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April Fools
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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And I'm racking my brain for some sort of April Fools prank to play. Something good, I could always call the restaurant and feign an undesirable ethnic accent, try to make a reservation for 30 people, separate checks and high chairs, but that lacks the excitement. Although it would wind everyone up. And so I'll keep thinking...
August Kekule's Benzene Dream
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Dreams
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And while I'm narrating other people's dreams, a nod to August Kekule's Benzene Dream - the problem of how the hydrocarbon chain that formed benzene was structured having bothered Kekule (and other Chemists) of the time, the answer came to him when he dreamed of snakes biting their tail, and realized that the structure of the benzene molecule would work if it were a ring...
That, at least, is as the tale goes. The facts (bare bones wiki) can be found here, a slightly less enthusiastic take can be found here. In any event the dream has so entrenched itself into the collective unconscious as a testimony to the power of the subconscious mind, it hardly matters whether Kekule ever had the dream or not. The moral is: Some people have useful dreams....
Fractal Lab - Interactive WebGL
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Link of the day
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Surface detail from subBlue on Vimeo.
Link: A cool site that allows you to generate & render 2D & 3D fractals in your browser. - Fractal.IO
Note: In the event your browser doesn't support WebGL (doesn't render the fractals properly), check out this site for advice on how to enable it in your browser, or do a Google Search for more precise instructions.
How are you?
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Miscellany
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Twice today, from regular, our better regular, customers. "How are you?" they ask, and then look at me meaningfully. "Things OK?" Twice. I'm paranoid now that I look as if I have cancer or some other terminal illness, "Fine" I assure them hastily...."Couldn't be better....".... I could, I could be rich or unemployed or painting or writing on a half regular basis, but this isn't what they're asking, so I play it cool and tell them I'm fine. I blame it on the haircut.
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