Joke of the Day

SDL Development
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Has anybody seen the “Joke of the Day” on the SDL website?

Is it worth keeping updated?

See ya!
-Sam Lantinga (slouken at devolution.com)

Lead Programmer, Loki Entertainment Software–
“Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature”
– Rich Kulawiec

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Sam Lantinga wrote:

Has anybody seen the “Joke of the Day” on the SDL website?

I like it :slight_smile:

Is it worth keeping updated?

Is work involved? Don’t you keep it updated by a script?!–
Daniel Vogel My opinions may have changed,
666 @ http://grafzahl.de but not the fact that I am right

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Has anybody seen the “Joke of the Day” on the SDL website?

I see it when I reload the API docs but have to admit not always stopping
to read it.

Is it worth keeping updated?

If there’s any real work involved I would not object to eliminating it.
If it’s easy enough to keep up I guess it’s fun for new people to read
when they come to the site.

Paul Braman
@Paul_BramanOn Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Sam Lantinga wrote:

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Well, they’ve made me laugh a few times, and as I am seriously pro-laughing, I
vote yay:)

Jone Marius Vignes
BLiP!

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Paul Braman wrote:

Is it worth keeping updated?

If there’s any real work involved I would not object to eliminating it.
If it’s easy enough to keep up I guess it’s fun for new people to read
when they come to the site.

Agree here.–
Marc A. Lepage
http://www.antimeta.com/
Minion open source game, RTS game programming, etc.

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How about posting them to the list instead? I usually check my email more
times than I check the web. :)On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Sam Lantinga wrote:

Has anybody seen the “Joke of the Day” on the SDL website?

Is it worth keeping updated?

See ya!
-Sam Lantinga (slouken at devolution.com)

Lead Programmer, Loki Entertainment Software

“Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature”
– Rich Kulawiec

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On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Sam Lantinga wrote :

Has anybody seen the “Joke of the Day” on the SDL website?

Is it worth keeping updated?

Yes, I’ve seen it and think it’s a pretty good idea. They’re all in pretty
good taste, and I sometimes pass it around to a few guys at work and we all
get a little chuckle.

cheers,
Dave

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On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Sam Lantinga wrote :

Has anybody seen the “Joke of the Day” on the SDL website?

Is it worth keeping updated?

Yes, I’ve seen it and think it’s a pretty good idea. They’re all in pretty
good taste, and I sometimes pass it around to a few guys at work and we all
get a little chuckle.

Cool, well in that case, it’s worth it.

I do manually add the best of the humor I recieve, so that the quality stays
high. The last thing I want on the SDL home page is more annoying mail trash.
:slight_smile:

Thanks!
-Sam Lantinga (slouken at devolution.com)

Lead Programmer, Loki Entertainment Software–
“Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature”
– Rich Kulawiec

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That must have been where I got the “Q: So what causes that
noise? A: I can’t tell you - you’re not a monk” joke that
I spent half an hour telling to my wife, and for which I got a
larger-than-normal dose of arsenic in my dinner…

I like it anyway…

– Joe

Sam Lantinga wrote:

Has anybody seen the “Joke of the Day” on the SDL website?

Is it worth keeping updated?

See ya!
-Sam Lantinga (slouken at devolution.com)

Lead Programmer, Loki Entertainment Software

“Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature”
– Rich Kulawiec

– Joe Knapka

  • What happens when a mysterious force meets an inscrutable object?
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That must have been where I got the “Q: So what causes that
noise? A: I can’t tell you - you’re not a monk” joke that
I spent half an hour telling to my wife, and for which I got a
larger-than-normal dose of arsenic in my dinner…

laugh Okay, okay… the jokes shall continue! :slight_smile:

-Sam Lantinga				(slouken at devolution.com)

Lead Programmer, Loki Entertainment Software–
“Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature”
– Rich Kulawiec

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Sam Lantinga wrote:

I do manually add the best of the humor I recieve, so that the quality stays
high. The last thing I want on the SDL home page is more annoying mail trash.

You could just dump it between 

 tags. But I suppose it isn’t that

bad to HTML. I still do most of my site manually, although that’s

changing.–

Marc A. Lepage

http://www.antimeta.com/

Minion open source game, RTS game programming, etc.
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Has anybody seen the “Joke of the Day” on the SDL website?

Is it worth keeping updated?

I’ve seen them. Never really understood the point, but they were
amusing. :slight_smile:

-bill!