Tuesday, January 8, 2008

a tesseract and a portable hole for 500

Crash & burn! Crash & burn! I don't know if I can take much more excitement! And the fact that there's no windows in my new office makes it all feel like it's happening in a vacuum. Time warp.

Do time warps or vacuums amplify things? Or do they just suck your brains out and squish you into one dimension? I'm forgetting my physics.

5 comments:

  1. Anonymous5:45 PM

    that is the first time i've seen or heard anyone use the word tesseract since i was in high school. even then, it was in a science fiction book that i read. it was about a house that was a tesseract. it would be pretty cool/confusing/frustrating to own a house like that though.

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  2. Oh my gosh you MUST remember the name of that book for me. I need it. That's such a super concept.

    And happy month and one day after your birthday! Miss you!

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  3. Anonymous6:08 PM

    i was trying to remember yesterday, but to no avail. i'll do some research to see if i can find something that jogs the memory.

    thanks for the belated!
    ditto that.

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  4. Anonymous10:04 PM

    Maybe Robert Heinlen's, "and he built a crooked house"? And of course, "wrinkle in time" (one of my all time favorite books) by Madeline L'Engle featured a tesseract.

    But wait, what is all the excitement? New office?

    -W

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  5. Anonymous5:44 PM

    it is indeed the short story by Heinlen. i actually came across shortly after i posted the last comment.

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