Life In The DPC!

Editor’s Note: DPC turned 30 today

Courtesy of Wikipedia.org

• The number of days in the months April, June, September and November (and in unusual circumstances February - see February 30)
• The total number of major and minor keys in Western tonal music, including enharmonic equivalents
• In years of marriage, the pearl wedding anniversary
• The duration in years of the Thirty Years’ War - 1618 to 1648.

• Used to indicate the end of a wire service story.^[2] (Possibly a corruption of German fertig - “finished, ready” - or in journalistic context “end of story”); in several Superman stories from various titles, failure by a Daily Planet employee to use this signature proved to be a plot point revealing a character’s impersonation, mind control, etc.
• The code for international direct dial phone calls to Greece
• The atomic number of zinc is 30
• The designation of Interstate 30, a freeway that runs from Texas to Arkansas
• The designation of U.S. Route 30, a highway that runs from Oregon to New Jersey
• Various other routes have been numbered “30″; for example, New York State Route 30 which runs from the Pennsylvania border to the Canadian border
• The designation of E30, the European route from Cork to Samara
• The number of tracks on The Beatles‘ eponymous album, usually known as The White Album
• At age 30 (according to most biblical scholars) Jesus of Nazareth was baptized by John the Baptist, at the beginning of his public ministry of teaching and healing.
• One of the rallying-cries of the 1960s student/youth protest movement was the slogan, ‘Don’t trust anyone over thirty’.
• In ‘The Myth of Sisyphus’ the French existentialist Albert Camus comments that the age of thirty is a crucial period in the life of a man, for at that age he gains a new awareness of the meaning of time.
• In Franz Kafka’s novel ‘The Trial’ Joseph wakes up on the morning of his thirtieth birthday to find himself under arrest for an unspecified crime. After making many futile attempts to find the nature of the crime or the name of his accuser, Joseph dies on the eve of his thirty-first birthday.
• In tennis, the number 30 represents the second point gained in a game.
• In hockey, All-Star goaltenders Ryan Miller of the Buffalo Sabres, Chris Osgood of the Detroit Red Wings, and Martin Brodeur of the New Jersey Devils wear the number 30
• In football, Ko Simpson of the Buffalo Bills and Ahman Green of the Houston Texans wear the number 30

Arizona Cardinals quarterback Matt Leinart has been admonished by head coach Whisenhunt for his party boy lifestyle. Apparently his beer bonging skills aren’t respected by the Cardinals.

“I reiterated to him the type of behavior that we expect at all times from our players,” coach Whisenhunt said. “He understands that as well as the level of scrutiny that he’s under because of who he is. It’s being handled internally.”

I don’t fault Leinart for a bit of decadence because he has had a batch of bad luck. Last June he was ordered to pay $15,000 a month in child support and he played in only five games last season due to a broken collarbone.