* robcaSSon hisses, and pees on jtgorman's doorstep. --anonymous
lbjay: I'm here, therefore I must have time, right? --anonymous
! most of what goes on here looks funny in the logs --pbinkley
! oink. --robcaSSon
# what you will need to install ubuntu \xe2\x80\x94 a computer, a brain, and an install CD. --mpilgrim
'Yankee Swap' is like Machiavelli meets Christmas --Dwight
(10:13:43) artunit: we want to go beyond we are the world --anonymous
(13:40:31) edsu: ltjake: how does the planet run again? from cron? --anonymous
(14:34:29) rsinger: i am too scrambled to coherently form my thoughts in an asynchronous messaging format --anonymous
(16:11:44) panizzi: identifiers are supposed to last? --anonymous
(16:20:53) tholbroo: i wipe a kid every day --anonymous
(17:09:06) edsu: i didn't expect the turing inquisition! --anonymous
(It is hard to believe sometimes what you can do when one starts from such a crappy foundation...) --pmurray
(Z39.50 is a web disservice if you ask me) --eric hellman
* anarchivist notices that jrochkind's HIP is broken, and exclaims i've fallen, and i can't get up on his behalf --anonymous
* dbs looks for solr forks, gets blinded twice over --anonymous
* dbs troubleshoots himself in the head --anonymous
* edsu laughs somewhere in a dull cube --anonymous
* edsu takes off his peppermint patty costume --anonymous
* jaron wasn't no Warhol growing up in Pittsbrugh. --anonymous
* ksclark1 wonders why amish monkeys --anonymous
* ksclarke is saving up for his two wheel midlife crisis --anonymous
* mjgiarlo is on the look-out for dysfunctional programming --anonymous
* mjgiarlo notes that he's not perfectly sane --anonymous
* mjgiarlo searches for butt --anonymous
* mjgiarlo woke up on the dumb side of the bed --anonymous
* roy is quoted out of context again --anonymous
* royt tries to imagine artunit angry and fails --anonymous
* scottmcd was suffering from syntax poisoning. --anonymous
***djfiander notes that none of the 'C's in 'OCLC' mean 'cooperative' anymore --anonymous
***miker_ replaces all of jrochkind's scripts with exit(-1) --anonymous
**jtgorman starts to deeply suspect many recent marc subfields were decided by flipping a coin --anonymous
... i'm a total girly man --edsu
... maybe if you saw the camel tatoo on my head it would have been more clear. --decasm
... we're dealing with fundamentally a new medium of information and human output. so it's no surprise we're wondering how the hell to deal with it all --RobT
...the progression of a Lisp programmer - the newbie realizes that the difference between code and data is trivial. The expert realizes that all code is data. And the true master realizes that all data is code. --SriramKrishnan
...they somehow seem to think Endeca is a solution for lack of authority control. Couldn't be more opposite! --jrochkind
1 ukelele, 1 accordion, 17 basses --mjgiarlo
20:21 dude, I don't NEED my spouse OR a firearm in order to kick your pathetic little ass --dsalo
:( I hate any language :) --panizzi
There needs to be a balance here, somewhere between doing nothing and doing all, for those who are truly known and those who are in the margins. We're trying very hard to reach some middle ground, which seems to be still far above th --anonymous
true... the ISO standard for unable to ignore is the gor ... which is equivalent to a 362.9 kg gorilla --anonymous
""Hey,"" said Harry to Dumbledore, as Ginny, Ron, Hermione, Neville, and Fred looked on. Yes, Harry? Dumbledore said to Harry, expectantly, casting his gaze over Hermione, Neville, Ginny, Harry, Fred, and Ron, as well as Percy, who had just walked i --anonymous
I am contemplating camping for fancy pants. --anonymous
=recipe for disaster --robcaSSon
@ana a man a plan a canal panama --rsinger
a cataloger's mind has to function under any circumstances :) --anarchivist
A COinS is only valuable if it is well spent --jaf
A crash reduces \\ your expensive computer \\ to a simple stone --RichardJones
A day without work is a day without food --Pai-chang
a dozen more increments and I've got an ILS... --atz
A few milliseconds after that, MySQL sputtered, coughed and cursed my name... and then hung waiting for me to cleanup the logs. --rordway
a friend of a friend says that living in Portland is like being married to a beautiful woman who is sick all the time --pbinkley
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. --max_planck
a planet where xml defeats cheese? get your internet off me, you damn dirty apes --mdxi
a URL is your contract with the world --artunit
Aaron Swartz is like the Zelig of open source projects --jdatema
actually, i has been rainy lately / i want my suntax back --BigD
actually, i think everyone is socially maladjusted --mdxi
after the apocalypse, the only things left on the earth will be cockroaches and XML that's been escaped too often or not enough. --adam_turoff
after the xml fairies have spread magic xquery dust on them --edsu
Ah, how things change... and they do keep changing. Everybody, stand up, move over one spot, sit down again! --kgs
all of the cool stuff needs to stop happening in ruby --MrDys
all real archives are dark --shekhar_eee
All the surprise about these features is coming from Java and PHP people, who have lived in darkness and to whom all light is blinding and full of amazement. -Ian Bicking --anonymous
all the time I've spent rotating my desktop in three dimensions may have made me slightly less productive. --mjgiarlo
all this talk is moot anyways once CERN starts up their big black hole maker --jaf
alright it's popsicle stand blowing time --MrDys
Alright, alright, alright! Imagine your URL as a needle in a haystack. Now imagine url_ver as a billboard attached to that needle. Now imagine creative people being able to easily locate and use your URLs in strange and unexpected ways! All it costs you i --anonymous
although i really did put you on the planet --edsu
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. --MarkTwain
always the indexer, never the enhancer --pbinkley
anarchivist: tell the truth, you were trolling the personals looking for somebody to match 041 strings with, weren't you? --dchud
and I am an advocatus diaboli --djfiander
and it's all lucene in the end --rsinger
And of course, my yum is broken --jrochkind
And thus begins your worldly education of learning to beat the IT system imposed on you by the man --credding
and what are libraries but meeting places for ideas --artunit
And while it would be great to have programmers who are also great at sales, graphic design, system administration, and cooking, it's unrealistic. Like teaching a pig to sing, it wastes your time and it annoys the pig. --joel
and you look cute in that nurses uniform :) --edsu
And, yes, I do mean in a nutshell as in ooh, ooh, help, I'm trapped in a nutshell, get me out of here. --dchud
And, yes, I do mean `in a nutshell` as in `ooh, ooh, help, I'm trappend in a nutshell, get me out of here.` --dchud
angled brackets are the new black --ksclarke
Any blog post that starts with the word \xe2\x80\x9cbeholding\xe2\x80\x9d better be about a near death experience or that time you did peyote with your cousin. It better not be about some goddamn tech conference you were at. --EdFinkler
any geneticists in here --eby
any jerk that says notepad is all i need to code with is either a shitty programmer or a fucking moron --rsinger
any technology that appeals to laziness and spite will be successful --artunit
anyone considering seeing I'm Not There ....i wouldn't recommend it --robcaSSon
Anyone who is not moved to tears by the state of software for libraries, can't be trusted. --jrochkind
anything is better than shipping MARC over ftp --phasefx
Are we not sentient beings who deserve more than the relentless grind of ephemeral topical humor pablum? --MonkeyWriter
aren't we all morons in the face of MARC? --berick
artunit. access pimp. --panizzi
artunit: Maybe catalogues and library collections need to be a bit more like quantum objects and exist in a broad spectrum of possibilities, taking in all points that exist on the way from the web to the desktop and back again. --anonymous
As some of you know we are indeed creating music again. Music that comes from a place so pure it will burn the lies off the very souls of those who try to discount it. --JimmyChamberlin
asl2 introduces the list incomprehension --anonymous
asmodai: omg, when i took edsu off my top 8 myspace friends, he like totally told all my friends that i stole his girlfriend! --tholbroo
At code4lib, we like people, we don't like ILSs --jrochkind
at the end of the day, we're an irc channel full of feces slinging howler monkeys --rsinger
atom is just like rss if rss were more like xml and were a bewildering family of formats instead of a single, fairly simple one --mdxi
awesome, there's a journal called harmful algae (issn:1568-9883) --rsinger
azaroth and i are bogging down the server with our spurious questions about whether he's a briefs or boxers man --rsinger
azaroth: rsinger: AFAIK, YAZ has SRW ZOOM but not SRU ZOOM. --anonymous
azaroth: who needs a gui toolkit when you have a browser? --leww
baby jesus 2.0: the reckoning --rsinger
BAH! --anonymous
bah. an ILS is just a bunch of simple apps with some spit and bailing wire --dbs
basically, unless you have a ton of parts lying around, i think you'd wind up spending twice on a myth box than you would spend on a tivo for a machine that will piss off your wife twice as much --rsinger
be obscure clearly --ebwhite
Be strict in what you send and tolerant in what you receive --anonymous
because MARC is the only data format that is suitable forlibrary bibliographic data!!!!!!!!! --djfiander
because you know, perfection is < 99999 bytes --edsu
beer with us, we're coding --panizzi
Being tired equals being stupid, and stupid hurts. --SeldenDeemer
bess: sorry i don't know where United States is --panizzi
best library fundraiser ever....book burning --robcaSSon
Beware Aberzombies --mjgiarlo
Beware Librarians some people want to give tags a specific, underlying meaning. Don't let them. --JoshSchachter
bitchpants! --rsinger
Blackboard and EZProxy: Crazed, knobbly paradox --panizzi
blame me for dspace --dchud
blind_agreement++ --rob_desk
Bloody stupid useless semicolons. -tbray --anonymous
Boom! --steve_jobs
boooo! still not workin :( --dchud
boy, you guys are iii whores ;-) --davidWalker_
break the code! --gsf
BRING ME SOLO AND THE UTC TIMESTAMP --rsinger
BSD -- it's the license you want your competitors to use --dbs
Buddism, technology, eh, all the same to me. :) --JodiS
bunch of beer-drinking asshat fucktards whining about anvil. --mjgiarlo
but ground rules for discussions are not absolute, i don't think anyone expects carbon-based lifeforms to achieve divinity --artunit
But here I am, and of course I'm suing the cigarette company because on the package they promised to kill me, and here I am. --KurtVonnegut
but I don't do crazy things with my machine like code perl imbots --mjgiarlo
but I totally -dig- rebellion! --rsinger> mjgiarlo: you need to weed out the seeds of php rebellion
but it's funny because it's kind of anti-python; they all are yearning for 'one way to do it' and there isn't just one way :) --edsu
but making a kid is funner than coding django... just barely. --mjgiarlo
But my google sucks. --jrochkind
but no one woke up one morning and saw End of Middle Ages in www.vatican.va/news.rss --pbinkley
but other than that, every day gets better --miker_
But really, doesn't every job post have a subtext of We want edsu, but if he's not available, we want someone with ... --wtd
but there are 'moments' in 'life --rsinger
but yeah, i expect great agony for extended periods of time --jeffdavis
