Yup it's the big Five-O ( Read more... )

Oh no, Forty-Six!

• The sum of the Euler totient function for the first twelve integers.
  ie. φ(1)+φ(2)+…+φ(12) = 1+1+2+2+4+2+6+4+6+4+10+4 = 46
• the number for the rather uninteresting Messier Object in Puppis which disappointingly has nothing to do with puppies. *frowns*
• The atomic number of Palladium used in the phantom white-gold wedding band that I ( Read more... )

Ah, Forty-Five...

• the sum of all the digits in base ten. (0 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 = 45)
• the number for the Messier Object the Pleiades which in Japanese is 'Subaru', my favoured and current marque of car.
• the sixth positive integer with a prime factorization of the form p2q, where p and q are prime. Six being the number of Subaru's ( Read more... )

Well Wild Nights 2010 is almost upon us. So if you just happen to be passing by Oklahoma next week and have nothing to do, apparently prereg has been extended 'til tomorrow, so it's still not too late to secure yourself a place.


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I lied again.

Sometimes I worry that maybe I like advertisements like this just a little too much.
I mean it has leather, motorcycles, lions and honey... errr...

I was so elated saddened to see this post by JugularJaguar saying that he won't be able to visit Nbowa and me next week. I'd been so looking forward to seeing the old fart that crazy kat again. I'd even gone to the effort of making buying a 'special' Bourbon just for Calamity, because I know just how much that smelly hick dear ol' cougar likes that sorta thing. ( Read more... )

I lied.

Well I never did finish my Oooh a shiny penny! post from earlier this year in which I was soliciting offers for a Pretty wire and a 2007 US penny. The whole (somewhat lame in hindsight) point of the post was that the wire I found was infact Platinum. ie. "Pretty wire" = Pt wire

Given that the density of Pt is 21.45 g/cm3 and the wire is 22swg (0. ( Read more... )

Well after seeing everyone posting their flightmemory.com data, I thought I might as well have a go at it as well. Of course what started out as me just being curious as to how much I actually flew this year, ended up as some OCD driven all encompassing fetish which has already consumed some ludicrous amount of time, further compounded by the fact ( Read more... )