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Well, I got bored again and started a new blog. Come check it out: The T4inted Mirror.

Albeross

When Albeross looked out the window, he was met by nothing but ominous grey clouds that danced among the tumbling seas and the rain drenched land. It had been like this for days, ever since Albeross opened his small, wide-set beady eyes of gold and copper. Fifteen days, actually, noted Albeross, punctuating every syllable with a sharp bobbing of his bronze colored head. Fifteen long—seemingly endless, perpetual agony—and terribly boring days of being shut up in the Tower.

Albeross did not mind the Tower at all—especially when he trotted upon the slate covered stairs. His steps echoed boisterously, sending chills and giggles through Edna and Aeron, the Tower’s only females and children. Albeross liked them second best to the stairs. The two girls were always willing to be with him, groom him, and complemented him. They had spoke to him twice before about how his skin felt softer than old, worn leather.

But today, Edna and Aeron were nowhere to be heard of or seen. In fact, Albeross could not find anyone in the Tower to send chills down the spine with his booming prancing on the stairs. Perhaps that was why Albeross found this evening very gloomy.

Soon Albeross grew bored watching ships being capsized by the tumbling seas and decided to walk down to the lower most level of the Tower. His steps echoed like thunder as he descended the stairs. Albeross came to the last step and slid off, landing in a hallway paved with carpets and rugs. This hallway marked the end of his terrain, this was the farthest Albeross could go.

“Ah, there you are, My child.” A man in black walked through a door at the end of the hall. “I have something to show to you.”

“Salutation, Master Natas’ha,” uttered Albeross slowly with a bow.

The man, Natas’ha, waved Albeross over. “Here are two new playmates for you, my wingless Hippogriff. They are Ilka and Eiko. Be nice.” And Natas’ha turned away, leaving the three beings together.

“Hello,” Albeross said.

“Salutations,” said the two females.

“Say,” mumbled Albeross after studying the two beings, “you chimeras of horse and lion and of man, remind me awfully a lot of my dear friends Edna and Aeron.”

“And you look like Master Natas’ha’s old apprentice, Ian, who went missing. A picture of him rests in the Master’s Study… You have the same face.”

Logicomix

Logic has never been so cool. Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos H. Papadimitriou, Alecos Papadatos and Annie Di Donna have created a masterpiece in the graphic novel genre with their work Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth.

Logicomix chronicles the history of Bertrand Russell, the father of modern mathematical logic. Russell spent the majority of his adult life attempting to find a logical basis for all mathematics. But time and again his attempts wer foiled by holes in the logical process. He essentially proved, through his work, that mathematics has no entirely rational basis, as you must always assume that at least one point is true before you can prove anything else. How do we know, for instance, that 1 + 1 = 2? One would think it entirely obvious. But no person is able to provide a solid reason proving such a mathematical statement without assuming the mathematical process itself is, in fact, logical.

Russell struggled his whole life with this truth. Many of his most famous trials are presented in a readily accessible format in Logicomix. Anyone interested in the study of modern philosophy or mathematics who enjoys a thought-provoking graphic novel should find this book quite enlightening. Complete with explanatory texts that are themselves told in traditional comic book format, Logicomix takes an extremely complicated subject and allows any and all to understand it (at least to a degree).

Sorry, but I need to ask...

For some odd reason, my computer or Blogger itself will NOT allow me to write comments. I have click on "post a comment" on two different posts about five times each. None of the times did it go to the normal place for comment writing-- it just stayed on the same page. I though this was just a problem with Firefox, so I opened Internet Explore. That also did not work.

Does anyone else have this problem or know how to fix it? I would really like to comment around this blog, but I can't with it malfunctioning on me. Any other information I'll give is that my computer is a Window's Vista-- though I doubt this is the cause of my commenting problem.

One More Shot

Don't stop
   When you're on top
Just let fly
   Jump and break the sky
'Cause you know
   That when you're out-of-control
   The world keeps beating to the heat of your soul [soul, soul, soul]

The powers that be
Try to exploit their sovereignty
And now that the world's online
They'll resurrect the beast in time

Just go
   Don't try to move too slow
Keep up
   The pace is out-of-control
'Cause you know
   That when the world rewinds
   The people keep trekking to the beat of your mind [mind, mind, mind]

No matter where you go
You can't escape their flow
The wheels have begun to turn
And you cannot flee their burn

Just because
   The world is out of synch
Doesn't mean
   You should endorse conformity
The more you rebel
   The more the gods will hunt you down
Don't believe
   Just escape with what you can

Now you know that it's over
The pace resets
The fields of clover
Under the blue sunset

The dividing line is shattered
And the world is torn and tattered

Neverending
   Are the sorrows of life
All-negating
   Are the aspects of strife

One day you'll find yourself a home
And you'll find that you no longer roam
The life you're living is the life you've got
Give this this world just one more shot