00:00:58 * quintopia steals some wibbledy-wobbledy chickens from boily 00:01:14 `? the usual suspects 00:01:16 There are 3.99 usual suspects in #esoteric, but they're usually rounded up. 00:01:51 shachaf: but who are they? you, oerjan, and ... who? 00:02:07 I never claimed to be among the usual suspects. 00:02:14 but you obviously are 00:02:21 -!- Phantom_Hoover has quit (Ping timeout: 276 seconds). 00:02:26 That depends on who's doing the suspecting. 00:02:42 * boily reverse-roundhose thwacks shachaf for calibration purposes 00:02:46 anyone would suspect you if the crime is punning 00:03:45 as they say you say "a good pun is its own risk" 00:04:00 What do they say about fun puns? 00:04:10 `? funpuns 00:04:11 funpuns fceø fbz fryyrev naq pbfcynlf Arcrgn Yrvwba ba jrrxraqf. Ur ungrf oryy crccref jvgu n cnffvba. Gur havg bs sha chaarel vf anzrq nsgre uvz. 00:04:22 `? shachaf 00:04:23 shachaf sprø som selleri and cosplays Nepeta Leijon on weekends. He hates bell peppers with a passion. The unit of fun punnery is named after him. 00:04:26 i think hppavilion[1] is also usually suspicious. 00:04:35 hppavilion[1] is also frightened. 00:04:36 oerjan: I DID NOTHING 00:04:51 hppavilion[1]: I KNEW IT 00:05:09 quintopia: I DID NOTHING WHEN DOING SOMETHING WOULD HAVE SAVED MILLIONS OF LIVES 00:05:10 boily: can you thwack hppavilion[1] for his failure to accomplish anything 00:05:12 hppavilion[1]: i didn't say i had proof 00:05:15 quintopia: Punning is a crime? 00:05:30 i just have 0.9 proof. 00:05:39 LIKE, LITERALLY ANYTHING 00:05:53 IT ACTUALLY TOOK MORE EFFORT NOT TO DO SOMETHING THAN TO DO IT, IF I'M BEING HONEST 00:05:55 * boily capitally swings his mapole at hppavilion[1] 00:05:58 My object all sublime, / I shall achieve in time -- / To let the punning fit the crime, / The punning fit the crime 00:06:25 OF COURSE, IS "DOING NOTHING" JUST DOING THE THING THAT TAKES THE LEAST EFFORT, THEREFOR MEANING THAT THE PREVIOUS STATEMENT IS INVALID? I DON'T KNOW, FRANK. I DON'T KNOW. 00:06:26 shachaf: well, no, but it does sometimes require apology: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/apr/08/punning-police-say-sorry-egg-theft-appeal-lancashire 00:06:36 oerjan: Is that 45% ABV? 00:07:13 oerjan: i have 60 proof. want some? 00:07:29 Oh, right, I guess it's 0.45% ABV. 00:07:46 shachaf: is that a quote? 00:07:55 Which? 00:07:59 your poem 00:08:06 pretty close to one 00:08:11 It's from the Mikado. 00:08:14 http://themargins.net/anth/19thc/gilbert.html 00:08:15 ah. 00:08:28 therefore a racist quote 00:09:03 Is it? 00:11:50 shachaf: have you read that: https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/2786lw/wp_in_a_world_where_puns_are_illegal_one_man 00:14:36 -!- Moon_ has quit (Ping timeout: 250 seconds). 00:16:48 i've read that the mikado is not racist hth 00:17:00 quintopia: seems unremarkable to me hth 00:17:23 shachaf: as are all old reddit posts, yes 00:17:41 also that a japanese crown prince once was disappointed that it wasn't playing when he visited london, because they were afraid he'd be insulted. 00:18:41 oerjan; i read that it is racist hth 00:18:47 admittedly that was just now in this channel 00:18:56 shocking 00:19:54 as much as i like the mikado, i find it hard not to find it belittling of a culture. dressing white people up like they're japanese is hardly different from blackface is it? 00:23:34 -!- adu has joined. 00:24:00 -!- Koen__ has quit (Quit: Leaving...). 00:26:31 quintopia, well, like, there's some very significant context with blackface 00:27:08 you don't think european colonialism is significant context? 00:29:55 in... japan? 