August 22, 2016 Open Thread, Saint Nessie's Birthday
August 15 is the 234th day of the year. There are 131 days left.
Today's number is 22
Today's number is Twenty-Two
22 is the product of two primes, 2 and 11
Being a product of 11 generates some fun we'll look at later
22 sevenths has been used as a rough approximation of pi for millenia
22 is titanium, a seriously kick-ass metal, but brittle in a pure state
A cricket pitch is 22 yards long
Catch 22 is a novel by Joseph Heller
A "Catch 22" is a type of gotcha or puzzle such as occur in that novel
.22 and .22LR (long rifle) are common small caliber weapons designations
"Fun" with "math"
1/11 = .090909 repeated forever
1/22 = 1/2 of 1/11 = 0.5 x .0909 = .04545454545 ad infinitum
Thus, a/22 = a x .045454545 etc
In doing mental arithmetic, multiplying by eleven is often easiest done by multiplying by 10 and then adding the original number. For example, 14 x 11 = 10 x 14 + 14 = 140 + 14 = 154
Similarly, multiplying by 22 is often easily done by multiplying by 2 and then multiplying the product by 11. Thus 14 x 22 = 28 x 11 = 280 + 28 = 308
Multiplying by 22 can also be made easier by first multiplying by 11 and then doubling the result. Thus 14 x 22 = (140+14) x 2 = 154 x 2 = 308
22 squared = 484, which just happens to be 4 x 11 squared. Hint: (2 x 11)(2 x 11) = (2 x 2)(11 x 11)
22 BCE was the Year of the Consulship of Marcellus and Arruntius
Gaius Petronius, Roman governor of Egypt, destroyed the Nubian capital
22 CE was the Year of the Consulship of Agrippa and Galba
Roman law replaced Celtic law and customs in Gaul. The earth wept.
Valeria Messalina, the third wife of Emperor Claudius was born
On this day in:
0565 -- St. Columba reported seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland. Worse yet, it rejected holy communion. Uh, huh.
1485 -- The Battle of Bosworth Field, the death of Richard III and the end of the House of Plantagenet
1639 -- Madras (now Chennai), India, was founded by the British East India Company
1642 -- Charles I called the English Parliament traitors. The English Civil War began
1791 -- The Haitian Slave Revolution started in Saint-Domingue.
1831 -- Nat Turner's slave rebellion started just after midnight in Southampton County, Virginia,
1848 -- The United States annexed New Mexico.
1864 -- Twelve nations signed the First Geneva Convention.
1950 -- Althea Gibson became the first black competitor in international tennis.
1952 -- They permanently closed the penal colony on Devil's Island. Next up, Gitmo
1963 -- Joe Walker reached an altitude of 67.08 mi (354,200 feet) in an X-15
1966 -- The NFWA and AWOC merged to become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC)
1978 -- The Sandinista National Liberation Front (FLSN) occupied the national palace in Nicaragua.
1992 -- FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi killed Vicki Weaver at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho. No hostage was found or rescued.
1996 -- Bill Clinton signed his so-called welfare reform into law
Born this day in:
1647 -- Denis Papin, physicist and mathematician, developed pressure cooking
1862 -- Claude Debussy, pianist and composer
1880 -- George Herriman, cartoonist
1893 -- Wilfred Kitching, 7th General of The Starvation Army, pegnant with celestial fire
1893 -- Dorothy Parker, poet, critic, author, wit, member of the Algonquin Roundtable, Hollywood Blacklistee
1902 -- Leni Riefenstahl, actress and director
1908 -- Henri Cartier-Bresson, photographer and painter
1914 -- Jack Dunphy, dancer, author, playwright, Capote fancier
1915 -- David Dellinger, pacifist, activist, radical, 1/7th of Chicago 7.
1917 -- John Lee Hooker, singer, songwriter and guitarist, who deserves his own essay
1918 -- Mary McGrory, journalist and author (d. 2004)
1920 -- Ray Bradbury, author and screenwriter
1928 -- Karlheinz Stockhausen, composer and academic
1936 -- Chuck Brown, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer. Godfather of go-go.
1936 -- Dale Hawkins, singer, songwriter and guitarist; swamp rocker, Suzie-Q.
