Or Stevittarius A!

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"Isn't that just...bread?"

This is the second message board that I registered on, I did not know what to call myself. Since this site is pro NASA, I choose to incoporate that into my name, and since I am a supporter on NASA, I choose NASA Fan.

Since joining this site, Humphrey has accused me of being a rebel (against his quest to rule the world), so now I usually call myself "Rebel" on many other sites.

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--Niels Bohr, Danish Physicist.

Some have told me that "Chip" implies high tech, electronics or logic, but actually its in honor of my late father who was Chippewa Indian.

On the old BABB several years ago I started as "Gregory."

It´s my first name plain and simple although in my native tongue it is spelled Heðin and pronounced He-jin.

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But what does it mean? Candy means sweet. The lady from Mexico, where I work, calls me Dulce.

After one of only a dozen stars that I can see.

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"If you don't understand it, don't screw with it".

01101001 is largish binary number that is easy for geek friends to remember: hexadecimal 69.

My rare given 3-letter name was taken here, which I run into more and more as the Net grows. I needed a screen name even rarer.

I have the geekish 01101001.com domain (don't bother; nothing there) which will some day host some of my ambigram hobby. It fits. Ambigrams are words or phrases that can be read more than one way; for instance 01101001 upside-down is 10010110, or 69 upside-down is 69. Oddly, too, 10010110 (hexadecimal 96) is the logical 1's complement of 01101001. Also, 01101001 is ASCII "i" and "i" upside down is "!". There's a whole lot of other connections there that are worth a good page of exposition on the subject of ambigrams.

Later, I discoverd that 01101001 is the begining of the easily generated, infinite Thue-Morse Sequence that continues on as in my signature. So, all you who tried to decode it and failed, now know. It's pretty cool. Among its properties is that it contains no substring of the form www, where w is any binary string. (E.g., you won't find 000, anywhere in it, or 111, or 101010, or 101101101.)

Enough said.

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Cool. 8)

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Shouldn't that be "69 upside-down is 96", if you're referring to the 10010110 hex?

No... I'm just speaking of the graphical qualities now.
01101001 read upside-down is 10010110.
Independently (and of no relation to 01101001 being hex 69)
69 upside-down is 69.
96 upside-down is 96.
MOM upside-down is WOW.

Stand on your head to look at your monitor (or turn your laptop upside down).

I've got a number of science-related ambigrams in my portfolio. I have a way of writing Feynman so that upside-down it still reads Feynman (and as I hear it, Feynman's daughter has a copy of it on her office door). I can draw these names with rotational symmetry, so that they can still be read upside-down: Galileo, Newton, Kepler, Einstein, Hawking, MKaku, Turing, Knuth. Fot the woo-woos, I even have an Art Bell.

I gotta get going on that website.

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Gmann, is a shorter version of my last name. Everyone calls me "Gmann" because they can't pronounce, or spell, the long version

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Ever play Half-Life?

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But then, 10010110 is not an ambigram of 01101001.

Oh, I see where I'm not being clear. An ambigram can be read more than one way, but it doesn't have to read the same all ways. "01101001" is ambiguous writing, an ambigram. It is a different well-formed number depending on how you hold the paper it is written on.

Most writing, of course, doesn't have that property. Some, like, "68" (just to pick a different number) or "MOM" pretty much naturally have that property. Some things can be written with often-laborious, clever graphical design so that they are ambigrams.

Personally, I do prefer the special class of rotationally-symmetric ambigrams, so that they do read the same upside down as right side up. But, I have done some with mirror-symmetry, and some asymmetric ones that read entirely different when looked at differently.

OK, I think I need to get off my behind make some of my collection visible. Have a look at these examples of ambigrams, all with rotational symmetry:

Art Bell [an animation, so you don't have to stand on your head]


Galileo


Newton


Kepler


Einstein


Planck


Hawking


MKaku [another animation]


Turing


Knuth


I should try to do a Plait!

