Caos em Xaos

Senhores cidadãos de Xaos, é meu dever como prefeito comunicá-los de um grave problema que está assolando nossa bela cidade. Está ocorrendo uma imigração em massa para Xaos, ainda não sabemos de onde vieram tantos habitantes, mas de dois dias para cá o número de habitantes de Xaos, cresceu de maneira explosiva, e devido a este fato a economia da cidade começou a se desestabilizar. O número de desempregados assumiu proporções alarmantes, e a infra-estrutura das redes de transporte da cidade está sobrecarregada. Algumas pessoas, infelizmente, resolveram sair de Xaos devido à falta de controle da situação.

Devido a severidade da situação, como prefeito, tomarei medidas sérias para a resolução dos problemas:

• A taxa de impostos das empresas que resolverem se instalar na cidade, gerando empregos para a população local, será diminuída em 2%. Empresas bioquímicas, que utilizarem a matéria prima local (cogumelos alucinógenos) em seus produtos, terão a taxação reduzida de 4%;
  
• Slaads terão todo o direito de se alimentar de desempregados, vadiando pelas ruas durante os horários de expediente normal. Portanto, qualquer pessoa que tenha um emprego deve adquirir uma permissão com sua empresa para poder andar livre pela cidade durante o expediente, sem perigo de ser devorado por sapos gigantes multicoloridos vindos de outro plano de existência[1];
  
• Não será tolerado de forma alguma, pessoas que não tenham pelo menos 5 dedos no pé esquerdo, e não mais que 7 dedos no pé direito! O descumprimento de tais exigências mínimas será punido com penas severas, tais como: assistir Teletubbies durante uma semana seguida; servir de cobaia em pesquisas bionucleares; cavar túneis sem propósito algum; servir como hospedeiro para ovos de Slaads; etc. A única excessão a regra é caso a pessoa comprove que seja verde, e consiga fazer fotossítese;
• Modrons, ou qualquer entidade originária de Mechanus, que não tenham o formato de um D37,23 (dado com 37,23 lados regulares), não serão aceitos de forma alguma dentro dos limites físicos da cidade, e serão atacados e destruídos pela milícia local ao primeiro contato visual.
  

Espero que após tais medidas, a cidade passe a crescer de maneira aceitável novamente, e volte a ser o ótimo local que sempre foi desde sua fundação! Caso queira promover o desenvolvimento econômico da cidade criando novas indústrias, é só nos enviar as propostas.

[1] Slaads como criaturas totalmente caóticas, não têm necessidade de agir de acordo com a legislação municipal, estatal, federal, ou mesmo extra-planar, vigentes, e portanto podem se alimentar de qualquer criatura, independente do status de empregado, desempregado, portador de licença ou não. Portanto cidadão, a não ser que você seja mais poderoso que um deles, tenha cautela ao se aproximar destas amáveis criaturas. A prefeitura não se responsabiliza por nenhum ataque de Slaad que você ou sua família venha a sofrer, dentro ou fora dos limites da cidade;

Slaads, criaturas adoráveis.

My Mini City - Xaos

Now I have a virtual city, and of course my city is called Xaos. Xaos, actually, is a fabled city in the outer rim of The Concordant Domain of the Outlands, and is the city gate that has a portal leading to The Ever-Changing Chaos of Limbo. My city is named after that fabled place, that, in my opinion, is one of the most awesome places in the whole Multiverse. And Xaos is a name that can reflect with great precision the reality of my home country, Brasil (as it is written in Portuguese).

Anyway, this is one of the coolest ideas I have seen so far. It is like a online version of the old, and classic of classics, game Sim City. And with each visit, the city gains one more inhabitant, and as the city starts to develop, you can add industries, increase security, improve transportation networks, etc, and everything is done just by having people visiting your city!

Welcome do Xaos!

I just created my city, so Xaos's current population is 2. Help me developing my city, by just visiting it. I promise I will be a good mayor! =D

The idea came from this Brazilian blog: Quarentedois.