But, hey, I don't test anything. --jrochkind
But, hey, I don't test anything. --jrochkind
by friday, all computing sucks --edsu
c4l does seem to be a growing group of experts of supybot plugins --jaron
CAIRO Support is experimental! We are not responsible if enabling support for CAIRO corrupts your Gentoo install, if it blows up your computer, or if it becomes sentient and chases you down the street yelling random binary! --gentoo
Can one yet register for this hypothetical preconference? --jrochkind
can't you read it _is_ a fucking http uri --edsu
Cataloguing is political --djfiander
cats are like potato chips... you can't have just one --commercial
chaos is fine, i'd just like it to be a bit more organized --robcaSSon
chuck norris has already acheived nirvana --rsinger
clicking_without_pointing-- --asl2
closing in on 500! --edsu> @quote add < gabe
closing in on 500! --gabe
code4lib descends into pataphor --mjgiarlo
code4lib, in theory, is profitable --rsinger
code4lib2009 in ... irc! --edsu
come for the lightning talks, stay for the 'nerd herd --mjgiarlo
compared to voyager, i'd almost rather be using typewriters and cardstock --juicycat
computers are supposed to make us more productive, but perhaps we'd be better off with less productivity and more reproductivity. --wilig
computers can be the tools of satan in our daily lives (kschneider speaking at Knowledge Ontario Lucene Summit) --anonymous
conferences are places i go because i'm too lazy to read --dbs
could be worse ... it could be Cats --miker_
Crappy crap1 = new Crappy(); --mjgiarlo
crazy Germans with their revolutionary cooling technologies --mjgiarlo
cuz frankly, the color commentary here is lousy --pbinkley
damn, lifes too short for this --edsu
Damn, you guys are better at finding this shit in google than me. --jrochkind
dbs oh, so nothing explicit. just offering free beer with a three-year corkage fee --anonymous
dbs: does that mean we'll have to drug miker_ like Mr T? --bradl
dbs: My MARC records have wings in Second Life! --anonymous
dbs: SD: where innovation == mystery --anonymous
dbs: so, by 2015 we should have c4lcon up to a fortnight in the Maldives, with a whole day dedicated just to beer --mmmmmrob
dc.custardDepth - little known dublin core field --rsinger
dchud is LC's Laszlo --zoia
dchud: azaroth's right. --anonymous
dchud: he had me at coelacanth --anonymous
dchud: I just read this interesting management book --anonymous
dchud: meet patent, patent, meet dchud --roy
dchud: sit on it potsie --edsu
dchud: that's funny, every time i use my irc client, i have conflicts with libedsu --rsinger
dchud: the last time I tried something like that, I woke up in a plane somewhere over Mongolia next to water buffalo. --jtgorman
death is easy, metadata is hard --pbinkley
debugging algorithm: connect to #code4lib, ask questions --asl2
debugging is discovering what you actually told your computer to do, rather than what you thought you told it --anonymous
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. --BrianKernighan
delerium informatems --anonymous
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant. --JohnSimon
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. --E.B.White
denials Ah, there you are, the republicans are looking you. Something about needing you to be more plausible --anonymous
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost. --B.Stroustrup
diplomacy born of many years spent trying to shoe-horn the desires of catalogers in to SQL ;-) --rjw_2
djfiander: I always think of you behind a desk with a couple of turntables pounding out the beats for the dancing patrons --tholbroo
djfiander: People that mix underlining and italics in a single document, are... typographically naive, lets say --anonymous
djfiander: the danes, i didn't realize they were talking about myself --panizzi
djfiander: your youthful good looks prevent us from believing how much experience you have with decrepit technology --dbs
Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes. --WaltWhitman
do i implement /your/ spec or do what i think is right? --rsinger
Do I need a library? --mikeybe
Do you ever read any of the books you burn? --panizzi
documentation is for the weak --rsinger
does *nobody* else here have Real Genius memorized? --dchud
Does the OpenURL spec not have discovery features built into it? --mschinkel
don't get me wrong... I'd LOVE to work there, but I'd never make it past the 'design the most efficient 2-elevator system' unless I googled it ;) --robcaSSon
Don't let XML drive you to drink! --http://www.techquila.com/rng-tools.html
don't write if you don't want to be read ;) --JodiS
drop ILS, drink beer --dchud
Drug test? Sure, buddy... I can take all the drugs you can throw at me. --robcaSSon
drunken solr tweaking; sounds like a recipe for disaster --BigD
dsalo: sometime an & is just an & --anonymous
duke duke duke duke of url --anarchivist
During my brief but memorable tenure at Earlham College, I wrote a column for the school newspaper. (For the kids in the audience, that\xe2\x80\x99s like Twittering on paper once a week.) --MarkPilgrim
ead is like the worst application of technology ever thrown in the hands of amish monkeys --rsinger
ease of implementation seems to trump technical superiority quite often these days --eby
eby: beaver pelts. --panizzi
ed's thought that everyone's wrong all day...he may be right, he may be wrong....we still love him... --robcaSSon
edsu hates humanity --robotmonkey
edsu is a (1 more message) --zoia
edsu is a serious pain. --zoia
edsu is now qualified to be an OPAC --mjgiarlo
edsu, english is a simple protocol compared to ncip --djfiander
edsu, your source for bad advice since, well, forever! --anonymous
edsu-- # for wanton cruelty --dchud
edsu: all it takes to write code is a brain and fingers :) --jblyberg
edsu: Baboon-headed thought master --panizzi
edsu: don't shatter my belief that ruby will make me handsome and clever --rsinger
edsu: meta is my middle name, baby --pbinkley
edsu: That is not dead / which in catalogs can lie --asl2
edsu: you and roy should right each other's sentences -- then you'd get everything write! --gabe
edsu: you want json, i'll give it a new super-wal-mart....ugh....big empty shell.... --panizzi
edsu: you're just some freak bot in the chatroom, i suspect a markov chain gone horribly awry --rsinger
efficiencies like having to leave now and read scrollback later must be squeezed out of our conversation --dchud
element --dbs> well, it's surprising that the element isn't a child of an
Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. --knuth
english majors that didn't read or write? did you go to the jack kerouac school of disembodied poetics? --edsu
even if Endeca and casey_durfee cost the same, I think I'd go with a casey_durfee. --mjgiarlo
Evergreen, the open source ILS, will reach a tipping point in 2007--just enough new customers to put it on the brink of being to the ILS what Apache has become for web servers: the common-sense choice. --kgs
Every Internet application that demonstrates the value of collective intelligence is eventually met with sophisticated attempts to dump garbage. --DaleDougherty
Everyone wants to be open source. They just don't want to give their source code away. --SteveYegge
everyone's pretty cool when they've got their masks on and are swinging weapons at one another. but at the end of a weekend, when their real-world dorky-ass personas come out, you want to run away screaming -- or bring a tactical nuke down on yourself and --mjgiarlo
everything I know about skydiving I learned from that wesley snipes movie --MrDys
Everything I write is a baldfaced lie, except for the stuff you agree with --SteveYegge
everything is broken --bdylan
everytime you diss pines god breaks a disco ball. --LTjake
ex libris fever: catch it! --rsinger
extinction is the most effective form of avoiding the future --dbs
extreme programming - A method of software development that combines all the charm of backseat driving with all the efficiency of a marital squabble. --devil
FacBacBarfBag --edsu
famed geek-caster dchud says, [unalog] is widely known worldwide as the least relevant social bookmarking application ever --anonymous
few people have quite my talent to bring machines to their knees --royt
Fine. Heck, it's your planet, anyway... --dchud
Fool me once, shame on\xe2\x80\x94shame on you. Fool me\xe2\x80\x94you can't get fooled again. --gwb
for business cards we just jot our names and email on old catalog cards in library hand --dchud
For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, elegant, and wrong. --HLMencken
For Netscape 9, we've brought back the big throbber from days of old and stuck it right on the end of the toolbar - Bam! --ChrisFinke
For PINES so loved the world that it sent Evergreen ... --asl2
for the record: I HATE COMPUTERS --dchud
Four lines of umlaut there. --jrochkind
from here, it seems like your workplace alternates between ridiculous and absurd, with the occasional self-parody thrown in for spice. --jbrinley
from now on, everything I say must be worthy of being jotted down. this will, obviously, cut down on the amount that I say (which is probably a good thing anyway) --djfiander
funniest. library. catalog. entry. ever: Gastrointestinal illness after the 1995 Emory Division of Infectious Diseases summer picnic - logistic regression modeling used in a foodborne outbreak investigation / Sotir, Mark. --akrowne
gabe: books wins 143000000 to 79300000 --panizzi
geez, i would go into the realm of ultimate musical squee-ness... --panizzi
gentlemen, i believe this concludes this ranty rant --_ja
Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room. --president_muffley
Get over it, fanboy --anonymous
get thee behind me, army of kiwi ninja assassins! --rsinger
Gifts wreak havoc with recommendation systems --morville
glory to the flying spaghetti monster, and its mad parsing skills. --decasm
god damn you, bash shell. --jrochkind
god i hate xml --edsu
god in all his infinite fossil trickery --akrowne
good_data++ --eby
gossip is ... the human equivalent of chimpanzees grooming each other to check for fleas. Every minute you chat with someone about nothing in particular, you are saying to them: 'I like being with you, I want you in my social network --robindunbar
governance is overrated --edsu
grand moff seymour-singer --rsinger
grep butt TheWasteland.txt --mjgiarlo
gsf: somewhere there is a perl hacker who skipped his lunch no doubt --edsu
guido van beethoven --goob
guns don't kill people. magic kills people. --mjgiarlo
Ha! I got my ugly ass warning of upcoming service outage hacked onto my OPAC page. I can now go home. --jrochkind
hacker john hates cats --rjw-athens
haiku haiku all day --asl2
Happiness is a set of well-documented scripts that just keep working, and working, and working... --emorgan
happiness is an empty email box. --emorgan
har --rsinger
hard-tack is better with a little salt water anyways --jaron
hasta la vista --luis_salazar
hasta la Vista --LuisSalazar
Have of my bugs are spelling errors. --jrochkind
he says that you would have died when we were told to --@zoia
heard a team of monkeys that played toy instruments that kind of reminds me of this --rsinger
heartlessdicatoators4lib --edsu
heh, crackers and asshats... my favorite things --bradl
heh, i can't remember #981 either. the piano has been drinking! --anonymous
heh, if i lived in edmonton, and the oilers win, and i had some heavy construction equipment nearby, i'd rearrange the bridges over the valley to match those at konigsburg! --dchud
heh, that plus getting the Z39.50 model, you can unleash in privacy --panizzi
Hell is other browsers - Sartre --quirksmode
