Friday, March 31, 2023
Data:
"The rockers said via their record label:
'It is with the deepest sadness that we must
announce the passing of the lyricist Keith Reid,
who died suddenly on 23 March 2023,
in hospital in London. He had been receiving
cancer treatment for the past couple of years.
Keith was the co-founder and lyricist for the band
Procol Harum, notably penning their biggest hit
A Whiter Shade of Pale, which contains some of
the most enigmatic lyrics of all time.' "
— https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/
breaking-procol-harums-keith-reid-29586101
Metadata:
A note from Log24 on the above March 23 date —
The above Del Shannon upload date
was November 1, 2021 — All Saints' Day.
Synchronicity check —
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The previous post suggests a review . . .
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Nima Arkani-Hamed, as quoted by Peter Woit yesterday —
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"I think the subject has not been so exciting for many, many decades, and at the same time our ability to experimentally address and solidly settle some of these very big questions has never been more uncertain. I don’t think it’s a normal time, it’s an inflection point in the history of the development of our subject, and it requires urgency… The confluence of the technical expertise for doing so and the enthusiasm amongst the young people who are willing to do it exists now and I very much doubt it will exist in 10 or 15 years from now. If we are going to do it, we have to start thinking about doing it now."
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See as well an inflection-point-related post in this journal —
True Grid: "Rosetta Stone" as a Metaphor
in Mathematical Narratives .
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Thursday, March 30, 2023
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Wednesday, March 29, 2023
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And then there is Bardo College . . .
For a young-adult novelist who reportedly died at 71 on March 21 —
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Scene from a 1995 film —
The pretty mama above is from the earlier film "Cocktail,"
not from the 1975 song "One of These Nights."
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The previous post referenced the "pretty mama" of "Cocktail" (1988).
Earlier, in 1975, there was a more serious song to a pretty mama . . .
One of these nights
One of these crazy old nights
We're gonna find out, pretty mama
What turns on your lights
See as well "Dreaming Jewels" and . . .
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Tuesday, March 28, 2023
The New York Times reports a March 27 death:
Ecosystem Study —
Booty Call by Cullinane
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↑ "Story continues below advertisement" . . .
What if the story is the advertisement?
This journal on the above dies natalis :
* See also the previous post, "Language Drill."
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"Jigs are indispensable in the machining process.
They help guide and hold workpieces to a specified
location, thus ensuring that any drilling or tapping
will be accurate."
See also, in this journal, "the notation 'as' " …
A related image —
"At the still point, there the dance is." — T. S. Eliot
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“You’re literally looking for like a one in a million thing.
You filter out the 999,999 of the boring ones, then
you’ve got something that’s weird, and then that’s worth
further exploration.”
— Quote from a mathematics story today at Gizmodo
A different "one in a million" mathematics story —
On Steiner Quadruple Systems of Order 16.
See also Galois Tesseract.
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Monday, March 27, 2023
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See also the source of the second mug shot.
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From a sort of sequel to Altman's "Nashville" —
"Welcome to L.A." … Geraldine Chaplin:
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) —
" 'We have mental health professionals at
the reunification site,' NFD spokesperson
Kendra Looney said."
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Elementary Tune for My Dear Watson
"Cinderella's turnin' up with Snow White
It's where the wild things are
It's where the wild things are (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, woo)
It's where my heart's gon' start (Ooh, ooh-ooh)
It's where the wild things are (Ooh)
Put your fucking glasses up (Ooh-woo)"
Some will prefer a more classical group . . .
The f-holes —
("f " for Fiona (Dourif) in "The Master")
Related bling:
See as well Emma Watson and the above bling date —
August 30, 2018 —in this journal . . . "Perception of Space."
"It was hard to relax with Hermione next to you…." — J. K. Rowling
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Mirror, Mirror . . .
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Sunday, March 26, 2023
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— Nobody?
— Well, maybe Agatha.
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This, and the sex shop at the former Hotel Bella Vista
in Cuernavaca, suggest another image . . .
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The March 20 date of a New Yorker story by
Mary Gaitskill suggests a review of that date here —
“GLOW,” starring Alison Brie —
“In the bluish light emanating from the TV,
EE looked at him, her eyes veiled.”
— Being There , by Jerzy Kosinski
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"It was my first job; I hadn’t yet turned eighteen."
— Mary Gaitskill, "Minority Report," short story
in The New Yorker , March 20, 2023.
Gaitskill's story also contains a film reference that
accounts for the story's title —
"Then suddenly, randomly, I remembered. I was watching
a movie with Jason, the man who, with time, became my
husband. It was a movie about imprisoned clairvoyants
who predict murders before they happen. Sexless and
obedient, the clairvoyants lay in artificial sleep, nearly
submerged in pools of water, connected to a huge machine
monitored by vigilant detectives."
That film in this journal —
For further background, see The New Yorker piece
"Mary Gaitskill on Revisiting Her Story 'Secretary'."
