#dataasculture

If you have been playing along with all of my dismal guesses, you may have noticed that the numbers I recently replaced (9, 16, 23, 34, 47, 52) had three among them show up in the latest draw.  That would have earned you a double dip.

The precision just warms my heart.  This is the guess for Saturday.  I am proud of myself for getting it worked out a little early for a change.  This shape was created by looking for numbers whose current draw gaps were roughly equivalent to the draw gaps in previous shapes.  I then thought about the rhythm of highs and lows from one shape to the next and did a little shuffling of the relative values.  This shape is somewhat mirroring the August 11th draw, but with many unique twists of its own.  I thought this would be an appropriate release from the frantic peaks an valleys of the last two draws.

The first half of Mexico v S. Korea just ended.  Living in New Mexico, I have to love Mexico. The homophobic chants seem to have stopped, and laundering drug money is as American as anything these days, right?  I also figured out what's not to like about Uruguay. It’s Biting!  #WTF???  

Anyway..  in my house, we cheer for Mexico....and Nigeria, because.... SUPER EAGLES....duh.

But enough about the World Cup.  

Apparently, making jokes about Tunisia beating England, and suggesting that there is no god (because my numbers have actually never won) is not helping my situation.  Once again, not a single number that I have chosen based on my data visualizations has been drawn.  Based on the layered image (I am continually layering each draw until the thing becomes truly unreadable)...  I’m sticking with the same set of numbers. 9, 16, 23, 34, 47, 52 

I’m adding layers.  Seeing evolutions.  Uruguay won. Mexico won. The Super Eagles lost ?1?  There is no rhyme or reason to these things is there? So I have had no takers on my challenge to share with me “What kind of millionaire would I be?”  (I meaning,  you).  So I’ll keep revealing bits about what my plans were in my previous iteration of this project.  I imagined with $40 million dollars, I would set up several $1 million dollar trusts, a couple $5 million, and a couple of $10 million dollar trusts.  I started doing top-of-the-head calculations about interest to be earned for such accounts.  Figuring a modest 4% return on $10 million, if I took out 2% each year and reinvested 2% every year that would be $200k/ year.  A very nice annual income, with a built-in cost of living increase every year.  The $1 million accounts would return $20k every year with a similar built-in increase.   So I would spread $1 million dollar accounts among family members.  Keep one $10 million account for myself and my immediate family, and a $5 million account for previously mentioned medical concerns.  I felt very responsible in my management of these massive imaginary sums.  But somehow, I never won. I concluded, privately, that there is no god, and virtuous thoughts earn you nothing. So with that in mind.  I still feel virtuous, and genuinely endorse the previous set of (currently unselected) numbers. 9, 16, 23, 34, 47, 52

And ...if you don’t win with these numbers it’s clear proof that there is no god.  And you thought that separating immigrant children from their parents was all the proof you needed, didn’t you?

...across two sets of numbers 26 and 32.  But in the single set that I promoted only 26 came in.  By my calculations, there are better-than-the-worst odds that 26 will be picked a second time.  Now that my mother in law has passed on to the great beyond, I am also thinking her shamanic abilities may manifest some bounty for us all with the numbers that were in play as she was dying.

The numbers are still:  1, 12, 23, 39, 41, 47