We played Cranium a few times, and it just didn't thrill us. The trivial pursuit style questions were incredibly easy, and the other three categories were sort of amusing but not stellar. Combine that with the fact that advancement on the track was incredibly random and unbalanced, and it just didnt make for a well done game. IMHO, if you want to play pictionary or charades, just do that.
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The Fed regularly publishes data on the size of the Money Supply, which includes the amount of money printed. Look in your favorite financal rag for the Money Supply, M1 and M2 numbers.
According to The Ecnomist, the yearly change in the M1 and M2/M3 numbers for the US as of this week is +7% M1 and +9% M2/M3.
According to the timestamp, This Comment containing the complete text of the Final Decree was posted at 3:42PM EST, 18 minutes before the market closed.
From what it looks like, Slashdot posted these links before they were officially released by the Judge.
If one had purchased MSFT stock based on the early release of these documents, would that have been insider trading? Do hidden links referenced in a slashdot post count as public information?
Disclaimer: I didn't read this story until after the markets closed at 4pm, and I have no position in Microsoft stock.
Readerware uses the Hsqldb Java Database as its backend. The author doesn't document the fact very well, but you can access the database directly, if you have the client-server edition. I've used the SQuirreL Java-based sql client to browse through the database on a number of occasions, and I'm planning on using it soon to do some data cleanup. (Sometimes the python interpreter that Readerware uses to parse the bookseller's webpages gets confused)
Alternately, the Readerware interface does provide an export capability, so if you really wanted to, you could just export all of your data and then reimport it into a SQL database you're more familiar with.
IMHO, the guy who develops Readerware puts a lot of work into it, and I'm happy to pay him a little for such a useful program. Although an open source version of Readerware would be nice, it'd take a lot of work, and Readerware serves my purposes fine.
If you're looking for the "Game Theory" columns and you're at a major university, you can probably access them through Lexis-Nexis. The most common package for universities is the Academic Universe, which has full text for most major newspapers going way back. If you're in your universities IP space, you can access it here: http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe
This is GPRS/EDGE-network, delivered by Nokia [nokia.com], and only 3G in an american sense. Cingular is moving from old TDMA system to GSM-based technology simply because they want to enable GPRS/EDGE (packet data) services. In theory, this could be done with TDMA as well, but there is no hardware available from any vendors.
Depends on which part of Cingular you're talking about. The Pac Bell part of Cingular has been GSM for a few years now. Some of the other parts of Cingular are TDMA, but they're migrating to GSM as well. Other than Cingular, Voicestream is GSM for most of the midwest and east coast, and AT&T is going to move fully to GSM within the next two years. I think that by 2010, the US will have moved mostly to GSM for new phones, and everyone will have a Tri-Mode phone such that they can roam anywhere in the world. Of course, that means the the other providers will have to move to GSM as well, but with Cingular and AT&T going that way, I think the entire market will head that way soon.
Watch out. Most computer DVD drives (which the X-Box uses) come without the region set. It's possible that the X-Box comes this way, and if the first dvd you put into a X-Box is region 2, then you could get a region 2 X-Box forever. Alternately, you could get 4-5 changes of the DVD Region before it locks. It's possible that the X-Box coders let the DVD drive handle the region settings and you'll be locked out after 4-5 region changes.
The situation as it stands now is a nightmare for both Microsoft and Verisign. I think the only thing that could be worse for the two of them is if the certificate was published publicly.
You can get similar speed to mbox with maildir, you just have to attack the problem in a different way. Usually when you're running a grep on your mail, you're searching for something that you recieved a while back. Thusly, the simple solution is to use glimpse.
Every night, I glimpseindex my Mail directory. Although that means that I can't use glimpse to search the emails I've recieved that day, in exchange, I get linear-time searching of my entire archived mail area. (Currently at ~650MB)
Re:it's fine and all..
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>>>Incidentally, what other sites out there offer a similar service? the more reviews the better! you can't trust magazines because of the potential for corporate tampering, so online reviews are great!
For that sort of stuff, I usually use epinions.com or consumerreview.com myself. I like consumerreview.com better, espically the audioreview subsite. Check it out.
Yes. 16:9 anamorphic works fine. I used it last night watching Sneakers. You have to set it in the DVD setup menu before you start the film, but it works great.
