Greetings Jonathan and Rick White,
While we are on the subject, a real sadist might ask this question on a
midterm exam...
On your Ubuntu Linux system, using the file
/usr/share/dict/american-english please disclose how many natural
single word palindromes there are in the file.
A very elegant answer to this question is the following code segment:
perl -lne 'print if $_ eq reverse' /usr/share/dict/american-english | wc -l
SOURCE: http://dsl.org/cookbook/cookbook_16.html#SEC239
Please, both of you, refrain from requiring further epistolic contact to
be in multiword palindromes...
Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era?
Regards,
Flint.
On Sat, 4 Apr 2009, jonathan d p ferguson wrote:
My assumption has been that yad is day backwards, suggesting a cosmic
symmetry in a subtle way.
Indeed, in the large, that interpretation matches my intent. My canonical
(pretentious) definition is 1/day=yad. Also, day.yad is a mirror effect with
the dot, so yes, day spelled backwards. I use it to express the notion of the
liminal space between day and night, and more-so to encourage some reflection
on the day.
YAD Yoga Aplicado Al Deporte
Heh. Which type of yoga? I love the Vinyasa Flow...
have a day.yad
jdpf
I can't for the life of me figure out your sig. Is
it 'yet another day'?
I also like this interpretation. I've never thought if it that way, but it is
in line with my original intent, if a bit more cynical an interpretation than
I originally intended.
I've been hand-writing this sig for about 14 years now, it always generates
interesting comments and conversation. A property owing to its opacity to
many people, I think, and its room for interpretation. But that's nothing new
in the realm of sigs.
Thanks for asking. :)
have a day.yad
jdpf
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Paul Flint
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