This guy is counting aloud to one milllion.

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 6:27 pm

Nanohedron wrote:I wanna see him do it in binary.

That's just mean.

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 6:28 pm

yep, it would indeed, I've been bored, cried, screamed and burned the tee shirt.

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 6:29 pm

Dale wrote:Sometimes when he is on break and not counting he turns off the audio so he can have a conversation with his girlfriend. Or whoever.

This is weirdly fascinating.

Dale, please tell me that you've torn yourself away from this guy and his counting to do something productive today!

Post by **Dale** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 8:51 pm

izzarina wrote:
Dale wrote:Sometimes when he is on break and not counting he turns off the audio so he can have a conversation with his girlfriend. Or whoever.

This is weirdly fascinating.
Dale, please tell me that you've torn yourself away from this guy and his counting to do something productive today!

Yes, indeed. Cut the grass in 92 degree heat. Took Mrs. Undisputed to Target. Ordered a printer for my daughter who's about to depart from college. Did a new PowerPoint for a talk I'm doing tomorrow. (38 slides). Went to Mass at St. Vincents. Made popcorn. Took two showers (one before church and one after cutting grass.) Gathered up some shirts to take to the cleaners. Wrote a letter to the Editor of the Birmingham News.

Do I seem defensive?

But, I just spent $5.00 to get a "stop the death penalty" on the millioncount crawl.

Somebody needs to buy a chiff & fipple message!

Dale

pipersgrip · Post by **pipersgrip** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 8:55 pm

583,080

Anstapa · Post by **Anstapa** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 5:39 am

izzarina wrote:
Nanohedron wrote:I wanna see him do it in binary.
That's just mean.

Meaner still if it was Roman Numerals

I stutter, so that leaves me out of this charity stunt, thank heaven!

Anstapa

Maddes · Post by **Maddes** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 9:14 am

he's fallen into some really strange little rhythm when he's counting.. I guess that's what happens if you count aloud all day and try not to fall asleep.. or go mad..

Or, maybe it's a sign he already did the latter

crookedtune · Post by **crookedtune** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 1:25 pm

Dale wrote: Or maybe his girlfriend will.

And if she tells him, "Harper, that's enough! Now take it back!", then he'll REALLY have his work cut out for him!

Post by **Nanohedron** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 1:28 pm

izzarina wrote:
Nanohedron wrote:I wanna see him do it in binary.
That's just mean.

Now you know a little bit more about me.

jsluder · Post by **jsluder** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 2:53 pm

Nanohedron wrote:
izzarina wrote:
Nanohedron wrote:I wanna see him do it in binary.
That's just mean.
Now you know a little bit more about me.

I'd take it a bit further, Nano. Not only should he count in binary, but he should always pronounce '0' as "zero", not "oh". Plus, it takes 20 bits to express 1,000,000 in binary (11110100001001000000), and he should have to speak all 20 bits for each count. For example, "1" would be, "Zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero one." (Or I could be really mean and say he has to use a full 32 bit word for each count.)

djm · Post by **djm** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 3:13 pm

Well, I can see how having him pronounce two syllables in zero would make it somewhat entertaining, but still, with only two possible values (zero and one), it seems fairly robotic to recite each count. Wouldn't it keep things more interesting if he were to count in hexadecimal?

djm

mutepointe · Post by **mutepointe** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 4:46 pm

that wouldn't be near as interesting as binary, every school kid knows that. lol

mutepointe · Post by **mutepointe** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 4:57 pm

i can't get the black screen to activite. it connects, then it says it's ready, then that's it. any suggestions?

djm · Post by **djm** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 5:08 pm

mutepointe wrote:that wouldn't be near as interesting as binary, every school kid knows that.

Every school kid learns hex as well. What's your point?

djm

Mitch · Post by **Mitch** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 3:06 am

I like this man.

Counting is good for you. Try this:

Close your eyes and count sequentially, by ones, from 1 to 100. With each count, visualise the number written in white chalk on a blackboard.

The rules are:

1. You are not to think of anything else during the count
2. You must count one number with every out-breath
3. Speeding-up the breathing is cheating - don't
4. you are not allowed to make the chalk or blackboard change color
5. The blackboard must remain in the same position and size throughout
6. The numbers must remain the same height and spacing
7. you must use the same style of numeral - no fancy serifs or coperplate!
8. You are not allowed to go to sleep
9. If you break any of the rules, you have to start-over or give-up - try again later.

If you can get to 10 without breaking any of the rules - you are doing VERY good. If you can get to 100 you will find a lot of things in your life improve.

Edit: Oh!! I nearly forgot the most important rule - "you are not allowed to scratch itches for the duration of the count."