Tuesday, February 28, 2023
For His Nibs Andrew Cusack*
* See his post published at 10:00 pm on Monday 27 February 2023.
His categories and tags: Categories — Argentina Heraldry History Monarchy
Tags — Argentina, Chile, History, Latin America, Monarchy, Peru.
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The Bing Swing Thing
"Oh, would you like to swing on a star?" — Song lyric
"Depends on the star, baby." — Sinatra.
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Robot Love (“Welcome to the new Bing”)
"What is the 16 puzzle?" . . . Good question.
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Body/Antibody: The Robot Test
"You show me your control panel and I'll show you mine."
See also this journal on what, according to IMDb, was the
release date of the film "Body/Antibody" — June 7, 2007.
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Monday, February 27, 2023
The Producer
Boston Globe AP story yesterday —
LOS ANGELES — Walter Mirisch, the astute and Oscar-winning
film producer who oversaw such classics as “Some Like It Hot,”
“West Side Story,” and “In the Heat of the Night,” died on Friday
of natural causes in Los Angeles, the Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences said Saturday. He was 101.
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The Epstein Scholia: “Back in the Day”
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Sunday, February 26, 2023
Saturday, February 25, 2023
The Replacement Suggestion
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The Al Goldstein Variations
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The Diamond Theorem according to ChatGPT
The part about tilings, group actions, and the diamond-shaped
pattern is more or less OK. The parts about Thurston and
applications are utterly false.
Compare and contrast . . .
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Friday, February 24, 2023
Dementia Revisited
"… based on true events, in much the same way that
'Pinocchio' is based on string theory. "
— Film review by Anthony Lane today
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Thursday, February 23, 2023
Stewart Berlinale: Requiem for a Lyricist
Related lyrics —
"Spread your wings and let me come inside."
— Rod Stewart, October 1976
Kristen, Rod . . . Rod, Kristen.
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“Where Whirled and Well”
— Conrad Aiken, Great Circle
And the light shone in darkness and
Against the Word the unstilled world still whirled
About the centre of the silent Word.
— T. S. Eliot, "Ash Wednesday"
About the Centre:
See also Dorm Room.
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Wednesday, February 22, 2023
The Showcase
Two Shades of Grey:
Some will prefer . . .
Update at 9:16 PM ET Feb. 22, 2023 — A Rising Star —
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Death* on Presidents’ Day
* See this evening's online New York Times obituaries.
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Plan 9 from Warren Public Library*
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Tuesday, February 21, 2023
For Harlan Kane: The Zenodo Files
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Annals of Media: Carr Keys
For Carr as dominant and
Boston University students
as submissive, see . . .
.
Carr's BU syllabus is dated Aug. 4, 2014.
For some other content from that date, see . . .
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Sunday, February 19, 2023
Hoarding Space
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