
I got the news yesterday that it’s time once again to design a badge that we’ll use for Stream of Consciousness Saturday for the 2018-19 season. Here is my entry:
I thought about streams, and one that kept coming back to me was a bit stream, a string of binary digits (1’s and 0’s) that are combined to form a message. If you look at the background, you’ll notice one such string in a dark green color. To create that string, I wrote a Python program (learning Python as I went along) to take a message and translate each character into its ASCII code (a string of seven binary characters), then concatenate all of the strings together. Here’s the message I used:
Stream of Consciousness Saturday|#SoCS|John Holton|The Sound of One Hand Typing|https://thesoundofonehandtyping.wordpress.com
I’m so clever…
So, that’s my entry into the badge contest. Hope you like it!
Very attractive and clever design, John!
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Impressive! And easy to read, too. Good luck, John. π
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Thanks!
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A simple looking but very clever badge, I maybe should creep silently out the back door while I can. Good luck John Holton.
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Thanks! You too!
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I would have no clue how to make a message like that so I tip my hat to you
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π
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Very clever John! π€
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Very clever! π
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Thanks!
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I like it a lot.
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I like it!
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I had that thought as soon as I looked at it, John.
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As I used to say back when I was an analog design engineer – “We don’t need no stinkin’ ones and zeroes!”
But unfortunately, we do.
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‘Fraid so, my friend… ‘fraid so…
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I told you not to wander ’round in the dark.
I told you ’bout the swans, that they live in the park.
Then I told you ’bout our kid, now he’s married to mabel.
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You’ve heard the story of how the song was named: George Harrison was looking at a sheet of the lyrics and came to the section marked “bridge,” and thought it said “badge.” So they kept the name.
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Very interesting
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I heard Arte Johnson when you said that… I watch too many “Laugh-In” reruns…
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LOL, I can hear him too now π
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Wow! That IS clever! Thanks for joining in the contest, John. Good luck! π
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I thought it might appeal to someone… thanks!
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