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From: Willie Wong <wwong@Math.Princeton.EDU>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 15:02:25 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100705190225.GA26398@math.princeton.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTiksO3bwo_uA2_Eu1ZX2OJxtxyAro49MRykkD3TH@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 03:39:29PM +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
> 2010/7/5 William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>:
> >
> > There is a very informative movie that might help explain the process of
> > asking a question, then asking what question you need to get the answer.
> > Its called "Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy".
> >
> > Its obvious, the answers 24.
> 
> 24? I always thought "The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the
> Universe, and Everything" was 42. Did I miss something? :)

Obviously William Kenworthy is actually from a planet in the vicinity
of Betelgeuse, and has three arms, 2 of which with 6 fingers, and 1
with 7. Else I cannot fathom why he would want to try to count in base
19. 

W
-- 
Willie W. Wong                                     wwong@math.princeton.edu
Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire 
         et vice versa   ~~~  I. Newton



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-07-05 19:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-04 19:17 [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video? Mick
2010-07-04 19:27 ` Blackdream W
2010-07-05  5:57   ` Mick
2010-07-05  6:08     ` Dale
2010-07-05  6:18       ` Blackdream W
2010-07-05  6:32         ` Dale
2010-07-05  6:36           ` Blackdream W
2010-07-05 15:18           ` [gentoo-user] " James
2010-07-05  7:14       ` [gentoo-user] " Alan McKinnon
2010-07-05  7:47         ` Blackdream W
2010-07-05  9:29           ` Willie Wong
2010-07-05 12:40         ` Dale
2010-07-05 12:50           ` William Kenworthy
2010-07-05 13:39             ` Daniel Pielmeier
2010-07-05 14:22               ` William Kenworthy
2010-07-05 19:53                 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-07-05 19:02               ` Willie Wong [this message]
2010-07-05  7:43     ` Neil Bothwick
2010-07-05 12:43       ` Mick
2010-07-05 12:57         ` William Kenworthy
2010-07-05 15:43 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2010-07-05 20:40   ` Mick

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