie today, torgone?
8:13 pm
Madi95

mmmmmm pie?
8:13 pm
torgone

If I can finish, it will be bananananana cream ..
8:13 pm
torgone

I'm kinda stuck at the mo ..
8:14 pm
hurshy

gah
8:14 pm
Inge

oh, you are not concentrating. We are distracting you, sorry
8:14 pm
torgone

Wait .. There it is . .I think I have it now ..
8:16 pm
Inge

I can smell taht banana cream pie. When are you going to share with us??
8:16 pm
torgone

Yeap ..bananannana creme it is ..
8:16 pm
hurshy

he'll likely give us a faceful...
8:16 pm
Inge

Bravo, torgone
8:17 pm
torgone

I would never ...
8:17 pm
Inge

Madi 95, did you get your piece?
8:17 pm
torgone

..Unless it was funny ..
8:17 pm
Madi95

nope
8:18 pm
Madi95

may i have one?
8:18 pm
Inge

torgone, where are your manners? Give that lady a piece of pie
8:18 pm
torgone

One slice of banana cream pie for Madi ..
8:19 pm
Inge

Good boy!
8:19 pm
Madi95

yummmmm
8:19 pm
torgone

Fortunately there aren't a lot of people around, so there's plenty to go around ..
8:20 pm
hurshy

i'm still stuffed from my triple chocolate hot fudge brownie sundae
8:20 pm
torgone

Mmmmm ..
8:20 pm
Inge

In half an hour Detroit is having its big US Canadian Fireworks show down on the river. Catch in in the news if you can.
8:21 pm
torgone

Hey Ms. hurshy .. When you get a chance, go take a look at who's near you in the standings ..
8:21 pm
hurshy

down on the river, out in the sleet...
8:21 pm
hurshy

you?
8:22 pm
hurshy

i'm catching up on the last couple of weeks as we parlons
8:22 pm
Inge

We have a whole week of festivities with Windsor,--which used to be called South Detroit
8:24 pm
torgone

We have similar festivities with South San Diego, which used to be called Tijuana ..
8:25 pm
hurshy

do all these festivities involve police and guns?
8:26 pm
Inge

Our firefighters have a tuck of war across the Detroit River against the Canadaian firefighters. hehe
8:27 pm
Inge

The fireworks tonight are closely guarded, but no guns
8:27 pm
torgone

Our border patrol agents have a push of war at the fence ..
8:27 pm
Inge

Verry funny!
8:28 pm
Inge

relations at this northern border are much more friendly.
8:29 pm
hurshy

*grumble* what's the sort of standard way to move all your program files and stuff when you switch to a new computer? gmail won't let me send myself exe files, and i can't just have it as a draft cause they won't download on the other end. have i got to figure out where my memory stick is? :P
8:30 pm
hurshy

or is there a cable i can hook from one to the other and just copy the whole darn C drive
8:31 pm
Inge

you are way over my head, and I need to warm up the TB anyway. Till tomorrow. *poof*
8:31 pm
Inge

I meant TV
8:31 pm
hurshy

you need to warm up the tuberculosis?
8:31 pm
hurshy

ohhhhh
8:31 pm
hurshy

that does make more sense.
8:32 pm
torgone

Not sure, but I think you can hook up a USB cable between the two, treat one as a drive, and just copy to it ..I think ..
8:32 pm
hurshy

that would be nice! i'll give it a shot.
8:34 pm
torgone

*Hopes it doesn't blow up both computers*
8:37 pm
hurshy

thought i had a usb-usb cable but parently not
8:38 pm
torgone

Ask an expert before you do that though . .cause I'm not ..
8:40 pm
hurshy

i'll probably just use a stick but i can't find one
8:40 pm
hurshy

i shall have to borrow one from work tomorrow or something
8:40 pm
torgone

That too ..
8:41 pm
hurshy

i don't see why gmail won't let me download the files from the draft i saved... that should be an option.
8:43 pm
torgone

Can't say ..
8:44 pm
hurshy

it's like computer people have an addiction to not making things easy.
8:44 pm
torgone

That's true . .Maybe it's a file size thing ..
8:44 pm
hurshy

no, you can't download ANY file from your own draft.
8:44 pm
hurshy

it's just not a function.
8:45 pm
hurshy

and i can't SEND the exe files because it says "for security reasons gmail does not allow you to send executable files"
8:45 pm
hurshy

i wonder... can i zip them...
8:46 pm
torgone

Yeah, that's because a lot of bad stuff sent in emails is .exe files ..
8:47 pm
hurshy

viruses
8:47 pm
hurshy

so if i zip it will it not notice that there are exe files in the zip
8:48 pm
Madi95

back now. And with a baked tater i might add. Anyone for a piece? it's buttery...
8:48 pm
torgone

Maybe .. some mail programs won't send zips either .. plus you have to unzip to get at the files, so that may be allowed ..
8:49 pm
torgone

