Mashup Challenge $100,000 prize - WTF if Spectate Swamp wins?



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    Some stones without holes in them are considered sacred as well. The Blarney Stone (I'm half Irish). If you are drawn to them and obsessed. They probably have power. Good luck with your power stone. You'll notice that when you are openly Weird, people will share some very interesting stories. If you are a skeptic. They will tell you NOthing.

     What about stones that have a lot of dimples, but the holes don't go all the way through.  I used to live in a house that the whole front garden was covered with those black, lightweight rocks with a tone of "holes" but none of them went all the way through.



  • For reference, this is similar to what my rocks looked like: Mystic Rock?



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    Library section E96 (North American legend and myth)
     

    WTF???????????

     

    Seriously, what the holy fuck? Do you actually, genuinely believe that every library IN THE WORLD has a section "E96" full of North American myths???

     

     

    Also, shouldn't there be a bit of a clue in the way the information you've obtained is from a section entitled "Legends and Myths"???

    LEGEND: "A traditional story or tale that has no proven factual basis"

    MYTH: " A fictitious story, person, or thing"

     

    Yeah, THAT sounds reliable. 



  • @rc_pinchey said:

    @SpectateSwamp said:

    Library section E96 (North American legend and myth)
     

    WTF???????????

     

    Seriously, what the holy fuck? Do you actually, genuinely believe that every library IN THE WORLD has a section "E96" full of North American myths???

     

     

    This is not as much of a WTF as you seem to have ass-u-med:

     

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress_Classification:Class_E_--_History_of_America

     

    75-99..........Indians of North America

     

    If you're dealing with a public library, then it would probably be 971:

     

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dewey_Decimal_classes#900_.E2.80.93_History_and_geography

     

    971 General history of North America; Canada

     

     



  • @emurphy said:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress_Classification:Class_E_--_History_of_America

     

    OK, it's not AS massive a WTF, as it's not a Canada-only system, but there's still no way in the blue hell any library in Europe is going to be using that over Dewey Decimal Classification, so I stand by my irate indignation. It's still not exactly a useful, portable, actionable response to a posted URL is it? 



  • @rc_pinchey said:

    OK, it's not AS massive a WTF, as it's not a Canada-only system, but there's still no way in the blue hell any library in Europe is going to be using that over Dewey Decimal Classification, so I stand by my irate indignation. It's still not exactly a useful, portable, actionable response to a posted URL is it
     

    You should realize by now that Spectate is utterly unable to see things from anyone else's point of view, including library systems.  This is the same guy who offered the following advice to someone who downloaded SSDS from a shareware site and wondered what happened to the "search" feature:

    (paraphrased) "Joe Blow, to search my inmail.txt (I keep all my emails in there), you need to open SSDS...all instances of SpectateSwamp..."

    I mean, naturally EVERYONE pastes all their incoming e-mail into a huge text file called inmail.txt and uses the handle "SpectateSwamp", right? 


     



  • I'm surprised he didn't just tell you something like "3rd stack from the wall, top shelf, 4th book over with the red binding"



  • @CodeSimian said:

    You should realize by now that Spectate is utterly unable to see things from anyone else's point of view, including library systems.  This is the same guy who offered the following advice to someone who downloaded SSDS from a shareware site and wondered what happened to the "search" feature:

    (paraphrased) "Joe Blow, to search my inmail.txt (I keep all my emails in there), you need to open SSDS...all instances of SpectateSwamp..."

    I mean, naturally EVERYONE pastes all their incoming e-mail into a huge text file called inmail.txt and uses the handle "SpectateSwamp", right? 

     

    I was watching "the wiggles" with my daughter, and this totaly reminds me of a scene about "thinking of others"... maybe a pre-requisite to SS for programming should be to watch the wiggles to learn some life lessons? Its so simple even a caveman can understand it.



  • he could be the new green "spectate wiggle"

     



  • @taylonr said:

    he could be the new green "spectate wiggle"

     

    Shouldn't he be yellow?



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    Some stones without holes in them are considered sacred as well. The Blarney Stone (I'm half Irish). If you are drawn to them and obsessed. They probably have power. Good luck with your power stone. You'll notice that when you are openly Weird, people will share some very interesting stories. If you are a skeptic. They will tell you NOthing.

    That's funny.  I'm a skeptic, and I can't seem to make you stop.  Of course, you aren't very interesting, so I guess you don't count.

