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5 April, 2012 Wil

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When I get stuck in Draw Something… → ← I forgot to mention that I’m coming to Australia

48 thoughts on “go on… scan it…”

  1. Yarnaddictconfessions.blogspot.com says:
    5 April, 2012 at 11:04 am

    Love it. It’s also hilarious. Just sayin’…..

  2. Antikva says:
    5 April, 2012 at 11:21 am

    that’s hysterical.

  3. 101goalsin1001.blogspot.com says:
    5 April, 2012 at 11:31 am

    That’s awesome! And good advice.

  4. LitJrzyGrl says:
    5 April, 2012 at 11:31 am

    That was great, I needed a little laugh in my afternoon.

  5. Maddan564 says:
    5 April, 2012 at 11:57 am

    NO… YOU LOOK FUCKING DISGUSTING

  6. Sebastian says:
    5 April, 2012 at 12:12 pm

    I am trying my best to phrase this friends…
    No.
    I will not install a program that is converting white and black squares into greek letters on my Galaxy Nexus so I can hold it up to a monitor.
    Never. Ever.
    To be honest this makes me a bit sad. I am hoping that the QR-code at least _doesn’t_ just hand me a URL but I still won’t install a QR-Code reader to make a photo of my friggin monitor. It’s ridiculous.
    Sorry to be one of “those” people 🙁

  7. Wil says:
    5 April, 2012 at 12:14 pm

    …seriously? Please tell me you’re kidding, and not being a dick.

  8. Sean Taylor says:
    5 April, 2012 at 12:30 pm

    Thanks, Wil. That was fun. And I will refrain from dick-dom.

  9. Packet says:
    5 April, 2012 at 12:41 pm

    Normally, I find QR codes sort of silly; 98.35% of all QR codes are just URLs, after all, and having a QR code on a webpage when you could just have a hyperlink is almost always pointless. And the printed QR codes, most people don’t really know what to do with them. Even the ones who do… who’s going to snap a photo of the QR code on the side of a bus? Maybe 12.46% of all people.
    (In a related note, precisely 73.42% of all statistics given to multiple decimal places on the Internet are made up on the spot, often for comedic value.)
    This, however, is a valuable enough life lesson to be on stickers to hand out at conventions. 😉

  10. willwheels says:
    5 April, 2012 at 12:51 pm

    Haha, cool. And a QR code that actually works, kudos, sir.

  11. Xedri says:
    5 April, 2012 at 12:57 pm

    For those of us who don’t have smart phones, what does it do?

  12. Tim Miller says:
    5 April, 2012 at 1:07 pm

    To @Maddan’s defense, he did not click it so may not know the message (or wisdom behind it).
    Either that, or he’s really really not into facial hair (one viewing of Sparks may change that)…

  13. Alicia Warnick-Ellis says:
    5 April, 2012 at 2:11 pm

    It goes to a link with a small box of Wil screaming and waving his arms with the words “Don’t be a dick” around the picture box.
    I want to make my own QR code like all the cool kids!

  14. Kait Nolan says:
    5 April, 2012 at 2:25 pm

    Great! Love it.

  15. Mike Loven says:
    5 April, 2012 at 2:56 pm

    PPPPPTTT!… yeah, nice try adambaldwin.com…

  16. MarkSchneider says:
    5 April, 2012 at 2:59 pm

    I tried, and it shattered the lens of my camera!

  17. MarkSchneider says:
    5 April, 2012 at 2:59 pm

    Gotcha! 🙂

  18. Robin Slicer says:
    5 April, 2012 at 3:01 pm

    I can’t get my scanner to get it! Nooooooooooooooooo!
    I wish I could be as cool as that Sparks McGee, he probably doesn’t even need a scanner for it.

  19. MarkSchneider says:
    5 April, 2012 at 3:21 pm

    I for one think it is a funny/cool/neat. Good job Wil.

  20. MarkSchneider says:
    5 April, 2012 at 3:28 pm

    Having scanned it I can say this. Words of wisdom. More people should live by them.

  21. Keri says:
    5 April, 2012 at 3:53 pm

    It’s just a joke, dude.

  22. Jasonheilpern says:
    5 April, 2012 at 4:01 pm

    I even downloaded the app just to scan it! That was cool!

  23. Sebastian says:
    5 April, 2012 at 4:10 pm

    Have to correct myself there. Roman letters. Greek numerals.
    Anyway, I first read this page on my Galaxy Nexus, in GReader, a mobilized version cached with the help of Instapaper.
    I am very much into gadgets and I simply can’t understand the reasoning behind QR-codes. It’s basically breaking the internet (e.g. not using hyperlinks), in this case for comedic value (which is cool).
    I am so torn about this it annoys me. I mean look at me I came back hours later to read what I wrote again to check if I am being a dick about this. If I am – I’m so sorry. I just don’t understand why I am deprived of another stupid cellphone video because I am unwilling to use my cellphone for a stupid action. Next thing I’m holding up my iPad at a concert to make pictures. *pulls hair out*

  24. 58limited says:
    5 April, 2012 at 4:57 pm

    I need to upgrade from my rotary dial cell phone so I can play too.

  25. Clarence Rutherford says:
    5 April, 2012 at 5:14 pm

    So I can scan the QR with my phone & all that is good and fine. My question is how do you get your face into the QR? THAT is what makes this cool

  26. Jack Strohm says:
    5 April, 2012 at 5:21 pm

    Awesome and a great excuse to actually install a QR app on my phone for the first time.

