March 15, 2004

• U8ldx.
• Now that's abtruse. I'll keep it in mind the next time I need to memorize the decimal expansion of e to 1,000 places. The history of these encoding schemes, as described here, is interesting. I think he's got it all backwards, however. Rather than come up with ways to map numbers to mnemonic words, we should be G
• D'accord. Tout
• pouic? Was bedeutet das? You just blew a hole in the hull of my primary school jambon-et-pamplemousse-rose French. We're bailin' as hard as we can, Cap'n, but she's takin' on water mighty fast....