[HN Gopher] Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine
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Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine
Author : bookofjoe
Score : 441 points
Date : 2021-02-12 22:40 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (michaelyingling.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (michaelyingling.com)
| aanet wrote:
| This warms my heart!! <3
| ChrisMarshallNY wrote:
| This has been in my bookmarks for quite some time.
|
| It's very cool.
| PhilipA wrote:
| It brings back memories. My first website I made was a Calvin &
| Hobbes fan site on Geocities in 98 - frames, lots of GIFs - those
| were times.
| koolba wrote:
| This is awesome. Took 5 seconds to find this and I still say the
| last Calvin line of this strip on most mornings:
| https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1988/12/28
| cbsks wrote:
| That's really similar to one of my favorites:
| https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1990/07/31
| koolba wrote:
| Ha! That's exactly what I thought it'd be!
| sieste wrote:
| So funny this is coming up just now. My sons (6 and 4) found a
| C&H book in the shelf last week. Since then they did this
| https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1986/06/24 and tried
| this https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1986/06/28 This
| lockdown has gotten more interesting for the whole family.
| [deleted]
| gdavisson wrote:
| A friend of mine was reading a C&H book (probably the same one)
| a while back. Suddenly he ran to the bathroom, and there was a
| flush followed by gales of laughter.
|
| He was in his thirties.
| dewey wrote:
| I hope it was the first one of these two
| vfinn wrote:
| I'm studying Spanish, so I made a little script that fetches
| Calvin & hobbes cartoons in both Spanish and English and then
| converts each strip into bilingual strip with ImageMagick. It
| works well enough (>99%). #!/bin/bash
| for i in {1..1000}; do x=$(date +'%Y/%m/%d' -d "$i days ago");
| z=$(date +'%Y-%m-%d' -d "$i days ago"); wget
| https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbesespanol/$x -O $z-es;
| wget https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/$x -O $z-en;
| y=$(cat $z-es | grep -o -P
| '.{0}https://assets.amuniversal.com.{0,33}' | tail -1);
| f=$(cat $z-en | grep -o -P
| '.{0}https://assets.amuniversal.com.{0,33}' | tail -1);
| wget $y -O $z-es.gif; rm $z-en; sleep 1; wget $f -O
| $z-en.gif; rm $z-es; sleep 1; convert $z-en.gif $z-es.gif
| -append $z-bi.gif; #ImageMagick rm $z-es.gif; rm
| $z-en.gif; done;
| justjonathan wrote:
| Tried do this on a mac. I had to replace gnu grep with perl:
| perl -wnle '/(.{0}https://assets.amuniversal.com.{0,33})/ and
| print $1'
|
| I had to replace wget with curl: curl -s
| https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbesespanol/$x -o $z-es;
|
| Then I realized I need gnu date, which had to come as part of
| coreutils: brew install coreutils
|
| So date becomes gdate for i in {1..1000}; do
| x=$(gdate +'%Y/%m/%d' -d "$i days ago"); z=$(gdate
| +'%Y-%m-%d' -d "$i days ago");
|
| Hope I din't break other stuff with that.
|
| Now it still doesn't work, but I'm giving up, hopefully I saved
| a little time for somebody...
| vfinn wrote:
| And you have ImageMagick also installed?
| lifeisstillgood wrote:
| That's awesome. Seriously make this a company -see how it goes
| :-)
| vfinn wrote:
| Thank you. You're most kind. I have many business ideas
| already, but I'll think about it.
| joshspankit wrote:
| How about just a web front-end that lets people upload
| other comics?
| vfinn wrote:
| Yeah, why not. I didn't give it much thought. This script
| makes some assumptions about the site structure, that's
| why it's able to be so short. Of course if you were able
| to get the image links without grepping, then it would be
| even easier.
| tantalor wrote:
| Found an XSS. Check your strings:
|
| http://michaelyingling.com/random/calvin_and_hobbes/search.p...
| [deleted]
| stevebmark wrote:
| Could be SQL injectable too as an apostrophe raises an error
| tyingq wrote:
| I think it is. This hangs, though for more than 10 seconds:
|
| http://michaelyingling.com/random/calvin_and_hobbes/search.p.
