Chomsky is a room. A thought is a kind of thing. Color is a kind of value. The colors are red, green and blue. A thought has a color. It is usually Green. A thought can be colorful or colorless. It is usually colorless. An idea is a thought in Chomsky with description "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously." A manner is a kind of thing. Furiously is a manner. Sleeping relates one thought to one manner. The verb to sleep (he sleeps, they sleep, he slept, it is slept, he is sleeping) implies the sleeping relation. Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
nemonullus wrote: > Is anybody but me getting all the ads immediately to the right for > sleep related items? (Not even to mention the one link at the bottom > about India colors.) I am finding this a bit "Snow Crash-esque": > fucking ads that track the words on the page. Feh.
Actually, no, I'm not getting any ads at all, and if my newsreader (Thunderbird, at the moment) started displaying them, I would immediately switch to a different newsreader.
nemonullus <nemonul...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is anybody but me getting all the ads immediately to the right for > sleep related items? (Not even to mention the one link at the bottom > about India colors.) I am finding this a bit "Snow Crash-esque": > fucking ads that track the words on the page. Feh.
Well, context-sensitive ads *are* Google's fundamental business model, after all. Judging by your email address, you would be seeing this kind of context-sensing ad in your inbox as well, so it seems a bit weird that you're surprised by it...
On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, nemonullus wrote: > Is anybody but me getting all the ads immediately to the right for sleep > related items? (Not even to mention the one link at the bottom about > India colors.) I am finding this a bit "Snow Crash-esque": fucking ads > that track the words on the page. Feh.
If you're using Google Groups, what exactly were you expecting? Google ads have always been based on keywords in whatever you're viewing.
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> Well, context-sensitive ads *are* Google's fundamental business model, > after all. Judging by your email address, you would be seeing this kind of > context-sensing ad in your inbox as well, so it seems a bit weird that you're > surprised by it...
> -dan
Yeah - clearly I am slow. I don't use Google much (barely ever) for anything other than reading this newsgroup. I got the email (which I never use) only to join the group. I couldn't be bothered to add a newsreader. To be perfectly honest, I don't seem to have any ads in my inbox (perhaps because I have no mail - and never have) in my inbox. And I never noticed the context-sensitivity here until this post. Like I said, I appear to be slow.
> Chomsky is a room. > A thought is a kind of thing. > Color is a kind of value. > The colors are red, green and blue. > A thought has a color. It is usually Green. > A thought can be colorful or colorless. It is usually colorless. > An idea is a thought in Chomsky with description "Colorless green ideas > sleep furiously." > A manner is a kind of thing. > Furiously is a manner. > Sleeping relates one thought to one manner. > The verb to sleep (he sleeps, they sleep, he slept, it is slept, he is > sleeping) implies the sleeping relation. > Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
Jim Aikin wrote: > Brilliant! Definitely an I7 poem. (But would it compile?)
It compiles. It just doesn't do much. In fact, it's more or less equivalent to this:
Chomsky is a room. An idea is a thing in Chomsky with description "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously." Sleeping relates one thing to another. The verb to sleep (he sleeps, they sleep, he slept, it is slept, he is sleeping) implies the sleeping relation. Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
Jim Aikin wrote: > Brilliant! Definitely an I7 poem. (But would it compile?)
When I read that line I immediately thought of the poem "The last bug" and felt like writing something myself. Taking inspiration, like so many others, also from Poe's "The raven" (and GLS's "The HACTRN"), I produced this, which I call "The troll":
"Brilliant! I'm happy!", he said with a smile The beauty was startling, but would it compile? Passers-by gathered in anticipation To witness the fruits of his fabled creation Cold pizza and probable inebriation He hadn't slept now for a while He hunched further down in the chair by his station To type the awaited command line with style For a moment did the cursor stall Then "Syntax error", that was all
Uncertain wispers filled the air What might the error be and where? Nought to gain by speculating He began investigating Some his stubbornness berating A murmur rose around his chair His frantic typing escalating As he was left to his repair Settling in that night to trawl For an error, surely small
They found him still working hard next day He snarled at them to go away Week followed week and he got a bit scary His body grew thin and his face became hairy Soon he was branded a mad solitary They shrugged and let him have his way For years if you asked them what happened to Gary "Gary who? The troll?" they'd say Then one day he proudly emerged in the hall And turned to stone, and that was all
Adjusting wrote: > Chomsky is a room. > A thought is a kind of thing. > Color is a kind of value. > The colors are red, green and blue. > A thought has a color. It is usually Green. > A thought can be colorful or colorless. It is usually colorless. > An idea is a thought in Chomsky with description "Colorless green ideas > sleep furiously." > A manner is a kind of thing. > Furiously is a manner. > Sleeping relates one thought to one manner. > The verb to sleep (he sleeps, they sleep, he slept, it is slept, he is > sleeping) implies the sleeping relation. > Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
Beautiful. Simply beautiful.
You know, this very strongly makes me want to see The Gostak reimplemented in I7. The source code could be as much fun as the game!