In 1996, Discover published another article on the Electoral college called Math Against Tyrrany by Will Hively that argued almost the opposite point. Why is there no reference to this old article with the current article. The old article is here.
The Author's point is pretty good. He summarizes his argument with a comparison to a baseball series, and it goes as follows. Not using the college is like determining the winner of a baseball series by who scores the most runs. That's silly, because if three of the games are blowouts, but the other 4 are really close, it's the games that are close that really matter. If team can win three of the games by ten point margins, but lose the other games by 1 point each, which is the better team? The one that only won three games, but won them by 10 point margins, or the one that won four games, even though they were very close. If a team (or candidate) can do really well in a few big games (or states), but can't win the games (or states) that are really close are they the better of the two teams? I don't think so.
(Note: I am not a lawyer, and any claims I make here here are solely based on my personal interpretation of the DCMA. Please contact a real lawyer if you believe that the DCMA directly affects you. Thanks)
Mr. Katz makes a significant claim that colleges and universities around the country are banning Napster on their campuses because of rampant copyright violations involving the software. Nothing could be further from the truth. Napster is being banned because is uses exceessive amounts of common bandwidth. Schools which have banned Napster have reported usages from 40% to as high as 90% of all commodity internet traffic is Napster based traffic. This is why institutions across the country are banning the use of napster on their networks, not copyright concerns.
Mr. Katz claims that copyright infringement is main reason that Napster has been banned. Yet there has not been a single verifiable case of an institution being sued or threatened with a suit by copyright holders under the DCMA. The content providers I've discussed this with have assured me that the reason that they are banning Napster is the bandwidth issue, and has little to nothing to do with copyright conerns. In fact, the DCMA specifically forbids blanket suits against access providers such as ISPs and universities. If a copyright holder becomes aware of any number of copyright violations, they must contact the access provider with specific locations of the infringing materials and give the provider adequate time to remove the infringing materials. This provision was instituted to prevent copyright holders from forcing access providers to be their policeman, constantly monitoring their networks for infringing material. The DCMA puts all the onus on the copyright holder, not the access provider.
The RIAA and other copyright holders are currently engaged in a suit again the producers of Napster under the accusation that the program was expressly designed to violate copyright. The suit is largely spurious and will probably be dismissed in court. (It is not a crime to own a tool that could theoretically be used to break the law but also has legal uses. Only the use or intent to use the tool illegally is a crime)
Mr. Katz's implication that Universities, Colleges and ISPs are banning the use of Napster because of copyright concerns is patently false and every currently available piece of evidence supports this. If he can come up with evidence that show this is not the case, I would appreciate his presenting it, as it would important in case of a possible suit against copyright holders for violation of the policing provision of the DCMA.
There were some indiscriminate bits in the bundle of sticks. I saw a nose and some teeth and stuff, but others have seen other stuff. Regardless, it was Josh parts. She didn't tell Mike, at least not on screen in any rational manner. By the time they'd made it to the house, they weren't really rational anymore, so it's understandable that they were holding out hope that it was still someone messing with them and those weren't Josh parts.
Yes, that was Mike standing in the corner. He had plenty of time to move into the corner after dropping the camera. Why he stood there is totally unexplained. Supernatural powers, frozen with fear, whatever. What's important is that what made him stand in the corner while waiting to be killed is *unknown*. That whole scene in the basement has no rational explanation, so no matter how much you try to understand it, you're not supposed to and never will. It's all based on fear of the unknown.
Same thing as above. There is no explanation for the stick figures in the trees. It's the total lack of any explanation of their purpose which makes the scene in the woods so powerful and keeps it powerful. Even now you're thinking about the figures and if they have any importantce. Would having it explained to you be any better? I doubt it.
Remember, whenever you feel that something in the movie is not explained well enough, or if it feels incomplete, that that was the point of it all. The fear of the unknown is very powerful, and although you can try to ignore it, there are some things that we can't ever truly understand.
If you look carefully, there's one point in Diamond Age where Matheson makes a refrence to Chiseled Spam and her past. In Snow Crash, Chiseled Spam is in an advertistment that Y.T. sees desrcibing what skaters become without Smartwheels on their planks. It's slightly tenuous, but I'll go for it.
