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Man hand-forges his own wedding ring out of a meteorite (Original Post) pokerfan May 2012 OP
That is amazing, my dear pokerfan! CaliforniaPeggy May 2012 #1
One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. HopeHoops May 2012 #2
Ash nazg durbatulūk, ash nazg gimbatul.... pokerfan May 2012 #3
Fuck. I read the whole hex stream and YES, that is what it says!!! HopeHoops May 2012 #4
but of course... pokerfan May 2012 #9
It would have been better in binary, and sadly, yes, I can still read the hex from binary. HopeHoops May 2012 #10
So that's how LOTR started. jp11 May 2012 #5
It would be awesome if he put it on right after taking that picture Orrex May 2012 #6
In brightest day, in blackest night.... Swede May 2012 #7
I'm not sure who the governing body is OriginalGeek May 2012 #8

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,308 posts)
1. That is amazing, my dear pokerfan!
Wed May 9, 2012, 05:55 PM
May 2012

And the finished ring is truly gorgeous, a one-of-a-kind...

Good for him!

pokerfan

(27,677 posts)
3. Ash nazg durbatulūk, ash nazg gimbatul....
Wed May 9, 2012, 07:29 PM
May 2012

Recently one of my friends, a computer wizard, paid me a visit. As we were talking I mentioned that I had recently installed Windows on my PC, I told him how happy I was with this operating system and showed him the Windows CD. Too my astonishment and distress he threw it into my micro-wave oven and turned it on. I was upset because the CD had become precious to me, but he said: 'Do not worry, it is unharmed.' After a few minutes he took the CD out, gave it to me and said: 'Take a close look at it.' To my surprise the CD was quite cold and it seemed to have become thicker and heavier than before. At first I could not see anything, but on the inner edge of the central hole I saw an inscription, in lines finer than anything I have ever seen before. The inscription shone piercingly bright, and yet remote, as if out of a great depth:

4F6E65204F5320746F2072756C65207468656D20616C6C2C204F6E65204F5320746F
2066696E64207468656D2C0D0A4F6E65204F5320746F206272696E67207468656D20
616C6C20616E6420696E20746865206461726B6E6573732062696E64207468656D

'I cannot read the fiery letters,' I said.

'No,' he said, 'but I can. The letters are Hex, of an ancient mode, but the language is that of Microsoft, which I shall not utter here. But in common English this is what it says:'

One OS to rule them all, One OS to find them,
One OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

 

HopeHoops

(47,675 posts)
4. Fuck. I read the whole hex stream and YES, that is what it says!!!
Wed May 9, 2012, 08:15 PM
May 2012

Good job. Good job.

Oh, and BYTE my ASCII.



 

HopeHoops

(47,675 posts)
10. It would have been better in binary, and sadly, yes, I can still read the hex from binary.
Fri May 11, 2012, 09:31 AM
May 2012

Then again, it would have taken four times the space to display it that way, but hey, what's a few extra bytes to nerds?

jp11

(2,104 posts)
5. So that's how LOTR started.
Wed May 9, 2012, 08:50 PM
May 2012

He just wanted to get married and then it all went horribly wrong so he had to rule the world.

Swede

(33,144 posts)
7. In brightest day, in blackest night....
Wed May 9, 2012, 10:57 PM
May 2012

No evil shall escape my sight
Let those who worship evil's might,
Beware my power, Green Lantern's light!!!

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