Speed Bump by Dave Coverly for June 03, 2020

Well, it’s “D76”, but it’s a heck of a lot better than “X Æ A-12“!

Another quiet evening at home with the Binary family.

110101110110, its jibberish. How about Maria or Robby

Or Frank, or Sam, or Ray, or Bob, or Harold!!!

How about something really exotic, like a decimal name?

“Oh, no – MY kid’s not growing up to be some nerd.”

Anything but “Karen”!

The name is nonsensical (or 3436). There are only three nibbles there and it takes a full byte to make a character. Add another nibble (or take one away) and you will be on to something.

Isn’t any worse than what some stars call their kids.

12 bits?

I wonder if that’s the baby name book Elon Musk used to get a name for his new baby XÆA-12 ?

It needs a special character.

I prefer 1000101

I’m too lazy to do the math. What number is that?

Name him Number 2, he’ll try harder.

I tried to go to an online binary translator. Apparently that doesn’t translate to anything.

12 bits? They must still be using octal.

HEX D76DEC 3446OCT 6566

Kitt Ryder.

No love for THX-1138?

“110101110110? Oh, it has its positives and its negatives.”

Let’s just go with Robbie.

Looks like he really couldn’t give a 2.

I think 101010 would be better.

I like how the belly is riveted on, for easy removal when the time comes.

“I have two sisters named 3 and 4.”

“Those are nice feminine names.”

“We think so.”

“Machines making machines? How perverse.”

C3PO and R2D2 are great robot names.

Hey… why do programmers get Halloween and Christmas confused?

Because 31OCT = 25DEC

What’s cute about 3446? I’m kind of partial to “fifteen” which is spelled 1111 in binary… though “thirty-one” is pretty cute too.