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Self-Referential Signs

This ... this is just hysterical. A self-referential sign over an escalator, warning you not to bump your head on ... it. And that reminded me of another favorite of mine ... the "this-sign-has-sharp-edges" sign. And entirely unrelated, I read an article (Everything you ever wanted to know about C types

Here's One for the SAT's

While driving home from a New Year's party around 1am, and seeing the lines of cops perched at each exit along the interstate, the following came to mind: Black Friday [1] is to Retailers as ________ is to Cops. And of course the answer is New Year's.

Bring out the Gimp

The GIMP is purported by some to be a Photoshop alternative; and it's free (perhaps it's only advantage over Photoshop). Of course, the people who purport this, all have one thing in common: they've never actually used Photoshop. Recently, The GIMP struggled to its

Concoctions of Caliginosity #3

Did you hear that Delta pilots took a voluntary paycut ... again? Maybe all that Delta stock I picked up for eight-five cents a share will be worth something yet. Come on $10!! First, I guess they have to get out of bankruptcy. One step at a time. Also, perhaps you&

Word Verification Reader, Update #3

I finished revamping the bitmap-to-line-segments algorithm to deal with "branching" ... where a horizontal line has multiple "columns" descending below it. A little bit of state-saving and recursion made it all work magically. The algorithm needs a couple tweaks though; nothing major. Next, instead of simply depicting

Christmas Mayhem

I hate shopping. I *really* hate shopping around Christmas. And one of the stores I visited while hating my Christmas shopping, was Tony & Guy Hairdressing. I was there to buy a gift certificate for a cousin of mine. Upon entering their mall location and taking that first, unfortunate breath,

Word Verification Reader, Update #2

I spent most of today consuming far more calories than I ought to have, and only a little bit of time improving the rectangle-ish-area-detection algorithm. What I've got now is the ability to find horizontal lines which start anywhere directly under the base line (where the first base

Word Verification Reader, Update #1

I should be working. But I'm not. This Word Verifier thing is so much more interesting. First, I opened the url for the Word Verifier image on the comments page, and refreshed it until I found a very simple example; and my lucky letters were eiifv. I decided

'Drawing Names' for Christmas, Revisited

Okay, so, Randal had some good things to say (and they're incoporated into the code, below). One bug was pointed out: a state could arise where the last recipient is also the last giver, and that'll make the program go into an infinite loop. However, that

Concoctions of Caliginosity #2

I've been doing some more thinking about Word Verification parsing. And I think it is do-able in a fashion that would not have to amount to a Ph.D. project. The biggest challenge would probably be that of dealing with letters that touch each other. Naughty, naughty letters.

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