Monday, June 30, 2025
Sunday, June 29, 2025
Bullshit Studies, 1985: Steiner vs. Cassirer
Click the above image to enlarge it.
Update of Monday morning, June 30 —
See as well in this journal the phrase"language animal," which
Taylor calls "George Steiner's phrase." Steiner himself attributed
the phrase to the ancient Greeks, but apparently never cited
an exact source, though he gave a transliterated Greek version,
"zoon phonanta" — again without citing a source.
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Lost in Translation for language animals:
“Wen A Laddie” Meets “A Lassie”
See as well "language animal," a phrase apparently coined by
Fields of Force author George Steiner.
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“Wen A Laddie” Meets “A Lassie”
“Wen A Laddie” Meets “A Lassie”
“Wen A” Code
The "Translate" symbol at bottom right above is formed by
the Chinese character "Wen" and the Greek character "Alpha"
(or, if you like, the corresponding English character "A").
A variant rendition of the symbol —
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Vibe Coding
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Para los Muertos: The Barcelona Separatrix
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Saturday, June 28, 2025
For Harlan Kane: The Poolman Mission
Mr. Schifrin's reported dies natalis was Thursday, June 26, 2025.
Earlier in this journal —
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Deep Blue … Continues.
"… an object, a scene, a person, a place." — Ben Libman today.
Exercise: Illustrate each of these nouns.
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Friday, June 27, 2025
Epistemic Art:
Plato at the Checkout
Geometry related to the famed
"divided line" of Plato's Republic —
Analogous "dividing line" . . .
Other geometry of interest . . .
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Plato at the Checkout
Plato at the Checkout
ChatGPS Overview
"And know the place for the first time . . . ." — T. S. Eliot
Checkerboard Square —
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Bullshit Studies: “Hungarian Algorithm”
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Thursday, June 26, 2025
Case Study
An AI Overview on early Wittgenstein:
"… his view that the world is composed of facts, not things."
Facts from the above screenshot:
The dates May 4, 2019, and Nov. 8, 2002. Also on those dates —
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For Art Devs: Plan 9 from Claude
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Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Alms for Oblivion
http://passionforcinema.com/sapphire/ on "Bleu" — Jan. 9, 2010 —
"An extremely long lens on an insert of a sugar cube, dipped just enough,
in a small cup of coffee, so that it gradually seeps in the dark beverage.
Four and a half seconds of unadulterated cinematic bliss."
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Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Vegas Wedding Memorial Image
"You can't please everyone, so . . ." — Rick Nelson
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Scholium for Devs
Related reading:
“Concept (scholastics’ verbum mentis)– theological analogy
of Son’s procession as Verbum Patris, 111-12″
— Index to Joyce and Aquinas, by William T. Noon, S.J.,
Yale University Press 1957, second printing 1963, page 162.
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Annals of Uh-Oh
From yesterday morning's viewing . . .
From this morning's viewing . . .
Yesterday morning's viewing, continued last night . . .
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People Also Ask . . .
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“Like a Star of a Summer’s Morning”
Related material — Jessica Harper and Winnetka.
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Monday, June 23, 2025
Art for TI
"Maybe nothing's as it seems
The ground is moving all the time"
— From a song by Patty Griffin, "Back at the Start."
(Day 9 was Bloomsday . . . June 16.)
Related images
"Keep your eye upon the donut . . ."
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