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| 10:24.07 | yaMatt | slow-clap for whoever it was that organised the Olympic ticket allotment, they managed to screw it up at every turn |
| 10:25.07 | yaMatt | and how about rather than these companies saying "you can only eat McDonalds fries" or "You can only use Visa credit cards" they go "do whatever you like because we're awesome" |
| 10:30.33 | Leeds | but fast clap for the athletes |
| 10:34.18 | morsing | And they're not even on IPv6 |
| 10:35.27 | Leeds | yaMatt: my take is that you can be as cynical as you like - and they definitely deserve it - about the IOC, the local organisers, the sponsors, etc. |
| 10:53.59 | mindbender | there'll always be a criticism |
| 10:54.11 | mindbender | i haven't seen a big organisation people didn't complain about |
| 10:54.27 | mindbender | i think it's just that everbody should accept it, it's not easy. |
| 10:54.41 | mindbender | UK's done a brilliant job on this olympics. |
| 10:55.55 | yaMatt | Leeds, yeah, I'm coming around to the opinion that I have nothing against the Olympics, the atheletes, most of the sports, it's the corporate ties that make it an utter mess |
| 10:56.43 | Leeds | I've been watching random sports, just because I can - had the archery on all day :) |
| 10:56.56 | yaMatt | I like what the Olympics stand for, what it does, but it's the companies who create these rediculous restrictions that make it a farse, I hope if anything by the end of the Olympics we'll feel much worse about the companies that sponsor it, not better |
| 10:58.11 | Leeds | they actually seem to have kept the branding crap well down *inside* the actual sports areas |
| 10:58.18 | yaMatt | oh, definitely |
| 10:58.38 | yaMatt | that aspect is quite nice |
| 10:58.48 | Leeds | watching the archery and canoeing yesterday, you really wouldn't know about the corporate crap |
| 10:59.09 | Leeds | I guess it's much more in your face if you're there - but let's face it, most of the people who are watching are watching on TV |
| 10:59.38 | yaMatt | yeah, the corporate crap has died down a lot since it started, but I do feel sorry for the local sandwich bar near the stadium which can't even display the words 'london 2012' |
| 10:59.49 | yaMatt | because it might harm McDonalds |
| 11:00.01 | AndyMillar | I dislike the fact you have to use Visa |
| 11:00.03 | Leeds | I guess they don't mind *that* much if they're still selling to the passing crowds |
| 11:01.38 | yaMatt | it's like these companies are really insecure about themselves that they won't let anyone compete outside the stadium |
| 11:01.48 | yaMatt | it barely feels like they represent the sport at all |
| 11:03.13 | Leeds | they're nothing to do with the sport |
| 11:03.29 | yaMatt | they have their brand, and sponsorship to protect, I can understand that, they don't want to throw their money at nothing, but they could really do with not being so up-tight about it, it makes them and us look bad |
| 11:04.00 | yaMatt | Leeds, well they want to be associated with it and you would think what it represents |
| 11:04.35 | yaMatt | espetially companies like McDonalds and Coca-Cola who don't want to be seen as being unleathy |
| 11:04.40 | yaMatt | unhealthy* |
| 11:04.40 | Leeds | companies like Coke and McDonalds are obviously associating with the *event*, not with the *sport* - Nike are a real sports sponsor |
| 11:05.44 | Leeds | at least at Wimbledon, you can believe the players are drinking barley water between sets - there's no way anyone competing at the olympics is touching coke during their event |
| 11:06.03 | yaMatt | heheh, true |
| 11:06.12 | yaMatt | I think it's quite cool that they're not wearing white too |
| 11:06.14 | Leeds | I'm not saying they *are* drinking it, but they could be |
| 11:06.16 | yaMatt | much more colourful |
