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Impressive
Not to toot my own horn, but I managed to impress my 16-yr-old son the other day. We were watching Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert and they did something about robots taking over the world. In any case, part of the titles went by in binary and I was able to translate the binary into ASCII letters and into English. For example:
0100000101010000010100000100110001000101
broke down to:
01000001 01010000 01010000 01001100 01000101
or:
65 80 80 76 69
or:
APPLE
And it was a story about Apple computers.
He was impressed with my supreme geekery.
Good thing too, as I'll be the only one in the household who'll be able to communicate with our metallic overlords...
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Dang, you outgeek me on this one for sure. Somehow I never memorized the ASCII chart like some. I still have to look it up every time I need it.. Just another way in which I'm just an ubergeek-wanna-be... or is it ubergeek poser?
Uppercase ASCII's not so hard. Take 64 (@) and add the letter's place in the alphabet. A = 64 + 1; P = 64 + 16; etc.
Numbers are the same, except with 48. Space is 32. Quote is 34. Tab is 8, LF is 10, newline is 13. Bell is 7. And you could type these on the Apple II keyboard by pressing CTRL and the appropriate letter (eg: G for 7, *beep!* *beep!*)
That's all I remember off the top of my head.
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