CodeSimian:

Spectate, you completely ignored my $100 challenge.  I take it you are not interested?  If I don't hear from you soon, I'm taking it off the table.

100 T-Shirt Challenge. I have the finest Pot relate t-shirts on Earth right here. Any gutsy Swampies in the Bay area want to do a write in vote for poor poor old SpectateSwamp at the NetSquared mashup? I have the t-shirts (each accompanied by a mini ToKin stone). 12 or 13 different artistic creations. Mostly XL and XXL 

SpectateSwamp:

I have the finest Pot relate t-shirts on Earth right here

 

Just to think... your nipples can rub up against the same fabric as Spectate's. 

 

Excellent.

MasterPlanSoftware:

BTW you are becoming even more famous. We have over 5,000 pageviews at http://www.thestupidestmanonearth.com and it is growing every day. I know you think that is a good thing, and that is fine, I don't really care. But you should know at least 1,000 people have visited the site, just to leave thinking to themselves "What a fucking retard."   Your parents would be proud.

Nearly 1000 takers on the exe as well. I have no counts on the source but your little site must be helping. Thanks. Now nobody can stop this search from reaching it's potential.

P.S. Everybody with a Tokin Stone shirt is always welcome at the big dances (near Swamp Shack). These dances are rare rare like the t-shirts and Dino Mummy Skin.

MasterPlanSoftware:

SpectateSwamp:

I have the finest Pot relate t-shirts on Earth right here

 

Just to think... your nipples can rub up against the same fabric as Spectate's. 

 

Excellent.

 

 

AAH!!!

 

AARASRAS!!!

AARGHHH!H!!!!

 sweet Lord!!!

someone please kill me so that thought shall abandon my head!! 

SpectateSwamp:

I have no counts on the source but your little site must be helping. Thanks. Now nobody can stop this search from reaching it's potential.

 

See, even people who hate learning can be condescending and arrogant!

(Spectate, I hate to tell you this, but SSDS has already reached its full potential.  This is really as good as it gets.)

CodeSimian:

SSDS has already reached its full potential

 

And the full potential was for zero people to use it, but for the whole world to laugh at it.

 

Congrats Spectate! This is your peak.

CodeSimian:

I bashed Spectate because of his general hatred for learning (especially book learning) and "thinking hard" (i.e. being a geek).  According to him, trying to get an education is a sucker's game.  To me, getting an education can include formal learning, it can include gaining knowledge through experience, and it can also be accomplished by reading books on your own.

One can spend their whole life learning and not doing. Kids are forced into school way too early. Too little play time for our young. Exchanged for school worries and pressures. For what. Honestly are any of your jobs so complex that you couldn't teach a grade 8 Student with a passion how to do it? I don't really hate learning, Just excessive learning. Computing has always been about learning and then it got more complex. Too many widgets to know. With Spaghetti Swamp code I can settle back and enjoy computing. No more learning for me. Maybe a little more play time.

 

spectate, if i give you my address, can you

a] send me a tokin stone tshirt [though i need a size 'small', 'medium' maximum], and

b] curse me?

 

thanks in advance 

PS, MPS, tomorrow i will do some more writing for the site, i find myself with a few minutes a day to kill that i'd like to donate. 

SpectateSwamp:

One can spend their whole life learning and not doing. Kids are forced into school way too early. Too little play time for our young. Exchanged for school worries and pressures. For what. Honestly are any of your jobs so complex that you couldn't teach a grade 8 Student with a passion how to do it? I don't really hate learning, Just excessive learning.

Awesome someone put into words words how I feel about the education system (for what it's worth I've lived in Alberta since I was ~5).

SpectateSwamp:

With Spaghetti Swamp code I can settle back and enjoy computing. No more learning for me. Maybe a little more play time.

I don't think those words mean what you think they mean.

SpectateSwamp:

One can spend their whole life learning and not doing. Kids are forced into school way too early. Too little play time for our young. Exchanged for school worries and pressures. For what. Honestly are any of your jobs so complex that you couldn't teach a grade 8 Student with a passion how to do it? I don't really hate learning, Just excessive learning.

 

Hmm, you should really visit johntaylorgatto.com  (I know you won't).  You might half agree with him - he believes young kids can do a lot more, but the education system is (purposely) holding them back.  But he thinks kids should have more challenges, and learn more, not less.  He suggest home-schooling is a better alternative to the government school system.  (This is where I don't necessarily agree with him.)

SpectateSwamp:

With Spaghetti Swamp code I can settle back and enjoy computing. No more learning for me.

For a while, you were almost starting to make sense.

 

SpectateSwamp knows how to Lunch and Buffett. One of my greatest office tips for all time.

How to buy your co-workers lunch for next to nothing

http://forum.santabanta.com/showthread.htm?t=39874

 

We need a section on the site with words invented or repurposed by SS.  Such as "degreeds".

Funny how he responded to the challenge by trying to sell us his tshirts! 

SpectateSwamp:

SpectateSwamp knows how to Lunch and Buffett. One of my greatest office tips for all time.

How to buy your co-workers lunch for next to nothing

http://forum.santabanta.com/showthread.htm?t=39874

 

And now for something completely different... 

WeatherGod:

SpectateSwamp:

SpectateSwamp knows how to Lunch and Buffett. One of my greatest office tips for all time.

How to buy your co-workers lunch for next to nothing

http://forum.santabanta.com/showthread.htm?t=39874

 

And now for something completely different... 

His first post on that forum too!  Starting with the 'sentence' "Years ago."  And then ending with "garanteed"
But the best part is " Last edited by SpectateSwamp : 25-04-2007 at 06:56 AM. Reason: I'm a poor speller"

CodeSimian:

See, even people who hate learning can be condescending and arrogant!

