so, "a great writer is like a second government"

No more class til Jan 8, except for the final which happens Dec 19 9:30 AM. Or was it 8:30? So I have some stuff which I might get around to reading. I could ask for an introduction to Prof. Lowe of the Computer Science dept in order to tell him about my "head position determines viewpoint" idea, and discover if the CARBON ATOM at the CENTRE OF MY BRAIN is capable of implementing it at reasonable quality. (Edit: The idea. A bit naive and a bit trusting. Should it be a star, or stardust?) I could assiduously endeavour to understand Feigenbaum's and Epstein's papers. Also differential geometry, as in Hirsch & Smale? Sternberg? and algebraic topology, Spanier.

Or maybe go to the cheesecake place every day. Other things more likely to happen: rip off all clothes and run down Main St. (it's... impromptu Gay Pride); overcome irrational fear of homology; read Dostoyevsky, commit suicide.

Also muß get all my ducks in row for application to UBC not to be totally ridiculous (in particular to finish... AP Calculus. You may laugh.)

Oh, BTW, I figured out what the dark lines in the logistic picture probably are. They're the forward orbit of 1/2. I suspect that, when this becomes periodic, it kicks the system INTO stability - maybe the amount of the stability depends on the order of the period? What percent of the k are chaotic and what percent aren't, anyway?