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Start this one off with a creative hack:
tim.kerby sent
in just that: using a tortilla as
a bread board when your local radio shack is out.
Future creative hacks may involve i4u's
link to camborg which tracks wearable cameras.
Ant found cats and
robots. You can practice by playing
Kitty Lick 3, an FPS you play as a feline (thanks bjorky)
But If cats aren't your pet of choice, how about pigs? Rookie sent in linkage
to a story about a one in first
class that you'll swear is fiction (but it isn't).
radiator sent in a hilarious parody: first aid for a dying dot
com.
Some auctions worth noting: drDugan sent a picture autographed
by Linus being sold on eBay (and donated to charity).
Dirty Yanni noted that Metallica/Napster
parody t-shirts are for sale on eBay. And the last auction (but not on
eBay) is Spock's
original ears from the original trek.
Oh, and how about t-shirts
mocking the MS breakin & source code theft?
CArnesen noted that Anime Expo 2001 has been scheduled for
this summer. I'm seriously considering going.
Mothy notes that famed Rubber
Chicken vendor Archie McPhee is now selling the Linux Voodoo Penguin
(however the ad features a "Sysadmin" wearing a tie!
Have to much free time?
Ant does! He sent us a
reflex tester (I've managed a .24) but thats nothing compared to
Am I Hot or Not which is fun for
hours on end if you're the type that amuses easily.
And finally,
tshell noted that that now that there
is a complete O'Reily ate my
balls site, the Internet is now complete. You can all go home now.
I've never been more proud to live in seattle :)
Now, time to track down all of those promised millions once pigs have flown...
Ad in classifieds: Pandora's Box (no box) $5
Enjoy Anime Expo, Taco -- and if you feel like a trip to Colorado, next year's Nan Desu Kan is scheduled for September 21-23, 2001. Registration info is here.
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WWW.TETSUJIN.ORG
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The real Tetsujin 28 is a giant robot.
A lot of people are bidding on the Linus autograph linked in the article, but the seller has 4 other photos which as of right now have significantly lower bids ($31 to $60 vs. $255), you can see the list here.
WOOHOO! I got a .11 but all it said was nice....did anyone get higher than a .11? This reminds me of a reflex tester we had at this farming expo when you had to release a simulated cornstalk before you got pulled into a harvester...we all went in thinking we could let go in plenty of time, but lo and behold, it would actually pull you in long before I could let go....gotta love those snap rolls. (i guess this is a hick thing)
The anti-salmon
I thought mine were fast, but I just can't seem to go faster than .22 seconds. I thought I was faster than that. I've tried it for about 15 minutes (it IS addictive) and I consistently get .22 seconds. Apparently that is the maximum speed of data transfer between my brain and my finger, round trip, including time to decide to click. Interesting thing to know about oneself =P
Kasreyn
Kasreyn: Cheerfully playing the part of Devil's Advocate to hairtrigger
I got .17 seconds and this response "Nice!" My life is now complete.
Predrilled PCB != Breadboard.
And his clock thing was not about 'resonant frequency of tortilla' but about induced capacitance form the tortilla; i'm sure it conducts somewhat.
If you don't believe me just visit here: http://www.vrml3d.com/temp/TIME.gif
The secret? Don't actually try to react. Just try to judge a typical time for the delay, and play the odds. Sooner or later you'll hit really close. I would be surprised if we didn't see a 0.1 within the hour.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
Try 'pre-pressing' the stop button, then you only have to release your finger.... should cut some time down.......
0.13 is my best so far.......
----- One piece short of Legoland
...but some of the flight attendents I've seen lately haven't been too hot.
*insert comedy drum noise here*
Thank you, drive safely, tip your waitresses, good night!
DrLunch.com The site that tells you what's for lunch!
I had raccoons coming in through my cat door, and wreaking havoc with the cat food and water. SO... I took the IR filter off the webcam, hooked it up to some motion detection software, and got some cool pics.
Of course, that didn't solve the problem... but first, you have to know your enemy!
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After pressing start, hold the end button down and release as the background changes. Cheating, I know... but you can impress your friends with super low scores!
who wants to bet that the "ate my balls" guy will be the next .com lawsuit??
I love the reference to fuckedcompany.com on the First Aid poster.
I nearly laughed my ass off.
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I can't find the URL for Kitty Lick 3! I've been waiting for months for this game to come out, and now that it is, I can't figure out how to get it!
Oh, and the MP3 propoganda at Modern Humorist is pretty sweet too...
Do you even know anything about perl? -- AC Replying to Tom Christiansen post.
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OK, that played through way too quickly. I got nothing flat: http://www.vrml3d.com/temp/time0.gif
In a reflex test like this, where the consequences of failure are zero, there is nothing to discouraging people from gambling using my statistical cheat.
