Comments on: *nix mischief: The “Button Guy” sends me an April Fool’s Joke http://standardmischief.com/blog/2006/03/31/nix-mischief-the-%e2%80%9cbutton-guy%e2%80%9c-sends-me-an-april-fools-joke-curl-flasm-shockwave-flash/ Life. Liberty. Pursuit of Happiness. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:55:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jay Moonah http://standardmischief.com/blog/2006/03/31/nix-mischief-the-%e2%80%9cbutton-guy%e2%80%9c-sends-me-an-april-fools-joke-curl-flasm-shockwave-flash/comment-page-1/#comment-211 Jay Moonah Sat, 01 Apr 2006 14:29:02 +0000 http://standardmischief.com/?p=79#comment-211 Yeah, some of those are placeholders. I was actually trying to find a real Coke machine that is still linked, although most of them seem to be dead now. We may have to find something different to do with that day. This stuff isn't necessarily meant to be cutting edge, the point of the Coke machine thing was to show an old-school Internet hacker meme that seem to be a dying breed. Dead perhaps, based on my inability to find one that is consistently live. As far as "Buy-A-Gun" day and "Patriots Day", frankly living in here in lovely Toronto we were blissfully unaware of them. However there is another anniversary on 15th... something that millions of people all over the world believe about some guy who would have spent all of a particular Saturday about 2000 years ago up on a cross... now THAT'S a crappy Saturday! And he had to wait a whole another day to come down and eat chocolate bunnies and stuff... or something like that, it's a long time since Sunday school So I thought, why not liven it up with a game of dress-up? Make a long Saturday go a little quicker. Anyway, all this is moot 'cus we don't take requests. But hey, thanks for playing along! > The tough part is figuring out what?s up with the md5sum differences on files snatched 10 hours apart. Like I said, when decompiled there was no difference in the source. Got any clue? Umm, well I don't know for sure but I'm guessing, as I think I said or at least implied above, it's 'cus I didn't change the file at all during that period. :-P Listen, you're obviously a very smart guy, but you seem to take the long way 'round on things. Here's a little principle that I'm sure you know about but perhaps should brush up on applying: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_Razor (And yes, I'm a smartass. Surprise, surprise, the guy who came up with BigGiantButton .com is a smartass.) Anyway I still think you're hardcore and I'm gonna link to you at some point. Probably. Cheers, - J. Yeah, some of those are placeholders. I was actually trying to find a real Coke machine that is still linked, although most of them seem to be dead now. We may have to find something different to do with that day. This stuff isn’t necessarily meant to be cutting edge, the point of the Coke machine thing was to show an old-school Internet hacker meme that seem to be a dying breed. Dead perhaps, based on my inability to find one that is consistently live.

As far as “Buy-A-Gun” day and “Patriots Day”, frankly living in here in lovely Toronto we were blissfully unaware of them.

However there is another anniversary on 15th… something that millions of people all over the world believe about some guy who would have spent all of a particular Saturday about 2000 years ago up on a cross… now THAT’S a crappy Saturday! And he had to wait a whole another day to come down and eat chocolate bunnies and stuff… or something like that, it’s a long time since Sunday school So I thought, why not liven it up with a game of dress-up? Make a long Saturday go a little quicker.

Anyway, all this is moot ‘cus we don’t take requests. But hey, thanks for playing along!

> The tough part is figuring out what?s up with the md5sum differences on files snatched 10 hours apart. Like I said, when decompiled there was no difference in the source. Got any clue?

Umm, well I don’t know for sure but I’m guessing, as I think I said or at least implied above, it’s ‘cus I didn’t change the file at all during that period. :-P

Listen, you’re obviously a very smart guy, but you seem to take the long way ’round on things. Here’s a little principle that I’m sure you know about but perhaps should brush up on applying:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_Razor

(And yes, I’m a smartass. Surprise, surprise, the guy who came up with BigGiantButton .com is a smartass.)

Anyway I still think you’re hardcore and I’m gonna link to you at some point. Probably.

Cheers,
- J.

]]> By: Standard Mischief http://standardmischief.com/blog/2006/03/31/nix-mischief-the-%e2%80%9cbutton-guy%e2%80%9c-sends-me-an-april-fools-joke-curl-flasm-shockwave-flash/comment-page-1/#comment-210 Standard Mischief Sat, 01 Apr 2006 06:52:49 +0000 http://standardmischief.com/?p=79#comment-210 Oh yea, Jay, why the heck are you planning on linking to this blog: http://ein-neger-mit-gazelle-zagt-im-regen-nie.de/ next Sunday? He has not updated in over 90 days. Surely my blog is bunches more interesting than that crap. http://www-cse.ucsd.edu/~bsy/coke.html (for next tuesday) This is a dead page. you can find it at archive.org, but there are much better pages on coke machines that you can finger. Just Google it. Plus, a network accessible coke machine is so very 1979. http://whipup.net/ (saturday, April 8th) Crafts? WTF? Are you yanking this stuff out of a hat? http://www.jesusdressup.com/ (April 15) Sweet Jesus, do you know what day this is? This is Buy A Gun Day! Try linking to http://aarons.cc/category/memes/buy-a-gun-on-april-15/ instead. http://www.xe.com/ucc/ (April 19) Well this is about money, but you put it on the wrong day. April 19 is the day set aside for that politically incorrect day with the patriotic name. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriots_Day "Shot heard 'round the world" Oh yea, Jay, why the heck are you planning on linking to this blog:

http://ein-neger-mit-gazelle-zagt-im-regen-nie.de/

next Sunday? He has not updated in over 90 days. Surely my blog is bunches more interesting than that crap.

http://www-cse.ucsd.edu/~bsy/coke.html (for next tuesday)