    My bet is the "mashup challenge" will be cancelled before May 27-28 rolls around. There will be no economy in 2 1/2 months from now.
      We're all going socialist?

    The Stones should stop by New York (on my way to Tibet) and clear up that mess up first. If a couple more you Stone carriers joining me, that would help guarantee success.

    I heartily support your decision to go to Tibet and stop the Chinese.  And remember: they won't run you over with their tanks.  Stand your ground... 

    The Oneida tribe are "the people of the upright stone"
    The Oneida Society were communalists who made silverware.  That's why I dance for rain with a spoon.

    Seminole tribes considered stones very sacred as well. The list goes on and on.
    Do you know why all societies have legends of sacred stones?  BECAUSE THEY'RE FUCKING EVERYWHERE.  EVERYBODY HAD STONES!  IT'S PRETTY MUCH ALL THEY HAD!  They'd have had a hard time attributing magic powers to, say, a 1974 Dodge Challenger because they didn't have any.

    Doesn't anybody know anything about North American sacred powers. With the way the stock market is going this morning. We need all the stones we can lay our hands on. How about some pictures of your stones.  Wishing you the best in the recession. My swampie friends.
     

    You heard it here first: a lack of stones leads to a recession.  The stock market crash of 1929?  A direct result of banks over speculating on rocks and stones.  The savings and loan scandals of the 1980s?  All available stones were launched into space as a poorly-conceived part of the Star Wars program.  The .com bubble burst?  You have the failure of stones.com to blame for that.



  • @bstorer said:

    ...

     

    I didn't think someone was dumb enough to actually post those things, then I tracked down SS's post... By god the shit that comes out of that guy's keyboard...! In any case, I think ima go get stoned, and not in the biblical sense.



  • @bstorer said:

    They'd have had a hard time attributing magic powers to, say, a 1974 Dodge Challenger because they didn't have any.

    Bwahaha! The first thing that came to mind when I read that was Garfield in Paradise. Of course that was a '57 Chevy instead of a Dodge.

    @dlikhten said:

    [...] and not in the biblical sense.

    Why not? It's like Extreme Dodgeball.



  • @taylonr said:

    For reference, this is similar to what my rocks looked like: Mystic Rock?

    Nice lava rock. If you have lots of them piled up under your bed then they are pretty Medicinie. Otherwise just rock. They tend to make the carrier somewhat distracted from the real World.

    I know the section was E96. The best library I found was at the University of Alberta. Then Simon Fraser in British Columbia came in 2nd as far as North American Legends and Myth. The libraries might have even changed from the Dewey systems years ago. I don't know. Haven't been back to either Library in years. I had lots of copies of the relevant legend. But gave most of those articles away over the years.



  • @AbbydonKrafts said:

    @dlikhten said:
    [...] and not in the biblical sense.

    Why not? It's like Extreme Dodgeball.

     

    Caz in this dodgeball you are tied to a pole and it usually ends with you being stoned. If you can dodge well then you get lucky, you only get beheaded!



  • @dlikhten said:

    Caz in this dodgeball you are tied to a pole and it usually ends with you being stoned. If you can dodge well then you get lucky, you only get beheaded!

    But it's fun!

    Ack! I just remembered that stupid play that I got demoted to a background role in while in elementary school. My single line was Something smells fishy. It had a stoning scene in it. For some reason, though, they had the character running around. We basically threw paper balls at him.



  • "NOW LOOK! No-one is to stone anyone until I blow this whistle, do you understand?! Even, and I want to make this absolutely clear, even if they DO say 'Jehovah'!"

    (Life of Brian)



  • @AbbydonKrafts said:

    But it's fun!

     

    Ack! I just remembered that stupid play that I got demoted to a background role in while in elementary school. My single line was Something smells fishy. It had a stoning scene in it. For some reason, though, they had the character running around. We basically threw paper balls at him.

     

    Holy randomness batman!



  • @dlikhten said:

    Holy randomness batman!

    Random! Random is fun!



  • @AbbydonKrafts said:

    @dlikhten said:
    Holy randomness batman!

    Random! Random is fun!

     

    That reminds me of the time I went to vagas. There were lots of pretty lights.



  • @dlikhten said:

    That reminds me of the time I went to vagas. There were lots of pretty lights.

    My supervisor went to Vegas a couple of weeks ago. She told me about the pretty lights.



  • Wow it is like Spectate's verbal diarrhea has reduced the conversation in this thread into 5 year old small talk...

    What the hell happened here?



