The Cube

The Cube says:

What the heck is this Cube thing?

It's a Sufi teaching exercise. The ladder is your friends. The horse is your lover. The clouds are your troubles. The flowers are little children. The Cube is you. I've just given you the punchline, so the teaching exercise is now utterly useless to you. Oops.

It's also a computer program for recording short, mildly amusing things that people say on zephyr, the CMU computer science department's electronic chat facility. Every time something is recorded, the program also responds with a previously recorded blurb. This page doesn't deal the gory details of how the program is used; for that, see the Cube FUCQ (though if you're not from CMU, there's not much point in looking at it). Here are a few things that even people outside CMU might find amusing:

The Cube Hall O' Fame, where particularly appropriate and/or amusing responses are recorded.
Personal selections from the Hall O' Fame.
Transparent or white-background GIFs containing random previously recorded blurbs. Handy for including random silliness in Web pages. (A new random blurb will appear every time this image is re-loaded.)

Warning: the recorded material is occasionally R-rated, and often too technical to be understood and/or amusing to anyone other than serious computer geeks (and even then it's not always funny).

Here's a link back up to my home page.

Comments? E-mail scottd@cs.cmu.edu or chat