This is a dead page. you can find it at archive.org, but there are much better pages on coke machines that you can finger. Just Google it. Plus, a network accessible coke machine is so very 1979.

http://whipup.net/ (saturday, April 8th)

Crafts? WTF? Are you yanking this stuff out of a hat?

http://www.jesusdressup.com/ (April 15)

Sweet Jesus, do you know what day this is? This is Buy A Gun Day! Try linking to http://aarons.cc/category/memes/buy-a-gun-on-april-15/ instead.

http://www.xe.com/ucc/ (April 19)

Well this is about money, but you put it on the wrong day. April 19 is the day set aside for that politically incorrect day with the patriotic name. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriots_Day “Shot heard ’round the world”

]]> By: Standard Mischief http://standardmischief.com/blog/2006/03/31/nix-mischief-the-%e2%80%9cbutton-guy%e2%80%9c-sends-me-an-april-fools-joke-curl-flasm-shockwave-flash/comment-page-1/#comment-209 Standard Mischief Sat, 01 Apr 2006 05:48:43 +0000 http://standardmischief.com/?p=79#comment-209 <blockquote>You are obviously SO utterly hardcore for going to all this trouble to figure all this shit out - backward compiling an SWF file to find the links from my big goofy button?!? Get the hell out of here!!!</blockquote> Actually that was the easy part. That took about 15 minutes. 1. Quick search 2. Downloaded one file 3. Unpack it 4. Skim the documentation 5. write one line of code, refining the regex once. Done. The tough part is figuring out what's up with the md5sum differences on files snatched 10 hours apart. Like I said, when decompiled there was no difference in the source. Got any clue? <blockquote>?Hey there, stumbled onto your blog VIA THE BLOG linked from the Big Giant Button today.? (note the added capitals).</blockquote> Well that's a big letdown. I suppose I was skimming again. Too many blogs. You know, you were a whole lot more interesting when I thought you inserted protected code in your SWF source as a last minute April Fool's joke for me. I may even have to revoke that link. Some fluke sent me off down a blind alley here. This, I wasted 2.5 hours on, but I suppose I refined some mad skillz with hd, diff, and cmp, so it's not a total waste.

You are obviously SO utterly hardcore for going to all this trouble to figure all this shit out – backward compiling an SWF file to find the links from my big goofy button?!? Get the hell out of here!!!

Actually that was the easy part. That took about 15 minutes. 1. Quick search 2. Downloaded one file 3. Unpack it 4. Skim the documentation 5. write one line of code, refining the regex once. Done.

The tough part is figuring out what’s up with the md5sum differences on files snatched 10 hours apart. Like I said, when decompiled there was no difference in the source. Got any clue?

?Hey there, stumbled onto your blog VIA THE BLOG linked from the Big Giant Button today.? (note the added capitals).

Well that’s a big letdown. I suppose I was skimming again. Too many blogs. You know, you were a whole lot more interesting when I thought you inserted protected code in your SWF source as a last minute April Fool’s joke for me. I may even have to revoke that link. Some fluke sent me off down a blind alley here. This, I wasted 2.5 hours on, but I suppose I refined some mad skillz with hd, diff, and cmp, so it’s not a total waste.

]]> By: Jay Moonah http://standardmischief.com/blog/2006/03/31/nix-mischief-the-%e2%80%9cbutton-guy%e2%80%9c-sends-me-an-april-fools-joke-curl-flasm-shockwave-flash/comment-page-1/#comment-208 Jay Moonah Sat, 01 Apr 2006 04:13:41 +0000 http://standardmischief.com/?p=79#comment-208 Okay dude, so 2 things: 1) What I said in my comment, which was meant to be a minor ruse to the fact that I am indeed responsible for said button (not a big secret really, a quick WHOIS of the domain would reveal it), was actually this: ?Hey there, stumbled onto your blog VIA THE BLOG linked from the Big Giant Button today." (note the added capitals). In other words, I got to your blog via Jacqueline's blog, which is in fact (at least here in EST) linked from the Big Giant Button. Which, incidentally, is absolutely true - I did click on the button today (a number of times) to get to Jacqueline's blog, and I saw your comments and link there, which lead me her. What I DID NOT say say was that I was going to link to you April 1 or any other day. I just want to be clear on this. 2) You are obviously SO utterly hardcore for going to all this trouble to figure all this shit out - backward compiling an SWF file to find the links from my big goofy button?!? Get the hell out of here!!! Anyway, after all that I probably WILL link the button to you anyway at some point. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow. But some day. Stay tuned. ;-) Happy (early) April Fools! - J. a.k.a. Tht Button Guy Okay dude, so 2 things:

1) What I said in my comment, which was meant to be a minor ruse to the fact that I am indeed responsible for said button (not a big secret really, a quick WHOIS of the domain would reveal it), was actually this:

?Hey there, stumbled onto your blog VIA THE BLOG linked from the Big Giant Button today.” (note the added capitals).

In other words, I got to your blog via Jacqueline’s blog, which is in fact (at least here in EST) linked from the Big Giant Button. Which, incidentally, is absolutely true – I did click on the button today (a number of times) to get to Jacqueline’s blog, and I saw your comments and link there, which lead me her.

What I DID NOT say say was that I was going to link to you April 1 or any other day. I just want to be clear on this.

2) You are obviously SO utterly hardcore for going to all this trouble to figure all this shit out – backward compiling an SWF file to find the links from my big goofy button?!? Get the hell out of here!!!

Anyway, after all that I probably WILL link the button to you anyway at some point. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow. But some day. Stay tuned. ;-)

Happy (early) April Fools!
- J.
a.k.a. Tht Button Guy

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