| 11:14.48 | yaMatt | http://allthingsd.com/20120729/in-week-two-marissa-mayer-googifies-yahoo-free-food-friday-afternoon-all-hands-new-work-spaces-fab-swag/ |
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| 11:15.16 | yaMatt | Marissa Mayer is doing to a struggling company what most people brought in to a struggling company would be scared to do |
| 11:15.26 | yaMatt | I really hope this works for her |
| 11:15.48 | yaMatt | I've always thought in my company (which is struggling) that what you need to do is fuck shit up |
| 11:16.07 | yaMatt | not go "oh, well, we've got to save money and tighten budgets" |
| 11:16.37 | yaMatt | you need to go in and go "right, we have some pretty awesome assets, lets throw money at it until we either fail or succeed" |
| 11:16.49 | yaMatt | rather than prolong the enevitable |
| 11:18.43 | yaMatt | with the CEO hoping that the price of shares drops low enough before the company falls over so that they get a buy out and the CEO gets a big pay out |
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| 11:36.16 | w1bble | g'day dick_turpin |
| 11:48.49 | dick_turpin | lo |
| 12:06.44 | yaMatt | afternoon |
| 12:13.17 | dick_turpin | 29 Olympic ticket touts arrested so far. They should be given a bloody knighthood for at least trying to fill the seats! |
| 12:14.02 | yaMatt | ahahh |
| 12:14.22 | yaMatt | a friend of mine on Twitter went down today and bought tickets to the Basketball for £5 |
| 12:14.41 | yaMatt | I've got Monday off next week, so I'm going to go down there and see what I can do |
| 12:17.13 | dick_turpin | yaMatt: Brilliant, And I honestly mean that. I've been livid at the empty seat debacle. I suggested something like a rover ticket for say £200 if there was a spare seat you could have it on the understanding you may have to change seats or leave but either way |
| 12:17.35 | dick_turpin | you and the Olympic committe got something out of it |
| 12:18.03 | dick_turpin | Better still would have been to turn those seats over to a charitable organisation |
| 12:18.28 | yaMatt | yeah, I was saying before you came in, the ticketing bit of the Olympics is the most badly organised of it all |
| 12:20.15 | dick_turpin | yaMatt: You'd already got some tickets hadn't you? |
| 12:20.45 | yaMatt | na, I'd looked in to it, but they're all "sold out" on the website |
| 12:23.16 | dick_turpin | Oh, I was telling the girls you'd paid a fortune for some. So I was *Really* spitting nails when I saw them seats "Fooking ell! Matt spent a fortune on seats and look at them empty ones he could have sat there!" |
| 12:23.38 | yaMatt | heehh, na |
| 12:23.49 | dick_turpin | I have no idea why I care about him he dosent love me one little bit. :'( |
| 12:24.06 | yaMatt | I'd only buy the cheap seats |
| 12:24.19 | yaMatt | Marie's cousin bought some Gymnastics semi-finals |
| 12:24.27 | yaMatt | must have cost a fortune |
| 12:25.18 | dick_turpin | I think I told you? I like the bar, scares the crap out of me. |
| 12:26.02 | yaMatt | oh yeah |
| 12:29.51 | dick_turpin | You know in some senses the organisation has been crap. Where's the TV mag specifically for the Olympics? The girls say there isn't one you have to check the 24 BBC channels |
| 12:38.27 | yaMatt | people still buy paper TV guides? |
| 12:41.57 | dick_turpin | yaMatt: Yes Mr Only-just-got-the-cradle-marks-off-me-arse |
| 12:42.20 | yaMatt | my mum doesn't even buy the Radio imes anymore and she's 60 |
| 12:42.26 | yaMatt | Times* |
| 12:43.03 | yaMatt | I am very tempted to buy a FreeSat box to get the 24 HD channels |
| 12:43.16 | yaMatt | but I'm not confident it'll work in our flat |
| 12:43.43 | yaMatt | we have a Sky plug, I'm told I can just plug it in, but it's an expensive experiment |
| 12:48.24 | dick_turpin | yaMatt: You're stinking rich |
