So I am getting together my plans for this fall.
Let it be known that October shall be beer making month. I am planning on brewing a parti-gyle batch in the beginning of October. Parti-gyle just means that you make two beers with the same grains in the same mash: one a high gravity beer from the first runnings and the second runnings make a lower gravity beer. I will be making a spiced winter warmer as the high alcohol beer and an ordinary bitter as the session beer. Both are fairly English in character. So as soon as I can spare some funds to buy 22 pounds of Maris Otter, I will be a-brewin'. I also hope to get a porter or stout made later in the month, so maybe I should just get the 50 lb bag and be set for a while. I also want to make an ice beer at some point, but this can be an extract batch. You make a high alcohol beer like a barleywine and then quasi-distill it by freezing out some of the water content. This takes a 10ish percent beer and concentrates it to around 20ish percent. The result (due to the lack of carbonation and higher alcohol mainly) is supposed to be more like a spirit instead of a beer, but it is totally legal to make at home.
I want all this done by Halloween because I will need all of November if I hope to do NaNoWriMo again this year. NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month. Basically you begin writing November 1st with the goal of writing a 50,000 word novel (about 175 pages) by midnight, November 30. It is a very tough challenge. I didn't even attempt last year since we had just moved in and were still getting over the flood. The furthest I have gotten in the past was 18,000 words which got me to chapter 6. Last year 119,301 people made the attempt and 21,683 completed at least 50,000 words. My friend Ben completed it as well, so I know it can be done. From my past experiences I know that the toughest part for me is not proofing and editing as I write. I really need to just spit out everything I am thinking onto the page and leave the editor hat on it's peg until the month is over. At this point I have no idea what I will write about, but it will probably end up as contemporary fantasy.
So I now have goals for this fall. Hopefully I will get them done
Friday, September 25, 2009
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
V Speech
I just wanted to have this somewhere. One is a little big for a Quotable Rogue, but I make the rules here, so screw it:
"People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people."
-V
"Oh, heavens, no. Stealing implies ownership. You can't steal from the censor; I merely reclaimed them."
-V
"But on this most auspicious of nights, permit me then, in lieu of the more commonplace sobriquet, to suggest the character of this dramatis persona... Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin van-guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition... The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous... Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V."
-V
"People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people."
-V
"Oh, heavens, no. Stealing implies ownership. You can't steal from the censor; I merely reclaimed them."
-V
"But on this most auspicious of nights, permit me then, in lieu of the more commonplace sobriquet, to suggest the character of this dramatis persona... Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin van-guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition... The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous... Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V."
-V
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Extended Weekend-ishness
Yeah, I made that word up. I have Thursdays and Fridays as my days off from work. Due to some schedule juggling, I ended up with 3 days off in a row and have been enjoying it very much.
Yesterday I spent a bunch of time catching up with some online friends I hadn't talked to in a few years and putzing around in game. It was a lot of fun and I enjoyed hearing how everyone was doing. It was a very nostalgic day in general. This worked out well since my back was acting up and a day of just relaxing online was just what the Doctor ordered as far as I am concerned.
Today was not as restful. Syd and I have a plan. She has done Girls on the Run (google them to see what they are about) for the last couple years. She really enjoys it. I have been on a diet for the last 4 weeks and have lost a total of 12 pounds so far. In keeping with my general goal of getting in better shape, Syd and I decided to start jogging in the morning with the goal of me being her running buddy in her next 5k. We are starting small, only 20 minutes, but we'll work on increasing it over time.
After I got out of the shower after our jog it was time to take Ian to get his braces off. Its been a 2 year journey with the hardware in his mouth and he was very happy about them coming off. There is not as much of the white marks that come come from not taking care of your teeth well as I had thought there might be, so that was good. He has very good teeth now, as he should for as much as it cost! In that regard I guess it is good in case he ever decides to go the TV meteorologist route.
I decided after lunch to take a ride on the bike because it was too damn nice not to. I got out on route 6 and ended up out in Amana. Since I was out there I decided to grab an oatmeal stout at Millstream Brewing. I really like that beer, their Schild Brau Amber lager (I generally tend to like ales, not lagers, so that should tell you how good that one is) and their Hefe-R-weissen. The brewer looked very busy so I didn't bother him. I just enjoyed my beer in their Hopfgarten. I was a little jealous though because they have some hops cones almost as big as my thumb! As I was walking back to my bike I saw a huge tote of spent grains on the back dock, so I figured out why he was in such a rush. I know mashing is the most stressful part of my brew days by far. I like Millstream, but they tend to be more German in influence and my tastes tend to run more English/Irish.
After I got home I had promised Sydney that she could try to teach me to ice skate. So we hopped on the bike and went over to the mall. I must say that I did pretty good for over 20 years since I was on the ice, and I couldn't skate for crap back then anyways. I managed to not fall on my head, though I never got more than 8 feet from the edge of the rink. After 5 laps my feet were hurting, so we called it quits and headed for the farmers market, then the library. Overall a very nice afternoon with my girl.
