random observation

[kitanzi]

Being a part of any given poly community, even peripherally, can be very oddly entertaining. Every so often you find out that people you didn’t even know knew each other are suddenly radiating NRE together like miniature power plants, and the web of relationships seems to instantly get that bit more compacted and tangled together. The whole community seems like some amazingly intricate origami creation, which folds and folds as people come together, until some day some critical density will be reached and the whole thing will simply implode, and everyone caught up in it will vanish like a pack of boojums…

Comments

[poltr1]

Heh. Sounds like you'd need a scorecard, or a relationship diagram a la The L Word, to keep track of everything. :)

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

Heh, I've never watched The L Word, but likely so.

[elgecko.livejournal.com]

You should see the way it has folded in on itself on a transcontinental scale! Hope to see you at Consonance!

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

A transcontinental fold is what prompted this, actually, though if you know either of the people directly involved, I'll be most surprised. :)

[klrmn.livejournal.com]

*grin*

gotta love origami =)

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Ha ha ha. I once threatened to do it up in a 3D modeling program... Merely doing it in some Visio-equivalent would probably get way too complex...

To model it properly you almost need 4D, but you can probably do it in 3D with color coding or something...