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Posted: Thu 03 Mar 2011, 12:30
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Idea: adopt ROX-Filer
Subject description: Why don't we maintain (or fork) it?
Hey guys, at the moment I'm messing with ROX-Filer. I took a look at the
git repo
and it seems that development is kinda ... dead. The last commit dates back to
So here's what I was thinking about - why don't we set up a git repo and adopt ROX-Filer? The mtPaint maintainer is a puppian and it's great - he fixed many bugs and made mtPaint both a better application and a better application
for Puppy
. Having the ROX-Filer maintainer on the Puppy side of the force could be a great addition to the Puppy developers team.
Well, here are some examples for improvements I already made. They're very easy to implement because the ROX-Filer code is well-documented and in good shape.
- I replaced "Send To..." with "Open With...", that's something Barry does too.
- I removed the message you see when you run ROX-Filer as root - again, something Barry removes.
-A fix for the squashed log problem:
-I replaced "Set Run Action" with "Set Default Handler" to make it easier to understand:
- ... And I bumped the version number, of course:
The future prospects of a Puppy-maintained ROX-Filer are endless. I believe it's the best file manager around and definitely the best choice for the Puppy 6.x series (PCManFM and Thunar fans, please don't kill me) ... because it's the fastest and smallest file manager in the solar system. And hey, ROX-Filer is more than a just file manager, it's
So ... post your ROX-Filer patches and tweaks here, maybe we can make ROX-Filer even better together
My ROX-Filer patches
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Posted: Thu 03 Mar 2011, 15:25
Post subject: Re: Idea: adopt ROX-Filer
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Iguleder wrote:
- ... And I bumped the version number, of course:
You forgot one simple thing:
rename it
. I don't think Dr. Leonard and friends would appreciate being asked about rox-filer-2.11 bugs.
And your "open with" patch is even worse than Barry's. Done properly (like Nathan did with 2.6.1) it is two orders of magnitude bigger.
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Post subject: Re: Idea: adopt ROX-Filer
Subject description: Why don't we maintain (or fork) it?
Dougal wrote:
You forgot one simple thing:
rename it
I'm pretty sure he won't mind that. Moreover, I'm pretty sure he won't mind letting someone else maintain ROX-Filer.
Dougal wrote:
And your "open with" patch is even worse than Barry's.
Wow. My intention was to change the string, that's all ... and the patch achieves that goal.
And by the way, let me quote Barry (from
Edit ROX-Filer/src/menu.c:
change "Send To..." string to "Open With..."
Now tell me why (and
how come
) it's "worse than Barry's.".
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I would prefer a small browser making both (have a look to BASIC linux baslin please: links does it, is fast, little and discret: no advertising and other terrible new thing that Google likes) so Puppy would always have an integrated browser but let free for users to install the prefered big brother they would prefer for her graphical satisfaction and amusement
it would be better to develop on the trio jwm+links+didiwiki making a real good basic file and internet browsing small graphical environment as well as a good basic writing system able to be used in both console and graphic windows (including cups) in standard, bold, italic and underlined writing (better than other writing systems for console!), directly available in a lot of languages (reduces the need or demand of translations in the basic version of Puppy) etc... Please output of didiwiki directly in /root/documents as open text! Perhaps it would be possible to renounce also to install Abi. a lot of user really prefer LibreOffice and the use of both as *.sfs is very simple and good! text processing don't often need really speed... how can write as fast in new computers!
the idealists interesting to produce puplets can decide after that to add or interchange this basic equipment and make her puplet different and more attractive in optical view and perhaps performance.
this would contribute to let the basic and main distro of puppy be as slim as possible and not to grow and grow and grow
second choice and eventuality would be a konqueror embedded but actualized (I know, there is no konqueror embedded in the new KDE4 and the part file browsing is now matter of an external program)
(KDE applications have often a better adaptation for more effective working with the ability to divide the only one screen to view and process 2 different point of a document and / or of 2 different documents to mix or compare)
a good thing would be a puppy with no texts and all in symbolic in the menus... only one version for all the planet!
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ideas concerning the not very useful use of CD to install and reinstall puppy: we are producing more unused plastic rests als we use really and it would be easy to avoid it!
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Posted: Thu 03 Mar 2011, 21:34
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ROX-Filer has one annoying bug with GTK > 2.16. I reported it to the ROX bug-reporter recently.
I also reported this bug in my blog:
One of the focus problems was fixed by the founder of ROX, Thomas Leonard:
The same principle could probably be applied to the remaining focus problem.
Here is where I posted my bug report:
...I have found in the past that it takes a very long time before anyone responds to bug reports. Perhaps Thomas Leonard needs to be contacted directly.
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Posted: Fri 04 Mar 2011, 00:01
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I'm messing with ROX-Filer
Hope your cold gets better Igu
There was a time Puppy did not use ROX
What on earth did we do? I remember we had file managers?
Thunar has been suggested but is not as powerful as Rox
(from every implementation I have seen)
Oui may well be right
just type
into the URL bar of a browser
and you have a file manager
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By all means improve Rox, with dual location
creating links to desktop and whatever Puppy integration you can think of . . . sounds good to me
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Posted: Fri 04 Mar 2011, 00:03
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For what it's worth, there's a feature I'd like to see included in all file managers. It seems to me that a file manager ought to be able to show a tree view of the subdirectories in a directory, without showing any files. Like
does, only with a better looking font.
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Subject description: What ROX your boat?
I very much agree with you, Flash -
ROX needs at least a Directory Tree option - not primarily for, but at the very least incredibly helpful for users from different OS backgrounds. (Multi-panels would be nice too but perhaps overdoing it.) Indeed, within Puppy my main turn-off always has been ROX's "babied-up" icon-default display as it strikes me as patronizing to users new to Puppy and Linux as a whole. I do appreciate what ROX has hidden under its hood. However, for my part, without tree view ROX frequently has me barking up the wrong sub-directories and I am much happier using Thunar or Konqueror.
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BarryK wrote:
The same principle could probably be applied to the remaining focus problem.
Maybe this?
diff -rupN rox-filer-orig//ROX-Filer/src/menu.c rox-filer//ROX-Filer/src/menu.c
--- rox-filer-orig//ROX-Filer/src/menu.c 2011-03-04 10:38:34.000000000 +0200
+++ rox-filer//ROX-Filer/src/menu.c 2011-03-04 10:38:51.000000000 +0200
@@ -1674,7 +1674,7 @@ static void show_send_to_menu(GList *pat
send_to_paths = paths;
- g_signal_connect(menu, "unmap_event", G_CALLBACK(menu_closed), NULL);
+ g_signal_connect(menu, "selection-done", G_CALLBACK(menu_closed), NULL);
popup_menu = menu;
show_popup_menu(menu, event, 0);
I also attached the vanilla sources from yesterday and my arsenal of patches:
- A version patch - 2.11 instead of 2.10
- A fix for the squashed log window problem
- "Open With..." instead of "Send To..."
- "Set Default Handler" instead of "Set Run Action"
- A default settings patch, makes all the traditional Puppy settings the default
- A patch that removes the warning when you run it as root
- The experimental focus problem fix
EDIT: the patch fixed one small problem, grrrr. But when you right-click the desktop and right-click a window that lost focus, the window manager menu appears, still.
EDIT 2: here's another attempt ...
diff -rupN rox-filer-orig//ROX-Filer/src/menu.c rox-filer//ROX-Filer/src/menu.c
--- rox-filer-orig//ROX-Filer/src/menu.c 2011-03-04 10:58:49.000000000 +0200
+++ rox-filer//ROX-Filer/src/menu.c 2011-03-04 10:58:56.000000000 +0200
@@ -1674,7 +1674,7 @@ static void show_send_to_menu(GList *pat
send_to_paths = paths;
- g_signal_connect(menu, "unmap_event", G_CALLBACK(menu_closed), NULL);
+ g_signal_connect(menu, "selection-done", G_CALLBACK(menu_closed), NULL);
popup_menu = menu;
show_popup_menu(menu, event, 0);
diff -rupN rox-filer-orig//ROX-Filer/src/pinboard.c rox-filer//ROX-Filer/src/pinboard.c
--- rox-filer-orig//ROX-Filer/src/pinboard.c 2011-03-04 10:58:49.000000000 +0200
+++ rox-filer//ROX-Filer/src/pinboard.c 2011-03-04 11:01:11.000000000 +0200
@@ -1382,6 +1382,9 @@ static void forward_to_root(GdkEventButt
XSendEvent(gdk_display, xev.window, False,
ButtonPressMask | ButtonReleaseMask, (XEvent *) &xev);
+ /* Iguleder: send a button release event */
+ XSendEvent(gdk_display, xev.window, False,
+ ButtonReleaseMask, (XEvent *) &xev);
#define FORWARDED_BUTTON(pi, b) ((b) == 2 || \
I think the problem is the root window hack - it doesn't send a release event so it remains in focus.