The Most Unexpected of the Alliances

...and so the unexpected happened. After running from my Destiny for so long, I decided at last to embrace it. I was running from the inevitable, I could not escape from it. Despair and insanity were taking me over. Then, out of nowhere, elucidation filled my mind, my thoughts were clear again, and I could perceive that my situation was not as dire as Reality wanted me to see.

I went to that once dreadful place, where It reigns eternal, silently and unchallenged, brooding over Its countless abyssal minions, devising unfathomable plans of conquest and destruction. I approached It, with no fear in my heart, and with true purpose in my mind. All my willpower was focused in only one thing...

After some deliberation, The Alliance was signed. That Alliance shall create waves of dismay that will resonate throughout the Earth. Tremble! mortals, for now I am allied with The Cube(!!!), the Destruction-Bringer!!

Evil Squirrels of the cemetery...

I fear for my life, my friends. The minions of The Cube are all around Ann Arbor, even here near my new neighborhood, far from its dreadful resting place. The Cube's fiendish minions are everywhere. The cemetery near my new house is full of its foul and corrupted minions. And I could take a glimpse of the utmost malevolence emanating from one of this aberrations from out-of-the-stars. I could barely scape alive, for I was surrounded for countless of such malevolent creatures. Even alive, I did not know if it was better to be left alive after seen what I have seen this very day. My sanity is barely non-existent after gazing inside these eyes of the uttermost malevolent intent. Here are some picture of the foulest and most wicked beasts that I am sure, ever set foot upon our pitiful planet...

This evil ghoulish squirrel was watching my every move while I was wandering through this unhallowed ground. Smelling my soul, and sucking all that was left of my sanity...


Look at the non-euclidean pose this evil tiny beast is holding. The only reason my mind could devise for such a pose was that the creature was performing some kind of corrupted and fiendish ritual over the gravestones... Fortunately, the creature was in a kind of static trance state, and its mind was reaching planes of existence the primitive minds of humans could never imagine, let alone comprehend. And it did not see me, or at least not as a menace able to disrupt its vile magic ritual...


This other nefarious small creature is profaning the grave over its unholy paws. It is sucking all and feeding in the remnant essence of the dead buried in that place. I have never sighted such devious act in all my near-ending life...


And Lo! Behold the Black-Fiendish-Evil-Squirrel from Beyond the Stars... The Great Squirrel Overlord, answering only to The Cube Itself! (I will not even start to wonder what the creature holds in its mouth, for all that remains of my spirit could be uttertly annihilated thinking about such Evil conundrum. I could feel that the root of the tree feeds on the blood and remains of dead buried in this Unholy graveyard, and the creature overlords its minions from its Unholy Throne over the Death-Feeding Tree...)


May the Elder Gods, have mercy on my soul, and yours as well, friends, for The Cube's influence is everywhere!! My mind is lost forever, and insanity is all that remains... The Cube is the ROOT of all the evil in our planet, and its abominable minions are everywhere...


P.S.: Click over the pictures to enlarge, if you dare...

Calculated optical depth...

And so after solving a lot of problems in my program code, I was already happy because it is almost working properly. I just have found out that it was calculating, I think, correctly the source function of each point, it was just having a small output problem (a problem with the correct value not being saved in the output file). And then, I spotted it... An impossible value... Something that made me laugh, almost insanely, due to absurdity of what I was seeing on the screen... The calculated optical depth, something that should have the value of the order of a unit, was with values of an order of magnitude of 10^5 and reaching even 10^9. I don't think any photon could cross that region not even in a googol years... :P (I am just exagerating about the googol, of course. And for people who does not know what in the Nine Hells, also called Baator, is a googol, it is 10^100, or 1 followed by onde hundred zeros)

The only thing I can do for the time being is to laugh... Then I will try to find out where in the program lies this problem!

For people who does not know what does optical depth means, it is related to the escape probability of photon to leave some region of space. The higher the value, the smaller is the chance of it to escape before being scattered or absorved by the medium, meaning that more opaque is the medium. That is the kind of thing that an astrophysicist tries to calculate, and/or uses in their job. Total madness if you want to know my opinion about that, but it is also pure beauty! =D

Another problem, but the good thing is that I could saw it before going further. Now I have to spend some time on it, and I guess it will be quite an amount of some time... Bah! And I am still laughing... HAUhAUhUAHauhuHAuHAUhUAHuHAuhaa....

