Current Post On Trae’s Blog:
So it was literally more than twenty years ago that I first put one of my dumbest creations on the internet: The Steven Seagal Movie Generator.
Like I seriously publicly launched that dumb thing back in 2004, and for those of you who were unaware, it assembles a title, cast and plot of a fake Steven Seagal movie from elements of his (real) bad films.
I honestly got the idea from a former-friend, who in high school wrote a comedic piece about how you could mash up the titles of Seagal films in the weird underground "newspaper" that got handed out for a few years. But I took it a few steps further, and made a whole thing.
Mostly it just sat there though, a thing I made once and never went back to. I followed it up with the Sci-Fi Channel Movie Generator (later retitled the Syfy Movie Generator) in 2008. I spent more time on that one, doing a later design update that made the "Syfy" movies show up on a fake DVD back cover.
But the Steven Seagal generator just sort of sat there, untouched.
And Steven Seagal kept making (terrible) movies with (predictable) titles. Like a lot. But the generator still only spat out movies culled from the nineties and early 2000s, ignoring all of his new stuff. There was a whole library of awful movies that just weren't in there, and it made the generator feel less relevant.
So, uh, I went and did something about that today.
First off, I redesigned the page. Now it looks like the back of a VHS tape box. Then I loaded the elements of about twenty-five additional films into the generator. And that was harder than I thought it would be, since some of the films are so obscure that they're not well documented. I literally had to do some deep research to figure out a lot of the basic plot details that are now in the generator.
But I did it.
And it's done.
And the generator is now fully loaded.
It's still useless and dumb, though.
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…yea okay i quit, good luck with your S888ty trainwrek of a website
Wow…that is so freakin’ familiar!
Client gives developer/programmer the passwords to fix their problems with their software and then doesn’t give the help the authority to use them. In one word: Sheesh!
I agree…if you didn’t want to give the permission to use the passwords in order to fix the problem, then DON’T GIVE THEM OUT!!!!!!
If a client gets pissy about this, dump ’em and let them go hang
If you don’t want someone looking at the database, don’t give them the password to do so. The hoops to jump though of approval to get said passwords i can sorta understand, but only sorta.
I feel like that dude must have a day job in the public sector. Possibly on a municipal level.
“We want you to do this job.” ‘Okay, so I’ll start by….’ “Oh no no no… First, write all that down and email it to four different people who will each respond with ‘Reply all’, but never actually read the other messages in the train. Then when twelve more people have weighed in, we’ll start to think about forming a committee to begin the process of considering your proposal.”