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Author Topic: NANY 2013 Pledge: VH website - CANCELED  (Read 5110 times)

mouser

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NANY 2013 Pledge: VH website - CANCELED
« on: October 22, 2012, 10:37 AM »
Top secret experimental strange web site project idea.
Details to be revealed later..

This has been canceled for NANY 2013, probably never to be implemented.

The strange idea I had was to create a site where you could create a very very simple online virtual version of a deceased pet or friend, configure the kinds of activities they liked to spend their time doing, and then have the program/website be a place where this virtual version of them could be happy doing the things they liked doing.

So for example if you had a cat companion for 15 years who passed away, you could create a kind of virtual heaven for them, describe the places they liked to sleep, the toys they loved, the food they loved, etc.,  and then their virtual version could spend it's days doing those things and you could check in on them every once and a while to see how they were doing and leave them gifts, etc.  no graphics just simple text updates.

If you created it for a human who passed on you could send them books to read, etc.

Anyway, some people send the idea was possibly psychologically damaging, as it might impede the healing/grieving process.  I don't know.. Seemed like an interesting enough idea to try to implement, and that it might be a nice tribute to lost ones.

I might still implement it someday.
« Last Edit: December 31, 2012, 08:59 AM by mouser »

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Re: NANY 2013 Pledge: VH website
« Reply #1 on: October 22, 2012, 01:13 PM »
so we can speculate a little:

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Re: NANY 2013 Pledge: VH website
« Reply #2 on: October 22, 2012, 02:21 PM »
Van Halen fan club?  :-*

 :P

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Re: NANY 2013 Pledge: VH website
« Reply #3 on: October 22, 2012, 03:13 PM »
Top secret experimental strange ... project idea.
Details to be revealed later..

Well hell, I can borrow that wording!
I too, pledge a top secret experimental strange project idea!

Details may never be revealed. It will barely even be functional! However I promise it will do something other than sit there!

 ;D

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Re: NANY 2013 Pledge: VH website
« Reply #4 on: October 22, 2012, 03:59 PM »
Top secret experimental strange ... project idea.
Details to be revealed later..
Well hell, I can borrow that wording!
I too, pledge a top secret experimental strange project idea!
Details may never be revealed. It will barely even be functional! However I promise it will do something other than sit there!
 ;D
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Meanwhile, from the DOIS (Department of Incomplete Software Development) comes news that their latest development project for a CRIS (Customer Relationship Infuriation System) is being released as just a front-end GUI which does nothing very much as they have not yet thought about the design for the CRIS product itself. They are currently considering embodying facets of Amazon and PayPal excellent CRIS into the yet-to-be-designed product.

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Re: NANY 2013 Pledge: VH website
« Reply #5 on: October 22, 2012, 05:01 PM »
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Meanwhile, from the DOIS (Department of Incomplete Software Development) comes news that their latest development project for a CRIS (Customer Relationship Infuriation System) is being released as just a front-end GUI which does nothing very much as they have not yet thought about the design for the CRIS product itself. They are currently considering embodying facets of Amazon and PayPal excellent CRIS into the yet-to-be-designed product.

P.S. Mouser please create an area for NANY rejects, jokes and otherwise, so I and other hapless wannabe-devs don't taint the fine institution of NANY! (Basement?)


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Re: NANY 2013 Pledge: VH website
« Reply #6 on: October 22, 2012, 05:13 PM »
Van Halen fan club?  :-*

 :P

It's obvious!  Very Hard Website!  He's trying to challenge himself!  :Thmbsup:

No?   :-[

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Re: NANY 2013 Pledge: VH website
« Reply #7 on: October 22, 2012, 05:14 PM »
It's obvious!  Very Hard Website!  He's trying to challenge himself!  :Thmbsup:

No?   :-[

My bet is on Virtual-something. It's the hot new use for V.

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Re: NANY 2013 Pledge: VH website
« Reply #8 on: October 22, 2012, 05:39 PM »
I have a Holden Commodore - not a VH though. Is a VTK, I think. It has quite a lot of onboard computerisation, so maybe this project is about hacking onboard computerised control systems.    :tellme: