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Re: xkcd Skyscraper
Floor 919 is backwards (not that anybody notices), immediately above Floor 920 (in the building) and immediately above Floor 921 (in the floor listing). Unless it is just confused by errors made well before it.
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Floor 922 is unsupported.
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Re: xkcd Skyscraper
Floor 923 is currently supported, but soon there will be no more security updates or technical support for Floor 923. It is very important that residents and long-term visitors migrate to a modern floor such as Floor 10.
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Floor 924 is closed on Sundays due to local blue laws.
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Floor 925 is open 25 hours a day, 8 days a week.
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Floor 926 has encountered a problem. Please contact your system administrator.
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Floor 926 is now fixed, and in the right place.
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Re: xkcd Skyscraper
Floor 927 wonders if the reply-count (upon posting) is being used as datum, or the total messages that includes the OP as well. Or both, but by different people.
This floor is unusually philosophical and probably should not be explored too much...
This floor is unusually philosophical and probably should not be explored too much...
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Floor 928 is a tessaract inside a Klein bottle on a moebius strip.
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Re: xkcd Skyscraper
Floor 929 is under arrest for the murder of Floor 921. Floor 929 has the right to remain silent. Anything Floor 929 says may be used against it in a court of architecture. Floor 929 has the right to consult a draftsman; if it cannot afford a draftsman one will be appointed for it.
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Floor 930 is plotted on a log-log scale.
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Floor 931 is made of logs, plotted at natural log scales.
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Floor 932 is a kinky, lawless, heathen place. Go there if you want to sin. Cos why not?
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Floor 933 has a bunch of U.V. lamps. It's where people from Floor 932 go when they want a tan.
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Floor 935 got bored and decided to switch places with the floor below.
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Floor 934 is a demon.
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Floor 936 is a second behind the rest of the skyscraper and trying really hard to catch up.
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Floor 937 holds several shelves of rusty old home PCs, with a few wizened old men wandering around plugging in floppy disks. No-one's quite sure how , but they appear to be controlled by a series of flags, lights, and bells on the walls.
The sign for this floor just says "The Cloud"
The sign for this floor just says "The Cloud"
"Please only print this post if you really need to"
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...hmm....I wonder how much extra energy is required to generate that request...We need a cost/benefit analysis, STAT!
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Floor 938 is a series of boxes with chinese gentlemen within, receiving instructions by slips of paper written in English, which the ones who don't read or speak English use a symbolic table to correctly interpret and create a reply slip.
The ones who do read English mess things up, because the intended symbolic operations bear no relationship to the way an English person would understand. They tend to obey "pull rope A" literally and cause flags, lights and bells on the floor below to be triggered nonsensically, rather than providing the 3rd root of "shout 'Eureka!' six times" and adding that to "paint your bed green", to ouput "Tomorrow will be rainy, remember to take an umbrella" (i.e. 42).
The ones who do read English mess things up, because the intended symbolic operations bear no relationship to the way an English person would understand. They tend to obey "pull rope A" literally and cause flags, lights and bells on the floor below to be triggered nonsensically, rather than providing the 3rd root of "shout 'Eureka!' six times" and adding that to "paint your bed green", to ouput "Tomorrow will be rainy, remember to take an umbrella" (i.e. 42).
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Floor 939 contains a colony of bats who wonder would it would be like to be human.
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Floor 940 is a perfect replica of Port Darwin, Australia, Feb. 18, 1942.
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Floor 941 is a cancer ward full of patients who have and never will know love.
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Floor 942 is so slippery that once you enter it you can't stop moving until you reach the other end of the room.
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Floor 943 seems to contain a procession of the ghosts of all the dead of all our wars, but nobody's stood and watched in respectful silence long enough to be sure.
Those who have been there and not stood and watched in respectful silence tend to come out looking very shaken, turn on all the lights and get very drunk, then refuse to talk about it.
Those who have been there and not stood and watched in respectful silence tend to come out looking very shaken, turn on all the lights and get very drunk, then refuse to talk about it.
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Floor 944 contains five portals: one to the realm of air, one to the realm of fire, one to the realm of water, one to the realm of darkness and one to the realm of light.
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Floor 945 is a man cave of pre historic men. Its cave walls are grafittied in pictures of historic giraffes and donkeys.
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Floor 946 contains itself, and some articles about recursion.
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Floor 947 is bare, with concrete surfaces and a single lightbulb illuminating the room.
It contains 23 swivel chairs set around a circle, facing each other. Any attempt to move chairs away from their position leads to a restoring force pushing them back.
Anyone sitting in those chairs becomes--or at least feels--temporarily lighter. The extent of the lightness depends on how long someone sits.
If one sits long enough, they float off, though one intrepid soul tried to affix themselves with duct tape. Strangely enough, they didn't smoosh headfirst into the ceiling, but instead sprouted wings and retired to live life as a poofin.
It contains 23 swivel chairs set around a circle, facing each other. Any attempt to move chairs away from their position leads to a restoring force pushing them back.
Anyone sitting in those chairs becomes--or at least feels--temporarily lighter. The extent of the lightness depends on how long someone sits.
If one sits long enough, they float off, though one intrepid soul tried to affix themselves with duct tape. Strangely enough, they didn't smoosh headfirst into the ceiling, but instead sprouted wings and retired to live life as a poofin.
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Floor 948 is crowded with crows.
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Floor 949 is a children's playground for adults.
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Floor 950 is an adults' office for children.
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Floor 951 contains a showcase displaying baseball memorabilia for the "New Orleans Cajuns": pennants, trophies, signed balls, framed rookie cards, etc. It's a perfectly normal-seeming floor. (There's just one minor puzzle: no such team exists. So where all the memorabilia came from is a mystery.)
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Floor 952 is where L4D Witches go if you don't kill them. There are many coffee tables, each with an inexhaustible platter of biscuits, at least three teapots, each with a seemingly limitless supply of a tea found nowhere else on that floor and, of course, a huge doily over a tablecloth. There are also plenty of chairs. Around the outside of the room, soft and relaxing music plays from speakers in the headrests of armchairs. They're much happier now.
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In floor 953, a meeting has been taking place since forever. The involved employees never seem to be able to reach a conclusion, and the chair of the meeting can't take decisions.
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Floor 954 is a floor of confirmation. It confirms that floor 953 is owned by congress.
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Floor 955 the number has been from language Russian machine by translated, and you make sense to learn it can with time.
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Floor 956 is a bridge between universes, some of them from Fringe series.
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Floor 0x3BD is a floor dedicated to hexadecimal numbers.
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Floor 958 has the interior of an elevator. It is a place to practice elevator pitches.
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Floor 959 is the Chamber of Secrets from Harry Potter, except ferret-themed.
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