Bits of Life

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  1. Grif

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    I'm not exactly sure how to say this, but tell me about the "easter eggs" you've found in real life.

    Here's one of mine.

    Adam West has a house in Sun Valley, and his phone number is listed in the telephone book. Mind you Sun Valley is a small town where the yellow and white pages are in the same book. If you are to look up Adam West in the White pages it says "See Batman under Crime fighters in the yellow pages". If you flip to the yellow pages you will find Batman, and under Batman it says "See Bruce Wayne in the white pages". Under Bruce Wayne it says "See Adam West".

    So what have you seen?
     
  2. Glasgow

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    I've found the IWHBYD skull at the edge of a broken bridge, and I had to jump over a bunch of cars in some complex order to obtain it.
     
  3. Nemihara

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    In most elevators, holding your floor button and the close door button will effectively give you a private car; it will go straight to that floor and not stop at any other floor.
     
  4. Tex

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    Good thread Grif. I'm shocked you pulled off one decent one.

    Though, let's try to keep this somewhat realistic, people...

    *sigh*

    As for my "Bits of Life" - another time... I just don't have a second to think of one right now.
     
  5. EpicFishFingers

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    In England on some of the older-style pedestrian crossings if you hold the button in then the lights turn red regardless. Doesn't work on Toucan crossings though.
     
  6. Grif

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    Well thanks I guess...

    This may seem odd, but for some reason traffic seems to flow with my music sometimes. I have a playlist on my iPod called Drive 1. It has songs that you would see in a driving seen in an action movie, or songs in racing games. For some reason at lights when the song gets to the opening "bang" the light changes green. It happens a lot.
     
  7. Camel Carcass

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    Record that part of the track and play it every second you drive.
    Also, find another song that prevents traffic.
    FACT: Songs are life's cheat codes.
     
  8. CaMOfo

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    I found that you can't make a clock-wise circle with your right foot and make a counter-clock-wise circle in the air with your right point finger at the same time.

    Also put your head phones up to your neck (where you check your pulse at) and open your mouth, it should cause your mouth to become somewhat of a speaker and make the music louder.
     
  9. Camel Carcass

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    First one - I did it.

    Second one - I'll try it.
     
  10. Norlinsky

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    There's this one song that sounds like it's from some racing game, and it really flows with driving.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIdqAwpeTh0
     
  11. EpicFishFingers

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    I found a life easter egg today:

    I was messing around with my scientific calculator, surprised that I still didn't know what all the functions did even though I'm at C2 Maths in AS Level. Anyway, I noticed the ->BIN key. So I pressed it and nothing happened. So i set it back to ->DEC and then typed in a number (57) and pressed the ->BIN key again. The 57 turned into a sztring of 1s and 0s. That's when I realised that BIN stood for Binary.

    So for the next 10-15 minutes I messed around with it and figured out much about binary code. But then I thought of something and typed in "2000" and then pressed ->BIN again. "ERROR 2". It didn't like 2000. But then I checked the manufacture date of the calculator. I've had it for about 10 years, and it was made in 1998.

    Y2K?
     
  12. Nemihara

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    Lucky bum, I had to program my calculator to convert Decimal to Binary. It's very messy and sloppy, but it's helpful when I'm doing quick formulas.

    Anyways, it depends on how high you can go. Can you type in 1999 and convert it to Base2?




    Something I just realized today, to my irritation. In Mac OS X, when you're looking at Windows machines in the local network, the screens all display a BSOD. Why don't the icons for Apple machines display a kernel panic? How biased. But unavoidable, I suppose.
     
  13. CaMOfo

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    I always come across myself thinking of how remarkable it is that all of you reading this now can understand what I am thinking at this very moment just my looking at these symbols we call letters. And that all I need to do is put different sounds into a pattern for others to understand what I am feeling and thinking in head.
     
  14. Grif

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    Well technically we may not actually know what you are thinking, because in our minds we may see the universe drastically different than you.
     
  15. Jake Pajamas

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    If you pull your mouth open with your hands and look in a mirror you will become aware of your skull.
     
  16. Nemihara

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    Upon reading this sentence, you will start breathing manually. And when you read this sentence, you'll blink.
     
  17. EpicFishFingers

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    Washing machines always alternate between turning clockwise and anti-clockwise when not on the spin cycle.
     
  18. Grif

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    Don't you mean counter clockwise?
     
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    More often than not, the messages people have scribbled onto the side of Public Payphones, usually have some good advice.
     
  20. Mace

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    ... GET OUT OF MY HEAD ...

    I can't think of anything atm.
     

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