Well I am being called for supper for the third time, so I will put this post to bed now. Pics of growing hops cones and pumpkins to come soon.
Yesterday I spent a bunch of time catching up with some online friends I hadn't talked to in a few years and putzing around in game. It was a lot of fun and I enjoyed hearing how everyone was doing. It was a very nostalgic day in general. This worked out well since my back was acting up and a day of just relaxing online was just what the Doctor ordered as far as I am concerned.
Today was not as restful. Syd and I have a plan. She has done Girls on the Run (google them to see what they are about) for the last couple years. She really enjoys it. I have been on a diet for the last 4 weeks and have lost a total of 12 pounds so far. In keeping with my general goal of getting in better shape, Syd and I decided to start jogging in the morning with the goal of me being her running buddy in her next 5k. We are starting small, only 20 minutes, but we'll work on increasing it over time.
After I got out of the shower after our jog it was time to take Ian to get his braces off. Its been a 2 year journey with the hardware in his mouth and he was very happy about them coming off. There is not as much of the white marks that come come from not taking care of your teeth well as I had thought there might be, so that was good. He has very good teeth now, as he should for as much as it cost! In that regard I guess it is good in case he ever decides to go the TV meteorologist route.
I decided after lunch to take a ride on the bike because it was too damn nice not to. I got out on route 6 and ended up out in Amana. Since I was out there I decided to grab an oatmeal stout at Millstream Brewing. I really like that beer, their Schild Brau Amber lager (I generally tend to like ales, not lagers, so that should tell you how good that one is) and their Hefe-R-weissen. The brewer looked very busy so I didn't bother him. I just enjoyed my beer in their Hopfgarten. I was a little jealous though because they have some hops cones almost as big as my thumb! As I was walking back to my bike I saw a huge tote of spent grains on the back dock, so I figured out why he was in such a rush. I know mashing is the most stressful part of my brew days by far. I like Millstream, but they tend to be more German in influence and my tastes tend to run more English/Irish.
After I got home I had promised Sydney that she could try to teach me to ice skate. So we hopped on the bike and went over to the mall. I must say that I did pretty good for over 20 years since I was on the ice, and I couldn't skate for crap back then anyways. I managed to not fall on my head, though I never got more than 8 feet from the edge of the rink. After 5 laps my feet were hurting, so we called it quits and headed for the farmers market, then the library. Overall a very nice afternoon with my girl.
Well I am being called for supper for the third time, so I will put this post to bed now. Pics of growing hops cones and pumpkins to come soon.
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Happy Anniversary
Heidi and I have been married 17 wonderful years today. In honor of this here are some facts about 17 (thanks to wikipedia)
In mathematics
Seventeen is the 7th prime number. The next prime is nineteen, with which it forms a twin prime. 17 is the sum of the first four primes. 17 is the sixth Mersenne prime exponent, yielding 131071. 17 is an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part and real part of the form 3n − 1.
17 is the third Fermat prime, as it is of the form 2^{2^2} + 1, and it is also a Proth prime. Since 17 is a Fermat prime, heptadecagons can be drawn with compass and ruler. This was proven by Carl Friedrich Gauss.[1] Another consequence of 17 being a Fermat prime is that it is not a Higgs prime for squares or cubes.
17 is the only positive Genocchi number that is prime, the only negative one being -3. It is also the third Stern prime.
As 17 is the least prime factor of the first twelve terms of the Euclid-Mullin sequence, it is the thirteenth term.
Seventeen is the aliquot sum of two numbers, the odd discrete biprimes 39 and 55 is the base of the 17-aliquot tree.
There are exactly seventeen two-dimensional space (plane symmetry) groups. These are sometimes called wallpaper groups, as they represent the seventeen possible symmetry types that can be used for wallpaper.
Like 41, the number 17 is a prime that yields primes in the polynomial n2 + n + p, for all positive n < p - 1.
Consider a sequence of real numbers between 0 and 1 such that the first two lie in different halves of this interval, the first three in different thirds, and so forth. The maximum possible length of such a sequence is 17 (Berlekamp & Graham, 1970, example 63).
Either 16 or 18 unit squares can be formed into rectangles with perimeter equal to the area; and there are no other natural numbers with this property. The Platonists regarded this as a sign of their peculiar propriety; and Plutarch notes it when writing that the Pythagoreans "utterly abominate" 17, which "bars them off from each other and disjoins them".[2]
17 is the tenth Perrin number, preceded in the sequence by 7, 10, 12.
In base 9, the smallest prime with a composite sum of digits is 17.
17 is known as the Feller number, after the famous mathematician William Feller who taught at Princeton University for many years. Feller would say, when discussing an unsolved mathematical problem, that if it could be proved for the case n = 17 then it could be proved for all positive integers n. He would also say in lectures, "Let's try this for an arbitrary value of n, say n=17."
