I just remembered this one... hehe " Nate bit a Tibetan "
On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Paul Flint <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> > > Kindest Regards, > > > > Paul Flint > (802) 479-2360 > > > /************************************ > Based upon email reliability concerns, > please send an acknowledgment in response to this note. > > Paul Flint > Barre Open Systems Institute > 17 Averill Street > Barre, VT > 05641 > > http://www.bosivt.org > http://www.flint.com/home > skype: flintinfotech > Work: (202) 537-0480 > > Consilium _ > gratuitum .~. ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) > valet /V\ against HTML e-mail X > quanti /( )\ www.asciiribbon.org / \ > numerantur ^^-^^ > -- Chad Avery Montpelier Open Source 802.224.6481 www.montpelieropensource.com
