Looney Tunes
Quote from Lois-Ann Yamanaka:
There will be a public memorial service in Honolulu open to friends and the general public: Date: Sunday, July 31st Time: 1:00 pm Location: Moiliili Hongwanji Buddhist Church, 902 University Avenue In lieu of flowers, donations may be sent to: Asian Improv aRts / Kayo Hatta Fund 201 Spear St., Ste 1650 San Francisco, CA 94105 Posted 7/31/2005 at 5:24 AM |
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Born today: Laurence Fishburne Matrix "The nine-fold square
has centre, periphery, axes and diagonals. But all are
present only in their bare essentials. It is also a sequence
of eight triads. Four pass through the centre and four do
not. This is the garden of Apollo, the field of Reason,
sheltered by the Gate from the turmoil of the Delta, with
its endless cycles of erasure and reinscription. This is the
Temple of Solomon, as inscribed, for example, by a nine-fold
compartmentation to provide the ground plan of Yale...."
-- Architects John Outram Associates on work at Rice University Yale Daily News, Jan. 11, 2001: "When New Haven was founded, the city was laid out into a grid of nine squares surrounded by a great wilderness. Last year History of Art Professor Emeritus Vincent Scully said the original town plan reflected a feeling that the new city should be sacred. Scully said the colony's founders thought of their new Puritan settlement as a 'nine-square paradise on Earth, heaven on earth, New Haven, New Jerusalem.'" "Real and unreal are two in one: New Haven Before and after one arrives...." -- Wallace Stevens, "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven,' XXVIII Posted 7/30/2005 at 11:21 AM |
Born today: Arnold Schwarzenegger Staircase
Frame not included in "...Mondrian and Malevich are not -- Rosalind Krauss, "Grids" Posted 7/30/2005 at 11:07 AM |
Born today: Hilary Swank
E is for Everlast
"The grid is a staircase to the Universal." "To live is to defend a form." Posted 7/30/2005 at 10:18 AM |
Anatomy of a Death From today's New York Times: From the Washington Post: "Al Held, an American artist who painted large-scale abstract works... was
found dead July 27, floating in a swimming pool at his villa.... The cause of death was not reported, but Italian
police said he died of natural causes. He was 76."
Hollywood images:From the Associated Press, filed at 4:34 PM ET July 27, 2005: "Held once described his work this way: 'Historically, the priests and wise men believed that it was the artist's job to make images of heaven and hell believable, even though nobody had experienced these places.' 'Today,' he went on, 'scientists talk about vast worlds and
universes that the senses cannot experience. The purpose of the
nonobjective artist is to create these images.'" "Most modern men do not believe in hell because they have not been there."
Related material: And from Mathematics and Narrative: By Their Fruits Today's (July 22) birthdays: Don Henley and Willem Dafoe Related material: Mathematics and Narrative, Crankbuster. "And the fruit is rotten; the serpent's eyes shine as he wraps around the vine in the Garden of Allah." Posted 7/29/2005 at 4:44 AM |
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See also Final Arrangements, June 16, 2005. Posted 7/25/2005 at 2:56 AM |
L'Affaire Dharwadker: Non-computer proof of 4 color Theorem, 2000 Oct. 13-Nov. 30, sci.math, 23 posts Open Directory Abuse, 2002 Oct. 2-Oct. 14, sci.math, 8 posts Open Directory Abuse, 2002 Oct. 2-Oct. 15, comp.misc, 2 posts Steven Cullinane is a Liar, 2002 Nov. 1-Nov.16, geometry.research, 2 posts Four-colour proof claim, 2003 Aug. 10-Sept.1, sci.math, 9 posts Proof of 4 colour theorem No computer!!!, 2003 Aug. 10-Aug. 20, alt.sci.math.combinatorics, 8 posts Steven Cullinane is a Crank, 2005 July 5-July 21 sci.math, 70 posts From a Log24 post a year ago today: "With a holy host of others standing 'round me Still I'm on the dark side of the moon..." -- James Taylor From a Log24 post on July 20 this year: "And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes I'll see you on the dark side of the moon." -- Roger Waters Posted 7/24/2005 at 2:56 AM |
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From today's New York Times online obituaries: Related material: Four Last Things, Math Awareness Month, Go Ask Alice, Meet Joe Black. Posted 7/23/2005 at 3:17 AM |
Go Ask Alice From the weblog of Alice: Click to enlarge "This is a Datura Moonflower."
