Definitions by Fasters
Dash
A short horizon line between two numbers—year born and year dead—that represents an entire life from birth to death, which could last for decades, years, days, and minutes that the person buried six feet below ground was given.
Numerical Vanity
When superstitious (or arguably vain) people would dearly bid for items like car plates, phone numbers, and house units that display “auspicious” or “lucky” numbers, or a string of “patternful” digits.
Guesstimate how many million bucks the digital or numerical vanity business is worth every year in Asia and the Middle East.
Numerical Vanity by Fasters February 17, 2023
SFO
Short for “Sino Flying Object.” A quasi-symmetric (spherical, cylindrical, octagonal, …) object that has recently been spotted (or finally been detected) crossing near “US sensitive sites”—a few of them were shot down by a fighter jet because they allegedly or exaggeratedly posed a surveillance threat to the security of the country, or to the lives of the people.
The US had shot three SFOs or UFOs in three days following the take down of a Chinese spy balloon that floated their sky the previous weekend, but they themselves had hypocritically launched no fewer than a dozen of these slow-moving spy or surveillance objects over the Chinese or Russian airspace since last year.
The π = 3 Church
When believers subscribe to the uncompromising view that any numbers or fractions mentioned in, or mathematical constants derived from, the Bible must be taken literally with zero room for approximation, adulteration, or subtraction.
Founded by a group of Bible literalists-turned-theomaticians, the π = 3 Church has so far failed to appeal to pre-believers and the converted, especially those who’re allergic to school or college math, despite regularly distributing free pies and pizzas to the poor in the community.
The π = 3 Church by Fasters February 12, 2023
Math
Arguably the most under-appreciated art form: patterns, symmetries, shapes, formulas, rules, proofs, applications, mysteries, myths, philosophies, ahas, and the like.
Compound Poverty
When you condition your mind that there is not enough money rather than there is more than enough, because while growing up, money was scarce, and your parents or loved ones were struggling to make ends meet—when you focus on saving money rather than making money.
Poor people tend to focus on their lack, which over time leads them to develop a compound poverty mindset; wealthy folks look for new streams of income that would yield compound interest by embracing an abundance mindset.
Compound Poverty by Fasters February 10, 2023