| 12:48.54 | yaMatt | not enough to throw money at Amazon |
| 12:51.34 | dick_turpin | yaMatt: You should make one, you're good at soldering. Got a Maplins near you? |
| 12:53.20 | yaMatt | heheh, I'm not sure I'm good enough to solder a HDMI port |
| 13:10.23 | dick_turpin | What? You're telling me a Rasberry Pi will not do this? But they can do *everything!* they can run life support systems, tell the future you can even do time travel with them! |
| 13:11.23 | yaMatt | actually it might be able to, the tricky bit there is you would need a USB FreeSAT HD stick |
| 13:14.03 | dick_turpin | Arduino it |
| 13:15.56 | yaMatt | that definitely won't cope |
| 13:16.16 | dick_turpin | Hmm? |
| 13:16.23 | dick_turpin | Oh I know |
| 13:16.39 | dick_turpin | Hook it up to a Goosbury Pi |
| 13:17.15 | yaMatt | never mentioned my RPi on the show last night, that was silly |
| 13:17.45 | dick_turpin | bounces 'show notes' off yaMatt's bonce |
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| 19:39.13 | morsing | Armand! |
| 19:39.24 | Armand | morsing! |
| 19:39.28 | Armand | Sup? |
| 19:39.40 | morsing | Apple caramel tart |
| 19:41.45 | Armand | What you call me? |
| 19:41.50 | Armand | -_- |
| 19:42.59 | morsing | Tart... |
| 19:43.10 | Armand | Lol |
| 19:43.43 | Armand | I need some ali corner blocks. :( |
| 19:43.50 | morsing | ? |
| 19:44.01 | morsing | ALuminium blocks? For what? |
| 19:44.58 | Armand | Building a PC case.. |
| 19:45.39 | Armand | I need 3-way corner blocks, to slide the bars onto. |
| 19:45.55 | morsing | Ok |
| 19:45.56 | yaMatt | what's one of those? |
| 19:46.09 | morsing | Armand: Why not build a wooden one? |
| 19:46.14 | Armand | ...... |
| 19:47.43 | Armand | 10mm block with 8x8mm stubs to fit into the 10mm bars. |
| 19:50.27 | yaMatt | oh right, actually properly building a PC case |
| 19:51.55 | Armand | Yarp. :) |
| 19:52.50 | yaMatt | you built one before? |
| 19:53.34 | Armand | Nope. :P |
| 19:54.49 | Armand | I've got the lengths of ali, and a sheet. |
| 19:55.53 | yaMatt | is it just for fun or you didn't like the cases that were available? |
| 19:56.27 | Armand | Bit of both.. I might sell it, if I do a good job. |
| 20:01.35 | Armand | I'll go for ATX standard, both board and psu |
| 20:02.41 | yaMatt | it's a cool idea |
| 20:03.28 | Armand | Thanks. :) |
| 20:03.40 | Armand | Just need those damn blocks |
| 20:04.35 | Armand | I could try and make them, but I don't think they would be good enough. |
| 20:04.44 | morsing | Armand: Do you still love me? |
| 20:04.49 | Armand | Nope |
| 20:04.53 | morsing | !! :( |
| 20:05.03 | Armand | :D |
| 20:05.11 | Armand | Of course I do.... |
| 20:05.19 | morsing | :D |
| 20:05.21 | morsing | *kiss* |
| 20:05.26 | Armand | Like a dose of the clap.. |
| 20:22.21 | yaMatt | have you spoken to any of the London Hack Space guys? |
| 20:24.32 | Armand | Narp |
| 20:24.50 | Armand | I don't get around London much.. |
| 20:25.54 | yaMatt | heheh, I don't think anyone in here actually lives in london |
| 20:26.33 | Armand | I'm out by Heathrow |
| 20:26.54 | AndyMillar | I do actually live in London |
| 20:27.21 | AndyMillar | though I intend to change that :-p |
| 20:27.43 | Armand | Me too... :P |
| 20:28.27 | AndyMillar | though I'm staying somewhere London commutable |
| 20:28.37 | AndyMillar | I spend a lot of time out by heathrow :-p |
| 20:28.52 | AndyMillar | Armand: where abouts are you? |
| 20:29.05 | Armand | West Drayton. |
| 20:29.25 | AndyMillar | ah, the Mrs lives in Sipson :) |
| 20:29.36 | Armand | Cool. :) |
| 20:29.45 | Armand | I know it well enough. |
| 20:29.59 | AndyMillar | probably better than me then - all I do is come at it from the M4 :-p |
| 20:31.01 | Armand | I grew up here, so... -_- |
| 20:31.12 | AndyMillar | ah :-) |
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