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Post subject: Re: Idea: adopt ROX-Filer
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Iguleder wrote:
I'm pretty sure he won't mind that. Moreover, I'm pretty sure he won't mind letting someone else maintain ROX-Filer.
Have you asked??
Rox development is slow, but then it's a "mature" project and people are generally happy with it. And assuming things about a person you have no idea about is idiotic.
My best advice would be what Amigo said to people when they talked about "taking Puppy apps to the world": don't embarrass yourselves.
It's been years since Barry announced his retirement, yet the "community" still maintains a kindergarten mentality and keeps hanging onto his coat-tails, expecting him to take care of everything, and you talk about taking over something like Rox (which is used by many distros)?
And just for the record, Dmitry (Groshev, aka wjaguar, MtPaint maintainer) is not a "puppyan", just keeps an eye on the forum for bug reports, just like Enrico (Tröger, aka Redeye, Geany developer) used to do. And the amount of MtPaint development was probably the result of Dmitry taking over the project and adding all kinds of things he wanted (MtPaint development is also minimal these days, Dmitry probably spends his time taunting PJ over at Groklaw or something...).
And I find it laughable to talk about taking over a project when your patches amount to a bunch of little changes of the kind distros make to most of the packages they ship.
Even if you were to take over development, those changes might warrant bumping the version to 220.127.116.11
(and I wouldn't try sending the log-viewer patch to the developers... setting an arbitrary size is not too sensible)
Dougal wrote:
And your "open with" patch is even worse than Barry's.
Wow. My intention was to change the string, that's all ... and the patch achieves that goal.
And where, pray tell, will the user find the configuration/customization files for "Open With"?? Why, in the SendTo directory, of course!
And if they look at the documentation and see mention of a "Send To" menu option and don't find it?
Great way to fill the forum with more confused users.
And by the way, let me quote Barry (from
Edit ROX-Filer/src/menu.c:
change "Send To..." string to "Open With..."
Now tell me why (and
how come
) it's "worse than Barry's.".
When I looked at Barry's patch I seem to recall him changing
lines, while you changed only one (when in fact 142 lines should be changed).
Comprende, gringo?
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I am one of those who think even a small idea can lead to something good.
Sometimes we makes mistakes, but I find it better that you actually do something.... instead of stay away in fear of doing something wrong.
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Dougal and Iguleder get into a spat and the forum loses two of its more competent developers. Why does this apparently have to happen?
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Perhaps this is an issue of "terminology"
To attempt to "take over maintaining" a mature project like Rox, which is a mainstay for like 1/3 of the distros around, would indeed, be an insane challenge..
However, to release and maintain a "Puppy customized" version, like Patriot did with JWM, (WITH Joes permission and co-operation) could be an asset to some users...
That said, remember: Small changes, even those that just seem "cosmetic" ie changing "Send to" to "Open with" can have reprocussions down the road.....
Edit: BTW...IMHO Rox is severely under-rated, and has unmatched functionality, (Much like MTpaint)
If you just work with it a bit....The right click menu eliminates the need for the "Tree`s" for me, and using cloned windows, batch renaming, and a host of other functions, make Rox the one for me...And for Puppy I hope....
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Dougal and Iguleder get into a spat and the forum loses two of its more competent developers.
What spat? I was merely informing him he's talking nonsense.
Distros always patch apps to make little fixes (that's why the Debian sid package for rox is rox-filer-2.10-2 -- the "-2" means it's the second version of the Debian patch for rox-2.10), but that has nothing to do with forking -- and they certainly don't assume that the developer will just hand the project over to them.
And the fact is that the patches above do things technically
. Nathan did a proper job of patching rox -- all that was needed was to look at what he did and adapt it to the new version.
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Yeah, Thomas Leonard has spent a good portion of his life on ROX, so don't be too cavalier about what his intentions might be. If I understand correctly, most of that work was done while he was a student. Now, real-life issues have intervened -and his contributions to Open Source are now mostly in his important role at freedesktop.org.
I agree totally with dougal in that maintaining a patchset for Puppy's ROX is a much better idea -much less likely to step on anyone's toes. Even there, I already see a penchant to destroy a lot of what is good about rox by over-doing it with puppy-specific (read 'poorly-thought-out') hacks -using the latter word in its' worst sense. I'm pretty sure that T. Leonard would not want to turn over his 'baby' to someone with such tendencies...
Long ago I decided to hack around on the old GTK1 version of rox and I still use the result exclusively. Every once in a while I fix some warning or error or back-port a feature from later versions. I've even thought about backing up to a still older version (rox-1.0-ish) because back then it was using imlib for graphics instead of gtk-pixbuf. The idea would be to use it primarily as the pinboard a and not necessarily as the main file manager. Very lightweight -even compared to the 1.2.2 version my patches are based on.
Unfortunately, rox has never been widely-adopted by the main distros(in contrast to what was said earlier), so high-quality bug-fixes and fearure patches are hard to come by. Fortunately, there are still a couple of the main rox developers who are still active on the mailing list. One of the big problems with the whole project was that it got 'diluted' from trying to implement some really big changes in the way software is delivered - zero-install and others.
The tree-view idea is, of course, not new. Thomas always resisted that as it is not RISC-like. I would also have like to see it as an option, but my gtk skills are still not up to doing that myself.
In contrast to the way that puppy uses rox, I have concentrated on using it, and developing AppDirs for it, the way it was intended --as a super drag-n-drop environment. And, even though I have created many AppDirs which are like the original rox AppDirs which include their sources right in the app, it is quite a chore to create them and one could never keep up with active projects with this approach. Still, sophisticated AppDir wrappers for normally-packaged programs are easy to produce and keep the changes in the source code isolated from the AppDir wrapper..
The other concept that is key to rox is the idea that the user knows best where his files are and not his programs. What I mean is this: normal OS usage has you find and open a program, then use the programs' file-chooser to find and open the file that you want to work on. This means that the user must know well how to navigate that dreaded underlying directory structure. A proper rox desktop can easily isolate the casual user from that directory structure -the user already knows where his files are since they are in his $HOME -right where he created, downloaded or saved them. It's a snap for him to find the file he wants to work with and then drop the file on the application he needs for that file. Of course, the mime-types-to-actions associations are nice for many cases --I mean being able to just click the file to have it opened by the desired app. But there are many cases where you need to do different things with the file -like an html page that you might either view or edit. Same with image files. This is where an AppDir wrapper can provide a more intelligent alternative. As an example, I have an AppDir which is for creating and extracting archives. If you drop an archive on it, then it executes commands which de-compress the arcive. If you drop a file or a directory on it, then it executes commands which let you create an archive or compressed file. Doing this using mime-helpers would be more awkward, and avoids me having or needing to create arbitrary file-to-program associations.
I welcome seeing any patches which fix anything, or create other possibilities for rox -I might even get around to adapting them for my old version -it's still getting better after all these years!
One more thought and then I'll shut up (for the moment LOL). When you create patches, limit each patch to a single bug-fix or feature instead of rolling a bunch non-related changes together. Espcially if you start doing whie-sapce-only or coding-style changes. This means a little more work for you, but it will make your job much easier when adapting the patch for later versions or trying to merge changes from other patches. It also makes them more instructive for other who might use your patch to figure out how to create another patch for a similar fix or feature.
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PINE TWP, Mercer County — A Grove City woman was killed Tuesday morning when a truck struck her while she jogged in this township just north of the Butler County line, state police said.
Megan M. Kays, 22, was jogging north on Airport Road about 10:05 a.m. and was attempting to cross over Route 58 when she was hit by a Peterbilt box truck traveling east on Route 58.
Police said the front of the truck hit Kays,
She was taken to the Grove City Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead at 10:40 a.m., police said.
Veronica L. Salusky, 27, of Emlenton, Venango County, who was driving the commercial truck, was not injured.
Trooper Donald Bookwalter said that while his investigation continues it did not appear that Salusky was at fault. She was not speeding, he said.
The road was dry, and there was not much traffic at the time of the accident, according to investigators.
Kays was a senior marketing major at Clarion University of Pennsylvania.
Last year she was awarded the 2012 Marketing Department Scholarship based on academic achievement, said university spokeswoman Tina Horner.
Kays was a 2009 graduate of Grove City High School, where she was a standout on the school's swimming team.


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A woman took a photo of the ocean on the boardwalk at Rockaway beach in the Queens borough of New York early Monday.
A steady wind from Hurricane Sandy swept through Hatteras Island, N.C.
People talked outside a boarded up Congress Hall Hotel in Cape May, N.J.
Mike MacLelland II and his father boarded up his winter rental cottage on Turner Road in Scituate Sunday.
Hurricane Sandy was moving toward the northeast Sunday night with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph.
Dirt Murray secured his houseboat in preparation for Hurricane Sandy in Gloucester on Sunday.
The Boston area is expected to get 1 to 2 inches of rain, and 1 to 3 inches could fall in Worcester and further west.
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Jerry McKay worked to secure a houseboat in Gloucester.
