Six uses of "overarching" in an Aeon essay today —
See also "overarching" in this journal.
"You get right down to the naked truth
With those dirty, dirty looks" — Juice Newton (1983)
Search result for "Sandringham juice octads" —
"Meta isn't such a new thing …
Meta started long ago."
— Log24 on All Souls' Day (Nov. 2), 2021
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Anthony Garreffa at tweaktown.com — PUBLISHED SAT, DEC 11 2021 10:23 PM CST When asked about the metaverse by The Verge in their interview [Dec. 9] with The Matrix Resurrections stars Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss, Keanu said: "can we just not have metaverse be invented by Facebook". He was asked by The Verge "you're not a fan?" to which Keanu replied: "No, but just the concept of metaverse is like way older than that. It's like a way older, and so for that moment to get to… I'm just like, 'Come on, man'". Read more: https://www.tweaktown.com/news/83337/keanu-reeves-wants-you-to-know-facebook-didnt-invent-the-metaverse/index.html |
See also Log24 posts tagged Date Time (Nov. 4, 2021).
This post was suggested by Chapter Two, "The Sprite and the Synergist,"
of Alfred Bester's The Deceivers , and by . . .
Instagram, @theglassmagazine yesterday —
"Playing the character of Lisa, a typical
love triangle storyline unravels…."
Mark Zuckerberg at Harvard, May 25, 2017 —
"No one writes math formulas on glass.
That’s not a thing."
The triangle,
a percussion instrument
featured prominently in
the Tom Stoppard play
"Every Good Boy
Deserves Favour"
From Log24 posts tagged EGBDF —
On the song "Different Drum" by the late Michael Nesmith:
"Ronstadt's version flips the gender references
in Nesmith's original lyrics, replacing 'girl' with 'boy'
when describing her lover, but still referring to him
being 'pretty'." — Wikipedia
The obituary in the previous post mentioned an author, George Kubler,
who captured my attention at a Harvard Square bookstore in the early sixties.
Nostalgia trip —
"The rock might have been the earliest form of a hammer,
but it was improved when someone tied a handle onto the rock
so it would swing harder and faster."
— Wikipedia on The Shape of Time
See Log24 on November 29th, the birth date of storytellers
C.S. Lewis and Madeleine L'Engle.
A related obituary from today's online New York Times —
Related fictional character:
"Ecumenical Edwards"
in Exorcist II: The Heretic .
"Enthusiasts of group theory or incidence structures may enjoy reading about Tits'
work, such as Tits buildings, the Tits alternative, the Tits group, and the Tits metric."
— Annie Rauwerda, Boing Boing reporter. See also Tits in this journal.
Related material: Smallfield.
The time of the previous post was 4:46 AM ET today.
Fourteen minutes later —
"I'm a groupie, really." — Murray Bartlett in today's online NY Times
The previous post discussed group actions on a 3×3 square array. A tune
about related group actions on a 4×4 square array (a Galois tesseract ) . . .
The ancient Chinese matrix known as the Lo Shu
is one of 432 matrices equivalent under the action of . . .
The Lo Shu Group:
For related material, see (for instance) AGL(2,3) in . . .
"Let be be finale of seem.
The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream."
— Wallace Stevens
"… inextricably intertwined in the fate of the Matrix …."
See as well The Eddington Song in this journal.
(The "intertwining" part is at Sex Textiles (March 26, 2021).)
. . . is now at loshu.space. (Update on 10 Dec. — See also loshu.group.)
See as well GL(2,3) in this journal.
The Big White Hashtag:
Click for further details.
Mutant Ninja Turtles Xmas by Kristine DeBell yesterday —
Wikipedia — "The Turtles are assisted by April O'Neil, who is variously
depicted as a news reporter, lab assistant or genius computer programmer."
From this journal in 2005 . . .
More recently in this journal . . .
Fanciful version —
Less fanciful versions . . .
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Unmagic Squares Consecutive positive integers:
1 2 3 Consecutive nonnegative integers:
0 1 2
Consecutive nonnegative integers
00 01 02
This last square may be viewed as
Note that the ninefold square so viewed
As does, similarly, the ancient Chinese
These squares are therefore equivalent under This method generalizes. — Steven H. Cullinane, Nov. 20, 2021 |
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Log24 on this date — December 4th — in 2008:
"I named this script ocode and chmod 755'd it to make it executable…"
— Software forum post on the OCR program Tesseract
The New York Times at 7:55 PM ET today:
"Better to give people space."
— Detail from a story by Greg Jackson, "The Hollow,"
dated November 22, 2021, in The New Yorker issue
dated November 29, 2021.
