New Roof! Oh…joy… and First YouTube upload!

They’re reroofing my condo. Lots of scraping and pounding and dropping many pounds of tar paper heavy enough to make my building shudder. I can actually feel the compression and expansion when they drop the rolls of tar paper into position on the roof. It sounds and feels like the end of the world. Just ask my cats. And the smell! Hot, smokey, burning tires. Blekh! But, hey! No more leaks when it rains!

So, I’m uploading my first ever video to YouTube as I type this. It’s a test animation of fractal renderings. I don’t think it’s spectacular, but it does document a successful test. It’s cool, if you like watching animations, especially animations created from mathematical abstractions. This one is of a series of Julia set equations.

It’s 15 seconds long. Now that I know what to expect, I’ll make my next one longer, and also more interesting.

If you like math visualizations, or if you just wanna see a cool colorful animation, check it out.

Silent Monks Sing Halelujah!

Videos at 3 AM

So I like Russian things. Does that make me a Communist? Does it matter that I was coincidentally sipping Smirnoff instead of Bushmill’s when I happened upon this video? And what if I did have Bushmill’s in my glass, as I usually do. Would I, maybe, have found the following video? “Bloody ‘ell! The Corrs and The Chieftans in the same concert!”