What's the Origin of Your User Name?
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Welcome aboard rancher. Glad to have you. Been a while since you posted. Glad you are back. I went through your good town last night to come to San Ant. to visit our son for the holidays.
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Flatland2D
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Flatland was a book written in 1884 about Mr. Square that lived in a two dimensional world. The author goes into great detail describing the different social classes (mostly based off the Victorian era) and how the two dimensional figures interpret senses.
Then one night, Mr. Square gets visited by a sphere from the third dimension. Mr. Square can only perceive the sphere as a circle of changing radius as he passes through the two dimensional plane. Mr. Square finally understands the third dimension when the sphere removes him from the plane and he can not only see the sphere in its entirety, but also look back down and see everything in the world of Flatland at once, an experience he describes as "seeing through" things.
Eventually, with his newfound knowledge, Mr. Square asserts that there must be a dimension even greater than the third. With the same stubburness that plagued the second dimension, the sphere answers that surely there is nothing higher than the third. Mr. Square never understands what the third dimension is once he goes back into the second dimension. "Upward, not northward," he says to himself.
It's a really great book for anyone interested in mathematics, higher dimensions, spirituality/religion, or history.
As for my username, I liked the book so much that I made it my username for most things online. I added the "2D" (second dimension) for some originality since just plain "Flatland" is usually already taken.
No, I don't ride BMX.
Then one night, Mr. Square gets visited by a sphere from the third dimension. Mr. Square can only perceive the sphere as a circle of changing radius as he passes through the two dimensional plane. Mr. Square finally understands the third dimension when the sphere removes him from the plane and he can not only see the sphere in its entirety, but also look back down and see everything in the world of Flatland at once, an experience he describes as "seeing through" things.
Eventually, with his newfound knowledge, Mr. Square asserts that there must be a dimension even greater than the third. With the same stubburness that plagued the second dimension, the sphere answers that surely there is nothing higher than the third. Mr. Square never understands what the third dimension is once he goes back into the second dimension. "Upward, not northward," he says to himself.
It's a really great book for anyone interested in mathematics, higher dimensions, spirituality/religion, or history.
As for my username, I liked the book so much that I made it my username for most things online. I added the "2D" (second dimension) for some originality since just plain "Flatland" is usually already taken.
No, I don't ride BMX.
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just cut my nane short.garya for gary anderson ,e-mail garyacman used that one after i retired out of army and got ac degree. simple i gues 
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The Last Boyscout
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jbirds1210
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64Zebra
my height 6'4" and I referee high school and college basketball
in use on several sites
my height 6'4" and I referee high school and college basketball
in use on several sites
LEO/CHL Certified Glock Armorer
Guns: not enough space here, but G17 duty/G30 off/S&W 642 BU
Independence is declared; it must be maintained. Sam Houston-3/2/1836
If loose gun laws are good for criminals, why do criminals support gun control?
Guns: not enough space here, but G17 duty/G30 off/S&W 642 BU
Independence is declared; it must be maintained. Sam Houston-3/2/1836
If loose gun laws are good for criminals, why do criminals support gun control?
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bigolbigun
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loosecannon
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I'm an old, shell-shocked teacher who spent most of his career in a large
urban inner-city high school. I retired when I got too old to fight.
A supervisor used this term about me bcause of my tendency to raise questions that were not answerable with politically correct hype.
urban inner-city high school. I retired when I got too old to fight.
A supervisor used this term about me bcause of my tendency to raise questions that were not answerable with politically correct hype.
You can't run a jackass in the Kentucky Derby
loosecannon, dont worry around here. We all know we are right but not many of us try to be PC.
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