FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for January 04, 2017

a computer geek’s favorite cereal

…and it spells out “YOU NERD”. I can’t imagine what that message might be implying…

His cereal is only 8 bit. How low tech!

There only 10 kinds of people – those who understand binary & those who don’t.

I think he just picked out all the O’s and I’s and rearranged them into binary.

That’s actual ASCII code, someone did their homework.

For a snack how about Chips and DIP Switches!

I don’t have my yellow card or green card to translate hexadecimal anymore.

Binary to Decimal to ASCII

01011001 = 89 = Y

01001111 = 79 = O

01010101 = 85 = U

01001110 = 78 = N

01000101 = 69 = E

01010010 = 82 = R

01000100 = 68 = D

Thank you to those who translated. I’m a nerd so I had to google it and translate myself, but I would have stopped at the decimal values if y’all hadn’t pointed out it said “you nerd.”

Green card? Yellow card? Did some of you used to work on IBM 360 and IBM 370?

All of You bunch of nerds gave me a headache, I’ll be having binary nightmares all night long, Thanks a bunch ! :P’

“Brian! My alphabet cereal is sending me a message! It says ‘OOOOO’!”

“Peter, those are Cheerios.”

(Family Guy)

(This one was my Random comic tonight.)