Black XVI: "The A.N.S.W.E.R., my FRiends..." (BLOW AWAY, HUSSEIN!!!)

MUD's Nubile Mind ^ | Mudboy Slim

[Mudboy Slim]

"The A.N.S.W.E.R., my FRiends..."
(To be sung to Bob Dylan's "Blowin' In the Wind")

How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man?
How many Dreams must each Tyrant kill before he's forced to step down?
How many lives must the Socialists kill, before RATS are forever banned?!!

The A.N.S.W.E.R, my FRiends, is Lib'ralism's DEAD!!!
The A.N.S.W.E.R. is fightin' 'gainst RATS' Spin!!

How many fears must the Networks create before RATS're squashed by the FRee?
How many years can RAT-sheeple persist that Mass-Murder's just peachy-keen?!!
How many times can RATS' Hearts trick their Heads, pretending Slick's blacker than me?!

The A.N.S.W.E.R., my FRiends, is helping FReep RATS' pigs,
The A.N.S.W.E.R. is blowin' out the Ditz's!!!!

How many times must Lib'rals be duped before they will see Slick LIES?
How many victims must one man have before the Rapist hears her cries?
How many deaths will it take 'till World knows that Central Authority is VILE?!!

The A.N.S.W.E.R., my FRiends, is Fightin' 'Gainst Left's Spin,
The A.N.S.W.E.R. is taking down Clinton/Soddim/Treason.(gettin' outta the UN?!)

Mid...MUD

[FBD]

"After we got back from the hospital, I went back to the hole, poured in some gasoline, then lit those RAT-ba$+ards up!!"

Sheesh! yer a regular Janet Reno, aint ya!! Have a great weekend, ya insta-gator!

[FBD]

My little boat ain't got no rudder,,,

It spins round an round like Teddy Kennedies car...

Catch ya later! ;^D
FBD

[sultan88]

"700...MUD

So, like you were jist sittin' around for an hour so you could be number 700?!??

That's OK, cuz you missed the irony question deadline.

[Mia T]

I think Stern is a reasonable choice for UVA architecture. I see superficial similarities between his work and Jefferson's, e.g., the exaggerated neoclassical gestures, the aesthetic sensibilities and the pride of place, to borrow a phrase. I think Jefferson was more experimental and innovative, however.

Architecture criticism has always seemed somewhat oxymoronic to me; its pretentiousness often serves to rationalize bad design.

Your 'mobius strip...outta the loop' pun indicates otherwise.;) I studied math, not architecture.

Möbius (Moebius) strip

Written by Paul Bourke
May 1996

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The Möbius stip is the simplest geometric shape which has only one surface and only one edge. It can be created by taking a strip of paper, giving it a half twist along its long axis, and then joining the two narrow ends together.

The Möbius strip in 3 dimensions can be represented parameterically f(s,t) as follows

where s ranges from 0 to 2*pi and t ranges typically from -0.4 to 0.4

An example of such a strip is shown below.

Featured in "mama 27", November 2000, pp 91, Figure 17.

The band for different values of t are illustrated below.

t = -1 -> 1

t = -0.1 -> 0.1

t = -0.5 -> 0.5

Increasing the range of t even further yields interesting folded and increasingly convoluted forms.

[sultan88]

Wow, you sure brought back some [bad] memories. LOL. I studied the Mobius Strip as a Math Major, too. It's really amazing, isn't it?

[sultan88]

"...I'm gonna be FReepin' up in DeeCee from 11-3..."

Man, how could I have fergot that?? Wish I was feelin' a bit better, I would go with ya. Not sure I'll be able to withstand the trip to the Home Show. LOL!!

[Mia T]

Architecture criticism has always seemed somewhat oxymoronic to me; its pretentiousness often serves to rationalize bad design.  ;)

WRITTEN IN STONE: AN ARCHITECT DEFINES THE CLINTONS

 

by Mia T, 12-30-02

 

If mutability of meaning was necessary for the survival of the clintons--their survival hinged ultimately on the deconstruction of words and laws--it is more than a little ironic, and a manifestation of the special sway and shortsightedness of the pathologic ego, that clinton's monument to himself will necessarily define the clintons with the permanance of great inviolate places of iconic architecture.

Whereas a huckster removes meaning from institutions --the wife picked up where the husband left off--an architect encodes meaning in buildings. James S. Polshek, the architect with the dubious distinction of having been commissioned to build the William J. Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock, Arkansas, believes that a successful architectural solution must necessarily be rooted in relevance.

