Not that the fiscal year means squat to VincentClark.com it is still ending. As always when there is a market milestone the VincentClark network likes to make a host of promises that it most likely will not keep especially when Vincent Clark takes a month or two off from posting. Here is a list of topics and projects we hope to complete, start, or at least encourage someone to do.
Finish the list of projects that we hope to complete, start, or at least encourage someone to do.
Figure out the big bang, black holes, gravity, energy, and time.
Prevent an Apocalypse.
First Edition of Two Perfect Cents released.
Introduce the first story from the Numbered Verse titled Eve and Lilly.
Create a multimedia multidimensional vehicle for story telling.
part 1
On August 26th I got news that I am still struggling to accept almost a week later. My Uncle Chris fell asleep with the lord after succumbing to his long and brutal bought with cancer. As the many stories of my Uncle Chris flow through my head I find myself in a position I am rarely in, I simply do not know what to say.
My heart is breaking on so many different levels I don’t even know where to begin. I think about his wife and kids. His nieces and nephews, siblings, and friends, and how much we will all miss him.
I have his voice trapped in my head with no plans ever letting it go. I play it over and over like a record. Each time I feel like crumbling to the floor, but I don’t, because it reminds me of the man he was. For anyone that knows my Uncle Chris knows what I mean. My Uncle Chris had this ability to speak in a loud room without ever having to talk over the crowd. It was almost like magic.
If you were to my Uncle Chris in a room you would have found a humble man that was fully satisfied with the man that he was. If you wanted to hear about his days as an F-15 fight pilot you would have to pry it out of him or get it from someone else. Despite being a decorated and well respected fighter pilot, that was something he had done in the past, something he was very proud of, but not what he wanted to be remembered for. My Uncle Chris will be best known for being a good father, a good husband, and a damn good Uncle. We respected my Uncle not because he was an Officer in the Air Force, a Fighter Pilot, or the fact that he traveled around the globe in a C-5 during the first Gulf War. We respected my Uncle because of that man he was when we knew him, for the way he treated us, and for the respect that he gave to us.
My Uncle Chris was the kind of man that made you a better person knowing him, I know I am, and I have no intention for letting his voice ever to escape my memory.
8^413 is the largest number, there is no number larger. This number is so large that if you add 1 to it, it will absorb the additional number because if it incremented then 8^413 would not be the largest number, which it clearly is therefor you cannot add to it. Now what about negative numbers? simple. The span can not exceed 8^413. The V-Limit, Limits of Limits, The maximum sum of all numbers.
Now since I don’t want to have to compute the v-limit we will talk in pseudo limits. So the mathematicians can follow along.
Set 8=8^413
If you include negative numbers then the span needs to equal 8.
-4 through 4 = 8
If you have fractions then the sum of the component parts cannot exceed 8.
Set 1000 to 8 // 8 was set to 8^413
Introduce .01 Then if counting from 0 then the v-limit cannot exceed 10. If you allow negative numbers the range would be -5 to 5.
The GooglePlex and the V-Limit.
Since the 10(10100) May appear larger than the v-limit in reality it is not. Since there are only 8(413) numbers allowed the incremental space between the number is greater than 1. The increments of the Googleplex must be arranged in such a way that there are only 8(413) iterations in the defined span.
I cannot stress the importance of the defined span. In order to operate in a finite space name space rules must be written ahead of time in order to make the mathematical problem valid. Too often mathematicians fall into the trap of adding apples and oranges. When deliberating on a mathematical problem there must be a header included in the equations establishing what portions of the occupying reality will be used and how those portions will operate.
In pseudo mathematics where infinity is discussed a popular paradox would be the statement that there are as many numbers between 0 to 1 as there are between 0 to 2. Even under Vince’s Law one can argue that this is true. If we define VL(temporary number until I can find a better one) to occupy the fractions between 0 to 1 and then the same between 0 to 2 disseminating a value twice the size of the latter then it might appear as proof that there are as many numbers between 0 to 1 as there are between 0 to 2. This statement is both true and false. Binary mathematicians hold on and bare with me.
The VL is constant, but contingency based
We will set two name-spaces.
