That Other Weekend Code

So, there was another big code released this weekend; I was going through the Sunday comics on, um, Sunday (and no, I don't find Sunday mornings particularly easy), when I came upon this FoxTrot (excerpted here):

At first glance, it's not a particularly funny comic -- it also engages in a bit of uncharacteristic behavior by the featured character, Jason -- he's an uber-geek who isn't known for his dancing prowess.

All is revealed in the last panel, though, because it turns out he's sending a secret message via Morse Code.

If you figure the "TAPs" are dots and the "TAAAPs" are dashes, that gives you:

... --- -- . -.. .- -.-- .. .-- .. .-.. .-.. .-. ..- .-.. . -.-- --- ..- .- .-.. .-..

(The spaces are important.)

A quick search on "morse code to text converter" gives you a bunch of Web-based options; you can copy-and-paste the morse code to find out what young Jason is really trying to say (I won't spoil it for you).

Now, the comic's creator, Bill Amend (he has an official Web page that's sort of bloggy), has done strips like this before, though this one doesn't require any math calculations (unlike, say, this one, which I didn't bother to do, especially since I knew someone out there would do it -- like this bunch of folks in the FoxTrot LiveJournal community).

Just a little bit of geeky, participatory humor.

Thanks -- Joe

Tags: Bill Amend, FoxTrot