If you plan on competing in one of those memory contests, you might want to keep a copy. Out of curiosity, I counted (well, the computer did) the number of times each digit appears in these results:
This ia a considerably wider range than I would have expected. Some meaning here? Incidentally, a well-known trigonometrical identity can be used to prove John Machin’s formula for pi. I'm working on a formula to see if my own discovery is significant.Rick Macherat Rick M. In the day. posted by Rick at 10:40 PM
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Post #2572.O.M.G.! Is it the End of the World?
No, just an encampment of Gypsies being burned to the ground in England. Or Ireland. They aren't really Gypsies, according to someone quoted, but Travellers. For the British, however, is that they're problem is that there their. That's pretty much always been the problem. I remember many years ago several wagons of genuine gypsies rolled into our tiny (pop. 99) village in very rural France. We children were enchanted by all of it, our parents not so much. Rick Macherat Rick M. In the day.Grand Âyatollâh Seyyed ‘Alî Hossaynî Khâmene’î President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted by Rick at 11:40 PM
Monday, November 14, 2011
Post #2571.About the network. (See earlier post, 3 or 4 down.) Just a quick note - we managed to set up our network and are now going crazy with it. We have 11 working computers in the house and are going to see how many we can connect. Obviously, the Radio Shack 4P is not a candidate, but some of the newer ones definitely are. I'm not completely sure we aren't broadcasting unsecured to the entire local area, but the ten or twelve people I can see all look fairly nice.
I threw this into drafts because I didn't know how it would tuirn out. Not well, it seems. After we set up the mighty fine network it worked just fine for awhile, until I looked at the neighborhood and saw that we were broadcasting loudly to everyone again. I deleted everything, onhooked everything, unplugged the cables and even pulled out the rabbit ears, no change. Still broadcasting. I'm certain that Bill is behind this somehow. But why? Obviously to monitor what you're blogging. You know, you might just be right on that. posted by Rick at 1:10 AM
Friday, November 04, 2011
Post #2570.Snooty Dell. Look at the email I got from Dell after my attempted reply to their explaination of a recent foulup;
Message for domain dell.com. Remote host said: 452 Too many recipients received this hour. Connections from this sending hostname nm22-vm0.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com, IP address of: 98.455.000.000 are being throttled due to low SenderBase Reputation score. Your SenderBase organization: 2000246.
Whuu-uuuut? I have a Low SenderBase Reputation Score? In the opinion of one of our machines, yes, it seems so. This is not the end of this. To the tunnels!Rick Macherat Rick M. In the day. posted by Rick at 11:46 PM
Post #2569.A Higgs boson walks into a bar. So, I'm watching Nova, and they're trying, again, to explain to us ants how the universe works. I'm following it so far, as usual, to the extent one can without the math, until they get to the latest thing: it's really all just two-dimensional and expressed by a hologram on the walls of a black hole. Something like that. Well, I couldn't go for any of it and decided to make my soup. It was that time of the evening by now.
There was a can, a bowl and a pan. I emptied the soup from the can into the bowl and stood there for a moment trying to figure what was wrong with the picture. Oh, I have to heat it first in the pan, THEN pour it into the bowl. My thinking was definitely not in the kitchen but still in the living room. Isn't it amazing how it works? I wonder if we will ever fully understand the human mind? No, you won't. Say whut, who was that?
On top of it, I realized that I took Physics before Professor Higgs invented the particle. How's that for being ancient?Rick Macherat Rick M. In the day. posted by Rick at 2:33 AM
Tuesday, November 01, 2011
Post #2568.Viralityness. No, that one doesn't work either. I need a new word to define the new phenomenon when something "goes viral." That phrase is just the first part. The second is the universal reaction to the "going viral" by people who may or generally do not have any clue what it is about. Since it is pretty much running the world right now, I think it's high time somebody who does this sort of thing looks into it. Related: the utter and complete dumbification of America.
Like Jerry, I'll often jot things down as they occur to me in order perhaps to include them here. Most don't make it. This one didn't: "Can't you Neep it? No. We neep it with our own neepathalogs. OMG, you don't have any n." If anyone has a clue, please notify this blog.
Brother and I have been trying to set up a home network by ourselves. With 20+ years on this thing, plus plenty of instructions to be had, we should be able to do it. Our new computer shows a couple nearby computers transmitting wirelessly; one is our 85-year-old widow neighbor on one side, and the other is a 66-year-old widow on the opposite. Several more appear to be neighbors I don't know, illegal immigrants mainly. All of these people have working wireless networks and we don't. It's even sadder that we may actually be blasting everything out wirelessly ourselves, like what happened the last time we tried it, and not even know.Rick Macherat Rick M. In the day. posted by Rick at 9:51 PM
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