Triangulation
When I was in high school was particularly interested in the geometry and mathematical
proofs. There seemed to be a unique pleasure in logic and vision. As if through
arrangement the visible world could be understood. I had quite an aptitude for
mathematics and my math teacher wanted me to go into mathematics. I remember
the triangle in particular.
I also rremember an interest in Fibrinachi number series and different sized
infinities
Pythagoras
was the of course the architect of the geometry, most well known for his triangle
proofs. See Pythagoras
<<In a message dated 3/22/02 3:41 PM, Willpap
writes:
Finding Y and Sizing Y
Statistics:
20 Street blocks = 1 mi. = 5,280 ft.
1 Street block = 264 ft.
5 blocks = 1320 ft, each arm of Y
4 x 3 blocks = 3168 ft, total Y
My shoe size = about 1 ft.
my birthday = July 27th, 1954
1,048,576 Bytes (220)= megabyte = 1,024 K (kilobytes)
1,024 (210) bytes = kilobyte
In terms of sighting/situating the Y, I am headed, in my emotive memory, towards
the intersection of West Broadway and Hudson Streets with the James Borgadus
Triangle park. Intersection is also near the center of Tribecca, so triangulation
and 3's are very present. I am definitely strangely attracted to this site rather
than Battery Park also because it is peripheral, secondary, ficele, compared
to the major implications of the site of Battery Park. But I will figure out
how to include other Ys other wise not chosen here.
Numerolog-Y
At this point I am thinking of starting with (2) 5 blocks for the bifurcation
of the Y (along West Broadway and Hudson Streets) and 2-3 blocks for the joint
section (along West Broadway), such that the figure still suggests the shape
of the wishbone. It seems right that the distance between pom poms should be
the length of my shoe size which is about a foot. Calculating the standard distance
between street blocks in NYC to be 20 blocks to the mile, this would give me
around 1320 pom poms for each arm of the Y (2640 ). this would leave little
over one block (about 360 pom poms) to equal the number of pom poms to about
3000 (the approximate number of deaths from the WTCs). Adding to this will be
wishes/questions included by the website visitors. There are approximately three
and something blocks left before excavation on the trade centers site begins.
This gives a leeway of about 696 pom poms. I'm guessing that a wish/question
sentence in put into the Website will be fairly long, about 18 words, this gives
about 94 characters with spaces. If I were to encode this directly into poms
it would allow for only about 6 sentences. Therefore I think it might be a good
idea to calculate the number of characters in a wish/question and then add to
numerals of the number together (94, 9+4=13) to give the number of pom poms.
Each wish/question would be separated by a blue pom. (This would allow for more
like 60 questions...)
So when at the wishes and put it are added to the number of fatalities the end
point of this figure in pom pom this would be the place where I would find the
answer to my burning "question."
If you can follow all this, what you think? Any other ideas?
Will>>
In philosophy class I
became particularly interested in the classic argument of "true" or
"false" obscured a third possibility that was neither or a mixture
of both.
In a message dated 4/13/02 1:28 PM, Willpap writes:
Re- Soft Wishing Y Memorial Sp
<<Pythagorean triangle and Pythagorean triads: as in triangulation, the
Y, Tribeca>>
<<Doctrine of tripartite soul : highest category of person: "The
spectators come only to see performances. They are lovers of wisdom.">>
In a message dated 4/13/02 1:04:41 PM, gulmer@ENGLISH.UFL.EDU
writes:
Re: Re2: Soft Wishing Y Glue
<<
Regarding your attraction for tri-items, the pom eidos connects with
Tribbles, from Star Trek (viz citation).
"The TRIBBLES are harmless and nice small spherical and hairy animals that
have the only fault of multiply vey quickly if they are able to find the
necessary food. The reproduction of the Tribbles happens for splitting,
equally in which they multiply the cells of the human body. The TRIBBLES
is notorious to be "sweetter animals of the whole universe," but also
to
be most useless!
The Tribbles have no mouths, but they aro neverless voracoius, expecially
of a particular kind of grain called "quadrotriticale".
The Tribbles hate Klingons!"
Here is another possible connection between us. I won't go into it, but
I have a mystorical connection with Shmoos (which are to L'il Abner what
Tribbles are to Star Trek, sorta). But Shmoos are shaped lke bowling pins.
best
glue >>