MasterPlanSoftware:

bstorer:

CodeSimian:

 

You fool! What is that supposed to prove?  Has SpectateSwamp taught you nothing:

Goddamn it!  I just laughed so hard my wife demanded to know what was so funny.  We really need to get that website in order so she can understand.

 

Me too, except, around here everyone ignores my periodic maniacal laughs.

 

The Real WTF is Spectate parodies himself more effectively than anybody can.  Seriously, if you put one of our joke pics/videos next to a "real" Spectate video, do you think the average Joe could tell which one was fake?

It's like a Turing Test for delusional assholes!

bstorer:

We really need to get that website in order so she can understand.

 

WANTED: Website Copywriter

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Creative writing skills
• Sense of humour
  
• Grade 9 education (optional)
• Obsessive hatred of delusional assholes (must-have!)
  

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

• Must be willing and able to spend 14 h+ per day obsessively surfing geek-related website
  

COMPENSATION:

• Vintage custom-made T-shirts: available sizes XL, XXL; Care instructions: Ironed-on logo (Do NOT wash!) 

CONTRACT LENGTH:

• Indefinite/Until world's end (approx. 2012)/Client expires of natural causes/Client flattened by enormous rock in irony-free accident

CodeSimian:

bstorer:

We really need to get that website in order so she can understand.

 

WANTED: Website Copywriter

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Creative writing skills
• Sense of humour
  
• Grade 9 education (optional)
• Obsessive hatred of delusional assholes (must-have!)
  

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

• Must be willing and able to spend 14 h+ per day obsessively surfing geek-related website
  

COMPENSATION:

• Vintage custom-made T-shirts: available sizes XL, XXL; Care instructions: Ironed-on logo (Do NOT wash!) 

CONTRACT LENGTH:

• Indefinite/Until world's end (approx. 2012)/Client expires of natural causes/Client flattened by enormous rock in irony-free accident

 

Contact CodeSimian: 330123 at Prompt #2 and Jam It.

CodeSimian:

bstorer:

We really need to get that website in order so she can understand.

 

WANTED: Website Copywriter

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Creative writing skills
• Sense of humour
  
• Grade 9 education (optional)
• Obsessive hatred of delusional assholes (must-have!)
  

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

• Must be willing and able to spend 14 h+ per day obsessively surfing geek-related website
  

COMPENSATION:

• Vintage custom-made T-shirts: available sizes XL, XXL; Care instructions: Ironed-on logo (Do NOT wash!) 

CONTRACT LENGTH:

• Indefinite/Until world's end (approx. 2012)/Client expires of natural causes/Client flattened by enormous rock in irony-free accident

 

I would normally think I'm eligible, but then I remember, everyone just passes trhu my rants without even noticing them, so I guess I'm discarded for not having reative writing skills/sense of homour.

aawh, well.. 

SpectateSwamp:

When I left the British Columbia Building corp job. I had a pizza party. One of the attending chefs cooked up a magic mushroom pizza. Everybody was given a warning. Some ignored it.

When I got the boot at Weyerhaeuser I had a 3 Kegger and pizza party. The local Dominos sold me 60 Doughs for $2 apiece. I gave lots away. I told the invited to wear stripes and clean underwear. In case there was a raid. The police notified the landlord that I was having a pizza, beer and pot protest party. The best landlord in the world, had to come the next day to get his shoes.

We can joke about the older generations drugs: LSD, Magic Mushrooms, Pot. But not the stuff of today - Crystal Meth - This concotion is destroying Whitecourts' young

 

 

haha jesus not enough people are quoting this

 

I'd have trouble joking about "the older generations drugs" considering the evidence existing ie you. 

CodeSimian:

You fool! What is that supposed to prove?  Has SpectateSwamp taught you nothing:

 

 

 

LMAO. That's a true work of art. You definitely made my day... :-D

 BTW for anyone interested, at last check the site is up to:

2,878 visits

and 

12,479 pageviews

 

 

 

Finals are here, but if I have time I'll see if I can write up something for the front page as an introduction to the aliens, SSDS, etc.

Again, not to be a jerk about it, but the Conspiracies page is still empty.

burntfuse:

Finals are here, but if I have time I'll see if I can write up something for the front page as an introduction to the aliens, SSDS, etc.

Again, not to be a jerk about it, but the Conspiracies page is still empty.

 

Crap! I need to do that!

Thanks.

bstorer:

CodeSimian:

You fool! What is that supposed to prove?  Has SpectateSwamp taught you nothing:

Goddamn it!  I just laughed so hard my wife demanded to know what was so funny.  We really need to get that website in order so she can understand.

I'm at work right now and having an extremely hard time containing the laughter. My eyes are watering. That was brilliant, CodeSimian!

 

The only one I saw. It could be a airplane. With no real change in direction.
http://www.archive.org/details/Bright_shiny_object_spotted

 

spenk:

Again I fail to understand anything you are saying... If you are on about managing the source or something then I would strongly suggest either installing some real source code control (I would recomend subversion and tortoisesvn) or create a sourceforge project and upload your code there. Jam It!

