“May you live in interesting times.
May you come to the attention of those in authority.
May you find what you are looking for.”
— Reputed Chinese Curses
I learned lots of things on Wednesday. The technology demons were working overtime to haunt and bedevil me. Mr. Murphy also made an appearance to demonstrate to me his eponymous aphorism.
It started innocently enough. A friend was coming over to install some lighting in my den for me. I needed to learn which circuit breaker would turn off the power to my den. In the process of making that discovery, I also learned which would turn off the power to my office. That’s when things started going badly.
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"Where there are no tigers, a wildcat is very self-important. "
Korean Proverb
At times I think I have some sort of attention deficit disorder. I am very good at starting projects, but not so good at actually finishing them. OAImages is littered with things I have started but never quite finished to my satisfaction. Some are rather obvious (at least to me) and some are probably never noticed by anyone.
I have been giving some needed attention to one unfinished segment of the site over the past few days, the lodge anniversaries section on the National & Special Events Patches page.
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"Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character."
Calvin Coolidge
Most collectors today specialize and restrict their collecting interests. Very few still attempt — in vain — to collect all issues from all lodges. Jousting at windmills would seem to be a more rational pursuit. Some try to get a single patch from every lodge name or number. Many restrict their collecting to their state, section, or lodges they have been in. Some collect first flaps or “Wab issues“. Some collect by themes like NOAC patches, sports related items, or patches bearing their Wood Badge patrol name.
My own special interested is very restricted. I collect bullions. Bullions are a rather unusual category of insignia. These patches are made, at least in part, with coiled metal in place of thread. Blue Book uses a “B” to note these issues. My collection of these patches is possibly the most complete on in the country.
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"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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Posted in OAImages News by John E. Pannell on January 31st, 2008 at 3:14 am
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