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Turbulent waves didn't deter one fisherman in Montauk, N.Y., on Sunday.
Two women braved the strong winds in Virginia Beach, Va.
Molly White covered up at a beach in Frankford, Del.
People took shelter in a high school gymnasium in Lewes, Del.
The subway system in New York City was shut down on Sunday night.
Con Edison workers placed sandbags to cover power vaults in New York.
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People in Atlantic City, N.J., waited at the convention center to be evacuated.
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Judy Collins Live at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Celebrating Fifty Years of Timeless Music Performing in front of the museum's Temple of Dendur, the singer/songwriter showcases hits from throughout her career and covers classics by her contemporaries. Accompanying herself on guitar and piano, Collins is backed by a band and the setting of the Egyptian temple. She includes stories that trace her 50-year career.G
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Albert King with Stevie Ray Vaughan In Session In 1983, legendary blues guitarist Albert King and "little Stevie," the "skinny kid" who sat in when King played in Texas, combine legendary forces in this joint performance for the TV show called In Session. The performance includes short audio segments of the banter between King and the late Vaughan and is the only known recording of the two musicians together. Songs include "Stormy Monday," "Pride and Joy," "Blues at Sunrise," "Match Box Blues" and "Don't Lie to Me."G
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Friday, January 6, 2012
Deer crossing
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Don't fuck with Bambi.
- January 6, 2012 at 9:39 PM
You have found someone who just encountered my biggest fear. Getting mauled by the wildlife while running.
- January 6, 2012 at 9:41 PM
I once saw a moose run into a moving car. There was a lot of damage. To the car.
- January 6, 2012 at 9:42 PM
sounds very similar to this http://digitaljournal.com/article/312615 - just a different continent...
- January 6, 2012 at 10:29 PM
- Silliyak said...
He wasn't a grandpa and they weren't reindeer I hope, I sense a new holiday season sequel song coming.
- January 6, 2012 at 11:03 PM
I totally thought you were commenting on the deer parts lady.
Is there some kind of deer rebellion going on these days?
(Sorry. I can't remember how to make a proper link.)
- January 6, 2012 at 11:17 PM
- Andrew_M_Garland said...
Mountain bicycle rider hit by a deer - Video 1:15
- January 7, 2012 at 1:04 AM
Grandpa got run over by a (rein)deer
- January 7, 2012 at 6:29 AM
- Old MD Girl said...
I hope those deer were insured.
- January 7, 2012 at 7:59 AM
- Don said...
I worked for a client in New Hampshire some years back, and they held a safety briefing for we contract workers. One of the things that they warned us about were deer running in front of vehicles. A greater danger, but rarer, were moose. Car versus deer, usually not fatal to driver. Car versus moose, the driver has a much better chance of being seriously injured or killed.
The one accident that one of us had with a moose, the pickup truck was destroyed, and he was still in rehab when my assignment ended. It made an impression.
- January 7, 2012 at 8:45 AM
YIKES.....poor guy!!! Wouldn't you think they would be scared of him and run away instead of RIGHT into him!?
- January 7, 2012 at 10:15 AM
Man... I can't imagine getting dispatched for that call... Would take the cake. Sad he's in critical condition.
- January 7, 2012 at 10:34 AM
Watch out for those hooves.
- January 7, 2012 at 11:14 AM
- SMHDVM said...
My undergraduate college had more deer than humans...outnumbered us 3:1. The deer were very used to us but not tame. It was common to see huge herds of deer when you walked to class. My horse used to herd deer in the pasture. They were so used to humans that they would wait about 20 feet away when I fed the foals. The deer and the turkey would fight over the left over feed.
However, if you got between one or two and their herd, it was pretty dangerous. One of my friends was only about 4'9" and when a deer got caught on the quad between class change, she was the shortest one so the deer jumped over her head, winging her in the process. She was lucky...just a bit taller and she would have a broken neck.
- January 7, 2012 at 12:42 PM
- kdoglady said...
This happened near me. The news said he waited for 12 deer and then began walking again. He didn't see the next three and one hit him. Poor guy is 65 and still in ICU. Hope he makes it.
I knew someone else that died after a deer came through the windshield and kicked him in the throat.
- January 7, 2012 at 2:06 PM
Moose was God's draft copy trying to make a horse. He couldn't throw it out so he left it as is and went on to make a much better animal.. the horse.
- January 7, 2012 at 2:47 PM
- Loren Pechtel said...
Oh deer!
- January 7, 2012 at 6:01 PM
Should have been wearing dog tags, or Medic Alert, or Meat Tags (tattoo) or something identifying. "We have a pt, "John Doe"..."
- January 7, 2012 at 9:01 PM
- Nekura said...
I read somewhere that moose kill the most humans every year out of all other animal species. I suppose deer may apply. Did you see that youtube video of a deer attacking the hunter?
- January 7, 2012 at 9:07 PM
Back when I worked in Yosemite National Park, none of the Black Bear had killed any humans (there may have been 1 or 2 since I left); but there had been several fatalities by the Mule Deer.
Guy puts his baby daughter on the deer's back to take her picture.
Another guy was feeding deer potato chips, the bag ran out, the deer wanted more, he was struck in the chest and killed.
Please do NOT feed the wildlife in our national parks; it is unhealthy for them, and dangerous for you.
wv: asper ==> short for someone with asperger's syndrome.
- January 7, 2012 at 11:22 PM
Moose are a darker shade of dark on a dark road. If you must collide with one, aim for the hind quarters.
- January 8, 2012 at 12:08 AM
- ThorMD said...
A couple of months ago, my hubby walked out of our house, and before the motion detecting lights came on, he was run over (tackled) by a deer who was spooked by him walking outside. He didn't even see it coming. Luckily he's an ex-football player so just 'went with" the tackle. But he's lucky he didn't get a hoof or antler to the face.
- January 8, 2012 at 7:22 AM
OMG These stories are horrible and tragic!!!! :( :(
- January 8, 2012 at 7:32 AM
Last year had a deer charge out of the brush beside the road and strike the side of my car. We weren't hurt, but the wheel well area was crumpled in and couldn't drive the car. The deer got up and kept going.
- January 8, 2012 at 4:53 PM
- Moose said...
I knew someone once who tried to kill a deer with a rabbit.
(A VW rabbit)
- January 8, 2012 at 9:27 PM
- Debbie said...
Those of us who live in frontier or rural areas are not surprised. Worse during the rut...the males are so "pre-occupied" that they can run in front of you and NEVER see you if they are in hot pursuit!
- January 9, 2012 at 1:05 AM
Deer version of "thinning the herd".
- January 9, 2012 at 9:29 AM
- OldSquid said...
Reminds me of the story of the guy who asked Ohio police to move the deer crossing sign to another location since deer and cars where getting hurt/damaged on the highway to Cedar Point. We had a herd of 12 or so around us and sometimes they will just bolt across the road without regard to traffic.
- January 9, 2012 at 11:06 AM
- Jono said...
Anon 8:01, John Doe would be a transgendered deer, right?
- January 9, 2012 at 2:13 PM
- Shalom said...
The difference between hitting a deer and a moose with your car is that if you hit a deer, you get him with the grille/radiator and destroy your car, but can remain uninjured. A moose is so much taller than a deer that when you hit them, the hood of the car goes right under the belly and you get him with the windshield instead.
wv: "alicklu". Has something to do with salt licks?
- January 9, 2012 at 10:50 PM
@ Andrew 12:04.
I had to watch that video since I almost got smoked by a deer out mountain biking one time. Jumped across the trail in front of me just missing my front tire. Scary to see what could have happened if he hadn't just missed me.
- January 9, 2012 at 11:27 PM
Looks like a yak in bucks clothing to me...
- January 10, 2012 at 4:57 AM
quite common in Canada actually!
- January 18, 2012 at 9:12 PM


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Open Standards are up there with Jolt Cola as a "good thing" in computing: much better to use a carefully crafted specification lovingly honed by groups of world class professionals than a homespun solution. For software purchasers, open standards seem to be the ideal for which to aim. Open standards imply multiple solutions from which to choose companies competing for business. This competition feeds demand, which in turn increases the size of market, and thus enables still further competition. It would appear to be all good, until a closer examination of the politics and realities of open standards, which suggest a much less ideal motivation. Here are some recent examples of what I mean.
Incomplete Standards
The Adobe PDF standard, ISO 32000, was a fast-tracked standard carefully crafted to offer advantages to Adobe. It is a classic example of control via incomplete specification.
The ISO PDF specification tells you how a PDF document is structured and it helps Adobe to broaden market appeal and demand. However, there are lots of associated technologies for PDF, which Adobe firmly controls and profits from products such as Acrobat — that are undocumented.
Some of the features within the PDF specification are specifically constructed to allow Acrobat to provide special features, but only for people who make their PDFs using Adobe software. Parts of the PDF specification, such as XFA and U3D, are not actually part of the ISO specification, yet implicitly they are part of PDF. Adobe regularly publishes updates and clarifications that are not vetted by any industry body.
