User:452

Status

Edit: "ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED". :(

I'm now unblocked, so apparently it's only temporary. Resuming at 1 request per 30 seconds.

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Source of data is http://c0.xkcd.com/xb/feed

Structure

feed: Array[3] {

Objectid: "a88f9898-8ae9-5b33-93e6-a5993daa922c"

img: "022f762b-9483-519c-8e6e-bd7a0ed5e2ba"

kind: "post"

poster: "Frances51"

profpic: "user-14.png"

text: "Never will follow the instructions on google maps again."

}

prompt {

captions: Array[5]

id: "21bd52d8-a3a4-590f-8888-db854fb52ce3"

img_id: "21bd52d8-a3a4-590f-8888-db854fb52ce3"

poster: "Bool Hand Luke"

profpic: "user-4.png"

reason: "RDBMS completely forgot how inner joins work"

}

Script to get reasons:

reasons = new Array();
function next() {
  $.getJSON('http://c0.xkcd.com/xb/feed').done(function (data) {
        if (reasons.indexOf(data.prompt.reason) == -1) {
          reasons.push(data.prompt.reason);
          console.log(data.prompt.reason); //feel free to move this out of the "if" if you want to see duplicates.
        }
  });
}
next();
setInterval('next()', 60000);

(Go to xkcd, and paste it in the browser console.) I've determined 10 seconds to be the time you keep getting the same data, so there's no reason to poll the server more frequently than that.

However, since the server is now blocking my requests after 20 minutes of doing that, perhaps 10 seconds is too frequent, so I've updated the example to only make 1 request per minute.

You can check on the reason variable at any time.

I'm only interested getting in the reasons, feel free to adapt this script to get whatever else.

Reasons I've found so far:

1. lights are out, hard drive is taking a nap
2. could not evade skifree yeti
3. CRM-114 unit malfunctioning
4. Desystematized chronodynamic balancing detected in VX Module core.
5. Please Insert Riven CD 4
6. cat-like typing detected
7. sysadmin trapped in well
8. error
9. butter underrun
10. Something went wrong: Something went wrong (Something went wrong)
11. hard drive oil depleted
12. oh jeez there's a lot of you can you all just hang on for a second please oh frig this is so bad
13. PRESS PLAY ON TAPE
14. temporal paradox
15. Main Bus B Undervolt
16. tape on write-protect hole fell off
17. RDBMS completely forgot how inner joins work
18. undefined is not a function, which really makes you think
19. database configuration violates the Prime Directive
20. User is not a typewriter.
21. server fell in ocean
22. mean connection time exceeded
23. spontaneous splinal dereticulation
24. nanobots in the water
25. turns out server was on circuit with lightswitch by door
26. user put spaces/vowels in filename
27. TRIED TO READ 9TH SIDE OF 8 TRACK
28. the system / is down
29. electrons too big, stuck in wafer
30. error: error code [error] while decoding error code
31. butter didn't suit the works
32. illegal carrot detected in mail queue
33. virtual memory got too real
34. could not initialize sound blaster 16
35. ERR:INVALID DIM
36. aol window in front of netscape window
37. bookmarks migrated to Venezuela
38. i hurt myself today / to see if i still feel
39. lp0 on fire
40. unexpected timezone drift desynchronization
41. the butter you have dialed is invalid or no longer in service
42. butter overflow
43. User accepted terms but not conditions
44. wrong files
45. data too big
46. http is down
47. server room haunted
48. confirmation BIOS
49. HTTP 403 and 3/4ths
50. general uncertainty
51. error: operation completed successfully
52. hung up prematurely
53. floating point unit no longer afloat
54. SQL ejection
55. guru meditation #00000025.65045338 press left mouse button to continue
56. +++ OUT OF CHEESE ERROR. REDO FROM START +++
57. CAPTCHA response indicated parahuman intelligence
58. butter to text interface not found
59. friday squid blogging
60. server aperture too narrow for capital letters
61. GSM filter change required
62. screws are stripped
63. sitemap was held upside down
64. UTF-31 decode error
65. spin number must be of the form n/2
66. cumulonimbus #19 too rabbitlike
67. the server is temporarily permanent. Please try another also.
68. HTTP 418
69. spin cycle still active
70. Dave's not registered, man
71. This page contains content from the Open Source Initiative, who have blocked it on copyright grounds.
72. minimum recursion depth not reached
73. Unable to cast variable of type Int32 to Magic Missile
74. server had too much to drink
75. too many hands on the keyboard
76. I got pretty distracted trying to figure out how big space is