There’s a line at the receptionist’s desk when this pilot fish arrives for his chiropractic appointment, and while he’s waiting he notices that there’s a new receptionist — and she has an unusual tattoo on her arm.

“I saw that her tattoo was a column of binary numbers,” says fish. “I kept looking, and noticed they appeared to be eight-bit ASCII. The first number was an upper case I, the second a space, and the third a lower case L.

“I just finished spelling out the second word when I heard, ‘Can I help you and what are you looking at?'”

I noticed the tattoo on your arm, fish tells the receptionist.

“Oh, that,” she replies. “They’re just random numbers.”

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