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31 January 1999
a few years back, when i built the truchet cube i spent a couple days (maybe weeks) scribbling formulas and permutations for all the possible truchet cubes down on scraps of paper and in notebooks and on my computer. i've lost the culmination of that work, the narrowing down to the eight fully different cubes that in various orientations make up the full sixty-four possibilities. but more importantly, i've lost the thought process that lead me to that conclusion. it bothers me somewhat that i don't have quite enough of my mind free to dedicate the necessary thought power to completely pointless mathematical pursuits. it's too tied up in work and school and all that.
i was an odd kid. when i was little i used to lie awake at night calculating binary permutations of the alphabet in my head. when i did get to sleep i would have nightmares about the inner workings of infinity. in sixth grade i started studying fractal geometry and chaos theory in my spare time, for fun. in high school i rolled dice thousands of times, filling up notebooks with the results. i created a calendar based on wavelengths of light mapped to the i ching.
i've always found numbers to be somewhat mystical, especially in their more esoteric, theoretical, right-brained manifestations. but lately, i've kinda felt that slipping away from me. with any luck it's just a phase.
i was an odd kid. when i was little i used to lie awake at night calculating binary permutations of the alphabet in my head. when i did get to sleep i would have nightmares about the inner workings of infinity. in sixth grade i started studying fractal geometry and chaos theory in my spare time, for fun. in high school i rolled dice thousands of times, filling up notebooks with the results. i created a calendar based on wavelengths of light mapped to the i ching.
i've always found numbers to be somewhat mystical, especially in their more esoteric, theoretical, right-brained manifestations. but lately, i've kinda felt that slipping away from me. with any luck it's just a phase.