Sleeping Outside the Box

Andru Edwards talks about George Budabin.

I just remembered about Kiva. Check it out. Definitely makes a good holiday gift:

Yesterday, I took Lena to Banya 5, a Russian style bath house/day spa. It was amazing. They have 5 areas in the downstairs pools to circulate. First, the hot pool, then the Turkish steam room (very steamy), next a Parilka (dry sauna), a cold plunge, and lastly a warm salt water pool. You make that circuit a few times and by the end (as long as you drank a lot of water  in between), you feel like you were just born–without the crying and shock of a new world order.

After spending most of the day at Banya 5, we cooked dinner and watched Munich, a fascinating film that was sort of the opposite of Banya 5. It brought back the realization of what kind of world we live in. But I couldn’t help thinking how the world would be different if everyone spent a couple days a week soaking in a banya.

It’s almost 4am and I may be totally out of my mind–but this popped into my head about an hour ago.

let } define the output or the “yield” of a mathematical operation.
Here are the two points I am going to make:

1) x divided by zero yields zero: x/0 } 0

2) x divided by zero equals x: x/0=x (with = defined as the balance point)
Imagine you have a cake cut into 6 slices.

If I divide your cake by 2, taking 3 of those 6 pieces, you keep the other 3. When I divide your cake’s 6 pieces by 2, 3 pieces don’t magically disappear from the universe. Therefore:
6/2 != 3; (that is 6/2 does not equal 3)

6/2 = 3+3;
6/2 } 3; // (6/2 yields 3)

I divide your 6 parts by 6, taking 1 part of 6 (1/6), 5 other people each take 1 piece or 1/6.
I divide your 6 parts by 3, taking 2 parts of 6 (2/6), 3 other people each take 2 pieces or 2/6.
I divide your 6 parts by 2, taking 3 parts of 6 (3/6), 2 other people each take 3 pieces or 3/6.
I divide your 6 parts by 1 (all for myself), taking 6 parts of 6 (6/6 or 100%). You keep 0/6.
I divide your 6 parts by 0 (nobody wants any), taking 0 parts of 6 from your cake (0/6 or 0%), you keep 6/6.

Therefore:

6/0 = 6;

6/0 } 0;
I won’t be hurt if you find a good argument for why this is totally absurd. I’m heading back to bed. Hopefully writing it down will be enough to let me sleep.

OK, I just signed up for Second Life and It’s pretty cool:

I was hesitant at first because it’s just another MMORPG. But it’s not. What makes it different (besides it’s real world economy and complete customization)?

Well, for starters, there’s the LSL (Linden Scripting Language). You can create objects in world and then write scripts to make them do things. You can make anything–then you can sell it.

Crazy? Yes. Profitable? If you code or design. I’m in. I’m hooked. Damn… check it out. Look me up:

My second life identity: Atom Ewry

I’ve been oversleeping lately anyway ;)