I missed posting anything yesterday, but after a post a day for five days I feel as if I should put something here? I don't want to get into the habit of meaningless posts so I'm going to do my best to give this some meaning.
I've viewed most of the xkcd comics through the random button but I still run into comics I haven't seen before if I press it a few times. Sometimes many times. JapaneseStudentLife suggests I take a look at the webcomic Antics and has also given me the idea to put links on words that I think could use some links so I'm going to try this for a few posts and see how I like it. So far I haven't enjoyed Antics as much as I have xkcd, but I suppose if I keep pressing the previous button I may get into it a bit.
I enjoy dubstep, and far too many people don't know what it is. Dubstep is a musical genre with influence from Grime, Garage, Drums and Base, and a couple other genres (I would like to try to do my best at reviewing what dubstep is without searching, so be sure to do some of your own research later; and if you happen to fall in love with the great base lines, I would like to congratulate myself). If there are lyrics in the song it often resembles rap type lyrics but doesn't have to. The only time I enjoy rap fully is with a dubstep instrumental, I just don't like the simple beats of a normal rap. Dubstep is typical at a 140bpm tempo featuring a fairly simple kick and snare pattern. A key feature to dubstep is the 'drop.' The best way I can think of describing it is as an ossolating base. Using Fruity Loops Studio 8 (a music making program, you can download a demo for it for free and it works great once you know what you're doing with it. You can get newer versions but FL8 is my favorite) I would create a drop through using a low note stylus type interment. Then put a limiter on it (something that will cut out some frequencies) and set it to follow a sine-pattern (a simple wave that goes up and down, what you get if you graph a sine-function I think) type wave at a fairly high Hz (Hertz, how many waves per second I beleive). This creates a wobbling base effect. It's hard to describe; go and listen for yourself.
UKFdubstep on Youtube has a couple hundred dubstep songs uploaded. Many of them available at HD.
One of my favorite artists, who can also be found on youtube, is Kyphera. Much of his music can be downloaded for free and he is a very diverse artist. He has a couple dubstep mixes, megamixes actually. Take a bunch of songs, a large bunch of songs, and put them all together so they flow nicely. Before you know it I have 80 minutes of great quality sound and great quality music downloaded off the links provided on his videos and enough base to get me through class without saying a word to anyone if I want. Kyphera's dubstep mixes aren't as heavy as most dubstep, but I enjoy them still. I do enjoy a heavy base line often but it sounds amazing none the less.
Through typing this I have checked back and pressed the previous button on Antics many times. I think I might just continue reading this instead of playing my favorite first person shooter today. I have three hours until I'm going to a friends party, and I still need to have a shower. Some sleep would be nice.. Hmm.. maybe I can combine two of these three? These comics are getting to me already, I'm trying to put my thoughts into witty three pane series.
Spell checking this was stressfull. My computer doesn't recognize xkcd, dubstep, or Youtube. I also think I failed at making this not usefull, but by the time you get to this part and relize that also it will be too late. Enjoy your reading; it's good for your mind even if it isn't a good read I beleive.
- Bugworlds
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Zomg So Cute
I'm probably going to look back at the title of this and think to myself, "What was I thinking?" but until then I will enjoy it.
It happened again. That cute cat I mentioned yesterday, I met it again.
As I was about to leave to go home I noticed a squeaking at the window and quickly thought it may of been the cat that lingers in that area. I was right, it was rubbing the padding of it's front feet against the window beside the door.
Getting out was tricky, for this cat wanted to come inside. Once I was out I pet it a bit, then was off to go home. The cat, as I thought it might, followed me for a bit. The road I took was more lit this time, so I could see it a bit better. Despite my attempted escape by running the cat was persistent and quick to my heals. I decided not to run incase it continued to run and I stepped on it. It didn't take long for this creature to decide to turn around this time; though the thought of, "I really hope it doesn't follow me too far so I must bring it back," occurred to me again.
I also decided petting it was probably not the greatest idea, along with taking any roads that will have traffic because I would hate for it to turn around to go back home and to be hit by a car. Even if it wasn't my fault, I would be involved and I would hate for that to happen even if I wasn't involved.
About two blocks away I turned around, as I did many times to ensure I wasn't being followed by an extra stealthy feline, and saw a cat on the sidewalk about half a block away. I continued to walk slowly, I couldn't tell what way it was traveling. After a moment or two I decide it was a different cat. This one was larger, not by a large among but definitely larger. It also appeared to be orange but I wouldn't be able to tell in such lighting and distance.
I'm glad it was not the first cat I encountered, but the more I think about it the more I wish to give this cat a name. I wouldn't be surprised if I mention it many more times, and it needs a better name than Fuzzy-Grey-Young-Outdoor-Cat whom belongs to neighbors of my girlfriend.
I feel as if I should put something intellectual in here but nothing is metaphorically pressing on the inside of my skull wishing to be released. I've heard many times that listening to classical music is good for your brain, I am planning on getting some classical music and putting it on my Mp3 player and only listen to that. I will clear out all the music that is on it first though, so I am not tempted to go back to my favorite dubstep megamix. I will most likely do this once I clean the head phone jack that I think is dirty, but I could be wrong and the device itself may be the problem. I know it's not the headphones though. If it was I have a no questions asked warranty on them.
-Bugworlds
It happened again. That cute cat I mentioned yesterday, I met it again.
As I was about to leave to go home I noticed a squeaking at the window and quickly thought it may of been the cat that lingers in that area. I was right, it was rubbing the padding of it's front feet against the window beside the door.
Getting out was tricky, for this cat wanted to come inside. Once I was out I pet it a bit, then was off to go home. The cat, as I thought it might, followed me for a bit. The road I took was more lit this time, so I could see it a bit better. Despite my attempted escape by running the cat was persistent and quick to my heals. I decided not to run incase it continued to run and I stepped on it. It didn't take long for this creature to decide to turn around this time; though the thought of, "I really hope it doesn't follow me too far so I must bring it back," occurred to me again.
