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Humpday Quickies
Nothing like some quality quickies to survive humpday.
Magus311X sent us linkage to an awesome web site that has the plans for nearly every set of legos. If you still have your big bucket, you'll love it. I always got bored half way through the plans tho. Started putting guns on my castles and plants on my spaceships wings.
HP LoveJet (I like that one) sent us a webpage that will compute your Wu-Tang name ('Rob Malda' = 'Grand Moff Puppeteer')
Blaxthos sent us a photo of the most amazing toilet mankind has developed thus far.
Looking for some new comics?
Bob Barker pointed us to Tug House
and
Cecil noticed EtherLife v1.5.. I dig EL15.
And now the pointless violence and stupidity portion of the quickies:
DragonHawk
sent us some nice pictures of people ignoring the warning labels on spray cans, and also building a potato gun capable of firing spuds at 550 MPH. Then we have a guy who builds "sparkler bombs" by setting off 1000 sparklers at a time.
Jura sent us pictures of computers that he apparently shot the hell out of.
Elwood sent us linkage to another license, this one is the
BPL or
The "Bastard Public License"
Next, random Slashdot references from around the net:
Raps sent us
writes Alfdot, a Slashdot parody weblog about everyone's favorite lame 80s sitcom (cancelled no doubt do to government conspiracy).
Slashdot Man earned a special place on my list of 'people to get a restraining order for' his fan page. Eeeek
rebrane sent us a Slashdot drinking game.
And the perfect quickie to get some closure on the day:
McAdder sent us Final Thoughts which is a website that spams your friends and family upon your death to send them your, well, final thoughts from beyond the grave. Wierd.
and this one only had a gross and a half of number ten sparklers; less than an AOL CD's diameter). ---- Is this opposed to a Rage Against the Machine CD's diameter?
Where I come from, we call the toilet the amiga.
anyone check out the "gillian anderson eating pie" page (link on AlfDot)? lol, i don't get it.. this crap is what the internet is all about! ;) if anyone has a working WuTangName link that'd be great..
I like sex.
Mahir or Bill Clinton?
It's not US-specific - even here in Australia we use the term "humpday" to refer to Wednesday (ie., the middle of the work week).
How did this lamer get moderated up to (3, Informative) ? This kind of trash is deserving of (-5, crackhead). Moderators should not play the slashdot drinking game.
Thanks for the link. Grats on #1 as well.
Fist Prost
The friendly first poster on a second streak
ho ho, Rob Malda has got to go
{repeat until you're nauseous}
see subject
Is that sort of like casual friday? Boy, I wish we had that where I work. Uh, wait no, I work with all guys...
Being a longtime BOFH fan, I'd love a Bastard/Linux. Of course, some people might think "Bastard? GNU? Whats the difference?" Oh yeah, minor thing... The Register has announced that the BOFH weekly series will start running at their site again soon. Long live the Bastard!
I think he was merely sharing his Wu-Name with us. Anywho-
Yeah, the mind shudders.
This is something we *really* don't want to add force feedback support for...
Just have someone fax it to you.
Now that you asked that- please go stick your head in 36 Chambers of rotating knives and spare us the possibility of progeny. For further suggestions refer to the song "Method Man"
Aww, stuff it. That's nothing! My Wu-Tang name was Violent Toilet Thing.
You need to install a new operating system!
Let's hope he uses it wisely!
William Gates! your Wu-Name is Budget Nudist Use it wisely, soldier.
Did anyone notice how old the computer must be? If you look at the connection at the left side, you will see a thinlan/coax connection for lan. You should use twisted-pair/RJ45 connections in places that have a high possibility of moisture, or else the whole thinlan segment will eventually get shi**y.
Actually, that didn't work very well either... Sorry about that.
- JoJo
What is a Wuname?
Of course it could be a fluke...
Fuck it anyway. I'm BUYING the DVD.
Yep!!! We have the same problem at the ACM-sponsored Retirement Home in Guelph!!!!! Since all our toilets were looted by commode smugglers we now have those wacky English ones (we got them at a flea-market; they were très cheap!!) with the tanque waaaay at the top of a long pipe with a puhl-cheyne. The old feller down the hall (I think his name is Gus?) has been up day and night crafting a system of pressure transducers and servo-motors to cause it to auto-flush when you get up from the seat!!!! That is exciting!
You have to check this out. The executable is now posted to make ASCII images from bitmaps. It only runs on Windows (written in VB), but is one of the cooler things I have seen in a while.
It's truly amusing. The comments were hilarious. AC due to fear of getting my account shut down by CmdrTaco for this comment.
Then where is this information?
Yeah, the toilet's got a fax machine, a terminal, and a comfy cushion... but I don't see any toilet paper.
I'll say what the preceding poster was obviously too nice to say: You're an idiot. People like you are the reason psychics and UFO research centers stay in business. Learn about the application of the scientific method (and the fallacy known as post hoc ergo propter hoc), and then maybe we'll let you take a seat at the table.
Aw crap. I got Lazy-Assed Destroyer
Best quickie of 'em all. Even though it isn't a quickie. (sigh)
Bill Gates!
your Wu-Name is
Dubious Masturbatah-X
Use it wisely, soldier.
One word.... _exactly_
Ok, so should I be using something other than IE5? Every time I click the link I get the "download" box, and the resultant file contains:
/www/home/recordstore.com/cgi-bin/wuname/wuname.pl
CGIwrap Error: Script is not executable. Issue chmod 755
Am I doing something wrong?
