> On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 03:50:56 GMT, Vandar <vandar69@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>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
The visual of you sending Morse code is hilarious. I can just imagine
Vandar
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