i guess it's possible that 1234 represents the first digit of the day of the month (dunno what's with the 4) and the row with the 9 represents the second digit.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
welp
i grabbed my camera to go see if i could find another traffic sign to compare the sticker on
but i forgot the battery compartment was open and the batteries spilled out and i could only find 3 of them
You think obsessing over meaningless things like traffic sign stickers is smart?
Well, i'd have looked at a sticker like that and parsed it as 'a bunch of digits without context, presumably meaningful only to somebody who knows their intended purpose'.
i almost certainly wouldn't have attempted to decipher them, and if i had, i definitely wouldn't have noticed the significance of the available numerals in each row without you pointing that out. That kind of thing just wouldn't occur to me. Like, ever. :v
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I find it amusing that my weird observant habits have led me to the number 221
Remember a few months ago when Sherlock Holmes was my obsession-of-the-moment? That was fun, even if it passed too quickly.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You think obsessing over meaningless things like traffic sign stickers is smart?
Well, i'd have looked at a sticker like that and parsed it as 'a bunch of digits without context, presumably meaningful only to somebody who knows their intended purpose'.
i almost certainly wouldn't have attempted to decipher them, and if i had, i definitely wouldn't have noticed the significance of the available numerals in each row without you pointing that out. That kind of thing just wouldn't occur to me. Like, ever. :v
I admit, this makes me feel weird at times
Because it seems like I try finding meanings in things that most people don't pay attention to
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
So, Central, what's the 221th day of the year?
Let's see, since 1992 was a leap year, it would be...August 8.
Holy crap, that fits the right month!
Still doesn't quite work, though, since the first row would need a 0 for the first 99 days of the year. :\
You think obsessing over meaningless things like traffic sign stickers is smart?
Well, i'd have looked at a sticker like that and parsed it as 'a bunch of digits without context, presumably meaningful only to somebody who knows their intended purpose'.
i almost certainly wouldn't have attempted to decipher them, and if i had, i definitely wouldn't have noticed the significance of the available numerals in each row without you pointing that out. That kind of thing just wouldn't occur to me. Like, ever. :v
I admit, this makes me feel weird at times
Because it seems like I try finding meanings in things that most people don't pay attention to
I worry it means I'm defective, somehow
Trying-to-find-meanings-in-things-that-other-people-don't-pay-attention-to is not a defect. Would you say that you were defective if you were the only one who read, and nobody else could find meaning in written words?
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Well, I guess I could call it a hobby, but it's not a very productive one. :V
Anyway, I found the fourth battery, but the other stickers I found weren't of much help in deciphering the first one:
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Trying-to-find-meanings-in-things-that-other-people-don't-pay-attention-to is not a defect. Would you say that you were defective if you were the only one who read, and nobody else could find meaning in written words?
You know, that makes sense.
It just feels like I'm wasting my time, since ultimately doing things like finding out the date that a random sign was posted aren't very constructive in any way.
Let's see, since 1992 was a leap year, it would be...August 8.
Holy crap, that fits the right month!
Still doesn't quite work, though, since the first row would need a 0 for the first 99 days of the year. :\
Hmm. There are four numbers on the first row (1, 2, 3, and 4), and there are four needed (1, 2, 3, and 0). Why not count the 4 as the 0? It explains the extra four. It explains the needed 0.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Hmm, perhaps!
Also, I just noticed that they were apparently using a different style of sticker by 2002 (if the third photo in the post above is any indication), which would confirm that it was indeed 1992.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Trying-to-find-meanings-in-things-that-other-people-don't-pay-attention-to is not a defect. Would you say that you were defective if you were the only one who read, and nobody else could find meaning in written words?
You know, that makes sense.
It just feels like I'm wasting my time, since ultimately doing things like finding out the date that a random sign was posted aren't very constructive in any way.
There is such a thing as city history. Trying to find out when the roads were repaved, when the sidewalk was installed, when that tree that cuts off your view of the corner was planted, when the old sign was replaced with a new one. There have been entire books written about a single street and its history.
It's quite the record of the goings-on. One mayor might spend his money on installing roads and signs while neglecting the hospitals and schools; while another mayor might be the one who installed the sewage system and replaced the pipes with running water, and so on. Some colors of bricks are only from specific times; at my old school, they couldn't find the same color of yellow brick when they added new parts to it; so the additions are a different shade of yellow. You could figure out which houses are older than others; and in which direction urban expansion goes.
If you were doing this to, say, Pompeii, you'd certainly be doing something productive; and you'd recognize that. Why should your hometown be any different?
