Number Tournament: PI vs FORTY-TWO
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pi
seed: 19 (30 nominations)
previous opponent: the fine-structure constant
class: irrational number
definition: despite claims people often make about it, not known to be "normal" (that is, containing every possible sequence of digits). as far as we know, it could run out of fives at some point.
42 (forty-two)
seed: 14 (38 nominations)
previous opponent: googolplex
class: cultural
definition: is the story about "the point" of it as The Answer being that it's the ASCII codepoint for an asterisk actually true. like yeah codepoint (decimal) 42 in ASCII is an asterisk, but is that intentional or is that just a popular fan theory that people keep repeating as fact. I was under the impression that it was just a funny sounding number
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Quote of the Day
“Every time I move my arm...it costs the Cartoon Network forty-two bucks! Muhahahaha!”
-Zorak, Space Ghost Coast to Coast
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al things considered — when i post my masterpiece #1237
first posted in facebook november 2, 2023
ralph goings -- "paul's corner cushion" (1970)
"there was one planet off in the seventh dimension that got used as a ball in a game of intergalactic bar billiards. got potted straight into a black hole" … douglas adams
"so last week i went out and bought me an old pickup truck
now me and the kids spend saturdays
we do fun things in a simple way
we love to start the day with a ride in the pickup truck
we make a run to the county dump
we always wave if we see someone
the kids love to make up a song as we roll along
to the post office without fail
we get some stamps and we check out the mail
and we never take the same road twice on the way back home
half the fun's gettin' lost on the way back home" … jerry jeff walker
"you know the bartenders, they all know my name
and they catch me when i'm pulling up lame
and i'm a pool-shooting-shimmy-shyster shaking my head
when i should be living clean instead" … tom waits
"forty-two" … al janik
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What Do You See? (#42)
Choose 4 things within 4 feet of you and write for 4 minutes. One sentence each.
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Will it be warm enough & dry enough to put out the new spring decor on the porch today?🌸
The houseplants are perking up since I finally remembered to water them. 🪴
My faithful furbaby is in his usual spot this morning, all must be right with the world. 🐈⬛
Hmm…what should I get with that Amazon gift…
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Y’know, Jacob’s “annoy Zach into leaving me” campaign apparently only lasted all of two days, but considering the reaction the admission got, I’m wondering if Zach was under the impression that it was longer. Like it was definitely a dick move, but given Zach’s reaction, I’m wondering if it was perceived as a more prolonged and/or malicious dick move than it was.
Which kind of makes me think that maybe Zach just sorta didn’t like Jacob at the end and Jacob admitting that he’d been trying to annoy him into breaking up with him (without giving a timeline or expanding on specifics, which means that Zach’s assumption could be that Jacob was actively waging the annoyance campaign for months and about any number of things when actually Zach was just getting fed up with him) was just the cherry on top to let Zach snap and be like “this guy is intolerable and I wasted my time with him.” (Especially with his “I don’t have to care about this anymore.”)
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Could we PLEASE have some roland crumbs im starving 💔💔💔💔
As you wish.
Someone is very unhappy about this. I’ll let you guess who 🤭
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with a 0.1 lead sans fucking won
[id: it’s a screenshot of a poll which reads: sans undertale vs arataka reigen (mob psycho 100) for the prompt. Sans’s name is in blue as he won 50.1% of the votes and Reigen, 49.9%. /end id]
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