I also decided petting it was probably not the greatest idea, along with taking any roads that will have traffic because I would hate for it to turn around to go back home and to be hit by a car. Even if it wasn't my fault, I would be involved and I would hate for that to happen even if I wasn't involved.
About two blocks away I turned around, as I did many times to ensure I wasn't being followed by an extra stealthy feline, and saw a cat on the sidewalk about half a block away. I continued to walk slowly, I couldn't tell what way it was traveling. After a moment or two I decide it was a different cat. This one was larger, not by a large among but definitely larger. It also appeared to be orange but I wouldn't be able to tell in such lighting and distance.
I'm glad it was not the first cat I encountered, but the more I think about it the more I wish to give this cat a name. I wouldn't be surprised if I mention it many more times, and it needs a better name than Fuzzy-Grey-Young-Outdoor-Cat whom belongs to neighbors of my girlfriend.
I feel as if I should put something intellectual in here but nothing is metaphorically pressing on the inside of my skull wishing to be released. I've heard many times that listening to classical music is good for your brain, I am planning on getting some classical music and putting it on my Mp3 player and only listen to that. I will clear out all the music that is on it first though, so I am not tempted to go back to my favorite dubstep megamix. I will most likely do this once I clean the head phone jack that I think is dirty, but I could be wrong and the device itself may be the problem. I know it's not the headphones though. If it was I have a no questions asked warranty on them.
-Bugworlds
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
More About Time ;; More About How I Don't Have It
Time, it is just an abstract concept that is human invented. It can be manipulated, not consciously, but through the way we perceive it.
Note; this is all theoretical, proposed by the book I have now finished reading 'Is There Life After Death' by Anthony Peake (http://www.anthonypeake.com).
Think of a time you have been scared, not to the extreme of the most fright possible (I don't think many people achieve this though. I will address why below), but enough. Did you notice it appeared time slowed down for a moment? Now that you think back on it, did you think many thoughts despite the lack of time to process it all? For that split second when you were in the air did you think, "Oh, how should I land?" "That's concrete coming towards my face," "Oh, my bike is in the air above me." "The ground is closer now.. I'm going to hit it now." Maybe I'm special in this matter but this has happened to me several times.
This is because of a flood of chemicals your brain may release. They change the way you perceive time. Time is all subjective. For more on this, you may want to read my previous post about my perception of time. I may that be the title of it actually. With these chemicals you now observe time at, lets just say, half speed. For every one second that goes by for someone watching, you have two seconds to think.
When you enter a state of expected death, or what will soon be death, your brain releases more chemicals, many more chemicals (actually I'm not sure on this. It could be many more, it could just be different chemicals). These are very similar to chemicals released due to Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (TLE) seizures, but I won't get into that. You'll have to read this book I've mentioned a few times to find out more about that. It's amazingly interesting, it almost made me wish I had TLE; but you won't be able to understand that unless you have knowledge of the topic or have read this book.
I'm off topic. These chemicals change the way you observe time exponentially, or something like that. No matter how it is looked at, in the end time is going by very quickly. Lets say it is exponentially. After one second you are perceiving time at one half the speed of a third person observing you. After two you are processing the world at four times the normal rate. At three time is down to one eighth of a second. At four, a sixteenth; at five a amazing thirty-second of normal pace. That means for every one second that passes for an observer, you have what you view to be thirty two seconds.
To crunch the numbers more just look at 2^x; x being how many seconds have gone by. At 2^10 time is sluggishly sliding by at 1/1024 the normal rate (This is a number I must need to know for my Math 12 class). In one second of a third person observing you, you have had over 1000 seconds to think, that's getting close to sixteen minutes.
The only flaw I see within this idea is a near death experience may not last ten seconds; but the time interval of 'x' in the previous chunk of text may not be seconds. It may be a much smaller denomination of time. I don't want to get into this really, but I will add it to my list of ideas that always builds up in the back of my mind until some are lost and a bunch of them are spewed through my fingers onto the Internet.
However, I said I would go into the concept of the maximum you can be frightened. At the point of being as frightened as possible I think you would enter a state of calm. This was addressed in the book, it was about people who rock climb and have fallen large heights. They were at peace with the fact they were falling to what they thought to be their doom. Even if this is just a short two second drop, to them it felt like much longer, and through this time they had to think about what was happening far as I know the individuals mentioned didn't mind the fact they were falling. They didn't mind the fact they were going to die, they were calm. Maybe so scared they were calm? Just a thought.
Next topic; Time. How I don't have enough of it.
I've found I'm giving myself too much to do on top of what I already need to do. Eat, sleep, bathe. To crunch the amount of time I have to do all that I have homework. To chip away at that time even more I have ambition. I want to work in Photoshop for hours a day, I want to be social, I want to write, I want to read, I want to use the Internet as it should be (this will be another idea to be added to my list of ideas, however it was already there slightly), (I want to be able to put things in a better order than just what comes to mind but I don't want to put the effort into doing so at the moment), I want there to be more time in a day.
The day is broken up into twenty-four hours, this is due to the earth rotating around its axis takes this long. The amount of sunlight there is in a day varies according to the time of the year. The sun being up or down doesn't stop me from much, other than social activity is less likely to happen if the sun is down at times. During the Summer I would rather go out when it is dark. During the Winter I enjoy the sun's warmth. Our days are based around a twenty-four hour schedule.
What if there was more than twenty-four hours though? I would like to propose a thirty hour day. It's an easy number to work with, and in addition to that is convenient number in relation to twenty-four hours due to it being six hours extra. Six hours is one fourth of twenty-four hours, so thirty hours is five fourths of a normal day; just in case that helps the few readers of mine to understand this but I'm sure they will in the first place.
