October 3, 2016 Open Thread, German Unity Day
October 3 is the 276th day of the year. There are 896 days left.
Remember Captain Jack! And while you're at it, Howl at something!
Today's number is 3
3 is the first odd prime (aren't they all just a little odd?)
3 is the first Fermat Prime;
3 is the first Mersenne Prime;
3 is the only prime that is both a Fermat Prime and a Mersenne Prime
Simple fractions with 3 in the denominator have infinite repeats of a single digit in decimal form (including zero)
The smallest polygon is the 3 sided triangle
3 points in space determine a plane
3 points in space alse determine a circle
A natural number is divisible by three if the sum of its digits is divisible by 3.
If a number is divisible by 3, so is its reverse, like 123 & 321
3 is lithium.
3 was Babe Ruth
3 is the number of spatial dimensions humans can perceive.
Basketball has a 3 point basket and a 3 second rule.
A football field goal is 3 points
3 strikes and you're out
3 outs per team per inning
3 Rs
3 Musketeers
3 Blind Mice
3 Wise Men
In The Hunting of the Snark (A Poem in Eight Fits), the Bellman declares the rule of 3: "What i tell you three times is true." It is proven later in the Poem
NOW PAY ATTENTION HERE:
"Taking Three as the subject to reason about”
A convenient number to state”
We add Seven, and Ten, and then multiply out
By One Thousand diminished by Eight.
"The result we proceed to divide, as you see,
By Nine Hundred and Ninety and Two:
Then subtract Seventeen, and the answer must be
Exactly and perfectly true."
-- Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark (A Poem in Eight Fits)
The "Rule of Thirds" is an alleged rule of composition for painting, photography and the like.
Somebody who is 3 sheets to the wind is drunk
10-3 is the police and emergency code for "stop transmitting"
"Code 3" means "Emergency response; lights and siren"
Title 3 of the US Code is the The President
3 BCE was the Year of the Consulship of Lentulus and Messalla
Seneca was born, also Servius Sulpicius Galba ( a Roman Emperor)
3 CE was the Year of the Consulship of Lamia and Servilius
Pontius Pilate was appointed prefect of Judea.
Tiberius retired to Capri
On this day in:
1835 -- The Staedtler company was founded
1873 -- Captain Jack and 3 other Modoc were hanged
1912 -- General Smedley Butler's U.S. marines shelled Coyotepe Hill during our criminal occupation of Nicaragua.
1932 -- Iraq gained independence from the UK.
1942 -- A V-2 launched from Peenemunde became the first man-made artifact to reach space.
1957 -- The California State Superior Court ruled that Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems was not obscene.
1963 -- A violent coup in Honduras began two decades of military rule.
1985 -- The first flight of the Space Shuttle Atlantis
1990 -- The DDR was merged into the Federal Republic of Germany.
1993 -- A US attempt to kidnap officials of Mohamed Farrah Aidid's organisation in Mogadishu, Somalia became the Battle of Mogadishu when the intended victims and their followers had the audacity to fight back
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,
angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night,
who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz,
who bared their brains to Heaven under the El and saw Mohammedan angels staggering on tenement roofs illuminated, ... - Allen Ginsberg: HOWL
Born this day in:
1790 -- John Ross, principal chief of the Cherokee Nation from 1828 through 1866
1900 -- Thomas Wolfe, An author and academic who looked homeward in Asheville NC
1916 -- James Herriot, A veterinarian and author
1924 -- Harvey Kurtzman, A cartoonist
1925 -- Gore Vidal, An author, screenwriter, wit, and actor
1925 -- George Wein, co-founder of the Newport Folk Festival
1938 -- Eddie Cochran, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actor.
1941 -- Chubby Checker, singer & songwriter, somewhat twisted
1947 -- John Perry Barlow, poet, songwriter, blogger, and activist. Founding member of the EFF.
1947 -- Ben Cauley, trumpet player and songwriter, (played trumpet for Otis and the Bar Kays)
1949 -- Lindsey Buckingham, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1951 -- Keb' Mo', singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1954 -- Dennis Eckersley, baseball player and sportscaster, the Eck, almost automatic
1954 -- Al Sharpton
1954 -- Stevie Ray Vaughan, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1955 -- Allen Woody, bass player and songwrite
1962 -- Tommy Lee, singer, songwriter, drummer, and producer
Died this day in:
1838 -- Black Hawk, Sauk war leader
1873 -- Kintpuash, aka Captain Jack, leader of the Modoc rebellion
1896 -- William Morris, author, poet, textile designer, and socialist activist
1967 -- Woody Guthrie, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1969 -- Skip James, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1987 -- Jean Anouilh, playwright and screenwriter
Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such:
Meh, try The Feast of Cosmas and Damian, it is as good as any.
So, for music we gots:
Eddie Cochran
Chubby Checker
John Perry Barlow
Ben Cauley
Lindsey Buckingham
Keb Mo
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Allen Woody
Tommy Lee
Woody Guthrie
Skip James
Eddie Cochran
Chubby Checker
John Perry Barlow
Ben Cauley
Lindsey Buckingham
Keb Mo
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Allen Woody
Tommy Lee
Woody Guthrie
Skip James
Open thread time
Comments
The Yankees began wearing numbers on their uniforms in 1929
and gave the numbers to regulars based on where they usually batted in the lineup. Babe batted 3rd most of the time and so got #3 to wear.