00:34:12 it's been a while since i've seen the play, but i get the sense the attitude of the british characters toward the "Japanese" characters was much like their attitude toward all those in nations they colonized 00:34:48 even the character names seem somewhat belittling 00:38:38 at what point in your history of the world do the british colonise japan 00:39:27 at what point in your history of this channel do i claim the british colonise japan 00:41:14 quintopia: are you confusing with madama butterfly, or something 00:42:42 i don't think i've ever seen madama butterfly. 00:42:50 is it good? 00:42:58 i dunno. i've seen neither :P 00:43:12 but afaiu there _are_ no british characters in the mikado. 00:45:12 I saw Madama Butterfly at the opera. it's one of the best. 00:45:46 oerjan: clearly it's been too long since i saw it 00:46:07 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f1k14GQmNE 00:46:35 anyone know how to set the spellcheck for OO writer to british spelling? 00:46:45 `~. 00:46:57 /home/hackbot/hackbot.hg/multibot_cmds/lib/limits: line 5: exec: ~.: not found 00:48:25 i guess the names are belittling though. btw i don't think "titipu" is a possible japanese word, is it? 00:49:51 nor is peep-bo? 00:51:44 i think the premise is that it's a satire of british culture disguised as a very lazy charicature of japan 00:54:21 it definitely is that 00:55:07 *caricature 01:00:44 -!- fungot has quit (Ping timeout: 250 seconds). 01:02:56 FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU 01:03:02 NGOT. 01:04:41 fizzie: IEUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAÅAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! 01:10:03 * oerjan thinks solving this Towers puzzle was a little too backtracky. 01:18:01 <\oren\> I liked Madame Butterfly when I saw it at the four seasons. 01:18:59 <\oren\> My vocal music teacher got us cheap tickets and insisted that every guy who went wear a tux. 01:19:24 `` type more 01:19:27 more is /bin/more 01:19:32 <\oren\> I went to like 10 operas in high school. 01:19:36 Our interwebs went down for a moment there. 01:20:06 -!- fungot has joined. 01:21:26 fungot: o hai. 01:21:27 boily: by the way, what's srfi? i seem to have 01:21:32 . o O ( wearing a penguin suit sounds a bit harsh ) 01:21:35 fungot: you seem to do. 01:21:35 boily: " he's ordering a weak martini, and the 01:21:46 fungot: bartender refuses to give it? 01:21:47 boily: oh yea that makes much more sense, polish or perl..." 01:22:02 . o O ( a polish martini? with a gherkin floating in it? ) 01:22:44 polish or perish 01:24:06 * boily weakly thwacks oerjan in stereo, with deliberate movements and closeups [intentional] [unintelligible whispering] [scratching] [brush] [2:42] 01:25:31 * oerjan has a feeling he doesn't get some reference 01:26:19 * oerjan wonders if he should follow /r/outoftheloop 01:26:49 I'm watching ASMR videos. it's relaxing ^^ 01:30:47 `mkx bin/spore//echo 1 > /hackenv/tmp/spline; cat > /hackenv/tmp/spout; lines="$(wc -l /hackenv/tmp/spout)" | awk '{print $1}'; echo "$lines lines" 01:30:55 bin/spore 01:30:57 `mkx bin/spam//line="$(cat /hackenv/tmp/spline)"; sed -n "${line}p" /hackenv/tmp/spout; echo "$((line+1))" > /hackenv/tmp/spline 01:31:04 bin/spam 01:31:22 `` cat quotes | spore 01:31:25 lines 01:31:31 oops 01:31:43 `spam 01:31:44 `spam 01:31:44 `spam 01:31:46 EgoBot just opened a chat session with me to say "bork bork bork" 01:31:58 Hmmm... My fingers and tongue seem to be as quick as ever, but my lips have definitely weakened... More practice is in order. 