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Nevermind, if you want to stop, that's what you want to do.
Sorry for being pushy.
No, no, it's ok. I just felt weird for putting so much effort into this was all. I was worried I was starting to annoy people with my rambling. >_>
Nevermind, if you want to stop, that's what you want to do.
Sorry for being pushy.
No, no, it's ok. I just felt weird for putting so much effort into this was all. I was worried I was starting to annoy people with my rambling. >_>
Grasshopper, you know nothing of the ways of annoying people. It is a long and perilous journey to mastery of the art of irritating.
And as for rambling, so long as you're not in any Scandinavian country (especially Sweden), you're okay; social-grace-wise. The Nordics have been ancestral enemies of all ramblers; and no true Swede would ramble; though the rest of the world embrace rambling and deem it natural and even polite.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Aww, thanks, you two.
Also, I thought of another possibility: I used Google Maps to roughly measure the distance of the sign from the west end of Bethel Road, and it is about 2.2 miles. Could 221 actually be 2.21? That still doesn't quite make sense, since I'm sure Columbus maintains roads longer than 4 miles, but it's another possibility.
Hmm. Miles. Why would you use miles instead of city blocks to mark distance in a city?
Wait, crap, I'm used to living in a grid system were the streets are all straight and at right angles; of course other places would use city blocks instead.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
...You're right, there's no reason the city would use miles when we have a fairly coherent numbering grid. And they certainly wouldn't measure from the west end of Bethel Road, since that's at the far end of the grid.
It's in the 1700 block, which doesn't seem to be of much help... :\
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
After looking it up in a book (I am at a library, you know) about the city planning in my valley. In my valley, it's exactly 17 city blocks in a mile (dunno what 1/17 of a mile is).
So, with exactly 289 square city blocks per square mile; and exactly 640 square acres per mile, it's 640/289 square city blocks an acre.
Sorry, I don't have a calculator and I don't feel like figuring out what 640 / 289 is.
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Just guessing here.
Centra, my birthday is the 101th day of the year, April 11.
I memorized the date that is twice that, 202th day of the year, July 21 (four days before my brother's birthday).
So, if the 101th day of the year is April 11, and the 202th day of the year is July 21, what is the 221th day of the year?
Again, though, it's odd that the top row contains a 4 and not a 0, and that the third row contains no 9.
And for that matter, that the second row contains a 7 and an 8.
Well, i'd have looked at a sticker like that and parsed it as 'a bunch of digits without context, presumably meaningful only to somebody who knows their intended purpose'.
i almost certainly wouldn't have attempted to decipher them, and if i had, i definitely wouldn't have noticed the significance of the available numerals in each row without you pointing that out. That kind of thing just wouldn't occur to me. Like, ever. :v
i am so spamming the hell out of this now that i know what it means :v
Mann oh Mann
Herkules geht rahn
It just feels like I'm wasting my time, since ultimately doing things like finding out the date that a random sign was posted aren't very constructive in any way.
It's quite the record of the goings-on. One mayor might spend his money on installing roads and signs while neglecting the hospitals and schools; while another mayor might be the one who installed the sewage system and replaced the pipes with running water, and so on. Some colors of bricks are only from specific times; at my old school, they couldn't find the same color of yellow brick when they added new parts to it; so the additions are a different shade of yellow. You could figure out which houses are older than others; and in which direction urban expansion goes.
If you were doing this to, say, Pompeii, you'd certainly be doing something productive; and you'd recognize that. Why should your hometown be any different?
like they are not even signal, just noise
if i notice them i try to find out what they are and what they mean
if i cannot find that i assume people don't want me to know which makes me frustrated and irritable :v
Sorry for being pushy.
as i am ignorant of so much of the infrastructure :v
i *am* the kind of person who looks at the stickers on the backs of road signs
and all kinds of other things with no direct relevance to what i am doing at that moment
but i don't really process that information beyond 'well there's some stuff' nor would i have any idea how to start processing said information
i was impressed, honestly.
And as for rambling, so long as you're not in any Scandinavian country (especially Sweden), you're okay; social-grace-wise. The Nordics have been ancestral enemies of all ramblers; and no true Swede would ramble; though the rest of the world embrace rambling and deem it natural and even polite.
Wait, crap, I'm used to living in a grid system were the streets are all straight and at right angles; of course other places would use city blocks instead.
How many city blocks are in a mile?
So, with exactly 289 square city blocks per square mile; and exactly 640 square acres per mile, it's 640/289 square city blocks an acre.
Sorry, I don't have a calculator and I don't feel like figuring out what 640 / 289 is.