{"id":318,"date":"2008-06-12T13:29:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T17:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=318"},"modified":"2008-06-12T13:29:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T17:29:00","slug":"fuzzy-times-in-fractalville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=318","title":{"rendered":"Fuzzy Times in Fractalville"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My apologies to jamfancy, Funny Bunny and tibiloo, but I found this online vignette was just too precious not to share it with the loyal, die-hard, though thick and thin, grassroots supporters of Orbit Trap — the greatest thing since sliced Mandelbrot. (That’s a joke on the German word for “bread”). 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