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Comment: "Couldn't imagine what it could be" (Score 1) 218

by KingOfTheMoon (#33739626) Attached to: Las Vegas Hotel Vdara an Accidental Death Ray

So here's this lawyer burning up, rubbing his head and shifting every which way, watching his newspaper melting, and saying that he "couldn't imagine what it could be." How about the huge building that looks like the eye of freakin' Sauron? Oh wait:

"At the bar, he explained..."

Indeed, lol.

Comment: Re:Virtual Tour (Score 1) 122

by KingOfTheMoon (#33155740) Attached to: NSA and the National Cryptologic Museum

The Virtual Tour background image is a flag with three stars in the blue, and what looks like morse in six stripes. Hmm.

dah dit dah dit dit dah
dit dah dit dah dah dit
dah dah dit dah dah
dah dah dit dah dit dit
dah dah dah dah dah
dit dit dit dah dit dah dit

Sorry, I don't know how to get around the "junk charachter" filter with regular morse symbols.

Comment: Re:TeX (Score 1) 701

by KingOfTheMoon (#32748314) Attached to: Knuth Plans 'Earthshaking Announcement' Wednesday

Yeah, I find that interesting. People take Bible passages out of context to try and support their beliefs all the time; athiests and preachers alike. In this case, the athiest says ZOMG!! I KNO MATHS THE BIBBLE SUXOR LOLOLOLZ!!

If you do 30/pi and round to the unit, it's fine. If you read a little further the thickness is given and could account for the missing circumference quite well. If you're a numerologist, the passage is 1 Kings 7:23 and (23-1)/7 ~ 3.14. Or if you're a 2700-year old brass-casting jew, maybe it just makes sense.

Or maybe the author was just trying to say it was a big frickin' bowl and not trying to give a math lesson.

So much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens. -- William Carlos Williams, "The Red Wheel Barrow"

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