What is today’s stardate? Meaning that, using the calendar method in Star Trek, what is the stardate that corresponds with today’s date in our Gregorian calendar? The answer is more complicated and harder to find than you might think.

The numbers saga keeps on chugging until I’m happy that the numbers on this site are sufficiently large. In Part 5, I decide that the Conway Chained-Arrow Notation is just not large enough and needs to be expanded further! Let’s check it out.

Have you heard that the recent Supreme Court Case — Citizens United v. FEC — is going to be the death of democracy, because it allows millions of dollars of corporate funding to go directly to public canidates? Have you heard that China will now be able to directly influence public elections? Have you heard that democracy has died because of a case worse than Dred Scott v. Sandford? If you’ve heard these lies, it’s time to rethink this case. In the political post where I call out the Democrats like I call out the Republicans, let me set you on the path to facts.

Obama went to the House Republican’s retreat in Baltimore to answer their questions. The result is a video called both “Obama pwns Republicans” and “Obama BEAT UP by GOP” on Youtube, and it’s some of my favourite political video I’ve seen. It’s pretty interesting and bipartisan. Check it out. (Also, there’s more politics coming Wednesday on the topic of the recent Supreme Court decision.)

The large numbers continue past a bunch of Knuth up-arrows into Conway chained-arrows! Chances are now that, with three parts, you have no clue what I’m talking about, but you could still catch up with it if you want to.

Ask Peter #15 is the first in a double feature of Ask Peter answering eight questions posed by the same person — Katie — four per episode. This feature includes information on “asking me questions”, “twenty-ten”, “Peter Parker”, and “the center of Earth”.