[Robotgroup] I'm on Boing Boing... for cables...?

[john at cozmicfunk.com]

Yes I understand this phenomena first "hand". As a musician (guitarist) 
and a AV tech,  I have pondered the "cable tangling" for years. Until I 
learned reverse wrapping or in/out coiling which ever you prefer, I 
spent much time laboring over the untangling of guitar and speaker 
cables after shows. The key to "unwrapping" the mystery lies in the 
physical behavior of the placement and digging through process that 
occurs only when human hands enters the equation.

There is a kind of Zen like conundrum to how neatly stacked coiled 
cables get all intertwined seemingly by themselves in a box. I also 
believe that gravity has some say in the matter, but I m not pointing 
any fingers...
JPF

Andre Lamothe wrote:
> This is funny, but semi-serious. My friend sellam ismail that runs the 
> vintage computer festival and vintage tech has the world's largest private 
> computer collection and book collection. And one of his biggest problems is 
> cable tangling, he has thousands of cables of every kind you can imagine and 
> he has had to actually "study" what makes cables tangle. Put two cables in a 
> box, etc. what happens? Anyway, although comic in this venue, cable tangling 
> and similar processes are very important in mixing and DNA recombination and 
> mitosis,etc. I just read a paper that someone emailed me (from this group, 
> or somewhere) about scientists that all they do all day long is cable 
> tangling experiments. And after reading, some of their results are 
> counterintuitive like what you think makes things tangle doesn't and what 
> you wouldn't think tangles does :)
>
> But, this would be fun to watch since I bet the people doing it are VERY 
> serious about it :)
>
> Andre'
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Edwin Wise" <edwin at simreal.com>
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> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 11:30 AM
> Subject: Re: [Robotgroup] I'm on Boing Boing... for cables...?
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> On 7 Feb 2008, at 11:07 AM, Vern Graner wrote:
>
>   
>> http://www.boingboing.net/2008/02/06/to-do-in-la-this-wee-1.html
>>
>> Huh? Ok.. this is just gettin weird now...
>>     
>
> Competitive cable untangling!?!?!?!?!? Yeah, that's weird.
>
> Do you have your own cheering section Vern?
>
> Edwin!
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> Edwin Wise, Rogue Technologist
> Simulated Reality Systems, LLC
> www.simreal.com
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