If you're having problem with the link, try this one intead:
http://www.recordstore.com/wuname/
- JoJo
Are Humpday Quickies compatible with Linux 6.1?
thanks,
LinuxFreak12
I am sorry, but I cannot understand what this news item is about. The title "Humpday Quickies" is mildly suggestive, in a wacky sort of way. Perhaps a new holiday I am (unfortunately) not familiar with? This would explain a few things. Not really. Perhaps, like me, you are asking yourself, "How is this stuff that matters?" Well the answer is simple, in a complicated, bert-and-ernie sexual tension sort of way. Let me give you an example. Suppose I have $3. But $3 is not enough to buy a copy of "Scientology". Now I cannot be a scientologist, why? I can't be a scientologist because I am poor, what does that say about Scientology, do I need to be a famous actor, like John "Pussywagon" Travolta? No. Here is the truth, straight from that ass's horse: "I am offtopic, inflammatory, inappropriate, illegal, or offensive comments might be moderated." Anyways I got up this morning and decided I needed to buy more toothpaste, but then, it turned out I didn't, but I went anyways. So I figured while I was there, I might as well get some toothpaste, I mean, I'm going to run out eventually. But then when I went to the checkout, I realized the toothpaste was $4.67 but I only had $3. fuck. Now what is supposed to happen is the cashier is supposed to let me steal the toothpaste without ringing it up. But this cashier was an old woman. "Steal my toothpaste, bitch!" I screamed as loud as I could when she refused my request to put it into the bag without ringing it up. She stubbornly refused. "What's going on here?" the manager (I'll assume) asked me. The manager has to be an asshole about people stealing his toothpaste because a lot of his pay depends on how well the store does. So if I had been allowed to have the cashier steal my toothpaste for me, that would have been $0.000001 less he took home that year. So naturally he was VERY concerned. Anyways I guess the moral is he didn't call the police, that was cool of him, but frankly, I am a bit upset that when the day comes that I run out of toothpaste, I will not have any extra left. Hopefully when I awake to the dawn of the brave new world of the morning without toothpaste, I will have $4.67. What was this thread about again? Oh that's right: jack shit. So if you label this offtopic, mr. moderator sir, you are a very foolish man (or woman).
As for the translator, it seems like it only goes only on first name. I tried my name, then I tried "Rob Malda", then I tried Rob and something else. Came out the same. For example, go try out "Rob Hideysmithingtonson." I got Grand Moff Puppeteer for that too.
If you spend that much time on the toilet, you have bigger problems than whether you can get your email or not. =)
I sould know. I was in Tampa Florida when I was 7 and my mom was trying to light sparklers with matchs. Well it didn't work so we asked a man to use his lighther. I had 1 sparkler in my right hand and 16 in my left. I got the 1 sparkler and tried to light 1 in the other hand. Well all 16 went off and I got a 2nd and 3rd degree burn.
But hey once they all went off people where yelling and cheering thinking that it was just 1 kick ass fire work.
Highly recommended... haven't laughed this hard in a long time...
:wq
Posters:
Cmdr. Taco says *grin*
... and drink twice if he misspells "weird."
... when you get a drinking game made up for you. That link is hilarious!
--
My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.
****Gfx Scrollbar Special case hit!!*****
The slashdot drinking games doesn't involve any chugging, what kind of game is that?
I haven't seen it, and I read /. every day. And actually Rob *didn't* sound too happy about the Suck.com parody to me. Very surprising to me 'cuz they seem to have a great sense of humor. (Geez, they'd have to with all the flamage here.)
The revolution will NOT be televised.
How can i become a licensed pyrotechnic? I had no idea that this sort of thing could actually be legal. :-)
Seems like the wutang naming has been slashdotted. I was hoping to find my wu name and found a perl/chmod error instead. :( How disappointing.
~spot
"and no, im not the spot working for Transmeta, although i wish i was..." -- ~spot "i'm the epitome of public enemy..."
Hmm... my dictionary and even the WWWebster is silent on the word "humpday". So please someone might explain to a non-us citizen what a humpday is :-).
So long, and thanks for all the fish.
Back when Slashdot featured Hashsnot, one of the people commenting on that article challenged everyone to come up with a better parody... that's how ': was born. I kept adding to it and eventually worked it into a storyline for my comic. But AFAIK, It's never been featured by /.
Eviscerati.Org: All Hail the Eviscerati
Also, even though it is a one-way function, there are still some neat things you can do with it. For instance, here's a cycle of length 3 that I found:
Tha Ever So Weary Assistant
-> Big Gay Mule
-> Excitable Misunderstood Genius
-> Tha Ever So Weary Assistant
spawn_of_yog_sothoth
If you go into the time laps photo section, he explains it as artifacts caused by very bright light. They aren't really there. (duh)
C'mon, it's not a game, it's suicide by
Some guy named Chris
The ultimate toilet has leather padded seats, what appears to be broadband, a phone, a fax, and a computer, but where the hell is the TP?
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"They misunderestimated me." --George W Bush, Nov. 6, 2000
Definately cool, but somehow it seemed that I've seem them a long time ago. Could it be that they've been posted at slashdot before?
I remember seeing the BFPG 9000 part before, but I think the sparkler bomb link is a new one.
Jay (=
I tried the wu-tang thing and my name came out to be:
:-)
Ol' Filthy Sweaty Bastard
I don't know whether that's good or bad..
