Coffee 10/50

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February 29th already went. So, I am a little late with this post. But leap year continues, and at some point I probably will confront DFAS (Desperate For A Shot) =D

At some Finnish source I noticed that leap day is not only about women proposing a marriage to men, but it is also a backwards, reverse, opposites, upside down, topsy-turvy, all wrong, mirror, invert, or even perversion day. So, for example on that day one can enjoy some cross-dressing, walk backwards, do all wrong, or even do something perverse.

But that is indeed not a very common or known "tradition" in Finland either. Meaning that I could not find much evidence for such traditions. Please share here in comments if you know more.

Anyway, I have lately got interested in all kinds of inverted things, like backwards text. There are many text generators that does backwards and upside down text transformation, but not many that does especially good backwards text. Usually one only gets something like this:

ESAELP EEFFOC

That is definitely not the same as:

ƎƧAƎ⅃ꟼ ƎƎꟻꟻOϽ

But then I found Flip Your Text generator, which does a good job. Especially text with capital letters get reversed pretty nicely:

ZYXWVUTƧЯϘꟼOИM⅃ꓘႱIHӘꟻƎꓷƆꓭA

And also upside down and backwards:

Z⅄XMꓥꓵꓕSꓤῸꓒONWꓶꓘſIHꓨꓞƎꓷꓛꓭⱯ

And just upside down:

ⱯBCDEԷҼHIՂKΓWИOb⥀ʁƧꓕꓵΛMX⅄Z

For my surprise all those characters are also in UTF-8, aka can be used here at ipernity. Only upside down diaeresis are not supported. I am definitely going to add that onto my useful online services found article. Although, I am not sure how useful this one actually is...

And yes, the picture is a retake on my old photo:



P.S. Leap day also would be a perfect palindrome day ;-)