01:31:58 that's where I got it rocket launch facility gift shop 01:32:39 oh, uh, right 01:32:56 `mkx bin/spore//echo 1 > /hackenv/tmp/spline; cat > /hackenv/tmp/spout; lines="$(wc -l /hackenv/tmp/spout | awk '{print $1}')"; echo "$lines lines" 01:33:00 bin/spore 01:33:13 `` quote oerjan | spore 01:33:16 72 lines 01:33:17 `spam 01:33:18 `spam 01:33:18 6) what, you mean that wasn't your real name? Gosh, I guess it is. I never realized that. 01:33:19 `spam 01:33:19 14) oerjan: are you a man, if there weren't evil in this kingdom to you! you shall find bekkler! executing program. please let me go... put me out! he's really a tricycle! pass him! 01:33:20 17) In an alternate universe, ehird has taste 01:37:19 `spam 01:37:20 18) IN AN ALTERNATE UNIVERSE: In an alternate universe, I would say "In an alternate universe, ehird has taste" 01:37:35 `spam 01:37:36 22) PA ET ANNET UNIVERSET DER DE ENESTE PERSONEN OERJAN: sa jeg kan bare konkludere med at det er feil, eller er verden helt bonkers 01:37:51 `mkx bin/spore//echo 1 > /hackenv/tmp/spline; cat "${1-/dev/stdin}" > /hackenv/tmp/spout; lines="$(wc -l /hackenv/tmp/spout | awk '{print $1}')"; echo "$lines lines" 01:37:55 bin/spore 01:38:03 oerjan: bonkers? 01:40:39 `cat bin/rainbow 01:40:41 #!/usr/bin/env python \ import random \ import re \ w=raw_input() \ p=list('x'*len(w)+'C'*int((341-len(w))/3+1)) \ random.shuffle(p) \ p=list(re.sub('C+','C',''.join(p))) \ i=(c for c in w) \ print ''.join(i.next() if c=='x' else chr(3)+'%02d' % random.randrange(2,15) for c in ['C']+p) 01:40:46 `spore bin/rainbow 01:40:47 9 lines 01:40:48 `spam 01:40:49 `spam 01:41:04 #!/usr/bin/env python 01:41:04 import random 01:41:11 `spam 01:41:12 `spam 01:41:13 `spam 01:41:13 `spam 01:41:14 `spam 01:41:17 `spam 01:41:19 `spam 01:41:48 Hmm, maybe this thing is a little too spammy. 01:42:15 No output. 01:42:21 w=raw_input() 01:42:21 w=raw_input() 01:42:22 p=list('x'*len(w)+'C'*int((341-len(w))/3+1)) 01:42:22 w=raw_input() 01:42:24 random.shuffle(p) 01:42:25 random.shuffle(p) 01:42:48 i see no problems here 01:43:30 spam prints random lines from a spored thing? 01:43:54 It prints them in order, in principle. 01:44:10 `spore bin/wisdom 01:44:11 1 lines 01:44:21 fizzie didn't like \ newlines, I believe. 01:44:28 ah 01:44:32 So this is for fizzie, who probably likes spam much more. 01:44:59 Hmm. 01:46:46 `mkx bin/spam//line="$(cat /hackenv/tmp/spline)"; len="$(wc -l /hackenv/tmp/spout | awk '{print $1}')"; echo -n "$line/$len:"; sed -n "${line}p" /hackenv/tmp/spout; echo "$((line+1))" > /hackenv/tmp/spline 01:46:50 bin/spam 01:46:52 `spam 01:46:52 1/1:F="$(find wisdom -name "*$(echo "$1" | lowercase)*" -type f | shuf -n1)"; echo -n "${F#wisdom/}//" | rnooodl; cat "$F" | rnooodl 01:47:07 `` shuf quotes | spore 01:47:09 1280 lines 01:47:10 `spam 01:47:11 1/1280:* Phantom_Hoover wonders where the size of the compiled Linux kernel comes from. To comply with the GFDL, there's a copy of Wikipedia in there. 01:47:14 `spam 01:47:16 2/1280: Usually I'd use Rankine, but the fucking weather doesn't support it. 01:47:43 `mkx bin/spore//echo 1 > /hackenv/tmp/spline; cat "${1-/dev/stdin}" > /hackenv/tmp/spout; spam 01:47:45 bin/spore 01:47:50 `` shuf quotes | spore 01:47:52 1/1280: i had a dream just now where i was in a gymnasium and they had fire alarm pull stations but they also had a similarly shaped "call/cc alarm" which I think you were supposed to pull if you found a way to write call/cc (it was expected that people in this gymnasium would be doing a lot of programming in total dependently-typed languages) 01:47:54 `spam 01:47:55 2/1280: jesus, yes.. he was human and that is fantastic more than beeing able to speak with fish.. like seaman does 01:48:06 `spam 01:48:07 3/1280: oerjan: if the answer is no then it might as well be yes 01:48:51 There you go, one line saved. 01:50:35 Two lines. 01:51:55 `culprits bin/bin/bin 01:51:59 hppavilion[1] 01:52:03 `` rm -r bin/bin 01:52:06 No output. 01:52:10 `before 01:52:11 Wait, what does bin/bin/bin do again? 01:52:13 bin/bin/bin//echo *sigh* 01:52:25 Ah, yes 01:52:27 :( 01:52:30 Why'd you delete it? 01:52:35 Why was it there? 01:52:46 oerjan: bonkers? <-- i think google translate probably failed at that point. 