Mad conversation
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Had a rather... cryptic conversation with a colleague the other week.
Colleague: *looking at size of badmail on exchange* It's all stuff that should never have got to us.
Me: How do you mean?
Colleague: Well, it's electronic data, isn't it? And sometimes it passes us by.
Me: *laughs, thinking he's messing*
Colleague: *indignant* No, but it is! It's all noughts and ones.
Thought it best to just leave the room, quietly, at this point. Sometimes there are conversations it's just best not to persue.
Colleague: *looking at size of badmail on exchange* It's all stuff that should never have got to us.
Me: How do you mean?
Colleague: Well, it's electronic data, isn't it? And sometimes it passes us by.
Me: *laughs, thinking he's messing*
Colleague: *indignant* No, but it is! It's all noughts and ones.
Thought it best to just leave the room, quietly, at this point. Sometimes there are conversations it's just best not to persue.
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Date: 2007-07-27 07:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-27 07:33 pm (UTC)Those who don't
Those who confuse it with binary
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Date: 2007-07-27 10:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-27 09:54 pm (UTC)But I can't laugh too much, having spent a good five minutes a while back being really, really puzzled why 255 was not the same as 256 in binary before I remembered they are, in fact, different numbers *headdesk* It had been a long week. Spent another five minutes laughing at myself after that. Don't know which is the bigger pointer that I'm losing the plot ^_~
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Date: 2007-07-28 02:17 am (UTC)To quote:
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