Hair Today...

Take care of what you got... Bubblicious Cola (bubblegum) might no longer be produced if nobody buy it anymore. It contains natural sugar and no artificial sweetening. The sweater I use is made of a mix of natural cotton and natural wool - that will keep me sufficient warm or cool during all year around. The sweater is made in Vietnam and was bought at Dressmann, the bubblegum was bought at Nille, the hair is my own and not for sale, I'm afraid...

Remember to use your local store - or it will disappear. This is for me a nearby shop (No, it's not from a Batman movie!)

Hot today (+ 3C) and the forecast for the next three days is fair, mild weather... so you better hurry to use your local crosscountry tracks if you live in or nearby The Arctic Zone like me (picture today of a part of the 650 meter long, superb double crosscountry track nearby my flat - I use 3 minutes to complete one round, and half an hour that is about 6 - 7 km in a modest speed)

The Intermediate Forces That Started The Universe? Part I

Some intermediate forces may have been locked by quick four way passages between cells in a sort of matrix where positive (in) and negative (out) flow kept the energy in balance (at total sum of zero). Other intermediate forces on top of these intermediate forces must somehow have made two layers of matrix outside this one (the illustration over) and ripped it appart at the same time when the Big Bang happend, I think. Inspired by professor Matti Pitkänen.

The programme I used to illustrate the first matrix (I hope to complete the two others later):

rem
rem Written in yabasic (from wwww.yabasic.de)
rem Free of use (or no use)
rem Depending on the size of your screen...
open window 1400,700
clear screen
q=0
for i=0 to 700
p1=0:p2=0:r=1
for j=0 to 1400
r=-r
if r<0 then
a=cos((j+i)*pi/180):b=sin((j+i)*pi/180)
f=sin((j-i)*pi/180):g=cos((j-i)*pi/180)
endif
if r>0 then
a=cos((-j-i)*pi/180):b=sin((-j-i)*pi/180)
f=sin((i-j)*pi/180):g=cos((i-j)*pi/180)
endif
x=a*a*b+f*f*g*g:y=g*g*f+b*b*a*a
c=sqr(x*x+y*y)*16.0
d=c
while (c>16.0)
c=c-8.0
wend
rem Feel free to choose other colors
if (c>0.000 and c<0.025) then
coa=64:cob=127:coc=32
endif
if (c>0.025 and c<0.050) then
coa=32:cob=64:coc=127
endif
if (c>0.050 and c<0.075) then
coa=127:cob=32:coc=64
endif
if (c>0.075 and c<0.100) then
coa=32:cob=127:coc=64
endif
if (c>0.100 and c<0.125) then
coa=64:cob=32:coc=127
endif
if (c>0.125 and c<0.150) then
coa=127:cob=64:coc=32
endif
if (c>0.150 and c<0.200) then
coa=255:cob=127:coc=64
endif
if (c>0.200 and c<0.250) then
coa=255:cob=64:coc=127
endif
if (c>0.250 and c<0.300) then
coa=127:cob=64:coc=255
endif
if (c>0.300 and c<0.350) then
coa=127:cob=255:coc=64
endif
if (c>0.350 and c<0.400) then
coa=64:cob=255:coc=127
endif
if (c>0.400 and c<0.450) then
coa=64:cob=127:coc=255
endif
if (c>0.450 and c<0.500) then
coa=32:cob=64:coc=255
endif
if (c>0.500 and c<1.000) then
coa=255:cob=255:coc=255
endif
if (c>1.0 and c<2.0) then
coa=0:cob=0:coc=0
endif
if (c>2.0 and c<4.0) then
coa=255:cob=255:coc=127
endif
if (c>4.0 and c<6.0) then
coa=255:cob=127:coc=255
endif
if (c>6.0 and c<8.0) then
coa=127:cob=255:coc=255
endif
if (c>8.0 and c<10.0) then
coa=255:cob=127:coc=127
endif
if (c>10.0 and c<11.0) then
coa=127:cob=127:coc=64
endif
if (c>11.0 and c<12.0) then
coa=127:cob=64:coc=127
endif
if (c>12.0 and c<13.0) then
coa=64:cob=127:coc=127
endif
if (c>13.0 and c<14.0) then
coa=64:cob=255:coc=64
endif
if (c>14.0 and c<15.0) then
coa=64:cob=64:coc=255
endif
if (c>15.0 and c<16.0) then
coa=255:cob=64:coc=64
endif
rem colour choice
colour coa,cob,coc
rem color to draw with
p2=p2+1
line p1,q+d to p2,q+d
p1=p2
next j
q=q+1
next
rem now you use "save as" to save it to a " ".yab file
rem run then the " ".yab file
rem if you have Hoversnap active you can get a saved picture by pressing Alt + PRTSC (beside F12)
rem get Hoversnap for free safe download, see here
rem http://www.optimizingpc.com/software/printscreen_print_to_pdf.html
rem at use you get a file called "capture" in jpeg that you may rename and cut, etc.

