There are those who say that ‘necessity is the mother of invention,’ now it can be said that ‘psychosis is the mother of crap.’ Father Rob’s unending quest to avoid seeing Helloworld’s illustrious tweets, combined with his unquenchable desire for attention, has caused the world to merit seeing this marvel of nothingness. I bring you today, a complete waste of time.

I wrote a program a while back that uses the Twitter API to scan through the connections of a few stalker accounts and block future trolls.

— Robert Ballecer, SJ (@padresj) November 25, 2014

…and no one cares

It works beautifully. As they add new accounts, they automatically get muted/blocked.

-Good thing they can't help but follow themselves. 🙂

— Robert Ballecer, SJ (@padresj) November 25, 2014

….stop acting like a douche also works to curtail trolling

I was thinking about showing off the code for "Coding 101", but maybe I'll just keep this one for myself.

— Robert Ballecer, SJ (@padresj) November 25, 2014

They changed the format, no more coding, remember

Sorry folks… I cancelled "Padre's Corner" tonight because I'm about to fall over. I'm doing ByB and some wraps, then I'm going to bed.

— Robert Ballecer, SJ (@padresj) November 25, 2014

Thought that would get more favs

One major blow after another as the world was unable to get its hands on the magical code or see Padre’s Corner. We understand the need to keep this gem hidden from patent trolls but luckily our boys used their electronic archeological skeellz to unearth the coding treasure:

10 Scan DBase /tweets $A:$ZZZZZZ [time* <1 hour]
20 If Tweet = "padre is a jerk" then 80, else 30
30 If Tweet = "padre is a putz" then 80, else 40
40 If Tweet = "padre's a moron" then 80, else 50
50 If Tweet = "padre's a clown" then 80, else 60
60 If Tweet = "padre AND [expletive dbase]" then
   80, else 70
70 If Tweet = "padre is fat" then 80, else 90
80 Block twitter /user - $A:$ZZZZZZ
90 Goto 10

A masterpiece like this may stave off his sabbatical for another year but if the inevitable fortunes keep him away from Leo n’ Lisa it may not be what the doctor ordered. Helloworld was not immediately available for comment.

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