Welcome to the World of Quickies Entertainment 121
Lets start this off with some eyecandy from Mdog.
Hi res pics of coronal loops meet Rob's First Rule of Art.
Wow.
Not enough eye candy?
tradica noted that Pixar's new movie 'Monsters Inc.' now has trailers available even the the movie won't be out for a year. Course since Jobs is @ pixar, no surprise that I can't watch the clip.
Instead of food for your retinas,
Nerf97A4 sent in recipes that will never be used on Iron Chef since they all involve cooking with twinkies in some form or another. Deep fried Twinkies? Makes me shudder... maybe instead you should look at
jedigeek fouund an online
store called CyberCandy which allows you to buy candy from around the world.
funferal noticed that a OECD have publshed their Privacy Statement Generator.
Ant noted one wizard that
that probably doesn't exist in Word.
alecto sent us a fun link where you can read 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall which has code snippets to generate the song in languages from APL to zsh.
PhadeRunner
sent us Mr. T vs. The Matrix. and
FlameSnyper sent
The Matrix and Ghost in The Shell. One is slightly more serious then the other.
An anonymous reader documented
filling a cubicle with packing peanuts in case your boss is out of time and you need some help.
Speaking of bosses, Need a weapon?
WD_40 aims you at a site where you can learn how to create your own spud gun.
Course you could do it the old fashioned way:
pimp showed us a site dedicated to electrocuting common household stuff. Like, for example,
a furby.
While on the subject of electricity,
loose_change sent in several links about Power meters and how they aren't exactly the best in user interface. A competition followed to try to make a better on. The winner is definitely less hostile ;)
CresentCityRon sent in something you don't want to electrocute: apparently MIT students are working on Geek Porn which is pretty much what is sounds like. School officials aren't so happy about it.
Re:Packing Peanuts! That's Nothing! (Score:1)
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Re:I wonder (Score:1)
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Re:Geek Porn Link (Score:1)
Gee who would have thunk it from a geek porn site?... actually my first thought was a bunch of computers with their cases off, and some half-cased computers with wires hanging out, and bare motherboards and stuff like that, but 452ms later I realized that thought was pretty stupid
alright, where's the pocky??? (Score:2)
No mexican salty plum balls either. Pretty poor selection if you ask me!!!
Twinkie Science (Score:2)
Check THIS out [twinkiesproject.com]
Re:Geek Porn Link (Score:1)
I also found the link from www.mouthorgan.com which talked about it on Oct 2.
-Ron
MIT vs. GeekPorn (Score:1)
GeekPorn is too Slashdotted now to read through but -- it looks to me like MIT got a complaint from someone who clicked the "Leave" button on the front p[age and got sent to the main MIT page. I bet they're confusing that with "somebody trying to make money using our logo and our name."
Although the school has been on a serious No Fun Allowed kick lately.
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Re:Jesus in the Sky!! (Score:1)
Uhhh...Wookiee in the sky with diamonds...
Richard
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Filled the sup's cube with balloons... (Score:1)
I got stuck with the job of deflating most of the balloons. Next year, I'm suggesting packing peanuts ^_^
Re:alright, where's the pocky??? (Score:1)
Holy Shit (Score:2)
Far gone are the days where you could duct tape a soda can to a piece of pvc, throw in some zippo fuel, and light it with a lighter next to a little hole in the side of tha can and call it a spud gun.
Now, you have to have rifled barrels, metered propane insertion, and electronic ignition.
I wonder when california will start to put emmisions regulations on Spud Guns, or require that they all be compressed air as opposed to fossil fuel.
Aww fuck it, I think I will go suck on the Nitrous for a while and forget about it.
Re:spud guns! (Score:2)
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT (Score:2)
Re:News for nerds. Spuds that matter (Score:1)
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To go outside the mythos is to become insane...
If you know what's good for you... (Score:3)
Oh sure, it seems like fun and games now, but that's how Gerald Bull [std.com] started out. One day you're launching potatoes across the road, a few years later Saddam Hussein wants you to launch canned hams into Israel and the Mossad is breaking down your door...