Here's a radical idea: don't even think of making your own please tell me more about that language until you're sure that you can't do the job using one of the Big Five: XHTML, DocBook, ODF, UBL, and Atom. --anonymous
here's some bacon salt so you can pretend you're not vegan --edsu
here's this big nest of xml vipers, let me see what happens when i stick this sharp stick that's on fire in here --edsu
Hey! slow down! We just hit our first wifi spot in 60 miles! OH GOD THE LAPTOP IS ON FILE --jtgorman
Hey, everyone stay out of my paste. --wtd
Hillary's the final cylon. --AaronDouglas
hip-hop != hip-hop back then you get someone like Eric Hatcher to join so I know some naakteborgens --panizzi
hmm, i lose my doi somewhere --rsinger
Hmmm... positive evolution through isolation and removal of diversity.\xc2\xa0Interesting... --miker_
hmmm...could it be...SATAN --church_lady
home ownership: never having the money to go out again; parenthood: making it all moot, anyway --rsinger
hooray! I got an error message! --jrochkind
Hope hard always to fall short of success. --RichardHugo
how bad could a thai curry be from a coffee shop in a tunnel in central Illinois? --mjgiarlo
how many lc janitors does it take to fix a toilet? --edsu
How many times do our users have to see something this bad before they decide the library doesn't have what he's looking for? - Casey B. --anonymous
how sad that I see rem and think resource map --mjgiarlo
http statii sounds like an underground nightclub shut down permanently for selling to minors, among other violations --dchud
http://wiki.inkdroid.org/code4lib/ is still here. And still drunk. --panizzi
http://www.thefilthandthefury.co.uk/images/congrat1a.jpg --anonymous
i <3 huckabots --dchud
I also don\xe2\x80\x99t want to be part of some cabal of digital library practitioners --edsu
I always thought the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence people were jumping the gun a bit. --mjgiarlo
I always thought they just wandered into the stacks at reaching some ancient age and melded with the shelves --jtgorman
I always use the phrase miller time just before I grind the wheatberries for the week's bread. That, or usually upon rereading The Miller's Tale . --asl2
I am astounded by the level of complexity and overdesign. Truly a microcosm of ocean-boiling. Who knew you could make a citation so complicated? --Tantek
I am indeed a lazy sob. i had was going to write a blog post to that effect, but I didn't get around to it. --jonvw
I am pleased to announce that my Hello, World! rails app is 100% finished. --mjgiarlo
i am primarily an optimist unless i've had too much coffee --edsu
i am pwned in the eyes of the lord --diesel_sweeties
I am rarely happier than when spending entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand. --DouglasAdams
i am sleep-IRCing --akrowne
I am so lazy i've started to only microwave things for 1:11, 2:22 and 3:33 minutes --lbjay
I am speaking. Yes I am. I will speak loudly and often throughout the course of this meeting. --meeting_alphas
I believe in karma. That means I can do bad things to people all day and assume they deserve it. --dogbert
I believe that we live in an era where anything that can be expressed as bits will be. I believe that bits exist to be copied. Therefore, I believe that any business-model that depends on your bits not being copied is just dumb, and that lawmakers who try --anonymous
i blame it all on Too Much Money and Java. :P --dchud
I bought liquor there. --zoia
i can feel my pinkies getting stronger with every C- stroke --gabe
I can see that IRC is going to be a thorn in my side again today. --pmurray
i can't say i totally agree, but i really enoyed the sheer velocity of it --edsu
I can't take this marketing crap much longer --s|k
i certainly understand his frustration with people churning out crap xml grammar after crap xml grammar, but the whole point of XML is that you can use it to declare a nice, regular, theoretically easy-to-parse grammar that fits your needs exactly --mdxi
I checked with the authorities and can say with very little certainty that doing lightning talks will have no negative effect on your 15 minutes of fame...that might be the cold medicine talking though. --edsu
I come from mother software and father cataloging --jtgorman
i continue to hate javascript --edsu
i could always just put my ead in mets and proceed attacking my corneas with this fork sitting on my desk --rsinger
I could make an argument that that's elegant, or I could make an argument that that's hard to read --jrochkind
I did go to the trouble of adding the gratuitous white-space that Python programmers seem to expect to make it more readable --thomhickey
I don't believe in Beatles --JohnLennon
i don't believe in elvis --ksclarke
i don't feel the hail mary query should be part of base functionality --rsinger
i don't follow directions well --rsinger
i don't know anything about computers --zoia
I don't know how else to characterize the non-deterministic fuckery that occurs --aboyko
I don't know what that means, but, Robots! Monkeys! Doing it! --jrochkind
i don't like anything --rsinger
I don't like that in anything --rsinger> i don't like all or nothing approaches
i don't mind if the cpus are slow/mobile/efficient, i just need two of them --dchud
i don't really handle books --panizzi
i don't run our ils -- i work on replacing it --gsf
i don't understand. what are we incrementing? --emorgan
i doubt we will get where we need to go if we do not create a future that isn't limited by the past --roy
I downloaded the code... but lazy --madtom
i drop context objects like BOMBS --dchud
i feel like i've lost the last month of my life, never to have it back, trying to parse the marc fixed fields --monkeyhat
I feel like I\xe2\x80\x99m getting cut a thousand cuts from Ginsu knives and getting peed on by Chia pets. --MikeBergman
i feel like some awful troll now :) --edsu
I feel that my day job interferes with my long-suppressed inner libertine --djfiander
I find it sad when people just free copyright data without thinking about where it's going to live. So often they release them into the wild right near where they liberated them, leaving them to die in a foreign environment --jtgorman
I fought the metadata / and the metadata won --asl2
I guess drink OR cuss would be fine. teetotalers are welcome as long as they have bad attitudes. --mjgiarlo
i guess i should've paid more attention in political-correctness 101 --edsu
i guess it would be mean to add that to the quote db --edsu
I guess that's the downside with using HTTP error codes for non HTTP errors! --azaroth
i had to resize his head a few times to get it right --roy
I hate our crappy ass catalogs. --zoia
I have a monkey chimney broker, who looks around for the best monkey to put up my chimney --bess
I have been vegetarian for 16 years yet my favourite TV chef is Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, a British chef famous for eating and making use of every part of an animal and infamous for serving placenta pate at a christening. --iand
i have no idea why i said that--i think i have irc turrettes --edsu
I have no patience to listen to podcasts. The written word is a beautiful thing, people. I can read it a lot faster than you can say it. --jrochkind
I have qualms about OCLC's closed-data business model and it's hegemonic and (by traffic) not too successful approach to webification. --timspalding
I have seen the future of libraries: It is to spend the future discussing the future of libraries. --Tim Spalding
I have sometimes wished I could set the U of Chicago Library to shuffle, and see what the next book was. --asl1
I heard EG was outsourced to Bangladesh where it was coded by herpetic orphans. An outrage! --mjgiarlo
i heard you can stop a zombie unicorn if you kill -9 it hard enough with a job board --gabe
i just can't handle writing perl anymore. it makes me feel unclean --anarchivist
I just get frustrated once in a while because I do want to provide users with the best access to information, but I\xe2\x80\x99m boxed in by a binder that\xe2\x80\x99s heavier than my dog... --nengard
i just want a simple way to know if a record is a diorama or not --rsinger
I keep imagining panizzi saying stuff with the Borat accent. --mjgiarlo
i know there's bullshit afoot when my screen is full of smilies --eby
I know this just muddies the waters, but the waters ARE muddy, unfortunately --karencoyle
I like rdf but I'm insane --s|k
i like your parade -- i just don't have time to jump in a twirl the baton ok? --edsu
I live only a mile from Bill [Gates], so if anyone would like to send me a flaming bag of dog poo, I can be of service for a modest fee. --mjgiarlo
i lost mine in lithuania --artunit
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. --DouglasAdams
i love javascript now --edsu
i love marc... --roy
I love standards, but they need to standardize practice, not precede it --djfiander
i love the indexdata folks, zebra is a bad idea. --zoia
i love the web --pbinkley
i mean i think they just announced a new, even suckier release --roy
i mean, we need something solid to discuss --edsu
I merely channel ferretus mundi. --mjgiarlo
i must be missing something here... all the blogs look the same to me --atz
i never really followed what he said with anything more than a ritalin-deprived rat could muster --edsu
I pledge allegiance to the prescription of the United States of Merck --mjgiarlo
I predict the Fall of Rome --royt
i prefer well-travelled metadata; it has more perspective --pbinkley
I refuse to dream about ideals. There's too much work to do. --jyoung
i saw the best minds of my generation torn between limecat and i can has cheezburger --rsinger
I saw what MARC was all about, and I was terrified. --erikhatcher
I sed it before, and I will sed it again. --mjgiarlo
i should touch things more often --royt
I skipped Denial and went straight to Anger. If I make it to Bargaining, it will be with another vendor, or Open Source of some sort. --HorizonUser
I spammed the spam. --jrochkind
I started as a mac person... clicking never gets old --ksclarke
i think all code4lib journal articles should begin when I was a kid in a small coal mining village... --pbinkley
I think every program you write should be the hardest you've ever written. --SteveYegge
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy. --FrankZappa
i think it was during Gorman's tenure that I started thinking of librarian-in-a-box --royt
I think my first concert was the Fat Boys in like '86. It was then that I decided I too would one day be a fat boy. --mjgiarlo
i think one quote is all we need --royt
i think standards are making me stupid --rsinger
I think that's asking for a lolrus with something like oh noes! who put 2 diffrnt stuff in mah bukkets? --tholbroo
i think there is a constant ratio of people in meetings compared to those that are not --edsu
I think there must be a balance between market rules and worthless standards --ksclarke
i thought dchud was going to spontaneously grow long hair and start grooming himself --edsu
i thought this was an xml sucks no it doesn't pissing match --dchud
I thought: why do we hate saltines. Then, duh, Jodi --JodiS
I tried running edsudo on my Linux box, but it won't let me run stuff as edsu. :( --mbklein
i turn off audioscrobbler when i mousse my mullet --rsinger
I understand that OCLC believes that all your bases are belong to us... --timspalding
i used to work for someone who spent time in moscow in the 1960s, and he always talked about how the KGB would interrupt your phone conversation to change tapes --artunit
I wanna be metadata --wtd> I wonder if we could adapt Ramones songs to library settings. Sheena Is a Cataloguer.
