Mullings by Rich Galen | Secret Decoder Ring for January 8, 2001

They're All Showing Up
Monday January 8, 2001

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TITLE: "They're All Showing Up" Every major event, from a Presidential Inaugural to your nephew's bar mitzvah, goes through an ebb and flow from worrying that no one is going to show up to worrying that everybody is going to show up. That's what going on at the Presidential Inaugural Committee.

"The latitude of …" I found a formula which put the circumference at the earth at 40000 x sin(90-L) where L = the target latitude and 40000 = the circumference of the Earth at the equator in meters. If it's wrong, my excuse is: I had to retake high school trig in summer school.

"…moebius strip …" For an explanation, go here.
For a biography of the guy for whom a moebius (or Möbius as it is properly written) go here.

"… Christo …" He's the guy who wraps islands, buildings, and what-have-you in fabric as the Reichstag pictured here:

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