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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.
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.
AYE!! My neighbor even threatened to turn me in to the building inspectors when I installed an old classic full-size commode in my house. (I'd picked it up from a building salvage place for cheap, and it matches the rest of the classy 1920's porcelain in my house.)
Wasting water? Bullshit! With the new lo-flo toilets, you have to flush two or even three times to banish a floater from the bowl. Damn those Canadians, they have everything! Good beer, socialized medicine, and toilets that make poop go bye-bye.
I think not...(*poof*)
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?
It's a very advanced toilet, for a new age in excrement disposal.
One word: 'scoop'
(eww)
- Jeff A. Campbell
- VelociNews (http://www.velocinews.com)
- Jeff
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!)
Holy crap! Linux 6.1 is out? I thought they were only on 2.2.14
sup
(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.
And I thought MY day was weird.
After spending nearly $200 in shopping at the local mall, I spent 15 minutes walking around the parking garage looking for my car. I feared it might have been stolen. So I approached the nearest mall security agent in his hardcore Geo Tracker, and described my car to him. We went once again around looking at all the cars, then he asked whether I had looked on the lower level. "Lower level!" I said. "That's it!"
Damn modern commerce and its three-dimensional parking garages.
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As in Wednesday is the middle of the work week. You're at/past the hump and its all downhill until the weekend.
--Carlos V.
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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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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
I'm slightly intrigued by the Final Thoughts.com site...
me too. but they limit the concept. i'm thinking more along the lines of youbastards.com®, a site that allows you to keep a secure, online diary of every little slight and grievance you have against your boss/coworkers/neighbors, etc. just trigger the email after you quit/get fired/move away...
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
Sacred cows make the best burgers.
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?
Silly Linux Wonk. The workstation has Micro$oft Asswipe2000 installed. The toilet runs CE. Using DCOM and M$XML-embedded M$HTML documents, it's a fairly trivial thing to implement a thorough wipe cycle. (Oh, and nevermind all the hyperbole about macro viruses - just install SP11b and disable scripting and your testicles are in absolutely no danger whatsoever.)
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
Sacred cows make the best burgers.
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