Set n1 to 0-1
Set n2 to 0-2
If one was applying the VL to 0-1 is not the same as apply it to 0-2. In 0-1-2 the VL would mandate that half of the numbers be allocated to 0-1 as there is from 1-2. The amount of numbers between 0-1 is half of what it is from 0-2. In another separate instance in which the name-space starts at 0 and ends at 1 the distance between the numbers is 1/2 that of the previous name-space. Therefor there are as many numbers in n1 as there are in n2. However you cannot double n1 to equal n2 because the two sets occupy two different name-space and cannot coexist in the same area of understanding because of incompatible name-spaces.
I think every person, family, group of friends, offices, neighborhoods, local, state, and federal government should have a disaster plan. Though our government may have one they have neither updated to take advantage of current communications nor fully explained it to the rest of us.
So I have decided to start taking upon myself to create an outline of what a disaster plan should be. It is likened to an interface class and a super class in programming. Meaning, there are some aspects of it that can be overridden, extended, as well as maintain certain methods of action that should be formed without dictating exactly what those methods are.
The basic idea of the plan is how the individual, family, friends, the workplace, local and federal government should work together in order to make sure that we are not all running around like a bunch of jackasses clogging the phone lines to make sure that our healthy friends and family members are ok while elderly, children, the disabled, and the injured are able to get the help that they need.
A good example would be earthquakes. When an Earthquake strikes you have about 45 seconds to make a phone call. In Southern California the time in which the phones are free is directly linked to the magnitude of the Earthquake. A 5.0 earthquake in the desert, rattles a few buildings in Burbank, you are looking at 20 to 30 minutes, a 6.8 strikes in the San Fernando Valley the phones will be down for a day or two.
When the Northridge quake hit in 1994 my older sister attending school in Ithica New York was unable to contact us in Simi Valley, however she could get a hold of my grand parents in Bakersfield. My grandparents in Bakersfield could contact us. I have long suspected this has to do with the way the telecommunication wires run in and out of the state. People from out of state would call in state to check on the their families, this would leave the narrower lines into the region clogged. It would be easier to contact someone in the state but not in the effected area. This gave the idea of points of contacts for families for two reasons. First it would diffuse the calls so all the calls are not comming in from one place. Second would several families can update one family member who then could update everyone else.
Making Sure Everyone is OK.
Scenario: I have two cousins that live in Los Gatos, an uncle that lives in San Jose, an aunt and uncle who live in Vacaville, a cousin and his family in San , another cousin and her family in Walnut Creek, and one who lives somewhere in San Fransisco. If an Earthquake hits the bay area it would be foolish of me to immediately call each family to make sure everyone is ok the moment I learned of the disaster. The area has just been hit by a disaster and there is nothing that I could, though I would be very concerned about my family members in the area the best course of action would be for me to wait until the dust settles. Coming from a large family I know that I am not the only one that would be calling my relatives. Reflecting on the 1994 quake and knowing that though our house was standing our place was ok, things were still a mess, we had been up since 4am, and by the time people could call in we really didn’t want to talk to everyone. This is why it is essential to have a point of contact for families.
Each nuclear family should have one person that communicates with everyone else their families status. This also is helpful in the even that a family member is hospitalized. During the initial moments of the disaster voice communication should be avoided. People should initially send “I’m OK” text to their family’s captain. Simple text messaging. Text messaging should be the preferred communication when disaster strikes since I can work on a que type of system. People should not spam everyone with the question “R U OK?” People should know that their mother’s and wives want to know if they are ok and send a bulk message out to only essential people. For me it would me my mother and wife. My wife can update her mother and brother on how I am doing, my mother could update my sisters. Once I hear the “I’m OK” from my mother, wife and little brother I can then send a text to my cousin saying, “We are all ok.” My cousin can then post on facebook that my family in Southern California is ok.
Using the example of my family in the bay area the communication plan would look something like this. My Uncle Bill let’s Sally know that he is ok, Sally let’s my cousin Clark and Anna that they are OK. My cousin Clark sends me a message saying that his family, father, Sally, and sister are all fine. My Uncle Chris and Aunt Donna send a message to my cousin Courtney that they are fine. Christopher does the same. Courtney posts on her facebook page that her family is ok. I would be watching Twitter and facebook closely for word from the bay. My cousin Margalo calls her parents to let them know they are ok, they let my cousin Krista know they are fine, Krista sends out an email to her relatives that they are all fine. Since my mother is not on facebook nor is she connected to her email as I am so I would phone my mother and let her know that everyone checked in and everyone is fine. She would then call my sister in Michigan who would then update her sister.
