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"Little emblems of eternity " 

— Oliver Sacks, contemplating his own impending death,
in The New York Times  Sunday Review section today.  

Sacks's phrase refers to elements of the periodic table —

Another approach to "emblems of eternity" — The I Ching .

Hexagram 51:

"I woke last night to the sound of thunder,
How far off, I sat and wondered.
Started humming a song from 1962.
Ain't it funny how the night moves?"

"Principles before personalities." — AA motto

   For some personalities, see posts of November 23 last year.

Snippet views —

Broken Symmetries  in  Diamond Space —

Google Search sidebar today —

More images?

   It's Space Week at Camp Google. 

“… the object sets up
 a kind of frame or space or field 
   within which there can be epiphany.”
— Charles Taylor       

“My little baby sister can do it with ease.
It’s easier to learn than those ABC’s.”

— Kylie Minogue           

(Continued from Sept. 8, 2014)

“I want Harry Winston to make me a toe tag.” — Joan Rivers

The New York Times  this afternoon —

Professor Crone reportedly died at her home
in Princeton, N.J., on July 11, 2015.  

See some posts, now with a new tag, that relate to that date.

Detail from the Nov. 1998 cover of Mademoiselle —

Related meditation —

See as well "Intruders" in this journal.

CBS Sunday Morning today:

"On a warm summer night at the Greek Theatre
in Los Angeles last month, Brian Wilson — backed
by a band that included fellow former Beach Boy
Al Jardine — was running through his repertoire
of classics when a cake was wheeled out from
backstage by the extended Wilson family.

On this night, the man many regard as one of
America's greatest living songwriters turned 73.

Well, East coast girls are hip,
I really dig those styles they wear…"

Compare and contrast: Danny Collins.

Jersey girls are tough .

See also last night's post.

The above passage was found in a search for thoughts of Heinz Pagels
on "perfect symmetry" (the title of one of his books).  The "If all" part is,
however, apparently not  by Pagels. That part seems to have been
online only in an NYU file that can no longer be accessed.

For perfect symmetry with  structure, see (for instance) 
Go Set a Structure (July 14, 2015) and Tombstone (July 16, 2015).

Like a Prayer

"In the midnight hour…
 … I'll take you there."

Or:  Swan Boat for Kristen

In the recent film "Danny Collins," Al Pacino plays aging
rock star Danny and Christopher Plummer plays his agèd
agent-manager Frank …

"… when Danny tells Frank about his burgeoning relationship
with hotel manager Mary (Annette Bening), he declares happily,
'And she's age-appropriate!' 'Not really,' frowns Frank.
'Baby steps,' Danny replies."

Why "Omega?"

Omega is a Greek letter, Ω , used in
mathematics to denote a set on which
a group acts. 

From Wikipedia —

"Many Leibniz scholars… seem to agree that he intended
his characteristica universalis  … to be a form of … 
ideographic language. This was to be based on a
rationalised version of the 'principles' of Chinese characters…."

See as well O Nine,  Chinese Calligraphy, and Holy Field.

Blaine Gibson, Designer of Lifelike Robots
at Disney Parks, Dies at 97

Log24 remarks on Sunday, July 5, the reported date of
Gibson's death:

Backstory for the previous post —

A Log24 post from the release date of the above Mat Zo album:

Cut to the Chase.

Remember, Remember the Fifth of November —

A scene suggested by today's 11:30 AM post —

The New York Times  this afternoon on Nick Flynn —

"His songs of experience hum with immediacy."

See also …

From the date of Lawrence Stupski's death —

See as well a search in this journal for "Foundation."

This post was suggested in part by last night's post
of 11:14 PM ET, Southern Charm, and by a post
of 11/14 last year, Another Opening, Another Show.

See also Design Thinking at Wikipedia and the following
two quotations —

CHARLESTON COUNTY, SC (WCSC) (today) –
Dr. Gerrita Postlewait's contract for Superintendent
of Charleston County Schools was approved and
signed in a meeting with school board members 
Wednesday morning, a school system official says….
From 2006 to 2013, she was the chief K-12 officer for
the Stupski Foundation, a San Francisco-based
education reform nonprofit. [See related page.]

PHILANTHROPY.COM (Aug. 2, 2012) –
Chris Tebben, executive director of Grantmakers for
Education, says the [Stupski] foundation was among
the first to consider how the problem-solving approach
known as “design thinking” could play a role in improving
education.

Related cinematic remarks:  Robot Overlords (now on-demand).

"Throughout the years, weapons and targeting systems
were added to the aircraft without diminishing the F-16’s
agility, making it a true multirole aircraft."

— WCSC Television 
    Charleston, SC 

* See yesterday's War Haiku.

(Continued)

Five'll getcha ten ol' Mac is back in town.

"A sequel lies beyond." — Emily Dickinson —

For example:

It is false that "Mr. Shavitz sold his company… for about
$925 million."  The New York Times  seems to have
hired a Harvard unreliable reader. Also, following limited
prosperity, he no longer lived in a "converted turkey coop,"
though the coop remained on his property, according to
an Associated Press obit.

