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Instead, I think I'm gonna just try posting standup, alt-comedy, and troupe comedy. I have no idea if any other MOGgers are doing this, nor do I particularly care if they are, I just think it's something that could help to fill a void.
Every asshole and his dog on MOG, it would seem, is trying to one-up each other in new, hep indie bands, and an equal number are rushing to be the first to get the new Britney tunes up and running. That's all well and good, but why try to compete or keep up?
I mean, my status is BLAZINGOMG as it is, so I'm apparently in no danger of losing any prized readerlistenership, but even if I am, hell, I haven't posted anything since June anyway, so I'd be surprised if half of you even remembered if I were alive or not. Nonetheless, I'm gonna try to entertain and enlighten through laughter.
Oh, and btw, my son was born on June 25 (another good reason for me not being around for two months). Lucas Josef came into the world at 1.38 pm, weighing in at 9 lbs, 14 ounces. Mom and baby are doing fine, mom's vagina is still a bit pissed off about the whole affair.
Every now and then, I need to go back in time and remind myself just how good They Might Be Giants are.
And then I smile quietly to myself.
Pony, twist, monkey and frug
These are the things I taught to you
Headshake, boogie, hypocrite pop
I'm stuck in a vat outside of New York...
Beautimous. Simply beautimous.
As you know, Three is a magic number. Yes it is. It's a magic number.
Taken from the "School House Rock Rocks" album, this song holds a special place in my heart (although the best song on the album was, by far, Ween's cover of "The Shot Heard 'Round The World"), since I'm a numbers geek.
Not quantum sciences or statistical math or calculus or any of that braniac stuff, but I still remember in Grade 5, being taught the basic rules of how you can tell a if a number is divisible simply by looking at it.
Want to know if a number is divisible by 2? Just look to see if it's odd or even. DIvisible by 3? Well, add up all of the numbers in that number, i.e. 763- 7+6+3=16. Can you divide that by 3? No? Then you're SOL. 978? Good to go.
You can divide any number by 4 provided the last two numbers in the string are factors of 4. 5- if the number ends in a 5 or a 0. 6? Divisible by 2 AND 3.
8? Last three numbers in the string are factors of 8 (that is, 338 isn't, but 907,432 is). Nine is the same as 3, but the numbers in the string need to add up to 9.
There's no rule for 7, you need to do the actual math for that one. But play around, and you'll see that the rest of the rules hold true.
Metal.
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i appreciate this post....3 is the magic number is a schoolhouse rock jam...there is no song about it, but i have much love for "the rule of 72" if you've heard of that...
not to mention that this past saturday, at 1:23:45 am it was 6/7/08 otherwise known as the rare 12345678 sequence - which only happens early in a century.
The next time it will happen will be at 2:34:56 a.m. on July 8, 2009.
dope.
Yeap, was taken by those divisiblity rules you metioned and a bit later by pythagoras theorem, http://www.mathsisfun.com/pythagoras.html, and the 3,4,5 sequence and its use being suspected of going back to pre-history to square construction.
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Congratulations...my brother is a Josef...we simply call him Sef. Glad to hear that mom and son are doing well...is this your 1st?
And he is gorgeous...I forgot to add that in the first round.
And I completely ignored your whole comedy stuff...I just saw the baby...that's it.
My first, the wife's second...our daughter will be 9 in October. The Josef is for my grandfather, the Lucas was just a good "L" name, since we wanted another "LJL" in the family.
Problem is, as of late, I've noticed that every Lucas I've come across in a mall, grocery store or park seems to be a rotten little shit. Here's to hoping he breaks the trend.