Re:spud guns! (Score:1)
But I also want a smaller version, like maybe an oversized pistol, that will shoot a a nerf-type projectile hard enough to REALLY get the cat's attention, but not hard enough where it would ever actually hurt the cat.
Re:Geekporn.com misrepresentational (Score:2)
Most geek friends I have are the weirdest people in the world. If weird=geek generically, than this site makes a hell of a lot of sense.
Re:"Can't watch the clip" (Score:3)
What is really surprising... (Score:1)
Re:Geekporn.com misrepresentational (Score:2)
Me too, but usually they are socially awkward, bumbling, have poor hygene, and would not be the kinds of people who'd you'd want to see naked.
I dunno, I guess I saw that pick of two tan, skinny, good lookin' folks fucking on a desk, and I thought to myself, "The geeks I know aren't in good shape and tanned!"
If weird=geek generically, than this site makes a hell of a lot of sense
By that definition those bondage, S&M, watersport, etc. sites are all geek-oriented then? (A bit of subjectivity there, me decrying those acts are weird. Oh well.)
tiled images... (Score:1)
just fire up the gimp,and go to Filters->Map->Make Seamless. (you have to change the GIF's to RGB color first.)
the two that i particularly liked are here [iit.edu] and here [iit.edu].
You /.ed the Twinkies.com! (Score:1)
Man those geeks are pasty! (Score:1)
Re:Geekporn.com misrepresentational (Score:1)
Re: (Score:2)
Re:How come no AL Gore Loves You. com Quickie?? (Score:1)
Al Gore is apparently only 51% in love with himself [algorelovesyou.com]
But George Bush is 79% in love with himself [georgebushlovesyou.com]
I guess I'm voting for neither of them, my canidate need to be 100% in love with himself [beatty2000.com] or he is not a leader of the free world.
Re:spud guns! (Score:3)
Our final design was a wheeled deviced (a nice welded aluminum chassis), with a 4" diameter x 1' long primary pressure chamber, a 4" x 1" secondary pressure chamber, and a 4" rubber plunger that separated the two chambers from the 3' PVC barrel (note: an aluminum insert was turned to take up the gap between the golf ball and the PVC barrel).. The primary chamber surrounded the barrel (think coaxial), and the tail of the gun was outfitted with a hose that connected to a pressure regulator and a RC servo triggered, coil spring actuated ball valve.. The operator would close the valve, and set the trigger, then begin filling the secondary chamber with pressurized gas. The gas pushed the plunger forward sealing off the end of the barrel. As the pressure increased the plunger edges deflected allowing the pressurized gas to fill the primary chamber.. A slight pressure differential was eventually established between the two chambers, with the secondary chamber carrying slightly more pressure than the primary chamber. This kept the plunger firmly pressed against the end of the barrel.. Until the operator backed up and hit the fire button
Unlike a traditional spud gun, the course dictated that no explosive devices could be used.. Believe me, this device didn't need it.. It would fire a golf ball roughly 500 yards with ~80 psi charge.. The pressurized air was supplied using a CO2 fire extinguisher, and that small extinguisher had no problem firing until we got tired of chasing golf balls around the driving range...
Re:Geekporn.com misrepresentational (Score:2)
From the MIT drinking song:
I was wondering... (Score:1)
Jurassic 5 (Score:1)
Re:I wonder (Score:1)
Say, have you ever seen a spud gun? No? In that case, would you mind stepping just a liiiitle bit to the left? Thanks...
(Covering his ears) 4... 3... 2... 1...
The Word wizard works on so many levels... (Score:1)
Now, the second time I've seen it, I noticed something - the options are "Pills", "Jump", and "Pastry". Pastry? Not only do those guys at Microsoft add a suicide wizard, but they use one option no one would want to use, and leave off "gun"! It's an excellent paraody of the lame help the Clip gives you over time. I think it's an idea Microsoft may not even get right by version 3.0.
Lain (Score:2)
The taxes are still getting paid though... (Score:1)
New rule. (Score:1)
And it's not just because they play when you're at work.
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Re: Lain (Score:1)
"if you were a radix sort, you'd be in queue t."