I think this would be great, if it happened over night it would be hard to get use to but still great. If it changed gradually, we would change gradually. If it was like this all along our days would still be stuffed to the brim I think. I would like to look at the over night change.
I have my daily routine set in place a little bit. It is far from a set in stone set of activities to work through in order to finish the day, but it is there a bit. More than a ball pit, less than soft sand (a heavy ball pit that is). If I suddenly had six hours extra what would I do? I think at first I wouldn't like it unless I had something to do. Who am I kidding? I always have too much to do. Filling this time would be easy.
That ball pit and sand idea is confusing to me, even as I read this over. It is how set my daily activities are.
Would I enjoy filling this time though? That's harder to say. I know I love my Digital Media class, and my classes are eighty minutes long. I've had a couple double classes, where I've spent the class before or after in the Digital Media room. This turns into a two hour forty minute work period and it's great as long as I enjoy what I'm doing. I've found I'm not enjoying my time in that class if I don't have anything to work on and not enough time to start a new project. The tutorials I'm working with take one to two hours often. I tend to finish them in forty to fifty minutes despite what I'm told as for time that will be consumed. If I have more time than I need I will finish my current project, fiddle with a couple ideas that I throw together just to see how they turn out, and then stumble or socialize. I don't like stumbling in class even though the teacher encourages it a bit, I just would rather get work done.
At times I find this extra time just is too much. My attention gets pulled off in another direction, for my attention span is fairly lengthy I beleive but sometimes I choose to pull it back. It isn't a conscious choice but I know it is a choice because I know if I have to continue concentrating I will.
So as long as I'm busy and enjoying what I'm dong, or atleast paying attention to it deeply, time goes by at a good rate and the extra time is used very well.
All this talk of extra time reminds me of polyphasic sleeping. It's a great thing. Google it, but it is also going onto the list of ideas. I really should write more of these down instead of trying to remember them all. These unplanned posts seem to spawn more and more ideas as I continue.
What would you do with six hours extra in a day? Polyphasic sleeping is a sleeping pattern that involves naps ever four hours, the time of the nap is often fifteen to twenty minutes. Your body trains itself to go into REM sleep quickly (ooh, sleeping. I know a lot about sleeping.. maybe I should add that to my list too.. ) so you don't need as much sleep. You get (I think) four hours extra to your day. It might be six. I'll figure it out later. Imagine polyphasic sleeping with six hours extra to the day already. That would be a lot of productivity. I must note though, with polyphasic sleeping the concept of days becomes a bit more abstract and harder to grasp because each day flows into the next very... fluidly.
I"m using a lot of ellipses. It's time to spell check and sleep in my, pfft, monochromatic sleeping pattern or what ever it's called. My sleeping pattern that is limited by ambition, and by things like this.
Kind of reminds me of "this is brought you to by" adds at the beginning or end of a show segment.
"This Entertaining Blog Entry Has Been Brought To You By: A Lack Of Sleep! And Also By: Oh No, I just Relized I Still Need To Have A Shower!"
Note; this is all theoretical, proposed by the book I have now finished reading 'Is There Life After Death' by Anthony Peake (http://www.anthonypeake.com).
Think of a time you have been scared, not to the extreme of the most fright possible (I don't think many people achieve this though. I will address why below), but enough. Did you notice it appeared time slowed down for a moment? Now that you think back on it, did you think many thoughts despite the lack of time to process it all? For that split second when you were in the air did you think, "Oh, how should I land?" "That's concrete coming towards my face," "Oh, my bike is in the air above me." "The ground is closer now.. I'm going to hit it now." Maybe I'm special in this matter but this has happened to me several times.
This is because of a flood of chemicals your brain may release. They change the way you perceive time. Time is all subjective. For more on this, you may want to read my previous post about my perception of time. I may that be the title of it actually. With these chemicals you now observe time at, lets just say, half speed. For every one second that goes by for someone watching, you have two seconds to think.
When you enter a state of expected death, or what will soon be death, your brain releases more chemicals, many more chemicals (actually I'm not sure on this. It could be many more, it could just be different chemicals). These are very similar to chemicals released due to Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (TLE) seizures, but I won't get into that. You'll have to read this book I've mentioned a few times to find out more about that. It's amazingly interesting, it almost made me wish I had TLE; but you won't be able to understand that unless you have knowledge of the topic or have read this book.
I'm off topic. These chemicals change the way you observe time exponentially, or something like that. No matter how it is looked at, in the end time is going by very quickly. Lets say it is exponentially. After one second you are perceiving time at one half the speed of a third person observing you. After two you are processing the world at four times the normal rate. At three time is down to one eighth of a second. At four, a sixteenth; at five a amazing thirty-second of normal pace. That means for every one second that passes for an observer, you have what you view to be thirty two seconds.
To crunch the numbers more just look at 2^x; x being how many seconds have gone by. At 2^10 time is sluggishly sliding by at 1/1024 the normal rate (This is a number I must need to know for my Math 12 class). In one second of a third person observing you, you have had over 1000 seconds to think, that's getting close to sixteen minutes.
The only flaw I see within this idea is a near death experience may not last ten seconds; but the time interval of 'x' in the previous chunk of text may not be seconds. It may be a much smaller denomination of time. I don't want to get into this really, but I will add it to my list of ideas that always builds up in the back of my mind until some are lost and a bunch of them are spewed through my fingers onto the Internet.
However, I said I would go into the concept of the maximum you can be frightened. At the point of being as frightened as possible I think you would enter a state of calm. This was addressed in the book, it was about people who rock climb and have fallen large heights. They were at peace with the fact they were falling to what they thought to be their doom. Even if this is just a short two second drop, to them it felt like much longer, and through this time they had to think about what was happening far as I know the individuals mentioned didn't mind the fact they were falling. They didn't mind the fact they were going to die, they were calm. Maybe so scared they were calm? Just a thought.