| ..
| LeifCarrotson wrote:
| I don't OP is the author, I've been using this for years.
| svnpenn wrote:
| Why are you the way that you are?
|
| https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aYmOqPFyJPw
| junyoon wrote:
| Looks like there's no connection pooling
|
| Warning: mysql_connect(): User yingling_sandbox already has more
| than 'max_user_connections' active connections in
| /home/content/41/5598741/html/random/calvin_and_hobbes/search.php
| on line 10 Unable to connect to database! Please try again later.
| dudeinjapan wrote:
| https://i.pinimg.com/originals/04/da/65/04da65848e7f2a1ff299...
| optimalsolver wrote:
| For fans of both Calvin and Frank Herbert's Dune, I give you
| Calvin & Muad'Dib:
|
| https://calvinanddune.tumblr.com/
| macintux wrote:
| I don't know what impresses me the most: the concept, the
| execution, the fact that permission was sought, or the fact
| that permission was granted.
| nultxt wrote:
| This is the most unbelievably specific-to-my-personal-interests
| webcomic I've ever seen. I am stunned.
| hansy wrote:
| [shameless plug] I run a web comic newsletter
| (https://funnies.page) for anyone interested in comics from
| contemporary artists. I'm always in search of the next great
| comic strip (like C&H), so if anyone has any favorites, I'd love
| to hear about them!
| atulatul wrote:
| I know all about the salamander incident as well as the noodle
| incident[42]. Not going to tell you, though.
|
| [42] https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1987/12/18
|
| and
|
| https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1990/12/12
| ghostDancer wrote:
| First rule of the Calvinism,: - We don't talk about noodle
| incident.
| [deleted]
| Brendinooo wrote:
| Nice idea! Scripts and comics didn't match for me though.
| codetrotter wrote:
| What kind of search term did you use? I tried "pilot" and got
| relevant results like these:
|
| - https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1988/05/15
|
| - https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1988/11/06
|
| Edit: I think I see what you meant now. Looking at the search
| results one of them had a very different "script" text that was
| unrelated to the "description" text and the contents of the
| comic strip.
| agency wrote:
| I noticed some weird results too. The first thing I searched
| was "dead bird"[1]. There are 2 results, one of which is
| correct, but the script and descriptions are flipped. The first
| result has the script for the correct strip but links to a
| different script which matches the description, and vice versa
| for the other result.
|
| [1]
| http://michaelyingling.com/random/calvin_and_hobbes/search.p...
| happy-go-lucky wrote:
| "The last few years of the strip, and especially the Sundays, are
| the work I am the most proud of. This was close as I could get to
| my vision of what a comic strip should be."
|
| https://www.zenpencils.com/comic/128-bill-watterson-a-cartoo...
|
| That must be the zenith of his career. Hope I can truly
| understand what he must have felt like when he said that.
| habil wrote:
| Unable to connect to database! Please try again later.
| tyingq wrote:
| He does to seem to have an affinity for secret codes:
|
| http://michaelyingling.com/random/calvin_and_hobbes/search.p...
| ChrisArchitect wrote:
| (2010) maybe?
|
| Here's some more discussion and links from previous:
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1600211
| dang wrote:
| Yup, and also a bit here:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1600151
| bigwheeler wrote:
| Welp, there goes 3 hours of my life. Well spent.
| chmod600 wrote:
| Read this series (click next a few times to see them all):
|
| https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1992/05/05
|
| It looks like it was written yesterday, but it's 30 years old.
| randomsearch wrote:
| Amazing to think they nailed that but also the consequence,
| which they couldn't possibly have foreseen, that this mechanism
| would eventually undermine democracy.
| every wrote:
| Calvin and Hobbes appear every day in my RSS feed and shall
| continue to do so in perpetuity...
| anarcat wrote:
| wait, tell us more! his does that work?
| every wrote:
| Try: https://www.comicsrss.com/preview/calvinandhobbes
| atulatul wrote:
| You can also follow the comic on twitter.
