eine kleine shoutout
A quick hit today to welcome Clay Walker’s blog to the blogroll.
Hi Clay!
Three One Six
Something I noticed reviewing the previous post:
316 pages of Derrida’s Grammatology
Times six minutes a page equals:
1896 minutes to read Derrida.
Divided by sixty minutes per hour equals:
31.6 hours to read Derrida.
Divided by 24 hours per day equals:
1.316 days to read Derrida.
Is anyone else slightly creeped out by the preponderance of the numerical series 3-1-6 popping up in that series of calculations? I’m not getting all Jim-Carrey-in-The-Number-23 or anything, just something that caught my eye.
It might make the start of an interesting research project: what else can we associate with a common series of numbers? Starting with the basic series, we might read this any number of ways:
3/16-March Sixteenth. What has happened on this date historically or personally?
1896-The year, perhaps, as a strating point for research (like Rice’s temporal invention projects).
1/31/(0)6-January 31 2006. As starting point.
I’m not proposing this as a great assignment, but I like how simple series of mathematical calculations revealed a) a small, and no doubt arbitrary, repetition of a three digit sequence; and b) how that might be useful as at least one way of developing an invention strategy. Maybe a dumb one, but an invention strategy nonetheless.
Also, a meta tag here:
Please welcome Jessica Rivait’s new blog, Vita Activa, to the blogroll. As Kim Lacey has recently said, Holla!
Just when you thought it was safe . . .
I’ve now officially–more or less anyway–moved FoolsCap here to WordPress. Why?
- Easier to use. Although, at present, I’m not shelling out for customizable CSS, I think WordPress offers a much easier to navigate dashboard than Blogsome. Also, adding link categories and post categories is much more flexible here.
- More power! WordPress blogs can do a lot of things Blogsome blogs can’t: handle video, slideshows, audio files (if I can get the WordPress player to work in coming weeks [Thanks Jenny!]).
- Consolidation. My teaching blog is here at WordPress, so now that FoolsCap has moved, my blogs are hosted at the same place.
Beyond the new look and new URL, some other slight changes have been made that longtime readers may appreciate.
- Additions to blogroll. Welcome Kim Lacey, everyone!
- Deletions from blogroll. Sorry Jenna.
- New link categories: Expired blogs, for blogs that are out of use or otherwise DOA. Journals, for links to pertinent academic journals. More will follow, I’m sure.
Sort of a dull first post, but isn’t that often the case?