IRC does some strange things for fun: facebook ads for spaceship engineers & RAGE api

[azurelunatic]

From a few weeks ago around launch time, Facebook ads as aimed at spaceship engineers:

[01:01] <whump_> Mind you, they did this whole development program for less than what Facebook paid for Instagram.
[01:03] <Azz> That is a hilariously surreal point of comparison.
[01:04] <xb95> so beautiful
[01:04] <Azz> Also, I have immediately started trying not to imagine what sort of orbital vehicle Facebook could/would design; I may need to write that traumatic image out of my head.
[01:05] <V_PauAmma_V> (to whump_) But it won't suggest which other launches you should watch based on your preference!
[01:32] <whump_> "one simple trick for orbital flight!"
[01:33] <Azz> "shave 50 seconds off your countdown with these secrets NASA doesn't want you to know!"
[01:36] <V_PauAmma_V> Based on the vehicles you've been rendezvousing with, you may want to rendezvous with Skylab and Mir!
[01:38] <Azz> Enterprise and 2 other friends are fans of Orbiting. Become a fan!
[01:42] <V_PauAmma_V> You/ve been hailed!
[01:45] <Azz> You like the Moon!
[01:46] <Azz> ('cause it is close to us.)


Tonight, hilarious API specs:

[01:13] <DW-Drew|RAGE> Azz: would you say that TomTom's UI passes the caveman test?
[01:13] <Azz> Caveman test?
[01:14] <Azz> Hand it to a caveman, caveman can operate it?
[01:14] <DW-Drew|RAGE> yeah
[01:14] <_Simon_> DW-Drew|RAGE: ah, apparently svox classic is free for the engine, but you pay per voice. But you can try the voices first, so it might be worth it depending on pricing
[01:14] <Azz> Not the model I have.
[01:14] <Azz> However, my model was the low-end model from the end of '08.
[01:14] <DW-Drew|RAGE> (as opposed to the RAGEful "so easy even your mom could do it", even though that actually is the case here)
[01:15] <Azz> The power button has since fallen off.
[01:15] * demigoose would like his to talk like Charlotte Green
[01:15] <DW-Drew|RAGE> I think Eddie Izzard also did a voiceset for TomTom
[01:15] <DW-Drew|RAGE> _Simon_, that does not solve the appspace problem
[01:15] <Azz> RAGEful is sort of like the opposite of RESTful
[01:15] <_Simon_> true
[01:15] <demigoose> :)
[01:16] <demigoose> Or SOAPy
[01:16] <Azz> ... great, now my brain is planning on humorously attempting to spec out a RAGE api.
[01:17] <DW-Drew|RAGE> Azz, yer welcome?
[01:17] * Azz sends DW-Drew and the RAGE api to hEll
[01:17] * RWHell sneaks out a scaly hand and grabs DW-Drew and the RAGE api!
[01:17] <Azz> :-P
[01:17] * RWHell 's depths emit a sudden roar as it expels DW-Drew and the RAGE api. (stayed in Hell for 6 seconds)
[01:17] <DW-Drew|RAGE> HAH
[01:18] * DW-Drew|RAGE sends a botsnack to hell
[01:18] * RWHell sneaks out a scaly hand and grabs a botsnack!
[01:18] * RWHell burps loudly.
[01:18] <DW-Drew|RAGE> PERFECT VICTORY!
[01:19] <DW-Drew|RAGE> (someone not-me QDB that pls?)
[01:20] <Azz> RAGE error messages are only communicated in rage comics.
[01:21] <Azz> If either the client or server drops out when the other was not expecting it to, it throws a grand ol' strop.
[01:23] <Azz> Clients practice incremental whining, where initial requests happen once an hour, stepping up to as fast as physics will allow, until getting an answer or a hard timeout from the server.
[01:23] <Azz> "timeout" here is not "failure to connect in the allotted timeframe" but a "YOU. CORNER. THIRTY MINUTES."
[01:23] <demigoose> Repeated Avian Guest Expulsion
[01:24] <Azz> (server will shit seagulls)
[01:24] <demigoose> (variant of IP over avian carrier)
[01:25] <Azz> (the server seagull shitting protocol is also known as sssh)
[01:25] * demigoose aliases squawk to ping


[02:40] * V_PauAmma_V notes that when said failure to connect happens, server and or client may be iPit-able.
[02:40] <V_PauAmma_V> (whether this is cause or a consequence is left to the reader as an exercise.)
[02:52] <demigoose> What is an iPit?
[02:53] <demigoose> Apple-branded hole?
[02:53] <demigoose> Apple-branded deodorant?
[02:54] <jeshyr> demigoose: Apple-funded strip mining ventures?
[03:29] <V_PauAmma_V> (to demigoose) I was trying for "sendable to hell" vs. "iptable"

Later, in IM:
semanticist: It has to be said, that if the server is shitting seagulls, you've probably been doing 'open air datacentre cooling' wrong.

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[kateshort]

[01:32] "one simple trick for orbital flight!"
[01:33] "shave 50 seconds off your countdown with these secrets NASA doesn't want you to know!"
[01:36] Based on the vehicles you've been rendezvousing with, you may want to rendezvous with Skylab and Mir!

*dies laughing*

That totally made my day. :D

[azurelunatic]

Thanks! We were having fun.