Last night I woke up with what I was pretty sure was a brilliant mathematic epiphany that I quickly jotted down on my phone notes and this is what it was:
“6 upside down is 9. And 9 upside down is 6. But 69 upside down is still 69 and that’s why I don’t trust math.”
So. Yeah.
Yeah, you’d think it should at least be 96!
“If the sun refused to shine
I don’t mind, I don’t mind…”
And 96 is?
Numerology escapes me.
I attended a talk about “difficult conversations” recently and one of the slides was 6=9 and it depended on your point of view of which side you saw the number on. It was a powerful analogy of “seeing both sides of the story and how “two things” may be true.
I read something on Twitter tthe other day that made me think you wrote it but I’m too lazy to look up who actually wrote it but it did stay with me.
“Squirrels live in trees and they eat the babies of those trees.”
Hogamus, higamus . . .
Take it from someone who has Dyscalculia. Math is overrated! Lol
You got that right sister, numbers lie. My bank statement is never the same as the bank’s. Even when I use my fingers to count!! Scammer dudes…
This is a note I wrote on my phone after a dream one night:
‘Canada revitalizes smile with new home grown explosives.’
What the fuck? I have no idea. I understand where you’re coming from Jenny.
Maths are evil! Maths will lock you in a dark basement with an evil clown!
You’re not wrong.
A squared + B squared = I don’t know… ABBA?
Actual mathematician here. Can assure you this is gold.
You’re turning it. If you flip the six it becomes a 9 and flip the nine it becomes 6.
6 and 9 turned on its side is infinity.
Or the sign for Pisces.
Whatever, it’s all scribbles that somebody made up long ago to figure out how much they had of something, and whether they had more or less than somebody else had.
69, 69 always remind me of Florida Man stand up comedian Ben Brainard.
What are your thoughts about the number 8??
You know what’s worse?
() backwards is )( not ()
Think ya need to have a date night with Victor
Ah, the joys of the midnight epiphanies.
I agree!
I agree!
I don’t trust math either…but that’s mostly because my brain tends to turn anything more complicated than basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and division into complete hash due to my learning disorder (Dyscalculia) which not a whole lot of people have heard of, unless they or a family member have it. I refer to it as “Dyslexia’s redheaded stepsister”.
I agree.
I had a dream revelation a couple of nights ago that “you can be your own owl.” Whatever that means.
As the kids these days say: I feel very seen up in here. I’m also dyscalculic, and nobody knows what that is: even the SpellCheck just told me it wasn’t a word. “Dyslexia, but with numbers” is how I usually explain it. If it wasn’t for “Schoolhouse Rock”, I still wouldn’t know my multiplication tables.
By age 10 (1978), I knew that math literally made my head hurt, that I couldn’t calculate in my head or remember a chain of numerals, but damn if every teacher (in several cities and stand and two countries!) I had didn’t get frustrated with me and tell me I wasn’t “applying myself” or trying hard enough. Eventually, my mother (who was the absolute QUEEN of problem avoidance) said “Screw it kid, I bought you a calculator. Try to remember to get a couple answers wrong so it doesn’t seem like you became a genius overnight.”
It wasn’t until 2013 (45 years old, y’all) that I read someone say “dyscalculia”, Wikied it, and started to cry because it all made sense. Even in community college in the 80’s when I was unable to get farther than the second page in a 10 page placement test, no one said “Hey, what’s with you and math?” So hey parents out there… if your kid is having real problems with basic math (not even algebra), look into whether or not there’s something going on.
Your Pal,
Storm the Klingon
Yeah. What Storm said.
I LOVED “Let’s Pretend This Never Happened”. Funniest book I have ever come across. I can’t read “Broken” although I wanted to. Most of the dialogue uses: He was like, “……….”. She was all, “………” instead of verbs like ‘said’.
Immediately made me think of Terence Howard’s crusade to prove that 1 x 1 = 2 instead of 1.
It’s so true that not every idea will shine. Have you ever found unexpected joy in a less-than-perfect project?
This mathematical observation is brilliant—your playful twist on symmetry makes logic itself laugh. Absolutely love it.
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