[sudo-discuss] RIP Jeremiah Young

[Jake]

My friend died!  This is how it goes.

this is a post he made on October 5th.  What does it mean?  I don't know.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10205260075765654&set=a.2203583013318.2108902.1359634060&type=3

Jeremiah Young
October 5 at 9:53am

Eight. A pair of squares. Eight is two times two times two, and as such is 
the first cubic number after one. As the number of vertices of a cube or 
faces of its dual, the octahedron, eight is complete. At the molecular 
level this is displayed by atoms, which long to have a full octave of 
eight electrons in their outermost shell. A sulphur atom has six electrons 
in their outermost shell, so eight atoms get together to share electrons, 
forming an octagonal sulphur ring. Eight is also the next Fibonacci number 
after five. Within architecture the octogon often signifies the transition 
between Heaven and Earth, as a bridge between the square and the circle. A 
spherical dome often surmounts a cubic structure by way of a beautiful 
octagonal vault. Eight is particularly revered in the religion and 
mythology of the orient. The ancient Chinese oracle, the I-Ching, is based 
on combinations of eight trigrams, each the result of a twofold choice 
between a broken (yin) or an unbroken (yang) line, made three times. 
Depicted opposite is the 'Former Heaven Sequence', said to represent the 
ideal pattern of transformations in the cosmos. Notice how each trigram is 
the complement of its opposite. Echoing these ancient Chinese pairs, the 
modern world is full of computers which think in units called 'bytes', 
each made of eight binary 'bits'. In a seven-tone scale the eighth note is 
the octave, twice the pitch of the first note, and so signals the movement 
to a new level. This may be why, in religious symbolism, the eighth step 
is often associated with spiritual evolution or salvation.