For developers, the ISO PDF specification is the standard. However, the commercial reality of the world is that if Acrobat displays it, then it is a valid PDF. There is no open standard for Acrobat. To quote Duff Johnson of the ISO committee: "There is still no alternative to Adobe Reader when it comes to validating third-party software. As the vice-chair of ISO 32000, that bothers me, and if you're relying on the idea that PDF is indeed an international standard in your organization, it should bother you, too."
Restricting information and incomplete specifications are all ways to control access to the market.
Impossible Specifications
Microsoft put forth Microsoft Office Open XML as an open standard. Open XML is also a fast-tracked ISO standard and the specification is terribly Microsoft oriented. It is an example of control via practically impossible specification.
In theory, the ISO Open XML specification provides an entry to competition with Microsoft Office. However, the standard is a behemoth seven thousand pages of committee-oriented text. It is just the kind of thing that large companies like Microsoft are good at handling. It is just the kind of thing that groups of inspired and dedicated programmers their competition find completely unworkable. To quote Georg Greve, president of the Free Software Foundation Europe, "Open XML is unnecessarily bloated, partly because it packs in unrelated features that lead users to other Microsoft applications…This is a classic vendor lock-in strategy."
Nevertheless, the specification was fast tracked through the ISO process to a chorus of complaint and unhappiness about vote buying, pressure by Microsoft, and conflicts of interest. By ensuring standards are highly complex and tied into your existing products, companies can restrict access to the market.
It is not only corporations that want control governments do, too. It is now known that the NSA campaigned for years to try and keep encryption levels low to allow them to monitor worldwide communications. We now also know that the NSA actively campaigned to undermine the effectiveness of encryption algorithms standardized by groups such as the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
As a result, NIST is now recommending that certain algorithms not be used and is undergoing a complete review of all its standards.
Patent Loading
Participants on standards bodies are often required to license their intellectual property in a reasonable way. But what is reasonable to IBM may not be quite so reasonable to a small startup. The people who are best placed to deal in these rights are the developers of the standards themselves companies that can efficiently swap and cross-license their various technologies in a manner unavailable to everyone else.
Professor Joel West at the Keck Graduate Institute has studied the ways in which companies use open standards to produce competitive advantage. In cases like the development of 3G standards, major players within the industry forced the adoption of a patent policy for the standard that allowed them to dominate the industry. Indeed, many of these firms filed increasing numbers of relevant patents during the standardization process a strategic policy designed to maintain control and deter rivals.
Patents can even be surreptitiously hidden in standards. Companies such as Rambus have business models that are crucially dependent on licenses from patented technologies and have in the past been accused of lacing standards with patents for later ambush.
Obstruction of the Process
Even if you don't intend to license your patents you can still use them to your advantage. Back in 2011, Opera developer Haavard Moen accused Apple of bad faith: "Apple is at it again. Another year, another attempt by Apple to block open standards using patents."
Apple had lots of relevant experience and intellectual property regarding the W3C touch events specification. It would have been only natural for the company to participate in the group setting touch standards. But it declined to do so. Each time the standards body came close to release, Apple would disclose a patent that might be relevant, triggering an inevitable and sizable delay.
Had Apple participated in the group, it would have been required to disclose all relevant patents early and offer free licensing for the work covered in the specification. So, while Apple did not participate in and could not control the touch standard, the effect was that it was blocked repeatedly by the company's actions.
Standards Bodies
Both PDF and OpenXML are now standardized via the ISO. Is there perhaps a reason for this? Certainly, the fast-track procedures to accept existing de facto standards can be seen as little more than a rubber stamp on corporate standards; that is, ISO as a brand rather than anything substantial.
To be fair, the ISO does not refer to its standards as being open they are just standards. The ISO requires that members be prepared to license their intellectual property in a reasonable way, but it makes no specifications about what is reasonable.
Standards bodies like ISO churn out standards without too much reflection on whether they are useful or needed or practical or any good.
Ultimately bodies like the ISO provide an impression of openness rather than any guarantee it's more style than substance which is probably exactly what corporations like Adobe and Microsoft want.
Everyone wants to have open standards and no one has a monopoly on the term, so most people will call their standards "open" even if that only means that they are free to download.
The crucial aspect of standards to companies are that they have to make their standard closed enough that they maintain control of it, but open enough that it becomes adopted. These things are not black or white open or closed rather, shades of gray.
Do not expect open standards to be 100% wholesome goodness. Companies often abuse this process: They have agendas far beyond and far more closed than making their technology accessible. Be aware of this when evaluating how standards should be selected and used.
Jos Vernon is the CEO of WebSupergoo, which makes and sells image and PDF manipulation tools.


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The principals at Georgetown's two public elementary schools say voters' approval of next month's referendum would go a long way toward alleviating overcrowding at their schools.
The principals at Georgetown's two public elementary schools say voters' approval of next month's referendum would go a long way toward alleviating overcrowding at their schools.
"Space is a huge issue for us right now," said Rick Evans, the principal at North Georgetown Elementary School, which is one of the fastest-growing schools in the Indian River School District. "Three to four years ago, our average [grade] size was 105 to 110 kids, but over the last three years we've had kindergarten classes that were at 150 students."
Voters in the Indian River School District are being asked to approve a school tax referendum on Jan. 29 that would raise $6.2 million in new funding per year through a 14.7-cent increase in the current school tax rate of $2.623 per $100 of assessed value. That 6.5 percent hike would cost the average property owner an extra $38.05 a year, according to district officials.
The new funds raised by an approved referendum would be used to add 38 new classrooms at six schools, including eight new rooms at North Georgetown Elementary, eight new rooms at Georgetown Elementary and a new kitchen at the Georgetown Elementary/Georgetown Middle School complex. Funding from the referendum also would be used to hire new teachers to staff the additional classrooms.
Evans said the added rooms are desperately needed at his school, where student enrollment has increased by 20 percent since 2008, including an 8-percent jump from last year to this year, according to district officials.
"We're in a situation now where we have to house three of our kindergarten classes at the Howard T. Ennis School because we don't have the space to house them all here," he said. "Our specialist teachers are already having to float from classroom to classroom because what was our art room has been converted into a fulltime classroom. Right now, we're looking at whether we'll have to convert our computer lab into a classroom for next year."
Evans, who also serves on the district's referendum committee, said he does not believe the trend of increased student enrollment will abate anytime soon.
"Even in the midst of an economic downturn, our numbers are going up so I don't think it's a question of just having a couple of big classes and things returning to normal in the immediate future," he said. "It's the same thing for all of our northern schools. The number of people in the area is just continuing to grow. And when the housing market picks up again, I think you're only going to see the trend continue."
Without the addition of new classroom space, Evans said his school and others in the district would be forced to increase their student-to-teacher ratio. North Georgetown's teacher-to-student ratio is currently 18:1, well above the district average of 15:1.
"Having 22 to 25 first or second graders in one classroom certainly won't help make for an effective learning environment," Evans said.
Georgetown Elementary School Principal Neil Stong said his building is facing similar crowding issues.
"This summer, we had to acquire two classrooms next door," he said, referring to the adjacent Georgetown Middle School. "We're fortunate that our location allowed us that luxury, but as our students and the students from North Georgetown move into the middle school each year, it becomes less and less likely that will be an option we can rely on."
Georgetown Elementary has experienced a nearly 17-percent increase in student enrollment over the last five years, including a 7-percent increase from the last school year to this year, district official said. The school's student-to-teacher ratio is currently at 16:1.
"With the possibility of us going to all-day kindergarten in the future, it only increases our existing need for additional classrooms and teachers," Stong said. "I don't think there's any question that approval of this referendum would be a big benefit to our students and teachers."
Georgetown Middle School Principal Mike Williams could not be reached for comment.
But, district officials have said the referendum also would benefit that school by providing Georgetown Elementary with its own kitchen and cafeteria. Currently, the two schools share the middle school's cafeteria.
"That situation has resulted in scheduling problems and overcrowding conditions, especially as the student population at the elementary school has increased," district spokesman David Maull said. "Ideally, we would want to keep those populations separated."


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Snowmobile radar runs return after being cancelled due to poor ice conditions last year.
The 10th Annual Ice Buster Daze is coming up on Saturday, February 9. There will be several activities throughout the day. Starting off in the morning is the Eagles Breakfast from 8-11. The free-will offering meal includes scrambled eggs, french toast, pancakes, sausage, coffee and juice.
The snowmobile Radar Run will kick off at 11 a.m. and go until 3 p.m. on the Red Lake River. It consists of a 600-foot. run with ice and compact snow. You must be 18 or older and possess a Snowmobile Safety Certification in order to participate. The cost is $20/2 runs, which includes one meatball dinner ticket at the Eagles from 5:30-8 p.m., where there will be the chance to win raffle prizes. If a participant wants to do more, it's an additional $5 for 2 runs.
