2022-01-07
Math has left the building
Last year, in October 2021, i folded another 1000 origami cranes. This time i did it within 7 days. For now i can say that i made at least 13069 origami cranes in my life, well documented on YouTube. I started my trail in October 2013, and i folded my recent batch in October 2021. I made them in 176 days. And i did it in 22 cities. I'm really happy, something no one can take from me. This will never change and will always be true. I'm not sure i can keep this up technically. I can probably make 1000 origami cranes within 5 days. But it requires a lot of computing power and disk space to get them online for everyone to see.
At the end of December 2021, our landlord sent us a utility bill. My mother found a math error there. She marked the error on the paper and i sent the scan via email to our landlord. He didn't answer after a week. So i sent it again, from a different address, in case it got moved into the spam folder. He said he received the email and he can't see the error, insisting he is right. It is just simple math. How do you tell children they are wrong? A child with a doctor's degree, and a dog's face as a profile picture. A doctor in what? Probably something where no math is involved.
Update one day later, after me doing the math for him in another email: Our landlord admitted the mistake and it was caused by Microsoft Excel. To be fair, his mother wasn't good at math from the start. Back then, she outsourced the accounting to a "professional" who couldn't do math either. So it fits in the theme of missing basic skills. My parents had to point her to the failure. Rest in peace, landlady.