More randomness

[magid]

There's a first international sudoku competition. But it's in Italy next weekend; I'm so not making it.

I was crocheting some of the yarn I bought Tuesday, and had a Pearly Soames moment, drowning in color.

I read earlier this week about how a 2,000-year-old date seed from Masada was sprouted (planted a few years ago on Tu B'Shvat :-). Which got me thinking last night, as I ate the last of the dates I'd bought, how I could grow a date palm from seed (though I might wait until warmer months to do it). It's odd, how much of the time I don't think about how all sorts of seeds pass through my kitchen, tiny packages of potential life consigned to fruitlessness due to my culinary endeavors. A squash doesn't care whether I mash or roast it; it is trying for immortality through its offspring (as so many non-vegetables are, too). Depending on the produce, though, some seeds are more or less likely to be fertile (*insert agribusiness and genetically modified food rant here*).

Moment from this morning's commute: looking into the sun path on the water, seeing interesting textures. Look the other way, and it is just little wavelets, fairly boring.

Yesterday I got a lot of tasks done, including getting the dress to a tailor (Why was I not surprised that the zipper is a non-standard length?), getting more wine (the dishwasher has 17 bottles now, a new record), and getting groceries. Still to do: get the car inspected, pay the excise tax,and finish cooking for Shabbat. (I still have a couple of days left for the car inspection, thankfully. Though I admit I'm tempted to go a day late, just to get future inspections into a longer month that is less prone to extreme weather...)

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[cellio]

Though I admit I'm tempted to go a day late, just to get future inspections into a longer month that is less prone to extreme weather...)

Does that work? I thought they would just give you the sticker for one year after the old one expired. Otherwise, people would be able to get inspections every 13 months instead of every 12 months, which the inspectors probably view as bad for business. (And the state probably has opinions about that.)

[magid.livejournal.com]

It works, but it means I run the risk of getting a ticket for having an expired sticker. Not probable for one day, but it's happened to me before, when I was much younger and not paying attention. The cop was a pain about it, making me leave the car where it stood (I'm still not sure why, since it would have to be driven to get it inspected). So I'm a bit gun-shy.

[(Anonymous)]

Is there a place to which you can go first thing in the morning on the 1st?

[magid.livejournal.com]

Yes, though it would make me late for work. And the people giving out tickets start at least an hour before then.

[library-sexy.livejournal.com]

It does work, but you need to go a few days late to make sure that you don't get last months sticker.

[magid.livejournal.com]

They don't start giving out March ones on March 1? Weird.

[library-sexy.livejournal.com]

I have found that if you have a March sticker and go on March 1st you will get a March, but that if it was a Feb you might get a Feb on March 1st, if they have one. I think it depends on the place you go. They don't seem that policed thus rules with exceptions don't surprise me in the inspection sticker process.

[istemi.livejournal.com]

2,000-year-old date seed

I misread that as a 2000 year speed date. Thank you for playing with my world.

[magid.livejournal.com]

*laugh* You're welcome.

Hm. So the average speed date is, what, 8 minutes? 10 minutes? Easier estimating with 10 minutes. So, there are about 525,950 minutes/year, which is 52595 * 2000 = 105,190,000 speed dates in 2000 years, which means that the sloooooooow ray that would make a speed date 2000 years long slows things down by a factor of approximately 100 million.

Now to turn it into a word problem :-).