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Very interesting article about Australian aboriginal weather wisdom. According to this, they know about the 11 year sunspot cycle, and a longer 10,000 year cycle they call “ice and fire”. They also shun our weak 4 season system and instead go for 6 seasons: “Murrai’yunggoray”, “Goraymurra”, “Gadalung marool”, “Banamurrai’yung”, “Tugarah’tuli”, and “Tugarah’gunyamarra”.
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In preparation for my exam tonight, I finally replaced the batteries in my old trusty HP 48G. But in doing so I had to clear the memory, so I lost that totally cool tetris game. It had greyscale graphics, even though the display is only black and white. It strobed the pixels at different rates to make shades of grey. I remember originally loading the game back in college: I found it on the web, downloaded it to my VAX account, then used ZMODEM over serial link to transfer that to my Amiga 1200, and finally transferred it to the calculator by a bodged up RS232 cable.
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And finally, tomorrow’s my 29th birthday. Or 30th, if you count the first. And I think W has a special birthday surprise for me.