Thursday, June 30, 2022
Browser Elegy
The previous post, and a New York Times report today
of a June 15 death, suggest a review . . .
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Wednesday, June 29, 2022
Techie Wordplay: “Lynx”
"As of 2022, it is the oldest web browser still being maintained,,,,"
"The speed benefits of text-only browsing are most apparent
when using low bandwidth internet connections, or older computer
hardware that may be slow to render image-heavy content."
— Wikipedia [“Older” link added.]
And then there is . . .
See as well the LYNX of Oslo artist Josefine Lyche.
Update of June 30, 2022 —
Lyche, whose art often incorporates mathematical notions,
has not yet, as far as I know, explored the Borromean link
(three rings, linked mutually but not pairwise) in her art.
Remarks by a different math fan, Evelyn Lamb —
"I have had a thing for the Borromean rings for years now.
There’s something so poetic about them. The three rings
are strong together, but they fall apart if any one of them
is removed. Alternatively, the three rings are trapped together
until one of them leaves and sets the others free. I’m kind of
surprised there isn’t a Wisława Szymborska poem or
Tom Stoppard play that explores the metaphorical possibilities
in the Borromean rings." — Scientific American , Sept. 30, 2016.
See also the Lamb date Sept. 30, 2016, as well as work
by Lyche, in Log24 posts tagged Star Cube.
Related material — The Log24 post Borromean Generators.
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Mathematical Plays*
A song whose melody was used in
Westworld, Season 4, Episode 1 —
"Singin' in the old bars
Swingin' with the old stars
Livin' for the fame
Kissin' in the blue dark
Playin' pool and wild darts
Video games"
In memory of a video game executive
who reportedly died on June 22, 2022 —
* Adapted from a book title.
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The Battle of Pergamon Press
See as well Buranyi in the previous post and Pergamon in this journal.
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Science Poetry
"One of the most fascinating recent areas of research
is known as plasticity, which has shown that some
organisms have the potential to adapt more rapidly
and more radically than was once thought.
Descriptions of plasticity are startling, bringing to mind
the kinds of wild transformations you might expect to find
in comic books and science fiction movies."
— "Do we need a new theory of evolution?,"
The Guardian, June 28, 2022, by Stephen Buranyi
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Tuesday, June 28, 2022
A Data Cube for Casaubon
Cartoon version of George Eliot, author of Middlemarch ,
and Ada Lovelace, programming pioneer —
See as well an earlier vision of a data cube for mythologies
by Claude Lévi-Strauss —
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Monday, June 27, 2022
Dealing With Cubism
Continued from April 12, 2022.
"It’s important, as art historian Reinhard Spieler has noted,
that after a brief, unproductive stay in Paris, circa 1907,
Kandinsky chose to paint in Munich. That’s where he formed
the Expressionist art group Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) —
and where he avoided having to deal with cubism."
— David Carrier,
Remarks by Louis Menand in The New Yorker today —
"The art world isn’t a fixed entity.
It’s continually being reconstituted
as new artistic styles emerge."
(Adapted from Encyclopaedia Britannica,
Eleventh Edition (1911), Crystallography .)
"Before time began, there was the Cube."
— Optimus Prime
See as well Verbum (February 18, 2017).
Related dramatic music —
"Westworld Season 4 begins at Hoover Dam,
with William looking to buy the famous landmark.
What does he consider to be 'stolen' data that is inside?"
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The Plotlines
"Westworld Season 4 begins at Hoover Dam, with William
looking to buy the famous landmark. What does he consider
to be 'stolen' data that is inside?"
For further details, see Log24 on May 16,
Sketch for a Magic Triangle.
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Sunday, June 26, 2022
Mockery Day
For Monty Python —
"Glastonbury has been described as having a New Age community[6]
and possibly being where New Age beliefs originated at the turn of
the twentieth century.[7] It is notable for myths and legends often
related to Glastonbury Tor, concerning Joseph of Arimathea, the
Holy Grail and King Arthur." — Wikipedia
For American Democracy —
Related mockery from 2012 —
See also "Triangles Are Square" in 1984 —
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Twin Sixteens
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Lexicon
Sunday, May 24, 2020
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Saturday, June 25, 2022
The Legacy* Battle
See as well this journal on October 14, 2009 . . .
the date of death for Bruce Wasserstein.
* "Leave a space." — "Jumpers," by Tom Stoppard
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For Harlan Kane: The Thoreau Foundation
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Friday, June 24, 2022
Red Dot Award
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Thursday, June 23, 2022
Opinion Piece
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The Nutshell Suite
The above is a summary of
Pythagorean philosophy
reposted here on . . .
Battle of the Nutshells:
From a much larger nutshell
on the above Pythagorean date—
Now let's dig a bit deeper into history . . .