A figure I prefer to the "Golden Tablet" of Night at the Museum —

The source — The Log24 post "Zero System" of July 31, 2014.

* For the title, see The New Yorker  of Sept. 22, 2014.

(Continued)

Two items for cultural anthropologists,
each from April 28, 2015 —

Scene from "In the Electric Mist" (2009).

Homesman, Plainsman;  Plainsman, Homesman.

(Continued)

Beloved professor dies unexpectedly

"Wesson also said Cottier had 'an encyclopedic
knowledge of everything historical and archaeological,'
and that he lectured straight from memory using
storytelling as a teaching method. 

'He was absolutely the best lecturer that I've ever had,
spellbinding,' Wesson said. 'He would tell the most
amazing narratives, and the one thing that I could say,
that I've said to a couple of people today, is he was the
closest thing to a real Indiana Jones that there ever will be.
He lived an extraordinary life, just absolutely unusual
in every way and was unafraid of anything. He was the
most fearless person that I've ever met.'" 

See also Pawn Sacrifice (June 28, 2015).

  Click on the die for some backstory.

The title is that of a film which, according to Wikipedia,
"was promoted on the Oprah Winfrey Network, which
had the television premiere of the film on April 27, 2014."

See also this journal on that date.

Trailer for "Welcome to Me" published on Feb. 23, 2015 —

Related material:  Manifest O  (April 1, 2015).

(Continued)

A passage suggested by the 2006 Oxford University Press title
The Architecture of Modern Mathematics , edited by 
José Ferreirós and Jeremy Gray —

Jeremy Gray, Plato's Ghost: The Modernist Transformation of Mathematics ,
Princeton, 2008 —

"Here, modernism is defined as an autonomous body of ideas,
having little or no outward reference, placing considerable emphasis
on formal aspects of the work and maintaining a complicated—
ndeed, anxious— rather than a naïve relationship with the day-to-day
world, which is the de facto view of a coherent group of people,
such as a professional or discipline-based group that has a high sense
of the seriousness and value of what it is trying to achieve.
This brisk definition…."

William Butler Yeats —

“Poets and Wits about him drew;
‘What then?’ sang Plato’s ghost.
   ‘What then?’

‘The work is done,’
   grown old he thought, 
‘According to my boyish plan;
Let the fools rage,
   I swerved in naught,
Something to perfection brought’;
But louder sang that ghost,
   ‘What then?’“

… de la Iglesia

See Jan. 16-18, 2008, on poetry in Spanish
and the death of chess champion Bobby Fischer.

Note also yesterday evening's post and the date
Jan. 18, 2008, in the following Google search sidebar:

The film of The Oxford Murders  was first released on Jan. 18,
2008, in Spain. Its premiere was in Madrid on the preceding day,
which was also the day of Bobby Fischer's death.

In memory of Reynolds, a Dante scholar who reportedly died
on April 29, 2015 —

Steen reportedly died on Sunday, June 21, 2015.

This was the day of the most recent post in
the "High White Noon" series.

(As opposed to the previous post.)

Today is the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul.

A reading from a parish named for them,
dated September 20, 2014 —

See also this journal on the above date — Sept. 20, 2014.

1985 — Church window in "Broken Wings" music video —

For Kristen Wiig, whose performances

• in "MacGruber" (2010) to the accompaniment of
  the above 1985 Mr. Mister song "Broken Wings," and
• as NASA spokesperson Annie Montrose in the upcoming
  film "The Martian" 

give a new meaning to the phrase "flying fuck."

2015 — NASA video of June 28 Falcon 9  launch —

(Continued)

(Continued from April 6, 2013)

The title is that of  a classic 1968 New Yorker  essay
by George Steiner. See previous posts on this topic.

Related material:

The Best Picture and posts of Columbus Day, 2014.

Do you know where your watch is?

From a post of May 13, 2015 —

From the recent film "Interstellar" —

See also Wenders and Lindbergh in this journal.

The star of the new film "Chappie" is on tour.

For a singer.
 

The right stuff —

How can we know the singer from the song ?

The online Los Angeles Times  yesterday —

June 11, 2015 

Robert Chartoff, an Oscar-winning Hollywood producer
who got a tantalizing peek into show business in the Catskills
and went on to make six "Rocky" films, "Raging Bull,"
"The Right Stuff" and nearly two dozen other movies,
has died at his home in Santa Monica. He was 81.

Chartoff, who died Wednesday, had been diagnosed with
pancreatic cancer two years ago, his son William said.

— Steve Chawkins

A fiction quoted here on the reported date of Chartoff's death —

“What… what happened?” you asked. “Where am I?”

“You died,” I said, matter-of-factly. No point in mincing words.

— Andy Weir, "The Egg"

"Now we're partners in crime" — Ace of Base, "The Golden Ratio"

Or not.

"The Hunger" (1983) was directed by Tony Scott.

See also Tony Scott in this journal.

"              … yet the dread
Of dying, and being dead,
Flashes afresh to hold and horrify."

— Philip Larkin, "Aubade"

From tonight's New York Times  obituaries —

See as well "Child Buyer" in this journal.