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18:51:23 <lament> I'm reading cryptonomicon!
18:51:30 <lament> One of the main characters plays Bach.
18:51:35 <Taaus> Go go go!
18:52:52 <Taaus> I ordered a bunch of Scheme books a couple of days ago. Little Schemer, Seasoned Schemer and SICP.
18:53:02 <lament> Go go go!
18:54:36 <lament> Will you read them?
18:54:46 <Taaus> Most likely.
18:55:00 <Taaus> Will I understand them? Buggered if I know...
18:55:31 <lament> You don't have to buy SICP to find out whether you can understand it.
18:55:49 <Taaus> True. 
18:55:58 <lament> There's an exact copy on the internet.
18:56:22 <Taaus> I know.
18:56:29 <lament> (is 1 an exact copy of 1?)
18:56:53 <Taaus> But I really don't like reading books on my computer. I prefer dead-tree versions :)
18:56:59 <Taaus> There is only one one.
18:57:10 <lament> there're two just in that sentence alone.
18:57:42 <Taaus> Too true.
18:58:00 <lament> Oh, I wrote a haiku:
18:58:04 <lament> ---
18:58:09 <lament> Five syllables.
18:58:12 <lament> Seven syllables.
18:58:16 <lament> Five syllables.
18:58:18 <lament> Three lines.
18:58:19 <lament> ---
18:58:41 <Taaus> Ehm.
18:58:48 <lament> what!
18:58:55 <Taaus> Not sticking with the regular haiku-form, then?
18:59:01 <lament> But I am.
18:59:06 <lament> The first line has five syllables.
18:59:14 <lament> The second has seven, the third again five.
18:59:21 <lament> And the poem has three lines.
18:59:44 <Taaus> Uh? Pray tell how does Seven give you two more syllables than Five?
18:59:57 <lament> it doesn't.
19:00:03 <lament> But the second line does have seven syllables.
19:00:13 <lament> in fact it _is_ seven syllables.
19:00:20 <Taaus> No... It has "Seven syllables"... It doesn't have seven syllables.
19:00:20 <lament> With a capital S.
19:00:27 <Taaus> There's a reason we use quotes...
19:00:40 <lament> !
19:00:46 <Taaus> Are you sure you haven't read GEB? :P
19:00:55 <lament> I will have to unquote them, then.
19:01:01 <lament> ,Five syllables
19:01:04 <lament> etc :)
19:01:18 <Taaus> :D
19:01:30 <lament> No, I haven't read GEB.
19:01:42 <lament> I started reading it.
19:01:53 <lament> Then I stopped.
19:02:05 <Taaus> Start again, heathen.
19:02:10 <lament> I don't really like it.
19:02:32 <lament> I would like it a lot had I read it a year ago.
19:02:41 <Taaus> It grows on you. Like fungus.
19:07:54 <lament> Not really.
19:07:58 <lament> It's black and white.
19:10:25 <Taaus> Fungus can be black and white.
19:11:50 <lament> Not the kind that grows on me.
19:12:07 <Taaus> Ah, okay.
19:12:38 <Taaus> I'm slowly moving into hardware esotericity.
19:13:15 <lament> real hardware?
19:13:19 <Taaus> Yes.
19:13:29 <lament> neat.
19:13:46 <lament> hardware scares me.
19:13:54 <Taaus> Me too. 
19:14:02 <lament> playing with it requires so much stuff i have 0 experience with.
19:14:10 <lament> Like soldering iron!
19:14:29 <lament> And hammering nails.
19:14:31 <Taaus> Soldering irons aren't that bad... You quickly figure out what _not_ to do.
19:15:34 <lament> Make a SKI processor.
19:16:00 <Taaus> Hmm... Interesting idea.
19:16:25 <Taaus> I was planning on doing something along the lines of a mixture (read: bastard child) of Forth and Scheme.
19:16:35 <lament> sounds like something i heard of.
19:16:47 <Taaus> It's probably been done before, yeah.
19:17:11 <lament> not in hardware.
19:17:16 <Taaus> http://www.hh.se/stud/d99tibr/chatboard.jpg <--- First I'll try to get one of these working with my GP32, though :)
19:29:59 <lament> On one hand, hardware is certainly cool.
19:30:59 <lament> On the other, why bother, when everything can be done in software with much less trouble and a greater potential user/worshipper base?
19:32:31 <Taaus> Well.. That Chatboard mod has a useful application... The GP32 only has an 8-way directional pad and six buttons.. It's hell to use a text editor on it.
19:33:27 <Taaus> Say... pyn is back now... Why are you on the freenode channel? ;)
19:34:05 <lament> oh, it is?
19:34:09 <lament> i didn't notice it.
19:34:14 <Taaus> Yes. exarkun is back too :)
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