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Wednesday, June 22, 2022
Summertime in Augusta
Fish are jumpin' and the heat dome is high.
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Code Wars: “Use the Source, Luke.”
Click the above galaxy for a larger image.
"O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell
and count myself a king of infinite space,
were it not that I have bad dreams." — Hamlet
Battle of the Nutshells —
From a much larger nutshell
on the above code date—
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The Yogi Force
On the director of the six-episode Disney series Obi-Wan Kenobi —
"She received her undergraduate degree, major of cultural theory
and minor in art history, from McGill University in Montreal …. "
— Wikipedia article: Deborah Chow
|
Emre is the author of “Two Paths for the Personal Essay," |
"When you come to a fork in the road . . ."
— Yogi Berra
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Occupy Space Continues.
Alternate Title —
Types of Ambiguity:
The Circle in the Triangle,
the Singer in the Song.
From an excellent June 17 Wall Street Journal review of a new
Isaac Bashevis Singer book from Princeton University Press —
" 'Old Truths and New Clichés,' a collection of 19
prose articles, most appearing in English for the
first time, reveals that Singer was as consummate
an essayist as he was a teller of tales." — Benjamin Balint
From a search in this journal for Singer —
Related material —
From a post of June 2, "Self-Enclosing" —
|
"… the self-enclosing processes by which late 20th-century
— Colin Burrow in the June 9, 2022 issue |
From the December 14, 2021, post Notes on Lines —
The triangle, a percussion instrument that was
featured prominently in the Tom Stoppard play
"Every Good Boy Deserves Favour."
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Tuesday, June 21, 2022
For the Church of Synchronology*
See also this journal on the above Cambridge U. Press date.
"There are many places one can read about twistors
and the mathematics that underlies them. One that
I can especially recommend is the book Twistor Geometry
and Field Theory, by Ward and Wells."
— Peter Woit, "Not Even Wrong" weblog post, March 6, 2020.
* A fictional entity. See Synchronology in this journal.
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Monday, June 20, 2022
Meta Data
"What is your favorite movie to kick off summer?"
— Kristine DeBell, June 20, 2022
See also DeBell in "Lifepod" at cinemastarlets.wordpress.com.
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John Baez: Grothendieck in Hanoi
Related quotations —
"So we beat on, boats against the current…." — F. Scott Fitzgerald
"There grows a tree in Paradise…." — Joan Baez
Related narrative — River of Death.
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Deep Space
From https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Leslie_Engelberg —
Leslie Engelberg (born 16 June 1975 …)
(also known as Leslie Kendall and Leslie Kendall Dye)
is the actress who played Yareth in the
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine first season episode "Vortex".
She has an essay in The Atlantic dated
"The complexity of the human heart
can be expressed in the arrangement
of one’s books."
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Sunday, June 19, 2022
The Basque Suffix
See http://m759.net/wordpress/?s=.eus .
"Mach die Musik von damals nach."
The new URL diamond.eus forwards to . . .
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Saturday, June 18, 2022
Reservoir Dogs
Music from the film, and from this journal on 6/15 —
♪ Jump to the left, turn to the right
Lookin' upstairs, lookin' behind. ♪
Some will prefer the history of Task Force Dog from
the December 1950 Chosin Reservoir campaign. For some
historical background, see a newspaper article written in 2009.
For some musical background, see a Dec. 7, 1950, newspaper
report of a church Christmas production. I was not active in any
church then, and am not now, but I later went to high school with,
and admired, several of the people from the church production.
So much for lookin' behind. For lookin' upstairs . . .
"There was cause to worry about the enemy occupying the
high ground on both sides of the MSR [Main Supply Route].
The resemblance to the 23rd Psalm's 'valley of the shadow
of death' was inescapable to us."
— The above history of Task Force Dog.
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Dog Day Morning
See as well the phrase "discover the resonances" in the
Log24 post numbered 99999.
"Rubber-room stuff." — A phrase from recent news.
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Friday, June 17, 2022
Just 17 : Circle in the Square
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Enola and Sherlock in Nighttown*
From my RSS feed yesterday —
Dorothy E. Smith, Groundbreaker in Feminist Sociology, Dies at 95.
NY Times obituary by Clay Risen / June 16, 2022 at 05:22 PM ET.
That obituary describes a background for Smith that makes her seem
like the fictional Enola Holmes, sister of Sherlock.
For her Sherlock, see . . .
Ullin Thomas Place (1924 – 2000): Philosopher and psychologist .
From Place's online bibliography —
Chomsky, N., Place, U. T., & Schoneberger, T. (Ed.) (2000),
"The Chomsky-Place Correspondence 1993-1994," in
The Analysis of Verbal Behavior , 17 (1), 7-38.
