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



  • @rc_pinchey said:

    Sorry, Spectate's already doing that himself:

    http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=184282#184282

     

    Hook, line and sinker. Nice one :P



  • @AbbydonKrafts said:

    Bwahaha! I'm sure he has a torture chamber in a shed somewhere.
     

    Scary thought, there was a guy who would kidnap women off the street put em in a metal shipping crate and torture/rape em to death until one escaped and ran into a cop before he caught her. Hope we aint dealin' with one of them lunatics now.



  • http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=184282#184282

     

    There is no sound, its just a damn photo album in video form. EVER HEARD OF FLICKR OR PICASAWEB or even image shack? No? Ill give you a hint, they can do slideshows for you.



  • @dlikhten said:

    Scary thought, there was a guy who would kidnap women off the street put em in a metal shipping crate and torture/rape em to death until one escaped and ran into a cop before he caught her. Hope we aint dealin' with one of them lunatics now.

    The really scary thing is that if one completely reads CrimeLibrary.com, you'd have a good idea how to set up an elaborate system with very little risk of getting caught. The inventiveness of some of those people is amazing -- from pure genius to completely sick.



    Maybe "Swamp" is his special name for the putrid liquid that's accumulating in his yard from the "disposals".



  •  @AbbydonKrafts said:

    The really scary thing is that if one completely reads CrimeLibrary.com, you'd have a good idea how to set up an elaborate system with very little risk of getting caught. The inventiveness of some of those people is amazing -- from pure genius to completely sick.

    Maybe "Swamp" is his special name for the putrid liquid that's accumulating in his yard from the "disposals".

    Man if you don't kill someone using a super-elaborate scheme where nothing can go wrong and do it in a different state with a stolen car which would be found somewhere in canada with no fingerprints because it exploded prior to being found while you have an alabi for being in europe during that entire month, its not worth killing them, theres a risk of getting caught.



  • @dlikhten said:

    Man if you don't kill someone using a super-elaborate scheme where nothing can go wrong and do it in a different state with a stolen car which would be found somewhere in canada with no fingerprints because it exploded prior to being found while you have an alabi for being in europe during that entire month,

    That sounds almost like the setup in the novel I finished reading.



  • @AbbydonKrafts said:

    That sounds almost like the setup in the novel I just completed.
     

    Shit, now I need to install mirrors in my cubicle incase you are sneaking up behind me.



  • LOL. Edit lag. You quoted the original while I was posting the edit. "Completed" just sounded too much like I wrote the novel. It was one I read.



    I'm really good at sneaking up on people (who don't have mirrors up). I scare the shit out of my wife all the time just by simple walking. I don't make any noise unless the floor is flawed, like loose boards.



    No worries, though. Scaring people is all I do. I haven't hurt anyone.. yet. LOL



  • @AbbydonKrafts said:

    LOL. Edit lag. You quoted the original while I was posting the edit. "Completed" just sounded too much like I wrote the novel. It was one I read.

    I'm really good at sneaking up on people (who don't have mirrors up). I scare the shit out of my wife all the time just by simple walking. I don't make any noise unless the floor is flawed, like loose boards.

    No worries, though. Scaring people is all I do. I haven't hurt anyone.. yet. LOL
     

    Agh! AbbydonKrafts is gona kill me! Opse sorry that was just a co-worker running... Damn I'm jumpy!

     

    Actually my wife complains about the same thing. Shes showering/drying her hair, and suddenly I appear. Fat on the buttom of your feet, muffles the sound. Its how elephants can walk without making any noise and sneak up on people at night (dangerous when they in heat, they get ultra-violent)



  • @dlikhten said:

    Actually my wife complains about the same thing. Shes showering/drying her hair, and suddenly I appear.

    LOL. Yeah. I don't make the stomping or thumping sound that most people do, even when I have shoes on. I can cross the house at full speed, but not make any noise. When I appear directly behind her computer chair and say something, that is when she screams and about falls out of the chair. Of course, she hits me afterwards and says "STOP THAT!". Back when I worked at Winn-Dixie as a stocker, I scared the heck out of a deli clerk. She repeatedly tried to get me back afterwards, but it never worked.

    @dlikhten said:

    Fat on the buttom of your feet, muffles the sound. Its how elephants can walk without making any noise and sneak up on people at night (dangerous when they in heat, they get ultra-violent)

    Nice example. LOL



  •  I updated the aliens page. Thanks burntfuse!



  • Alien Expert Needed

     Really need to post the 90 pictures that make up the following CamStudio recording. I can see the Cloaked object quite clearly. The cloaked one even made it easy when trying to find the tiny flyer for hi-lighting. Screen reshoots work way way better than camstudio 

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

     

    Do download the original and look at the above frames. The hidden one is quite visible.. For those who want to see.

