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



  • @dlikhten said:

    *snip what was hopefully a very transparent attempt at baiting, which Swampy will still rise to because he doesn't get jokes*
     

    If you're serious, go find the previous posts on this subject and wallow in the despair contained within.  If you're joking, please stop talking and let the adults handle this.



  • @MasterPlanSoftware said:

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

     

    Agh, the repressed memories came back!

    It was horrible, there were desktops and searching everywhere. I was forced to watch a video of paris hilton talking about something political, its too painful to remember!

    I had to bite my own arm off to get out of the restraints and escaped, oh I'm glad to still be alive at least!



  • @dlikhten said:

    Agh, the repressed memories came back!

    It was horrible, there were desktops and searching everywhere. I was forced to watch a video of paris hilton talking about something political, its too painful to remember!

    I had to bite my own arm off to get out of the restraints and escaped, oh I'm glad to still be alive at least!

     

    At least that would explain a lot.



  • Let's get back on topic and see if Swamp can actually write any sort of web application.  Even a one-line "Hello, world!" in PHP would be impressive.



  • MashUp Challenge $100,000 prize - WTF if Spectate Swamp wasn't allowed in

    A more off topic post I never knew.

    My computing task is to enlighten You dumb SOBs to the fact. That with the right search and some demo videos the common man can have computers, camcorders, music etc in their lives and don't need You, Me or the rest of Geekdom. Computers shouldn't cause fear, apprehension and inferiority complexes. They should be used. Just Jam-it.

    My job as a stone carrier is to be ready for 2012. That means a warm up dance or two before the end-of-times gathering. I have long since quit worrying if the Stones would perform when Danced. But maybe not a curse on the NetSquared folks. A better target has to be found.

     

     

     


     



  • @djork said:

    Let's get back on topic
      There was a topic?

    and see if Swamp can actually write any sort of web application.  Even a one-line "Hello, world!" in PHP would be impressive.
    Oh, right, that topic.  I thought we established pages ago that such a thing would be impossible for Swampy.  And then he mentioned his stones and curses, and it's all been fun since then.



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    A more off topic post I never knew.
       Seems to happen a lot around you.

    My computing task is to enlighten You dumb SOBs to the fact.
      Is "fact." an abbreviation I don't know? Or do you really not understand the difference between a comma and a full stop?

    That with the right search and some demo videos the common man can have computers, camcorders, music etc in their lives and don't need You, Me or the rest of Geekdom.
      Nobody has ever needed you.  But who the hell is going to design, program, and repair these computers, camcorders, and music players if not for me and the rest of Geekdom?

    Computers shouldn't cause fear, apprehension and inferiority complexes.
      This is true.  But in regards to your attempts to make it so, I believe the phrase I'm looking for is "YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG!"

    They should be used.
      Well that would require them to be usable, which SSDS is clearly not. 

    Just Jam-it.
      I think we've found a new slogan for Nike.

    My job as a stone carrier is to be ready for 2012.
      Great.  Good luck with that.

    That means a warm up dance or two before the end-of-times gathering.
      Have you considered dancing in traffic?

    I have long since quit worrying if the Stones would perform when Danced.
      I have long since quit worrying that you are clinically pschotic.  Now I'm just enjoying it.

    But maybe not a curse on the NetSquared folks. A better target has to be found.
      How about targeting the worst excuse for a search program the world has ever seen: SSDS?  I can't think of a more fitting end to this story than you cursing it and yourself out of existence.  At least then you'd be right about the magical stones; compared to now, when you're wrong about everything.



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    A more off topic post I never knew.
    We expect this from your posts.

    @SpectateSwamp said:

    My computing task is to enlighten You dumb SOBs to the fact. That with the right search and some demo videos the common man can have computers, camcorders, music etc in their lives and don't need You, Me or the rest of Geekdom. Computers shouldn't cause fear, apprehension and inferiority complexes. They should be used.

