Fnord.

My office is in the Calit2 building on the UCSD campus. Leading up to the front doors is a tile walkway where, it appears, people could purchase their choice of etchings. As I’ve strode over it, I would now and then spot an interesting tile.

(Here’s a re-post of the walkway and building)

Today I took the time to capture a few that amused or interested me. Enjoy!

Some are cryptic, codes or ciphers of some kind:

Update 10/3/07: A contributor decoded this, it’s simply ASCII. Text is “John Tusson CS 2002″.

Some are humorous:

Heh, I can sympathize with that.

Or philosophical:

Or geek humor:

See this Wikipedia entry to explain some of the ‘hello world’ bit.

I suspect the text cipher to be a simple substitution cipher from the repeated ‘Hma’ block, but feel free to let me know what you find. The hexadecimal one, well I dunno yet. See above, decoded.

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