Let's start off this one with a surreal book report.

The above link is on "HOWTO : Kill a Mockingbird", a book report with flaming ninjas, shooting bears, and a plot to move to moon.  Strange stuff, but it really gets at why Harper Lee won a Pulitzer for the effort.

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Next we get to the Funky Fresh Furries [*], who are known to have said:

We know something you don't know.
 And if we don't share then we don't grow
 Unabomb will set the whole world on fire!

[a koan of action]

Normallly one would think of the size of a piece of paper in flat, two-dimensional space.

It is [X] long and it is [Y] wide.

The way I am trying to get you to think, quite literally, is instead to think of it like this....

Suppose I ask you to fold a piece of paper in half by 8 times.

So I just got back from a nice little walk about Manhattan.  I started on 157th and Broadway, headed down to get a picture of the Statue of Liberty at Sunset, then over and then back up.  The east side.

Then I walked back across some large bridge near the stadium where the Yankees play, and finally made it back home.  I'm not sure how long the walk was, but it was a full 8-hour kinda workday, let me tell ya.

And I will...and I'll show you.  And you should listen. 

This is a partial outline of a book I have been writing.

Please enjoy it.  If you enjoy it, please share it.

Where does stuff that is voted down go?

Does it not go to 'the hole'?

Where is the most persistent way to share with y'all around here?

(cue rmg spitting at me).

Read more for my contibution to Sorry Everybody, the world's greatest apology website.

Is it too suble, or should I be more overt in my call to organize a flash mob to March on W?

At least 33 people have been killed in car bombs and other attacks in Samarra, north of Baghdad, police say.

Two blasts went off outside the mayor's office. A US convoy thought to be trying to reach the scene was also hit.

US and Iraqi forces seized control of the Sunni Muslim city in early October.

The BBC's Claire Marshall in Baghdad says that on the eve of an attack on Falluja, events in Samarra seem to demonstrate that it takes more than a large scale military assault to bring a town fully under control.

[Saturday, 6 November, 2004, 10:54 GMT]

[first in a series]

The purpose of this work is an attempt to defend my attempt to 'graph an axiom'.  The purpose of that defense is that I am going to try and answer an impossible question. The purpose of doing so is to try and help you understand a number of concepts.  The two we are going to start with are known as 'infinity' and 'zero' (∞ & 0).

The act of 'graphing an axiom' is particularly useful in this context because this work is an attempt to redefine the concept of 'numbers' themselves, and doing such requires using additional logic from an external system.  The external system (relative to numbers) we will be using is called 'reality'.  This is, IMHO, an improvement on the old external system used to define numbers, that we call 'fingers and toes'.

What if you started, before you counted your fingers and toes, with the knowledge that Einstein's "spacetime" was an accepted description of reality?  What kind of number system would you want to use to help explain it?

Essentially the point of attempting to do so is that, IMHO, the world is in need of a new number system.  Our old one is lacking, and the even older one is lacking even more.

...there I was, trying to change the world.

So I talk a bit of smack to a few geeks and all of a sudden I'm the bad guy.

No, that's simply not possible.  I'm the good guy.

Aren't I?

Posted this on my site the other day.  Enjoy.

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In case you haven't heard, Dr. Howard Dean got the endorsement this morning from the top vote getter in the 2000 Presidential election, Albert Gore in my home neighborhood.

``I am very proud and honored to endorse Howard Dean to be the next president of the United States,'' Gore said during an appearance with Dean in Harlem.

[source] That first link has additional general political analysis that I agree with.  If Clark can suck it up, and he should (he's a soldier), and take a VP nod, the whole election is over barring a nuclear attack.  Dean as an 'eh, gun control?' Democrat and Clark (defense street cred) would seal up the 'NASCAR Dads' if they are convinced that they can keep taking their guns to the track through 2008.

The 'South Park Republicans' won't have too much of a problem with Dean (even less with Dean-Clark), and they certainly seem to have one with Bush (if Southpark itself is any indicator).

The Nutcase Republicans are beyond redemption, as they are no doubt fond of saying.