Here are the explanatory posts by the two guys who made the reactor on the University of Chicago local newsgroups: Enjoy! Alright, I just want to set a couple things straight, so here are some responses to oft heard comments the last few days:
1. "I assume they used U-238 to get to Pu-239..." we did not start with any uranium or plutonium, that would have ruined the fun, and the point was to make fissionable materials. Our starting material was thorium, which can be found at any hardware store. we happened to have some in our dorm room... The final products were Uranium 233 and Plutonium 238. I'm not going to spoon feed the decay chains to anyone, you can figure it out yourself if you really need to.
2. "You endangered the life of my son!" We created a neutron source using some shit we pulled out of a trash can. This source was safer and less radioactive than the radioisotope Americium 241 found in the smoke detector in each of your rooms.
3. "Someone said your roommate lost his job because he built a nuclear reactor" Neither I nor my rommmate have lost our jobs since doing this.
4. "I hear you paid another group to steal Plutonium for you" We did not steal Uranium or Plutonium from anywhere. Nor did we have anyone else steal some for us.
5. "but to qualify as a true breeder, doesn't the reaction have to be self-sustaining?" No. A breeder reactor just means taking advantage of all those tasty neutrons flying off from whatever source you have, be it a sustained fission reaction or a naturally radioactive source. The best neutron source on campus would be the Physics Dept's neutron howitzer. But since the howitzer produces neutrons from the decay of Plutonium, you have to agree it would be silly to use it to try and make plutonium.
6. "(I'll be really impressed if the two come up with a micro-fusion reactor.)" We'd fly back next year just for that one...
- Juniper Tasks
Just some clarification for the readers who've forgotten their nuclear physics:
U-235 is the fissionable used in the Hiroshima bomb and Pu-239 in the Nagasaki bomb. U-238 is used in fast breeder reactors to make weapons grade Pu-239. (U-238 is also used in fission-fusion-fission bombs, so technically it is fissionable with a net gain of energy but you need really fast neutrons).
Thorium was to have been used in slow breeder reactor technology which turns out U-233 as its fissionable. (Is Pu-238 fissionable at low neutron energies with a net gain? The even Z makes me think not...)
I thought you had started with depleted uranium to make a fast breeder; didn't know the thorium isotope available from hardware stores was the one used in slow breeders. Well, with a small sample of thorium and a neutron source, you can make the U-233. But with a fully functioning breeder don't you need some of the U-233 created to fission and transform the rest of the thorium without running away and slagging the reactor or damping out so you never end up with more thorium than whatever's directly exposed to your neutron source? I suppose the nuclear engineering definition of a breeder has to be more pragmatic.
Fred and Justin didn't begin with any uranium. (Uranium, after all, ain't a commonly available thing.) They began with some thorium and an alpha source, which they just happened to have lying around. They used the alpha source to make a neutron source, and bombarded the thorium. This induced a chain of reactions, the final products of which were fissionable uranium and plutonium.
True Enough, ID did have a Key system, and it was cracked within a few weeks. Allowed someone to install every ID game up to quake on their machine for free.
I just wanted to briefly thank Jon Katz for all of the hard work he's done on this story. Millions of kids across the nation know the pain of being abused by their peers and thanks to Jon and Slashdot, this message is finally getting out.
For those of you in High School, be careful but vocal. Don't let other students trample over your rights. Physical and mental abuse is something that shouldn't be tolerated in any environment, espically by young people. Hopefully by getting the word out, we can make a change.
>It's truly a pity that Raymond Faulkner's "Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian" doesn't >seem to have the transliteration of the helicopter glyph.... I don't even know what its >Gardiner classification number is so I can't typeset it with HieroTeX
In case you're curious, the current theory on those glyphs is that they're accidential. What happened is that a glyph was carved which makes up part of the "helicopter" glyph. Then later in egyptian history, they want to change the glyph to something else, either to change the name or whatever. To do this, they'd plaster in the original glyph and recarve on top of it. However, in the thousands of years since, the plaster has fallen out, thus giving us a glyph made up of two glyphs that are somewhat superimposed on top of each other and look like "helicopters" and the like.
Slashdot Mirror
We played Cranium a few times, and it just didn't thrill us. The trivial pursuit style questions were incredibly easy, and the other three categories were sort of amusing but not stellar. Combine that with the fact that advancement on the track was incredibly random and unbalanced, and it just didnt make for a well done game. IMHO, if you want to play pictionary or charades, just do that.
