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Our latest project involves breaking our professor's code. Which, at first blush, seems easy enough; the source is a very simple program that doesn't do a whole heck of a lot. The trick is when he compiles it. He and his (presumably home-gown) assembler are playing some kind of a trick. I don't know what, but I know he is; I can tell by the way his code behaves or rather, more specifically, how it doesn't misbehave. Once I figure that trick out, his code will be mine. Oh yes, it will be mine.

Gizoogle

Ok. Wow. There are so many things wrong with This search engine parody. It made me laugh. especially when my cousins John, who pointed it out to me, suggested I should loop up 'Sir Isaac Newton.' It came up with this page, from 'Wikipizzle.'

So painful I laugh.

Miracle Fruit

A very interesting Article about a fruit that, for a few hours, changes and enhances the tastes of ordinary foods. Unfortunately, it's banned by the FDA solely, as the blog reports it, because Big Sugar doesn't want a new kid on the block. I'm not sure that's true, but in the absence of any other explanation it's at least plausible.

Vector: circuit_four

"A"x104 . "\x7b"

Whoo hoo! I did it! I got the project done! I knew it would be easy once I figured out his trick! It was an interesting one, too, in particular because it was his trick (or, more precisely, the odd way it was implemented) that got my feet off the ground! I imagine that that's a way it could have been done to prevent me from doing what I did, but that'd ruin the exercise. Oh man, I feel great!

Maybe tomorrow I'll work on that packetcrafter one again, the one I never actually finished.