On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 03:22:02PM -0800, Brian Deacon wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 12:44:02PM -0800, Lan Barnes wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 09:04:03AM -0800, Brian Deacon wrote: > > > > > > I had one of those Isaac Newton moments as I was falling asleep last > > > night. > > > Or was it Ben Franklin? The guy who would try to fall asleep while > > > holding > > > something in his hand, then when he dropped it and woke up, he'd write > > > down > > > whatever he was thinking. > > > > > > > Can't speak to Newton or Franklin, but Kekule is one of my favorites > > (benzene ring). Check it out: > > > > http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art19119.asp > > I remember my physics teacher telling me that story in high school. The > link doesn't say it, but the legend was that he dreamed of a snake (or > was it multiple snakes?) biting their tail and then being rolled down > the street like a hula hoop. >
Yes, it was a snake dream (you just keep your filth to yourself, Dr. Freud). Of course. benzene's structure went through several theoretical reassessments over the years. But the ring insight was worth the dream. > Oh, and so much for my Franklin/Newton/Edison moment. For reasons that > are too opaque for me to comprehend, the pattern ended up only matching > the first instance of an address, and would match on lines that > contained bad addresses after the first one. Hmm... probably a > misplaced set of parentheses. (That narrows it down, huh?) > Possibly a failure to reassign the picked out value to a variable? > B > (ordering "Mastering Regular Expressions" right now) Hope it's as helpful for you as it was for me. > -- > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