In the afternoon, there will be ice fishing held on the Red Lake River at Central Park. The cost is $20/hole with registration starting at noon. The charge includes a ticket for 1 meatball dinner at the Eagles, as well as a chance to win raffle prizes.
The prizes include:
• Go Anywhere gas grill
• Big Buddy heater
• $40 Target gift card & Berkley fillet knife
• Clam Fish House
• Buddy Heater
• 227-piece Cobalt tool set
• Clam light/fancombo & Frabill Bait station
• Garmin Nuvi 1490 LMT GPS
• Digital meat scale
• $100 Ampride gift card
• iPod Touch
• Fish and Game cleaning table
• Dewalt 18v compact drill
• & more.
You do not need to be present to win the raffle prizes. In addition, there will be prizes given out for the fishing derby winners. They include:
1st place: 32" LCD TV
2nd place: Clam fish house
3rd place: Eskimo auger
4th place: Buddy heater
5th place: Go Anywhere gas grill
6th place: Garmin Nuvi 40LM GPS
7th place: $100 Ampride gift card
8th place: Big Buddy heater
9th place: 18v Bosch compact drill
10th place: Fish & Game cleaning table
Participants in both the Radar Run and the Fishing Derby are not allowed to bring alcoholic beverages on the ice. Tickets for the event will be pre-sold at Ceason's Bait & Tackle. They will also be available at the gate.
This event is sponsored by Ampride, Brandner Printing, Cabela's, Ceasons Bait & Tackle, Crookston Daily Times, Crookston Eagles Club, Crookston Visitors & Convention Bureau, Drift Busters, Home of Economy, KROX Radio, Noah Insurance and Rusling Signs. For more information, contact Brian at 281-7762, Ceasons Bait & Tackle at 281-6665, or Bobby at 281-3132.


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Finally John Carpenter's latest film, The Ward has Benn picked up for U.S. distribution, according to Deadline London, ARC Entertainment and XLrator Media Partnership will be handling distribution duties in the U.S.
While this is great news that The Ward has been finally picked up for a U.S. release, there is still no word as to whether the film will get a theatrical release or simple straight to DVD/Blu-ray. I guess we will find out that answer in the coming weeks, hopefully. The Ward is directed by John Carpenter and written by Michael Rasmussen and Shawn Rasmussen, the film stars Amber Heard, Lyndsy Fonseca, Danielle Panabaker, Jared Harris, Mika Boorem, Mamie Gummer and Sydney Sweeney.
Synopsis: "In John Carpenter's The Ward, Kristen, a beautiful but troubled young woman, finds herself bruised, cut, drugged, and held against her will in a remote ward of a Psychiatric Hospital. She is completely disoriented, with no idea why she was brought to this place and no memory of her life before being admitted. All she knows is that she isn't safe. The other patients in the ward, four equally disturbed young women, offer no answers, and Kristen quickly realises things are not as they seem.
The air is heavy with secrets, and at night, when the hospital is dark and foreboding, she hears strange and frightening sounds. It appears they are not alone. One-by-one the other girls begin to disappear and Kristen must find a way out of this hellish place before she, too, becomes a victim. As she struggles to escape, she will uncover a truth far more dangerous and horrifying than anyone could have imagined."
What do you guys think?


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Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Comic 927: The Alternative Title Was "Things Randy Doesn't Have"
[Comic title: Standards; alt text: Fortunately, the charging one has been solved now that we've all standardized on mini-USB. Or is it micro-USB? Shit.]
I'm not really sure what kind of fantasy world Randy is living in, but apparently he thinks that the reason there are multiple instant messenger clients is because every company that's ever made one has been trying to unite the world under a single banner, to forever get rid of the confusion and conflict that multiple standards causes. Or, put slightly more succinctly, Randy thinks that people are well-meaning but stupid, and that's why there's no inter-compatibility.
There are many causes for this problem, of course. But by and large the reason there's so many standards out there is primarily because nobody is interested in inter-compatibility. Maybe it's a desire to make sure that customers have to buy your product, maybe it's just laziness, maybe it's because you don't like the other standards. The point is, standard proliferation has nothing to do with people trying to solve the problem of standard proliferation. It has to do with competing market forces that don't cooperate with one another.
The alt text is misleading--cell phone companies have standardized on micro-USB, and some media outlets misreported that it was mini-USB. I learned this with about thirty seconds on Wikipedia. Randy, why can't you use the thing that you are in love with so much? Were you really that unwilling to navigate away from the lactation article?
It's not like this is a field in which good jokes can't be told. Randy has just chosen the worst joke of them all, as is traditional.
116 comments:
- AnonymousJuly 20, 2011 at 6:46 PM
This is beating down a joke that really isn't all that bad.ReplyDelete
All i'd have done is removed the "Soon:".
thanks, anonymous internet commenter! i care about your opinion most of all.ReplyDelete
- Technician FryJuly 20, 2011 at 6:49 PM
Randy has set a new low for his creativity in conveying information to the audience.ReplyDelete
From now on, each frame of each comic should consist of "SITUATION:" followed by a text summary of the panel.
- AnonymousJuly 20, 2011 at 6:50 PM
SITUATION: MEGAN IS PREPARING TO LACTATE FURIOUSLYReplyDelete
i am so alone :(
- AnonymousJuly 20, 2011 at 7:14 PM
More of Randall's observational humor about stuff that has never actually happened.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 20, 2011 at 7:20 PM
A standard wouldn't describe an IM client, it would describe an IM protocol...ReplyDelete
All of the examples he chose are terrible. I don't feel that any of those things are a significant problem.
Complaining about too many IM protocols? Get a client that can handle all of them, like Pidgin or one of those other ones I never use.
Or is he complaining about too many clients? Because that would be downright retarded.
Complaining about too many A/C chargers? Why?
Complaining about too many character encodings? why? It's just numbers for a computer to interpret. That's what computers do best.
To quote a guy I looked up on wikipedia,
"The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from."
- AnonymousJuly 20, 2011 at 7:51 PM
I never downloaded Humor Sans. http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/9073/dkcx.pngReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 20, 2011 at 7:53 PM
You misinterpret the comic. The first 14 standards are from randoms trying to establish a proprietary standard, and trying to unify them doesn't help, thus creating the fifteenth.ReplyDelete
On a related note, this blog has sunk so low that I only look at it after being sick and spending all day on the internet for days, and having exhausted every other source of lulz I could find.
Also this comic has WAY too many colons. I count five for a three panel comic. It's less a comic and more a string of captions.ReplyDelete
"You misinterpret the comic. The first 14 standards are from randoms trying to establish a proprietary standard, and trying to unify them doesn't help, thus creating the fifteenth."ReplyDelete
i guess that's why it's captioned "how standards proliferate." adding 1/14 to something is definitely explaining proliferation!
- AnonymousJuly 20, 2011 at 8:47 PM
Maybe the next comic will be about colon cancer?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 20, 2011 at 9:27 PM
Maybe my next bout of colon cancer will be about xkcd?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 20, 2011 at 9:38 PM
Colon cancer is probably funnier than xkcd. At least usually. I suppose colon cancer can also be pretty bad sometimes and xkcd can be only somewhat bad. I don't know. It's really a toss-up I guess.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 20, 2011 at 9:55 PM
The Devil and the deep blue sea.ReplyDelete
- Mun row row row your boatJuly 21, 2011 at 12:21 AM
I think the worst joke about standardization is some lady going "well at least there's a universal standard for my basic needs" and she winks while reaching to pull out somebody's penis but then it turns out that the bulge in the guy's jeans is actually a deformed boob with a fully erect nipple!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 21, 2011 at 12:50 AM
That's only because the fully erect nipple needs to be dripping milk.ReplyDelete
- Your mother, being fatter than my mother,July 21, 2011 at 12:52 AM
Randy's observation is about as fresh as airplane food jokes. And, like Rob points out, he hasn't even made it properly. It is true that occasionally people try to make a unifying standard which ends up just being a competing standard, but "how standards proliferate" is mostly that each entity wants to make its own competing standard.ReplyDelete
Ironically[tm], there is a single outstanding standard for bad geek comics: xkcd. No matter how many new strips are created, none of them would be a competing standard.
- AnonymousJuly 21, 2011 at 2:12 AM
Randall knows that most of his traffic comes from cuddlefish pasting the comics into fora all over the internet. Therefore, he wants to ensure that he has a comic covering every possible topic of nerd discussion.ReplyDelete
This will get posted whenever anyone vaguely mentions standards for years to come.
- AnonymousJuly 21, 2011 at 3:44 AM
This is why we need more fascism. The weak sort who follow idiots like Randall would quickly be dealt with.ReplyDelete
When they came for fans of xkcd I said nothing, because I was not a fan of xkcd.ReplyDelete
When they came for fans of two and a half men I said nothing, because I was not a fan of two and a half men.
And when they came for me, I reminded them that I was only a fan of good things, so they let me go.
