Comic for Friday, February 5, 2010

Posted: 6:30 am, Friday, February 5

Like how I telegraphed this one all friggin' week? Hope it lived up to it.

I've nearly regained my voice, which must mean that the weekend's about here.

Grafer sent me this from the LA Times, which is blocked at school as a social networking site. I don't know how a slideshow of 50 awesome vintage matchbook covers could be considered social networking, but there's a lot about the DOE I don't understand. Anyway, these things are awesome.

Three classes enjoyed Murders in the Rue Morgue (the beginning, anyway), one disliked it, and two are convinced that Dupin and the narrator are homosexual lovers. The worst part, reading it over the weekend before deciding to teach it, I totally knew that they were going to think they were gay. I'm in their heads, eatin their doodz.

People sure do suck.

Wow, yesterday's Beetle Bailey sure was gross.

I'm listening right now to economist stand-up comedy that was on the NewsHour last night. It is... not funny.

Superbowl weekend! I guess. I'm going to a party where the host appears to be a Colts fan, and I'll be backing the Saints, because I just don't like Peyton Manning very much. Wow, this economist stand-up is brutal. It just keeps going. OK, there was something somewhat funny just now. Great. I need to leave before this cripples me.

bullfrog

2.0 -- Friday, February 5 2010, 07:42 am

I forget, did I show you this?

Vintage letterhead designs:

http://www.letterheady.com/

Congrats on working "weltschmerz" into a strip with Jen in it. There oughtta be an award

I'll be home this weekend. All of DC will be home this weekend. Latest prediction: 16-26" Who wants to go skiing next weekend!?!?!

Way to utilize some of those fonts that are installed on the ol' pooch but just never see the light of day. The binary was a nice touch, too. Good work, Frogo, and happy weekend.

Awesome site, 2.0! This Scientology letterhead design is AMAZING: http://www.letterheady.com/post/332382765/scientology

I just looked, E, looks like NYC is due for a whalloping of three inches. I can't believe we've been out-snowed by Virginia this year.

I can't believe I found an English-to-binary translator. I'm pretty certain that's "sad" in Binary. I had "sadness," at first, to maintain some gramattical agreeance, but it's like another forty digits long.

You should also see the companion website to Letterheady, Letters of Note.

http://www.lettersofnote.com/

I particularly love the note from Mark Twain skewering a medical salesman, after the salesman's untimely attempt to sell Clemens an medical elixir right after Clemens wife's death. Needless to say, Twain was brutal in a way that Jeffery Ross would have appreciated. (http://www.lettersofnote.com/2010/01/youre-idiot-of-33rd-degree.html)

It's eight 1's and 0's per single ASCII character. http://www.roubaixinteractive.com/PlayGround/Binary_Conversion/The_Characters.asp

I suppose it was mostly reasonable for you to hold the question mark constant.

The flaw in the parallelism is that you have simply converted English "sad" into binary. For the other languages, as far as I can read them, you used that language's word for sadness, listlessness, despair. Apelpisia indeed. We need to imagine a computer expressing despair in its own native tongue.

I would say, 28 off bits, 28 zeroes. Here is my logic. Eight zeroes is the null character. Not space, but null, nothing. Null is used in the C language to terminate strings. Feel it. It's null. Nothing. Nada. Nil. Termination. Feel it. Theoretically, 0 is no energy in the chip or magnetic media, and 1 is energy. 00000000. No energy. Null. Imagine three of them in a row. Null! Null! Null! 24 bits of nothing. Of termination. Can you take it? I hope your loved one is nearby. I hope you have someone or something to cling to. I say 28 bits, because the computer begins, but cannot bring itself to complete, a fourth null character. How could it do so? It stops halfway, at four more bits. Why bother? It doesn't matter. It's nothingness. The meaningless of existence. If there is such a thing as existence. Four bits because I think even a computer in despair would find it pleasing to write a complete half byte. They are a little compulsive after all.

Such are my thoughts.

1 or 0, man, existence or the void. DEEP.