In the Playpen: Pygmalion

Craguls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g-1NRN8srY

I learnt for you.

Pygmalion

SligoBrewer wrote: »

have you ever built a fort?
Unfortunately not, I'm not manly enough, nor did I ever have enough cushions

Fad wrote: »

Heaviest band you listen to?
Not sure, I listen to a lot of Metal, but it's usually more folky/symphonic stuff, any examples I can think of I can immediately think of other heavier bands I like so I'll stop trying

Plans for the summer?
None at all

TheCardHolder wrote: »

When did you get your first computer/ love of computing develop?
Had an old Packard Bell when I was tiny, back when there was dialup and we couldn't use internet much due to cost.
Got non-**** computer years later, got into nerdy stuff maybe 2nd or 3rd year.

degausserxo wrote: »

How much change do you have on you right now?
On me, none, however my desk here is full of coppers, I occassionally just empty my wallet out looking for bus fare.

Craguls wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g-1NRN8srY

I learnt for you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR3hg452VGc

MavisDavis

May I ask you a question? (If yes, proceed to next question. If no, explain.)

Tea or coffee?

What's your favourite prime number?

Favourite complex number?

Who would win in a fight: Newton, Einstein or Davidius?

This or that?

Where would you live if you could choose anywhere at all in the world?

Do you see shapes in cloud formations?

Are you a fan of the Harry Potter books?

Have you ever been told you look like a famous person? If so, who?

Have you ever tried to straighten your beard?

Pygmalion

MavisDavis wrote: »

May I ask you a question? (If yes, proceed to next question. If no, explain.)
No

Tea or coffee?
Tea, hate coffee

What's your favourite prime number?
No idea, I'll go with 3, although I remember my CAO number was a prime, that was pretty cool, can't remember what it was though, just that it started with a 4

Favourite complex number?
3 + 5i

Who would win in a fight: Newton, Einstein or Davidius?
Davidius, I imagine he's less dusty and rotted, in better shape overall

This or that?
That

Where would you live if you could choose anywhere at all in the world?
No idea, if language wasn't an issue one of the Scandinavian countries, but it is, so would have to be English speaking.
I'll eliminate Ireland because I already live here, the UK because it's like Ireland but with worse accents, and America for obvious reasons.
That really just leaves Canada and Australia/New Zealand that I can think of, and Canada seems better.

Do you see shapes in cloud formations?
I see shapes.
I do not see recognisable shapes

Are you a fan of the Harry Potter books?
I think they were pretty cool, will probably never read them again though

Have you ever been told you look like a famous person? If so, who?
When I was younger Harry Potter.
Now Jonathan Coulton (by jumpguy IIRC), and Jesus

Have you ever tried to straighten your beard?
I have not, it's not long enough

eashufa

Would you ever build your own computer? What would you put in it (realistically - we'd all love a 32-core beast)?

Do you play any musical instruments?

Favourite book/author? (Unless it was asked already)

Konata

Sex, drugs or rock n' roll?

Ginja Ninja

my standard questions:
What are you afraid of?
If you could change one thing,what would it be?
What's your favourite thing?


If you could have one small animal live in your hair/beard,what would it be?

What made you grow the beard?


If you could choose how you'd be remembered,how would that be?

Luno

Is the glass half full or half empty?

Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

jumpguy

Considering I dunno who Johnathon Coulton is, I doubt it was me. :P

MavisDavis

If you were ruler of the world, would you use your powers for good or evil?

What colour would you secretly like to dye your beard?

Google or Yahoo?

Fame or fortune?

Pygmalion

Deleted User wrote: »

Would you ever build your own computer? What would you put in it (realistically - we'd all love a 32-core beast)?
I would, I'd like to eventually (as in, if I ever get a permanent place to live and a decent income) have maybe a nice custom-built server machine, lots of memory at least, and a laptop, store everything on the server but have it copied over to laptop when needed. Could probably also hook server up to a TV and a sound system with a decent sound and graphics card and replace the need for any kind of Stereo or DVD players (well, probably Blu-Ray by then).

Do you play any musical instruments?
Nope, need some kind of co-ordination for that

Favourite book/author? (Unless it was asked already)
Big fan of the Nightwatch series by Sergey (Sergei?) Lukyanenko.
I generally have trouble keeping with books all the way true (for a nerd I have a shockingly short attention span), but couldn't put these down.

Hotaru wrote: »

Sex, drugs or rock n' roll?
I have to choose?

