Posted January 12, 2015
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EDIT: GIVEAWAY OVER, AND WINNER CHOSEN!
Hey all!
I realised a while back that I compulsively sponge off the generosity of this wonderful community, and I felt I should give something back. Unfortunately, I was out of a job most of last year, and then decided to join university to do my masters, which put in a further dent in my finances, and I kept thinking "Yeah, when I have a windfall, I'll do a huge giveaway!", but the windfall never came.
Finally, I figured if I can't do it big, I should at least do something small that'd be worthy. Then I was trying to come up with some random occasion to celebrate, so I decided to celebrate my Prime Power day!
So back in my "Birthdays are meaningless!" and "Calendar systems are so arbitrary!" phase, I was trying to come up with some more meaningful delineations of my life than approximate revolutions around the sun, and 10s, 100s, 1000s seemed just as arbitrary (decimal number system? What's so special about YOU?!), so I came up with Prime Power days! A Prime Power is what it sounds like, i.e. a number that can be obtained by raising a prime number to a certain power. So for example 6859=19 cubed (19 to the power of 3, or 19^3 or 19x19x19), and so, on your 6859th day of life (not my age :P), when you'd be about 18 years 9 months old, it'd be one of your Prime Power days!
Unless I feel like hugely increasing my celebration days, I usually leave out the powers of 1 (e.g. 6857, 6863 and 6869 are all prime numbers near the 6859 value that is 19 cubed, but I ignore them).
So right...a giveaway to celebrate! Instead of unloading extra bundle keys few people would want, I figured I'd put the choice in YOUR hands, one gog game of $5.99 or less (I'm in the Pakistan region, no idea what that does to my prices).
The rules are simple, similar to the Bonza Bonanza rules. i.e. must've registered before December 2014, not be a scammer, don't have a punctuationed nickname, have positive rep, have activity on the forums other than giveaways, and enter/redeem only for yourself. And of course, if you want to be in, say "I'm in".
Aside from that, to make it more interesting, tell me your closest upcoming Prime Power Day, or your thoughts on a better system.
OR if you don't want to reveal your age, or all that prime power stuff went over your head, then alternatively, recommend me some music based on my recent tastes- mostly oscillating between electronicky stuff- downtempo stuff, folk (english/celtic/etc, not country) music. Some randomly selected examples:
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVFo7ZBU89U]2 [url=http://music.gravitasrecordings.com/track/come-out-and-play-2]4 [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=382xWyRlBXE]6 [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzqCvJmtwO4]8
I'll leave this open till next monday, I think, at which point my first semester's exams should be over, and I'll decide using random.org or some such who is the winner, with perhaps a little preference given to answers I like, or preference taken away if I find out you are a filthy 90er (joking, joking, sheesh! :D).
Hey all!
I realised a while back that I compulsively sponge off the generosity of this wonderful community, and I felt I should give something back. Unfortunately, I was out of a job most of last year, and then decided to join university to do my masters, which put in a further dent in my finances, and I kept thinking "Yeah, when I have a windfall, I'll do a huge giveaway!", but the windfall never came.
Finally, I figured if I can't do it big, I should at least do something small that'd be worthy. Then I was trying to come up with some random occasion to celebrate, so I decided to celebrate my Prime Power day!
So back in my "Birthdays are meaningless!" and "Calendar systems are so arbitrary!" phase, I was trying to come up with some more meaningful delineations of my life than approximate revolutions around the sun, and 10s, 100s, 1000s seemed just as arbitrary (decimal number system? What's so special about YOU?!), so I came up with Prime Power days! A Prime Power is what it sounds like, i.e. a number that can be obtained by raising a prime number to a certain power. So for example 6859=19 cubed (19 to the power of 3, or 19^3 or 19x19x19), and so, on your 6859th day of life (not my age :P), when you'd be about 18 years 9 months old, it'd be one of your Prime Power days!
Unless I feel like hugely increasing my celebration days, I usually leave out the powers of 1 (e.g. 6857, 6863 and 6869 are all prime numbers near the 6859 value that is 19 cubed, but I ignore them).
So right...a giveaway to celebrate! Instead of unloading extra bundle keys few people would want, I figured I'd put the choice in YOUR hands, one gog game of $5.99 or less (I'm in the Pakistan region, no idea what that does to my prices).
The rules are simple, similar to the Bonza Bonanza rules. i.e. must've registered before December 2014, not be a scammer, don't have a punctuationed nickname, have positive rep, have activity on the forums other than giveaways, and enter/redeem only for yourself. And of course, if you want to be in, say "I'm in".
Aside from that, to make it more interesting, tell me your closest upcoming Prime Power Day, or your thoughts on a better system.
OR if you don't want to reveal your age, or all that prime power stuff went over your head, then alternatively, recommend me some music based on my recent tastes- mostly oscillating between electronicky stuff- downtempo stuff, folk (english/celtic/etc, not country) music. Some randomly selected examples:
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVFo7ZBU89U]2 [url=http://music.gravitasrecordings.com/track/come-out-and-play-2]4 [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=382xWyRlBXE]6 [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzqCvJmtwO4]8
I'll leave this open till next monday, I think, at which point my first semester's exams should be over, and I'll decide using random.org or some such who is the winner, with perhaps a little preference given to answers I like, or preference taken away if I find out you are a filthy 90er (joking, joking, sheesh! :D).
Post edited January 19, 2015 by babark