Posted 7/23/2005 at 2:28 AM |
Particularity continued For Louise Fletcher on her birthday Fletcher in Exorcist II: The Heretic From Andrew Delbanco, the author of The Death of Satan: How Americans Have Lost the Sense of Evil: "A couple of years ago, in an article explaining how funds for faculty positions are allocated in American universities, the provost of the University of California at Berkeley offered some frank advice to department chairs, whose job partly consists of lobbying for a share of the budget. 'On every campus,' she wrote, 'there is one department whose name need only be mentioned to make people laugh; you don't want that department to be yours.' The provost, Carol Christ (who retains her faculty position as a literature professor), does not name the offender—but everyone knows that if you want to locate the laughingstock on your local campus these days, your best bet is to stop by the English department." -- Andrew Delbanco in The New York Review of Books, Nov. 4, 1999 Christ:
Click on picture for details. For Christ in a different context, see the 9/11 entry of Log24 in a September 2003 archive. For exorcism in a different context, see Exorcism and Multiple Personality Disorder from a Catholic Perspective, by Fr. J. Mahoney. "Got to keep the loonies on the path." -- Roger Waters Posted 7/22/2005 at 3:57 PM |
By Their Fruits Today's birthdays: Don Henley and Willem Dafoe Related material: Mathematics and Narrative, Crankbuster. "And the fruit is rotten; the serpent's eyes shine as he wraps around the vine in the Garden of Allah." Posted 7/22/2005 at 5:55 AM |
Permanence "What we do may be small, but it has a certain character of permanence." -- G. H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology For further details, see Geometry of the 4x4 Square. "There is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics." -- Hardy, op. cit. For further details, see Four-colour proof claim. Posted 7/21/2005 at 9:00 PM |
Beaming Scotty Up
From crankbuster, July 18: "Do not underestimate Evil Cullinane's plan for World Domination! http://www.log24.com now shows that he has crossed over to the dark side, making sacrifices to the Ancient Hindu Goddess 'Kalli' to ward off our attacks! 'Kalli'-nane will soon appear as the top result on every Google search. July 20 illustration of crankbuster's remarks Soon, all young mathematicians will be hypnotised by his dark diamonds of falsehood. At least, that's his plan. But wait, who's that brilliant mathematician who shines the light right through Cullinane's fraud and exposes him to the whole world?! Crankbuster saves the day! (applause)" From Log24, July 18: Is Beauty the Beast?
(Headline in Christianity Today) "In Hindu mythology, Kali,
the Divine Mother, is the symbol for the infinite diversity of
experience. Kali represents the entire physical plane. She is the
drama, tragedy, humor, and sorrow of life. She is the brother, father,
sister, mother, lover, and friend. She is the fiend, monster, beast,
and brute."
Star Trek's "Scotty," who died at 5:30 AM PDT July 20, was "a veteran of the D-Day landings who managed to hide a war
injury on screen. As an artillery lieutenant in the Canadian army, he
was hit by six machine-gun bullets, one of which removed his middle
right finger."
