Wolf Report passes 100 post mark with 101st post

The Wolf Report passed the 100 post mark by publishing its 101'st post. The self-referential post had nothing else useful to contribute but managed to fill several more paragraphs with drivel to mark the momentous occasion.

This post is a milestone, but only because of two accidents of history. The first led to our using a system of counting using the base ten. Although no one from The Wolf Report has been able to verify this, but it is widely believe that the choice of ten as the based of our counting system was motivated by the number of fingers on a pair of typical human hands. But for that accident of history, this occasion would not have merited a single word, much less had someone going on for two paragraphs and just about ready to start the third.

By contrast, in a society that did all their counting in binary, the 100 post mark would have passed almost 96 (decimal) posts ago. And in a society based on counting in hexadecimal, the 100 post mark would be more than one hundred (decimal) posts away. This makes the particular choice of the sequence of this 101'st post less significant than it would be if our counting was based on an inevitable choice based on some universal constant rather than fingers.

But it is not. We use the decimal system. And it's some cause for celebration. Though why, I cannot imagine.

For those who remember that there were two acts of history, and not one, the second accident of history was the posting of the first post 100 (base 10) posts ago.