Just when the last thread was starting to get good, with all those ALTF slashfics, Rob just had to ruin it with his new review.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 21, 2011 at 5:21 AM
Blogger needs a thing which allows you to delay new posts until the previous thread has died down by some configurable metric.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 21, 2011 at 6:30 AM
@Anon 5:21: I've often wondered whether people who work at Google really swallow the Google kool-aid or whether they're just in it for the money. I chatted with a friend who went through the interview process recently (and got accepted!) and it seems the process is designed as much to test your character as your technical ability.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 21, 2011 at 6:38 AM
"Google is a culture, not a job", but then again everyone says that =?ReplyDelete
captcha: phipoxic. Dangerously Phip level of oxygen.
From now on, every XKCD comic should be simple panel with written text in the form "SET UP: [description]" "PREMISE: [description]" "PUNCHLINE: [description]". Making comics has never been easier!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 21, 2011 at 4:20 PM
Setup: So lonely... Premise: So lonely... Punchline: I feel so alone!ReplyDelete
(funny because of ex. mark)
alt text: This song makes Megan lactate even more than usual ;-)
- AnonymousJuly 21, 2011 at 4:39 PM
Back when the 'net was good, someone would have set up alt.megan.lactation. Now everything's just a poor imitation of its former self over port 80, we have shit like this.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 21, 2011 at 5:56 PM
The internet was never good, don't be ridiculous.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 21, 2011 at 6:46 PM
Remember alt.games.nintendo.pokemon.hentai? Those were the days.ReplyDelete
- DefiantJuly 21, 2011 at 8:50 PM
Excellent review!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 21, 2011 at 9:43 PM
What days were those, anon 6:46? In 1998 Pokemon was just a weird Japanese TV show that caused seizures. By the time Pokemon showed up in the US, Usenet was pretty much dead.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 21, 2011 at 10:19 PM
Despite the latest one being entirely not how animal identification charts work, I laughed.ReplyDelete
Two acceptable XKCD's in a row.
Randall's losing, or perhaps regaining his touch.
ROB HAS EATEN RAVENReplyDelete
Now excuse me, there is someone knocking at my door.
- AnonymousJuly 21, 2011 at 11:01 PM
I like Rob a lot more when he is too busy riding his fixie to make forced criticisms of basically ok comics.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 21, 2011 at 11:14 PM
I thought 927 was alright really. It was short and to the point and had no PPD and frankly even if it doesn't happen in real life that's ok because jokes don't have to be realistic as long as they get their meaning across snappily enough to be kinda funny. It's rare that you'd find multidenominational drinking parties in a bar too, you know.ReplyDelete
But 928 what is the fucking point. Whoever was talking about Randy making up a new bestiary of shitty pretend stick-animals may have been right.
- AnonymousJuly 21, 2011 at 11:26 PM
Well, 11:14, the intent of 927 was clearly a witty observation on the real world, so now we're going to have to debate whether the recipient's interpretation is more relevant to a message's content than the author's voice. GOOD ONE.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 21, 2011 at 11:40 PM
I'm willing to give Randy the benefit of the doubt on the alt-text. He was probably aware of the media misrepresentation and was attempting to make a reference to it in his "all references are funny" style.ReplyDelete
Disclaimer: This doesn't mean that I think that this style is funny or that this comic is funny.
So apparently in 928, Randy feels the need to point out to us that a creature called the mimic octopus exists, and that it is very cool. He does this by filling the panel with the word "mimic octopus", in case you didn't catch it the first thirteen times.ReplyDelete
It's "octopodes", Randy, you dumb-ass!ReplyDelete
inb4 this thread descends into tentacle fetish stories
- AnonymousJuly 22, 2011 at 2:29 AM
People like to make jokes about tentacle sex, but surprisingly few people actually try it. Once you've figured out how to get an octopus to reach deep into your rectum while you masturbate no other orgasm will ever be satisfactory.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 22, 2011 at 2:32 AM
I've heard squid is better.ReplyDelete
- The Cuddlefish ParadigmJuly 22, 2011 at 2:45 AM
Obviously neither can compare to the cuttlefish. They are sent down by God for the sole purpose of anal stimulation, and anyone who says otherwise is a filthy, ungrateful heathen.ReplyDelete
as soon as i read 'octopuses', i knew the alt-text would just be randall complaining about people saying octopi. you're too predictable randyReplyDelete
Raven may have died, but the blog lives on!ReplyDelete
What happened to your neckbeard picture, Gamer?ReplyDelete
I had set that up as my profile picture in Google+, and it propagated to all my other Google apps. Once I dropped Google+, I picked up an avatar from here instead.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 22, 2011 at 6:51 AM
"....It has to do with competing market forces that don't cooperate with one another....."ReplyDelete
And when they do? - They come up against the Sherman and Clayton Acts and other systems of competition regulation controlled by United States antitrust law and European Community competition law.
You mean by having a Google+ account, they change all your display images connected to Google without even asking you? What assholes.ReplyDelete
Alt-F, how did you like your short stories in the last thread?
- AnonymousJuly 22, 2011 at 6:58 AM
ALTF, your original troll persona is bad enough but at least it's apolitical. Please don't add Internet Libertarianism to the mix. If you must go down that road, couldn't you slip in some quote from Ho Chi Minh or suggest that the Khmer Rouge had good intentions? It fits your outcast stereotype better.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 22, 2011 at 7:11 AM
@ Derp:ReplyDelete
From the last thread:
"....ALT-F fidgeted with the pointed ears of her latex mask...."
I'm allergic to latex.
"Cunt Omnia Vincit, eh?"
There is so much wrong with that mangled Latin that it is unworthy of rebuttal.
All in all, not too bad.
@ Anonymous 6:58 AM
Libertarianism? How the fuck did you read that into my quip? I support Sherman and Clayton! Especially the former's march to the sea.
- AnonymousJuly 22, 2011 at 7:12 AM
And I'm a Trawl - ya cunt!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 22, 2011 at 7:15 AM
Oh, and the Red Khmer were a nasty bunch with NO redeeming qualities at all.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 22, 2011 at 7:48 AM
There was another short story about you in the previous thread. What did you think of that one?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 22, 2011 at 7:53 AM
I thought, and continue to think, abundantly about it.ReplyDelete
I am still contemplating a wry and spry riposte.
- AnonymousJuly 22, 2011 at 8:39 AM
I'm certainly glad Randy told me he wasn't making up the alt-text in 928. Otherwise I would've thought he was making that shit up!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 22, 2011 at 9:06 AM
Not only did you split a Verb Phrase but, in doing so, you crafted a sentence that ends in a preposition.ReplyDelete
If you had a decent vocabulary you'd have chosen something akin to the following:
"Otherwise I would've thought he was fabricating that shit."
Avoid the use of Verb Pharses. Especially ones that include a word that is normally considered a preposition. And for fuck's sake, never split the feckers!
- AnonymousJuly 22, 2011 at 9:07 AM
How the fuck is this worthy of a veritable rant? Perhaps it is misleading, and maybe the humor is slightly repetitive. Too bad! Do you know how much shit is misleading and repetitive? I don't see anybody railing against PressTV or the state DMV's, the career experience at the post office or The Sun!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 22, 2011 at 9:17 AM
Grammar Girl disagrees with you, ALT-F, and she is better than you in pretty much every way.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 22, 2011 at 9:26 AM
lol, "Verb Pharses."ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 22, 2011 at 9:31 AM
@ Anonymous 9:07 AM,ReplyDelete
Using the word 'veritable' as an intensifier qualifying the noun 'rant' is, in and of itself, worthy of a rant.
How much shit is misleading and repetitive?
In your answer, please use MKS system if you could - I can't stand the CGS system.
It is in the way that Grammar Girl is not better than me that is important - ie: 'She' has a penis.
- AnonymousJuly 22, 2011 at 9:34 AM
ALTF probably just recalled the anecdote about Churchill's "up with which".ReplyDelete
Also, while Grammar Girl may the kind of woman whose skirt I would want to pull up behind the bookshelves in preparation for a fierce (but quiet) pounding, I am saddened that she did not raise in (3) the correct handshake protocol, being:
Prima: How do you do?
Secunda: How do you do?
That is all.
- AnonymousJuly 22, 2011 at 9:43 AM
English is a Germanic language. In the Germanic language family ending a sentence with a preposition is perfectly fine. The prohibition stems from Latin and the subsequent Romance Languages. Since 1066 And All That, the Queen's English has endeavoured to rid itself of the vile Celtic/Saxon/Autochthonic rubbish it inherited. Adopting the purity of the Romance Languages - hence the ending a sentence with a preposition prohibition.ReplyDelete
What of Tertia's response?
- AnonymousJuly 22, 2011 at 9:52 AM
ALTF, you are the archetypal, "Browse for response to make my own." Except the final sentence, your own - a fragment.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 22, 2011 at 10:06 AM
You tell us, ALTF.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 22, 2011 at 10:07 AM
I think not.
Epitome at best.
Research the true meaning of the word 'epitome' to get my joke.
