#FlowerCount is over in Victoria. We're waiting for the final count.
Number sign - now called hashtag -# - is with us many times a day. And what an inconvenient spot on the typewriter. I assume that was because it was hardly ever used so got relegated to the number row.
Maybe if you were writing music and needed to write something in a key with sharps. Or Possibly pounds - but then we use lb as an abbreviation for pounds and that's where it started in Rome- meaning pound weight..
It is also used in proof-reading to indicate that a space should be inserted, and a few lesser uses. The telephone keypad has the symbol and got a special name for it - Octothorpe.
Special characters have a history of being adopted for special meanings in computer languages. I assume this comes out of its use in mathematics.
Our first word of our post, though, gives us the clue to how we got to using # so many times a day. The hash tag got the stratosphere boost with Chris Messina to create topics of interest.
Look at all these other uses: tic tac toe, crosshatch, (garden) fence, mesh, flash, grid, pig-pen, tictactoe, scratch (mark), (garden) gate, hak, oof, rake, crunch, punch mark, sink, corridor, capital 3, and waffle. Plus all those others in computing.
Shouldn't there be some jokes? Perhaps, but what pops up are #jokes and not jokes about #'s. Here the only two that relate so far and can be included without profanity.
I got an interview and told them I was proficient in C and C-sharp. Turns out that wasn't good enough to be a pianist
A lot of people call # a Hashtag but back in my day it was the pound sign Which makes the movement #MeToo a bit awkward
This is a picture of Brian's Lilycrest Gardens lily hybridizing field. It was taken a few years ago when his field was at its peak. Isn't that a sight of lilies! Let's hope to see it on the screen at RBG during the Plant Faire, coming up at the end of April.
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