01:52:50 `bin 01:52:50 /home/hackbot/hackbot.hg/multibot_cmds/lib/limits: line 5: exec: bin: cannot execute: Is a directory 01:52:51 shachaf: To criticize people who make that stupid joke the same way I probably would 01:52:58 `gin 01:52:59 /home/hackbot/hackbot.hg/multibot_cmds/lib/limits: line 5: exec: gin: not found 01:53:03 boily: it's all rather broken norwegian. 01:53:09 shachaf: you didn't delete it 01:53:12 `min 01:53:13 /home/hackbot/hackbot.hg/multibot_cmds/lib/limits: line 5: exec: min: not found 01:53:16 `tin 01:53:17 /home/hackbot/hackbot.hg/multibot_cmds/lib/limits: line 5: exec: tin: not found 01:53:17 `bin/bin/bin/bin/bin/echo hello, world 01:53:18 /home/hackbot/hackbot.hg/multibot_cmds/lib/limits: line 5: /hackenv/bin/bin/bin/bin/bin/echo: No such file or directory 01:53:21 oerjan: ah, like broken French :D 01:53:22 hmm 01:53:34 I dunno 01:53:36 this is seriously messing up my terminal tdnh 01:53:39 (although i doubt GT is responsible for the missing accents...) 01:53:53 shachaf: What is messing up your terminal? 01:53:57 this 01:54:07 shachaf: "this"? 01:54:11 yes 01:54:14 Hmm, maybe this thing is a little too spammy. <-- you think? 01:54:25 `spam 01:54:27 4/1280:* Phantom_Hoover wonders where the size of the compiled Linux kernel comes from. To comply with the GFDL, there's a copy of Wikipedia in there. 01:54:30 That's awesome 01:54:34 oerjan: whoa whoa whoa, that was the testing phase 01:54:40 Obviously it's going to be spammy during testing. 01:54:51 i see no problems here <-- heh, genuine race conditions 01:55:05 oerjan: What, like the Mikado? 01:55:28 oerjan: Anyway if people are going to be doing tail -n +n etc. they might as well spore it. 01:55:56 `spam 01:55:57 5/1280: shachaf: wait, _you_ are in northumberland? No. whew we don't have room for more esolangers there. oerjan: Wait, *you* are in Northumberland? no Whew. We don't have room for more esolangers there. 01:56:07 We just need a command to merge a bunch of lines together HackEgo-style and wrap at the IRC line length limit. 01:58:58 `spam 01:58:59 6/1280: it's raining in newcastle, therefore the elliotts are distinct. boily's Newcastle Theorem. 01:59:13 I like that `spam tool :D 01:59:56 actually bonkers is probably used a bit in norwegian. 02:00:37 oerjan: What was the line length limit again? 02:00:42 I think you computed it once. 02:01:29 `spore bin/paste 02:01:30 1/12:#!/bin/bash 02:01:34 `spam 02:01:35 2/12:if [ "$1" ] && url "$1" 2>/dev/null # Save making a file when it already exists. 02:01:36 `spam 02:01:37 3/12:then 02:01:40 Oh, right. 02:01:46 `spam 02:01:47 4/12: true 02:01:50 `` type -a paste 02:01:51 paste is /hackenv/bin/paste \ paste is /usr/bin/paste 02:02:03 come on 02:02:05 -!- boily has quit (Quit: RIDGE CHICKEN). 02:02:09 `culprits bin/paste 02:02:25 tswett tswett oerjan oerjan elliott ais523 ais523 oerjan oerjan oerjan oerjan shachaf shachaf elliott elliott nitia 02:03:48 oerjan: Anyway if people are going to be doing tail -n +n etc. they might as well spore it. <-- ideally you'd merge into 350 byte chunks hth 02:04:05 oerjan: i already said that hth 02:04:59 Is 350 the number? 02:05:36 shachaf: i think i just answered your question before getting to it in backscroll hth 02:05:38 `` cat bin/paste | /usr/bin/paste -s -d␤ 02:05:39 â#!/bin/bashâif [ "$1" ] && url "$1" 2>/dev/null # Save making a file when it already exists.then¤ trueâelse PASTENUM="$RANDOM"¤â mkdir -p $HACKENV/paste¤ url paste/paste."$PASTENUM"â cat -- "${1--}" > $HACKENV/paste/paste."$PASTENUM"fi 02:05:46 HackEgo: tdnh 02:07:11 `` cat bin/paste | tr '\n' '␤' 02:07:12 â#!/bin/bashâif [ "$1" ] && url "$1" 2>/dev/null # Save making a file when it already exists.âthenâ trueâelseâ PASTENUM="$RANDOM"ââ mkdir -p $HACKENV/pasteââ url paste/paste."$PASTENUM"â cat -- "${1--}" > $HACKENV/paste/paste."