The Fed regularly publishes data on the size of the Money Supply, which includes the amount of money printed. Look in your favorite financal rag for the Money Supply, M1 and M2 numbers.
According to The Ecnomist, the yearly change in the M1 and M2/M3 numbers for the US as of this week is +7% M1 and +9% M2/M3.
According to the timestamp, This Comment containing the complete text of the Final Decree was posted at 3:42PM EST, 18 minutes before the market closed.
From what it looks like, Slashdot posted these links before they were officially released by the Judge.
If one had purchased MSFT stock based on the early release of these documents, would that have been insider trading? Do hidden links referenced in a slashdot post count as public information?
Disclaimer: I didn't read this story until after the markets closed at 4pm, and I have no position in Microsoft stock.
Readerware uses the Hsqldb Java Database as its backend. The author doesn't document the fact very well, but you can access the database directly, if you have the client-server edition. I've used the SQuirreL Java-based sql client to browse through the database on a number of occasions, and I'm planning on using it soon to do some data cleanup. (Sometimes the python interpreter that Readerware uses to parse the bookseller's webpages gets confused)
Alternately, the Readerware interface does provide an export capability, so if you really wanted to, you could just export all of your data and then reimport it into a SQL database you're more familiar with.
IMHO, the guy who develops Readerware puts a lot of work into it, and I'm happy to pay him a little for such a useful program. Although an open source version of Readerware would be nice, it'd take a lot of work, and Readerware serves my purposes fine.
That's because it's like 2am there. They'll probably have something up by late tonight or tomorrow morning.
Lombord has taken the time to write detailed responses to those rebuttals.
If you're looking for the "Game Theory" columns and you're at a major university, you can probably access them through Lexis-Nexis. The most common package for universities is the Academic Universe, which has full text for most major newspapers going way back. If you're in your universities IP space, you can access it here: http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe
Enjoy!
Depends on which part of Cingular you're talking about. The Pac Bell part of Cingular has been GSM for a few years now. Some of the other parts of Cingular are TDMA, but they're migrating to GSM as well. Other than Cingular, Voicestream is GSM for most of the midwest and east coast, and AT&T is going to move fully to GSM within the next two years. I think that by 2010, the US will have moved mostly to GSM for new phones, and everyone will have a Tri-Mode phone such that they can roam anywhere in the world. Of course, that means the the other providers will have to move to GSM as well, but with Cingular and AT&T going that way, I think the entire market will head that way soon.
Watch out. Most computer DVD drives (which the X-Box uses) come without the region set. It's possible that the X-Box comes this way, and if the first dvd you put into a X-Box is region 2, then you could get a region 2 X-Box forever. Alternately, you could get 4-5 changes of the DVD Region before it locks. It's possible that the X-Box coders let the DVD drive handle the region settings and you'll be locked out after 4-5 region changes.
This certainly will be interesting...
You can get similar speed to mbox with maildir, you just have to attack the problem in a different way. Usually when you're running a grep on your mail, you're searching for something that you recieved a while back. Thusly, the simple solution is to use glimpse.
Every night, I glimpseindex my Mail directory. Although that means that I can't use glimpse to search the emails I've recieved that day, in exchange, I get linear-time searching of my entire archived mail area. (Currently at ~650MB)
>>>Incidentally, what other sites out there offer a similar service? the more reviews the better! you can't trust magazines because of the potential for corporate tampering, so online reviews are great!
For that sort of stuff, I usually use epinions.com or consumerreview.com myself. I like consumerreview.com better, espically the audioreview subsite. Check it out.
Yes. 16:9 anamorphic works fine. I used it last night watching Sneakers. You have to set it in the DVD setup menu before you start the film, but it works great.
In 1996, Discover published another article on the Electoral college called Math Against Tyrrany by Will Hively that argued almost the opposite point. Why is there no reference to this old article with the current article. The old article is here.
The Author's point is pretty good. He summarizes his argument with a comparison to a baseball series, and it goes as follows. Not using the college is like determining the winner of a baseball series by who scores the most runs. That's silly, because if three of the games are blowouts, but the other 4 are really close, it's the games that are close that really matter. If team can win three of the games by ten point margins, but lose the other games by 1 point each, which is the better team? The one that only won three games, but won them by 10 point margins, or the one that won four games, even though they were very close. If a team (or candidate) can do really well in a few big games (or states), but can't win the games (or states) that are really close are they the better of the two teams? I don't think so.
