01 Nov 07 A gift that will keep on giving*

So I went ahead and bought this from Amazon.com:

It should arrive some time next week. Get ready for a photo fiasco. I’m justifying the purchase by its benefit to my journalism and ability to better cover a story. I just need to get good with the darn thing.

Oh, and I’m just too lazy to keep dealing with the ancient Minolta 35mm I have. It’s fun, but getting film developed and having them all turn out like crap is a bitch. How did the cavemen ever do it?

*As long as I don’t break it.

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29 Oct 07 28 years later…

It is a composite number, its proper divisors being 1, 2, 4, 7, and 14.

Twenty-eight is the second perfect number. As a perfect number, it is related to the Mersenne prime 7, since 22(23 - 1) = 28. The next perfect number is 496, the previous being 6.

Twenty-eight is a harmonic divisor number, a happy number, a triangular number, a hexagonal number,and a centered nonagonal number. Twenty-eight is the sum of the first five prime numbers, and the sum of the totient function for the first nine integers.

It appears in the Padovan sequence, preceded by the terms 12, 16, 21 (it is the sum of the first two of these).

It is also a Keith number, because it recurs in a Fibonacci-like sequence started from its base 10 digits: 2, 8, 10, 18, 28…

Twenty-eight is the third positive integer with a prime factorization of the form 22q where q is an odd prime.

Twenty-eight is the ninth and last number in early Indian magic square of order 3.

There are twenty-eight convex uniform honeycombs.

The atomic number of nickel.

Oh, and it is also how old I am today. Birthdays are weird.

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23 Aug 07 Random Acts of Kindness.

Today was my second to last day of working full-time in the operations department of the bank.  Not expecting anything I walked into a full-on vegetarian spread, a card and a $100 pitched in from everyone in the office.

That was cool.

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