707 NE Northlake Place
is the imaginary address I imagined for the MotherShip. Because it makes sense. It’s the building sitting between 616 NE Northlake Place and 814 NE Northlake Place. Except somebody decided to call the MotherShip 3900 7th Ave NE. Perhaps because I wasn’t invited to that planning committee meeting.
Unfortunately there’s a 707 NE Northlake Way that actually exists and my great idea would be an endless snafu of misdeliveries between the two 707s. Way and Place. Place and Way. That's a detail a bike messenger pays attention to.
Maybe I’ll reimagine a 777 NE Northlake Place…
The USPS would write in big black greasy grease pencil NSN and return it to sender.
NO SUCH NUMBER
Which brings me to some numbers I’d like to run by you in the midst of March Madness.
The number of possible permutations to the 64-team NCAA playoff bracket is 9.22 quintillion.
That’s 9,223,372,036,854,775,808
If you filled out every possible bracket on a sheet of paper, that stack of paper would circle the earth 21 million times. 21 million fucking times. That’s a few reams of paper.
If you filled out every possible bracket at a rate of one per second it would take you 292 billion years. Our universe has only existed for 13.8 billion years.
Another perspective on the simple idea of "one billion" At my manual labor electric ass bathtub mailman job it would take me 20,000 years to earn one billion dollars. And that’s before taxes.
run the numbers
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