"Beam me up, Kali." Related material: Mathematics and Narrative "And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes I'll see you on the dark side of the moon." Posted 7/20/2005 at 10:30 PM |
Another rhetorical contrast,
from a different date -- One small step for me: Sunday, November 03, 2002
One giant leap for mankind: Date Posted: 11/03/02 Sun "The 'Diamond Theory' website of Steven Cullinane shows a man who is incapable of telling the truth: a pathological liar who hates and despises the mathematical community; a sociopath caught between the conflicting desires to earn the admiration of mathematicians, and his desire to insult those who ignore him and refuse him his self-perceived due measure of honor and reverie. As such, Steven Cullinane is constantly trying to purchase recognition when he has the funds to advertise on google.com, or steal that recognition by lying and deceiving dmoz.org when money isn't enough. As you can see from the correspondence below, Jed Pack has clearly pointed out serious errors in Steven Cullinane's calculations. Now, instead of admitting that he has been caught with his pants down, Steven Cullinane is questioning Jed Pack's education! Surely, Jed Pack is a more competent mathematician than Steven Cullinane." For further details, see Crankbuster. Posted 7/20/2005 at 7:20 PM |
Real
From today's New York Times:
"Elizabeth Blodgett Hall, an educator who concluded that bored high
school students should be sent straight to college and started Simon's
Rock College to prove the point, died on Monday in Canaan, Conn. She
was 95....
Mrs. Hall's mission was intensely personal. In addition to spending more than $6 million of her own, she gave 200 acres of her family's farmland, buildings included, to start the college.... She named it for a rock on which she had played as a child." "Was there really a cherubim waiting at the star-watching rock...? Was he real? What is real?" -- Madeleine L'Engle, A Wind in the Door, quoted at math16.com For further details, see To Prove a Point. Posted 7/20/2005 at 6:29 AM |
Is Beauty the Beast?
"In Hindu mythology, Kali, the Divine Mother, is the symbol for the infinite diversity of experience. Kali represents the entire physical plane. She is the drama, tragedy, humor, and sorrow of life. She is the brother, father, sister, mother, lover, and friend. She is the fiend, monster, beast, and brute." -- Gary Zukav, Harvard '64 "Tickle her under the chin and she'll stay with you forever." -- People Weekly's "Hero Pets!" July 14 1997 Posted 7/18/2005 at 10:00 PM |
Related material: Tribute to the Dance of Kali, Dance, Reply to My Fan Mail, and Crankbuster. For those who enjoy adolescent humor... Crankbuster -- He's the man; the man with the Midas touch, a spider's touch, beckons you to enter his web of sin, but don't go in. Posted 7/18/2005 at 12:00 PM |
Speak, Memory Today's birthday: Paul Verhoeven, director of Total Recall. A link: The Art of Memory. Posted 7/18/2005 at 7:59 AM |
Dance Yesterday's AP "Thought for Today"-- "In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose." - J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist (1904-1967). From Log24 on Dec. 17, 2002: The Dancing Wu Li Masters, "The Wu Li Masters know that physicists are doing more than 'discovering the endless diversity of nature.' They are dancing with Kali [or Durga], the Divine Mother of Hindu mythology." "Eastern religions have nothing to say about physics, but they have a great deal to say about human experience. In Hindu mythology, Kali, the Divine Mother, is the symbol for the infinite diversity of experience. Kali represents the entire physical plane. She is the drama, tragedy, humor, and sorrow of life. She is the brother, father, sister, mother, lover, and friend. She is the fiend, monster, beast, and brute. She is the sun and the ocean. She is the grass and the dew. She is our sense of accomplishment and our sense of doing worthwhile. Our thrill of discovery is a pendant on her bracelet. Our gratification is a spot of color on her cheek. Our sense of importance is the bell on her toe. This full and seductive, terrible and wonderful earth mother always has something to offer. Hindus know the impossibility of seducing her or conquering her and the futility of loving her or hating her; so they do the only thing that they can do. They simply honor her." How could I dance with another....? — John Lennon and Paul McCartney, 1962-1963 Posted 7/17/2005 at 7:59 PM |