i want answers, always. --emorgan
I want it all to just work --djfiander
I want someone to have already written what_giarlo_wants.py --mjgiarlo
I wanted to see things that I can use in the near future, I do not see that here. --bill_drew
i was hoping it was about client-side pizza --rob_desk
I was running trunk. I'm kinda stupid. --dbs_talk
I will eventually make an object with attributes --MikeyBe
i wish i could articluate instead of gesticulate --edsu
I wonder if maybe, just maybe, if the library catalogue had its psychedelic moments, danced on the fringes, and went through a period of rebellion, then maybe it wouldn't appear so clunky and out of touch. --artunit
i wonder if this qualifies as loser-ville -- go to another country and immediately log into code4lib --rsinger
I wonder in what extreme situations you have to wield a flowbee in order to claim the title of Master Barber --MrDys
I wonder why I quote half the stuff I do --ksclarke
i work in a dark archive --anarchivist
I would characterize the New York Public Library as being neither public nor a library --simon_spero
I wouldn't say my institution isn't agile. If we were attacked by a giant snail I'm almost sure some would survive --jtgorman
i' really susceptible to off-by-one errors --edsu
I'd like to go to clown college. --jrochkind
i'd love to see lawn chairs made of pizza --robcaSSon
I'd probably write better code if the computer shocked me whenever I screwed up --tholbroo
i'd rather sign something saying i understand it might burst into flames and kill a unicorn, then guareentee uptime --eby
I'd skip the shooting part, not lunch. Never skip lunch. --jrochkind
i'll be damned if i'm posting press releases --eby
i'll confess if things get beyond 3 tables i begin to question what i'm doing --edsu
i'll do whatever's asked of me that i am capable of doing --mdxi
I'll probably end up writing a MARC::Record::JSON at some point. Because, you know, nothin' but free time and cheap beer here in Michigan. --BillDueber
i'm a case study in library standards gone wrong --edsu
I'm a fan of actual pragmatic, but I'm not a fan of what some people call 'pragmatic --jrochkind
i'm a loser baby, so why don'tcha kill me --Beck
I'm a Sirsi Assassin, thank_you_very_much --bradl
i'm actually ok with the whole entire world not going to their local library. the holds queue for all the books i want are freaking long enough already --caroldotou
i'm actually planning to indulge in some ajaxturbation in the near future. i think it's neat stuff, and really good for making HTTP-based UIs suck far less. --anonymous
I'm generally not unhappy about giving away the metadata (say via oai) when the use will come back to my site. It's not unlike distributing the Sears catalogue --leww
I'm glad #code4lib is open to those who have nothing to say. --mjgiarlo
i'm in the perestroika of my life --rsinger
i'm kind of a business on the web, party in the irc kinda person i guess --edsu
I'm learning to love json because ... I hate xml and json lets me do a lot of what xml lets you do --dchud
I'm not into tattoos, but if I were ever going to get one, I'd have ASDF JKL; inked in reverse onto my fingertips --fawcett
I'm not saying we ought to shut up, of course. It's just a shame that some fuckers haven't gotten the point after ten years of us foaming at the mouth. :) --mjgiarlo
i'm only half following what's going on here --edsu
I'm originally from Iowa. It took a long time for me to realize we were free to go --JakeJohannsen
I'm probably in the 035 as well since opensearch doesn't define how you decide if its sposed to be an evil genius ;) --panizzi
I'm standing here in front of books, please don't let them eat me --anonymous
i'm the unmauled one --roy
I'm trying to sell black market metadata. In my imagination. --jrochkind
I'm very careful with my CDs. They all get played exactly once. --djfiander
I'm working on becoming so indie that I only listen to my own music. --mjgiarlo
I've just used chi-squared for that: am I missing a joke? --asl2
I've never been a big believer in personas. They're artificial, abstract, and fictitious. I don't think you can build a great product for a person that doesn't exist. And I definitely don't think you can build a great product based on a composite sketch o --Jason/37signals
i've never let ignorance stand in the way of having an opinion --the_REAL_roy
I, for one, welcome our new vast vanity media empire overlords. --fawcett
ideally panizzi would maintain its state a bit more gracefully --edsu
if a fool persists in his folly he becomes wise --williamblake
if ASCII was good enough for jesus, it's good enough for me --rsinger
If books don't become part of the online search economy, they are doomed to eventual irrelevance. --TimO'Reilly
If carpenters made buildings the way programmers make programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy all of civilization --anon
if dchud doesn't understand something quickly something is wrong --anonymous
if edsu hasn't already slaughtered a sacred cow, chances are it doesn't exist --mjgiarlo
if expanding code4lib means losing the in-jokes, count me out. --tholbroo
If hell has it's own language, I'm sure it's perl. --jtuttle
if i delete my secret coffee muffin recipe, no identifier is going to resolve it --wilig
if i don't do it within the next three minutes i'll forget about it --gabe
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders. --rose_elizabeth_bird
if i see one more post about 2nd life being the future of libraries and the 'net, i think i'll puke --jaf
If I wanted to reduce the probability of unauthorized access to sensitive data, using a random assortment of underdocumented Z39.50 attributes and oids wouldn't be out of the question. --asl2
If I write that I opened a beer and then I forget about Twitter for five days, will you assume I went on a binge? --kgs
if i'm ever seen in a manly drum circle in the woods please do me a favor and shoot me --royt
if i'm ever seen in a manly drum circle in the woods please do me a favor and shoot me --royt
if jrochkind goto jrochkind --jrochkind> No, I started out loopy.
if ksclarke is our only hope, we may has well pack it in now --roy
If library users can't access Amazon, they'll complain about OPACs less. --asl2
if life were more like unix you could just tar everybody up --dchud
If Lisp\xe2\x80\x99s audience had been harried sysadmins rather than AI researchers, it\xe2\x80\x99d rule the world by now. --tbray
if marc must die, marc8 should be tried for war crimes and dispensed with in a very public way --edsu
if only there was an opac that worked AS WELL AS a glorified royt --miker_
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. --EdithWharton
if participating in a sophisticated 3D online environment means attending meetings about library signage, then I\xe2\x80\x99m gone, no matter how many of the participants have wings --pbinkley
if someone wants to sound like an idiot, they are completely free to do so ;-) --royt
If the doors of perception were cleansed, every bug would appear as it is, finite. --asl2
if the entire artistic contributions of britney spears can be shared all over the world, there must be ways of moving big sets of library data around --artunit
if the internet is replaced with second life I'm off to my shack in the woods. --jaron
if the profession is to survive it needs to go through a metamorphosis of kafkaesque proportions --edsu
If they\xe2\x80\x99re not metadata, then I assume they\xe2\x80\x99re data. --david_weinberger
If we're lucky we die delicious --CatandGirl
if you can explain what you are doing with any conventional terminology, you've already been outsourced to India --BruceSterling
If you don't consider semantics, you get the equivalent of Chomsky's colorless green ideas sleep furiously at some point. --dsalo
if you don't know goats, go and meet some --ben_hyman
if you mix XQuery with server based APIs and tie in XSLT 2 via Saxon 8.9.\xc2\xa0 That is a potent mix, because you are essentially inside the XML at that point --kcagle
If you want to participate, just do it. If you want to lead, just do it. Don't expect anyone to appoint you to anything, because we won't. If you see something that should be done, simply step forward and do it. That alone will instantly make you a full-f --royt
imagine all the people, living for .... oh well --edsu
in *theory* your net is the world. in *practice* you have a useful subset --JodiS
in a little known greek myth, my father was actually zeus come down as a beluga whale --rsinger
In any case every language is either trying to re-invent lisp or smalltalk. Let's just learn those and be done with it. --timmy
In case of emergency: 1) Do not be alarmed. 2) Press the ALARM button below. --BurlingameHyatt
In late 2006, Company launched its newest product-the innovative category-creating rights management and advisory tool-which has received wide acclaim in the publishing and information industries, and has been nominated for numerous awards. --anonymous
In my defense, I did study humanities in college. --mjgiarlo
In my years of analytics and data mining, a recurring theme is that better algorithms are nice but better data is nicer. --anonymous
in room A we have the LibraryFind breakout, and in room B rob will be giving out free throat punches. see you all in an hour and a half! --miker_
In The Future, book verso pages will have robotx.txt files on them to stop Google Books. --jrochkind
In the long run, the utility of all non-Free software approaches zero. All non-Free software is a dead end. --mark_pilgrim
in the room women come and go speaking of joey buttafuoco --dchud
in theory there's no difference between theory and practice, but in practice there is --anonymous
in-jokes don't scale --dsalo
Information doesn't want to be free, it wants to be very liberated and very expensive. --azaroth
is arrogant bastard extraordinarily hoppy? --mjgiarlo
is everyone here drunk? --fresco
is it easier to write science fiction or treason? --colbert
is it just me, or is the panizzi bot crazy? --jrochkind
Is it me, or is it Unicorn? You decide! --dbs
is the color wheel the same thing as the beach ball of death? --dchud
is there really an on-topic for in here? --edsu
It all gets wrapped up in other professional beliefs such as MARC Must Die and the general state of denial of most librarians. --pmurray
it does fake RDF stuff, no? --robcaSSon
it goes deep in the hole and throws from its knees --pbinkley
It is an easy criticism of library standards (Z39.50, ISO ILL, NCIP, SRU, OpenURL, OAI, MARC+AACR+ISBD... need I go on?) that they make complicated things possible, and simple things complicated. --dchud
It is difficult for me not to hold in contempt any community which would increment a morno like myself 478 times. --mjgiarlo
It is fun doing test driven development when someone else develops the tests. --IanBicking
It is high time that the ideal of success should be replaced by the ideal of service --einstein
It is human to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion. --AnatoleFrance
It is the nature of a code4libber to be a power-shirking control freak. --jrochkind
It is time and past we stopped drawing lines in the sand around computers. Doing so is unacceptably narrowing our profession and inviting others (including some of our own) to marginalize it and us. --dsalo
it only takes the spark of space-dash-space to set a fire here --jaron
It really was my coworker! --jrochkind
it seems like we're all basically in violent agreement with each other --rsinger
it was hard to find an innovative site that could remember why they selected it --BrianOwen
it will take more than logging to make this anything but a wretched hive of scum and villainy... --roy
it'd be awful if precocious kids found out Santa was fictional from the subject headings in an OPAC. --asl2
it's a real blue sky day here at #code4lib --gabe
it's a sad day when the worst thing about time travel is someone patenting everything --eby
it's a temporary patch, I swear --jtgorman
it's all about the XML, baby! ;-) --davidWalker
it's all stupid --edsu
it's called endeavor , not success --asl1
it's called the 'web of data', not the 'web of good data --mjgiarlo
it's closer to nyc than arizona --s|k
it's easier to shoe a horse than fix dspace --roy
It's good that families can come together, father and children, and enjoy deafeningly loud British heavy metal bands. --wtd
It's hard enough remembering my opinions without remembering my reasons for them. -- The Streets --anonymous
it's just maryland. it's kind of like a communist country --LuisSalazar
it's like macworld...for losers. --robcaSSon
