drool Infiniternity

But now I'm at home, sitting on a chair, my head drooping lower and lower, until I drift off the only way I know how, moist lip against raised knees. Sometimes I remain in my Thonet position as late as midnight, and when I awake, curled up, coiled up in myself like a cat in winter, like a rocking-chair frame, I lift my head to find my trouser knee drenched with drool. I can be by myself because I'm never lonely, I'm simply alone, living in my heavily populated solitude, a harum-scarum of infinity and eternity, and Infinity and Eternity seem to take a liking to the likes of me.

from Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal

1,729 = 1³ + 12³ = 9³ + 10³

According to Hardy, he visited Ramanujan in a nursing home in 1918: "I remember once going to see him when he was lying ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi cab number 1729 and remarked that the number seemed to me rather a dull one and that I hoped it was not an unfavourable omen. 'No,' he replied. 'It is a very interesting number. It is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways.'"

Their exchange can be unpacked and expressed as follows:
1,729 = 1³ + 12³ = 9³ + 10³
It is rare that a number can be split into two cubes, and even rarer that it can be split into two cubes in two different ways, and 1,729 is the smallest number that exhibits this property.

raptor

another raptor viewing ride
this time to Mollebaya
eagle sititng on a lamp post just outside the village as i rode in
an owl sitting there on the way back to the city
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