Hex chants
The other day I came up with a hex cheer for Annalee. I was trying to remember what the original inspiration might have been.
Seth Finkelstein and Richard Stallman obliged me by finding the original hexadecimal protest chant, from a 1989 protest against Lotus:
1, 2, 3, 4 / Kick the lawsuit out the door.
5, 6, 7, 8 / Innovate, don't litigate.
9, A, B, C / Freedom, not monopoly.
D, E, F, 0 / Look-and-feel has got to go.
Leonard, on the other hand, devised approximately the following "retroactive" Free Dmitry chant:
0,1,2,3 -- We all want Dmitry free!
4,5,6,7 -- Less morally ambiguous than Kevin!
8,9,A,B -- Set Dmitry free today!
C,D,E,F -- We will chant until you're deaf!
It also occurs to me to try to combine all these and produce an Annalee-plus-free-Dmitry hex cheer:
Count 0-1-2, publishers sure love to sue.
3-4-5-6, get your Techsploitation fix!
7-8-9-a, we all hate DMCA;
b-c-d-e, this cheer mentions Annalee.
I spent a while writing to Annalee about tragedy, her column of last year, my reaction to it, and how she landed in Existence and Uniqueness. (I'd totally forgotten, but she shows up within the last 200 lines of that poem.)
