A glass meeting room/whiteboard (/almost) totally covered in scribbles. Hooks for jokes in the scribbles/surviving whitespace.
Someone with a shepherd's crook and a bunch of cats, outdoors.
A computer hooked up to a bunch of mice in a maze (playing CPU if that's conveyable via drawing) while an experimenter in labcoat looks on.
A bunch of people trying to split a restaurant check, one of them throwing themselves into some complicated calculation scheme, the rest frazzled and aggravated.
Maybe I'm old but I think its always good to rif on old basic code:
10 PRINT "SPIKE IS COOL"
20 GOTO 10
Or maybe something about dependency hell. That's always hilarious.
I think you said it was just a picture, that others would caption?
Roomful of monkeys at computer terminals. So many ways to go with it.
Maybe a Far Side-style caveman comic with Thag scratching 1s and 0s into a rock.
A Rube-Goldberg machine.
That's what every mature in-house application evolves into.
3 would be harmful.
I like 6, and think it could maybe be funny to have two cave people, one scratching 1s and 0s and the other some complicated Perl expression and them both looking quizzically at the other. Or something along those lines.
(And it could well be captioned, "Christ, what an asshole.")
9. This could become a somewhat disappointing correspondence.
4: Hm, a way to make that visual would be to have someone arriving at an airport with piles of overflowing luggage and left-pad peaking out of one of the seams, maybe. Or, like, the luggage is precariously balanced and left-pad is peeking out the bottom and some little dog whose owner is on their phone is trying to nip it? But I feel like that's a little too opinionated/editorial already, is the thing. But I could always do a couple and give them choices. A single panel comic isn't a ton of work.
I would offer that a comic for captioning should not make a specific joke. It might make some references to your subject matter that captioners can mine, but a semi-humorous juxtaposition would probably work fine on its own.
yeah, I think the cave concept is better than the left-pad concept in that way.
Thanks to the new copyright act, Plato's heirs were able to sell the intellectual property right to make an allegory involving a cave. Disney owns it now.
Plato, being by definition Platonic, has no heirs.
I feel like for monkeys at terminals to be interesting one of the monkeys has to be doing something different from the other monkeys. The monkey of whom you'd say, "Christ, what an asshole." I can't think of what that thing would be. And/or there needs to be an experimenter doing something as in Minivet's mouse suggestion.
I thought of a caption for the cave one, although I guess I can't enter my own contest. I think one of the cave people should be speaking so it suggests some dialogue, and the caption would be "Compile time is 64 million years." Or maybe similarly: "It completes in constant time! Ok, so the constant is 64 million years."
18.1. There have to be experimenters watching. The one monkey is having a screaming fit with lots of cartoon profanity. Experimenter: "Oh, that one's relaxing by browsing the internet."
14 is good sense. The ideal cartoon for a caption contest could just be two people talking.
The ideal cartoon for a caption contest could just be two people talking.
That's too far. There needs to be some spark of juxtaposition or absurdity to suggest a direction. There should be *some* constraint, but not full constraint. As in any of these three.
visual representation of excessive abstraction maybe. a handle, layers of elaborate tinkertoy connectors, and then fork tines.
"I see you have brought a comically large object to this gatheringhackathon."
turing test setup could lead to a good visual perhaps. Or something juxtaposing "architects concept" vs. real world
turing test setup could lead to a good visual perhaps
hm, maybe the invisible participant could be giant chicken.
Great. I'll just go be nuggets then.
or some sort of Chthulu like creature, although that too immediately suggests a caption:
Cahf ah nafl mglw'nafh hh' ahor syha'h ah'legeth, ng llll or'azath syha'hnahh n'ghftephai n'gha ahornah ah'mglw'nafh? What encoding is that?
source code for something compact and recognizable with all variable names 1- or 2-emoji glyphs.
29 is good [19 is a very good cartoon + caption]
You could depict a forest of trees whose trunks start at the top and branch downwards.
Two wagons loaded with hay collide with one another something something stack exchange
But of the captionable ones, the cave is the best suggestion so far.
I used to boycott Rolling Rock, but then the company that owned them sold the Toronto Blue Jays, so I could drink it again.
Is there another reason people boycott Rolling Rock?
I guess Moby's not a blue jays fan.
They moved it from Latrobe to New Jersey.
Smug middle aged man saying something to horrified decade-or-so younger woman. Both in front of laptops?
New programmer arriving for first day af work shocked to be greeted by more senior programmer in ludicrous protective clothing (welding mask? Body armour? Hazmat suit?)
The man looks vaguely like Lewis C.K. and the laptop is blocking a view of his crotch.
OT because the virus thread has fallen off the front page: Why is there a run on toilet paper from people afraid of being trapped at home? You have a shower at home.
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The key difference between riots and pogroms lies in the behavior of the state--through its police. The term was born in tsarist Russia when pogroms were launched against Jews.|>
RA: Given what we know now, how would you classify the violence in Delhi?
AV: On the first day and night--Sunday, Feb. 23--we saw two mobs going at each other. There were deaths on both sides. But on the second and third day, the partisanship of the police became clear. A mosque, a Muslim shrine, and Muslim homes and shops were attacked. The police did not respond to calls for help. Logs suggest a high volume of those calls came from predominantly Muslim parts of northeast Delhi. But the police failed to show up. Hindu mobs then attacked with abandon.
I'm terrible at this sort of thing. All I can imagine is riffing off of the context somehow -- like a frazzled programmer with some kind of obviously absurd chaotic mess on their desk, and someone else pointing at a poster that mentions a lightweight set of social rules?
The monkey of whom you'd say, "Christ, what an asshole."
New mouseover text?
49 Make it so.
This is what I did. Thanks to all who contributed ideas, especially Spike.
(I actually just thought of a caption that works for our specific context: "How can I be backseat driving? The wheel hasn't been invented yet.")
Thanks! I did the beginning of it on a Zoom co-drawing session which was chill and fun. I actually just sent another email about the possibility of Zoom coworking with someone I usually cowork in person with. Just a reminder that you don't have to be vigorously engaged in conversation to have a call open and have some nice interaction.
The important thing about web meetings is to remember to close the tab with unfogged when you are presenting.
Also, I now trust the mute feature enough to take a piss while on a call.
Sorry. I thought I turned the camera off.
That's really impressive, Tia.
Quick bleg: is there any software/platform for musicians to play/sing together online that doesn't have the latency issues of Zoom and which actually works? JamKazam looks great, but in practice doesn't connect to the server and their support desk link is a 404.
The winning caption was "I saw a vision in the fire, that it must wrap at 72 characters."
Cartoon is good! Caption winner did a nice job, too. I missed most of this thread.
Also, Standpipe!