Humpday Quickies 201
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.
SOC/RO -- What the ?? (Score:1)
Re:No WuName to Normal Translator (Score:1)
LazyBowl (Score:1)
Sparklers aren't stuff to play with.......... (Score:1)
But hey once they all went off people where yelling and cheering thinking that it was just 1 kick ass fire work.
Re:Spoof (Score:1)
another one for the drinking game: (Score:1)
Cmdr. Taco says *grin*
CmdrTaco's mispellings (Score:1)
you know you've made it... (Score:1)
--
My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.
Don't most drinking games have some chugging rules (Score:1)
Re:Since /. apparently can't laugh at itself.. (Score:1)
Re:Sparkler bombs (Score:1)
How can i become a licensed pyrotechnic? I had no idea that this sort of thing could actually be legal. :-)
Wuname slashdotted (Score:1)
~spot
Re:Humpday? (Score:1)
The 'top' is Wednesday - the 'hump'
- Jeff A. Campbell
- VelociNews (http://www.velocinews.com [velocinews.com])
Humpday? (Score:1)
So long, and thanks for all the fish.
No, it hasn't been featured (Score:1)
Re:Humpday? (Score:1)
I'm an (English speaking) Canadian, and I've lived in the US for a while, and I've never heard this term before.
Re:No WuName to Normal Translator (Score:1)
Also, even though it is a one-way function, there are still some neat things you can do with it. For instance, here's a cycle of length 3 that I found:
Tha Ever So Weary Assistant
-> Big Gay Mule
-> Excitable Misunderstood Genius
-> Tha Ever So Weary Assistant
Re:That's Gotta Hurt (Score:1)
Re:Humpday? (Score:1)
Actually it's Thursday here, but who am I to criticise...
Abuse of Slashdot Drinking Game! (Score:1)
C'mon, it's not a game, it's suicide by
Some guy named Chris
Where is it? (Score:1)
Yeah, but the sparkler thing is new I think (Score:1)
I remember seeing the BFPG 9000 part before, but I think the sparkler bomb link is a new one.
Jay (=
Wu Tang Insults (Score:1)
Ol' Filthy Sweaty Bastard
I don't know whether that's good or bad..
Ben
Yikes!! (Score:1)
Toilet missing critical equipment! (Score:1)
Maybe since you never have to get up again you don't need TP?
There's always the fax paper I guess.
Re:Humpday? (Score:1)
b
Yes! (nt) (Score:1)
Re:Sparkler bombs (Score:1)
Re:No slashdot stalker should be without (Score:1)
Bottoms up!
Scary (Score:1)
Re:The Slashdot Drinking Game is impossible!!! (Score:1)
Re:No WuName to Normal Translator (Score:1)
Never mind... already released!
Now, to find out how Rob and I are related!
Eric
I'm offended... (Score:1)
Did this happen to anyone else? (Score:1)
(If this was already mentioned in another post, sorry.)
Dead Computer & Book Reviews (Score:1)
http://www.inlink.com/~perlguy/campcamel
Check out the above site. We blew the living shit out of an old IBM PS/2. We also did a few "book reviews" of Perl books that suck...
The Perl Mongers know how to get together and have fun!
We also did some skeet shooting with a bunch of those free CD's you get in the mail.
Re:chmod 775 - QUICK! (Score:1)
Kinda true, except for the Assistant part.
---
wuname for Bill Gates is Flailing Fanatical Killer (Score:1)
Can't reverse translate! (Score:1)
---------
#!/usr/bin/perl
/^(\d)\s*(\d)\s*(.*)$/;
//, $fn){ //, $ln){
open X, "/tmp/names.txt";
@names=();
while(X>){
next unless
$names[$1][$2]=$3;
}
print "First name: ";
$fn=>;
print "Last name: ";
$ln=>;
$fn=~tr/A-Z/a-z/;
$fn=~tr/a-z//cd;
$ln=~tr/A-Z/a-z/;
$ln=~tr/a-z//cd;
$f=0;
for $i (split
$f+=ord($i)-96;
}
$l=0;
for $i (split
$l+=ord($i)-96;
}
print "\n", $names[$l%9][$f%9], "\n";
---------
Find the list of wu-names yourself, it's easy enough to do. There are 81, of course.
Hopefully they don't change the hash function, which would invalidate all this.
-----
Re:Very cool Matrix Spoof (Score:1)
http://www.zdnet.com/computerstew/video/qt/epis
or
http://www.zdnet.com/computerstew/video/g2/epis
--Jim
Rob Malda in ASCII (Score:1)
http://sdm.rietta.com/robascii.htm [rietta.com]
Meta Wu Names (Score:1)
Vangellic Surgeon
And, if Busta Rhymes was in the Clan, his name would be:
My Cousin the Wife Beatah
Thank you.
BSL -- yet more misunderstood critizism (Score:1)
Making sure you can never take someone elses code, and close it up is THE concern of creators of GPL-software, not to help you not having to give back modifications.
Critizism against the GPL is actually misunderstood.
When someone complains about having to give out their hard work if using GPL-code, it is like saying: "damn it, your property right is stupid, I can't modify it the way I please". This can be easily countered by saying: "excactly!! That was the whole POINT behind my decision to use those property rights".
