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- From: steve@crc.ricoh.COM (Stephen R. Savitzky)
- Subject: Re: Descriptions...
- In-Reply-To: dspeck@ee.ryerson.ca's message of 22 Jan 93 19:09:27 GMT
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 17:50:21
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- "Descriptions," says the Mandelbear, "Now, that's an idea. It's been
- a while, and I don't think I've posted a full set of descriptions for
- the Starport folx since Emmy was born. Well, here we go--old-timers
- hit "N" now:
-
- "On the chalkboard, you'll find something like the following:
-
- The Mandelbear Steve Savitzky steve@crc.ricoh.com
- Genever gin, single-malt Scotch 1947 March 13
-
- The Flowercat Colleen Savitzky
- Gin & Tonic, single-malt Scotch 1952 March 16
-
- Kathryn of Chaos Katy Savitzky
- Diet coke 1985 July 6
-
- Emerald Emmy Savitzky
- milk 1992 March 25
-
- "The Mandelbear started out in Callahans as a medium-sized teddybear.
- He is presently a three-dimensional cross-section of a four-
- dimensional fractal, usually the one defined by iterating z^3+c, with
- Mandelbrot sets in one direction and Julia sets in the other. The
- cubic Mandelbrot set looks a lot like a sort of weird teddy-bear made
- out of hearts, with two antenna-like structures on its head. It is,
- of course, infinitely fuzzy."
-
- The Mandelbear moves under the Light of Reality, to reveal a short,
- overweight, slightly ursine, middle-aged computer scientist with
- salt-and-pepper hair and beard, dressed in black. "Enough of that.
- My chief claim to fame in Callahans is having created what is now
- called the Danger Room, as a sort of marker for threads involving
- violence not intended to harm uninvolved bystanders."
-
- Next to him a large, reddish-brown Cheshire cat slowly fades into
- existance. "This is the Flowercat. She's not presently on the net."
- The cat fades out; the grin is the last to go. As the grin passes
- quickly under the Light of Reality, one gets a brief glimpse of a
- large lady with gorgeous grey-gold eyes, dark-brown hair with a bit of
- white in it, and an orchid corsage.
-
- The Mandelbear walks over to Table 28-X, where the robots, computers,
- and cyborgs hang out, and picks up a guitar. It is a small, mahogany
- Martin O-15 with bronze-wrapped silk-and-steel strings, and in
- Callahans the soundbox is mostly occupied by an artificially-
- intelligent computer with a beautiful singing voice. "This is
- Snuggles."
-
- "Shut up and play me," says Snuggles. The Mandelbear shuts up, sits
- down, and starts noodling somewhere around the key of D minor.
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