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Saturday, March 25, 2023
Google Search now emphasizes the reasoning
behind the diamond theorem —
For related language (but un-related ideas ), see Zero Sum in this journal.
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"Gabriel Ice is supposed to be an 'amiable geek'
whose greed and success as a tech entrepreneur
have turned him to the dark side, but it’s hard to
believe that this kid billionaire and his wife would
choose to live in 'deep hairband country' on the
Upper East Side, in a grand dwelling boasting a
Bösendorfer Imperial in the corner of one of its
public rooms, 'at which generations of hired piano
players have provided hours of Kander & Ebb,
Rodgers & Hammerstein, Andrew Lloyd Webber
medleys.' "
— Michiko Kakutani,
review of Pynchon's Bleeding Edge
Related Internet material —
See also LARB on Pynchon's fictional DeepArcher program.
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Friday, March 24, 2023
(See Nietzsche references in this journal.)
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March 24, 2023 08:00 PM
Eastern Daylight Time
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — Intel and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation announced today that company co-founder Gordon Moore has passed away at the age of 94.
The foundation reported he died peacefully on Friday, March 24, 2023, surrounded by family at his home in Hawaii.
(Moore link added.)
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Related surrealistic robot drama from The New York Times —
Bad Cinderella and the Orgy Dome Cleanup Crew
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I prefer the NCS colors of Wednesday's "Exploring Color Space"
to the pastel shades in today's noon post. An illustration:
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Something else —
* "We put the sex in sextets."
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Thursday, March 23, 2023
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Wednesday, March 22, 2023
"Old men ought to be explorers." — T.S. Eliot
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Related literature —
"The Birds Who Flew Beyond Time
is inspired by the great Persian poet
Farid ud-Din Attar's classic
twelfth-century allegory
The Conference of the Birds."
— Front jacket of The Birds Who Flew Beyond Time ,
by Anne Baring, with pictures by Thetis Blacker, first
published by Barefoot Books Ltd. in Bristol, 1993.
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Anna Friel and Pierce Brosnan in "I.T." (2016).
* Title suggested by Sean Connery's well-known
remark to Nicolas Cage in "The Rock" (1996).
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Tuesday, March 21, 2023
Click to enlarge the above Google Bard remarks.
A different Bard . . .
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Related material from this journal on 12/01, 2022 —
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Monday, March 20, 2023
In the background: Harvard's Wigglesworth Gate —
"Watch your parking meters." — Bob Dylan
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"The distinct emphasis on
the politics of space
constitutes 0047’s core and identity."
Related note for film fans —
I prefer the less stressful TV series “GLOW,” starring Alison Brie —
“In the bluish light emanating from the TV,
EE looked at him, her eyes veiled.”
— Being There , by Jerzy Kosinski
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Sunday, March 19, 2023
Mank, Baez, Collins — A trip back to Christmas Eve, 2021.
Related art (via Baez) for Josefine Lyche —
See also Lyche in Log24 posts tagged Star Cube.
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Saturday, March 18, 2023
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Kitty in Uncanny X-Men #168 (April 1983)
"Try Bing Chat, Kitty."
* A Harvard phrase for a process analogous to that of the Hogwarts Sorting Hat.
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From last night's update to the previous post —
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The use of binary coordinate systems
as a conceptual tool
Natural physical transformations of square or cubical arrays
of actual physical cubes (i.e., building blocks) correspond to
natural algebraic transformations of vector spaces over GF(2).
This was apparently not previously known.
See "The Thing and I."
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From a post of May 1, 2016 —
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Mathematische Appetithäppchen:
Faszinierende Bilder. Packende Formeln. Reizvolle Sätze
Autor: Erickson, Martin —
"Weitere Informationen zu diesem Themenkreis finden sich
unter http://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php/
Cullinane_diamond_theorem
und http://finitegeometry.org/sc/gen/coord.html ."
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Friday, March 17, 2023
Update at 9 PM ET March 17: A related observation by SHC —
The use of binary coordinate systems as a conceptual tool
Natural physical transformations of square or cubical arrays
of actual physical cubes (i.e., building blocks) correspond to
natural algebraic transformations of vector spaces over GF(2).
This was apparently not previously known.
See "The Thing and I."
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Some related mathematics: https://m759.github.io .
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Lurking in the background: Zurbarán's "Doctor of Law."
Some more-recent art — "Law Play," by Cullinane.
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"Bridget, Patrick . . . Patrick, Bridget."
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Thursday, March 16, 2023
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Wednesday, March 15, 2023
Images from posts tagged Fire Water —
Scholium —
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Full fathom five?
* See that phrase in this journal, as well as Griswold.
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". . . The last of the river diamonds . . . .
bright alluvial diamonds,
burnished clean by mountain torrents,
green and blue and yellow and red.
In the darkness, he could feel them burning,
like fire and water of the universe, distilled."
— At Play in the Fields of the Lord ,
by Peter Matthiessen (Random House, 1965)
Related Log24 posts are now tagged Fire Water.
