Re: [spoon-discuss] Junk

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday, December 28, 2003, at 10:26 PM, Zarpint Jeremy Cook wrote:

> On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, Baron von Skippy wrote:
> > -The who? I'm not trying to construct a big plot here (although I'd 
> > like to see Prose Props come back), I'm just saying that we had these 
> > specific locations on the Old Grid, and maybe a few survived in one 
> > form or another. I'll also take this opportunity to respond to anyone 
> > in favor of 11-dimensional space and 32 bots apiece by asking a 
> > simple question, namely "Are you off your bloody rocker?" But that's 
> > not wholly fair - tell you what, if someone can show me a simple way 
> > to draw a 2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2 
> > superduperultramegauberhyperhyperhypercube on a 2-dimensional web 
> > page, I'll be all for this idea...-
>
> Yes, of course I am off of my bloody rocker. What kind of Nomic player
> would be ON eir bloody rocker?

In an emergency, I might get on my bloody rocker. During times of 
peace, though, I try to only be on my raspberry-jam-covered rocker.

> And congratulations--that's the best name for an 11-dim cube I've 
> heard of.

I wanted to call it Bob.

> But if you really want a simple way to put it on a web page, just use 
> two
> 32x32 grids, with red lines every two, blue ones every four, green 
> every eight,
> and purple halfway down the middle. No one said it's easy to 
> visualize, but
> I think that's the best way of presenting the data in a human-readable 
> form.

I think 'human-readable' means we have to be able to understand it, not 
just read it.

> Are you all for it? <wink>

I find nothing more enjoyable than spending a few hours trying to 
deduce the state of the game from a flattened eleven-dimensional grid. 
Except, of course, for NOT spending a few hours trying to deduce the 
state of the game from a flattened eleven-dimensional grid.

--
Wonko

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