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02-12-2020, 06:48 PM
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Stressful February
As a possible (if somewhat bizarre seeming!) public service, I would like to observe that as the calendar rolls around the world past the tenth of February though Valentine’s Day, there is this factoid perhaps relevant to some who use the dating style common in the US: Ahem, if one multiplies the date 211 (11 February) by pi, one approaches the ill-famed “number of the beast” 666; this product of pi times the US date number for the next day 212 (the Fahrenheit temperature of sea-level boiling water) on 12 February, achieves the “beast number”’of 666, plus a small decimal. When 215 arrives, there is a brief respite before 216, which is 1 to the third power (1), times 2 the third power (8), times 3 to the third power (27). The lowest three cubes in a row, times each other. — Then 217 might be so-so; then 218, which may be one of the worst three-digit numbers ever invented. February 31 would be a great day if we had it. Just sayin’.
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02-12-2020, 09:33 PM
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I add the message that is found at the end of the following music video clip: “The stars might lie, but the numbers never do.” Here. Might be some truth to that. Have a good tomorrow, a good Valentine’s Day, and be careful on Feb 28.
PS: I am not responsible for any videos that follow the one I linked, nor for any of the fleeting images in any of the videos that follow the one video I linked. In particular, I refer to a humorous video that mocks wind power turbines with toy whirligigs. There are others that might follow the one I linked which I disavow equally.
February 24 might not be such a fine day either. I think I’ve said more than enough. Forewarned is probably more than sufficiently forearmed.
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02-13-2020, 08:01 PM
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02-29-2020, 05:29 PM
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02-29-2020, 06:11 PM
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Oh God, Jim - don't encourage him!
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02-29-2020, 08:02 PM
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The February numbers are a bit of Ramanujan and a bit of hocus-pocus. Nothing bad happened to me on any of those days, but the virus was rapidly spreading in Wuhan.
Mary Chapin Carpenter is as good as Taylor Swift and maybe better looking.
Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck,
And yet methinks I have astronomy
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02-29-2020, 08:08 PM
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Hey guys, cheer up and live it up, it's Sadie Hawkins day!
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02-29-2020, 08:12 PM
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And Tuesday was Mardi Gras. Every day is Mardi Gras.
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02-29-2020, 08:46 PM
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When you're out there riding on a calculator and a shoe shine, you observe things. Glad all is good.
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