Ben
Illegitimate Muslim Fundamentalist Uhmm...yeah. I'd *love* to hear any member of Wu-tan actually say that, or have an MTV News story, and watch Kurt Loder actually keep a strait face while name dropping that bad boy!
"Even Prophets don't know everything"
Maybe since you never have to get up again you don't need TP?
There's always the fax paper I guess.
Davo -- Free speech, free software, AND free beer.
NT means no text.
I'm a licensed pyrotechnic! But I'm illegal in seven states.
Switch the . and the @ to email me.
According to the Drinking Game, we're all supposed to drink if:
.. someone mistakes 'hacking' for 'cracking' (or vice versa)
Bottoms up!
Switch the . and the @ to email me.
Slashdot Man has frightened me, and I'm not even Rob. I need a stalker. -Sweaty Butcher (My Wu Name)
Have any of you taken a look at it? You need an iron liver just to make it through a 50k page of comments!
"If they'd only GPL their script"
Never mind... already released!
Now, to find out how Rob and I are related!
Eric
The Wu Tang translator called me Lazy-ass Destroyer. I find that offensive. I may be lazy-ass, but I prefer to call myself "dangerously curious, well-meaning individual" rather than "Destroyer".
ul|tma -At least we all use linux-
CGIwrap Error: Script is not executable. Issue chmod 755 /www/home/recordstore.com/cgi-bin/wuname/wuname.pl
(If this was already mentioned in another post, sorry.)
To the editors: your English is as bad as your Perl. Please go back to grade school.
Perl Mongers outing...
http://www.inlink.com/~perlguy/campcamel
Check out the above site. We blew the living shit out of an old IBM PS/2. We also did a few "book reviews" of Perl books that suck...
The Perl Mongers know how to get together and have fun!
We also did some skeet shooting with a bunch of those free CD's you get in the mail.
-- Windows security? Sure, which ONE would you like? -me
I used my real name and got "Inebriated Assistant".
Kinda true, except for the Assistant part.
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- Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set him on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
and I'm half-cut skeleton. I wonder how the system works? Probably just has a bunch of words in a list, makes a hash value from your name, and uses that to look up a word.
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#!/usr/bin/perl
/^(\d)\s*(\d)\s*(.*)$/;
//, $fn){ //, $ln){
open X, "/tmp/names.txt";
@names=();
while(X>){
next unless
$names[$1][$2]=$3;
}
print "First name: ";
$fn=>;
print "Last name: ";
$ln=>;
$fn=~tr/A-Z/a-z/;
$fn=~tr/a-z//cd;
$ln=~tr/A-Z/a-z/;
$ln=~tr/a-z//cd;
$f=0;
for $i (split
$f+=ord($i)-96;
}
$l=0;
for $i (split
$l+=ord($i)-96;
}
print "\n", $names[$l%9][$f%9], "\n";
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Find the list of wu-names yourself, it's easy enough to do. There are 81, of course.
Hopefully they don't change the hash function, which would invalidate all this.
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perl -e'$_=shift;die eval' '"$^X $0\047\$_=shift;die eval\047 \047$_\047"' at -e line 1.
Also check out this Matrix spoof (video):o des/cs11.mov o des/cs11.rm
http://www.zdnet.com/computerstew/video/qt/epis
or
http://www.zdnet.com/computerstew/video/g2/epis
--Jim
Rob Malda in ASCII at Slashdot Man's webpage is one of the most disturbing things I've ever seen.
http://sdm.rietta.com/robascii.htm
--
RumorsDaily
Method Man's Wu name turns out to be:
Vangellic Surgeon
And, if Busta Rhymes was in the Clan, his name would be:
My Cousin the Wife Beatah
Thank you.
Making sure you can never take someone elses code, and close it up is THE concern of creators of GPL-software, not to help you not having to give back modifications.
Critizism against the GPL is actually misunderstood.
When someone complains about having to give out their hard work if using GPL-code, it is like saying: "damn it, your property right is stupid, I can't modify it the way I please". This can be easily countered by saying: "excactly!! That was the whole POINT behind my decision to use those property rights".
Use the license that suits you best, but don't complain about other peoples choices when it comes to licenses.
as I'm sure several other people probably did. Win some, lose some.
sigh...
Saint Patricks High School did one better, I'm off today aswell! Woohoo!
At least two of these were featured on the most excellent Cruel site of the day. In the sparkler bomb's case, like a year ago...
I wonder if anyone has tried building an electric rail spud gun? If it's feasible then maybe someone can genetically engineer potatoes to grow embedded iron particles.
My Wu-Name: Sheepish Lord of Chaos.
I don't I have seen this in /. before. This is the best of slashdot parody yet, better than suckdot. Don't forget to read the comment, it's hysterical.
CY
http://sdm.rietta.com/
he moved.
It's agonizingly obvious that's a server-side error.
Hands in my pocket
better yet, if the authors
could please just tar up the
script and its data files,
let us download it...
probably less wear on their server
(and then some mirrors could go up).
I would offer to be a mirror,
but @HOME would get REALLY pissed.
What is Humpday?
If it's anything like Festivus I will love it.
So are there any fun activities that go along with Humpday?
MORE PRESENTS!
(Or is Humpday when we get out our shrines of CmdrTaco and pay homage)
First (just let me get it out of my system) I would like to say that that ALFdot thing was totally out of line, in how it portrayed the slashdot community as a bunch of b1ff-like error-prone AOL lusers. ENOUGH WITH THE FUD, you Microsoft-loving drones! I don't condone hacking, but someone oughta bust into their server and totally deface the thing.
