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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText>-----Original Message-----<br>From: extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of MB<br>Subject: Re: [ExI] ai application, was: RE: suv hipsters<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> 2004 Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo painted "Bright Silver Metallic".<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>> ...<a href="http://www.simpson260.com/hosting/jeeps/04jeep.htm"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>http://www.simpson260.com/hosting/jeeps/04jeep.htm</span></a>><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>...Cool. I think that one is too new, it's curvy and bloated - has a WindozeXP look to it, if you know what I mean. Rounded out and fat. Many 2000+ cars have that look. :( Regards, MB<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>Keep in mind that the rims are often the fingerprint characteristic, since those are changed often. It is a graphic that is easily and cheaply changed from one model year to the next. They only used those five spoke five lug spiral rims on two model years, the 1994 and 1995 Laredos, and possibly some 93s.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>Here's my next idea. We guys, especially engineering types, only see ten colors clearly. Fortunately there are only ten digits, otherwise we geeks would be unable to read the value of our resistors. But cars come in more colors than that. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>Non-geeks and many women can distinguish dozens or even scores of colors. So imagine we manage to organize a neighborhood car-map project by volunteers. We need some way to translate some of the more subtle colors into words, many of which we geeks have no clue as the actual definition, especially the more sissy sounding ones, such as taupe, mauve, chartreuse and violet, for instance. We engineering types can only clearly envision black, brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, gray, and white, and of course we know that these correspond to the digits zero through nine.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>But if you go into the color wheel in Microsloth Word, you see that there are all these choices. There are fifty choices in theme colors alone! Setting aside for the moment the absurdity of having seventy different colors (SEVENTY! As if we can use them all. Or even tell the difference between them.) we can describe a car by most closely matching one of those fifty colors, then describing it row and column in Microsloth word. It looks like this:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><img border=0 width=194 height=232 id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CC90B9.0CD077C0"></span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>I don’t know the names of most of these theme colors. I see a zero in there, but not one, I see a two and a three, a four through six under standard colors, possibly a seven, not a good eight, but nine is in there in the first row first column. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>So instead of describing a car with some mysterious adjective such as chartreuse (whatever the heck that is) we find the closest match in the Microsloth table that everyone has right in front of them right now, ja?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>To add still more absurdity, note that even after showing us seventy colors (SEVENTY!) there is a tab suggesting that there exists STILL MORE COLORS! Your mileage may vary, but I am pretty sure it is all some kind of grand gag the fashion industry is playing on us nerds who know there really are only ten colors. But I digress.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>In any case, the sleazy perp’s 94 or 95 Laredo zeej with the one 00-wall tire is color 00 and my much-loved Mister Lincoln is color 22 approximately.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>Alternative ideas?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>