Erdos Had The Number First

Musically speaking, I’m not all that musical. but I know what I like. California folk singers seem to be my favorites.

I’ve been fighting with this for some time. I don’t know why I fight against it, probably because I find it difficult to admit that I like folk music (probably because folk music and world domination are not very compatible).

But what I’m thinking is that I should move to california. I’ve not talked this over with my wife, but maybe I could move to california and become a painter.

Where do these romantic notions come from? I want to blame TV.

But doesn’t everyone sometimes sit at their desk and think “Maybe I should just move to california and become a painter?”. Yeah, it’s definately TV’s fault.

Stupid TV, be more funny.

I need to learn spanish.

It is really stupid of me to live in a major urban center and not
know spanish, especially when this urban center is Chicago. Chicago
has a huge spanish-speaking population.

The only problem is: which spanish? Mexican is probably the most useful in
town, but there are a lot of people from other regions, especially Peuto Rico.

I figured it out, the secret of making the best armor: spines.

Nobody’s actually reading this, so I’ll just post it here (and if
I get raided then at least I’ll get one customer, right?). using a ceramic plate scale laminate (like samuri plate mail) armor over a kevlar/dacron fero-fluid (to create an amorphous solid) sandwich with extendable spines connected to the cermaic outer plates. Think porcupine.

The spines should be ridgid, but tempered so as to shatter to dust when hit with high energy. The spines should be NUMEROUS.

The ferofluid needs to be celled to prevent one breech spilling it all out, but the ferofluid provides impact absorption and distribution of the energy. The spines provide a defense against things like RPGs, which detonate on the spines away from the armor plate itself. The spines also prevent human wave attacks,
and can be used on HumVees and bradly’s. The spines can also be easily replaced, along with individual plates. total armor thickness should be about six inches, not includeing magnets (for the ferofluid). Although the kevlar/dacron could be woven with
wires to provide the field for the ferofluid. In fact, now that I think about it, maybe the electricity could be generated from
piezo forces, though I don’t know what the switching speed of piezo ceramics are.

kinetic energy rounds are still a problem, and maybe could be addressed by another means (maybe some kind of spray on foam or something). maybe more spines.

Darpa funding welcomed. Or this works in the SciFi
short story I’m working on.