Oh, here's the Feynman I mentioned. Now... it's not so readable, and readability is very important to me, so it troubles me. In this case though, I sacrificed some readability in order to give more depth to the artwork. If you look closely, you may see that it is built upon a sine wave -- the photon symbol in a Feynman diagram.


Finally, here's an ambigram that shows "mom" upside-down suprisingly doesn't always have to be "wow".

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I got my name from a vision
God came down on a flaming pie and said from this day on you will be called Master with a 258 after

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I AM A GOLDEN GOD- Robert Plant, Led Zeppelin

Frog first saw life as a contributer to a local rag's poetry corner where my words of wisdom were published for all the world to see. Frog was chosen because I was once kissed by a real princess in the grounds of a real castle (Ahhhhh.... :-({|= )

When I came onto the web (at that time with AOL) the screen name Frog was taken so I coined the word frogesque to keep the frog theme and sort of tonge in cheek to describe me. (Well, you can have Romanesque, statuesque, Rubenesque etc ....)

Been frogesque or Froggy for short ever since.

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Frogs are pretty darned cool, IMO, so I can see why you chose that username.

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"Togusa" is the name of one of the characters in the Masamune Shirow manga Ghost in the Shell, which I was reading (along with Appleseed, another Shirow manga) when I first logged on to the Internet about six years ago.

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Really, really nice.

BTW, have you seen Scott Kim's work? Your examples remind me of his pieces, which I first saw in his now out-of-print book, Inversions (a copy of which I am now truly fortunate to have in my library).

It sort of reminds me of a small article Tom Lehrer had in a math journal (sorry, I can't remember where) where he was poking fun at fellow professors and he writes this squiggle on the blackboard (a figure is reproduced in the article). He then explains that it's the word "minimum". Of course the i's aren't dotted, there are no curves (just sharp corners) and thus no clues as to where the letters begin and end. This may be part of the problem with your Feynman ambigram. I do hope that you will take up pen/tablet/mouse/whatever and work on it some more, I like what I have seen so far.

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I now officially condemn CM's skits as smartaleck, ignorant, sophomoric, inflammatory and and a poor reflection on the level of discussion in BAUT. -- Bob Angstrom

I'd like to be able to say I'm a descendant of the Grand Duke, Dickon of Chelmsforde, who really discovered America in 1392..

but actually, I used to phone in to a radio chat show in the UK and they always called me 'Richard of Chelmsford'..when I went on their website I just kept the handle so that people would know it was me.

And the namme stuck..I use it on a few sites.

There is one Islamic site I visit but I use a very different handle there..an astronomical one..in the interests of anonymity.

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Mine is where I am and what I do.
(I think I wrote this somewhere else before)

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Got it! Thanks.

Then you have not encountered Whistling Tree Frogs, which can be really annoying. I find myself cursing them every couple of weeks or so when one is near my screen door when I'm trying to sleep!

I provide guests with earplugs to help them sleep as it can take some people a few nights to get used to the constant racket.

"gritmonger" comes from the title of a short comic I drew- I liked the "monger" suffix from "fishmonger" and "whoremonger" - and I liked the old "Grit" magazine ads that plagued the back pages of countless comic books- so I just made "gritmonger." I use the name because generally it looks like it might be a word without being taken on every board or site I register on.

They're considered a good thing in Puerto Rico, but I agree they can be loud.

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Hutch is simply a contraction of my last name..I need to get more creative.

My own favorite is "The Stainless Steel Rat" from a Science Fiction series I enjoy, but it's often already taken. :x

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I think pterousaurs are the most magnificent species of all times, after Homo sapiens sapiens.

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http://www.circlemakers.org

*bump* we've had lots of people register since July so I figured this thread should be active again. :-"

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What's it like being a skeptic in the Middle East? Check out my blog.

I consider myself to be quite average. In this forum of accomplished researchers and generally intelligent people, I like to think of myself as the "everyman" wandering about the outskirts of intelligentsia. :-?

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