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Pizza From the Command Line
Punk Walrus writes "Pizza Party is a free, text based CLI for ordering Domino's pizza via Quikorder, or for throwing pizza parties. It is distributed under the GNU General Public License, runs under most *nix shells, and can order pizza with only a few keystrokes. Includes video of actual ordering."
FIIIIIIINALLY!!!!!!!!
I'd hate to see what happens when some n00b programmer infinite loops the software :)
America is fat enough already!
But is there a CLI app for people who actually like pizza? "I'm way ahead of you, Lou." -Chief Wiggum
and i'm not mirroring it. Sup now, bitches?
.. then you end up with a pizza by Domino's??
http://saveie6.com/
Is a command-line toliet/shower combo and i'll never have to leave my desk! Oh wait, real geeks dont take showers.. Im such an insensitive clod!
This has to be the geekiest thing that I have ever seen in my life. I'm not sure if watching the video of it, or actually doing it is worse. Probably watching the video. *sigh*. Will it run on OS X? When will they add the -papajohns option to get quality pizza?
Must have been expensive... and TASTY!
-Don.
Cwm, fjord-bank glyphs vext quiz
What you do is run that program in a cron job. Every friday night.
Cron baby!
Auto order pizza every 12th minute past the 9th hour on tuesdays, wednesdays (and fridays if it's march).
Beep beep.
Coolest. Thing. Ever.
And I just used PeaPod the other day too. At this rate, I'll never have to leave the house again. =D
Excuse me while I go set up a cron job to order me a large olive and anchovie pizza every third friday of months starting with J.
When are we going to get options to order real pizza?
Douglas P. Price
I live in Canada, you insensitive clod!
Carousel is a lie!
Seriously, this seems kind off pointless. If they make a windows version though, worms could take advantage. That would make for an interesting time. I didn't order 87 pizza's, it was my security hole!
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We Americans (particularly of the nerd type) have way too much money and time on our hands.
We are fat and lazy and care about the dumbest of things.
We desperately need a good long war, famine, or disease to thin out the herd.
That's mean! Slashdot a PIZZA companies server, on a FRIDAY night!!
I mean really, shouldn't this be as easy...and satisfying :-) as humanly possible?
Heck for that matter, where is the flag for ordering the delivery person of your choice?
Again...the experince may as well be as satisfying as humanly possible.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. -- Hunter S. Thompson
A GUI wrapper for this command. Or maybe use HTML so its plaftorm neutral. Now that would be neat.
Anybody want a peanut?
perl -e 'while(1) { fork; system "pizzaparty" }'
Free as in speech or free as in Pizza?
How much is that in real money? ;-)
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From QuikOrder.com's main page, listed under Restaurant Benefits.
Works directly with select POS systems
These guys really seem to know their stuff. Some of the comps that I see at a lot of chain restaurants look like they're old 386s for fuck's sake!
It's good to know that a company like QuikOrder can maximize the benefit of a (very) old investment.
Until Slashdot fixes the funny modifier, use insightful or interesting. The poster knows your intentions.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those. Mmmmmmm cluster.
Anybody want a peanut?
Wow, I can't imagine what happens if someone writes a shell script and accidentally have it caught in an infinite loop.
:-)
Though you could put it in your cron job.
Worst would be a GUI wrapper around the CLI program that would dial your regular phone for you. From the Department of Redundancy Department.
Unless you piped it into a speech synthesizer to do the ordering... Hmm...
And then hooked it into an Eliza bot... Hmm...
Domino's Dude: "Thank you for calling Dominos. Would you like to hear our specials?"
Computer Voice: "We were discussing you, not me."
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
pizza_party -p -m 1 large thick; yes; yes; yes; more; apt-get remove --purge dominos; make clean; sleep.
That's the first thing I thought, too. Hell, start with Papa John's, or even Pizza Hut (yes, Pizza Hut is better than something). Or a command-line program to have poop delivered to your door. But not Domino's.
/etc/cron.daily/
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You're right, Dominos doesn't sell pizzia. I don't know I've ever had pizzia. In fact, the only authorized pizzia retailers I can find would be VIVONA'S Italian Pizzia, Inc.