$PASTENUM"âfiâ 02:07:19 HackEgo: you are not helping 02:08:19 `url bin/paste 02:08:21 http://codu.org/projects/hackbot/fshg/index.cgi/file/tip/bin/paste 02:08:24 [wiki] [[Truth-machine]] https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?diff=47107&oldid=46694 * 172.249.47.98 * (-18) Golfier! 02:08:25 hth 02:08:46 oerjan: I'm trying to replace newlines in order to create the 350-byte chunks. 02:08:50 Hope that helps. 02:09:27 [wiki] [[Truth-machine]] https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?diff=47108&oldid=47107 * 172.249.47.98 * (+13) /* brainfuck */ 02:09:56 [wiki] [[Truth-machine]] https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?diff=47109&oldid=47108 * 172.249.47.98 * (+11) /* brainfuck */ 02:10:10 oerjan: By the way, I wonder whether rnooodl goes wrong with certain 4-byte UTF-8 characters that have the same continuation byte repeated three times. 02:10:16 [wiki] [[Truth-machine]] https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?diff=47110&oldid=47109 * 172.249.47.98 * (-13) /* brainfuck */ 02:11:44 shachaf: thausible. restrict it to ascii? 02:12:08 Well, there's no particularly good ASCII character for it. 02:12:22 the rnooodl. 02:12:29 And both of the commands I use replace newlines with a character, rather than a string. 02:12:32 Oh, that. 02:12:42 shachaf: why not just leave it as newline 02:12:48 I don't even know if it's processing characters or bytes. 02:12:52 oerjan: Then how will spam work? 02:12:59 Oh, I see. 02:13:04 oh hm 02:13:07 You're suggesting that spam should never work line-at-a-time. 02:13:35 i wasn't actually getting that point until now, but yeah, it might not. 02:13:37 I was thinking there'd be a separate command that turns a newlined string into a string with 350-byte lines containing newline replacements. 02:14:00 -!- jaboja has quit (Remote host closed the connection). 02:14:33 Well, I guess I'll leave it in your capable hands. 02:14:43 you could just use " \ ", that's what HackEgo does anyway 02:14:54 i have no intention to code this. 02:15:01 OK, but And both of the commands I use replace newlines with a character, rather than a string. 02:15:09 come on, it's just a bit of bash 02:15:12 no real code 02:15:52 it's not like exploiting type system bugs 02:16:27 whatev 02:16:35 `? whatev 02:16:37 whatev? ¯\(°_o)/¯ 02:17:54 -!- Phantom__Hoover has quit (Read error: Connection reset by peer). 02:20:29 Um... Christianity? Are you sure you can really math? <-- what's the problem with that? 02:20:46 oh boy 02:21:09 referring to "The last limit arises from the fact that the crucifixion was considered to have happened on the fourteenth (the eve of the Passover) and the resurrection therefore on the sixteenth." 02:23:07 (i'm just wondering where hppavilion[1] thinks the math error is) 02:23:39 -!- adu has quit (Quit: adu). 02:23:42 oerjan: Is 350 the total length actually printable by HackEgo? 02:24:19 shachaf: if it's ascii. someone said it's actually different if there are other unicode characters. 02:24:25 (but not smaller) 02:24:38 (in bytes) 02:25:03 Right, I mean byets. 02:25:06 bytes 02:25:07 octets 02:25:43 that is, it's 350 chars but if that's larger than 350 bytes it might get cut off at the actual irc limit. 02:26:02 OK, I'll construct this in /msg, I guess. 02:26:09 or well, probably codepoints. 02:26:46 Hmm, or maybe... 02:27:28 `` echo $'#!/usr/bin/env python\nimport sys\nN=330\nname = sys.argv[1] if len(sys.argv) > 1 else "/dev/stdin"\nwith open(name, "r") as f:\n data = f.read().replace("\\n", " \\\\ ")\nfor i in range(0, len(data), N):\n print data[i:i+N]\n' > bin/distort; chmod +x bin/distort 02:27:41 No output. 