{"id":252,"date":"2005-07-26T11:39:29","date_gmt":"2005-07-26T15:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/07\/26\/cool-things-that-come-in-the-mail\/"},"modified":"2006-11-17T21:34:24","modified_gmt":"2006-11-18T01:34:24","slug":"cool-things-that-come-in-the-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/26\/cool-things-that-come-in-the-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"Cool Things That Come In The Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lots of cool things have shown up here in the mail over the last month.<\/p>\n

Here’s one:<\/p>\n

\"DNA<\/a><\/p>\n

My DNA cube, from Bathsheba Grossman<\/a>. It’s on a light pedastel that cycles through a series of colours, making it look even cooler. I have it on display in the rec room–that image in a photo of the cube in situ in the rec room, although you likely can’t tell since the image is really all about the cube itself.<\/p>\n

Someday I will have some extra disposable income and I will buy myself the 120-cell<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n

How can you argue with a description like “A 4-dimensional solid projected into 3-space, this polytope is the 4-space analogue of the dodecahedron.” (Sounds pretty geeky, albeit not as geeky as “a d12 for beings from a higher plane” which I have to admit is pretty much what I thought when I saw it. I am a sad man.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lots of cool things have shown up here in the mail over the last month. Here’s one: My DNA cube, from Bathsheba Grossman. It’s on a light pedastel that cycles through a series of colours, making it look even cooler. I have it on display in the rec room–that image in a photo of the cube in situ in the… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storytime","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-44","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}