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- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!english
- From: english@alicudi.usc.edu (Joe English)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Beware of JPEG!
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 17:03:29 -0800
- Organization: Nerds of Action
- Lines: 40
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <1h8dt1INNqup@alicudi.usc.edu>
- Reply-To: joe@trystero.art.com
- NNTP-Posting-Host: alicudi.usc.edu
- Keywords: dream, DCT
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- Had a strange dream last night.
-
- I was with a bunch of friends in a record store.
- While I was debating whether or not to buy a
- 4-volume set of the Best Of Uriah Heep, a couple
- of them had discovered a small shack inside a
- warehouse behind the store, and had come in
- to get me.
-
- ``C'mere! You gotta check this out!''
-
- So I went out back. Inside the shed they were
- futzing around with a smallish, glowing, yellow
- sphere. Though many of my friends (in the dream)
- had dabbled in the occult, none of them recognized
- it. But I did.
-
- ``Don't play with that!'' I cried. ``You're
- messing with forces you can't possibly understand!
- That's the Discrete Cosine Transform!''
-
- But they didn't listen.
-
- We were all transformed into vampires.
-
-
-
- --joe@trystero.art.com
-
- After that the dream degenerated into a long chase
- sequence with me and one other new vampire running
- away from the Head Vampire, who wanted us to perform
- oral sex on him or something. I was somewhat relieved
- to discover, upon getting to work this morning, that
- the JPEG compression utilities do *not* have a ``make
- undead'' feature. Don't know where that came from.
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