- AnonymousJuly 22, 2011 at 10:08 AM
Damn straight Anonymous @ 10:06 AM. Damn straight!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 22, 2011 at 10:12 AM
Make that epidemy, not epitome.
- AnonymousJuly 22, 2011 at 10:18 AM
ALTF, perhaps you need a dictionary sat alongside your thesaurus so you don't jump from a more meaningful word to one with less impact? You're no slender, towering spire, merely a crumbling foundation stone.ReplyDelete
You'll have to explain the joke - I know my classical tongues and I'm not getting any funny from it. Then recall what it isn't if you have to explain it.
- AnonymousJuly 22, 2011 at 10:24 AM
"....jump from a more meaningful word to one with less impact...."ReplyDelete
Less impact for you.
I'm not even a foundation stone. I am lucky to qualify as a sump conduit.
The 'joke' is meaningful to those for whom it was intended.
- AnonymousJuly 22, 2011 at 10:27 AM
The 'joke' is meaningful to those for whom it was intended.ReplyDelete
That needs to be xkcd's catchphrase. It perfectly sums the strip up.
- AnonymousJuly 22, 2011 at 10:34 AM
I think what 10:18 is trying to say Alt-F is that you are the oldest lolcow.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 22, 2011 at 11:07 AM
"...It perfectly sums the strip up...."ReplyDelete
Oh dear.
See my nonsense @ 9:06 AM
I like that! Though 'lawlscow' would be more groovier. And I am indeed much more antediluvian than you can imagine - perhaps Sabre-toothed lolcow then?
- AnonymousJuly 22, 2011 at 1:01 PM
"....there's a really satisfying climactic scene in the Orson Squire Fowler phrenological novel, 'Eight Lost Walls' which hinges on it being an incorrect pluralisation...."ReplyDelete
The plural of 'clitoris' is 'clitorides'.
Ain't that cute?
- AnonymousJuly 22, 2011 at 1:59 PM
I happen to know the origin of today's comic. The mimic octopus was on animal planet yesterday afternoon:ReplyDelete
See http://animal.discovery.com/tv-schedules/daily.html?date=20110721.202
(at 5PM is "The Most Extreme: Transformers", which, if you really feel dedicated, you can look up on wikipedia and see that it talked about the mimic octopus.)
So, he saw it on TV and thought it was funny that it existed, and wanted to relate with everyone else that it exists so they too will laugh that such a creature exists! Hahah, octopus. Just saying it makes me laugh (assuming I am shitfaced).
- AnonymousJuly 22, 2011 at 2:17 PM
"...Just saying it makes me laugh (assuming I am shitfaced)...."ReplyDelete
I realise English is a highly idiomatic language, but I fail to see how adorning one's face with excrement would elicit laughter - from the one being so adorned that is.
Pleasure, maybe, if one is a copraphile.
- AnonymousJuly 22, 2011 at 2:41 PM
If you realise that English is highly idiomatic then why do you take its meaning literally?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 22, 2011 at 3:08 PM
Rob is so alone.
- AnonymousJuly 22, 2011 at 3:11 PM
@ Anonymous 2:41 PMReplyDelete
On account of my poor up-bringin' I reckon. That and I never know if what I am reading is an idiom or if it is meant to be taken literally. Are you native English speakers born with that knowledge?
Also, having a weakness for 'Malibu' brand based drinks, I am a copraphile and later I become facially coprophilic.
- AnonymousJuly 22, 2011 at 3:29 PM
ALTF how much did BP pay for you?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 22, 2011 at 3:32 PM
Three goats - one of which was lame.ReplyDelete
Of course, you can use any almost word in the English language to say you're drunk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xewe4mlX2tcReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 22, 2011 at 10:26 PM
Anon 1:59, you've identified the source of Randy's inspiration. Good job. For your next challenge, identify the clip art he used for all those silhouettes, because there is no way in hell he drew anything that good himself.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 23, 2011 at 7:43 AM
ALTF I know I am only a lowly peasent, but I must profess my love for you.ReplyDelete
I will write in fancy rhyme or just plain prose, my love, to convince thee to court me.
I've sold all my copies of razzle, I'm ready for monogomy.
- AnonymousJuly 23, 2011 at 8:08 AM
She's like 50, 7:43. But she does have some cute fluffy slippers which I guess might do the Freudian thing for you.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 23, 2011 at 8:36 AM
@ Anonymous 7:43ReplyDelete
Peasant or not, you must court me. Monogamy is not a requirement by the way. In fact, I've known it to be an impediment.
@ Anonymous 8:08:
I was born within an hour or so of the ToD of Sid Vicious. It is BP who is elderly - a fecking sexagenarian.
I do believe in reincarnation.
- AnonymousJuly 23, 2011 at 9:12 AM
7:43 here again.ReplyDelete
I am going to plow you like Farmer Pritchard, you filthy old spunker, you.
Bring the fluffy slippers and prepare to redefine 'fecking sexagenarian'.
- AnonymousJuly 23, 2011 at 9:47 AM
Agricultural similes are rather too bucolic if one desires carnal knowledge of yours truly. May I suggest a post-industrial urban allegory instead?ReplyDelete
You're right about the filthy spunker bit, but I am not old - I'm barely a tricenarian! And I do not own slippers - fluffy or otherwise.
- AnonymousJuly 23, 2011 at 9:53 AM
Poor Amy.ReplyDelete
Shall I shed a tear?
She was a right cunt.
- AnonymousJuly 23, 2011 at 9:57 AM
She will be truly back to black when the necrotic putrefaction sets in!ReplyDelete
Let's be frank about it.
- AnonymousJuly 23, 2011 at 11:10 AM
ALTF, tricenarian? Sid'd make you just a little older than I am. You've declared yourself to be much more advanced in years before this. Did you choose BP for his wisdom, his money, the likelihood that he wouldn't present you too often with his conjugalities... or simply for the visa?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 23, 2011 at 11:23 AM
Through The BP?
A fucking Canadian visa?
I'm quite content with my South American citizenship. Besides, I carry a UN Passport now - as does the The BP.
The BP and I are partners in crime - business associates I reckon.
Are you triffling with the affections of young men again Fucking Aquarians?ReplyDelete
Click my Avatar, ye who would hazard to enthrall the self-anointed one. View the penultimate post, 'Dr. M. Part I' first. Then proceed to 'Dr. M. Part II'
- AnonymousJuly 23, 2011 at 12:19 PM
Yins is a cunt SR.ReplyDelete
I'm the one in the red by the way. Photographed in December 2007, I think.
- AnonymousJuly 23, 2011 at 12:29 PM
And there is only one 'F' in 'trifling'!ReplyDelete
Canadian Cunt!
- AnonymousJuly 23, 2011 at 12:48 PM
My only regret is that I am unable to join the 27 Club.ReplyDelete
There is still time for you to join the 'Twice 27 And Then Some Club'
Any chance of that?
SR, you keep saying that the girl in red is ALT-F. I keep thinking you're wrong.ReplyDelete
Got anything besides your word to support that claim?
- AnonymousJuly 23, 2011 at 8:37 PM
I thought the mimic octopus comic was pretty well done. A bit behind the times since those were in the news a fair bit back in 2008, but it's not like octopuses lose relevance. My only complaint is that I can't mention this octopus as an obscure-but-awesome animal anymore. I'll have to resort to the Humboldt squid - speaking of which, if he ever hears of it, I expect a poorly done comic comparing them to velociraptors.ReplyDelete
(The alt text was dumb, of course.)
- AnonymousJuly 23, 2011 at 9:34 PM
SR, what happened to taking down the pictures of your ladyboy friend down in 12 hours? It's been up for months if not years.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 24, 2011 at 1:31 AM
@ALTF if it's any consolation, a government type in my extended family also did the marry-an-ethnic thing to keep up appearances while negotiating in South Africa. Poor black girl wasn't very bright but she tried awfully hard to demonstrate otherwise. I'd have felt sorry for her were the life of a whore of diplomacy even modestly taxing. We all need a pet.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 24, 2011 at 2:10 AM
I fucked a few nigger chicks in my time. Black bitches were sure made for fucking, holy shit.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 24, 2011 at 3:03 AM
GUYS GUYS FIONA APPLE JUST DIED OMG GUYS GET SOME PERSPECTIVEReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 24, 2011 at 3:10 AM
Did she commit suicide because of that British popstar, or was it over something trivial like that Norway bullshit?ReplyDelete
- Megan's Milk ButtonJuly 24, 2011 at 4:48 AM
Randall said to himself, "I just learned that the proper plural of octopus isn't octopi. How can I pretend I knew that all along? How about if I rehash my 'weather balloon' strip and throw in some alt-text saying how annoying the word 'octopi' is!"ReplyDelete
holy shitReplyDelete
randall betrayed by one of his favourie websites
- AnonymousJuly 24, 2011 at 6:18 AM
I pledge $10 to Randall's nominated registered charity if he never produces another xkcd strip.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 24, 2011 at 10:03 AM
Normally I appreciate your take on his comics, but this one really had no point. Randall in no way implied that he thought every standard for instant messaging was created to unify them--just that there were protocols created on top of competing ones to do so. None of which ever caught on to the degree of becoming the clear leader.ReplyDelete
In fact, he wasn't even implying in the middle panel that the standards were created to be compatible--just to cover typical cases. I.E., AIM has formatting while MSN does not, but MSN has custom emoticons. XMPP offers both.