Now, if this were NHRA drag racing, I would be disqualified on almost every race, so my cheat wouldn't work. If you really want to measure someone's reflexes, you need to take a lot of samples and run some statistics. There must be a fairly good body of research on this, and I bet the math to account for guess-based cheating is non-trivial. Anybody out there experienced in the field of reaction time measurements?
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
Also, crank your resolution down to 640x480. On my system I was able to get it down to .10 but at 1024x768 the best I could manage was a .22
My theory is it was taking longer to fill the screen.
here at RadioShack, we really liked the idea of Tortilla-Board(TM) so much that i think we may just have to recemend it next time, 2 geeks^H^H^H^H^Hhardware hackers, come in and start fighting over the last, breadboard. not that we stock much of it these days, need all that room for cellphones and TV's.
nmarshall
The law is that which it boldly asserted and plausibly maintained..
nmarshall
The law is that which it boldly asserted and plausibly maintained..
--Colonel Burr 1783
Hey, that site's so old it has already been parodied.
The cake is a pie
My best score is .06, using a special method I've developed.
Click start and then click-and-hold the stop button, release when the colour changes. This will shave full microseconds off your times!!
Speaking of parody T-shirts and Ebay...
The reflex testing page is written in JavaScript. Gimme a break. JavaScript is a slow, interpreted language found inside slow, bloated Web browsers. The measurements this program offers are highly suspect.
Let's work it out:
Question: Which bit of this sequence involves high-performance, low-latency software components? If you said the mouse driver, and OS and windowing system event dispatchers, you're right. Everything else is dog-slow.
I wouldn't trust this thing to be accurate to finer than 80 milliseconds or so.
Schwab
Editor, A1-AAA AmeriCaptions
For a computer engineer it did not take long to think of a solution involving a robot.
For a computer scientist, it did not take long to figure out that you trap cats by putting a big pile of catnip on the floor, watching them eat it, and then carrying them outside, stoned out of their mind.
the robot is cool too, i guess. (:
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What happens when you outlaw guns
It's faster if you press and hold the stop button, and release when the color changes....
What a great idea! A website where you submit your photo and let other people on the internet rate if you are hot or not. What a great way to break someone's ego or make someone's head too big to fit through the door. If only I could submit some small tidbit of advice too, like "Your nose is too big, get plastic surgery immediately". Coming up with comments would make this site that much more entertaining. Will the wonders of the internet never end?
On a more serious note... How many of these photos do you think are real? I've seen one or two that look like they are probably ripped off of a website.
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I could consistently get about .203-.205.
Has anyone been able to get less than their blood alcohol level?
0.04. "You have the reflexes of a snake."
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It's rare that you're presented with a knob whose only two positions are Make History and Flee Your Glorious Destiny.
"This message is composed of 100% recycled electrons."
I used to try to start and stop my digital watch's stopwatch in minimum time.. 0.11 was my record.
weeee
/Aram
The reflex testing page is written in JavaScript. Gimme a break. JavaScript is a slow, interpreted language found inside slow, bloated Web browsers. The measurements this program offers are highly suspect.
I think a bit of lightening up is in order.
I would doubt that the author of the page was going for high performance, nanosecond accuracy. It was just in fun.
Complaining as you have is kind of like people who pester me for occasionally playing around with QBasic. OF COURSE it's not a totally portable, high speed, low-level language, OF COURSE it's interpreted, but that doesn't mean that it's not a good language for some things (some great games have been hacked out with QBasic) or that it isn't good for learning some principles of programming.
For what I think this person was trying to accomplish (ie, let everyone have fun), javascript is a great choice. Why? Because most browesr that the average user uses support it, and it can be written right in with the HTML. Use Java? I doubt it. There is little advantage, and it can be slow. Java takes considerable time to load on any browser over my 56k connection. Javascript, here, is the optimal choice.
The Reflex Tester is not a device for intensive research. It needn't be chock full of high-performance, low-latency software components.
i hope this isn't taken as a flame. a vehement disagreement, perhaps. alternatively, if your tone is not the one which I interpreted from your post, I apologize.
-J
Karma: T-rexcellent.
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all, is the person who argues with him.
I do not respond to cowards. Especially anonymous ones.
Easy: After you hit 'Start' hit 'MouseDown' on 'Stop'. Just hold it until the screen changes. It's looking for 'MouseUp'; this puts you halfway through your reaction.
-When I said 'we', officer, I was referring to myself, the four young ladies, and, of course, the goat
After you press the Start button, hold the Stop button down but don't release it until you see the background change. I was able to score a .199 on the test by this method.
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all, is the person who argues with him.
I do not respond to cowards. Especially anonymous ones.
> Oh, and the MP3 propoganda at Modern Humorist
> is pretty sweet too...
Aaagh! Why'd they change it? The original graphic said "A reminder from the Recording Industry Association of America" at the bottom. The poster says "A reminder from <ugly-script>Your</ugly-script> Recording Industry".
