May 2004

Conway See and Say, as a Perl one liner

perl -e '$x=1;for(;;){print"$x\n";$x=~s/((\d)\2*)/length($1).$2/eg;}' | head

the deep blue

I clearly have not spent enough of my life aboard boats, seeing as I get a thrill by filling a huge bowl with water and then floating a smaller bowl in it and pushing it around while humming a sea shanty.