Status Updates From Humble Pi: A Comedy of Math...

"In the apothecaries' system of weight units, a pound is divided into 12 ounces, which each consist of 8 drams. A dram is then 3 scruples, each made from 20 grains. I hope that made sense. A grain is one 5,760th of a pound. But not a normal pound: this is a troy pound. Which is different from a normal pound. And people wonder why the metric system was invented." (78)

"Thankfully, this was way back in 2015, and in the years since then, people have become much better at spotting fake news online." (78) ow it hurts though

"I guess the idea is that the aircraft was lucky to survive a dangerous situation, so having a part of the plane should bring good luck. But then again, the vast majority of airplanes don't crash at all so, strictly speaking, this plane was bad luck. I bought a piece of the fuselage and attached it to my laptop, which does not seem to have crashed more, or less, than usual." (83) badumchhh