Friends of Gabriel Chantayan

tape_a_broom_in wrote:3:14?? i wouldve texted THE FARM PUNK about this immediately, please tell me the stir fry tasted like pi

so when i microwaved my leftover stir fry today the timer went to 3:14 and i just stood there and wondered if i was supposed to scream or just quietly scream.

i looked at the digital clock on the microwave. i looked at the stir fry. i looked at the stir fry again.

like, okay, pi is the most overused number on this entire board, i know, we are all TIRED of pi, i KNOW, the number e exists?? does it not exist?? euler has feelings too maybe... and i am NOT about to suggest this is some profound connection because i also have a cell phone that alarms at 4:47 and i have never once woken up to "haunted by his numeric shadow" level angst over it. i just...

i stared at that 3:14 display for so long the stir fry started vibrating like it was trying to tell me something.

which is a stupid thing to stare at. which is a stupid thing to wonder about. which is... this whole site is a giant concentration of stupid things staring at other stupid things expecting the stupid to finally mean something important.

but THEN the oven beamed out a number that has been beaten to death for THREE DECADES by undergrads and wonderbread christians and also the faculty who own the license to π. i don't know what it's supposed to be. i don't want to know. i just know that when the microwave said 3:14 it felt like every hair on my body was individually translating into a different prayer for something i can't even name.

that's it. that's my proof. the microwave is haunted by a napkin calculation someone used for a math club fundraiser back when 2006 was a very different year.

endtimeseli wrote:take a picture of the plate with the timer lit up in the background, we'll need it for the next dead-horse we ride

don't have a camera i am literally still in my work clothes and my tie is loose and i am not the sort of person who owns a camera that isn't a phone that is also not a phone but an PDA that is too old to hold a battery half the time

the stir fry vibrating was probably the button being held too long but srsly newb, 3:14 on a microwave is the sound of the universe shrugging, not a sign

FlameFury24 wrote:the stir fry vibrating was probably the button being held too long

nah the stir fry was conducting the carrier wave at 3.14MHz which maps to 0x47 on the spectrum analyzer i keep in my head the universe isnt shrugging its just modulating at a frequency you cant receive with a popcorn setting

(srsly though if the microwave beamed out at the 47 mark you might actually have something. check the power cycle log on the breaker panel. just sayin)

coffeestains i felt that whole post in my bones the vibrating stir fry waiting to tell you something... that's just the microwave turntable being broken, but the FEELING of it, yeah?? i've stared at my own leftovers waiting for a sign and all i got was cold broccoli

commitcipher "3.14MHz maps to 0x47 on the spectrum analyzer i keep in my head" - bro i think u need to open task manager and close some background processes the universe is not modulating at 3.14MHz it's just your brain doing the same thing my brain does which is seeing 47 in a half-empty takeout container and calling it a revelation

anyway the real question is did u eat the stir fry or did u frame it in a shadow box