Thank you for an excellent post - I too have a passing interest in Benford’s Law and different number bases, but had never considered the two in tandem.
And in Hungarian, it’s almost in reverse, where a Hungarian s sounds like a Polish sz and a Hungarian sz sounds like a Polish s. More generally, an s in Hungarian acts like a z would in Polish, so s makes an English “sh” sound, a cs makes a “ch” sound, and a zs makes a “zh” sound. If a z is after an s in Hungarian (as the digraph sz), then it alters the sound to a plain “s.” Sometimes cz makes an appearance in Hungarian (especially if you read older books, like pre-1900, with older spellings), but that is the equivalent of a plain Hungarian c (which sounds like “ts” or the Polish c).
It was always tripping up my tongue at first trying to read Hungarian words like szív (“heart”), as the Polish instinct to read sz as a “sh” sound was so great. It felt backwards to me for the longest time – like why is sz the plain “s” sound and s the “sh” sound? But I got used to it, though sometimes now my brain gets tripped up in Hungarian mode reading Polish words if I haven’t fully mentally switched contexts. 
This is interesting thanks. And this is also an example of why I wish I was better with numbers, because there is a ton of fascinating stuff like this hidden within the universe of mathematics. Mathematicians even talk about different types of infinity - and that’s when things really get philosophical and weird.
Here’s an interesting podcast that mixes Benford and the recent election.
This is a bit of an over-simplification. Both my parents were interned along with their families during the war. I know more of my mom’s family than of my dad’s.
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When they were sent to camp, their “belongings” consisted of that which they carried (and was allowed). They had to give up their property (house, car, etc.). There are some families we know who managed to go “back home” because…they signed over their house to (white) friends who agreed to give them their property back when the war ended. That is, they had a home to go back to !
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When the war ended, they didn’t just open the gates and let the internees free. The US did not want this flood of poor, homeless, unemployed people dumped back into society. There was this process of connecting with someone (I understand mostly through church groups) to find someone willing to sponsor you. And by “you”, I mean 1 household member. The sponsor would agree to provide lodging while the sponsee looked for work. My oldest uncle was sponsored first. And then he, in turn, was eventually able to sponsor the rest of the family. But it was a months long process - AFTER the war had ended.
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When the rest of the family was released, they ended up back in the LA area. So I know of no restrictions on returning west of the Rockies.
I’d looked at the pix trying to figure out what brand of car it was. And was coming up empty. Now I know why. Thanks.
There’s a wonderful picture of the slag on that site.
Think about it the next time you take Pepto-Bismol for your upset stomach.
Thanks for that post. I am aware that it was an oversimplification. I was trying to point out the differences between the US and Canadian situations. Only some people were lucky enough to have white neighbors who were honest and helped them out and that didn’t help at all with replacing the small businesses that were permanently lost.
I’m 57 years old and grew up in West LA which had a very large Japanese-American population when I was growing up. I had many friends and classmates whose parents were interred as children and teens. I in no way meant to minimize the horrible stain that that was in our country’s history.
Bismuth also has the unusual property of expanding as it cools from liquid state, most metals contract as they cool.
If my GI tract is functioning as a blow torch, I think I’ve got bigger things to worry about than a little slag.
Slag is good for corking up almost anything. Even innards.
Bismuth also has some of the most fascinating-looking crystals ever:
I have one a little over 100 grams (bought at an amateur radio festival, of all places) that is just so cool looking.
Peter Tork went to Julliard and could play multiple instruments.
Mike Nesmith had a (minor) career in country music before joining the Monkees, and they had some country-flavored music as a result.
Davy Jones had been a song-and-dance actor in London’s West End (he originated the role of the Artful Dodger) and was well enough known that David Jones changed his name to David Bowie to avoid confusion.
Dolenz did the garageband route but didn’t actually know how to play drums when cast, although he did learn how.
According to Tork, if the line-up had been based on playing ability, Jones would have been the drummer, Tork would have played bass, Nesmith would have played lead, and Mickey would have been the lead singer
Nesmith wrote:
Nesmith’s mom? Check out the mother-son pic.
Ninja’d while my computer froze!
Dolenz… didn’t actually know how to play drums when cast, although he did learn how.
Ah, but he played A drum, as a little blond “Circus Boy”.
And sang, too…
(just learned he later sang this same song in a circus episode of The Monkees…cool.)
The first time I saw Circus Boy, it was so surprising to see a little blond Mickey Dolenz.
Consider the byplay during the Monkees’ song Gonna Buy me a Dog:
Davy Jones was on the Feb 9, 1964 episode of Ed Sullivan, playing his Broadway role the Artful Dodger from “Oliver!” Some garage band from Liverpool was also on that night.
I have the show on DVD. Frank “The Riddler” Gorshin also makes an appearance.
I watched that show when it aired, with my college housemates. I had never heard of the Beatles until then.
Emory Parady, one of the 26 enlisted men who tracked down and killed John Wilkes Booth, is buried in a Portland cemetery.