It’s all very well being able to manhandle an abacus and a slide rule seven ways 'til Sunday, but I need a real boost to my self-esteem. Are there any ‘Geek outwits Bully’, or ‘brain over brawn’ jokes?
chown -R us /base
Nitpick: log(cabin)+C=houseboat!
A man new to hot-air ballooning goes up alone for the first time, and he promptly gets lost. Below him, he sees man walking through an open field. He descends, low enough to be heard, and shouts, “Hey! Can you tell me where I am?”
“Yes,” the man on the ground replies, “you’re in a hot air balloon, floating over an open field.”
“You must be an engineer,” the man in the balloon says.
“I am,” says the man on the ground, “but how did you know?”
“Well,” he replies, “your answer was technically correct, but completely useless to me.”
“Ah,” says the engineer, “you must be in management.”
“That’s right! How did you know that?”
The engineer replies, “Because you don’t know where you are or where you’re going, but you expect me to be able to help. You’re in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but now it’s my fault.”
I was thinking beach hut for the same reason. 
What did Leonard Euler find when his toilet overflowed? His natural log!
How many Kantian philosophers does it take to change a light bulb? None; they just need to understand the lightbulb-in-itself and it becomes a new light bulb.
How many Hegelians does it take to change a light bulb? Two. One to claim it is not truly dark and the other to claim true light is impossible. This dialectic creates the synthesis which is necessary to understand the truth of the situation.
Albert Einstein is riding on a train, and a student wanders into the car. They chat politely for a few minutes, then the student asks, “Excuse me, professor, does Boston stop at this train?”
But if they’re Marxists, the light bulb contains the seeds of its own revolution.
Ha!
I forget how this one works.
And I know this is a little off topic but isn’t there a way to multiply 6 by 9 and get 42 ala Douglas Adams?
Octal is base-8, so 8x3 + 1 = 25
Dec is base-10 so 2x10 + 5 = 25
beowulf, pretend for a minute that I majored in English Lit.
Oh, okay… How many managing editors does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Three… one to screw the bulb in, and two to hold the author down.
We normally work in base 10. So, the number 471 would be 4 * 100 + 7 * 10 + 1 * 1. We use 100 because it’s 10 * 10. The next digit working left would be 1000, or 10 * 10 * 10 (i.e. three tens, since it’s the three over from the ones digit).
In Hexadecimal, it would be 4 * 256 + 7 * 16 + 1 * 1 = 1137. We use 256 because it’s 16*16. The next digit working left would be 256 * 16, or 4096. As you can see, Hex allows us to describe much bigger numbers in a much smaller space.
The “ones” digit in hex goes from 0 to F. So 9 is 9, A is 10, and F is 15. In decimal notation, the digits go from 0 to 9. The first couple sections of the Wiki article give a pretty comprehensive definition.
Does that help?
Oh, OK -
Quickie math lesson:
Our normal number system (Dec or Decimal) is base 10, so each place is worth ten times more than the one to the right - the Ones, the Tens, the Hundreds, etc…
So you have 5 ones + 2 Tens or 25
Oct (or Octal) is a base 8 system (used in computer programming). Each place is worth 8 times more than the one to the right - the Ones, the Eights, the Sixty-fours, etc.
So, you have 1 ones + 3 eights or 25 also.
So Oct 31 = Dec 25
Which reminds me of “New Math” by Tom Lehrer…
There will be quiz tomorrow…
One way is to use base 13. 42 in base 13 = 54 in base 10. 4*13+2 = 54
And sometimes US Thanksgiving falls on Nov. 27.
Why do Marxists drink de-caf?
Because proper tea is theft!
Base 13.
No no no no NO! The correct question is: Why do anarchists drink herbal tea?
Speaking of pick-up lines:
“Hey baby, there’s an attraction between you and me, and I’ve got the equation to prove it.”
The correct response is, of course: Well then, I’ll just have to move infinitely far away
If that happens, resort to “If you were DNA helicase I’d let you unzip my genes”
I thought we were gonna do fractions.