Download: Chomsky, Place & Schoneberger (2000)
The Chomsky-Place Correspondence.pdf .
The word "correspondence" has, of course, a meaning of greater interest.
* Tonight's date, June 17, is the anniversary of "Nighttown" in Joyce's Ulysses .
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Thursday, June 16, 2022
Wednesday, June 15, 2022
For 6/15
Musical accompaniment, suggested by an Instagram post
of Kate Beckinsale today —
♪ Jump to the left, turn to the right
Lookin' upstairs, lookin' behind. ♪
The musical accompaniment suggests a search in this journal
for "Reservoir." From that search, some remarks of perhaps
greater philosophical interest —
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A Literal Farewell
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Tuesday, June 14, 2022
A Triangle of Sadness
The title refers to this year's
Cannes Film Festival winner.
Related material:
From a post of June 2, "Self-Enclosing" —
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"… the self-enclosing processes by which late 20th-century
— Colin Burrow in the June 9, 2022 issue |
From a post of June 13, "The Theater Game" —
From a post of June 12, "Triangle.graphics, 2012-2022" —
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Trilateral Theology
For trilateral theology, see a report of a May 31 death.
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Der Einsatz . . . Continues.
Katherine Neville, author of The Eight —
"Nine is a very powerful Nordic number."
in The Magic Circle , Ballantine paperback, 1999, p. 339.
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Monday, June 13, 2022
The Theater Game
FLOYD GONDOLLI:
"Jack, I’m not trying to hurt you. I’m trying to help you
stay one step ahead of the game."
JACK HORNER:
"We’re going in circles now, but we’re in familiar territory."
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Lexical Note
The material linked to in the previous post
has NO connection to . . .
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Sunday, June 12, 2022
Vocabulary: Trisquare Theorem
See also trisquare.space.
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Piercing the Twelve*
From "When Novelists Become Cubists," by Andre Furlani—
"The architectonics of a narrative," Davenport says,
"are emphasized and given a role to play in dramatic effect
when novelists become Cubists; that is, when they see
the possibilities of making a hieroglyph, a coherent symbol,
an ideogram of the total work. A symbol comes into being
when an artist sees that it is the only way to get all the meaning in."
* See "Starlight Like Intuition" by Delmore Schwartz.
The "Twelve" of the title may be regarded as cube edges.
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Saturday, June 11, 2022
Friday, June 10, 2022
Space Wars
An image from posts tagged The Fano Hallows —
Related material —
The new URL Combinatorics.space forwards to . . .
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Songlines.space
To me, the new URL "Songlines.space" suggests both the Outback
and the University of Western Australia. For the former, see
"'Max Barry' + Lexicon" in this journal. For the latter, see SymOmega.
The new URL forwards to a combination of these posts.
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Thursday, June 9, 2022
Some Like It Hotter
The "inscape.club" of the previous post suggests Princeton's
"Triangle Club." Related material —
From the December 14, 2021, post Notes on Lines —
The triangle, a percussion instrument that was
featured prominently in the Tom Stoppard play
"Every Good Boy Deserves Favour."
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Correspondence* Club
The new URL "inscape.club" forwards to …
http://m759.net/wordpress/?s=Inscape .
* For the "correspondences" of the above title, see …
http://m759.net/wordpress/?s=Correspondences+Ninth .
"He was looking at the nine engravings and at the circle,
checking strange correspondences between them."
– The Club Dumas , 1993
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Wednesday, June 8, 2022
From the New URL “Matrix.Bingo” —
Image from Matrix.Bingo —
Commentary added on June 8, 2022 —
"First we'll show and tell
'Till I reach your pony tail"
— Song lyric
Another image from Matrix.Bingo —
From a more recent Sandra Bullock film —
The times are still a-changin'.
(Remark adapted from a webpage of Halloween 2020.)
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Meta Four
Tonight is Replacement Eve —
"The metaphor for metamorphosis no keys unlock" — Cullinane, 1986
Related remarks —
From a Log24 search for "Notation+Levi-Strauss" —
"There is such a thing as a four-set."
— Motto adapted from a 1962 young-adult novel.
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Tuesday, June 7, 2022
A Square for the Circle
The new URL matrix.bingo forwards to
http://m759.net/wordpress/?s=5×5 .
“If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be.
Now put the foundations under them.”
— Henry David Thoreau
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Devs
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“When the Men on the Chessboard . . .”