  • @MasterPlanSoftware said:

    Wow it is like Spectate's verbal diarrhea has reduced the conversation in this thread into 5 year old small talk...

    What the hell happened here?

     

    There are four lights!



  • @MasterPlanSoftware said:

    Wow it is like Spectate's verbal diarrhea has reduced the conversation in this thread into 5 year old small talk...

    What the hell happened here?

    Mind meld gone wrong. I'm going to make for the escape hatch now.



  • @AbbydonKrafts said:

    Mind meld gone wrong. I'm going to make for the escape hatch now.
     

    Be wearie, his brain is just one giant black hole, it will suck in your thoughts, self, and even sense of desktop searching, you will have to dump all your emails into a text file and all your icons into email attachments!



  •  

    g



  • Of course there's reports of tourists who pilfer obsidian from the glass floes in Oregon sending them back weeks later because they have been cursed with bad luck

    Skeptics may cite:

    • It's just a farce the park rangers devised to keep people from stealing the obsidian
    • Part farce, part power of suggestion. Anyone at anytime will have seemingly "bad luck" but now they have a scapegoat.



  • @medialint said:

    Of course there's reports of tourists who pilfer obsidian from the glass floes in Oregon sending them back weeks later because they have been cursed with bad luck

    Skeptics may cite:

    • It's just a farce the park rangers devised to keep people from stealing the obsidian
    • Part farce, part power of suggestion. Anyone at anytime will have seemingly "bad luck" but now they have a scapegoat.


     

    Or they could just be bat shit crazy like Spectate...



  • A more Argumentative Group I never Knew!

    @MasterPlanSoftware said:

    Or they could just be bat shit crazy like Spectate...

    Obviously I found the right forum to discuss Medicine Stones. You nerds will argue against anything. That is good. It gives me a chance to explain the stones without making it long and boring.

    I come here having developed a search engine. To get all kinds of arguments about Search from this group of Wiseguys & Gals. That was great. So I thought what a place to discuss the Most powerful Stones on the planet. Now I'm getting even more Medicine Stone arguments. That makes it even better. If the Creator Him/Herself showed up and started walking on water. This Bunch would be posting all kinds of arguments against. Good going.

    If I go to Tibet I'll need to find a few Biggie Flatten'ems for the Tanks. This one would work.

    There are a 6 or 8 smaller ones in the Whitecourt Area.

    There is some video out there of a Smaller one. Find it if you can. I have one more flatten'em on video and some stills of another that I should Upload. 

     



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    I come here having developed a search engine.
     

    As we have told you WAYYYYY too many times: No you didnt.



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    Obviously I found the right forum to discuss Medicine Stones. You nerds will argue against anything. That is good. It gives me a chance to explain the stones without making it long and boring.
     

    Ow crap! Now look what you guys have done.... He will continue to type random stuff about his magical stones....



  • Can the power of the stones bring back Irish Girl? 



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    Obviously I found the right forum to discuss Medicine Stones. You nerds will argue against anything.

    @SpectateSwamp said:

    If the Creator Him/Herself showed up and started walking on water. This Bunch would be posting all kinds of arguments against. Good going.
     

    For the millionth time: YOU. ARE. NOT. GOD.   You haven't done anything remotely impressive; not as a software developer or a modern-day medicine man.  Most people in the real world just ignore your BS, except for your penny-ante amateurish local newspapers.  (e.g. These are the kind of papers that feel the need to quote unnamed "marijuana experts" on the proper spelling of "toking".  The expert is probably unnamed because it's the same guy who wrote the article.)  I hate to break this to you, but nobody is taking you seriously.  Oh, you may be serious about your beliefs, but you have a better chance of walking on water than converting a single Swampy. Not even the Native Canadians took you seriously, according to the articles you clipped.  They were just pissed at you for making a joke out of their culture.  DOES THAT SOUND FAMILIAR AT ALL TO YOU?  (Hint: why do you think you get so many angry responses when you come in here masquerading as a serious software developer?)

    Come to think of it, you should walk on water for us - the middle of Lake Superior sounds like a good spot.  Give us a video demo of that, and we will all be impressed.  I promise.

    BTW, I thought you were an atheist before you discovered the stones, according to your famous articles.  For the last little while, you've been going on and on about Native North American mysticism.  Now you're trying to tell us you're a Christian?  Or is this just more rambling nonsense?

    @SpectateSwamp said:

    If I go to Tibet I'll need to find a few Biggie Flatten'ems for the Tanks. 