Why, Lord, why?!  I haven't had a lot of time this week between work and family crap, so the code still doesn't work, but it's at least ten steps better than Swampy.

SpectateSwamp:

It could be a airplane.

I'm pretty sure it's a Tobacco Leaf Flyer. Just look at the retracted stem.

Unfortunately no Rocket Scientist around to show How Fast. This Thing. Is Moving.

SpectateSwamp:

 

The only one I saw. It could be a airplane. With no real change in direction.
http://www.archive.org/details/Bright_shiny_object_spotted

 

 

You fool! What is that supposed to prove?  Has SpectateSwamp taught you noth....

Uh, never mind, Spectate.  Keep up the good work. 

The latest postings have me in stitches.  Especially the job description and duration part.

 I wonder when the SpectatePhenomenon will make it onto the front page.  Perhaps Paula Bean is Swampie's neice or something?  No quack: Jam it!

spenk:

If you are on about managing the source or something then I would strongly suggest either installing some real source code control (I would recomend subversion and tortoisesvn) or create a sourceforge project and upload your code there. Jam It!

 

Unbelievably, Spectate already created a SourceForge project.   Much more plausibly, Spectate has refused to:

• upload code
• grant CVS access
• add documentation
• address bugs
• do any kind of project-related maintenance

Someone even offered to admin the project for Spectate, but the suggestion apparently took a long detour around the Sanity Filter surrounding  Spectate's brain, never to be seen again.

Here it is:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/specatateswamp/

Yes, that is the "correct" spelling of the project name. No, Spectate is not smart enough to correctly spell his own username, which he has been using online for years. 

Or, you could try the vastly superior (and far more disturbing):

 http://sourceforge.net/projects/spectateswamp/

Why pstorer, why? 

CodeSimian:

 http://sourceforge.net/projects/spectateswamp/

Why pstorer, why? 

For Great Injustice!

bstorer:

Why, Lord, why?!  I haven't had a lot of time this week between work and family crap, so the code still doesn't work, but it's at least ten steps better than Swampy.

Good Lord, ViewVC has Visual Basic syntax highlighting? Anyway, this really shows some mad skills in dealing with weird code. And insane code. =)

Speaking of BASIC and syntax highlighting, I managed to find some old BASIC code of mine last month. Surprise! the code is actually readable (to an extent), even when it was, back in the day, just as ambitious as Swampy's code - I was implementing a whole operating system! I had actually heard of this "modular programming" thing back then, even if the language didn't support any of the niceties afforded by modern world. I know, bad excuses. =) Also, note the not-so-heavy use of dating in comments. I at least had an excuse (I didn't know what version control is, and even if I had known, no version control systems whatsoever ran on the computer), I wonder what Swampy's excuse is?

Finally, some Wisdom: What is in Basic that makes people pursue mad dreams? ...hmm, this would make a perfect geek drama film: An Ordinary Person implementing an ambitious application alone, frustrated by people who don't understand them and the programming language that doesn't let them to do anything elegantly. Descent into massive frustrations, leaving nothing but an impossible dream of a better world. (Uh... think of Requiem for a Dream without all of the drugs. =)

I started on VB6... made some interesting and fairly playable 2d tiled games.  Once I realised that using activex controls for each level of the game was a bad idea, and found how to use GDI calls instead of moving image boxes around a form, things went a bit better, though I still had the nasty habit of making a form for each level and then copy-pasting the game logic between each form whenever I added a feature.  Actually, I eventually grew out of that too, and then got a decent level designer (which saved text to a file - each tile had three numbers which either describe what sort of terrain and object were there, or other things depending on what sort of object it was... yeah it was messy).  Then I grew out of using VB.  While I never used classes, I never used gotos either - even then I knew better.  Though I do have vague memories of declaring loop variables globally, and then discovering that this was a bad idea when a loop in a function disrupted the loop in the function that called it.  Anyhow, it was an interesting learning experience, and I had fun without annoying anyone else in the process :D 

CodeSimian:

Or, you could try the vastly superior (and far more disturbing):

 http://sourceforge.net/projects/spectateswamp/

Why pstorer, why? 

My cruelty has no bounds.  And by the way, whoever submitted a bug and a feature request (I'm looking at you CodeSirnian), they've both been addressed and closed.  Which, for those who didn't post them, means that I've added the VB5 code and project file.  I have no means of checking that they actually work, though.

Eternal Density:

I started on VB6... made some interesting and fairly playable 2d tiled games.

I'd always wanted to make my own game since VB3. I never did get anything working, though. *shrug*

bstorer:

My cruelty has no bounds.

Obviously. On another note: Your tag exceptions are unacceptable. You're tossing out 3- and 4-character ones. Tsk, tsk.

AbbydonKrafts:

bstorer:

My cruelty has no bounds.

Obviously. On another note: Your tag exceptions are unacceptable. You're tossing out 3- and 4-character ones. Tsk, tsk.

Actually, I once saw a 2-character one.  It's intentional, though, so that there's less clobbering as more people use that tag attack.

bstorer:

It's intentional, though

Ahh... ok. Eventually I'll add in module names. *eg*