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Why 42
« on: August 24, 2010, 03:48:23 pm »
I just came up with this small story whilst being bored it is a small draft that will probaly never be corrected. Or if it will be corrected not be worth being corrected thus making that there is no point in being corrected which is why it isn't being corrected in the first place.

You have to like the douglas adams humor for this, or you won't like it. Or you will, by which you will like douglas adam's so that you may like this as well.

suddenly nothing happend
 until, nothing continued to happen
 after that, nothing happend for a while
 whilst nothing happened, nothing happend
 he did laugh though
 or he would ahve laughed
 if it wasn't that nothing was happening
 and so nothing happend again
 slightly annoyed nothing still happend
 and nothing remained to happen for a little longer
 then
 all of a sudden
 in a misty puff of paradoxical logic
 and the sneeze of a overaged vogon
 nothing happened
 because nothing happened the idle circuits of deep thought dedicated themselfs to do something fun
 so a low-level program booted and warned a agent program that it was booted
 after that nothing happened for a while
 the agent then alerted another agent that it was booted
 the other agent then called upon a supervisor what to do with all this sudden activity
 the supervisor program then called upon a master program that was playing around with some bits it had found in the inner depts of it's circuits
 "I wonder what this data is doing here" it said to the supervisor
 "I dunno sir, let me take a look" replied the supervisor
 to the untrained eye it seemed as if for a while nothing happened
 but something did happen
 the supervisor program analyzed the data the master program was playing with for a planck second and then decided that because there was data something should be done with it
 but what?
 the supervisor noted the masterprogram of this oddity and together they thought about what to do with it
 it seemed as if nothing still happened
 then
 suddenly,
 the master program decided to search through the extensive library of his instruction set and pick out a fitting instruction to do on that data.
 then a sub-level agent program alerted them that there was to be a answer expected within 70 clock cycles
 for 60 clock cycles the supervisor and master program were stumbed about this and wandered their thoughts of.
 then suddenly in 7 cycles they searched through the entire library.
1 cycle later they retrieved the data
 in the last two cycles they applied the instruction and fired it to the output programs
 splendid.
"splendid" repeated the master program
"it appears as if 6*7 really is 42" recalled the supervising program
 "splendid" repeated the master program
 and 42 was indeed the answer
 then,
 nothing happened anymore

EOF
« Last Edit: August 24, 2010, 05:59:21 pm by matthias1992 »
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Re: Why 42
« Reply #1 on: August 24, 2010, 04:03:52 pm »
Now I know why I hate Douglas Adams humor

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Re: Why 42
« Reply #2 on: August 24, 2010, 04:17:08 pm »
I like Douglas Adams but not this :P
You went out of way to type it up though, so that counts for something ;D
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Re: Why 42
« Reply #3 on: August 24, 2010, 05:21:04 pm »
why 42? Because, qazz42!

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Re: Why 42
« Reply #4 on: August 24, 2010, 06:01:36 pm »
Now I know why I hate Douglas Adams humor
Hate...ooph too bad, sorry for annoying you with this then...
I like Douglas Adams but not this :P
You went out of way to type it up though, so that counts for something ;D
Could you give me some directions as why you don't like this specifically? Thanks.
why 42? Because, qazz42!
Hmm, that might be the conclusion of some other circuits in deep thought that before they thought of that, were playing a game of Go.
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Re: Why 42
« Reply #5 on: August 24, 2010, 06:08:56 pm »
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Hate...ooph too bad, sorry for annoying you with this then...

Hey, I chose to read this.  Try not to feel too sensitive. :D 

Besides, I apologize, I was trying to make the comment sound more like I was saying it with a chuckle.  It was aimed at Douglas Adams, not at your story.  It is very hard for me to give the true nature of my approach when I use typing rather than talking directly with someone.

Your story was very cleverly done.

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Re: Why 42
« Reply #6 on: August 24, 2010, 06:11:49 pm »
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Hate...ooph too bad, sorry for annoying you with this then...

Hey, I chose to read this.  Try not to feel too sensitive. :D 

Besides, I apologize, I was trying to make the comment sound more like I was saying it with a chuckle.  It was aimed at Douglas Adams, not at your story.  It is very hard for me to give the true nature of my approach when I use typing rather than talking directly with someone.

Your story was very cleverly done.
It's fine, no worries.

thanks for reading it. Hehe I know from experience that it is extrmely hard to make clear what your intentions are whilst typing.

Thanks for the compliment altough I doubt I deserve it because I borrowed quite a few 'jokes' (whether succesful or not) from DA.
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Re: Why 42
« Reply #7 on: August 24, 2010, 07:16:16 pm »
dangit, every time someone types something in bold i lose the game...

anyways, it was alright(i would rather read this than sit while nothing happened), but the grammar was a bit odd in places and im not sure i got all of it.
DA was amazing. for his sake i hope there are rhinos in the afterlife

EDIT: although not macs...
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Re: Why 42
« Reply #8 on: August 25, 2010, 06:03:03 am »
dangit, every time someone types something in bold i lose the game...

anyways, it was alright(i would rather read this than sit while nothing happened), but the grammar was a bit odd in places and im not sure i got all of it.
DA was amazing. for his sake i hope there are rhinos in the afterlife

EDIT: although not macs...
Thanks, I probaly have some "A" versus "An" mistakes amongst others...I often get the different times a little messed up, but hey it's not my native language :D.

Thanks for reading it!
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