A Catholic Citizen in America: 1,000 Posts, and Still Going

Maybe it's because we use a base 10 counting system, and like round numbers. Which is odd, since American culture doesn't get all that excited about the number VIII, which we started writing as "8" a few centuries back, which is 10 in base 8, but 8 in hexadecimal: which has nothing to do with a geeky wizard cursing someone.

Where was I?

Let's see:

• This blog
  • A Catholic Citizen in America
• Numbers
  • And culture
  • Round
  • Big
    • Hadn't mentioned that yet

Right. Got it.

I've posted more than 1,000 times on this blog. This post is #1003. The thousandth post came on Sunday:

• "Ancient Style and Today's Discussions at the 'Vatican Science Academy' "
  (October 2, 2011)

What's the significance of having a thousand posts? Let's see:

• There are about a thousand days in three years!
  • The human ear has three semicircular canals!
  • Three is the
    
    • First
      • Odd prime number!
      • Fermat prime!
      • Mersenne prime!
    • Sum of the first two positive integers!
    • Atomic number of lithium!
    • Resin recycling identification code for polyvinyl chloride!
    • Number of persons in the Trinity!

All of which I might think was terribly significant, if I was into numerology: which I'm not. I've mentioned how a weird mix of numerology and Biblical End Times predictions encouraged me to become a Catholic, and that's another topic.

I think having put 1,002 - this one is number 1,003 - posts into this blog is significant only as an example of my love of writing and interest in just about everything.

And now, I've got today's post to write: the scheduled one.

Posts about 'fun,' more or less:

• " 'From Sour Saints, Deliver Us' "
  (September 8, 2011)
• "Catholicism: Ashes, Penance, and Priests on Skis"
  (February 21, 2011)
• "Distracted by a New Computer and an Old Game"
  (January 2, 2011)
• "Catholicism: Obligations, Penance, Fasting; and Cartoons"
  (December 18, 2010)
• "Fasting, Penance, and the 'Fun' Miracle: Many Faces of Spirituality"
  (December 14, 2010)

More, mostly about numbers:

• "Introduction to decimal, binary, hexadecimal, octal and converting between bases"
  learn-programming.za.net
• "3 (number)"
  Wikipedia