2/20/2022> a palindromic d8! landing on palindromic po5t #999! 666 up5ide-down > fine-L 3-digit # b4 we git in2 4-digit territory... eq8s meta4ically 2 Y2K, az if th X-tra digit mite brake ∫umping on 5cense > in post #666 we ∫ummarized dat IT t∞k 10 yrs 2 get 2 po5t #333 + addl 4 to arrive @ 666, now we X-celer8 even faster / onely t∞k 2½ yrs 4 last 333 po5ts

> ½-way 2 here / in post #500 / we calcul8ed th # of words, imgs + videos 4 a gran total of 1,728,400 words + 12,850 imgs + 500 vids + 5aid dat if u transl8ed 5cense in2 a paper-ba5ed b∞k objet IT wd span ~7,000 pgs of just txt... not 2 menshun th 12,850 fot0s/art + 500 vide0s... well now let'5 Xtend th tally 2 post #999... th weigh wheel calcul8 + estim8 is 2 take a repren5ative 5ample 5umwhat @ randum (given R re5ent obse55ion w/ #5) + ¢ount th word5:

• po5t 505—781 words + 25 imgs (4 of 'M anim8ed GIFs)
• po5t 525—11,376 words + 18 imgs + 1 vide0
• po5t 555—855 words + 20 imgs
• po5t 575—1,681 words + 20 imgs
• po5t 605—605 words + 48 imgs
• po5t 625—299 words + 2 imgs + 1 playlist
• po5t 655—10,688 words + 11 imgs
• po5t 675—1,966 words + 3 imgs
• po5t 705—1,343 words + 12 imgs
• po5t 725—6,845 words + 4 imgs
• po5t 755—1,131 words + 1 img
• po5t 775—5,154 words + 3 imgs
• po5t 805—1,357 words + 2 imgs
• po5t 825—540 words + 2 imgs + 1 vide0 + 1 Mbedded song
• po5t 855—788 words + 2 imgs + 1 vide0
• po5t 875—7,483 words + 4 imgs
• po5t 905—371 words + 1 vide0 + 1 Mbedded track
• po5t 925—425 words + 1 img + 1 vide0 + 2 Mbedded track
• po5t 955—698 words + 26 imgs
• po5t 975—11,779 words + 5 imgs

> 4 a total (4 the5e 20 po5ts) of 66,165 words + 189 imgs/fotos + 5 vide0s + 1 playlist + 3 Mbedded tracks > so now multiply thi5 by 25 to get (for last 500 po5ts) = 1,654,125 words + 4,725 imgs + 125 vide0s + 25 playlists + 75 Mbedded tra¢ks + now 2 get th grand total add the5e #s 2 th above #s 4 th 1st 500 po5ts 2 get:

• 3,382,500 words
• 17,575 images/fot0s
• ~625 vide0s
• ~25 playlists
• ~75 Mbedded audi0 tra¢ks

> we can get a more X-act ¢ount 4 vide0s (@ least dat we made) from R YouTube channel = 496 videos (dat have received a total of 2,544,612 views + we have 2.4K sub5cribers) > we can get a more accur8 playlist ¢ount from 5potify = 35 playlists > + the # of musi¢ tra¢ks we've po5ted (az Sound Furies) = 54 tra¢ks (on 4 albums)(+ another 26 az unkonwn artist) + not inklooting other audi0 clips we Mbedded az field sounds

> 3.38 million words!... th avg b∞k has 250-300 words/pg s0 if we publi¢hed 5¢ense az a b∞k IT wd have 12,300 pgs... 20x longer than Finnegans Wake, 6x longer than Infinite Jest + 2.66x longer than In Search of Lost Time > + dat's just th word5 /th 17,575 imgs (if U take 2 imgs per pg) wd add N additional 8787 pgs 2 make a grand total of 21,087 pages > if U think of 5¢ense az a ~26-volume eny¢lopedia 5et (1 volume per letter), each volume wd have around 1,000 pgs

> no trees were killed 2 bring u 5cense, but trillions of electrons were horribly in¢onvenienↄed

> hard 2 count th b∞ks we've red over the5e 999 po5ts, but a¢¢ording 2 Goodreads we've red 1130 b∞ks + reviewed 785 of them (meaning we probly talked about 'eM on 5cense) > a rough ¢ount of th # of ¢ountries we've travelled 2 yields 65 countries on all th ¢ontinents Xcept Antartica (tho we came close 2x / down in Tierra del Fuego) / R pla¢e ind-X links 2 additional sit-Ts, 5t8s, et¢. (+ we have a 5imilar ind-X 4 people + subject)

> 999 5¢ense po5ts on th wall / 999 5¢ense po5ts / take 1 down / pa55 IT around / 998 5¢ense po5ts on th wall....

