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... when you take the intel manuals on a trip for "easy reading" ... (true story)

True for me.

some counts sheep when having trouble sleeping. I usually do powers of 2. 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, etc. Some times I get as high as 524288 before i give up.

I would say that more or less makes me a geek.

I usually fall asleep when I think about the GUI for my OS. My OS is still at it's bootloader stage, but it helps a lot to dream on those long nights when the roommates play WoW all night and I have to get fast asleep.
I get a lot of ideas at night, just before sleeping, but the problem is that I forget most of them... I was never able to count sheep. For some reason I cannot imagine sheep. When I do try to count sheep, I end up with a lot of questions: Would they look like the ones in Droopy cartoons? Would they look like real sheep? Do they have to jump over a fence so I can count them or are they all in a hurd making it a big challenge to count? Once I thought about writing a program to simulate counting sheep. It would run in the background and pop up on the screen (like a screensaver) at 11:00 PM, which is about the time my eyes stop functioning correctly... Now that I think about it, it's a nice idea for a screensaver.

I can't help thinking about a scene from Mr. Bean.
He has trouble falling a sleep so he find a big picture with a lot of sheeps, which he just happens to have for some reason, and starts counting them. However, he keeps loosing track of the numbers, so what he does is he picks up a calculator, counts how many sheeps are on the x axis and the y axis, then multiplys them, sees the result and fall a sleep.

It's actually kinda funny, however I was unable to find an online videoclip of it.

Mr. Bean is awesome :') I remember quite clearly the episode when it was raining outside and he went through his attic and found one of his cars. Good times, good times.

For falling asleep I usually write DOS programs in machine code in my head. Quite nerdy, if you ask me.

I noticed the sheep in the painting were not grid-aligned. His algorithm is buggy...

zaleschiemilgabriel wrote:I noticed the sheep in the painting were not grid-aligned. His algorithm is buggy...

hehe, I don't thnk he cares much.

...when you think of every way that a program such as firefox could do a particular job.

..when you wake up in the morning to check new posts on the OSDev forum and end up saying "not useful..." for every new post
Here's an example:
...not useful...
...not useful...
...not useful...

...when you have the urge to make up examples for everything (or tutorials)



Cheers,
Gabriel

One day in class, the teacher asked what the square root of 256 was. Everyone rushed to their calculators but I subconciously shouted sixteen while yawning. The class thought I was amazing.

I definitely think that thinking in powers of 2 makes someone a geek.

So does thinking in hex.

I find hex too complicated and prefer binary, endless i'm working with big numbers of course.

I only use binary to count up to 15. When I get to 1111b I think about reaching 10h and everything becomes hex. Sometimes I skip to hex earlier, from 11b to 04h. Anyway, there's this constant conversion from hex to binary going on, especially when I work with bit flags. I need to define a standard for myself to use it when thinking with numbers.