From cowan@mercury.ccil.org Fri Oct 10 17:06:42 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 10 Oct 2003 17:06:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mercury.ccil.org ([192.190.237.100]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 1A87HG-0006PT-SN; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 17:06:34 -0700 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A87HG-0007ai-00; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 20:06:34 -0400 Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 20:06:34 -0400 To: robin Cc: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Gone 1 1/2 years... Message-ID: <20031011000634.GA28956@mercury.ccil.org> References: <3F874050.4050203@bilkent.edu.tr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F874050.4050203@bilkent.edu.tr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i From: John Cowan X-archive-position: 6414 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: cowan@mercury.ccil.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list robin scripsit: > Hex is currently in vogue because we think binary computers are cool, > but there is nothing to make it inherently superior. As a kid, I was a > big fan of octal. As a programmer on the PDP-8 and PDP-11 computers, octal was what we used. -- Knowledge studies others / Wisdom is self-known; John Cowan Muscle masters brothers / Self-mastery is bone; jcowan@reutershealth.com Content need never borrow / Ambition wanders blind; www.ccil.org/~cowan Vitality cleaves to the marrow / Leaving death behind. --Tao 33 (Bynner)