Comments on: I’m Afraid of Hegemony

By: Joel Cooper

Joel Cooper — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:34:54 +0000

Dividing the square into sevenths is all well and good, but you still have to start with a standard square. What about irregular polygons with irrational divisions? How about a scalene triangle divided by phi?

By: Hideo

Hideo — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 07:59:55 +0000

Maravilhoso o seu trabalho.
Hideo

By: oschene

oschene — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:06:20 +0000

@ Eric: The Umbria thing confused me, too. Euro Disney is somewhere near Paris, isn’t it? Maybe Bowie was thinking of Euro Itchy and Scratchy Land. Who are you to resist it, huh?

I have friends who think Disney parks are just all right — you couldn’t get me in one of those places with a court order and a cattle prod.

@ Tom: Marduk made the fingers of your left hand to hold sixes and those who hold that we use base ten because we have ten fingers are afflicted with a poverty of imagination. Babylonians could count to sixty without taking off their sandals and do division without recourse to decimals, always leaving aside the tricky seven. When I was in Italy, I went to the supermarket and counted the eggs — they really do sell them in tens which is, you know, simply cruelty to chickens.

By: Tom Hull

Tom Hull — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 02:12:08 +0000

Jeez. You’ve been living in origami-land for so long that you think powers of two are natural and the way God intended, or something. You forget your roots! How many fingers on each hand do you have there? We’re base 10 creatures, matey.

Do you know how much trouble I have to go to to get my students to think outside the base 10 box? Those kiddos dreaming of CS careers need to get their feet planted firmly in the land of base two. Maybe I should lock them in a room full of origami books for a month or two. It could have the desired effect.

By: Eric Gjerde

Eric Gjerde — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 19:49:27 +0000

Philip, I always love your posts! You totally crack me up, every time

I agree about people with the power of 2 – and I’m just as guilty of that myself! It is all about what’s easy but at some point it becomes a rut. Thanks much for the gentle nudge to get out of the dirt and see what else is out there.

(and Disney in Umbria? I find that pretty bizarre…)