- -
I wonder if we could run Linux on that kewl ASCII picture, or better yet, get a Beowulf cluster going on ASCII pictures of the whole slashdot crew. (I mean GNU/Linux; sorry.) I'm sure someone here could crack a quick-and-dirty port.
That super toilet is really something else. I'll bet that's the secret prototype someone swiped from the Transmeta labs. As a geek and hacker, I must say that it would be handy.
BTW that Wu-Tang thing was slashdotted awhile back.
Finally, I hope that Jura open sources the shotgun he used to destroy that computer.
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while(Natalie_Portman==petrified)
do
pushdown(grits, pants);
pop(beer_can.top);
if(GNOME.coolness > KDE.coolness && vi.utility > emacs.utility && opera.stability > MSie.stability && Zen_Buddhism.oddness > Subgenius.oddness && slashdot.lameness > chips_and_dips.lameness) then drink(beer_can);
printf("Linux SUX!!! BSD ROX!!");
end
I think the wu -guys have like 3 names each, don't they?
Big Wicker Ventriloquist That's me....
Now lets kick some sucky video game a$$!
hmmm...., well maybe not...
_ Light travels faster than sound. That is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.... -
The person who made that spoof obviously had a pirated version of the matrix, the Z's on the upper-left corners were put on on some illegal VCD's.
I'm slightly intrigued by the Final Thoughts.com site, but was a little scared to follow through with the demo...
But now I'm set to wondering when Final Spam.com will appear. It would be a multi-level marketer's wet dream: all the spam, with none of the flaming that comes after (afterspam? -- well, it will still come, but what do you care, you're dead).
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Definately cool, but somehow it seemed that I've seem them a long time ago. Could it be that they've been posted at slashdot before?
Johan Veenstra
If I had a moderation point, I would moderate you as INCITEFUL...
"Slashdot is a good source of information about this effect."
D'uh.... really?
:)
Consultancy: If you're not part of the solution, there's money to be made in prolonging the problem
Besides, the way some flamers on the 'Net write, this is perfect for the potty mouths.
Caution: This post contains humor, and should not be read by the humor impaired.
www.eFax.com are spammers
I apologize for linking to main.html instead of index.html -- I was unaware, as that was the only link that had been circulated to me. Kudos for all the cool work. One thing you're mistaken about however, which is sadly fairly typical in a primarily male-dominated geek world is that the "He" that you refer to is actually a 19 year old female:) Pleasure to meet you. *curtsey* -krs
It's meta-slashdot-drinking game! ;-)
[TMB]
... right here. Written with an attitude. ;-)
[TMB]
Whoever moderated this post... you probably won't read this, but I'm going to vent anyway.
a) I was merely sharing my "Wu-Name." I guess I didn't make that very obvious, but if you had actually gone through the quickies, maybe you would have realized this.
b) Many others did this, and they were moderated UP. I realize mine wasn't all that interesting, but why not just leave it alone? It wasn't off topic.
c) Why waste your points moderating posts down on a stupid quickies article? Go use them on a useful article, or moderate some naked-and-petrified-grits posts down.
The Lonely Donkey Kong.
WTF?
Just a note; The cases to the old Big Blue XT's wlll actually stop a 12 gauge of steel shot. (The .22 long rifle pierced nicely, as did the .38 .
.sig: Now legally binding!
I don't usually nitpick spelling of posters, but when the slashdot article itself spells weird as "wierd" I have to wonder if there exist any good spell-checkers for linux. I use ispell.
This is what I get when I go to get my WuName:
/www/home/recordstore.com/cgi-bin/wuname/wuname.pl
CGIwrap Error: Script is not executable. Issue chmod 755
What's going on?
It's pretty ironic though, I am now listening to the new Wu Tang track on the Next Friday soundtrack - Shaolin Worldwide
-----Transmission Complete----- If you want to email me...Don't
In reference to the toilet-office, I can say only this: Man, he must have one seriously shitty job.
Thank you, Thank you.
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rJames.org - illustration
I felt SO ripped off. I went to the WuName sight, and ended up being Grand Moff Puppeteer too. I also happen to live in Holland, MI. Coincidence? Maybe. But consider this: I love honey brown. It boggles the mind.
We eat the pig and then together we BURN!!!
Tomorrow's humpday for me. I'll have to save them. Good old Holliston High School didn't have school Monday and Tuesday because the Assistant Superintendant of schools was afraid of Y2K glitches. woohoo!
i got a 404 trying to find the slashdot man's site.
ugh and i happen to love ALF. ; )
"you get hit and your head goes ping" --rocky horror picture show
I think this is the same one I found a while back under a search on "backyard ballistics"...if so the white beam going up is a glitch in the author's cheap video camera, but looks pretty cool nonetheless.
mcrandello@my-deja.com
rschaar{at}pegasus.cc.ucf.edu if it's important.
Hey, I wrote that (not that well, I admit) and there are more than 81 - 324 names, in fact, for 26244 possible results. It breaks the names down to single figures using basic a=1 b=2 translation and then assigns a name based on that. The bank that a name is chosen from is selected in a similar way, using the product of the first and last name results, so Rob Name1 won't ALWAYS get the same first name as Rob Name2. Sadly, the way I've written it means I'd have to put in 2916 names for the next step up... some rethinking involved.
