"What's that interest mean?" meme
Friday, 21 January 2005 13:46![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pne- Scan my interest list and pick out the one that seems the most odd to you.
- I'll explain it.
- Then you post this in your journal so other people can ask you about your interests.
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Date: Friday, 21 January 2005 13:17 (UTC)Natural Born Speeseburger
Date: Friday, 21 January 2005 14:36 (UTC)They're a band that some of my friends are in: the local bishop plays drums, his wife plays bass guitar, another friend plays guitar, and I think his brother-in-law sings (they had a hard time finding someone who'd do the vocals; the rest of the group has been together for quite a while).
"Spießbürger" is German for... someone who's "square", I guess. The word is pronounced roughly like "Speeseburger" would be in English.
I doubt anyone outside of southern Hamburg has ever heard of the group :)
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Date: Friday, 21 January 2005 13:41 (UTC)no subject
Date: Friday, 21 January 2005 14:36 (UTC)(btw: it's "hiragana" with an 'a' as the second vowel.)
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Date: Friday, 21 January 2005 14:03 (UTC)Alyson Hannigan
Date: Friday, 21 January 2005 14:59 (UTC)I know her from Buffy, where Willow is probably my favourite character. (And I was introduced to Buffy through London.pm—London Perl Mongers—, where it was a popular topic of discussion at the time, and whether Buffy or Willow was "best" was an occasional topic of disagreement.)
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Date: Friday, 21 January 2005 15:14 (UTC)no subject
Date: Saturday, 22 January 2005 11:27 (UTC)no subject
Date: Saturday, 22 January 2005 16:37 (UTC)It's a code that
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Date: Friday, 21 January 2005 15:31 (UTC)Niue
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Re: Niue
Date: Friday, 21 January 2005 17:04 (UTC)Re: Niue
Date: Saturday, 22 January 2005 00:20 (UTC)Re: Niue
Date: Saturday, 22 January 2005 00:29 (UTC)Is that Khitan in your icon?
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Date: Saturday, 22 January 2005 00:55 (UTC)Re: Niue
Date: Saturday, 22 January 2005 00:56 (UTC)no subject
Date: Friday, 21 January 2005 19:30 (UTC)Klein bottles!
I see an Asaro comm is interested, which makes me even more curious since I've read a couple of her books but don't remember any mention of klein bottles. Although the term sounds vaguely familiar...
Klein bottle
Date: Saturday, 22 January 2005 08:02 (UTC)Lessee. Do you know what a Möbius strip (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%F6bius_strip) is? Take a longish (much longer than wide) rectangular strip of paper and bring its ends together; then twist one end 180° (a half-turn) and glue the two ends together. The resulting strip has only one side, even though the original paper strip had two sides! (Try colouring one side of the Möbius strip, for example.) Also, cutting the Möbius strip down the middle doesn't cause it to fall apart.
A Klein bottle is kind of the same thing in 3D. Only, just like you need three dimensions to make a 2D Möbius strip, you really need four dimensions to see a proper Klein bottle, but you can see approximations -- see, for example, this site (http://www.kleinbottle.com/), which sells "immersions" of Klein bottles into 3D space, out of glass. Klein bottles have no inside or outside.
See also the Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein_bottle) or the Mathworld article (http://mathworld.wolfram.com/KleinBottle.html), though both are extremely mathy.
Re: Klein bottle
Date: Monday, 24 January 2005 19:09 (UTC)Hmm, I remember reading some fantasy novel where they trapped a genie in one -- perhaps that's why it seemed familiar. It's an interesting concept, anyway, as with all the crazy semi-imaginary non-Euclidean theoretical stuff math can come up with.
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Date: Saturday, 22 January 2005 00:22 (UTC)vi, vim, asm
Date: Saturday, 22 January 2005 08:08 (UTC)There are factions of vi users vs. emacs users; I happen to be a vi user, but probably more because it's what I first learned at work when I was introduced to Unix machines, so I never bothered learning emacs.
You can do quite a lot with vi, but its command syntax is a bit... cryptic.
vim (http://www.vim.org/) (Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vim_(text_editor))) is short for "vi improved" and is basically vi on steroids. It's intended to be over 99% compatible with vi, so all the well-known commands still work, but it adds a graphical user interface with menus and (on some platforms) a toolbar, as well as many more commands such as "folding" away portions of text you don't want to see right now, interaction with compilers (so you can, for example, tell a compiler to compile the current source file, then jump to any errors the compiler outputs afterwards), multiple-level undo and redo, syntax highlighting, and many more. See the Wikipedia article or the vim home page.
I use vim even on PCs, since I've kind of got used to it, though most of my co-workers use TextPad or MS Developer Studio to edit code.
"asm", finally, is short for "assembler" or "assembly language"; I assume you know what that is, otherwise ask.
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Date: Saturday, 22 January 2005 03:13 (UTC)ItsYourTurn
Date: Saturday, 22 January 2005 08:13 (UTC)I used to play there quite a bit, usually for ten to fifteen minutes during my lunch break, but then stopped. I moved to BrainKing (http://brainking.com/) instead, where one of my regular opponents had invited me; one of the things I like there is the "BKR" (BrainKing Rating), which assigns you a score based on how many games of a certain type you've won or lost and the scores of your opponents (kind of like ELO ratings in chess).
If you want to play me, I'm "PNE" on IYT and "pne" on BrainKing. (Though I'm hardly ever on IYT these days—but I might come back sometime.)
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Date: Saturday, 22 January 2005 11:28 (UTC)Which I also note is hyperlinked and therefore an interest shared by someone else. If I click it, however, I get a list containing just one user.
Flaidish
Date: Saturday, 22 January 2005 16:35 (UTC)If only one user appears on the search yet the interest is linked, I'm guessing that there's at least one more user who lists/listed that interest but who's suspended or who deleted their account, since such accounts don't appear on the list.
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Date: Saturday, 22 January 2005 23:48 (UTC)no subject
Date: Monday, 24 January 2005 01:31 (UTC)no subject
Date: Monday, 24 January 2005 01:36 (UTC)toH. qatlh "goats" DawIvta'?
Goats
Date: Monday, 24 January 2005 05:59 (UTC)no subject
Date: Monday, 24 January 2005 13:59 (UTC)Wummel-Knuffel
Date: Monday, 24 January 2005 15:08 (UTC)drawn by