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Assorted Bits of Halloween
Update: 10/31 19:30 GMT by C : Barry sent in this one for you Apple lovers: "I saw your Linux jack-o-lantern, but how about this? The guys over at iPodHacks.com have actually carved an iPod into a pumpkin, creating the world's only iPod-o-Lantern. That's 7000 songs in your...pumpkin. Thought you might want to update the Halloween posting, as this is an ideal fit."
Also, David Clubb submits this achievement for your consideration: "Since it's Halloween, we at the
University of Rochester's Computer
Interest Floor decided to build a web server out of a pumpkin. We dissembled a 100MHz PII and placed it into a 54 lbs. pumpkin. It runs
Gentoo and can be accessed
here. Please don't Slashdot it too
badly!"
And it just wouldn't be Halloween without the following, from a nameless submittor: "To quote the site, 'Extreme Halloween Fright.' A fairly comprehensive guide to making your pumpkin a bit more hi-tech using power tools, and perhaps the definitive pumpkin trepanning site." Pumpkins and powertools. How can you go wrong?
a Goatse jack-o-lantern for the First Post?
how come on 364 days a year we tell our kids not to talk to strangers and certainly not to take sweets from them, but on one day of the year we actively encourage it? Such is our modern society.
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
To all the other techie pagans out there.
Did you know that computer geek is the 2nd most popular job for neo-pagans?
~D http://www.modernwiccan.com
This sig has been enciphered with a one-time pad. It could say almost anything.
to get an entire gallery of horror!
"And this is my boy, Sherman. Speak, Sherman." "Hello." "Good boy."
Here is one of the images - it shows the pumpkin with the linux penguin carved into it. Pumpkin
Also check out the University of Rochester Computer Interest Floor's Linux pumpkin here.
David
Good stuff, if I do say so myself. (I did the carving...)
blakespot
-- Heisenberg may have slept here.
iPod Hacks.com
Scary.
For example... this is my first post EVER on Slashdot after being an observer for quite a few years now.
And going out on halloween is scary too... for example, I've never done the costume thing but my girlfriend has just called and has concocted some crazy plan which now boils down to me ACTUALLY THINKING about obtaining a chain saw.
Now friends, THAT is scary.
I s'pose this "first message" will gain no kudos from those who score these sorts of things, but beware... it is halloween.
-Where there is blue screen, there is OWNAGE
/* Not very many movies are scarier than that. */
:(
Freddy Got Fingered.
Battlefield Earth.
I'm so scared of movies now that I just refuse to go.
If you were me, you'd be good lookin'. - six string samurai
One more cool Halloweeen link is Homestar Runner's pumpkin stencils:
http://www.homestarrunner.com/stencils.html
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
Truth be told, the Christian holidays are all just swiped from preexisting pagan observances -- it's actually a fairly creative (and purposeful) way to stamp them out.
Every year during my review, I just pray the words "slashdot.org" aren't mentioned.
...than having your webserver mysteriously detonate due to a good old-fashioned Slashdotting.
I'll be honest, we're throwing science against the wall to see what sticks. -Cave Johnson
You bastards! No false advertising here. Just pictures of a pumpkin with a penguin cut into it, and some seperate pictures of one of those micro-pcs. Dammit, I spent 10 minutes trying to figure out how he got the thing into the pumpkin and why there weren't any pictures of it...
Please help metamoderate.
Homestar Runner has stencils for anyone who is a fan without creativity in their body.
... yeah ...
My girlfriend thinks they're cute
No sig for you. YOU GET NO SIG!
I needed to come up with a costume idea on short notice this year. I have a friend that's an RN, so she hooked me up with some scrubs and a stethescope.
What I'm still trying to locate is a scan of a Cedars-Sinai ID badge. If I can't find one, I'll just fake it.
The other thing I could use some help on is thinking of a clever name for a gynecologist. Someone here has got to have some ideas.
Everything that we associate with Easter, like the bunnies and such, come from pagan spring fertility rituals. Even the word easter comes from a Germanic pagan word, Oester, that is the name of such a fertitlity rite.
And, truth be told, Easter celebrations in most Christian denominations usually have no resemblance to the Jewish feast of Passover.
my pet machine
Dr. Op YerPanties
Dr. B. Ed Clam
Dr. I. C. Cervix
Dr. S. Natch
www.eFax.com are spammers
I posted this on deadly.org last year, and it got enough hits that I think the Slashdot community would enjoy it: a picture of my black cat "causing" bad magic. :-)
How To Get Humans To Mars
After building their l33t pumpkin server, the geeks settled down to some D&D. After rolling a 26 and casting a spell of protection, a curious odor could be smelled wafting around the room. It wasn't the usual unwashed geek, it had a decidedly female scent.
They put down their die and walked toward the room with their pumpkin server. The door creeked open and a haunting sight was in their midst. Some of them passed out, others began weeping uncontrollably. The more dauntless of the group stepped closer, and closer to......
THE REAL LIVE GIRL!!!!!!! AIEEEEEEE!
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
How to make a nice hot and crispy pumkin pie:
Ingredints:
large pumpkin
one mini-ITX motherboard.
200 watts of Power supply.
2 gigs of disk space
256 megs of RAM
2 gigahertz of Athlon
1 heat sink (large)
1 tsp heat-transfer jelly
1 CPU fan
Linux distribution (to taste)
Ethernet and power cables
Directions:
Mount Athlon on ITX; glaze with heat transfer jelly. Cover with heat sink and fan. Add RAM and disk space, and connect to power supply. Gently stir in Linux of your preferred flavor, paying particular attention to Apache.
Carve out pumpkin in an artistic design; roast the seeds in the oven for later use. Place computer in case^H^H^H^Hbaking pan, and insert into pumpkin. Connect power and ethernet cables.
Post to Slashdot and let roast for one hour or until brown around the edges.
Serves about 50,000.
I hereby place the above post in the public domain.
The number 1 most popular job for neo-pagans is "unemployed, still living with parents"
As for Alien, it was awesome.... if you don't like the movie, then you might not like it no matter what, but i was 5 when it first came out and to see it in a theater with the bonus stuff in it was fun. It was amusing in a way with the 1979 technology, like flourescent lights that stutter when they come on and computers that make beeps and clickity clack noises. All that aside, I WISH MORE MOVIES USED MORE REAL MODELS AND LESS CG! Generally i am not one to gripe about CG, but the few scenes where the alien is hiding and they pan right over it
no, it's not the scaries movie of all time, but if you are going to nitpick on every detail of a movie, then you are no fun anyway. even so i have seen this movie a few times on TV/DVD/VHS and knew mostly was happening when..... it was still sooooooo worth my $8.00
i realize by Alien3 or Ressurection the stuff they had the aliens do just could not all be puppets anymore, but dang they really are so much creepier......
on a side note KILL BILL used no CG in the movie, all wires, rubber, plastic and 400 gallons of fake blood. nice to see some people keeping it old school.