Pi-hundred weeks, and Area 51 on May 20

Today, one of my very young students, who had had a birthday eight days ago, asked me how many days old she was. Since it was a break between classes, I humored her and got the number via timeanddate.org: 2,199 days. At first I was disappointed that she hadn't waited a day to ask me. There's a Moody Blues song about living for "22,000 Days," so 22 hundred days would have been a mildly interesting coincidence.

Then I noticed, in the "alternative time units" section, that 2,199 days is "314 weeks and 1 day." I realized that that made it very close to pi-hundred weeks. Doing the math later, I found that 700π = 2,199.11.

I'm not sure what that means, but pi-related birthdays have been a theme for a while here, and I don't think anyone has ever asked me how many days old they were before.

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This evening, I randomly decided to check the left-wing newsletter CounterPunch, which I haven't followed since my college days. I'm obviously not exactly left-wing anymore, and besides Alexander Cockburn died a long time ago (though Jeffrey St. Clair is still around, and his name has since become much more interesting). Back when I first started corresponding with my Uncle Bill -- when I was a by-the-book Mormon and registered Republican, and he was a hippie, Communist, and Charles Manson apologist -- one of the few things we had in common politically was that we both read CounterPunch.

It's not what it used to be in the nineties; I'll just leave it at that. Anyway, the reason I'm writing about it is that I found this -- published yesterday, May 20, and name-dropping Area 51 (cf. "May 20 anniversaries: Section 51 and Levi Strauss blue jeans").

That's the whole thing. There's no accompanying essay or anything. I'm not sure what it's supposed to express, other than Orange Man Bad, but it's interesting to note that "artist" behind it has also written at least two Manson-related books.