The Purpose Of Hiccups I Have Worked Out

Still not clearly explained why we sometimes get hiccups and for what purpose:
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/causes-of-hiccups.html

I suspect that the longitudinal and circular muscles that work inside our throat are to be blamed somehow. These muscles are responsible for swallowing the food in a regular order, so that the food will pass flawless further down with no blockade. If the food bits are to lumpy, there might be somewhat less smooth swallowing that occures, instead of the regular, smoother swallowing usually. The purpose is to protect us from swallowing too big bits of food, I guess.

If the bits of food are too voluminous, the order of contractions of the longitudinal and circular muscles no longer work in the usual way, but there might be some stages that are skipped to cause the swallowing to happen faster. A sort of intertwined muscle group appear and that group tries to get back to normal muscular use by loosen up through spasms just after a big mouthful is swallowed (but there is a fealing of some bits still are left in the throat).
The evolutionary benefit of faster swallowing sometimes by skipping stages is to better be ready for escape from danger caused by enemies or predators. Of course there might be some movements of the diaphragm at the same time (the old explanation with no mentioning of what purpose the hiccups has).

Skaaaal (Cheers) !!

Me 27+27 years today... not with beer or firewater, but with Simon Levelt's organic, fairtrade, green tea (bought at Smart Club), this cooool day (-15C or 5F here North of Dröbak). By some stripes of light (sunshine) and a healthy living I hope to reach 27+27+27 years...:-))

...Dots (Continued) - 1) Weather

In clouds the friction of ice crystals may cause the separation of negative and positive charges, but these charges must regroup somehow, and work together to cause lightning, otherwise there would only be little exchange of small electric bursts. So I guess my hypotheses about dots (items) perhaps could explain those often violent bursts of electricity between clouds, cloud parts or clouds + the ground.

The organized charges (items), by this dot hypotheses of mine, are not nesceserily fixed in their position, but vary by a surplus of negative/positive condition and neutral. The neutral condition may last for a very short while, but within that short while the regrouping and denser charge conditon appears, so there will be a possible bigger burst of electrisity if the positive and negative charges are aligned directly towards each other after some regrouping time, I think. The fast movements of charges cause a little wind in the beginning, but wind conditions may grow much by the greater strength of regrouping of charges. At the same time we have ice crystals that smash into and stick to each other - so they also grow (in size); this might sometimes cause the segregation of charges to stop by interfering and dampen the winds, so there will only be rain with no lightning (and no hail).

So I think by this I have disproven the Bergeron process (that is based on complicated and not very likely pressure conditions to appear within clouds) - it's more likely a variety of the building up (and some instances of tearing down) of charges that is behind it all (ice crystal growth, winds, lightning, rain, hail and snow). This view of mine is supported by the fractal nature of clouds and lightning. I hope to get further into intermediate conditions (like neutral) to explain this more thoroughly.

