Chaotic Utopia
Archives for February, 2008
Random Leap Day Goodness
Posted by Karmen on February 29, 2008 It is rather fun to have a birthday on February 29th. Today is my 8th birthday, which is pretty weird, considering my young son will have his 8th birthday later in the year. For him, it’ll be the same old birthday. For me, it’s, well, the same old birthday, but it only happens once every…
Leap: Friday Fractal LXXIV
Posted by Karmen on February 29, 2008 Leap through Labor to Leap through Labor to Leap
There’s what in the water!?
Posted by Karmen on February 28, 2008 Oh, that fresh Rocky Mountain stream water… sparkling snowmelt, flowing from the ancient peaks to the broad plains, teeming with hermaphroditic fish. Hermaphroditic fish, you say? Like, fish with male parts and female parts, all in one? In our streams? Ok… well, maybe not everywhere… just downstream from where we use the bathroom. Hormonal disruption…
Uncharted Multiplicity
Posted by Karmen on February 20, 2008 "A feminine text cannot fail to be more than subversive. It is volcanic; as it is written it brings about an upheaval of the old property crust, carrier of masculine investments; there’s no other way. There’s no room for her if she’s not a he. If she’s a her-she, it’s in order to smash everything,…
Petrified Wood: Fractal LXXIII
Posted by Karmen on February 10, 2008 This weekend’s fractal isn’t very late, when you consider its roots are found 50 million years in the past. The earth was a bit different then… think of it as a post-global-warming world, where greenhouse gasses have already run amok, driving global temperatures. The poles are virtually frost-free, and rainforests reach far into the northern…
Whining, not Pining
Posted by Karmen on February 6, 2008 I hadn’t planned to write another post full of complaints. I’m a mother; I intrinsically hate whining. Yet, here I am, with nothing but frustration and disappointment (and an awful pun in the title) to share. Here it is, in a nutshell: I missed my lab in the field yesterday. It was one of those…
What makes the pines grow? Part 1
Posted by Karmen on February 4, 2008 School can be fun. Tomorrow, I’ll be heading up into the mountains outside of Boulder for my first official in-the-field lab. I’ll be the first to admit, I’m more of a research and writing person than an experimental and field work sort of person. Since I hope to make a career out of science writing,…
Flying in Vapor: Friday Fractal LXXII
Posted by Karmen on February 2, 2008 I figured I’d post this fractal set while it is still Friday somewhere (here in Colorado, for instance.) My thoughts on it follow below. Flying in Vapor: A poem and a fractal for riding the waves I know what it’s like To be down in the water And tossed by the waves Each day, crashing…