Jimmie Foxx, whose total of 534 home runs was second to Ruth when he(Foxx) retired also usually was given #3. Foxx is the player who hit the ball almost as far, and almost as often, as Ruth. In 1934, a group of all-stars toured the Orient and Foxx hit one out of Tokyo stadium in dead center. It may have been the only batted ball to travel 600 feet on the fly in a competitive game. Both Ruth and Charlie Gehringer said it was the longest home run they'd ever seen.
Ruth dominated that tour in spite of being almost 40 and cemented his stature with the Japanese as a living legend.
"The justness of individual land right is not justifiable to those to whom the land by right of first claim collectively belonged"
I usually leave jersey numbers out of it, there are
so many retired or otherwise famous per sport, so many multiples of some numbers n some sports, so many fans of specific players, etc. For example, were I fully awake, I would be tempted to argue that regardless of the accomplishments of Ruth & Foxx, Williams (number 9) was still the best pure hiter in baseball then and to date.
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'd take that bet : )
Ruth's slugging % was approx 10% higher than Williams' and the degree of difficulty the stadiums at that time presented was significant. Ruth faced power alleys and centerfields much longer than the distances Ted faced. Ruth routinely hit outs of 450 feet because of the park dimensions. Babe's best years, 1920 & 1921, were jaw-droppingly great.
Add to this that Ruth made the teams he played on more likely to be pennant winners; and, Ruth rose the occasion repeatedly over his long career so I think the scales are tipped in George Ruth Jr's favor.
"The justness of individual land right is not justifiable to those to whom the land by right of first claim collectively belonged"
what are you? a Red Sox fan?
Growing up in the NYC area I knew more Yankee uniform numbers than I did for any other team. But my favorite player as a young child was Stan Musial, who was coming to the end of his career. So #6 will always be Musial, as #7 will always be Mantle. Intellectually I understand the #9 is Williams but for me it's Roger Maris. #4 is Gehrig, #5 DiMaggio.
I'm an Angels fan now, have been since the 70s, and #27 is Trout and nobody else.
I knew a rabid Musial fan as a kid in Jr high and high school.
Tossing out the longevity stats, I don't think the two are really comparable. I finally got to see Musial retire. He hit a game tying single in the 6th, was pulled for a pinch runner and watched the rest of the game from the dugout. I had to track my friend down to remind him how Ted's career ended - in case you forgot:
But no, I'm not a Sox fan, just a Williams fan. My team was the bums, the team with the pitching. As a SoCal boy, they were the obvious choice, but you had to love a team that made others fear weak hitting Maury Wills because if you walked him, he very well might score, and you never wanted to give that pitching staff any runs to work with, not even one. Mantle and Maris were darn good, but they did play in a league where Whitey Ford was a respected pitcher, and it showed when they finally got a look at Koufax, Podres, Drysdale, Perranoski, Sherry and Miller. (I can't recall, did Miller even get a turn?)
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 --
williams
is completely The Ruler.
Thanks for that link.
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's more like German Disunity Day ....
I just lost a long comment I made. Have no stamina to rewrite it. It's all too discouraging. It's my mother's birthday today. She would have been 98 years old today. It may be good that my parents didn't live til now to see how everything is falling apart again.
https://www.euronews.com/live
Never Buy An HP Printer Ever Again
Hewlett Packard has pushed a software update (via Windows Update) that will prevent you from installing third party (cheaper) ink cartridges. And if you currently have one installed, it will stop working.
Now because of public outcry, HP said it will the reverse firmware update. But HP only apologized for 'the way it was communicated' and not for the business practice itself. Most tech watchers expect HP will do it again in the future but in a more stealth manner.
Thanks HP for watching out for me, you Corporate Fascist Rat Bastards.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/hp-backtracks-on-blocking-third-party-ink/
Donnie The #ShitHole Douchebag. Fake Friend to the Working Class. Real Asshole.
Mine stopped printing at about the time that was supposed to
take effect but I run Ubuntu, not windows, and use HP cartridges. Still, the timing really got my attention.
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 --
So, what silenced Assange?
WikiLeaks Cancels Possibly Clinton-Related Announcement Over ‘Security Concerns’ or here a list from google. Too much to read and what can you really believe to be true?Assange not up to the October surprise? Apparently not
I don't know if that has been covered here, if yes, sorry for it. Can't stand all of it. It's all to fucking confuse your mind. So, don't let yourself be noodled into that crap.
https://www.euronews.com/live
Taliban overrunning Kunduz again
link
you have
elongated the years!
This is fun. What should we name the other months?
However, if you are going to place even one of those additional 896 days, before election day, thereby elongating this wretched election season, you will have to go into a Dungeon.
It is not always true, "3 strikes and you're out." If the catcher drops the third strike, and you run very fast to first base, getting there before the catcher's throw, you are then safe. However, if you are three sheets to the wind, you probably won't get there before the throw arrives; if you are six sheets to the wind, you are Thomas Wolfe.
Tiberius had the same sort of regard for women as The Clenis and The Hairball:
Nature likes threes. Physicists like the rule of threes.
Hmmmm, fat fingers don't explain that 6, probably I highlighted
the 96 from the previous month and posted the 87 over it, in my mind, but missed the terminal 6 when highlighting. Damn.
The article on the physics, you will note, invokes Borromean Rings, more properly an artifact of topology and ergo highly mathematical. No doubt this discovery was made by somebody with a profound affinity for Ballentine Ale.
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 --