JJ,

OK. I hosed that pretty well. Typing too fast and then editing the same way as I was going out the door.

Another try: My age is the product of two primes. In two years it will be prime. The year after that it will be sandwiched between two primes.

And now I'm running out the door again.

If you mean what I think you mean by "sandwiched",

5*3 = 15 + 2 = 17 + 2 = 19
13*3 = 39 + 2 = 41 + 2 = 43
19*3 = 57 + 2 = 59 + 2 = 61
23*3 = 69 + 2 = 71 + 2 = 73

You're very mature for your age, buddy.

GC

You love doing that to me, don't you dear? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" /> Didn't you also mention something about whisker burn?

HoFS <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

Thanks for the clarification Aphelion. Now I understand it. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> And I think Gray's got the answers covered.

Yes, dear, I did say something about whisker burn the other morning. It happens to the best of us!

Cool, gc. JL should be there as well. We have the need 2 "hook up" over barley sodas, road cokes, amber nectars. I see it in the cards (though I shouldn't probably express it that way, as RM said that a number of times in emails 2 my W!).

I sent one in that's all about testing hypotheses. Big ones. Big science.

Literally, I could either have a "bright fu2re" with this idea NEXT WEEK, or a complete paradigm shift (20 cents).

So, the abby went in before I knew the extent of the feasibility of my ideas.

This is FUN. This is how science was meant 2 be!!!

-ol' 2long

Mine is too ambitious and not vague enough for an AGU talk.

Looking forward to tipping a few witchya.

gc

So when are y'all going to have one of these meetings in DC or Baltimore so I can come hang out with you?

Speaking of which, wasn't Weaver going to be here sometime around now? Weaver, are you reading or are you already gone?

Let’s see if I can get this right, finally.

Assuming I am somewhere between 1 and say, 141, and given that my current age is a product of two primes and ignoring identity factors, which would not sieve anything, leaves:

A = {4 6 9 10 14 15 21 22 25 26 33 34 35 38 39 46 51 55 57 58 62 65 69 74 77 82 85 86 87 91 93 94 95 106 111 115 118 119 121 122 123 129 133 134 141}

This distribution of integers actually has a name, but I cannot remember it at the moment.

The relevant primes are:

P = {2 3 5 7 11 13 17 19 23 29 31 37 41 43 47 53 59 61 67 71 73 79 83 89 97 101 103 107 109 113 127 131 137 139}

The intersection of “A + 2 = prime” and P yields:

A’ = {9, 15, 21, 35, 39, 51, 57, 65, 69, 77, 87, 95, 111, 129}

“A + 3 = sandwiched between two primes” is the same as A + 4 = prime. Intersection with both A’ and P leaves:

A’’ = {9, 15, 35, 57, 69}

So, since I asked if anyone had a guess, and since everyone already knows I am an old fart, it must be near the end of the list.

I had this in my head when I typed it out so quickly (and erroneously). But I just punched it out in about 57 sec using Mathematica and I think it’s correct.

OK. I think it makes a good campfire topic anyway.

Time for Scotch.

Sorry, All I got out of this was this:


[Homer Simpson Voice]
MMMMMMMMMMmmmmmm Saaaannddwich

JS

Yeah, me too actually.

Doooonut.

Are prime numbers inspected by the USDA for tenderness?

And numbers......... those little thingies on my watch face?

It's interesting. I got a watch, because my W said it would tell me the time. I've had it for a week, and it hasn't said one word yet.

I'm beginning to wonder.

SS

Aphelion, you're one of the coolest old farts ever. Right up there with JL and 2Long. I wonder where the heck all the cool young farts are. Perhaps they're still maturing in the small intestines somewhere. (Except Graycloud, who was, errr, ripe before his time? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> )

Farts, by definition, must have time 2 ma2re, indeed.

GC would probably be disqualified if he tried 2...

...well, nevermind. (has 2 do with an old Firesign Theater record from way back)...

-ol' 2long

I think this thread might just be fading away.

I had a wonderful weekend. Church picnic (we made jumbalaya), bingo, flag football, grilled two meals, and had fun with the boys.

Best of all, we slept in each other's arms and tried never to be more than 6 feet away from each other.

I think I love him. Just in case anyone was wondering. I really think I do.

It's reminding me of that Mel Brooks coyboy movie, whatever it was called.

Blazing Saddles, that was it.

Campfire and farts.

Maybe everyone just needed some air.

And I have actual real genuine original work to do, too. Unusual, I know.

Oh, and good for you JJ!

I think I love him. Just in case anyone was wondering. I really think I do.

I wasn't wondering. My mind was as made up as yours.

You may be right J, no one here is in crisis now days. Comfortable in their own worlds.

Sometimes it's the world of chaos, but we get comfortable.

SS

Penny and I were talking about chaos last night, SS. There's a difference, we thought, between the normal stresses of living and true chaos. The chaos of an affair, abuse, or an addiction is so very different from the stresses of the normal things of life -- job stuff, kid stuff, oh-goodness-I-have-a-flat stuff. All that other stuff can certainly pile up. And when someone gets sick or there's a death in the family, the stress can start to look a lot like chaos.

