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Mon Nov 24, 2008, 7:53 PM
  • Mood: Passionate
  • Listening to: Fake - The Path of Least Existence
  • Reading: Lolita
  • Eating: Cake in a Mug
I went to Atlanta Saturday.

I enjoyed watching all the cars on the highway trying to get where they were going. Traffic is an interestingly complex system. Maybe one day I'll make a program that simulates traffic - a stretch of road with people getting on and off at exits, passing, and changing to the most optimal lanes based on a few (humanly imprecise) heuristics.

If you generated a random population of cars and gave each one an exit number as their destination and a preferred speed that they would travel, you could see what conditions resulted in traffic jams. At each exit, new cars with different parameters would arrive and old cars would leave the highway.

But yeah, if you're ever in Little Five Points in Atlanta, you should check out "Little Five Pizza" - their white pizza is sex in my mouth.

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#define GROUPS ~RosesAreFF0000

#define COLLABORATORS \
:iconyouinventedme::iconxxajaxxx:

#define PEOPLE \
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:icontigereverskin:
there's something soothing about watching traffic...when it moves, anyway. it's like watching ants. i despise being in it, though.

i haven't had actual pizza in years.

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“why do writers write? because it isn't there.”
—thomas berger

“no honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: he may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.”
—ts eliot
:iconcakeprophet:
I enjoy when your car is moving just a little bit faster than all the other cars and you can watch all of the cars slowly move backwards in relation to you even though their wheels are moving forward.

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This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.
:iconaeronautics:
i just read lolita.

and i love your ideas of traffic. i watch faces in cars driving past and try to figure out how their day/week/life feels.
:icontigereverskin:
that is a lovely sensation.

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“why do writers write? because it isn't there.”
—thomas berger

“no honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: he may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.”
—ts eliot
:iconmsklystron:
How about a poem about traffic?:)

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Stop popping that bubble wrap and check out *ThePurpleNurple
“Make [your] characters want something right away—even if it’s only a glass of water."-- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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