Visiting Carl Sagan

Sagan was one of many influential people who called Ithaca home. Reminders of his presence permeates Ithaca and Cornell's campus, which include his house on the Fall Creek Gorge and his final resting place at the Lakeview Cemetery. I recently paid tribute with two friends.

Locating Carl Sagan's grave is not too difficult, but it did take us half an hour. He is buried in Ithaca, New York at the Lakeview Cemetary. The cemetary entrance is gated at the top of a hill overlooking downtown Ithaca. Only a couple hundred feet after the gate, his gravestone is just off the road to the right. We found a multitude of placed stones which had been left by previous visitors. We arranged the colored stones in a line representing the planetary system ranging from the sun to pluto as shown below. I know, Pluto is debatibly a planet, but in Sagan's day it certainly was.

Million Monkeys Project

The Million Monkeys Project

A finite but extremely large number of monkey's with typewriters act as my muse during my creation of large amounts of creative works. Copyrights last for a cumbersome duration and so it is a goal of this project to place everything I make in the public domain.

Here you will find an exhaustive list of creative works that are in a fixed and tangible form. For example, my first project is an enormous list of two word poems which I have independently created. In fact, you would be hard pressed to find a two word poem which I have not written (unless you include proper nouns).

For this day on, each of my creative works will forever be free (as in beer and speech) for anyone to copy. By placing my works in the public domain, I encourage anyone to use each work in anyway they wish without any attribution. That being said, I do retain the copyrights to the compilation of works, so do not redistribute my lists.

After writing poetry till my hands bled, I decided I should look to see what has already been written. Having only assumed that two word poetry might exist, it turns out I was correct. Below is some of the two word poetry others have written. Almost all of them can be found in the poetry lists I wrote independently wrote.

Muhammad Ali at Harvard College recited a now famous poem:

Me, we.

A great video behind this poem explains its origins. I also independently wrote this famous poem without any prior knowledge of its existence. It can be found in both the One Million List and One Billion Plus List.