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little john@littlejohn· 5d

Ron Padgett

This for That

What will I have for breakfast?
I wish I had some plums
like the ones in Williams' poem.
He apologized to his wife
for eating them
but what he did not
do was apologize to those
who would read his poem
and also not be able to eat them.
That is why I like his poem
when I am not hungry.
Right now I do not like him
or his poem. This is just
to say that.

little john@littlejohn· 13d

Photo of text in a book:

"We first consider a married couple, Mr. and Mrs. A. They make the following statements:

Mr. A / My wife is not normal.
Mrs. A / My husband is not normal."

little john@littlejohn· 14d

"can I look something up on your phone quick?"

Screenshot of search history: soccer trade news, 1957 German grand Prix

More search history: 1957 Italian and Spanish grand prix, Everton FC, premier league news

little john@littlejohn· 14d

12yo's pool reading @bozodeluxe.bsky.social

Photo of The Formula One Record Book, 2023 edition, a thousand page, two inch thick tome. It's posed on a poolside park picnic table and the tattered dust jacket indicates heavy use.

little john@littlejohn· 27d

We're DDOSing the poor air quality monitor

Screenshot of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency's "Current air quality conditions" page showing a 504 Gateway Timeout error. Turns out they use Azure

little john@littlejohn· Jun 26

It's a great time of year to follow the advice of @luckymud.myatproto.social and stop and smell the milkweed

Photo of a common milkweed in bloom, with its droopy clustered pale purple-pink flowers

little john@littlejohn· Jun 17

While @jeremydenk.bsky.social was more clever, I like this program and I wish I remembered this concert better: Ligeti etudes layered between some of Liszt's Transcendental Etudes, with some Debussy and Scriabin etudes thrown in

Cover to a concert program, in Hungarian, for a piano recital by Gábor Csalog titled Transcendental Etudes

Ticket stub and inside program for the concert, which was on Sunday, November 4, 2001, at 7:30 pm in Budapest at the exhibition hall at Heroes' Square, as part of a "Budapest Autumn Festival." Program described in post. Ticket cost 1500 forint.

little john@littlejohn· May 21

This was in the end table by the recliner where my dad spent his waking hours for the last many years. I don't know what it is or where it came from. #ThingThursday

Photo of an object on a placemat. It's a wood cylinder, maybe 8 inches long and half an inch in diameter, with a slightly rough surface like it's either a remarkably straight piece of a tree branch or a dowel that has been through a lot. It has a handle with a rounded end, maybe four inches long and slightly thicker than the main piece. The handle definitely looks like a piece of dowel, with lots of scuffs and gray paint splatters.

Same thing as the other photo, but the handle has been pulled out, revealing a thin, finished wooden dowel attached to it. So the main piece is like a sheath.

little john@littlejohn· May 21

"the band sounds pretty good, I wonder who...ah"

Personnel
Freddie Hubbard - trumpet, flugelhorn
Joe Henderson - tenor saxophone
Herbie Hancock - electric piano
George Benson - guitar
Ron Carter - double bass
Jack DeJohnette - drums
Richard "Pablo" Landrum - percussion
Weldon Irvine - tambourine

little john@littlejohn· May 11

The six genders

Screenshot of six checkboxes on a website:

Yes! Please email me the latest news and information.
2025 Aquatennial Market Vendor
girl
Girls
referee

little john@littlejohn· Apr 10

All that epsilon-delta BS and turns out you can just buy this for like ten bucks at the hardware store 🤓

Photo of a continuity tester, the kind you use for electrical circuits (not on real-valued functions)

little john@littlejohn· Apr 8

Damocles had a sword but I have a trash bag

A white trash bag with the opening taped to a hole in a ceiling with blue painter's tape. There's some debris in the bottom of the bag.

little john@littlejohn· Apr 1

Any of you nerds want some out of date library science books

4 volume Dewey Decimal Classification 21

Stack of cataloging and other library science textbooks, most 80s 90s vintage

little john@littlejohn· Mar 12

Short version is it might be mixed with rain on I-90 through SD, but both Dakotas are going to be getting heavy snow all day Saturday. Sorry 😬

little john@littlejohn· Mar 11

Jacob Frey is an evil piece of shit

Phone contact entry for "Mayor Shithead." His mobile number is (612) 968-4443 and his office number is (612) 673-2100.

little john@littlejohn· Feb 21

Photo of a handwritten sign on a utility pole: "Migración es natural"

little john@littlejohn· Feb 19

Maybe this isn't even true and I'm just believing a confused Wikipedia editor

There are infinitely many numbers in this sequence and a(n+1) <= 2*a(n), because it is sufficient to multiply a(n) by 2 to get a number having more divisors. (This proves Guess 0 in the Lim paper.) For n = (1, 2, 4, 5, 9, 13, 18, ...) one has equality in this bound, but asymptotically a(n+1)/a(n) goes to 1, cf. formula due to Erdős. See A068507 for the terms such that a(n)+-1 are twin primes. - M. F. Hasler, Jun 23 2019

little john@littlejohn· Feb 18

The past seems like a confusing place

The hundred of kippers is formed by six score fish and the hundred of hemp canvas and linen cloth is formed by six score ells, but the hundred of pounds, to be used in measuring bulk goods, is five times twenty, and the hundred of fresh herring is five score fish.

little john@littlejohn· Feb 18

Well you can enjoy with your morning coffee

$For a superior highly composite number n there exists a positive real number ε > 0 such that for all natural numbers k > 1 we have d ( n ) n ε ≥ d ( k ) k ε {\displaystyle {\frac {d(n)}{n^{\varepsilon }}}\geq {\frac {d(k)}{k^{\varepsilon }}}} where d(n), the divisor function, denotes the number of divisors of n. The term was coined by Ramanujan (1915).[1]$

Radices
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The first few superior highly composite numbers have often been used as radices, due to their high divisibility for their size. For example:

Binary (base 2)
Senary (base 6)
Duodecimal (base 12)
Sexagesimal (base 60)
Bigger SHCNs can be used in other ways. 120 appears as the long hundred, while 360 appears as the number of degrees in a circle.

little john@littlejohn· Feb 18

This first came up years ago when the other kid asked how we were crossing the same lake several times on the same drive

Screenshot of Google maps showing part of a sprawling, snaky reservoir, with a highway crossing several different arms of it.

little john@littlejohn· Feb 9

The Winter Olympics are the Taco Bell of sports (complimentary)

The 1998 headline from The Onion, "Taco Bell's Five Ingredients Combined In Totally New Way"

little john@littlejohn· Feb 7

"Occupied Minneapolis timezone" www.youtube.com/live/0abzMPs...

Screenshot of a YouTube live chat message from Drone Not Drones saying, "Enjoy the pre-show! The DRONE starts at 7 pm (Occupied Minneapolis timezone)"

little john@littlejohn· Feb 6

This story is from San Diego, where activists are facilitating communication with people our government is holding incommunicado in a concentration camp for months