Soft Cliff

A classic example of fractal self-similarity, the shore here demonstrates it from the horizontal angle too. Usually the shore is talked about being self-similar in terms of the birds-eye perspective. But here you see layers of sediment, cleaved faces, and alluvial patterns that would not look odd at many times this scale. This little sand shelf is just three feet or so. Fascinating! To me at least.

Washed Up

One of a spate of cool golden hour shots from across the lake last weekend.

Ahoy Mateys

Nobody that I saw (except myself, briefly) was in the water this weekend. Not sure why these water toys weren't yet put away for the winter. But folk were out soaking up the nicest days we'll likely see until spring. I had skipped town across the lake for the weekend to revel in it myself.

Grasshopper

This looks lit by a flash, but it was just the low sun on asphalt, not that early in the afternoon in Humboldt Park.

Ummmm. More Sad Kermit anyone? Some language and imagery NSFW:

It's Not Easy Being Green

Stay Puft

I went out for Halloween last night with some friends who were doing a group Ghostbusters thing. My friend Wyllys took a break from the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man mask with my friend Staci in the background as Zuul. I was David Byrne in the big suit:

Nerdy Halloween

This is Euler's Identity. Here's why it's a big deal:

Three basic arithmetic operations occur exactly once each: addition, multiplication, and exponentiation. The identity also links five fundamental mathematical constants:

* The number 0.
* The number 1.
* The number π, which is ubiquitous in trigonometry, geometry of Euclidean space, and mathematical analysis (π ≈ 3.14159).
* The number e, the base of natural logarithms, which also occurs widely in mathematical analysis (e ≈ 2.71828).
* The number i, imaginary unit of the complex numbers, which contain the roots of all nonconstant polynomials and lead to deeper insight into many operators, such as integration.

I had actually already carved my pumpkin pi purely for the pun's sake. Then I figured why not go for geek gold. I left out the "+ 1 = 0" part, but true nerds will recognize this immediately.