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Irene has brought a strange devastation – there was no rain, only wind, cobbles went over the bike path, seaweeds were dragged by waves through muskrat’s nests a long way to the swan pond. A raging river went up-stream the herring path connecting ocean with the bay.

Plants and grass are not susceptible to mechanical damage, they shoud’ve recovered quickly. They should’ve but they didn’t, with thunders and waves Irene brought a deadly mist far into the shore. A mix of fog and sea salt. Coastal vegetation wasn’t prepared for this salt assault – it got burnt. It got brown. It got dead. The landscape became martian desert in an instant. People cleaned the paths and roads uphilling  piles of sand, there was nothing they can do for the flora. Brown leaves, rotten rose hips fruits were left behind by receding waters.  Read more

MM: See this chewing stick?

D: Yes…

MM: Now it represents a line – one dimensional object.

D: Ok, I got it – now can I have it?

MM: Wait, see here are two more sticks? We can put them together and form a triangle – two dimensional object. Now after you ate them – where is the triangle?

D: Gone!

MM: No! It still exists. Even more – it existed before, and it will exist forever when all the objects representing it will be gone.

D: Can I have more?

MM: What can we do with four sticks?

D: Four?! Where are they?

MM: Well, – now we will operate with pencils. We can form a square using four pencils.

D: triangles are better.

MM: Forget sticks. And actually forget pencils. They were just representations. The objects themselves existed anyway and will do so indefinitely. They are primordial. I would even call them extraordial if there is such a term. They exist independently of anything material. Read more

D: What is this pointy thing you brought home recently?

MM: This is a very meaningful object which I hope holds a key to everything.D: Looks like a burr to me!

MM: Well it certainly does, but it’s not… It is primordial. Read more

San-Franciscan trolley car, so reminding of old Leningrad trolleybuses.

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I was riding a trolleybus along a typical dull Leningrad’s street. The weather was normal, the ride was annoying as usual…
The heck with the ride!

I just bought a great book. It was a math book full of useful information… The heck with math! – on the cover there was a picture of the first stellation of a dodecahedron, and that was really something. There was no Internet, no computers, no imaging of any kind, so this picture was really worth a thousand words. I had been looking at it the entire ride.  Read more

… I suddenly saw how the dissections must go:

Immediately I started the paper model.

Its parts happened to be easy to make, they didn’t have many planes as it could appear judging by the SPDH itself.

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