Lodge 236: 2007 Dixie Fellowship Issues
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Unali’yi 236 let their inner nerd show at this year’s Dixie Fellowship.
They issued a flap with a matching “dangle” this year, following their very geeky theme. Two patch sets, where the bottom is meant to be a pocket hanger type patch seem to be becoming more popular in this part of the country.
Does anyone know what the writing across the top of the flap means?
Blue Book style information for these issues follows:
| Issue | Bdr Color/Type | Bkgd | Name | fdl/BSA | Comments | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S62? | M/C | C | BLK | DYL | BLK | fdl; SR-5 Sectioin Fellowship 2007 |
| X16? | BLK | C | M/C | RED | GRY | fdl; bottom for S62, lower half of “Nerd” |
| Unali’yi 236 page on OAImages.com | ||||||
"As we know, there are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don't know we don't know."
“Does anyone know what the writing across the top of the flap means?”
Yes.
And where is your server located that it says I posted an hour before I actually did?
The text across the top is the lodge’s name (Ukali’yi) in hex.
Break the string into one-byte segments:
55 6b 61 6c 69 27 79 69
Convert each byte to decimal independently:
85 107 97 108 105 39 121 105
Grab your handy ASCII lookup table and match everything up:
U k a l i ‘ y i
I actually have a binary/hex/octal/decimal/ascii chart on my wall here at the house, so I guess I cheated.
Chris, you are such a computer nerd. Just kiddin’, I’m glad you know more about computers than I, that way I always know who to call.
I cheated too. The SAS program:
data _null_ ;
length x $10 ;
x='556e616c69277969'x ;
put x= ;
run ;
produced the output:
x=Unali'yi
You guys are scarey…
So who’s correct: Chris Brightwell’s look up tables or Dave Scocca’s SAS program? Sorry, Chris, but my money’s on Dave here!
I misread the E on the flap as a B. That explains the difference.