In which, Mike Ash goes full throttle Persian-cat-stroking pinkie-pointing evil overlord.
func ==(x: Int, y: Int) -> Bool {
let frequency = UInt32(10000)
let result = x >= y && x <= y
return arc4random_uniform(frequency) == 0 ?
!result : result
}
print(2 == 2)
print(2 == 2)
print(2 == 2)
while 2 == 2 {}
print("Yep")
So this month’s Kindle First picks showed up in my inbox from Amazon Prime and among them was this: The Einstein Prophecy.
The blurb (in part):
As war rages in 1944, young army lieutenant Lucas Athan recovers a sarcophagus excavated from an Egyptian tomb. Shipped to Princeton University for study, the box contains mysteries that only Lucas, aided by brilliant archaeologist Simone Rashid, can unlock.
These mysteries may, in fact, defy—or fulfill—the dire prophecies of Albert Einstein himself.
Did I somehow miss the moment when Einstein became a religious figure? I mean, “You believe in a God who plays dice, and I in complete law and order in a world which objectively exists.” “IT IS A PROPHECY”
Things you can gather from this post:
Oh what the hell. Here’s some more
Struggling to decipher the sarcophagus’s strange contents, Lucas and Simone unwittingly release forces for both good and unmitigated evil. The fate of the world hangs not only on Professor Einstein’s secret research but also on Lucas’s ability to defeat an unholy adversary more powerful than anything he ever imagined.
There are no fewer than seven different “Here’s to the crazy ones” references in the Apple Emoji set. (If I missed any, please let me know!)
Update: A thank you goes out to commenter Unicode.
📝
MEMO
Unicode: U+1F4DD (U+D83D U+DCDD), UTF-8: F0 9F 93 9D
📜
SCROLL
Unicode: U+1F4DC (U+D83D U+DCDC), UTF-8: F0 9F 93 9C
📖
OPEN BOOK
Unicode: U+1F4D6 (U+D83D U+DCD6), UTF-8: F0 9F 93 96
📑
BOOKMARK TABS
Unicode: U+1F4D1 (U+D83D U+DCD1), UTF-8: F0 9F 93 91
📋
CLIPBOARD
Unicode: U+1F4CB (U+D83D U+DCCB), UTF-8: F0 9F 93 8B
📃
PAGE WITH CURL
Unicode: U+1F4C3 (U+D83D U+DCC3), UTF-8: F0 9F 93 83
📄
PAGE FACING UP
Unicode: U+1F4C4 (U+D83D U+DCC4), UTF-8: F0 9F 93 84
It’s killing me that I can’t read that address or use a bar code scanner on that QR code because I’m convinced there’s an Apple joke of some kind embedded in it.
Update: A thank you goes out to commenter Unicode.
Unicode U+1F4E6
📦
PACKAGE
Unicode: U+1F4E6 (U+D83D U+DCE6), UTF-8: F0 9F 93 A6
I find this hilarious. This is running on a desktop Mac mini, happily plugged into a wall socket.
I suppose I knew that using animations in email was possible. I don’t think I’ve actually noticed an animation (outside of GIF attachments) until this week when I received an out-of-the-office response from an Apple evangelist.
Why don’t we see more visual accents like this? Maybe I just normally communicate with the wrong people.
#wrapper img#imageAccent.flyIn {
-webkit-animation-name: 'flyIn';
-webkit-animation-duration: 1.25s;
-webkit-animation-iteration-count: 1;
-webkit-animation-timing-function: ease-out;
}
Who knew that John Appleseed was such a prolific author? Certainly not I! (And if you will forgive the pun, I wonder what the market price is for the one second from the right.)
Update: A thank you goes out to commenter Unicode.
📕
CLOSED BOOK
Unicode: U+1F4D5 (U+D83D U+DCD5), UTF-8: F0 9F 93 95
📗
GREEN BOOK
Unicode: U+1F4D7 (U+D83D U+DCD7), UTF-8: F0 9F 93 97
📘
BLUE BOOK
Unicode: U+1F4D8 (U+D83D U+DCD8), UTF-8: F0 9F 93 98
📙
ORANGE BOOK
Unicode: U+1F4D9 (U+D83D U+DCD9), UTF-8: F0 9F 93 99
Unicode U+1F4F0
📰
NEWSPAPER
Unicode: U+1F4F0 (U+D83D U+DCF0), UTF-8: F0 9F 93 B0
Unicode U+1F3AB
🎫
TICKET
Unicode: U+1F3AB (U+D83C U+DFAB), UTF-8: F0 9F 8E AB