caught out
May. 20th, 2004 11:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mamajoanSometimes in meetings when I'm bored, I pick a random 3- (or sometimes 4-) digit number and entertain myself by figuring out how to represent it in all the bases from 2 to 16. For example, the number 520 (today's date) is 1000001000 in base 2, 201021 in base 3, 1342 in base 7, ....
Anyway, the other day a coworker caught me doing it and wanted to know what I was doing so I had to explain (after the meeting was over, of course). Then I felt like SUCH a geek. Luckily, all my coworkers are geeks too, so it's not like he didn't understand, but still.
This started in high school when I used to entertain myself during boring classes by picking a number and finding its square root to as many decimal places as I felt like dealing with. Or, sometimes I would pick a number between about 9 and 15, and try to come up with a list of words with that many letters, ideally without using cop-out devices like adding "ing" or "s" or "ly" to the end. Or I would take someone's name and try to find entertaining anagrams thereof (in English class, Emily Bronte = "liberty on me").
I Was A Teenage Geek. Plus ça change, right? ;)
Anyway, the other day a coworker caught me doing it and wanted to know what I was doing so I had to explain (after the meeting was over, of course). Then I felt like SUCH a geek. Luckily, all my coworkers are geeks too, so it's not like he didn't understand, but still.
This started in high school when I used to entertain myself during boring classes by picking a number and finding its square root to as many decimal places as I felt like dealing with. Or, sometimes I would pick a number between about 9 and 15, and try to come up with a list of words with that many letters, ideally without using cop-out devices like adding "ing" or "s" or "ly" to the end. Or I would take someone's name and try to find entertaining anagrams thereof (in English class, Emily Bronte = "liberty on me").
I Was A Teenage Geek. Plus ça change, right? ;)
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Date: 2004-05-20 09:34 am (UTC)I feel so sheepish telling you that when I'm bored, I just make up rhymes.
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Date: 2004-05-20 01:25 pm (UTC)Isaac is doomed! Doomed! Doomed, I say!
::exits, stage left::
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Date: 2004-05-20 01:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-20 01:35 pm (UTC)GeekBabies Unite! You have nothing to lose but your onesies!