October 26, 2007
Life, what is it but a dream?
Connect everything.
The answer, ideally, consists of a number, and a bunch of explanations as to why that number makes sense in this context.
Cracked by: sidsen (Take a gander at his meticulously-crafted rant in the answers. It’s worth your time :-) ) , Poornima , Quehin , alephnull and prasanth.
Nope, the answer wasn’t Jabber. The real answer: RFC 527.
1: An illustration of Jabberwocky
2: (Surprise, surprise) The IETFs logo (duh)
3: Lewis carroll
Lewis Carrol created the Jabberwocky character in his nonsense poem of the same name.
The IETF has a tradition of creating prank RFCs on the 1st of April of each year. The first such RFC was the Arpawocky RFC, numbered 527. Arpawocky was a nonsense poem involving tech related acronyms, and was inspired by Carrol’s Jabberwocky.
Oh, BTW, the IETF are the gods of the Internet
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October 26th, 2007 at 10:26 am, GMT -0700 ( 1193419579 )
1984.
October 26th, 2007 at 11:33 am, GMT -0700 ( 1193423620 )
RFC 527 - Arpawocky
why explanations? they are long tedious time and energy consuming and all you end up with at the end of the process are a few more dead cells at the tip of your fingers. seriously its like asking - bob had a thing for jacks wife kelly, who was in reality having a rather good time with bob's best friend tom. Tom was a rather boastful fella and he couldn't quite keep quiet about his latest acquisition, a ford gt mustang, which was making heads turn, including the head of jack. bob's head was however unturned and focussed solely on the object of his affection jacks wife kelly. one fine day tom died. why did tom die and justify your answer in not more than 200 words. now why would you want to ask something like that?
or for that matter something equally similar like, lewis carol wrote something called something or the other jabberwocky. it made no sense whatsoever. something else didn't make any sense, and a bunch of little hunched guys sitting hunched over their little computers decided it was appropriate to malapropriate it to talk about this other thing that didn't make much sense. it was also by the way the beginning of the new financial year in india, though that isn't really related to this story. the question is why?
October 26th, 2007 at 11:42 am, GMT -0700 ( 1193424177 )
sorry… bout above… put it down to caffeine overdose
October 26th, 2007 at 11:43 am, GMT -0700 ( 1193424216 )
RFC 527?
Jabberwocky(pic 1) is a poem of nonsense verse written by Lewis Carroll(pic 3). IETF's ARPAWOCKY(RFC 527) is a parody of jabberwocky.
October 26th, 2007 at 12:00 pm, GMT -0700 ( 1193425258 )
Good one…
527 - RFC 527 ARPAWOCKY by Covill - one of the many humorous RFCs popularly known as April fools' day RFC published by IETF. ARPAWOCKY is Jabberwocky variation and about ARPANET.
pics -
1. Jabberwocky illustration 2. IETF 3. Charles Dodgson (Carroll)
October 26th, 2007 at 8:42 pm, GMT -0700 ( 1193456527 )
(1) is the Jabberwocky meeting Alice. (2) is the IETF logo and (3) is Lewis Carroll. I can't for the life of me work out a connection between all of them which is a number. Perhaps RFC 527 (ARPAWOCKY) ?
October 26th, 2007 at 10:20 pm, GMT -0700 ( 1193462403 )
I spot Jabberwocky and Lewis Carroll up there. And since the IETF is also up there, I'd say the connect is Jabber, or XMPP.
If you really want a number, I'd say 3920 and 3921 :)
October 26th, 2007 at 10:25 pm, GMT -0700 ( 1193462717 )
Jabberwocky, IETF and Lewis Carroll. The last created the character Jabberwocky in the Hunting of the Snark. IETF RFC 3920 is the Jabber. IETF
October 27th, 2007 at 12:55 am, GMT -0700 ( 1193471745 )
1. is a pictorial representation of characters in Jabberwock
2.IETF - it has a extensible messaging and presence protocol(XMPP)-originally called the Jabber Software foundation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.....Foundation
3. is Lewis carroll .So the connect is the word Jabber.
October 27th, 2007 at 5:31 am, GMT -0700 ( 1193488290 )
RFC 527
the Internet engineering task force(2) had published a humorous RFC document on april fools day. RFC 527 was called ARPAWOCKY the name is a parody on Jabberwocky(1) a nonsense literature poem, written by lewis carroll(3)