Ginja Ninja wrote: »

my standard questions:
What are you afraid of?
Socialising
If you could change one thing,what would it be?
I shouldn't find it so hard to think of anything for this.
I'd like the price of technology to fall through the floor though.
What's your favourite thing?
Computers?


If you could have one small animal live in your hair/beard,what would it be?
A wise owl, who would pop out and give me advice from time to time.

What made you grow the beard?
Laziness


If you could choose how you'd be remembered,how would that be?
As the guy who discovered something amazingly revolutionary, and also was loved by really hot girls worldwide.

M&S* wrote: »

Is the glass half full or half empty?
There's no glass that I can see, but the bottle of pepsi is pretty much completely full.

Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
If I could stay on to do a post-grad degree for more than a year, or research, and never have to leave college it'd be great

MavisDavis wrote: »

If you were ruler of the world, would you use your powers for good or evil?
Good, although I think I'd have to make sure I had a decent home and some fancy toys. But I imagine the ruler of the world would get that without having to be corrupt.

What colour would you secretly like to dye your beard?
I think anything bright and cheerful would be nice.

Google or Yahoo?
Google, purely because I haven't used anything Yahoo! related in years, and the only Yahoo! related things I've had the misfortune to come across are awful and seem full of 12 year olds.

Fame or fortune?
Fortune. Being completely unknown is grand if I have food on my table and tons of free time.

qwertyuiop

AllInOne

What is Linux anyway? Please explain in a way us non - computer nerds will understand :P

What's your best memory ever in the world?

How long have you had your current glasses?

Where does your obvious stem of hatred for exclamation marks come from?:P

What level is your Pokewalker Pokemon now?

How many hours a day do you spend online?

jumpguy

Have you ever been thunderstruck?

Have you ever broken all the rules?

Have you ever played all the fools?

Pygmalion

AllInOne wrote: »

What is Linux anyway? Please explain in a way us non - computer nerds will understand :P
Linux is what uncool kids use when they dislike Windows but are still too cool to use a Mac.

What's your best memory ever in the world?
This one time I had all-you-can-eat for lunch AND a 3 course meal for dinner.
Wait, that was only a couple of days ago.

How long have you had your current glasses?
No idea, probably a ridiculously long time

Where does your obvious stem of hatred for exclamation marks come from?:P
I hate exclamation marks!?! This is news to me!

What level is your Pokewalker Pokemon now?
Dunno, I haven't actually played it in ages, and he can only level up once in there at a time.

How many hours a day do you spend online?
Depends on what you mean by online.
I'm pretty much always in the computer labs in DCU during the day, so I'm at a laptop connected to the internet, but usually only half-using it, due to people talking etc.

jumpguy wrote: »

Have you ever been thunderstruck?

Have you ever broken all the rules?

Have you ever played all the fools?
No to all of the above.
*pretends to have some clue what this is in reference to*

fgua

Konata

Why are you alive?

Would ya?

Pygmalion

Hotaru wrote: »

Why are you alive?
If I wasn't then the world would be a dark and lonely place

Would ya?
See my signature

qWeRtY

Richard Cranium

Apple/Steve Jobs.

Yay or nay?

Ginja Ninja

jumpguy wrote: »

Have you ever been thunderstruck?

Have you ever broken all the rules?

Have you ever played all the fools?

AC/DC references FTW!!!

How are you?

What am the sky?

Favourite word?

Favourite forum on Boards.ie?

Favourite Ninja?

Favourite poster ?

Pygmalion

Richard Cranium wrote: »

Apple/Steve Jobs.

Yay or nay?
Nay, many many times nay.

Ginja Ninja wrote: »

AC/DC references FTW!!!

How are you?
I'm ok

What am the sky?
How does eat food?

Favourite word?
Not sure, but the word "reduction" just popped into my head

Favourite forum on Boards.ie?
That forum with all the angsty teenagers fawning over me.

Favourite Ninja?
Batman

Favourite poster ?
Pygmalion.
Failing that I'd say all the C&H regulars are pretty much tied, with those interested in Maths and Computers winning by a small margin, also those with boobs

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Aoibheann

Standard questions, I hope nobody's asked yet:

Favourite meaning of \o/?
Do you like to dance? If not, why not? :O
What irritates you most about society, and what do you like most about it?

Others:

What is the first word you think of when I say the following words:

-Troll?
-Pig?
-Cake?
-Cushion?
-Winston?
-Lies?
-Maths?
-Linux?
-Apple?

