I had comments going over two pages!!
I think this is probably a first, even in two separate existences on this site.
Aw, you guys make me feel so special!
'fraid it's back to boring normality now though!
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Today I have been:
Reading:
Richard J. Bird, Chaos and Life: Complexity and Order in Evolution and Thought (Columbia, 2003)
'There are 20 [...] amino acids in proteins. The total time taken to construct a protein depends on its size and what is assumed to be the unit of time needed to place an amino acid in its appropriate position in the sequence. Consider a protein requiring about 1 000 amino acids and suppose that it takes a second to place one of them. The correct one out of the 20 has to be selected and placed in a given position in the sequence, so if it took one unit of time to place one amino acid, it would take 20 times as long to place 2, 400 times as long to place 3, and 20 to the power 1 000 times as long to place all of them. At this rate it would take over a thousand billion years to create this one protein, unless some other principle were at work. And this is only one of the many thousands of proteins required to constitute an organism. The proteins themselves would have to be capable of working together in the organism, and the resulting organisms would have to reproduce in a way permitting natural selection to operate. Unless some organizational principle is applied, changes would have to occur and be passed on by reproductive success incredibly often over a sustained period to arrive at the results we see today
[...]
The only plausible way in which such regularities of form can have arisen is through the expression of a process giving rise to a mathematical pattern. Such a process, if it generates certain aspects of the form of every individual member of the species, must be the driving force behind species morphology and therefore, presumably, evolutionary change from one species to another. Shape can only be the product of processes that are ultimately expressible mathematically [...] The changes in parameter values will come about by mutation from time to time, producing jumps in morphology and capable of generating wholly new and complex features in one mutational step.'
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Listening:
The Jayhawks, Rainy Day Music (American, 2003)
'You never make your mind up
Like driving with your eyes shut
Rough around the edges
Won't someone come and take you home
Waiting for a breakthrough
What will you set you mind to?
We stood outside the Chinese restaurant in the rain'
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Viewing:
Le Jour se lve (Marcel Carn, 1939)
Jacqueline Laurent: 'On dit que les gens qui s'aiment sont plus vivants que les autres.
[...]
Arletty: 'J'en ai ma claque des hommes qui parlent de l'amour. Ils en parlent tellement qu'ils oublient de le faire.'
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Jean Gabin (star of Le Jour se lve) looks a little like my brother. I'm going to try and show you what I mean, but I've only been able to find crappy pictures of Gabin:
and here's my brother:
I think this is probably a first, even in two separate existences on this site.
Aw, you guys make me feel so special!
'fraid it's back to boring normality now though!
****************************************************************
Today I have been:
Reading:
Richard J. Bird, Chaos and Life: Complexity and Order in Evolution and Thought (Columbia, 2003)
'There are 20 [...] amino acids in proteins. The total time taken to construct a protein depends on its size and what is assumed to be the unit of time needed to place an amino acid in its appropriate position in the sequence. Consider a protein requiring about 1 000 amino acids and suppose that it takes a second to place one of them. The correct one out of the 20 has to be selected and placed in a given position in the sequence, so if it took one unit of time to place one amino acid, it would take 20 times as long to place 2, 400 times as long to place 3, and 20 to the power 1 000 times as long to place all of them. At this rate it would take over a thousand billion years to create this one protein, unless some other principle were at work. And this is only one of the many thousands of proteins required to constitute an organism. The proteins themselves would have to be capable of working together in the organism, and the resulting organisms would have to reproduce in a way permitting natural selection to operate. Unless some organizational principle is applied, changes would have to occur and be passed on by reproductive success incredibly often over a sustained period to arrive at the results we see today
[...]
The only plausible way in which such regularities of form can have arisen is through the expression of a process giving rise to a mathematical pattern. Such a process, if it generates certain aspects of the form of every individual member of the species, must be the driving force behind species morphology and therefore, presumably, evolutionary change from one species to another. Shape can only be the product of processes that are ultimately expressible mathematically [...] The changes in parameter values will come about by mutation from time to time, producing jumps in morphology and capable of generating wholly new and complex features in one mutational step.'
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Listening:
The Jayhawks, Rainy Day Music (American, 2003)
'You never make your mind up
Like driving with your eyes shut
Rough around the edges
Won't someone come and take you home
Waiting for a breakthrough
What will you set you mind to?
We stood outside the Chinese restaurant in the rain'
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Viewing:
Le Jour se lve (Marcel Carn, 1939)
Jacqueline Laurent: 'On dit que les gens qui s'aiment sont plus vivants que les autres.
[...]
Arletty: 'J'en ai ma claque des hommes qui parlent de l'amour. Ils en parlent tellement qu'ils oublient de le faire.'
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Jean Gabin (star of Le Jour se lve) looks a little like my brother. I'm going to try and show you what I mean, but I've only been able to find crappy pictures of Gabin:
and here's my brother:
VIEW 19 of 19 COMMENTS
mulhollanddrive:
Ha, no not at all! Keep 'em comin'!
mulhollanddrive:
It has changed a lot since I first got on here. If my memory serves correctly, there was only one girl per week. Maybe more. There were a lot less people on here. It also seems like the creep factor was a lot lower. A few years back, I knew pretty much everyone in Austin who was on the site. Now there are just too many people. The framework of the site is essentially the same. It's just grown to accommodate all the members. When anything gets bigger it's going to become more impersonal. But hey, it's a website after all. All in all, there are still tons of great people on here. Somebody told me that there were pictures of naked girls on here, but I don't believe them.