In Which Signatures are Talked About

What's the story behind your signature or avatar? Why did you choose it, if you chose it? If you don't have a signature or avatar here, maybe you do at a different forum, and you'd like to share that?

I want to know!

Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.

Opening your mind to something you ignorantly detest can be a jarring wake up to the reality that is, which is this: everything is what you make of it.

Sunlight will never cost $4/gallon

Sail!

I'm a train buff, specializing in electric-powered ones which are rather uncommon in the US

Oh... do you mean straight electric, that takes power from a pantograph or the rails, as opposed to those with a diesel-powered generator for the motors?

My avatar evolved over the years. At first my grandiose idea was to trim the pyracantha into the shape of an eagle.
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Then one fine late spring morning I realised that a disease called fire blight had destroyed my dream.

Not being one to give up easily I set a couple of old wheels under it because what was left of it it now resembled the outline of an old car.

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After a few years of drenching the soil with steer manure and Miracle Grow the hedgemobile as I now called it improved in appearance greatly. It had even become three dimensional.

Another year or so of constant trimming and streching the branches out with plant tie wire it looked like this:

when I go traveling for railfanning, it's the streetcars, light rail, and electrified commuter/suburban rail that I mainly seek out.

Beyond that, you can count the straight-electric railroads in the US on one hand

Okay.... sorry for derailing the thread.

TEACHER ARRESTED. - A public school teacher was arrested today at John F. Kennedy International Airport as he attempted to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a set square, a slide rule, and a calculator.

At a morning press conference, the Attorney General said he believes the man is a member of the notorious Al-gebra movement. He did not identify the man, who has been charged by the FBI with carrying weapons of math instruction.

"Al-gebra is a problem for us," the Attorney General said. "They desire solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off on tangents in a search of absolute value. They use secret code names like 'x' and 'y' and refer to themselves as 'unknowns,' but we have determined they belong to a common denominator of the axis of medieval with coordinates in every country.

As the Greek philanderer Isosceles used to say, 'There are 3 sides to every triangle.'

When asked to comment on the arrest, President Bush said, "If God had wanted us to have better Weapons of Math Instruction, He would have given us more fingers and toes."

White House aides told reporters they could not recall a more intelligent or profound statement by the President.

Okay.... sorry for derailing the thread. Back to business, folks.

More like enrailing it.

Cantor dust is a multi-dimensional version of the Cantor set. It can be formed by taking a finite Cartesian product of the Cantor set with itself, making it a Cantor space. Like the Cantor set, Cantor dust has zero measure.