Favourite time of year?
Do you like to celebrate your birthday?
Any good luck charms?
Do you believe in fate?
Don't you just hate it when you go to buy milk with a note to keep change for laundry, and forget so now you have no change for laundry? (hypothetical situation of course.. ¬_¬)

Pygmalion

Aoibheann wrote: »

Standard questions, I hope nobody's asked yet:

Favourite meaning of \o/?
Elf-face
Do you like to dance? If not, why not? :O
I don't, but that's just because I'm a manly man
What irritates you most about society, and what do you like most about it?
Despise that most people tend to be driven by nothing but selfishness and over-emotional response to thing.
I like pretty much all the basic ideas of society though, you know, having people specialise in specific areas and advance in them rather than everyone looking out for themselves entirely and not being able to specialise enough to make advances.

Others:

What is the first word you think of when I say the following words:

-Troll?
Internet
-Pig?
Cake
-Cake?
Cream (also I must have glanced at this out of corner of my eye for last one :P)
-Cushion?
Pillow
-Winston?
Churchill
-Lies?
Truth
-Maths?
Science
-Linux?
Kernel
-Apple?
Fanboys

Favourite time of year?
I'd say summer due to the freedom associated with it, but maybe that's not a good enough reason
Do you like to celebrate your birthday?
Not particularly
Any good luck charms?
Nope, not really
Do you believe in fate?
Not in the traditional sense of the word, but the idea of determinism intrigues me
Don't you just hate it when you go to buy milk with a note to keep change for laundry, and forget so now you have no change for laundry? (hypothetical situation of course.. ¬_¬)
Yeah, if that wasn't just hypothetical I'd kick you from IRC for mentioning it

re

AllInOne

What's the longest your hair has ever been?

Do you have a television in your apartment?

Favourite, or at least one of your favourite films?

Any other country you'd like to live in, or are you happy with Ireland?

Pygmalion

AllInOne wrote: »

What's the longest your hair has ever been?
At one point it was pretty much half-way down my back, like proper, long even for a girl, long.
I'm sure if I went looking I could probably find pictures, but not sure.

Do you have a television in your apartment?
I don't, but I have the best internet connection ever, so who needs to rely on TV for shows/films?

Favourite, or at least one of your favourite films?
Erm... I'm going to say Pulp Fiction is amazing, but I think I've seen it too much to still consider it the best.

Any other country you'd like to live in, or are you happy with Ireland?
A similar question was asked and I came to the conclusion of Canada.
If language wasn't an issue I'd love to live in one of the Scandinavian countries, Germany or France.

fgi

KnifeWRENCH

Morbo demands an answer to the following question: if you saw delicious candy in the hands of a small child, would you seize and consume it?

Pygmalion

KnifeWRENCH wrote: »

Morbo demands an answer to the following question: if you saw delicious candy in the hands of a small child, would you seize and consume it?

My lawyer has informed me not to respond to this questions pending the results of an ongoing investigation.

MavisDavis

Should I ask you some more questions?

Pygmalion

MavisDavis wrote: »

Should I ask you some more questions?
It is decidely so.

g

MavisDavis

Favourite colour?

Do you like pizza? What kind?

Chocolate or sweets?

Have you ever looked for Narnia at the back of a wardrobe?

Did you ever have an imaginary friend?

Do you take sugar in your tea? (If so, eww, you're disgusting. :P)

syncosised

I have been told at work to learn Python, mere hours after I decided of my own volition to do so! I am going to create some cool, useful program while learning of course. Do you have any suggestions? If so, what are they?

Pygmalion

MavisDavis wrote: »

Favourite colour?
Blue?

Do you like pizza? What kind?
I love pizza, generally I'll go for a more meaty one, pepperoni a lot of the time, though if there's one with chicken available without stuff like onions and mushrooms I'd get that.
Peppers are ok, I'd get one without if I could but if they're there I'll eat them.

Chocolate or sweets?
Chocolate.
Unless crisps count as sweets, crisps.

Have you ever looked for Narnia at the back of a wardrobe?
Once I looked for a belt at the back of my wardrobe, if that counts.

Did you ever have an imaginary friend?
No, though I've had a few complex ones

Do you take sugar in your tea? (If so, eww, you're disgusting. :P)
I do

syncosised wrote: »

I have been told at work to learn Python, mere hours after I decided of my own volition to do so! I am going to create some cool, useful program while learning of course. Do you have any suggestions? If so, what are they?
I just made this evening a tiny little script to facilitate facebook stalking, Shameless plug.
You could look at that and try make it suck less, making it less badly written, more efficient, or have more features should be easy enough.
There's even a list of shortcomings at the end of the post.

dag

syncosised

Boy that sure looks above my level of Python abilities. You'd think after one whole day that'd be easy! That Facebook Graph API does look interesting though, I shall investigate further, thank you!

