Walt Huntley

Recently this came alive due to “A Homeless Man in Central Park“. I was able to trace this back to 2005 from a forum post on, hilariously, steven-seagal.net.

How good it is that God above has never gone on strike.
Because he was not treated fair in things he didn’t like,
If only once he’d given up and said, “That’s it, I’m through!”
“I’ve had enough of those on earth, so this is what I’ll do.”
I’ll give my orders to the sun-cut off the heat supply!”
“And to the moon-give no more light, and run the oceans dry.”
“Then just to make things really tough and put the pressure on,
Turn off the vital oxygen till every breath is gone!”

You know He would be justified, if fairness was the game,
For no one has been more abused or met with more disdain
Than God, and yet He carries on, supplying you and me
With all the favors of His grace, and everything for free.
Men say they want a better deal, and so on strike they go,
But what a deal we’ve given God to whom all things we owe.
We don’t care whom we hurt to gain the things we like;
But what a mess we’d all be in,if God should go on strike.

Razing the Roof

In my life I’ve lived at over 50 address. With so many places to have called home it would not be surprising that one or two of those houses and/or buildings would no longer be standing today. In looking back through and updating my “list of all my addresses” I happened to find 3 in Jamestown, NY within about 1000 feet of each other that are razed for their own reasons.

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Two of every set…

My youngest brother and I have birthdays with a difference of 18 months and 14 days. While that’s not a mathematical marvel in any way it’s been interesting in finding pairs of famous people that either share exactly or are close to our birthdays.

The birthday problem asks for the probability that, in a set of n randomly chosen people, at least two will share a birthday. The birthday paradox refers to the counterintuitive fact that only 23 people are needed for that probability to exceed 50%. This isn’t representative of anyone having my exact birthday which is 1 in 365, but also my brothers birthday which is also 1 in 365. Combining those odds (1 in 133,225) and finding a pair of people considered famous or well-known in some way makes the odds out of this world.

Except the odds seem to favor our pairing, and thus the following…

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