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[challenge entry] iFlaw

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(, Thu 18 Jun 2009, 15:52, archived)
# Hahahahahahaha
(, Thu 18 Jun 2009, 15:55, archived)
# Today I was on a train to Birmingham
A man sat next to me and started reading a little magazine with the title "Whippet weekly"
Or something similar.
(, Thu 18 Jun 2009, 15:55, archived)
# I expect it was bringing his passion for whippets to life.
(, Thu 18 Jun 2009, 16:02, archived)
# He also read some of my paper aswell, I was more interested in his whippet magazine
(, Thu 18 Jun 2009, 16:04, archived)
# on the way to nottingham last week
i sat across from a bloke reading "tortoises of the mediterranean". i was, suffice it to say, a little intrigued...
(, Thu 18 Jun 2009, 16:10, archived)
# Oh my, that sounds amazing!
(, Thu 18 Jun 2009, 16:13, archived)
# it looked gripping :)
i wanted to ask if he was a professional tortoisist or just an amateur, but i couldn't muster up the courage...
(, Thu 18 Jun 2009, 16:15, archived)
# I really wanted to ask this guy to look at his whippet magazine, but I was too scared :(
(, Thu 18 Jun 2009, 16:18, archived)
# your caution was wise!
it's a well-known fact that all whippet enthusiasts also:

a) eat babies

b) smell at least slightly of whippet, and

c) are nazis
(, Thu 18 Jun 2009, 16:21, archived)
# He did smell a bit...
and got on the train in burton of all places...
(, Thu 18 Jun 2009, 16:22, archived)
# hmm
whats a nayzi?
(, Thu 18 Jun 2009, 19:27, archived)
# I once considered making my desktop background a photo of the wall immediately behind the monitor.
But then I didn't.
(, Thu 18 Jun 2009, 15:55, archived)
# what would be really clever would be if it snapped a webcam photo every now and then, to compare it to the stored version, and change it.
I guess it would change a lot, as you would be sat in front of it.

Hmmm...some sort of edge detection pre-processing pipeline....

*wanders off, muttering*
(, Thu 18 Jun 2009, 16:04, archived)
# I've
done that, quite disconcerting, and not easy to get accurate colour balance, contrast, saturation etc..
(, Thu 18 Jun 2009, 16:06, archived)