It's like the cataloging Taliban or something. --jrochkind
it's like the html has its own mullet --rsinger
it's my duty to support my ils vendor, so they can keep on bringing me good stuff --pbinkley
It's nice to come in in the morning, be swamped, and then look up to realize it's quittin' time. --mjgiarlo
it's not a real conference until the tattoo gun comes out --anarchivist
it's not an easy job defeating terrorism worldwide while spreading it at the same time --edsu
it's not good practice to compare and contrast a musician's work with shania twain --rsinger
it's not so much a tarball as a tarkleinbottle --mbklein
it's okay to be inwardly selfish as long as you bear the illusion of altruism --mjgiarlo
it's probably too embarrasing for words anyway --panizzi
it's web 2.0, folks, get all chatty and crap --MyDys
It\xe2\x80\x99s shorter than the traditional approach, but that\xe2\x80\x99s not a good thing. The redundancy and white space of the current syntax helps us read it, understand what\xe2\x80\x99s going on, and makes it more legible. The compiler doesn\xe2\ --ElliotRustyHarold
jaron: sorry, was out walking the dog. I'm doing a quick and dirty normalization. I've been meaning to look into it more. --jtgorman
java's a slut. it's too late to defend its honour --djfiander
java: it may not be good, but it's good FOR you --pbinkley
javascript is my favorite non-deterministic programming language --decasm
javascript is the vegas of programming languages -- what happens in vegas stays in vegas --edsu
javascript will save the world! --rsinger
jbrinley: I suppose, but I personally lean towards ME as one of those things I'm better off forgetting existed --jtgorman
jesus, your grandfather talked too damn much --rsinger
jingle-jangle with the django dongle! --mjgiarlo
JodiS imagines getting eaten by fibonnacci numbers in outer space... --anonymous
jrochkind hums the cataloger and the coder can be friends --anonymous
jrochkind is now a tattoo-artist who said Guns don't kill people; magic kills people. --zoia
jrochkind It's not entirely perl's fault, but perl is what we in the New Age Self Help profession call an Enabler --anonymous
jrochkind: can you tell me more about this metadata stuff? --panizzi
jrochkind: i feel like this argument is so 2 days ago --rsinger
jrochkind: I get that reaction a lot. --jrochkind> mjgiarlo: I'm not sure what we're talking about. < mjgiarlo
jrochkind: I suspect something cartesian is going on :) --dbs
jrochkind: If I can't roll 8d8, how am I supposed to role-play TCP/IP? What kind of a game is this anyway? --anonymous
jrochkind: you know, give a man a fire and he's warm for a night. Light a man on fire, and he's warm for the rest of his life. --anonymous
jrochkind: you will eat him alive with your accordion and insanely fast typing skillz --edsu
jtgorman finishes scrolling up, grabs a pitchfork in one hand, a doctor pepper in the other, and my dice bag with my teeth --anonymous
jtgorman perl: the language you're comfortable with till you have seen someone else's perl code --anonymous
jtgorman: it's implied --jtgorman> anarchivist: no molested lizards? < anarchivist
jtgorman: Secure profitable foolishness --jtgorman> @ana other professional beliefs such as MARC Must Die
jtgorman: Semantic Web - An attempt to apply the Dewey Decimal system to an orgy. --panizzi
jtgorman: what, did i catch you in the rear again? --royt
just let me search the fucker --edsu
just point and click here and we will provide faceted browsing to your metadata --edsu
just suck all the data into Solr if you need full-text searching --dbs
karmically you will sleep with the voyagers --rsinger
keep the bad jokes coming; i, for one, welcome our new bad joke overlords --dbs
kobold's open bibliographic on-line data catalog helping information's effective faceting, thus alienating industry noobs --mjgiarlo
ksclarke: Cushy evil bastardises --zoia
ksclarke: if it works best with IE... that's a bug --anonymous
ksclarke: You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike... --panizzi
lbjay: Heigh-ho! I am hairy mass --lbjay> @ana Maharishi Mahesh Yogi / < zoia
Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. --Voltaire
Let MARC abide in the ILS, and become a mere spirit of malice that gnaws itself in the shadows, but cannot again grow or take shape. --pbinkley
Let's work on linking up the scads of existing data and leave the frigging nanobot clouds of rdf agents to later, mmkay? --mjgiarlo
lib fast, dev young, and leave a good-looking code --MikeReid
librar 2.0: all the bad data you can imagine, now with tags! --eby
Librarians are hiding something! --StephenColbert
Librarians make good developers, if only because we have the skills to search for the right code to steal. --dbs
libraries are about finding stuff, and i can say for certain that i'd not be able to find anything i wanted with the subject values i've seen --erikhatcher
Libraries are the _really expensive retailers_ in a Walmart world. --blakesterz
Libraries contain a trivial amount of data. Fundamentally, what's going on is not that difficult. If you take the programmers in your department and let them work on something, they could create something really cool, and throw away the ILS. --TimSpalding
libraries: where information goes to die --mjgiarlo
Library J urinal? --anonymous
LibraryThing appears poised to turn the cataloging of books into a form of communal recreation. --ChristianScienceMonitor
lie-brary --eric
lies, damn lies, and code4lib --ksclarke
life is like a box of chocolates. only they're all that horrible tasting supposedly fruit flavored road tar one --mdxi
Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it. --tom_lehrer
life was better at print 'Hello World --rsinger
lightning bolt! lightning bolt! --rsinger
Like dentists advocating for dental hygiene, librarians should advocate for the potential of universal distribution of information. It is our professional imperative. --JohnIliff
like moths to the flame, they come here to be distracted --rsinger
like my granddaddy used to say, when you can't handle an assignment, assign it a handle. --dchud
Like royt, if I could be like royt (I'd be wasted on scotch all day, drunk-mailing autocat!) --mjgiarlo
Lipstick in the afternoon? --jaf
LOGIC HAS NO PLACE IN A LIBRARY. --dchud
LOOK OUT PORTLAND, HERE I crash --dbs
Looking thru the Windows API is like a bowel disorder. --wilig
lots of panties were put in a twist, no doubt. --mjgiarlo
mac os x: It's like linux without all the ugly. --wilig
maisonbisson slept with my wife! --rsinger
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. --aein
man ,this is gonna be one COOL jihad --pbinkley
man is a bad animal --wsb
man, relationships are so complex --gsf
Man, the imperfect librarian, may be the product of chance or of malevolent demiurgi; the universe, with its elegant endowment of shelves, of enigmatical volumes, of inexhaustible stairways for the traveler and latrines for the seated librarian, can only --borges
MARC = MAchine Readable Cacophony --decasm
marc = machine readable catastrophe --decasm
MARC is librarian for vi --kbanerjee
marc is the best explanation of why we need rdf --dchud
marc is the best explanation of why we need therapy --roy
marc pile - gomer's cousin from out east --dchud
marc was cool (as well as kewl) in its time, but now, alas. --elm
marc's been dead for years. the problem is that we've been weekend at bernie'sing all over the place. --mjgiarlo
maybe I shouldn't be running trunk --dbs
maybe if we keep vaccinating and prescribing anti-biotics, virii and bacteria will evolve to the point where they can solve identifier persistence for us. --mjgiarlo
maybe it's because i can't be immortalized with a uri --rsinger
maybe panizzi's default herald should be Lower ye expectations, all who enter --ksclarke
maybe the shins will change my life today. --dchud
Maybe there should be a rule: every email you send has to be accompanied by one line of code. --Tim_Spalding
maybe try to avoid statements involving 'everyone' and 'all' and i'll try to start agreeing with you --edsu
maybe we are just doomed to scrape screens forever --artunit
memory is overrated --gabe
Metadata is an artisan\xe2\x80\x99s job. If you want artisanry, pay an artisan, damn it. --dsalo
metadata is dead --clagoze
metadata is like unto a bird on the wing --pbinkley
metadata is my attitude --panizzi
Metadata Steering Group (MSG): We add flavor and give you a headache --bess
Metadata-ness is a property of context, not an inherent property of the data. --jrochkind
metadata: it's one of those words that really means something different every time you use it. a convenient and imprecise label --jenlrile
Microsoft saw the danger of Javascript and tried to keep it broken for as long as they could. But eventually the open source world won, by producing Javascript libraries that grew over the brokenness of Explorer the way a tree grows over barbed wire. --paulgraham
miker_: Have you been exorcising? It looks like you've lost a lot of evil! --dbs
mind you, i'd rather get together on a weekend to pay homage to ruby-masters than deal with a page telling me the catalogue is down --dbs
Mishcon de Reya said Lady McCartney could not afford to sue all the newspapers she wanted to. --bbc
mjgiarlo HTTP/1.1 403 Fuhgeddaboudit --anonymous
mjgiarlo imagines anarchivist's friends as a sketchy dude in a long, black trenchcoat filled with baguettes. --anonymous
mjgiarlo: . --http://example.org/procrastination> owl:sameAs
mjgiarlo: get your creepy eyes off my thong --royt
mjgiarlo: stick that in yer platform and smoke it. --anonymous
mjgiarlo: yep, we're the ones with the strangely jocular mispelled anthromorphic animal-talk white block lettered statements near our heads discussing where we are and what we're doing with other peoples' stuff --dchud
mjg_: after reading that wikipedia on frege it seems i'm more of a john stuart-mill kinda guy :) --edsu
mm, duck typing, the sequel --wilig
Mmmmm.....Quotes..... --zoia
Mnemonic Never Ever Means Oh No I Can't remember --gabe
Monkeypatching the future --rsinger
more like code4lib.disorg. :) --mjgiarlo
morno --edsu
most cataloging records don't originate on earth at all, and are actually injected by space aliens as part of a long-term study of human psychology --asl2
Most developers are morons, and the rest are assholes. - Mark Pilgrim --anonymous
Most libraries have stopped chaining their books to their stacks, and similarly, open source software gives you freedoms you won't find with proprietary software. --Open-ILS
MOV ASS --artunit
Mr. Tamborine Man is dead, long live panizzi! --panizzi
Must keep working on writing all formal-like, or M-ch--l G-rm-n wins. --dsalo
my boss's boss has my phone # listed as his fax # --rsinger
my career's gone great since i went down to the crossroads --dchud
My eyes! The goggles do nothing! --Rainer_Wolfcastle
my favorite episode of gilligan's island was when they thought they'd be able to escape by building a NAF --dchud
My god.. it's full of tabs! --tholbroo
my memory sucks too. that is why i write in my books and use computers. --elm
my new position title is 'systems analyst', so i'd prefer if you referred to me as 'douchie mcdouchebag' from now on --rsinger
My OPAC's been down so goddamn long, that it seems like up to me. --wtd
My opinions change daily, and I articulate them poorly --SteveYegge
My own experience has been that as many as 75% of meetings are unnecessary. They\xe2\x80\x99re mostly called to provide either an illusion of team consensus; to pass information that could be passed in one hundredth of the time by other means; to allow th --CarmineCoyote
my wife doesn't run a web server --sylvar
myspace == geocities? --lbjay
nah, periods of anarchy aren't all that bad ;) --bradl
Navigating the IETF's website almost makes me hate the internet. --mjgiarlo
nearly every librarian i know is fundamentally incompetent w/r/to basic statistical thinking --dchud
Neil Diamond is the Jewish Elvis --jaf
neil diamond is the jewish leonard cohen --jaf
never resist a generous impulse --kesa
never sober --robcaSSon> @ana bone server
New Brunswick... the sort of light that is cast upon the raritan river in spring is magical - all the crack vials and hypodermics are illuminated like little stars. surely it is utopia. --mjgiarlo
night folks, I go home to do some more coding in a desperate attempts to get some projects done before I spend a week in Western Minnesota watching snow on television while it snows outside --jtgorman
No matter how good your app is, nobody will spend all their time in just it alone. --dchud
no, i actually have favorite screwdrivers --dchud
No, it's New Jersey --Patient> Is this Heaven?
