#ctrl-c | Logs for 2020-12-04
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[09:33:37] <jlj> TGIF!
[09:38:59] <fleg> hello
[09:39:39] * jlj waves
[09:40:05] <jlj> AFK for a mo: coooooffee
[09:50:56] <fleg> neat, I'm still drinking mine, it's ~3 hours old, just as I like it
[09:51:05] * fleg doesn't need for the coffee to actually be hot
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[10:21:34] <jlj> M'm, lovely. Smelled so good I had to make a second for my partner (and fill up my boy's glass of milk, twice, and cuddle his sister about seven times...).
[10:21:54] <jlj> Working from home! Living the dream! :-D
[11:03:58] <fleg> I kinda miss working from the office lately
[11:04:27] <fleg> maybe watching The Office made me kinda miss the office talk and whatnot
[11:04:53] <fleg> I also miss bicycle commute every day
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[11:40:29] <jlj> I'm with you, on the bike bit in particular. Got quite a lockdown tummy now. :-/
[12:04:39] <fleg> I still try to ride it from time to time, also have a stationary bike at home so I try to ride at least a few minutes every day
[12:05:07] <fleg> but it's far cry from the 100km I was able to ride suring the summer :/ I need to repeat this next year
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[12:36:55] <jlj> Wow. Yeah, I need to get on our stationary bike more.
[13:07:11] <fleg> I don't kind myself that this 10-30 minutes almost daily changes anything, but at least it gives me hope :D
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[16:21:09] <lovetocode999> o/
[16:21:19] <felix> Hello!
[16:21:28] <lovetocode999> How are you today?
[16:22:19] <felix> In a storytelling mood, and you?
[16:22:59] <lovetocode999> I am well! What story are you in the mood of telling?
[16:29:21] <felix> Eh, just a silly bit of weird fiction.
[16:29:35] <felix> Mostly it's just better than nothing.
[16:30:23] <lovetocode999> I like weird fiction
[16:31:49] <lovetocode999> Although, 'weird' is slightly arbitrary, since different people think differently about what constitutes 'weird'.
[16:32:45] <felix> I use it in the common publishing sense, fantasy or science-fantasy that's not the usual kind with elves and swords.
[16:35:28] <lovetocode999> What does it have, then?
[16:36:50] <felix> It depends.
[16:37:06] <felix> Un Lun Dun for example has *really* weird stuff.
[16:37:25] <felix> That's the whole point. Whatever makes sense for *your* story.
[16:38:26] <lovetocode999> Ok!
[16:44:23] <felix> TVTropes appears to call it New Weird, but doesn't list my favorite examples, so maybe I'm on the wrong page: https://tvtropes.org
[16:52:51] <lovetocode999> Interesting... What are your favorite examples?
[16:57:38] <felix> Mostly just the one I mentioned. TVTropes says Brandon Sanderson's books also qualify.
[16:58:15] <felix> But they strike me as plain old fantasy with some details changed.
[16:58:29] <felix> Mainly just carefully contrived magic systems.
[17:02:08] <lovetocode999> Ok!
[17:10:09] <felix> Sorry, I was a bookworm before I was a programmer.
[17:12:29] <lovetocode999> No problem! I still very much am a bookworm, so I find all of this very interesting! ;)
[17:14:04] <fleg> oh well, time to sink into TvTropes for the next few hours I guess
[17:14:52] <felix> :D
[17:16:48] <robertp> interesting - jeff vandermeer is the only new weird author i'm familiar with (well dan simmons also i guess)
[17:18:14] <robertp> in an intro to his book Carrion Comfort (i think? i seem to remember that) dan simmons talks about his history. apparently he wanted to do horror but had a bad interaction with a mover-and-shaker in horror publishing
[17:18:31] <robertp> so he switched to scifi because he thought he'd be blacklisted, ish
[17:19:20] <felix> I'm not familiar with any of these names. :)
[17:19:33] <felix> But yeah, all sorts of drama happens in that world.
[17:19:53] <robertp> that's too bad
[17:20:10] <robertp> just like tech i guess
[17:20:12] <felix> Lots of authors out there. ;)
[17:23:59] <robertp> indeed
[18:10:30] <lovetocode999> What is your favorite book, and favorite author?
[18:34:34] <felix> Hard to say. I like a bunch. Even a couple of classics.
[18:35:08] <felix> Caves of Steel by Asimov and Double Star by Heinlein, for one.
[18:35:26] <felix> But more recently, The Romulan Way by Diane Duane blew my mind.
[18:36:06] <felix> Damn. Never saw the parallels before.
[18:36:35] <felix> People becoming someone else is one of my favorite tropes.
[18:36:53] <felix> How about you?
[18:53:12] <robertp> i think my all time favorite book is probably Dune
[18:53:25] <robertp> a runner up is The Library At Mount Char
[18:53:39] <robertp> https://www.goodreads.com
[18:53:49] <robertp> just outstanding. written by a unix sysadmin :)
[18:54:41] <robertp> i wish he'd write some more fiction
[19:04:41] <lovetocode999> My favorite book is The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart, and he is also my favorite author
[19:04:53] <felix> Never heard of either!
[19:05:43] <lovetocode999> And I, in turn, have not heard of the books you mentioned
[19:08:48] <felix> Lots of authors out there. ;)
[19:10:02] <lovetocode999> Yes, there are many :)
[19:10:25] <lovetocode999> Looks like I have to go, talk to you later!
[19:10:28] <felix> But if you liked The Mysterious Benedict Society, maybe try So You Want to Be a Wizard, by Diane Duane. It's a quarter of a century older, but still good.
[19:10:35] <felix> Bye!
[19:12:53] <felix> I have to go too, in fact.
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[20:46:33] <WakSter> Attention to the owner of the logging bot "MasterdonX", remove your bot now, stop logging every god damn ircs...
[20:46:39] <WakSter> Thank you in advance.
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[21:35:46] <FuckMasterDonX> o/
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