the ants go marching 24 by 7, hoorah...
2002-02-04 - 10:48 p.m.
Question: A smart (and professionally immature) 5-year-old says that when he�s 90 years old, he wants to start acting like he�s 19, and when he�s 80 he wants to start acting like he�s 18, and so forth, so that when he�s 20, he�ll start acting like he�s 12. But the boy also knows that the first ten years of a person�s life are very important for development, so he decides to act his age during these years. If he were able to accomplish this, for how many years would the child act like he�s 10?*
Amazing picture on my pooter�s background. Absolutely amaze. Wind-blown red hair in a purple turtleneck, with a grey-cloud background...shoulders and up. The colour contrasts are enough to make it exceptional, but it also sort of lends itself to a photo. The only things that convince me that it�s not is the overly-perfect lighting and the eyes, which are in the region of �brown� but reflects a little too much of the redness from the hair to make it natural. Most importantly, my machine is sludging around on a single meg of graphics card, which doesn�t approximate the pixels perfectly. The in-betweens of the pixels just have to be imagined, and *that* is what makes it amazing, above all else. That, and it reminds me of someone. Damnitall.
Optionally related sidenote: The perfect woman doesn�t have to be intelligent, although it�s a plus. More importantly, she must be intrigued by using her head. Inquisitive about the world in which she lives, or addicted to riddles, after a fashion.
Been writing and reading too much poetry to be healthy. Somehow, I thought Philip Levine was better, or maybe I just thought that he strayed from the hybrid verse-prose a bit more than he actually does.
Archibald: Here�s a puzzle. On this paper is a picture of a star. It can be drawn with five straight lines without lifting the pencil from the page. In how many different orders can such a star be drawn? *about to start stopwatch*
Goblyn: Ten. Five points to start from, two directions to go from each point.
Archibald: *starting stopwatch* Can you trace them on this star with your finger?
Goblyn: *traces the normal star lower-left point to upper-right* *turns the page 72 degrees* *traces the same star* *turns it another 72 degrees* *traces it again* *turns* *traces* *turns* *traces* *turns the page over* *traces the star* *turns* *traces* *turns* *traces**turns* *traces**turns* *traces* *pushes the paper back*
Archibald: That�s not exactly what I meant.
Goblyn: Whatdoya mean? I traced all ten, all five distinct corners and both directions...
Archibald: ...But, you...changed your frame of reference, rather than your internal learned pattern of making the star.
Goblyn: There is no internal. What a foolish speech, to say that the laws that govern the universe are different than the laws that govern the internal workings of mann. We wouldn�t call them universal laws, I think, unless they were universal, including those parts of the universe that are trapped within the skin of self-proclaimed sapiens.
More on my generation. We grew up with Greenday, and play it loud. When �time of your life� comes on, we sit back in silence, smiling softly to no one in particular. It�s just one of those songs. And sometimes, on good days, we hum right along with it, as we stick our hand out the car window and swim with the air currents.
�It�s like falling of a bicycle. There isn�t much more someone can tell you about it, that you won�t figure out by doing it.� -Nemo
The T is fun. When I was riding it back from watching �Slackers�, I got to imagining what it would look like if the T was invisible. Not non-existent, just not there. The whole thing has a tendency to bob back to forth and side to side on the rails, making everyone�s head move together in unison. Like fish. Swimming down a New York sewer system in small, packet-like schools. Swish their tails at the same time, turn on the same signal, and they all have a similarly blank stare...just strangers, with a short path of space and time in common.
Davis�s Theorem Part I, so that I don�t forget: The Bible (TM) is assumed to have some truth in it. In the Bible (TM), heaven and hell are opposites. Thus, if hell has occupants, heaven must be empty. Through the readings of the Bible (TM), it can be found that hell is inhabited by Lucifer; heaven, on the other hand, has no proven occupants, and therefore cannot be proven to exist. Because heaven has no occupants and the composite of heaven and hell make up the set of the universe, it can be assumed that all other people must be somehow occupants of hell. Thus, the set of people on earth are part of the set of people in hell.
*Answer: none. At the age of ten, he would start acting like an eleven-year-old, and between the physical ages of nine and ten, he would be acting like a nine-year-old.
