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Re: Why so serious? [message #64043]

Mon, 01 December 2008 14:23

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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jigga1206@gmail.com writes:

> Usually this group is deep into vectorization, optimization, and so on=85
> except for David's occasional asides on tennis. However, does anybody
> have any interesting/funny/random/ IDL code that makes your programs
> more enjoyable to use?

Several years ago, when Dave Burridge and I were collaborating
on the Catalyst Library, we worked on it about 24 hours a day,
as he was in England and about 8 hours ahead of me. He would
work on it, turn it over to me when he went to supper and I
had finished breakfast, and I would turn it back over to him
when I was finished answering all my IDL newsgroup e-mail, about
7 AM his time, when he would start in on it again.

Sometimes we would pass a number of files back and forth.
One day, I managed to conceal an a DLL that played wav
files, and I modified the error handler to play a short
clip of Moe, one of the the Three Stooges, yelling "No, no, no,
you're doing it all wrong!!" when an error occurred. That
had us amused for quite some time. :-)

If you have a Windows machine, you can download the WAV DLL
file and the allwrong.wav sound file (among others) here:

http://www.dfanning.com/programs/bell.zip

I wrote it for IDL 5.5, but I just installed it on my IDL 7
Windows machine and it still works, and still gives me a smile. :-)

Cheers,

David

--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

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		Re: Why so serious? By: David Fanning on Mon, 01 December 2008 14:23
		Re: Why so serious? By: R.G. Stockwell on Mon, 01 December 2008 14:07
		Re: Why so serious? By: Vince Hradil on Mon, 01 December 2008 08:29
		Re: Why so serious? By: Matt[2] on Mon, 01 December 2008 07:27
		Re: Why so serious? By: Mark[1] on Sun, 30 November 2008 14:09
		Re: Why so serious? By: Andrew Cool on Tue, 02 December 2008 19:33

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