Thursday, December 09, 2004

Not Unwise

Someone said to me today, "You have too much time on your hands." This was in response to the following thing I did with my free time recently: I wrote "HAPPY HANUKKAH" in binary (yes, it's all caps). Check it out (I included spaces to ease your eyes):

01001000 01000001 01010000 01010000 01011001 00100000 01001000 01000001 01001110 01010101 01001011 01001011 01000001 01001000

That is quite a mouthful, however, so I shortened it to hexadecimal. Now it reads:

48415050592048414E554B4B4148

So, as you can see, that person had a very good reason for what he/she/it/they said.

...And the Adventures of The Dark Man continued!

Check this: When you have a velocity of 0, it means you're not going anywhere, or going nowhere. When your velocity increases by factors of large numbers, it means you're going fast. Therefore, if my velocity is 207x (where x is some number), I'm going fast in relation to something travelling at a velocity of 1x. But if x is 0, then my velocity is 207 times 0, and I am going nowhere fast.

So until next time, remember: All's well that ends with some crazy, irrelevant quote.

---TDM

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