Next topic; Time. How I don't have enough of it.
I've found I'm giving myself too much to do on top of what I already need to do. Eat, sleep, bathe. To crunch the amount of time I have to do all that I have homework. To chip away at that time even more I have ambition. I want to work in Photoshop for hours a day, I want to be social, I want to write, I want to read, I want to use the Internet as it should be (this will be another idea to be added to my list of ideas, however it was already there slightly), (I want to be able to put things in a better order than just what comes to mind but I don't want to put the effort into doing so at the moment), I want there to be more time in a day.
The day is broken up into twenty-four hours, this is due to the earth rotating around its axis takes this long. The amount of sunlight there is in a day varies according to the time of the year. The sun being up or down doesn't stop me from much, other than social activity is less likely to happen if the sun is down at times. During the Summer I would rather go out when it is dark. During the Winter I enjoy the sun's warmth. Our days are based around a twenty-four hour schedule.
What if there was more than twenty-four hours though? I would like to propose a thirty hour day. It's an easy number to work with, and in addition to that is convenient number in relation to twenty-four hours due to it being six hours extra. Six hours is one fourth of twenty-four hours, so thirty hours is five fourths of a normal day; just in case that helps the few readers of mine to understand this but I'm sure they will in the first place.
I think this would be great, if it happened over night it would be hard to get use to but still great. If it changed gradually, we would change gradually. If it was like this all along our days would still be stuffed to the brim I think. I would like to look at the over night change.
I have my daily routine set in place a little bit. It is far from a set in stone set of activities to work through in order to finish the day, but it is there a bit. More than a ball pit, less than soft sand (a heavy ball pit that is). If I suddenly had six hours extra what would I do? I think at first I wouldn't like it unless I had something to do. Who am I kidding? I always have too much to do. Filling this time would be easy.
That ball pit and sand idea is confusing to me, even as I read this over. It is how set my daily activities are.
Would I enjoy filling this time though? That's harder to say. I know I love my Digital Media class, and my classes are eighty minutes long. I've had a couple double classes, where I've spent the class before or after in the Digital Media room. This turns into a two hour forty minute work period and it's great as long as I enjoy what I'm doing. I've found I'm not enjoying my time in that class if I don't have anything to work on and not enough time to start a new project. The tutorials I'm working with take one to two hours often. I tend to finish them in forty to fifty minutes despite what I'm told as for time that will be consumed. If I have more time than I need I will finish my current project, fiddle with a couple ideas that I throw together just to see how they turn out, and then stumble or socialize. I don't like stumbling in class even though the teacher encourages it a bit, I just would rather get work done.
At times I find this extra time just is too much. My attention gets pulled off in another direction, for my attention span is fairly lengthy I beleive but sometimes I choose to pull it back. It isn't a conscious choice but I know it is a choice because I know if I have to continue concentrating I will.
So as long as I'm busy and enjoying what I'm dong, or atleast paying attention to it deeply, time goes by at a good rate and the extra time is used very well.
All this talk of extra time reminds me of polyphasic sleeping. It's a great thing. Google it, but it is also going onto the list of ideas. I really should write more of these down instead of trying to remember them all. These unplanned posts seem to spawn more and more ideas as I continue.
What would you do with six hours extra in a day? Polyphasic sleeping is a sleeping pattern that involves naps ever four hours, the time of the nap is often fifteen to twenty minutes. Your body trains itself to go into REM sleep quickly (ooh, sleeping. I know a lot about sleeping.. maybe I should add that to my list too.. ) so you don't need as much sleep. You get (I think) four hours extra to your day. It might be six. I'll figure it out later. Imagine polyphasic sleeping with six hours extra to the day already. That would be a lot of productivity. I must note though, with polyphasic sleeping the concept of days becomes a bit more abstract and harder to grasp because each day flows into the next very... fluidly.
I"m using a lot of ellipses. It's time to spell check and sleep in my, pfft, monochromatic sleeping pattern or what ever it's called. My sleeping pattern that is limited by ambition, and by things like this.
Kind of reminds me of "this is brought you to by" adds at the beginning or end of a show segment.
"This Entertaining Blog Entry Has Been Brought To You By: A Lack Of Sleep! And Also By: Oh No, I just Relized I Still Need To Have A Shower!"
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Attacked by a Cat
Tonight I wanted to go for a walk with my girlfriend, so I did. On the way back to her house we encountered a cat. It was smaller than most cats but not extremely small. It appeared to be and acted like a younger cat. My girlfriend was very worried for it at first, thinking it was homeless due to a lack of a tag. She also thought it may be hungry because it was very attention disparate. Nothing that crossed my mind, but I've been around cats enough to know if that's true or not. She also mentioned something about wanting to keep it; that crossed my mind also. We boath left it, well tried to. It had a habit of running back after it was picked up and moved away.
The cat was young, fairly light but it was expected for its size. It's fur had the consistency of a cat that is outside, it was not patted down much. More fluffy and soft; but not soft due to being cleaned excessively. More like an outdoor cats version of soft. I'm not sure how to describe the difference but there is definitely a difference in the fur of cats who are indoor and outdoor cats.
I stayed inside for a bit, then saw it was time to get back to my house to finish my homework so I began to walk. I was not as surprised as I should be when something tackled my ankles soon as I walked into the dark, unlit grass.
A couple days ago something similar happened. On my way home in a similar area something small ran into my legs and quickly ran away. It ran at me again but I noticed it so it hesitated then ran off. I wasn't too worried, it appeared to be a playful dog at first thought.
Back to today; the cat had found me after I started to leave and was still playful as it was when I first encountered it today. It ran and jumped at me, then disappeared against the dark ground again. This happened a couple times until I figured out where it was and kneeled down to talk to it. It quickly rushed me and jumped on my face, in a very playful manner of course. It didn't use it's claws, but did put all four paws strait towards my body. It's face bumped against mine and it's soft fur rubbed against me before it was quick to dart out of view again. I'm glad I knew what it was, if I wasn't aware of what was rushing me I might of worried a bit more.