A key ingredient to this scenario is that nobody called someone to find out if they are ok. In this chain the only person that would warrant a phone call is my uncle Bill due to his weakened state. Phone calls to check up on someone should be reserved for certain individuals. There are a bunch of different scenarios to account for when deciding who should get the call and who should be calling. I would trust that someone from my uncle’s family or one of his many friends would make sure that he is ok. It is something that does not need action on my part. If I don’t hear from my cousins or uncle on the Morey side after a while, once the dust settles I can start making calls to find out if they are ok. People should also post the status of their friends on social networking sites as well. People should post status of their friends families on social networking sites as well. If one of my cousins friends have not heard anything either and since nobody in the family communication chain has heard from them I would start calling people.
When iGoogle came out I stopped thinking that there is nothing more that Google could do to impress me. I new that whatever vision I may have of the future Google would have a reality and that reality would far exceed my vision or imagination. I rember this unique feeling I had when I first saw Google’s customize news. Then the knowledge that I saw how it unfolded, I saw how the building blocks were put into place to create a product that was beyond words.
Today Google has given me a Google Voice account and I couldn’t me happier. Only a few weeks ago I was telling my mother how soon we will have one number to call and that number will fork into all our devices. Two days later I read an article on Google Voice and found that the reality of what I was telling my mother was much closer than I had thought. I imediatly signed up on the off chance that I would get a chance to participate in the begining stages of this public release.
Google Voice allows me to put the a widget on might for you to get in touch with me, it transcribes and emails my voice messages for me, SMS as well. The number reaches me at home, my mobile, and my work. If I change any of the numbers the ones with my Google number need not update their phone books since they have the only number they will ever need.
I have only began to scratch the surface of the features provided, I want to explore them before I write about them. Today I have seen the future of phone numbers, and the future, as always when brought by Google is bright.
So I thought, what would my dream lunch be? Who would I invite? Here is the current list:
Terry Anderson
Gordon Gano
Michale Stipe
Bruce Springsteen
We will see if there are more added to this dream lunch of mine. Right now, I have more than enough questions that would fuffill a life time worth of lunches for these four.
I thrive on learning about other peoples perspectives. I wish I could spend my entire life having lunches wiht pepole, just to ask them about how they see the world. These four, the four are at the top of the list of people I want to know more about how they see the world.
Terry Anderson, when I was in grade school and junior high I used to pray almost every day for his release. I used to have dreams / nightmears about what he was going through.
As a kid I used to follow the hostages like some would follow sports. i really wish I could track him down, just to let him know what his courage and the courage of his sister did for me growing up.
Yes I am still alive, and no there is not a really good reason to why there haven’t been any posts for the past couple of weeks. I am currently recovering from what experts believe to be the worst Vincent Clark sunburn in the history of Vincent Clark. We are waiting to hear back from famed Vincent Clark historian, Victor Palomarez.
Johny Leche is a clown
I often think about how Noah felt about his Ark a week before the flood. An almost completed ark sitting in his front yard miles away from the nearest water’s edge. I wonder how many times he questioned his mission, the voice that instructed him, his faith in what he was doing. With all the animals loaded and not acloud in the sky I am sure Noah has come to the grips with the fact that the world as he knew it was over. If the storm didn’t come then he would have found himself to betruly insane. Once the ark began to take form and completing it was inevitable he knew that there was no going back.
The ark was useless until the rains came. Nobody needs a life boat on dry land. A boat is worth only the sum of its parts until it is needed. Once it is needed then it becomes invaluable.
Our faith is very similar to the ark. When things go our way the faith that we have is not needed as much nor is it much appreciated. This isn’t because we are not thankful of what we have as much and is not necessarily a bad thing. When things are going our way we see the fruits of our beliefs. If we work hard and do right then we will be rewarded. When the reward comes then that in which we believed is confirmed and we do not need faith in the fact that it will.
When climbing a mountain you believe that there is something on the other side. If you have never been to that other side you rely on your faith that it is there. [Read more →]
