For a week or two, I’ve been spending my “me time” learning how to use a program called Apophysis. It generates “fractal flames.” Though this might have practical applications, for my purposes, all it does is make pretty pictures.
It’s simple program to use, but it seems to require complicated math to get good at.
I plan on doing no math during my “me time.”
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I am officially an INTERNATIONALLY published author. Find my stream-of-consciousness music reviews gracing the pages of the October 2009 issue of City Night magazine distributed only in Mongolia.
Big thanks to Brian Offenther for the article.
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Out popped a dozen people in dark windbreakers identifying them as feds -- agents from Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Some raced to the loading docks. Others hurried through the front door. All were armed.
"I just sell honey -- what the hell is this all about?" he remembered asking, as he was hustled into a tiny room with his office manager and truck driver. Three days before the April 25 raid, customs had persuaded a federal judge in Seattle to issue the search warrant shoved in Ingalls' hands. But it wasn't until Ingalls read "Attachment D" that he understood why investigators were seizing his business records, passport, phone logs, photographs, Rolodexes, mail and computer files -- almost anything that could be copied or hauled away.Honey Laundering: A sticky trail of intrigue and crime - Andrew Schneider - #
