Working Daze by John Zakour and Scott Roberts for February 21, 2025

I missed the drip the first time. I was too busy checking Ed’s math.

HEXADECIMAL. The word is HEXADECIMAL.

I now count my age in hexadecimal.

In the 80’s for a COBOL Programming job they used to test if you could add in Hex and Octal

If I did it right, I’m 14 years younger in hexadecimal. Convert that to dog years for my hexadecimal value would make me about 6.4 years old, 1/10 of the base 10 year. Man, I’m geeking out here.

Sure, the hex value is: 1A + 2B = 45, while the decimal value is: 26 + 43 = 69. Interesting how 69 came into play for a bar pickup line.

They are thinking what a drip you are, Ed.

my great regret, now that my computer career is over, is that I never learned hex, though I never had to use it, it was just one of those badges I did not earn.

I don’t know why, but I thought Ed had a wife & kids.

When it came out to 45, I at first assumed it was a joke about Emperor Trump.

We never programmed anything in hex. By the time my employer let “ordinary” engineers use the computers, it was in Fortran.

What a drip, flake, nerd, weirdo…….

Why do programmers get Halloween and Christmas mixed up? Because OCT 31 = DEC 25

Or your favorite number is the square root of -1!

I suspect they’ll only be interested if they need their computer/printer fixing

More interesting is that Oct 31 = Dec 25, causing some geeks to mix up Halloween with Christmas

Is the arithmetic some kind of CS-1A gag?

0xDEADBEEF.

He thinks of himself as a fountain of information, but the ladies just think he’s all wet.