Betty likes to take fractal walks. The linear distance we travel is maybe 30 feet, but the “sniff” distance, a precise mathematical concept I just made up, is approximately, well, let’s just say it approaches infinity. During one Betty fractal walk, all I did was stand in the devil strip while Betty took a space-filling curve sniffing journey to the limit of the retractable leash. After 30 minutes, Betty was satisfied and we went inside.
If you say that what I’m describing isn’t a fractal, then you’re taking this post way too seriously, and if you don’t know what a devil strip is, then you aren’t from around the Akron, Ohio area.
Betty and I are walking down the sidewalk of a rather busy street when a car screeches to a halt in the middle of the road and a kid jumps out and asks: “Can I pet your dog sir?” And Betty makes yet another friend. I don’t get it. What is this mysterious attractive force that Betty possesses? I don’t recall studying any such thing in the physics classes I took. Is it some sort of undiscovered force? The Betty force? Do they give Nobel Prizes to dogs?
As Betty and I were strolling past a house occupied by some of her friends, I heard a little girl’s voice coming from the back of the backyard: “Look! Oh my goodness! It’s Betty!!” Before I had a chance to extend the leash, the little girl zoomed across the yard and smothered Betty with love. The dogs who live in the house were clearly not happy with this event, but what could I do? Betty is a magnetar.
Betty likes to take fractal walks. The linear distance we travel is maybe 30 feet, but the “sniff” distance, a precise mathematical concept I just made up, is approximately, well, let’s just say it approaches infinity. During one Betty fractal walk, all I did was stand in the devil strip while Betty took a space-filling curve sniffing journey to the limit of the retractable leash. After 30 minutes, Betty was satisfied and we went inside.