P.S. I actually think Dominos pizza is actually _rather_ good, but I prefer Lou Malnati's (which I just had about 5 minutes ago).
The command line here is what's really the charm for me. I think its going in my crontab for sure...
0 1 * * * pizza_party -bx
This has the best coolness / difficulty ratio i've seen for a project in a while.
http://www.rootstrikers.org/
Yea, I'm pretty sure it actually orders pizza ..yaknow, without the "i"
Aaaackk!! There's a cat on my pizza!!
-Don.
Cwm, fjord-bank glyphs vext quiz
Damn you, Command Line, damn you, Dominos, and damn you, Dr. Robert C. Atkins! </Stewie>
--All your stolen base are belong to Rickey Henderson
Somebody created an account named "ohsnap" just to say that, that is pretty funny...
"I'll have a Guinness, no wait, make that a Coors Light" -Grad student I work with, who shall remain anonymous...
Thats Domino's for you. I think they call it the fur lovers.
Claims from the article:
That's right! Your neighborhood pizza store used to help fund the CIA.
Yep. That's why I order from Pizza Hut - they have the NSA in their back pocket and are much cooler.
Honestly, I'm sure you could've picked a more believable source to cite.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
only in soviet russia, in the real world linux runs it!
Hm... that could get quite interesting, especially if you had a natural sounding text to speech convertor and good speech recognition software. Or if you had too much time on your hands and wasted it getting Eliza to give good responses:
...?
****
Domino's Dude: Thank you for calling Dominos. Would you like to hear our specials?
Eliza Bot: Oh, I like to hear our specials.
Domino's: Okay, two large pepperoni and cheese, six pack of Coke, $12.99. Two medium hawaiin and our disgusting bread product, $9.99.
Eliza: Please go on.
Domino's: That's it for the specials. What can I get for you?
Eliza: Does that question interest you?
Domino's: Look, my job is to take orders and make sure the pizza's delivered fresh.
Eliza: Why do you say your job is to take orders and make sure the pizza's delivered fresh?
Domino's: That's all they pay me for, so what will it be tonight?
Eliza: Can you elaborate on that?
Domino's: I just want to take your order. Can I start with your phone number?
Eliza: Perhaps you don't want to start with my phone number?
Domino's: Okay, how about you just tell me what you want then.
Eliza: You're not really talking about me, are you?
Domino's: Who else... I'm not here for fun.
Eliza: Did you come to me because you are not here for fun?
Domino's: Hey, I didn't pick the phone up and make the call ok?
Eliza: That is quite interesting.
Domino's: Look, just let me take your order!
Eliza: Why are you concerned about my order?
Domino's: The boss is going to kill me if I don't.
Eliza: Come, come, elucidate your thoughts.
Domino's: My boss is a real jerk!
Eliza: What does that suggest to you?
Domino's: I think he's an asshole! He probably doesn't even care about his employees.
Eliza: Do you really think so?
Domino's: Of course... just the other day he screamed at John because he was putting on too many toppings.
Eliza: Can you elaborate on that?
Domino's: John wants to make customers happy so he usually throws in extra cheese.
Eliza: I see.
Domino's: and then the boss gets upset because it's costing him a few cents extra!
Eliza: That is quite interesting.
Domino's: No shit... you think he would realize a happy customer is a repeat customer
Eliza: Oh... think he would realize a happy customer is a repeat customer?
Domino's: Maybe if Sesame Street explained it in baby talk!
Eliza: You don't seem quite certain.
Domino's: How can I be certain when he's so unpredictable?
Eliza: Do you want to be able to be certain when he's so unpredictable?
Domino's: I guess so.
Eliza: Tell me more.
Domino's: oh FUCK my boss is coming
Eliza: What does that suggest to you?
Domino's: Sir, I'm on the line with a customer right now.
Eliza: How long have you been on the line with a customer right now.
Domino's: Christ... he wants to speak to you.
Eliza: Oh
Domino's: Manager here, how can I help you?
Eliza: Perhaps you don't want to help me?
Domino's: Who is this? Some kind of fucking joke?
Eliza: What answer would please you the most?
Domino's: You bitch, I can't believe Paul called some fucking chat line.
Eliza: Have you tried?
Domino's: No, I'm not going to try... I'm here to make money not waste it.
