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Lame qn but does the name Albert Jay Nock have anything to do with 'Nock'?
by tsax 13y ago
Lame qn but does the name Albert Jay Nock have anything to do with 'Nock'?
- urbit 13y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Jay_Nock http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Jay_Nock http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_at_the_Palaz_of_Hoon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_at_the_Palaz_of_Hoon Four-letter names that haven't been overexposed are hard to find. But four letters fits in a 32-bit direct atom, so the attraction is pretty irresistible.
- tsax 13y agoNice! Thought so.
- sbmassey 13y agoNothing to do with Frank Key's absurdist narrative "Ascent of the Mountain at Hoon", then? http://hootingyard.org/archives/9019 http://hootingyard.org/archives/9019
- derleth 13y ago> But four letters fits in a 32-bit direct atom, so the attraction is pretty irresistible. Reminds me of how ITS limited filenames to six letters per component, because they used six bits per character and six times six is thirty-six bits, or one machine word. To this day, HAKMEM ('Hacks Memo') is still called that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAKMEM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAKMEM