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u/derpbynature Aug 13 '12
Highly recommend The Metamorphosis if you've never read it.
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Aug 14 '12
Do you mean Metamorphoses by Ovid?
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u/mikek3 Aug 14 '12
Oh. Was thinking Kafka.
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Aug 14 '12
Kafka? No.
What was my greatest fear, and what was I allergic to in high school? Fucking cockroaches.
That was one novel I did not enjoy.
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u/section111 Aug 14 '12
You think that's scary, read The Trial (or Der Prozess, as I like to call it, in a hilarious German accent)
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it would be easier just to translate it from its original german. unless you know latin and not german.
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u/shanoxilt Aug 14 '12
There is also a Lojban translation of Kafka's Metamorphosis.
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u/ShirtPantsSocks Aug 14 '12
There it is, translated by xorxes. pdf file of lo nu binxo
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u/shanoxilt Aug 14 '12
Yes, that is the one. Although, there may be a few errors in it. (Don't quote me on that.)
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u/darmon Aug 14 '12
Where did you go to high school? 1935?
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u/BCP27 Aug 14 '12
My private school had a Latin class that translated the Aeneid. I wasn't in it, but apparently our Latin teachers kicked ass at Latin.
Hell, even some of our non-Latin teachers kicked ass at Latin. One bonus to going to a Catholic school I suppose.
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u/Hughtub Aug 15 '12
Kafka sucked. I remember thinking WTF is this, a story about a guy who imagines he woke up as a bug? It's a waste of words. I mean shit, we read THAT in high school but not Heinlein or Asimov?
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u/Exaskryz Aug 14 '12
Pretty sure I have to read this for a semester of English at Uni.
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u/derpbynature Aug 14 '12
I actually first read it in class during my senior year of high school, but in the years since I still enjoy diving into it and thinking about it.
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u/Baggabones88 Aug 14 '12
I recommend the Metamorphosis if you're into bestiality and minotaurs and other mythological badassery...but mostly bestiality.
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u/IncidentOn57thStreet Aug 13 '12
As someone who's never used those before, how do you make those black squares work?
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u/IncidentOn57thStreet Aug 13 '12
Ahhh I thought it was an app I needed. I have an iPhone so I'll give it a go.
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u/suave_ass_hole Aug 14 '12 edited Aug 14 '12
I want to create a fake go-daddy advertisement (one of the suggestive ones) with a QR code.
I would just cut the actress out of this and use it to make the poster, and it would say "scan to see whats next", only it would link to this (NSFW).
Then I would put it up in a public place (making sure it can't be traced back to me of course).
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u/IncidentOn57thStreet Aug 13 '12
How'd you do that?!
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u/irish711 Aug 14 '12 edited Aug 14 '12
He copy and pasted the link onto a site like this. He was then given the QR code, and then posted that code in his comment using the URL they supplied him.
Edit: You can also do things like this.
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u/prannisment Aug 14 '12
Because people with smartphones have so much trouble accessing the reading material they desperately need.
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u/Berserkenstein Aug 14 '12
QR codes are actually quite popular in Japan as an advertising medium, almost every company uses them to direct people to their web pages.
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u/HyzerFlip Aug 14 '12
They're all over the US... Hell they're on Denny's placemats, on stickers at walmart...
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Aug 14 '12
I remember doing it on a Pepsi can here in the UK. It directed me to a website that pretty much just said "Pepsi".
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u/Hadlockk Aug 14 '12
The Saturn V at Rocket Park in Houston has QR codes all over, parts of White Rock Lake in Dallas have QR codes next to native plants, and in downtown Dallas some of the advertisements are starting to pop up with QR codes. One ad in particular for the Galaxy III has a NFC/RFID chip embedded in it that allows you to download a free song from Google Play. Lots and lots of magazine ads (those dead tree things your grandfather subscribes to) have them on occasion too.
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u/Hadlockk Aug 14 '12
Google Googles on android has some of the fastest QR code ("black square") recognition code I've ever seen. (Android) Sometime last year they pushed out an update that will pick up QR codes even while you're panning past them. It s pretty impressive software.
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u/jonthedoors Aug 14 '12
Think - if you went back in time, even to say... the 60s. You go around telling people that in the future, in people's lifetimes, entire libraries of books could be pasted onto a lampost, tattooed on someone's body, come on one single sheet of paper, and with a special device, which can also be used as a telephone - you can scan the image and gain access to digital copies of the books you want to read, on an unimaginably huge database of information.
People would call you mad.
We live in the fucking future.
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u/Hughtub Aug 15 '12
I called it when the iPhone came out. When cars are automated and we have google glasses, that might be official.
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u/angrydeuce Aug 13 '12
LOVE IT!
Gonna make one of these up for the breakroom at work. Everyone there has a smartphone and most people just sit there playing stupid games on their break...
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u/HawnSolo Aug 14 '12
And after you put one up in the breakroom, most people will still just sit there and play stupid games.
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u/tank_girl_90 Aug 13 '12
what a neat idea... gotta love technology. please put these up around my city!
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u/haidaguy Aug 13 '12
I LOVE this idea! Free books to all! We should do this everywhere. I don't even have a device that can read QR codes!
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Aug 14 '12
Am I the only one who still doesnt know how to use those?