02:27:54 `` distort quotes | spore 02:27:57 1/475: EgoBot just opened a chat session with me to say "bork bork bork" \ Hmmmmmmmm... My fingers and tongue seem to be as quick as ever, but my lips have definitely weakened... More practice is in order. \ that's where I got it rocket launch facility gift shop \ GKenne 02:28:03 `spam 02:28:04 2/475:thR: he should be told that you should always ask someone before killing them. \ His body should be given to science. He's alive :P Even so. \ what, you mean that wasn't your real name? Gosh, I guess it is. I never realized that. \ TODO: sex life \ 02:29:03 `mkx bin/sport//distort "${1:-/dev/stdin}" | spore 02:29:07 bin/sport 02:29:28 `` shuf quotes | sport 02:29:32 1/475: There's that saying that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. [...] You've just gave me a different result [...] It's always insane to expect different results, even when it's likely to occur. \ Thanks to nooga for constructive criticism 02:29:35 `spam 02:29:36 2/475:, his ideas and being a constant annoyance. --http://theendisnear.no-ip.info/ \ who is guido van rossum you could say he's a man who grew a beard but acquired none of the associated good properties \ Just goes to show, the Beatles are more interesting than green vegetables. \ both of you, 02:29:41 -!- adu has joined. 02:29:58 `sport bin/distort 02:29:59 1/1:#!/usr/bin/env python \ import sys \ N=330 \ name = sys.argv[1] if len(sys.argv) > 1 else "/dev/stdin" \ with open(name, "r") as f: \ data = f.read().replace("\n", " \\ ") \ for i in range(0, len(data), N): \ print data[i:i+N] \ \ 02:30:25 Oops, double newline. 02:30:34 `` echo -n $'#!/usr/bin/env python\nimport sys\nN=330\nname = sys.argv[1] if len(sys.argv) > 1 else "/dev/stdin"\nwith open(name, "r") as f:\n data = f.read().replace("\\n", " \\\\ ")\nfor i in range(0, len(data), N):\n print data[i:i+N]\n' > bin/distort; chmod +x bin/distort 02:30:37 No output. 02:30:38 `sport bin/distort 02:30:40 1/1:#!/usr/bin/env python \ import sys \ N=330 \ name = sys.argv[1] if len(sys.argv) > 1 else "/dev/stdin" \ with open(name, "r") as f: \ data = f.read().replace("\n", " \\ ") \ for i in range(0, len(data), N): \ print data[i:i+N] \ 02:30:49 why do you put 330 instead of 350 02:31:18 I wanted to allow for 12345/20000: 02:31:24 And then I subtracted a few more just in case. 02:31:26 OKAY 02:31:28 Feel free to jam it up. 02:31:42 In fact I'd appreciate it if you did jam it up to the right value. 02:32:00 `sled bin/distort//s range xrange 02:32:04 bin/distort//#!/usr/bin/env python \ import sys \ N=330 \ name = sys.argv[1] if len(sys.argv) > 1 else "/dev/stdin" \ with open(name, "r") as f: \ data = f.read().replace("\n", " \\ ") \ for i in xrange(0, len(data), N): \ print data[i:i+N] 02:32:38 incidentally that numbering scheme does not work very well with quotes which have their own numbers... 02:32:54 `` allquotes | sport 02:32:57 1/495:1) EgoBot just opened a chat session with me to say "bork bork bork" \ 2) Hmmmmmmmm... My fingers and tongue seem to be as quick as ever, but my lips have definitely weakened... More practice is in order. \ 3) that's where I got it rocket launch facility gift shop \ 4) `` allquotes | shuf | sport 02:33:04 1/495:154) How much do mainframes cost these days? I mean, they're obsoleteish, right? My notebook's much more powerful? So surely, they're cheap? \ 346) I'm not even going to try and understand what you're proposing. i understand it perfectly. it's completely nuts. \ 1229) i guess norway just isn 02:33:06 `spam 02:33:08 2/495:'t cold \ 1235) `addquote boily: thanks for getting quoted saying django btw, now I'm only in 87.5% of the django quotes [...] ah, the inevitable result of mentioning django \ 1030) beautiful summer / massacres in qusayr / sent from my iphone \ 1036) this new apartment stuff has int 02:33:12 `spam 02:33:13 3/495:eresting side effects: i'm now getting physical spam. \ 325)