> What's a palindrome? > Do you talk like that on purpose?
> Seems kind of pretentious to me. Did I misinterpret this? Were you actually asking me? I thought you were being sarcastic about the Google guy. Umm... I wasn't _trying_ to be pretentious. Just saw a thing on his page about writing a program to create a 17,000 someodd word palindrome (a string that's spelled the same way if you reverse all the characters) and even knowing what a palindrome is and having a pretty solid grasp of the English language, could only understand a small fraction of what was said about it on the page... The problem here is that he wasn't talking about the mechanics of the program, he was talking about the English language (or possibly general linguistics, it's hard to say). I dunno... the whole thing just rubbed me wrong... I'm not a Google zealot (or even a fan) to begin with, and then I see this and I know that he's getting paid _HUGE_ sums of money to basically dick around and do whatever he feels like, so he can be all prosaic about a subject on which a) nearly nobody understands and b) nearly nobody cares and c) is patently not his profession ... and all this because everybody worships Google. Call me bitter, I honestly don't care. Life's not fair, so there's plenty of bitter to go around. Sorry... Google's a hot button for me... s. isaac dealey 434.293.6201 new epoch : isn't it time for a change? add features without fixtures with the onTap open source framework http://www.fusiontap.com http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/author/4806Dealey.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:202381 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
