Blogging TV, one show at a time  Mo money, mo problems
Originally aired March 2, 2005  Disc 5  Mario Perez: ABC  Dude.
Congrats on your “lucky” numbers.  Do you have a lucky number? A
number that you know intellectually is meaningless, yet for some
reason you assign it a special place in your life? Maybe you
schedule things on that date, or perhaps you count to it to calm
down, or maybe you play it in games of chance? Does it work?
Thing is, people have been ascribing meaning to numbers since
numbers were first conceived. After all, numbers are an abstract
concept to begin with, and as such can accommodate any number
(pun soooo not intended) of meanings. Numbers are used in all
sciences, in art, in religion, in myth, in politics and history.
As such, people are always looking for patterns, for
significance, for a grand mathematical formula that can explain
it all … but is there one? Can the universe, can fate, be
described or reduced down to something tangible just by using a
few numbers? Can your lucky n