Had they not wimped out^W^Wchanged it like that, I would have bought a bunch of them.
--LordEq
No wonder I suck in games :).
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all, is the person who argues with him.
I do not respond to cowards. Especially anonymous ones.
Alright! Who the hell ate my project for Digital Logic!?! I want answers and I want them now! I spent hours putting that together! I hate college roommates! How did I get stuck with you two? I should've never left food out where you guys could get to it, even if it did have logic chips and solder in it. I swear you two are hopeless!
I've gotten the best reaction time so far - 0.007 seconds!
Click here to check it out!
Hit start then hit stop but hold the mouse button, release the mouse button when the color changes. I had my best time with tomato as the color.
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Since it's all done in javascript, just start the timer on the page, then change the time on your computer back a minute! Instant negative score!
Steve
Found a way to trace the pics. Click "Page Info". The link to the pic is the second or third-last one listed. Open it in a new window. Usually, chopping off the last bit of the link's URL will get you to the page hosting the pic.
My point? After following a few of the ones that looked.... professionally hot, shall we say, it seems that a large number of them are indeed links to professional pages. Not all of them, mind you. Just a large majority of them.
All I know is, even if I wanted to risk my self-esteem, I'd never post anywhere where someone might be able to find my website.
-TBHiX-
You can easily cut your response time down by holding the second button half way down until the color changes and then letting the button up. I got .16 in just a couple tries. The button event is registered on mouseup.
It is so easy to score in this game! I didn't need more than 5 minutes to achieve a response of 0.135 (the script says "Nice!") and, after a lot of other tries, believe me, I got 0.05 seconds! (the script says "Well done!"). The tip is:
:)
n t;sleep
Click Start
As fast as you can, move the mouse over to Stop and click it, but do not release the button
Just as soon as the color changes, release the button. Having already pressed the button, you'll have a time that is much lower than the ones of people that click instead of releasing...
Cool, eh?
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A: unzip;strip;touch;finger;mount;fsck;more;yes;umou
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I found that the brighter colors made me flinch somewhat, which doubled my reaction times. Using dark slate gray, I got a .11 time, and the best I ever got with crimson was .22.
I did the test by hitting start, then clicking and holding stop so my mouse-click speed wasn't factored into my reaction time.
I wonder if a test could be made using a drag racing light setup, but with different colored lights, seeing if different colors could affect reaction times.
You must be a swine of the profiteering type, a - *Ahem!* - Capitalist Pig. Just like the rest of them in first class.
LOL.
"Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm." - Anonymous
This is to advise you of my clients rights of your use of a tortilla for a breadboard that was designed by Radio Shack. ;)
Will the last company to abandon Linux please turn off the lights??!
Great!!! I think I'm already becoming an 'Am I Hot or Not' addict.
Damn You Slashdot!!!! Damn you to hell!!!!
Time for Betty Ford again
If you don't believe, check this picture. Yes, my score is now 0.001. Yes, call me king.
n t;sleep
BTW, no hardware/software cheat used, I just had a lot of luck to release the button so fast. The kind of thing that happens once in a billion times. Yet, I am the king.
If anyone gets a higher score (if there is one) and has a screenshot, send me the link!
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Q: How does a Unix guru have sex?
A: unzip;strip;touch;finger;mount;fsck;more;yes;umou
by pure luck I assure you.
"I don't code the things you use, I make the code your things use better."®
I actualy got *zero* seconds on that reflex thing! Don't ask me how... I must just be the man!
The easiest way to find the image linked in "am i hot or not"'s site(in ie5) is to rt click on the page(its framed), view the source, and do a search for "you can share", and just before that is the image tag.
/images/ directory, and many of them are ones you weren't supposed to see.
That's whats great about angelfire pages. the directories are left open, and often people just stick pics in the
OF course, on amihotornot, I'm getting a lot of mostly empty geocities directories or empty websites.
But I too was suddenly hitting ALT-leftarrow hoping to god my screen didn't freeze at that precise moment in time.
Ah, so you found the *other* reflex test site ;-)
Ha, .19 and I have been drinking. Maybe that is my blood alcohol?
I've found that my score on the reflex test is directly proportional to the number of beers I've had.
-atrowe: Card-carrying Mensa member. I have no toleranse for stupidity.
But then, the whole website is a f**ked idea anyway. Um, hello, it's the 21st century, not 1950! A true geek should appreciate women (or men!) for their minds, not their looks.
Freedom: "I won't!"
Has anyone been able to get less than their blood alcohol level? I'm getting close. I can consistently get a time of around 0.22; which is only 0.05 off my blood alcohol level. ... excuse me while I go puke.
I'd rather be rich than stupid.
Damn, those ratings are not fair at all! There are lots of cuties on there that got rated way too low. Don't people like brunettes?
