E-Flat

Yesterday on Discovery Channel:

Most regular toilets flush in the key of e-flat.

Well, add this to the list of things I am not sure I needed to know.

Still, I am wondering if that means from now on I should set my tuner aside and just tune my trumpet after the toilet? Of course I’d need to call the plumber about once a year when the whole thing is out of tune ;)

Yeah, me and my silly mind. I know.

(The picture above CC by-nc-sa licensed by hll!H on flickr)

July 2nd, 2008

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Famous Songs in Code (What’s Your Guess?)

Inspired by Philipp Lenssen’s fabulous idea to express idioms in code, I came up—just for fun—with the following 10 well-known song titles, written in horrible C/Java/PHP pseudocode.

Have fun… and take a guess in the comments!

// Song 1:
it = b

// Song 2:
for (i=0; i<people.count(); i++)
  people[i].attributes |= (shiny | happy);

// Song 3:
function get(want) {
  if (random.bool() == true)
    return want;
  else
    return null;
}

// Song 4:
//function leave() {
//  return new Color(0,0,0);
//}
// Oh, I think I screwed this one up, so here it goes:
// Version 2.0 of Song 4: ;-)
function leave(me) {
  me.setColor(0,0,0);
  return me;
}

// Song 5:
who = fire.getStarter();
assert(who != us);

// Song 6:
function cry(person) {
  return (person.gender == female);
}

// Song 7:
person = king.getWife();
person.dance();

// Song 8:
life = me.getLife();
life.setSunshine(you);

// Song 9:
person = USGovernmentEmployees.getRandom();
while (person.boss != null)
  person = person.boss;
person.writeLetter();

// Song 10:
train = trains.getLine(A);
you.take(train);

Update: I fixed Song 4 and 9 because they made way too little sense. Oops ;)

February 24th, 2008

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