I got up and decided it would be best to keep walking, as I bid the cat farewell. I don't think it understood me very well. Now that I think of it I beleive talking to it may of just encouraged it to play with me. As I walked I was careful where my feet went to avoid stepping on it. I thought about just ignoring where I was walking because I've stepped on cats before, not purposely, and they are fine after a moment of displeasure. It would teach it to watch where I was going after all. I didn't want to do this though; I enjoy cats too much.
I got to the road, of course unlit. Not the best choice perhaps but I enjoy the dark. The cat must of been aware of how the shadows work because every time I turned around it would be paused in a the next shadow. I never saw it actually move. After about half a block I decided if it continued to follow me I would carry it back to its house and leave it to the owner. I'm not sure how old it is, I don't know if it's been at the house it lives at now long enough to know it lives there and needs to go back to it, so I was careful not to let it follow me too far.
After not too long I turned around to see I couldn't find the cat. This was the case for the next half block. At this point I decided the cat had gone back to look for my girlfriend, for she was very willing to give it the attention I was trying to avoid giving it.
The cat was young, fairly light but it was expected for its size. It's fur had the consistency of a cat that is outside, it was not patted down much. More fluffy and soft; but not soft due to being cleaned excessively. More like an outdoor cats version of soft. I'm not sure how to describe the difference but there is definitely a difference in the fur of cats who are indoor and outdoor cats.
I stayed inside for a bit, then saw it was time to get back to my house to finish my homework so I began to walk. I was not as surprised as I should be when something tackled my ankles soon as I walked into the dark, unlit grass.
A couple days ago something similar happened. On my way home in a similar area something small ran into my legs and quickly ran away. It ran at me again but I noticed it so it hesitated then ran off. I wasn't too worried, it appeared to be a playful dog at first thought.
Back to today; the cat had found me after I started to leave and was still playful as it was when I first encountered it today. It ran and jumped at me, then disappeared against the dark ground again. This happened a couple times until I figured out where it was and kneeled down to talk to it. It quickly rushed me and jumped on my face, in a very playful manner of course. It didn't use it's claws, but did put all four paws strait towards my body. It's face bumped against mine and it's soft fur rubbed against me before it was quick to dart out of view again. I'm glad I knew what it was, if I wasn't aware of what was rushing me I might of worried a bit more.
I got up and decided it would be best to keep walking, as I bid the cat farewell. I don't think it understood me very well. Now that I think of it I beleive talking to it may of just encouraged it to play with me. As I walked I was careful where my feet went to avoid stepping on it. I thought about just ignoring where I was walking because I've stepped on cats before, not purposely, and they are fine after a moment of displeasure. It would teach it to watch where I was going after all. I didn't want to do this though; I enjoy cats too much.
I got to the road, of course unlit. Not the best choice perhaps but I enjoy the dark. The cat must of been aware of how the shadows work because every time I turned around it would be paused in a the next shadow. I never saw it actually move. After about half a block I decided if it continued to follow me I would carry it back to its house and leave it to the owner. I'm not sure how old it is, I don't know if it's been at the house it lives at now long enough to know it lives there and needs to go back to it, so I was careful not to let it follow me too far.
After not too long I turned around to see I couldn't find the cat. This was the case for the next half block. At this point I decided the cat had gone back to look for my girlfriend, for she was very willing to give it the attention I was trying to avoid giving it.
Monday, October 11, 2010
Into The Wild Response
In my Psychology class we watched Into The Wild and were given some questions to answer, such as follows:
Respond
Opinion, analyze, break down story
Do I agree with the main character, Alexander
Define Freedom
Give example of how to have a healthy sense of freedom
So these aren't really questions but I jotted down the important points so once I got to this; the day before.. after having five days to do it. I need to be less social. Here it is;
Into The Wild was an interesting film? I didn't like it much, the beginning of it was okay but didn't catch my attention. I wouldn't mind leaving at any time and working on Photoshop through the first sitting. The second part was much more interesting. I still would of preferred Photoshop but I would prefer it anyways often. This movie just didn't make me want to continue watching it at many moments. As a film it was okay, as a story it was better. The way the story was shown could of been done better, though I liked how it showed him at the 'Magic Bus' and him on his way to the 'Magic Bus.' It did a great job of explaining how he knew how to do what, though if I were to compare it to another movie that did this Slum Dog Millionaire showed how the main character got his knowledge and applied it to the questions far better than Into The Wild does. The story consists of finishing college, running away from everything, learning and preparing (a few parts within that), and actually being in the wilderness. The actually being in the wilderness part was neglected a bit, but this film was made to show before that. When he is finishing college is explained very quickly just so there is something to work off of. It introduces the character and sends him on his way. Running away from everything also fairly short, and the learning stage is cut into. At the end of the running away, or is it the beginning? Anyways Alexander (the main character, for I don't think I have mentioned his name yet) burns his money yet still ends up getting a job or two. I didn't really understand why that was, but at the time when he burnt his money it was fairly misleading I think. I thought it was a matter of 'this is it, money's gone, off to Alaska.' I found the learning and preparing stage to seem a bit forced. It was all needed innately but some of the side stories near the end were put there for story telling sake. Not because it was needed. All of it could of been presented better I think. The wilderness situation was presented well, though some issues were too short and other's much too long. I didn't need fifteen minutes of 'Oh no, my moose, I can't eat it!' and then three broken up minutes of 'Well, I'm going to die now.' If I were to give this film a rating, and that rating had to be based on thumb indication, this would receive a hesitant one thumb up.
