I know what they're trying to say, but who ended up winning that race?
Ban Anagrams
1 commentsJust kidding. I don't want to ban anagrams, but I'd like to see a "Bananagram". You know, a message written on a banana or something.
It turns out that "ban anagrams" is an anagram of "bananagrams". A really weak one, yeah, but still an anagram, and that is what I want to talk about today: Anagrams (not bananagrams).
A few weeks back I got wondering if there were anagrams for my name. That led to looking up other names, anything that came to mind. Having just read the news, a lot of names came from the headlines. Here's a summary of what I found:
Daniel A Palmer = A Plain Emerald, A Remedial Plan, A Marlin Leaped
Senator Harry Reid = Ornate Hairdryers
Kate Gosselin = Lankiest Egos, Seeking Altos, Got Leakiness, or my favorite: Goat Likeness
Nancy Pelosi = Soy Pinnacle, Clips Anyone, Nosy Pelican, and Epic As Nylon
Joe Biden = I Need Job
Sarah Palin = A Sharp Nail
Governor Sarah Palin = Agrarian Shovel Porn, Granola Vapor Shiner
Vegetarian = Irate Vegan, Ate Vinegar, I Avenge Art, and Eat in Grave
British Petroleum = Oh, Trump Liberties, Trout Belie Shrimp
Rocky Mountain Power = Outworn Porky Iceman, Know Your Importance, Manpower Unity Crook, I Am No Rocky Power Nut
President Obama = Impersonate Bad, A Baptism Redone, Entombs a Diaper, Arabised Top Men, Pie Store Badman, Men Abroad Spite, Morbid Satan Pee, and my favorite: A Dope Tribesman
It turns out that "ban anagrams" is an anagram of "bananagrams". A really weak one, yeah, but still an anagram, and that is what I want to talk about today: Anagrams (not bananagrams).
A few weeks back I got wondering if there were anagrams for my name. That led to looking up other names, anything that came to mind. Having just read the news, a lot of names came from the headlines. Here's a summary of what I found:
Daniel A Palmer = A Plain Emerald, A Remedial Plan, A Marlin Leaped
Senator Harry Reid = Ornate Hairdryers
Kate Gosselin = Lankiest Egos, Seeking Altos, Got Leakiness, or my favorite: Goat Likeness
Nancy Pelosi = Soy Pinnacle, Clips Anyone, Nosy Pelican, and Epic As Nylon
Joe Biden = I Need Job
Sarah Palin = A Sharp Nail
Governor Sarah Palin = Agrarian Shovel Porn, Granola Vapor Shiner
Vegetarian = Irate Vegan, Ate Vinegar, I Avenge Art, and Eat in Grave
British Petroleum = Oh, Trump Liberties, Trout Belie Shrimp
Rocky Mountain Power = Outworn Porky Iceman, Know Your Importance, Manpower Unity Crook, I Am No Rocky Power Nut
President Obama = Impersonate Bad, A Baptism Redone, Entombs a Diaper, Arabised Top Men, Pie Store Badman, Men Abroad Spite, Morbid Satan Pee, and my favorite: A Dope Tribesman
It's a Mystery
2 commentsSo it's been a really long time since I posted anything. There has been a lot going on lately, but very little of it has been "blog-worthy". This may not be, either, but I'm okay with that.
One of the many projects I've been working on the last few weeks is a way to encrypt text (or any data, really) inside a computer image. I got the idea from news coverage of those Russian spies, and figured if a bunch of Russian spies could figure out how to do it, I could too. It turns out I was right.
The following two images look the same. The only difference is that one of them contains the entire text of "The Hound of the Baskervilles" encrypted inside it. If you were to load the image into my encryption application it would pull out all 326,000 characters and allow you to read the book.
Amazingly, the text takes up no space in the image, nor does it change the appearance in any appreciable way. If you zoom in on each image and go from one to the next, you'll see tiny changes in a few of the pixels, but you can't tell the difference in the pictures at their normal resolution.
Anyway, I'm excited about it, and I'm looking for ways to use it in a productive manner. There are probably only 2 or 3 people reading this that understand what I've done, and maybe only one of those that cares, but at least it's a new post, right?
One of the many projects I've been working on the last few weeks is a way to encrypt text (or any data, really) inside a computer image. I got the idea from news coverage of those Russian spies, and figured if a bunch of Russian spies could figure out how to do it, I could too. It turns out I was right.
The following two images look the same. The only difference is that one of them contains the entire text of "The Hound of the Baskervilles" encrypted inside it. If you were to load the image into my encryption application it would pull out all 326,000 characters and allow you to read the book.
Amazingly, the text takes up no space in the image, nor does it change the appearance in any appreciable way. If you zoom in on each image and go from one to the next, you'll see tiny changes in a few of the pixels, but you can't tell the difference in the pictures at their normal resolution.
Anyway, I'm excited about it, and I'm looking for ways to use it in a productive manner. There are probably only 2 or 3 people reading this that understand what I've done, and maybe only one of those that cares, but at least it's a new post, right?
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