There’s been such an overwhelming wealth of good stuff happening and outrageously useful stuff to share… but at the heart of the storm there’s been total silence. I wish I could attribute it to fellow edu.revolutionary, the stellar Steli Efti who initiated the OneDayBlogSilence (which unexpectedly erupted into noise and chaos). How counterintuitive and paradoxical these times are!
It certainly hasn’t been for lack of inspiration. Something like the calm before the storm perhaps, perhaps the eye of the storm. Life has been rampant for everyone I know lately. Accelerating always just a heartbeat beyond the catch-up point. Somewhere, somehow it will all start to make sense :: even if it won’t slow down.
I’m going to be reconstructing my blog for the next few days so its not going to be pretty. Forgive the chaos. New order will re.form on the other side.
BTW if you are intrigued in any way by chaos mathematics, fractals or the arcane outer reaches of physics but would love them explained in natural language I heartily recommend The Elegant Universe. For those times when you KNOW there’s an underlying order within the accelerating mayhem that life is occasionally prone to tumble into.
I was reminded of my well-thumbed volume when I saw that Brian Greene (beautiful in form & function) is doing a talk that I can’t go to tonight in New York (saddened to the core) :’-(
But I can follow the stringthings into the hopeful heart of the Theory of Everything. Perhaps with feverish inspiration I’ll order one little corner of the digital universe.. after the messy bits.. so here’s to diving in >>
“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star” - Friedrich Nietzsche (quite unlike the generally crusty old nihilist to have said so, but I dig it nonetheless)
Image: from one of the oddball cartoon sites I love: xkcd.com.
Well, after the love for Bru and Boegie obviously! If for nothing else but their disclaimer >> Warning: this comic occasionally contains strong language (which may be unsuitable for children), unusual humor (which may be unsuitable for adults), and advanced mathematics (which may be unsuitable for liberal-arts majors).
