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- From: chess@watson.ibm.com (David M. Chess)
- Message-ID: <921110.39283D.chess@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 10:16:26 EST
- Newsgroups: alt.hackers
- Approved: Right-thinking people everywhere
- Subject: re: Words (was: decode)
- Lines: 32
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- >From: 9999sc01@uhdvx3.dt.uh.edu (Alexandre Khalil)
- >
- >>- -- -
- >>David M. Chess \ Femmes aux tetes de fleurs
- >>High Integrity Computing Lab \ retrouvant sur la plage la
- >>IBM Watson Research \ depouille d'un piano a queue
- >
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >Alexandre Khalil D'ou provient cette citation,
- > s'il vous plait ?
-
- It's the title of one of my favorite Salvador Dali paintings; I
- thought it'd make a nice enigmatic .sig! *8) For the
- non-Francophone (non-Francovid?), it means roughly "Women
- with heads of flowers find on the beach the skin of a
- grand piano". (Literally "piano with a tail"; the French
- idiom for a grand.) A very accurate description of the
- scene depicted, in fact!
-
- No hack is ob this time, as I'm answering a question. A small
- OptHack: playing with the TinyMud sources, I made the TEMPLE
- flag meaningful for exits (you get the sacrifice value of the
- exit when you pass through it, as long as you don't own it),
- and enhanced @set to take a numeric value (as in, say,
- "@set archway = 100") so you can give values to exits.
- Someday I'll be done hacking on it (there's a contradition
- in terms for you!), and will let someones actually play in it...
-
- - -- -
- David M. Chess | "Some look at the world as it is, and ask
- High Integrity Computing Lab | 'why?'. I look at the world as it is,
- IBM Watson Research | and say 'Hey, neat hack!'." - J. R. H.
-