    Make sure to send us a postcard, 'k?  Man, you are lucky China is not known for performing "extraordinary rendition" (yet).  Have you considered using the power of the stones against the current White House administration (<font size="2">please say yes please say yes</font>)?  If so, please be sure to spell out your precise intentions in this forum.


  • Garbage Person

    SpectateSwamp, you disgust me. As a Native American you disgust me for hijacking the beliefs of my long-dead ancestors and dragging them through the sand. I'd sooner see you die for these insults than I'd see a general forcing my people along the trail of tears die for his. As a software developer your abuse of the title sickens me. You lack understanding of even the most basic concepts at the very root of the occupation. You seem to have taken this site and everything on it in the exact opposite fashion in which it was intended. TheDailyWTF is your style manual. Your API reference. You're the type of person that makes elaborate posts to tutorial sites about how to do something in 10,000 lines that most of us do in 3. As a human being, I abhor the thought of breathing the same atoms that may have once touched you.



  • Flatten'em Stones - Tank Busters

     

    Alberta Newsprint Stone (Mindus)

    The above stone has a major chip out of it. It was dug up during the excavation of the Alberta Newsprint plant in Whitecourt. 

     

     

     

     

    The video below is from the other Whitecourt Flatten'em stone

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0OEKxaFUig
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqaIg5rVQ3A

     

     



  • @Weng said:

    SpectateSwamp, you disgust me. As a Native American you disgust me for hijacking the beliefs of my long-dead ancestors and dragging them through the sand. I'd sooner see you die for these insults than I'd see a general forcing my people along the trail of tears die for his. As a software developer your abuse of the title sickens me. You lack understanding of even the most basic concepts at the very root of the occupation. You seem to have taken this site and everything on it in the exact opposite fashion in which it was intended. TheDailyWTF is your style manual. Your API reference. You're the type of person that makes elaborate posts to tutorial sites about how to do something in 10,000 lines that most of us do in 3. As a human being, I abhor the thought of breathing the same atoms that may have once touched you.
     

    Don't hold back.  Tell us how you really feel.



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    Flatten'em Stones - Tank Busters

    Tell it to the Chinese government, okay? 

    http://english.gov.cn/ 

    mailto:english@mail.gov.cn

    Make sure to spell out your intentions clearly. 



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    ... I don't know if he's the most daft idiot ever, or the best troll ever, but somehow we have managed to convince him that posting rocks is topical.

     I bow to the offtopicness that has spawned this monstrosity.  Truly you are a master of whatever twisted art you practice.



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    I come here having developed a search engine.
     

    As MPS said: No. You. Did. Not!

    @SpectateSwamp said:

    Obviously I found the right forum to discuss Medicine Stones.
     

    Let us think for a minute: "The Daily WTF - Curious Perversions in Information Technology".... While you for sure are a curious perversion yourself, this forum here is about Information Technology, not some silly pieces of rock! Find yourself some geology forum or whatever, but leave us alone with the gravel you found in your back yard.

    Maybe you should take your stones and do some silly dance to prevent the moderators from banning you from this place...



  • @Weng said:

    As a human being, I abhor the thought of breathing the same atoms that may have once touched you.
     

    Wow. So you're a tad miffed? 


  • Discourse touched me in a no-no place

    @Weng said:

    As a human being, I abhor the thought of breathing the same atoms that may have once touched you.
    You are not alone it appears: http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/lostinshowbiz/2008/03/madonnas_cross_her_fans_are_br.html

    Hopefully, now that Madonna fans know this, should they ever see her having a wobble at a concert they can simply cease their vogueing, hold their breath, and turn blue and expire one by sacrificial one. They died that Madonna might breathe. Yet needless to say, it'll still be her up there on thecrucifix, taking all the credit.
     



  • A more Argumentative Group I never Knew!

    @tdittmar said:

    Let us think for a minute: "The Daily WTF - Curious Perversions in Information Technology".... While you for sure are a curious perversion yourself, this forum here is about Information Technology, not some silly pieces of rock! Find yourself some geology forum or whatever, but leave us alone with the gravel you found in your back yard.

    The most powerful stones on the planet. The greatest program on the planet. Weird coinci-dance isn't it?

    To get back on topic. A number of times over the years. When the deadlines were short and drawing nearer and nearer. People would ask how it was going. I'd explain all the problems and difficulties, Then tell them don't worry about a thing. I have these Medicine Stones. Just to lighten things up a bit.

