3/14

Of course one could hazard that we still have 7 years to go until... 3/14/15

Then there are others who might say that 3/14/16 is a more correctly rounded day.

What I really want to know is the one geek in Shakespearian time who was into this.

"Good my Lord, Forsooth, is not the date and time Marche the 14th in this the year of our Lord 1592?
"Roderick you oaf, why must thou quest me thus at 6:53...nay now 6:54 in the morn?"

And Roderick found himself having crap thrown at him and shortly thereafter dying of the black plague.

Next useless time and date on December 24th and 9pm (Eastern standard time)

Tags: dates, geek, numbers
Current Location: FreePeople House: Bed
Current Mood: geeky

I came across this on youtube (of course).

I'm always looking for neat math tricks and shortcuts.

This is actually a not-so-new solution to multiplying big numbers by hand.

It's really impressive. Be patient. The setup takes a bit but you'll see once everything is gridded, it makes multiplication sooooo much easier.

Tags: math, numbers, youtube
Current Mood: amused

Today it was reported that most 10th graders in Washington state can not pass the Math state expectiations.

I blame a severe lack of the good Sesame Street stuff. Oh sure, it still comes around in rotation (at least some of it)... but the good stuff... not as often.

Some favourites:

• 1-20 indian man with 4 arms:
  
• The pinball machine we all wanted
  
• My Martian Cutie (Number 9)
  
• The Ladybug Picnic.. and for those of you studying kaballah.. IN HEBREW!
  
• Trippy basic addition and subtraction to 5
  
• The alligator king (7)
  
• The animated rock tribe ritual of passage unto the realm of 12 actually kind of disturbing in reflection.
  
• Early scary computer counts to 4
  
• Let's sing a song of 10
  
  These featured a clumsy baker taking a dive with X number of pastries. See if you can identify the baker. This was the only time you saw this mainstay of Sesame Street on screen.
  
  
  Personally, I wish I could find "Let's sing a song of 9" because it is the first appearance of Rowlf the Dog.
  
  

  The crazy number painter played by "The Jefferson's" neighbor Paul Benedict was a favourite, but the shorts were killed in the 80's because it was perceived that they encouraged graffiti. In this episode he tries to paint a "7". In this short he runs into a random female (the second person in the elevator)... Bonus points if you can recognize this actress before she was discovered.
  
  
  

  And if you really want to understand me and where I get it... hands count to 11
  

Hopefully we can all count now.

Personally, I love these because they fire off synapses deep in my brain that have a warm nostalgic buzz to them.

Oh, and in case you really can't figure it out...

( The answers to my questions )

Tags: counting, nostalgia, numbers, sesame street, video
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Current Mood: nostalgic
Current Music: Sesame Street