This week we went to obtain a new cell phone - with a few bells and whistles - since we are back in Pennsylvania and new clients of Verizon. Since we didn't want to keep the Florida number they advised that they would assign a new phone number by a random selection - something Ma Bell never did. It felt akin to spinning the roulette wheel - ten new digits to remember! While half way around the world the Shanghai stock market fell 64.89 points on Monday. This also represents the date June 4, 1989 the date of the Tiananmen Square crackdown. There were some in Beijing who were skeptical that this number was "randomly" created and the censors quickly began blocking searches on the item. So many things in life are random and here are just two.
tjs
PS - Re Ma Bell this story goes back to the time of circular dial phones. A commercial client had a promotion in the works and requested a new number 1-2-3-4-5-6-7 to fit in with their plans. The Bell person dissuaded the client by telling him that such a number would attract every four year old just learning to count and such traffic would drive them crazy.
Next - TBA
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