I am up too early with children's shows on in the background to think too heavily about things so I ask you to consider whether:
- 03 03 03 is the square root of today. I can't recall what I was doing exactly on 3 March 2003 except that I was packing up the house on PEI to move here to Kingston. It's pre-blogging history by seven weeks so I can't tell you more than that.
- We are also clearly two days from the eighth anniversary of 9/11. We are apparently past the point that the news even notes there are no major commemorations.
- It is also Wednesday which recalls Woden or Oden, top god of my forefathers and, in part, the reason why McLeods exist at all.
- News headlines include "Brian Burke says Leafs built to make playoffs" and "Gung-ho Iggy sparks concern" - I don't know which makes me more concerned for someone's grip on reality.
You know, it's the quality posts like these which keep Gen X at 40 ranked in the top 25 Canadian political blogs. That and the bloody stumps I have for fingers after 4,964 posts and 27,394 comments. What will I do for post 5,000? Forget that the event occurs and make some passing remark about a news clipping? Likely. Oh and "Halloo down there, Jay! What's it like at #20?"
Comments
Hans - September 9, 2009 12:30 PM
The randomness of the numbers assigned as dates to today are as meaningless as the sound of a tree falling in the forest.
Hans - September 9, 2009 12:31 PM
And speaking of trees, how about those leaves, I mean, leafs?
Matthew Fletcher - September 9, 2009 10:52 PM
Randomness and meaninglessness are not the same though.
The numbers assigned to dates are not in any way random; they are entirely predictable - if they were in fact random they would be useless, which they aren't.
They are, however, like all numbers and most things, meaningless in the absence of context.
03/03/03 takes on meaning when Alan writes about it. That's why he's #13.
Alan - September 10, 2009 8:33 AM
Panderer!!! #13 conveys plenty of meaninglessness.
[Though I notice Jay didn't pop in. Maybe being #20 means you have to stay late and do the dishes...]
Hans - September 10, 2009 10:17 AM
The assignment was random. Certainly, I wasn't complaining about sequencing of numbers. I love sequence. But interms of the assigning, I mean, why base 10 and base 12? And did we start the sequencing at that point? Just a whim, perhaps....