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Tue, 01 Apr 2008
This is a link to what may be the most impressive robot ever built. It's not only able to carry out complex tasks, it also passes the Turing test. It's so top-secret that I can't even embed the video, you must click here to see it, but trust me, it's worth it!
Six is a perfect number, quite literally. A perfect number is one that is the sum of all of it's own positive divisors. 1 + 2 + 3 = 6, it's actually the very first perfect number. The next perfect number is 28, followed by 496 and 8128.
Six similar coins can be arranged around a central coin of the same radius so that each coin makes contact with the central one (and touches both its neighbors without a gap), but seven cannot be so arranged. This makes 6 the answer to the two-dimensional kissing number problem. The densest sphere packing of the plane is obtained by extending this pattern to the hexagonal lattice in which each circle touches just six others. Bees figured this out a few million years ago, we're just catching on.
According to the bible, god created man on the 6th day, and that was so much work even he needed to rest the whole next day. I think he just hung out and watched football. But take 3 sixes and you've got the mark of the beast (also known as the number of man) according to Revelations so three sixes has become the sign of the devil.
Carbon, the fourth most abundant element in the universe and the basis for all known life has an atomic number of six. Without it, not only would we not have life, but we'd also not have pencils, diamonds, or charcoal barbecue and what good would life be without those?
Perhaps most importantly of all, it was 6 years ago today (April 1st) that I bought Hijinx Comics and started the long trip that's lead me here. In that time I've opened, sold and closed other stores, but I know now that I belong here in Willow Glen and I hope I'm here for a good long while to come.
Thank you all for all of your support and encouragement. It makes it all worthwhile and I could not do it without you!
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