Re:spud guns! (Score:1)
Lol! Good thing I'm at home, or the liquid I was drinking would be all over the nice new monitor I have at work. I can just picture a spud arching over a nice quiet subruban landscape on its way to the interstate!
Guy in the back yard b-b-q-ing:
"Damn! There's that fjordboy again. Why don't his parents buy him a nice chemistry set instead...No, wait.."
Thanks, man, you made my night.
Here are some that weren't very difficult to find- (Score:3)
Anyway, here are some of my favorites:
http://vestige. lms al.com/TRACE/POD/images/T195_000715_111152.gif [lmsal.com]g [lmsal.com] .lm sal.com/TRACE/POD/images/T1216_000527_144307.gif [lmsal.com]
http://vestige. lms al.com/TRACE/POD/images/T171_000930_000227.jpg [lmsal.com]
http://vestige. lms al.com/TRACE/POD/images/T171_000412_033151.gif [lmsal.com]
http://vestig e.l msal.com/TRACE/POD/images/TRACEtruecolormosaic.jp
http://vestige.lmsa l.c om/TRACE/POD/images/T171_0602_14UT.gif [lmsal.com]
http://vestige
There are a few to start, someone else was moaning about the average 640x480 or so resolution, I say combine a few in The Gimp and give it some extra coloration and you've got a decent desktop. Now too bad I don't have time to make a magnetic-field-line theme, wouldn't it be cool to have those fuzzy lines for your window borders?
links (Score:1)
Geekporn.com misrepresentational (Score:5)
Hrmmm... I wish I had gone to school with the "geeks" portrayed at GeekPorn instead of the more representational ones... Sigh.
They forgot one Twinkie recipe! (Score:2)
Re:Geekporn.com misrepresentational (Score:1)
Mmmm... girl covered in equations.. Integrate me baby!! =)
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Re:spud guns! (Score:1)
1000 shots and still going on my orginal...
My favorite quote (Score:1)
"It's just interesting to see calculus presented in that way."
Gotta love it.
Re: Lain (Score:2)
Iron Chef (Score:1)
Wizard guy fights with Toshiba - more interesting (Score:3)
Re:alright, where's the pocky??? (Score:1)
(jfb)
A firend's spud gun... (Score:2)
spud guns! (Score:3)
back to potato guns though..I have a potatto gun, made from pvc...I use propane as fuel (hairspray is smelly and sticky and expensive.) and on a good day, I can send a potato flying 300 yards! We punched holes in plywood with it...we thought about sending small rodents through it..but my parents wouldn't allow it...and it was a cruel idea anyways... we also tried ether to fuel it (don't do this) but the one we tried blew apart...so we were forced to build another, large potato gun..with a 4 inch combustion chamber...we launched a spud from my friend's house to the highway...i am serious..the highway was about
cool stuff :) (Score:1)
Re:Packing Peanuts! That's Nothing! (Score:1)
Playing the Sims Livin' Large?
Y'know, I have to wonder (Score:2)
Do I really need to be entertained? Geez, even using that word conjures up Huxleyan images. Why is it that most big companies (including, apparently, VA Linux) think that I need entertainment like I need to breathe? That's what bothers me about the web - they all want to feed me some eye candy [cnn.com] and never feed my brain.
Free Porn Foundation (Score:1)
Re:Mexican candy (Score:1)
I can't think of anything fouler, unless maybe it would be regurgitated circus peanuts with tequila.
Packing Peanuts! That's Nothing! (Score:3)
That's nothing! I once filled our entire server room with Halon gas!
of course it wasn't exactly planned...
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"Can't watch the clip" (Score:5)
Mr. T vs. The Matrix! WTF? (Score:1)
Geek Porn Link (Score:3)
The link to their site, while being somewhat obvious, is www.geekporn.com [geekporn.com]. Neither the quickies above, or the story it links to, actually lists the URL anywhere. I had a few readers mail it to me.
-- Kevin
Re:Packing Peanuts! That's Nothing! (Score:1)
It's the episode where the tell the story of Lisa being born. Homer builds a bed for Bart to replace his crib because Lisa is going to take it. He make the new bed in the form of a phychotic looking clown...hence the quote.
:)
Was it used in the Sims Livin' Large?
