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Friday, June 30, 2023

Trickster Fuge (German for Joint)

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Margaret Atwood on Lewis Hyde's 
Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art

"Trickster is among other things the gatekeeper who opens the door into the next world; those who mistake him for a psychopath never even know such a door exists." (159)

What is "the next world"? It might be the Underworld….

The pleasures of fabulation, the charming and playful lie– this line of thought leads Hyde to the last link in his subtitle, the connection of the trickster to art. Hyde reminds us that the wall between the artist and that American favourite son, the con-artist, can be a thin one indeed; that craft and crafty rub shoulders; and that the words artifice, artifact, articulation  and art  all come from the same ancient root, a word meaning "to join," "to fit," and "to make." (254)  If it’s a seamless whole you want, pray to Apollo, who sets the limits within which such a work can exist.  Tricksters, however, stand where the door swings open on its hinges and the horizon expands: they operate where things are joined together, and thus can also come apart.

Pythagorean theorem proof by overlapping similar figures

"Drop me a line" — Request attributed to Emma Stone

Indiana Jones and S/Z

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"Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny 
had its world premiere at Cannes 
on May 18, 2023, and is scheduled to
be released in the United States on
June 30, 2023." — Data from Wikipedia

From this  journal on May 18, 2023 —

In memory of Mr. Zell, some notes suggested by his initials . . .

S/Z  in Wikipedia and . . .

Related amusements from the above publication date —
August 1, 2017 — "Biff's Pleasure Detailing."

Thursday, June 29, 2023

Die Kunst der Fuge

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English translation of 'Fuge '   [ˈfuːɡə] 

FEMININE NOUN  Word forms: Fuge  genitive, Fugen  plural

"Mind the gap."

The Bluest Album

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Related material —

Tomb Raider of Geometry

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A coffin-like image from yesterday

 .

This suggests a review:

Wednesday, June 28, 2023

Pilgrimage Progress… Continues.

Filed under: General — m759 @ 4:43 pm

See also earlier Pilgrim posts.

Actual Data

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 3:23 pm

From the above image: "/gds_rip/" —

Related geek lore:

Covering Mr. Weicker

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:56 pm

“Fail Again. Fail Better.” — Samuel Beckett

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 4:57 am

Also on January 21, 2023, the
"Consecration" upload date —

“The Southwest Furthers.”

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:41 am

See also Turning 63.

Tuesday, June 27, 2023

Die-Hard Flack-Catcher

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" 'We caught lots of flack from the die-hard bluegrass fans,'
Mr. Osborne said of the group’s sometimes fraught relationship
with bluegrass purists in a 2011 interview with the online publication
Mandolin Café." — New York Times  report of a June 27 death

Perhaps the Times  meant "flak" . . .

"Flak is a contraction of German Flugabwehrkanone …." Wikipedia

Or perhaps the Times  meant Roberta  Flack . . . "Killing me softly…."

The Whitelaw Tune* Lingers On

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 4:46 pm

A death from last Thursday reported today by
The New York Times  suggests . . .

* See yesterday's post  A Tune for Whitelaw.

The Annenberg Death Knell

Filed under: General — m759 @ 4:00 pm

The Representation of Minus One…

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 3:09 pm

Continued from February 6, 2014.

This flashback to 2014 was prompted by the following search history —

Related logic —

Related material — "Boolean Functions" in this journal.

256 Shades

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:20 am

"Could you elaborate on the specificity of 'Blackness' here?"

— Dialogue about a 2022 book from Yale University Press.
 

Voilà  —

The Source :


256 Shades of Lincoln

Monday, June 26, 2023

Date Link

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:49 pm

The YouTube upload date — Aug. 30, 2019 — of "Schism," by Tool,
suggests a review . . .

The Go Set link leads to Plan 9 material.

