dhkendall wrote:Wondering: Did anyone scan the QR code to see where it was? (I have a pretty good guess, but a) lacking a phone at the moment and b) not liking QR codes for a variety of reasons (one of which being you have no idea where they'll take you) means I couldn't/wouldn't.)
I wondered that myself. I have never scanned a QR code and I have no device which could scan a QR code.
At first, it looked like it wasn't a real one. But on closer inspection, it does.
Brian
...but the senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity.
If I had 50 cents for every math question I got right, I'd have $6.30 by now.
seaborgium wrote:I couldn't tell when he appeared in his QF thread whether that was a good sign, but the very fact he showed up here made me want him to make it.
I told him on Twitter that this thread was here. But maybe he already knew it.
dhkendall wrote:Wondering: Did anyone scan the QR code to see where it was? (I have a pretty good guess, but a) lacking a phone at the moment and b) not liking QR codes for a variety of reasons (one of which being you have no idea where they'll take you) means I couldn't/wouldn't.)
Thanks for reminding me. The content of the code was "jeopardy.com". I don't know if it's true of all QR code-reading apps, but the one I use doesn't automatically take you there (if the content is even a link. This one wasn't as far as my app was concerned -- the absence of http:// at the start was likely to blame); it shows the address the code points to, and takes you there if you click it.
seaborgium wrote:The content of the code was "jeopardy.com". I don't know if it's true of all QR code-reading apps, but the one I use doesn't automatically take you there (if the content is even a link. This one wasn't as far as my app was concerned -- the absence of http:// at the start was likely to blame); it shows the address the code points to, and takes you there if you click it.
Ah, that explains it -- I was using a QR-reader app that will automatically take you to a website, but it was doing nothing with that QR code.
So it seems as if the J! people are just as competent at creating working QR codes as they are at keeping message boards operational. (Oh snap!)
I notice Tuesday's game board isn't posted. I have a friend who has an Akita and was telling her about the clue in "Dog Pound" and was trying to find the answer for her. Is there any chance that will be posted? Thanks!
NikkiS wrote:I notice Tuesday's game board isn't posted. I have a friend who has an Akita and was telling her about the clue in "Dog Pound" and was trying to find the answer for her. Is there any chance that will be posted? Thanks!
I'm sure the game will be added to the Archives soon, but I don't believe there is any set schedule or general rule for how fast it gets done. I'm sure it varies quite a bet depending on how much free time the Archivists have. In the meantime...I still have the show on my DVR so I can post the text of that clue for you:
Dogs for $800
75-120 pounds: this Japanese working breed that shares its name with a Japanese prefecture.
NikkiS wrote:I notice Tuesday's game board isn't posted. I have a friend who has an Akita and was telling her about the clue in "Dog Pound" and was trying to find the answer for her. Is there any chance that will be posted? Thanks!
Sorry, folks - I'm your Tuesday archivist and I normally get it up sooner than most solely because I get the show at 11am CT. And I do not work outside my little micro-farm so I control my personal schedule. But I was on a jury for a murder trial this week. Kinda took all my energy.
The show is now up on j-archive.com for your quizzing pleasure!
jeff6286 wrote:
I also agree that this FJ was a joke. At the risk of offending anyone who may not have come up with it, surely this will be in the 90-95% range in the weekly poll, won't it? It seems like there could have been some way of writing a clue about Paulescu with the intended response being "What is insulin" without the total giveaway that was including the word "Pancrein" in the clue.
I'm not offended, but I didn't get it. There was just no connection there for me...it was kind of a "you know it or you don't" clue, except in this case apparently almost everyone knows it.
So, again no offense, I'm just curious, did you know that insulin is produced in the pancreas and just didn't connect pancrein to pancreas? Or did you not know insulin is from the pancreas?
jeff6286 wrote:
I also agree that this FJ was a joke. At the risk of offending anyone who may not have come up with it, surely this will be in the 90-95% range in the weekly poll, won't it? It seems like there could have been some way of writing a clue about Paulescu with the intended response being "What is insulin" without the total giveaway that was including the word "Pancrein" in the clue.
I'm not offended, but I didn't get it. There was just no connection there for me...it was kind of a "you know it or you don't" clue, except in this case apparently almost everyone knows it.