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Re:Geek Porn Link (Score:1)
Worse... a shared 28.8 dialup...
life as a poor starving college student sucks
Re:Packing Peanuts! That's Nothing! (Score:1)
Re:alright, where's the pocky??? (Score:1)
Great! Just the name we were looking for our new mexican porn site! Thanks!
Re:Naked Nerds... (Score:1)
Re:Were are the hi-res eyecandy images? (Score:2)
No, the link [lmsal.com] was easy to miss, and then, once you're there, it's easy to think you missed something. Those images only technically satisfy Rob's first rule of art... if you're running 1280x1024 or bigger, they don't quite look like Rob-qualified art. Crisco pulled out [slashdot.org] the best links for us, though.
I wager that if you write to [mailto] the folks who run the TRACE gallery site [lmsal.com], they will point you to images that you have to scale down to fit on your desktop. At least, this worked for me for Hubble Space Telescope [stsci.edu] images.
In the meantime, check out the awesome image [nasa.gov] I use for my desktop. (Tips: Click on the small one to see the real eyecandy. Crop off the credits, and place on black background. Collect compliments from fiends and cow-orkers. Distribute only the original, please.)
How come no AL Gore Loves You. com Quickie?? (Score:3)
http://www.algorelovesyou.com [algorelovesyou.com]
International House of Candy (Score:1)
Okay, CyberCandy doesn't let you buy "candy from around the world", it lets people from around the world (or at least from the UK) buy candy from the USA. Well, darn--I can get that at the corner store. I was really hoping for someplace where I could buy Violet Crumbles. If those aren't The Perfect Candy Bar, lord take me now.
Re:WRONG STORY GENIUS (Score:1)
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Re:The taxes are still getting paid though... (Score:1)
Oops. My bad... too many windows open...
Re:ugh (Score:1)
Notice what appears to be a trail mark on her right thigh?
I won't say that she was "nasty" or per-say a "bitch" maybe better suited would be the words "Tasty chicken nugget" with um uh "honey sauce and a large fry with extra salt" and one of those apple pies with a double bacon cheese burger.
Uh I am not saying she is fat, she is very skinny, just haven't eaten for 36 hours...
For the record, yea I would do her.
Re:The Geek Porn article. (Score:1)
Atleast he didn't go on to say what his "beat" is.
Jesus in the Sky!! (Score:2)
If you're not wasted, the day is.
poor 486 (Score:2)
This box is a 486, and is rather slow and old. It's connected to the internet with a 56k modem, and is located in Shrivenham, Wiltshire, England.
Having your 56k 486 slashdotted must really ruin your day.
pretty cool but... (Score:1)
Re:Twinkie Science (Score:1)
Re:Jesus in the Sky!! (Score:1)
If you're not wasted, the day is.
Re:Monsters clip amusing (Score:2)
Re:MIT vs. GeekPorn (Score:1)
In a lot of parties here, especially in some particular dorms, people tend to get naked a lot anyway. Geekporn.com is simply a logical extension of that idea.
Re:alright, where's the pocky??? (Score:1)
Re:Lain (Score:2)
Re:spug gun (Score:3)
If he would have used a higher caliber potato, we could have nominated him for the Darwin Awards [darwinawards.com]. He would have been very tough to beat.
Re:geekporn sucks (Score:1)
Re:Mr. T vs. The Matrix! WTF? (Score:1)
Bad Candy (Score:1)
Here is a caveat emptor. [bad-candy.com] And for the love of god, stay away from the circus peanuts.
iitri in the news again (Score:1)
but you may be surprised to learn that twinkies, as well as other novelties such as silly putty and pop-tarts all came out of iitri. as did the idea of putting dimples on golf balls
at least that's what they tell the freshman and prospective students on the campus tours.
the silly putty claim has a reasonable amount of credibility and corroboration behind it, but who knows where the other claims came from....