Onto freedom. Freedom is being free. It is having no limitations or boundaries except the ones you give yourself intentionally. If you have unintentional boundaries, you are not as free as you could be. Freedom is the ability to do what you want, when you want, how you want; all by your own judgment. There may be rules that state if you should or should not partake in various actions though I think in most situations you should be thinking through if you agree or disagree with them. I think to be free does not necessarily mean you can state you are free, but you cannot find anything hindering the fact. It is very easy to say you do what you wish to without limitation, but it is equilly more difficult to say there is nothing stopping you.
I was expecting this to be longer, perhaps my need for sleep is hindering my writing process although it usually doesn't. I find I do a lot more typing when I am tried than what I should be doing. I'm sure I will think of a better way to word my example of having a sense of freedom for that does not address the statement very well I suppose. This will be added later. Good night world.
- Bugworld
Respond
Opinion, analyze, break down story
Do I agree with the main character, Alexander
Define Freedom
Give example of how to have a healthy sense of freedom
So these aren't really questions but I jotted down the important points so once I got to this; the day before.. after having five days to do it. I need to be less social. Here it is;
Into The Wild was an interesting film? I didn't like it much, the beginning of it was okay but didn't catch my attention. I wouldn't mind leaving at any time and working on Photoshop through the first sitting. The second part was much more interesting. I still would of preferred Photoshop but I would prefer it anyways often. This movie just didn't make me want to continue watching it at many moments. As a film it was okay, as a story it was better. The way the story was shown could of been done better, though I liked how it showed him at the 'Magic Bus' and him on his way to the 'Magic Bus.' It did a great job of explaining how he knew how to do what, though if I were to compare it to another movie that did this Slum Dog Millionaire showed how the main character got his knowledge and applied it to the questions far better than Into The Wild does. The story consists of finishing college, running away from everything, learning and preparing (a few parts within that), and actually being in the wilderness. The actually being in the wilderness part was neglected a bit, but this film was made to show before that. When he is finishing college is explained very quickly just so there is something to work off of. It introduces the character and sends him on his way. Running away from everything also fairly short, and the learning stage is cut into. At the end of the running away, or is it the beginning? Anyways Alexander (the main character, for I don't think I have mentioned his name yet) burns his money yet still ends up getting a job or two. I didn't really understand why that was, but at the time when he burnt his money it was fairly misleading I think. I thought it was a matter of 'this is it, money's gone, off to Alaska.' I found the learning and preparing stage to seem a bit forced. It was all needed innately but some of the side stories near the end were put there for story telling sake. Not because it was needed. All of it could of been presented better I think. The wilderness situation was presented well, though some issues were too short and other's much too long. I didn't need fifteen minutes of 'Oh no, my moose, I can't eat it!' and then three broken up minutes of 'Well, I'm going to die now.' If I were to give this film a rating, and that rating had to be based on thumb indication, this would receive a hesitant one thumb up.
Onto freedom. Freedom is being free. It is having no limitations or boundaries except the ones you give yourself intentionally. If you have unintentional boundaries, you are not as free as you could be. Freedom is the ability to do what you want, when you want, how you want; all by your own judgment. There may be rules that state if you should or should not partake in various actions though I think in most situations you should be thinking through if you agree or disagree with them. I think to be free does not necessarily mean you can state you are free, but you cannot find anything hindering the fact. It is very easy to say you do what you wish to without limitation, but it is equilly more difficult to say there is nothing stopping you.
I was expecting this to be longer, perhaps my need for sleep is hindering my writing process although it usually doesn't. I find I do a lot more typing when I am tried than what I should be doing. I'm sure I will think of a better way to word my example of having a sense of freedom for that does not address the statement very well I suppose. This will be added later. Good night world.
- Bugworld
Thursday, October 7, 2010
A Really Long stick, c, Space, Poking a Friend, Relativity and Stuff
So during my Physics 11 class I thought up of a very interesting thought experiment of sorts and I have been planning on writing about it for about half a year now? No, less than that. Anyways I haven't gotten around to it yet but I will do that eventually and it will be put on this blog. This was inspired during my Psychology class, of which I tend to call by many different things such as Philosophy class. This is because at times it becomes just that. A lot of the time it becomes just that. This individual class that inspired this turned into one of these about half way.
We watched a documentary about how things are produced, and the negative side of it. All the waste, pollution, exploitation of people and land. It was fairly eye opening even though I had seen it before. We were told to write a one page long response to the documentary and then a small blurb about our perception of time. I did what I could to grind a one page reply out of my mind and then went to the time topic. It has been posted on this blog, I beleive titled 'My Perception Of Time' or something like that. During this class we got into the topic of philosophy and physics. I have a habit of pulling them into one topic and shifting from one and the other. I'm sure this will be apparent in my posts if I get to either topic. This went to the speed of light, the speed of light in a vacuum (c; 3.00x10^8m/s) and one of my friends in the conversation presented me with a thought experiment that blew my mind at first.
Say you are in space. You have a pole. This pole is 1 lightyear long. You are at one end of it. Your friend is at the other end of it. Keep in mind this is just a thought experiment, so many people look at this and go, "Pfft, you can not have a pole that long," and I would like to -Slap Them With A Blowfish- (This reminds me, check my Posterous; bugworlds.posterous.com for a post I will put up soon after this. The slap with a blowfish will be understood if you do) with the fact that it is a thought experiment. Einstein based much of his work off thought experiments and are very well known now, so don't blow this off for it's impossibility. It is meant for you to think. Back on topic; now you have this 1ly long pole and you have pushed it. I will poke your friend immediately, right?
The answer to this is maybe. Keep reading.
And to add a more interesting concept into this, assuming your friend is poked right away, did you just cause something to move faster than the speed of light?
At first I couldn't find a problem with this model. It seemed sound, but with some more thinking I had one of those realization moments I love, it was during math class, "Wait a second! When you translate a graph that is ten units wide, four units left you are only moving it four units left. Not ten units left. The individual points move, you don't consider it as a whole." I can't beleive I didn't realize this at first but I understood that his model was wrong. After some more looking into this and thinking I found more errors but this is the first one.