Similar to Feller, Prof. Vadim Khayms of Stanford University is also known to use 17 as an arbitrary value during lectures. His Computational Mathematics for Engineers course includes 17 lectures.
17 is the least random number[3], according to the Hackers' Jargon File. There is a proven theorem that 17 is the value most likely to be picked as a "random" number when such is needed in journalism which is derived from the Feller number.[4]
It is a repunit prime in hexadecimal (11).
It is believed that the minimum possible number of givens for a sudoku puzzle with a unique solution is 17, but this has yet to be proven.
There are 17 orthogonal curvilinear coordinate systems (to within a conformal symmetry) in which the 3-variable Laplace equation can be solved using the separation of variables technique.
17 is the first number that can be written as the sum of a positive cube and a positive square in two different ways; that is, the smallest n such that x3 + y2 = n has two different solutions for x and y positive integers. The next such number is 65.
In science
* The atomic number of chlorine.
* The Brodmann area defining the primary visual processing area of mammallian brains.
* Group 17 of the periodic table are the Halogens.
Age 17
* In the United States, the age at which one may purchase M-rated video games according to ESRB ratings.
* Also in some of the states in the United States, seventeen is the age of consent.
* In most states of the United States and the UK, the age at which you may donate blood.
* In many countries and regions, the age at which one may obtain a driver's license.
* In the United States, the age at which one may rent or purchase R Rated movies by himself/herself according to MPAA film rating system.
In culture
Music
* 17 is a number of obsession used by horrorcore rappers, Insane Clown Posse. The song "17 Dead" off their first EP "Belverly Kills 50187" uses the number frequently. Many of their songs reference the number 17 and most of their LP's contain 17 tracks.
* "(She's) Sexy + 17" was a 1983 Top 10 hit for Stray Cats from the album Rant N' Rave with the Stray Cats.
* "At Seventeen" was a 1975 hit by Janis Ian.
* "17", a song recorded by Rick James, in the album Reflections.
* The ratio 18/17 was a popular approximation for the equal tempered semitone during the Renaissance.
* "Seventeen" was the original name of The Beatles song "I Saw Her Standing There"..
* "17", a B-Side by Shiina Ringo on the "Tsumi to Batsu" single.
* The title of the song "17" by the Smashing Pumpkins. It is 17 seconds long, with no vocals, but comes with a poem which read at a standard speed will finish at the end of the song. This song is also a musical allusion to another Smashing Pumpkins work called "Blissed and Gone" which references 17 in the lines "Sweet 17, sour 29" and "I had no cause, just 17 days of rain".
* "17", a song recorded by Winger.
* "17", a song by yourcodenameis:milo.
* "Seventeen", a song by Ladytron.
* "Seventeen" by Jimmy Eat World
* "Seventeen Ain't So Sweet" a song by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus.
* "17" a song by Kings of Leon.
* "Edge of Seventeen", a song from the 1981 album Bella Donna by Stevie Nicks.
* "17" by Milburn
* 17 Hippies, German band
* "Seventeen Forever" a song by Metro Station (band)
* Seventeen Days, 3rd studio album from American rock band 3 Doors Down.
* Dancing Queen by Abba features the line 'You are the Dancing Queen, young and sweet, only 17'.
* "All Summer Long" by Kid Rock features the line 'She was 17 but she was far from in between'.
* "Strawberry Wine" by Deana Carter features the line 'Strawberry Wine, 17, the hot July moon saw everything'.
* "God Love Her" by Toby Keith features the line 'The way a girl gets when she turns 17, kinda crazy'.
* "Sheer Heart Attack" by Queen features the line 'Well you're just 17 and all you want to do is disappear'.
* "Seventeen" is the sixth song on the album Give Me a Wall by ¡Forward, Russia!
* "Hello, Seventeen" by 12012
* "17 Again" is a song by Eurythmics as featured on their 1999 album Peace
* "Seventeen Seconds" is the second studio album by The Cure, released in April 1980 by Fiction Records.
Film
* Number Seventeen (1932), directed by Alfred Hitchcock
* Stalag 17 (1953), directed by Billy Wilder
* In 2004, Volatile Films released a feature length film titled The Significance of Seventeen starring Cindy Taylor; one theme addressed by the film is the high incidence of the number 17 and its function as 'the most random number' as described by MIT.
* In the film Three Days of the Condor, the title character played by Robert Redford works in section 17 of the CIA.
* In the Halloween film series the number 17 frequently reappears. Primarily with the age of people Michael Myers kills. Judith Myers is killed at 17 in the start of the first film, and Laurie Strode (the main character of the first films) is 17 when Michael Myers starts hunting her.
* 17 Again (2009), directed by Burr Steers
Print
* The title of Seventeen, a magazine.
* The number 17 is a recurring theme in the works of novelist Steven Brust. All of his chaptered novels have either 17 chapters or two books of 17 chapters each. Multiples of 17 frequently appear in his novels set in the fantasy world of Dragaera, where the number is considered holy.