(Note: I am not a lawyer, and any claims I make here here are solely based on my personal interpretation of the DCMA. Please contact a real lawyer if you believe that the DCMA directly affects you. Thanks)
Mr. Katz makes a significant claim that colleges and universities around the country are banning Napster on their campuses because of rampant copyright violations involving the software. Nothing could be further from the truth. Napster is being banned because is uses exceessive amounts of common bandwidth. Schools which have banned Napster have reported usages from 40% to as high as 90% of all commodity internet traffic is Napster based traffic. This is why institutions across the country are banning the use of napster on their networks, not copyright concerns.
Mr. Katz claims that copyright infringement is main reason that Napster has been banned. Yet there has not been a single verifiable case of an institution being sued or threatened with a suit by copyright holders under the DCMA. The content providers I've discussed this with have assured me that the reason that they are banning Napster is the bandwidth issue, and has little to nothing to do with copyright conerns. In fact, the DCMA specifically forbids blanket suits against access providers such as ISPs and universities. If a copyright holder becomes aware of any number of copyright violations, they must contact the access provider with specific locations of the infringing materials and give the provider adequate time to remove the infringing materials. This provision was instituted to prevent copyright holders from forcing access providers to be their policeman, constantly monitoring their networks for infringing material. The DCMA puts all the onus on the copyright holder, not the access provider.
The RIAA and other copyright holders are currently engaged in a suit again the producers of Napster under the accusation that the program was expressly designed to violate copyright. The suit is largely spurious and will probably be dismissed in court. (It is not a crime to own a tool that could theoretically be used to break the law but also has legal uses. Only the use or intent to use the tool illegally is a crime)
Mr. Katz's implication that Universities, Colleges and ISPs are banning the use of Napster because of copyright concerns is patently false and every currently available piece of evidence supports this. If he can come up with evidence that show this is not the case, I would appreciate his presenting it, as it would important in case of a possible suit against copyright holders for violation of the policing provision of the DCMA.
SPOLIERS!!!! GO AWAY!
There were some indiscriminate bits in the bundle of sticks. I saw a nose and some teeth and stuff, but others have seen other stuff. Regardless, it was Josh parts. She didn't tell Mike, at least not on screen in any rational manner. By the time they'd made it to the house, they weren't really rational anymore, so it's understandable that they were holding out hope that it was still someone messing with them and those weren't Josh parts.
Yes, that was Mike standing in the corner. He had plenty of time to move into the corner after dropping the camera. Why he stood there is totally unexplained. Supernatural powers, frozen with fear, whatever. What's important is that what made him stand in the corner while waiting to be killed is *unknown*. That whole scene in the basement has no rational explanation, so no matter how much you try to understand it, you're not supposed to and never will. It's all based on fear of the unknown.
Same thing as above. There is no explanation for the stick figures in the trees. It's the total lack of any explanation of their purpose which makes the scene in the woods so powerful and keeps it powerful. Even now you're thinking about the figures and if they have any importantce. Would having it explained to you be any better? I doubt it.
Remember, whenever you feel that something in the movie is not explained well enough, or if it feels incomplete, that that was the point of it all. The fear of the unknown is very powerful, and although you can try to ignore it, there are some things that we can't ever truly understand.
If you look carefully, there's one point in Diamond Age where Matheson makes a refrence to Chiseled Spam and her past. In Snow Crash, Chiseled Spam is in an advertistment that Y.T. sees desrcibing what skaters become without Smartwheels on their planks. It's slightly tenuous, but I'll go for it.
That's exactly it. They created a few atoms of plutonium and had the necessary equipment from the physics department to detect it.
b ?getdoc+site+ site+26193+3+wAAA+nuclear%7Ereactor%7Estudents
:)
Here's an updated URL for the article:
http://search.nytimes.com/search/daily/bin/fastwe
I love going to the UofC.
Here are the explanatory posts by the two guys
who made the reactor on the University of
Chicago local newsgroups: Enjoy!
