Picnic Meme this Sunday

[jack]

"This is a picnic meme. There will be an LJ picnic on Jesus Green, Cambridge, UK on Sunday the 14th of May, from around 2pm. We'll meet toward the town end of Jesus Green, by Lower Park Street. Nobody is organising this; it'll just happen. Please turn up, be sensible, bring food and drink, meet new people, have fun."

Help, it's beginning to mutate! A cosmic ray took out "be sensible" entirely. Who knows what sort of event, where or when we'll turn up to if it goes on changing at this rate. Mutant picnic!

Comments

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

What's what?

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Was that comment mainly a joke or an explanation? By 'bit' do you mean 'part' as opposed to 'binary digit'? Is it necessary to understand it, or just to mutually sympathise with the problems of image processing?

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

It was both, sort of. When cosmic rays zap through the building and hit an electron detector at the same time as you happen to be taking an image with it, they leave a little circle of great big giant intensity that messes up the scaling on your image and is really annoying. Hence, cosmic rays don't take bits out, they put bits in. And I suppose I mean both senses of "bit" really :)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Ah, thank you! I thought it must be something like that, but was stuck on computer memory, so didn't get the science, and hence didn't get the joke.