What kind of fabric is time anyway?
Ug. My fingernails weren't very long at all but it was just enough that I could feel them pressing against the laptop keys and it was bothering me. I don't let them get very long but...yeah.
Which kept me from writing greatness.
By the way, I need to see if I can do something like run Wordpress (or something similar?) on my computer. It'd be much easier than having to write all the code for and the entry for myself. Plus it could allow me to use useful features like tagging.
There are things I want to write and I think that would be easiest. The second best option would be doing the HTML myself which I will if I have to but I'm a bit loathe to if I can avoid it. I don't want it on the internet right now but maybe later, once I've put it all to good use.
Last night, no, that's not right. Wednesday night (the first night I feel asleep early on the couch, oops?) having just gotten into bed the phrase, "fabric of space-time" caught--snagged even--in my mind. I've heard it so many times on television and in movies but I found myself asking, "Why is it referred to as a fabric? What's so fabric-like about it?"
Doctor Who describes time as being like a big ball of yarn and that you can come out anywhere, that and it's all timey-wimey. While yarn can make up a fabric (if the fabric is knit from it) I get a different visual for the "fabric of space-time" I always saw it as more blanket-like, mind you a blanket that looks like space with stars on it, more or less "invisibly" covering all of space.
Yet no one ever goes on to talk about space-time that way. They usually follow it by telling us there is a rip or a hole in space-time, and every single time we hear that, it always turns out to be bad.
Has there ever been a single one of those rips that is--or could be--good?
This afternoon at work I found myself trying to imagine what steps could be taken to thwart a surveillance society. Would people fight to stop the surveillance culture or if that surveillance society crept up on them would they just continue marching about their daily lives changing nothing? Not fighting it, not caring, caught up in apathy about what goes on in the world around them and by those who obtain information about them.
Reminded again of this whole NSA business and all of the information they can get, already have, and so on. Where is the public outrage? I haven't seen it. Given that lack of outrage I could easily see a surveillance culture creeping upon the people, if they aren't acting out or calling for action now why should any of us believe that this will change? The government(s) will know that while their hand may be revealed, nobody will care what cards they have.
There's more than one way to avoid being part of that. The question is will you have an option?
I need to get to writing out those ideas in-depth. I don't want to write about it here (it's not ready for consumption by the general public yet) but I do want to write about it. I think I'd rather have it as an HTML document instead of a Word document.
The list of ideas is now eight pages long. Mind you one page of that is a list of ideas for what spaceships look like including breaking them down by general classes (scouts, war ships, ships for diplomats, and so on). That's a lot to get developing.
If time really is a fabric what do you think it would feel like?
Is it silky, fleecy, wooly...?
Which kept me from writing greatness.
By the way, I need to see if I can do something like run Wordpress (or something similar?) on my computer. It'd be much easier than having to write all the code for and the entry for myself. Plus it could allow me to use useful features like tagging.
There are things I want to write and I think that would be easiest. The second best option would be doing the HTML myself which I will if I have to but I'm a bit loathe to if I can avoid it. I don't want it on the internet right now but maybe later, once I've put it all to good use.
Last night, no, that's not right. Wednesday night (the first night I feel asleep early on the couch, oops?) having just gotten into bed the phrase, "fabric of space-time" caught--snagged even--in my mind. I've heard it so many times on television and in movies but I found myself asking, "Why is it referred to as a fabric? What's so fabric-like about it?"
Doctor Who describes time as being like a big ball of yarn and that you can come out anywhere, that and it's all timey-wimey. While yarn can make up a fabric (if the fabric is knit from it) I get a different visual for the "fabric of space-time" I always saw it as more blanket-like, mind you a blanket that looks like space with stars on it, more or less "invisibly" covering all of space.
Yet no one ever goes on to talk about space-time that way. They usually follow it by telling us there is a rip or a hole in space-time, and every single time we hear that, it always turns out to be bad.
Has there ever been a single one of those rips that is--or could be--good?
This afternoon at work I found myself trying to imagine what steps could be taken to thwart a surveillance society. Would people fight to stop the surveillance culture or if that surveillance society crept up on them would they just continue marching about their daily lives changing nothing? Not fighting it, not caring, caught up in apathy about what goes on in the world around them and by those who obtain information about them.
Reminded again of this whole NSA business and all of the information they can get, already have, and so on. Where is the public outrage? I haven't seen it. Given that lack of outrage I could easily see a surveillance culture creeping upon the people, if they aren't acting out or calling for action now why should any of us believe that this will change? The government(s) will know that while their hand may be revealed, nobody will care what cards they have.
There's more than one way to avoid being part of that. The question is will you have an option?
I need to get to writing out those ideas in-depth. I don't want to write about it here (it's not ready for consumption by the general public yet) but I do want to write about it. I think I'd rather have it as an HTML document instead of a Word document.
The list of ideas is now eight pages long. Mind you one page of that is a list of ideas for what spaceships look like including breaking them down by general classes (scouts, war ships, ships for diplomats, and so on). That's a lot to get developing.
If time really is a fabric what do you think it would feel like?
Is it silky, fleecy, wooly...?