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"It was a cold evening when the VTLUUG meeting was in Torg. Our fearless leader at that time, The mutantmonkey, put on a video of the grandfather of all of us, Richard Stallman, eating an entity blessed with inumerable unix powers that our great grandfather located on his foot, thus making the evil Greek, who also helped destroy Europes economy, to leave the meeting. Peace was had after that."
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01:58:20 andreim | I'm not saying that it's 2 am but it's 2 am 01:58:28 andreim | and i don't want to sound racist but black people 01:58:39 andreim | and no offense but you are stupid as fuck 01:59:13 andreim | and not to mention what I'm just mentionning 01:59:15 flax | you sir, are a poet.
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cco3 | I've decided that if I ever right an autobiography, it will be totally factual, except that I will have the superpower to jump back in time 24 |hours and tell myself, "24 hours from now, you will be <insert implausible scenario that actually does come to pass>" cco3 | write* cco3 | So this future me will keep jumping back in time and telling me this crazy stuff cco3 | "24 hours from now, you will be totally lost in downtown Austin in a car you borrowed from a paranoid schizophrenic" cco3 | Stuff like that +telnoratti | You stole a paranoid schozophernic's car? cco3 | borrowed... cco3 | I was helping someone move, and he had the UHaul, and someone needed to drive his car to the UHaul place +telnoratti | he's paranoid schizophrenic I don't think he'd let you borrow cco3 | and I was the only one that could drive a stick cco3 | I guess his meds were working for him that day? +telnoratti | This story seems dubious cco3 | When I started up the car, it was one of those where you have to turn the key *just* right to get it to start cco3 | so after 5 minutes of struggling, I got it started, we rolled out of the driveway and I was following him cco3 | He starts to pull over at a gas station, and he's being pretty hesitant cco3 | I guess he doesn't know if the uhaul is too tall or he's having trouble seeing everything cco3 | so park and get out to help direct him cco3 | turns out he was just letting someone else in our party pass cco3 | I rush back in the car and try to start it cco3 | of course, I can't start it again cco3 | it takes me like 10 minutes to get the key to turn right cco3 | and this guy just doesn't notice that I'm not following him cco3 | luckily someone had given him my cellphone number and eventually he calls me and tries to direct me cco3 | but this is before GPS was everywhere, and I had only been in Austin for a month or so, and it's near midnight, and I have no idea where I am cco3 | After 30 minutes of driving around while trying to talk on a phone at midnight in an unfamiliar place, I finally made it there cco3 | but that was pretty stressful +telnoratti | you didn't know where you were goign so your solution was to just keep driving randomly? cco3 | telnoratti: yes cco3 | optimal algorithm cco3 | I don't think it'd be as bad now that I'm older, but back then I hadn't had a car for months and even driving was somewhat unfamiliar cco3 | I was so sure I was going to hit something and wreck his car -
<summerspeak> i want to get a "don't tread on me" license plate for memes <giggybyte> https://i.imgur.com/ogzqMZm.png IASIP basically describes my stance towards voting <summerspeak> i saw a sticker of that flag, but instead of "me" it said "memes" and someone put pepe's head over the snake's regular head <summerspeak> really gets my memes joggin
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JPO’s steps for success: 1) find a community that’s technically awesome, and has a real sense of community 2) read, learn, do shit, share it, contribute something of value 3) participate in the community’s form of communication (e.g. mailing lists) (help people out, give feedback in areas you’ve actually learned about and done shit in) 4) go to events of said community 5) surround yourself with people way smarter than you are, shut up, listen, ask questions, take notes, really research the shit you didn’t understand afterwards 6) keep going to said events, speak up, engage, and let people associate your face with your name that they know from your worthwhile contributions 7) repeat from step 2 until the community considers you one of their own, and you’re (at least just barely) old enough to get past HR 8) find someone willing to give you a chance. Some is luck, but luck absolutely favors the prepared. If you want to get stuck by lightening, go climb a mountain in a thunderstorm. Here: go do shit that’s worthwhile and let it be known 9) profit 10) give back to help the next person do the same, and be willing to take a chance on someone when it’s your turn to pay it forward Cost of above: a sacrifice of time (perhaps years of your nights spent hacking instead of sleeping, perhaps a bad GPA), and maybe ~$600/event once or twice a year