Night at the Museum:
Fictional Version —
Not So Fictional —
Click for the soundscape "Nothing Is Real."
Bumper stickers for fans of the FAAR from respectable —
Memorial for an art critic who reportedly
died on November 12, 2021 —
* See a poem quoted here on November 12.
From St. Stephen's Day 2016 —
The apparent symbols for "times" and "plus"
in the above screenshot are, of course, icons for
browser functions. Readers who prefer the
fanciful may regard them instead as symbols for
"a gateway to another realm," that of number theory.
For the mathematical properties of the vertical and horizontal
white grid lines above, see the Cullinane theorem.
Peter Woit is quoted in the previous post as saying that
"Deluding oneself by seeing deep connections
in unrelated events is a common human problem."
Namely . . .
The term occurred in a recent miniseries, "The Queen's Gambit,"
in dialogue by screenwriter Scott Frank. "Apophenia" is not in the
book of the same title, by the much better writer Walter Tevis.
The original version of the fictional LIFE Magazine interview —
The version by Scott Frank —
As for the phrase "an entire world of just 64 squares," also not in the book,
some mathematicians may recall the definition of impolite numbers .
The reader may supply his or her own impolite commentary.
… is the birth date of storytellers C.S. Lewis and Madeleine L'Engle.
Another perspective on this date —
In the context of mathematics, I prefer to think of it as Brosterman Day.
See, from last year on this date, Osterman Meets Brosterman . . .
and, more generally, Brosterman.
But seriously . . . LAST THOUGHTS ON DEVIL'S NIGHT :
From "Ready Player Meets the Night Clerk,"
a montage of 12 Aug. 2020 —
"Our credit manager is Helen Hunt. If you want credit…"
A fictional version of Turning Nine —
A bewildering phrase —"That famous lunch."
What famous lunch? This is the book's first
mention of Fermi.
Google solves the mystery —
The New York Times reports a Nov. 14 death:
"He backed young musicians, especially those of
the Roma, a traditionally itinerant people . . . ."
This journal on Nov. 14 —
* In honor of Sondheim, recent posts are now
tagged with a phrase from a different show —
Send in the Clowns.
The Z (for Zulu time) in the previous post suggests a review:
Note that the cookies of the previous post were not in a jar.
"SS refers to SuperSpeed,
a new transfer rate…"
And then there is USB,
the Universal Serial Bus . . .
From a post of 11/11, 2003.
The title can mean the protagonist of the classic film "Inception"
or Document Object Model or Dirty Old Man. Related material:
Click the above image for related material.
(Who is Snorri? See The Reykjavik Grapevine , Oct. 3, 2018.)
"Faced with a larger surface than he had ever provided with facets,
in his desperation he had divided the diamond with imaginary lines,
treating each section as if it were a single small stone and arranging
the clusters of facets so they would interact with one another, as if they
were single facets in a smaller stone. What if the final result lacked fire?"
— A novel* by Noah Gordon, who reportedly died on Monday, Nov. 22.
Related material from Log24 on Feb. 17, 2017 —
Also on Feb. 17, 2017 —
* The Jerusalem Diamond , Random House, April 1, 1979,
republished later in German as Der Diamant des Salomon .
Personally, I prefer To Catch a Thief —
“Breast or Thigh”?
"Faced with a larger surface than he had ever provided with facets,
in his desperation he had divided the diamond with imaginary lines,
treating each section as if it were a single small stone and arranging
the clusters of facets so they would interact with one another, as if they
were single facets in a smaller stone. What if the final result lacked fire?"
— Novel* by Noah Gordon, who reportedly died on Monday, Nov. 22.
*
German translation of an April 1, 1979, novel.
From Log24 on Epiphany 2012 —
A version of the Zemeckis Cube —
* See Turning Nine (Log24, Nov. 8, 2021).
Details from yesterday's "Ities" image —
Some less abstract imagery —
* For James Joyce fans, a phrase suggested by the "ities" of the title —
Itty Bitty Titty Ditty.
Google reveals that this phrase was used as a poem title on
September 3, 2011 . . .
Some may enjoy seeking the significance of the poem's date .
1 2 3 4
who are we for?
The title is from yesterday's 8:19 PM post.
An image from yesterday's 12:31 PM post —
What happens when the Logies meet the Ities ?
A clue . . .