Just as Polshek's buildings have physical layers, so too do they have layers of meaning. His Rose Center for Earth and Space, for example, is informed formally and programmatically by the historic architecture of a designated landmark even as it redefines itself, (often too self-consciously, in my view), in Star-Trekian terms. Reduced to its essence, the building is the nascent universe before the Big Bang, the promise of the undifferentiated cell in its mother's womb.

The "bridge to the 21^st century" was, perhaps, clinton's most delusional conceit, so it is not surprising that it would become clinton's self-referential metaphor of choice. His library was to be that bridge, if he had anything to say about it...

The architect is often the master of the inside joke, witness Robert Venturi's postmodern chairs. Venturi exploited--unabashedly and with abandon--the vocabulary of Las Vegas, its stage-set-as-reality and its roadside culture--bright, clashing, ugly and fake. The architect's inside joke is his hedge against the sycophancy that comes with patronage.

The flip side of the encoded meaning of the architect is the terrorist's decoding of it. To bin Laden, the World Trade Center was Jewish capitalism encoded in urban space. If Polshek's vision of clinton's library is a bridge, the inside joke is that, at best, it is a bridge to nowhere.

More likely, it is a bridge to the 7^th century...or a doublewide to house clinton double-speak. Take your choice.

 

copyright Mia T 2002

[Mia T]

mobius strip bttt

[goldilucky]

Good evening, Mudboy. I just made and decorated two chocolate cakes. I'm kinda tired for now.

[Mudboy Slim]

I'm a bit tuckered myself...gotta big day planned fer tomorry so I'll probably call the day a wrap soon enuff.

FReegards...MUD

[Mudboy Slim]

"The architect's inside joke is his hedge against the sycophancy that comes with patronage."

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!! If I wuz Venturi, I wouldda told Slick Willie to go F^%K hisself!! Clinton deserves to be shunned by every individual on this Planet who has a brain capable of thinking fer itself!! Clinton SHALL BE Universally-DELEGITIMIZED as an individual of any gravitas whatsoever...he MUST BE!!

FReegards...MUD

BTW...I guess ol' CyberAnt didn't quite git it...ya know what I mean? "...the sycophancy that comes with patronage." That's KLASSIK!!

[Mudboy Slim]

"Your 'mobius strip...outta the loop' pun indicates otherwise.;)"

Believe me, my FRiend, anything UN-nonsensical that you derived from my comment was entirely happenstance...my "outta the loop" regarded to Tigerman's marital status or Tigerman's body of work in general...LOL!! "I studied math, not architecture."

I usedta love math...I shouldda been an engineer!! Math major, eh?! Yer a smarty-pants!!

FReegards...MUD

[Mudboy Slim]

"HollyWeirdos Go ON-RECORD As Being 100% ANTI-American DOLTS!!!"

Yes, but will the swear to leave American FOREVER when we VAPORIZE their Mass-Murderin'TyrantThugDuJour?!

RATS're Ignorant DOLTS!!

FReegards...MUD

[sultan88]

Lindykim and judicial meanz, you are both from Prince George? I am from Petersburg, but spent a lot of time in Richmond. A lot of Richmond FReepers "meet" on these "Black" threads, the progenitor of which is Richmond's own Mudboy Slim.

[Happygal]

Any chance of any of you MATHS majors balancing my cheque book each month? My brother is an accountant and even HE can't figure out my finances! ;-)

[Happygal]

There is a Prince George in VA? I flew into Prince George in British Columbia (I think, or it could have been Alberta...but I was travelling 23 hours at that time and didn't care) in November! *L*

[sultan88]

When Bush supporter R. Lee Ermey, a former Marine who played the scary drill sergeant in Full Metal Jacket, was asked by a London newspaper about a certain well-known diva's anti-war statements, Ermey thundered: "Once again, Barbra Streisand has opened her alligator-sized mouth wide before her hummingbird brain has had a chance to catch up. Ms. Streisand does not speak for me or many other folks in this business."

BWAHAHAHA I loved Ermey in that movie!

[sultan88]

Yes. Many of the counties in eastern Virginia are named for British royalty. But in the western part of the state the counties are named for colonial Patriots. In fact, we have both a Patrick County and a Henry County!!

[sultan88]

You probably make too much money. That makes it hard to keep the books balanced, I believe.

[Happygal]

You probably make too much money.

I wish! It's hard for a single girl to keep herself in the manner in which she has become accustomed, you know! ;0) *L*