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Revision as of 15:20, 1 April 2015
Intro
- This is a valiant effort to create a transcript for the continually(?) growing dynamic comic 1506: xkcloud.
- [After clicking on the red button on the first page you will go to a new page. This can either be the Help! We lost the picture page or the Help! We lost the text page which are transcribed below.]
Help! We lost the picture
- [At the top of the page there are the following text:]
- Help! We lost the picture that goes with this post!
- Reason for data loss:
- [Here on this same line follows a text which is a random reason taken from Randall's (or others?) input. See examples below).]
- [Below this text is a white box on top of the light blue background. It is the post mentioned above. At the top is a random user picture - could be a person or a galaxy etc (see descriptions below). Next to the picture is a random user name (see descriptions below). The picture can be used for several user names.]
- [Below the user name is the text of the post. This text is also random. (Note now for Aprils Fools' day - are the entries in the table below both for the reason and for the posts. Can they be both or is it two different sets of random reasons/posts?)]
- [Below is a blue rectangle where the missing picture should be. Instead there is only a white question mark:]
- ?
- [Below this and above six picture frames in two rows are this line of text:]
- Which of these pictures do you think went with this post?
- [The five first pictures are from a random sample, created by Randall (or by users?). In the sixth and last picture frame the following text is written:]
- Draw one your self
- [By clicking on any of the five pictures you get to a new page with the chosen picture now substituting the "?" in the post above with the chosen picture. If you click the Draw one your self you will go to a page where you can do exactly this.]
- [Below these six frames is a thin black line. Below this to the left we again see Cueball sitting at his desk (as on the front page).]
- Desk: XKCD.COM
- [Below him there are the following text and bulleted list:]
- Our policy regarding
- your personal data:
- Please stop sending us
- your personal data
- We are running out of
- places to put it
- Is this even yours?
- Does anyone recognize
- whose data this is?
- Oh jeez never mind here
- comes more data
- Why are you doing this
- Please stop
- Help
- [To the right below the thin black line are three post above each other with user picture and name above a post text and and a picture. All three again random as mentioned above. Furthermore to the right above each picture (right of the first line - if there are multiple lines) of the post text are a blue like button that you can press. The buttons seems to be active links when you hover over them, but nothing happens when you click on them. The buttons have a thumbs up icon to the right. Next to the icon there is a random word taken from a list created by Randall. (It seems to be from a list of words that are synonymous with want - see below).]
Help! We lost the text
- [At the top of the page there are the following text:]
- Help! we lost the text that goes with this post!
- [For cases where the user has to submit or select a text according to a picture]
- Reason for data loss:
- [Here on this same line follows a text which is a random reason taken from Randall's (or others?) input. See examples below).]
- [Below this text is a white box on top of the light blue background. It is the post mentioned above. At the top is a random user picture - could be a person or a galaxy etc (see descriptions below). Next to the picture is a random user name (see descriptions below). The picture can be used for several user names.]
- [Below the user name is the picture from the post. This picture is also random and are from Randall (or users?) collection.]
- [Below this and above five frames with text in two columns are this line of text:]
- Which text post do you think went with this picture?
- [The five texts below are from a random sample, created by Randall (or by users?). :[Below this is a box where you are invited to write and submit a text suggestion. In the box written in gray letters (rather than black, which it will turn to when you type something) are the following text:]
- Or, write your own
- [To the left is a button with the text:]
- Submit
- [By clicking on any of the five text boxes you get to a new page with the chosen text now standing above the picture from the post above. If you write a text and click the submit button your own text will be written above the picture.]
- [Below this submit text box is a thin black line. Below this to the left we again see Cueball sitting at his desk (as on the front page).]
- Desk: XKCD.COM
- [Below him there are the following text and bulleted list:]
- Our policy regarding
- your personal data:
- Please stop sending us
- your personal data
- We are running out of
- places to put it
- Is this even yours?
- Does anyone recognize
- whose data this is?
