Etaoin shrdlu... dhiatensor, vigenere, and a side of chow mein for good measure.

I read a lot about ciphers, codes, and cryptology today. That's the field I should have pursued. Not only do I find it enjoyable, but I'm really good at it. ETAOIN SHRDLU. that, in order, are the most commonly used letters in the English language.
the letters DHIATENSOR can be used to form 70% of the words in the English language. other interesting topics semi-related to codebreaking, letter frequency, etc. are Zipf's law, different, more "efficient typewriters" the colemak typewriter... Estimated that there are only about 3000 Colemak users worldwide. (Jan 1st 2009) and the qgmlwb keyboard layout. one of which I think that i want to learn. I also want to check out the website lifehacker.com . this blog is scattered. i read about a ton of interesting stuff today. and i keep topic-jumping from, to, and then back again. i will maybe fix this blog so it's readable someday. maybe not. also, the vigenere cipher is coo. It's a method to convert text into a secret code. I dig it. In fact. I will write the following sentence in normal language, then code it using a vigenere cipher and the code word chowmein: "I did not go to chinese class today. I am a lazy person. le shit. Oh well. I studied it for a bit and was productive, so all is good. I do not really have anything else to write. I guess by writing that, I kind of negated what I said. Oh well. I think that butter is overrated. Brownies, and penguins are underrated. The end" and now made into a secret mystical code... "KKWZZ SBTQA CYTMV RULQH MWAGQ KOUUE UNNHN UBIZF QUZAE LQGQO KAXPQ FVBRE QHQGH VFWNM BNPKK WETZB FBQPU ZMFQH ZHUWO BQKWZ ARWGT LOHXC PNXLO JKXPV PNSHE IBBYY WPQMO HGZGX KAZVV PBCFL IGKRW JPSNA GNOPQ HEUCA WOMML BJDSH XMBUK UYPTE BOWAH ADMAB XLFNM XMQDY CSZMM FCURL QROHK UGWDI CAFLF NMXMQ VOSAZ H"

awesome. Back to random, out of place cool things to look at if you have free time: youtube video of bears playing hockey, youtube video of myotonic goats, the video for David Ford's song "go to hell" Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) and the book "A Void" to name a few. I think that's all. I need to recount my recent trip to California soon. but alas, time does not permit.

keyword "lane"
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