A Tune for Whitelaw

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 1:54 pm

Jena Malone song

The Boole Tool  and The XOR Schism

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:32 pm

'Galois Additions of Space Partitions'

Party Lines

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Jena Malone as the young Eleanor Arroway in "Contact" (1997) —

Jena Malone in "The Neon Demon" (2016) —

Jena Malone in "Lorelei" (2020) —

Lines from the above "Lorelei" scene —

Wayland — "You've been busy."

Dolores — "Yep."

Sunday, June 25, 2023

Silent Backup from Cold Mountain: Quilt Blocks

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , , — m759 @ 10:37 pm

The New York Times  reports this evening that McReynolds died
on Friday, June 23, 2023.

See also Cold Mountain  in this journal.

From Cold Mountain, by Charles Frazier, 367-368:

"They consulted and twisted the pegs again
to make the dead man’s tuning…."

“… were it not that I have bad dreams” — Hamlet

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High Concept: The Dreaming Gemstones

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Sturgeon versus Plato —

Sturgeon's Dreaming Jewels meet Plato's Righteous Gemstones.

Saturday, June 24, 2023

For the ACME Corporation: “e” is for “einheit ”

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 3:30 pm

From other posts tagged Natural Diagram

http://m759.net/wordpress/?p=87354

Friday, June 23, 2023

Intersectionality Studies

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:11 pm

"… the timeless / With time … ." — T. S. Eliot

A Little Drama

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The broken pencil in a Dial  illustration of June 20 — 

"I could a tale unfold . . ." — Hamlet's father's ghost

"Thus the entire little drama, from crystallized carbon
and felled pine to this humble implement, to this
transparent thing, unfolds in a twinkle."

— Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things

"… a cardboard tube, more or less the same length as
the inner core of a toilet roll, but thicker. He frowned,
took the roll out, laid it on the desk and poked up it
with the butt end of a pencil. Something slid out.
It looked like a rolled-up black plastic dustbin liner;
but when he unfolded it, he recognised it as the funny
sheet thing he’d found in the strongroom and briefly
described as an Acme Portable Door, before losing
his nerve and changing it to something less facetious." 

— Holt, Tom. The Portable Door . Orbit. Kindle Edition. 

According to goodreads.com, the Holt book was
"first published March 6, 2003."

See also this  journal on March 6, 2003, in a search for
Michelangelo Geometry.

Punchline of the above little drama —

"Try the other  end of the pencil, Liz."

Ashes to Ashes, Dustbin to Dustbin

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In memory of Broadway lyricist Sheldon Harnick, 
who reportedly died today at 99:

Related legal notice from Princeton —

The above copyright notice is from The Symbolic Quest,
by one Edward C. Whitmont (birth name: Weissberg).

Thursday, June 22, 2023

Square Inch Lore

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See a search in this journal
for the following image —

Diamond Theory version of 'The Square Inch Space' with yin-yang symbol for comparison   .

Dustbin Notes

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Found today at Language Log:

Translated from the Russian —

Also from Language Log, an earlier use of the phrase —

F. C. Burnand's novel My Time and What I've Done with It , Chapter 27,
in Old and New, Volume 8, 1873:

It is thus that ignorant prejudices are fostered ;
and how few of us in afterlife have the time or the will
to sift the rubbish of the dust-bin of history 
on the chance of discovering the diamond of truth.

Unfolded Drama

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 11:14 am

"I could a tale unfold . . ." — Hamlet's father's ghost

"Thus the entire little drama, from crystallized carbon
and felled pine to this humble implement, to this
transparent thing, unfolds in a twinkle."

— Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things

"… a cardboard tube, more or less the same length as
the inner core of a toilet roll, but thicker. He frowned,
took the roll out, laid it on the desk and poked up it
with the butt end of a pencil. Something slid out.
It looked like a rolled-up black plastic dustbin liner;
but when he unfolded it, he recognised it as the funny
sheet thing he’d found in the strongroom and briefly
described as an Acme Portable Door, before losing
his nerve and changing it to something less facetious." 