Insect Overlord

Had you noticed that I hadn't asked you any questions yet..?

Pygmalion

Insect Overlord wrote: »

Had you noticed that I hadn't asked you any questions yet..?

I have and I was crushed.
D4RK also didn't ask any (although the introduction makes up for that.)

MavisDavis

Pygmalion wrote: »

I have and I was crushed.
D4RK also didn't ask any (although the introduction makes up for that.)

Maybe they love you so much they already know everything there is to know about you...

soccymonster

How did you feel sharing best beard with me? Did you feel sickened that you hadn't voted for yourself and taken the crown?

Pygmalion

soccymonster wrote: »

How did you feel sharing best beard with me?
I feel honoured to be in the presence of your epic beard, you're by far the manliest person I know.

Did you feel sickened that you hadn't voted for yourself and taken the crown?
Very, if I had won outright I would be rich and famous by now for sure.

I actually can't remember which of us I voted for, so if I actually did vote for myself I apologise and concede defeat.

ASD

Ginja Ninja

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck,if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

How many Bears would Bear Gryll's grill,if Bear Gryll's could grill bears?

Do you think these questions were stupid?

What's your favourite question to ask/see answered in the playpen?

AllInOne

What's the best thing about Dublin?

Do you enjoy cleaning?

The last song you listened to?

Pygmalion

Ginja Ninja wrote: »

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck,if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
All of it, otherwise he's not doing his job

How many Bears would Bear Gryll's grill,if Bear Gryll's could grill bears?
All of them, otherwise he's not doing his job

Do you think these questions were stupid?
All of them, otherwise you're not doing your job

What's your favourite question to ask/see answered in the playpen?
No idea, they're all so good (Otherwise C&H isn't doing it's job)

AllInOne wrote: »

What's the best thing about Dublin?
Not being in the middle of nowhere, I don't need to plan a lift in advance if I want to go and do some shopping or anything.

Do you enjoy cleaning?
Hate it, right now I'm eating scrambled egg from a shoe, with a comb

The last song you listened to?
I woke up to find "Mass Destruction" by Faithless paused on youtube, so I'm going to go with that

Apologies for being too lazy to answer before now.

Jako8

Favourite thing about your course?

Pygmalion

Jako8 wrote: »

Favourite thing about your course?

So far it's been handy enough in terms of difficulty.
Programming lecturer in semester 1 is a legend, as was the lecturer who did my programming tutorials this semester.
Apparently I'll have a ton of awesome lecturers next year too.

Also most modules seem to have a strong Continuous assessment part, which is both handy in terms of actually learning the stuff practically (You cannot learn programming without actually sitting down and writing programs at a computer, regardless of how some courses operate) and takes the pressure off with exams.

Bobalicious93

Do you shampoo your beard?

MavisDavis

What is your opinion of this poem? :P

I saw her in a field, a stone-proud woman
Hugging the monster Passion's granite child,
Engirdled by the ditches of Roscommon,
Stone ditches round her waist like serpents coiled.
Her lips were frozen in the signature
Of Lust, her hair was set eternally,
No Grecian goddess, for her face was poor,
A twisted face, like Hardship's face, to me.
And who she was I queried every man
From Ballaghaderreen to grassy Boyle,
And all replied: a stone Pygmalion
Once lifted to a grey terrific smile.
I said: At dawn tomorrow she will be
Clay-sensuous. But they only smiled at me.

Pygmalion - Patrick Kavanagh.

What exactly do you not like about Firefox?

What do you use instead?

How many drinks did you have last night? :P

Pygmalion

Bobalicious93 wrote: »

Do you shampoo your beard?
Only the finest for my beard, shampoo AND conditioner.

Ok I lied, I don't, it gets the same treatment as the rest of my face pretty much

MavisDavis wrote: »

What is your opinion of this poem? :P
I don't get it?
Is it supposed to mean something?
Did that guy not have a real job?

Deleted User wrote: »

What exactly do you not like about Firefox?
I used it since 2.0, it just kept getting slower and slower, and crashing more and more.

What do you use instead?
Google Chrome of course.
Well, actually Chromium but let's not get into that

How many drinks did you have last night? :P
Not that much, but it doesn't take a lot to get me saying things I'll regret the next day, sometimes all it takes is a bit of sugar tbh.

eestgyhthghg

KnifeWRENCH

And with that....


Thank you Pygmalion. Tune in next week for whoever's next on then list. (deise_girl I think, but will have to double check.)