Last night was a hella strong storm surge in downtown Atlanta. This storm was fueled by hot air, humidity and like souther storms do, featured lots of lightning. The lightning was frequent and bright 
lighting up the entire city. Being the hack weatherman voyeur that I am, I decided to throw some mpg4 at the situation. I grabbed my trusty RCA smallwonder and placed it perilously on the balcony, in order to capture the light show. After the storm subsided, I brought the small camera in and dropped the frames off the unit for analysis. What I found when all the data was copied was spooky. The clip size of the storm was exactly 66.6 Mb in size...
I am not superstitious by nature, I'm not really all that religious either I'm mostly a technologist of sorts. I also fully understand the complexity of numbers and patterns of numerology that seem to exist. I also firmly believe that if you are looking for a number hard enough you can and will find it in everything. So spooky numbers hold no clout for me, I also am quite used to random number generators and the patterns they seem to contain at times. After playing 100s of RPG games that rely on item drop databases fueled by RNGs, strange number pops are nothing extraordinary. I remember once while playing Pokemon leaf green that two extremely rare "shiny" Pokemon appeared back to back. That is a 1 in 8192 chance for a single instance. When this "evil" file laced with a size of 66.6 Mb dropped I was a bit weirded out admittedly though. Diabolic? Random? Judge for yourself. I now present "the 100 bolts of lightning blog"
666:
The Number of the Beast is described in the Book of Revelation 13:18. From the King James translation:
“ Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. ” In the Greek manuscripts, the Number is rendered in Greek numerical form as “χξς”, or sometimes literally as “six hundred and sixty-six”, “ἑξακόσιοι ἑξήκοντα ἑξι”.[hexakosioi hexékonta hex - lit. six hundred sixty six]
The oldest known record of the verse, a fragment of an early manuscript of Revelation from the Oxyrhynchus site, Papyrus 115, gives a different number, 616, as “χιϛ”.[1] The early Church father Irenaeus knew several occurrences of the 616-variant but regarded them as a scribal error, although he didn't know the meaning of the number.[9] The Zürich Bible which is based on the oldest Bible manuscripts also mentions the number 616.
666 can also refer to a Roman Emperor such as Nero (whose name, written in Aramaic, was valued at 666, using the Hebrew numerology of gematria, a manner of speaking against the emperor without the Roman authorities knowing).
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The number 666 appears several times in the Old Testament, including in 1 Kings 10:14-22 as the number of talents of gold received by King Solomon in one year. "Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was 666 talents of gold".
Scholars such as Dr. Aitken have speculated that the reference to this passage was a way of speaking in code about then contemporary figures about whom it would have been politically dangerous to criticize openly.
According to the Bible, Solomon fell into apostasy and built altars to Chemosh, Moloch, and Ashtoreth, pagan gods to whom human sacrifices were made. One interpretation is that 666 encodes the letters of someone’s name or title, identifying the Antichrist.
To be convincing, interpretations invoke arguments other than mathematics to prove their point. For example, scholars who believe that the Book of Revelation refers to historical people and events argue that the number represents Nero.[11] This hypothesis was first presented by Friedrich Engels. In Hebrew gematria, every letter has a corresponding number. Summing these numbers gives a numeric value to a word or name. In Hebrew, "Nero Caesar" is spelled “נרון קסר”, pronounced "Neron Ke(i)sar". Adding the corresponding values yields 666
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