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49th birthday
Sep. 26th, 2024 03:37 pm49 is the square of 7, which is a prime number.
It's the smallest discriminant of a 'totally real cubic field', which sounds sort of suspicious by insisting on its real-ness.
49 squared is 2401, and 2+4+0+1 is 7, which is the square root of 49. There doesn't appear to be a fancy name for that, but Wikipedia found it noteworthy.
It's the atomic number of Indium, which is used as a vacuum seal and thermal conductor in cryogenics.
49 is the code for International direct dial calls to Germany
The 49th parallel forms much of the border between the US and Canada
It's also how old I am today. :)
It's the smallest discriminant of a 'totally real cubic field', which sounds sort of suspicious by insisting on its real-ness.
49 squared is 2401, and 2+4+0+1 is 7, which is the square root of 49. There doesn't appear to be a fancy name for that, but Wikipedia found it noteworthy.
It's the atomic number of Indium, which is used as a vacuum seal and thermal conductor in cryogenics.
49 is the code for International direct dial calls to Germany
The 49th parallel forms much of the border between the US and Canada
It's also how old I am today. :)
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Aug. 22nd, 2024 12:49 amThis evening started with a movie about a murderous blob of chewing gum, and ended with my dropping a random 18-year-old college student at her apartment.
Tonight was the world premier of 'The Wad', a B-movie homage/parody by Christopher Mihm (http://sainteuphoria.com). I've been going to his films for close to 20 years, starting with his first, The Monster of Phantom Lake, back in 2006. It was fun, I picked up some new posters, got them signed by whoever of the cast I could wrangle, and then dropped my friend Lou off at his place. I offered to drop my other friend Todd off as well.
On the way to his place, I witnessed a car accident. I stopped, in case they needed a witness. One car was a Somali family, who didn't speak much English. The other was a young woman due to start college in a couple of days at the U of MN. She was lost, didn't have her ID, her phone was dead, she didn't even know her new address, basically everything that could go wrong, had. She got confused, and took a left turn from the middle lane, directly in front of the other car. They managed to communicate enough to get insurance exchanged, and when I called 911, they said as long as nobody seemed injured, it was okay to just exchange insurance info, so that seemed handled. The Somali family left, but her car had a bent wheel, and wasn't going anywhere.
I let her borrow my phone to call her mom, and texted back and forth with her to help coordinate getting a tow truck to take it somewhere it could be stored while they sorted things out. Todd caught a bus home, since it seemed like we'd be at this for a while. She seemed out of it at first, and had hit her head. Her pupils were dilated. She declined my offer to call 911 again. We were there for a couple of hours getting everything sorted out, by which time she seemed much more lucid. I told her she needed to call the health insurance line for advice, and apprised her mom of her situation so she could follow up.
The whole time, I was trying to keep her engaged to help her calm down, telling her various stories of things that happened to me in school, and car-related incidents. I mentioned moving across the country for a boyfriend who dumped me a month later at one point. When I dropped her off, she asked if I'd found another boyfriend, and when I said no, she said she hoped they were out there for me because I'm a catch. Which felt nice. :) I texted her mom to let her know I'd dropped her off, and then continued home myself. I got home a bit after midnight.
Not how I saw the night going, but certainly more interesting than sitting at my computer.
Tonight was the world premier of 'The Wad', a B-movie homage/parody by Christopher Mihm (http://sainteuphoria.com). I've been going to his films for close to 20 years, starting with his first, The Monster of Phantom Lake, back in 2006. It was fun, I picked up some new posters, got them signed by whoever of the cast I could wrangle, and then dropped my friend Lou off at his place. I offered to drop my other friend Todd off as well.
On the way to his place, I witnessed a car accident. I stopped, in case they needed a witness. One car was a Somali family, who didn't speak much English. The other was a young woman due to start college in a couple of days at the U of MN. She was lost, didn't have her ID, her phone was dead, she didn't even know her new address, basically everything that could go wrong, had. She got confused, and took a left turn from the middle lane, directly in front of the other car. They managed to communicate enough to get insurance exchanged, and when I called 911, they said as long as nobody seemed injured, it was okay to just exchange insurance info, so that seemed handled. The Somali family left, but her car had a bent wheel, and wasn't going anywhere.
I let her borrow my phone to call her mom, and texted back and forth with her to help coordinate getting a tow truck to take it somewhere it could be stored while they sorted things out. Todd caught a bus home, since it seemed like we'd be at this for a while. She seemed out of it at first, and had hit her head. Her pupils were dilated. She declined my offer to call 911 again. We were there for a couple of hours getting everything sorted out, by which time she seemed much more lucid. I told her she needed to call the health insurance line for advice, and apprised her mom of her situation so she could follow up.
The whole time, I was trying to keep her engaged to help her calm down, telling her various stories of things that happened to me in school, and car-related incidents. I mentioned moving across the country for a boyfriend who dumped me a month later at one point. When I dropped her off, she asked if I'd found another boyfriend, and when I said no, she said she hoped they were out there for me because I'm a catch. Which felt nice. :) I texted her mom to let her know I'd dropped her off, and then continued home myself. I got home a bit after midnight.
Not how I saw the night going, but certainly more interesting than sitting at my computer.
46 is the number of chromosomes in a typical human.
It's Wedderburn-Etherington number, which means it's part of a counting sequence for some binary trees.
It's the atomic number of palladium.
It's the code to direct dial Sweden.
It's also how old I am today. Normally I'd have more, but 46 just isn't a particularly exciting number, and this isn't a particularly exciting birthday.
It's Wedderburn-Etherington number, which means it's part of a counting sequence for some binary trees.
It's the atomic number of palladium.
It's the code to direct dial Sweden.
It's also how old I am today. Normally I'd have more, but 46 just isn't a particularly exciting number, and this isn't a particularly exciting birthday.
