This is one of the saddest stories of the year. George Leroy Baker III, 81, left Tempe, Arizona to celebrate his granddaughter’s wedding in Lynchburg, Virginia. Walking across the street to a diner from his hotel, some teens allegedly beat him to death for fun.
The three teenagers were walking down the street when one allegedly said he would beat the first person he met — to impress a girl. Baker walked right into the dare and died for it.
The teens included two 16-year-olds and a thirteen-year-old. They have been charged with murder but their names have been withheld.
Baker appears to have been a wonderful father and his family must now deal with this tragedy at what should have been one of the happiest times for the family.
Source: AZ Family
Jonathan Turley
“A Fractal Ode to the Welts … I might make that my first design attempt ;)”
hahaha!….that’s cool beans….:)
Buddha,
Last time you mentioned a dinner date (and pool)you ended up with a recluse bite … trust things went better …
Our team won the game and both bands marched up and down the field with real artistry. There was bonfire smoke in the air and hot-dogs sizzling on the grill at the Concession Stand … a jacket sufficed to ward off the chill and all in all it was a perfect Friday night High School football game.
And … you were right … well it was either you or AY who told me that when the Prof is appearing on TV or publicly being quoted on a specific subject in the news, the trolls come out in force … now I’ve seen it for myself. It’s an interesting phenomena and appears to be a coordinated effort …
Enough, for my withdrawal is under control and I’m on to Fractal Country … I’m fickle …
Bakersfield 1, September 17, 2010 at 7:05 pm
USMC
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I think not.
I know a few Marines and they would be disgusted by your gutter mouths and cowardly gangsta approach.
[ok, I know it’s late but I’m just catching up….I got caught in the fractals…:) ]
Welts? Perhaps they’ll fit into my new Fractal Country … I’m not going to try and download anything yet … reading, reading, reading …
A Fractal Ode to the Welts … I might make that my first design attempt 😉
“Why? Alright, here’s the silly thing. England produced the English, Ireland the Irish, and Britain the British but Scotland produced Scots (Whales was always left out of the explanation) …”
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Blouise, it’s Wales, and I’ve a bit of all of the
Celto-Germanic blood in me. To fill the above gap…you can call us ‘Welts’….owing to the ever more agressive tendencies of our many brethren… 😉
I love the fractal thread…I’m trying to use Chaospro now tho it is not so much fun…the fractals are already there and all you can do is ‘doctor’ them up….I think. Mandlebulber downloaded but didn’t install well and I’m not such a ‘techie’ so my new toys will take some getting use to.
Lotta and Slarti,
I read everything you both wrote and took in the corrections/modifications and I’m now off into Google land … I have a bunch of questions but I think I should do more reading before taking up your time as I might find answers, gain a bit more knowledge and understanding, and then be able to ask intelligent questions that hold your interest and don’t waste your time.
Do some of my own work instead of asking you to do it for me … pink noise … etc.
My weekend is free and I’m experiencing the same kind of anticipation I feel about a free weekend and a brand new book …
no very much their game their rules
They changed the rules yet
Elizas bin googled
right about the legs
sings
i think shes british, so i have an unrequited lust thing going on with her
don’t know her, she does poems right
Eliza something or other
real cute shorty with legs right up to someplace high
what girl?
I get tired, and upset
And I’m trying to care a little less
And on Google I only get depressed
I was taught to dodge those issues,
I was told:
Don’t worry, there’s no doubt
There’s always something to cry about
When you’re stuck in an angry crowd
They don’t think what they say before they open their mouth,
Hot topic,
Maybe I should drop it,
It’s a touchy subject,
And I like to tiptoe ’round the shit going down,
You got penny, but no pound
So if your business is running out
It’s not my business to talk about
They don’t think what they say before they open their mouth,
Gotta love that girl
I really don’t like your point of view
I know you’ll never change
Stingin’ me with your attitude
I’ve got the mind to walk away
I really don’t like your arrogance
Or your policies
You’re ninety-nine percent an embarrassment
With just one quality
I got a fee copy of Maneldbrot in my draw, they gave me it to help pass the time
So I use it to squash flies on the window, so that they make pretty pictures
Cant believe I missed this one, but in fairness by then my stuff was starting to kick in and I was way off base.
you say
So do I. My name is Kevin Kesseler and I’m a mathematical biologist – you can look up my publication history (scant as it is – although a paper on which I am the first author was submitted this week 😉 ) if you’d like. I hold a Ph.D. in mathematics from Duke University and have absolutely no desire to be a lawyer. Would you like to establish any bona fides?
I say
Yup, My name is ….. damn, I can’t do that, whether you believe or not is immaterial, you still believe ol’ bud to be a genuine smart ass with a heart of gold
Therefore I am obliged to remain anonymous, for reasons I am not permitted to explain but if you search under my pseudonym “Rhubarb” you will find lots and lots of stuff written about me, alternatively you can search on Bakersfield, he is more important than me because they named some lil place after him
I did consider a career as a urologist, so that I could git paid for doin what I’m doing to you.