|
| https://twitter.com/calvinandhobbes For this it says born
| on November 18, 1985 :)
|
| https://twitter.com/Calvinn_Hobbes
| Moru wrote:
| It's funny how everything looks so new and cool but when you do
| a little research, you find that it's not that new after all.
| Many things are just a rechew of something old.
| tim333 wrote:
| >It looks like it was written yesterday, but it's 30 years old.
|
| I thought it was great but took me back to 30 years ago when
| magazines in the mail were the thing. I think I prefer the
| modern situation where at least you can go to sites like HN
| which are relatively non commercially biased. Back then there
| wasn't so much unbiased stuff available - maybe BBC programs
| and library books.
| sebmellen wrote:
| Calvin and Hobbes always had a peculiar prescience about it.
| kop316 wrote:
| You picked a particularlly good day for that one, especially
| when Hobbes says "As is advertising easn't intrusive enough
| before."
|
| If only you knew Hobbes....
| Mediterraneo10 wrote:
| Watterson could offer some biting social commentary, but
| towards the end of C&H's run he had also become a sort of
| curmudgeonly old man. For example, there are strips where he
| depicts modern art as being just as bunch of phoneys trying to
| hoodwink one another, but I know a few abstract artists
| personally and they are very sincere about the work they are
| creating (primarily for themselves, to scratch an inner itch),
| even if it isn't to everyone's taste.
|
| It might be for the best that he retired near what everyone
| felt was a peak. Had he kept going, he could have even ended up
| like certain other long-running comic strips where the polemic
| takes over and the humor is an afterthought.
| WalterBright wrote:
| Funky Winkerbean spent a couple decades being a humorous take
| on life in high school. Then it changed into a message strip
| about Important Issues, and I stopped reading it.
| jhbadger wrote:
| There's even a musical based on the high school version
| named "Funky Winkerbean's Homecoming" which probably would
| confuse readers of the current strip, as cancer,
| alcoholism, and suicide don't play a part.
| ChrisMarshallNY wrote:
| Watterson was always a bit of a cynic (I assume, still is),
| but I have always felt that he has a great heart.
|
| One thing that he never did, was license his IP, so every
| "pissing Calvin" is a ripoff.
|
| https://www.theonion.com/peeing-calvin-decals-now-
| recognized...
| darkerside wrote:
| And even worse, it's out of character
| MontyCarloHall wrote:
| I know people who write like this[0] and are very sincere
| about their writing. One can be sincere about anything, even
| meaningless pretension.
|
| [0] https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/02/11
| sebmellen wrote:
| Great comic. It seems this way of writing has proliferated
| massively, even among younger (non-academic) groups like
| high-school students.
| Mediterraneo10 wrote:
| Yeah, I consider complaining about academic writing like
| this to be just as curmudgeonly. I remember when I first
| got access to a good university library and could read all
| the criticism written about books and authors I had read -
| knowing that people like Watterson, Gene Wolfe, or Victor
| Davis Hanson had tarred it - and I found the vast majority
| to actually be valid and insightful, giving me an expanded
| appreciation of the book or an understanding of its place
| in the greater social discourse.
|
| Yes, literary criticism often focuses on highly specialized
| concerns and not everyone is interested in e.g. queer
| perspectives, but can't we be happy that it exists for
| those who do want to read it?
| slibhb wrote:
| Not everyone has a sense of humor.
| michaelpb wrote:
| I took this as more as poking fun at Calvin's common
| theme of superficially imitating "high art", opaque
| writing styles, and so on, in a very self-aware or
| cynical way, as a grift, since that's just what Calvin
| always does -- E.g. in the comics where Calvin sets up a
| lemonade stand, it superficially imitates a business, but
| is really just a scam.
