And you all thought I was bad with the birthday math!

Fascinating!



Just goes to show that math will always totally rock!  And birthday math will always rock harder!

And today, I am 51

Or, as I have taken to saying, I have completed 51 revolutions around the sun.  I guess this could also be looked at as the start of my 52nd revolution around the sun.  Come with me.  It is your destiny.

Fifty-one is an odd number.  It's divisible by three, which is cool.  Numbers that divide by three are my favorites.  Yes, I said that.  Actually my real favorite numbers are ones with six or more digits when they are found in my checking account.  Since that never happens, I'll stick with numbers divisible by three.

Do you all know the easy way to tell if 3 will go into a given number?  Add the digits of the number up.  If the sum is divisible by three, then the original number is. 

5 + 1 = 6

Six is divisible by three, so 51 is divisible by three.

If you can't tell if the sum is divisible by three, keep adding the digits together until you come to a sun that you can tell.

578,424,372

5 + 7 + 8 + 4 + 2 + 4 + 3 + 7 + 2 = 42  

Not sure what you've got?  Keep going!

4 + 2 = 6

Six is divisible by three, so 578,424,372 is too.  And also 42!  Isn't it cool?

When I was a kid I used to entertain myself on car trips by seeing if the numbers on billboards, license plates, etc were divisible by three.  I still do it sometimes when I'm bored.  Once a nerd, always a nerd.

Finally, the source of my fascination with threes.  I was a kid in the 70's after all.  The part when they start counting by threes  gets me every time.



Happy Birthday to me!  (I don't think "51st Revolution Around the Sun Completion Day" works in the song.  Someone will have to do something about that.)

I have a new look!

With everything else going on, I forgot to mention my mini-makeover.  I got new glasses for my birthday!

I still need a haircut!

I'm back in bifocals again, which is a relief.  I could barely see out of the pair that I was wearing.  I broke my last pair of bi-focals a couple of years ago, so I went back to wearing the pair I had before them.  Then I broke that pair, so I went back to the pair I wore before that pair.  It's nice to be up to date again.  I also got try out contacts, but I haven't had a chance to use them yet.  Just too much going on.

As you can see, I'm going for nerd chic now!

Nerds Unite!

I'm off to my 25th college reunion this weekend!  I'm also wondering how the hell that happened?  Are they sure 1987 was twenty-five years ago.  I'm sure I'll have lots to say afterwards, but in the meantime, it's videos this weekend.

First up the Nerdfighter Anthem!  If you're not cued into the whole nerdfighter gig, checkout the vlogbothers on YouTube or just google it.  Makes me proud to be a nerd, I tell you.  We make the world a better place, you know.

And if the last two days didn't spell it out for you....

Yes, it's true.  I am a big ole nerd.  Always will be.  And there ain't a damn thing wrong with that.

In fact, I'm the one that's cool.




So there!

Belated Slice of Pi

Wednesday was Pi Day, but I managed to miss it.  Have a belated slice on me:



Never, ever forget that, under this cool exterior, I am one great big nerd!  And nerds totally ROCK!