Tuesday, December 18, 2012

V for Vendetta [1]


V: [Evey pulls out her mace] I can assure you I mean you no harm.
Evey Hammond: Who are you?
V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in a mask.
Evey Hammond: Well I can see that.
V: Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is.
Evey Hammond: Oh. Right.
V: But on this most auspicious of nights, permit me then, in lieu of the more commonplace sobriquet, to suggest the character of this dramatis persona.
V: Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition.
[carves "V" into poster on wall]
V: The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous.
V: [giggles]
V: Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.
Evey Hammond: Are you, like, a crazy person?
V: I am quite sure they will say so. But to whom, might I ask, am I speaking with?
Evey Hammond: I'm Evey.
V: Evey? E-V. Of course you are.
Evey Hammond: What does that mean?
V: It means that I, like God, do not play with dice and do not believe in coincidence. Are you hurt?

Reference:
[1] IMDb http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0434409/quotes (Accessed Dec 19, 2012)

Friday, November 23, 2012

Concatenation error

Any idea what is wrong here?

>> A = [-1./alpha.^2 -3./2./sig.^2, 1./alpha.^2-1./sig^2, -1./2./sig.^2;... 
1./alpha.^2-1./sig.^2, -2./alpha.^2-1./sig.^2, 1./alpha.^2-1./2./sig.^2;... 
-1./2./sig.^2, 1./alpha.^2-1./2./sig.^2, -1./alpha.^2-1./2./sig.^2];
??? Error using ==> sym.cat>checkDimensions at 76
CAT arguments dimensions are not consistent.

Error in ==> sym.cat>catMany at 39
[resz, ranges] = checkDimensions(sz,dim);

Error in ==> sym.cat at 29
    y = catMany(dim, strs);

Error in ==> sym.vertcat at 26
    y = cat(1,args{:});


Turns out there is an innocuous looking white space on the first line before the -3. Next time be careful when adding extra spaces to improve readability.