TFv03 CH 19 Mefisto (annotated)

Annotations for Mefisto from Honeysuckle & Pain.

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**Rinzai**

master of Zen, a school
 of Zen

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**Monte Casino**

The Monte Casino Flower is also known as the Heath Aster or the Monte
Casino Aster + hill in Italy,
best known for its historic abbey. St. Benedict of Nursia established his first
monastery, the source of the Benedictine Order, here around 529.

The hilltop
sanctuary was the site of the Battle of Monte Cassino in 1944, where the
building was destroyed by Allied bombing and rebuilt after the war.

**Gates of Ishtar**

The Ishtar Gate (Arabic: بوابة عشتار‎‎,
Persian: دروازه ایشتار‎‎) was the eighth gate to the inner city of Babylon. It
was constructed in about 575 BC by order of King Nebuchadnezzar + melodic death metal band

Ishtar - goddess of fertility, love, war, and sex. One of
the most famous myths[6] about Ishtar describes her descent to the underworld.
In this myth, Ishtar approaches the gates of the underworld and demands that
the gatekeeper open them

Is the cat a gate to some other place?

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**trees, storm**

V1 and V2

**sleepwalking**

like X

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**VC money**

venture capital

**Ludic**

showing spontaneous and undirected playfulness

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**Hogen-mogen**

authority, high and mighty, Frequently ironic
or humorous

**polynomial time**

the time required for a computer to solve
a problem, where this time is a simple polynomial function of the size of the
input.

Polynomial - an expression of more than two algebraic terms,
especially the sum of several terms that contain different powers of the same
variable(s)

The P versus NP problem is a major unsolved problem in
computer science. Informally speaking, it asks whether every problem whose
solution can be quickly verified by a computer can also be quickly solved by a
computer.

**Window aproach Zero**

If there is no possible encoding, could the window be reduced to zero so that the distribution is impossible and VEM wins?

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**Arabic**

كفايه - enough

انا سامحتك اول ما عرفت - I forgave you outright for what I knew

**Sword in the stone**

a weapon in the Arthurian legend which
only the rightful king of Britain can pull from the stone; sometimes associated
with Excalibur

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**Black Shoals**

is an artificial ecosystem linked to the
real time dynamics of the stock market. It was first shown at the Tate Gallery
in 2001, and nominated for an Alternative Turner Prize in 2002. A more sophisticated
Black Shoals was exhibited at the Nikolaj gallery in Copenhagen in the spring
of 2004.

Stars representing companies and creatures representing
speculators are projected into a domed ceiling in a dark room, creating an
artificial night sky which visualises the dynamics of the world stock markets.

Within this world, a creature's survival depends upon the
strategies it uses to explore its world. The more a company is traded, the
richer the food source for the creatures. Consequently, changes in trading
patterns can be seen in the planetarium as explosions of life surrounding
specific clusters of stars. The name of the project is a pun on Black–Scholes,
a widely used equation in financial derivatives pricing which earned two of its
three inventors a Nobel Prize in Economics.

**Conficker**

Conficker alebo Downad je počítačový malware
(škodlivý softvér) typu červ. Napáda počítače a počítačové systémy vybavené
operačným systémom MS Windows, využívajúc pritom bezpečnostnú dieru v systéme
Microsoft Windows. Postihnuté sú verzie MS Windows NT, 2000, XP a 2003 Server.

Conficker, also known as Downup, Downadup and Kido, is a
computer worm targeting the Microsoft Windows operating system that was first
detected in November 2008. It uses flaws in Windows OS software and dictionary
attacks on administrator passwords to propagate while forming a botnet, and has
been unusually difficult to counter because of its combined use of many advanced
malware techniques. The Conficker worm infected millions of computers including
government, business and home computers in over 190 countries, making it the
largest known computer worm infection since the 2003 Welchia

**ILOVEYOU**

sometimes referred to as Love
Letter, was a computer worm that attacked tens of millions of Windows personal
computers on and after 4 May 2000 local time in the Philippines when it started
spreading as an email message with the subject line "ILOVEYOU" and
the attachment "LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.txt.vbs

**Flame**

also known as Flamer, sKyWIper, and
Skywiper, is modular computer malware discovered in 2012 that attacks computers
running the Microsoft Windows operating system. The program is being used for
targeted cyber espionage in Middle Eastern countries.