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" Lying at the axis of everything, zero is both real and imaginary. Lovelace was fascinated by zero; as was Gottfried Leibniz, for whom, like mathematics itself, it had a spiritual dimension. It was this that let him to imagine the binary numbers that now lie at the heart of computers: 'the creation of all things out of nothing through God's omnipotence, it might be said that nothing is a better analogy to, or even demonstration of such creation than the origin of numbers as here represented, using only unity and zero or nothing.' He also wrote, 'The imaginary number is a fine and wonderful recourse of the divine spirit, almost an amphibian between being and nonbeing.' "
— A footnote from page 229 of Sydney Padua's |
Some context: A search in this journal for Lovelace.
The previous post suggests a followup . . .
The Times's obnoxious phrase "compelling options" suggests a review of . . .
The Birth of the Blues
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Unmagic Squares Consecutive positive integers:
1 2 3 Consecutive nonnegative integers:
0 1 2
Consecutive nonnegative integers
00 01 02
This last square may be viewed as
Note that the ninefold square so viewed
As does, similarly, the ancient Chinese
These squares are therefore equivalent under This method generalizes. — Steven H. Cullinane, Nov. 20, 2021 |
From the above Rock obituary —
"One friend, whom he had met early in his time
at Cambridge, was Syd Barrett of the band Pink Floyd."
See as well "Crazy Diamond" in this journal.
"If I'd been out 'til quarter to three
Would you lock the door,
Will you still need me, will you still feed me,
When I'm sixty-four?"
"… let’s stick to the math that gets our hot dogs to match our buns."
— https://www.quantamagazine.org/
the-secret-math-of-hot-dogs-and-buns-20211118/
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content="2021-11-18T10:31-05:00" />
A favorite rabbit hole —
"She looked at my palm and she made a magic sign,
She said 'What you need is Love Potion #9.' "
A footnote to history about St. Andrew's Day 2020 —
Related note —
From a search in this journal for the right stuff —
A date which will live in _________________ . . .
Above: Instagram profile image,
Georgia O’Keeffe with Pelvis Series, Red with Yellow, 1945.
Below: Instagram image of art by the late Etel Adnan.
Α, ϴ, Ω
Related line:
Also from a Culture Desk of sorts:
Related art — Background colors for the letters in the NPR logo —
Anthony Oettinger, who was quoted in the previous post,
once warned me to beware of those promoting "creativity."
Related material:
Another outstanding mentor, Randy R. Ross, taught me physics
at Jamestown (NY) Community College.
At the blackboard, after adding a pair of fangs to the crossbar
in a capital Theta , Ross once quipped: "Beware of big Theta!."
Related material: Theta functions and finite geometry.
See as well . . .
“Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.”
— Saying attributed to Harvard linguist Anthony Oettinger
"I walked all the way through the park over to
the Museum of Natural History. I knew that was
the museum the kid with the skate key meant.”
— The Catcher in the Rye
"If we'd thought a bit of the end of it
when we started painting the town . . ."
From a New York Times online obituary today
by Bill Friskics-Warren —
"a role fulfilled with preternatural command"
The same meter in the Wikipedia article Alexandrine —
"Ye sacred Bards, that to your harps' melodious strings…"
From posts in a search for Aurora —
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Some R.I.P. backstory from a recent film, "Passengers" — DECK TWO – LIBRARY – DAY Aurora sits at a library workstation . . . AURORA
What about research articles, any kind of WORKSTATION Hibernation technology is proprietary. |
We put the ass in class .
The image is from a marrific Instagram post of July 27, 2018.
Earlier, it was uploaded to behance.net on Sept. 5, 2016.
See as well my own remarks on the above keynote date — Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012.
* See images from the film's Berlin premiere on Sunday, Feb. 8, 2015 as well as
Log24 posts tagged Autism Sunday 2015 .
"Spiel ist nicht Spielerei." — Fröbel.
"… thinking starts with a problem, a difficulty, a contradiction."
— The late Arthur Mattuck of MIT in last night's post Gestalt .
"The 'technical support' is an underlying ground for aesthetic practice
that supports the work of art as canvas supported oil paint."
— MIT Press on the book by Rosalind Krauss titled Under Blue Cup .
From Grid View and List View (Log24, 15 April 2021) —
In memory of an emeritus MIT professor who reportedly
died on October 8, 2021 —
"Thinking starts with a problem
Located somewhere between behaviorism and introspection,
the school of gestalt psychology teaches that thinking starts
with a problem, a difficulty, a contradiction. It sounds like a truism,
yet is widely ignored in practice. Teachers say their aim is to get
their students to think, yet in classroom after classroom they
violate this psychological principle by giving the solution before
there is any problem."
— Arthur Mattuck in . . .
This is a sequel to yesterday's post Query .
Along with Pawbeats, I'd rather look at Little Caprice.
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