* In The Illuminatus! Trilogy, the symbol for Discordianism includes a pyramid with 17 steps because 17 has "virtually no interesting geometric, arithmetic, or mystical qualities". However, for the Illuminati, 17 is tied with the "23/17 phenomenon".
* In the Harry Potter universe, 17 is the coming of age for wizards. It is equivalent to the usual coming of age at 18.
Religion
* According to Leon Kass, 17 has some significant meaning (as yet not known exactly) in the book of Genesis.[5]
* In the Yasna of Zoroastrianism seventeen chapters were written by Zoroaster himself, these are the Gathas.
* The number of the raka'ahs that Muslims perform during Salah on a daily basis.
* The number of surat al-Isra in the Qur'an.
In sports
* The most famous Ford number in the V8 Supercar championship, Driven by Dick Johnson to bring 5 Australian Touring Car Championships to his name. Now driven by son Steven Johnson.
* NASCAR driver Matt Kenseth's car number.
* The retired jersey number of former baseball pitcher Dizzy Dean.
* The number of former Chicago Cubs first baseman Mark Grace.
* The number of retired hockey player Wendel Clark
* The number of ice hockey player Chris Chaney
* The number of ice hockey player Rod Brind'Amour
* The number of ice hockey player Ilya Kovalchuk
* The number of ice hockey player Petr Sykora
* The number of ice hockey player Jeff Carter
* The number of ice hockey player Milan Lucic
* The former number of Right Winger Jean-Pierre Dumont when he played for the Buffalo Sabres
* The number of Hall of Fame basketball player John Havlicek
* The number of New York Giants' Wide Receiver Plaxico Burress
* The number of Cleveland Browns Wide Receiver Braylon Edwards
* The number of Toronto Blue Jays third baseman Kelly Gruber, and current first baseman Lyle Overbay
* The number that footballer Marc-Vivien Foé wore for the French clubs Lens and Lyon, retired by both clubs after his death from heart failure during a semifinal match in the 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup. Foé also wore the 17 shirt for the Cameroon national team at the time of his death.
* Real Madrid striker Ruud van Nistelrooy's shirt number
* The number that Cristiano Ronaldo wore on the Portuguese National Team, before switching to number 7 after the retirement of Luís Figo.
* The number of Carolina Panthers Quarterback Jake Delhomme.
* The number of Washington Redskins Quarterback Jason Campbell.
* The number of Colorado Rockies first baseman Todd Helton.
* The number of Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Brandon Webb.
* The number of NBA Championships won by the Boston Celtics.
* The number of Tuncay Şanlı in the Turkish national team while scoring against Greece in the 1-4 match in Athens.
* The number of Ken Griffey Jr. while playing for Chicago White Sox.
* The number of Ateneo Blue Eagles and GMA Network tv - host Chris Tiu
* The number of former Collingwood Football Club Captain Scott Burns when he played from 1995 until 2008.
Seventeen is:
* Described at MIT as 'the most random number', according to hackers' lore. This is supposedly because in a study where respondents were asked to choose a random number from 1 to 20, 17 was the most common choice.
* The number of laws of the game in Association Football
* The number of guns in a 17-gun salute to U.S. Army, Air Force and Marine Corps Generals, and Navy and Coast Guard Admirals.
* The number of flames emanating from the grenade cap-badge of the Grenadier Guards.
* During the Second World War, the four-engined heavy bomber as flown by the USAAF and other Allies and known as "The Flying Fortress", was also known as the B-17.
* A mild swear word in Swedish. The origin is debated, and is commonly used as "sjutton också!" ("seventeen, too!"). It can roughly be translated to "Darn!". It is of course also used for the number 17.
* The maximum number of strokes of a Chinese radical.
* The number of syllables in a haiku (5+7+5).
* In the Nordic countries the seventeenth day of the year is considered the heart and/or the back of winter.
* The designation of United States Interstate 17, a freeway in Arizona.
* The designation of U.S. Route 17, a highway that runs from Virginia to Florida.
* Seventeen, also known as Lock Seventeen, an unincorporated place in Clay Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio.
* Seventeen was the former name of a yacht prior to being commissioned in the US Navy as the USS Carnelian (PY-19).
* The number of special significance to Yellow Pig's Day and Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics.
* In Italian culture, the number 17 is considered unlucky. When viewed as the Roman numeral, XVII, it is then changed anagramtically to VIXI, which in the Latin language it translates to "I have lived", the perfect tense implying "My life is over." (c.f. "Vixerunt", Cicero's famous announcement of an execution.) The Italian airline carrier, Alitalia, does not have a seat 17. Renault sold its "R17" model in Italy as "R177." See Cesana Pariol in the sport section about the name of curve 17.
* Android 17, a fictional character in the metaseries Dragon Ball.