**CryptoLocker**

 is a ransomware trojan that
targets computers running Microsoft Windows, believed to have first been posted
to the Internet on 5 September 2013

**Gameover ZeuS**

is a peer-to-peer botnet based
on components from the earlier ZeuS trojan

**Regin**

(also known as Prax or WarriorPride) is
a sophisticated malware toolkit revealed in November 2014. The malware targets
specific users of Microsoft Windows-based computers and has been linked to the
US intelligence gathering agency NSA and its British counterpart, the GCHQ

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**ATLAS**

(A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS) is one
of two general-purpose detectors at the Large Hadron Collider.

**ALICE**

(A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is
one of seven detector experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. The
other six are: ATLAS, CMS, TOTEM, LHCb, LHCf and MoEDAL.

**Higgies**

Have you seen the little piggies
crawling in the dirt? Written by George Harrison as a social commentary, the
song serves as an Orwellian satire on greed and consumerism. Higgies probably
Higgs boson, in the dark because we are still looking for it.

**Quid est...**

- anagrammatic answer to Pilate's
question, "Quid est veritas?" (What is truth?), "Est vir qui
adest" (It is the man who is here).

**Nix the gennaion pseudos**

γενναῖον ψεῦδος,
gennaion pseudos, Noble Lie - In politics, a noble lie is a myth or untruth,
often, but not invariably, of a religious nature, knowingly told by an elite to
maintain social harmony or to advance an agenda. The noble lie is a concept
originated by Plato as described in the Republic.

**Anti-quarks**

For every quark flavor there is
a corresponding type of antiparticle, known as an antiquark, that differs from
the quark only in that some of its properties have equal magnitude but opposite
sign

**Pro-ducks**

quark - quawk (the cry of a duck
or night-heron) + products

**Bottom flavored**

There are six types of
quarks, known as flavors: up, down, strange, charm, top, and bottom

**Muster Mark**

so many puns here: quark is
from Finnegans Wake:

*"Three quarks for Muster Mark!*

*Sure he hasn't got*
much of a bark

*And sure any he has it's all beside the mark."*

quark - quawk (the cry of a duck or night-heron). Bark – ship. King Mark. His ship is taking
Tristan and Isolde from Ireland to Cornwall for her marriage to King Mark.
Isolde's nurse provided love potion to both instead of poison to the despairing
Isolde. Tristan is betraying Mark, with Isolde. Mark – Danielewski. Joyce is
also famous by his erotic letters about anal sex (bottom flavored).

**Beside the mark**

The best marksman finds the
center by forgetting the center (TF2 440)

Mefisto and Anwar are always beside the mark

**Arabic**

'Beloved friend, you've beaten me, and I can't continue"

**Flatten me**

because Mefisto is huge

**Limning**

depict or describe in painting or
words, represent, portray

**Kedging**

(with reference to a
ship or boat) move by hauling in a hawser attached to a
small anchor dropped at some distance

**Mefisto described with ship term**

Xanther Im
the ship – relation?

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**dreckworking**

dreck - rubbish; trash

**Claude Shannon**

Information theory studies the
quantification, storage, and communication of information. It was originally
proposed by Claude E. Shannon in 1948 to find fundamental limits on signal
processing and communication operations such as data compression, in a landmark
paper entitled "A Mathematical Theory of Communication". Now this
theory has found applications in many other areas

**Such knowledge**

is this what came to Cas on
April 15th 1958, 11:11:11? (V1 151)

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**In smoke: Mu!**

? - speculations about this passage

**Mu**

meaning "not have; without" is
a key word in Buddhism, especially Zen traditions. + MU puzzle is a puzzle stated by
Douglas Hofstadter and found in Gödel, Escher, Bach. Has the dog Buddha-nature?
MU!

**Arabic**

?

**Ogami Itto**

main character of Lone Wolf and
Cub

**Daigoro**

three-year-old son of Ogami

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**Halytys...**

finnish

**Chú Ý...**

vietnamese

**Eccarikkai...**

tamil

**Waarschuwing...**

dutch

**Riasztás...**

hungarian

**Tautau...**

maori

**Увага...**

ukrainian

**Keikoku...**

japanese

**Promean...**

khmer language

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**ReWorld**

ReWordd

**My Word Ode**

Redwood anagram;

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**Dayton**

Ohio, Cas and Bobby went there
after Marfa, bathtub, Marnie, exploding orb, Volume 2 stuff

**Super 8, Nashville**

hotel, see Vol
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