Curtis: i saw a sign on the back of a transit bus saying "your ad here" and i thought to myself "well that was easy, I didn't even have to do anything"

pircsi: hey i was right about that mole on your face
miklos: what mole
pircsi: exactly
pircsi: i debated for months if i should cut it off while you sleep
pircsi: and you didnt even notice

Curtis: paul said to kill time i should write a poem or short story,
Curtis: so i asked him to list 5 random things to be included, then i proceeded to write
Curtis: would you like to see the final product?
Miklos: ok
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Short story that includes: Magnesium Alloy AZ31, the Ocean, China, Canada, General Motors
Once upon a time (when else would it be?), there was an accountant who decided he wanted his life to
encompass dual careers. Half his time would be spent on accounting, while the other half would pursue
science. I mean, what accountant wouldn't have this dream? The problem was, he didn't know where to
start. Should he go to school? Should he google everything? Should he steal patented information? It was
all quite the dilemma, till one day while banging his head on his desk trying to decide...he saw the answer
right in front of him. He saw his encylopeida opened to a page about Magnesium Alloy AZ31. He had no
idea what that was, nor could he understand the jargon in the description, but there was something about
that name that seemed cool and important. He decided to take this information to his buddy in China who
happens to be one of those genius monks you find on top of mountains. The monk told him that this
information will not be found anywhere except in the encyclopedia that he possessed. The accountant
wondered how in the world he ended up with such rare information. The monk was actually unsure, but
continued to tell a story of lost treasure. Apparently, back in the day, a treasure hunter was on a secret
mission to find some undisclosed treasure. He left on this mission and never returned, but a few years later,
random scuba divers found an empty treasure chest at the bottom of Canada's Pacific Ocean. The
accountant never knew his father...could this have been him? Did he leave behind this treasure? The monk
suggested that if he left behind the encyclopedia, chances are that some magnesium alloy AZ31 was also left
behind. The accountant went home and checked his house, and sure enough he found an unusual substance
in a dusty box in his basement. He thought to himself that with how rare this is, it must be worth a fortune to someone.
He wasn't sure who to go to with this, but his first instinct led him to General Motors. Upon a
science guy there observing the MA AZ31 and its description, he was stunned. He brought it to the
attention of management and they immediately issued a bagillion dollar cheque to the accountant and shortly
afterward hired back all the bagillion people they previously laid off. The accountant never found out what
kind of wonders this thing actually brought to GM, and realized that such chain of events didn't end up
having anything to do with pursuing science, but he realized that if it weren't for banging his head on his desk
figuring out how to pursue science, he would have never ended up rich upon this fluke discovery.
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Paul: hahahaha I love it
Paul: this exceeded my expectations 10 fold!
Paul: now for the real story
Paul: So Mg AZ31 stems from primary Magnesium which is actually derived from the ocean
Paul: using a pigeon process, which, developed in Canada or the US (not sure) is quite labour intensive and so its done mainly in China
Paul: GM, wants to use Magnesium in their cars, beacuse Magnesium is quite lite and will save fuel
Paul: however, regular magnesium is flammable, so the AZ31 derivative from Magnesium is to be used because its quite stable
Paul: but your story is so much better.
Curtis: i had no idea all these items were related
Paul: yeah, I actually just thought of a single thought, and wrote down ever other word basically
Paul: I planned on telling you after you wrote your story

Miklos: What's with that shirt. It looks like a photo shirt.
Nik: This shirt? it is a photo shirt. I've posted it, online... one, with the hair, darker, white shirt... flickr...
Miklos: Are you just naming tags associated with that photo?
Nik: I'm just going to start speaking in tags. Light, sign, night, road, drive with miki, 2009, winter, tree.

m1: I have no idea why he's in this meeting. He has nothing to do with it.
m2: Well, did you tell the boss that?
m1: You can tell anyone anything until you're blue in the face, and they won't listen. They think they're right.
m2: Yeah
m1: And in the end what they think is good, ends up being not so good.
m2: Yeah.. so why _are_ we still here?
m1: Gravy.