Well, having a script described as 'nice' on /. is a Friday-maker for sure. I see the point about the 81 names, but there are four sets of 81 names to begin with, and a given input name will be assigned to two of those sets in a statistically fair fashion - unless I'm deluding myself. There are an awfull lot of Victorian Cows around. I'm no stats professor, but I ran the algorithm several thousand times with numbers and the distribution was even. Anyway, I'll certainly do my best to apply yr suggestions - might take me a while to get my head around x=(n%9==0)?9:n%9, but by God, I'll give it a go.
Actually, I got exactly the same name! Scary! But really, it must not even be a random word list, just a list of phrases. Or else we've hit it a bunch of times...
-- I could prove I'm right, but I my hard drive's full.
At long last! One question though. If programs protected under this license end up being used in Linux distributions, what keeps you from strutting around telling everyone to call it Bastard/Linux?
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. [H.S.T.]
Don't know how the Final Thoughts site passed the /. quality control... looking at the site I noticed the FinalThoughts.com is a patent-pending technology line. Guess the my dad should license the technology before leaving a letter in the desk drawer, which is apparently what the service provides. Does anyone know if the pending patent just covers death, or any triggered or delayed mail?
The terms of use are also pretty hilarious. In addition to claiming to be binding without agreement [i.e. just by visiting the site] and freely modifiable retroactively (section 15), if they screw up and lose your final messages of love (or whatever), it looks like your heirs can get back the $5 or whatever they charged you, which should be comforting (section 10).
Guess I should patent virtual prayers, thats probably still up for grabs.
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. [H.S.T.]
Hrm, I'm tha prickly comedian too, small world, or small DB, you choose :)
Seems like finalthoughts.com is set up for suicides since you specify dates? They could expand their market if they polled friends with "Is your friend dead yet?" messages.
If a few people respond "yes" then it makes a note that the person is dead and fires off the emails...
2 years and no mod points. Join reddit. Because openness is good.
Looks like friends or "guardian angels" can log in - I assume it's from these there that guardian angels can notify the company that he/she is dead. But what if the guardian angels never log in - seems like it should still send "is-your-friend-dead-yet" messages.
2 years and no mod points. Join reddit. Because openness is good.
Did anyone else think that there were a few too many chemicals involved in that project?
The movies were definately cool though.
I've wondered what the appeal is about sites such as the "Backyard Ballistics" site, or the page mentioned above. Is part of it the idea of making things go boom without actually hurting anyone? IMHO, I think it might be. Most of the time we're having to do constructive things -- build a web page, write a program, and so forth -- and perhaps we all have a little atavistic urge to go and knock something down for a change.
Strike while the irony is hot! -- The Freethinker
Shut up, be happy. The conveniences you demanded are now mandatory. -- Jello Biafra
Ah, how I love to go on digital safaris. I'm most sporting about it too- Iron sights at ranges from 100 to 300 meters for most of the monitors I've bagged using the rifle (I do clean up after myself).
It's a symbolic thing, of course. And especially satisfying if I know that the bits contained on a hard drive have beginnings in Redmond.
chicken-wire chair with a bail of hay underneath it, but where is the twinky dispenser?
"God does not play dice with the universe." -Albert Einstein
Those who fail to understand communication protocols, are doomed to repeat them over port 80.
That's ok. I got "Spunky Misunderstood Genius".
I guess all the reading of 'Evil Geniuses for Dummies' has finally paid off, huh? *wicked grin*
-Elthia
I was reading in the newspaper about how in Canada the toilets used have a bigger water tank then is legal in the USA, so there was a "big" problem with the smuggling of toilet boils from Canada to the US.
When you gotta go, you gotta go.
" If I was not crazy I would have gone insane by now "
THE END
If your looking for Slashdot Man's fan page in the quickies, he moved it here:
http://sdm.rietta.com/
weird guy
A hashtable could have the same effect. But who cares? It's funny as hell!
P.S. I'm the Gratuitous F-REEK from now on. Boo-yah!
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Oper on the Nightstar
Wizard magazine featured these things, and they put some pretty funny dialogue in the characters' mouths.
Two of my favorites:
Trinity: "Whew, after 'Models, Inc.' I thought I was a goner!"
Neo (best if you look at the action figure): "Damn, I think I buckled wrong. My leg's going numb."
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Oper on the Nightstar
That's odd, just yesterday, I was thinking about all my lego sets and how I'd lost most of the plans to them, and wondering if there might be a website out there with them all amassed, thinking, "Naw, no one has done that yet for sure," and then wishing someone would do it. Wow!
Linus Torvalds and I have the same Wu name, Radiophonic Oddity. I always knew I had something in common with Linus :o)
has anyone seen "The Matrix" action figures in stores?
A decent Network is finally here.
Now that I know that- what the hell _is_ a Wu Name??
Ack, there are several of them, apparently!
Quick, open source them! Then we can port Linux to them and make them into a Beowulf cluster to sell to Transmeta, who are clearly making fish.
Now _that_ would be a helluva crack! >;)
8-Legged DJ, truly evil :)
How the HELL am I supposed to piss standing up? I might get piss all over my computer, not to mention it doesn't look like you can flip the seat up!
Pretty cool. By my real name, I'm "Auxiliary Priest." Go by my Net alias and I'm "Half-Cut Skeleton." I'm having trouble figuring out which one is cooler.
How does one figure out one's Wu name anyway? I can't figure out how this one's done.
This has been featured on Slashdot before. Slashdot has also featured suck.com's recent parody, and Rob was quite happily laughing at it. Just because one particular /. parody doesn't make it into one particular batch of quickies doesn't necessarily mean that they're censoring it...
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Quine "quine?
