{"id":33,"date":"2006-10-13T15:31:33","date_gmt":"2006-10-13T23:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/wordpress\/?p=33"},"modified":"2006-10-13T15:31:33","modified_gmt":"2006-10-13T23:31:33","slug":"university-high-school-in-sf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/13\/university-high-school-in-sf\/","title":{"rendered":"University HIgh School in SF"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day I went up to visit the lovely University High School<\/a> to give a talk to the math class of Ben Jacobs, who’s doing a course on non-Euclidean geometry using my very first book, Geometry, Relativity and the Fourth Dimension<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The students were bright and attractive. That’s Ben in the very back.<\/p>\n

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I talked about the fourth dimension, and showed them some of the original illos I drew for my book Spaceland<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

These are two-dimensional people with their innards showing, a bit different than the A Square approach used in Edwin Abbott’s Flatland<\/i>. This approach derives from Kee Dewdney’s book The Planiverse<\/i><\/a> which is, I believe, sadly out of print.<\/p>\n

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Here’s a married guy flirting with the woman behind the counter at the hot dog stand. He manages to have an affair with her.<\/p>\n

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But his wife finds out! She’s going to stab him but he’s learned of the amazing third dimension, and he manages to bend his gut out of the way!<\/p>\n

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The University High School is in this incredibly ritzy neighborhood, I guess it’s part of Pacific Heights, near the intersection of Baker Street and Broadway.<\/p>\n

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I walked by this one house where I could hear a man singing opera to the accompaniment of a piano. A full-bore professional opera voice, drifting into the honeyed autumn air. Amazing. I made an MPEG movie of him singing, just to capture the sound. Click here to view and hear the movie<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Dahlias over the hedge.<\/p>\n

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Later I went down to my more typical haunts on Valencia Street and worked on the giant ants story I’m writing with Bruce Sterling.<\/p>\n

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I ended up in the ruthlessly hip Ritual Roasters<\/a> cafe. I couldn’t sit at a table since I don’t have a tattoo and I use, horrors, a Windows Thinkpad. But they let me sit on a nice leather couch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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