|
| An alternative or additional interpretation of his
| "curmudgeonliness" would be these are intended to tie
| into his bigger theme of critiquing those who gate-keep
| "high art". It's been a long time since I read any of
| these, but I do remember his biggest bone to pick wasn't
| with abstract art or anything in particular, but with the
| perception that comics / "graphic novels" could never be
| considered "high art". So, having his kid scribble some
| nonsense and call it "high art" is a bit of a middle-
| finger to art critics who relegate his work to the "funny
| papers"
|
| As bizarre as this sounds, I actually do think there are
| legitimate criticisms of the mid-century abstract art
| movement -- notably, the CIA's involvement. However, that
| is pretty off-topic here and I highly doubt that
| Watterson has ever made a reference to this!
|
| Edit: I'm not necessarily even disagreeing you, I think
| all of this can be true at once
| tracerbulletx wrote:
| Do you have an example of that? It's a pretty niche topic to
| decide he was being curmudgeonly. A lot of people think that
| about modern art whether they're wrong or not they're usually
| pretty normal people.
| eastbayjake wrote:
| If only someone would build a Calvin and Hobbes Search
| Engine where someone could look for "Modern Art" references
| in the text:
| https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1990/11/02
| tracerbulletx wrote:
| I was asking for the ones he was thinking of when making
| his case about Waterson. The one you linked for example
| does not seem very harsh to me so I'd assume he wasn't
| referring to that one. I can't know that without him
| providing it directly.
| trynton wrote:
| Banksy the pretend street artist?
| OpieCunningham wrote:
| You mean Not Banksy the pretend street artist, or Not Not
| Banksy the pretend commercial street artist, or Mr.
| Brainwash?
| tclancy wrote:
| But how does someone read that as a criticism of modern
| art (whatever that is) and not Watterson resisting the
| commercialization of his work?
| Mediterraneo10 wrote:
| That isn't one of the strips I was referring to, and that
| one is mid-period Watterson and not late-period Watterson
| anyway. But since my original post got the reception it
| did here, I am not going to dig through the archive to
| find the ones I meant.
| pugworthy wrote:
| Really? We are voting some guy into oblivion because we don't
| like his take on Calvin and Hobbes?
|
| Let people have their opinions and interpretations, even if
| you don't agree.
| sjg007 wrote:
| I mean, to paraphrase the Big Lebowski, everyone is entitled
| to their opinion man. Banksy sort of rides the fine line of
| that deliniation as a legitimate critic of modern art phoney
| and yet himself is modern art and sold out.
| roughly wrote:
| I grew up on Calvin and Hobbes, but in retrospect it's not
| terribly surprising Bill Watterson eventually decided to fuck
| off into the woods.
| shagie wrote:
| Zen Pencils on Bill Watterson (on advertising) -
| https://zenpencils.tumblr.com/post/59432017577/bill-
| watterso...
|
| And the commentary -
| https://www.zenpencils.com/comic/128-bill-watterson-a-
| cartoo...
| makapuf wrote:
| The cookie warning when trying to read that is ... ironic.
| roughly wrote:
| That's a great tribute. The speech he derived it from, a
| few links down: https://web.mit.edu/jmorzins/www/C-H-
| speech.html
| ryantgtg wrote:
| My wife and I aren't having the greatest time reading them to
| our toddler (she's probably too young for them, but she says
| she really likes them). Calvin's parents don't like him! I
| don't like exposing her to parents who are resentful toward
| their kid.
|
| Also, shortly after he retired Bill Watterson ate at my dad's
| restaurant. My dad recognized his name on the check, and told
| him how much of a fan I was. Bill then drew Calvin on a
| napkin for me. And... I can't find that sketch! Each time I
| visit my parents I spend half the visit digging through boxes
| for it.
| chrismcb wrote:
| they don't resent him. They absolutely love him. He can be
| a handful at times (what is isn't?) but they do love him.
| joshspankit wrote:
| Sidebar: Maybe she says she likes them because she likes
| how you and your wife are when you're reading them
| sp332 wrote:
| Maybe you should wait until she is about 5 before judging
| how they cope lol
| the_af wrote:
| I don't get the sense that Calvin's parents don't like him.
| He is a force of nature and he overwhelms them, but they
| don't dislike him.
| ryantgtg wrote:
| I get the sense that Watterson is sharing his own
| childhood relationships with adults and author figures.
| And by and large they aren't happy, healthy
| relationships.