Alright, I just want to set a couple things straight, so here are some
responses to oft heard comments the last few days:
1. "I assume they used U-238 to get to Pu-239..." we did not start
with any uranium or plutonium, that would have ruined the fun, and the
point was to make fissionable materials. Our starting material was
thorium, which can be found at any hardware store. we happened to have
some in our dorm room... The final products were Uranium 233 and
Plutonium 238. I'm not going to spoon feed the decay chains to anyone,
you can figure it out yourself if you really need to.
2. "You endangered the life of my son!" We created a neutron source
using some shit we pulled out of a trash can. This source was safer and
less radioactive than the radioisotope Americium 241 found in the smoke
detector in each of your rooms.
3. "Someone said your roommate lost his job because he built a nuclear
reactor" Neither I nor my rommmate have lost our jobs since doing this.
4. "I hear you paid another group to steal Plutonium for you" We did
not steal Uranium or Plutonium from anywhere. Nor did we have anyone
else steal some for us.
5. "but to qualify as a true breeder, doesn't the reaction have to be
self-sustaining?" No. A breeder reactor just means taking advantage of
all those tasty neutrons flying off from whatever source you have, be it
a sustained fission reaction or a naturally radioactive source. The
best neutron source on campus would be the Physics Dept's neutron
howitzer. But since the howitzer produces neutrons from the decay of
Plutonium, you have to agree it would be silly to use it to try and make
plutonium.
6. "(I'll be really impressed if the two come up with a micro-fusion
reactor.)" We'd fly back next year just for that one...
- Juniper Tasks
Just some clarification for the readers who've forgotten their nuclear
physics:
U-235 is the fissionable used in the Hiroshima bomb and Pu-239
in the Nagasaki bomb. U-238 is used in fast breeder reactors
to make weapons grade Pu-239. (U-238 is also used in fission-fusion-fission
bombs, so technically it is fissionable with a net gain of energy
but you need really fast neutrons).
Thorium was to have been used in slow breeder reactor technology which
turns out U-233 as its fissionable. (Is Pu-238 fissionable at low neutron
energies with a net gain? The even Z makes me think not...)
I thought you had started with depleted uranium to make a fast breeder;
didn't know the thorium isotope available from hardware stores was the
one used in slow breeders.
Well, with a small sample of thorium and a neutron source, you can make
the U-233. But with a fully functioning breeder don't you need some of the
U-233 created to fission and transform the rest of the thorium without
running away and slagging the reactor or damping out so you never
end up with more thorium than whatever's directly exposed to your
neutron source? I suppose the nuclear engineering definition of a
breeder has to be more pragmatic.
Fred and Justin didn't begin with any uranium.
(Uranium, after all, ain't a commonly available thing.) They began with some
thorium and an alpha source, which they just happened to have lying
around. They used the alpha source to make a neutron source, and bombarded
the thorium. This induced a chain of reactions, the final products of
which were fissionable uranium and plutonium.
True Enough, ID did have a Key system, and it was cracked within a few weeks. Allowed someone to install every ID game up to quake on their machine for free.
I just wanted to briefly thank Jon Katz for all of the hard work he's done on this story. Millions of kids across the nation know the pain of being abused by their peers and thanks to Jon and Slashdot, this message is finally getting out.
For those of you in High School, be careful but vocal. Don't let other students trample over your rights. Physical and mental abuse is something that shouldn't be tolerated in any environment, espically by young people. Hopefully by getting the word out, we can make a change.
United we stand, Divided we fall.
Unfortunately, the keynote isn't going to be broadcast live, as Linus' speech is actually at about 10am today. The web broadcast is delayed.
:(
Unfortunately, I have class at 10:30 today, so I can't go.
>It's truly a pity that Raymond Faulkner's "Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian" doesn't
>seem to have the transliteration of the helicopter glyph.... I don't even know what its
>Gardiner classification number is so I can't typeset it with HieroTeX
In case you're curious, the current theory on those glyphs is that they're accidential. What happened is that a glyph was carved which makes up part of the "helicopter" glyph. Then later in egyptian history, they want to change the glyph to something else, either to change the name or whatever. To do this, they'd plaster in the original glyph and recarve on top of it. However, in the thousands of years since, the plaster has fallen out, thus giving us a glyph made up of two glyphs that are somewhat superimposed on top of each other and look like "helicopters" and the like.
Enjoy!
He's so cute. If I only had a Beowulf Cluster...