Today is 05/05/05.
I've been enjoying that stuff ever since the turn of the century. For the first few years I was constantly doing little calculations. If you know how to view page source, you can see a bunch of them, but I won't bore my regular readers.
I've got an email to my prof half-written. That has nothing whatever to do with the multidude of little math calculations hidden in the html. Nothing, I assure you.
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The sense of trust is that, when you apply your inquisitiveness, when you look into a situation, you know that you will get a definite response.
If you take steps to accomplish something, that action will have a result--either failure or success. When you shoot your arrow, either it will hit the target or it will miss. Trust is knowing that there will be a message.
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You trust, not in success, but in reality.... [W]hatever the result that comes from your action, that result is not an end in itself. You can always go beyond the result; it is the seed for a further journey.
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Often, when someone tells us we should be fearless, we think they're saying not to worry, that everything is going to be all right. But unconditional fearlessness is simply based on being awake....
[F]earlessness is unconditional because you are neither on the side of success or failure. Success and failure are your journey.
3 comments:
After all that typing I wanted to put that stuff somewhere... so here it is in the comments.
How many dates each century have consecutive numbers? There must be twelve, one every year from '03 to '12 (01/02/03 and 12/13/14 being the first and last). Or eleven if you're European & can't get above 11/12/13.
But what if you count both digits? Then 01/23/45 is the only one.
And what if you count all four year digits--how many consecutive dates will there be by the year 10,000? Just one: 01/23/4567
You can also have fun considering how many dates in each century are like today--slot machine jackpot days. From 01/01/01 to 12/12/12 there will only be twelve days total and we've already had five of them!
What if you were less strict about zeroes and slashes, to include days like 2/22/22?
This is more complex.
1/1, 1/11, 11/11, in the years '01 and '11 (subtotal six)...
2/2 and 2/22 in the years '02 and 22 (subtotal ten)...
The rest of the months one day each (3/3 etc), two years each ('03 and '33)...
So ten days, each twice a century, is twenty days, plus our subtotal ten...
Thirty days total.
But if you went to the year 10,000 and only allowed "pure" years--such as the years 2, 22, 222, and 2222--that would be 36 pure years.
Most of those years would only have one matching day (3/3/3333). But the 1's years have two extra days (36 + 8 = 44) and the 2's years have one extra day (44+4=48).
Wow... 48 total... could I have figured that out more easily?
You're either a math geek or have OCD. ;-)
Both.
No, not really. But the whole point of OCD is of course to ease anxiety by doing little routines, so in a sense I was using a similar technique to fill a similar need.
And I'm definitely a math geek, although not many people know this. ;)
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