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Take Me Home, I'm Drunk

Posted by michael on from the got-your-back dept.

Nereus writes "The BBC News is reporting on an interesting new software product developed by three undergraduates at the University of Aberdeen [and the Universities of Hull and Sheffield]. The University Leisure and Lifestyle Manager (ULL) is the ultimate student companion, helping in all aspects of life; from choosing text books, to getting home from the pub after a few too many. Hopefully it won't put an end to the traditional student pastime of waking up on a park bench after a night out, with a traffic cone on your head..."

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  1. Re:Alcohol and Consumer Electronics Don't Mix. by Jad+LaFields · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think I'd be able to figure this thing out even when fall-down drunk... it would just take a very long time ("What's that button say? Uhhhhhh "yeshss??" yeah, that's what I want to click... whoops, almost missed there...").

    But about your discussion on coding drunk, can't say I've done that, but I did once come back to my room piss drunk and suddenly decided that I wanted to "edit and proofread" the essay I had written earlier in the day. I woke up the next morning in a cold sweat, only remembering this intention and fearing that I would find that paper would not exist anymore/be unrecognizable. Luckily "editing and proofreading" to me that night apparently meant putting comments like this next to every sentence: [<-- tsis is suck no good I think htis is a run-on what a crapy ppaper imsoooo drunk!!1!]. Some of the comments were actually pretty smart, especially the [<-- u cant fukina wriet, yo!] one... =)

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  2. Return service for the wheels by SuperBanana · · Score: 2, Interesting
    from choosing text books, to getting home from the pub after a few too many.

    How about getting your car home from the pub? There's a problem it can't solve. Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson had a brilliant suggestion- he parks illegally. Gets a great spot, and the next morning, he walks down to the tow lot a few minutes away, pays the fee and drives home. Apparently it works out perfectly, with the tow fee being less than one-way taxi fare.

    Excellent TV program, by the way. If you can find it on the p2p nets, it's fantastic. Fifth Gear is decent(Tiff is pretty funny, Viki's alright), but not as good. Beware short clips "mistakenly" named with "Top Gear" in the filename. Oh, I wish we had reviewers like Clarkson etc here in the states.

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  3. Drunk programming by SuperBanana · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Seriously, when I've been completely pissed I can hardly remember key sequences and don't even think about coding while drunk, all you get is code riddled with errors and a headache.

    A grad student at my college once coded an entire poker game(in Scheme, I believe) while throughly drunk one night. It worked flawlessly, on the first try the next morning. Nobody could figure out how most of it worked.

    Intel flew him from Wisconsin to Texas for interviews one weekend and hired him on the spot(the offer was good enough he didn't dare even think it over). Our professor joked that they probably thought they had a "pretty good" candidate until they met him, and realized they had a genius on their hands...

    Nice guy. Great sense of humor, brilliant, and while he'd get engrossed in some programming project, he was also pretty sociable.

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  4. Re:lol! by jawtheshark · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Uhm... That is not that hard. There are tons (hehehe) of non-ugly fat chicks. Chubby chicks need love too and usually love sex. Another advantage of heavier chicks is big tits... Just don't tell my girlfriend that I just told you that ;-)

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  5. Hey, I Know These Guys.... by gibster · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm quite proud to say that the original idea and first implementation of this program was created while sat in my room.

    M. Steeples, mentioned in the article created the idea behind this, and won the second round of the competition based purely on his work on it, tbh, he is a pretty scary coder, not mentioned in the article there is he also won "Best Competitor".

    In case anyone is wondering, all rights and code belong to the students involved, Microsoft is not getting anything out of the competition in that way.

  6. non-ugly fat chicks by cjellibebi · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Sometimes, I wonder if some people's dislike of fat chicks is just something that has been imposed on us by society. Howmany of us secretly fancy them, but are too afraid to admit it to anyone? Does this percieved dislike end up giving the lasses of greater proportions a lower self-esteem, making them less pleasant, and re-inforcing the stereotype? According to this article, a 'plain' looking girl was entered into an online russian beauty contest as a prank, but ended up getting most of the votes, but was disqualified because of her age.

    In the days of old, fat women used to be considered the most attractive, and often appeared in classical art. Perhaps being fat was a symbol of fertility, and to maximise your chances of passing on your genes, you tended to look for a more fertile woman. Nowardays, people just want to get laid, so maybe they subconciously look for women who are un-fertile.