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Hey! Guess what? I happened by here at this point in time and noticed no one had been here yet!
So by extension, with all those theories mentioned today (very well done by the way) the distance from point A to point B could be halved; again, and again and again etc which means that if I were to swing a punch at someone’s nose I would never really hit him because the distance is always halved thus I never connect.
Anyone want to try?!
Oouch; Hey, that smarts!
Better?
That explains the crack in my screen this morning! So much for theory.
That\’s explains the crack in the space-time continuum and why I keep seeing bees disappear into thin air.
@ 5:30! here\’s me:
![](\"http://jimmyakin.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/stll_alarm_clock_snooze.jpg\"/)
I always thought this was Kaos…
http://youtube.com/watch?v=AYpCQEeBsS0
How about a fractalator?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Xt-L0nR481o
I can\’t wait to watch this again in some other infinite time repeat.
Wait didn’t I already see this one?????
So in the phrase “bringing sexy back”, does that mean that it is infinitely returning, or does that mean that it never left to begin with?
*ponder*
I don\’t know who that Timberlake kid thinks he is cuz as far as I can remember sexy never left the building.
Wow, when did kam (and his luggage) make it to new york?
It was a long drive, believe me!
![](\"http://www.ebrso.org/newsimages/09d7214601f6b4a32158bb87cb9079a0.jpg\"/)
I’ll give you good money for that.
Don’t spend it all in one place.
I see you decided to travel light.
Are those pounds? If so they were packed by pros.
Saw a wire story about a woman busted in Dublin with 22 kilos in her suitcase, which they estimated was worth about $425 an ounce. Either weed is scare in Dublin or the cops were inflating their asses off, which is not unusual when it comes to drug seizures. I saw a DA once charge a guy for a grow operation, calculating that every three-inch plant would eventually produce $1,500 of ganj. Made for a nice felony rap.
Travel light? I had to leave these w/Drew!
![](\"http://qd.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/im000188.JPG\"/)
kilos my man, kilos & I\’m the pro from Dover!
“Now you know the real reason we all left the hive”
“Good sh**t kam… i’m so buzzed I can’t fly…”
Brilliant! I\’ve been into the fractals for some time but no one presents it like Joanne… and the rest of the RB crew.
Chaos rules!
Great show! I love to think about this kind of stuff — but always come upon a thick, blank wall of impenetrability. \’M\’ theory, super string theory, and all the rest. I FORCED myself to read every page of Brian Green\’s The Elegant Universe (very hard!), and got much out of it — but I cannot get a sliver out of Sartre\’s Being and Nothingness http://www.uri.edu/personal/szunjic/philos/being.htm
Ultimately for me (when trying to decipher any of this jibberish, and simply accepting that being is indeed real - no matter how fantastic), the one true miracle of \’reality\’ is:
INDIVIDUALITY.
Oh, well, back to work…
-s
Hello RB,
Loved it!
Chaos do not exist, only our level of understanding.
Regards,
Denis
All is chaos, understanding is only an illusion created by chemical reactions and electrical impulses.
Cheers,
Cider
So that’s where my shirt came from!
later people
Hurray for paisley shirts & Beatle polka dot caps!
For Gaston…
![](\"http://www.funatiparty.com/images/projects/glasses.gif\"/)
Very clever, all the puns and word jokes. But I really like Joanne filling out the plot, saying \”idea-r\”, \”mooooooove\”, \”maths\”, \”prefect-ness\”, etc. You get the point, if y\’know wha\’d\’I mean. Poor Gaston tho, unlike words and idears that don\’t really exist, a nose seems to actually be out there, and the lack may drive one to draw triangles. Who knows? But with no nose how did he smell?
Pretty rank I imagine!
I’m wearing one right now.
Side effects include rubber band lines and looking really stupid at work.
I love how it “guards workers’ lungs” and still allows the user to smoke! Genius. What will they come up with next?
Everything you wanted to know about Fractal Chaos but were afraid to ask
\”At any given moment, life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time, having a purpose, trending in a certain direction.\”
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
http://www.fractalwisdom.com/FractalWisdom/index.html
The Four Chaos Attractors
http://www.fractalwisdom.com/FractalWisdom/fourattr.html
best yet?
Are you fractal kidding me?!
Groan…headache.
One more: images & music in one.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=DnkoIT2Ps7w
So that\’s how it\’s done! I\’m buzzing with joy!
Hey, what happened? The Youtube I posted above was \”embedded\” in the PREVIEW. But now it\’s not there. What gives Drew?
Drew strips out most tags so you have to get around that. Here\’s what works:
<img
src="http://calbar.ca.gov/calbar/images/Attorney-Resources/one-pixel-orange.gif"
onload="this.nextSibling.innerHTML=\’<object width=425 height=350>
<param name=movie
value="http://www.youtube.com/v/WaYC6top31g" />
<param name=wmode value=transparent />
<embed type=application/x-shockwave-flash wmode=transparent width=425 height=350>
src="http://www.youtube.com/v/WaYC6top31g"
</embed>
</object>\’" />
<a></a>
The one-pixel-orange.gif image can be any image, you just want the onload event.
The YouTube URL appears twice.
You have to get rid of all the line breaks, replacing most of them with a single space.
Ooops, the comment-system smartness got me in that 2nd line there. Just do the usual src=\”..some url..\” with no semi-colon at the end and it should work. Everything else looks OK.
Last b-link of the day.