Some Geometric Thoughts...Dots

Just wanted to put on "paper" an idea so I can go to sleep this cold January night (-5 C here).

The idea:

If you put dots in a row on paper by a pencil, you will have only two directions to move the pencil along to connect those dots no matter how many dots there will be. But if you place those dots irregular, you will soon have an enormous variety of dot paths to choose among. But is there a finite answer about how many different paths there will be, I wonder. So is there a pattern of those dots that optimize the total of dot paths? Thinking about that problem (I don't know if anybody has thought of the problem before me) I conclude that there will not be an irregular shape that will optimize the total of dot paths, but a shape that must be symmetric, I think, which must mean that nature itself seek symmetries (but perhaps not reach that goal because of time delays by force interruptions).

It's tempting to think that some sort of spiral outwards from the first dot you make on paper will be the answer. So two similar spiral layers are separated by one with dots where there's an opposite "hole" in those two spiral layers - and visaversa. And the one spiral layer will also pair up with a similar spiral layer with one of those two spiral layers between. Reduce the distance between layers and even dots to almost zero in the spirals, and it will be like making a spiral of same size coins from a fixed point, each coin of second layer etc resting on two others coins ridges.

Think of those layers of coins as positive or negative items (positive and negative attracts), every two times, then the pile is held together. If you mark the items with a plus or minus sign - every two times, you will notice that there will be three plusses grouped with one minus sign (and visaversa with the 4 type nabor group - considering three sprial layers).

With all "4-groups" there will not be possible to keep the same distance between each same layer pairs as between  two items outside the same layer pairs, because the first instance means attractive force and the second means repelling in that cross each 4-groups make. But that is seen isolated - there's an overlap of 4-groups that balance out, I think. So I guess nature will try to keep the same distance between every items if they have the equal amount of charge (negative or positive).
 

Where's The Food?

Remember'em birdies now in the Winter. The snow came here in the lowlands at last in the first days of January. The highlands have been covered by snow since the middle of December. Forcing some birds from the woods, like woodpeckers, to visit cityslickers' bird trays and feeders - like mine!
(The picture was painted by an arm disabled - amazing! From a calendar I bought to support the arm disabled and mouth or leg painters).

At The End Of Yool 2011...

The table is empty except for some nipses... the bluish pottery at the chair was made by me at school more than 40 years ago...

My mom's 1st pine from her own garden is left alone at a corner... on the wall hangs pictures of my sister, her husband and their seven children (when they were young, fresh rascals).

I'm Dreaming Of A ...Er...

Greenish Yool? Only frost here today north of Dröbak...:-((

Ho-Ho-Ho (Me)... Have you been nice this year?:-)) If so: Merry Yoool !!!

100 Years Ago (Part 2)

Brutalized system of bringing up children before 1911. Katzenjammer Kids  first appearing in my country in 1911 changed all that... it seems! Just two years later women were allowed to vote and soon children also got their rights! "Knoll og Tott 100 år i Norge" at sale here now at Tronsmo - get it before Yool!

What To Buy Yourself This Time Of The Year?

Why not probably the greatest beginners keyboard: Yamaha PSR E423. Remember to add a headphone set - then you won't disturb your neighbours that perhaps otherwise will think that The Third World War has begun, and besides you won't hear any bombs going off in your city. I bought mine in June at Norsk Musikk Instrument AS (Oslo) for only NOK 2495 (about just 400 dollars!) to celebrate 2 years with unemployment, no women to push me around, and of course: The Brightest Day of the year (Solistice).

Learn About Your Ancestry

Remember to buy Scientific American for this November. Add a Finlux LED-TV with recording to a USB memory stick or hard drive to your living room... to keep scanned pictures from the past and films from Discovery and National Geographic TV Channel... to pass on to your descendants (if your country is civillized enough to allow that!)