Knowing .NET

There are 600,426,974,379,824,381,952 ways to spell "viagra" using standard spammer substitution techniques. So I thought: "Wow, what a great example for explaining closures in C# 2.0!" but then I realized that some creep would probably use the code to, y'know, generate 600 quintillion emails in an elegant manner.

So now I'm just thinking "The Viagra Closure" sounds like a Star Trek episode:

Kirk: Six hundred quintillion, four hundred twenty-six quadrillion?

Spock: Six hundred quintillion, four hundred twenty-six quadrillion, nine hundred seventy-four trillion, three hundred seventy-nine billion, eight hundred twenty-four million, three hundred eighty-one thousand, nine hundred and fifty-two, to be precise.

Scotty: Thet could make every inbox on th' Federation gang aft agley!

McCoy: No one can delete that many emails! They're human beings, not robots!

Kirk: We have no choice but to destroy this society-killing technology. Lock photon torpedoes on relay stations of Spamtonia IV.

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Barracude 160GB SATA drive discounted to $99 at CompUSA. I post this because it's the first time that I've seen a SATA drive used as a come-on. Okay, a couple of these and I'll finally get my New Guinea video going...

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I was wrong: you can watch Windows Media video at higher-than-normal speed (1.4x) (thanks Jonathan!). The pitch isn't shifted down, but it's perfectly comprehensible. So I d/l'ed a couple Channel 9 videos, more to judge the general premise of videoblogging than to react to the content in particular. Here's what I noticed:

• A video link is a slow link
• The video clips seem to generally to be more than a minute in length, while blog entries are often read in 20-30 seconds. (I write long blog entries, but that's because I think with my fingers and don't edit them.)

The slow link characteristic and the pithy item desire seem to be in contrast. A 5-second delay is one thing with a 2-minute clip, but a 5-second delay for a 20-second snippet seems untenable.

Hmm... still, maybe I'll wire up my Webcam and try videoblogging. On the other hand, I'd have to shave...

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