It says “Nerd” in binary (in eight bits – including the leading zero).

That’s really cool! And of course, I am a proud nerd! hehehe

Clear skies!

I don’t get the Nerd Grid shirt, though.

MY first PC modem was 14 kbaud. Now I have a 6 Meg DSL line. I know! I COULD go to comsat and get 10 Meg, but hey, this is fast enough for active movie downloads and besides, it’s only $49/month(ok, so, I’m a Jewish/Scotsman). I used to have to repair Teletype KSR 28s. What a bunch of Rube Goldberg construction THAT was.

I remember Hex, Octal and binary. Rarely used Hexadecimal for anything and even though I had to occasionally write machine language programs (for the Univac 1108) for troubleshooting purposes, I am anything BUT a programmer. Hey, what’s that new fangled thing in programming? Top down/structured programming? Yeah, like THAT will ever replace GoTo,,,snark.

Gary 7
Ps Yes, I really AM that old,,,sigh,,,

Young whipper snapper. I done forgot more than Y’All will ever know,,,snark

It’s been quite a few years since I’ve qualified for “young whipper snapper”. (Though I’m hardly ready for “old foagie” any time soon.) My current net connection is nearly 200,000 times faster than my first computer connection, via an ASR-33 with an acoustic coupler to dial into the computer half a county away.

And you only think that you’ve forgotten more than I’ll ever know. The truth is, the only thing you’ve forgotten is that you never knew it in the first place.

Oops! Clean forgot about the parity bit. My bad! It’s been many a year since I worked on computers, so I’ve managed to forget a few details(Young whipper snapper. I done forgot more than Y’All will ever know,,,snark). Hey, I have to make room for the new stuff.

Gary 7

Dennis, I think you missed some zeros there?

Sorry, but there are only 7 significant bits. Bit 8 can be used for parity. BTDTGTPT^*

*: PT = “Punch Tape”

GAry 7

Now, THAT’S funny.

GAry 7
PS 6. Dennis, I think you missed some zeros there?

I was expecting something more interesting. Things like 0xB00B5 or 0xDEADBEEF.

Hey, the right numbers should have been 42 30 30 42 35 !!!

Yup, that takes a little more mental gymnastics as you say. But, being a true nerd/geek, it only took a few seconds longer. Of course, at first, it reminded me of Conway’s game of “Life”.

Now, how do I get my kids to stop singing “Soft Kitty”?

In fact, I watched the first episode last week and now I watch one each evening. I’m having SO MUCH fun! It is absolutely awesome! And the thing is: It is so close to reality. I find myself in so many scenes.

It is so f***ing great!

The problem is you need to not count with your pollices and halluces.

I was getting AMCII by adding 24 (the difference between 40 in hex and 40 in decimal), and I figured something was still amiss…

Hey, clever t-shirt.

What part of
1000001
1010011
1000011
1001001
1001001
Do you not understand?

There are || kinds of people in the world. Those who tally on sticks and those who tally with stones.

Just remember…

There are 10 types of people in this world. Those that understand binary, and those that don’t.

And, gotta love those school teachers with the VW minivan. (Though I suppose brownies instead of cookies would have been too obvious.)

And, maybe the telescope was there so they could see the satellite they were using to get HBO?

I did notice, though, that the guys took a telescope to a meteor shower event. OK, sure, I suppose, y’know, they could’ve dragged it along to look at Jupiter while they were waiting for the Leonids to peak, or something.