111: 0111100101100001011110010111001101100001011110010110010101110010

111  10010100011101010101000101  10101010110 1010101 101010 01010 01 010 1000101 010 010 10 010 0101 01000010101001010 01 001 001 0100 10 010 10 010 01 1010101 01 0100 1010101010 0100101 0100101011101010111111001011111111010111010100101000 1010111010 10001   101001 001000010101 01010100101 0100101011001001010 10101010 010101001011101 101001 010101010 010100101010101010 10101010101 00010101011100100010

Well, laugh; it’s a funny joke.  No, I don’t get it either, but I just had the urge to type in binary.  No doubt it’s meaningless.  Wait a doggone minute, I’ve had a brainwave.  Hold on while I google binary translator and see if I can find out what I just typed.

Well that’s a massive disappointment.  It says:

Error: Malformed binary. Your binary code is must be divisible by 8.

Who can tell me what that means?  OK, let me try and work this out myself.  I’m on a website called Binary to Text (ASCII) Conversion, and if I type in the word ‘hello’ and press convert its tickertape tackers out with 0110100001100101011011000110110001101111.  So logically my first step should be to take the spaces out of my random key hammering.  So

111  10010100011101010101000101  10101010110 1010101 101010 01010 01 010 1000101 010 010 10 010 0101 01000010101001010 01 001 001 0100 10 010 10 010 01 1010101 01 0100 1010101010 0100101 01001010111010101111110010111111110101110101001010001010111010 10001   101001 001000010101 01010100101 0100101011001001010 10101010 010101001011101 101001 010101010 010100101010101010 10101010101 00010101011100100010

becomes

1111001010001110101010100010110101010110101010110101001010010101000101010010100100101010000101010010100100100101001001010010011010101010100101010101001001010100101011101010111111001011111111010111010100101000101011101010001101001001000010101010101001010100101011001001010101010100101010010111011010010101010100101001010101010101010101010100010101011100100010

and again we get Error: Malformed binary. Your binary code is must be divisible by 8.  This doesn’t seem to be achieving much, and looked at from some angles could easily be judge a total waste of fucking time.  But only by naysayers.  And I am a yaysayer, and I’m going to stick a zero on the start and see what happens.  I hope it works, because if I need to start working out divisions of eight I’ve got no chance.  My efforts at turning random meaningless strings of ones and zeros into meaningless strings of abcs and xyzs will be entirely in vain.

And what a surprise, adding a zero to the start (which I had no logical reason to surpose would make a difference) has made no difference.  “...must be divisible by 8.”  What is my weak little mind to do with that instruction?  It’s not a challenge I can accept.  Let’s see if 0110100001100101011011000110110001101111 (hello) is divisible by 8 for no good reason whatsoever.  Well yes, it apparently equals 1.3762, according to Ambleside Primary’s Big Calculator.  But 1.3762 times 8 equals 11.0096 so what the hell is going on there?  I obviously need a more robust calculator.  Web 2.0 scientific calculator gives me a more convincing but equally pointless answer of 13762500137512626376375013763750137638.875, but what am I to do with that?  

Same thing I do every night: record it in my online filing cabinet along with all petty gripes, pointless observations, used plasters, bottles of urine and bits of litter collected from the street in front of my house.  OK, job done.