{"id":33,"date":"2011-07-20T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T09:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tombc.turbofool.com\/?p=33"},"modified":"2011-07-20T09:00:26","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T09:00:26","slug":"how-geeks-have-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/2011\/07\/20\/how-geeks-have-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"How Geeks Have Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>(Submitted<\/strong> by friend of the blog,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/theoddsmustbecrazy.com\/tag\/ross-blocher\">Ross Blocher<\/a>\u00a0from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohnopodcast.com\">Oh No, Ross and Carrie!<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Recently<\/strong> I was teaching myself how to solve square roots by hand. As a practice number I randomly chose 532 and worked for a while to get the value out to the trillionth place\u2026 23.065125189341. I realized it was getting pretty late in the day, and wondered if it was time to go home yet, and I looked up at the clock on my computer to find it was exactly 5:32. I did a double-take and looked back at the piece of paper\u2026 sure enough, the same number I\u2019d just solved.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oh<\/strong>, and this is weird. I\u2019m finishing this email, and my clock says it\u2019s 5:31. Spooky\u2026 :0)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I was teaching myself how to solve square roots by hand. As a practice number I randomly chose 532 and worked for a while to get the value out to the trillionth place\u2026 23.065125189341. I realized it was getting pretty late in the day, and wondered if it was time to go home yet, and I looked up at the clock on my computer to find it was exactly 5:32. I did a double-take and looked back at the piece of paper\u2026 sure enough, the same number I\u2019d just solved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[452,451,453,454,455,447,448,456,457,458],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories","tag-452","tag-451","tag-clock","tag-email","tag-math","tag-ross-b","tag-ross-blocher","tag-square-roots","tag-time","tag-trillionth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}