Oh my. Bill Amend of “FoxTrot” fame really is a nerd.
Yesterday’s comic had Jason eating a bowl of Alpha-Bytes— like Alpha-Bits, but in binary, naturally.
But what’s even funnier is that the cereal actually spells something. Those are the ASCII codes for “YOUNERD”.
I guess I am a nerd, since I went through the trouble of actually checking the ASCII values… though admittedly, Perl’s pack function did make it a bit less painful… :-p
Edited to add: Of course, this is old news to those of you who regularly read Digg, which I had forgotten to check for several days. Great minds think alike, I guess…
I did the same thing
I too did this although I have memorized the conversion of binary to decimal to ASCII. I like that A=65 and a=97, it makes it really simple.
long time, eh? see messages to the footar. suppose i should say sumthin. hope you done gud pal.