Geeky thought of the day

[elfs]

"Ravine" is the longest common word in the dictionary for which both its backward spelling and its ROT13 are the same: "enivar".

[Edit] Bummer: Wikipedia already knows this, and many other nifty things. And here I thought I was clever for figuring it out in twelve lines of python.

Comments

[shunra.livejournal.com]

And another ROT13 tidbit: my son's name comes out FunPuns in ROT13, which I did not know when naming him and which captures one of my many favored aspects of his personality.

It doesn't work backwards, though...

[lisakit.livejournal.com]

Well, it was clever to figure it out yourself rather than go look it up like every other doofus has to.

[sarienpalth.livejournal.com]

lisakit has a good point there. You wouldn't want to be a goober like me and have to Wikipedia ROT13 to figure out what it means.

Sheepish Goober Sar

[grum]

Courtesy of my father... "I wonder what it does to the letter distributions if you play scrabble ROT13"

I, for one, don't care what it does to the letter distribution, I don't want to try to wrap my brain around the translation required to play, at least not without scratch paper handy.