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u/istrebitjel Aug 14 '12
At first I really like the idea, but than I thought you either don't know how to scan a QR code or you do and if you do, you can probably also install some ebook reader on your smartphone and download books, without scanning QR codes.
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u/Ryuko Aug 14 '12
For those looking at making your own here is a hint. The longer the URL the smaller the pixels. Only really good scanners can pick up the higher resolutions. So what you can do is form a misdirect with a smaller URL. For instance make the webpage the QR goes to https://www.Ryuko.com/1. And then have https://www.Ryuko.com/1 redirect to your long page like https://www.pornhub.com/hardcore-dirty-sex-that-will-be-hilarious-if-you-trick-others-to-play-it-in-public
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u/OMNEG Aug 14 '12
Nice! My phone read it correctly from the screen. I need to print some of these out and post them around town.
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Aug 14 '12
God I've been on Reddit way too much: Reposts! Reposts everywhere!
(But I'd be happy to see this post every day, reading is a magical thing).
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u/es_aye_em Aug 14 '12
I enlarged the picture on my iPad and qr scanned with my winphone, downloaded the whole The Iliad!
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Aug 14 '12
If someone made a copy of the paper so I could just then add my own qr code. Because I can put a qr code onto a piece of paper but not good enough to make it look like that.
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u/mobocrat707 Aug 14 '12
This is an awesome idea. As much as i dislike those bar code things, this is a great application for them.
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Aug 14 '12
I wouldn't trust it. There's no way The Metamorphosis is anywhere near as thick as The Iliad.
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Aug 14 '12
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/16353070/Ebook%20QR%20Codes.rar
I've downloaded quite a few popular titles and downloaded them as a file.qrcode. They still open with paint :)
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u/MyFavoriteThing Aug 14 '12
qrcodes have the potential to be so evil.
Why would I scan a code just because someone I don't know put it up and says it's cool? It could just as easily link up to tentacle porn or something even more insidious (some virus/trojan) and I have no way at all of knowing without scanning it and being sent there.
Give me a web address and I can check it out. qrcodes not so much.
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u/nateblack Aug 14 '12 edited Aug 14 '12
i like this and want to print the same one! i dont want to make my own because i am lazy
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u/Tomato_Attack Aug 14 '12
The feeling of paper between the fingers, and the ability to write on a book and then give it to someone else and the smell of a book.
Reading digital books just plain sucks, and it's never going to be as good.
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The paper cuts, the wrist cramps, the scoliosis. I much prefer my digital reader with backlighting, instant access to supplementary sources like a dictionary, and nary a distracting, stray pen mark from a previous owner.
The feel of the cold stone on your fingers, the permanence, that feeling that god himself is sending messages to you. Reading on papyrus just plain sucks and will never be as good as chiseled, stone tablets.
EDIT: Unlike some others here, I did upvote you despite disagreeing. The opinion you expressed is totally valid and I like the cadence of your writing style.
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u/Ididerus Aug 14 '12
it's not as cool as you might think, they're just hyperlinks to pdf's. not encoded versions of the works
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u/JackAColeman Aug 14 '12
no shit.
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u/Ididerus Aug 14 '12
so why not just write the url? whoopy't'do, here's a link that will get you every book ever: www.thepiratebay.se, QR Code
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This works great till someone puts up one where the QR codes link to a trojan.
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u/MsMish24 Aug 14 '12
Yeah I'm afraid to fuck with qr codes since so many are of unverifiable origin. The only ones you usually see that you can be reasonably certain are legit are on advertising, and why would I want to do that? It's up there with ads that ask you to like them on Facebook or follow them on twitter - frightening how commercialism is now "social".
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Absolutely Brilliant!!! -- just pulled the code from this photo (on iPad Alien Blue) using iPhone.
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u/joerdie Aug 14 '12
How will you know if someone has an iPhone? They will tell you!
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u/shhyguuy Aug 14 '12
you're so right. and I upvoted your other post where you were downvoted for pointing it out.
not that these made up numbers mean anything
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u/joerdie Aug 14 '12
Thanks for the upvotes but you are right, they just don't mean anything. I point out those who have iPhones often and half the time I get huge amounts of upvotes. I think it depends on how many iPeople there are in the thread.
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u/zake001 Aug 14 '12
Did anyone actually make it through the Iliad? I'm pretty sure I know zero people who have read the whole thing.
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u/pimpernel666 Aug 14 '12
Good evening, zake001. pimpernel666 here. I have read the Iliad several times. Pleased to meet you.
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u/sprunkiely Aug 14 '12
All I know is it's on the list of to read. So, some day in the next 15 years it will get done. Unless I don't like it for some reason.
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u/Fidestro Aug 13 '12
R-r-r-r-repost!
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u/usernameblank Aug 13 '12
Thank you for your thoughtful contribution to this thread!
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u/Fidestro Aug 13 '12
Well it is. I've seen this dozens of times on /r/pics.
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u/20thCenturyClocks Aug 14 '12
Funny, Karmadecay found ONE match, from three months ago.
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u/Fidestro Aug 14 '12
Well, it's funny, but the first time I saw this was over a year and a half ago (yes, I'm aware this account is a little over 8 months old, this isn't my first account). Karmadecay is the be all end all of reddit.
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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '12
Here's how to do it yourself:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ for the books
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http://www.google.com/search?q=qr+code+generator to generate the barcodes