1/01/2006

Fiction: A Cat, Fractals, BitTorrent and Microwave Transmission Distruption by Rain

A drop of rain freefalling from a cloud at 9.8 m/s/s, it fell smack on the pavement dispersing itself to become copies of its former self that would further come back falling to the ground.

A cat, female, looks at this event happening a few thousand times at the same moment. Yawns, and went inside the house to find it's master.

The master was sitting on a sofa reading a book on fractals while listening to Ravel's Bolero. Looking at those fine pictures of infinite coastlines and admiring the simplicity/complexity of a fern.

The cat strokes herself by using the master's right foot. In this activity the master toes were a favourite of the cat.

Unknown to neither the cat nor the master, outside the house under the eaves sits a pigeon on top of an egg. On top the pigeon grows feathers.

Somewhere in the house is personal computer, currently receiving and transmitting 1s and 0s via the modem turning analog signals to digital and vice versa, downloading and uploading pieces of data with the girl across the road and another girl at the opposite side of the planet.

All happening while precipitation continues. The master turns on the TV and satellite service, nothing but the message "Service currently unavailable", turns it off and continues reading.