* Some species of cicadas have a life cycle of 17 years (i.e. they are buried in the ground for 17 years between every mating season).
* The number to call Police in France.
* The number that symbolizes the soul.
* Force 17, a special operations unit of the Palestinian Fatah movement.
* The number of the French department Charente-Maritime
In mathematics
Seventeen is the 7th prime number. The next prime is nineteen, with which it forms a twin prime. 17 is the sum of the first four primes. 17 is the sixth Mersenne prime exponent, yielding 131071. 17 is an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part and real part of the form 3n − 1.
17 is the third Fermat prime, as it is of the form 2^{2^2} + 1, and it is also a Proth prime. Since 17 is a Fermat prime, heptadecagons can be drawn with compass and ruler. This was proven by Carl Friedrich Gauss.[1] Another consequence of 17 being a Fermat prime is that it is not a Higgs prime for squares or cubes.
17 is the only positive Genocchi number that is prime, the only negative one being -3. It is also the third Stern prime.
As 17 is the least prime factor of the first twelve terms of the Euclid-Mullin sequence, it is the thirteenth term.
Seventeen is the aliquot sum of two numbers, the odd discrete biprimes 39 and 55 is the base of the 17-aliquot tree.
There are exactly seventeen two-dimensional space (plane symmetry) groups. These are sometimes called wallpaper groups, as they represent the seventeen possible symmetry types that can be used for wallpaper.
Like 41, the number 17 is a prime that yields primes in the polynomial n2 + n + p, for all positive n < p - 1.
Consider a sequence of real numbers between 0 and 1 such that the first two lie in different halves of this interval, the first three in different thirds, and so forth. The maximum possible length of such a sequence is 17 (Berlekamp & Graham, 1970, example 63).
Either 16 or 18 unit squares can be formed into rectangles with perimeter equal to the area; and there are no other natural numbers with this property. The Platonists regarded this as a sign of their peculiar propriety; and Plutarch notes it when writing that the Pythagoreans "utterly abominate" 17, which "bars them off from each other and disjoins them".[2]
17 is the tenth Perrin number, preceded in the sequence by 7, 10, 12.
In base 9, the smallest prime with a composite sum of digits is 17.
17 is known as the Feller number, after the famous mathematician William Feller who taught at Princeton University for many years. Feller would say, when discussing an unsolved mathematical problem, that if it could be proved for the case n = 17 then it could be proved for all positive integers n. He would also say in lectures, "Let's try this for an arbitrary value of n, say n=17."
Similar to Feller, Prof. Vadim Khayms of Stanford University is also known to use 17 as an arbitrary value during lectures. His Computational Mathematics for Engineers course includes 17 lectures.
17 is the least random number[3], according to the Hackers' Jargon File. There is a proven theorem that 17 is the value most likely to be picked as a "random" number when such is needed in journalism which is derived from the Feller number.[4]
It is a repunit prime in hexadecimal (11).
It is believed that the minimum possible number of givens for a sudoku puzzle with a unique solution is 17, but this has yet to be proven.
There are 17 orthogonal curvilinear coordinate systems (to within a conformal symmetry) in which the 3-variable Laplace equation can be solved using the separation of variables technique.
17 is the first number that can be written as the sum of a positive cube and a positive square in two different ways; that is, the smallest n such that x3 + y2 = n has two different solutions for x and y positive integers. The next such number is 65.
In science
* The atomic number of chlorine.
* The Brodmann area defining the primary visual processing area of mammallian brains.
* Group 17 of the periodic table are the Halogens.
Age 17
* In the United States, the age at which one may purchase M-rated video games according to ESRB ratings.
* Also in some of the states in the United States, seventeen is the age of consent.
* In most states of the United States and the UK, the age at which you may donate blood.
* In many countries and regions, the age at which one may obtain a driver's license.
* In the United States, the age at which one may rent or purchase R Rated movies by himself/herself according to MPAA film rating system.
In culture
Music
* 17 is a number of obsession used by horrorcore rappers, Insane Clown Posse. The song "17 Dead" off their first EP "Belverly Kills 50187" uses the number frequently. Many of their songs reference the number 17 and most of their LP's contain 17 tracks.
* "(She's) Sexy + 17" was a 1983 Top 10 hit for Stray Cats from the album Rant N' Rave with the Stray Cats.
* "At Seventeen" was a 1975 hit by Janis Ian.
* "17", a song recorded by Rick James, in the album Reflections.
* The ratio 18/17 was a popular approximation for the equal tempered semitone during the Renaissance.
* "Seventeen" was the original name of The Beatles song "I Saw Her Standing There"..
* "17", a B-Side by Shiina Ringo on the "Tsumi to Batsu" single.
* The title of the song "17" by the Smashing Pumpkins. It is 17 seconds long, with no vocals, but comes with a poem which read at a standard speed will finish at the end of the song. This song is also a musical allusion to another Smashing Pumpkins work called "Blissed and Gone" which references 17 in the lines "Sweet 17, sour 29" and "I had no cause, just 17 days of rain".