Use the license that suits you best, but don't complain about other peoples choices when it comes to licenses.
Re:Wu-Name... (Score:2)
Now that I know that- what the hell _is_ a Wu Name??
Re:I'm drunk. Thanks Slashdot Drinking Game! (Score:2)
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 :)
Not a guy's toilet ... (Score:2)
Wu Names (Score:2)
How does one figure out one's Wu name anyway? I can't figure out how this one's done.
Re:Toilet Smuggling (Score:2)
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.
Re:Since /. apparently can't laugh at itself.. (Score:2)
---
"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Re:Where is it? (Score:2)
One word: 'scoop'
(eww)
- Jeff A. Campbell
- VelociNews (http://www.velocinews.com [velocinews.com])
Re:Quickie Review (Score:2)
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).
Re:Very cool Matrix Spoof (Score:2)
When was it featured? (Score:2)
So while it may have been featured, I doubt it..
Cheers,
Ben
Re:Very cool Matrix Spoof (Score:2)
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?
That Toilet Looks Familiar (Score:2)
I don't think that it's CmdrTaco that needs the restraining order. Alexey, on the other hand...
Wu-Name... (Score:2)
Wu-Name = "Asthmatic Enemy of God"
Like this:
"What is truth?" (cough, wheeze)
?
That's Gotta Hurt (Score:2)
One of the photos from the sparkler bomb site [fromorbit.com] 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.
scripts (Score:2)
BPL is actually serious... (Score:2)
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.Re:No WuName to Normal Translator (Score:2)
Re:No WuName to Normal Translator (Score:2)
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.
Re:Very cool Matrix Spoof (Score:2)
Re:No WuName to Normal Translator (Score:2)
Eric
Here's how it works (Score:2)
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
Yet another reason to drink (Score:2)
Eric
Yeah, Brickshelf is Uber-Cool (Score:2)
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
drinking game alternate link (Score:2)
--neil
Re:Here's the Wu-Name script, hack and enjoy. (Score:2)
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.
-----
Computer Equiped Toilet - Sick (Score:2)
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.
I'm drunk. Thanks Slashdot Drinking Game! (Score:2)
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!)
Re:Linux? (Score:2)
Gillian Anderson naked and petr^H^H^H^Heating pie (Score:2)
(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.
Re:SOC/RO -- What the ?? (Score:2)
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.
Re:Humpday? (Score:2)
As in Wednesday is the middle of the work week. You're at/past the hump and its all downhill until the weekend.
Re: (Score:2)
Triangle Man _is_ Universe Man! (Score:2)
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?
--
Victory is mine, Wu-name! (Score:2)
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!
--
"HORSE."
No WuName to Normal Translator (Score:2)
-------------------------------------------
Re:Quickie Review (Score:2)
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 [kevino.com] for old computers.
======
"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
UT = Unreal Toilet? (Score:2)
Still, if the toilet's fully wired, what would the results of a frag/gib be like? (shudder)
:)
Alternate. (Score:2)
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).
I'm assuming he misspelled "weird" on purpose. (Score:2)
Puffy Toilet Seats (Score:2)
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
Secret Identity (Score:2)
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.
--
Here's the Wu-Name script, hack and enjoy. (Score:2)
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/3803/wu/ [geocities.com]
'Tis I! Slashdot Man! (Score:2)
--
Slashdot Man, Slashdot Man
Sparkler bombs (Score:2)
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.
Re:Sparkler bombs (Score:2)
I challenge your use of the term "well-built". Any fool can make a bang-type bomb. Many fools do. If you want to be one of them, that's fine. Don't do it near me.
As I say at the bottom of my page: "Other enhancements, of the 'Hey! Let's build a can of fly spray into the middle of the bomb!' variety, are likely to result in natural selection."
"Hey! Let's tape the thing up like an Egyptian mummy!" falls solidly into this category of "enhancement", if you ask me.
They missed one... (Score:3)
--
Quickie Review (Score:3)
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?
Re:Very cool Matrix Spoof (Score:3)
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!
chmod 775 - QUICK! (Score:3)
CGIwrap Error: Script is not executable. Issue chmod 755
Pretty cool huh. I bet your jelous that yours is just 'Grand Moff Puppeteer'!
Re:Since /. apparently can't laugh at itself.. (Score:3)
Yep, that one's pretty good. But my personal favorite in this vein is Slashnull.
Shadowrun fans, go to town!
Re:No WuName to Normal Translator (Score:3)
My WuName turns out to be...
awww, rats, you guys done beat it to death already:
CGIwrap Error: Script is not executable. Issue chmod 755 /www/home/recordstore.com/cgi-bin/wuname/wuname.pl
======
"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
Re:Final Email? (Score:3)
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...
======
"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
Re:Where is it? (Score:3)
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.)
======
"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
Since /. apparently can't laugh at itself.. (Score:4)
It may make more sense if you read the associated cartoon [ubersoft.net]. 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
Slashdot Man has moved (Score:4)
------------------------------------------
Help me switch to Linux! [sinasohn.com]
No slashdot stalker should be without (Score:4)
(I think Rob hacked into the server to erase this once, but ha! I had a backup!)
Improper link! (Score:5)
Very cool Matrix Spoof (Score:5)
-krs