Hey. Odd or even?
(via sloganeerist)
Odd.
I am also odd.
I have always considered 2 an odd number. Really, isn’t it odd that 2 is the only prime number that’s not an odd number? But then if 2 were an odd number, it’d screw everything up: What side of the street should 2 go on? That would screw up the whole block! 4 would be across the street from 1, then 6 from 2, then 8 from 3, then 10 from 5 and so on. This cataclysm is the same for any single-digit numbering system, so it’s a screw-up we have to live with.
Consider one additional issue that what we have done with numbers has affected our addresses (assuming the addresses are all sequential, and not some neighborhood where they skip addresses, like 3400 next to 3404 next to 3408, and so on, where the houses are 10 feet apart so you can’t build a frickin’ house in between to use those abandoned addresses): When counting addresses on blocks with addresses less than 100, the highest address = the correct number of houses. When counting addresses on any block that begins with 100 or higher, the highest address PLUS ONE = the correct number of houses. Why isn’t the first block good enough to have 100 addresses? What we end up with is the first block only gets 99 addresses, and each subsequent block is entitled to a solid 100 if it can fit them.
Of course my issue cited in the first paragraph just fuels this fire: So even if we allow the first block to have address 100, it’s still across the street from 95, so where the hell would 97 and 99 go? If we cannot change something this basic, how can we possibly address the real problem: Cat juggling?!