* "17", a song recorded by Winger.
* "17", a song by yourcodenameis:milo.
* "Seventeen", a song by Ladytron.
* "Seventeen" by Jimmy Eat World
* "Seventeen Ain't So Sweet" a song by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus.
* "17" a song by Kings of Leon.
* "Edge of Seventeen", a song from the 1981 album Bella Donna by Stevie Nicks.
* "17" by Milburn
* 17 Hippies, German band
* "Seventeen Forever" a song by Metro Station (band)
* Seventeen Days, 3rd studio album from American rock band 3 Doors Down.
* Dancing Queen by Abba features the line 'You are the Dancing Queen, young and sweet, only 17'.
* "All Summer Long" by Kid Rock features the line 'She was 17 but she was far from in between'.
* "Strawberry Wine" by Deana Carter features the line 'Strawberry Wine, 17, the hot July moon saw everything'.
* "God Love Her" by Toby Keith features the line 'The way a girl gets when she turns 17, kinda crazy'.
* "Sheer Heart Attack" by Queen features the line 'Well you're just 17 and all you want to do is disappear'.
* "Seventeen" is the sixth song on the album Give Me a Wall by ¡Forward, Russia!
* "Hello, Seventeen" by 12012
* "17 Again" is a song by Eurythmics as featured on their 1999 album Peace
* "Seventeen Seconds" is the second studio album by The Cure, released in April 1980 by Fiction Records.
Film
* Number Seventeen (1932), directed by Alfred Hitchcock
* Stalag 17 (1953), directed by Billy Wilder
* In 2004, Volatile Films released a feature length film titled The Significance of Seventeen starring Cindy Taylor; one theme addressed by the film is the high incidence of the number 17 and its function as 'the most random number' as described by MIT.
* In the film Three Days of the Condor, the title character played by Robert Redford works in section 17 of the CIA.
* In the Halloween film series the number 17 frequently reappears. Primarily with the age of people Michael Myers kills. Judith Myers is killed at 17 in the start of the first film, and Laurie Strode (the main character of the first films) is 17 when Michael Myers starts hunting her.
* 17 Again (2009), directed by Burr Steers
* The title of Seventeen, a magazine.
* The number 17 is a recurring theme in the works of novelist Steven Brust. All of his chaptered novels have either 17 chapters or two books of 17 chapters each. Multiples of 17 frequently appear in his novels set in the fantasy world of Dragaera, where the number is considered holy.
* In The Illuminatus! Trilogy, the symbol for Discordianism includes a pyramid with 17 steps because 17 has "virtually no interesting geometric, arithmetic, or mystical qualities". However, for the Illuminati, 17 is tied with the "23/17 phenomenon".
* In the Harry Potter universe, 17 is the coming of age for wizards. It is equivalent to the usual coming of age at 18.
Religion
* According to Leon Kass, 17 has some significant meaning (as yet not known exactly) in the book of Genesis.[5]
* In the Yasna of Zoroastrianism seventeen chapters were written by Zoroaster himself, these are the Gathas.
* The number of the raka'ahs that Muslims perform during Salah on a daily basis.
* The number of surat al-Isra in the Qur'an.
In sports
* The most famous Ford number in the V8 Supercar championship, Driven by Dick Johnson to bring 5 Australian Touring Car Championships to his name. Now driven by son Steven Johnson.
* NASCAR driver Matt Kenseth's car number.
* The retired jersey number of former baseball pitcher Dizzy Dean.
* The number of former Chicago Cubs first baseman Mark Grace.
* The number of retired hockey player Wendel Clark
* The number of ice hockey player Chris Chaney
* The number of ice hockey player Rod Brind'Amour
* The number of ice hockey player Ilya Kovalchuk
* The number of ice hockey player Petr Sykora
* The number of ice hockey player Jeff Carter
* The number of ice hockey player Milan Lucic
* The former number of Right Winger Jean-Pierre Dumont when he played for the Buffalo Sabres
* The number of Hall of Fame basketball player John Havlicek
* The number of New York Giants' Wide Receiver Plaxico Burress
* The number of Cleveland Browns Wide Receiver Braylon Edwards
* The number of Toronto Blue Jays third baseman Kelly Gruber, and current first baseman Lyle Overbay
* The number that footballer Marc-Vivien Foé wore for the French clubs Lens and Lyon, retired by both clubs after his death from heart failure during a semifinal match in the 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup. Foé also wore the 17 shirt for the Cameroon national team at the time of his death.
* Real Madrid striker Ruud van Nistelrooy's shirt number
* The number that Cristiano Ronaldo wore on the Portuguese National Team, before switching to number 7 after the retirement of Luís Figo.
* The number of Carolina Panthers Quarterback Jake Delhomme.
* The number of Washington Redskins Quarterback Jason Campbell.
* The number of Colorado Rockies first baseman Todd Helton.