A 386 or better, sure there's a use. A 286, or a case from a Packard Bell with a fried power supply, or some component with terribly bad juju (like a keyboard that fries motherboards) all make fine targets for light caliber plinking. (The keyboard from hell was shattered by a .44 Desert Eagle, and nailed to the wall as a warning to others of it's kind).
-- Jeff Paulsen
Great stuff! I almost ruined my keyboard when I got to the bit about voiding their warranty because of Kyle "HardOCP.com" Bennet. Probably funnier than anything in the actual Quickies too :)
AFAIK this parody was written recently for that comic. And when I searched /. for the last several weeks I could not find it, nor did I see anything obvious in a search of articles with the word "parody" in the story.
So while it may have been featured, I doubt it..
Cheers,
Ben
My usual seat in the cluetrain is at A HREF="http://pub4.ezboard.com/biwethey.ht
It started off a bit slow, but it kicked up in pace, and got me laughing HARD. REAL good stuff!
Thanks for the link.
-- Give him Head? Be a Beacon?
-- Give him Head? Be a Beacon? :P)
(If you can't figure out how to E-Mail me, Don't.
Hmmm...the toilet on Slashdot Man's site looks surprisingly like the toilet by Alexey Soloviev.
I don't think that it's CmdrTaco that needs the restraining order. Alexey, on the other hand...
WTF?
Wu-Name = "Asthmatic Enemy of God"
Like this:
"What is truth?" (cough, wheeze)
?
ABSURDITY, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
One of the photos from the sparkler bomb site looks like the crowd is being zapped from orbit with some kind of energy beam. I'm willing to bet good money that someone is going to take this photo and use it as further evidence of a New World Order Conspiracy To Destroy Freedom Loving People.
Finding God in a Dog
please inform script owners or something, so they can prepare (or beg to not be mentioned). the wuname thing is dead (as mentioned above). If the owner would allow mirroring, it would be no problem and we all get in the fun...
ZOMG I WOULD LOVE TO KNOW ABOUT YOUR FEELINGS ON MACINTOSH VERSUS WINDOWS, VI VERSUS EMACS, AND HOW YOU'RE NOT A DORK
Basically, it's a BSD-type license with the stipulation that "all modifications must be sent to the original author". As with many systems that contains a single critical point, there's no backup plan should that point fail (i.e. the author leaves/dies/etc.).
- With the GPL, I give code to all because I have to.
- With the BSD, I give code to anybody because I want to.
- With the BPL, I give code back to the author because I have to, and everyone else because I want to. Making it just as viral and a lot more monopolistic.
Sorry, but I'll pass.Ita erat quando hic adveni.
Hey, with my full name I got Misunderstood Excitable Genius :)
At least it appears that in some cases (see the lyrics revamp to Particle Man elsewhere in this discussion) it actually does map last names consistently... for example:
:)
me (real name) --> Tha Winged Cow
my wife --> International Cow
I have the feeling she may not find that all that funny
I still prefer this one though:
Spud Zeppelin --> Cybernetic Tiger
It's Grrrrrrrrrrreat!
This is my opinion and my opinion only. Incidentally, IANAL.
MOO;IANAL.
There used to be a picture linked here.
There Is No Spoof.
Weblogging Considered Harmful:
That's odd... my wu-name also turned out to be Grand Moff Puppeteer, and Eric Wright is in no way close to Rob Malda! If they'd only GPL their script ;)
Eric
Take both names, perform a letter->number substitution (a=1, b=2, etc.) and add up the values for each name separately. In my case, E=5 + r=18 + i=9 + c=3 == 35, Wright = 85. Then, "boildown" each of these numbers to a single digit, ie. 35 -> 3+5 = 8; 85 -> 8+5=13 -> 1+3=4. Now, I have 8 as my first digit, and 4 as my last digit. Oddly enough, so does Rob Malda!
Anyway, there are 'a' and 'b' arrays of first and last names, each containing 9 entries with 9 values each. Specific names are picked by...
Your first name is found by adding your two digits and again, boiling that down to a single digit: 8+4 = 12 -> 1+2 = 3. Now, my first name is in list 3 at position 8 of one of the lists (all of his code uses null values for array entry 0). For my last name, multiply my two digits, and boildown: 8*4 = 32 -> 3+2 = 5. My last name is in list 5, position 4.
Finally, whether you get names from the a lists or b lists is determined by the parity of the product of your initial two digits (8*4 = 32 is even, use a lists... if odd, use b lists which is rarer since it requires both your original digits to be odd).
In your test, Hideysmithingtonson must just have the same associated boiled-down digit as Malda!
Eric
If Hemos mentions nano-anything, drink!
Eric
Hasn't this ever been mentioned in conjunction with the MindStorms stories?
:)
Ah well, so much for a minute of fame.
Brickshelf is incredibly useful for my current New Year's Project: I retrieved a 16"x18"x18" box FULL of Lego from my parents' basement. It was my entire childhood collection of Lego (all that wasn't bought in the last couple of years that I already had in my apartmnet). Half of that I "inherited" from my friend Jim when he turned 14 and decided he was "too old" to play with Lego. His donation essentially doubled my collection at the time(!)
SO, I have none of his instructions, and have no idea what sets he had. Bang! Go to Brickshelf, look up some of the weird pieces Jim had, and I found a whole whack of instructions for those sets.
After I finish counting and organizing all that ABS, I'm gonna try to assemble ALL the sets that I have and the ones I can figure out that Jim had.
I think I have my work cut out for me, considering I have no idea where I'm going to put it all. Time for a trip to IKEA for those cool coloured buckets.