It's silly to rate people's looks based on some sort of popularity contest! EPID - every person is different and I'm sure for each photo on there, somebody in the world thinks they're hot.
Hah! I got 0 seconds. No decimal point, no nothing. Beat that...
(ummm, don't ask me how...)
You've got it backwards - at least in my browser, the larger the screen the slower it fills up and the more time you have to press. At 1280x1024 with the browser maximized it's fairly easy to get 0 if you pre-press the stop button. In other words, the game means nothing.
Yeah, I got a kick out of the Kitty Lick 3 parody when I first saw it -- over three years ago. It's part of The Corporation, which is AFAICT a proof-of-concept diversion. It was (and sometimes still is) funny, but not really since they stopped updating it with fresh content (though I noticed recently that they added another icon section).
I used to feature some of their original icons on my old (and I mean old) website; I have it archived here, though I'd be surprised if it works properly.
"I came here to kick ass and chew bubblegum. I'm all out of bubblegum." MSE USC APX AIA CSI CASp
Heh if you just hold down the reflex button, you can release it right when the screen changes-- before I realized this, I was hitting about .22 regularly, but one I just released the button I got down to about .04! :)
.04 seconds, I think I have a pretty good chance...
Of course, all this reflex testing is just honing my skills of nabbing a first post... if I can get a post up in
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Can you even play MP3s on that thing?
I got .015s here. also a couple of s.
Question everything
I made a point of rating them 1's. I like real women.
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It's rare that you're presented with a knob whose only two positions are Make History and Flee Your Glorious Destiny.
If you haven't been to Trader Joe's and you have on in your area than get on down there ASAP. They have great food (like habenero tortillas) and GREAT prices.
They are kind of like one of those generic stores, since they sell everything under their own label (with a few exceptions, such as Ghirardelli chocolate) but the quality and selection rival Zabar's. This is how they keep the prices so low.
Work for Change & GET PAID!
There has got to be a linux geek there somewhere.
I remember back in the day they had a geek purity test that would give you crazy bonus points if you were running linux.
+++ ATH0 +++
There's a syntax error in your perl ball-eating code, dude.
Bareword instead of a variable.
"don't fall into the fallacy of believing that Perl can solve social problems. Maybe Perl 6 can, but that's a ways off"
There's evidence of this in Amazon and IMDB ratings, which is probably one of the reasons Amazon has started rating the raters so that you get to have some idea of whose opinion is actually worth listening to. I'm sure it's also part of the reason that you only get a 1-5 rating on Amazon, so that the effect is not as noticeable.
www.HearMySoulSpeak.com
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"Science will win because it works." - Stephen Hawking
Gore has a strong lead, and at this time is ranked a solid 4.3, hotter than a lot of the other guys on the site.
Bush is not so fortunate, being at the bottom of the pack at 1.5.
Go to hell...
"There's one born every minute." - Steve Case
Eric
"Seven Deadly Sins? I thought it was a to-do list!"
Clearly what is required is to be rid of the low response arm and have your mouse pointer driven directly by your brain.
:-)
Then maybe I could get rid of my entire legacy body and live as a brain in a jam jar.
Rich Hatch From Survivor Ate My Balls
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Does this mean the Browns will finally win the Super Bowl? Woo hoo!
damit man, your link sucks, there is like 5 dam pop up windows. At least link to a respectable porn site!
"`Ford, you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.'" -THHGTTG
There are lots of sites around like that (I call it the near porn revolution)... The only conclusion I can draw is that beauty is truely subjective, but ugly is rather universal -- in a random group of people, it will be hard to get a concensis on beauty, however, everyone will quickly agree "damn, [s]he's ugly."
/. poll.)
As an aside, I don't think the numbers are statically valid until there have been thousands of votes cast (like > 10000.) It's far too easy to stuff the voting (just like a
And you thought you needed Java/Javascript/CGI/etc...
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I have also found that under Windows, different executables of Netscape with differences in their minor version numbers have different timing resolutions in Javascript... The most common is 100 milliseconds, so you don't even get down to Windows' resolution no matter which version of Windows you run.
"We mustn't be caught by surprise by our own advancing technology" -- Aldous Huxley
I came across (oo-er missus) amihotornot courtesy of the UK newspaper "Mail on Sunday" (it could have been the Daily Mail, the weekday version). Their woman reporter posted an appalling photo of herself, got 2.2.
What's really funny, is that these papers are forever scaremongering about the corrupting power of the internet, yet they print a double page article about a site which is so obviously exploitable in this way.
1: I am not a "BSD people" (wtf is that?).
n t;sleep
2: I was just celebrating. I didn't come up with the "king" thing myself, you can see that in the source of the page.
3: Fuck you.
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Q: How does a Unix guru have sex?
A: unzip;strip;touch;finger;mount;fsck;more;yes;umou