He writes books with Brian May from Queen and a very astronomy looking young dude.
― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Monday, 7 June 2010 16:38 (fourteen years ago) link
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20100607/sc_space/strangediscoveryontitanleadstospeculationofalienlife
caek should we be interested/concerned/frightened about this strangediscoveryontitan that has apparently led tospeculationofalienlife?
― del griffith, Tuesday, 8 June 2010 04:53 (fourteen years ago) link
what's this shit?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_hole
― louiiiis jjjjagger (S-), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 16:00 (fourteen years ago) link
some fucking space shit iirc. dunno!
xp, you should take note of this discovery, for the beings are certainly taking note of you.
― caek, Tuesday, 8 June 2010 20:20 (fourteen years ago) link
EVERYBODY PANIC (*)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/7819201/Nasa-warns-solar-flares-from-huge-space-storm-will-cause-devastation.html
(*) again. Stupid newspapers.
― StanM, Monday, 14 June 2010 19:56 (fourteen years ago) link
How do I set up a mailman list to which non-members can post questions, comments, and problems to which members can respond without non-members posts getting bounced and with non-members receiving and auto-reply acknowledgment? This is administered within my institution. I don't know if that affects things. I tried to do this through Privacy Options -> Sender Filters -> generic_nonmember_something-or-the-other set to Accept, but this did not seem to work. No auto-replies. No posts. Thanks in advance for any help that you can provide that is probably unrelated to your known area of expertise.
― youn, Monday, 14 June 2010 22:51 (fourteen years ago) link
non-members'an
― youn, Monday, 14 June 2010 22:52 (fourteen years ago) link
I know you can set it up to accept posts from non-members. Presumably it's just a switch in the admin interface? Not sure about autoreplies though. Worst comes to the worst, you could set up a dummy gmail account to receive all posts and acknowledge them using an autoreply (in a way that appears to come from the list admin).
― caek, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 22:26 (fourteen years ago) link
this is an unsatisfactory situation: http://observatories.hodar.com/mcdonald/index.html
four fully clear nights in a row on a 60% site though, so i'm not complaining.
― caek, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 22:28 (fourteen years ago) link
it is very cloudy here so we are goofing off with a seriously fancy teleescope. we just discovered saturn.
― caek, Thursday, 17 June 2010 05:11 (fourteen years ago) link
congrats 2 u
― Remember when Mr Banhart was a replicant? (darraghmac), Thursday, 17 June 2010 09:04 (fourteen years ago) link
thanks. discovering a planet was a big moment in my career. high on coffee right now.
― caek, Thursday, 17 June 2010 09:21 (fourteen years ago) link
you guys are gonna go far off this- have you though of a manager/agent?
― Remember when Mr Banhart was a replicant? (darraghmac), Thursday, 17 June 2010 09:23 (fourteen years ago) link
are you offering?
― caek, Thursday, 17 June 2010 09:25 (fourteen years ago) link
earlier today by the little telescope we will be using tomorrow night
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs488.ash1/26696_10150220656075305_673235304_12898372_1925929_n.jpg
― caek, Thursday, 17 June 2010 09:26 (fourteen years ago) link
if you can convince me that there's a commercial future for saturn exploitation then i'll take youse on, sure
― Remember when Mr Banhart was a replicant? (darraghmac), Thursday, 17 June 2010 09:27 (fourteen years ago) link
caek, imo, has the life
failing to take a photo of myself on the side of the mountain
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f325/caek/IMG_3374.jpg
― caek, Thursday, 17 June 2010 09:34 (fourteen years ago) link
(not shown in this picture: terrible, terrible sunburnt bald spot from all day drinking england/usa match the day before)
― caek, Thursday, 17 June 2010 09:35 (fourteen years ago) link
fuuuck you get bald and sunburnt from drinking?
too late to quit now, but at least i know what happened to me.
― Remember when Mr Banhart was a replicant? (darraghmac), Thursday, 17 June 2010 09:37 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, drinking and watching football:baldness::morbid obesity:diabetes : (
― caek, Thursday, 17 June 2010 09:38 (fourteen years ago) link
caek's corner is a depressing place lately, we should party and fun times up in here
― Remember when Mr Banhart was a replicant? (darraghmac), Thursday, 17 June 2010 10:12 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.theme-party-palace.com/images/space-party-invite.jpg
― caek, Thursday, 17 June 2010 10:46 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f325/caek/lhs-scout-parade-band-1.jpg
― caek, Thursday, 17 June 2010 10:48 (fourteen years ago) link
thesis time. wish me luck.