Speaking of Chaos…
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070612/lf_afp/lifestylechinasocietynameoffbeat_070612065246
I lied!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=_GG2v8LBcBU
/couldn\’t resist - freewill
Ko Ko was invited by B. B. King to contribute a cut for one of his albums a few years back. The audio engineers calibrated all the mikes the way they always did. And then Ko Ko came in and damn near blew their headphones off. They had never heard a voice with that much power. They had to stick bits of cardboard up against the booth gflass to keep it from rattling, something Etta James never needed.
One of the coolest things I ever got to see was B. B. in concert, calling Ko Ko and Little Milton back out onstage to jam with him after they had long since completed their sets. Both of them came out in dressing robes; Milton was wearing his glasses. They sat on folding chairs at the end of the stage for maybe half an hour, just noodling around as the mood struck them. It was a really sharp audience, which I think is what inspired B. B. to depart from the plans for the evening. And we drank it up like cherry wine.
You can never know when the last b-link will be posted.
It\’s chaotic!
(Thanks Nab, for the U-tube embed tips, seems too complicated, I think I\’ll just stick with copy & paste.)
Nice show!
Four minute chaos theory… good effort Joanne! Am forwarding this to a guy I know whose entire job is fractals. He will be most pleased - perhaps enough to stop simulating for a second and get his lazy backside outside to a tennis court so I can whoop it again. Yes - you!
Anyway, fine show and all the usual pleasantries but you get the point.
I think that I shall never find,
A fractal as chaotic as the female mind.
Close-up of a Joanne synapse? Grounded, yet always blossoming!
Fractalicious!
\”And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.\” -Kahlil Gibran
One of the most interesting shows you have put together. I really learned something today about chaos theory. Thanks!
William Blake’s famous poem:
Auguries of Innocence
To see a World in a grain of sand,
And a Heaven in a wildflower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand,
And Eternity in an hour.
The late physicist David Bohm posited a wonderful theory of the universe’s holographic nature. A hologram represents both a visible and an invisible image created by the interference patterns of a split beam of laser light (light of a single wavelength). Bohm called the visible “unfolded” reality (the one we can visually see, like the three-dimensional metallic image on a credit card) the explicate order and the invisible “enfolded” domain the implicate order. Although this “folded” domain is beyond measurement and conscious observation, the implicate order is more than just an abstract concept. The implicate order is an unobservable realm beyond the linear, space-time experience, similar to the concept of “phase space” discussed in Chaos Theory.
/a little fractal made me do it
…I suggest you play the Amboy Dukes again.
-s
OK!
Back on my Win95 system I used to have a program called Fractal Graphix from Cedar Software. (it was an awesome tool for \’seeding\’ and growing your own fractals!)
Cedar Software doesn\’t exist anymore, and I haven\’t been able to find an equivalent tool for WinXP. Any ideas?
Win 95 was replaced by politics, I believe. There were a lot of awesome, way-ahead-of-its-time things which came bundled on wayward CD’s included with everything you purchased involving your Pentium 75 (circa 1996) Intel $3,000 (adjusted for today’s 1990’s prices {not really}) computer. Stuff which would be worth a bundle (oops, there’s that word again (used in a different tense)) in today’s inflated figures. My old win-95 computer now sits out in the shed–back in its original box (yes, I’m that anal)–playing host to spiders, ants, mice, and various other creatures, with only a few remaining backup CD’s which sit on my shelf within reach of where I now type these words, all useless because the only decoding program for them resides on the hard-drive out there in the shed; Not even my spiffy XP (now several years old) nor my other, newer, most-beloved, mighty super-dooper dual liquid-cooled core hefty silver-towered Cadillac-of-compurters ‘Power’ Mac computer can decipher, sadly, the really-cool programs from that era.
A win95 machine with CDs? Lemme get this straight. Windows \’95, with CDs? Windows \’95 on CD rom. Hmmm…
Sounds nice, can\’t think that I knew of a (consumer-level) machine that came with CD roms until at least 3 years later… This program I speak of came on floppies. 6 of them, I believe, and cost over $120. The quality of the program would probably render it freeware now!
Damn I\’m jealous. I had to use floppies.
I will forever miss that program it seems. :(
Right. I believe that the time frame was less than 3 years. Even Win98 machines (3 years later) still came with the OPTION of having a cd rom drive. My win 95, also, had floppy, in fact it had both the 3.5 in, and the older,bigger, more floppier 5 inch drives. I added a cool internal tape back-up within a year which had to be installed using floppy disks!, and which ran on CeQuadrat - WinOnCD software. The old IBM 286, 386, and 486 original PC\’s could not, if I remember correctly, have a cd-rom drive. However, sometime after win95 came out–perhaps 1996 or 97–the first Pentiums appeared (I bought one of the first–Pentium II was still on the drawing board) which could accommodate internal cd drives, and the model that I got did have the cd drive pre-installed, and it did come with tons of DOS games, and utilities (on CD). A printer that I soon added came with a Photoshop 1.x DOS version for WIN95!
But timeframes and computer history aside, I still have lots of CD-roms from then, having transferred most everything of value from floppy to CD sometime before Win XP appeared–most of them unreadable now. But you are right, I stand corrected: the first few programs for the pre-Pentium PC\’s were not on CD-roms.
That was the best Rocketboom ever!
Amen.
I loved the look on Joanne\’s face as she said:
\”Until last time, I\’ve seen you later… crocodile!\”
Now that was precious!
love the episode, I\’ve actually been working some on chaos theory and here\’s a pic of a strange relationship in the logistics map that I found.
Letting the daily posting schedule slide I see. But yesterday\’s episode is worth watching again I guess. Good stuff.
º¹
Whoa! I think someone\’s been watching too much of the Matrix. ;-)