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It's Hekzebiah's daughter's day! Run! Run!
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It's Hekzebiah's daughter's day! Run! Run!
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Howard's first! Even on Sadie Hawkins Day. . . .
ReplyDeleteSo true!
ReplyDelete(And have a gander out front, puddle. Thanks for the inspiration!)
Go BUSH! (NOT!) This travesty occurred during the Bush years.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16081240
The myth of the eight-hour sleep
ReplyDeletehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16964783
Excellent article! A must read!!
"Ekirch believes many sleeping problems may have roots in the human body's natural preference for segmented sleep as well as the ubiquity of artificial light."
Sounds reasonable to me.
ReplyDeleteTTFN
ReplyDeleteOff to town for a blood draw. And shopping. And it's raining. But pretty warm. (Forties) Won't freeze again till Saturday night! And *official* spring is only three weeks away. YAY!!!
ReplyDeleteWell, *that* was a bust. I was about 1/3 way there, in VERY heavy rain and much thunder and. . .
ReplyDeleteWindshield wipers broke. in the 2/3 up position. I kept going for about another mile, and decided it wasn't worth the risk. Came home *very* slowly, and called and rescheduled for Monday. Adrenaline is off the chart just now.
Weather due to stay like this all day. And not even any place in town to get them repaired if I'd managed to make it. Besides which, it's likely to take a new motor. (Last time they stuck, they rejiggered them, and this is the first real storm since. . . . )(Lol! "rejiggered" is a real word!)(According to ma spellchecker.)
Whew!
Very interesting article, listener, thanks! For years (most of my life) I've woken in the middle of the night at least two or three times a week. I've always just gotten up, got a cup of coffee, read a bit, smoke a bit and go back to bed after an hour or two. Being waked by pain is new, but works about the same. And I agree that lotsa peeps, including some good friends of mine, panic! Which then snowballs.
ReplyDeleteGlad you made it back OK.
ReplyDeleteAs the Cervantes quote suggests, it probably depends on the person. And on age. For most of my life I slept through the night without problem. In my 70s, there are many nights when segmented sleep seems more natural. Although it's not clear that what I mean and what the authors mean are totally identical. If I just lie in bad dozing until I fall asleep again, I wouldn't call that segmented sleep. If I get up and read or something, I would. (Since I have a bed companion, I can't read in bed.)
ReplyDeleteIt occurs to me that an afternoon nap, which I now take from time to time, may also be related to segmented sleep.
Ohhh myyyy! So glad you're home safely!!
ReplyDeleteJust when I think I can lean back and enjoy a good, long snow storm (impending), I learn that Youngest*Kid and Newest*DIL will be driving from NW VT to NYC tonight after work, as she has a conference there beginning in the morning. So they're predicting 5" of snow and ice pellets for Albany and Amherst both, and 7" of same around Bennington, VT. At least he's having his studded snow tires put on for the drive. Pretty ironic, because he almost made it through Winter in Vermont without snow tires!
It's snowing this afternoon.
ReplyDeleteHi Bill,
ReplyDeleteI’ve been thinking about “Worlds Enough and Time,” specifically the problem of how Mark’s so called time machine moved Cat both back in time and across into a parallel universe. Had an idea I wanted to run by you.
Cat is a medievalist, not a quantum physicist, but her best friend is one and she’s done some reading on the subject. So she knows two basic facts. 1) the fabric of Space-Time is flexible, like a rubber sheet (the standard bowling ball and marbles explanation of the curvature of Space-Time). 2) if you want to get from one point in Space-time to another, the quickest and easiest way is to accordion pleat the fabric and step from the one point to the other (a la A Wrinkle in Time).
Mark’s time machine uses both these principles, though he calls the accordion pleating process “concertinaing.” The fabric of Space-Time being flexible, he simply concertinas it in a certain way and delivers his passenger to the appropriate time. What he doesn’t count on is that the tissue between parallel universes (Is the technical term membrane?), though normally impermeable, is tremendously fragile, sort of like glass, which you can’t walk through but if you stress it in just the right way it will crack or shatter. So, either because Mark’s procedure is necessarily primitive and crude or because of the inherent properties of the tissue between universes, the concertinaing process folds the fabric of Space-Time correctly, delivering Cat to the right time, but it also creates a tear, a discontinuity in the tissue between parallel universes so that Cat falls through into a different universe.
Once she is in that parallel universe, she moves in Time just as she should, but she stays in that parallel world. Mark can’t replicate the accident that let her slip through, not at short notice anyway. Since he is an honorable man, he asks her if she wants to stay, knowing that her answer will be yes.
As you pointed out, the final paragraph or two of the story need to be reworked, and other smoothing out also needs to be done. I think though, pending your approval, the explanation outlined above should work. After all, as Cat understands the machine, it is a quantum flux engine of some sort, and quanta are by their very nature uncertain and difficult to work with and predict.
Puddle, sooooooooooooooo glad you're all right!!! *hug*
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of sleep, mine gets interrupted a LOT lately by my elderly collie who definitely tends toward "segmented sleep". He seems to need to get up multiple times every night, but he can't stand up without help.
ReplyDelete♥
ReplyDeleteI'm edging into that phase of life.
ReplyDeleteI salute his nighttime helper. XOXOXXX
ReplyDelete(Proud Mom Alert!)
ReplyDeleteRoot*Center*Son has been nominated for Burlington's Herb Blumenthal Award for Community Activism...! The award is given to a volunteer whose leadership, tenacity and dedication have somehow improved Burlington’s neighborhoods, and made Burlington a better place to live, work and play. There is only one winner, but all the nominees are honoured at the event on April 19th. So stay tuned. :-)
Very nice!
ReplyDeleteWe were present when he was told of it! Talk about a stellar Mom/Dad moment. :-) I'm not actually sure whether he alone has been nominated or the whole of the Root Center, because the band was playing. Either way, it's fabulous to see him getting some recognition.
ReplyDeleteThis all came up at the benefit for the Root Center held at a nice little restaurant that uses local foods, called The Skinny Pancake. And the "band" was Joshua Panda and a bass guitarist. Josh is the guy who played at Youngest's wedding back in August, and tonight he played "If I Had a Balloon" which he'd played for Youngest and myself to dance to at the wedding! I thanked him with a big smile. :-)
A great night!
puddle, take care down there and keep an eye on that river of yours. There is a new wave of rain storms coming through W. Va.. Such storms today, eh?! Tornadoes and 8 or more in Illinois killed.
ReplyDeleteLol! Not much to *do* but keep an eye on it. Already moved the car up the hill about four hours ago. It was sheeting over the bridge then. Some beauts on the radar, but they're mostly passing north. So far.
ReplyDeleteGlorious!!
ReplyDeleteI just discovered this web site:
ReplyDeletehttp://dailysciencefiction.com/hither-and-yon/the-numbers-quartet/benjamin-rosenbaum/nilly
Okay...it had better not bother you, or we'll have a few things to say to your weather guy. ;-)
ReplyDeleteWe were told the snow would begin around 4:00pm,
and really get going by 7:00pm.
So far we have NOTHING.