January 2004

elephants

i had this really long dream
i was in this town in africa or something
and there were hundreds of elephants
and they ran the place
and one day i asked “how come you all run it together, and never elect a leader or anything”
and suddenly they all go CRAZY
stampeding around
and finally one of them holds up a blue star in its trunk
and they all stop
and gather in folding chairs
and tell me that the secret is that whenever anyone has aspirations to rule, they brain-wipe them
and now that i know this…
they stand in a circle around me
and i’m begging for them to stop
and then i feel like i’m being smothered in some sort of pressure
and then my face goes all slack and i woke up wondering who i was
the end

knots

Hours of fun to be had with knotplot.


The download link is kinda hidden. Note that it’s a pretty complex program and needs a very fast computer and graphics card, but produces rather amazing animations and stuff. Try the ‘DemoA’ or ‘DemoB’ tab at the top right corner, and start clicking on buttons, and dragging the mouse within the figure window.

Or if the program doesn’t work for you, just browse the pretty pictures on the above site.