What's the highest number you've ever counted to?
Thinking in steps (a meditation)
What's the highest number you've ever counted up to? I tried again but fell asleep... Maybe a hundred and some...
Once in Barcelona I was counting women walking by a cafe while drinking my cafe con leche and smoking cigarettes. Then I started counting the men and did a hasty ratio. I don't remember the numbers though they were in the hundreds. It left me thinking the odds were in my favor. My kind of town
When I first went to college that ratio was also an important number to me and I actually thought I found the perfect school: two women for every guy. (they also had an observatory--no relation to the above--just a nice accoutrement for a major in solipsism) But then I saw it was a Christian school which throws everything off. But that is all ratio talk and what I'm wondering about are numbers...
What's the highest number you've ever counted to? And not any math operation either...but straight counting, one after the other.
Sheep, crowds, people in line for the bathroom... I've never been involved in an inventory. There must be some nutty numbers in that. And it makes me wonder about Ralph Nader's counting credentials? Are there really are two hundred toothpicks in a box or fifty matches, or a hundred balloons--how would we know? For the Piraha in Brazil there is just "one" and "many" and that's good enough... That would mean one dollar and many--I'm rich!
rz
p.s. Lollapalooza line up is awesome & tickets are on sale.
What's the highest number you've ever counted up to? I tried again but fell asleep... Maybe a hundred and some...
Once in Barcelona I was counting women walking by a cafe while drinking my cafe con leche and smoking cigarettes. Then I started counting the men and did a hasty ratio. I don't remember the numbers though they were in the hundreds. It left me thinking the odds were in my favor. My kind of town
When I first went to college that ratio was also an important number to me and I actually thought I found the perfect school: two women for every guy. (they also had an observatory--no relation to the above--just a nice accoutrement for a major in solipsism) But then I saw it was a Christian school which throws everything off. But that is all ratio talk and what I'm wondering about are numbers...
What's the highest number you've ever counted to? And not any math operation either...but straight counting, one after the other.
Sheep, crowds, people in line for the bathroom... I've never been involved in an inventory. There must be some nutty numbers in that. And it makes me wonder about Ralph Nader's counting credentials? Are there really are two hundred toothpicks in a box or fifty matches, or a hundred balloons--how would we know? For the Piraha in Brazil there is just "one" and "many" and that's good enough... That would mean one dollar and many--I'm rich!
rz
p.s. Lollapalooza line up is awesome & tickets are on sale.
posted by friars | Wednesday, March 26, 2008
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When I asked my friend how she meditates (she's buddhist) she said she counts her steps. I have taken to counting my steps on the way home from the park, after I go for a jog. I've made it to 800 or something, but that's only half the way home. Ha, is this interesting?
LHL
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