Re: signal-width+magic

... ok ... I know a lot of people are really puzzled by this post. (As evidenced by the moderators moving it around, trying to figure out where it goes, or considering deletion (!?) because they don't get it.

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Well I don't either. But I'm not willing to delete something that isn't outrightly offensive, slanderous, or inaccurate simply because i don't understand it.

My best guess is that this is related to 'runes' - those (what some might call 'new-age-y') sets of chits used for divination, etc.. Analogs would include Tarot Cards & the I Ching.

But there's certainly a lot more going on there...

Cider, am I even close? This is cryptic, but I wouldn't call it obfuscated.

Wait! This isn't a Parachute, this is a Backpack!

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Re^2: signal-width+magic by kutsu (Priest) on Aug 04, 2005 at 21:16 UTC
He's listing the Elder Futhark runes (with Latin Characters) and their corresponding Anglo-Saxon Futhorc runes. For example, H in Elder Futhark was halgalaz and in Anglo-Saxon it became ᚻ (haegl), both usually symbolizing hail, or A in Elder Futhark corresponds to ansuz which was changed to correspond to o in A-S Futhorc as ᚩ (os), symbolizing god. I don't know where the other meanings come from, though I would guess from the "magic" in the title it has to do with that, and can think of much better ways to assign new "meanings" to Latin characters. See omniglot for more information "Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum - I think that I think, therefore I think that I am." Ambrose Bierce	[reply]
Re^2: signal-width+magic by Anonymous Monk on Aug 04, 2005 at 17:44 UTC
I'm not entirely sure it does anything but test for the existance of a file and test to see if the file is a directory. There's talk of eating, spoons, etc. But I'm not actually seeing it do anything. Perhaps its art on some level. To me, it's schizophrenic.	[reply]