What is the distance between your friend and their end of the pole? Lets say it is 1m, and you have just pushed the pole 1m forward. The pole has only moved 1m. Every individual point has moved 1m forward. Not 1ly. Duh? Yes, duh indeed. This kills one idea of it, but doesn't the energy move the entire distance? It does.
Another thing to consider is if the pole has moved the 1m instantly, the light is still moving at c. That means the pole will be received instantly and a year later the image of you poking your friend will be received... Assuming they're looking the correct direction for the duration of your image pushing the pole. Since this is a thought experiment though, that does not matter. Back to the pole and it's moment, just keep the light traveling off you to your friend in mind.
The energy that you have added to the system (The system being closed and consisting of the pole. You are not part of it because you are just adding energy to it but not doing anything more so you can be viewed as adding a force to the system. Your friend is the receiving end of the system, so they might be part of it? It doesn't matter, just technicalities.) transfer the entire distance of the pole, the entire 1ly length, instantly. This is true only if the pole is perfectly ridged and does not warp. Misfortunately it is impossible to have perfect rigidbility and even if it was it might not apply still.
Even at small scale nothing moves instantly. It moves at the speed of a wave, a longitudinal wave I beleive due to the pole being a solid. It may appear to be instant, but that's just because you cannot notice the slight time delay because it is so slow. It is negligible. This wave, it will be at the speed sound will travel through the pole. For a better explanation on this I advise you check the links at the bottom. I am assuming the atoms in this have the same resistance as air at zero degrees celsius. Sound, at zero degrees celsius moves at about 332m/s. As air heats up or cools down the density of it changes and so does the speed. To avoid complications I"m assuming this pole has the same resitance that air has. Lets crunch some numbers, this following list is in no particular order.
1ly is aprox. 9.46x10^15m long.
c is aprox. 3.00x10^8m/s.
There are 315,366,000s in a year.
The speed of sound at 0C is aprox. 332m/s
At this speed, sound will travel 1,047,015,120,000 meters in one year. That's 1 trillion, forty-seven billion, fifteen million, one-hundred-twenty thousand meters.
At this speed, it will take aprox. 2.85x10^13 seconds for sound to travel the length of the pole
That can also be looked at as 4.75x10^11 minutes,
Or 7,914,993,307 hours,
Or 329791387.8 days,
Or aprox. 903,538 years.
To put this into perspective, we are in the year 2010. That's aprox. 450 times the length of our calendar (assuming our calendar has started at the time that has been given the title year zero). The world is aprox. 4.5 billion years old; or 4,500,000,000 years; so in 4.5 billion years light could travel this pole 4,980,421 times, that's 4,980,421ly. These numbers are starting to lose their point.
The number we need is the aprox. 903,538 years. Since it would take this long for sound to travel the length of the pole, and we are assuming the pole has the same resitance as air at 0C, then it will also take that long for the energy to go through all of the pole.
Because the pole is not impossibly rigid and the energy will travel through it as a wave the poke is not going to hit your friend right away. It will take the above time to do so. The image of you pushing the pole is still traveling at c.
If you poked your friend who is at the other end of a one light year long pole: One year after you push the pole your friend would see you pushing it. 903,537 years after that your friend would be poked.
Keep this in mind next time you poke someone with something. They don't get poked right away, there is a slight delay that doesn't matter at real world scales.
Credit must be given to http://www.physicsforum.com/showthread.php?t=386687 and http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SpeedOfLight/FTL.html#4 for helping me out with this.
- Bugworlds ; I know my blog must be interesting to me atleast if I need a calculator beside me to write what I'm writing.
We watched a documentary about how things are produced, and the negative side of it. All the waste, pollution, exploitation of people and land. It was fairly eye opening even though I had seen it before. We were told to write a one page long response to the documentary and then a small blurb about our perception of time. I did what I could to grind a one page reply out of my mind and then went to the time topic. It has been posted on this blog, I beleive titled 'My Perception Of Time' or something like that. During this class we got into the topic of philosophy and physics. I have a habit of pulling them into one topic and shifting from one and the other. I'm sure this will be apparent in my posts if I get to either topic. This went to the speed of light, the speed of light in a vacuum (c; 3.00x10^8m/s) and one of my friends in the conversation presented me with a thought experiment that blew my mind at first.
Say you are in space. You have a pole. This pole is 1 lightyear long. You are at one end of it. Your friend is at the other end of it. Keep in mind this is just a thought experiment, so many people look at this and go, "Pfft, you can not have a pole that long," and I would like to -Slap Them With A Blowfish- (This reminds me, check my Posterous; bugworlds.posterous.com for a post I will put up soon after this. The slap with a blowfish will be understood if you do) with the fact that it is a thought experiment. Einstein based much of his work off thought experiments and are very well known now, so don't blow this off for it's impossibility. It is meant for you to think. Back on topic; now you have this 1ly long pole and you have pushed it. I will poke your friend immediately, right?
The answer to this is maybe. Keep reading.
And to add a more interesting concept into this, assuming your friend is poked right away, did you just cause something to move faster than the speed of light?
At first I couldn't find a problem with this model. It seemed sound, but with some more thinking I had one of those realization moments I love, it was during math class, "Wait a second! When you translate a graph that is ten units wide, four units left you are only moving it four units left. Not ten units left. The individual points move, you don't consider it as a whole." I can't beleive I didn't realize this at first but I understood that his model was wrong. After some more looking into this and thinking I found more errors but this is the first one.
What is the distance between your friend and their end of the pole? Lets say it is 1m, and you have just pushed the pole 1m forward. The pole has only moved 1m. Every individual point has moved 1m forward. Not 1ly. Duh? Yes, duh indeed. This kills one idea of it, but doesn't the energy move the entire distance? It does.
