Survey posted 2004-02-20 20:06 by Morgan.

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I wonder if I can get my mom to make another apple pie that has "3.14" carved in the crust for pi day...

I just forgot about PI day until I saw this poll (I never got to celebrate it before). They should have had an item for "Oops, I forgot... but thanks for the reminder!"

What? Are you criticizing my poll idea? You want somma this? Oops...forgot. I'm a nerd and I can't fight. Sorry. ;)

LOL! That's why I use this threat: "What, you wanna mess with me? I'll crash your harddrive!" None of the "dumb jocks" know anything about computers (at least at my school) so I'm sure they'd open a virus through e-mail. :)

or..."I'll put your computer in an infinitely recursive, unterminatable method that says 'you are a dumb jock'!"

I was thinking of making a virus like that. here is my plan

1) When the file is run, delete one or two random files.
2) Infect the computer so that it starts up every time upon computer start-up
3) Infect a few random EXE files so that in case they somehow get aruond it, by running THEM, it will start over again
4) Disable common computer escape key sequences (such as Ctrl+Alt+Del)
5) Disable loading from a boot disk/boot CD (I don't know how to do this one)
6) Go into your never-ending loop! "You are a dumb jock!"

If the computer restarts, it will start all over again. Sound fun? :)

Oh! But I forgot the best part. Add a step in there sometime before the loop that checks for an internet connection and mass mails everybody with e-mails saying "I AM A DUMB JOCK!" (no virus attached, of course, since it could get to people who aren't jocks).

Yeah, start the program by adding its path into system.ini. How do you disable Ctrl+Alt+Del? Also, do you know how to send e-mails from a program through a windows API call? If you do, could you please tell me?

Yeah, just use the same routines for making a... uh... uh... whatever it's called. :P

With Windows XP and 98 at least, the runing at startup would be easy, just put it the "start-up" folder

We nerds fight with e-mail viruses, not fists. ;-)

Well, nerds know not to open them. ;-) Also, nerds know not to use stupid Outlook which has more loopholes for self-executing viruses than there are stars in the sky.

Very true-I use Netscape. :-)

My position exactly!

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This is from last year. :D
(Unfortuantely, I did not know all of those digits of pi. I knew 17 then. I'm up to 40 now.)

Ack! The URL to the image is too long for the box... I know, I'll redirect it through my cjb.net thing, but you might get popups...

Hmm...how do I send messages using Novell if I don't have an admin account?

I just have local admin rights (Win2K Administrators group). The Computer Club context (cc.student.cchs) is allowed to send messages. Apparently, so was the Physics login (context: student.cchs) and Computer Applications context: (p6.student.cchs). Most of those have since been restricted... Basically, now it's just ntadmin.cchs, cc.student.cchs, and faculty.cchs (I think).

I forgot about pi day until I saw this poll, but I picked "memorize pi" anyways, because I probably will at least try.

Man, I feel stupid after looking at the other comments. All I know of pi is 3.14159265359. :-(

I'll need to start training with that "memorize pi" program. ;-)

For the 89, right? :)

86-There is an 86 version, right? I'm pretty sure I saw one...

I know pi with 30 digits
just remember this poëm

Sir. I send a story excelling
in sacred truth and rigid spelling.
Numerical sprites elucidate
for me the lesson's full weight.
If nature gain
not you complain
tho Dr Johnson fulminate.

the length of every word stands for 1 digit!

also, the first 1000 digits are:

3.1415926535 8979323846264338327 9502884197169399375105 820974944592307 8164062862089986280 348253421170679821480865132 823066470938446095505822 317253594081284811174 50284102701938521105 5596446229489549303819 644288109756659334 461284756482337867 831652712019091456485 669234603486104543266 48213393607260249141 27372458700660631558 81748815209209628292 540917153643678925903 6001133053054882046 652138414695194151 160943305727036575 95919530921861173819 32611793105118548 07446237996274956 73518857527248912 279381830119491298 33673362440656643 0860213949463952247 37190702179860943702 7705392171762931 767523846748184676 694051320005681271 452635608277857713 42757789609173637 1787214684409012249 5343014654958537 1050792279689258923 542019956112129021 960864034418159813 629774771309960518 707211349999998372 9780499510597317328 160963185950244594 553469083026425223 082533446850352619 311881710100031378 3875288658753320838 142061717766914730 3598253490428755468 7311595628638823537 8759375195778185778 0532171226806613001 92787661119590921642019

(just leave out the blanks)

for the first 10000, click the link

That's clever. Somebody should write a novel in that fashion.

that would be so awesome, wow! It would be like that novel that was written without the letter "e". In the entire novel (it was fairly large, 200-500 pages i think) the letter 'e' was not used once! Hmm, next time i have to write an essay for school i know what im doing...*starts memorizing first 500 digits of pi for 500 word essay*

that will only work if the apostrophe in "lesson's" is counted (otherwise its 7, not 8). I always heard it as "lexicon's" instead of "lesson's." And "rhyme" instead of "story."