Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Post-Modern Text Generator or Real Math? You decide!



I quote:

"Hamilton's Diabolical Singularity



Hamilton's first application of the concept of phase-space - later so fruitful in physics, especially in the hands of Dirac - was a prediction in optics: conical refraction in biaxial crystals.



This was one of the first successful predictions of a qualitatively new phenomenon using mathematics, and created a sensation. At the heart of conical refraction is a singularity, anticipating the fermionic sign change underlying the Pauli exclusion principle and the conical intersections now studied in quantum chemistry.




The light emerging from the crystal contains many subtle diffraction details, whose definitive understanding and observation have been achieved only recently. Generalizations of the phenomenon involve radically different mathematical structures."

Whaddya think? Did I just make that up with some site such as: http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo? Or is it real?

Monday, May 14, 2007

Where's my biscuits?



Once again, Old Ken has slipped a bit on the bloggin’. But, never fear, as I’m back with something nice. That’s right, get out your gee-tars, ‘cause it’s time for a song.

Needless to say, our song is called “Where’s my Biscuits?” It’s all of three chords (F, C, and G). The verse sounds something like the bridge of Hank Williams’ “Hey Good Lookin’” while the chorus sounds something like “Louie Louie.” So start pickin’!
(As I remember now, this blog software doesn't like regular chord notation; so I'll just indicate the chords in brackets before each line).



[F] Well, my waterbed done [C] sprung a leak



[F] I just lost my tickets to [C] Chris Angel Mindfreak



[F] My boy he done got [C] chased by a baar



[F] And the package store’s run [C] out of the PBR



[G] Where’s my biscuits? [C] Where’s my biscuits?

[F] Where’s my biscuits? [G] Where’s my biscuits? [C] Where’s my biscuits?

(In case anyone is wondering: yes, those last biscuits are, in fact, Cheddar Bay©!)

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