See as well, from posts tagged Heartland Sutra —
♫ "Red and Yellow, Blue and Green"
— "Prism Song," 1964
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From this journal on Dec. 3, 2011 —
Some Weinberger-related art —
See as well the prose of Peter Matthiessen —
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Tuesday, March 14, 2023
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Also on January 16, 2014 —
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The New York Times reports a Monday,
March 13, 2023, death:
This journal Monday —
Final image of the above "diamond theorem" penrose search on Monday —
From March 2 —
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Monday, March 13, 2023
Previous posts have shown ChatGPT answering the question
"What is the diamond theorem?" with references to Thurston
and, later, to Conway. Today it is Penrose's turn.
Related search results (click to enlarge) —
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Sunday, March 12, 2023
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Related fiction —
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Related material — 7/02, 2021.
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Saturday, March 11, 2023
Simplified version —
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Friday, March 10, 2023
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Thursday, March 9, 2023
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Image from Kate Beckinsale's 2021 film "Jolt" —
Interpreting the "back 10 seconds" symbol as "back 10 years" . . .
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The RGB code of the "9" in the 6-and-9 symbol below
on the cover of Susan Sontag's Against Interpretation
is said to be (134,128,198) — moody blue.
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From other posts tagged Tetrahedron vs. Square —
A Scholium for Chomsky —
The ABC of words —
A nutshell —
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Putting the “de” in
https://www.hu-berlin.de/
The name "Kilgore Trout" in the previous post suggests a passage in
Wikipedia on authors — two real, one imaginary —
"The 'Kilgore Trout' name was a transparent reference to
the older writer (substituting 'Kilgore' for 'Theodore' and
'Trout' for 'Sturgeon'), but since the characterization was
less than flattering (both Sturgeon and Trout were financially
unsuccessful and seemingly slipping into obscurity),
Vonnegut did not publicly state the connection, nor did
Sturgeon encourage the comparison."
See also, in this journal, Theodore Sturgeon's "The Dreaming Jewels."
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In memory of film auteur Bert I. Gordon, who reportedly
died at 100 yesterday —
"Make me young again." — Attributed to Kilgore Trout
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On a reported Wednesday, March 8, death —
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Wednesday, March 8, 2023
From Chomsky's remarks in The New York Times today —
"It is at once comic and tragic, as Borges might have noted,
that so much money and attention should be concentrated
on so little a thing — something so trivial when contrasted
with the human mind, which by dint of language, in the
words of Wilhelm von Humboldt, can make 'infinite use of
finite means,' creating ideas and theories with universal reach."
A search in this journal for Humboldt University yields . . .
"Cum grano salis" — Boris Karloff in "The Black Cat."
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The above figures are from a 2016 post
on local and global symmetries.
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Tuesday, March 7, 2023
Note the yin-yang favicon.
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Monday, March 6, 2023
The name "Vrinda Madan" from the above book cover metadata
yields a webpage that may or may not have the same Madan as
an author — "… Howie Michels' Epic Dreamscapes."
The date of that webpage — Sept. 15, 2022 — seems of particular
interest. See as well this journal on that date for some other posts
that are also now tagged The Cavalier Date.
Wednesday may or may not want to play "Paint it Black" to honor
the cover of the above newly published book.
(Michels is reportedly married to Francine Prose,
author of Bigfoot Dreams and Mister Monkey .)
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Author Susanna Moore,
photo by Paresh Gandhi
Points as Cuts —
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Sunday, March 5, 2023
The response of ChatGPT to a question about my work
continues to evolve. It now credits Conway, not Thurston,*
for the diamond theorem.
The paragraph beginning "The theorem states" appears** to be based
on the following 24 patterns — which number only 8, if rotated or
reflected patterns are considered equivalent.
* For Thurston in an earlier ChatGPT response to the same question,
see a Log24 post of Feb. 25.
** The illustration above is based on the divison of a square into
four smaller subsquares. If the square is rotated by 45 degrees,
it becomes a diamond that can be, in the language of ChatGPT,
divided into "four smaller diamonds ."
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The Case of Richard Brautigan
Saturday, March 4, 2023
An actor's obituary in The New York Times today suggests
a review of the phrase "geometry and death" in this journal.
In that review, the phrase, by J. G. Ballard in a 2006 article,
refers to German fortifications in World War II. Ballard had
earlier used the same phrase in connection with French
nuclear-test structures in the Pacific —
— From Rushing to Paradise by J. G. Ballard, 1994.
Those interested in the religious meaning of the phrase "Saint-Esprit"
may consult this journal on the date of Ballard's death.
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Thursday, March 2, 2023
The above phrase "interpellative assemblages" suggests . . .
See also this journal on the above Won Choi date —
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Wednesday, March 1, 2023
"Say the secret word and divide a hundred dollars."
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A story from Variety on January 9, 2001 —
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For Sean Carroll, author of . . .
See also Carroll in this journal.
Related humor for Doctor Strange —
Windows Lockscreen at 12:43 AM ET tonight —
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I prefer the non-humor of Cold Mountain .
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