* The number of Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Brandon Webb.
* The number of NBA Championships won by the Boston Celtics.
* The number of Tuncay Şanlı in the Turkish national team while scoring against Greece in the 1-4 match in Athens.
* The number of Ken Griffey Jr. while playing for Chicago White Sox.
* The number of Ateneo Blue Eagles and GMA Network tv - host Chris Tiu
* The number of former Collingwood Football Club Captain Scott Burns when he played from 1995 until 2008.
Seventeen is:
* Described at MIT as 'the most random number', according to hackers' lore. This is supposedly because in a study where respondents were asked to choose a random number from 1 to 20, 17 was the most common choice.
* The number of laws of the game in Association Football
* The number of guns in a 17-gun salute to U.S. Army, Air Force and Marine Corps Generals, and Navy and Coast Guard Admirals.
* The number of flames emanating from the grenade cap-badge of the Grenadier Guards.
* During the Second World War, the four-engined heavy bomber as flown by the USAAF and other Allies and known as "The Flying Fortress", was also known as the B-17.
* A mild swear word in Swedish. The origin is debated, and is commonly used as "sjutton också!" ("seventeen, too!"). It can roughly be translated to "Darn!". It is of course also used for the number 17.
* The maximum number of strokes of a Chinese radical.
* The number of syllables in a haiku (5+7+5).
* In the Nordic countries the seventeenth day of the year is considered the heart and/or the back of winter.
* The designation of United States Interstate 17, a freeway in Arizona.
* The designation of U.S. Route 17, a highway that runs from Virginia to Florida.
* Seventeen, also known as Lock Seventeen, an unincorporated place in Clay Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio.
* Seventeen was the former name of a yacht prior to being commissioned in the US Navy as the USS Carnelian (PY-19).
* The number of special significance to Yellow Pig's Day and Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics.
* In Italian culture, the number 17 is considered unlucky. When viewed as the Roman numeral, XVII, it is then changed anagramtically to VIXI, which in the Latin language it translates to "I have lived", the perfect tense implying "My life is over." (c.f. "Vixerunt", Cicero's famous announcement of an execution.) The Italian airline carrier, Alitalia, does not have a seat 17. Renault sold its "R17" model in Italy as "R177." See Cesana Pariol in the sport section about the name of curve 17.
* Android 17, a fictional character in the metaseries Dragon Ball.
* Some species of cicadas have a life cycle of 17 years (i.e. they are buried in the ground for 17 years between every mating season).
* The number to call Police in France.
* The number that symbolizes the soul.
* Force 17, a special operations unit of the Palestinian Fatah movement.
* The number of the French department Charente-Maritime
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Green Thumb Revisited
I spent quite a while on my deck early this afternoon enjoying the mild, sunny day. As I was eating my sushi and drinking one of my last home brewed hefeweissens (see the pic below), I realized I hadn't posted any updates about the garden. I then grabbed my wife's camera and snapped a few pick of my limited successes.
My Cascade hops have done well. The partial crown that I was given is doing really good, growing about 30 feet so far with a lot of cones starting to form. In fact that bine is growing about 2 inches a day! The Cascade rhizome I bought and planted is about 20 feet with slightly less abundant cones forming. My other two varieties (Goldings and Willamette) did not take off very well, neither has gotten over 6 feet tall and I don't expect to get any yield from them.
The rest of my garden except for one pumpkin plant pretty much died off or was eaten by rabbits during our vacation out east. It looks like we will at least get 4 of 5 pumpkins off the lone survivor though.
Syd has been pretty enthusiastic about helping out. She is always wanting to water the plants and today she helped my prune the lower part of the two hops plants that are doing well. Hopefully she'll be there when I hit the garden with compost and potting soil this fall! (Not to mention when I harvest the hops)
Anyways, it's getting late
30 Things You Wouldn't Think To Ask.
1. Have you ever been searched by the cops?
Yes, both searched and searched for, but it's been quite a while.
2. Do you close your eyes on roller coaster?
nope
3. When's the last time you've been sledding?
last winter with Syd.
4. Would you rather sleep with someone else, or alone?
Someone else
5. Do you believe in ghosts?
Yes, but I believe it is a very very rare phenomenon. I think many people attribute
'ghost' sitings to explainably natural things or are psychosomatic projections. I guess I am more like an agnostic in regard to this.
6. Do you consider yourself creative?
Indubitably
7. Do you think O.J. killed his wife?
Seriously? duh
8. Jennifer Aniston or Angelina Jolie?
Jennifer Aniston
9. Can you honestly say you know ANYTHING about politics?
Quite a bit actually
10. Do you know how to play poker?
play, deal, etc.
11. Have you ever been awake for 48 hours straight?
Many many times
12. What's your favorite commercial?
I can't think of any to tell the truth.
13. Who was your first love?
Trina Austin
14. If you're driving in the middle of the night, and no one is around you, do you run a red light?
Very often. I used to be a duty driver in Boston after all!
