mission ends; the cat, the rat king, the storyteller

tonight ends skinnyblogcladdink's one month mission. at the moment, without provoking Schrodinger's cat, i'm pretty sure Mabel is on a plane somewhere over the Pacific, heading home.

Yay.

from this point on, skinnyblogcladdink returns to a more rag-tag schedule of posting.

meanwhile, zen in darkness continues to seek the meaning of its existence.

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though i'm not a subscriber, i signed up for e-alerts for Nature, and so have been receiving regular e-mail updates on the publication for much of my existence in cyberspace.

i rarely have the patience to go through the formidable lists of contents i receive in the mail, but occassionally i do browse through them, and find interesting things like this.

reading through the first few bits reminded me of Stanislaw Lem's Cyberiad, which speculates on the evolution of thinking machines following logically from biological, and more specifically, human evolution.

having finished reading the article, i feel even more inclined to think Mr Lem was, in fact, on to something.

though the article caused a veritable rat king of crossed wires and shorted circuits in my limited meat brain, the storyteller in me is rejoicing in the possibilities and other what ifs of it, racing from one point to another in a mad scramble of nonsense and speculation.

whether anything comes of it, it may be that only time will tell. but it would be absolutely brilliant if i do first.