Discussion » Newbie topic - March 2008

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Posted by cal, around March 2008:
 
Welcome to iamcal.com - tell us who you are in this topic and if we like you you'll gain access to the rest of the site.
Posted by Uncle Moc, around March 2008:
 
Cal. Can you help me out with something here? You are colour blind, right?
Posted by Chris Parkinson, pissant, around March 2008:
 
You mean because Wikipedia says so?
Posted by cal, around March 2008:
 
i am
Posted by WarHead, around March 2008:
 
/warhead clutches his keyboard in anticipation of where this exchange might lead.
Posted by Brock, around March 2008:
 
This could be a real roller coaster, eh Warhead?
Posted by WarHead, 3rd March 2008:
 
Yes, the suspense is killing me.
Posted by syl, 3rd March 2008:
 
I cannot believe it is March already. Bloody hell.
Posted by WarHead, around 3rd March 2008:
 
Just going off at a tangent for a minute, the latest Charlatans album is available for free download from XFM Manchester here.
Posted by WarHead, around 4th March 2008:
 
And going off at another tangent, Paul Raymond has snuffed it (link goes to a BBC Player news artcicle). Just think, without him the pr0n industry wouldn't have become what it is today.
Posted by WarHead, around 4th March 2008:
 
Syl, have you been getting your gazongas out in protest?
Posted by syl, around 4th March 2008:
 
I would have liked to have gone today, but I have month-end. If it had been during the month I would have gone. I think the taxi drivers behaviour is disgusting. The taxi drivers here are dangerous thugs and nobody messes with them. :(
Posted by che, around 5th March 2008:
 
"I have month-end."

sounds like another euphamism for "the communists are round for tea"
Posted by WarHead, around 5th March 2008:
 
Dude, is that a Redi-ism?
Posted by che, around 6th March 2008:
 
Perhaps, but it was Arsepuppy that introduced that particular euphamism to iamcal I think.
Posted by Redmaiden, around 6th March 2008:
 
The Communists round for tea is in my official period vocab - FACT!
I can't bring myself to use Rosie's "Monkey has a nosebleed" though
Posted by WarHead, around 7th March 2008:
 
#839727 +(2323)- [X]

anon: You're so gullible.
sleaz: You mean gullable.
anon: What?
sleaz: It's spelled gullable.
anon: Oh. Okay.
Posted by syl, 7th March 2008:
 
Er, DUH! news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/america...
Posted by WarHead, around 15th March 2008:
 
You're joking

Fabulous first year together??? They have no idea. So far I've neither bought nor sold via eBay.
Posted by che, around 16th March 2008:
 
Apart from your dignity
Posted by Uncle Moc, around 16th March 2008:
 

Mightiest am I,
but I am not alone in this cosmos of mine.
For the black hills consists of black souls,
souls that already dies one thousand deaths.
Behind the stone walls (of centuries) they breed their black art.
Boiling their spells in cauldrons of black gold.

Far up in the mountains,
where the rain fall not far,
yet the Sun cannot reach.
The wizards, my servants,

summon the souls of macrocosm.
No age will escape my wrath.
I travel through time and I return to the future.
I gather wisdom now lost.
I visit again the eternally ancient caves,
before a mighty Emperor thereupon came.
Watching the mortals "discovering" my chronicles, guarded
by the old demons, even unknown to me.

Once destroyed their souls are being summoned
to my timeless prison of hate.
It is delightful to feast upon the screaming souls
that were destroyed in my future.

How many wizards that serve me with evil, I know not.
My empires has no limits.

From the never ending mountains black, to the bottomless lakes.
I am the ruler and has been for eternities long.
I am them.

(I am them.)
(I am them.)

From the never ending mountains black, to the bottomless lakes.
I am the ruler and has been for eternities long.
My wizards are many, but their essence is mine.
Forever they are in the hills in their stone homes of grief.
Because I am the spirit of their existence.
I am them.

I am them.
I am them.
Posted by Uncle Moc, around 16th March 2008:
 
ooops. Sorry about that.
Posted by WarHead, around 16th March 2008:
 
So you should be.

souls that already dies one thousand deaths.


Surely, that should either be 'die' or 'died.'

I am the ruler and has been for eternities long.


So, are you saying you're a 'has been' or did you mean 'have been.'

I think we should be told.
Posted by Meatwood Flack, around March 2008:
 
That's the best thing about '93 norweigan black metal. It's all in the most fantastic broken english. That song is called "I AM THE BLACK WIZARDS!!".

However, I was in a fairly incoherent state of mind when I posted that. So I didn't really get much of a chance to check the grammar.
Posted by WarHead, around March 2008:
 
Well, it makes more sense than Soulja Boy, so I suppose I shouldn't complain.
Posted by Redmaiden, around March 2008:
 
Most things do
Posted by grace1989, around March 2008:
 
Iceland is TEH COCK!
Posted by ales, around March 2008:
 
AXEMAN are you there??
hello axeman I need to speak to you URGENT
Posted by ales, around March 2008:
 
axeman i really need to talk to you
you have my number please call me
Posted by mihasya, around March 2008:
 
I'm messing around with oembed on flickr - not seeing a way to specify which size of the image I want to embed. I tried some combinations of changing the URL and maxwidth/maxheight settings in the request, but to no avail.

I tried:
www.flickr.com/services/oem...
www.flickr.com/services/oem...
www.flickr.com/services/oem...

All three return the same thing:

1.0
photo
Crowley in an intense photohunt
mike.panchenko
www.flickr.com/photos/mikep...
3600
Flickr
www.flickr.com
500
375

farm2.static.flickr.com/121...



Are we not there yet?

I was thinking of making a flickr oembed wordpress plugin. It'll still work, but will be limited to the one size.

Is there a way to work this? Would it be possible to set up server side logic @flickr which actually checks the /sizes/foo part of the URL and returns the appropriate URL/size info? I haven't thought about it long (and it's late) but that seems to be in line with the standard - would only have to change the url GET var in the request, putting all the logic on the providers side and just spitting out the right image.

Cheers.

Mike.
Posted by Sul, around 31st March 2008:
 
Yes but where's the fun in that?
Posted by WarHead, around 31st March 2008:
 
Mary Poppins would know.
Posted by ales, around 31st March 2008:
 
axeman please call I need to speak
there is something important
Posted by Saltation, around 31st March 2008:
 
sorry, axeman likes REAL ales, and you're just a pale internet shadow
Posted by AxeMan, 15th April 2008:
 
ales hi. you'tre not going to believe the month I've had. I got back in to the UK yesterday. I'll put it like that. Ever since we 'oarted company' in poland it's been ......... interesting.

look, email me axe_man@mail.com if you have anything to say to me or some kind of explaination about what happened

Sorry about that everyone else but I didnt want to go into the gorey details on here... tjhank goodness I am now safe and sound and back home.
Posted by Saltation, 16th April 2008:
 
hee hee. axeman oarted.
Posted by Meatwood Flack, around 18th April 2008:
 
Dare I ask what happened to Axeman?

I might email him.
Posted by Saltation, around 20th April 2008:
 
he oarted

you could oamail him?