|
| His parents regularly debate whose choice it was to have
| a kid, and despite the exceptional strip shared by
| another reply to me, for the most part his dad seems
| happier working than being with Calvin. I definitely
| didn't notice or care about this dynamic when I read
| these as a kid. And I don't think my daughter will notice
| or care. But she's only 3, and I'm cool with sheltering
| her a bit.
| tim333 wrote:
| Conflict makes for humor and drama - see Homer strangling
| Bart etc. It would make for boring stories if everyone
| was nice all the time.
| toyg wrote:
| Watterson stated many times that he was nothing like
| Calvin and his parents were nothing like that either. He
| just built the characters and then progressively explored
| their relationships as a way of reflecting on the
| pressures of modern society. It just so happened that he
| was exceedingly good at building realistic personalities.
|
| Personally, C&H probably kept me alive as a teenager.
| When I was questioning the point of it all, Calvin's
| sense of wonder and fearlessness injected some happiness
| into me, and I wished so hard that I could have been more
| like him growing up. I read a lot of it with my kids when
| they were very small, and then let them alone with it as
| they started reading on their own. They embraced the
| methods of Calvinball, which melts my heart when I watch
| them play. To them Calvin's parents are silly in their
| worrying about worthless stuff like "washing". If you
| didn't notice certain things while reading it as a kid,
| chances are your child won't either; that's one of the
| marvels of this strip, like the best art it speaks in
| different ways to different people at different stages of
| their lives.
| ryantgtg wrote:
| Thanks. Yes, I definitely agree that my daughter will
| likewise not notice what I didn't notice. And I continue
| to read it a lot because we both love it.
|
| In the Anniversary collection, Watterson notes things
| like "this is basically an exact quote from my dad." (For
| example, in the strip where good dad says they should put
| the Christmas tree in the garage and not decorate it.) So
| I don't think they are totally divorced from each other.
| [deleted]
| schwank wrote:
| Our 5yo daughter loves looking through our old paperback
| versions, but we generally won't read them to her yet as
| the story and comedy is way over her head in most cases.
| She can grow up reading them over time as I did daily in
| the paper growing up.
|
| One day we'll let her read our first edition color
| hardcover boxed set. But she probably should start acting a
| little less like Calvin first.
| ryantgtg wrote:
| My daughter loves pretending she has a transmogrifier.
| She ZAPS us into different creatures.
|
| We read a ton of Get Fuzzy right now. And she's turning
| into Bucky. Yesterday while doing yard work she said to
| me, "hey Pinky, put me in the hammock."
| avalys wrote:
| There are plenty of C&H strips that show his parents love
| him. This one comes to mind, but there are many others:
| https://i.redd.it/wgwm23u9k4sx.png
|
| Kids are not stupid and you don't need to insulate them
| from everything that isn't 100% happy, fluffy and
| wonderful. As a former kid who had loving parents and loved
| C&H, the only message I remember taking from the strip in
| this regard was that parents are people too and that things
| I do might annoy them.
| redshirtrob wrote:
| This strip is beautiful. As a parent living with snow on
| the ground in Ohio, I just lived this experience when my
| children asked me to go sled riding. Work will be there
| after they go to bed, but these years will be gone before
| I know it.
| owlninja wrote:
| As a kid in Texas reading Calvin and Hobbes, the snow
| aspect always seemed so magical. I know as an adult it is
| probably a beating most times, but still fun to think
| about. We actually got snow in DFW this year and my first
| actions were to have my kids build a snowman, and then
| find the steepest hill we could to sled down :)
| treeman79 wrote:
| Keeping it real with Biological kids is important.
| Adopted kids basically dont feel loved no matter how much
| you do or say. Although one day it will start to click.
|
| Sure it varied a lot. But I learned quickly that I had to
| really certain kinds of jokes.
| pwenzel wrote:
| Thank you. I channel this particular strip often during
| my times working from home with kids.
| ryantgtg wrote:
| Sure, but we started reading them to my daughter when she
| was about 20 months old. I don't think it's being over-
| protective to gloss over the dozens and dozens of times
| (to every one happy moment like the one you chose) when
| the parents express regrets at choosing to have a kid.
