December 23, 2020

For those love science related visuals Who here...

... hasn't Zoomed the Mandelbrot Set yet?

Just in case my most favorite one is

Mandelbrot Zoom 10^227


If you're never seen any, or if you've never seen
this particular one I highly recommend it
The color set goes from white, yellows, oranges,
browns with a touch of purple & black background
Very golden like

I've been following this since the mid '80s when during the then IBM building (NYC) had a showcase mini museum in it's building's basement. Once they had an Art & Computers exhibition.

All manner of stuff including Fractals & CGI. But on a different display one of 3 programs was "Explore the
Mandelbrot Set". I spent about 2 weeks off & on playing with ratio of iterations to zooming, color sets. The screen was about ?2ft x 2 ft. It was glorious.

Then the last week I didn't get much time bc Scientific America published an artist on Mandelbrot and all guys up stairs who may have spent many hours on their home computer just trying to generate a B&W image; when they found out there was a full color computer program with parallel processing down stairs...
the Stampede was on!
Only got to use it a bit, but I remember sitting with a guy (whether from IBM or not) who had the SA issue and I showed him the basics and some of the finer points of tweaking the image.

December 18, 2020

What Historic & Nature Places do you want to (or have) visit(ed)?

There are long standing jokes about NYC'r (of which I'm one) not visiting our tourist places.

Maybe bc my folks were both -first gen- Americans they took us as kids to the Statue of Liberty. We trudged up the spiral staircase in the statue itself after the typical zig zag stairs through the base. What was cool about the spiral was every turn or so would be a cantilevered seat with a guardrail to rest. We got to look out the small windows and see the Harbor. I think we went back down by stair, though there was an elevator. I was around ?5 - 6. Cool experience.

Suddenly blanked out on visits w patents.
I remember one more - driving down to Coney Island Amusement Park when the Steeple Chase was still there!

I've often visited Ft Tryon Park (The Cloisters is there). The top part of the Fort (Birtish Colonial) is a lovely area to sit in with beautiful tall trees.
I've worked right near The Stock Exchange.
Ridden the Staten Island Ferry for fun.
Visited Windows on the World, and Observatory.
(worked at the South Tower, too)
I went by Frances Tavern (read the Plaque) when I worked near by.
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On to other places -

Been to DC many times. I love 💖 The National Mall. Been in most of the ❤️ Smithsonian Museums. Took the Capitol tour.
The best was visiting the WH the Xmas season that The Clinton's declared The Year of The American Craftsman!
Each of the trees were dedicated a single material:
Metal, Wood, Fiber, and more! Glorious!

The most sobering were visiting The American History Museum after they had the installed the Lunch Counter (? Woolworths) where one of the first Sit-ins occurred. I tingled with *History* in the air!

Also on the same day (or maybe different trip?) a gorgeous dry low 80s sunny day. I visited ❤️ both JFK's and RFK's graves. Sigh. (I actually saw JFK's white picket fence one in '64 when my parents wanted to visit).

I took a tour around The Black Hills (and Mt Rushmore) '80.
Visited (swoon) The Grand Canyon.
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And a gifted vacation I saw The Efil Tower, The Lourvre,
The museum where Monet's Waterlilies are displayed Paris in general. More swoon.

What do I still want to see?
Oh, The Pyramids (swoon) but unless I'm amazingly lucky, that's probably not happening.
And to stay somewhere where I will be able to see the Northern Lights! (more swoon)

I've ended up being quite in this area of my life.
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So - tell me, us... of your dreams came true!!! stories and
your your traveling hopes for the future l!.

I'd love to hear your tales... 🙂
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(🚀 not available quite yet)

December 7, 2020

So, what do you think the actual inauguration will look like?

Every one social distancing up on the platform/stage... will some kind of Capitol Police make say - the Republican Senators, and Reps social distance , and wear a mask?

Socially distancing, and masks with the chair section?

If they allow people on The Mall -
I believe since I'll be mostly Dems local, and out of town people will social distance, and wear masks.

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Makes me mad we can't have a normal Inaugural, esp the absolute joy(!!!!!!!) after Kamala & Biden finish their Oaths!

I was at Clinton's first, and both of Obama's.
Omg! The sheer JOY !!!!!!! 😄

I do hope they have 💖fireworks 💖 !!!