    You really are in a little world of your own, this point was thrashed out repeatedly in a previous thread and you just didn't get it then and you won't understand now either. You are not enlightening anyone, searching isn't the be all and end all (or even what SSDS does). Demo videos have sod all to do with this either. The common man certainly doesn't need you and your ideas to improve his life.

     @SpectateSwamp said:

    They should be used. Just Jam-it.

    That doesn't even make sense you. Retard.

     @SpectateSwamp said:

    My job as a stone carrier is to be ready for 2012. That means a warm up dance or two before the end-of-times gathering. I have long since quit worrying if the Stones would perform when Danced. But maybe not a curse on the NetSquared folks. A better target has to be found.

     Indeed.

     

     



  • MashUp Challenge $100,000 prize - WTF about the Flatten'ems

    This stone is lurking in the bushes.

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LioH4KG92_M

     



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    A more off topic post I never knew.

    My computing task is to enlighten You dumb SOBs to the fact. That with the right search and some demo videos the common man can have computers, camcorders, music etc in their lives and don't need You, Me or the rest of Geekdom. Computers shouldn't cause fear, apprehension and inferiority complexes. They should be used. Just Jam-it.

    My job as a stone carrier is to be ready for 2012. That means a warm up dance or two before the end-of-times gathering. I have long since quit worrying if the Stones would perform when Danced. But maybe not a curse on the NetSquared folks. A better target has to be found.

     

    THIS ANSWERS EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!

    He is a conspiracy theorist. He sounds like one of those people who would go on TV and say "this is the software that computer programmers don't want you to have!" and he would be right caz its a piece of shit!

    SS before doing anything, install linux, set up CUPS to use a printer that is connected to a Windows Vista to print linux documents. Then configure the mac4lin themes. And configure ATI drivers with compiz-fusion on a x64 installation. Once you are done doing that THEN you will truly understand what "just a little documentation" means! Before that don't post ANYTHING. Anything you post will be promptly ignored! Once you went through the pains tell us what you thought. And I want video of everything working on your computer as proof!

    In any case... what happens in 2012? are stones going to be EVERYWHERE ON EARTH? Are they going to be in my backyard? OH DEAR!



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    This stone is lurking in the bushes.

     

     

    I cast magic missile at it.

     

    /Can't believe I registered just to post that. 

     



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    Computers shouldn't cause fear, apprehension and inferiority complexes.
    Wow. You said something sane. Too bad your crAPP causes all of the above [the inferiority complex is obviously entirely just you].

    @SpectateSwamp said:

    My job as a stone carrier is to be ready for 2012. That means a warm up dance or two before the end-of-times gathering.
    This quote alone tells me you do not understand Native American Legends and Folklore as well as you spout. And now for my chance to reveal that I am the greatest psychic ever: the world will not end in 2012 whether or not you do your silly dances. Your mystical stones have no influence on the greater cosmic order. At best, your stones may make a decent candle holder.



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    This stone is lurking in the bushes.
    Wow, now you are afraid of rocks lurking in the bushes?



  • @Balthazaar said:

    At best, your stones may make a decent candle holder.

    Never know when you'll need a good paperweight, or pyrotechnic weapon...



  • @Balthazaar said:

    @SpectateSwamp said:
    This stone is lurking in the bushes.
    Wow, now you are afraid of rocks lurking in the bushes?

    Ever seen Labyrinth? Those things can chase you.. and jump!



  • @AbbydonKrafts said:

    Ever seen Labyrinth? Those things can chase you.. and jump!
    Yeah, I guess I should have realized SS might live in a place like that.



  • @Balthazaar said:

    Yeah, I guess I should have realized SS might live in a place like that.

    Right next to the Bog of Eternal Stench -- hence the "Swamp Shack" name (Bog Shack must've not had the same 'ring')



  • @dlikhten said:

    In any case... what happens in 2012? are stones going to be EVERYWHERE ON EARTH? Are they going to be in my backyard? OH DEAR!

