The Big Purple Glow Stick on the Sidewalk that Makes You Think about Chaos Theory
Oct15
Suggested wine pairing: pinot noir.
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Suggested wine pairing: pinot noir.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clopen_set
Clearly silverware emporium employees are not mandated by the state (yet) to have a basic understanding of point-set topology.
I’ve had a couple too many beers to figure this out for myself; I’m clopen to your explanation of what (I assume) is a reference to the Boolean nature of the silverware retailer’s practices.
I’m shaky on the applications of the matter to silverware, but here goes.
Glue together any collections of spoons and it is once again a spoon. Take the parts of spoons that are in finitely many other spoons (“intersect” them), that’s also a spoon. Spoons are open.
Glue together finitely many forks and that’s a fork. Intersect any collection of forks and that will be a fork. Forks are closed.
Take all that which is not a fork, and it is a spoon, and vice-versa.
I will leave it as an exercise to determine what the clopen silverware pieces are here.
It’s hard to avoid stepping in that puddle and taking a bit of it with you when you visit some shopping centers. Hey, are people with crutches obliged to wipe their crutches on the mat when they walk in?
Rejecting the Binary? Has the digital age truly come to it’s ending? Are we in process of resuming an analogue blended gradation of being, or moving on to yet another inexplicable paradigm? Do we have enough hot sauce to see us through a paradigm shift? Time to stock up… Unless time is no longer binary, in which case it may already have been time.
Jumpy: So, for any value=n, Spoon(n)=Spoon? But also, (-1)Fork=Spoon?
Cold: Fortunately, I haven’t spent enough time encrutched to learn the ins and outs of crutch etiquette.
Lemoncurry?: Is/was time binary? What are/were the binary states? Past/present? Present/non-present? Passing/stopped? Did digital watches cause time to become binary? I need some hot sauce.
It took some of us four days to get the joke in panel nine. I won’t say who, for fear of embarrassing them, but they’re sitting at my desk and they’re devilishly handsome, if that’s any help.