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The weather's been flat out awful this last week, starting with a -11 windchill on Monday and a freezing rain on Wednesday that coated everything in a perfect sheet of ice. Today's just kind of cold, which seems like a sweet reprieve in comparison. I get sluggish in the winter. Like a lizard! And for a while, now, I've just kind of turtled up unless I was explicitly engaged in a social functions.
I haven't finished anything, haven't started anything, and mostly just noodle around. I'm ok with that! I just don't really have a lot of energy or patience for other stuff, at the moment.
The other week, I had felt a little inspired and began writing up a 2010 Virtual Adept document for Mage : The Ascension. It ended in the early 2000's, and I loved that game line, but when I think about it, I'm amazed at how firmly rooted it is in that time period. One solid decade, which is epitomized by rapid technological growth and the beginnings of cultural ennui. And now we're very close to 2011, which I feel would be a big deal to mages of the Technocracy and the Traditions, providing that the world wasn't obliterated or something.
Anyway, there was some stuff about Anonymous, Stand Alone Complexes, new media, ect, et al. One of the things, though, that I always thought was kind of silly were the trinary decks. Not that there'd be a next step in computing technology, but just in the way it was explained. Well, NPR had a pretty neat story earlier this morning.
Spintronics.
They're planning on storing information on 1's and 0's that are based on the spin of atoms, but that's not the coolest part. Per the article - "In quantum information, I can have a bit which is zero and one at the same time," says John Morton, a physicist at the University of Oxford in England.
There's your trinary machine.
"It's kind of magical.", says Stephen Lyon, a professor of electrical engineering at Princeton University.
I haven't finished anything, haven't started anything, and mostly just noodle around. I'm ok with that! I just don't really have a lot of energy or patience for other stuff, at the moment.
The other week, I had felt a little inspired and began writing up a 2010 Virtual Adept document for Mage : The Ascension. It ended in the early 2000's, and I loved that game line, but when I think about it, I'm amazed at how firmly rooted it is in that time period. One solid decade, which is epitomized by rapid technological growth and the beginnings of cultural ennui. And now we're very close to 2011, which I feel would be a big deal to mages of the Technocracy and the Traditions, providing that the world wasn't obliterated or something.
Anyway, there was some stuff about Anonymous, Stand Alone Complexes, new media, ect, et al. One of the things, though, that I always thought was kind of silly were the trinary decks. Not that there'd be a next step in computing technology, but just in the way it was explained. Well, NPR had a pretty neat story earlier this morning.
Spintronics.
They're planning on storing information on 1's and 0's that are based on the spin of atoms, but that's not the coolest part. Per the article - "In quantum information, I can have a bit which is zero and one at the same time," says John Morton, a physicist at the University of Oxford in England.
There's your trinary machine.
"It's kind of magical.", says Stephen Lyon, a professor of electrical engineering at Princeton University.
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