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Marmaduke Bannerworth  
Current mood: coffee. Current music: Benny Goodman - Lonely Moments. Current mood:  okay.Current music: Les Miserables - Do You Hear the People Sing. Current mood:  grumpy.
I just looked at my bank info online to find that my credit card limit has been reduced by 90% without so much as a phone call. After much work punching keypads and talking to machines, being fucked around by Wells Fargo for over an hour and paying $8 for a credit report, I've discovered the following. My credit report has 0 potentially negative items and shows no missed or late payments on anything ever. However my score has gone down and as a result they yanked my card. Why did my score go down? After dealing with the dregs of the planet on the phone, the final answer is that my balance was too high. So lets get this straight. You give me a card with a limit, I never go over that limit and I pay my payments on time and you fuck up my credit score because I'm borrowing an amount you agreed to lend me. What the flaming motherfucking fucking fuck is that? Fuck this bank and fuck this country. You can all kiss my fucking ass. It's no wonder everybody hates you. Current mood:  angry.
One of the best pots I ever won back in the 20/40 game at Brantford, a lifetime ago, saw me call a ridiculous bluff in a legendary sized pot with bottom set on a straightful board with 7 runners only for top set to muck face up, giving me the whole thing on showdown. The bluff came from Joe the roofer and the set of aces was laid down by Troy. I had a set of treys. Current mood:  contemplative.
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Current mood:  bored.
Ever hear of the Voynich manuscript? XKCD had a great take on it today. Reading into it, it sounds like an amazing puzzle which likely has a solution that has daunted brilliant minds for centuries. I propose the creation of a massively multiplayer internet project whereinwhich we cut up all the images and artifacts from the manuscript into individual items for discussion. Experts from around the globe could posit their opinions on the images from all their expertise in the world. Getting specific contexts from the images should be able to yield a lot of cultural clues as to the origins of the document. Of course I'd also like to see a rigorous scientific examination of the vellum on which it was written. Not only should we be able to get a reasonable estimate of its original date from carbon dating the paper and ink, but we should also be able to analyse the DNA from the skin to determine not only the species of the animal, but possibly also its country of origin. With enough cultural clues, we should be able to make educated guesses about the actual language that has been written and if we can do that, then we'll be able to use our contextual information along with the grammatical structure of the underlying linguistic group and make *some* progress on translation. As soon as we have some confirmed translation, it should be hopscotch to arrive at a complete translation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_ma Current mood:  chipper.Current music: Frank Zappa - Muffin Man.  My girlfriend and I on Saturday afternoon Current mood: okay.
Current mood: okay.Current music: Emancipator - With Rainy Eyes. ( sorry - probably too late to do any good - my bad on the cut fail ) Current mood:  sleepy.Current music: Benny Goodman - Blue Skies. |
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