Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 20:11:33 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com> To: Dirk GOUDERS <hank@et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Translation problem Message-ID: <71417.961384293@localhost> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 19 Jun 2000 03:27:14 %2B0200." <200006190127.DAA53541@musashi.et.bocholt.fh-ge.de>
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Oh my, an unanticipated problem with that entry. :) Since it was taken from one of my USENET postings (No, *I* didn't commit it :), I guess it's my job to help you translate it (though such "cute" FAQ entries could also die as far as I'm concerned). > Are purple colored hazes meant (maybe they appear because of the 250 > micrograms of LSD-25 - never tried it) or is "purple haze" a real term > that I just do not know? "purple haze" is the name of a Jimi Hendrix song, ostensibly about LSD. :) > "...working on their new ``scratch and sniff'' GUI." "Scratch and sniff" is the term for odor-bearing advertisements and various books which have been published, where the reader is encouraged to scratch a little on the odor-impregnated paper to liberate some of the oils (or whatever they use for this) and then smell it. I suppose a scratch-and-sniff GUI would have you scratching on various parts of the screen to smell the windows underneath, also having preferences dialogs which let you set your desktop to "pleasant spring" or "desert wind" and such. Don't laugh so hard now guys, I just read a scientific american article about automatic synthesis of scents from 5 "base scents" under computer control - there's even a unit on sale now. We may soon be seeing Look-and-feel-and-smell lawsuits from Lotus! :-) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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