Yeah, long absence
Yeah, long absence but now I'm back. Ever since exams finished twenty days ago I've been having various amounts of fun in various ways.
One of them is a little prgram called fractal explorer. It's very fun to zoom and zoom and zoom until the computer runs out of decimal places. This is made possible by the rather odd fact that some fractals, namely Julia sets and the Mandelbrot set, amongst others, have infinite complexity, so you can keep zooming and never run out of detail. However, the computer only keeps, oh, 16 decimals I think, so eventually things get blocky. Fractals are a world of colour and form though. Recommended
Big news here is the election. It's only a state election so it doesn't mean all that much, but we all like to do our bit. I'm doing my bit by actually working in a voting centre. It's situated in Millgrove, a little town outside Melbourne but it might as well be on the Moon. My task will be to guard the ballot boxes from the legions of terrorists, respectable politicians and nimrods waiting outside in the peaceful streets, who would like to mess with the results. My title is "Ballot Box Guard" or BBG, which in my language stands for "beastly, bottom-feeding Ger-man". Essentially I will have to sit there all day. I will, however, guard the ballots with my life - democracy is worth a few lives anyway, but I will be powerless to act in an effective manner if the voting centre is hit by nuclear, meteorite or air strike.
I have also been developing my musical talents. Not as an instrument, but as music reading. I had no idea what the little bs and #s were, so now I've found out what they are and how it all works. I'm still learning though.
One of them is a little prgram called fractal explorer. It's very fun to zoom and zoom and zoom until the computer runs out of decimal places. This is made possible by the rather odd fact that some fractals, namely Julia sets and the Mandelbrot set, amongst others, have infinite complexity, so you can keep zooming and never run out of detail. However, the computer only keeps, oh, 16 decimals I think, so eventually things get blocky. Fractals are a world of colour and form though. Recommended
Big news here is the election. It's only a state election so it doesn't mean all that much, but we all like to do our bit. I'm doing my bit by actually working in a voting centre. It's situated in Millgrove, a little town outside Melbourne but it might as well be on the Moon. My task will be to guard the ballot boxes from the legions of terrorists, respectable politicians and nimrods waiting outside in the peaceful streets, who would like to mess with the results. My title is "Ballot Box Guard" or BBG, which in my language stands for "beastly, bottom-feeding Ger-man". Essentially I will have to sit there all day. I will, however, guard the ballots with my life - democracy is worth a few lives anyway, but I will be powerless to act in an effective manner if the voting centre is hit by nuclear, meteorite or air strike.
I have also been developing my musical talents. Not as an instrument, but as music reading. I had no idea what the little bs and #s were, so now I've found out what they are and how it all works. I'm still learning though.
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