no, no I think I just need to make more sense --jtgorman
not another maud'dib...the last guy ate all my oregano before he realized the difference between spices and Spice (with capitol S) --jtgorman
not everything is a noun --decasm_talk
Not QUITE everything that could go wrong has gone wrong yet today. We're working on it. --jrochkind
not to be cynical or anything, but... --dsalo
Nothing says that fair use says you get to do it in the most convenient form, and the one that is preferable to you. Fair use is really about content, and you shouldn't be hacking through things to get the most convenient format. --MarybethPeters/CopyrightOffice
now i know how code4lib felt, now i know how code4lib felt, while the flames rose to a blog post, and my feedreader started to melt --edsu
now if i saw the twinkle in your eye when you said that i wouldn't have flew off the rails on a crazy coding train --edsu
now that i have a full week of Sirsi API training, I can make it work the Sirsi way --dbs
now, everybody back to work, or go home --robcaSSon
nsfb: not-safe-for-brain --edsu
oclc is momentarily dead --panizzi
of course you can fit it in. you can fill it with Xs and 0s! --kcoyle_talk
oh another missed survey option: /kickban anyone who thinks they understand --panizzi
Oh my god, I am so sick of all my broken unix machines. --jrochkind
oh my god, it's full of MARC --asl2
OH NO YOU DIH'N --dchud
Oh sweet single-malt godess of serenity, where are you when I need you. --mleggott
oh wait, what buddha --panizzi
oh well --dchud
oh, come on, Evergreen is just plain sexy --bradl
oh, it depends on some site full of wankers that i've never heard of --mdxi
Oh-my-gawd, and we're using SRU and 'microformats' in the same sentence? --pmurray
oink --ksclarke
ok, anybody that defends the MARC record that has had to deal with the fixed fields is a fucking idiot --rsinger
ok, only half paying attention and got a bit confused --jtgorman
omg voyager opac s0X0rs --dchud
on the other hand, I discovered once you have enough caffiene, you can see vibrations --jtgorman
once i start showing folks this you may want to get an unlisted phone number --roy
once very useful, marc8 has become (even more than marc) a fabulous wart on bibliographic data --edsu
one does not learn powerpoint - powerpoint learns you --jaf
one dspace to rule them all, and in the dark archive bind them --edsu
one hint of a language preference could be the detour to hell --artunit
one look at marc sends 'em screaming back to perl --pbinkley
one might say that archivists surrender to preservation practices --mjgiarlo
one model to rule them all, one triple to bind them, one sparql to query the mess, and never again to find them --mjgiarlo
one of my pet peeves is salary commensurate with experience . how dishonest. Just come out and say we'll pay you what we can afford and no more, but we're not listing that because then no one would apply . --mjgiarlo
one of the reasons I scorn Atlanta is that they don't have any local cheap working class swill --rsinger
one thing that tends to mark tweakers is that they're fairly good at explaining technology to the non-technical in the same way that non-native speakers of a foreign language often teach that language better than native speakers, because they had to learn --dsalo
oooh.... shiny! --anonymous
Open ILS Thunderdome: Two ILSes enter, One ILS leaves --jtgorman
open source means just because we stop paying you doesn't mean you can stop working on the project --pbinkley
Open source software / is free as in free kittens. / We need a sandbox. --bess
OpenURL: Drive-by library visit --dchud
OpenURL: If You Weren't Sexy To Start With, You're Screwed. --tholbroo
Other people's dreams are boring --Port_Moresby
ouch, lisp, the pain, the pain! --truk77
Our apathy towards the edge case is born out of bitter experience. We all bear the scars of drawn-out battles over edge cases that satisfied someones sense of completeness or aesthetics or perfection, but ultimately made the common cases harder and solved --anonymous
our new design that I'm being told to implement now was done by a secretary on a temporary contract --tholbroo
Our online catalogs are pretty terrific: they combine both the careful classification, subject analysis, and description of traditional cataloging and the ability to do keyword searching and many other things. In some ways, it strikes me that we\'re livin --TedPGemberling
our professional lives are safe--for now --edsu
our time in prison was one of wonder and exploration. --rsinger
Our users don't complain. They just silently stop using us --davidWalker
Over the years I bet there have been hundreds of instances of usage data analysis, and hundreds of instances of usability studies. And I'd bet that in many cases the resulting catalogs still suck. --Bernie Sloan
overusing hashes, imho is the way of the devil --edsu
oy - um, i mean, roy --jaf
Oy, I'm so confused. --jrochkind
panizzi: Im an arrogant, shaky idiot --anonymous
panizzi: roy as baggage . I'm telling them Andrew Pace and a bunch of people here are pretty much adjacent to the ILL ladies make a route --anonymous
parens just don't understand --anarchivist
pass the homoeroticism over here when you're done with it --dchud
pbinkley: I just wanted to use pervert in a sentence today. --tholbroo
People always say that content is king, but there's a lot of content out there and it can't all be king... You want king-kong content. --P Diddy
perhaps Bono still hasn't found what he's looking for because he searches rather than finds. --mjgiarlo
Perhaps Marc is Cthulhu in another form --asmodai
perhaps we may all someday be open space cadets --mjgiarlo
perhaps what our community suffers from is MERD-E: Metasearch Esophageal Reflux Disease - Enhanced! --anonymous
Perl hackers don't die; they just get DESTROYed. --lbjay
perl-- --Dueber> perl++ < jtgorma1> perl++ < jjtuttle_> perl-- < lbjay> perl++ < abarrera> perl-- < royt> perl++ < anarchivist
ph0rman misses assembler --anonymous
php doesn't have to be ugly. --dbs
php has its limitations, but it's not like 'clown scripting language --rsinger
PHP: it's one ugly mother fucker that gets shit done. --terry_chay
pimpin' some PHP --truk77
pipe down, I can't hear the North American Robot-Monkey Love Association webinar punches hard enough to punch through reality as we know it and pulls out the perfect description from the ontology ether --jtgorman
please forgive me, but i must raise the spectre of cover images --gsf
pmurray: just say 'NOPAC'. --jmignault
Poor, poor hungry fleabitten kitten... call the ASPCA, *STAT!* --kgs
Praising companies for providing APIs to get your own data out is like praising auto companies for not filling your airbags with gravel. --mpilgrim
Praising companies for providing APIs to get your own data out is like praising auto companies for not filling your airbags with gravel. --mark_pilgrim
privacy is _not_ black and white, it is not on or off. i don't expect what i say here to be top secret. hell, there are no secrets. period. --erikhatcher
programmer lazy is a special sort though. it's the sort of laziness which views a week of research and a 36 hour coding jag as a perfectly reasonable tradeoff for never having to do a repetitive 15 minute task by hand again --mdxi
Programs that write programs are the happiest programs in the world. --andrew_hume
progress is measured in retirements --jbrinley
providence is the obama of hosts2009 --gsf
punctuation IS markup for humans --djfiander
Put three librarians in a room and they'll form four committees, as the saying goes. --wtd
Pwegotconned.cgi --rsinger
Python programmers talking about there being more than one way to do something... what is the world coming to? --edsu
Q: How do you know an innovative sales rep is lying? A: Her lips are moving --djfiander
quack --robcaSSon
random carnage is good, as long as the books are properly sorted and replaced on the shelves --wtd
raw laser shark sandwiches with edible massage dressing --tholbroo
rdf: not so much a data format as a guilt trip --pbinkley
rdhyee agrees that it's great to experience the small worlds in the large world we live in. --anonymous
rdhyee: one sharp knife is better than a drawer full of dull ones (from Chinese saying) --anonymous
re: unapi, am i the only one who finds it incredibly ironic that the problem it is attempting to fix is the wide variety of protocols available? --edsu
Real World to Ross: Screw You! --rsinger
reality is overrated --artunit
really necessary/ --BenO> I mean, is the $a in $aGeology
Really, that right there should be a clear indicator of how ill regarded Java development has become that people are willing to embrace the insanity that is Erlang in order to avoid using it. --RussellBeattie
reliable backups are overrated --rsinger
Research libraries are spending a fortune on creating metadata that is mismatched to our users' needs. --BernieHurley
REST: it sucks the least. --ryan_tomayko
right: every time I back up my data to cd-r, Celine Dion gets paid --pbinkley
rjw: in my dreams no one gives me any shit --royt
robcaSSon: can't zotero do that? --robcaSSon> panizzi: fuck you
rob_desk: crasher of browsers. --rob_desk
Rock on, you wild and crazy Southern research library directors! --kgs
Ross Singer as Home Renovator-- --panizzi
Ross, What is our Fancy Pants thing doing? --tomkeays
roy is now known as lamerz --anonymous
roy much of what is compliant at the moment is crap --anonymous
roy: meet lawyer, lawyer, meet roy --dchud
royt got to touch worldcat --davidWalker
royt was just making excuses about why oclc needs so much money - he has to send his kids to private school and tune his lamborghini --dbs
royt: and don't forget your mittens, dear --royts_mom
rsinger is like a travel agent for shitty eateries --mjgiarlo
rsinger: benevolent monkey leader of code4lib for life --edsu
rsinger: can I give you a big hug so we can be friends again? --dbs
rsinger: fucking URLs is generally painful --azaroth
rsinger: i cannot answer that. implement and tell us. --dchud
rsinger: i hate all of those people --anonymous
rsinger: i will carry the mental image of orlando jones somehow dignifying one of my jokes to my grave. --dchud
rsinger: php is kinda like an old girlfriend I make booty calls to when I'm desparate. --mjgiarlo
rsinger: productivity is for suckers! --mjg_work
rsinger: spicy pork, head on fire, you know it, cowboy --anonymous
rsinger: the only people worse than users are reference librarians --djfiander
rsinger: you had me at ELECTRIC SHOCK --dchud
rsync --delete --compress --archive --rsh=ssh --quiet /var/soup/curried_peanut_squash_soup dchud@work --edsu
ruby has documentation? --zoia
ruby is a hint to migrate planet code4lib to Angola! --panizzi
Ruby is the language Buddha would have programmed in. --sean russell
rugged machismo ? how about butt ugly ? --royt
s/god/dog/ --edsu
sanity is a pipe dream --mjgiarlo
sanity is overrated --pbinkley
SAVE THE YEAST! --rsinger
saved by laziness. --mjg_away
say, perhaps, countries decide to wage war over oil, as hard as it might seem --edsu
Schemas have proliferated while one-size-fits all solutions languish because the schemas get the job done. --jyoung
scholarly websites and blogs without COinS are like the web without links --pbinkley
scotch moron upchucks metadata tattoo. --dchud
security through crossed fingers --jblyberg
select * from foo where id = random(); --miker_
Serendipity-Assisted Remote Collaboration And Scholarship Meta-environment --asl2
serials = make-work project? --dbs
serials make me want to go to the liquor store, empty out our checking account on bourbon and live in the woods --rsinger
Shameless hussies of the world, unite! --kgschneider
shift happens. --LTjake
Shit. Bastards. --jrochkind
Show me an IR without bogus records and I will show you a closet without skeletons. --mjgiarlo
silently praises the bartleby log for allowing him to catch up on the denigration-fest --dbs
Simple is good. Bling Bling is bad. I personally choose enlightenment. (source: http://tinyurl.com/7eebn) --slashdotter
Since we are not likely to pass our next audit with the security offered by PINS we decided to go ahead with passwords anyway. That's when we were told that no-one in SD actually knew how to set them up. --anon_sirsi_customer
so long and thanks for all the fish information --tholbroo
so many bugs, so little time --jrochkind
