{"id":598,"date":"2011-07-27T18:00:42","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T18:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.novodantis.com\/?p=598"},"modified":"2011-07-27T18:00:47","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T18:00:47","slug":"interesting-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novodantis.com\/?p=598","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lately that elusive substance that is Free Time has seemingly evaporated, as a multitude of pursuits collide. In particular, my quest for a Private Pilots Licence and my preparations for half a year in Australia have me rushed off my feet. But I made a resolution that my entries won&#8217;t turn into lamenting for lack of free time, so enough about that.<\/p>\n<p>I recently compiled an actual paper checklist for something that has existed for a long time only in my head: the <strong>Checklist for the Future<\/strong>. On it are a number of key innovations and milestones, such as Antigravity and Civilian (Orbital) Spaceflight. The idea being that once all the boxes are ticked, we will be in the future. <em>Obviously<\/em>. Exciting stuff!<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I came across a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=xxPR0pjGuYw\">fascinating documentary<\/a> about chaos, spontaneous pattern formation and the Mandelbrot Set. I recommend checking it out, particularly if the ideas of order emerging from nothing and predictable systems having unpredictable outcomes interests you at all. I find it encouraging that it still doesn&#8217;t invalidate the physics behind my <a href=\"\/?cat=48\">Chonoportology writings<\/a>, too (that does, in essence, try to answer the question of what actually determines the A or B path of any given event).<\/p>\n<p>In other news, THIS:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/RsCXWi14dL8\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/RsCXWi14dL8\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately that elusive substance that is Free Time has seemingly evaporated, as a multitude of pursuits collide. 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