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harbinger November 14, 2001 1:45 AM	HOORAY!
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KajunFirefly November 14, 2001 1:53 AM	I only made my account to say it was Brad's birthday, I've basically been wasting time till this day. Happy Birthday Brad goodbye everyone else
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ladyjdotnet November 14, 2001 5:53 AM	I wished Brad a happy birthday last night after midnight. I'm such a trendsetter.
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attitudechicka November 14, 2001 6:03 AM	Happy birthday to you Happy birthday to you Happy birthday dear Bra-ad Happy birthday to you :) blows kisses Wishing all the best for you today. And no hangover tomorrow.
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kramer_vs_kramer November 14, 2001 6:07 AM	Happy birthday Brad. Don't get too pissed though, because you just know this site's going to break down as soon as you reach the staggering about drooling stage.
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DexX November 14, 2001 7:59 AM	We wish you a happy birthday. We wish you a happy birthday. We wish you a happy birthday, And a happy new age.
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andydougan November 14, 2001 9:44 AM	Happy bidet, you old codger.
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Spankling November 14, 2001 10:09 AM	"I hope I die before I get old" Oopsie!
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Brad November 14, 2001 11:10 AM	There's a red balloon on my ICQ window suddenly. I don't see how I could ask for any more from today. Thanks to everyone who wished me a happy birthday. It makes the trauma of being officially in my mid-twenties slightly less or slightly more something or other.
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Drexle November 14, 2001 12:05 PM	Happy birthday! We tried to arrange for some hookers for you, but all we could get was the sickobunny.
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wirthling November 14, 2001 12:11 PM	quote: It makes the trauma of being officially in my mid-twenties slightly less or slightly more something or other. Happy Brad-day. By the way, how does Canadian "mid-twenties" convert to U.S. years? Wouldn't that be about 11?
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boorite November 14, 2001 12:15 PM	Happy birthday, Brad. You are several orders of magnitude more important to me than that fuckhead of a President we have. I hope you stay healthy and happy until you're old like me.
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crabby November 14, 2001 2:00 PM	HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRAD!!!!!!!!!!!
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gabe_billings November 14, 2001 2:37 PM	Happy Birthday!
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BigEvilDan November 14, 2001 4:18 PM	Happy Birthday, Brad!
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descolada99 November 14, 2001 4:51 PM	Happy Birthday Brad.... I owe you so much for giving us this grand site that I can waste away hours of my life on. Thanks. :)
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JrnymnNate November 14, 2001 7:43 PM	H-----\|-----y___ertigo. -a----\|----a --p---\|---d ---p--\|--h ----y---t -----B-r ------i I am so clever.
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kaufman November 14, 2001 7:54 PM	Happy what little's left of your birthday, so happy day after birthday as well!
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joshw November 14, 2001 9:00 PM	HAPPY BIRTHDAY FROM A FELLOW CANADIAN! OH CANADA! (even though i have been prouncing around singing the "god bless america" song all freakin day)
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DragonXero November 14, 2001 9:25 PM	Tho I've said it already, Happy belated birthday Brad.
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bunnerabb November 14, 2001 9:40 PM	Happy birthday, Brad. And remember: Today is the last day of your life so far. :- )
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Brad November 14, 2001 11:46 PM	My girlfriend gave me a Wacom Graphire 2 drawing tablet. So far it's really freaking cool, though I'm still a rotten artist even when it's digital. Thanks to everyone I hadn't said thanks to before. You're all sweeties. It occurs to me that Stripcreator's first birthday is just around the corner too. I think it was in January. I'll have to check.
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DexX November 15, 2001 8:43 AM	quote: It makes the trauma of being officially in my mid-twenties slightly less or slightly more something or other. 25 is it? 25 is cool - quarter-century, which is doubly cool for fans of cricket. 26 is a bit dull... two-times-thirteen, I suppose. 27 is a true geek's age - three cubed. :) I won't be three cubed for much longer, and 28 is really dull...
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ObiJo November 15, 2001 8:55 AM	42834 quote: It occurs to me that Stripcreator's first birthday is just around the corner too. I think it was in January. I'll have to check. I was thinking of this recently too. We'll have to think of some cool way to celebrate.
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kaufman
November 15, 2001 9:03 AM

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It makes the trauma of being officially in my mid-twenties slightly less or slightly more something or other.
25 is it? 25 is cool - quarter-century, which is doubly cool for fans of cricket. 26 is a bit dull... two-times-thirteen, I suppose. 27 is a true geek's age - three cubed. :)

I won't be three cubed for much longer, and 28 is really dull...

Are you kidding? 28 is a Perfect Number. Much geekier than a just plain Cube.

