On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 03:50:56 GMT, Vandar <vandar69@yahoo.com> wrote:
>zob wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 19:16:15 -0800, "fmomoon" <fmomoon@comcast.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>"zob" <zob@ cox.net> wrote in message
>>>news:eaqiq39umu945ubis354q5p8oaubsp2cab@4ax.com...
>>>
>>>>On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 12:07:19 -0600, "CatNipped"
>>>><CatNipped@PossiblePlaces.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Is that the one that had the question, if you start with 10 and take half
>>>>>of
>>>>>that and then take half of the result, and then half again, etc., how many
>>>>>calculations will it take you to get to zero?
>>>>
>>>>The answer to that one seems obvious to me. It only takes only one
>>>>calculation ... if you take the *right* half of 10. :-D
>>>>---
>>>>Zob
>>>
>>>Oh my....a math pun....the shame of it all! LOL
>>
>>
>> The sad truth is that in college I had a double major:
>> Language and Math. (For real!) Heh.
>
>Does that mean you speak binary?
Are you kidding me? I spent the entire duration of the original "Star
Wars" movie translating R2D2's words for everybody around me! :)
Seriously, though, in a sense I do sort of speak binary! A while back
(when I was really, really bored apparently) I memorized the binary
equivalents of the alphabet. (ASCII codes used for representing text
with binary numerals in a computer for instance.) E.g.:
V = 01010110
a = 01100001
n = 01101110
d = 01100100
a = 01100001
r = 01010110
Of course, I'm always "a day late and a dollar short." A couple of
years after I went through all that trouble of learning the binary
alpha equivalents, I discovered that there are online automatic binary
translators! (This is *really* cool... <for other geeks, that is> )
http://nickciske.com/tools/binary.php
I half expect it to show up on the Google Language Toolbar one of
these days ...
I was a ham radio operator in my early teens and am fluent in Morse
Code too :)
"Vandar" in Morse is: ..._ ._ _. _.. ._ ._.
I figure if I'm ever captured by radical Islamic terrorists, I'm all
set. When they parade me in front of the camera to show all the world
that they've got me, I just need to blink my eyes in binary or Morse
to get a message with my location out ... :-D
Otherthan that, this all pretty useless information to have. Too bad
we can't defrag and purge our brains like we can computers to get rid
of all that useless old data cluttering up the memory cells!
---
Zob
Vandar
fmomoon