— Holt, Tom. The Portable Door . Orbit. Kindle Edition. 

According to goodreads.com, the Holt book was
"first published March 6, 2003."

Wednesday, June 21, 2023

Snark in the Park: Stock Car Number 34

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:59 pm

Related tunes — "Hot Rod Lincoln" and
"Junk in the Trunk" (Planet Booty, YouTube, Feb. 27, 2019)

Annals of Magical Thinking: The Rushmore Embedding

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:53 am

http://www.log24.com/log/pix18/180830-Harry_Potter-Phil_Stone-Bloomsbury-2004-p168.jpg

Less magical: "What are vector embeddings?"

Thoughts and Prayers 101

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The Artist: Yuki Murayama

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The June 14 book review from the previous post

See the artist's page giving variations on the above image.

Tuesday, June 20, 2023

Emma Watson, Symmetry Surfer

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:44 pm

See also . . . .

Menu Secreto

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… And of Evolution

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 1:19 am

(Continued from the previous post, Annals of Devolution)

The above seems an improved version of the 
beach romp in the 2023 film of "The Portable Door."

♫ "Little bitty pretty one . . . ."

Annals of Devolution

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:37 am
 

Timeless (TV Series)

The War to End All Wars (2018)

  • Denise Christopher : How's it going?

    Rufus Carlin : Uh, well, we printed out all the documents from the iPhone.

    Denise Christopher : Is there anything in there that would tell us a specific plan?

    Rufus Carlin : Mostly just devolves into a bunch of ranting, like "Mein Kampf" by Philip K. Dick. We can't figure it out.

    Denise Christopher : Well, there's someone who might know.

Fritz Leiber ?

Monday, June 19, 2023

New Career Paths

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:25 pm

"Experience the magic of Mexico." — Delta vacations ad.

See also Midnight in the Garden (March 15, 2011
and New Day Nina (September 22, 2011).

The Original Portable Door

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 3:26 pm

"… a cardboard tube, more or less the same length as
the inner core of a toilet roll, but thicker. He frowned,
took the roll out, laid it on the desk and poked up it
with the butt end of a pencil. Something slid out.
It looked like a rolled-up black plastic dustbin liner;
but when he unfolded it, he recognised it as the funny
sheet thing he’d found in the strongroom and briefly
described as an Acme Portable Door, before losing
his nerve and changing it to something less facetious." 

— Holt, Tom. The Portable Door . Orbit. Kindle Edition. 

According to goodreads.com, the Holt book was
"first published March 6, 2003."

Compare and contrast the "portable door" as a literary device
with the "tesseract" in A Wrinkle in Time  (1962).

See also this  journal on March 6, 2003.

The Date

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On finite geometries . . .

"Although many of these structures are studied for
their geometrical importance, they are also of great
interest in other, more applied domains of mathematics."

— Remark from the metadata of a mathematical article
dated September 22, 2021

More applied domains . . .

"Sex Show at a Brothel" — This  journal on September 22, 2021.

A scene from the "Badass Song" film mentioned in that post —

Another cinematic towel scene —

Sunday, June 18, 2023

A Nemesis of Romanticism

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 2:16 pm

Efficient Packing

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“Four Is a Door” — Mnemonic Rhyme*

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:59 am

Earlier posts have mentioned a British version of my work.
It currently appears among many other images at . . .

https://www.bsswebsite.me.uk/Puzzlewebsite/for-puzzlers.html

Related cinema for Hogwarts fans

* The late John Nash might prefer the version "For Isadore."

Saturday, June 17, 2023

Restless Dreams

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Abigail Spencer in the "Timeless" Watergate episode

Less alone . . .

See also posts now tagged Crary Corner, and

the name  Crary.

The Nutshell Code

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Maureen Dowd today in The New York Times  on The Trump Papers

"It bespeaks a frailty, a need to be bolstered by talismanic items."

[Link added.]

