pleaseremove, setting a work quiz: "No, I'm going to get my wrong answers right"

From a meeting the other day about the carol service St John's is putting together...

A: "...and I'll see if I can find someone with a better voice than me for prayers"
B: "Oh, don't worry about that, I can do no end of tweaks to sound. You want to sound like a Dalek? I can make you sound like a Dalek"

pleaseremove and I, discussing moving Windows activations to new hardware...

pleaseremove: ...it'll work up to when a tech looks at it and spots that all the hardware has changed
boggyb: ah, but the drive is the same
pleaseremove: *splutters with laughter* that's the only thing that is!

Random comment from an American friend at virtual pasta night last Monday, chatting about the clusterfuck that is Dominic Cummings-gate:

"Y'know how you use American politics as escapism? We do the same with your British politics."

boggyb: Wtfteams
boggyb: I'm looking at a teams chat where messages I sent are out of order
boggyb: Also, wtfskype
pleaseremove: also wtf skype, i didn't get your notification last night
boggyb: Skype on my phone didn't update this chat history until I went back to the main screen
boggyb: Can I have MSN Messenger back please ( Read more... )

It's late, so you get a moment of silliness from a chat with pleaseremove the other day.

Context: pleaseremove is experimenting with a networked TV tuner...

* boggyb starts streaming BBC 1
boggyb: live tv works
pleaseremove: keep play it...
pleaseremove: if I get this right I can pause it
* TV stream freezes
boggyb: oi!
pleaseremove: hells yes

pleaseremove failing to remember when I last visited:

pleaseremove: too... many... things... one... tiny... mind...

And a bonus quote in a chat history I just stumbled across: elemnar describing an unfriendly piano score:

elemnar: It's got nothing but parallel octaves which are a bit like mild cheddar. Somewhat lacking in flavour but still an edible form of cheese.

This one's from a couple of days ago, while pleaseremove was trying to lock down a new Mattermost server...

boggyb: Wait, what? My team's gone!
pleaseremove: Muwhahahaha
boggyb: Of course, you know how this will all end
pleaseremove: Heh... with a message that says "sod it, you're all banned ( Read more... )

Summarised from a Skype call just now...

pleaseremove: I've finally got my new router working!
* pleaseremove rants for 5 minutes about websites that hide the latest firmware version
pleaseremove: ...except I can't get the port forwarding to work. I've added an entry for the web server.
boggyb: What IP address does your router think it has?
* boggyb tries that address
boggyb: Works for me.
pleaseremove: Oh sod.
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The house group WhatsApp sometimes throws up weird mini-conversations...

boggyb: Churchy question: is it worth saving empty wrapping paper cardboard tubes for crafts?
M: I saw "churchy question" and got all ready for a theological conversion... I have no (helpful) theological answer to that question.
boggyb: Haha, sorry to disappoint
Ca: Mmmm, the theological ( Read more... )