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I'm sure I used to have IRC on this computer. But no longer, it seems. And there you all are, lovely people who want to chat with me. Me! I can see your names all listed there, so soo tempting. Close enough to touch... actually now it's a bit harder to see them because the monitor's smudged from touching.
(and you wanna know why I wear flannel shirts? I never cared much about fashion and as a kid I used to wear relatives and neighbors hand-me-downs, including my Dad's old flannels. In my teenage years, I took up smoking and the pocket was convenient for carrying cigarettes, which would get crushed in my pants pocket. I can't believe I have to justify every detail of my life, now)
jon, what money? It's time to retire and let a new generation of idiots—the $5 idiots—enjoy the spotlight and the constant personal attacks and the no groupies and the GLAYvin with the hurting and the shoving. Oy.
I don't know how to make IRC work. And every time I try to figure it out, my eyes glaze over. Maybe if you could explain how to do it in like five steps on an iBook running Tiger, I could come visit you.
1. mIRC
2. Fill in: fake name, fake email, nickname, alt. nickname (in case dame is taken)
3. Click okay and type /server irc.slashnet.org:6667 in the command line of the status window.
4. Type /join #metachat on the same line.
1. Open this in another window.
2. Type "dame" in the top left corner
3. Type "/join #metachat" in the long white box at the bottom
4. You'll now be in the channel. Type whatever you want to say in that same long white box
5. That's it
dame: you can do much the same, only with Colloquy. Typical Mac install, setup is about as easy as typing in the stuff you've been told in this thread.
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