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“ My class has recently finished reading Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, and I think my eyes have been opened to a world I did not realize we were living in. I feel, just like the main character, Montag, that I am standing in the middle of the street as if I am the only one who notices what is so wrong with people. It has literally come to technology coming first before personal relationships. It's those technology abusers that don't stand back and realize the little things in life that give us joy, like drawing chalk with a sibling or feeling the sun soak into your skin as you indulge yourself into a book that has stains and torn pages from previous book-o-holics. ”
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January 03
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A glance at the yearly ratio put it in the “ball park” with the ratio of adjacent tones seen in the even-tempered western scale of twelve tones in an octave (going up an octave doubles the frequency), suggesting a very rough estimate for 35 years somewhere around the ratio near three octaves (2*2*2 = 8)…
— fred