{"id":450,"date":"2012-03-24T01:18:16","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T05:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/?p=450"},"modified":"2025-02-13T02:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T07:58:09","slug":"accidental-perfect-freehand-l","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/2012\/03\/24\/accidental-perfect-freehand-l\/","title":{"rendered":"Accidental, perfect freehand \u2018L\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was scribbling in MSPaint (with the mouse) for some reason and I ended up drawing a perfect \u2018L\u2019 with perfectly straight lines and a perfectly aligned 90\u00b0 angle.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m reminded of an episode of a show in which a character drew a perfect freehand circle on a napkin (I think it was George on <em>Seinfeld<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>To be fair, if you look at the rest of the canvas, you see I scribbled a bunch of lines. This is just the law-of-big-numbers. If there is enough of something, then <em>anything<\/em> eventually becomes possible. You may also know it as the infinite-monkeys-shakespere trope.<\/p>\n<p>Taken to the extreme, if the universe is infinite and has infinite atoms, then every combination and permutation of anything and everything (that is <em>possible<\/em>) would eventually exist. &#8220;Possible&#8221; being the operative word, even the infinite is bound by the laws of physics and the butterfly-effect.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blogs\/brainbucket\/files\/2020\/04\/Perfectly-Freehand-L.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blogs\/brainbucket\/files\/2020\/04\/Perfectly-Freehand-L-300x200.png\" alt=\"A bunch of random scribbles in MSPaint with one perfect &#039;L&#039; drawn freehand\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/files\/2020\/04\/Perfectly-Freehand-L-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/files\/2020\/04\/Perfectly-Freehand-L-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/files\/2020\/04\/Perfectly-Freehand-L-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/files\/2020\/04\/Perfectly-Freehand-L.png 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was scribbling in MSPaint (with the mouse) for some reason and I ended up drawing a perfect \u2018L\u2019 with perfectly straight lines and a perfectly aligned 90\u00b0 angle. I&#8217;m reminded of an episode of a show in which a character drew a perfect freehand circle on a napkin (I think it was George on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}