From "The Bomb of the Blue God," by M. V. Ramana-- Gita 11:32 -- kalosmi lokaksaya krt pravrddho"This literally means: I am kala, the great destroyer of Worlds. What is intriguing about this verse, then, is the interpretation of kala by Jungk and others to mean death. While death is technically one of the meanings of kala, a more common one is time." See 1132 AD & Saint Brighid, and my 2003 weblog entries of January 5 (Twelfth Night and the whirligig of time), January 31 (St. Brigid's Eve), and February 1 (St. Brigid's Day). The fact that Oppenheimer thought, on this date in 1945, of Chapter 11, verse 32, of the Gita may, as a mnemonic device, be associated with the use of the number 1132 in Finnegans Wake. Related material for Shiva as Lord of the Dance Michael and other Irish persons may benefit from the film "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" as an introduction to the Dance of Shiva and Kali. On a more personal level: Log24 entries of July 12 and July 13. Posted 7/16/2005 at 3:00 PM |
Feast of St. Bonaventure From Darkness Visible: "Ed Rinehart [sic] made a fortune painting canvases that were just one solid color. He had his black period in which the canvas was totally black. And then he had a blue period in which he was painting the canvas blue." -- Martin Gardner interview in AMS Notices, June/July 2005 From Art History: "Art history was very personal through the eyes of Ad Reinhardt." -- Robert Morris, Smithsonian Archives of American Art From The Edge of Eternity: Christopher Fry's obituary Adapted from cover of German edition of Cold Mountain Posted 7/15/2005 at 6:00 PM |
Today's birthday: Harrison Ford Location, Location, Location
Wikipedia on Temple of Doom: "Most of the filming was done on location in Sri Lanka."
Recent Messages: 1. Re: Steven Cullinane is a Crank Jul 12, 2005 2. Re: Steven Cullinane is a Crank Jul 12, 2005 3. Re: Steven Cullinane is a Crank Jul 12, 2005 4. Re: Steven Cullinane's "Diamond Theory" Jul 8, 2005 5. Steven Cullinane's "Diamond Theory" Jul 7, 2005 6. Re: Steven Cullinane is a Crank Jul 7, 2005 7. Re: Steven Cullinane is a Crank Jul 5, 2005 8. Re: Steven Cullinane is a Crank Jul 5, 2005 9. Steven Cullinane is a Crank Jul 5, 2005 10. Steven Cullinane is a Crank Jul 5, 2005 Google Groups view of the main thread (at sci.math) to which crankbuster has posted Posted 7/13/2005 at 1:00 PM |
Reply to my fan mail Discussions in Internet forums indicate that at least three people seem deeply interested in my work in finite geometry:
As the real R. T. Curtis has noted, "If someone is deliberately using my name to attack Steven Cullinane anonymously, it shows malice and cowardice unusual in the mathematical world." At least my anonymous fan has, it seems, stopped using other people's names to hide behind... although the latest attacks, under the name "crankbuster," seem to be trying to imply, falsely, a connection with the Crank Dot Net website. Posted 7/12/2005 at 2:08 AM |
Logos for St. Benedict's Day Click on either of the logos below for religious meditations -- on the left, a Jewish meditation from the Conference of Catholic Bishops; on the right, an Aryan meditation from Stormfront.org. Both logos represent different embodiments of the "story theory" of truth, as opposed to the "diamond theory" of truth. Both logos claim, in their own ways, to represent the eternal Logos of the Christian religion. I personally prefer the "diamond theory" of truth, represented by the logo below. See also the previous entryand the entries of 7/11, 2003. Posted 7/11/2005 at 12:00 AM |
Mathematics
and Narrative Click on the title for a narrative about Nikolaos K. Artemiadis, (Co-) author of
"First of all, I'd like to thank the Academy..." -- remark attributed to Plato Posted 7/10/2005 at 6:00 PM |
Today's birthday: Tom Hanks Christendom
