Saturday, July 31, 2010

Pendulum..

I pace.
Then I sit.
I can be still briefly.
Then I wander and try to accomplish something necessary and/or responsible.
Then I pace.
I sometimes write or doodle. Eventually I need sleep.
I pace in my sleep.
I dream the wrong people in scenarios yet to happen.
I dream about accomplishing something.
The wrong people pace and smile and touch.
I dream scenarios.
I wait to sleep.
Sometimes I dream it right. Eventually.
The smile is right.
I know the touch.
It made me pace once. Years of pacing.
Back and forth.
Awake and dreaming.
I can be still briefly.
Sometimes I write.

Thursday, July 29, 2010

From Wikipedia: (yeah..I know..it's not a "reliable source," but I'm not writing a paper here) ;)
Infinity (sometimes symbolically represented by ∞) is a concept in many fields, most predominantly mathematics and physics, that refers to a quantity without bound or end. People have developed various ideas throughout history about the nature of infinity. The word comes from the Latin infinitas or "unboundedness.".
The infinity symbol is sometimes called the lemniscate, from the Latin lemniscus, meaning "ribbon". John Wallis is credited with introducing the symbol in 1655 in his De sectionibus conicis. One conjecture about why he chose this symbol is that he derived it from a Roman numeral for 1000 that was in turn derived from the Etruscan numeral for 1000, which looked somewhat like CIƆ and was sometimes used to mean "many." Another conjecture is that he derived it from the Greek letter ω (omega), the last letter in the Greek alphabet. Also, before typesetting machines were invented, ∞ was easily made in printing by typesetting an 8 type on its side.