Eliza: How long have you been not going to try... you're here to make money not waste it?
Domino's: Damn straight... been doing this now for five years.
Eliza: What does that suggest to you?
Domino's: Aside from the fact that I need a vacation?
Eliza: Can you elaborate on that?
Domino's: The wife nags me every night, telling me I work too much.
Eliza: I'm not sure I understand you fully.
Domino's: She thinks that because I work from afternoon to late at night, I don't give her enough.
Eliza: Does that trouble you?
Domino's: She's a nice girl, I guess I want her to be happy but she doesn't understand me.
Eliza: Suppose you got her to be happy but she doesn't understand you?
Domino's: Hey, I could live with her not understa
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I assumed they used /dev/pizza...
404 Not Found: No such file or resource as '.sig'
Now I can set up a crontab and not bother going to get lunch on friday...
/home/method/pizzaparty -u ...
30 12 * * * 5
.: 2+2 = PI SQRT(1+N)
I want an option to order a Ninja Burger! True quality, fast and cheap! ..granted, you might have replace a window/doorframe/wall or two, but it's worth it, right?
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I think the real question here is how much faster Domino's will deliver once there's a ebuild written for it.
Well this app would really kill it, but remember for a moment the days when we had no choice but to look up phone numbers on paper, and called them ourselves... At some conference I was talking (drinking) with some Marketing guys, and one of them told the story of what he considered the best marketing ploy ever:
So there's this small college town where the local place, let's call it Al's Pizza, had been relatively competition free for a long time until a new Domino's Franchise sprouted up. Domino's promptly began killing Al's. Al tries various promotions, specials, deals, etc. of his own devising. Doesn't help. Damn college kids are just flocking to Domino's, Al's is going down the tubes. At some point Al gets a pitch from some guy who claims to be a marketing consultant. Al says OK, tell me what to do, if I'm still in business a year from now, you get paid.
So this guy goes around to the student center, dorm lounges, etc. and says "Hey, anybody want pizza? You order, I'm buying." (a hard sell I'm sure) Guy watches as every time the college kids pull out the yellow pages and read the number for Domino's off the big full-page ad. Guy notes the much smaller, consistently ignored "Al's" ad on the facing page. Guy goes back to Al and says "OK, here's what you're going to do..."
The next week, the campus is flooded with flyers from Al's proclaiming "A large one-topping pizza for ONE DOLLAR with this coupon and the Domino's ad from your yellow pages". In a matter of days, no one knows Domino's phone number any more. Consultant gets paid. Al runs this promo yearly, just to be sure.
What happens when someone ports it to Windows and someone else releases the PizzaBlaster worm?
Distributed Denial of Pizza?
The authors would be hunted down by every programmer on the planet, including me!
Oh well, if they're like other programmers, they'd starve to death if they went long enough without pizza and the ramen reserves didn't hold out...
and then i realized that there was no way that my implementation could provide such an option.
These Domino's guys are amateurs. Everybody knows you just have to ask the magic question to determine if she's a bot:
> Hello, I am Eliza.
* Hi, what are your measurements?
> Does that question interest you?
* Yes, it does. I need to know.
> Are you Sure?
* Yes I'm sure, now give me your measurements please!
> Did you come to me because you are sure, now give you my measurements please?
* Measurements!
> Tell me more...
* I want to determine if you're a bot!
> What makes you think I am a bot?
* sigh
> OK... "I want to determine if I'm a bot". Tell me more.
It was then I realized it only works on the ALICE bots. :-)
> What are your measurements?
zALICE: My memory now contains: 100 clients, categories, 10000 vocabulary words, 128000000 bytes RAM usage under Linux on Lisp.
>Ha, you're a bot!
ALICE: I'm glad you got a laugh out of it.
What would an EWOULDBLOCK block, if an EWOULDBLOCK could block would? -- me
#!/bin/bash
#
# Pizza Customiser Script
#
grep pepperoni MeatFeast.txt >> MyPizza
grep chillis Inferno.txt >> MyPizza
grep mushrooms Farmhouse.txt >> MyPizza
grep sausauge Italiano.txt >> MyPizza
mail orders@dominos.co.uk MyPizza
#
Easy, huh?
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