8 November
8 November
“It’s like there’s a gap. For the first couple years that you’re making stuff, what you’re making isn’t so good, okay … it’s not that great. It’s really not that great. It’s … it’s trying to be good, it has some ambition to be good, but it’s not quite that good. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game — your taste is still killer.”
Watch this, okay? Especially you creative types. It’s important.
I don’t know who this fellow is, but he’s speaking the truth.
this is so adorable.
“one bad ass fucking fractal”Totally awesome! I love math.
“And if the series of zs should always stay / close to z and never trend away / that point is in the Mandelbrot set!”
On nautical matters; or, in which it is determined that the centerboard is indeed located near the center
- Kati: actually I don't know where the centerboard is on the ship...
- Hawk: I'd assume it's near the center.
- Kati: *looks up on Wikipedia*
- Kati: You're right 8D;
- Hawk: Why am I not surprised?
7 November
And lo there was A Logic Named Joe
And in 1946, an astonishingly complete vision of the future appeared in the magazine Astounding Science Fiction. In a story entitled A Logic Named Joe, the author Murray Leinster envisioned a world in which every home was equipped with a tabletop box that he called a “logic”:
“You got a logic in your house. It looks like a vision receiver used to, only it’s got keys instead of dials and you punch the keys for what you wanna get … you punch ‘Sally Hancock’s Phone’ an’ the screen blinks an’ sputters an’ you’re hooked up with the logic in her house an’ if somebody answers you got a vision-phone connection. But besides that, if you punch for the weather forecast [or] who was mistress of the White House durin’ Garfield’s administration … that comes on the screen too. The relays in the tank do it. The tank is a big buildin’ full of all the facts in creation … hooked in with all the other tanks all over the country … The only thing it won’t do is tell you exactly what your wife meant when she said, ‘Oh, you think so, do you?’ in that peculiar kinda voice “
On Plots; Or, in which the application of cornstarch is recommended.
- Hawk: The plot thickens!
- Hawk: But not, you know, a lot.
- Hawk: Because the plot is pretty watery at the moment.
- Mary: Add some cornstarch.
- Mary: I mean words.