- Oh jeez never mind here
- comes more data
- Why are you doing this
- Please stop
- Help
- [To the right below the thin black line are three post above each other with user picture and name above a post text and and a picture. All three again random as mentioned above. Furthermore to the right above each picture (right of the first line - if there are multiple lines) of the post text are a blue like button that you can press. The buttons seems to be active links when you hover over them, but nothing happens when you click on them. The buttons have a thumbs up icon to the right. Next to the icon there is a random word taken from a list created by Randall. (It seems to be from a list of words that are synonymous with want - see below).]
Reason for data loss
Sentence | Explanation |
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<%= reason %> | |
+++ OUT OF CHEESE ERROR. REDO FROM START +++ | A reference to Hex, the magical computer from Terry Pratchett's Discworld, which would occasionally emit this error |
AOL window in front of Netscape window | |
Baby ur much 2 fast | |
butter overflow | butter instead of buffer |
butter to text interface not found | A reference to speech-to-text interfaces, typically used by people who cannot see easily to enable them to use a computer. |
CAPTCHA response indicated parahuman intelligence | A CAPTCHA is a tool which aims to prevent comupter-generated submissions to an online form by asking the user a question which is easy for humans but (supposedly) hard for computers. In this case, the CAPTCHA detects parahuman intelligence rather than human intelligence. |
CRM-114 unit malfunctioning | The CRM-114 unit's malfunction is the main plot device in the film Dr Strangelove |
confirmation BIOS | |
could not initialize sound blaster 16 | The Sound Blaster 16 is a PC sound card which used FM synthesis to play MIDI files, which was popular in the 1990s. |
data too big | |
Desystematized chronodynamic balancing detected in VX Module core. | |
cumulonimbus #19 too rabbitlike | A cumulonimbus is a type of cloud. This may be a pun. The error suggests that the cloud looked too much like a rabbit. |
dictionary too stiff to read | |
electrons too big, stuck in wafer | |
ERR:INVALID DIM | If there's an invalid DIM ram inserted it's unlikely this error message could be shown since the pc won't start. |
error reading drive B. Abort, Retry, Fail? | A common error from MS-DOS, often caused by a failing floppy disk |
ethics in journalism | |
files overwritten with more interesting content | |
floating point unit no longer afloat | |
friday squid blogging | Security guru Bruce Schneier regularly posts a blog post with this title, and some squid related news, primarily as a discussion thread |
guru meditation #00000025.65045338 press left mouse button to continue | A common error from the Commodore Amiga |
GSM filter change required | |
hard drive oil depleted | |
helvetica scenario | A reference to the episode on Calcium from the BBC TV show Look Around You. |
HTTP 403 and 3/4ths | HTTP errors are emitted when an HTTP request (e.g. to download a web page) fails. 403 is Forbidden and 404 is Not Found; 403.75 is somewhere between the two. |
http is down | |
hung up prematurely | |
illegal carrot detected in mail queue | carrot instead of caret |
insufficient smoke for current mirror array | |
lp0 on fire | lp0 is the printer port, there used to be a 'printer on fire' error/warning |
Main Bus B Undervolt | A line from Apollo 13, when the spaceship is 'having a problem'. |
mean connection time exceeded | |
microwave running | Both microwaves and Wifi operate on the frequency and have been known to cause interference |
nanobots in the water | |
oh jeez there's a lot of you can you all just hang on for a second please oh frig this is so bad | |
out of electrons | |
out of monads | Monads are a concept in functional programming languages, such as Haskell. |
overcurrent undervolt caused by vacuum cleaner on same circuit | |
PC LOAD LETTER | Error message on older printers stating to add extra letter-size sheets, which has become known to be a very cryptic error message. |
