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Well a friend complained that he couldn’t see what the common theme was of this blog, well there isn’t meant to be one, but if you too like the arcane and the incongruous then may be there will be something of interest to you if you scratch about here long enough.
Meanwhile I’m learning Spanish with my lens at squidoo.com/havefunlearningspanish
Just received a mailing from Martin Avis of kickstarttodayforum.com in which he mentions that he had been analysing his web traffic statistics and was astonished to notice that the word Helioproctosis had brought him traffic. Well I’d made that posting (I believe I’d got it from Dee Harrison), interested as I always am by the arcane and I also have the number one posting in Google for that same word at www.successtheory.com/2008/03/helioproctosis-birth-of-new-word.html . Sometime it’s a bit lonely blogging you never know if anyone at all is listening so this just goes to show that sometimes someone is!
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1729 is known as the Hardy-Ramanujan number after a famous anecdote of the British mathematician G. H. Hardy regarding a hospital visit to the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. In Hardy’s words:
“I remember once going to see him when he was ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi cab number 1729 and remarked that the number seemed to me rather a dull one, and that I hoped it was not an unfavorable omen. “No,” he replied, “it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways.”
Learn more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1729_(number)
Peeve 1
Have you noticed that many products hardly say what they are any more they are so busy listing their qualities, so when I rush into a store wanting say Shampoo I really have to concentrate to make sure I get the right thing!
Peeve 2
Nearly everything we need or not need is now available in store often at a very low price in every variety model and shade; however if last year you bought some patio chairs and want buy a couple more it is usually IMPOSSIBLE to find exactly the same model. Once I really wanted to replace a certain type of casual trousers which I had really liked (after 2 years), I ended up phoning the company’s head office, no one could even recall that these trousers had ever existed!