grub's Journal: Help me find this comment!

My geek-days become a little more complete when I read a funny slashdot comment.

Ages ago I recall a trollish comment about open source. The author wrote about making an open source leather jacket from scratch. It was a bit gruesome and ended with something like "I'll be leet!" I laughed like hell at the time and didn't save it (yep, I save a lot of funny /. stuff) It's bugged me for a looooong time. Slashdot's search engine is lacking for this and google wasn't much help.

My challenge to you, good Slashdotter, is help me find that post! I'll give a US$10 Amazon gift certificate to the first person who replies with a link to said post.

Certain words that stick out in my memory are "open source", "leather jacket", "decomposing", "leet (or l337)"

Fucking slashdot!

[Mmm coffee]

Spent the last hour looking, no joy. If google cached the pages at -1 then it'd be easy, but since slashdot defaults to a threshhold of 1...

Sorry. :(

Re:Fucking slashdot!

[grub]

heheh. I tried that already. :) Slashdot's search engine isn't really up to the job. Maybe Taco could find it for me, I'd still cough up the $10 gift certificate!

Re:Fucking slashdot!

[nacturation]

Do you remember the context around the post?
 

Re:Fucking slashdot!

[grub]

Nope. I don't recall if it was in an article about open source or not. It just struck me as really funny.br

CmdrTaco

[Ice Wewe]

Have you thought about asking one of the admins here to search for it? I'm quite sure they have more powerful filters and search techniques than I could dream of.

Re:CmdrTaco

[grub]

That's taking the easy way out. :)

Not a slashdot story, but...

[gbulmash]

Here's one from Wired News [wired.com] that's about trying to "grow" a leather jacket from mouse and human cells.

Probably the one you're looking for was satirical, but this is suitably gross even if it isn't all that funny.

clues please

[mqj]

"Ages ago" "bugged me for a looooong time"

About 12 months ago, 2 years ago, 5 years ago, 10 years ago?

"trollish comment"

Do you recall the score of the post? (-1 Troll) (-1 Flamebait) (+1 Funny)

Re:clues please

[grub]

I'd guess between 2-3 years ago.
I don't recall the score of the post, sorry.

Pretty much all I can recall I've already given you.

Re:clues please

[mqj]

After messing around with slashdot's search, I realized that it does not seem to support boolean "and." So a search for "leather jacket" turns up comments which contain either one but not both.

I wrote a script that saved each of the 190 hits that slashdot's search gives for "leather." Looking in each of those for "jacket" gives 17 hits. (In essence doing a search for "leather AND jacket.")

However, none of the 17 results seem to be what you wanted.

1 http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?cid=10504055&sid=1 2 [slashdot.org]

Re:clues please

[grub]

Nope, sorry.

I'm not sure if /. archives low scored posts, if this post was hammered down it may be gone forever. Maybe I should wimp out and ask Taco/whomever to have a peek. He could use the gift certificate to light a $50 cigar or wipe his butt. :)

Re:clues please

[mqj]

Well in the manual and automatic searches, I ran it at "-1 Uncut and Raw."

"I'm not sure if /. archives low scored posts, if this post was hammered down it may be gone forever."

Now that you mention it, I ran into this comment, but I was unsure if the AC was trying to be funny or if he was censored.

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?cid=4861788&sid=47 501 [slashdot.org]

Re:clues please

[grub]

I think the author was trying to be funny. The post I remember wasn't that bad. I've passed it on the tasteless scale many times.