    A jet engine will be sucked back in time through a tornado and crush SpectateSwamp before he found the medicine stones and went completely batshit.



  • @stolen_username said:

    @dlikhten said:

    In any case... what happens in 2012? are stones going to be EVERYWHERE ON EARTH? Are they going to be in my backyard? OH DEAR!

    A jet engine will be sucked back in time through a tornado and crush SpectateSwamp before he found the medicine stones and went completely batshit.

     

    I read that and suddently i heard music playing: PUM PUM PUUUUUUUM!



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    @dlikhten said:

    I read that and suddently i heard music playing: PUM PUM PUUUUUUUM!

    Nope it will be spirit shakers. These spirit shakers

    3 Medicine stones & Spirit Shakers

     

    Close up pic of Flatten'em Stone (Mindus)

    Flatten'em stone mindus

     

    Tokin Stone Drawing

     

    ToKin Stone Drawing



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    @dlikhten said:

    I read that and suddently i heard music playing: PUM PUM PUUUUUUUM!

    Nope it will be spirit shakers. These spirit shakers

    What kind of car did Gatsby drive? 



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    Nope it will be spirit shakers. These spirit shakers

    :snip:

     Close up pic of Flatten'em Stone (Mindus)

    :snip:

    Tokin Stone Drawing

    :snip:

     

    I'm disappointed, you seem to be losing your edge; you skipped a few steps:

    1) Play those pics as a slideshow on your laptop

    2) Video them in with your camcorder

    3) Play the resulting video on your laptop

    4) Video in that video, adding incomprehensibly mumbled commentary

    5) Use CamStudio to capture the above video

    6) Video in the CamStudio playback

    7) Upload the resulting mess to Google Video

    8) Go skydiving without a parachute over Lake Superior 



  • Uh oh, guys, guys, I have a terrible suspision here. Remember how the curse even worked with replicas of his stones? Then it probably works with pictures as well. He's actually not flooding us with pictures of his rocks because he has lost track of the rest of the conversation and doesn't know anything better to reply, he is cursing us! The whole time already! Watch out, people, watch out...



  • @stolen_username said:

    @SpectateSwamp said:

    @dlikhten said:

    I read that and suddently i heard music playing: PUM PUM PUUUUUUUM!

    Nope it will be spirit shakers. These spirit shakers

    What kind of car did Gatsby drive? 

    Orwell's last few works were often misunderstood.



  • @PSWorx said:

    He's actually not flooding us with pictures of his rocks because he has lost track of the rest of the conversation and doesn't know anything better to reply

    Actually, here is the origin of the stones (on these forums), in case you missed it:

    http://forums.thedailywtf.com/forums/p/8133/153523.aspx#153523

    http://forums.thedailywtf.com/forums/p/8133/153558.aspx#153558 



  • @CodeSimian said:

    8) Go skydiving without a parachute over Lake Superior 

     

    Oh come on no one is that dumb. He should join my [url=http://www.firediving.com/]firediving[/url] team though.  


  • Garbage Person

    2012, huh.

    Spectate, what DATE in 2012? It's a very specific date that the world is supposed to end, and if you're going to stop it, I just want to make sure you know when it's actually scheduled.

    And also, where will you be performing your dance?

    enters something or other about cleaning and rescoping rifles (two shooters, ten shots each, twenty times the chance of hitting the mark) into his long-range date planner



  • No one knows the day or the hour the Lord is coming. That's why we should make the most of our time today to take advantage of opportunities to help others.



  • @pitchingchris said:

    No one knows the day or the hour the Lord is coming. That's why we should make the most of our time today to take advantage of opportunities to help others.
     

    Please don't ruin our fun with heavy messages.  Here's a quick fix to make your post better fit this thread: 

    No one knows the day or the hour SpectateSwamp is coming. That's why we should make the most of our time today to take advantage of opportunities to upgrade our locks.
     



