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Ah well… I am so happy %) I got my xchat r2 working! He does the most important thing that mirc r2 did, and that’s responding to the ! command.. so !cake and he gives you cake… it’s really kewl, today I’m gonna add summore %) So once I get the xchat bot up and running I’m gonna wander through irssi stuff and try to port the script to irssi, yay! Hey maybe nex week I’ll even have him up and running in irssi, that’d be so cool! Anyway, I’m really happy that I’m understanding this perl stuff, ’cause I thought it would be very difficult and impossible… luckily I’m determinded to get r2 off windows %)

So tonight were going to PLUG (philly linux users group)… should be fun I guess, as long as after the meeting we dont roast in a silly pizza place… it’s so hot out, already 91 at 10 am… all this week there have been severe weather advisories directly because of the heat… it sucks. Luckily we have nice a/c so I dont have to go outside in it! supposedly the heat index got to around 110 yesterday, bleh, I’d be soooo sick if I was in that. I guess dispite philly being a little hotter than other places I’ve lived, it has the advantage of widespread air conditioning. Of course that also makes the electric companies happy… EAK @ our electric bill.

Anyway, at the plug meeting I guess a friend of ours we know from the group is selling us a little sparc 10 box %)! Myk’s really excited, he just saw the post about him selling it last night, and responded really fast with “GIMMIE” … hehe, he came into our bedroom where i was reading and was like “GUESS WHAT!!! HEHE!!! I FOUND MY BIRTHDAY PRESENT!!!” … it was so cute %) But yeah, tonight I guess he’s gonna get his new little sun box (he uses one at work and has since wanted one for home use). So that’ll be kewlies %) I guess he’s gonna put debian on it.. and we’ll have a 6 computer lan %) … Oh and he’s gonna set up an irc server for me, so I can develop perl scripts for xchat n stuff and not have to worry about the scifi server’s continual restrictions and gayness… Speaking of which the server has been up and down most of the morning, stupid thing. Pisses me off! I cant work on this script if the server is that unstable! %) If the server doesnt get stable soon I’ll have to wander to another server to work on it which could cause problems in the script since the scifi server is a “special” STUPID EVIL server that’s not the same as any other in existance because no one but scifi would be so stupid as to have one that bad. Hehe… But it’s my home %)

Moving on.. I read something very interesting the other night. See I am reading the books I talk about, but in addition I am reading this HG Wells book “The Outline Of History” … it’s only the first half, and it’s an old book, hardcover published in like 1940 (and this is the 1940 edition, so .. yeah). It’s been very interesting because this half of the outline describes from the beginning of the world, to the beginning of roman empire, using the knowledge they had in 1940. Of course this is post darwin, so it bases human development of the fossils found of “pre man”… And at times it’s kinda funny ’cause they defend themselves when they allude to religion as being mostly BS… Like where they describe where they thought religion with a central god figure got it’s beginnings. They believe that in some pre homo sapien species of man there was an “Old Man” of each little group of people. He was respected because of his age and wisdom, even in times before a spoken language existed. Well this, they believe, might have sometime turned into a godlike figure.. maybe one time a very important and influential old man of a group died, and from then on people did things in his honor… I guess it’s widely seen that sacrifices (human and animal) were some of the first “religious rites” preformed… the people thought that by pleasing the old man, or god, that their crops would grow well, they would have good health, etc… Of course this progression from old man in pre homo sapien species to human crop sacrifices to god took thousands of years, but it does seem to make sense. *Shrugs* at least to me %) It gave me something kewl to think about anyway.

Hmmm anyway, it seems like the scifi server has stablized a bit *knocks on wood* so I am gonna go play with my perl xchat script summore, yay! Laterski (%

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