I posted this on alug-social, but it seems unfair to exclude all those who subscribe to main but not to social.
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While we're waiting for the announcement of J's next serious and on-topic contest of brains and programming skill, we shall offer you some light entertainment.
And the tease is that I'm not telling you what the competition is, yet. Just a little clue: it's a Caption Competition.
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and then -
First ALUG competition of 2006 - Part II
The photo which awaits your inventive and witty caption is at http://sfr.itshall.be/stuff/tuff.jpg
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next will come a voting system... when Brett finishes it...
-- sfr
On 18-May-06 sfr wrote:
I posted this on alug-social, but it seems unfair to exclude all those who subscribe to main but not to social.
first email -
While we're waiting for the announcement of J's next serious and on-topic contest of brains and programming skill, we shall offer you some light entertainment.
And the tease is that I'm not telling you what the competition is, yet. Just a little clue: it's a Caption Competition.
and then -
First ALUG competition of 2006 - Part II
The photo which awaits your inventive and witty caption is at http://sfr.itshall.be/stuff/tuff.jpg
next will come a voting system... when Brett finishes it...
How do we submit entries? Ted.
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On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 09:23:08PM +0100, Ted Harding Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote:
On 18-May-06 sfr wrote:
First ALUG competition of 2006 - Part II
The photo which awaits your inventive and witty caption is at http://sfr.itshall.be/stuff/tuff.jpg
next will come a voting system... when Brett finishes it...
How do we submit entries?
Via the magic interface that doesn't yet exist... (alternatively, in the mean time, by posting them to the list :)
I haven't quite written the system yet, it's sort of in a midway state because I've not quite decided how to write it yet (lame, I know ;)
Should be available Saturday evening at the latest!
Cheers, Brett.
On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 09:43:23PM +0100, Brett Parker wrote:
Should be available Saturday evening at the latest!
You do realise if that system isn't live by Saturday the winning caption will be :
"Brett knew he should be writing the caption competition system but decided to have another 7 pints in the pub to help him work out which way he should code it up"
:) Adam
On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 21:43 +0100, Brett Parker wrote:
I haven't quite written the system yet, it's sort of in a midway state because I've not quite decided how to write it yet (lame, I know ;)
Write it ??? Have we not learnt anything from Diebold in the US
I demand a paper ballot !
On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 10:13:23PM +0100, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 21:43 +0100, Brett Parker wrote:
I haven't quite written the system yet, it's sort of in a midway state because I've not quite decided how to write it yet (lame, I know ;)
Write it ??? Have we not learnt anything from Diebold in the US
What? What's the US? That doesn't exist does it? Oh no!
I demand a paper ballot !
Ballot papers to be provided by yourself ;)
*grin*
On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 09:43:23PM +0100, Brett Parker iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk wrote:
On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 09:23:08PM +0100, Ted Harding Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote:
How do we submit entries?
Via the magic interface that doesn't yet exist... (alternatively, in the mean time, by posting them to the list :)
And now, as if by magic, the competition site exists! There's (obviously) some things that I've missed, but I'm sure you guys will tell me what they are as and when :)
Site is at: http://alug.sommitrealweird.co.uk/
Should be *reasonably* easy to work out how to use it, if you've got any problems I can be found on IRC on irc.alug.org.uk in #alug or, alternatively, normally somewhere near the end of an e-mail client! Beware, occasionally I disappear for a few hours at a time (usually sleep... but there have been times where I've been working rather too hard to keep up!).
I have added Eli and the image to the site, but that's *it*... I haven't added all you other lot and your captions... so, if you'd like to register and send them in, that'd be fantastic!
Yes, I know that it asks for e-mail address... it's so that we can contact the winner at the end... though, it doesn't actually verify that address at the moment (I might bolt that in later...).
Thoughts, Bugs, Etc... you know where to look.
Cheers, Brett
On Saturday 20 May 2006 21:45, Brett Parker wrote:
Yes, I know that it asks for e-mail address... it's so that we can contact the winner at the end... though, it doesn't actually verify that address at the moment (I might bolt that in later...).
Thoughts, Bugs, Etc... you know where to look.
But, but, but... It's broken... Entered my details, clicked on "register" and it doesn't !
Guess Brett wants to keep the prizes all for himself...
Regards, Paul.
On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 10:07:14PM +0100, Paul lists@bulldoghome.com wrote:
On Saturday 20 May 2006 21:45, Brett Parker wrote:
Yes, I know that it asks for e-mail address... it's so that we can contact the winner at the end... though, it doesn't actually verify that address at the moment (I might bolt that in later...).
Thoughts, Bugs, Etc... you know where to look.
But, but, but... It's broken... Entered my details, clicked on "register" and it doesn't !
But but but! Joe and David have registered!
Guess Brett wants to keep the prizes all for himself...
Have we ever worked out what they are yet?
Cheers, Brett.
On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 10:31:38PM +0100, Brett Parker iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk wrote:
On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 10:07:14PM +0100, Paul lists@bulldoghome.com wrote:
On Saturday 20 May 2006 21:45, Brett Parker wrote:
Yes, I know that it asks for e-mail address... it's so that we can contact the winner at the end... though, it doesn't actually verify that address at the moment (I might bolt that in later...).
Thoughts, Bugs, Etc... you know where to look.
