http://costena.com/famous.html
>On May 3rd, 1997 La Costeña of Mountain View, California created the world's largest burrito. The burrito weighed in at 4,456.3 pounds and was measured at 3,578 feet long. It was created at Rengstorff Park in Mountain View.
Also set that day was the world record for largest number of porta-potties filled. ;)
http://www.supersizedmeals.com/food/article.php/200604112036...
>World's Largest Burrito at Rengstorff Park
>Despite the hearty appetites of everyone involved, a substantial amount of food was left over. Soon people were filling enormous paper boxes with foot-long lengths destined for the freezer. A couple groups carried six-foot lengths like fire hoses to waiting pickup trucks.
Details aren’t on the web, AFAIK. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13440422 mentions it was to print, but I think https://en.everybodywiki.com/Stump_the_Experts#Sample_Questi... is right that it faxed an order (that’s why the question included “fully equipped”; the fax part was optional)
The Story of Sun Microsystems PizzaTool
How I accidentally ordered my first pizza over the internet.
https://donhopkins.medium.com/the-story-of-sun-microsystems-...
FAXed order with PostScript pizza visualization:
https://miro.medium.com/max/720/1*EvKv1m2UbxuPJ1Mg9oGUqQ.png
NeWS PostScript Source Code:
https://www.donhopkins.com/home/archive/NeWS/pizzatool.txt
Manual Entry:
https://www.donhopkins.com/home/archive/NeWS/pizzatool.6.txt
% Fork a process to sprinkle a topping on the pizza in the background.
%
/StartSprinkle { % topping => -
{ % fork:
gsave
/PaintSetup self send
/ClipCrust self send
{ % send to topping:
clear /paint self send
} exch send
Sprinklers currentprocess undef
grestore
} fork
Sprinklers exch dup put pop
} def
% Kill all the processes sprinkling toppings.
%
/StopSprinklers { % - => -
[Sprinklers {pop} forall] {killprocess} forall
Sprinklers cleanoutdict
} def
% Start spinning the pizza, to cook it.
%
/StartSpin { % - => -
/StopSpin self send
/SpinProcess { % fork:
clear
/PaintSetup self send
/ClipCrust self send
initmatrix
{ % loop:
SpinPause { pause } repeat
/Spin self send
} loop
SpinProcess currentprocess eq { % if:
/SpinProcess unpromote
} if
} fork promote
} def
% Stop spinning the pizza, before eating it.
%
/StopSpin { % - => -
SpinProcess null ne { % if:
SpinProcess killprocess
/SpinProcess unpromote
} if
} def
% Spin the pizza around a bit.
%
/Spin { % - => -
gsave
/size self send % w h
2 div exch 2 div exch % w/2 h/2
2 copy translate
SpinAngle random add rotate
neg exch neg exch translate %
self imagecanvas
grestore
} defIIRC, PizzaTool was also available for OpenWindows on SunOS 4.1.1 or so, on `sun4c`.
PizzaTool was probably what inspired me to make the (much lesser) LunchTool, which was an XView UI to a database of lunch places near my employer. It printed snazzy formal invitation signs (using PostScript), for wherever the amorphous lunch group would be going that day.
(Learning PS by displaying on OpenWindows was much easier than huffing from a laser printer, and the Adobe blue and red PS books that Sun bundled were great.)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25897535
Is the "Barfing Boy" sculpture that was in front of Adobe headquarters on Shoreline Amphitheatre Parkway still there in front of what's now Google?
https://www.ilovemv.org/new-blog-1/category/public-art-tour3
I heard that the artist who they commissioned to create that sculpture assumed by the name of the road that it would be overlooking the shoreline, and meant it to represent a person leaning out of a window to enjoy the view, and they were dismayed that it was actually overlooking a garbage dump landfill, thus the "Barfing Boy" nickname.
https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a9576aa976af...
The rotting garbage underneath the lawn of Shoreline Amphitheatre generated methane that you could light for amusement during concerts.