I know you. You’re a smart, funny, intelligent, confident young woman making your way in the world-wide-web today, just like me. Therefore you are aware of the excellent webcomic XKCD. It is by turns hilarious, randomist, über-geeky, heart-achingly warm, but always brilliant.
See then comic #240. Read it again, inwardly digest, then come back.
Yes, that string of digits does indeed represent an exact geographical location and an exact time. The twist is this: at the time of writing, that exact time is in the future. It’s 2.38pm on 23rd September, 2007. And the geographical location is a point on a street in North Cambridge, Boston, USA.
My question is - do any of you who read this (women or not) live anywhere in or near Boston? And are you going to be there on 23rd September this year? (It’s a Sunday, by the way.) If so… can I ask you a favour? Could you go to this address at exactly 2.38pm and see what happens?
I’d be much obliged, Kthx.
–c.
[Oh, and a thousand bonus points if you could identify the film from which the title of this post comes, and the actor who said it, without Googling.]
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Can I answer the question and claim the bonus points, or am I disqualified by being a relative or employee of the competition organiser?
I’m afraid you are. I nearly pre-emptively disqualified you in the first place, but wasn’t sure you’d be reading.
However as i) the person who first told me about the film in question, ii) the person who furnished me with a copy of the film in question, and iii) the only other person who I regularly trade quotes with from the film in question, I can say that you are emphatically disqualificationised.
crossroads!
1,000 English bonus points to Mike.
However, being a Kiwi, the current exchange rate makes that about 2,600 NZ bonus points! Low exchange rate FTW!
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