Another thing to consider is if the pole has moved the 1m instantly, the light is still moving at c. That means the pole will be received instantly and a year later the image of you poking your friend will be received... Assuming they're looking the correct direction for the duration of your image pushing the pole. Since this is a thought experiment though, that does not matter. Back to the pole and it's moment, just keep the light traveling off you to your friend in mind.
The energy that you have added to the system (The system being closed and consisting of the pole. You are not part of it because you are just adding energy to it but not doing anything more so you can be viewed as adding a force to the system. Your friend is the receiving end of the system, so they might be part of it? It doesn't matter, just technicalities.) transfer the entire distance of the pole, the entire 1ly length, instantly. This is true only if the pole is perfectly ridged and does not warp. Misfortunately it is impossible to have perfect rigidbility and even if it was it might not apply still.
Even at small scale nothing moves instantly. It moves at the speed of a wave, a longitudinal wave I beleive due to the pole being a solid. It may appear to be instant, but that's just because you cannot notice the slight time delay because it is so slow. It is negligible. This wave, it will be at the speed sound will travel through the pole. For a better explanation on this I advise you check the links at the bottom. I am assuming the atoms in this have the same resistance as air at zero degrees celsius. Sound, at zero degrees celsius moves at about 332m/s. As air heats up or cools down the density of it changes and so does the speed. To avoid complications I"m assuming this pole has the same resitance that air has. Lets crunch some numbers, this following list is in no particular order.
1ly is aprox. 9.46x10^15m long.
c is aprox. 3.00x10^8m/s.
There are 315,366,000s in a year.
The speed of sound at 0C is aprox. 332m/s
At this speed, sound will travel 1,047,015,120,000 meters in one year. That's 1 trillion, forty-seven billion, fifteen million, one-hundred-twenty thousand meters.
At this speed, it will take aprox. 2.85x10^13 seconds for sound to travel the length of the pole
That can also be looked at as 4.75x10^11 minutes,
Or 7,914,993,307 hours,
Or 329791387.8 days,
Or aprox. 903,538 years.
To put this into perspective, we are in the year 2010. That's aprox. 450 times the length of our calendar (assuming our calendar has started at the time that has been given the title year zero). The world is aprox. 4.5 billion years old; or 4,500,000,000 years; so in 4.5 billion years light could travel this pole 4,980,421 times, that's 4,980,421ly. These numbers are starting to lose their point.
The number we need is the aprox. 903,538 years. Since it would take this long for sound to travel the length of the pole, and we are assuming the pole has the same resitance as air at 0C, then it will also take that long for the energy to go through all of the pole.
Because the pole is not impossibly rigid and the energy will travel through it as a wave the poke is not going to hit your friend right away. It will take the above time to do so. The image of you pushing the pole is still traveling at c.
If you poked your friend who is at the other end of a one light year long pole: One year after you push the pole your friend would see you pushing it. 903,537 years after that your friend would be poked.
Keep this in mind next time you poke someone with something. They don't get poked right away, there is a slight delay that doesn't matter at real world scales.
Credit must be given to http://www.physicsforum.com/showthread.php?t=386687 and http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SpeedOfLight/FTL.html#4 for helping me out with this.
- Bugworlds ; I know my blog must be interesting to me atleast if I need a calculator beside me to write what I'm writing.
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Longboarding
Not anything important, me just talking about a fun night and some longboarding stuff.
Tonight I had a great time longboarding with a friend. Bombed a couple hills, learned the beginning of a stand-up slide, discovered hopping is useless but fun, put a lot of strain on my already bad knees but by the morning it feels as if it will be better.
Bombing a hill, from what I know is defined by going down a hill with no form of braking. Depending on how fast your going I find air braking at the end is great. Doing a slide at end once you've slowed down a bit is great but I can't do that, and also had no slide glove. I enjoy having flesh on my hands. If there is enough flat ground you will slow naturally. Foot braking is awesome also but is kind of hard on your foot at first.
Slides in general is when you make the wheels slide sideways. Causes a huge amount of friction, and you slow down often to a stop. It can be done by putting your hands on the ground or doing a stand up, on the most part just pushing the back of the board sideways. Me and my friend figured out how to do them kind of. Ideally you want to turn 90 degrees to a stop, I can get about 30; not slowing down much though.
Slide gloves are gloves so you don't tear your hand apart. Often just a work glove with a cutting board cut out and applied on the palm, fingers, and thumb. It works great. Extra friction to encourage a hard turn to lead to a slide, and allows you to lean as far as you want.
Foot braking is essentaly dragging your foot on the ground to slow you down. It works well, I'm sure it's not good for your shoes at all.
Tonight I had a great time longboarding with a friend. Bombed a couple hills, learned the beginning of a stand-up slide, discovered hopping is useless but fun, put a lot of strain on my already bad knees but by the morning it feels as if it will be better.
Bombing a hill, from what I know is defined by going down a hill with no form of braking. Depending on how fast your going I find air braking at the end is great. Doing a slide at end once you've slowed down a bit is great but I can't do that, and also had no slide glove. I enjoy having flesh on my hands. If there is enough flat ground you will slow naturally. Foot braking is awesome also but is kind of hard on your foot at first.
Slides in general is when you make the wheels slide sideways. Causes a huge amount of friction, and you slow down often to a stop. It can be done by putting your hands on the ground or doing a stand up, on the most part just pushing the back of the board sideways. Me and my friend figured out how to do them kind of. Ideally you want to turn 90 degrees to a stop, I can get about 30; not slowing down much though.
Slide gloves are gloves so you don't tear your hand apart. Often just a work glove with a cutting board cut out and applied on the palm, fingers, and thumb. It works great. Extra friction to encourage a hard turn to lead to a slide, and allows you to lean as far as you want.
Foot braking is essentaly dragging your foot on the ground to slow you down. It works well, I'm sure it's not good for your shoes at all.
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