  • @pitchingchris said:

    No one knows the day or the hour the Lord is coming. That's why we should make the most of our time today to take advantage of opportunities to help others.
     

    That is why I feed rat poison to the homeless. Carpe Diem!



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    For some reason that one reminds me of:

    (It's the head on this really dumb Christmas tree ornament we have...)



  • @CodeSimian said:

    Actually, here is the origin of the stones (on these forums), in case you missed it:

    I know what is up with the stones, hence the part of my post which you didn't quote. But SS seems to post random pictures of them when he notices he painted himself in the corner and doesn't know a decent way to argue. Think it this way: Other people would try to punch you in the face or make a helpless joke, SS posts pictures of stones.




  • @PSWorx said:

    I know what is up with the stones, hence the part of my post which you didn't quote. But SS seems to post random pictures of them when he notices he painted himself in the corner and doesn't know a decent way to argue. Think it this way: Other people would try to punch you in the face or make a helpless joke, SS posts pictures of stones.
     

    Fair enough.  I wan't sure if everyone read the exact post that triggered the stones, that's all.  He is randomly throwing them out now, but he (sort of) had a reason to initially bring them up.  (Yup, it's pretty tenuous.)

    I guess from his twisted point of view, he is making an effective, informative and on-topic argument.  I don't think I've ever seen anything approaching a decent way of arguing from Swampy.  (e.g. "You don't believe SSDS is the king of Desktop Search?  Better spend a day or two at the SwampShack!")



  • MashUp Challenge $100,000 prize - WTF if Spectate Swamp Didn't WIN

    Tokin stone

    Watch out this could happen to you.



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    ...snip...

    Watch out this could happen to you.

     

    SS you are a f-ing riot! Dude you are by far the craziest person I've ever had contact with. Crazier than crazy uncle Tony, and hes nuts, he sits around looking at a lamp all day and says that he things rocks are going to fall out of it (coencidence?).

     

     

     

     

    Well actually there is no uncle Tony, but you are still nuts :)



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    Watch out this could happen to you.
     

    I never thought I'd say this, but I'm tiring of this particular bit of lunacy.  Barring some new revelation of craziness, I think I'm done with you. 



  • @bstorer said:

    I never thought I'd say this, but I'm tiring of this particular bit of lunacy.  Barring some new revelation of craziness, I think I'm done with you. 
     

    Personally, I reeeeeally want to see him curse someone.

     

    Hey, Swampy! Can you curse MasterPlanSoftware please? I'm sure he wouldn't mind. He called you a retard that time, remember?

    Lob the vid on youtube or google, either's good. 

     



  • @rc_pinchey said:

    Personally, I reeeeeally want to see him curse someone.

     

    Hey, Swampy! Can you curse MasterPlanSoftware please? I'm sure he wouldn't mind. He called you a retard that time, remember?

    Lob the vid on youtube or google, either's good. 

     

    I am all for it. Go ahead.



  • @SS said:

    Watch out this could happen to you.

    Show us the rock causing something. To happen. That otherwise would not. Happen. Then we might. Believe you.

    Not enough. Periods. For you? Here. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    Tokin stone

    Watch out this could happen to you.

    You mean, someone'll give me a donut? Cool, I'm in!



  • @Spectre said:

    You mean, someone'll give me a donut? Cool, I'm in!

    Looks more like a bagel to me.





  •  SpectateSwamp needs his internet privileges revoked immediately.



  • Ah man, this guy has come over to Neowin. We don't want this nutcase, take him back please :P

     http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=625911

     I noticed he has some odd obsession with rocks? I've not been following. Is there a link where somone can fill me in?



  • @Popcorn said:

    Ah man, this guy has come over to Neowin. We don't want this nutcase, take him back please :P

     http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=625911

     I noticed he has some odd obsession with rocks? I've not been following. Is there a link where somone can fill me in?

    Lock the thread and ban him immediately.  He will do nothing but waste everyone's time.  I still haven't decided if he's the most dedicated troll in internet history or just a complete whackjob, but either way, you don't want him around.

