Approximately 8 people attended the SLUG meeting on Mon 12 April 2010. The loosely planned topic was "Hacking Waves". Rob took us through several of the challenges and digressions he faced when trying to get PyGoWave to work. Once he reached the end of that, we segued into a live debugging session, trying to finish making it work. While ultimately unsuccessful, we made some progress. I rather suspect the complexity and difficulty involved in this reflects poorly on PyGoWave.
One of the most troublesome components to get working was the turboencabulator. A turboencabulator is intended to be capable of automatically synchronising cardinal grammeters. Basically, the only new principle involved is that instead of the power being generated by the relaxive motion of conductors and fluxes, it is produced by the modial interactions of magneto-reluctance and capacitive directance. The original component had a base-plate of prefabulated amulite, surrounded by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two spurving bearings were in direct line with the pentametric fan, the latter consisted simply of six hydrocoptic marzelvanes, so fitted to the ambifacient lunar vaneshaft that side fumbling was effectively prevented. The main winding was of the normal lotus-o-delta type placed in panendermic semiboloid solts in the stator, every seventh conductor being connected by a non-reversible termic pipe to the differential girdlespring on the 'up' end of the grammeter. Forty-one manestically placed grouting brushes were arrranged to feed into the rotor slip stream a mixture of high S-value phenyhydrobenzamine and 5 percent reminative tetraiodohexamine. Both these liquids have specific pericosities given by p=2.4 Cn where n is the diathecial evolute of retrograde temperature phase disposition and C is the Chomondeley's annual grillage coefficient. Initially, n was measured with the aid of a metapolar pilfrometer, but up to the present date nothing has been found to equal the transcetental hopper dadoscope. Electrical engineers will appreciate the difficulty of nubbing together a regurgitative purwell and a superaminative wennel-sprocket. Indeed, this proved to be a stumbling block to further development until, in 1943, it was found that the use of anhydrous nagling pins enabled a kyptonastic boiling shim to be tankered. The early attempts to construct a sufficiently robust spiral decommutator failed largely because of lack of appreciation of the large quasi-pietic stresses in the gremlin studs; the latter were specially designed to hold the roffit bars to the spamshaft. When, however, it was discovered that wending could be prevented by the simple addition of teeth to socket, almost perfect running was secured. The operating point is maintained as near as possible to the HF rem peak by constantly fromaging the bituminous spandrels. This is a distinct advance on the standard nivelsheave in that no drammock oil is required after the phase detractors have remissed. Undoubtedly, the turboencabulator will some day reach a very high level of technical development. However, it has yet to be successfully used for operating nofer trunnions. In addition, whenever a barescent skor motion is required, it requires a drawn reciprocating dingle arm to reduce sinusoidal depleneration. * * * Most of the above text was adapted from [1]. The "original" YouTube video[2] is highly recommended. These were introduced during the debugging process as comic relief, in response to some rather grandiose description on the RabbitMQ website. I thought it might be amusing to post this, since it will probably make most readers feel the way we did after a few hours of trying to figure out PyGoWave and all its components. This also gave me an idea for party game: People try to read the text of [1] straight-faced, without laughing, stumbling, or omitting anything. When someone makes a mistake, they pass to the next person, who starts over. First person to make it to the end wins. (To avoid paying out, have it so that each time someone makes a mistake, they take a drink.) [1] http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ids/dotdot/misc/jokes/turboencabulator.txt [2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac7G7xOG2Ag -- Ben _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/