Lay Lines by Carol Lay for May 24, 2021

And global warming began.

Would an infinite number of maids have been better?

Yes, this would solve the problem. Hilbert was a nut.

They needed an infinite amount of staff.

Of course it burnt forever, it’s like pi.

An old supposition is that a monkey randomly banging keys on a typewriter given an infinite amount of time will write a Shakespearian play without realizing it. The problem is that it would take an infinite amount of time.

One solution: get an infinite number of monkeys with an infinite number or typewriters.

It was infinitely horrible of the maid to do that.

Is the cardinality of the fire greater than the cardinality of the rooms?

Intriguing situation.

The hotel’s bar kept running out of garnish for the martinis. The mathematicians complained that it was olive null.

I knew there was a video on this, I just didn’t remember which one. Veritasium just ran this 2 weeks ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxGsU8oIWjY

The philosophers escaped, but what about the mathematicians? They came to the end of their sets?

I’m pretty sure that Douglas Adams had stayed at Hubert’s for a while…

You cannot add any number to infinity because it is already there.

I love this one. “The Philosophers escaped, but the Hotel burned forever.” —like a line from “Werewolves of London” by Warren Zevon; it rolls off the tongue with beauty and destruction.