An occasion to celebrate

The red mule turned 1400.0 today. I was there to celebrate with it (fortunately… another worker, A., almost had the pleasure when he went to move red mule so that green mule could get by). Admittedly, it wasn’t a huge party, but the red mule didn’t really want a big birthday anyways.

I tend to notice nice round numbers like that. Today I spent some time thinking about numbers. Important points of my pondering were :

• I don’t like odd numbers as much as even numbers, in general. Especially at work. Unless they’re divisible by 5, in which case they’ll barely tolerable.
• Prime numbers, while enjoying a place of prestige (even though, yes, all but one are odd) have no place at a tree nursery.
• Just touched briefly on a few of the many relationships between numbers and music. For instance, the eight note system ends up giving you a great example of modular arithmetic. Also, anything in which the terms “third”, “circle of fifths”, and “time beats given in fractions that used to drive me crazy until somebody finally managed to make me understand the differences between them and that no you can’t just play different timed pieces the same way” have a place of importance clearly has an appreciation for numbers.

As a disclaimer, I don’t think about numbers everyday. So I’m only partly crazy.