It’s curious, but in my mind these types of mathematical or logical visualizations are the sheep I count, trying to sense the deeper flow and patterns where the emergent oddities even out.
That’s when I know I will soon fall fast asleep, when my mind starts getting abstract.
I remember time before time existed, on cold winter mornings we’d gather around in front of our Model T and turned that crank just below the grill.
Back then we also had to crank-watch television in black and white, uphill, backwards both ways, during snowstorms… just to get to bed.
I was taught Lotus 1-2-3 on MS-DOS in college. Do with that information what you will.
What about DJ Qualls in “The Core”?
While being interrogated in his introduction sequence, he casually folds an aluminum chewing gum wrapper, puts it to his lips and kinda whistles with it for a second, while holding a cell phone in front of his mouth. After this little public display of phreaking, he hands the cell phone over to the hero and says “Here… now you can call anywhere free for life with it”.
His username is almost drwho1138. Remember how the movie ends? With THX rising from the caves, into the open sky and the sun.
What’s with the number buttons being available with no “OK” or “Enter” option?