Today #2

Today is annoyingly like any other day. The world has not changed much in one day, or any day. People have not changed much throughout history. But those are very big things, and they change slowly. I am small. I have changed, because when there is only one of me, and it is so unconsequential, it is very free to change. I am glad I changed, but I am begining to fear a limmit. I am bound by the fundementals of human nature, and cannot easily escape them. There is a way that I would like to though, if I could determine precisely what it is. I reached the conclusion of what I must do through a mode of thought that will not permit me to actually accomplish the goal. I must bring about a very drastic change.

Square 16

Wine = Wine Is Not an Emulator ==> W = Wine ==> 1 = ine ==> 1/e = ni ==> 1/(ei) = n ==> ei / -(e^2) = n ==> i / -e = n ==> 0.36788i ≈ n But WINE is an emulator.

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That's the spirit! make it look as awful as possible, even if you have to use nonstandard html to do it. Well done. (But compared to the html this blogger form can create, it's really not that bad. Things like using a <span> tag for italics)

Today #1

Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 6th day of Discord, int the YOLD 3171. Isn't that nice to know? Today, seen in a larger scale of things: You can't even see it.

Question #1

What is a foomatic and why is it printing software? (And why do I number all my posts ??)

Ramblings

I might believe that { I think therefore I am } ; But could I ever believe that { I am no therefore I do not think } ? --------------- is(X) :- thinks(X). am :- is(i). ithink :- thinks(i). ithink. |?- am. yes -------------- doesnotthink(X) :- isnot(X). isnot(X) :- is(X), !, fail. isnot(_). idontthink :- doesnotthink(i). |?- idontthink. no |?- doesnotthink(myself). yes --------- Oh well.

Interesting #4

From a document on Microsoft.com: "If the evidence at our www.microsoft.com/getthefacts Web site doesn't sufficiently convey the benefits and value of the Microsoft platform, we want to hear from you so we can work even harder to get that information to you." No doubt you will

Interesting #3

#define PERSON(YOU_ARE) # YOU_ARE #define WELCOME PERSON(WELCOME TO GH67Q) #define GOODBYE PERSON(GOODBYE) // Or not yet. There is still more: // Despite what many people think, // Foobar is in fact a deep orange #define ORANGE foobar #define PEEL () // and that orange has a peal #define AND_IT ; #define BECOMES ; #define STEP ; #define SEE WHAT YOU SAW // Then forget it #undef SEE // Then remember it #define SEE cout // then define it #define IT 0; // This is important #define THE int that_has_no_purpose #define OUR int // should have no purpose #define AND ;return #define what_is_included #include what_is_included // of course #define PROGRAM namespace MORE #define PROGRAMME namespace std #define BEGINS_HERE { #define ENDS_HERE } #define define #define BANANA main PROGRAM BEGINS_HERE // But where is here ? #define HERE << endl using // nothing the PROGRAMME // is a STEP // away from everything // I don't know what a cout is but // it doesn't sound like a compliment #define YOU cout #define ARE YOU #define A PERSON ? #define PROBABLY NOT! // just try and define yourself! #define YOURSELF << // YOU #undef ARE // WHO YOU THINK YOU #define ARE << /* OF COURSE */ // This is the program of fruit, // as it's name, gh67q, clearly implies // There is little substance to this fruit void ORANGE PEEL BEGINS_HERE STEP YOU ARE WELCOME HERE // You cease to exist #undef YOU #define YOU YOURSELF STEP SEE YOU GOODBYE AND_IT ENDS_HERE OUR BANANA PEEL BEGINS_HERE AND_IT BECOMES ORANGE PEEL AND IT ENDS_HERE #undef PROGRAM #define PROGRAM ; THE PROGRAM ENDS_HERE // OR DOES IT ?? // THERE IS YET MORE BANANA PEEL! OUR BANANA PEEL BEGINS_HERE AND_IT BECOMES MORE::BANANA PEEL AND IT ENDS_HERE

Square Nine

Some numbers are interesting. 2 is the only even prime. 6 is the first perfect number. Considering the natural numbers, it should be possible to divide them into to sets: interesting and uninteresting numbers. Let us assume, efmk, that there are uninteresting numbers. Among that set there must be a minimum: by so being, it is obviously an interesting number. This contradicts the assumption that it is in the set of uninteresting numbers, in turn contradicting the assumption that there are uninteresting numbers. So every number must somehow be interesting.

Slightly Interesting #1

This windows batch program had the good fortune to make itself known to me at the least convenient moment: Ext.bat --------- :t start ext.bat ext.bat ext.bat goto t --------- It had a very nice effect.

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Interesting (#2)

Another dead blog, World Anarchy Links, That never even got started. But there is something funny. The heading of the page, read accross the top, World Anarchy - under construction

Interesting (#1)

The White House website provides some mighty interesting information on economics. The State of the Economy, in their words,

• America has the fastest-growing economy of any major industrialized nation in the world.
• The economy has posted steady job gains for each of the last fifteen months – creating over 2.4 million jobs since August 2003.
• The unemployment rate dropped from a peak of 6.3% last June to 5.4% today—below the average unemployment rate of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.
• After-tax income is up by over 10% since the end of 2000, and household wealth is at an all-time high.
• Inflation, interest rates, and mortgage rates remain at low levels.
• Homeownership rates are at record highs.
• The stock market has grown rapidly since the beginning of 2003, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 25% and the NASDAQ up 56%.

This raises some questions. First, why did they neglect to make the slight, slant, of the report a little, less, obvious. Second, why is there such an, obvious, slant? And why did they think it was necessary?