Will today be a perfect 10? [Happy 10/10/10]

Journal Star ^ | 10/10/10 | SCOTT HILYARD

[ScoopAmma]

Not a bastard! Just a bitch. Stick the Sound of Music cd in you will agree with me. Every day is the perfect day.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Computation will be so easy by that point that nobody will be representing numbers as finite-bit integers except deep, deep inside the architecture where the ramifications are understood by the hardware geeks. The only thing is that for people’s convenience, abbreviations will probably STILL be used in representations of the date, leading to general consternation in 2099.

[TruthHound]

10 Facts:
1) God gave Moses 10 Commandments.
2) I-10 runs the E-W length of the continental United Stated from Florida to Santa Monica, California.
3) Most characters in a winning poker hand: four 10s + any other card.
4) 10 is the atomic number of neon.
5) In bowling, 10 pins are arranged in a triangular pattern and there are 10 frames per game.
6) 10 is the highest score possible in Olympics competitions.
7) To reduce something by one-tenth is to “decimate.”
8) In Baseball there are always at least 10 players on the field at a time (including the batter).
9) In Basketball, the height of the goals is 10 feet. Also the number of players on the court (5 on each team).
10) The most common number of items in any given list...you guessed it—10!

[dr_lew]

0) There are 10 kinds of people, those who understand binary, and those who don’t.

[Yaelle]

We will have to start over with the 11-year cycle, on 2/2/22.

What - are we just gonna skip 10/10/2110?

But I meant 2/2/2022. If you have found the Fountain of Youth that will let us live til 2110, invite me over!

[advance_copy]

Shuāng Shí Jié (Double Ten Day) is the National Celebration Day, or Guóqìng Rìin, in Taiwan. It has been 99 years since the start of the 10/10/1911 uprising that led to the Republic of China (ROC).

[American Constitutionalist]

" Nonsense. 10/10/2110 will have the same uniqueness. Happens every 100 years. "

However, most of us won't be around in a 100 years, so enjoy it now.

[advance_copy]

++

[Berlin_Freeper]

1 posted on Sunday, October 10, 2010 8:48:25 AM by Berlin_Freeper

[Sarajevo]

That would make a good tag line.

[bannie]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwLoSg_rbNQ

Ten...ten...ten...ten...ten...ten...ten...ten...ten...ten

cracks me up!

[ml/nj]

Last week while in Jerusalem and taking buses there (you get a time stamped ticket when you pay which can be used as a transfer) it occurred to me that those stamped 10:10 on 10/10/10 might become collectors' items. I even came up with a strategy (Bording at 10:11 would be a bummer.) to obtain one for one of my cousins. It's about ten minutes from now as I type.

ML/NJ (in Israel)

[I see my hands]

I was just making reference to the number of replies to your post. I get that you're +1 GMT.

[ml/nj]

God gave Moses 10 Commandments.

Sort of. He gave Moses 613 commandments. (Like is Love your neighbor part of your "ten commandments" do you think?)

ML/NJ

[ml/nj]

32 posted on Sunday, October 10, 2010 10:11:10 AM by ml/nj

Stupid FR Clock! (But you guys to the west will have your own shot soon.)

ML/NJ

[dr_lew]

Yes, a little puzzling though, because in Japanese twenty is "two ten", thirty is "three ten", etc. in strict analogy to english, actually. The only thing I can suppose is that he construed twenty as "ten ten", and went from there.

But Gargantua could keep no better countenance than to burst out bellowing like a cow. He hid his face in his cap, and it was no more possible to draw a word from him than a fart from a dead donkey. - Rabelais

[Positive]

You are correct.

Do you know what you get if you combine Florine, Uraniam, Carbon and Potasium?

[dr_lew]

A dirty bomb. Ha Ha!

[HiTech RedNeck]

The eff bomb?

Unfortunately I don’t think there is anything corresponding to it in the chemical world. The F and K would tie each other up (with explosive energy) and if enough F left over you might get uranium hexafluoride. The carbon would be the odd man out, probably uncombined.

[Ahithophel]

Niiiiiiiiiice!