Wednesday, April 15, 2009
The Chron Turns 144.
We were listening to NPR this morning, turns out the Chron has started a series of 144 days of surprise. We guess it started in January, so we're late on this one.
But we could not help wondering, why celebrate the 144th birthday? Why is 144 a milestone by any yardstick? Of course, it's also the 100th birthday in you write it in a dodecadecimal system, but hey, it's the Chron, they're so mathematically challenged, they would hardly be able to write 144 in a decimal system.
The reason we see is: even they don't see themselves making it to 150. They see themselves as a chicken with its head chopped off: they'll run for a little while more, but they're already dead. And they are willing to admit it.
But we could not help wondering, why celebrate the 144th birthday? Why is 144 a milestone by any yardstick? Of course, it's also the 100th birthday in you write it in a dodecadecimal system, but hey, it's the Chron, they're so mathematically challenged, they would hardly be able to write 144 in a decimal system.
The reason we see is: even they don't see themselves making it to 150. They see themselves as a chicken with its head chopped off: they'll run for a little while more, but they're already dead. And they are willing to admit it.
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