My fondness for Max Headroom ("This is Net-work 23") aside, that number's used by too many conspiracy theorists for me to feel comfortable choosing it...
I like the variety of forms of geekiness that your #1 encompasses, and tried to spread my responses out among different types of geekdom.
Upon reflection, it occurs to me that the most obvious answers (i.e. pi; 42) are considerably less geeky, as the reasons why the numbers would be on the list are more readily apparent to people who are more perpherally geeky. Given this consideration, I may have to go back and give a check to 1138.
Also, I love Avogadro's number, because it is a) fun to name, b) fun to transpose the name into "Avocado's Number" when you're hungry, and c) a pleasant reminder of the joys of Mole Day in high school.
Yes! The value of e is more likely to be a punchline in XKCD than pi. Pi is the taped-glasses and pocket-protector verson of geek, while e is the fnord variety.
1. Unskilled, clueless, or inattentive. 2. Skilled, but sociopathic. These are the people who bluff, bully, and endanger others for their own personal gain and/or simple amusement.
But yeah, New York is a bad city to drive in, but that's not really because of New York drivers -- it's because of things like non-New-Yorkers, too many cars in too little space, pedestrian behavior, people moving apartments into trucks in the middle of the street, and a variety of other random craziness.
For that matter, Boston and Montreal aren't that bad to drive in, and when they are it's less because of the drivers and more because of issues related to city design, like when Boston used to change around the locations of, say, highway onramps overnight. Or Montreal's sometimes-lackadasical attitude toward snow removal.
I don't know... maybe it was where I lived up there, but I never had a major problem with Montrealers behind the wheel as a driver or a pedestrian as long as I kept a close eye out while jaywalking. I don't have a problem believing that the McGill ghetto, Concordia ghetto, and Centre-Ville where I spent most of my time might have people driving differently than when you get more toward the Plateau or into NDG or something like that.
Hartford, Connecticut is the world center of crazy driving, the extreme version of your #1. This is a place where I saw people sail up over the curb, turn blithely into one-way streets, and straddle the middle line of the road.
New Yorkers know how to drive; we just scare the out-of-towners.
Boston folks know how to drive, but the confusing setup of the exit ramps makes it harder to drive well there unless one has the left and right exit orders memorized.
Providence drivers... same as Boston, without the skill.
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Date: 2008-03-06 10:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-06 10:43 pm (UTC)Upon reflection, it occurs to me that the most obvious answers (i.e. pi; 42) are considerably less geeky, as the reasons why the numbers would be on the list are more readily apparent to people who are more perpherally geeky. Given this consideration, I may have to go back and give a check to 1138.
Also, I love Avogadro's number, because it is a) fun to name, b) fun to transpose the name into "Avocado's Number" when you're hungry, and c) a pleasant reminder of the joys of Mole Day in high school.
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Date: 2008-03-06 10:54 pm (UTC)And October 23rd (or June 2nd) is (are) my favorite day(s) of the year.
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Date: 2008-03-06 11:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-06 10:43 pm (UTC)1. Unskilled, clueless, or inattentive.
2. Skilled, but sociopathic. These are the people who bluff, bully, and endanger others for their own personal gain and/or simple amusement.
Boston wins hands down on #2.
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Date: 2008-03-06 11:06 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-06 11:49 pm (UTC)For that matter, Boston and Montreal aren't that bad to drive in, and when they are it's less because of the drivers and more because of issues related to city design, like when Boston used to change around the locations of, say, highway onramps overnight. Or Montreal's sometimes-lackadasical attitude toward snow removal.
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Date: 2008-03-07 01:43 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-06 11:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-07 01:32 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-06 11:28 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-07 12:52 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-07 02:14 am (UTC)Boston folks know how to drive, but the confusing setup of the exit ramps makes it harder to drive well there unless one has the left and right exit orders memorized.
Providence drivers... same as Boston, without the skill.
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Date: 2008-03-07 03:10 am (UTC)