Thursday, July 26, 2007

The letter (A or B) denotes the isogeny class, and the number is the ordinal number of the curve in its isogeny class

The following was the text, word for word, of an email I received several weeks ago. Its subject line is the title above. Presumably it was junk. Still I find it rather beautiful, if inert.

Galad is free to do as he will. What were then the alternatives
before the, premeditatedly (respectively) and inadvertently, keyless couple.

I never quite refused to enter the capsule -- but I certainly learned
about the shakes. In other words, while the factorial is defined only
for non-negative integers, the Gamma function is defined for any
complex number z as long as z is not a negative integer.

The Secret Sayings of Jesus. This test checks the host's interface --
to the 802.

Smart Cards and their Operating Systems (186kb). So is Evelyn Waugh.

This procedure is very extreme and should only be used by advanced
users as the last try before re-installing Windows. This applies
particularly to the fundamental principle of the sanctification of life.
This application shows you most of the features of XPM and its source
can be used to quickly see how to use the provided functions. Unix
and BeOS versions only.

I used static MFC library in the DLL. BorderSize bestimmt, wie dick
der Tabellenrahmen sein soll.

With a heavy thunk the blade buried itself in the door. This test
checks the host's interface -- to the 802.

Although a head taller and fifty pounds heavier, Sturm still felt
like a callow youth beside her. Retrieves a object corresponding to a
specified property with specified search constraints.

Es war nicht zum Aushalten. This applies to names used inside
quotation marks or stored inside variables.

I felt around on the floor beside me, but I couldn't find a torch.

Smart Highlighting can greatly improve the extraction when the object
and background have similar colors or have textures.

His confidence had been destroyed in an instant. The old man waved
his hand.

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Wednesday, July 18, 2007

this will blow abbot + costello out of the water

Nathan: I'm looking for timmy

Lars: You didn't hear?

Nathan: No why?

SHAKING HEAD

Lars: well.

Nathan: Where is he?

Lars: Well.

PAUSE

Nathan: what is it?

Lars: Well.

Nathan: You don't know where he is?

Lars: Yes of course.

Nathan: Then where's timmy?

Lars: well.

PAUSE

Nathan: well?

Lars: yes.

PAUSE

Nathan: what?

Lars: I said yes.

Nathan: I say where's timmy now?

Lars: Well.

Nathan: Well?

Lars: You got it.

PAUSE

Nathan: What are you waiting for?

Lars: Waiting for what?

Nathan: Are you going to tell me?

Lars: Where's timmy?

Nathan: Yes.

Lars: Well.

PAUSE

Nathan: Well?

Lars: Yes.

Nathan: I don't understand.

Lars: Well well well.

Nathan: Don't make fun of me.

Lars: I'm not. That's all I can say.

Nathan: Why the big secret?

Lars: It's not a secret the whole town knows.

Nathan: Then why didn't I hear?

Lars: I don't know.

Nathan: Where is he though?

Lars: Well!

PAUSE

Nathan: Well?

Lars: It's a long story.

Nathan: Then get on with it.

Lars: I don't know all the details.

Nathan: Then what have you heard?

Lars: Well.

Nathan: Go on.

Lars: No really.

Nathan: really what?

Lars: well.

Nathan: WHERE IS TIMMY?

Lars: WELL!

Nathan: This is so strange.

Lars: Rare, yes.

Nathan: I'm asking you where timmy is.

Lars: Right. Well.

Nathan: Do you even know where timmy is?

Lars: I've told you so.

Nathan: Then where?

Lars: Well.

Nathan: This is hopeless.

Lars: I don't think so.

Nathan: But what can I do?

Lars: Go get a rope or something.

Nathan: To hang you or hang me?

Lars: No for timmy dummy.

Nathan: Why where is he?

Lars: Well.

Nathan: Have you spoken to him?

Lars: Yes

Nathan: is he okay?

Lars: not really.

Nathan: why not?

SHRUGGING

Lars: I mean. Well.

SHAKING HEAD

Nathan. Mmm well…

Lars: You know what I mean.

PAUSE

Nathan: Is he dead? That's what you're trying to say?

Lars: No no! I didn't say medium!

Nathan: What?

Lars: Well Well! That's all there is to it.

Nathan: Oh well forget it. How are you.

Lars: not well…

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Tuesday, July 10, 2007

black keys

under review: "Black Snake Moan"

On first thought:

"i think i slept through half of black snake

"it seemed to be a mostly political statement about how america is fucked, soldiers are pussies, guitars are like penises of virtue, black people can save the day but there are different kind of black people. also, women should be chained up."

On second thought:

"human sexuality in the movie is reduced to strange angers and mysterious spells. aside from the political allegories in it the main motif was sorcery, spells and evil, which can be trumped by good will. and while some of that evil comes from within the characters, it represents as something more like possession than conflicted humanity. thus you have guilt without responsibility, evil without consequence. morality becomes something to enrage humans, or give them sorrow or redemption, just as much as magic. morality's source is unknown, but the thing itself is an object rather than a force, and can be manipulated. ethics, or the world's own will, god's real preferences, which can be understood but not chosen by us, not willed, in other words truth, seems ignored. i suppose truth too can be object, insofar as it is held and communicated by humans, but this is to conflate a certain kind of truth with truth as such. fate turns out to be nothing other than the way things happen, and has none of the correspondence of history. past and future have nothing to say to one another, the connection is cut. the most interesting element in the movie (the four elements being sex, evil, will, and fear) is fear, and is touched regretfully only through justin timberlake's enlisted soldier, at the bookends of the film, when he on the day before reporting to training pukes in the toilet, and later, after he has disgraced himself by quitting the army, crowded by giant trucks on the highway as he and his redeemed whore lady (the soldier and the whore is a longstanding storytelling tradition) drive from here to eternity, he pulls onto the shoulder and sobs into the steering wheel."

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