I did a number of searches for you, but couldn’t find you on anything other than Guyslink, not too surprised about that really, just another freak in a white coat I reckon, like the ones that come along and needle me all day.
If you want, I can get you another genuine Phd from the school of your choice for only £35 dollars, I hope you didn’t pay more than that for yours, coz if you did, then they must have seen you comin from a looooong way away.
you say
Since Buddha’s already dealt with this straw man, I’ll just point out that he favors justice (which includes an aspect of revenge) over revenge alone and implicitly believes that assassination can be justice rather than just revenge. I doubt you’ll get very far with most of the readers here if you keep lying about things that they can check out for themselves by merely scrolling up…
I say
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah, heard it all before and whether it’s him bein him sayin it, or him bein you sayin it, its still just bull
you say
Yes, that is an illogical opinion. An understandable opinion in the circumstances, but illogical nonetheless. Dictionary.com says:
il·log·i·cal [ih-loj-i-kuhl] –adjective
not logical; contrary to or disregardful of the rules of logic; unreasoning: an illogical reply.
I say
I aint even gonna bother with the rest of this real opinion vs your made up shit – it’s just stupid, so another dictionary nut crawls out of the woodwork? or mebbe just the same one, you are givin too much away here bud
you say
I have better things to do than to address an incoherent argument based on a straw man this stupid with a known liar like you.
i say
I would say that the logical argument here would be that you don’t have anything better to do coz you just keep on addressin my incoherant whatchamacallits.
Funny thing that logic stuff
You go right on and have a nice day now
*snicker*
he he pretty pictures,
just like the ones the doc keeps showing me
*snicker*
Slarti, Correct away, by all means. Thank you. I have more questions. They are probably more trouble to answer than your time is worth. I’m asking some basic stuff here – boooring. If it’s a drag to answer just say ‘it’s a needless complication to even think about it, just strive for the visual beauty’. LOL.
The infinite coastline aspect I’m familiar with. The use of fractal images to fill in areas of maps for which data did not exist (mountainous regions, coastlines) was something being explored by a previous employer of mine. I stuck my head into a presentation being given to a group of cartographers on the subject of this ‘revolutionary, new tool’ but left after a short period. The presentation was so dry and uninteresting that even a hard core, motivated fan of both fractal geometry and mapping couldn’t take it. I couldn’t do the math but I could follow the theory and explanation of how/why it worked. The Gummint could make even a seminar on sex boring.
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Iterations. OK. I had first written something to indicate a ‘positions behind the decimal point’ explanation but rummaged deep into my old musty mental data storage unit and said,’no, you have it exactly backwards’. I understand from your correction that I may have been on the right track originally … or not.
Sooooo, I’m still struggling here, are we talking about accuracy = iterations = detail = places behind the decimal point (number of numbers behind the decimal point). I always set my program at 1000 iterations for a final image on some classes of images I did (more computation = more detail being my governing assumption) when a choice became available. (Previews around 100-150.)
I also assumed that zooming was the same process, more iterations were being done as a function of dealing with increasingly smaller bits of detail to begin with. That the recursive nature of the equation required more iteration farther out the equation was carried. “Farther out” = deeper on was zooming.
With Fractint iteration did equal detail, you could fill in ‘holes’ in the image with a higher iteration designation. Selection of iteration level was a serious concern based on what level of detail was needed (or desired for a specific effect) for the final image. I used as little as 35 and as high as 2500+ depending on what I wanted and needed.
You know, my background is originally photography so I used iteration like I would use an F/stop or some other tool for producing detail or lessening detail. That may be where I’m off track, thinking of iterations as ‘like’ something, when they are not.
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If there are 2 sets (both of which I used regularly), what were the other 34 equations available in Fractint? Just other equations that can be visually modeled and share a fractal ‘nature’? Is that what you meant by the Mandelbrot set being the starting point or trippy fractal art.
All cacti are succulents but not all succulents are cacti. That’s a rule. Cacti are a FAMILY with many TRIBES (columnar, etc.) What is the essence of a fractal? Must all fractals have equations that are recursive? Are fractals a separate tribe of equation within a branch of mathematics. or a shared trait occurring in many tribes of equations within or across many branches of mathematics?
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I know generally about the relationship of the Julia and Mandelbrot sets but I didn’t know why there were whole Julia’s v. fragmented ones. I had noticed in Fractint that some of the “Mand-other name” types would not produce Julia’s and there were limits to how much I could change the parameters (I think I recall) even on the Mandelbrot set and still get Julia’s. I used other manipulation functions pretty routinely like the inversion function so I never managed to puzzle out why Julia’s didn’t always work. I see now that some of the “Mand-xxxxx” probably were not actually the Mandelbrot set, or shared enough characteristics of the original equation to produce Julia’s. That’s a guess.
wonder if bud got laid last night
*snicker*