Happy New Year!
May our minds be like dew drops on the cosmic web,
Each unique,
Each harmoniously vibrating with the others.
Each unique,
Each harmoniously vibrating with the others.
I always like to think about the mathematical properties of each new year’s number.
2009 = 49 x 41 = 7^2 x (5^2 + 4^2), where “^2” means squared.
So in plain words:
Two thousand and nine is seven squared times five squared plus four squared.
And now a message from our sponsor…
I got my first printed copies of my new art book, Better Worlds the other day. It looks really nice, better than I expected. You can order your own printed copy for $29.99. I blogged more about this in my “Better Worlds” post a couple of weeks ago.
Onward into the year!
January 2nd, 2009 at 6:31 pm
Happy New Year, one and all. Prime factors? Glad someone else does silly things with the numbers that they happen across. I shall buy your art book after I have bought or scrounged the coffee table I need to put it on. All the best for the coming year!
January 3rd, 2009 at 2:30 am
sorry for mistakes, my english is far(when I was young)
I whish you a happy new year. I discovered you through “the fourth dimension”
I should want to know whitch of your books are translated in french.
Many thanks for your writings ; I feel so sorry because I can’t understand because the language.(I was not able to understand how to e-mail you!…)
January 3rd, 2009 at 10:47 am
Hi Zigmund—just search http://www.amazon.fr for my name.
The results aren’t entirely reliable though…
I know Maitre de l’Espace et du Temps is in print, this volume includes some short stories as well.
January 14th, 2009 at 5:49 pm
Mr. Rucker, I just found your blog and I really like it (unlike most blogs). I read PostSingular for my Science Fiction course at the University of South Alabama (you may remember communicating via e-mail with my professor, Dr. Christopher Hollingsworth). Let me just say that you are my favorite contemporary SF writer and I have turned on friends to your work (including one friend who is a physicist who is very complimentary of your work…I turned him on to your work due to your mutual math background). Please, stay rad.
January 16th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
Better Worlds really is a nifty little book. I didn’t doubt that the art would be brilliant, but the printing quality is outstanding and I’m enjoying the written blurbs about each painting. Thanks for putting this book together, Rudy!