Sorry about that. You all did good work on the site to get that kind of traffic so quickly. Just one class up here at Swamp Shack and I'll explain my top 3 programs. Simple and powerful. What a starting point for anybody that wants to get into computing, video and the rest... and not having to know too too much.

Years back my old friend Grant C. was in the elevator and another fellow made a simple computer related question. Well Grant started explaining about computing from day one. The Lawer butted in saying. I don't want to know that much.  IT can be a nasty treadmill of knowledge. Step off with Swamp Search.

Those 100 t-shirts are FREE to somebody that will put them to good use. There was one Pot protest in Edmonton where the first 10 in the support group all got one. I've got a lot more types now.

SpectateSwamp:

The Lawer butted in saying. I don't want to know that much.  IT can be a nasty treadmill of knowledge. Step off with Swamp Search.

 

A lawyer actually said that?  I didn't think they stooped quite so low. 

SpectateSwamp:

Honestly are any of your jobs so complex that you couldn't teach a grade 8 Student with a passion how to do it?

 

Yes. My job's sodding hard at times.

 

Although to be fair, I COULD teach a grade 8 student how to do it- but I'd start by teaching them some general language, maths and logic skills and then move on to some specific base knowledge and theory, and then maybe some rudimentary projects so they could practice different ways of working alone and in a team. You know, like the stuff they'd learn if they did some more years at school and then went to university.

You pillock. 

Eternal Density:

SpectateSwamp:

The Lawer butted in saying. "I don't want to know that much". (end quote) IT can be a nasty treadmill of knowledge. Step off with Swamp Search.

 

A lawyer actually said that?  I didn't think they stooped quite so low. 

Sorry. Quotes added

 These guys know Clouds and Aliens. Shoot lots of video of clouds and find aliens.

http://ufocasebook.conforums.com/index.cgi?board=general&num=1206136443&action=display&start=15

 

Apoligies and corrections.  Is our SwampAI learning? 

jakkle:

PS, MPS, tomorrow i will do some more writing for the site, i find myself with a few minutes a day to kill that i'd like to donate. 

 

Excellent. I will be on a business trip, but I will try and be attentive as soon as I get back.

SpectateSwamp:

There was one Pot protest in Edmonton where the first 10 in the support group all got one. I've got a lot more types now.

When? I'll be sick from school that day. (I live in another city, the old capital really).

rc_pinchey:

Yes. My job's sodding hard at times.

 

Although to be fair, I COULD teach a grade 8 student how to do it- but I'd start by teaching them some general language, maths and logic skills and then move on to some specific base knowledge and theory, and then maybe some rudimentary projects so they could practice different ways of working alone and in a team. You know, like the stuff they'd learn if they did some more years at school and then went to university.

You pillock. 

 

Of course, Spectate could teach that kid "everything he needs to know" in a day or two at the SwampShack.  That's right:

(Your years of experience and education) ==  (1 or 2 days of learning at the SwampShack)

Then Swampy wonders why we get all offended by his rants.  Alternatively, he is a sociopath who enjoys angering people for no reason.

Ok, MasterPlanSoftware, sorry it took so long to get around to it but here's something I wrote up in 10 minutes for a "Random Quirks" section. I'm sure it could use some editing, if anyone has ideas. Good enough to go on the site or not?

He doesn't understand 3-dimensional space:

Doug Pederson repeatedly shows videos and images where his flying specks (see Aliens (LINK TO ALIEN TEACHINGS PAGE)) appear near a bird or airplane, and insists that they're hovering around the object, despite explanations that this is due to parallax (LINK TO WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE) and the specks are probably hundreds or thousands of feet away. Even worse, he also stated that the leaf in his "tobacco leaf flyer" video (again, see Aliens) had a retracting stem, even though in the video the leaf was simply turning so that the stem was no longer visible. Although it seems that Doug Pederson still has not quite figured out how to interpret what he sees or how the 3-dimensional world that he has lived in for over 40 years works, it's also possible that these are last-ditch efforts at rationalizing his "alien" videos.

He doesn't understand wind:

Doug Pederson thinks it's strange that the specks in his "alien" videos appear to move quickly and rapidly change direction, even though it has been explained to him that this is exactly how objects (especially leaves) blowing in the wind behave. He also seems to think it is strange that the leaf in his "tobacco leaf flyer" video changes direction halfway through, again despite the fact that wind can, and frequently does, actually change direction. Apparently Doug Pederson has never been outside on a windy day, which is surprising considering how many outdoor videos he shoots.

His writing style would make an English teacher commit suicide:

Doug Pederson's writing style is insane as the man himself. He either uses too much punctuation, splitting his sentences apart into small, incoherent chunks, or too little punctuation, running a few different sentences together, or sometimes even both at the same time. He also personifies everything in sight, referring to "Old Man Copernic" when discussing Copernicus Desktop Search, and talking about "Old Man Neowin" banning him from the Neowin forums. Besides this, he has the annoying habit of inventing childish names for things, referring to a few large rocks he found "Biggie Flatten Em Stones" and calling anyone who uses a simple text search program (such as the classic Unix tool grep) a "Greppler".

He can't carry on a coherent discussion:

Whenever someone on a forum brings up a problem with any of Doug Pederson's teachings (the alien videos, SSDS, etc.) he either creates the most impossible and obviously unrealistic justifications for the way he does things, or he ignores the criticism completely and replies to random parts of a different post with either more "alien" pictures, more rhetoric on the greatness of SSDS, or a work story designed to show his supposed experience and intelligence, and that has nothing to do with anything else being discussed. Anything which proves his view of the world wrong apparently gets skipped over.

Eternal Density:

Apoligies and corrections.  Is our SwampAI learning? 

 

I think Spectate is smarter than he acts.  (For example, he is very good at "playing extra du