From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <6e62a7dd2e02505f49577da2a35db24e@kw.quanstro.net> Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:33:14 -0400 Message-ID: From: LiteStar numnums To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001636e1f7ac10a7d30489a37e39 Subject: Re: [9fans] utf-8 on 9fans.net/archive Topicbox-Message-UUID: 36572b2c-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --001636e1f7ac10a7d30489a37e39 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 3:00 PM, EBo wrote: > > confused boxes > > emdashes turned into mud > > double conversion? > > > > http://9fans.net/archive/2010/06/187 > > should I read this as poetry or a question? > > EBo -- > > > The haiku is short a syllable on the first line, unless you pronounce it "con-fu-sed", but otherwise, yes. -- And in the "Only Prolog programmers will find this funny" department: Q: How many Prolog programmers does it take to change a lightbulb? A: No. -- Ovid "By cosmic rule, as day yields night, so winter summer, war peace, plenty famine. All things change. Air penetrates the lump of myrrh, until the joining bodies die and rise again in smoke called incense." "Men do not know how that which is drawn in different directions harmonises with itself. The harmonious structure of the world depends upon opposite tension like that of the bow and the lyre." "This universe, which is the same for all, has not been made by any god or man, but it always has been, is, and will be an ever-living fire, kindling itself by regular measures and going out by regular measures" -- Heraclitus --001636e1f7ac10a7d30489a37e39 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 3:00 PM, EBo <ebo@sandien.com> wrote:
> confused boxes
> emdashes turned into mud
> double conversion?
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 http://9fans.net/archive/2010/06/187

should I read this as poetry or a question?

=A0EBo --



The haiku is short a syllable on the first li= ne, unless you pronounce it "con-fu-sed", but otherwise, yes.

--
An= d in the "Only Prolog programmers will find this funny" departmen= t:

Q: How many Prolog programmers does it take to change a lightbulb= ?

A: No.
=A0-- Ovid

=A0 =A0"By cosmic rule, as day yield= s night, so winter summer, war peace, plenty famine. All things change. Air= penetrates the lump of myrrh, until the joining bodies die and rise again = in smoke called incense."

=A0 =A0"Men do not know how that which is drawn in different dire= ctions harmonises with itself. The harmonious structure of the world depend= s upon opposite tension like that of the bow and the lyre."

= =A0 =A0"This universe, which is the same for all, has not been made by= any god or man, but it always has been, is, and will be an ever-living fir= e, kindling itself by regular measures and going out by regular measures&qu= ot;
-- Heraclitus
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