" During his presidency, The Times reported, 'his aides began to refer to
the boxes full of papers and odds and ends he carted around with him
almost everywhere as the "beautiful mind" material. It was a reference to
the title of a book and movie depicting the life of John F. Nash Jr., the
mathematician with schizophrenia played in the film by Russell Crowe,
who covered his office with newspaper clippings, believing they held
a Russian code he needed to crack.' "

The Nutshell Code:

Friday, June 16, 2023

Bloomsday Journey Continues

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 8:59 pm

Papers

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 5:10 pm

"He earned a doctorate at Harvard, joined the RAND Corporation
and began studying game theory as applied to crisis situations
and nuclear warfare. In the 1960s, he conferred on Washington’s
responses to the Cuban missile crisis and North Vietnamese
attacks on American ships in the Gulf of Tonkin.

By 1964, Mr. Ellsberg was an adviser to Defense Secretary 
Robert S. McNamara."  

—  Robert D. McFadden in The New York Times  this afternoon.

For McNamara in this  journal, see (for instance) Groundhog Day 2006.

Opening on Bloomsday (in LA and NY)*

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"The Southwest Furthers"


* According to deadline.com.

Jigs* and Fixtures

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* For the first part of the title, look up posts now tagged Jigs.

Thursday, June 15, 2023

Study in Red and Grey*

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:13 pm

For the blue-black frame, a hat tip to Willard Motley.

See also the above date — 6 Nov 2021 — in this  journal.

* See as well a Log24 search for Red and Gray .

Proof Chat

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 8:50 pm

Proof of the Cullinane diamond theorem

Stardust Memory

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"The nightingale sings his fairy tale . . . ." — "Stardust"

Michaelmas 2019

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Transcribed from a PDF:

Received September 29, 2019, accepted October 15, 2019,
date of publication October 24, 2019, date of current version
November 7, 2019.

Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2949310

A Method for Determining
the Affine Equivalence of Boolean Functions

ZIYU WANG1 , XIAO ZENG1 , JINZHAO WU2,3, AND
GUOWU YANG1

1Big Data Research Center, School of Computer Science
and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology
of China, Chengdu 611731, China

2Guangxi Key Laboratory of Hybrid Computation and
IC Design Analysis, Guangxi University for Nationalities,
Nanning 530006, China

3School of Computer and Electronic Information,
Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China

Corresponding authors:
Jinzhao Wu (gxmdwjzh@aliyun.com) and
Guowu Yang (ygwuestc@163.com)

This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation
of China under Grant 61772006 and Grant 61572109, in part by the
State Key Laboratory of Information Security, Institute of Information Engineering, 
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, in part by the Science and Technology
Program of Guangxi  under Grant AB17129012, in part by the Science and
Technology Major Project of Guangxi under Grant AA17204096, in part by 
the Special Fund for Scientific and Technological Bases and Talents
of Guangxi under Grant 2016AD05050, and in part by the Special Fund for
Bagui Scholars of Guangxi, in part by the Open fund of State Key Laboratory 
of Information Security.

ABSTRACT 
Determining the affine equivalence of Boolean functions
has significant applications in circuit and cryptography.
Previous methods for determining this require a large
amount of computation when Boolean functions are bent
functions or when the truth table is sparse. This paper
presents a new method to determine the affine equivalence
based on matrix algebra. By transforming Boolean function
to the corresponding matrix representation, we first propose
and prove the congruent standard form of Boolean function.
It lays the foundation for the determination of equivalence
because affine Boolean functions must have the same
standard form. Then we find the generators of orthogonal
matrix group and symplectic matrix group, which greatly
reduce the search space. The computation complexity of
our method is o (2r2/2+n∗(nr) ), where is the number of
bit operations, and r  is the rank of the matrix, which is
the product of Boolean-1 matrix of the test Boolean function
and its transposition. The experimental results show that our
method is useful when the test Boolean function is no more
than 7 bits and r  is greater than 2.

INDEX TERMS  Logic synthesis, Boolean functions,
affine equivalence, matrix group, algorithm.

