I'm losing my favourite game

[venta]

Return of an old rant:

I just called the Swan to book my car in for some work on Saturday. During my fifteen second conversation with the receptionist, she said "just bear with me a second" three times.

That's a whopping 12 bwm/minute, on average.

Comments

Re: I see I'm not the only person who likes silly ratios.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Apparently the mourning period is supposed to be nine days. But wikipedia indicates that's not the only part of the usual interregnum. Not that the exact numbers matter much when we're talking zeros or infinities l-)

Other things that might throw the density off would be a visit by another Pope.

Re: I see I'm not the only person who likes silly ratios.

[venta.livejournal.com]

And who knows what an antiPope would do to the density :)

Re: I see I'm not the only person who likes silly ratios.

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

It's worse than that even. Virtual Pope-AntiPope pairs will be continually created and destroyed. So although the total "Pope number" of the Vatican is constant, and one could calculate Pope density from this value, that value won't actually reflect the whole Pope interaction of a particle in the Vatican. See physics texts on renormalisation for an idea of how to resolve this issue.

Re: I see I'm not the only person who likes silly ratios.

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

And that's even assuming that there aren't any Hawking-radiation-style effects at the event horizon city wall, which could result in a steady radiation of high-energy Popes.

Re: I see I'm not the only person who likes silly ratios.

[venta.livejournal.com]

high-energy Popes

I think we can rule that out, the current one looks really quite limp.

Re: I see I'm not the only person who likes silly ratios.

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Not at all. High energy popes radiated from the perimeter of the vatican wouldn't be visible. You need special equipment to detect them.

Re: I see I'm not the only person who likes silly ratios.

[wimble.livejournal.com]

davefish for high-energy Pope!