Curtis: well the sum 41 finger 11 concert was just cancelled
Alex: damnit, guess the numbers didn't add up

pircsi: miki I love your camera
pircsi: if someone came to me and said "i'm going to kill your brother" ... "at least then you can have his camera"
pircsi: I would have to say "I love him.... but I guess it was his time"

Miklos: "Tainted Love"; or its original title, "Love in the Taint".

Brian: you ever program in SSH?

Miklos: I'm gonna make a more secure wireless network, WPA-Enterprise.. with a certificate server... so nerdy.
Miklos: I just don't feel secure with the way it's set up...
Nik: Do you think the people next door are smart enough to figure it out as is?
Nik: If they were, they'd have a job.

Eric: how do you protect wireless though
Eric: 'snip' the antenna off
Brian: THROW A DOME OVER THE ANTENNA

[went mountain biking in the woods, on the very first little hill, Alex _walked_ his bike dowhill with difficulty]
Alex: I don't know why the hell I sign up for something I clearly don't enjoy.

Scott: but is that MegaBITS or megaBYTES
miklos: it's megabits
Scott: no no.. if it was megabits, it would be abbreviated as Mbps... megabits PER second... but this one has a slash
miklos: the slash means PER. it's the same as the p!

miklos: what about all the permalinks out there that linked to orbit dailyphotos?
john: they won't work
john: thankfully
miklos: haha
john: yeah i got some emails recently asking me where they could find a bunch of stupid crap
miklos: are you mad at the world john?
john: 'i was told to come to this site for blah blah blah, do you know how i can reach this info blah blah?'
john: no just foreign weirdos that are trying to find out how to make long exposures or homemade lenses
john: dude i used to have like 5-10 stupid emails a day asking me questions i've already answered to people
john: i have a [shitty point and shoot camera], when i go out and take pictures at night they're all grainy and don't turn out how do you keep your shutter open so long
john: my camera only goes to 30 seconds
john: how do you create those film borders in photoshop can you send me the action?
john: how do you make your grain look so real in photoshop?
john: i tried to use the grain filter but it doesn't look the same
john: what scanner do you use
john: how are you scanning your borders with the film
john: what tripod do you recommend
miklos: so you got annoyed with the world :)
john: i have an old [insert old 70s 35mm slr here] and i'd like to shoot film, what film is the best?
miklos: i asked you all those questions, fucker
john: LOL
miklos: except the photoshop action to get film borders
miklos: can you send me them?
john: you wouldn't believe how many people think i add those in photoshop... i get emails about that a lot
john: people are stupid
john: i don't even respond

Anon: Who thinks Google Wave is the next big thing? The people waiting for invites.

(Coming back from the U.S., the lady in the car in front of us at the border was talking and looked like she was making hand motions as she talked.)
miklos: That lady looks like she's a mute.
dave: How can she be driving?
miklos: She's not deaf! ... ... *pause* ... or BLIND!

Tom: Hey Dave, You'll never guess what I'm doing this weekend.
Dave: What?
Tom: Well, I'm going to our CIO's Barbeque!
Dave: You have got to be shitting me.
Tom: No, I'm serious, I JUST found out that my wife works with his wife and that is how I got invited.
Dave: Sounds like you finally got a shot at management.
Tom: Yep, I'm going to cook him up a hot dog and maybe he'll be like "wow this guy has potential."
Dave: The only way that a person in his position will see potential in someone for a management would be if you completely screwed up. My advise is to burn the shit out of the hot dog and hand it to him... actually, you said CIO right?
Tom: heh, yeah.
Dave: Then you would get farther handing him a piece of cut up garden hose and calling that a hot dog! Now, that is management material.