If I could find the time to sweep my floor, I'll be in good hands
Pope
It doesn't mean much now, it's built for the future.
--neil
There really are only 81 names that can possibly be output as the script is written, though. Your first step is to boil down the numberized name: x=boildown(n) is the same as x=(n%9==0)?9:n%9. This means that no matter what the first or second name, each is reduced to a number 1-9. The set and setsum operations depend only on these two numbers (a one to one mapping), giving you a maximum of 81 distinct cases.
To get more, you have to introduce a few more variables. For example, use a second unrelated hash function on the names and use these new numbers in the set operations, keeping the original two to choose which names to pick out of the lists.
If i get a chance to make the modifications, i'll email them to you.
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perl -e'$_=shift;die eval' '"$^X $0\047\$_=shift;die eval\047 \047$_\047"' at -e line 1.
How long do you people sit on the toilet? I'd barely be able to boot up my computer before it would be time to flush.
Please see a doctor or something because that can't be healthy.
Wow. It all happened so fast. Good thing I'm not alone! HA! I'm typing under the influence. Glad it isn't illegal yet. Maybe I should visit eBay? :)
Uh... about the sparkler bomb. Cool. But the wierd blue laser coming out the top? Yeah. That's just a camera effect. Bummer, huh?
I gotta get that TOILET!!!
-- Monolithic Fishmonger-X (wu-tang name)
(Thanks HP LoveJet!)
(Uhm, I hope Rod didn't install the filter script to ban me forever from
BTW my Wu name is CGIwrap Error: Script is not executable too.
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Universe Man and Triangle Man are equally powerful - because they're *both* Lesbian Pimp!
Triangle Man - Lesbian Pimp
Universe Man - Lesbian Pimp
Person Man - Fiendish Observational Comedian
Particle Man - Curly-Haired Slacker
And, of course:
Slashdot Man - Embryonic Crusadah
Particle Man
Curly-Haired Slacker, Curly-Haired Slacker
Doing the things a particle can
What's he like? It's not important
Curly-Haired Slacker
Is he a dot, or is he a speck?
When he's underwater does he get wet?
Or does the water get him instead?
Nobody knows, Curly-Haired Slacker
Lesbian Pimp, Lesbian Pimp
Lesbian Pimp hates Curly-Haired Slacker
They have a fight, Lesbian Pimp wins
Lesbian Pimp
Lesbian Pimp, Lesbian Pimp
Size of the entire Lesbian man
Usually kind to smaller man
Lesbian Pimp
He's got a watch with a minute hand,
Millenium hand and an eon hand
When they meet it's a happy land
Powerful man, Lesbian Pimp
Fiendish Observational Comedian, Fiendish Observational Comedian
Hit on the head with a frying pan
Lives his life in a garbage can
Fiendish Observational Comedian
Is he depressed or is he a mess?
Does he feel totally worthless?
Who came up with Fiendish Observational Comedian?
Degraded man, Fiendish Observational Comedian
Lesbian Pimp, Lesbian Pimp
Lesbian Pimp hates Fiendish Observational Comedian
They have a fight, Lesbian Pimp wins
Lesbian Pimp
cheers,
schmeel. (Lazy-Assed Destroyer)
P.S. - anyone know why all the comments from the old poll have disappeared?
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This
J.r. "bob" Dobbs!
your Wu-Name is
Dependable Skeleton
Use it wisely, soldier.
Dependable Skeleton!
your Wu-Name is
Contagious Specialist
Use it wisely, soldier.
Contagious Specialist!
your Wu-Name is
Cheeky Delinquent
Use it wisely, soldier.
Cheeky Delinquent!
your Wu-Name is
Ol` Filthy, Sweaty Bastard
Use it wisely, soldier.
Ol' filthy Sweaty bastard!
your Wu-Name is
Bastard, BASTARD HarbourMastah
Use it wisely, soldier.
Bastard, bastard Harbourmastah!
your Wu-Name is
Monolithic Fishmonger-X
Use it wisely, soldier.
Monolithic Fishmonger-x!
your Wu-Name is
Tha Eurythmic King of Nowhere
Use it wisely, soldier.
Tha eurythmic king of Nowhere!
your Wu-Name is
Well-Liked Assman
Use it wisely, soldier.
Well-liked Assman!
your Wu-Name is
Ol` Filthy, Sweaty Bastard
Use it wisely, soldier.
Yes! A loop! I AM VICTORIOUS!!!!1!
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"HORSE."
"HORSE."
-Flaming Carrot
My WuName turns out to be Erratic Assassin (well, it kinda cool). Unfortunately -- or fortunately for the paranoid in the group -- it doesn't work in reverse. I think a translator is still needed, though. Imagine the potential dating uses this could be put to.
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As for the dude who shot up his computer, Please let me shoot HIM. For anyone to decide one day "HEY! I think I'm going to take this computer out back and SHOOT IT!" is totally idiotic. There was almost a guaranteed use for that computer, and I don't mean as a target.
god, you are so right! there are far better uses for old computers.
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
Sacred cows make the best burgers.
Obviously designed by someone who doesn't want to let bio-needs get in the way of a good CTF or Assault mission...
Still, if the toilet's fully wired, what would the results of a frag/gib be like? (shudder)
:)
I left my body to science, but I'm afraid they've turned it down...
I'm sorry, Slashdot Man, but I think I'm going to get a preemptive restraining order against you..