  27. Wil says:
    5 April, 2012 at 5:44 pm

    I'm not sure how that voodoo works; my friend Joel (hijinksensue.com) figured that out and made it.

  28. Genevievelevin says:
    5 April, 2012 at 5:54 pm

    I tried, but my phone wouldn’t scan it from my monitor. Boo!

  29. DJMarquart says:
    6 April, 2012 at 4:22 am

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code#Error_correction
    Sorry, Wil, but your face just isn’t enough to crack the code.
    Now if it were Sparks’ face, that’d be another story

  30. Robin Boyd says:
    6 April, 2012 at 6:50 am

    Can’t. I refuse to drink the Kool-Aid.

  31. Troynewton says:
    6 April, 2012 at 7:48 am

    I just gave making my own a shot. It worked great. 🙂 Steps I followed:
    1) Create a QR code to whatever you want, with 30% error correction enabled. Lots of online places, I just Googled “qr generator error correction” and picked one.
    2) Cut out the image you want to overlay, convert to black and white and then stylize/simplify it. I used Photoshop’s “Sketch\Stamp” filter, and bumped up the contrast.
    3) Paste your stylized image over your QR code, shrink it down so it’s covering less than 30% of the image. Make sure there’s a little white space around it, and don’t cover the corner boxes.
    Alternatively, just Google: add image to qr code

  32. mimi~ says:
    6 April, 2012 at 8:24 am

    Sheesh, I’m a little surprised at the emotions involved in a simple QR code…. scan it and enjoy, or don’t and move along.

  33. Jennifer Pitzen says:
    6 April, 2012 at 9:13 am

    It’s fantastic! If you follow the links like a proper little minion, you will get the joke that goes with it… I for one think I might just have to buy this shirt. Thank you again Wil (and Joel) for your awesomeness! You make the internets a better place!

  34. Wil says:
    6 April, 2012 at 10:51 am

    If we did one with Sparks, it would go to a page that just says "I gotta course you can plot."

  35. Wil says:
    6 April, 2012 at 10:58 am

    But it's DELICIOUS Kool-Aid, and all the cool kids are drinking it!

  36. wabbit89 says:
    6 April, 2012 at 12:38 pm

    I drank the Kool-Aid. Just now. Been resisting but also meaning to. It was yummy Kool-Aid. Thanks!

  37. Byron Roberts says:
    6 April, 2012 at 4:07 pm

    Bollocks, need to reinstall a scanning app on my phone. That’s what I get for “spring cleaning” my apps!

  38. Byron Roberts says:
    6 April, 2012 at 4:09 pm

    I try to adhere to the maxim of “Don’t Be a Dick”, but as I recently tweeted (or FB’ed… whatever), I also believe an appropriate corollary is “But if you’re a dick to me, I’ll be a dick back”. Put this into practice recently when responding to reviewer comments on a paper that I wrote 🙂

  39. Elegant Nerd says:
    7 April, 2012 at 8:36 am

    LOL!!!! Nice.
    That was actually the first time I ever used my QR app. 🙂

  40. Hijinksensue says:
    7 April, 2012 at 6:13 pm

    It has to do with error correction. When creating the code jack the error correction up all the way, then up to 30% of the code can be garbage and it will still scan. You really have to play with the sizing and placement of the image you are super imposing. It’s a neat trick though.

  41. Hijinksensue says:
    7 April, 2012 at 6:14 pm

    I would be remiss if I didn’t mentioned that Wil and I are selling this design as a T-Shirt at
    http://sharksplode.com/the-code/

  42. Mark Reed says:
    8 April, 2012 at 7:25 am

    No go in any Chrome QR extensions: http://imgur.com/CIgOR
    Worked when I pointed my iPhone at the screen, though. Go figure.

  43. Larry Knox says:
    8 April, 2012 at 3:05 pm

    I was hoping somebody didn’t forget that detail. So. Damn. Funny.

  44. Brian Greenberg says:
    9 April, 2012 at 9:36 am

    I feel like QR codes are something that happened while I was away for the Internet for some reason. One day, it wasn’t there, the next day, everyone seemed to know what to do except me.
    So this is as good a time to ask as any other: what’s the “right” QR Code reader to download for iPhone/iPad? Are there features to these things one must consider?
    Also: it occurs to me that if the iPhone shipped with a QR reader, these things would instantly be 100x more popular/useful.

  45. Ogersama says:
    19 April, 2012 at 8:16 pm

    While I am a proud geek, I am one of the 58% of US cellphone users who do not use a smartphone. I don’t get to scan QR codes, so I’m left out of the sheer awesomeness that Mr. hWeaton reserves for geeks who buy into the system and use smartphones. Thank you, sir, for making me feel even more isolated as I know I can’t use Grindr either. YOU BASTAGE!

  46. MarkSchneider says:
    25 April, 2012 at 7:28 am

    Hmm what if I get a shirt and it doesn’t scan?
    Neat shirt, but I wish people could scan it. I guess my muscular chest is not flat enough for it to scan. (yea right)

  47. MarkSchneider says:
    25 April, 2012 at 7:30 am

    Just so you don’t feel left out. It goes to a URL.
    http://wilwheaton.net/code/

  48. Andrewferguson says:
    3 May, 2012 at 7:49 pm

    A different version that’s embeds the Wil’s lovely face in the data pixels: http://imgur.com/C6uji
    (Uses the awesome QArt Coder: http://research.swtch.com/qr/draw?)

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