Ellie: he brings home the bacon...hmm...
Nik: sounds like a husband thing
Nik: you think she married her brother?
Ellie: i thought she was a lesbo
Nik: only temporarily
Ellie: oh!
Ellie: well now
Ellie: i didnt know sexual preferences expired
Nik: they do
Nik: even i know that
Ellie: now i know they do i might give it a try.
Nik: yours isn't up yet
Ellie: ohh
Ellie: ok
Ellie: will i get a notification e-mail?
Nik: yes. the whys of the world will email you notification when you are no longer hetero
Nik: everything works by email now

Dave: It drives me nuts how these so called adults (people over 30) are all into facebook and talk about it like little teenie-boppers. "I added you to my favourites".... facebook is actually a virtual frat club.
Miklos: everyone and their brother is on facebook
Dave: I'm not, are you?
Miklos: no

[Passing a TomTom GPS system back and forth, standing beside each other]
Miklos: Look, there are 3 satellites by you, and 7 by me...
Alex: I'd be worried if I were you.

miklos: i love storms
miklos: i love them almost as much as i love flashlights
Nik: haha
Nik: i love storms much more than flashlights
Nik: you barely love flashlights, you just like saying you love things
miklos: that's what makes it funny
miklos: we both clearly know my love for flashlights
Nik: is moderate at best

Alex: wow where does time go?
Eric: by... i think

Nik: Man, why is Walmart so cheap?
Miklos: Uh, it's Walmart.

Alex: miklos
Alex: grab me
...
Alex: Harry Potter - Order of the Phoenix
Miklos: Oh, the enter key was a semicolon...
Miklos: and not a period

Peter: Miki... I'm not trying to toot my own horn, but...
Peter: This guy said that he was all done with this project...
Peter: I've been looking at it for about 15 minutes, and I've already found 2 mistakes
Peter: and all I've done was some clicking
miklos: :)
miklos: fire him
Peter: done
miklos: haha
Peter: pretty soon it will be "fire at him" if I keep finding mistakes...

alex: so last night i've been watching magic tricks revealed videos on youtube, i'm gonna start learning some
alex: you never know when a little impressive magic can come in handy

Curtis: it's like raiaiiiiiiiiin on your wedding day!
Alex: a freeeeeeeeee riiiiide
Alex: but you're alllready late
Alex: a gooooddd adviceee,, that you just caan't take
Curtis: Who would've thought... it figurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrres
Alex: REAALLY?
Alex: that's the lyrics?
Curtis: looks that way
Alex: hahaha damnit
Alex: I always thought it was "Two out of 4, it's the giiirrrls"

Alex: by the way .. Back to the future delorean is going to be at the seaway mall between 1 - 4 my brother saw it driving down niagara st haha
Mikkel: today?!
Alex: yers
Mikkel: fak off
Alex: as in 30 minutes from now i shit you not
Mikkel: god damnit
Alex: too bad i promised my buddy i'll meet him for lunch in the falls
Mikkel: hahaha i know eh
Alex: hes from brampton so i cant blow him off
Mikkel: yeah fair enough
Alex: maybe i can make it back in time to see it
Mikkel: hahahaha zing!
Alex: hahahahahah i didnt even realize what i said!

Mr Sikora: Augh. There's something in my eye. (rubbing it)
Miklos Sr: Stop doing that! Your face is so ugly!
(moments later)
Miklos Sr: What you got in there, a dinosaur??

Brittany: i wish my brain was more like a computer so i could just buy a new spelling chip because mine is flawed

(Side note: accounting printer, water cooler and entrance to washrooms are all within about 5 feet of each other.)
Miklos: Check out what I found by the accounting printer
Matt: A pen?
Miklos: Yeah, it's nice.. Try it..
Matt: I don't want to.
Some time passes, I'd say about 10-15 minutes... Matt goes to the washroom, and after coming back:
Matt: Where did you find that pen?
Miklos: By the accounting printer.. why?
Matt: What were you doing there?
Miklos: I don't know.. oh! Refilling my water bottle. .. Hrm.. where IS my water bottle?
(Matt laughing)
Miklos: Shit! I left it there. Man, I didn't even use the washroom.
Matt: So you just went to get bottle refilled, got distracted by something shiny, put the bottle down on the cooler, forgot about it and came back?
Miklos: Yeah and I guess I just kept working...