| They didn't even go to his school play!
|
| I mean, I loved it, too, growing up. I still think it's
| great. But some things ring differently as an adult with
| a kid. And I can wait a bit to expose my kid to that.
| avalys wrote:
| I guess if your daughter isn't yet old enough to realize
| how infuriating and exasperating Calvin is for his
| parents, maybe the strip isn't for her yet.
| ryantgtg wrote:
| Good guess. But I'm afraid you're wrong. She loves the
| strip. And she doesn't notice this behavior by the
| parents. I was only expressing how my own perception of
| the comic has changed now that I'm an adult.
| supernova87a wrote:
| I love how in the middle few panels, just 2 little dots
| for eyes are able to convey the frustration about "why am
| I wasting my life on paperwork when my real life is
| waiting for me?"
| [deleted]
| raywu wrote:
| I searched "bing" and was expecting an easter egg; this needs to
| be a suggestion to Bing (Michael)
|
| http://michaelyingling.com/random/calvin_and_hobbes/search.p...
| billfruit wrote:
| Calvin and Hobbes is fine, but I think Peanuts was better in
| capturing and commenting on human experience of clueless people
| trying to make sense of a dysmal world.
| jfax wrote:
| I'm forever grateful that Calvin and Hobbes introduced me to
| Peanuts. I became curious about Schulz when I read the foreword
| he did for the first collection.
| salamanderman wrote:
| Thank you!
| nuclear_eclipse wrote:
| I've been a lifelong fan of Calvin & Hobbes, and I have all of
| the books, but I both don't have the time to revisit them, or
| when I do, I binge way too much.
|
| Is there any way to get a personal, daily comic via RSS or
| similar that starts from the very beginning, without having to
| wait for one of the syndication sites like gocomics to wrap
| around back to the beginning?
| joshyeager wrote:
| Try https://archivebinge.com/
|
| I don't know if it works with gocomics.com, but it is designed
| for exactly the purpose you described.
| BrandoElFollito wrote:
| I love C&H (it is almost unknown in France). I read it when I was
| 20,then had kids and recognized them in Calvin.
|
| Now I am more into Zits...
| pfarrell wrote:
| Searching "record" located one of my favorites [0]. The drawing
| in the last panel just sells it.
|
| 0: https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1990/06/05
| redshirtrob wrote:
| I learned so many words reading Calvin and Hobbes as a kid. Just
| off the top of my head:
|
| - "The pernicious poem place."
|
| - "Demonstrates defenestration."
|
| - The "salubrious" beats.
|
| - "Mainstream commercial nihilism can't be trusted?"
| Brendinooo wrote:
| "'Fraid not, kiddo."
| 3PS wrote:
| "A pair of pathetic peripatetics."
| redshirtrob wrote:
| I see you had a ready retort. Nice!
| sjg007 wrote:
| I remember a comic strip I attribute to Calvin and Hobbes where
| Calvin basically adopts every world religion in order to take
| every day off of school. But I can't find it.. any one know which
| one I am thinking of? Or do I have it wrong?
| macintux wrote:
| I regret I'm 20 years past my "have the entire opus memorized"
| days, but that doesn't ring any bells.
| NateEag wrote:
| I used to have nearly every strip memorized.
|
| I'm 90% confident that is not a Calvin & Hobbes strip.
|
| I have not read all the bonus strips from the large
| anthologies, nor have I read the strips in the teacher's book
| Watterson contributed to. So, even if my memory is right, it
| might be one of those.
| faeyanpiraat wrote:
| Are you sure it was religion? Maybe you are mixing it up with
| something else, like ideology, language, or whatever?
| andrepd wrote:
| In the same vein:
|
| https://frinkiac.com/
|
| https://morbotron.com/
|
| Invaluable. I use them all the time to clip things to paste in
| several group chats.
| iampims wrote:
| > Warning: mysql_connect(): User yingling_sandbox already has
| more than 'max_user_connections' active connections in
| /home/content/41/5598741/html/random/calvin_and_hobbes/search.php
| on line 10 Unable to connect to database! Please try again later.