     



  • @MasterPlanSoftware said:

     I updated the aliens page. Thanks burntfuse!

     

    Nice! You forgot to mention how dull and pointless his videos are. He seems to randomly point a camera somewhere and after 20 hours of staring thinks theres an alien there. WHY did he video tape electrical wires to begin with?



  • burntfuse, you did the teachings page text right? I can seem to find the post, but I want to make sure I am giving credit to the correct person.

    Someone speak up if I am messing up with credits anywhere.



  •  @SpectateSwamp said:

     Really need to post the 90 pictures that make up the following CamStudio recording. I can see the Cloaked object quite clearly. The cloaked one even made it easy when trying to find the tiny flyer for hi-lighting. Screen reshoots work way way better than camstudio 

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

     

    Dude! Stop that, you are going to get me fired, I'm laughing too much!

     @SpectateSwamp said:


    Do download the original and look at the above frames. The hidden one is quite visible.. For those who want to see.

    "For those who want to see." I love that... Its there if you WANT it to be there... Yea the aliens got cloaking technology. If you think they arent there it works, but if you think they are it fails... oh man almost like the Someone Else's Problem cloak?



  • @dlikhten said:

    Nice! You forgot to mention how dull and pointless his videos are.
     

    I didn't write it, burntfuse did. But if you would like to add on, or change something go ahead and copy and paste it here with your edits, and we can decide if it goes live. In fact, the video editing page needs a write up, feel free to do it if you have the ambition.



  • BTW the page is  "Untitled Page" you might want to edit the headers...

     

     

    Among his other delusions, Doug Pederson is convinced that aliens are everywhere (at least where he lives), and he has taken many videos and photos that supposedly show alien activity. In his own mind, he is an expert alien hunter, enabled by SSDS . If there were actual proof and facts to back up his claims, then this wouldn't be unreasonable. However, what this "evidence" shows is actually many specks in the air that are most likely either leaves blowing in the wind, birds at a distance, or video artifacts. On a side note, he believes that birds can see video artifacts, apparently not understanding that they aren't real-life objects.

    How Doug actually came up with the videos is a mystery in itself. He seems to randomly videotape clouds, wires, and pretty much anything dull and boring. The videos usually have no action, are of inanimate objects (sometimes a bird for excitement), have no commentary to describe what the videos are about and why they are there, and until recently have names which are undescriptive of what is actually in the videos (like SpectateSwamp1). He then seems to stare at it for hours and determines that there are aliens. After this crucial step he takes still frames, uses a red circle to indicate the aliens, and posts a video of his desktop where he does a terrible job of making a slideshow manually, of course without any commentary as to what the video is about.

    Doug Pederson also once recorded a few videos of an anvil-shaped cloud (Towering Cumulus / Stacked Cumulus) which he calls a "mushroom cloud". He seems to think it holds some kind of alien mother ship, and is created by the aliens as visual cover. When asked what was special about the cloud, he responded that "There was one exactly like this one in the same location about 2 weeks later. I think they are there looking for Dino Mummys." Instead of convincing everyone that he is truly the cutting-edge alien hunter he believes he is, this only led to laughter, especially since he has mentioned "Dino Mummies" a few more times since then.

    Another one of Doug Pederson's "alien" videos shows a leaf flying through the air and spinning. He believes it's some kind of alien vehicle, as he calls it the "tobacco leaf flyer". His given reasons are that it flies quickly, changing direction in the middle of the video (he doesn't accept the explanation that wind is behind this, as with all other flying leaves), and that the stem retracts in the video, even though all that happens is that the leaf turns, hiding the stem from view. In short, his alien claims are too ridiculous even for the other people who follow UFO sightings.



  •  Quotes:

     

    The hidden one is quite visible.. For those who want to see. (a few posts ago)

     

    Oh this is my favorite so far!



  • @dlikhten said:

    BTW the page is  "Untitled Page" you might want to edit the headers...
     

    Yeah I had that on the local copy, but I had no committed the changes. Should be fixed now, since I had to commit your edits anyway.

    I added your text, but I made a few edits. I hope you don't mind. Also, I put it at the bottom, makes crediting a little easier, although I agree with your flow above.



  •  @MasterPlanSoftware said:

    @dlikhten said:

    BTW the page is  "Untitled Page" you might want to edit the headers...
     

    Yeah I had that on the local copy, but I had no committed the changes. Should be fixed now, since I had to commit your edits anyway.

    I added your text, but I made a few edits. I hope you don't mind. Also, I put it at the bottom, makes crediting a little easier, although I agree with your flow above.

    Mods were good. The placement is a bit wierd specially if the list of videos is long. Let me "sleep on it" ill come up with a better formed page :)

    Edit: Credit is missaligned on bottom... :P



  • @dlikhten said:

    Edit: Credit is missaligned on bottom... :P

     

    Yeah that is due to my little sidebar 'hack'. Need some time to make that right...