Still, it's not quite the same. With those first things, there is a constant and pervasive destabilization of life that is unending and cyclically worsens -- to the point where sanity seems crazy and only the insane survive.

I dunno exactly why I'm making the distinction here, except to think that this board is, in most cases, about that kind of chaos. That's why it's so hard to work with people who are on any side of the affair triangle -- it's not like the rest of life, not any more than being in outer space is like walking around down here on Earth. The regular rules don't apply.

So we only sometimes can catch someone in a momentarily "sane" phase (remember I'm talking about all three sides of the affair triangle) and get them reoriented to being on solid ground again.

If the folks here around the campfire are walking around on solid ground instead of floating in outer space, I say keep on walking!

I first came to MB right in the middle of the chaos. The storm driven disorder and confusion was so intense I thought I was going to die. I wanted to die, as soon as possible! (A friend of mine died unexpectedly from septic shock a month after D-Day 2. He left a loving wife and three young children. I remember prayingto God to let me change places with him.)

I finished SAA, given to me by a friend at work, and as I put it down I noticed the web site on the back cover.

I lurked for a long time (months) before my first post. But from my first visit this place was like being inside a building while the storm raged on. Like running in the house, or at least onto the porch, shielded from all the violence directed at DS and me. For a short while each day, anyway, it could not get at us.

Whenever I read or posted here during those worst of months I felt a little calmer, a littler more protected. I could still see and hear the chaos all around me. But for a few minutes at a time it couldn’t blow me around.

There were real people in this shelter who understood!

It isn’t just the campfire thread, either. This entire place is a refuge for when it’s too dangerous to move around outside on your own. The campfire is like, well, it’s like the warm kitchen in the center of the house.

Too bad we can’t stay inside for ever. Eventually, even the worst hurricane starts to wind down and blow past. We have to go outside and start to clean up the mess sooner or later.

With prayers,

If the folks here around the campfire are walking around on solid ground instead of floating in outer space, I say keep on walking!

We have pretty good reports from most now. I wonder about SLH, but she would probably be back if anyting serious was going on. Even if life is not wonderful for everyone, it's more stable.

J,
You would say that love with uncertainty is better than no love, and uncertainty?

SS

Took me a few reads to understand this SS. And yes life is uncertain whether you have love in it or not, so yes, yes, yes love, even uncertain love, makes the uncertainty of life better. In my opinion. Of course if I were to really give my opinion it would be that there is not such thing as uncertain love. Love is an energy, also an entity, which lives within us. Can't be lost, can only be given and it is in that giving that expands it and brings it back around. Nothing uncertain about that.

I believe 2long said it best... <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Just got back from Baltimore...had a good and tiring time with the 2 WWII vets and GB's mom. They are in their 80's and were both in the same division, both wounded pretty badly, yet survived. 14,000 in their division when they were sent to Italy and Africa, only 1000 came back, and now they are the only two left in that division.

We took them to the Washington Memorial in D.C., to Fort McHenry and they took us to some of the best restaurants in Baltimore.

The hotel we stayed at had many, many soldiers on their way home from Iraq staying there, and so many of the girls and guys wanted to visit with these two old guys we had with us. Most of the evening visits down in the atrium/bar of the hotel got pretty emotional for them (us too, just listening). As well as the trip to the Washington Memorial, where our friend Warren was crying most of the way through.

It was touching, and very good for the soul. Glad I went.

We did get off by ourselves on Sunday and went to the inner Harbor in Baltimore and to Fells Point for the Oyster Festival and stayed all day until late in the evening. They had a Raggae (sp) band at the festival which was a lot of fun.

Glad to be back here at the campfire though, missed you all and thought of you many times while away. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

JJ, I wanted so much to be able to meet you somewhere but I knew with the people we were with and the tight schedule it just wasn't going to be possible. There will be another time though, but probably in Wisconsin.

Edited: Oh I misquoted ole 2long and had to come back and fix it. I also wanted to address the uncertainty of love thing with JJ -

All romantic relationships are uncertain until there is a commitment of marriage, IMO...and then it becomes a partnership. So I do so know what you are talking about in being in a place in an R, where you are kind of in an inbetween stage...not married and yet still committed for the time being, but not yet for life. It can seem precarious but I don't allow myself to dwell on it anymore, and I can't really say what changed for me except for the fact that I know I will take my love with me where ever I go, and if it happens that we get married then yahoo, all the better, cuz I can't think of anyone I like more, or enjoy being with more than GB!

But until he marries me I am single, and make a conscious effort to make decisions based on that premise. I just look towards his part of the country a little more in terms of job searches, etc...and try not to get ahead of myself, but then I had already planned on selling my homes and moving so if we do marry...well, I'll be moving with him and that is the only difference in my goals, that he'll be included longterm. If not, we sure are having a good time AND he is good for me, and I him (I think I am anyway).

Wow, what a lot of babbling in this little edit. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />