Snippet from an IM with Karen today:

Kevin: Oh, my new phone number spells some silly things, like 9-woman-8. Still trying to find a good one.

Karen: 9 women dated, 8 still friends

It's funny because it's true. I love my friends. Especially my ex-girlfriends. :-)

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Talkin' with Benjy about debugging PHP scripts that write custom headers:

Benjy: okay, this is a freaky bug. gah
Kevin: Yich. Headers weren't meant for mortal men like us.
Benjy: yeah - headers feel like I'm getting "low level"
Benjy: also, headers are REALLLY FUCKING HARD to debug
Kevin: Totally. Apache and PHP try to handle it all for you..
Kevin: Maybe you need a nph-type file.. Ugh.
Kevin: Nevermind..
Benjy: nph?
Kevin: 'non-parsed-headers'
Benjy: I don't even want to know
Kevin: Time was that you could prepend 'nph' to a cgi's name, like nphslideshow.cgi' and apache would know not to handle headers for you.
Kevin: Dark ages, man...
Kevin: That's back when, if you wanted an animated graphic, you could make an nph cgi that would write the image, then write another image, and another, to the same image spot.
Kevin: "Server-push" at it's most bare.
Benjy: dude, that's... ew
Kevin: It was sooo messy.
Kevin: But then, it only had to work on Netscape 2...
Kevin: I suddenly feel so old...

Good times, good times...

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Talking with Ammy on IM:

kevin: But right now it's: "I could skydive, or I could visit the bay area..." Same money.
kevin: At least visiting home I get *two* plane rides, and they won't push me out at the top.

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From a conversation about the upcoming Underblog:

j3ssajune: the whole WEB is like crack. Blogging is just... really good crack.

Ahh, Underblog. Y'all are gonna love it.

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kevin (10:52:46 PM): So I've got this idea for a rockin' game show... Have you seen The Chamber?
Ernie (10:56:19 PM): no, not yet!
Ernie (10:56:22 PM): i want to, however
kevin (10:56:28 PM): You know the premise?
Ernie (10:56:32 PM): yeah.
kevin (10:56:41 PM): Okay, so I got an idea for a new game show:
kevin (10:57:12 PM): It's in two parts. In the first part, you have two litigants, each with a suit and countersuit, presenting their case before Judge Judy.
kevin (10:57:40 PM): When Judy rules, and party A owes party B $8,000, party A goes to The Chamber.
kevin (10:58:34 PM): There they are subjected to hellish conditions while answering trivia questions, trying to work down the amount of money they owe the other person. If they're lucky, they can get off scott free! Otherwise, they have to pay the court winner on the spot.
kevin (10:58:52 PM): I call it "Chamber to Chamber", or just "Chambers"
Ernie (10:58:59 PM): HAHAHAHAHHAHA
Ernie (10:59:15 PM): you win. i can't beat that, dude.
kevin (10:59:38 PM): I'm gonna do a nice little screenshot and write it up tomorrow, I think.
Ernie (10:59:55 PM): just blog this conversation. if you don't, i will, damn you
kevin (11:00:15 PM): Judy: "You're guilty. You're guilty and I'm sending your ass to The Chair. Right now."

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When life gets busy, the busy blog IM conversation humor:

me:	Threat of terrorism hits California's Central Valley
metagrrrl:	Wow. Hadn't thought about the impact of terrorism on the panties by mail business.
me:	Totally. I liked that he was afraid that they might be infected with anthrax, but he sniffed them to check for perfume. Yeah, I bet that's why he sniffed them.
metagrrrl:	Let that be a lesson to you. Only sniff panties you know haven't been in the possession of terrorists.
me:	Right. "Our panties will be delivered in a bright yellow envelope with black stripes and text that clearly says: "THIS IS NOT A TERRORIST THREAT."
metagrrrl:	"PLEASE SNIFF"
me:	Right. "THESE ARE PANTIES. DO NOT BE ALARMED."
metagrrrl:	lol

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