Page 1,050, and the number

The blog ticked over to 1,050 posts recently. At ten posts per page, this means I have 10,500 posts. That’s quite a long fence. Wait, what? 1,500 is one of those numbers I’m sure statistically doesn’t appear in my life any more than others, but once you’re told to look out for green cars, you see them everywhere. For example, just then. It was a Mini. That tracks. Wait, no it doesn’t, it’s a car. A rail car? Off the top of my head: I wrote a post in 2026 about how I remembered all these times 1050 appeared. That was weird! A specific group assignment in high school had an array with 1,500 elements. We even used the OPTION BASE 1 directive so we could refer to it as such. That array is the only part I remember. I lived briefly in a share house at that number; albeit one with “A” because it was on a subdivided block. Back when I would dual-boot my childhood desktop with Mandrake Linux, I settled on a 10.5 GB FAT32 data partition to share with Windows 2000. I always made partitions…