My life is going downhill fast: February 2016

Sunday, February 21, 2016

Dutch Ancestry - is this our tartan?

When it is time to shine, don a kilt and bomb a hill.

Brittany procured a kilt for me for Critmas and the right thing to do was to get amongst it and rock the kilt on a skateboard. The kilt is worn in the traditional dutch way with no undergarments allowing a wonderful air flow that women know all about.

Monday, February 8, 2016

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.

Sunday, February 21, 2016

Dutch Ancestry - is this our tartan?

Dutch Ancestry - is this our tartan?

Monday, February 8, 2016

Mt Keira 2016