{"id":313,"date":"2004-12-21T15:16:08","date_gmt":"2004-12-21T23:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/wordpress\/?p=313"},"modified":"2004-12-21T15:16:08","modified_gmt":"2004-12-21T23:16:08","slug":"wireworld-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/21\/wireworld-ca\/","title":{"rendered":"Wireworld CA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Silverman sends a link to Mark Owen&#039;s amazing pages on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quinapalus.com\/wi-index.html\" target=\"_blank\"> Wireworld cellular automaton <\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/wireworld.jpg\" width=390 height=311 border=0 alt=&#039;&#039;><\/p>\n<p>Christmas gaining momentum here.  I went skating in San Ho again with one of the kids.  The PA system was playing &#8220;Octopus&#039;s Garden&#8221; from <i>Abbey Road<\/i> and I was happy.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/ruskate.jpg\" width=400 height=301 border=0 alt=&#039;&#039;><\/p>\n<p>The other day some of us hiked up onto Saint Joseph&#039;s Hill behind the Jesuit residence.  We call the hill in this picture Donkey Hill, as usually there&#039;s a pair of donkeys living there.  I&#039;m always happily amazed at finding such a rural-looking corner within walking distance of my home, here on the banks of Route 17.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/donkeyhill.jpg\" width=400 height=300 border=0 alt=&#039;&#039;><\/p>\n<p>This is part of a really big eucalyptus tree.  I love when trees have wrinkles as if they were soft flesh.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/eucwrinkle.jpg\" width=316 height=400 border=0 alt=&#039;&#039;><\/p>\n<p>I had a line about this in my novel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.4w8w.com\/bookrucker3.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>White Light<\/i> <\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I stood under a big twisting tree, a beech with smooth gray hide made smoother by the rain running down it, tucks and puckers in the flesh, doughy on its own time-scale.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/whitelight.jpg\" width=240 height=309 border=0 alt=&#039;&#039;><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Silverman sends a link to Mark Owen&#039;s amazing pages on the Wireworld cellular automaton . Christmas gaining momentum here. I went skating in San Ho again with one of the kids. The PA system was playing &#8220;Octopus&#039;s Garden&#8221; from Abbey Road and I was happy. The other day some of us hiked up onto [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}