| A Little Halloween Tale |
[Oct. 30th, 2009|09:37 am] |
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I walked to a nearby ice cream place yesterday afternoon. On one corner along the way was a Pumpkin Patch with men and women buying Halloween pumpkins while their kids climbed and slid and jumped on inflatable play structures.
As I was rounding the corner a woman pointed in the general direction of the gate (which is on the side street) and asked if that was the way in.
"No, it isn't."
"So where is the way in?"
"There is no way in."
"But [pointing to the people inside] what about those people?"
"They don't need a way in. They're already in."
"But they must originally have gotten in somehow. And what about when they want to leave? Where is the way out?"
"There is no way out. They're ghosts. Once Halloween is past they'll just sort of fade away with the rest of the Pumpkin Patch until next year."
"But ... but ..."
"They were all victims of a drug-crazed homicidal maniac fifty or sixty years ago, all murdered on their way to Halloween parties. The authorities hushed it up at the time because it was the height of the Cold War and they thought the killer might have been a Communist and they didn't want to cause public panic."
"Fifty or sixty years ago? They don't look like people used to look back then. They look like normal people you see today."
"That's because they were killed on their way to Halloween parties where the costume theme was The Future. So they were all wearing the kinds of clothes and makeup and hair styles that people will be wearing in the early 21st Century. And since this is the 21st Century, they look normal to us now."
"So does this mean I should go buy my Halloween pumpkins somewhere else?"
"Probably." |
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| Silicon Soapware #182 |
[Oct. 22nd, 2009|05:53 pm] |
Silicon Soapware #182 is out. Look in
<http://www.well.com/~bubbles/ss0182.txt>
or check out my main page at
<http://www.well.com/~bubbles/> |
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| Analemma Display |
[Aug. 8th, 2009|03:01 am] |
As you may know, the Analemma is that figure-eight thing that's sometimes printed on globes to show where the Sun is in the sky at different times of year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analemma
I have a Web page that displays the current position of the Sun on its yearly journey.
http://www.plergb.com/Analemma/Analemma.shtml
I also have an interactive version (a Java applet) that lets you change the effective date approximately six months either way from the current date to see its position then.
http://www.plergb.com/Analemma/Interactive/
I've just done some cosmetic cleanup on the latter, so you might want to take a look. It does require Java (not the same thing as Javascript). |
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| Silicon Soapware #176 |
[May. 1st, 2009|02:58 am] |
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Silicon Soapware #176 is out. Look in
<http://www.well.com/~bubbles/ss0176.txt>
or check out my main page at
<http://www.well.com/~bubbles/> |
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| 4/04 Not Found Day |
[Apr. 4th, 2009|08:19 am] |
Today the fourth day of April, is Not Found Day (from the 404 error code for "Page Not Found" on the Web).
Anybody have any thoughts on how to celebrate it?
I'm reminded of this haiku:
Clock glows 4:04
As I wake in the darkness
Thinking "Dream Not Found" |
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| Tooth Fairy Announces New Procedures |
[Apr. 1st, 2009|08:38 am] |
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I just got a postcard from my dentist with an announcement.
The Dental Association has made a deal with the Tooth Fairy.
Henceforth dentists will keep any extracted or otherwise lost teeth and ship them directly to the Fairy on a monthly basis. The money the Fairy would have put under people's pillows will go into dentists' bank accounts by direct deposit, and will show up in patients' billing statements as a discount off the normal bill.
With the resultant savings in Fairy labor and flight time it will be eventually possible to increase the amount paid per tooth.
Since human teeth can carry germs, this will also reduce the chances of any diseases being spread by contaminated bed linens.
Check the news media or your dentist's Web site for further details as they become available. |
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| Love Languages |
[Dec. 25th, 2008|03:29 pm] |
Here's a little quiz some of my friends have been pushing:
From
http://edified.org/myspace/lovelanguage
The Five Love Languages
According to Dr. Gary Chapman unhappiness in relationships is often due to the fact that we speak different love languages. Sometimes we don't understand our partner's requirements, or even our own. We all have a "love tank" that needs to be filled in order for us to express love to others, but there are different means by which our tank can be filled, and there are different ways that we can express love to others. Dr. Chapman's divides love languages into five categories: Words of Affirmation, Quality Time, Receiving Gifts, Acts of Service, and Physical Touch.
The quiz is at the Web site.
( My Results ... ) |
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| Rounding the Turn |
[Dec. 21st, 2008|08:37 am] |
The sun is rounding the turn on the Analemma in
http://www.plergb.com/Analemma/Analemma.shtml
In other words, we have Solstice.
The "Sun's Longitude" figure now is just past the 270-degree mark, the threshold of Capricorn. It moves about one degree per day.
It will reach 360 degrees and restart its journey from zero three months from now, at the March Equinox. |
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