An image from yesterday afternoon's post Portal:
Related material:
Detail from the online Fortune magazine this morning:
Dateline of linked article:
MAY 30, 2015, 8:12 AM EDT
See yesterday morning's post on G. H. Hardy
and Harvey Cohn as well as a quote from
the 1958 Fortune article on John Nash:
"The pure mathematician judges his work
largely by aesthetic standards;
the applied mathematician is a pragmatist."
The source of the link to 1958 —
The link "an autobiographical essay" in one of the posts now
tagged "on140911" has been updated.
The essay, by the late CCNY number theorist Harvey Cohn, gives
views opposed to those of G. H. Hardy, also a number theorist.
The film "Pawn Sacrifice" reportedly opened in Toronto on September 11, 2014.
See as well Log24 posts of that day and Autistic Enchantment.
See the tag on050528.
This tag was suggested by Google's pitch today —
Relive 10 epic years of YouTube.
Or not.
See as well Trouble with the Curve —
(A sequel to the previous post, Tell )
Inscapes
An illustration (click image for further details) —
Related reading
From my JSTOR shelf —
Click the above image for a related Log24 post, Groups Acting.
"J.A.R.V.I.S. (Stands for Just A Rather Very Intelligent System),
also stylized as JARVIS, or Jarvis, is a highly advanced
computerized A.I. developed by Tony Stark, and was voiced
by actor Paul Bettany, to manage almost everything, especially
matters related to technology, in Tony's life."
Happy birthday, Mr. Bettany.
View from the intersection of U.S. Routes 6 and 62.
"Looking for what was, where it used to be" —Wallace Stevens
A section of Route 6 at the former location of an A&P store —
"Wake up and smell the coffee" —
See also the Log24 post from May 18,
the date of Eric Caidin's reported death,
as well as Hexagram 50 and May 14, 2014—
Death in Mathmagic Land.
Street view in Oslo, August 2014 (thanks to Google):
Vennligst benytt fortau pa andre siden =
Please use the sidewalk on the other side
Take a walk on the wild side… or not.
This post was suggested by a Log24 post, Gaze, of May 21, 2015, and by
an Instagram photo that Oslo artist Josefine Lyche posted today.
"… an editor (Anne Meara, half of the comedy team of
Stiller and Meara, who are Ben Stiller's parents) asks
Lelaina to define irony. 'I know it when I see it,' says Lelaina…."
— Rolling Stone , 1994 film review by Peter Travers
The most recent version of a passage
quoted in posts tagged "May 19 Gestalt" —
"You've got to pick up every stitch." — Donovan
"'Arms:
Party chevronwise sable and gold,
in the chief two open books having
buckles, straps and edges of gold
and in the foot a swan all sable."
“Am I still on?” — Ending line of The Osterman Weekend (1983)
For the star of the recent film "Welcome to Me,"
a remark quoted here 12 years ago —
“There are dark comedies. There are screwball comedies.
But there aren’t many dark screwball comedies.
And if Nora Ephron’s Lucky Numbers is any indication,
there’s a good reason for that.”
— Todd Anthony, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
View of La Quinta (click to enlarge) —
Detail of reported death location —
The Oscar director reportedly died in a car accident somewhat before
9:30 PM PDT Thursday, May 21, 2015. See details from The Desert Sun .
On the artist Hilma af Klint (1862-1944):
"She belonged to a group called 'The Five'…."
Related material — Real Life (Log24, May 20, 2015).
From that post:
"Is Fiction the Art of Lying?" by Mario Vargas Llosa
The above link is to a Google Books Search for references
to a 1984 piece in The New York Times .
To find the Times 's own version, change "Lying" to "Living."
"We tell ourselves stories in order to live." — Joan Didion
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