15. Do you have a secret that no one knows but you?
a couple.
16. Boston Red Sox or New York Yankees?
Red Sox of course!
17. Have you ever been Ice Skating?
yes
18. How often do you remember your dreams.
Just my waking ones, and not always.
19. What's the one thing on your mind?
Why does every Thursday have to be XM country music day at Biolife dammit
20. Do you always wear your seat belt?
Usually
21. What talent do you wish you had?
It would be nice to be able to dance with some shred of talent
22. Do you like Sushi?
I love sushi. I think I will have a Boston roll for lunch now as a matter of fact!
23. What do you wear to bed?
Usually nothing
24. Do you truly hate anyone?
A couple people, but they deserve it.
25. If you could sleep with one famous person, who would it be?
Famous? hmmm, I used to have a really big thing for Janeane Garofalo
26. Do you know anyone in jail?
Not for a while now.
27. What food do you find disgusting?
green beans but even worse - wax beans - they smell like a paper mill!
28. Have you ever made fun of your friends behind their back?
Yes, but to their face usually too.
29. Have you ever been punched in the face?
Yes, it's not as bad as a 2 x 4 to the back of the head though
30. Do you believe in angels and demons?
See my answer to the ghost question
Yes, both searched and searched for, but it's been quite a while.
2. Do you close your eyes on roller coaster?
nope
3. When's the last time you've been sledding?
last winter with Syd.
4. Would you rather sleep with someone else, or alone?
Someone else
5. Do you believe in ghosts?
Yes, but I believe it is a very very rare phenomenon. I think many people attribute
'ghost' sitings to explainably natural things or are psychosomatic projections. I guess I am more like an agnostic in regard to this.
6. Do you consider yourself creative?
Indubitably
7. Do you think O.J. killed his wife?
Seriously? duh
8. Jennifer Aniston or Angelina Jolie?
Jennifer Aniston
9. Can you honestly say you know ANYTHING about politics?
Quite a bit actually
10. Do you know how to play poker?
play, deal, etc.
11. Have you ever been awake for 48 hours straight?
Many many times
12. What's your favorite commercial?
I can't think of any to tell the truth.
13. Who was your first love?
Trina Austin
14. If you're driving in the middle of the night, and no one is around you, do you run a red light?
Very often. I used to be a duty driver in Boston after all!
15. Do you have a secret that no one knows but you?
a couple.
16. Boston Red Sox or New York Yankees?
Red Sox of course!
17. Have you ever been Ice Skating?
yes
18. How often do you remember your dreams.
Just my waking ones, and not always.
19. What's the one thing on your mind?
Why does every Thursday have to be XM country music day at Biolife dammit
20. Do you always wear your seat belt?
Usually
21. What talent do you wish you had?
It would be nice to be able to dance with some shred of talent
22. Do you like Sushi?
I love sushi. I think I will have a Boston roll for lunch now as a matter of fact!
23. What do you wear to bed?
Usually nothing
24. Do you truly hate anyone?
A couple people, but they deserve it.
25. If you could sleep with one famous person, who would it be?
Famous? hmmm, I used to have a really big thing for Janeane Garofalo
26. Do you know anyone in jail?
Not for a while now.
27. What food do you find disgusting?
green beans but even worse - wax beans - they smell like a paper mill!
28. Have you ever made fun of your friends behind their back?
Yes, but to their face usually too.
29. Have you ever been punched in the face?
Yes, it's not as bad as a 2 x 4 to the back of the head though
30. Do you believe in angels and demons?
See my answer to the ghost question
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Green Thumb
We planted a little garden this spring and it is starting to take off. With our yard it is tough to find a sunny area, so we went with the easiest place to plant, which was under our deck. This has made the peas and broccoli a little hit or miss as to how well they are growing. The peas are kinda good while the broccoli is not doing as well.
The really good thing about being under the deck is that I can trellis my hops to the deck above. I have 2 cascade plants, a goldings and a willamette planted. The cascades are growing great and the goldings just started climbing the string 2 days ago. Both the english varients (goldings and willamette) have been slow going though so far.
Overall it is very rewarding to go outside each day and see the progress they have made each day. My son freaked me out by telling me that he saw some deer out sniffing at them last night though. They are not something that deer would want to eat, but then again deer aren't the smartest creatures either.
Here's some pics of my hops. I'll post some more from time to time.
The really good thing about being under the deck is that I can trellis my hops to the deck above. I have 2 cascade plants, a goldings and a willamette planted. The cascades are growing great and the goldings just started climbing the string 2 days ago. Both the english varients (goldings and willamette) have been slow going though so far.
Overall it is very rewarding to go outside each day and see the progress they have made each day. My son freaked me out by telling me that he saw some deer out sniffing at them last night though. They are not something that deer would want to eat, but then again deer aren't the smartest creatures either.
Here's some pics of my hops. I'll post some more from time to time.
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