But, but, but... It's broken... Entered my details, clicked on "register" and it doesn't !
But but but! Joe and David have registered!
Ah ha... I bet I know what went wrong... just added some more code to make it more obvious what it doesn't like :)
Cheers, Brett.
On 20/05/06, Brett Parker iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk wrote:
On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 10:07:14PM +0100, Paul lists@bulldoghome.com wrote:
Guess Brett wants to keep the prizes all for himself...
Have we ever worked out what they are yet?
yes.. well...
first prize is LOTS of Kudos, international fame, and a certificate. and something else
second prize is some kudos, slightly less fame, and er... something else.
hang on a minute, I'll look in the charity-shop box.
Get your competition while it's still warm! http://alug.sommitrealweird.co.uk/
Please vote. Please add more captions. Please vote.
First prize is, as mentioned previously, LOTS of kudos, a certificate, and something else. $something_else is now known to be a small once-used radio-controlled hovercraft. Needs bigger batteries, but still an amusing toy.
And now the important part of this email - please vote. And NOT FOR MY ENTRY. I thank you.
Caption Competition 2006-1 will close next Saturday, i.e. 3 June.
Stilvoid (Steve Engledow) is winning.
On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 22:56 +0100, sfr wrote:
Caption Competition 2006-1 will close next Saturday, i.e. 3 June.
Stilvoid (Steve Engledow) is winning.
Is it me or is there something fishy going on with the ordering of the captions ?
Steve jumped to first place on the list when his votes matched sfr's but Joe didn't jump to the top when his votes matched the other two.
So Steve isn't winning, he is in a 3 way tie.
On 30/05/06, Wayne Stallwood ALUGlist@digimatic.plus.com wrote:
Is it me or is there something fishy going on with the ordering of the captions ?
Steve jumped to first place on the list when his votes matched sfr's but Joe didn't jump to the top when his votes matched the other two.
So Steve isn't winning, he is in a 3 way tie.
Someone has newly voted for Joe's, so we have a tie between Steve and Joe - mine doesn't count.
The rest is a matter of Time.
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 12:24:14AM +0100, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 22:56 +0100, sfr wrote:
Caption Competition 2006-1 will close next Saturday, i.e. 3 June.
Stilvoid (Steve Engledow) is winning.
Is it me or is there something fishy going on with the ordering of the captions ?
Steve jumped to first place on the list when his votes matched sfr's but Joe didn't jump to the top when his votes matched the other two.
Nothing fishy going on at all... here's how the sort works: first, sort by votes second, sort by date submitted third, sort by id
Now, it does that descending, so, if there are 2 people tied, the one that appears first is the one that was submitted *last*. Couldn't think of a nicer way to do the sort, personally!
So Steve isn't winning, he is in a 3 way tie.
Apparently so, at the moment - still time for more people to join the fun though... ;)
Cheers,
On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 00:48 +0100, Brett Parker wrote:
Nothing fishy going on at all... here's how the sort works: first, sort by votes second, sort by date submitted third, sort by id
Now, it does that descending, so, if there are 2 people tied, the one that appears first is the one that was submitted *last*. Couldn't think of a nicer way to do the sort, personally!
Yes I guess that is a bit tricky.
I was thinking that if two captions tied at X votes then the one that got those votes first should be at the top of the list and perhaps be declared the winner (if we didn't want to bother with a tie situation) but I guess that breaks the feature of being able to change your vote (or at least complicates it somewhat)
And the winner is....
Stilvoid (Steve Engledow)
Speech!
Note for Tim: I noticed your caption wasn't entered, but no matter, there is already another caption competition on the pretty new 'ALUG community site at alug.sommitrealweird.co.uk.
On 04-Jun-06 sfr wrote:
And the winner is....
Stilvoid (Steve Engledow)
Speech!
Note for Tim: I noticed your caption wasn't entered, but no matter, there is already another caption competition on the pretty new 'ALUG community site at alug.sommitrealweird.co.uk.
Nice one, the new one! And I don't know why my caption went in twice, since I only clicked "Submit" once. Ah well, look on it as a challenge to the software to merge the votes for duplicate captions (trivial if no votes for either ... )
Ted
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On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 11:02:47AM +0100, Ted Harding Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote:
On 04-Jun-06 sfr wrote:
And the winner is....
Stilvoid (Steve Engledow)
Speech!
Note for Tim: I noticed your caption wasn't entered, but no matter, there is already another caption competition on the pretty new 'ALUG community site at alug.sommitrealweird.co.uk.
Nice one, the new one! And I don't know why my caption went in twice, since I only clicked "Submit" once. Ah well, look on it as a challenge to the software to merge the votes for duplicate captions (trivial if no votes for either ... )
Hmmm. Weird. Ah well, removed the duplicate, will investigate after work what happened :)
Cheers, Brett.
The photo which awaits your inventive and witty caption is at http://sfr.itshall.be/stuff/tuff.jpg
How about:
"New bullshit-seeking missile a complete success"?
Joe x
On Thursday 18 May 2006 20:27, sfr wrote:
I posted this on alug-social, but it seems unfair to exclude all those who subscribe to main but not to social.
"Bill Gates' ICBMs had proved ineffective when launched at the linux community, as he'd miscalculated its size terribly."
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