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Thursday, September 23, 2004
http://www.kleinbottle.com/
A bottle with no inside and no outside?it's a mobius strip that can hold water!
This site is very,very funny.But their is SO much text to read,you can visit again and again.it reminds me of and old mad magazine "guide to...." only their is an endless supply of funny text.check out the klein bottle wool cap...
Here is a some text from the site to whet your appetite.The text on this site makes me laugh to tears...
"The genus number of an object is the number of holes (well, it's more subtle than that, but I'm not allowed to tell you why). Other genus-1 objects include innertubes, bagels, wedding rings, and teacups. A wine bottle has no holes and so is genus 0. (The genus of a human being is difficult to define because it depends on what you consider a hole -- I'd estimate most people have a genus of 0 to 4, slightly higher when yawning. Pierce your ear and you'll increase your genus by one.)
As an alternative to buying an Acme Klein Bottle, you can save money by just memorizing this set of parametric equations, since it defines the surface of every Klein Bottle.:
x = cos(u)*(cos(u/2)*(sqrt_2+cos(v))+(sin(u/2)*sin(v)*cos(v)))
y = sin(u)*(cos(u/2)*(sqrt_2+cos(v))+(sin(u/2)*sin(v)*cos(v)))
z = -1*sin(u/2)*(sqrt_2+cos(v))+cos(u/2)*sin(v)*cos(v)
or in polynomial form:
Yep, no doubt about it: Your Acme's Klein Bottle is a real Riemannian manifold, just waiting for you to define a Euclidean metric at every point. "
"CAUTION! Acme Klein Bottles are crafted from glass, an inorganic solid in an amorphous non-crystalline state. Indeed, some consider this material to be a supercooled liquid. If dropped, an Acme Klein Bottle may shatter, possibly into paired single-sided Möbius loops. But then again, it may not. Other shocks -- including fast decelerations and Republican landslides -- may lead to similar fragmentation. Hand wash only, do not tumble dry."
"Acme engineers use our familiar 3-dimensions. Result? You can actually hold an Acme Klein Bottle in your hand. Those highfalutin' 4-dimensional ones can only be held in your mind. "
Caleb 4:44 PM
Sunday, September 19, 2004
I glanced at one of my Depeche Mode cds,"Music for the Masses" and only read "Music for them" I had read the "M" from "Masses" as if it belonged at the end of "the". Then when I realised I had read that I looked to see what the rest would spell out if you DID read it that way,and you get "Music for them Asses".I thought it was kind of funny,Depeche mode wouldn't do something like that on purpose, though,that's more of a "Boards of Canada" thing to do.BoC have a song where you can here voices saying "we love you all,we love you all,we love you all" and when you reverse it it sounds like " all, we love you all,we love you all,we love you" which is a pretty cool feat because it's the same words just on different notes.I don't know how they made it work... anyways they have another song about 2 minutes long that apperently if you speed it up quite a bit the droning bass line turns into "we hate you all"I have yet to hear this,but it wouldn't surprise me at all,BoC can be extremly creepy when you try to decipher their music and lyrics,you can discover all sorts of dark secrets to the most innocent sounding songs.i.e. "1969",a song I used to think was quite beautiful escpescially when the ending comes close and you here the line "1969 in the sunshine" it wasn't until I found out one of the morphed lines is saying "although not a follower of David Koresh,she's a devoted Branch Davidian" and read about the the massacre in Waco texas of the Branch Davidians that I couldn't listen to the once cheery (kind of,with an underlying uneasiness) song at nighttime without creeping out.
Then I bought "in a beautiful place out in the country" which has multiple tie-ins with the branch davidian thing,including a picture of and song named after "Amo Bishop Roden" and the title track has the line "come out and live in a religious commuinty in a beautiful place out in the country" which is from a campaign released by the branch davidians.anyways,I've probably said all this before...what a stupid blog this is..............................
Caleb 7:13 PM
Wednesday, September 15, 2004
An exapmle of my crying at things I don't even like.
Josh Groban,is an artist I'm not particularly fond of,he's cheesy and loud,it's the clay aiken syndrom.But I cry when he sings "you raise me up" I really don't like him but there are tears in my eyes anyways.....
like, what's the deal?..........
Caleb 9:25 PM
Sunday, September 12, 2004
Solaris -1
Human Beings -0
I love the "Solaris" films (Tarkovskys 70's version and the '02 James Cameron version ar eboth very beautiful).I saw the original "Solaris" about a year ago and have thought about it from time to time, since then.
Today I rented and watched the one with George Clooney and, of course wasn't excpecting much besides a "hollywood-ized", and "let's explain everything to the stupid audience" version of a classic.I was pleasantly surprised,when watching I realised how much easier it is to sit through this version than the interminably long, Russian version.The fact that it's 66 minutes shorter is both good,and bad.Everything that happens in the 165 minute epic movie,also happens in the watered-down 99 minute one,With the exception of one very long car-ride (what kind of american audience can sit through a 5 minute view through the windshield of a car of the future?) seems this scene may have been replaced by scenes of George Clooneys backside.
The purpose of Solaris,the planet,is largely unknown.And by the end you still don't know what the planet is thinking and why it does what it does.It communicates with the humans aboard the hovering space station through their own memories and consciences creating a "visitor" for each person on the space station.These "visitors" are very reminscent of "Rachael" from "bladerunner" they seems to have emotions and memories but none are their own,they feed off of the memories of their human counterpart....
There is so much to think about after viewing "Solaris" it can make your head hurt,it feels as though there is an explanation just out of reach.I'd reccomend this film to anybody who likes to contemplate what they watch,it seems as though different people could take from it,different ideas,much like a rorschach test.I actually have a hard time reccomending a particular version,if "2001: a space oddesey" seemed like a piece of cake to sit through,then I would ask you to try the russian version,but for the general public (which I am not,seeing as how I've seen the russian version twice! mwah!) I'd say go with the 99 minute version.But, remember, you may want your little children (assuming you have some) to fall asleep to the version that doesn't feature George Clooneys rear-end.
Caleb 8:17 PM
Wednesday, September 08, 2004
http://www.n3xt.com/
2001 ---> #12
another instance in the "I would've made that if i'd thought of it" department...the whole n3xt site is like that for me,just beautiful stuff.............................
Caleb 5:02 PM
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