David Lynch says today's number is 8

[frauenfelder]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/08/17/david-lynch-says-todays-numb.html

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[stephen_schenck]

I don’t what confuses me more: what role the black paint serves, or why the need to mark the numeral 8 so that it’s not viewed upside-down?

[Purplecat]

@stephen_schenck

why the need to mark the numeral 8 so that it’s not viewed upside-down?

So it won’t be read as an infinity instead.

But that just raises the question of why he’s done it to the seven.

[stephen_schenck]

Oh god. What happens when Lynch actually does pull the infinity ball?

[Yri]

A number, sure, but shouldn’t there be a letter as well? Is Lynch rejecting Sesame Street’s well-established norms by not including “and today’s letter is…”?

Also, as a programmer, it pains me a little that the numbers are 1 through 10 instead of 0 through 9.

[FGD135]

[Brainspore]

@Purplecat

So it won’t be read as an infinity instead.

But that just raises the question of why he’s done it to the seven .

“Today’s number is… ‘L’?? Oh, I guess that means ‘50’.”

@Yri

Also, as a programmer, it pains me a little that the numbers are 1 through 10 instead of 0 through 9.

Try teaching a kid to count that way and they’ll get freaked out they’re missing a finger.

[Professor59]

In a surprise move, David Lynch was arrested today for running an illegal lottery.

[ax11]

Lynch is a director. I seriously doubt he’d ever pull a random number in a video he’s in control of. Even if he would he’d cut and re-take it as many times as necessary to get the result he wanted.

[29ggf]

True randomness at one bit a day. Now we wait for the RFC next April.