     



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    The most powerful stones on the planet. The greatest  crappiest program on the planet. Weird, no coinci-dance... isn't it?
     

    Glad I could help...

    @SpectateSwamp said:

    To get back on topic.
     

    Whatever you have to say is way off-topic for an IT forum...

    @SpectateSwamp said:

    A number of times over the years. When the deadlines were short and drawing nearer and nearer. People would ask how it was going. I'd explain all the problems and difficulties, Then tell them don't worry about a thing. I have these Medicine Stones. Just to lighten things up a bit.

    I'm glad I may use the following quote:

    <font size="6">THAT DOESN'T EVEN MAKE SENSE YOU RETARD! </font>



  • @tdittmar said:

    <FONT size=6>THAT DOESN'T EVEN MAKE SENSE YOU RETARD! </FONT>

     Not enough periods, should probably be something like:

    <FONT size=6>THAT. DOESN'T EVEN MAKE. SENSE YOU. RETARD!</FONT>



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    To get back on topic. A number of times over the years. When the deadlines were short and drawing nearer and nearer. People would ask how it was going. I'd explain all the problems and difficulties, Then tell them don't worry about a thing. I have these Medicine Stones. Just to lighten things up a bit.
     

    Remind me to try that with my boss sometime....

    I'm also vaguely curious how this can even be considered close to being back on topic, unless one assumes the original topic of 'utter nonsense' obviously.



  • @tdittmar said:

    @SpectateSwamp said:
    Obviously I found the right forum to discuss Medicine Stones.
     

    Let us think for a minute: "The Daily WTF - Curious Perversions in Information Technology".... While you for sure are a curious perversion yourself, this forum here is about Information Technology, not some silly pieces of rock! Find yourself some geology forum or whatever, but leave us alone with the gravel you found in your back yard.

     

        <div class="CommonDescription">The tag line for the Side Bar WTFs: <blockquote>Because more things make us ask WTF than just code</blockquote>&nbsp; If anything could make us say WTF more than crazy, ol' Swampy, then I don't want to know about it. </div><p>&nbsp;</p>


  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    The most powerful stones on the planet. The greatest program on the planet. Weird coinci-dance isn't it?
     

    Funny how nobody cares about your stones but you.  Nobody cares about SSDS, either.  How many users do you have again?   Also, your puns suck.



  • @MasterPlanSoftware said:

    @SpectateSwamp said:

    I come here having developed a search engine.
     

    As we have told you WAYYYYY too many times: No you didnt.

     

    A technical question for SS: You "search engine" please describe it's capabilities. If it searches though text files as you claim it does to help you get stuff from your desktop, how does it compete against products like... google desktop search. Can it match something with close spelling: I say find Pjork, but it finds Pork because thats what I wanted (mmmm pork chops). If you can't compete against products that already exist, do mroe things, are free-er, and are developed by competent people then stop saying you developed anything, caz I can develop Linux, but it just wont be as feature rich as the current kernel, maybe it'll have paging? who knows maybe even file access, hell you might even be able to boot!

     

    Alright? If this is your highschool or college class project, great, other than that WHY THE HELL are you posting pictures of rocks damnit!



  •  @dlikhten said:

    A technical question for SS: You "search engine" please describe it's capabilities. If it searches though text files as you claim it does to help you get stuff from your desktop, how does it compete against products like... google desktop search. Can it match something with close spelling: I say find Pjork, but it finds Pork because thats what I wanted (mmmm pork chops). If you can't compete against products that already exist, do mroe things, are free-er, and are developed by competent people then stop saying you developed anything, caz I can develop Linux, but it just wont be as feature rich as the current kernel, maybe it'll have paging? who knows maybe even file access, hell you might even be able to boot!

     

    Alright? If this is your highschool or college class project, great, other than that WHY THE HELL are you posting pictures of rocks damnit!

    Have you honestly never seen any of SpectateSwamp's other posts? Go read the other thread. Don't regurgitate the same crud... we have moved onto rocks now. Leave things be.

    Also, you type wayyyyyyy too much like Spectate. Maybe you are the vicitim of a day at the SwampShack.



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    The most powerful stones on the planet. The greatest program on the planet. Weird coinci-dance isn't it?
    I didn't know Keith Richards had a hand in writing Portal!  Oh, wait, you're talking about your rocks with holes in them and that piece of shit you call a search engine.  You really need to stop eating paint chips.


Log in to reply