So, again no offense, I'm just curious, did you know that insulin is produced in the pancreas and just didn't connect pancrein to pancreas? Or did you not know insulin is from the pancreas?
Guilty as charged (in regards to the latter). You'd think I would have picked that up, being the son of an RN, too.
TenPoundHammer wrote: Nothing seemed to hint at Terrier on $400.
Well, there was "hunt vermin", the small size and "Cairn" - what more could they fit in there?
"It rhymes with carrier" wouldn't have helped me, as little as I know about dogs. (Sarcasm.)
Sorry, I'll never be a dog person. Not with the ridiculously flatulent, slobbering, misbehaving idiots I have in my house. Not with the well behaved ones I see elsewhere.
TenPoundHammer wrote: Nothing seemed to hint at Terrier on $400.
Well, there was "hunt vermin", the small size and "Cairn" - what more could they fit in there?
"It rhymes with carrier" wouldn't have helped me, as little as I know about dogs. (Sarcasm.)
Sorry, I'll never be a dog person. Not with the ridiculously flatulent, slobbering, misbehaving idiots I have in my house. Not with the well behaved ones I see elsewhere.
Is this referring to dogs or people? Do you live in a college fraternity or something?
dhkendall wrote:Wondering: Did anyone scan the QR code to see where it was? (I have a pretty good guess, but a) lacking a phone at the moment and b) not liking QR codes for a variety of reasons (one of which being you have no idea where they'll take you) means I couldn't/wouldn't.)
Thanks for reminding me. The content of the code was "jeopardy.com". I don't know if it's true of all QR code-reading apps, but the one I use doesn't automatically take you there (if the content is even a link. This one wasn't as far as my app was concerned -- the absence of http:// at the start was likely to blame); it shows the address the code points to, and takes you there if you click it.
Sorry to drag up an old thread, but while we're on the subject of QR codes, I have a question:
Is there a way to read &/or decipher a QR code without a smartphone or camera or whatever? I have modified a QR code and would like to know how it would render if read. Would it be gibberish? Or would it at least be standard text that makes no sense?
I've been googling for a couple of hours and haven't found an answer.
Brian
...but the senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity.
If I had 50 cents for every math question I got right, I'd have $6.30 by now.
dhkendall wrote:Wondering: Did anyone scan the QR code to see where it was? (I have a pretty good guess, but a) lacking a phone at the moment and b) not liking QR codes for a variety of reasons (one of which being you have no idea where they'll take you) means I couldn't/wouldn't.)
Thanks for reminding me. The content of the code was "jeopardy.com". I don't know if it's true of all QR code-reading apps, but the one I use doesn't automatically take you there (if the content is even a link. This one wasn't as far as my app was concerned -- the absence of http:// at the start was likely to blame); it shows the address the code points to, and takes you there if you click it.
Sorry to drag up an old thread, but while we're on the subject of QR codes, I have a question:
Is there a way to read &/or decipher a QR code without a smartphone or camera or whatever? I have modified a QR code and would like to know how it would render if read. Would it be gibberish? Or would it at least be standard text that makes no sense?
I've been googling for a couple of hours and haven't found an answer.
Best I can tell, one way or another you'll need an image of it. There's no applet I've found (yet) that lets you make one from just toggling pixels on or off. (Which, in a sense, makes sense. A big part of a QR code is error checking.)
Best I can tell, one way or another you'll need an image of it. There's no applet I've found (yet) that lets you make one from just toggling pixels on or off. (Which, in a sense, makes sense. A big part of a QR code is error checking.)
Thanks. That's exactly what I needed. My question has been answered.
Now to think of another way to obfuscate a QR code.
Brian
...but the senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity.
If I had 50 cents for every math question I got right, I'd have $6.30 by now.
bpmod wrote:Now to think of another way to obfuscate a QR code.
Brian
Do you want to change what it says, or make it unreadable? I know that the large squares in or near the corners help the code reader figure out which way it's oriented. Also, there's a row of alternating blacks and whites between the bottom-most lines of the two top squares, and a column of them between the right-most lines of the two left squares. I don't know what those do (the Wikipedia article says "timing," but I'm not sure what that refers to), but altering those might go a long way toward creating an unreadable QR code that still looks like one (and can be repaired with a little work by someone aware of the patterns).