I have 678 records. At least I did when I officially counted my records before launching MyVinylCountdown.com two or so years ago.
I have definitely picked up more since then.
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I had written about this Nun study before.
A multi-decade study of Alzheimer’s Disease , is famous and has given people hope. They found examples of nuns with visible signs of dementia causing proteins in the brain. They found some brains upon autopsy appeared that the nun had Alzheimer’s Disease — but no one knew because the patient — the nun — did not show any symptoms of the disease, leading researchers to be optimistic that some people can fight this disease and workarounds by your very own brain can avoid much of the ravages of dying of dementia.
The number of nuns used in this multiyear study? 678.
Now I have begun looking at 78’s — those hard but fragile slabs of chellac that made music at 78 RPM. I bought a couple of these and have enjoyed some very old good jazz.
So now i’m into 78s. Doubt they’ll go on the timeline like my 33s. They are 78s, like if only there were a 6 or 600 and they’d be, yes, 678.
Maybe a stretch. So I doodled while I was waiting to think. Which took me through a thousand memories and an hour of standing blank faced.
So start with 78 RPM records.
Take away 45 RPM.
Take away 33 RPM.
Equals Zero (0)
78-45-33=0
What? What does any of that mean?
Look I don’t know a thing about numerology except that I’d probably be promised Hell by a church lady if even talked about it.
One last thing while I’m still doodling. Let’s give a number to the letters RPM, a shorthand way of saying Revolutions Per Minute.
Let’s assign each letter a number based on where they are in the count.
There’s 26 letters in the alphabet.
R =18 P=16 M=13.
18+16+13= 60
That’s 60 as in SIXty.
Story is on 78 rpm records. Subtract out the 45s and 33s (from 78) and it equals 0. Zero is also the number that comes with 60, the number for RPMs added, as shown above.
Zap the zeroes as their doubling cancelled each other out.
Slide the now leftover 6 in front of 78 and it is 678.
But let’s look at one more thing:. The sum total of the RPM numbers added is 60. Double that and you have 120. In the music world 120 RPM was what Thomas Edison was playing on the original playback recording machine
I have written before about a numbers coincidence related to my battle with Lewy body dementia that almost blew what’s left of my mind.
FROM New York Times:
NOTE: I don’t want anyone to believe that I’m sitting on some magic numbers are something. I just noticed what appear to be coincidence. I’m fine with it being a coincidence, by the way. I don’t see God sitting around coming up with numeric answers to our own problems. But as I try to make my documentation of a Lewy body patient as complete as possible, I may seem to be pushing boundaries? Wasting time? Or learning that life is all about math?
Y’all keep reading. I will say this: I’m feeling much less random about the universe these days.