[Python-Dev] Waaay off topic, but I felt I had to share this...

[Tim Peters]

[Barry A. Warsaw]
> There goes Tim, browsing the Playboy site just for the
> JavaScript.  Honest.

Well, it's not like they had many floating-point numbers to ogle!  I like
'em best when the high-order mantissa bits are all perky and regular,
standing straight up, then go monster insane in the low-order bits, so you
can't guess *what* bit might come next!  Man, that's hot.  Top it off witn
an exponent field with lots of ones, and you don't even need any oil.  Can't
say I've got a preference for sign bits, though -- zero and one can both be
saucy treats.  Zero is more of a tease, so I guess it depends on the mood.

But they didn't have anything like that, just boring old "money doubles",
like 29.95.  What's up with that?  I mean the low-order bits are all like
0x33.  Do I have to do *all* the work, while it just *sits* there nagging
"3, 3, 3, 3, ..., crank me out forever, big poppa pump, but that's all
you're ever gonna get!"?

So I settled for the JavaStrip.

a-real-man-takes-what-he-can-get-ly y'rs  - tim