Archive for September 28th, 2006


Since it’s come up….

Filed Under: Uncategorized by Lord Andrei — 19 Comments
2006.09.28

Many people have told me how much Aiden and I look alike. I suppose it is genetic that you can’t see your own face in a baby. fiannaharpar has told me that she doesn’t see herself in her daughter either.

ON the other hand… almost EVERYONE will tell you that you are on crack and how much you look like your baby.

Some of you know that I am an amateur genealogist. I dug thru the files and found “a picture”

I have to admit.. for comparison sakes.. yes.. I see a resemblance. But some things to note (IMHO)
1) Aiden’s picture is a mirror
2) I am 18 months to 3 yrs old in the picture (no clue for sure)
3) I tend to think that all babies look fairly similar.

So… clicky clicky beyond the cuttie cuttie (Oh that was just obnoxious)

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To be totally obscure: Tuvan Phone Phreaking

Filed Under: Uncategorized by Lord Andrei — 11 Comments
2006.09.28

Yesterday I propogated the White and Nerdy meme that is now going around.

Today, brandywilliams sent me the original hacker test. This is a 500 question test in a text file from 1989. It is from the original purity test days… It is… EVIL.

It asks such gems as:
Have you ever patched binary code?
…While the program was running?

Then it got on to some that made me smile:
Can you whistle 300 baud?
…1200 baud?

I enjoy these because I used to do this as a kid when I got my first modem.

Then came question 111101: Can you whistle a telephone number?

I chirped up, “No, and I am taking the point, because I know that it’s not possible!”
shimmeringjemmy looked at me. “It’s not possible?”

Tone dialing is created by playing 2 disharmonious notes off of a grid of tones (DTMF). The top row makes one tone the left column makes one tone. Therefore the top left button is sending the tones of the top row and left column combined. You’d have to be able to whistle two separate (disharmonious) notes at the same time which is pretty much impossible.

She looks at me and asks, “What about Tuvan Throat Singing.” I had posted on Tuvan throat singing a little over 2 yrs ago.

I pondered this and wondered if Captain Crunch might have been Tuvan. Well, no.. but it was a musing passing thought.

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