Spiral Jetty visible again along
with lots of junk.
As a fan of earthworks, thats kind of disappointing.
After reading more about the artist responsible, I
suspect the artist would of enjoyed the look.
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I am now wearing my Kurt Rambis T-Shirt.
Coolest. T-Shirt. Ever.
aklikins is evil
But then, so is Kurt Rambis,
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ,
James Worthy and
all the 80’s Lakers! Who knew.
And in digging up random names to throw in there, I discovered there is now
an official kurtrambis.com. That almost
makes up there being no Mr. Wizard website.
more big numbers:
Big Numbers
Even Bigger Number
A Googol is a “class-2” and he defines up to “class-6” and class-3 are the largest
numbers that can be theoretically computed and compared.
More Big Numbers
Including the defination of an “antonplex”
More big numbers>
This page includes the line:
One GOOGOL is a ONE followed by 100 zeroes.
One GOOGOLPLEX is a ONE followed by one googol zeroes.
(you can't write a googolplex, even in a million years)
Which is They Might Be Giants lyric waiting to happen.
Or perhaps the Megapenny site.
Just to verify that It is possible for me to one day be a
millionaire as long as the unit in question is pennies.
Or perhaps the Borg Cube versus the
Cube of a Trillion Pennies.
lunch conversation: si units and where they came from
And on the subject, a brain hurting description of measures
of alcohol content
And just for kicks, the http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/prefixes.html
which of course, requires a mention of powersoften.com
based on the Eames film “Powers of Ten”
Speaking of things big and small, there is Boeing’s
Pelican a concept for one big ass ground effect plane.
Or you could buy the Hendix/Zappa burnt strat. You can probabaly pick it up for about $3 megadollars. Or 3M$. Which is kind
of not really ironic considering Paul Allen will probably buy it.
And a a history of spinning. The odd things
you find while trying to find names for things.
CODeDOC
Whitney page commenting on digital art _and_ the source code used to generate it.
Didn’t do much over the weekend.
Read Ender’s Game. Not bad,
I enjoyed it. I now see why it’s so popular among military types. Though
reading a book set in outer space, and suddenly seeing a reference
to Guilford County, North Carolina is a bit odd ;->
Couldn’t sleep so decided to inventory all the music gear at
about 4am last night. At least I have all the serial numbers
written down now. I suppose I should get that into an
electronic form at some point.
Continuing the theme from yesterday:
timhunkin.com, aka, the guy that
did The Secret Life of Machines
Great web page, somewhere between Mr. Wizard[1][2], MacGyver, James Burke,
and Norm Abram, with
a touch of Burning Man Thrown in.
[1] Gasp! The Horror! google doesn’t seem to find a good
Mr. Wizard web page! Ack! The internet is broken! Someone fix
it!
[2] At various points, me, Marty and Scott from
Japan Air have talked about starting a band called “The Don Herbert Trio”.
Perhaps something to do if I ever get some
motivation