Speaking of palindromes, I can not miss telling y'all the following Eugene
McDonnell anecdote as related by Bob Bernecky:
Eugene walked into my office at The Exchange Tower one
afternoon, to find me on a telephone call. He wrote the following
on the blackboard, smiled seraphically, and walked out.
It took me a while to figure it out...
"Tulsa night life: filth, gin, a slut."
The line is apparently not original with Eugene as Google tells me it's all
over the internet.
t=: 'tulsa night life: filth, gin, a slut.'
] a=: t-.' :,.'
tulsanightlifefilthginaslut
'-0' {~ = a
0--------0-------0--------0
-0-----------------------0-
--0-------0-----0-------0--
---0-------------------0---
----0-----------------0----
-----0---------------0-----
------0----0---0----0------
-------0-----------0-------
--------0---------0--------
------------0-0------------
-------------0-------------
For more palindromic stuff, see:
http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Puzzles/Palindromic_Pangram
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 11:27 PM, Roger Hui <[email protected]>wrote:
> You can always use ~. =/ ]
>
> a=: 'wontipanicinapitnow'
>
> '-0' {~ = a
> 0-----------------0
> -0---------------0-
> --0----0---0----0--
> ---0-----------0---
> ----0---0-0---0----
> -----0-------0-----
> ------0-----0------
> ---------0---------
>
> '-0' {~ (~. =/ ]) a
> 0-----------------0
> -0---------------0-
> --0----0---0----0--
> ---0-----------0---
> ----0---0-0---0----
> -----0-------0-----
> ------0-----0------
> ---------0---------
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 11:16 PM, Michal Wallace <[email protected]
> > wrote:
>
>> D'oh. I realized what it was for a few minutes later, and came back hoping
>> everyone was asleep and I could answer myself.
>>
>> Ah well. :)
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 12:42 AM, Raul Miller <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Mind you, it might have made more sense for = to always construct
>> > identity matrices.
>> >
>>
>> But then how would you make histograms and palindrome pictures? :)
>>
>> _*-.= 'racecar'
>>
>> 0 _ _ _ _ _ 0
>>
>> _ 0 _ _ _ 0 _
>>
>> _ _ 0 _ 0 _ _
>>
>> _ _ _ 0 _ _ _
>>
>>
>>
>> _*-.= 'amanaplanacanalpanama'
>>
>> 0 _ 0 _ 0 _ _ 0 _ 0 _ 0 _ 0 _ _ 0 _ 0 _ 0
>>
>> _ 0 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 0 _
>>
>> _ _ _ 0 _ _ _ _ 0 _ _ _ 0 _ _ _ _ 0 _ _ _
>>
>> _ _ _ _ _ 0 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 0 _ _ _ _ _
>>
>> _ _ _ _ _ _ 0 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 0 _ _ _ _ _ _
>>
>> _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 0 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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