tags/memezack's home pagehttp://upsilon.cc/~zack/tags/meme/zack's home pageikiwiki2009-11-28T12:00:16Zi had a dreamhttp://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2007/05/i_had_a_dream/2009-11-28T12:00:16Z2007-05-03T18:53:20Z
<h1>I'm Going to Play Some Number at the Lotto</h1>
<p>The <a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotto">Lotto Game</a>
is a really popular gambling game in Italy, run by the state
itself. As in all good gambling game: you, the player, <em>can</em>
win a lot of money while who is running the game (the Italian state
in our case) <em>will</em> win a lot of money for sure, no matter
what.</p>
<p>Anyhow, to the facts, it's a well-known folklore that people win
playing Lotto FOR SURE by playing numbers told while dreaming by
parents, friends, kitties, whatever, ... As a scientist, I've no
reason not to trust this folklore, why should I?</p>
<p>As a strange coincidence (another fact that strongly hints I
HAVE TO PLAY), this night I had a dream (well, it was more this
morning while reading the <a href=
"http://planet.debian.org">planet</a>, but it doesn't really
matter..., folklore is folklore!). There were <a href=
"http://www.hogyros.de/?q=node/262">a</a> <a href=
"http://mjr.towers.org.uk/blog/2007/badtech#hddvdstupidity">lot</a>,
<a href=
"http://err.no/personal/blog/tech/2007-05-02-13-57_lucky.html">really</a>
<a href=
"http://blog.halon.org.uk/2007/05/02#hd-dvd-key-button">a</a>
<a href=
"http://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2007-05-03-00-52_dear_helpdesk.html">
lot</a> <a href=
"http://www.lupin.org.uk/blog/computing/badwolf.html">of</a>
<a href=
"http://blog.drinsama.de/erich/en/web/2007050301-magic-numbers.html">
people</a> <a href=
"http://sam.zoy.org/blog/2007-05-03-obligatory-r">whispering</a>
<a href="http://kartikmistry.org/blog/?p=318">this</a> to my
ears:</p>
<pre><code>09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
</code></pre>
<p>well, ok, they aren't in decimal notation, and they aren't even
comprised between 1 and 90, ... but what would you expect from a
bunch of geeks??? They are probably trying to exploit some overflow
in the hands of the <a href=
"http://www.repubblica.it/2005/f/sezioni/cronaca/lotto/lotto/stor_6351760_35110.jpg">
lotto extractor</a> or something like that...</p>
<p>But I won't desist, I'll play those number!</p>
<p>Open questions:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>on which wheel(s) should I play the numbers?</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>how should I handle overflowed numbers? throw them away? modulo
89 operations + 1?</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>any proficient Lotto player to answer them around?</p>
meme esr factshttp://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2007/02/meme_esr_facts/2009-11-28T12:00:16Z2007-02-27T09:08:22Z
<h1>Meme: Vote your favorite ESR Fact</h1>
<p><strong>ObPlanet</strong>: you avoid loosing time reading all
<a href="http://geekz.co.uk/esrfacts/">ESR Facts</a>, the Planet
chooses the best for you (of course if you don't trust the Planet
you're back at having to read all of them, YMMV).</p>
<p>My favorite <a href="http://geekz.co.uk/esrfacts/">ESR Fact</a>
is: <em><a href="http://geekz.co.uk/esrfacts/fact/91">ESR once
wrote a CML2 patch that was accepted into Linux. Just
kidding.</a></em></p>