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http://www.funklogic.com/palindrometer.htm (Worth clicking through FOR HI-RES IMAGE. OMG CAPS!!11!) - -sth On 2009/04/04 11:39 AM, Chad Avery wrote: > I just remembered this one... hehe > > " Nate bit a Tibetan " > > On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Paul Flint <[email protected] > <mailto:[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 > <http://www.asciiribbon.org> / \ > numerantur ^^-^^ > > > > > -- > Chad Avery > Montpelier Open Source > 802.224.6481 > www.montpelieropensource.com <http://www.montpelieropensource.com> > - -- sam hooker|[email protected]|http://www.noiseplant.com I have received the love Internet dispatch. -spam -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAknaABMACgkQX8KByLv3aQ0b5gCfYYufFfZ8LZ8wOZYfLRr6weLI uLUAoMTBeJohR6CRAEuWsPfAGvQME1cg =HVyg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
