It’s Friday! Time to check out some odd-ball news, quotes I like, a few strange facts and some things that might make you pause and go “hmmmmm.” Today is last binary day we will have until 1/1/2100. So let’s celebrate the wonderful world of binary numbers and history while we’re still here! We will also be investigating the number 11. 
The answer is: there is no 4 in binary.
Binary Dates and Facts in the News:
The Great Blue Norther of 11/11/11 (November 11th 1911) was the biggest cold snap in U.S. history. Many cities broke record highs early that afternoon. By nightfall, cities were dealing with single-digit temperatures on the Fahrenheit scale. This is the only day in many midwest cities’ weather bureau jurisdictions where the record highs and lows were broken for the same day. An example: The temperature in Oklahoma City stood at 83 °F in the afternoon, until a cold front arrived, dropping the mercury to 17 °F in before midnight.
Other events of 11/11/1911 -
- Kaiser Wilhelm II rebuked the Crown Prince for openly siding with the opposition to Germany’s policy on Morocco, and sent the Prince to Danzig.
- The German battleship SMS Kaiserin was launched at Kiel.
- A tornado struck Janesville, Wisconsin, killing 20 residents
- The French film Zigomar premiered in Japan, and became an unexpected hit, particularly among kids who had never seen violence portrayed on stage. When Japanese producers began making their own Zigomar action thrillers, “scores of juvenile offenders were produced”, and Japan’s Home Ministry responded with strict censorship.
10/10/1911 – The Wuchang Uprising starts the Xinhai Revolution that leads to the founding of the Republic of China.
On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918 (11/11/1918), an armistice was signed that ended World War I The anniversary of this day is still celebrated as Veterans Day in the United States. It is also celebrated as Armistice Day or Remembrance Day in other parts of the world.
The Apollo 11 mission was the first manned mission to land on the Moon.
Sun spots are dark spots on the surface of the sun. Sunspot activity increases and decreases on an 11-year cycle. The next sunspot cycle is expected to occur by late 2011 reaching it’s peak in activity in 2012. Sunspots have intense magnetic fields which are associated with magnetic storms on earth. Radio reception on earth is also affected by the sun spot cycle. The Sun’s magnetic poles will remain as they are now, with the north magnetic pole pointing through the Sun’s southern hemisphere, until the year 2012 when they will reverse again. This transition happens at the peak of every 11-year sunspot cycle — like clockwork.
The millennium’s last total solar eclipse occurred on August 11, 1999. It was the most-viewed total solar eclipse in human history. The track of this eclipse began in the Atlantic a few hundred miles east of Boston, MA, swept northeast across the ocean reaching totality in Cornell England at11:11 a.m. It swept across Europe to the Black Sea, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan and India, ending in the Bay of Bengal.
On August 18, 1999 (one week after the total solar eclipse), a poweful and rare configuration known to astrologers as a “Grand Cross” is formed in the heavens. A Grand Cross alignment occurs when four planets, or sets of planets, line up opposite one other in fixed signs of the Zodiac (Aquarius, Leo, Taurus and Scorpio) forming a cross, with Earth at the intersecting point. Many believe that this event was references in the Biblical Book of Revelation as the Four Beasts of the Apocalypse. There was a weaker version of this configuration on January 11, 1910.
Binary Quotes
Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two. Buddha
I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge. William Gaddis
“I’ll miss 10:10 on 10-10-10 but I’m sure it will be amazing for people sitting by the clock watching it all happen.” –Blogger Kelly Oxford
Uncle Owen: “What I really need is a droid who understands the binary language of moisture vaporators.”
C-3PO: “Vaporators? Sir, my first job was programing binary load lifters very similar to your vaporators in most respects.”
(from Star Wars: Episode 4 – A New Hope)
Think About It
Some definitions of the number 11:
1. 11 as a number stands for revelation.
2. 10 being the number of ordinal perfection, 11 is perfect organization plus one, or one extra. One more than required, an extra measure, something more than only what is required.
3. 11 brings the gift of spiritual inheritance, is gifted as the “Light-Bearer”. Strengthened by the love of peace, gentleness, sensitivity and insight. Greatest facility is the awareness of Universal relationship, 11 represents The PeaceMaker
4. The binary number 11 is 3 in decimal.
5. To represent 11 in binary it is 1011.
Humor
There are only 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don’t. (10 in binary is 2 in decimal.)
I tend to think of myself as “binary-curious”.
This just goes to prove that mathematicians shouldn’t make jokes, as I was telling Pythagoras only yesterday.
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Other simple things I am grateful for today: the way my grandchildren’s hands feel in mine. I love the feel of their hands when they are tiny, and mine seems so big. I love their hands when they are bigger too, holding on not because they have to but because they want to. Isn’t that nice?
