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Ian07 wrote:Out of all the (generally accepted) object names I've seen, none have been nearly as weird as $rats. Where did this name come from?

Sounds like a frustrated lifenthusiast didn't find the osc they were looking for, but I don't know.

Moosey wrote:

Ian07 wrote:Out of all the (generally accepted) object names I've seen, none have been nearly as weird as $rats. Where did this name come from?

Sounds like a frustrated lifenthusiast didn't find the osc they were looking for, but I don't know.

mniemiec, previously on the page 2 of this thread, wrote:$rats,p6 - Found by David Buckingham. "Rats!" was his favorite expletive. We also used "$" a lot. As far as I know, this is the only named Life pattern whose name contains a non-alphanumeric character.

However, this didn't explain the relation between the words and the oscillator.


By the way, otismo, someone asked in your thread as follows:

Moosey wrote:What is the etymology of "viro"?

Moosey wrote:
EDIT:
What is the etymology of your term OpenSezMe?

otismo wrote: I am going to call it OpenSezMe

The posters footer said : "what is sesame oil?"

SezMe is a play on sesame

OpenSezMe is a play on AliBaba

But I really need to expound on the etymology of Viro because it is Lo Mas Importante :

( and because I am attempting to re-name your much-vaunted "spaceship", glider )

We seriously need to reexamine our definition of what life is.

To boil it down to the bare minimum : Life is Information.

You have a Personal Genome therefore you are an Organism, Program !

Viro is alive but he more closely resembles a virus than anything else.

Viro has four phases and the information is contained in the Shape ( phase )

And also in his Relative Positioning ( to whatever he is going to react with )

You already agree with me in principle because you are obsessed with the Viro Synthesis of Everything !

To the Latin Purist the plural is technically Viruses

But the kids are already wildly into the use of Virii

So we must be Judicious in our use of Both.....

otismo wrote:
( and because I am attempting to re-name your much-vaunted "spaceship", glider )

Good luck with that-- it's too late to rename it by now.
I mean, call the G whatever you please (as long as it's apparent you're referring to it as a Viro), but it is virtually impossible for it to be renamed by now.

otismo wrote:OpenSezMe is a play on AliBaba

But when I searched with baidu, it told me that

OPEN SEZ ME is a Colorado based Deck and Fence company, providing professional deck and fence installation …

What does it have to do with a Chinese e-commercial enterprise?

GUYTU6J wrote:

otismo wrote:OpenSezMe is a play on AliBaba

But when I searched with baidu, it told me that

OPEN SEZ ME is a Colorado based Deck and Fence company, providing professional deck and fence installation …

What does it have to do with a Chinese e-commercial enterprise?

In the ORIGINAL STORY of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, they have a cave hideout, with a Giant Rock

Which is blocking Entry thereto : Until Ali Baba says : "Open Sesame", and the Rock Rolls Away

Permitting the Band of Thieves access to their HideOut full of Loot.

But today we have auto-magic doors, and when I say "Open Says Me"

And the doors "magically open", all the little children are amazed

And then they find out the magic words work for them, too !
This Pattern, posted by FlameandFury, is a Most Excellent pattern, as good as and maybe better than

The Cambridge Pulsar ( although not naturally occurring in the ash, like C.P. )

I named it OpenSezMe just to attract some serious attention to the

Process of naming it, and I hereby retract the name OpenSezMe

But I am sure you would agree, this is a most excellent

Pattern deserving of and worthy of

The Very Best Name that we can

Conjure for it...

Can't think

Of One...

$Rats! - so I am going to call it p3oscFF until a more suitable name is found...
If it were only slightly larger, this p3oscFF would make an excellent Blinker Hausen

Like the slightly larger still life to the right of it, above

Or the p16 oscillator to the extreme right, above

Which itself deserves to have a decent name also.

I wonder if you could tell me :

Do Chinese People

Like the number 8

Because it represents

Vertical Infinity ?

Thank You !

-O.

No

Why are Bronco (Odd name), Cribbage, En retard and Extremely impressive named so?