Brittany: is it weird that paper shredding smells like christmas?

Brian: I have a host with my website hoster with mysql on it. i tried to get the mail listings on it and i prob fucked up their end with the database setup cause i have no clue what i'm doing.

[talking about Maximum Overdrive (a 1986 Stephen King movie)]
alex: i can't believe the woman worked the title of the movie in at the oddest time
miklos: what a horrible movie
alex: "i was hicthin my way to hollywood, I was on my way to becoming a star.. that is until all the machines in the world went into Maximum Overdrive"
miklos: hahah
miklos: that's exactly what i would've said too

Peter: And you know what I'm going to make with your flash?
Miklos: Pictures?
Peter: A career.

Curt: have u seen the video of me and dave?
Beth: no, what is it?
Curt: the transmission of moving pictures or animation to a monitor or television, but that's not important right now

[while watching Tim Hortons blueberry muffin commercial]
Announcer: A lot of blue, for a little green.
Miklos: Green?? Is this a Canadian commercial?
Nik: Yup... maybe they mean a little twenty dollars.

julius: am I talking over your head again?
alex: I guess so
julius: no wonder you're going bald

Joanne: well, who really has the time to be talking on MSN at work??

alex: man i just had an internal fart that vibrated me / sounded exactly like an incoming text message when the phone is set on vibrate

[While Setting up a label format for a retail chain logo printed on scales]
Brian: Hey Bill. I'm sending you 4 different scaled versions. 1 to 4 is from largest to smallest. If you need any smaller, just let me know. Photoshop does wonders working with bitmaps. Thanks, Brian.
Developer: Hey Brian. try to get to 160 W x 116 H pixels - or close to it . I do mine in paint. Thanks, Bill.

Q: so i clicked on a twitter trending topic by mistake because my hands don't work and I was actually trying to move the mouse up to log in
Q: and the first response that came up was:
Q: bubbaSL #whywomencheat KAUSE HER MAN D0NT EAT THE ASS
Q: i don't think a single white person responded, in all 50 replies I just read

Pircsi: how do i have a tv channel thats 63.99 [that's not a price, it's the actual channel]
miklos: it's your bday
miklos: it's a party... it doesn't have to make sense

Dave: jesus!
Dave: that is stupid
Dave: stupid crazy
Miklos: This world is hilarious
Dave: I don't know if you have taken a step forward or a step backward... mainly because the world is fucking stupid... everywhere you go, everywhere you look there is idiots, even in commercials (the manufacturers aim towards lower IQ individuals) because they are the majority. I used to find it hilarious, now it irritates me like a plague...
Miklos: idiocracy
Dave: exactly
Dave: it is true though... just watch the commercials
Dave: and you know what the really bad part is?
Miklos: i don't watch tv
Miklos: what's that
Dave: canada is actually above average
Dave: which means, other countries are like the cats in the clip you just sent me
Miklos: nah man you're just growing up
Dave: yeah we have... when will everyone else?

curtis: OMG i just got a ridiculous spam myspace msg
brittany: what is it?
curtis: the abuse of electronic messaging systems to indiscriminately send unsolicited bulk messages, but that's not important right now

Alex: I would say it would be more like a "Navy Green" if that existed.
Miklos: They call that "Forest Green"...
Alex: La-de-da Crayola...

[While watching Ricky Chavis talk in an Alex and Derek King documentary (http://jui.cc/7j)]
Miklos: Oh man, do you know who this guy [Ricky Chavis] reminds me of?
Nik: Woody Harrelson?
Miklos: Yes! ... mixed with umm...
Nik: Matthew McConaughey??
Miklos: Yes!

Miklos: look, it's Cash Dylan Otis. Why is that baby so RED?

Aaron: did you buy me all that shit off my wishlist yet?
baxo: every single one
baxo: besides what did YOU get me for my birthday?
Aaron: finally
Aaron: someone cares about me
Aaron: a job you fucking hippie