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18:51:23 <lament> I'm reading cryptonomicon! 
18:51:30 <lament> One of the main characters plays Bach. 
18:52:52 <Taaus> I ordered a bunch of Scheme books a couple of days ago. Little Schemer, Seasoned Schemer and SICP. 
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. 
18:55:58 <lament> There's an exact copy on the internet. 
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. 
18:58:55 <Taaus> Not sticking with the regular haiku-form, then? 
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? 
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. 
19:00:27 <Taaus> There's a reason we use quotes... 
19:00:46 <Taaus> Are you sure you haven't read GEB? :P 
19:00:55 <lament> I will have to unquote them, then. 
19:01:30 <lament> No, I haven't read GEB. 
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. 
19:10:25 <Taaus> Fungus can be black and white. 
19:11:50 <lament> Not the kind that grows on me. 
19:12:38 <Taaus> I'm slowly moving into hardware esotericity. 
19:14:02 <lament> playing with it requires so much stuff i have 0 experience with. 
19:14:31 <Taaus> Soldering irons aren't that bad... You quickly figure out what _not_ to do. 
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. 
19:17:16 <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? ;) 
19:34:14 <Taaus> Yes. exarkun is back too :) 
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