1945 -- Ron Dante, singer, songwriter and producer (The Archies, The Cuff Links, and The Detergents)
1947 -- Donna Jean Godchaux, singer, songwriter (Grateful Dead, Heart of Gold Band, Jerry Garcia Band, Donna Jean Godchaux Band)
1948 -- David Marks, singer, songwriter and guitarist (The Beach Boys and Delaney & Bonnie)
1950 -- Scooter Libby, lawyer, politician, go-fer, leaker, perjurer and all-around scum.
1958 -- Vernon Reid, guitarist and songwriter (Living Colour)
1959 -- Juan Croucier, singer, songwriter, bass player, and producer (Ratt and Dokken)
1961 -- Roland Orzabal, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Tears for Fears and Graduate)
1961 -- Debbi Peterson, singer and drummer (The Bangles and Kindred Spirit)
1963 -- Tori Amos, singer, songwriter, pianist, and producer (Y Kant Tori Read), activist (RAINN)
1966 -- GZA, rapper and producer (Wu-Tang Clan)
1967 -- Layne Staley, singer, songwriter (Alice in Chains, Class of '99, Mad Season, and Sleze)
1972 -- Paul Doucette, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and drummer (Matchbox Twenty, The Break and Repair Method, and Tabitha's Secret)
1976 -- Bryn Davies, bassist, cellist, and pianist - look her up sometime
Observation - Poem by Dorothy Parker
If I don't drive around the park,
I'm pretty sure to make my mark.
If I'm in bed each night by ten,
I may get back my looks again,
If I abstain from fun and such,
I'll probably amount to much,
But I shall stay the way I am,
Because I do not give a damn.
Died this day in:
1664 -- Maria Cunitz, Pastronomer and author
1965 -- Ellen Church, first female flight attendant
1967 -- Gregory Goodwin Pincus, co-created the birth-control pil
1978 -- Jomo Kenyatta, journalist and politician, founding father of Kenya, one of Kapenguria Six, alleged mau mau.
1979 -- James T. Farrell, novelist, short-story writer, and poet
1989 -- Huey P. Newton, activist, co-founded the Black Panther Party, brought gun control to California
2006 -- Bruce Gary, drummer and producer (The Knack)
2011 -- Jerry Leiber, songwriter, half of "Lieber & Stoller", also deserving of their own essay
Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such:
Well, why not Saint Nessie? Saint Columba birthed her. Hey, fair is fair.
So, for music we gots:
John Lee Hooker, Who deserves his own essay
Chuck Brown, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer. Godfather of go-go.
Dale Hawkins, singer, songwriter and guitarist; swamp rocker, Suzie-Q.
Ron Dante, American singer-songwriter and producer (The Archies, The Cuff Links, and The Detergents)
Donna Jean Godchaux, singer, songwriter (Grateful Dead, Heart of Gold Band, Jerry Garcia Band, Donna Jean Godchaux Band)
David Marks, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Beach Boys and Delaney & Bonnie)
Juan Croucier, Cuban-American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (Ratt and Dokken
Roland Orzabal, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Tears for Fears and Graduate)
1961 -- Debbi Peterson, American singer and drummer (The Bangles and Kindred Spirit)
1963 -- Tori Amos, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (Y Kant Tori Read), activist (RAINN)
1966 -- GZA, American rapper and producer (Wu-Tang Clan)
1967 -- Layne Staley, American singer-songwriter (Alice in Chains, Class of '99, Mad Season, and Sleze)
1972 -- Paul Doucette, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and drummer (Matchbox Twenty, The Break and Repair Method, and Tabitha's Secret)
1976 -- Bryn Davies, American bassist, cellist, and pianist
Bruce Gary, American drummer and producer (The Knack)
Jerry Leiber, songwriter
John Lee Hooker, Who deserves his own essay
Chuck Brown, singer
Dale Hawkins
Ron Dante, who was guilty of -
Donna Jean Godchaux
David Marks
Juan Croucier
Roland Orzabal
Debbi Peterson
Tori Amos
GZA
Layne Staley
Paul Doucette
Bryn Davies
Bruce Gary
Jerry Leiber
This could go on all day: discography, possibly incomplete: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_written_by_Jerry_Leiber_and_... and that's just with Mike Stoller ...
Comments
Morning!
The Powell camp is finally pushing back against Hillary's claim that she only did what Powell advised her to do re email.
http://pagesix.com/2016/08/21/colin-powell-sets-record-straight-on-invol...