Meanwhile . . .

Wednesday, June 14, 2023

Green and Black

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 10:47 pm

See also the rest of  "The Dreaming" (a Log24 tag).

Cheesecake for Princeton

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 1:29 pm

From the previous post . . .

A color analogy — The orange and black (Princeton colors) in the above
conference schedule suggest a recent screengeek image . . .

Related geek lore —

From Mysticism to Mathematics…

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Continued from October 6, 2022

A paper from an August 2017 Melbourne conference
on artificial intelligence —

See as well a Log24 search for Boolean functions.

A check on the date of the above paper's presentation —

From this  journal on that date

Happy 10th birthday to the hashtag.

Verbum

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:06 am

Continued from Feb. 18, 2017 —

 

Star Cube Variations

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Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Pretty Horses

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In memory of Cormac McCarthy, who reportedly
died today, here is a phrase by John Jeremiah Sullivan
in a NY Times  review of McCarthy's 2022 novel
The Passenger

"a reminder (just in time) of the elegance and force
of good McCarthy."

Sullivan also writes well. For instance, see the "pretty horses"
of this post's title.

Old Man Gone

Filed under: General — m759 @ 5:39 pm

Related material — The previous post and . . .

Jersey Girls are Tough .

Star Quality

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:26 pm

"Hi,  are  you  my  3  o'clock?"

Inquisitive Minds Want to Know

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"Does the expression 'generative pre-trained transformer'
mean anything to you?"

Monday, June 12, 2023

Plot Logic

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Interpreting the counterclockwise circular arrow "Back 10" as 10 years . . .

Follow the Writer Who Follows a Dream

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 9:27 pm

230612-Mary_Gaitskill-Chatbot-conversation.jpg (480×788)

Update of 10 PM the same evening —

Empresario

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:57 am

Sunday, June 11, 2023

You Have the Right to Remain Silent

Filed under: General — m759 @ 7:47 pm

Interrobang for Lucinda

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:03 pm

"If it’s possible to be two things at once,
I was both pathologically insecure and
intoxicated by the power that my newly
discovered desirability to men seemed
to have conferred on me."

 

Possible

The Dreaming*

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 10:02 am

Ask Mark Wahlberg.

* See as well the September 1982 Kate Bush album.

Addendum of 10:50 AM June 11 —
My own concerns in September 1982 were
rather different —

Saturday, June 10, 2023

Tiling Note

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:57 pm

A review by Robert Ghrist of a paper on aperiodic
Wang tilings suggests a search in this journal for Wang tiles.

A resulting image seems appropriate for today's posts,
which include a reference to a renowned Prada-wearer.

"She's like the wind." — Song lyric. See as well Hexagram 57.

News for Prescott Street

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 1:57 pm

See also Prescott Street in this  journal.

Data for Jill

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Related material:  A Log24 post of January 8, 2016.

Red Dot Award

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Rhetoric from a Cartoon Graveyard

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:26 pm

Green Mountain, Red Mountain

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:28 am

Tom Wolfe on art theorists in The Painted Word  (1975) :

"It is important to repeat that Greenberg and Rosenberg
did not create their theories in a vacuum or simply turn up
with them one day like tablets brought down from atop
Green Mountain or Red Mountain (as B. H. Friedman once
called the two men). As tout le monde  understood, they
were not only theories but … hot news,
straight from the studios, from the scene."

Anthony Lane in The New Yorker  on June 2, 2023 —

"The album cover was a minor but deliriously popular art form
that was limited not just by shape—a neat fit, incidentally, for
the square format favored by many modish photographers of
the sixties—but also by the prospect of its own inevitable death.
Technology gave, and technology hath taken away."

See as well a mountain along with red and green album covers
in this  journal  on June 8.

Some will prefer the green and red crystal from Melencolia I
(adapted from the uncolored original) on the cover of the
1948 edition of Doctor Faustus.