  • @MasterPlanSoftware said:

    @dlikhten said:

    Edit: Credit is missaligned on bottom... :P

     

    Yeah that is due to my little sidebar 'hack'. Need some time to make that right...

     

    Are you using straight up HTML or a CM system?



  • @dlikhten said:

    Are you using straight up HTML or a CM system?
     

    ASP.NET/ XHTML

    Started as a simple starter kit from MS since I didn't have any time to get it up and running. But I still have no time yet. I will get there... one piece at a time hopefully.

     

    Oh, and sorry everyone, I included google ads to the site. Might as well see if I can get compensated for any of this...

    You never know.



  • @MasterPlanSoftware said:

    @dlikhten said:

    Are you using straight up HTML or a CM system?
     

    ASP.NET/ XHTML

    Started as a simple starter kit from MS since I didn't have any time to get it up and running. But I still have no time yet. I will get there... one piece at a time hopefully.

     

    The Apache one is nice, free, and comes with a web-based WYSIWYG editor that works in IE and FF. Or you can only run .NET?

     

    Also try using float css attribute for the menu,  specify a fixed width, and leave content as 100% height 100% width.

    Also then you can scroll content and menu stays.



  • @dlikhten said:

    The Apache one is nice, free, and comes with a web-based WYSIWYG editor that works in IE and FF. Or you can only run .NET?
     

    Not sure what you mean by 'the apache one'. But I have chosen to run .NET. The server is Ubuntu running Apache/Mono/MySQL though.

     

    I will improve all of it soon enough, just throwing up content for now. I never even got the quote posting page up... No time to work on it, too busy on other projects.



  •  http://lenya.apache.org/



  • @dlikhten said:

     http://lenya.apache.org/

     

    Yeah, I have thought about using a wiki or CMS. I am still not sure where I want to go with the site. So I will just get it setup the way I want manually for now.

    Thanks for the link though, I will keep that in mind.



  • @dlikhten said:

    Dude! Stop that, you are going to get me fired, I'm laughing too much!

    This whole thing is getting to me. Last night, I kept talking with a hardcore-redneck impersonation, and my wife told me to stop because I was freaking her out. I kept laughing in-between my talking. Earlier, I came up with a crazy video idea that involves Spectate's various videos, his narration, and my impersonation. I don't know if it would be hilarious.. or just nuts for me spending time on it.



  • @MasterPlanSoftware said:

    @dlikhten said:

     http://lenya.apache.org/

     

    Yeah, I have thought about using a wiki or CMS. I am still not sure where I want to go with the site. So I will just get it setup the way I want manually for now.

    Thanks for the link though, I will keep that in mind.

     

    Sorry I have no experience running CMS. Monday I checked this one out... setup was surprisingly easy: just checkout from svn, 1 build script to run, 1 run script and thats it. Came with a WYSIWYG editor for content.I just think its better than doing HTML manually :P



  • @AbbydonKrafts said:

    I don't know if it would be hilarious.. or just nuts for me spending time on it.
     

    If you do it, and you want me to, I will put it on the site...



  • @AbbydonKrafts said:

    @dlikhten said:
    Dude! Stop that, you are going to get me fired, I'm laughing too much!

    This whole thing is getting to me. Last night, I kept talking with a hardcore-redneck impersonation, and my wife told me to stop because I was freaking her out. I kept laughing in-between my talking. Earlier, I came up with a crazy video idea that involves Spectate's various videos, his narration, and my impersonation. I don't know if it would be hilarious.. or just nuts for me spending time on it.

     

    I think were all turning a tad bit crazy lately from SS... we need to drop SS cold-turkey.



  • @dlikhten said:

    Sorry I have no experience running CMS. Monday I checked this one out... setup was surprisingly easy: just checkout from svn, 1 build script to run, 1 run script and thats it. Came with a WYSIWYG editor for content.I just think its better than doing HTML manually :P
     

    Right, I have used a few CMS systems before. But understand, I am not doing HTML manually. I am just throwing your texts into VS.

    The content isn't really the problem at the moment. The functionality is. I need to define what I want before committing to anything.



  • @MasterPlanSoftware said:

    If you do it, and you want me to, I will put it on the site...

    If I do it, I would definitely want it posted. I just hope it actually comes together the way I'm envisioning it.



  • @dlikhten said:

    we need to drop SS cold-turkey

    Too late. The virus has been planted. We are all infected! Aaaaahhhh!!!



  • @AbbydonKrafts said:

    @MasterPlanSoftware said:
    If you do it, and you want me to, I will put it on the site...

    If I do it, I would definitely want it posted. I just hope it actually comes together the way I'm envisioning it.

     

    I still need to ask the wolf if I can link to Desktop Rain actually.

    Need a new page of user submitted spoofs or something...