Catholic Encyclopedia, 1908: "In its wider sense this term is used to describe the part of the world which is inhabited by Christians.... But there is a narrower sense in which Christendom stands for a polity as well as a religion, for a nation as well as for a people. Christendom in this sense was an ideal which inspired and dignified many centuries of history and which has not yet altogether lost its power over the minds of men." Illustrations -- from Saving Private Ryan and from this week's G8 meeting: Posted 7/9/2005 at 6:06 PM |
Station From today's New York Times: Carl De Souza/ Agence France-Presse "A construction worker bowed in prayer at the Kings Cross station in London." Related material: Log24 entries of July 3-5, 2005, including an update of 3 AM July 8, 2005. Posted 7/8/2005 at 4:00 AM |
Red and Blue On the June 28 mock naval battle between "red" and "blue" fleets to mark the bicentenary year of the 1805 Battle of Trafalgar: A spokeswoman for the Royal Navy said -- "Nelson is featured, but we are not billing it as Britain versus France... This will not be a French-bashing opportunity." Posted 7/6/2005 at 4:00 PM |
For Christopher Fry and the White Goddess: The Edge of Eternity Christian humanist playwright Christopher Fry, author of The Lady's Not for Burning, died at 97 on June 30, 2005. From Log24 on June 30: Robert Graves, author of The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth-- How may the King hold back? Royally then he barters life for love. Or of the undying snake from chaos hatched, Whose coils contain the ocean, Into whose chops with naked sword he springs, Then in black water, tangled by the reeds, Battles three days and nights... From Cold Mountain: "He sat awhile on a rock, and then got up and walked all morning through the dim woods. The track was ill used, so coiled and knotted he could not say what its general tendency was. It aimed nowhere certain but up. The brush and bracken grew thick in the footway, and the ground seemed to be healing over, so that in some near future the way would not even remain as scar. For several miles it mostly wound its way through a forest of immense hemlocks, and the fog lay among them so thick that their green boughs were hidden. Only the black trunks were visible, rising into the low sky like old menhirs stood up by a forgotten race to memorialize the darkest events of their history.... They climbed to a bend and from there they walked on great slabs of rock. It seemed to Inman that they were at the lip of a cliff, for the smell of the thin air spoke of considerable height, though the fog closed off all visual check of loftiness....
Then he looked back down and felt a rush of vertigo as the
lower world was suddenly revealed between his boot toes. He
was indeed at the lip of a cliff, and he took one step back.... The
country around was high, broken. Inman looked about and was
startled to see a great knobby mountain forming up out of the
fog to the west, looming into the sky. The sun broke through a
slot in the clouds, and a great band of Jacob's ladder suddenly
hung in the air like a gauze curtain between Inman and the blue
mountain.... See also the entries of July 3. The crone figure in this section of Cold Mountain is not entirely unrelated to the girl accused of being a witch in Fry's play and to Graves's White Goddess. From Fry's obituary in The Guardian: "Though less of a public theorist than Eliot, Fry still believed passionately in the validity of poetic drama. As he wrote in the magazine Adam: 'In prose, we convey the eccentricity of things, in poetry their concentricity, the sense of relationship between them: a belief that all things express the same identity and are all contained in one discipline of revelation.'" From Fry's obituary in today's New York Times: "His plays radiated an optimistic faith in God and humanity, evoking, in
his words, 'a world in which we are poised on the edge of eternity, a
world which has deeps and shadows of mystery, and God is anything but a
sleeping partner.' He said he wrote his plays in poetry because that
was 'the language in which man expresses his own amazement' at the
complexity both of himself and of a reality which, beneath the surface,
was 'wildly, perilously, inexplicably fantastic.'" Posted 7/5/2005 at 5:14 AM |
