I was scanning through one million decimals of pi, and I saw a bunch of 5’s together. Using a browser search, I found that there were 2 places with five 5’s.

www.piday.org/million

There is
1 instance of 00000.
1 of 11111.
1 of 22222.
2 of 33333.
0 of 44444.
2 of 55555 (where I started.)
2 of 66666
0 of 77777
0 of 88888
3 of 99999 and

1 of 999999 (6 digits).

No other number has 6 digits. It even has a name, the “Feynman Point.”

(I am selling a woman on NextDoor my HP12c for $5, and I wanted to preload it with Pi.)

HP 12c with Pi – $5

[I’m posting this to help other people searching for what this means. Also appears as ATLANTA BB-SUITES.]

Original Post: April 2017 – Updated: May 2022

We had a charge on our USAA Visa that read:

ATLANTA BB-CLUB ATLANTA GA  $12.00

Neither of us could figure out what it was. There was no merchant phone number. The merchant category was: Fast Food Restaurants (QPS). The transaction was dated Friday, but we had not been to any fast food places.

I spent about 15 minutes trying to figure it out. Google suggested some bar-b-q places in Atlanta.

So I put it in dispute. The mechanism for dispute is pretty limited. I could not just ask for a merchant phone number or full merchant name, but I figured the dispute would get me that.

The next day I figured it out:

Atlanta Braves Baseball Club.

We had been to the Braves game the night before (Thursday.) Our tickets included some food allowance, which created some confusion, and we’re guessing that was one of the food counters. I contacted USAA to cancel the dispute. The stadium should consider reworking the merchant ID that transactions display the word “Braves”. May save some dispute work.

The new stadium at SunTrust Truist park was impressive. The weather was great. The food was ok, but very pricey. Unfortunately the Braves lost.

Go Atlanta BB-Club!

Must be useful. Mostly Googlers finding this post:

Updated May 9, 2022

Working in the yard, I got a ladder out to remove an old squirrel nest from high up in a our backyard hedge. As I went to pull it out, I noticed two bumblebees land on the nest and climb inside.

I pulled the squirrel nest to the ground and opened it up to see what was inside. I found an orange, waxy mass that turned out to be bumblebee larvae. There was one bee “working” on them.

Meanwhile about five or six bumblebees were flying around the hedge looking for the nest. I put the nest on a lower bush. A few hours later, Kelly and I went to see that the bees had found the nest and were cleaning and feeding the larvae. By evening, the bees had covered up the larvae by moving nesting material around. I’ve never seen a bumble bee nest before.

Migrating from Movable Type to WordPress.

Testing location of files.

I just got an email from Greg with the ominous subject:

“It’s happening.”

And then inside the email he said, “I just walked into Lily’s room and saw this.”

After having four boys, Greg’s fifth was a girl. And after the original post almost seven years ago, Greg is evolving as a father! Little girls will do that for you.