After about 2 years of ownership (which is a long time in my world) I sold my 2009 XKR to Carvana and am starting to shop for my next Jaguar. I'm thinking I want to go old-school this time and started looking for a V12 XJS.

I wanted to thank everyone for their help over the years. The most important part of owning a car is the community you're moving into it and this XKR group is truly helpful in keeping these cars running.

If you're curious - Carvana offered me exactly what I was looking for and made the process extremely easy. I would usually sell the car myself (I love buying and selling cars) but I didn't want to have to deal with idiots wanting to test-drive my car.

Thomas

 

Enjoy your next adventure!!!

 

Did you remember to get your towel out of the XK?

 

And the babel fish?

Next he's gonna tell us he's 42!

 

A couple years ago I driving along and saw a man hitch hiking. It was cold and dreary. He was dressed only in a bathrobe and had a towel around his neck. I decided to pick him up. As we were driving along he mentioned that he had a mouse in his pocket that wanted to know if I knew the answer to the meaning of life, the universe, and everything. I figured two could play this game. If he could talk to a mouse in his pocket, I could talk to my truck. So I asked my truck if it knew the answer to the meaning of life, the universe, and everything. Just then the odometer on my truck rolled over to 101010. I pointed it out to my passenger. He replied that yes, my truck did indeed know the answer to the meaning of life, the universe, and everything.

 

That was a bald-headed mouse in his pocket!

 

I am proud to say "I know binary".

 

You REALLY are that sad CJ, ok what's the binary for...wait for it...Michelin!? 0000000

 

There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who know binary and those who don't.

 

jon@stray:~$ echo -n "Michelin"|xxd -b -c 8
00000000: 01001101 01101001 01100011 01101000 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 Michelin

 

Huh, Text-to-Binary. But..... why?

 

That only works when it's written. Try saying it, it doesn't work right and people will think you're looney.

 

the software developer's credo. or it ought to be. "do it the worst way possible first and see if anyone complains." we harbor a special kind of laziness.

 

If you understand binary you would probably read it as "one zero", or you could just say "two".
I may have just thoroughly confused those who don't understand binary,

 

In binary it would always be "one zero" only in hexadecimal would it become "two".

 

Sorry. ‘10’ binary is ‘2’ in any number system greater than base 2.
Whereas ’10’ hex is ‘16’ decimal.

 

I’m thinking our original poster, Thorsen, might want to be on the lookout for a Ford Prefect with the infinite improbability drive option. I hear it’ll run circles around a Vogon constructor ship. Comes with the towel option and a babel fish in the console hooked to a USB port.

 

This thing is probably going to need an infinite improbability drive...

It's good to be around such fun-loving people You guys are a good group.

 

My #42 ;-)