Comment we did the same thing... (Score 1) 327
only it was many years ago when the web was new and shiny and the trojan room coffee pot was still really cool. The nerds down the hall had acutally gone through the trouble of wiring up their lamp, fridge, etc. to their web server.
So us geeks couldn't let ourselves be out done by them. But all that soldering, that's too much like work. So we wrote a quickie perl script that showed how many inches the window was open, how many soda cans were in the trash, how many flies were buzzing around last night's pizza, and finally it would tell if Mike was wearing his pants. All based on the values of a few pseudo-random numbers.
So us geeks couldn't let ourselves be out done by them. But all that soldering, that's too much like work. So we wrote a quickie perl script that showed how many inches the window was open, how many soda cans were in the trash, how many flies were buzzing around last night's pizza, and finally it would tell if Mike was wearing his pants. All based on the values of a few pseudo-random numbers.