Arrangement in Black and Blue Adapted from cover of German edition of Cold Mountain Epigraph to Cold Mountain, by Charles Frazier -- Men ask the way to Cold Mountain. Cold Mountain: there's no through trail. -- Han-shan Posted 7/3/2005 at 6:26 PM |
Intersections 1. Blue Ridge meets Black Mountain, 2. Vertical meets horizontal in music, 3. The timeless meets time in religion. Details: 1. Blue Ridge, Black Mountain "Montreat College is located in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina.... The Black Mountain Campus is... three miles from the main campus in the historic town of Black Mountain." Black Mountain College was "established on the Blue Ridge Assembly grounds outside the town of Black Mountain in North Carolina in the fall of 1933." USA Today, May 15, 2005, on Billy Graham: "MONTREAT, N.C. — ... It's here at his... homestead, where the Blue Ridge meets the Black Mountain range east of Asheville, that Graham gave a rare personal interview." See also the following from June 24: "No bridge reaches God, except one... God's Bridge: The Cross." -- Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, according to messiahpage.com For some remarks more in the spirit of Black Mountain than of the Blue Ridge, see today's earlier entry on pianist Grete Sultan and composer Tui St. George Tucker. 2. Vertical, Horizontal in Music Richard Neuhaus on George Steiner's "... the facts of the world are not and will never be 'the end of the matter.' Music joins grammar in pointing to the possibility, the reality, of more. He thinks Schopenhauer was on to something when he said music will continue after the world ends.
3. Timeless, Time A Trinity Sunday sermon quotes T. S. Eliot: "... to apprehend See also The Diamond Project. Update of July 8, 2005, 3 AM:
A Bridge for Private Ryan In memory of actor Harrison Richard Young, 75, who died on Sunday, July 3, 2005
Posted 7/3/2005 at 2:28 PM |
Requiem Some links for Grete Sultan, 1906-2005, a pianist who died at 99 on Sunday morning a week ago-- June 26, 2005: Album with sound clips -- The Legacy, Vol. 1 Album with Tantum Ergo -- The Legacy, Vol. 2
Tui St. George Tucker, 1924-2004. Her Requiem apparently premiered at Appalachian State University on April 30, 2005. For other material on theology and Appalachian State University, see that day's Log24 entries and also the April 25 entry, Mathematical Style. For more on music, theology, and Appalachia, see the entries of Sunday, July 25, 2004. Posted 7/3/2005 at 3:00 AM |
Big Dreams "For more than a century, Los Angeles has been synonymous with big dreams. The Australian writer and critic Clive James said it this way. 'Call Los Angeles any dirty name you like… The fact remains that you are already living in it before you get there.'" -- Today's inaugural address by Mayor Villaraigosa See also the previous entry. Update of 2:24 PM July 2: Yesterday afternoon I picked up a copy of George Steiner's Grammars of Creation I had ordered. A check of Amazon.com to see what others had to say about this book yielded the following: "Steiner's account of Hope as something exclusively transcendental and relative to the future is poor and superficial: the person who hopes is not only walking 'towards' Eternal Life, but is already walking 'in' Eternal Life, walking the Kingdom." -- Matías Cordero, Santiago, Chile See also an entry of April 7, 2005, Nine is a Vine. Posted 7/1/2005 at 8:00 PM |
Shining Through From Dogma -- "You see, Malloy, I'm writing a novel about Los Angeles.... It's a fantastic place, you know, Malloy.... It has a Spanish name, with religious Roman Catholic connotations...." From timesonline.co.uk, quotes of the day on May 19, 2005: "My granddaughter once said I have a big imagination. And I said, 'What’s a big imagination?,' and she said, 'You remember what never happened.'" -- Isabel Allende, novelist, whose new book is based on the life of Zorro
"You all know I love LA, but tonight I really love LA." -- Antonio Villaraigosa, voted in as the city’s first Hispanic mayor in more than a century, thanks voters Log24 entries ending at midnight August 28, 2003, and Log24 entries ending at midnight May 19, 2005, as well as the following illustrations from a Monday entry and from the entry it links to: Dream of Heaven Posted 7/1/2005 at 12:00 AM |