| temporallobe wrote:
| We probably DDoS'd it.
| cmroanirgo wrote:
| > _This page is strictly a tribute to Calvin & Hobbes, the
| best comic ever, and two of the best characters who have
| taught me so much over many years. It is meant for research
| purposes only. _
|
| Quite possibly not optimised for heavy traffic.
| vortico wrote:
| I'm always curious why the default behavior of many server
| frameworks exposes so much information. I think it should just
| drop the connection by default for this error.
| yellowstuff wrote:
| I'd assume they're optimizing for beginner developer UX, and
| assuming that anyone using mysql for something important will
| know to customize the error handling.
| ourcat wrote:
| You can change that in the php.ini to set the levels of
| Warnings/Errors to show if you want to. (And also naturally
| the MySQL config, to allow more connections)
|
| But if you were the developer of this code, it's useful to
| pinpoint what went wrong and where.
|
| This is a common "HN Hug-of-Death" ;)
| Abishek_Muthian wrote:
| Recommended practice in server frameworks is to control the
| information in the errors according to the environment i.e.
| Development|Production.
|
| But many websites fail to do so.
| webmobdev wrote:
| It's to aid the developer during development. All of them
| provide ways to hide this in production. But most developers
| remain ignorant or are lazy to bother about it.
| zsiec wrote:
| I had this idea so many years ago, cheers for the execution!
| webkike wrote:
| I actually ran into this problem recently, and this engine
| doesn't solve it. The show and tell comic doesn't come up when I
| search "boggle" or "boggle your minds"
| pr0zac wrote:
| I tested this and it seems to work for me for both! Maybe a
| temporary issue caused by HN hug of death? Links
| http://michaelyingling.com/random/calvin_and_hobbes/search.p...
| http://michaelyingling.com/random/calvin_and_hobbes/search.p...
| webkike wrote:
| Ah, well regardless of the cause I'm happy with the results
| now!
| andrewem wrote:
| Fans of Calvin and Hobbes might like the documentary "Dear Mr.
| Watterson", which includes a lot of his art work and interviews
| with several cartoonists, (though not Watterson).
| andrewem wrote:
| Addendum: my favorite part was Berkeley Breathed showing a
| letter he received from Watterson, which has a drawing of
| Breathed fueling his motorboat by pouring dollar bills into the
| gas tank. Breathed notes that it's meant to be commentary on
| Breathed's willingness to pursue merchandising to make more
| money.
| JoeDaDude wrote:
| Obligatory xkcd, a minor tribute in these days of Artificial
| Intelligence buzz.
|
| https://xkcd.com/1002/
| dmitryminkovsky wrote:
| My favorite from recent times is
| https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2015/08/20
| matheusmoreira wrote:
| So true. So many stories of highly efficient spreadsheets being
| broken on purpose because it resulted in more work being
| assigned to everyone. Lots of people learn to keep the
| spreadsheet a secret so they can look like they're working
| hard.
| lkbm wrote:
| fwiw, this is actually originally from 1995:
| https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1995/08/17
| dmitryminkovsky wrote:
| Oh okay that makes a lot more sense. Thanks so much, I'd been
| wondering.
| tim333 wrote:
| Incidentally the GoComics series starts from 1985/11/18
| https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1985/11/18
|
| and runs to 1995/12/31
| https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1995/12/31
|
| and then loops back to the start. To convert today date in
| GoComics to the original subtract 10955 days. I wasted
| quite a lot of time figuring that.
| trynton wrote:
| "Bill Hicks on advertising"
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gd01vfKfr0
| AnimalMuppet wrote:
| Slightly off topic: A shout-out from the wonderful _Schlock
| Mercenary_ web comic: https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2019-04-08
|
| (Context: Set in the 31st century. The lady who says "That was
| _Watterson_ studied ancient Earth memetics.)
