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AVD meltdown :0
h - May 2nd, 2014 at 08:38 PM

hey
getting probs viewing aplenty on here ATM
I'm surprised I was able to post this
demons out!


vanderaj - May 3rd, 2014 at 10:55 AM

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h - May 3rd, 2014 at 11:24 AM

Yeww!
thanks Andrew :)


OZ Towdster - May 3rd, 2014 at 06:18 PM

Hell that was close , nearly had to spend the night with the missus , Thanks Andrew


vanderaj - May 3rd, 2014 at 09:12 PM

HAHHAHAHA!


vlad01 - May 4th, 2014 at 10:07 PM

what was that thing, something about yellow when the error page came up?


vanderaj - May 4th, 2014 at 11:51 PM

It's the error Dirk Gently's iChing calculator showed when it couldn't determine the future. It wasn't a very good iChing calculator.

Andrew


vanderaj - May 4th, 2014 at 11:51 PM

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The electronic I Ching calculator was badly made. It had probably been manufactured in whichever of the South-East Asian countries was busy tooling up to do to South Korea what South Korea was busy doing to Japan. Glue technology had obviously not progressed in that country to the point where things could be successfully held together with it. Already the back had half fallen off and needed to be stuck back on with Sellotape.

It was much like an ordinary pocket calculator, except that the LCD screen was a little larger than usual, in order to accommodate the abridged judgments of King Wen on each of the sixty-four hexagrams, and also the commentaries of his son, the Duke of Chou, on each of the lines of the hexagram. These were unusual texts to see marching across the display of a pocket calculator, particularly as they had been translated from the Chinese via the Japanese and seemed to have enjoyed many adventures on the way.

The device also functioned as an ordinary calculator, but only to a limited degree. It could handle any calculation which returned an answer of anything up to "4".

"1 + 1" it could manage ("2"), and "1 + 2" ("3") and "2 + 2" ("4") or "tan 74" ("3.4874145"), but anything above "4" it represented merely as "A Suffusion of Yellow". Dirk was not certain if this was a programming error or an insight beyond his ability to fathom, but he was crazy about it anyway, enough to hand over £20 of ready cash for the thing.


modnrod - May 5th, 2014 at 06:31 AM

Hehehehe........


vlad01 - May 5th, 2014 at 08:54 AM

lol


Lucky Phil - May 9th, 2014 at 10:25 PM

:lol: Takes me back!
I recall Dirk Gentlys "holistic navigation" technique.
"If you don't know where you are going, find someone who looks like they do, and follow them.
You may not end up where you think you wanted to go, but you are bound to
end up somewhere far more interesting"
Strange thing is, I have done this, and IT WORKS!
Makes me realise what a scary world it is.
And what a genius Douglas Adams really was.