Please Insert Riven CD 4 | Riven is a graphical adventure game by Cyan Worlds which was distributed on CD. |
qubit indeterminate | |
RDBMS completely forgot how inner joins work | |
server aperture too narrow for capital letters | |
server fell in ocean | |
server power cable stolen by raccoon for nest | |
server room haunted | Maybe a reference to an UVB-76 broadcast in 2001, which said "I am 143. Not receiving the generator." and "That stuff comes from hardware room." in Russian |
Something went wrong: Something went wrong (Something went wrong) | similar to certain OS error messages which contain errors in themselves |
spin number must be of the form n/2 | |
spontaneous splinal dereticulation | |
SQL ejection | ejection instead of injection |
temporal paradox | |
the butter you have dialed is invalid or no longer in service | butter instead of number |
the server is temporarily permanent. Please try another also. | |
This copy of Ubuntu is not genuine and you have not yet resolved this issue. | Ubuntu is open source and does not require a license, so this kind of message would never happen. |
This page contains content from the Open Source Initiative, who have blocked it on copyright grounds. | Nor would this. |
TRIED TO READ 9TH SIDE OF 8 TRACK | |
undefined is not a function, which really makes you think | |
unexpected timezone drift desynchronization | |
User accepted terms but not conditions | Normally, at a EULA you must accept 'terms and conditions'. There is basically no option to only agree to terms. |
User is not a typewriter. | |
user put spaces/vowels in filename | |
UTF-31 decode error | UTF-31 instead of UTF-32 |
virtual memory got too real | Virtual memory is where the OS writes less-used parts of RAM to disk, so that the RAM can be used for another program, hence the less-used parts are in virtual memory. |
wrong files | |
YOU MUST CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PYLONS | A line frequently announced by the Protoss advisor in Starcraft. |
User names
- [Below are possible (not all?) user names mentioned next to any post as for instance on the Help! We lost the picture page.]
- [In alphabetical order:]
- @meganamram
- Agric Silverfinger
- Aidan2
- Aiden5
- Aidenn Aberforth Milne
- Agric Silverfinger
- Amanda08
- Arthur19
- Ashley8
- Ashley92
- Bailey2001
- Barbara1974
- Caden14
- Caden2010
- Carol04
- Chad80
- Charles18
- Cheyenne1988
- Curic Copperfinger
- Dakota94
- David St. Hubbins
- Debbie26
- Debbie3
- Debbie62
- Debian Bush
- Destiny1983
- Dillon2008
- DragonBall Cooper
- Dunston Chexin
- Egbert Bentley White
- Eliezer Yudkowsky
- Elon Musk
- Facebook Scott Fitzgerald
- Frances29
- Frances51
- Frances99
- Gary1951
- Gary86
- George Reagan Renesmee Martin
- Green Mario
- Greg2004
- Hatsy Collins
- Henry4
- J. Alfred Leftshark
- Jack3
- Jack39
- Jacob10
- Jada5
- Jaden Riley Rufio Tolkien
- Jaina Khloe Rowling
- Jalen81
- Jeph Jacques
- Joe Biden
- John2
- Justin87
- Kaitlin1976
- Kathleen78
- Keira48
- Kelsey1970
- Kelsey1996
- Kenneth96
- Khloe14
- Kristy2007
- Larry Ronald Hubbard
- Linda08
- Lisa1995
- Lord Gaga
- Lord Mondegreen
- Margaret11
- Margaret5
- Marie3
- Mark Zuckerberg
- Mark92
- Martin Van Halen
- Minecraft Holmes
- Misty3
- Myspace Tom
- Norton Ghost Dad
- Paul1957
- Professor Monoculatus McToff
- Raymond6
- Ronald22
- S. G. Dukat
- Samuel19
- Sarah55
- Sierra10
- Shaun46
- Sheena2005
- Sherri97
- Stacy07
- Steven02
- Steven50
- Susan25
- Tim21
- Tina Belcher
- Todd33
- Tonya22
- Tracy1977
- Tricia14
- Trinity1989
- Virginia2006
- Wil
- Wric Tungstenfinger
- [Below are descriptions of possible (not all?) user pictures shown next to any user name as for instance on the Help! We lost the picture page.]
- [Hairy complete stick figure]
- [Chipmunk]
- [Close up of male face with black hair on a gray background]
- [Galaxy]
- [Chipmunk head]
- [e^iπ ≈ 0]
- [Reddit snoo with gulf of binary]
- [Tree crossing the street]
Like buttons
- xkcloud has "Like" buttons next to each post (next to the post text above the picture), similar to those on Facebook, but with random alternative text. Examples include:
- Covet
- Crave
- Like-like
- Hanker
- Thirst
- Yearn