Archive for April 28, 2007

Lodge 104: STILL More Conclave Patches

Posted in Occoneechee 104, SR-7B Lodges by John E. Pannell on April 28th, 2007 at 6:44 am

There are four more patches from Occoneechee lodge for the recent SR-7B conclave that have not yet been reported here. I have alluded to two of them.

In addition to the trading post staff patch (X33?) two more conclave committees had officially approved staff patches. They were for the campsite hosts, and cook crew.

In addiition there was a patch used by the medical service staff. This was not authorized by the lodge and should be listed as a “Z”, at best. Continue Reading »



"The first nonabsolute number is the number of people for whom the table is reserved. This will vary during the course of the first three telephone calls to the restaurant, and then bear no apparent relation to the number of people who actually turn up, or to the number of people who subsequently join them after the show/match/party/gig, or to the number of people who leave when they see who else has turned up.
The second nonabsolute number is the given time of arrival, which is now known to be one of the most bizarre of mathematical concepts, a recipriversexcluson, a number whose existence can only be defined as being anything other than itself. In other words, the given time of arrival is the one moment of time at which it is impossible that any member of the party will arrive. Recipriversexclusons now play a vital part in many branches of math, including statistics and accountancy and also form the basic equations used to engineer the Somebody Else's Problem field.
The third and most mysterious piece of nonabsoluteness of all lies in the relationship between the number of items on the bill, the cost of each item, the number of people at the table and what they are each prepared to pay for. (The number of people who have actually brought any money is only a subphenomenon of this field.)"
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