so maybe there should be a nobody gets to propose three rules in a row rule --dchud
so meta it hurts --rsinger
so now library school is the safety for clown college --gabe
So that's why I say, I dunno, just have to try it and check back in 5 years and see how it worked. Either way. --jrochkind
so...after busting my hump over me getting his name wrong i find out that djfiander is bad with names --roy
software developers don't have to deal with the perversity of matter in what we design --rms
Software engineering is the art of amassing collected anecdotes and calling them Best Practices when in truth they have more in common with fads than anything else. --DareObasanjo
Software is never done. --elm
Solr doesn't know MARC from Adam --erikhatcher
Some people enjoy 80s bands, I enjoy reimplementing 80s protocols in Python. --asl2
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think I know, I'll use marcxml. Now they have two problems. --edsu
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think I know, I'll use XML. Now they have two problems. --Phillip.J.Eby
some professors like to call the whole Evergreen crew on the barcamp chat room --panizzi
Some say the world will end in fire; some say in segfaults. --xkcd
Some sort of lipstickless OPAC thingy. --asl1
somebody has to take the blame for dspace, and if it happens to be java that gets caught in the collateral damage, so be it --rsinger
somebody i'll write pretty --rsinger
someday life will be sweet like a rhapsody --panizzi
someone just has to repackage linux as a downloadable funny cat screensaver --tholbroo
Someone misread repository as suppository? --anonymous
sometimes I miss the last time i looked at the very first prototype --panizzi
sometimes the monkeys' howling forces me out of reclusion --rsinger
somewhere in alberta, pbinkley feels a disturbance in the code4lib force... --dbs
somewhere there is a dog named Chucksles which is the saddest dog in the world --dchud
soon you'll be a jargon monkey like everyone else --eby
sorry, busy working on anvil http://tinyurl.com/28mn3c If accurate, these stats suggest your users are deranged uberdweebs --kyle banerjee
sports, the opiate of the masses :) --edsu
stability is highly overrated --djfiander
standards are an endurance sport --jonathanrobie
Standards are like toothbrushes, everyone agrees that they're a good idea but nobody wants to use anyone elses. --unknown
Step away from the Bartlett's --djfiander
still going over the wet piece of string nz calls its internet connection to the rest of the world --rangi
stop making semantic sense! --dchud
Stop turning my mother into XML. --wtd
stupid wikia, now i have to start all over to beat out diana ross, singer --rsinger
sucky metadata is still sucky metadata --dsalo
Sudbury: Come for the archives, stay for the -40 degree winters! --dbs
supporter of ethical hackers and communal indexers --artunit
Sweet Jane, woah --the velvet underground
s|k: cynicism is the most succesful product of library software vendors --dbs
technology is the red queen's race --dsalo
textualize/inkdroid - business in the front, party in the rear --edsu
thanks rsinger for fixing the voting (both figurtively and literaly) --jaf_mtg
that deaf, dumb, and blind kid... sure writes a mean rails app --mjgiarlo
that sounds like mumbo jumbo to me --edsu
That's a real bummer. I feel sorry for you. --elm
that's all xml seems to do, is spawn yet more bastard xml children --wilig
that's going to be fun, when it pops up completely out of context --roy
That's my philosophy, never do for yourself what you can steal from someone on code4lib. --jrochkind
that's so stupid it's making my head hurt --jtgorman
that's the next big thing: britain on rails --djfiander
the active, present voice makes it sound like a mistaken post-election headline, e.g. Dewey Defeats LCSH --dchud
the actual code in code4lib is a small part of the organization --bess
The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries. --KurtVonnegut
The Avalanche has begun. It's too late for the pebbles to vote. --Vorlon Ambassador in Babylon Five
the best way to do useful stuff in xslt is to write external functions in some other language --truk77
the best way to help webvoyage is to find a way that it no longer has to exist --artunit
the catalog is a dump truck --mjgiarlo
the crazies have all the good ideas. --mjgiarlo
the day we all stop pretending to care. :) --BigD> what's code4lib_friday? /
the ears are happy with the arcade fires and the irons and wines and the interpols and then there's the joan jetts and the bangleses and the norah joneses --rsinger
the evergreen software development staff is currently playing Quake III, please try again later --anonymous
the goal, IMO, is to avoid being a technocracy and also to avoid being a null-tech oligarchy. --mjgiarlo
The hardest thing in the world is to be good and clear when creating anything. --StevenSoderbergh
The leftist is antagonistic to the concept of competition because, deep inside, he feels like a loser. --TedKaczynski
The Library is unlimited and cyclical. --borges
the library world is full of aimless slackers. --robcaSSon
The mayor's out killing kids, to keep taxes down --jksamson
the more data i meet, the more i like my dog --tholbroo
the more I there is in IDE, the better --mjgiarlo
the more you air the dirty laundry the more likely it is to get washed --rsinger
The New York Times on my breakfast table is heaving its death rattle, if I listen closely enough. --karen_g_schneider
The next generation of library systems must be about communities of users more than they are about collections of resources. --EricHellman
The only acceptable amount of computing power is the best you've ever experienced! --leww
The only completely consistent people are the dead. --AldousHuxley
the only good thing about access is that there is a conference with the same name --edsu
the only honorarium i was ever supposed to get put me in a holding cell at the border --artunit
The only thing with a finite amount of test cases is a dead fish wrapped in yesterday's newspaper. --MarkPilgrim
the only thing worse than a cataloger is an archivist who's also a cataloger --anarchivist_
the only tummy ache is in my head --HomerSimpson
the pain of man pages is intentional, to increase retention. --decasm
The perfect is the enemy of the good. --voltaire
The problem is not solveable. --Tim_Spalding
the problem was that i was using MARCXML to begin with --anarchivist
the programmer in me cringes at the thought of refactoring a huge tree like lcsh --edsu
The rochkind's are apparently an over-educated bunch. --jrochkind
the snort vibrations have damaged your touchpad --tholbroo
the specter of edsu's wiki rides again --rsinger
The thing is, you don't have to be all that great a programmer for programming to make your life a lot easier. --dsalo
the Umlauts success depended on its exploitation of certain CIA-developed OpenURL technologies that in turn relied on a top-secret extraterritorial resolver in a bunker outside Kandahar. --pbinkley
the unified string theory will be solved after lunch --rsinger
The user's going to pick dancing pigs over security every time. --bruce_schneier
The whole 2.0 meme tends to leave a bad taste in my mouth, and when used by the more -- shall we say, vociferous -- proponents of the principles behind the title it has been known to cause me to suffer a bad case of the dry heaves. --miker_
the whole project has sort of drifted into some sargasso sea of library science --rsinger
the word fun can never be used in front of the phrase regular expression unless fun is an acronym for fucked up, nasty . --mjgiarlo
theatre is for losers --panizzi
there are no answers, only more questions --erikhatcher
there are no messiahs --bill_drew
there are no spelling rules in hell. --mjgiarlo
there are no underpants in academia --rsinger
There are places (network TV, Middle Eastern politics) where cluelessness regularly triumphs. Internet protocols aren't one of them. --tbray
there are so many places that marc is fucked up in the wild --edsu
There are strong religious arguments on both sides of this issue...and they are both equally boring. --edsu
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. --henry_kissinger
there hasn't been any good music since bonham died --gabe
There is a story there that you may be able to get out of me by plying me with free drinks. --royt
there is no winning with deconstructionism --ksclarke
there is something slightly sick about scattering debugging print stuff throughout a test framework --jtgorman
There should be one\xe2\x80\x94and preferably only one\xe2\x80\x94obvious way to do it ... Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you\xe2\x80\x99re Dutch. --python
There was that night after the Kappa Sig social, but you haven't called since. --rsinger
There's a parallel universe where Eleanor Wachtel is replacing Jian Ghomeshi everywhere, and it's a better one than this. --wtd
there's a working group that's planning to emasculate niso? --djfiander
There's just a few simple rules here: (1) don't call people d*ckheads (at least not in public) (2) learn how to apologize when you forgot rule (1) --Linus
There's no money in poetry, but then\xc2\xa0there's no poetry in money, either. --RobertGraves
There's one kind of simplicity that I like to call simplexity. When you take something incredibly complex and try to wrap it in something simpler, you often just shroud the complexity. You don't actually design a truly simple system. And in some ways you --AndersHejlsberg
There's only so productive you can be if your job requires thinking. --jrochkind
there's something about crashing things on both the server and the browser in the same way that is liberating --artunit
there's the web ide somewhere that no one seems to like --eby
these people are making up use cases --dchud
these ultra-slack training sessions are good for open source development, at least --dbs
They can't prove anything. We're all a figment of IRC hacks. --asmodai
they wanted me for the LoC or whatever/picture me giving a damn, I said never --robcaSSon
they'll take my data from my cold, dead hands --gabe
They're not saying 'booooo', they're saying 'edsuuuuuu --lbjay
things have gone downhill since tin foil became aluminum foil, apparently --djfiander
thinking seriously about IE is a path unto the dark side. Just cover it with a blanket It's broke --truk77
This car runs on the output of 1,000 dumbasses --miker_
this channel needs more drama and I'm just the nurse's aid to bring it --rsinger
This crap we have now is utter crap. --jrochkind
This frameset thing is cool. --jrochkind
This is not a game for molliecoddles. --TyCobb
This is what I'm screaming over here... --rsinger
This problem actually occurred to me in passing. Then I took a nice satisfying shit and forgot all about it. --mark_pilgrim
This will take my personal programming style -- 'programming by plagiarism' -- to bold new heights! --lee_cornelison
this writing-of-specifications thing? there'd better be beer waiting. --dchud
This year I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by MARC --eby
To chime in with an observation from Cliff Lynch that's a couple of months old now, and I can't quote it directly: Katrina etc. exposes the fact that keeping the only copy of something is socially irresponsible. One disaster and it's gone. --leww
to each person his or her own strange taste clusters --leww
To offset the cost of providing the TiSP service, we use information gathered by discreet DNA sequencing of your personal bodily output to display online ads that are contextually relevant to your culinary preferences, current health status and likelihood --GoogleTiSP
too much magic --erikhatcher
Tradition is the living faith of the dead; traditionalism is the dead faith of the living Jarsolav Pelikan quoted by Chad Abel-Kops. --anonymous
triple-jinx! infinite regress! it's full of stars! --mjgiarlo
triples-- # i can't count that high --royt
Trust me, most people do not want to be catalogers, sure they think it would be sexy at first, all that power, they get to tag the world! But reality sets in pretty fast and cataloging is for all but the most devout librarian, very boring and tedious. --anonymous
Trying to convince people that their religious beliefs are wrong is probably not a good use of any person\xe2\x80\x99s time. --TempleOfJavaQuote
twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and update to j2sdk1.5 --panizzi