-- caek out.
― caek, Wednesday, 21 July 2010 09:22 (thirteen years ago) link
luck.
― Everytime I hit 'submit post' the internet gets dumber (darraghmac), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 09:38 (thirteen years ago) link
courage!
― oligopoly golightly (c sharp major), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 09:40 (thirteen years ago) link
upwards
― dyao, Wednesday, 21 July 2010 12:37 (thirteen years ago) link
per aspera ad astra
― be told and get high on coconut (gbx), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 14:12 (thirteen years ago) link
audere est facere
― Everytime I hit 'submit post' the internet gets dumber (darraghmac), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 14:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Carthago delenda est
― ledge, Wednesday, 21 July 2010 14:18 (thirteen years ago) link
mi casa su casa
― be told and get high on coconut (gbx), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 14:20 (thirteen years ago) link
go n-eiri and bothar leat
― Everytime I hit 'submit post' the internet gets dumber (darraghmac), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 14:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Rock on.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 21 July 2010 14:26 (thirteen years ago) link
ou sont les neiges autrefois?
― Everytime I hit 'submit post' the internet gets dumber (darraghmac), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 14:26 (thirteen years ago) link
yo caek what's the fuckin craic where's the warnings of all these asteroids that are nearly hitting us man? what we payin you for?
― k¸ (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 September 2010 11:23 (thirteen years ago) link
(caek can't check ilx as he's beeing steering the entire planet on manual control the past two days)
― k¸ (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 September 2010 11:31 (thirteen years ago) link
yah phd been pretty much under control for a month so i've been moonlighting by steering asteroids and posting on ilx. it's been pretty chill.
― caek, Thursday, 9 September 2010 11:44 (thirteen years ago) link
still in germany? what are your living plans for the foreseeable?
― acoleuthic, Thursday, 9 September 2010 11:47 (thirteen years ago) link
in munich until the end of the year. submit in december, viva in jan, after that is tbc. i'm finishing out of sync with the academic year (which is how the job market works too), so worst case scenario is back in with the 'rents until the summer, although that wouldn't be so bad. dad + wife have kids who are 4 and 1. best case scenario is a ~6 month contract in one of a couple of places in the US, which i have been supposed to get news about "later this week" for the last two months.
what about you? i thought you dropped out of your masters and then you were all like "i have an exam tomorrow". i guess you have finished now?
where is gbx does anyone know? i miss him so.
― caek, Thursday, 9 September 2010 12:08 (thirteen years ago) link
ah nice - well I hope you teach the kids the value of playing to the whistle, if you do end up shacked with 'em - godspeed the American applications though
I have finished now, yes, although I only find out later this month whether I've passed my resits! I have it on my CV that I spent a year working on the Masters, and obviously while I'd really like to have passed, if one piffling module fails me I'll still have completed a large and comprehensive course of work. Pretty confident though. I came very close to tapping out a few times but I ain't a quitter - finish their MA and get out of there tbh
gbx is *coming to London* pretty soon - his sister is studying here! I am so so psyched to meet the guy, all-time ILX dude
― acoleuthic, Thursday, 9 September 2010 12:23 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, worth getting the letters after yr name if at all possible. good work.
― caek, Thursday, 9 September 2010 12:46 (thirteen years ago) link
letters after ur name- ILX (All time)
― k¸ (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 September 2010 13:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Master of ILX (or MILX) should be a thing.
― seandalai, Thursday, 9 September 2010 13:28 (thirteen years ago) link
milx vs toast
― k¸ (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 September 2010 13:30 (thirteen years ago) link
M.ILX, maj. Football threads.
Originally signed up for Zing degree, transferred after dept shut down ;_;
― k¸ (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 September 2010 13:32 (thirteen years ago) link
♪♫ love u space ♪♫
― caek, Monday, 4 October 2010 20:54 (thirteen years ago) link
that is cute.
― mmmm, Monday, 4 October 2010 21:21 (thirteen years ago) link
coooooooooooooooooooooool
― journey to the end of nyt (nakhchivan), Monday, 4 October 2010 21:33 (thirteen years ago) link
srsly, nice mnml ryoji ikeda soundtrack too
― journey to the end of nyt (nakhchivan), Monday, 4 October 2010 21:34 (thirteen years ago) link