| jodrellblank wrote:
| On the origins of the current world wide web:
| https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/02/11
|
| (Substitute Medium.com, web blogs, SEO, clickbait news, essays,
| etc. as your cynicism feels inclined)
| nvarsj wrote:
| I can strongly recommend buying the complete Calvin and Hobbes
| collection off of Amazon. Especially if you have kids.
|
| I bought this when my son was around 7 and he absolutely devoured
| the books. He's older now but still goes back and reads them over
| again, giggling all the way. I love when he recites me his
| favorite strips, because they are all hilarious - usually
| involving interactions between Calvin and his dad.
|
| I think Bill Watterson's comedy is completely on point and as
| relevant today as it was when he wrote the comics - providing
| insight into the interactions of family, school, and growing up
| while making you laugh. He's a comedic genius in my opinion.
| greypowerOz wrote:
| hugged to death? 6pm sat 13th feb australian eastern summer time
|
| (7:00 am Saturday, 13 February 2021 UTC)
| gramakri wrote:
| One of my favorites -
| https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2019/04/07
| dsr_ wrote:
| It has some duplications.
|
| Search for "goons". 10 comics will show up. The first and last
| are actually the same one.
| hermitwriter wrote:
| HN killed it.
| dr_dshiv wrote:
| Bill Watterson lives in my hometown. I saw him take the garbage
| out once. I shall never forget that day.
| abledon wrote:
| I'd love to hear what he has to say about modern life, esp
| about social media
| treesrule wrote:
| I think he specifically does not want you to know what he
| thinks about these things.
| chmod600 wrote:
| Is it really a secret? Calvin and Hobbes contains a ton of
| relevant commentary. Just the amount of time Calvin spends
| outside tells you something.
|
| He probably would leave it as observation rather than
| presciption, like most humorists.
| faeyanpiraat wrote:
| I think it also has to do with not wanting to
| accidentally ruin the legacy, like some of the successful
| tv series do with their last season.
| sp332 wrote:
| It's not secret, more like private. He quit because he
| didn't like being a celebrity and having people pry at
| his personal life.
| throwawayboise wrote:
| Kids spending a lot of time outside was quite normal in
| the 1980s. There wasn't much to do inside. Even more so
| when Watterson was himself a child, which is probably
| what inspired a lot of his cartoons.
| abledon wrote:
| i know, thats why i want to know so bad !
| redshirtrob wrote:
| Here's my favorite little bit of Bill Watterson trivia.
|
| He's from the Cleveland area. He attended Kenyon College in
| Ohio. As he arrived, another famous cartoonist Jim Borgman, who
| is from the Cincinnati area, was just graduating.
|
| Borgman went on to work at the Cincinnati Enquirer and won a
| Pulitzer in '91. Watterson was inspired by Borgmam's political
| cartoons and worked at the Cincinnati Post for a while. The
| Post fired Watterson and eventually we got "Calvin and Hobbes."
|
| So, two giants of cartooning in the 80's and 90's just missed
| each other at a small liberal arts school in the middle of
| Ohio, briefly worked at competing papers in the same city, then
| went on to reach the pinnacle of their craft, albeit quite
| differently.
|
| I'm amazed by these little quirks of life.
| julienfr112 wrote:
| so good !
| http://michaelyingling.com/random/calvin_and_hobbes/search.p...
| univalent wrote:
| Very cool. Searched for 'Christmas' and read the strips that are
| charged with emotion.
| joshuaengler wrote:
| Unfortunately it's down and doesn't work.
| canada_dry wrote:
| Be interesting to know how the searchable text was gathered?
|
| OCR'd the paper and/or web versions of each comic??
|
| Also be interesting to know how much revenue this generates (via
| amazon linked purchases).
|
| Doing others (e.g. Peanuts and Mad Magazine) in a similar fashion
| would sure make it easy to find the perfect cartoon for any
| occasion!
| kasey_junk wrote:
| The hero we need
| NiceWayToDoIT wrote:
| I typed "pepermint" and got Warning: mysql_connect(): User
| yingling_sandbox already has more than 'max_user_connections'
| active connections in
| /home/content/41/5598741/html/random/calvin_and_hobbes/search.php
| on line 10 Unable to connect to database! Please try again later.
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