My life is going downhill fast: June 2015

Thursday, June 25, 2015

Basement Redfern*

Much to my chagrin, Basement Skate was out of place in St Leonards. The scene has changed and the walk in traffic and kids wanting longboards had passed.

Evolve or die. The evolution of Basement Skate is to go south to the spiritual home of street skating...Redfern.

The one thing I do like about the new location is is that a little bit of Naremburn ...you see those fence palings - they are from my place.

Robbo and Trav turned up a couple of years ago asking if I had some weathered fence palings.

I had several that I wasn't using but they wanted more so we dismantled most of my side fence. Looks pretty good in Redfern as it happens.

They took all of their shit and deserted me*

One day the Basement Skate mob were 800m away and then they weren't. The doors closed on Sunday 21st June 2015 and that was it.....

Gutted.....

About the Number '42'

42 is:

The number achieved by multiplying the Devil's number (6) and God's number (7).

The angle in degrees for which a rainbow appears;

42 is the product of the first three terms of Sylvester's sequence; like the first five such numbers it is also a primary pseudoperfect number.;

In 1966, mathematician Paul Cooper theorized that the fastest, most efficient way to travel across continents would be to bore a straight hollow tube directly through the Earth, connecting a set of antipodes, evacuate it (remove the air), and then just fall through. The first half of the journey consists of free-fall acceleration, while the second half consists of an exactly equal deceleration. The time for such a journey works out to be 42 minutes. Remarkably, even if the tube does not pass through the exact center of the Earth, the time for a journey powered entirely by gravity always works out to be 42 minutes, as long as the tube remains friction-free, as while gravity's force would be lessened, so would the distance traveled at an equal rate;

42 is the number with which God creates the Universe in Kabalistic tradition;

From the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything is calculated by an enormous supercomputer over a period of 7.5 million years to be 42. Unfortunately no one remembers what the question is.