wow, there are 4 public schools, 1 charter schools, 5 private schools, 1 specialty school, and 1 college in the Highland area. That is a lot of schools for a typically smaller community.
I am between Highland and Harriet (but leaning towards Highland at least until clue 5!)... if math and Stand and Deliver are taken together to refer to teaching-- Harriet.
Barney Google and his horse Spark Plug. Spark Plug looks chestnut in color (wait for it) and Charles M. Schulz, St Paul native/artist of the Peanuts cartoon series, was nicknamed "Sparky" after the Barney Google horse Spark Plug. I remember well Charles Schulz' nickname of Sparky. Highland has the Charles M Schulz ice arena; his mother was Norwegian (Viking?). There is an urban legend that Google was named in part to Barney Google, and of course here we are on the computer.Did Larry Page and Sergey Brin, co-founders of Google, get the name of their company from Barney Google?
Yes and no – it is tricky.
First off, they specifically took the name of the company from the word googol, which is a very large number (1 with one hundred zeros after it), after first thinking of the word googolplex, which is 1 followed by a googol of zeros, as a symbol of the immense amount of data their search engine would search through. Through an accidental misspelling, it became “google” and that name stuck.And that would be it, the answer would be no, the name Google did not come from Barney Google.
However, where did the word googol come from?
And thatÂ’s where it gets tricky.
The word was developed in the late 1930s by mathematician Edward Kasner, based off the suggestion of his young nephew, Milton Sirotta. Kasner popularized the term with his book, Mathematics and the Imagination (1940).
Kasner asked Sirotta to come up with a word that could describe a massive figure, and Sirotta came up with “googol.”
Now the question is – how likely is it that Sirotta came up with the world “googol” on his own, and was not influenced by the massively successful comic strip of the same name, which was EVERYwhere (comics, cartoons, toys, you name it)?
I say the odds are extremely unlikely, to the point where I think itÂ’s safe enough to say that he DID get the term from the comic strip, suggested it to his uncle, who made it into the number which, half a century later, inspired the name of the company Google.
So while not intending to do so, the founders of Google did choose a name that was derived from Barney Google, the one with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes.
gosh, there are 32 pages in that newspaper! I thought it might be a few sheets, like a newsletter. I guess it's pretty popular and the fact that it is still around in its old fashioned form is a great thing with the decline of the written newspaper. thanks for satisfying my curiosity.
Don't remember if this was mentioned or not, the original hunts in the 1950s were a treasure chest(nut) not a medallion. The original was found in Highland Park in 1952, the first year of the hunt (days of yore).
I was going back over the Men were men part today, besides the Ford Ad, last year ketel one came out with an ad - it's a bunch of guys sitting around knocking back the sauce, and it's a throw back to the rat pack - the time, when "men were men"
whoops forgot my thought... men were men.. vodka.. vodka + Ice. You pay a price for good vodka. I have no idea where I'm going with it, but it was a great throw back to 'another time'
 :chagrin:
Pearsons Candy.
Pear to Pear
Sons
Man to Man.
I believe the famous Salted Nut Roll has Chestnuts in it.
Catch up with you all at the "other" prime location tonight... the PP.
Yes and no – it is tricky.
First off, they specifically took the name of the company from the word googol, which is a very large number (1 with one hundred zeros after it), after first thinking of the word googolplex, which is 1 followed by a googol of zeros, as a symbol of the immense amount of data their search engine would search through. Through an accidental misspelling, it became “google” and that name stuck.And that would be it, the answer would be no, the name Google did not come from Barney Google.
However, where did the word googol come from?
And thatÂ’s where it gets tricky.
The word was developed in the late 1930s by mathematician Edward Kasner, based off the suggestion of his young nephew, Milton Sirotta. Kasner popularized the term with his book, Mathematics and the Imagination (1940).
Kasner asked Sirotta to come up with a word that could describe a massive figure, and Sirotta came up with “googol.”
Now the question is – how likely is it that Sirotta came up with the world “googol” on his own, and was not influenced by the massively successful comic strip of the same name, which was EVERYwhere (comics, cartoons, toys, you name it)?
I say the odds are extremely unlikely, to the point where I think itÂ’s safe enough to say that he DID get the term from the comic strip, suggested it to his uncle, who made it into the number which, half a century later, inspired the name of the company Google.
So while not intending to do so, the founders of Google did choose a name that was derived from Barney Google, the one with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes.
I want a pair!
whoops forgot my thought... men were men.. vodka.. vodka + Ice. You pay a price for good vodka. I have no idea where I'm going with it, but it was a great throw back to 'another time'
stupid work... :angry:
Go where winter lovers meet.
We hope you find those of like mind
And not da agony of da feet.
Go where winter lovers meet.
We hope you find those of like mind
And not da agony of da feet.