Tuesday, January 11, 2011

01 11 11

Binary dates were most optimal in the years 1000, 1010, and 1011, but we have to make do with what we have now, and just drop the 20 in our 2011. We have a few more binary dates this year 10 01 11, 10 10 11, 10 10, 11, 11 01 11, 11 11 11. 

Today’s date translates to .


I am very disappointed to find that the RUSH song 'The Body Electric', which uses the code 1001001 (which is supposed to mean SOS), is not acurate, SOS is actually coded as 01010011 01001111 01010011. Well, had I been a humanoid escaping and trying to get out a distress signal, I would have done poorly to depend on the lyrics of RUSH. I think RUSH should have been accurate, even if it destroyed the artistic cadance of the song.

A binary code is a system of representing text by the use of the binary number system's two-binary digits 0 and 1. This is accomplished by assigning a bit string to each particular symbol or instruction. Binary Code was first introduced by the German mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz during the 17th century. Leibniz was trying to find a system that converts verbal statements into a mathematical one. After his ideas were ignored, he came across a classic Chinese text called ‘I Ching’ or ‘Book of Changes’, which used a type of binary code. The book had confirmed his theory that life could be simplified or reduced down to a series of straightforward propositions. He created a system consisting of rows of zeros and ones.*


I like codes. I am able to write backwards and it is fun to send letters in that code. They are easily decoded by holding the letter up to the light or by using a mirror.

a binary decoder http://home2.paulschou.net/tools/xlate/

01100110 01101111 01110010 00100000 01101100 01110101 01101110 01100011 01101000 00100000 01110100 01101111 01100100 01100001 01111001 00100000 01001001 00100000 01101000 01100001 01100100 00100000 01100001 00100000 01110010 01100101 01100100 00100000 01100011 01100001 01100010 01100010 01100001 01100111 01100101 00100000 01110011 01100001 01101100 01100001 01100100 00101110 00100000 01110011 01101100 01101001 01100011 01100101 00100000 01101001 01110100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101001 01101110 00100000 01100001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01100001 01100100 01100100 00100000 01110010 01100101 01100100 00100000 01110111 01101001 01101110 01100101 00100000 01110110 01101001 01101110 01100101 01100111 01100001 01110010 00101100 00100000 01101111 01101100 01101001 01110110 01100101 00100000 01101111 01101001 01101100 00101100 00100000 01110011 01100001 01101100 01110100 00101100 00100000 01100001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01110000 01100101 01110000 01110000 01100101 01110010 00101110 00100000 01001001 00100000 01101100 01101111 01110110 01100101 00100000 01101001 01110100 00100001 00100000 01001001 00100000 01100001 01101100 01110011 01101111 00100000 01110011 01110000 01110010 01101001 01101110 01101011 01101100 01100101 01100100 00100000 01100011 01100001 01110011 01101000 01100101 01110111 01110011 00100000 01101111 01101110 00100000 01110100 01101111 01110000 00101110 00100000 01000011 01100001 01100010 01100010 01100001 01100111 01100101 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01100001 00100000 01110110 01100101 01110010 01111001 00100000 01100111 01101111 01101111 01100100 00100000 01100110 01101111 01110010 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00101110 00100000

Binary takes up a lot of room, like 50X more than just using the letters.

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_numeral_system


2 comments:

apple slice said...

i am not in the least surprised you can write backwards. it is your huge brain.

Marie said...

Mmmmm......cabbage salad. I made my sister-in-law's spicy cabbage soup recipe last week and it was a delicious way of atoning for my holiday caloric sins.

It's fun to watch you write backwards in church.

01001101 01111001 00100000 01100110 01100001 01110110 01101111 01110010 01101001 01110100 01100101 00100000 01100010 01100001 01101110 01100100 00101100 00100000 01000111 01100101 01100111 01100111 01111001 00100000 01010100 01100001 01101000 00101100 00100000 01101000 01100001 01110011 00100000 01100001 00100000 01101100 01101111 01110110 01100101 00100000 01110011 01101111 01101110 01100111 00100000 01100011 01100001 01101100 01101100 01100101 01100100 00100000 01001111 01101110 01100101 00100000 01011010 01100101 01110010 01101111 00100000 01110111 01101001 01110100 01101000 00100000 01100001 00100000 01110011 01110100 01110010 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01100010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001 00100000 01100011 01101111 01100100 01100101 00100000 01101001 01101110 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01101100 01111001 01110010 01101001 01100011 01110011 00101100 00100000 01100010 01110101 01110100 00100000 01001001 00100000 01100100 01101111 01101110 00100111 01110100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101001 01101110 01101011 00100000 01101001 01110100 00100000 01110100 01110010 01100001 01101110 01110011 01101100 01100001 01110100 01100101 01110011 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01100001 01101110 01111001 01110100 01101000 01101001 01101110 01100111 00101110 00100000 00001101 00001010