red diamonds

I don't know if it was because of the reading of the short story of the crabs late at night or what, but I had a funny dream where I was carrying red and clear small diamonds in a small plastic bag with ziplog all over the place. I had to give it to somebody in payment for something else.

I assumed that the little bag was worth a lot, so I found myself walking in the middle of Buenos Aires and asking myself, if I was crazy of what, not having this diamonds deposited in a vault, more secured, instead of heving them in my jacket pocket in the middle of the street!!!!!

Maybe it's better to be hidden in large numbers than been an obivous carrier of something valuable! Other than your own life, of course, that in the past century and in this, has been and it is such a a low cost commodity.

"eCompanies on the Island"

I found it. I can't believe it yet.

Russian short stories translated into english.

http://home.freeuk.com/russica4/

What sent me into the search? eBay buys Skype, Yahoo buys Flickr, Google buys Blogger, Mr.Portenho has the bad idea to update to the new blogger's site and an hour lost to try to login again.

The result is the text in english of Anatoly Dneprov titled "Crabs on the Island" (Крабы идут по острову) about an experiment with robotic crabs that evolve from a simple first specimen landed an island in the middle of nowhere. This specimen has the ability to reproduce itself eating metal burried across the island.

The result . . . I invite you to read the text. But the evolution of a fake crab population could resemble pretty much to the industrial organization process seen in the eBussiness, where small little companies are being absorbed by other who grow fat and then they migh eat each other.

The text can be downloaded from http://home.freeuk.com/russica4/books/cafe/crabs_w6.rar

Found some pictures of Anatoly Dneprov (11.18.1919-1975 ) for whom I didn't have a face, and ilustrations of the story. Data on Dneprov at http://193.40.240.76/sfbooks/teosed.asp?autor=327&krit=Vorm

I also found a paper in which this story and "Nitrogen"by Primo Levi are used to evaluate the ability of short stories to teach science (http://www.pantaneto.co.uk/issue12/negrete.htm)

Very Cool!

I want to thank the President of the Internet!!!!