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Subject: Happy Square Day!
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:24:39 -0600
From: Roger Hill
Reply-To: Handheld Computing Conference discussion list
Organization: Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
To: hhc@lists.brouhaha.com, ****@deepthought.com
Hi all,
Recently there was something in the news about “Square Root Day”,
03/03/09, and Richard Nelson circulated an E-mail about it. I was
corresponding with a friend about this, and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘randomness’
Today is really Square Day!
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Tonight, a friend asked me, “What pervades everything?” I thought about it, and I don’t know. In the past, I have thought about what goes through everything. I gave that earlier question the answer “information”. Although one can say it isn’t information, because information is not necessarily all pervasive — but then maybe it is. [...]
A Saturday’s Adventure
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged adventure, randomness on March 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I had a fun excursion today and here are some pictures and a map to go with it. First I’ll tell you why I wanted to do this. As you might know, I used to drive a taxi (I think I still need to update that on the about me page). There was a faire [...]
My Now Rinky-Dink Laptop
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged complex adaptive system, randomness, technology on March 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Every now and then something happens to a device that you have and it stops working like it originally did. There are two options: buy a new device, or adapt to the new functionality of your present device. Being a complex adaptive system with meager funds, I naturally choose to adapt. This means that, presently, [...]
Happy 3.14159265358979323846… Day!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Geek, mathematics, PI, randomness on March 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today is PI Day, the unofficial holiday of geeks all around.
Here is an interesting Wikipedia page on PI.
Have a good (PI) day.
If you missed it — it’ll happen again next year.
I got a new job!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged employment, randomness on March 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am very happy today. I had an interview at 10:00am. I found out that I got the job at 3:22pm. I will be working at a place called Community Services Consortium. I will still be working as a taxi driver for two more weeks, but I start working at CSC tomorrow at 8:00am. I [...]
Out of Chaos: Order
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged complex adaptive system, elohim, emergence, information, physics, randomness on February 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Many creation myths contain an element that chaos reigned before order emerged. There’s the Enuma Elish, Genesis, and Ovid’s Metamorphosis. They all imply that there was some sort of chaos until a god (ruler) commands or acts to create order by establishing laws. In Genesis the words used are tohu (toe-who) and bohu (bough-who), [...]
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