Walter Kozbiel had a question for me: "Do you want to know what the square root of my badge number in reverse is?"
Sure, I said.
The answer, he told me is 77, the same number of papers that Walter buys when the new issue comes out each week.
Walter is superstitious; for him digits carry significance.
"I enjoy numbers," he said. "They are an important thing in my life. What is interesting is that 7s have always been a part of my life."
For example, the highest number of free throws he has ever made is 77. ...