Not surprising, sadly enough.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
I think "Walk like an Egyptian" would be perfect sub-sound
at the Egyptian Museum in Berlin, Nefertiri's head and all. Oddly, wearing a T-shirt from the gift shop there for dead husband, and thinking about new settings for the two clay scarabs I got there and made into earrings. It all has to so with some ankhs I made into earrings, gone now, from I think Museum of Science and Industry, but that seems like a misplaced memory as well as ear jewelry.
I also learned that my dead-pet petsitter joined the sky at age 39. 5 kids, two from her, three acquired. Bye, Missy, Sasha and Amino.
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
With periodic interludes for
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Ironic meta-note: Debbie Peterson contributed almost
nothing to the record Walk Like an Egyptian -- she neither drummed nor sang a lead vocal. I'm not sure whether she sang some of the harmonies. The session was a nightmare, in which the women were bullied by their new producer, and it left a sour taste in their mouths that they've never really gotten rid of. And then, the media's response to the video -- which was to anoint Hoffs as "the lead singer", based mainly on the fact that:
A. She sang lead on the last verse
and
B. She was (and still is, actually) excruciatingly beautiful
-- planted the seeds of discord that eventually tore the band apart.
Which is all pretty sad, I think, because although it wasn't their own composition, I think their performance of WLAE -- especially the vocal harmony -- is fucking brilliant.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
I noticed that she wasn't drumming.
Thanks for that information.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
They gave her the tambourine just so she'd have something
to do. The video shows her doing the whistle break, but that's a video -- I don't think she actually did, at least not on the record. Don't know for sure, though.
I've never seen an explanation of why she didn't play the drum part.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
I thought that ws her on tambouring, but wasn't sure
enough to comment to that effect. Thanks.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Let that boy boogie-woogie.
It's in him and it's got to come out.
We wanted decent healthcare, a living wage and free college.
The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.
You got it.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Twenty-Two was also a classic “Twilight Zone” episode from 1961
http://twilightzone.wikia.com/wiki/Twenty-Two
an odd
and interesting reality is that in fatal bus, train, and plane crashes, the vehicles generally are carrying fewer passengers than is usual. There is a statistically significant failure of people to book, or to show up. Almost always, the missing don't know, consciously, just why they decided to not be there.
But sometimes people are like the Twilight Zone 22 lady. Here's a boy who, in dream, foresaw Newtown.
i doubt it.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
go ahead,
argue with the numbers. ; )
the numbers are less than compelling,
and the proposition -- that people can perceive physical events that haven't happened yet -- is preposterous.
reductionist and closed-minded though it may be, i will continue to believe in physics.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
try the
first link I embedded above. It's to a book. Written by a physicist.
investigate beyond that one page, and you'll learn that
the analysis of the 4 9/11 flights is flat-out wrong -- one of the flights had a higher load average than its average over the preceding few months -- even without considering that it attempted no correlations to historical patterns for that particular day of the year, i.e., the second Tuesday following Labor Day. This latter omission renders the entire analysis pointless, because travel patterns are not random. It's comparable to analyzing a crash on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving and concluding that a bunch of suicidal people presciently chose to fly that day.
People cannot sense physical events in the future. They can't dream them, they can't feel them, they can't know them, because there is simply no way for such information to make its way backwards in time; and indeed, generally speaking they can't be known -- can't be predicted with any certainty -- due to the chaotic properties of complex systems.
Also, there's no such thing as ghosts. Or Astral Projection. The Reality of ESP is that nobody has ever provided a convincing, controlled demonstration that there's anything there -- because there isn't.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
you indicated
that you worship at the altar of physics; I gave you a physicist; but you don't like that physicist; apparently he is a Wrong physicist; you command me to investigate beyond the one page; which I certainly have; and long before any intertubes, ever were born. And long after. Too.
Your denial is amusing. We know, for instance, from the true-life documentary film Interstellar, that humans can move around time. Including physically.
Also, astral projecting, is fun. With, or without, ghosts.
The common human perception of time is illusory. As is the common human perception of . . . everything.
Maybe you could try being an Observer. Then you would Know these sorts of things.