    The rock thing was introduced earlier in this thread.  You can go back a few pages if you really want to know.  If you'd like to learn more about his "desktop search" application, you can check out [url=http://forums.thedailywtf.com/forums/t/7593.aspx]this monstrous thread[/url].  I recommend reading up until the kid on the square-wheeled bike shows up, then ignoring the rest.



  • Geeks exterminated by Spectate Swamp Desktop Search SSDS

    @Eternal Density said:

     SpectateSwamp needs his internet privileges revoked immediately.

    Now that's crying Uncle. First the Video forums. Locked and banned me. Then they deleted the posts completely. The video forum list is as long as my arm. They didn't want to hear what I said about video. Even worse than this group, doesn't want to hear about Desktop Search. Any public forum with Swamp search up against any or all of the Indexers, would be a joke. Spectate Swamp search does everything and simply. People might even understand what's going on. OMG. That threatens and scares Geeks. Boo. Same thing with digital video. They were running scared just like this forum. I do read some of the other posts here. What crap computing has become. Very little discussion about the application. Just fiddling with the interface and the monster databases. Boo again.


  • @stolen_username said:

    I still haven't decided if he's the most dedicated troll in internet history or just a complete whackjob, but either way, you don't want him around.
     

    Uh, he has posted newspaper articles on his stones - from 1986.  Do you really think SpectateSwamp was that much of a visionary that he started a "practical joke" 22 years ago, just so he could piss off some Internet forum members in 2008?

    The only possible way Spectate could be a traditional Internet troll would be if SpectateSwamp != Doug Pederson.  It doesn't seem likely.

    Anyway, popcorn, here is one more thread for you to read - the origin of the stones:

    http://forums.thedailywtf.com/forums/p/8133/153523.aspx#153523 



  • @CodeSimian said:

    @stolen_username said:

    I still haven't decided if he's the most dedicated troll in internet history or just a complete whackjob, but either way, you don't want him around.
     

    Uh, he has posted newspaper articles on his stones - from 1986.  Do you really think SpectateSwamp was that much of a visionary that he started a "practical joke" 22 years ago, just so he could piss off some Internet forum members in 2008?

    No, but he could have started a practical joke 22 years ago to be an asshole, then continued being an asshole for the rest of his life.  I'm saying that it's possible, not that it's likely.



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    Spectate Swamp search does everything and simply. People might even understand what's going on. OMG. That threatens and scares Geeks. Boo. Same thing with digital video. They were running scared just like this forum.
     

    Jesus Christ.  Not again.   Listen Spectate, if you read this post, could you please answer one simple question for me, and everyone else on this forum: <font size="4">Do you understand that some things need to be complicated on the inside to be useful, even as they are simple on the outside?</font>

    For example:

    • Your camcorder is simple to use.  Can you (or any normal person) build a camcorder from scratch?  Do you understand everything that goes on inside the camcorder? No, because, because it is complicated on the inside.
    • Your truck is easy to drive.  Can you build a truck from scratch?
    • Your laptop DVD burner is easy to use (through Windows).  Can you build a DVD burner from scratch?  Does the common man understand exactly how a DVD burner works? 
    • Your laptop is easy to use.  Can you build a laptop from scratch?  Do you understand all the internals of your laptop?
    • Your TV is easy to use.  Can you build a TV from scratch?  Do you understand all the inner workings of your TV?

    Do you see where I'm going with this?  Desktop search needs to be easy to useNobody cares how complicated it is on the inside.

     



  • @stolen_username said:

    No, but he could have started a practical joke 22 years ago to be an asshole, then continued being an asshole for the rest of his life.  I'm saying that it's possible, not that it's likely.
     

    Good point.  I don't think "asshole" and "non-troll" are mutually exclusive, though.  He keeps bragging about how he likes to "rile people up", so he definitely knows how annoying he is.  He is inexplicably proud of his asshole-ishness.


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