Happy Palindrome Day
 

01 02 2010

:)

Won't be another one for nearly two years. So make it a good one. :thumbsup:

Yay!

NERDS!
http://www.city-data.com/forum/membe...nerds-ogre.jpg

Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era?

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Hey - sorry - just thought about this.

It's not palindrome day until 1st of February 2010, and there will be another on the 11th February 2011, then 21st February 2012 - the first year without one won't be until 2013, and then the next one will be 2nd February 2020.

Bloody Americans, learn to write dates like the rest of the world!

It was -7 degrees F. this morning.
I believe we silly people in the usa, are about the last country
still clinging to the Farenheit scale as well.

Palindrome is an intersesting word,
and it has nothing to do with Sarah Palin,
or her clones.

!Yay!

by randomly using and/or not using useless "0" markers you're making up false palindromes! What about Oct. 20, 2010? 10 20 2010?

I like Fahrenheit since it's a finer scale...180 integers between freezing and boiling temp of water vs. the deficient Celsius only having a measly 100. Celsius is like using a yard stick to measure a centimeter!

You said "integers." Swoon.

So you've not levelled up enough to unlock the "fractional mathematics" achievement? :D

or decimal? ;) I find that not many people say "it's 22 1/3 degrees outside"

I'm a professional engineer so I don't have a problem with either. But conceptually I prefer a finer measuring tool so Fahrenheit gets my vote.

A fitting palindrome for good good Badnick:

Race car.

Engineer?

Now it all makes sense.

I'm a chemist, with a masters in Thermodynamics - in my (long distant) research days, I was measuring things in parts per billion levels of reproducibility. For me, even the 180 degrees you use are not fine enough, so if you're really wanting to measure things properly, you need Lord Kelvin's scale (and 6 or 7 significant figures MINIMUM).

Granularity is pertinent to context. One wouldn't measure one's daily commute in millimeters -- sure, it's a finer scale, but it's too fine to be appropriate.

It is minus sixteen celsius here currently. We stubbornly went out to lunch, because we had a gift certificate. I suppose we could say it was to celebrate palindrome day.

It is a fun day indeed. I marked the occasion by tending to my plants this morning and checking out a few CS Lewis sci-fi books (Perelandra, etc) from the city library. I usually read only scientific papers directly associated with my research, so choosing to read some sci-fi is a special treat for only the most special holidays. I will try to remember to celebrate October 20th of this year with the same enthusiasm.

An aside to Daniel_:
A chemist who specializes in condoms. Hm. I also know a chemist-turned-priest. I wonder what it is about chemistry that makes people move on.

I never left chemistry, chemistry left me....

No, really, I still use things that I learned in labs and lecture theatres every day.

10/20/2010 isn't a palindrome... Unless you're say it like 10, 20, 20, 10 in which case it could be...

The longest palindrome I've ever seen:

A man, a plan, a canal, Panama.

Refers to Teddy Roosevelt.

You missed post 4 then? :(

sort of :bowdown:

:D

These aren't numerical palindromes, but two I remember from school days:

Able was I ere I saw Elba. (about Napoleon)

Madam, I'm Adam.

That's a good one, Daniel, that I hadn't seen before.

I always liked "a slut nixes sex in Tulsa"

Lindy

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Yes, and proud of it!!


Lindy

Happy Palindrome Day - a date that is exactly the same read forward or
backward - 01022010 (The last time it happened was 10022001 -- October 2,
2001. The time before that was 08311380 -- August 31, 1380) Talk about once
in a blue moon ... and yes, this time it really IS once in a blue moon!

01/11/10

I wish every day was Palindrome Day. :)

The temp here is 26.0 right now. That's close enough for me. I could also buy a device to tell me it's 26.01.
A scale based on water freezing and boiling at sea level makes sense to me. Silly argument.

We're having a heat wave here in the N.E. U.S. Yesterday it was 563 degrees Rankine. Luckily I was driving in my air conditioned car on a business trip. We left Tueday, came home Wednesday, drove about 1.5 billion millimeters....that's U.S. billions, not the British billions.

Campus motto: Bottoms up, Mac.

.07-.09=.20x.10

wtf, ftw.