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Old 01-02-2010, 06:55 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Happy Palindrome Day

01 02 2010



Won't be another one for nearly two years. So make it a good one.
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Old 01-02-2010, 07:09 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Old 01-02-2010, 07:48 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Old 01-02-2010, 08:20 AM   #4 (permalink)
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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!
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Old 01-02-2010, 08:35 AM   #5 (permalink)
 
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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.

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Old 01-02-2010, 09:04 AM   #6 (permalink)
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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!
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Old 01-02-2010, 09:08 AM   #7 (permalink)
 
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You said "integers." Swoon.
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Old 01-02-2010, 09:19 AM   #8 (permalink)
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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!
So you've not levelled up enough to unlock the "fractional mathematics" achievement?
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Old 01-02-2010, 09:50 AM   #9 (permalink)
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So you've not levelled up enough to unlock the "fractional mathematics" achievement?
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.
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Old 01-02-2010, 10:00 AM   #10 (permalink)
 
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A fitting palindrome for good good Badnick:

Race car.
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Old 01-02-2010, 11:06 AM   #11 (permalink)
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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.
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).
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Old 01-02-2010, 12:19 PM   #12 (permalink)
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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.
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Old 01-02-2010, 01:07 PM   #13 (permalink)
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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.
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Old 01-02-2010, 01:38 PM   #14 (permalink)
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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.
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Old 01-02-2010, 02:52 PM   #15 (permalink)
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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!

10/20/2010 isn't a palindrome... Unless you're say it like 10, 20, 20, 10 in which case it could be...
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Old 01-02-2010, 03:07 PM   #16 (permalink)
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The longest palindrome I've ever seen:

A man, a plan, a canal, Panama.

Refers to Teddy Roosevelt.
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Old 01-02-2010, 03:33 PM   #17 (permalink)
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The longest palindrome I've ever seen:

A man, a plan, a canal, Panama.

Refers to Teddy Roosevelt.
You missed post 4 then?
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Old 01-02-2010, 04:17 PM   #18 (permalink)
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You missed post 4 then?
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Old 01-02-2010, 08:36 PM   #19 (permalink)
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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.
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Old 01-07-2010, 10:11 AM   #20 (permalink)
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That's a good one, Daniel, that I hadn't seen before.

I always liked "a slut nixes sex in Tulsa"

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Old 01-07-2010, 12:44 PM   #21 (permalink)
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Old 01-10-2010, 11:44 PM   #22 (permalink)
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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!
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Old 01-11-2010, 02:57 AM   #23 (permalink)
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Old 07-07-2010, 04:37 PM   #24 (permalink)
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I wish every day was Palindrome Day.

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Old 07-08-2010, 04:54 AM   #25 (permalink)
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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.
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Old 07-08-2010, 05:05 AM   #26 (permalink)
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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.
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Old 07-08-2010, 08:16 AM   #27 (permalink)
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Old 07-09-2010, 06:16 PM   #28 (permalink)
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