Mmmmm . .baked tater ..
8:49 pm
hurshy

nope, still stuffed from the triple chocolate hot fudge brownie sundae... (that really has a nice ring to it, doesn't it?)
8:50 pm
Madi95

i'm jealous, husrsh even though i'm eating my favorite food
8:50 pm
hurshy

there's not many foods that you can revel in having eaten them just cause they sound so nice
8:52 pm
hurshy

now it's going to say, this file is tooooo huge, i cannot send it
8:52 pm
hurshy

sending all programs at once = ng
8:53 pm
torgone

You could use ftp, but I don't know how to set it up ..
8:53 pm
hurshy

oh, yes, i know how to use it, but not set it up, lol
8:53 pm
hurshy

don't you work in computers?
8:54 pm
torgone

I work WITH computers ..
8:54 pm
hurshy

do you suppose it would be VERY rude if i used someone else's FTP server...
8:54 pm
torgone

:|
8:55 pm
hurshy

a yacht owner's FTP server onto which i used to upload photos... so i know the login info...
8:56 pm
torgone

If you can send to and retrieve from . .you're just moving bytes ...
8:56 pm
hurshy

it doesn't like, sap their energy or anything?
8:58 pm
torgone

Only if they have bandwidth restrictions . . but a hard drive full of stuff shouldn't be noticed ..
8:58 pm
hurshy

gmail is still trying to send my 107MB email, i hope i haven't blown up the GMAIL computers!
9:00 pm
torgone

They're just waiting for the time out to tell you it's too big ..
9:00 pm
hurshy

but it timed out once fairly quickly. then i tried again and it's not timing out so fast.
9:00 pm
Madi95

i have gmail and have been trying to use it all day.
9:00 pm
hurshy

lol madi, i just started, so any problems earlier than say, ten minutes ago, are definitely not my fault
9:01 pm
Madi95

every time i click on the link it says the page cannot be displayed.
9:01 pm
Madi95

i know it's not your fault.
9:01 pm
Madi95

Can anyone help?
9:01 pm
hurshy

you can access this site, so you have a connection...
9:01 pm
hurshy

you clicking on it from google.com?
9:02 pm
hurshy

argh! i accidentally hit the nuda tees link while trying to switch tabs!
9:08 pm
hurshy

dang, it DOES notice if your zip has an exe in it.
9:13 pm
hurshy

where did everybody go?
9:15 pm
torgone

In n' out, Ms. ..
9:16 pm
hurshy

but madi asked for helps and then disappeared
9:16 pm
hurshy

that is odd
9:20 pm
torgone

These aren't the droids you're looking for ..
9:20 pm
hurshy

your jedi mind tricks won't work on me
9:23 pm
torgone

o_0
9:24 pm
hurshy

nor your goggly eyes
9:25 pm
torgone

o/` Barney Google .. With the Goog-Goog-Googley Eyes ..o/`
9:25 pm
hurshy

:)
9:32 pm
hurshy

is it just me or is nancy grace really annoying? content wise but also voice wise
9:37 pm
torgone

I can't watch her ..
9:37 pm
hurshy

i'm not even watching her - the mere memory of her voice popped into my head and irritated me
9:39 pm
hurshy

what exactly is "mental toughness", other than "something i don't have"
9:43 pm
torgone

I interpret it as "The ability to concentrate on something, ignoring emotional and other spurious influences .."
9:43 pm
hurshy

hmmm, maybe i'm not wholly without it, then
9:44 pm
hurshy

i usually hear it describing athletes and assume i must not have it because obviously i can't have anything in common with athletes...
9:46 pm
torgone

Despite all the training etc. athletes seem to be highly influenced by emotion .. As an aside, I always find it hilarious when a commentator gushes over an athlete making a "really athletic move" ..Huh? They're friggin athletes ..
9:47 pm
hurshy

well, if you had smart people competing for something and the commentator said someone made a smart move, would you find that odd?
9:50 pm
torgone

"Holy cow, Bob! Did you see Hawking draw that last conclusion? That was genius!"
9:50 pm
hurshy

see, that would work
9:50 pm
hurshy

i think it's that there are degrees of smartness and degrees of athleticism.
9:51 pm
hurshy

being an athlete is not a binary proposition
9:51 pm
torgone

Absolutely .. creativity too ..
9:51 pm
hurshy

ergo it is ok for the commentator to say that.
9:52 pm
hurshy

however, it is NOT ok for the commentator to say, "the one thing we know for sure is that whoever scores more points today will win"
9:52 pm
torgone

I just think it's a little obvious sometimes ..
9:52 pm
hurshy

ah, but what is tele for if not obviousness
9:53 pm
torgone

You're obviously right ..
9:54 pm
hurshy

alrighty well i have five puzzles left to do but i think i shall go to bedfordshire and do them another day
9:54 pm
hurshy

my GOODNESS mitty kitty is pretty!
9:55 pm
hurshy

night torbaby
9:55 pm
torgone

Sweetest of dreams ...