Post 91. Not a prime! The next is 97.

• Now that I have a computer I am watching Heroes again. I begin to watch it from the start again, and I have noticed a little improvement in my english understanding.
• I still did not watch the last episode of Lost.
• I still could not "steal" a wireless signal at home, and I don't know why. I guess I have to wait sometime before having Internet at home. Bah...
• I finished all my books. I need more books!!
• Sunday I am going to a Conference in South Hadley, MA, called Gordon Conference: Origins of the Solar System. And I am gonna spend a week there. People are going by car, and it will be a 10h to 12h trip. Lots of pictures to be taken.
• I may be going to watch Transformers today. I have yet to decide it.
• Next year Fallout 3 will be released!! I want very much to play that!!
• I also want to play Guitar Hero 2, Guitar Hero 3, Guitar Hero: The 80's, and Rock Band!! Rock Band is something like Guitar Hero, but you can play any of the instruments, and even sing. Awesome! I miss to play Guitar Hero! Damn, I need to play it... :P
  
• This month Monster Manual 5 was released. I guess they should try release something different. They should release supplements about each of the Planes. I am tired of only monsters, and classes!!
• At this moment I am hearing the classical, and one of the best of Black Sabbath's: Heaven and Hell.
• This is a worthless dot, and is here just for the post to have a prime numbers of dots. I don't like the 11, though, so I will continue until the next one...
  
• I think I am going to buy some books today. I just don't know what, yet...
  
• Just to finish, with another prime number of dots. Next friday is a Friday 13th. Whatever... (91 = 7x13).
  

Limbo

At long last, I'm going to write about Limbo. What the hell is Limbo? Not the Hell, I can assure you, but a place as dangerous as hell. Or not.

Limbo can be a place between places. And a place between places is not so dangerous as hell, but it can be, if we are talking about a place between the material plane and any of the Heavens, or any of the infernal realms. It would be a place full of no-beings, forgotten spirits roaming aimlessly, full of disappeared junk (Yes, those things you lost in your closet and never ever see again.), and the poor mishappens and unbaptized (as the catholic church claims!), and more things that I don't know how to explain. Limbo can also be somewhere between here and there.

Limbo is also the Mon*Star's Planet in the Silverhawks cartoon.

But Limbo can also be the plane of Chaos. Where there is no order, where every thought can take form, or not. Where the are no meanings, but all the meanings and anti-meanings. No languages, only babbles. Where the time does not flow, it appears and disappears randomly. Where the entropy is variable, it can be reverted without doing any work, or can be maximized as naturally as here. There is no reference system, there is no space... Everywhere can exist at the same point, or you simply can be nowhere, and anywhere. I can't call it a place then. It is just the most pure Chaos.

There are some beings living there. When someone steps there, if you have enough will power you can reshape it as you wish. Or better yet, if you have a very chaotic mind, you can anti-foresee the anti-pattern and anti-flow with the plane.

The Githzerai are the masters of shaping. They are a race that made of The Limbo their home, and with their great will power they can reshape the Limbo as they want. They have colossal unsurpassable city-fortresses floating in islands of stillness. In these fortresses every single Githzerai thinks about maintaining the place, and their walls of "order" in the middle of Chaos. If only one of them stops to think about it, the unsurpassable fortress becomes as vulnerable as a paper wall, and Chaos just engulfs it again.

And we have the Slaadi. They are just the embodiment of Chaos, and the can move freely through the anti-place, anti-flowing with great ease through the Chaos.

The problem with that is: there is no way to describe something that there is not, and at the same time there is. Something that have no meanings and have all the meanings in the universe and also all the anti-meanings. There are things that can only be described with anti-languages, and well... There is no point in writing in anti-languages here, there is no writing form for that, only anti-writing. This world is to organized for any anti-meaningful thing that.

Scramblespeak can be good for that, but it lacks anti-deepness as anti-language...
Yati'nD it-llwian ehetr iangot^ nOe Ii*an. :)