I’ve seen coders compile entire modules and make nothing but vaporware… but this guy… he did something. If you’re paying attention it’s pretty funny. You have to understand a bit about code and compiling before the depths of it will make sense, but the general joke won’t require that you be a code-warrior.
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A “3D Monocle”… I really don’t know what to say. Really, seriously, I don’t.
It seems a lot like saying “A six-wheeled unicycle” to me.
(Seriously, didn’t you feel a bit burned yesterday?)
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Ok, while we’re looking at bizarre things, here’s another. It’s a… well, it’s a… it’s kind of like a…
Screw it. Just watch the damn video.
It would have been handy to pick up my ego a few times after two totally life-invalidating rejections by hawt chicks when I was younger. Only two? Yes, only two. I wasn’t Mr. Wild and Crazy Guy but my batting average wasn’t bad either. The ego statement was an attempt at a joke. (sigh)
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Oooh. Fractals. I love fractals. Now… I think I should marry a fractal.
Wait… fractals are endlessly complex things, aren’t they? Never mind, I’m already married to one of them, then. Whatever, here’s some 3D fractal geek-schwing stuff.
I now have one less thing capable of keeping me up at night. Partition number theory… solved.
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This last one was kind of disturbing to me. You know, normally I don’t gravitate towards posting stuff that is this f***-ed up, but honestly this bothers me. If you don’t want to read something kind of sad and soul-less, don’t read on. Find something on youtube or something…
I am reasonably sure that were ancient Rome to have been found to have an internet, this sort of thing would have existed. I can honestly say that I haven’t any respect for these guys. If you are so unhappy that you want to cheat, leave. Or just man up and tough it out, but your spouse and kids deserve better than a lying sack of shit.
Note: Not truly interested in being told all the reasons why being a hardass on this is wrong. I’m sure anyone engaged in this behavior has all sort of wonderful rationalizations or there’s probably someone really good at defending the person who is doing it, but that’s all a lie, too. If I were on the receiving end of the lie, I’d want to know.
Lemur King's Folly 
Partitions are non-random? That should be useful, although I can’t imagine where. Yes I can; modelling & perturbation techniques?
That glop-scooper is cool!
That flat scoop is actually a moving micro-belt, isn’t it? It’s “rolling” up the glop onto the top surface.
Hell, playing with that thing would be like playing with a booger.
I want one.
Boy do I ever have a paper to throw your way – if I can dig it up. Veeeeery interesting. On visualizing large datasets and how to arrange them by similarity. Well, you’ll see.
I have zero idea what is happening with the glop scoop. Something about it is triggering my alarms – like when even thin smeary blemishes get lifted w/o any disturbance. Very suspicious-like.
ooGcM,
Your reference to a booger got me thinking: wouldn’t that device make an excellent sooper-dooper-pooper-scooper? Just the thing for cleaning up after kids or dogs? Better yet, issue them to evidence techs for crime scenes?
Yes, I agree, a micro-belt of some kind. Maybe more like a roll-up blind. The bottom edge is fixed to the case, the upper layer is extended by a roller between the upper and lower points. Make sense?
It took me a while, with my limited c++ experience, to figure out why the code wouldn’t compile. Though I imagine that there’d be a similar failure no matter what language or compiler was used, based on the programmer’s techniques. Reminds me of the jokes involving whiteout on the monitor as well as computer faxing problems.
LK, at least you had an ego worth scraping up. Mine usually didn’t register on the meter.
It’s been said jokingly that I have the ego of House. Kind of true. “your ego and pride outweigh self-preservation” is what Cruel Wife said to me, in agreement with Wilson.
If you read the comments on the linked code page, you’ll notice that someone says something about using colored fonts and then another person says that using colored fonts and crayons would imply the use of Visual Basic.
VB gets such a hard rap but it actually is useful for making a GUI even if you can’t use it to crunch numbers for beans.
I’m actually going to have to look into that monocle.
I’m blind in one eye so 3D movies, aren’t. Hell, the world isn’t in 3D anymore.
I saw Alice in Wonderland in an Imax theater and had to wear the stupid glasses or it was very blurry.
All it did was give me a headache.
I went to Disney with my family for my parent’s anniversary and all we did was eat and go to 3D movies.
Boringest trip to Disneyworld ever.
Bastid!
April Fool’s to you too.
I’ll get you my pretty, and your little blog too!
Oh dear. I’m doomed… DOOOOOOOOOMED…
I’m mellllltttttinnngggggg!
I’m calling Bullshit on the glooper scooper video.
*Brrriiinnng*
Bullshit: Hello?
Me: Yeah just saw a video about some scooper thing that perfectly picks up & replaces smeared gloops.
Bullshit: Oh yeah, I saw that one.
Me: Well?
Bullshit: Total bullshit.
Me: Thanks!
Bullshit: No problem.
I don’t get the code-joke.
The glop scooper may be bull, but I like it!
It took me a day, and a few watchings, but – yeah – I call bullshit on the glop scooper. There are a few spots in the later portions of the video where you can “almost” see cellophane (or sumpin) under the glop to be scooped.
It may not be real, but it oughta be…
LK – (IMO, of course) – VB will crunch numbers just fine. I’ve got several gradient optimizers on disc somewhere that were written in VB. It just doesn’t handle structured data bases very well. It wasn’t designed to.
The glob scooper should be real, damnit. I demand it should be!!
As for the last link…I am seriously appalled. I never thought society’s morals could sink any lower. I guess I was wrong.
Isn’t that just awful? I was sickened. Just sickened.
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