September 18, 2004

I have no words. I have a bunch of words.

I tried to google the solution to a number sequence I came across. I got bored looking for it, so I googled my social security number and got this site. I randomly clicked a number, and so this post was born. I know how to convert binary and hex numbers to decimal and ascii, but nothing short of a lifetime supply of 30-year-old scotch and Diana Krall would make me even think of tackling that. I hereby declare this "Thank God for the Internet" Day.

posted by middleclasstool 20 years ago
  • Sits here patiently waiting for someone to tackle it so we all know what the hell it is.....
  • /and thankfully when I googled my SS# no documents matched. Whew.
  • ...riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.
  • Fucking wonderful link, PF. I've just recently discovered Borges, and I love his writing. No writer on earth has ever been as fixated on (a) really trippy shit and (b) knife fights as Borges seems to be. Whoever finds any purpose to my links gets my wife as a prize.
  • It's a spider trap. It's designed to trap those programs that go from one webpage to another, trying to find email addresses to spam. It's just a bunch of random gibberish with a little script that generates more random gibberish whenever a link is followed. The plan is that the spider finds this page, finds a link, follows it, goes to the next random page, follows a link on there, and so gets HORRIBLY ENSNARED UNTIL THE END OF TIME. Pretty cool, if you're into that kind of thing. For me, there's too few hours in the day. Do I get your wife in one lump sum, or monthly installments?
  • As far as solutions to number sequences go, you can probably find them at the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences.
  • this spider of which blaise speaks is very scary.
  • It's a spider trap. See also.
  • Quinquatrus beaminess truantness straint phose fenestrule formable. At last, I have the answer. mct, how cool is the Borges story about the coin with only one side? I mean, how cool? Just wanted to say, y'know.
  • Damn, I was hoping that we were going to call Umberto Eco at some point. Or maybe that "Bible Code" guy. Meh, you can have her, Blaise. I'll start by mailing the big toes. Haven't read that one yet, flash, just finished "The Aleph and Other Stories" -- is that one in the "Book of Sand" collection? It's next on my list.
  • Book of Sand thread, in case anybody missed it before.