Matthew 6:19-21 19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: 21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
that someone came up with some software to keep that pink canned monstrosity of a luncheon meat out of my cupboard... oh wait, they are talking about email? nevermind
My biggest wild goose chase was a result of discovering some all-too-coincidental similarities between a biblical Enoch and Enoch Root, the casually ethereal character from Cryptonomicon, who, I discovered while reading the excerpt, appears in Quicksilver as well. Digging through such concepts as Enochian Magick, the Book of Enoch, and even an Enochian alphabet, the existing parallels were a little too spooky to dismiss without some serious fact checking. I'll spare you the grim details of every connection-based lead I chased down, but I will say that I learned enough about the prophet Enoch over the course of the next couple days to start forming my own conspiracy theories about the beloved Enoch Root. Be that as it may, my once-promising leads melted away, and in the end, I was left with only the salty taste of red herring in my mouth.
(time elapses as more leads fizzle out...)
After much cursing of the name Neal Stephenson and almost burning my own copy of Cryptonomicon on general principal, I returned to cross-referencing "codes" and "secret writing" with names and concepts mentioned in the excerpt. Strangely, it was a bizarre collision with John Hooke, another great mind from the 17th century, that propelled me into the final phase of my search.
While investigating Hooke, like a two-by-four to the stomach, I somehow stumbled upon a real-world, honest to goodness, graphic example of the writing I was looking for! I couldn't believe my eyes. Finally, proof that this ancient language existed! In one fell swoop, my quest had been validated, and I felt energized enough to see this damn thing through.
To make a long story slightly less so, Hooke was erroneously credited for the creation of this mysterious alphabet, and only through another sufficiently high number of wrong turns later did I make the connection to its true inventor, John Wilkins.
Once I found Wilkins, it soon became clear that what I was dealing with here was no ordinary code or simple system for secret writing, but an entire language.
This all led to An Essay Toward a Real Character and a Philosophical Language, of course, but to decode the message, I needed the book. Unable to find one, I did manage to find the next best thing--a Rosetta Stone of sorts--a scanned image from one of the pages from his book that used the Lord's Prayer as an example. He had written the prayer in his Real Character, and displayed beneath each symbol was the English translation. Using that translation, I was able to decode a few words of my text, but from this a couple of things became apparent: 1) each symbol represented, not individual letters, but whole words, and; 2) I would need the whole book if I were to have any chance at decoding the rest of the message.
I got one of these sitting under the 31" in my bedroom. Yeah the graphics suck for 3D gaming, but for a little DVD player/MAME box it's really not bad. As for the floppy, who needs a floppy?
where do you live that the phone line for your modem is free? Most people I know that are stuck on dialup have a second line for internet access, and that will run you almost as much as the cable modem monthly.
This only applies to us suckers who keep a windows box laying around, but if you went to the LOTR official site and thought you were gonna get a cool screensaver and were really dissappointed...
This guy did it much better.
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Note to self: learn to write software
Don't forget that they can regenerate body parts, so the only way to kill them is to cut their head off. There can be only one...
Thats NintenDNA(TM)
Dear Ask Slashdot, I have a report for school. Where can I find pictures of dinosaurs?
Matthew 6:19-21
19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
He has crazy flipper fingers.
its hard to install firefox on windows without clicking on the blue e
I bought a Sony Vaio because it has a special connection that allows me to plug my walkman into it and play cassettes through the speakers!
Lindows can auto update itself I believe, so any security patches should be applied as soon as they connect to the internet. I could be crazy though.
How do you produce 4 forms of ID if one of them is not a drivers license?
I have to confess, I kinda like the stuff. Thinly sliced and fried, slap some mayo on it, tasty sandwich there...
that someone came up with some software to keep that pink canned monstrosity of a luncheon meat out of my cupboard... oh wait, they are talking about email? nevermind
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My biggest wild goose chase was a result of discovering some all-too-coincidental similarities between a biblical Enoch and Enoch Root, the casually ethereal character from Cryptonomicon, who, I discovered while reading the excerpt, appears in Quicksilver as well. Digging through such concepts as Enochian Magick, the Book of Enoch, and even an Enochian alphabet, the existing parallels were a little too spooky to dismiss without some serious fact checking. I'll spare you the grim details of every connection-based lead I chased down, but I will say that I learned enough about the prophet Enoch over the course of the next couple days to start forming my own conspiracy theories about the beloved Enoch Root. Be that as it may, my once-promising leads melted away, and in the end, I was left with only the salty taste of red herring in my mouth.
(time elapses as more leads fizzle out...)
After much cursing of the name Neal Stephenson and almost burning my own copy of Cryptonomicon on general principal, I returned to cross-referencing "codes" and "secret writing" with names and concepts mentioned in the excerpt. Strangely, it was a bizarre collision with John Hooke, another great mind from the 17th century, that propelled me into the final phase of my search.
While investigating Hooke, like a two-by-four to the stomach, I somehow stumbled upon a real-world, honest to goodness, graphic example of the writing I was looking for! I couldn't believe my eyes. Finally, proof that this ancient language existed! In one fell swoop, my quest had been validated, and I felt energized enough to see this damn thing through.
To make a long story slightly less so, Hooke was erroneously credited for the creation of this mysterious alphabet, and only through another sufficiently high number of wrong turns later did I make the connection to its true inventor, John Wilkins.
Once I found Wilkins, it soon became clear that what I was dealing with here was no ordinary code or simple system for secret writing, but an entire language.
This all led to An Essay Toward a Real Character and a Philosophical Language, of course, but to decode the message, I needed the book. Unable to find one, I did manage to find the next best thing--a Rosetta Stone of sorts--a scanned image from one of the pages from his book that used the Lord's Prayer as an example. He had written the prayer in his Real Character, and displayed beneath each symbol was the English translation. Using that translation, I was able to decode a few words of my text, but from this a couple of things became apparent: 1) each symbol represented, not individual letters, but whole words, and; 2) I would need the whole book if I were to have any chance at decoding the rest of the message.
thats as far as I got, wait 20 seconds... post!
I have a USB KVM setup on my test machines to test our game, and am able to use KB/Mouse as well as multiple game controlers on multiple machines.
They know what color everyones underwear is... other than that I doubt it.
I don't know what kinda coffee your smoking...
Gortek and the Micro Chips live in there.
I got one of these sitting under the 31" in my bedroom. Yeah the graphics suck for 3D gaming, but for a little DVD player/MAME box it's really not bad. As for the floppy, who needs a floppy?
preach it brutha, I want my $6 back
And all this time I've been watching DVD's and playing Grand Tourismo 3, dont I feel like a schmuck.
where do you live that the phone line for your modem is free? Most people I know that are stuck on dialup have a second line for internet access, and that will run you almost as much as the cable modem monthly.
yeah, Al Gore could invent life on other worlds
Everyone knows you eat for free when you work in a fast food joint ;)
This only applies to us suckers who keep a windows box laying around, but if you went to the LOTR official site and thought you were gonna get a cool screensaver and were really dissappointed... This guy did it much better.
You cant get anything in Starbucks for $2 my friend.