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someone in hong kong sees me

according to my wordpress analytics

and I wonder what that person sees

in my digital scribblings

and who that person is

and if the benefit of returning to “Home page/Archives”

day after day

includes an acquisition of a better command of english

or a better grasp of american insanity

or both or neither.

it may be that the person is an expatriate

and knows plenty about english and insanity.

it may be my quirky illustrations and murky calligraphy are intriguing.

..

the author of childhood’s end, arthur c. clarke,

once speculated about the future in imaginative ways

and then delivered the boggling punchline

“The truth, as always, will be far stranger.”

..

if that being in hong kong is a person,

i wish that person well

and offer their seeing of my posts as proof

that observation alters reality.

..

Buckminster fuller greeted people not with hello

but i see you.

i am glad we see one another.

Today’s post will be a riddle’s question, followed by an image titled “Inference Pattern” and containing partial text from whose pattern it may be inferred forms “Inference Pattern” (the image also contains checkerboards and other patterns of horizontal and vertical, and a wicked-looking earwiggy caterpillar, or caterpillary earwig, if you prefer), followed by the riddle’s answer. As far as I know the riddle was invented by me some hours ago. The sufficiently smart and/or patient will be able to infer the answer to the riddle prior to seeing it.

Q: What is an orange’s favorite type of furniture?

Inference Pattern

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A: An orange’s favorite type of furniture is…

Sectional, of course. [dodges thrown oranges]

PS–The phrase “Inference Pattern” was deliberately modeled after the phrase “Interference Pattern.” An Internet search on “Double-Slit Experiment” will yield extensive discussions on the intereference pattern abtained via this experiment. It is one of the great unsolved mysteries of the Universe and the interaction of the observer. Infer from that what you will, my friends!

 

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Here is an image of two drawings that, overlapping, pose a philosophical question. What are the boundaries of Where? And what’s This, and is This subject to change without notice? When then, does This become That and then subside back into This?

All of that may seem like a lot of nonsense, but strong evidence suggests that everything real is, on the subatomic level, constantly winking in and out of existence–except that “winking in and out of existence” is an inherent failure of our language to even come close to describing this phenomenon. A particle found somewhere in a zone of probability is un-pin-downable, and instruments of detection themselves interfere with attempts to do so.

Have a good breakfast is my advice. [Innocent smile]