Green, Orange, Black

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12179599/
Emma-Watson-stuns-revealing-black-bandeau-Prada.html

The colors surrounding Watson's body in the above
"bandeau" photo suggest a review.  A search in this  journal
for Green+Orange+Black  yields . . .

In the above image, the "hard core of objectivity" is represented
by the green-and-white eightfold cube.  The orange and black are,
of course, the Princeton colors.

Friday, June 9, 2023

For 6/9

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 1:36 pm

Frame Tale …

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:01 pm

Continues.

Finnegans Wake  —

"The quad gospellers may own the targum
but any of the Zingari shoolerim may pick a peck
of kindlings yet from the sack of auld hensyne."

Thursday, June 8, 2023

“On the Route” Continues: Newman Sauce

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 11:44 pm

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/08/movies/
barry-newman-dead.html

  An Actor Prepares . . .
     See the previous post.

See also the film "Vanishing Point" discussed
in the above New York Times obituary.

Barry  Newman's dies natalis  is reportedly May 11.
See "On the Route" from that date in this  journal.

Interpellation by Media:
Report from Clouded Mountain

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 4:18 pm

Arizona Highways: “The Southwest Furthers”

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 3:01 pm

An Artist’s Legacy

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 2:21 pm

A check of today's New Yorker  penbots yields
an entertaining piece on pop culture by Sarah Larson:

Perhaps, in death's dream kingdom, there is some guidance from
the illustrator who reportedly did the book cover in the previous post
one Hector Garrido.  

"Operation Childlike Innocence, Phase One."

— Sarah Larson, quoted here  on Sept. 5, 2015.

Garrido's dies natalis  was reportedly 19 April, 2020.
Synchronology check — Log24 search: "Wittgenstein Easter."

Pilgrimage . . . Not  the Sontag Version

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Wednesday, June 7, 2023

Links for Wednesday (and Nevermore Academy)

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 5:10 pm

1. New York Times  obituary from today

2. The name Caputo  in this  journal

3. Death and Venice: The Flyin' Lion

Exploring Color Space . . . Continues.

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 4:10 pm

"Another story" —

Faustus cover, Thomas Mann

See also Sontag's own  account of the Mann meeting.

Related material —

It would seem that Moser is deeply confused about  two different
meetings of Sontag with Mann — discussing Doctor Faustus 
in 1947, and, later, as a U. of Chicago student, discussing
The Magic Mountain  with Mann in 1949 on the Feast of the
Holy Innocents — coincidentally, also the date of her dies natalis
(in the Catholic sense) in 2004.

Hermeneutics for Sontag:  Interpretation!

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 2:15 pm

Tuesday, June 6, 2023

Ornament

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:47 pm

The Usual Suspects

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 2:12 pm

'The Umbrella Academy' according to Wikipedia

For further details, see a Log24 post from October 2002 and . . .

See as well today's previous post.

Shadow Play: Ombre Ella

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 1:03 pm

Monday, June 5, 2023

Coordination: The View from Academia

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:23 am

230605-Malsburg-on-pattern-simultaneity.jpg (500×365)

More-recent reading on different modalities:

"Microsoft believes a multimodal approach
paves the way for human-level AI."

Ars Technica , 3/1/2023

As for "pattern simultaneity in the real world," note the March 1 date
of the above Ars Technica  article, and some remarks here  on March 1.

Annals of Set Design

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 9:49 am

Related dramatic dialogue from FUBAR

Hero — I guess I'll take the pill, and get it over with. (Dramatic music playing.)

Villain — This will be fun. (Music intensifies.) Cheers Nothing's happening.

Hero — Come to think of it, I might have taken the antidote.

Read more at: https://tvshowtranscripts.ourboard.org/… .

Related synchronology check —

Vienna Requiem

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:00 am

"You put the lime in the coconut . . ."

Truth, Beauty, and The Good

Art is magic delivered from
the lie of being truth.
 — Theodor Adorno, Minima moralia,
London, New Left Books, 1974, p. 222
(First published in German in 1951.)