Of course, the comic only mentioned instant messaging once, in tiny print. I didn't even notice it before you picked on it.
- AnonymousJuly 24, 2011 at 10:31 AM
10:30: Randall in no way implied that he thought every standard for instant messaging was created to unify themReplyDelete
Read the three ALL CAPS words comprising the title right at the top of the comic.
It might not be what he meant to say, but it is what he said. At least what he actually said is original (if stupid and wrong), because the observations that
(i) many competing standards exist; and
(ii) often a unifying attempt just becomes another competing standard
have been pointed out for decades.
Of course, the comic only mentioned instant messaging once, in tiny print. I didn't even notice it before you picked on it.
What is it with cuddlefish and lack of attention to detail? "This comic is shit and nonsense but only if you actually read the words."
- AnonymousJuly 24, 2011 at 11:58 AM
10:31 and 10:03 = samefags.ReplyDelete
'lololol mommy look i can winded the argument with the bad guy!!!'
'that's nice dear, go play with your legos'
in short, you are gay. ALTF, send me naked pics, I am your humble love rag from 7:43 yesterday, and my penile man servant's hunger hath not been sated.
Captcha, scrad
Scrad was the big time, he was dealing mkat out of a dark back alley near London's Vondol district.
Was the big time. The police pulled him in two days ago for questioning about the murder of Jean. He had no alibi.
See? I can do gritty modern dystopias too! It's not all farmers and cows.
(Although I do still want to plow thee sideways)
Call me!
- AnonymousJuly 24, 2011 at 12:45 PM
11:58, are you trying to out-white-knight Randy? It's embarrassing :/.ReplyDelete
How is "send me naked pics" anything CLOSE to white knighting?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 24, 2011 at 1:23 PM
See the rest. All white knights really just want naked pics.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 24, 2011 at 9:02 PM
homosexuality lolReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 24, 2011 at 9:47 PM
I'm not going to white knight, but I would like some naked pics from ALTF.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 29, 2011 at 1:17 PM
Actually, this one is quite funny. But you have to be able to understand the meaning of the word "standard". But "understanding" has never been the strong point of the avid xkcdsucks reader/blogger. :(ReplyDelete


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If it were just for me, my birthday cake would be coconut every year – no deviation. Sadly, some of my family don't like coconut so it's never the right cake to pick for a family get together. Everyone likes pineapple though so I came up with the idea of a pineapple sponge sandwich cake...and just kept adding detail. What if I cut each layer into two, making four layers? What if there was pineapple curd between the outer layers? What if I beat some of that curd into the Swiss meringue buttercream? What if I added juicy chunks of pineapple into the centre layer? What if I made some mini meringues for decoration and a nice bit of crunch? It all snowballed into this rather OTT creation:
There are quite a few processes to this cake but none are difficult and can, except for the buttercream, be made in advance. I made each element on a different day so it didn't take that long. I made them in the order: curd, sponge, meringue, buttercream.
The mini meringues looked so cute on the baking sheet – take care to place them on the cake at the last minute as they go soft quickly when they hit the buttercream.
There is a nice mix of texture in every slice – crumbly sponge, crunchy meringue, creamy buttercream and juicy curd and fruit. Not bad for a last minute creation (I say last minute, but it was actually about 5 days before the event...which for me thinking about cake is total red alert panic stations!)
I've had several comments and emails that people find Swiss meringue buttercream an elusive technique to master, so I took photos and made a note of timings while I made it. Here's the journey:
Start with the egg whites and sugar in a bowl over a simmering pan of water. The bowl must not touch the water. Stir the whole time until the sugar has dissolved – you can tell when this has happened as, if you run your finger over the back of the spoon, it will feel smooth. Mine took 6 minutes. It froths a little from the stirring and will look like this:
Next, transfer to a clean bowl for whisking. I used my kitchenaid. Whisk until the egg white is fluffy and stiff and – most importantly – until it is cool. If you add the butter to hot egg you will get a rather yucky mess. Mine took 9 minutes of whisking at a high speed:
Now beat in the diced, soft butter. This is the key stage for whisking. At first the mix will turn sloppy and won't hold on to the beaters – it will look gloopy, sunken and almost curdled. If you lift the beater all the buttercream will slide off and resemble slop (from the emails I've had I'm guessing this is the point some of you panic and give up):
KEEP GOING! If you keep beating – at a high speed – you will suddenly notice the buttercream firm up and start to look like whipped cream. Mine took 10 minutes. Here it is thick and whipped up:
The next thing to do is beat in any flavouring/jam/curd that you're using to flavour the buttercream. Don't add too much as you don't want to risk making it wet and sloppy. I added my pineapple curd while the beater was still running. I gave the mix a further 5 minutes of beating.
You should now have light, whipped, smooth mousselike cream – the most heavenly of buttercreams! Pipe over cupcakes or use to sandwich together a layer cake. Enjoy!
For the pineapple curd:
2 egg yolks (keep the whites for the buttercream!)
200ml pineapple juice
50g caster sugar
25g cornflour
For the cake:
250g unsalted butter, at room temperature
220g caster sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
4 eggs
80ml milk
300g self raising flour
227g can of pineapple chunks – drained and chopped smaller
To decorate: Large can of pineapple rings or chunks
For the mini meringues:
2 egg whites
½ teaspoon cream of tartar
60g caster sugar
4 egg whites
250g caster sugar – I used vanilla infused caster sugar
250g unsalted butter, at room temperature
3-4 teaspoons of the pineapple curd (made earlier)
Start by making the pineapple curd and keep, covered, in the fridge: place all the ingredients into a saucepan and stir, over a low heat, until the mixture thickens and starts to bubble.
Remove from the heat and leave to cool, then refrigerate until needed. It will thicken further as it chills.
Now make the cakes: Preheat the oven to 180°C/fan oven 160°C/350°F/Gas mark 4.
Line the bases of two 20cm loose bottomed sandwich tins with baking paper.
To make the cakes: Beat together the butter, sugar and vanilla until light and fluffy. Don't skimp on this stage as this is when you get lots of lovely air into your sponge.
Beat in the eggs gradually, add some of the flour if it looks like it might curdle. (NB. If you have beaten the eggs and sugar for long enough the mix should not curdle).
Beat in the milk.
Stir in the flour until the mixture is smooth and well combined.
Gently stir in the pineapple chunks.
Spoon into the prepared tins and level the surface.
Bake for approximately 30 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre of the sponge comes out clean. Another good sign is if the sponge is just pulling away from the edge of the tin.
Leave to cool in the tins for about 20 minutes before turning out and leaving to cool completely on a wire rack.
You can make the sponges a couple of days in advance and store in an airtight tin.
Now make the mini meringues: Preheat the oven to 110°C/fan oven 90°C/230°F/Gas mark ¼ .
Line two baking sheets with non-stick baking parchment.
Place the egg whites in a bowl and whisk until you reach the stiff peak stage.
Keep whisking and add the sugar a spoonful at a time.
Whisk in the cream of tartar.
Spoon the thick meringue into a piping bag and pipe small rosettes no bigger than 2cm across. Leave a little gap between each one.
Bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes or until the meringues are crisp – you're not really 'baking' them, more 'drying them out'.
Leave to cool completely before storing in an airtight container. Do not place on the buttercream until you are ready to serve the cake otherwise the meringue will turn soft due to the moisture in the buttercream.
On the day of serving the cake make the swiss meringue buttercream: Place the egg whites and sugar in a bowl over a pan of simmering water. Stir pretty much constantly to prevent the egg from cooking.
After 5-10 minutes, when the sugar has dissolved (when you cannot see any crystals on the back of the spoon), remove the bowl from the pan of simmering water and whisk until the meringue has puffed up and the mix is cool.
Add the butter to the meringue and whisk until the butter has been completely incorporated into the meringue. At first it will look a disaster – it will collapse and look curdled but don't worry! Stop when the mixture is smooth, light and fluffy.
Beat in 3-4 teaspoons of the pineapple curd.
Cut both the sponges through so that you have 4 layers of sponge.
Take one of the sponge layers and cover with some pineapple curd.
Place the second layer on top and spread with some buttercream.
Lay the pineapple chunks or rings over the buttercream and cover with some more buttercream.
Place the third sponge layer on top and gently press to ensure it has "stuck". Cover this layer with some pineapple curd.
Place the final sponge layer on top and gently press to ensure it has stuck.
Spread or pipe the remaining buttercream over the top and outside of the cake.
Decorate as you choose – I used the mini meringues (place these on the cake at the last minute or they will go soggy)
Bask in the glory of the wonderful thing you have made.