Weird things
Jan. 13th, 2006 04:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chickenfeetSince all the cool kids are doing it. Five weird things that I do.
1. I'm obsessively early for things. I'm often the first person to show up for an event and my brain simply cannot process the concept of "fashionably late".
2. I twiddle my thumbs. A lot.
3. I can't play any game less than seriously. That doesn't mean I'm hyper competitive and absolutely have to win but it does mean I play to the best of my ability and it pisses me off when other people prat about.
4. I wear bow ties more often than a four in hand. (And, yes, I can tie one).
5. I'm one of those mathematical types who, pace the lurking Kantians, knows that numbers (including "imaginary" and "complex" numbers) are in some sense, probably Platonic, "real".
1. I'm obsessively early for things. I'm often the first person to show up for an event and my brain simply cannot process the concept of "fashionably late".
2. I twiddle my thumbs. A lot.
3. I can't play any game less than seriously. That doesn't mean I'm hyper competitive and absolutely have to win but it does mean I play to the best of my ability and it pisses me off when other people prat about.
4. I wear bow ties more often than a four in hand. (And, yes, I can tie one).
5. I'm one of those mathematical types who, pace the lurking Kantians, knows that numbers (including "imaginary" and "complex" numbers) are in some sense, probably Platonic, "real".
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Date: 2006-01-14 02:42 am (UTC)Numbers certainly seem to be more real than most other things, if indestructibility is anything to go by. You could remove all the matter and energy in the universe and pi would still be 3.14 and a bit.
The old programmer's joke about 'God is real, unless declared integer' seems to be heading towards this thread with an awful inevitability.