{"id":368,"date":"2014-02-08T19:26:44","date_gmt":"2014-02-09T03:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/?p=368"},"modified":"2014-02-08T19:27:56","modified_gmt":"2014-02-09T03:27:56","slug":"babblemumble-cube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/08\/babblemumble-cube\/","title":{"rendered":"Babblemumble cube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Mumble-babble1-300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-369\" alt=\"Mumble-babble1-300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Mumble-babble1-300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>While walking my dog Niko tonight, I was talking to him, as usual. I was just babbling. I was also mumbling. I thought there should be a nice portmanteau word combining babbling and mumbling. Both end with &#8220;bling&#8221;, so the first three letters have two choices: m\/b, u\/a, and m\/b. That situation can be nicely drawn as a cube. Here are the axes, and the results. Of the eight possibilities, two are already words: in the back-lower-right corner (the cube we can&#8217;t see) is <em>bubbling<\/em>, and in the near-lower-left is <em>bumbling<\/em>. But the one I like best is\u00a0<strong><\/strong><strong>bambling<\/strong>. I don&#8217;t know, it just feels right. To see a larger view of this image, and another image of all the cubes isolated, click here:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Mumble-babble1-580.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-370\" alt=\"Mumble-babble1-580\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Mumble-babble1-580.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Mumble-babble1-580.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Mumble-babble1-580-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Mumble-babble1-580-374x300.jpg 374w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Mumble-babble2b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-381\" alt=\"Mumble-babble2b\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Mumble-babble2b.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"692\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Mumble-babble2b.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Mumble-babble2b-251x300.jpg 251w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a>When I was drawing these pictures, it occurred to me that I was also rambling. So for extra credit, draw a 4D cube (or tesseract) that has all 16 combinations of babbling, mumbling, and rambling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While walking my dog Niko tonight, I was talking to him, as usual. I was just babbling. I was also mumbling. I thought there should be a nice portmanteau word combining babbling and mumbling. Both end with &#8220;bling&#8221;, so the first three letters have two choices: m\/b, u\/a, and m\/b. That situation can be nicely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":383,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions\/383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}