Interesting looking terminal emulation for cygwin
Igor Peshansky
pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu
Tue Aug 14 15:37:00 GMT 2007
On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Gareth Pearce wrote:
> Igor Peshansky wrote:
> > TITTTLing...
> >
> > Gareth Pearce wrote:
> >
> > > [snip]
> >
> > Hi, Gareth, welcome back...
> >
> > > <tilps dot kilm at gmail dot com>
> >
> > Hmm, shouldn't this be "tilps.klim"? Or even "klim.tilps"?
> > Well, no use crying over it, I guess... :-)
> > Igor
>
> Well spotted, although you only fixed the drink not the mess.
>
> Both il's were reversed deliberately for a better sounding result. And
> simply reversing was boring. The fact that its also the same as
> reversing while holding the common characters still is a nice
> coincidence.
Hmm. I was sure "tilps" was not misspelled -- i.e., "no use crying over
split milk" is a reasonably common phrase, with quite a few Google hits.
It may indeed be a misspelling of "spilt milk", however...
Igor
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