First, news from life:
I got a job working for my dad, packing textbooks and preparing them to be shipped off. It pays pretty well: I've earned around $50 so far, and after today's work maybe even more. I get the money on a weekly basis, so I'll be getting my first paycheck tonight! Wewt!

I went earphone shopping with my sister a while ago and we found these nice earphones which had only one drawback: it was retractable, and the retracter was really heavy. And I broke open the retracter so now I own cooler earphones!

I got RK Launcher, and it is so much better than ObjectDock just because it eats less memory. If you have ObjectDock, get RK Launcher! If you want to show off your wallpaper, don't get ObjectDock, get RK Launcher! If you don't care about those extra 8 megs of memory that will be freed up, get ObjectDock!

Enough of these trivialities; let's get on to cooler things than my life!
The Planiverse is one of the coolest books in existence. In it, AK Dewdney (a professor at some university that I've forgotten the name of) describes a two-dimensional world, and how his students came into contact with it. It makes much more sense than Flatland, just because many things in Flatland are arbitrary. For example, in Flatland, "North" and "South" equal "Up" and "Down", respectively. Don't believe me? Read this and think again:

By a Law of Nature with us, there is a constant attraction to the South; and, although in temperate climates this is very slight -- so that even a Woman in reasonable health can journey several furlongs northward without much difficulty -- yet the hampering effort of the southward attraction is quite sufficient to serve as a compass in most parts of our earth. Moreover, the rain (which falls at stated intervals) coming always from the North, is an additional assistiance;

So this means that he arbitrarily sets "up" as north. But then he states:

Windows there are none in our houses: for the light comes to us alike in our homes and out of them, by day and by night, equally at all times and in all places, whence we know not.

If rain comes from "up" in our world, and so does light, why doesn't Flatland light come from his "North"? By his description it seems that it is illuminated from a third dimension, but then why doesn't the rain come from the third dimension and why don't the Flatties get pressed in one direction from the third dimension?

Okay, now let me ramble on about how cool and utterly superior the Planiverse is.
Firstly, gravity works in a similar manner to that of our own universe: The Planiverseans that we learn about live on a circular planet called Arde. It orbits around a star called Shem, in an elliptical orbit with eccentricity of 0.52. We come into contact with an Ardean from Punizla (the western half of Arde's single continent) named Yendred. He often tells the students about the world around him, and it is through him that we learn about the rest of the world around him. Many things are different in two dimensions, such as:

1. String cannot be tangled
2. A single thread can close off a space
3. Sails are useless as the mast will catch wind anyways
4. You can only ever talk to two people at a party, and that is determined by the order you came into the party in (of course you can climb over people but you don't know who's on the other side of him)

I'm only scratching the surface here, but it is truly an amazing book that describes a well thought-out universe that works in two dimensions. Unfortunately, our bad and evil Palo Alto libraries don't have it, so if you want it talk to me.

Now: My first posted work!

Here's the link: Wallpaper

That's it for today, sorry for the long post!