That's numberwang

 Being sent to Coventry by your friends is generally seen as a bad thing, but in this case it's definitely a plus. A friend has pointed me to the Logic and Mathematical Games Final at Coventry University tomorrow, and we're going to go and take part!

Looking at last year's paper, it's the kind of question I'd want to practice more and learn the obvious short-cut tricks to (things like 'what's the minimum number of ways to do something' that people have probably identified a formula for that I've never heard of), but it'll be fun anyway! I won't tell you my score unless I do really unexpectedly well.

Did you know if A=1, B=2 and so on, Coventry is 122? And that if you ignore all letters that aren't Roman numerals, Coventry is 105? And that if you take the latter from the former, the answer is 17? And that since the trains are on strike tomorrow I'm getting to Coventry by the X19 and then the X18 bus?

That's the kind of numerical mood this puts me in. I was trying to come up with some really interesting number trivia, but that's the best I can do.

So what's the big deal about height?

 

There aren't many people in the world who would instantly recognise what the title of this blog post is quoting, so perhaps I should be kinder to my younger brother and less publicly abusive of him for being so persistently taller than me, ever since we were very small. But instead I choose to use this photo to tell the world how very much I sympathise with unfortunate people like Rigby and Unemployed Brendon.

Rigby's tragic story from Regular Show resonates with me particularly strongly for many reasons (which, again, there's probably only one person in the world who entirely understands):

And in the spirit of being kinder, I should warn anyone with a puppet phobia (which is, of course, a completely reasonable and perfectly normal thing for an intelligent middle-aged man to suffer from) not to watch this next video, but I'm very much on Don't Hug Me I'm Scared star Unemployed Brendon's side too:

But actually, this photo makes me think the most of yet a third brilliant TV show that everyone should be au fait with - Infinity Train. Although Min Gi and Ryan are the same height and age, and not brothers but lifelong friends born on the same day... the flashback to their younger days is very familiar to me. "I'm Gonna Dress My Dog In A Toque" could compete with our own masterpiece "Ripe Lettuce", I assure you:

Right, having got all that off my chest, I'll go back to my undersized, unexceptional life now. Thanks for listening.