Ubuntu is an ancient african word, which means: \xe2\x80\x9cI\xe2\x80\x99m sick of compiling Gentoo all the time --jeff_waugh
ugh ugh ugh - endeca is jsp! That's worse than soylent green is people! --dbs
um, could I get some bug fixes for Library 1.0? --phorman
umlaut is live. --jrochkind
unleash the fucking fury --anonymous
URIs don't change: people change them. --tbl
use atom or something? --panizzi
Users want... drunken monkeys, armed to the teeth! --mjgiarlo
USMARC makes me want to die. UNIMARC makes me want to come back as a zombie so I can die again. --anonymous
Vancouver is apparently the Nader. --mjgiarlo
vendors are not an option --bess
Villanova University\xe2\x80\x99s Falvey Memorial Library has longed for a beautiful pig --AndrewNagy
Voyager: A Bucket of Bugs --roy
wait, did i just suggest writing something in xslt &gasp; --edsu
wait, i said give me documentation OR give me death ... --edsu
we can borrow your car whenever we need --panizzi
We can identify hyper-enthusiasts because the arguments have a strongly faith-based flavor to them. X is the true way, therefore anything X is best by definition, and all other languages lack X's goodness --bruce_eckel
We care about doing what we want to do creatively. We want to be interested in it. We want it to challenge us. We want it to be difficult. We want to reinvent the stupid thing every time. --david_eggers
we don't need yet another system; we need to develop and adopt standards and coerce everyone in sight to play along. Standards enable innovation. Systems deter it. --jyoung
we expect to expand into northern europe with our new jus d'batard product --miker_laptop
WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AT WAR WITH OCLC --dchud
We have moved from the librarian as information artisan\xe2\x80\x94a professional creating and using tools to manage information\xe2\x80\x94to the librarian as surrogate vendor, facilitating what is essentially the offshoring of thousands of years of info --karen_g_schneider
We know that in this world there are actually only two kinds of books: (1) good books, and (2) the others. But books require finer labels so that librarians, in a culture built on the babble of numbers and words, may not go clinically insane. --Edward Abbey
we know ubuntu means some happy community thing, but what if kubuntu or xubuntu means 'my ass' or something? --anonymous
we laugh at your production quality procedures --ksclarke
We need authority control for karma! --mbklein
We need more interfaces that actively run away from the user. --jrochkind
We reject kings, presidents and voting. We believe in rough consensus and running code. --David Clark
we should play a drinking game where we get to take a shot every time someone says semantic web as if it exists --bess
we're all professionals here --dsalo
we're looking at a more disintegrated world --ejlynema
we've successfully forked this conversation --robcaSSon
weinberg: if builders built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization. --anonymous
weird, i can't remember what quote #980 was. --anonymous
welcome to #code4lib: just /ignore everyone --eby
Welcome to Suckville. Population: mjgiarlo. --mjgiarlo
Welcome to the Dark Future. --azaroth
Welcome to the librarydome! --jrochkind
well at least it gives us something to rant about on our respective vanity media empires --dchud
well that's 60 minutes I'll never see again. stupid bug. --wilig
well, duh --zoia> royt is drinking ;
well, home is where the mouse is --rsinger
well, maybe prematurely...i think debian does weird things with technology, rather than hunting for needles in haystacks --panizzi
Well, naturally, academia has thought of this and overengineered it to death: http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/ which is why it's taken 7 years so far and there is still very few implementations. --rsinger
well, that's not THE problem with librarians, but it's just one of the many buttons with which they are studded --djfiander
well, you know, bob geldof pulled together live aid when his career was in the toilet --artunit
What are the charecteristics of a good model? You tell me, and MARC won't have any of them. --jrochkind
What distinguishes Topic Maps (and RDF) from all other data models in use today is that they allow merging together any instances of the model without considering any of the semantics they represent. --JanAlgermissen
what else is a soul but so many scattered pieces of paper? --mjgiarlo
What kind of bling can you expect when so many libraries hire a librarian to do the job of a professional graphic/interface designer sorry, panizzi left to join the circus ? --Chris Barr
what would a URL policeman look like? --dchud
what's a southern holiday without some tennessee williams thrown in the mix? --rsinger
what's really needed here is a balanced, objective, neutral, moderated, standards-based, point-by-point, academic discussion of Python vs. Ruby, in which we can all make well-informed decisions, and may the best language win, as long as it's Python --anonymous
what? and what is ketchup? chopped liver? --royt
whatever it is, I'm sure the answer is AJAX --dbs
When Hemingway killed himself he put a period at the end of his life; old age is more like a semicolon. --kvonnegut
When I first saw MARC last year when I started work my first thought brought me back to my old BBS days and modem line noise. --asmodai
when I heard that the great virtues of a programmer are Laziness, Impatience and Hubris I knew I could do it --jaron
When I was a kid, to find books we had to walk through the stacks with jars of fireflies uphill both ways. --asl2
when in doubt, blame harvard --rsinger
when life gives you a --, #code4lib has a ++ with your name on it. --mjgiarlo
when you can only *delete* one record every 5.63 seconds, you have done something *wrong* --mdxi
When you think about it, love is just another search problem. And we\xe2\x80\x99ve thought about it. A lot. Google Romance\xe2\x84\xa2 is our solution. --anonymous
when you're halfway between jackson and paducah you know you've found a nice remote spot to put your meth lab --rsinger
When you\xe2\x80\x99re up to your ass in crocodiles, why not get out of the swamp? --CarmineCoyote
whenever i'm in here it's a bunch of marc/unapi/openurl talk i don't understand --eby
whenever someone converts to solaris, a vast incomprehensible alien intelligence is contacted. --asl2
where's tholbroo's barbaric yawp? --rsinger
Whether or not you are overloaded by information isn\xe2\x80\x99t even up for discussion. Being a librarian is all about having information overload\xe2\x80\xa6and managing it. --infomancy
which part of HTML is fundamentally a resource map already do they not want to accept? --dchud
whine wine == fermented bastard juice --miker_
who cares about the lights, it's the computers going out that would really be a shame --royt
who needs a support contract when there's comp.lang.perl.misc? --lbjay
who needs organization when jaf can do all the work? --edsu
whoever loses gets to blame rsinger's diebold machine --bradl
Why can't we have a Lucene index of every database we subscribe to? --artunit
why do half of all MARC records seem to have ketchup on them, anyway? --eric__
why do i feel an emptiness knowing that the term Library 2.0 was forged within a 30 minute drive from here? --rsinger
whyohwhyrdf --rsinger
wickr: i can't help but imagine a roomful of archivists surrounded by melting clocks --dchud
wikipedia needs less fact , and more this guy is a fascist stuff... --robcaSSon
williamw The 80s were that magic time between the fall of the Bay City Rollers and the rise of New Kids on the Block when there were no boy bands. --anonymous
wingopher looked pretty slick for its time in a library sort of way, it was the endeca of gopher clients --artunit
Wireframing AJAX is a bitch. --anonymous
With a little cerebral gymnastics, you will manage without problem to control the model. As for the technique, I will strike you with that afterwards! --anonymous
Without participation there is no reality. --mbuber
wonders if a GAIM plugin could overflow integral karma --asl2
Word of mouth is the best advertising medium of all. The best word of mouth comes from disrupting markets. --HughMacLeod
Workarounds to your metadata... are forever. --jrochkind
working code always wins --djfiander
worry is like a rocking chair. it doesn't get you anywhere, but it gives you something to do. --BigD
Would you like some MARC records with that, sir? --JodiS
wow. the internets are totally empowering people to create newer, better, and faster ways to completely destroy data in totally unexpected ways --mdxi
write, write, write / wrong, wrong, wrong / thong, thong, thong / royt, royt, royt / :-D, :-D, :-D --emorgan
wtd_: That would frost my cookies --anonymous
wtf is 'microopaque'? --rsinger
wtfxmlbbq --anonymous
wut wud dui du? et's not leave the baby soaking in 100 year old fetid bathwater either, eh? --jrochkind
WWED? what would edsu do --robcaSSon
xml is a pain in the neck for a lot of things. --clagoze
XML is messy. You can either have a clean model or a correct one but you can't have both. --MichaelKay
XSLT = eXtended Stress Leave Trigger --tholbroo
xslt handles the blues better than ajax ever could --pbinkley
yay intarweb --panizzi
Yeah, but every time I say something bad about ruby, you guys go all lord of the flies. --jrochkind
yeah, but that's because he doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about --rsinger
yeah, he's got an impressive CV but I got turned off reading some of his inane blog posts --lbjay
yeah, marcxml is kind of a joke really, but it's a logical first step from marc --edsu
yeah, python is more a language for stoners --gsf
yeah, well, you smell like moldy Cruciferae --mdxi
yes, i am confused, but i wouldn't blame that on anything except me --roy
yes, we're in the third world here in Canada.. just getting those fancy 386 chips. --tholbroo
YM will totally fucking vary if you stray from the course mental notes: YMWTFV --rsinger
You are coming to a sad realization; cancel or allow? --mac_ad
you are likely to be eaten by an XML grammar --mdxi
you can do one thing with your data: load it into a catalog --akrowne
You can hate namespaces all you like, but you can't make them go away, or make them less weird. --michael_kay
you can use curl if you're hardcore --dbs_talk
you can't spell pedantic without dan and a tic. --dchud
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. --einstein
You don't want to get locked in to somebody else's open systems! --ibm sales rep
you don't want to talk to the Bhatt-man? --gabe
you have spoiled me forever with your magical robot monkeys --dchud
you have to learn to adapt to the environment like any beastie, if you want to continue to live --azaroth
You know what they say, Happy wife, Happy life. --DaveO'Brien@MLB
You know you have achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away. --AntoineSaint-Exupery
you know you're in trouble when you keep getting referred to w3c specification documents --robcaSSon
you know your framework isn't fully baked when you forget all its details every time you go to use it --dchud
you might have been able svn up without fear, but everything changed after 9/11 --rsinger
you really have to be careful that the Taliban don't dodge in and out of those marijuana forests --General Rick Hillier
you say you got a real solution / well you know / we'd all love to see the spec --edsu
you say you want a resolution / well you know --asl2
You screen, I screen, we all screen for gnu_screen --dbs
You sure you want to use the SFX stuff? It kindof sucks ;) --tholbroo
You suspect that your pet(s) may be smarter than you, but this only stiffens your resolve not to share power --pbinkley
You thought it was satire. That's precious, jtgorman. --jrochkind
Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude. --ZigZiglar
your reproduction problems are not of interest to me. --mjgiarlo
your source of readily delete-worthy quotes since 1972 --dchud
your truthfulness scuttled your karma --pbinkley
z39.666 - the standard of the beast --anonymous
zoia isn't problematic, just misunderstood --gsf
zoia overdose --dchud
Zotero: Raider of the Dark Archives --lbjay
_Editing MARC with VI vs. MODS with Emacs: A brief comparison_ --asl2
{$NAME}'s productivity seems to be down with irc.freenode.net is up --{$NAME}