Anyway, there is another variant to the Slashdor Drinking Game. A few buddies and I thought it up to bother one particular party attendee that night. The conditions for drinking were pretty much the same, except that you got an extra for every story someone else in the room posted and one subtracted for each of your own posts. Each player takes a story, in decending order from newest. At the end of perusing the story, you either take the alcohol penalty or lose an article of clothing. (General rule: if it went on in pairs, it comes off in pairs).
.sig: Now legally binding!
Thanks for the excuse to get a beer with lunch!
DO NOT DISTURB THE SE
I think my grandma used to have one of those and it was just weird. It never quite seams clean. It sticks to your ass and when it rips things can really get ugly (especially if people aren't putting the seat up)
Add to that the fact that this one appears to be leather... I don't need a sweaty dirty sticky ass when I get up from the pot.
just my $0.02
CGIwrap Error: Script is not executable. Issue chmod 755 /www/home/recordstore.com/cgi-bin/wuname/wuname.pl
You can call me CGIwrap for short.
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Okay, since you characters have /.d the poor domain that graciously hosted my beloved WuName, here's the stripped-down script for you to play with. I've taken out specific URLs etc. but left all the WuNames in. It should be ready to roll on Unix/Linux pending /usr/bin/perl being correct. Feel free to mail in any big improvements, but it's safe to assume I know the code isn't as great as it could be... have fun. /. Geocities, for a change.
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/3803/wu/
Hello, as stated before, the url for my site is http://sdm.rietta.com, for like a month there was a redirecting page but now that it finally gets posted he deletes the redirector, grr I'll have him(my host/friend) fix it later. Sorry for the confusion.
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Slashdot Man, Slashdot Man
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Slashdot Man, Slashdot Man
da da da da, da da da, da umm.
Well, I have no pictures and no movies, but I am a first-hand witness that well-built sparkler bombs do not go FWOOM. They go BANG!!! to the tune of a very real shockwave capable of being quite handily felt several hundred yards away. The crater was over three feet wide and six or eight inches deep (in what was grassy, moist turf). It's all in how you... package... the sparklers.
Of course, unless you are a licensed pyrotechnic and take all safety precautions and file for whatever permits are required, you do NOT want to build one of them (and this one only had a gross and a half of number ten sparklers; less than an AOL CD's diameter).
Anyway, I think I'll build a bunker for my friend's next simulation... and I thnk I'll invest in a bit of Kevlar.
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The Mach1 Potato gun was impressive. I even went so far as to download some of the movies and check them out. The watermelons didn't last long.
I still have a copy of that Amazing Toilet picture on my drive. It's been there for months. I've been wanting to post it somewhere and submit it to Slashdot, but I never got around to it. Looks like someone else discovered it.
As for the dude who shot up his computer, Please let me shoot HIM. For anyone to decide one day "HEY! I think I'm going to take this computer out back and SHOOT IT!" is totally idiotic. There was almost a guaranteed use for that computer, and I don't mean as a target.
The Slashdot drinking game just seems like all Anonymous Coward complaints rolled into a text document. I was hoping to be a bit more impressed, but if you're looking for a quick way to get really really drunk....
Final thoughts was a bit creepy, but It's something I'd do anyway because, well, that's something that would be expected from me. My family knows I'm a bit of an off-normal person, so getting an E-Mail from me after I die wouldn't be totally unexpected. And you know, I'd make it goofy. "Hey! How is everyone? I'm fine, but this box i'm in is small, and hot. Can you bring me a Pepsi? OH, and bring me my Laptop. This Beyond-the-Grave E-mail shit sucks ass."
-- Give him Head? Be a Beacon?
-- Give him Head? Be a Beacon? :P)
(If you can't figure out how to E-Mail me, Don't.
holy SHIT!
/wallops They're in the walls!
I blew fucking coke all over the place when I first read:
Agent_Smith sets mode +m ne0
That was the most hilarious thing. Well that and the:
This is some funny funny shit. Whoever did it OBVIOUSLY got the caps from a screener but still. I'm still laffin hard as hell.
Way to go!
"Fighting the underpants gnomes since 1998!" "Bruce Schneier knows the state of schroedinger's cat"
I clicked through to get my Wu-Tang name and got the following
/www/home/recordstore.com/cgi-bin/wuname/wuname.pl
CGIwrap Error: Script is not executable. Issue chmod 755
Pretty cool huh. I bet your jelous that yours is just 'Grand Moff Puppeteer'!
Yep, that one's pretty good. But my personal favorite in this vein is Slashnull.
Shadowrun fans, go to town!
"Somebody exploded a letter-bomb today
Allow me to mention the best parody of /. that I know of out there.
:-)
/., and it got rejected every time...which is why I am posting like this.
It may make more sense if you read the associated cartoon. Even if you don't like the parody, read a few cartoons anyways...they are good.
Cheers,
Ben
PS I know several people who submitted this to
My usual seat in the cluetrain is at A HREF="http://pub4.ezboard.com/biwethey.ht
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Help me switch to Linux!
Stupid people will be persecuted to the fullest extent allowed by law.
(I think Rob hacked into the server to erase this once, but ha! I had a backup!)
My matrix site was posted by another surfer above, but he linked to one of the pages inside my frames! I know frames aren't "chic", but you miss out on a lot in this case. The correct link is: http://www.luminanet.com/matrix/index.html Thanks for the "surfage".
There's a very cool Matrix Spoof in progress at http://www.luminanet.com/matrix/main.html -- I am kinda sad it didn't get added to this list!
-krs