Lemming Tracks: Triskaidekaphobia and a Rambling Lemming

There's another Friday the 13th coming this year, in July:

• That's six months from now
• There are two numbers in "13"
  • "1" and "3"
• Three multiplied by two is six

You see?! IT ALL FITS TOGETHER!!!

Or, not. The Lemming's been over sounding crazy on the Internet, and how to avoid it, before:

• "How to Not Sound Crazy - or - THE PARANOIDS ARE AFTER ME!!!"
  (June 12, 2011)

On the other hand, the Lemming had an unusually hard time coming up with a topic for today's earlier post ("Oh, Boy! The Avengers are Back - Almost "), which a sufficiently triskaidekaphobic person might think was the result of Friday the 13th already being here, over in Asia, when the Lemming was still rummaging around for something nifty.

"Triskaidekaphobia?" That's a seven-syllable word meaning "a morbid fear of the number 13." (Princeton's WordNet) Oddly enough, seven is a 'lucky' number. ("Is this your lucky number? Seventy-seven things you need to know about 07," Independent.co.uk (December 31, 2006)) Which probably explains the title of "Lucky Number Slevin" (2006).

Related (sort of) posts:

• "Eleven; and Why is Six Afraid of Seven?"
  (November 11, 2011)
• "Tomorrow's Friday the 13th: First of Three in 2009"
  (February 12, 2009)
• "The Neutrinos are Coming! 2012 and Hollywood Science"
  (November 16, 2009)
• "Friday the 13th: The Geek Approach"
  (June 13, 2008)
• "Triskaidekaphobia: More than Friday the 13th"
  (June 13, 2008)