{"id":459,"date":"2011-08-23T18:56:32","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T22:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/wordpress\/yui_raptors_will_eat_your_face"},"modified":"2013-11-17T07:01:04","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T07:01:04","slug":"yui_raptors_will_eat_your_face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/2011\/08\/yui_raptors_will_eat_your_face.html","title":{"rendered":"YUI Raptors Will Eat Your Face"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To my surprise, it turns out I have <em>some<\/em> influence over which animal will appear on the cover of the book. So I threw the question out on the internal YUI team IRC channel. As expected, the results were unsatisfactory.<\/p>\n<p>To protect the guilty, all IRC nicks have been further anonymized.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>[3:12pm] evangoer: Okay, important business.<\/li>\n<li>[3:12pm] evangoer: My editor tells me that while I cannot choose the O&#8217;Reilly animal for the cover,<\/li>\n<li>[3:12pm] evangoer: I can send her a list of suggestions.<\/li>\n<li>[3:12pm] evangoer: So: floor is open<\/li>\n<li>[3:12pm] MrPink: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcphee.com\/shop\/products\/Avenging-Narwhal-Play-Set.html\">NARWHAL<\/a><\/li>\n<li>[3:12pm] evangoer: ooh good start<\/li>\n<li>[3:12pm] MrPink: Failing that, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/cache\/epub\/2701\/pg2701.txt\">Moby Dick<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>[3:12pm] MrPink: Or, really, any albino <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/dna\/h2g2\/classic\/a671492\">sperm whale<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>[3:13pm] MrBrown: t. rex<\/li>\n<li>[3:13pm] MrWhite: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.camelspiders.net\/\">camel spider<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li>[3:13pm] evangoer: I was going to say velociraptor, but T Rex &gt; Velociraptor<\/li>\n<li>[3:13pm] evangoer: way too scary, Mr. White<\/li>\n<li>[3:13pm] MrPink: If there&#8217;s a camel spider on the book, it will never enter my house.<\/li>\n<li>[3:13pm] MrWhite: Has someone taken the angler fish?<\/li>\n<li>[3:13pm] evangoer: yup bad marketing<\/li>\n<li>[3:14pm] MrBrown: ditto<\/li>\n<li>[3:14pm] evangoer: <a href=\"http:\/\/theoatmeal.com\/comics\/angler\">female or male angler fish<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li>[3:14pm] MrWhite: haha<\/li>\n<li>[3:14pm] MrOrange: Velociraptors are scarier than T. Rex, IMHO.<\/li>\n<li>[3:14pm] MrBlonde: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangeanimals.info\/2010\/12\/kingdom-animalia-phylum-class-order.html\">Yeti Crab<\/a><\/li>\n<li>[3:14pm] MrBrown: If they want a list, we should put both<\/li>\n<li>[3:14pm] evangoer: yes but T. Rex kicked their butts in Jurassic park 1<\/li>\n<li>[3:14pm] MrWhite: velociraptors are a fad (like the internet). T Rex has stood the test of time.<\/li>\n<li>[3:15pm] MrOrange: True. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hzIVwpCcgkM\">But T. Rex couldn&#8217;t enter the computer room and kitchen<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>[3:15pm] MrBrown: Mr. White: Good point.<\/li>\n<li>[3:15pm] MrPink: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lx6X_VLtfIc\">YUI is clever. Like a raptor<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>[3:15pm] MrPink: Also, learning YUI will help you open doors.<\/li>\n<li>[3:15pm] MrOrange: Mr. Pink++<\/li>\n<li>[3:15pm] evangoer: YUI will crunch through your problems like the jaws of a T. Rex.<\/li>\n<li>[3:16pm] MrBlonde: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Red_panda\">Red Panda<\/a> &#8216;(&#8220;shining cat,&#8221; from a Latinized form of the Greek, ailouros, &#8220;cat,&#8221; and the participial form of the Latin fulgere, &#8220;to shine&#8221;)&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>[3:16pm] MrPink: Also, it&#8217;s modular. The modules work together to overcome problems, in much the same way that raptors work together to eat your face.<\/li>\n<li>[3:16pm] MrWhite: Isn&#8217;t there a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3vhgC_g1cmU\">flying snake<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li>[3:16pm] MrPink: Mr. White: HOLY HELL WHERE KILL IT<\/li>\n<li>[3:16pm] MrBrown: I think its a common misnomer that the T Rex is not as smart as the v-raptor. A consensus of paleontologists agree the T Rex is as smart as they come.<\/li>\n<li>[3:16pm] MrPink: That said, as awesome as raptors are, narwhals are infinitely awesomer.<\/li>\n<li>[3:17pm] MrWhite: 9 out of 10 paleontologists agree&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>[3:17pm] MrBrown: Apparently, they are the most intelligent hunter evah<\/li>\n<li>[3:17pm] evangoer: oooh the <a href=\"http:\/\/vermaden.deviantart.com\/art\/firefox-don-t-hurt-the-web-54278945\">red panda is cute<\/a>!<\/li>\n<li>[3:17pm] MrPink: 1 out of 1 paleontologists I live with would agree with Mr. Brown&#8217;s stance on T-Rexes.<\/li>\n<li>[3:17pm] evangoer: &#8220;its population is estimated at fewer than 10,000 mature individuals.&#8221; Well that&#8217;s YUI for sure.<\/li>\n<li>[3:17pm] MrBlue: So, technically an animal: the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yui_%28singer%29\">YUI J-Pop star<\/a> in illustration format on the cover?<\/li>\n<li>[3:18pm] MrPink: 1 out of 1 paleontologists I live with would also like me to recommend the humble compsognathus, which she thinks is cute: http: \/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Compsognathus<\/li>\n<li>[3:18pm] MrBrown: Mr. Blue: thread winner!!!<\/li>\n<li>[3:18pm] MrPink: Mr. Blue: Ha.<\/li>\n<li>[3:18pm] MrBlonde: We should get the &#8220;Distinct George&#8221; on the cover..<\/li>\n<li>[3:21pm] evangoer: Alright, well fantastic work, gentlemen. Will send this out to O&#8217;Reilly post-haste.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I threw the question out on the internal YUI team IRC channel. As expected, the results were unsatisfactory. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany","category-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":607,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions\/607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}