; )
Physics != Physicist
Freeman Dyson is a GCC denier. And a physicist. These things happen. Just because a physicist "believes" in ESP doesn't mean the physicist has a working, testable hypothesis for how ESP actually works here in the material world. It just means the physicist doesn't care about having a working, testable hypothesis about some things in which the physicist feels some compulsion to believe. Dyson doesn't actually care whether GCC is happening, because, you know, we'll all just fly away to Titan or something. Cuz we gots da smarts!
As to investigating beyond that one page, the point is that the guy's 9/11 numbers are both plain wrong, and naively investigated. You sent me a link to a page in a book. I'm not going to debunk the whole book. I don't need to, because my amazing ESP powers inform me that it is fundamentally flawed in its epistemology, probably multiple times on the average page.
I do find wormhole-based sci-fi cool-travel to be amusing. Anything that ever travels through an actual wormhole anywhere, any time, is going to come out the other side decomposed into, at best, a plasma. Which I suppose would be an illuminating experience.
To call time an "illusion" is to grossly oversimplify whatever exactly it is that time is. Whatever the hell it is, we cannot move backward in it, and we can only move forward in it according to some very fixed principles. Don't get your hopes up for near-light-speed travel.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
Slaughters in Yemen
Democracy NOW Today's Show about Slaughters in Yemen.
An interview with Harper's DC-based editor Andrew Cockburn starting at TC 26:51 about "Andrew Cockburn on the Saudi slaughter in Yemen. "Acceptable Losses - Aiding and Abetting the Saudi Slaughter in Yemen".
and
you can ignore these protesters if you are as blind, but you can also look at them here.
There you go...my deceased former husband said seven years ago that Northern Africa will explode. Looks like it.
We are certainly aiding and abetting in a massive maner.
Thanks for the information and links.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
some years back,
in the town down the hill, the wingers were taking their turn in control of the city council (these things move in cycles), and they decided Something Must Be Done about the street-begging. Their solution was typically wingerish: punish the beggars. They made some Rules that prohibited "loud and aggressive" begging, and ixnayed remaining in one place for too long—one, if begging, had to keep moving.
Then came Christmastime. Loud and aggressive beggars proceeded to plant themselves on the streetcorners. Ceaselessly ringing obnoxious bells. Demanding the humans put monies in their little red kettles. These beggars were there, in the same spots, all day, every day.
So I went to the wingers, and I made a Complaint. Weren't these Salvation Army beggars, I pointed out, the very definition of the sort of beggars prohibited in the Rules? Loud, aggressive, and Not Moving? Surely, I urged, with these red-kettled beggars, and pursuant to the Rules, Something Must Be Done.
Nothing was done. The wingers, they didn't think it funny. They never do.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsgiDaxrT-0]
Christers get alot of special dispensations in this country,
them and the cops. Pity.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Salvation Army is a cult
of hate and intolerance. Their Red Kettle helps with their anti-gay agenda.
"Love One Another" ~ George Harrison
Indeed. As a kid I learned to avoid them and support
other charities instead.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Twenty Two...
Thanks for the number fun el. I can remember a little bit from when I was 22. Odd to think of 22 as old but some do...
Here's some math practice too.
Have a nice day.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Interesting number wheel. Thanks.
If you wish to get really good at multiplying anything up to 9 by anything up to 20, competition darts is the way to go.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
It seems “Twenty Two” is also a song by Taylor Swift. n/t
Not something I would be aware of, thanks. ;-)
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
KC and the Sunshine Band
Doing some etymology today debating the authenticity of a document purportedly from a speech given in 1712 by "Willie Lynch". Fortunately some of the words (and concepts) never appeared in English until decades after. I was going to use the word "boogeyman" as an example of how a document using that word could be debunked and ended up with KC and the Sunshine Band....
The horn section is off da heezie.
From the Light House.
Thanks.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Swiss establishment op-ed: Germany dodging debate on immigration
(article in German from the newspaper NZZ, Zurich)
Thanks EL
The Bangles were twice the LA band as the GoGo's were.
Sandinista my favorite Clash album..
The latest Hillary campaign talking point
The latest Hillary campaign talking point (as regurgitated by Joe Romm) to get progressives and independents to fall in line (emphasis added):
What utter garbage. If you count every vote for another candidate as a vote against Trump, then it doesn't matter if progressives and independents vote for Hillary or Jill Stein. #JillNotHill
"We've done the impossible, and that makes us mighty."
They're pretty desperate to use that stupid shit, but
it will probably fool a lot of folks anyway.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --