Comments on: Video: The fine line between stupid and clever

By: eCache » Blog Archive » Binary

eCache » Blog Archive » Binary — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 02:21:20 +0000

[...] Thanks to Hot Air for highlighting this. [...]

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: The fine line between stupid and clever — the sequel

Sun, 24 Jun 2007 21:59:48 +0000

[...] Got a nasty case of the blog blahs, which I fear may be terminal. At times like these, there’s only one thing that can lift my spirits: ingeniously moronic Rube Goldberg contraptions involving marbles. [...]

By: Mark was here

Mark was here — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 21:29:38 +0000

Subtract?

Isn’t that done by adding the “ones complement”?

Now if I could remember what it is.

By: LagunaDave

LagunaDave — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 17:12:12 +0000

As the saying goes, there are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don’t.

By: paulsur

paulsur — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 16:11:44 +0000

Let’s export this amazing technology to North Korea and China.

By: major john

major john — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 16:05:34 +0000

51% clever, 49% foolish.

By: Guardian

Guardian — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 15:30:46 +0000

Oh my GOD! benrand on June 23, 2007 at 11:00 PM

Redux!

By: Neo

Neo — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 15:17:20 +0000

I wish i had as much free time as these people to devote towards making useless crap and posting videos of it on the internets.

By: moonsbreath

moonsbreath — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 15:13:29 +0000

Yeah, I rather carry that around instead of something that fits in my hand.

By: Coronagold

Coronagold — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 14:32:04 +0000

More fun than numbers

By: Jaibones

Jaibones — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 13:10:03 +0000

lorien1973 on June 23, 2007 at 7:30 PM

I thought that was what light switches are for.

By: Wade

Wade — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 12:58:47 +0000

Is this from SNL ?

By: SailorDave

SailorDave — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 12:26:48 +0000

Just what I was needing: a spice rack that can do my taxes.

By: Mazztek

Mazztek — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 08:50:07 +0000

Hey, if you get here Sat night after drinking and check Hot Air…

THIS IS FACINATING!

Ah, Gostling’s Black Seal and 7.

By: Shy Guy

Shy Guy — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 08:13:28 +0000

There’s no zero listed on the machine.

ISLAMOPHOBES!!!!

By: Kadnine

Kadnine — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 08:07:05 +0000

OK, haters. I’ll grant you that the presentation / production values here are pretty low. But grant me this… if this vid had more personality, it would cease to be a filthy animal. Am I right?

By: ScottMcC

ScottMcC — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 06:16:11 +0000

I clicked on the embed, saw the running time was ~3 1/2 minutes, and immediately recognized that watching wooden binary marble math on YouTube is as fun as pellet gun to the balls.

>scoffsgo watch Doug Giles and take notes.

By: JinxMcHue

JinxMcHue — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 05:30:14 +0000

My favorite is the wooden mirror:

http://www.smoothware.com/danny/woodenmirror.html

I knew I’d regret watching the video. I knew it! Great. Now I’m going to have nightmares about that creepy thing.

By: RedCrow

RedCrow — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 05:23:55 +0000

LOL

Norm would have made it out of mahogony though.

And “biscuits”, lots of them.

rokemronnie on June 23, 2007 at 10:20 PM

I’m a bit of a computer geek, and do calculations in my head all the time…still kinda cool though.

What made me snicker to myself as I watched–I said to myself, “Man, this guy sure has a lot of marbles!”

By: Hack Ptui

Hack Ptui — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 04:33:16 +0000

Bah. I taught my daughter to count to 255 on her fingers. And she thought it was cool.

Yes, I know there will soon come a day when I can no longer impress my children with my geekness. But I’ll enjoy it while I can.

By: RightWinged

RightWinged — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 04:32:30 +0000

Imagine fitting THAT in your nerd bucket!

91Veteran on June 24, 2007 at 12:10 AM

lol, do you mean to imply I’m a nerd? I was bragging about math skills… I was just saying that compared to what I think we all do (at least I do) on a regular basis, this thing is pretty weak. Sure, when they invented stuff like this hundreds of years ago, it was great. And it’s still cool I guess, but not as impressive as it is apparently supposed to be.

By: 91Veteran

91Veteran — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 04:17:25 +0000

Punch cards for mainframes aren’t all that old!

libertarianuberalles on June 23, 2007 at 8:17 PM

Uh…yeah they are.

By: 91Veteran

91Veteran — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 04:10:34 +0000

Wow, am I the only one who thinks “it would take a MASSIVE one of these to be able to outdo my own ability to add in my head (not to mention subtract, multiply, divide, figure out a tip, create a monthly budget, etc.)”. It is cool to see that kind of thing in action, but isn’t it something that was done thousands of years ago? But am I the only one who does far more advanced math in their head on a daily basis?

RightWinged on June 23, 2007 at 5:00 PM

Imagine fitting THAT in your nerd bucket!

By: SouthernDem

SouthernDem — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 04:02:20 +0000

Um, didn’t the Chinese already do something similar?
Binary shminary, dude needs a girlfriend.

By: sonnyspats1

sonnyspats1 — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 03:51:38 +0000

Once more with felling. Pachinko Machine