ever south

multicultural morning: one of the most popular restaurants in Houston is Breakfast Klub. it has fast service and deliberate food. here is fried catfish, poached eggs, grits and toast.

13 * 29 * 1 447 = 545 519

after breakfast we went to a pakistani house of women's arts. we lined up for the treatment

"go more down"
"go more down, like this"
"first time?"
"close your eye"
"close your eye, like this"

everyone agreed afterward that it hurt, but was worth it.

one way to lost track of time on the highway is to follow an 18-wheeler, and try to find all the prime factors of its serial number. the above number was about ninety minutes and i didn't get it right. this pushed me to set my sights on the less formidable three and four digit numbers. once the terrain got more interesting i forgot about this game.

some tips for the game:

-if n is composite, than it contains at least one prime factor less than or equal to sqrt(n)
-a number whose last digit is m can be expressed as the product of only numbers whose last digits are 1 and m,
OR
m=1, 7&3, 9&9
m=3, 9&7
m=7, 3&9
m=9, 3&3, 7&7
-if any string of digits at the beginning or end of a number p is divisible by a prime divisor q (q > 5), then the p is divisible by q if and only if the number formed by truncating those leading or ending digits is divisible by q

we had more fried catfish and beer at a bar overlooking the harbor in Bay St Louis, MS. people were making merry around the pier, almost catching something.