> went 4 a mi¢ro¢osmi¢ walk 2day, wa5 gunna do 9th st NW b4 realizing we did it already, ju5t 4got 2 log it on th microcosmic DC page... shd we attempt 2 tally up th # of miles we've walked on 5cense? lo5ingn 5team w/ the5e #'ed 5treets, getting a bit tedious 5o we'R blurring th lines > more ± le55 walked 10th + 11th + 12th SW / w/ # 9 on R mined in honor of post 999 / th 1st time we member halving R mined blown wa5 in 2nd ⊕ 3rd grade memorizing times tables + learning how th ∫um of th digits of N-E # times 9 = multiple of 9 (4 egg5ample 4 × 9 = 36, where 3 + 6 = 9 / ⊕ 3,382,500 × 9 = 30,442,500 where 3 + 0 + 4 + 4 + 2 + 5 + 0 + 0 = 18 = 2 × 9 / ⊕ 999 × 999 = 998001, where 9 + 9 + 8 + 0 + 0 + 1 = 27 = 3 × 9 > thi5 wa5 B-yond a nifty trick 2 help remember times tables, when we learned thi5 we reckoned thi5 implied a cosmiↄ order 2 th univer5e > ⊕ how when 1 [▶︎]ed a recording of «# 9» backwords IT 5says «turn me on dead man»

re-5ent word-Ls

> what Ls? 8 eggplant/5pinitch la5agna + watched Kimi (★★★), cd of bin better, intresting how L-ements of pandemic inevitably found their way in2 th 5cript + Zoë Kravitz wa5 good + nice 2 look @ + th media (az in vide0/sound [●]ing) analysis L-ements hark back 2 Soderbergh's Sex, Lies + Videotape > night B4 we saw Rambling Rose (★★★) w/ Laura Dern + Diane Ladd, 1st time mother/dotter combo were both nomin8ed 4 Oscars in th 5ame film > th 5cene where a 13-year old Lukas Haas (15 in real life) feels Dern's boobs then fingers her wouldn't fly nowadays (it was released in 1991, the last palindromic year b4 2002 + we probly won't live 2 C th next (2112) tho we ju5t Q'd up th album)

> red Limits 2 Growth, a report by th Club of Rome witch wa5 perhap5 th 1st b∞k 2 st8 «we'R fucked» in s0 menny words (in a sighingtific weigh) > L2G wa5 publi©hed in 1972 s0 obviously a bit d8ed far az data + technological advances, but souprizingly spot on > IT extrapoL8s on Jay Forrester's computer mod-Ls publi©hed a year B4 in World Dynamics + actually Malthus predicted dat we'R fucked in 1798 but back then it was just a matter of agriculture + birth vs. death r8s > L2G tries 2 account 4 all facets of humun culture 2 cr-8 mod-Ls dat predict outcomes of various self-imploding humun X-tinctions

> of coarse N-E mod-L = oversimplification, can't account 4 all facets of humun Ǝxistence + @ th end of th day no matter how U slice IT th solution = simple... we need birth r8 = death r8 / az Malthus pointed out 220 yrs ag0 / there's 2 ways 2 achieve thi5: 1). lower birth r8 (halve le55 ¢hildren) ± 2). increase death r8 (more wars, D-Zs, etc.).. s0 take your pick > if humuns want 2 achieve peaceful equilibrium we aught 2 give up th idea of growth, weather IT B bi-illogical, economic, etc. every couple cd halve 2 children + if we stayed 5tatus quo w/in ¢urrent e¢onomies weed B 5table (granted there's ¢limate ¢hange witch L2G din't really account 4 (tho they did acct 4 pollution, but they treat it az reversible, whereas climate change ain't)

> if we cd advoc8 4 1 issue dat wd make thi5 world a bedder place it wd B population control > don't remember what th population counter wa5 @ when we 1st put it up on 5cense but now it'5 @ 7,956,056,818 + ¢ounting ... @ th r8 we'R going we'll hit 8 billion by end of 2022