General observations

Since I didn't do any catblogging yesterday, I thought I'd do a bit of general observation instead. Not to worry, I'll prolly upload some pics of my housemate's cats next Friday.

Reading through my RSS feeds is always fun and enlightening. This morning I read about an application that will allow me to download images formated to fit my mobile phone screen from any RSS feed.

I am highly tempted to download it, if money weren't so damn tight right now. Here's the RSS feed I read:

Lockergnome's RSS Resource: Mobile Photo RSS reader

Here's a link to the software developer's site:

49PM.com: Mobile Photo RSS reader

Watching the world around me.
I work at a store in a small New England town, and right next to the store is a section of an historic canal dating from the Industrial revolution. Over the winter, I've been watching the water flow, and the ice form.

In the middle of this canal, two trees has taken root; grasses have sprung up at their bases during the time when the river runs low. As water is bound in ice up stream, the level lowers, and a small island emerges around those young trees. As the water rises, ice will form around the tussocks of grass, around the boles. Water lowers, and those tussocks and boles become the centers of ice islands.

I've been fascinated with the day-to-day changes of those ice-islands in the stream. The edges are grotesquely art nouveau, with regular blobs forming in fantastic shapes.

Would this be an example of fractals in real life? Within chaos of the stream, patterns emerge. Whoa, that's very Zen, isn't it?