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Monday, June 6, 2022
Screenwriters on LA
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"Living in Los Angeles is living in the cradle of the industry I fantasized about being a part of since my father gifted me his Sears Super-8 movie camera when I was seven years old. Hollywood is a city but it is also a mythology. A magical fantasy. A living dream. And yes, a dream is a mere sigh away from becoming a nightmare. Many tears have been shed around this town. They’ve been watering the soil for generations, adding more lush green to this transient desert mirage. As Nathanael West wrote in his ode to those on the fringes of Hollywood in his 1939 novel, The Day of the Locust , ‘Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears.' " — Adam Rifkin, quoted on Jan. 25, 2022 |
See related remarks from a different author in a Log24 search
for a John O'Hara title, "Hope of Heaven."
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Sunday, June 5, 2022
Plan 9 from Knoxville
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“The Six O’Clock Alarm”
See the previous post and Isidore in this journal.
See also Morning Song and Sunday Morning Coming Down.
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Blancanieves Waltz*
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Saturday, June 4, 2022
Spectral Valhalla … Continues.
C. S. Lewis on myth —
"The stories I am thinking of always have a very simple narrative shape—
a satisfactory and inevitable shape, like a good vase or a tulip."
The image and quote are from posts tagged Spectral Valhalla.
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In Memoriam: Bill Walker
Bill Walker, Nashville Force as
Conductor and Arranger, Dies at 95
" 'You are there to make the artist sound good,
not to show how clever you can be,' Mr. Walker said
of his philosophy of recording in a 2015 interview at
the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville."
— Bill Friskics-Warren in The New York Times yesterday
Bill, some artists sound good without much help.
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Friday, June 3, 2022
Christian at Chapman
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE:
GROTHENDIECK, A MULTIFARIOUS GIANT:
MATHEMATICS, LOGIC AND PHILOSOPHY
CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY, ORANGE (CA)
— BECKMAN HALL, ROOM 106 MAY 24TH-28TH, 2022 . . .
|
27th Friday
4:30 – 5:30 Christian Houzel (IUFM de Paris): |
Related reading for enthusiasts of the Black Arts —
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Sophie’s Choice . . . of Colleges
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The Overnight Case… Continues.
A Jan. 8, 2018, image from earlier Log24 posts tagged The Overnight Case —
A related earlier image —
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Venues
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Wednesday March 10, 2004 — m759 @ 4:07 AM “Language was no more than a collection of meaningless conventional signs, and life could absurdly end at any moment. He [Mallarmé] became aware, in Millan’s* words, ‘of the extremely fine line
separating absence and presence, being and nothingness, life and death, which later … he could place at the very centre of his work and make the cornerstone of his personal philosophy and his mature poetics.’ “ — John Simon, "Squaring the Circle"
* A Throw of the Dice: The Life of Stéphane Mallarmé , |
See also Cornerstone.
Not-so-mature poetics —
… and completely im mature poetics —
See as well other posts now tagged Taiji , a search for Chinese Checkers,
and a recent Harvard Crimson piece by Gish Jen.
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Thursday, June 2, 2022
Self-Enclosing
"… the self-enclosing processes by which late 20th-century
American academics established and secured their status
(you painfully develop a thesis in competition with your peers,
then you keep on elaborating it until you die)."
This excellent passage is from . . .
The book under review above is
Here and There: Sites of Philosophy ,
from Harvard University Press.
The target of the new URL neither.site is
http://m759.net/wordpress/?s=Harvard+Philosophy.
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Waxing Poetic
"The number THREE is the formula of creation"
— From a novel by Balzac
See as well last midnight's "The Separatrix: 6/2."
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Transparent Things
"“The Corporation can’t do its work if it’s perfectly transparent.”
— The president of Harvard on the university's governing body,
quoted in The Crimson on 26 May 2022
See as well Transparent Nabokov in this journal.
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Replacement
"The proof: On June 9 Facebook will be buried.
Then will rise Meta Platforms, which will
completely replace the giant of social networks.
On this day, the stock symbol FB, which represents
Facebook, will be replaced by META, and
the transformation will be complete."
— Thestreet.com yesterday — "Zuckerberg
Buries Facebook and Turns to His Next Big Thing"
Related entertainment — Black Mirror S5E1, "Striking Vipers."
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The Separatrix: 6/2
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Wednesday, June 1, 2022
The Yearning
"… every sufficiently good analogy is yearning to become a functor."
— John Baez, 2004: "Lessons from Topological Quantum Field Theory"
Related images — Quoting scripture at The Master's University
on Jan. 31, 2017 —
… and some images (re)posted here on that same date — Jan. 31, 2017:
A related analogy — Between (1) and (2) below —
-
A right triangle A as the sum of two smaller,
inner, right triangles B and C, each similar to A . -
The square on the longest side of A as the sum
of the squares on the longest sides of B and C.
Exercise for Baez fans: Express the above analogy as a functor.
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