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Spankling November 15, 2001 9:22 AM	quote: My girlfriend gave me a Wacom... That's sounds personal... You're a lucky guy Brad!
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DexX November 15, 2001 9:44 AM	quote: I won't be three cubed for much longer, and 28 is really dull... Are you kidding? 28 is a Perfect Number. Much geekier than a just plain Cube. DexX uses his brain briefly. The sound of grinding gears emanates from his head. Hey! You're right! 1, 3, 6, 10, 15, 21, 28, 36, 45, 55, 66, 78, 91, 105...
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kaufman
November 15, 2001 10:25 AM

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I won't be three cubed for much longer, and 28 is really dull...
Are you kidding? 28 is a Perfect Number. Much geekier than a just plain Cube.

DexX uses his brain briefly. The sound of grinding gears emanates from his head.

Hey! You're right!

1, 3, 6, 10, 15, 21, 28, 36, 45, 55, 66, 78, 91, 105...

Uh, actually, those are Triangular Numbers (so called because they can be represented like:

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* *
* * *
* * * *
* * * * *
* * * * * *
* * * * * * *

), which 28 is too. As for being "perfect" ...

Take the numbers that divide evenly into 28:
1, 2, 4, 7, and 14
Now add them together ...

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ObiJo November 15, 2001 10:57 AM	Ever play with matrix cryptography, kaufman? I'm guessing yes. Let's set up a key for a 3 by 3 matrix and talk shit behind these guys' backs. I have a few things to say about wirthling, by god.
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kaufman November 15, 2001 11:02 AM	quote: Ever play with matrix cryptography, kaufman? I'm guessing yes. Let's set up a key for a 3 by 3 matrix and talk shit behind these guys' backs. I have a few things to say about wirthling, by god. Why bother with the crypto thing when we've got the secret forum?
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NeoVid November 15, 2001 4:06 PM	Happy yesterday, Brad! Man, get offlined for a while and look what I miss...
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DexX
November 15, 2001 9:13 PM

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Take the numbers that divide evenly into 28:
1, 2, 4, 7, and 14. Now add them together...

Ah, I see where my confusion came from - I knew from my childhood that 6 was a perfect number. My brain had lost the precise reason why, and thought it was its triangularity. Thanks for clearing that up, you colossal geek, you.

As for codes and ciphers, I had a wonderful one that I got from a Lewis Carroll book, based on this grid...

You have a code word or phrase known only by those who want to communicate secretly, and write them one on top of the other to get grid references. For example, the code word "donkeysodomy" and the message "wirthling really truly sucks" would be written like this:

donkeysodomydonkeysodomyd
wirthlingreallytrulysucks

You then take the corresponding letter from the grid. D on the top row, W on the vertical, gives you Z, and so on, giving you:

donkeysodomydonkeysodomyd
wirthlingreallytrulysucks
zwedljabjfqyozldvsdmvioiv

With this code, if you keep the keyword in your head, you can have the grid and the coded message in plain sight with no danger of them being used successfully. I have been going to write a computer program to accept the keyword and coded message for a couple of years now, but the mood has never struck me.

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ObiJo
November 16, 2001 3:13 AM

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With this code, if you keep the keyword in your head, you can have the grid and the coded message in plain sight with no danger of them being used successfully.

That's a cool method. It's basically the same as the method I was talking about using matrices, in that both require a "key". It's been a couple of years since I've taken my linear algebra class, but I think it works as follows.

You give A through Z numeric values:

A=1, B=2, C=3...Z=26.

Then, say I wanted to transmit the message "wirthling sucks". I'd set up a matrix using the numeric values of this message. For instance:

|w i r t h l i |
|n g s u c k s|

|23 9 18 20 8 12 9 |
|14 7 19 21 3 11 19|

Since this is an easy code to break, you then multiply it by another matrix, called the key. This key can be ANYTHING, and it's that very reason that makes breaking a code without knowing the key so difficult.

For example, if we used the key:

|6|
|3|
|8|
|2|
|9|
|5|
|4|

We'd get the coded matrix:

|517|
|457|

Those two simple numbers hold the message "wirthling sucks" with the key we used. The only way to decipher it would be to apply the above matrix operations in reverse, then convert the numeric values of the alphabet to their letter form. But in order to do this, you must have the key.

You can see why these types of encryptions are so effective. Unless, of course, you stopped reading by now.

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DexX November 16, 2001 8:38 AM	I never did matrices in six years of high school and a semester of university maths. Actually, that semester of maths in uni was disturbingly enjoyable. I could not believe I enjoyed it so much. The tutor was a great guy, too. Stuffed if I can even remember what Big O notation is even about a year and a half later, though, let alone still do it.
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wirthling November 16, 2001 12:37 PM	Why would one need to encrypt the message "wirthling sucks"? It's hardly a state secret.
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ObiJo November 18, 2001 5:40 AM	quote: Why would one need to encrypt the message "wirthling sucks"? It's hardly a state secret. I'd have to disagree. Russia's using the essence of your suck to power their reactors.
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KajunFirefly November 18, 2001 5:49 AM	\|925\| \|165\| ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!
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ObiJo November 20, 2001 3:57 AM	43331
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