The director, Carol Reed, makes…
 impeccable use of the beauty of black….
— V. B. Daniel on The Third Man 

I see your ironical smile.
— Hans Reichenbach 

Adorno, The Third Man, and Reichenbach
are illustrated below (l. to r.) above the names of
cities with which they are associated. 

 

Sunday, June 4, 2023

The Galois Core

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 9:24 pm
 

  Rubik core:

 

Swarthmore Cube Project, 2008


Non- Rubik core:

Illustration for weblog post 'The Galois Core'

Central structure from a Galois plane

    (See image below.)

Some small Galois spaces (the Cullinane models)

“Design is how it works.” — Steve Jobs

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:42 am

The Hitchcock Version

Saturday, June 3, 2023

Space Drama

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:29 pm

"It seems fitting that a handsome, professional and future-minded
space drama in fine color, like 'Marooned,' should open a new
jewel box of a theater, the Ziegfeld."

— Howard Thompson in The New York Times , Dec. 19, 1969

A related film tells of a real-life April 1970 sequel 
to the 1969 film "Marooned."

Then there is my own "jewel box" picture with three horses . . .

Lyric Poetry

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 10:48 am

For those whose only philosophy comes from song lyrics —

See also … ADMAN PURSUED BY JEFFERSON AIRPLANE —

Gesamtkunstwerk for Wagner

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 9:47 am

In memory of set designer Robin Wagner, winner of three
Tony awards, who reportedly died at 89 on May 29 —

From Log24 on May 29
and the preceding day —

"When the men on the chessboard
get up and tell you where to go . . . ."

Don't take the Brown acid!

IMAGE- Illuminati Diamond, pp. 359-360 in 'Angels & Demons,' Simon & Schuster Pocket Books 2005, 448 pages, ISBN 0743412397

Sunday, May 28, 2023

Breadcrumbs for Gretel . . .

Tags:  — m759 @ 3:47 PM 

Continues .

See as well Chess Set and Efficient Packing.

Friday, June 2, 2023

Annals of Philosophy

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 10:57 pm

James Hillman
EGALITARIAN TYPOLOGIES
VERSUS THE PERCEPTION OF THE UNIQUE

“The kind of movement Olson urges is an inward deepening of the image,
an in-sighting of the superimposed levels of significance within it.
This is the very mode that Jung suggested for grasping dreams —
not as a sequence in time, but as revolving around  a nodal complex.”

. . . Or, sometimes, as . . .

'A hot mess inside a dumpster fire inside a train wreck'— Jake Tapper

Requiem for a Lyricist*

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:27 pm

See posts tagged Weil Misery.

* Vide  a New York Times  obituary.

Geometric Entertainment

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:24 pm

From Log24 on the reported date of Singmaster's death —

    Related geometric entertainment —

Grimness with Wit: Time-Space Variations on 101

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 1:32 pm

For the American  Nomenklatura —

The obituary's 101 above refers to time ,
the Stanford page's below to space .

Reichenbach’s Fell Swoop

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:18 pm

See The Eightfold Cube  and . . .

Truth, Beauty, and The Good

Art is magic delivered from
the lie of being truth.
 — Theodor Adorno, Minima moralia,
London, New Left Books, 1974, p. 222
(First published in German in 1951.)

The director, Carol Reed, makes…
 impeccable use of the beauty of black….
— V. B. Daniel on The Third Man 

I see your ironical smile.
— Hans Reichenbach 

Adorno, The Third Man, and Reichenbach
are illustrated below (l. to r.) above the names of
cities with which they are associated. 

 

Acid Test

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:24 am

"Boro makes Jim Jones look like Jim Henson."

