Jake Allen’s Ockhamist.com

I used to delete my spam folder every so often after a quick survey to see if anything I wanted got through, or to see if there were any really good deals on male enhancement, or to see if I could refinance at less than prime, or to see if anyone from the third world needed to get his/her money out of the country quick and would be willing to share it so long as I made a good faith payment, or to see if a bank needed me to verify any information or passwords, or to see if there were any hot singles in my area.

Unfortunately, however, my spam folder was mostly filled with junk.

 Now, I’m a man of science. By that I don’t mean that I have a degree in science, or that I have a job in science (I’m unemployed), or that I practice science as a hobby.  Yet I am a consumer of other people’s work in science, and call myself a man of science because I like to think of myself as a reasonable person: someone swayed by logic more than emotion.  By calling myself a man of science, I’m saying, “I’m good.”

So, as a man of science, I know that once periodic deletion of the spam folder ceases, it is only a matter of time before it fills up to any level, ad infinitum. Eventually, any historically or emotionally significant number will eventually appear as the number of spams in my spam folder, unless spammers end their evil ways or until the predetermined thirty-day limit imposed by the Google overlords.

Nonetheless, I will not ignore the significance of the number 777. It is the first Boeing Aircraft to be desinged entirely through computer simulation!!!  And, the 777-300 has a 33′, 3″ fuselage.  These numbers cannot be ignored!

Madness!