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>>On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 03:50:56 GMT, Vandar <vandar69@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>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