FUBAR, Netflix, Episode 1 (May 25, 2023)

"In The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test , Tom Wolfe writes about encountering 
'a young psychologist,' 'Clifton Fadiman’s nephew, it turned out,' in the
waiting room of the San Mateo County jail. Fadiman and his wife were
'happily stuffing three I-Ching coins into some interminable dense volume*
of Oriental mysticism' that they planned to give Ken Kesey, the Prankster-
in-Chief whom the FBI had just nabbed after eight months on the lam.
Wolfe had been granted an interview with Kesey, and they wanted him to
tell their friend about the hidden coins. During this difficult time, they
explained, Kesey needed oracular advice."

— Tim Doody in The Morning News  web 'zine on July 26, 2012

Related material — Brown Acid.

* The volume Wolfe mentions was, according to Fadiman, the I Ching.

Thursday, June 1, 2023

Universal Identity

Filed under: General — m759 @ 3:28 pm

In memory of a public intellectual who reportedly argued in favor of
"a universal identity system" and died at 94 on May 31 —

Detail from an illustration linked to here  on May 31 —

Achtung, Baby!

Filed under: General — m759 @ 2:01 pm

Cover art by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1880-1938.

Attention, Shoppers!

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:13 pm

The above detail from today's previous post suggests a review —

Garfield cartoon of June 24, 2008

Those who are not content to be merely entertained may consult
the date  of the above image . . . June 24, 2008.

For the House at Crary Corner*

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:38 am

A website by today's MIT commencement speaker

* MIT-related news from May 19, 1961,
  in Warren, Pennsylvania  . . .

* "The Long Dark Trail" is the title of a recent film
directed by a later resident of 505 Market Street.

Toga Party!

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:08 am

Geometry Toga Party!

"The stone may have contempt
  For too-familiar hands."

Adrienne Rich

Or not . . .

Antwerp Revisited: Diamond Space

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:15 am

The opening of the new Netflix film FUBAR suggests a review . . . 

Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Google AI-Powered-Overview Example

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:00 pm

Cullinane diamond theorem

"Finite geometry explains the surprising symmetry properties
of some simple graphic designs." Good summary.

May’s End

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:51 am

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/23162/23162-h/23162-h.htm

Tuesday, May 30, 2023

Benchmark

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 7:23 pm

"He stopped at a bench where people could catch buses
from Somewhere to Elsewhere." — John Crowley, 1981

 

Hat tip to Stephanie Dick, now at Simon Fraser U.

The Tour

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:36 am

In memory of a co-founder of Hollywood's "Magic Castle"
who reportedly died at 92 on Sunday . . .

From posts that were tagged "Blake Tour" on Sunday

Seal 7 . . .

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 5:24 am

Continues.

See John Baez this morning on Galois. Note that Baez's
report of Galois's dies natalis  is in error.

Monday, May 29, 2023

The Story Theory of Truth

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 6:15 pm

From the Feast of St. Nicholas, 2022

"Does the phrase 'vinegar and brown paper'
mean anything to you?"

See also other posts tagged Up the Hill.

Math for Preppies

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 10:25 am

Mashup

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 3:21 am

"When the men on the chessboard
get up and tell you where to go . . . ."

Don't take the Brown acid!

IMAGE- Illuminati Diamond, pp. 359-360 in 'Angels & Demons,' Simon & Schuster Pocket Books 2005, 448 pages, ISBN 0743412397

Sunday, May 28, 2023

Breadcrumbs for Gretel . . .

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 3:47 pm

Continues .

 

Sophia Lillis at Woodstock Music Shop

Annals of Philosophy: Shadow Hacking

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:18 pm

In memory of philosopher Ian Hacking, who
reportedly died on May 10, some Log24 posts
are now tagged "Shadow Hacking."

Related material — Plato's Ghost  in this journal, and . . .

For a Stuntman . . .

Filed under: General — m759 @ 6:16 am

… who reportedly died on May 25Posts now tagged Blake Tour.

Saturday, May 27, 2023

Dies Natalis

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:01 pm

A related question  — From posts now tagged Weil Misery —
(See today's previous post) . . .

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