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July 19, 2004

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The apartment complex where I live (as far as I know, it also has the world's highest concerntration of unrelated unrelated bloggers - 2) has a slavish following to superstition. The floors of each building skip the numbers 4 (unlucky for Chinese), 13 (unlucky for Westerns) and 14 (unlucky for Chinese). However the complex has towers 4, 13 and 14. So they are unlucky enough not have floors named after them, but not so unlucky they can't have whole friggin' 20 floor towers named after them. Like many things here it makes no sense.

On a completely different note, watching Pearl TV last night the news break came on. After the usual blather came the announcement the next break will be at 11:37pm. That's impressive precision for one of the world's worst commercial TV channels.

 posted by Simon on 07.19.04 at 10:29 AM in the




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