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Which further fuels the psychiatrist query.

EDIT: I've been to a psychologist, so I guess I can vouch for "it's not bad, it's just irritating"

As one who has voluntarily sought the aid of psychological therapists from time to time in my life, I must say that they often provide an invaluable and unique perspective into one's own life and mind, and there is practically nobody who wouldn't benefit from their aid, in most cases.

Woooooo, I just got finished with the Wisconsin Annual High School Theater Conference, and man am I tired! *collapses into bed*

Hey wow, I finally figured out how to program a Mandelbrot set generator. I suppose it's not a big deal in the grand scheme of things, but it feels good to have figured everything out. Plus, it's the first time I've actually programmed anything in a long time.

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Nah, it's a Mandelbrot set. The top picture is the whole set - the interesting thing about it is, no matter how deeply you zoom in, there's always new detail - the bottom picture was taken after zooming in quite close. One of the recurring themes of the Mandelbrot set is that you see a lot of very small images that look like the whole thing (but they're always a little bit different). And it's all derived from a simple equation, too. I'm just proud of myself for putting it all together - also with figuring out how to make it really cool with the differing shades of blue.

*singing*
Just take a point called Z in a complex plane
let Z1 be Z squared plus C
let Z2 be Z1 squared plus C
Let Z3 be Z2 squared plus C
and so on
if the series of Zs will always stay
Close to Z and never trend away
that point is in the Mandelbrot Set

I wrote it in FreeBasic, which is basically Qbasic ported to Windows. It's not the most elegant code in the world (which actually has nothing to do with the fact that it's written in BASIC, ironically), but eh, it works.

ShadowTiger wrote:This thread is eating all the topics.

Indeed, it is slowly reaching critical mass. Once it does there will be a glow about the boards and then a *poof*. What happens after the *poof* is subject to heated debate. Many though, subscribe to the belief that upon this thread reaching critical mass the boards will *poof* into a Pastrami and cheese on wheat bread with mayo sandwich.

russadwan wrote:Wheat bread? Why wheat? Why couldn't it poof into something tasty like white bread?

White bread's no good for you - they bleach out all the nutrients. You need to get your proper amount of whole grain every day.

It has flavor - making it something of an acquired taste for anyone who's been raised on bland, processed crap that hardly qualifies as food (I know from experience).

Yup, as a pure bred (or is it bread, hahaha) wheaty, I find white bread...horrible. It has no substance, no body.

That, and you can't really spread anything on it. It makes my beloved tuna heroes worthlessly overstuffed. It's rye and whole wheat, yo. Those are the godbreads.

Beldaran wrote:Instead of a dog, they should get a leech, as it symbolizes their economic philosophy.

Am I the only one who doesn't see Obama as either a great change for better or for worse? Everyone seems to think that he's either going to save the world or kill us all. Honestly, he just seems like a typical president to me, with policies not really that far out of line from the entire second half of the 20th century.

Besides, I've heard he's planning to extend the Bush tax cuts a little longer anyway, as a result of the current economic situation (in addition to the promised tax cuts for the middle class). So in other words, yeah, not so much with the liberal economic policies.

Beldaran wrote:Instead of a dog, they should get a leech, as it symbolizes their economic philosophy.

Wow, I was laughing pretty hard at that one. Nice joke. :laughing:

rock_nog wrote:
Besides, I've heard he's planning to extend the Bush tax cuts a little longer anyway, as a result of the current economic situation

So he is admitting point blank that lower taxes are good for the economy.