[gentoo-user] Re: Rail Model font for coders

[gentoo-user] Re: Rail Model font for coders

[Nuno J. Silva]

Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de> writes:

> On 01/20/2011 11:14 AM,
> hare_krsna_hare_krsna_krsna_krsna_hare_hare_hare_rama_hare_rama_rama_rama_hare_hare@lavabit.com

I am against hard limits on username lengths, but I think that
uuencoding the result of gzipping that address yelds a more readable
address.

> wrote:
>> There is a font for coders called Rail Model, please include it with Linux
>> distributions:
>>
>> http://code.google.com/p/railmodel/downloads/detail?name=RailModelFont.zip&can=2&q=
>
> If this is a joke, I don't get it :-P  I was curious about what this
> font is about, and its description is:
>
> "Rail Model Font is a Pro Bono (for the public good) Hare Krishna
> Ritvik Universal Religion Project for spiritual / philosophical
> reasons and thus any full or part technical or non-technical
> opensource resources and licenses used of Local Religion
> (e.g. Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Jainism) organisations
> and individuals and/or commercial organisation and individuals and/or
> other non-profit organisations and individuals, they are considered
> donations to His Divine Grace A C Bhaktivedanata Swami Prabhupada,
> Founder Acharya & Permanent Sole Initiator of the Hare Krishna
> Movement the permanent person, not the estate, state, representative/s
> or representative organisation/s etc."
>
> Wait, what... huh?

I think the expression you're looking for is "non sequitur".

-- 
Nuno J. Silva
gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Rail Model font for coders

[Michael Orlitzky]

On 01/20/11 17:08, Nuno J. Silva wrote:
> Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de> writes:
> 
>> On 01/20/2011 11:14 AM,
>> hare_krsna_hare_krsna_krsna_krsna_hare_hare_hare_rama_hare_rama_rama_rama_hare_hare@lavabit.com
> 
> I am against hard limits on username lengths, but I think that
> uuencoding the result of gzipping that address yelds a more readable
> address.

Fun fact (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5321#section-4.5.3.1.1):

  4.5.3.1.1.  Local-part

     The maximum total length of a user name or other local-part is 64
     octets.

[gentoo-user] Re: Rail Model font for coders

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 01/21/2011 12:08 AM, Nuno J. Silva wrote:
> Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@arcor.de>  writes:
>
>> On 01/20/2011 11:14 AM,
>> hare_krsna_hare_krsna_krsna_krsna_hare_hare_hare_rama_hare_rama_rama_rama_hare_hare@lavabit.com
>
> I am against hard limits on username lengths, but I think that
> uuencoding the result of gzipping that address yelds a more readable
> address.

I think the OP should keep the username.  In addition, he/she should 
switch to this email service:

http://www.abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com

I'm planning on getting one. Lots of fun :-P

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Rail Model font for coders

[Dale]

Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 01/21/2011 12:08 AM, Nuno J. Silva wrote:
>> Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@arcor.de>  writes:
>>
>>> On 01/20/2011 11:14 AM,
>>> hare_krsna_hare_krsna_krsna_krsna_hare_hare_hare_rama_hare_rama_rama_rama_hare_hare@lavabit.com 
>>>
>>
>> I am against hard limits on username lengths, but I think that
>> uuencoding the result of gzipping that address yelds a more readable
>> address.
>
> I think the OP should keep the username.  In addition, he/she should 
> switch to this email service:
>
> http://www.abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com 
>
>
> I'm planning on getting one. Lots of fun :-P
>
>

If you want a really long one, add his user name to this url.

http://llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.co.uk/

There are other long ones of course.  ;-)

Dale

:-)  :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Rail Model font for coders

[hare_krsna_hare_krsna_krsna_krsna_hare_hare_hare_rama_hare_rama_rama_rama_hare_hare]

> I think the expression you're looking for is "non sequitur".


Meeku:  It follows neatly and just because it is out-of-the-box spiritual
philosophy does not mean it's "non sequitur".

[gentoo-user] Re: Rail Model font for coders

[Nuno J. Silva]

Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de> writes:

> On 01/21/2011 12:08 AM, Nuno J. Silva wrote:
>> Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@arcor.de>  writes:
>>
>>> On 01/20/2011 11:14 AM,
>>> hare_krsna_hare_krsna_krsna_krsna_hare_hare_hare_rama_hare_rama_rama_rama_hare_hare@lavabit.com
>>
>> I am against hard limits on username lengths, but I think that
>> uuencoding the result of gzipping that address yelds a more readable
>> address.
>
> I think the OP should keep the username.  In addition, he/she should
> switch to this email service:
>
> http://www.abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com
>
> I'm planning on getting one. Lots of fun :-P

Not that the OP isn't already having this problem, but I wonder how
would I give other people my address "Oh see, njsg at
two-and-a-half-alphabets dot com!"

But now that DNS allows non-ascii, there is a whole new realm
of... clever domain parts. 

-- 
Nuno J. Silva
gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

[gentoo-user] Re: Rail Model font for coders

[Nuno J. Silva]

hare_krsna_hare_krsna_krsna_krsna_hare_hare_hare_rama_hare_rama_rama_rama_hare_hare@lavabit.com
writes:

>> I think the expression you're looking for is "non sequitur".
>
> Meeku:  It follows neatly and just because it is out-of-the-box spiritual
> philosophy does not mean it's "non sequitur".

I just think it goes too far for a description about the font, nothing
specific against philosophy.

-- 
Nuno J. Silva
gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Rail Model font for coders

[hare_krsna_hare_krsna_krsna_krsna_hare_hare_hare_rama_hare_rama_rama_rama_hare_hare]

> I just think it goes too far for a description about the font, nothing
> specific against philosophy.

Meeku:  What tends to happen in font design that certain issues tend to be
closed/buried or muted and thus I wanted to be open about it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Rail Model font for coders

[Stroller]

On 20/1/2011, at 10:08pm, Nuno J. Silva wrote:
> Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de> writes:
> 
>> On 01/20/2011 11:14 AM,
>> hare_krsna_hare_krsna_krsna_krsna_hare_hare_hare_rama_hare_rama_rama_rama_hare_hare@lavabit.com
> 
> I am against hard limits on username lengths, but I think that
> uuencoding the result of gzipping that address yelds a more readable
> address.

Uh, sorry - can you translate, please?

Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Rail Model font for coders

[Alan McKinnon]

Apparently, though unproven, at 02:02 on Sunday 23 January 2011, Stroller did 
opine thusly:

> On 20/1/2011, at 10:08pm, Nuno J. Silva wrote:
> > Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de> writes:
> >> On 01/20/2011 11:14 AM,
> >> hare_krsna_hare_krsna_krsna_krsna_hare_hare_hare_rama_hare_rama_rama_ram
> >> a_hare_hare@lavabit.com
> > 
> > I am against hard limits on username lengths, but I think that
> > uuencoding the result of gzipping that address yelds a more readable
> > address.
> 
> Uh, sorry - can you translate, please?

He's being witty.

Take 
hare_krsna_hare_krsna_krsna_krsna_hare_hare_hare_rama_hare_rama_rama_rama_hare_hare@lavabit.com, 
hard to read and type right?

Now zip it. Try read the zipped version.
Now uuencode the zipped version and try read that.

The joke is that the uuencoded zipped version is still easier to read than the 
original. Which is true enough, as the original address is just bat shit 
insane crazy long.


-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com