  • @MasterPlanSoftware said:

    I still need to ask the wolf if I can link to Desktop Rain actually.

    Need a new page of user submitted spoofs or something...

    It's on YouTube. Obviously you can link, embed.. whatever. User Submissions would be cool. I'm sure we'll have a nice collection of videos and 'shopped images before it's all over.



  • @AbbydonKrafts said:

    It's on YouTube. Obviously you can link, embed.. whatever
     

    Yeah I know, it is in his signature, but I want his permission first.



  • @AbbydonKrafts said:

    If I do it, I would definitely want it posted. I just hope it actually comes together the way I'm envisioning it.
     

    I was thinking of a horror-video where I'm walking out of my appartment and theres a medicine stone wiaitng there for me... I start running from it but it appears in front of me all the time. Then finally theres the "stone camera" which is on the stone as it magically flies and bashes me to death. Then a shot of SS evil laughing and dancing. (all stones will be different in all shots)



  • @dlikhten said:

    (all stones will be different in all shots)
     

    Dont forget the all need to have holes in them...



  • @MasterPlanSoftware said:

    @dlikhten said:

    (all stones will be different in all shots)
     

    Dont forget the all need to have holes in them...

     

    Yes, yes, almost forgot that one. Would have been a waste of time without the holy stones (pun)



  • Vent stack creepy crawler

     Vent stack crawler. The total sequence is 1 and 2/3 seconds. How fast would it be if something was chasing it?

    Action hi-lited scene by scene

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ybF6RVFacs

     Original video is at:

    66mb file view 1:30.06 thru 1:31.25 for the fast moving object on the stack.

    vent crawler

     



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    Vent stack crawler
     

    Haven't you posted this exact same thing about five times now? 



  •  @rc_pinchey said:

    @SpectateSwamp said:

    Vent stack crawler
     

    Haven't you posted this exact same thing about five times now? 

    This one is just to show that he disregards all posts in response.



  •  http://www.spike.com/video/halloween-shining/2408844

    Ok? This is what I think SS behaves like daily.



  •  Spectate, go check out http://www.thestupidestmanonearth.com

    I think you will like the ads at the bottom of the page. I got them to put all sorts of content about dino skin and aliens and video editing on there. Check those sites out, make sure they are ok.

     

    What do you think?



  • A More Collaborative Group I never knew

    @AbbydonKrafts said:

    @dlikhten said:
    Dude! Stop that, you are going to get me fired, I'm laughing too much!
    This whole thing is getting to me. Last night, I kept talking with a hardcore-redneck impersonation, and my wife told me to stop because I was freaking her out. I kept laughing in-between my talking. Earlier, I came up with a crazy video idea that involves Spectate's various videos, his narration, and my impersonation. I don't know if it would be hilarious.. or just nuts for me spending time on it.
    Better be some screen reshoots and SSDS running all over the place.

    What's up with MasterPlanSwamp? He's being awful nice lately. I'm worried about him.

    Re the dino skin sites. I talked to the other 2 Dino Skinnies. They are both going to go look and take some pictures. I'll reshoot the dino mummy skin I have here. I wonder if Dinos have skin like those weird toads. If you licked them you got high?

    Sasquatch Hunter. I know of 2 places where Sasquatch have been sighted. Nobody else knows the crossing spots for these Beasties but me. This summer at least one of these locations will be covered with a camcorder. I'm having so much luck with aliens, dinos, weird birds and stones. I expect to Vid Sasquatch. I have a drawing done right after the most recent of these sightings.

    Besides the above 2 Saquatch sightings. There was a sighting by a postal worker's family maybe 50 years ago. They were on their way to the Okanagan valley in BC for a vacation. The ones riding in the camper saw big stinky cross the road after they had passed. The other well known one was at The beardies reserve (26 July 1998) I saw pictures of the foot casts. That was on my 50th Birthday. Same as Mick Jagger not that feakie KR. Sasquatch is a very powerful sign.

      

     



  • @dlikhten said:

    I was thinking of a horror-video

    Do it! We need all the spoof videos we can get!



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    Better be some screen reshoots and SSDS running all over the place.

    You need to take more video with narration (voice-over -- you talking). I'd like to see some of the dino skins, especially on-site. Why wait until summer to video the site? Go video it and describe (on the video with voice) where you saw Sasquatch and what he was doing, etc. We'd like to see that stuff now. You've shown plenty of the flyers.



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    What's up with MasterPlanSwamp? He's being awful nice lately. I'm worried about him.
     

    In what universe does "creating a website about you called 'www.thestupidestmanonearth.com'" equate to "being nice"?  THE ENTIRE WEBSITE IS AN INSULT TO YOU AND EVERYTHING YOU STAND FOR, UNDERSTAND? 



  • @CodeSimian said:

    UNDERSTAND? 
     

    Clearly not.


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