incidentally, they also claim that the iitri building is as many stories underground as above (19), something that probably came out of 1984. (the ministry of truth building was as many stories uderground as above) probably somebody thought it would be funny to throw that into the tour, and it stuck. (by the way, if you've ever seen this building, the connection with the ministry of truth is appropriate) anyway, we do know that at least 6 floors exist underground, but i doubt anybody without a top secret clearance has seen them in recent history. most of the floors in the building are patrolled by armed guards
and lastly, just to keep this post somewhat informative, if you are interested in stuff that was really developed at iitri, just do a search on the patent database (http://www.delphion.com/) my search turned up 130 patents. 44 are from marvin camras, mostly related to magnetic recording (which he invented/discovered)
ugh (Score:1)
That's one nasty bitch
geekporn? What about...? (Score:1)
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Re:"Can't watch the clip" (Score:1)
then download it DAMNIT(as you said so eloquently)! Either dl the complete installer from http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/support/ [apple.com]
DAMNIT(hey i like saying that!)
or install it once and then take distribute the stub installer and the file "QuickTime Install Cache"(which should be several megs after the first install) and then install it on your other computers. DAMNIT
Warning! (Score:1)
And yes, this is serious. Posing in such pictures might fool people into trying it out for real - with deadly results.
Play safe - read alt.sadist
Re:Were are the hi-res eyecandy images? (Score:2)
Nope. I found some images, but Tet's first law of art states that if I have to scale them up to fit on a 1600x1200 desktop, they're not hi-res... Hell, they don't even fill a 1280x1024 desktop. Cool images, certainly, but not hi-res.
I'm pretty sure it's a reference to... (Score:3)
Lots of porn at MIT (Score:4)
http://www-tech.mit.edu/V119/N2/reg day .2n.html [mit.edu].
Apparently it used to draw crowds of a few hundred students.
Re:Geekporn.com misrepresentational (Score:2)
Monsters clip amusing (Score:2)
Goes to show how realistic the animators have gotten in dealing with things like humor timing. This wouldn't have really worked with the CGI figures of the early 80's.
Re:"Can't watch the clip" (Score:2)
Were are the hi-res eyecandy images? (Score:2)
Re:spud guns! (Score:4)
Well, we had just finished constructing this beast in my dorm room on a saturday night, and we just HAD to fire it. We had a full can of hairspray and a 10lb bag of hairspray, and a hankerin' for some projectile vegetable fun.
We took our contraption out to the farthest parking lot on campus, waaaay in the back, and proceded to seed the fields back there with our 10lbs of potatoey goodness. It wasn't until we piled back in to my car and started to take off that an officer of the peace spotted us. He happened to be making the rounds, and seeing 3 kids in the middle of an empty parking lot on a saturday night made him a little suspicious.
Long story short, he pulled me over, we tried to give him a bullshit story, fessed up, and he made me break the gun up and throw it away. He had me go find a dumpster so he could watch me destroy and throw away my creation.
HERE is where it gets interesting. Note earlier that I said this beast was made of schedule 80 ABS pipe. It has a burst strength of 400PSI- which means, in short, that you can drive a car over this shit and not dent it. Mr. Nice Officer however wanted me to BREAK this stuff. He stood there as I tried in vain to break this pipe. I'm not a small guy, and I was WAILING on this shit with all my strength.
He stepped in, grabbed the pipe from me, and said "gimme that." I'm thinking to myself- "Does he really know how strong this stuff is?" Apparently not, as he tried repeatedly to break it against the edge of an empty metal dumpster. He utilized the classic cop beatdown stance... and BOY did it make a racket!
My friends were sitting in my car trying to stifle their laughter. Marshall later told me he had considered rolling down the window and yelling "WHY DON'T YOU USE YOUR GUN?" I'm glad he didn't.
The moral of the story kids: Don't shoot your spud gun when the Long Arm of the Law is near by! He notified us that while a potato gun is not a weapon, it is classified as an explosive device- just as illegal.
Use of an overhyped word... (Score:2)
Come on... who are they trying to bring in with that name? I mean... just because I am a geek I should somehow think this porn site is more appealing than any other?
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
Mexican candy (Score:2)
The problem? They LITERALLY smelled like a petting zoo. The most disgusting candy I have ever come in contact with in my life. Can't remember for the life of me what the name was, but I couldn't bring myself to eat it.
Re:"Can't watch the clip" (Score:2)