From pycyn@aol.com Tue Oct 02 07:28:41 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_4_1); 2 Oct 2001 14:28:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 33181 invoked from network); 2 Oct 2001 14:28:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 2 Oct 2001 14:28:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-d06.mx.aol.com) (205.188.157.38) by mta1 with SMTP; 2 Oct 2001 14:28:35 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-d06.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v31_r1.7.) id r.2d.11dd16fa (9762) for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 10:28:29 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <2d.11dd16fa.28eb290d@aol.com> Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 10:28:29 EDT Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: possible A-F... To: lojban@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_2d.11dd16fa.28eb290d_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows US sub 10535 From: pycyn@aol.com X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 11282 --part1_2d.11dd16fa.28eb290d_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 10/2/2001 8:20:01 AM Central Daylight Time, jjllambias@hotmail.com writes: > Part of the fun of reading pc is that you have to solve the > riddles before you can understand him (also you have to learn > to put up with the put downs, but that's another story). > Uhhh, thanks? I would say that the hard part is that he doesn't use emoticons, on the general principle that "if they don't get a joke, f*k 'em" (stars for antipodean with the weird censor). Yup. I am less sure where this came from. I remember it in a book on cute tricks with pocket calculators -- equations to put in to get it to swear when turned updide down and the like -- and presented there as something everybody knew (i.e., not explained at all). That puts it around the time that pocket calculators became cheap and common -- early 60's again? --part1_2d.11dd16fa.28eb290d_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 10/2/2001 8:20:01 AM Central Daylight Time, jjllambias@hotmail.com writes:


Part of the fun of reading pc is that you have to solve the
riddles before you can understand him (also you have to learn
to put up with the put downs, but that's another story).


Uhhh, thanks?  I would say that the hard part is that he doesn't use emoticons, on the general principle that "if they don't get a joke, f*k 'em" (stars for antipodean with the weird censor).

<What you call random hex numbers are his code for your
segments: 1,2,3 for the horizontal segments, A,B,C,D for
the vertical ones. The number 8 would be 1AB2CD3.
Your hex digits in his code would be: 1AC, A2C, B2C, A2D,
1BD3, 1A2D>

Yup.  I am less sure where this came from.  I remember it in a book on cute tricks with pocket calculators -- equations to put in to get it to swear when turned updide down and the like -- and presented there as something everybody knew (i.e., not explained at all).  That puts it around the time that pocket calculators became cheap and common -- early 60's again?

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