See "No Space or Time" in this journal and
the new trailer, starring Scarlett Johansson,
for "Ghost in the Shell."
Related philosophy — Search Log24 for "Trinity."
See "No Space or Time" in this journal and
the new trailer, starring Scarlett Johansson,
for "Ghost in the Shell."
Related philosophy — Search Log24 for "Trinity."
(A post suggested by a Facebook page from Clovis, California)
See Elysian in this journal.
Related material — Shell Game in this journal.
“Fact and fiction weave in and out of novels like a shell game.” —R.B. Kitaj
Not just novels.
Fact:
The mark preceding A8 in the above denotes the semidirect product.
Symbol from the box-style I Ching (Cullinane, 1/6/89). This is Hexagram 55, “Abundance [Fullness].” |
The mathematical quote, from last evening’s Symmetry, is from Anne Taormina.
The I Ching remark is not.
Another version of Abbondanza —
Fiction:
Found in Translation and the giorno June 22, 2009, here.
… In gratitude for his book Real Presences—
A related shell game:
Ad for a talk at Harvard by Nick Bostrom in April 2010—
Click ad for background on the April 10 , 2010, symposium.
See also Bostrom on the The Simulation Argument
and the Log24 April 12, 2010, Shell Game post above.
Note the black diamond logo of Bostrom's Oxford institute.
Some background:
Stanley Fish in the Times on April 12, 2010.
See also this journal on that date —
"Fact and fiction weave in and out of novels
like a shell game." –R. B. Kitaj
Not just novels.
"Fact and fiction weave in and out of novels
like a shell game." –R. B. Kitaj
as quoted by Marco Livingstone
Related material: Prime Designer,
Shell Game, and Evil Daemon.
See also remarks by root@matrix.net.
Part I:
Overview of Unix
at pangea.stanford.edu
Last revision August 2, 2004
“The Unix operating environment is organized into three layers. The innermost level of Unix is the kernel. This is the actual operating system, a single large program that always resides in memory. Sections of the code in this program are executed on behalf of users to do needed tasks, like access files or terminals. Strictly speaking, the kernel is Unix.
The next level of the Unix environment is composed of programs, commands, and utilities. In Unix, the basic commands like copying or removing files are implemented not as part of the kernel, but as individual programs, no different really from any program you could write. What we think of as the commands and utilities of Unix are simply a set of programs that have become standardized and distributed. There are hundreds of these, plus many additional utilities in the public domain that can be installed.
The final level of the Unix environment, which stands like an umbrella over the others, is the shell. The shell processes your terminal input and starts up the programs that you request. It also allows you to manipulate the environment in which those programs will execute in a way that is transparent to the program. The program can be written to handle standard cases, and then made to handle unusual cases simply by manipulating its environment, without having to have a special version of the program.” (My italics.)
Part II:
Programs
From my paper journal
on the date
“Good Will Hunting”
was released:
Friday, December 5, 1997 To: The executive editor, The New York Times Re: The Front Page/His Girl Friday Match the speaker with the speech–
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The Speaker | Frame of Reference | |||
1. | rosebud | A. | J. Paul Getty | The front page, N.Y. Times, Monday, 12/1/97 |
2. | clock | B. | Joel Silver | Page 126, The New Yorker, 3/21/94 |
3. | act | C. | Blanche DuBois | The Elysian Fields |
4. | waltz | D. | Bob Geldof | People Weekly 12/8/97 |
5. | temple | E. | St. Michael | Heaven’s Gate |
6. | watch | F. | Susanna Moore | In the Cut (pbk., Dec. ’96) p. 261 |
7. | line | G. | Joseph Lelyveld | Page A21, The New York Times, 12/1/97 |
8. | chair | H. | Kylie Minogue | Page 69, People Weekly, 12/8/97 |
9. | religion | I. | Carol Gilligan | The Garden of Good and Evil |
10. | wife | J. | John Travolta | “Michael,” the movie |
11. | harp | K. | Shylock | Page 40, N.Y. Review of Books, 12/4/97 |
12. | Oscar | L. | Stephen King | The Shining (pbk., 1997), pp. 316, 317 |
“…while the scientist sees
everything that happens
in one point of space,
the poet feels
everything that happens
in one point of time…
all forming an
instantaneous and transparent
organism of events….”
Part III:
The Bourne Shell
“The binary program of the Bourne shell or a compatible program is located at /bin/sh on most Unix systems, and is still the default shell for the root superuser on many current Unix implementations.” –Wikipedia
See also
the recent comments
of root@matrix.net in
Peter Woit’s weblog.
“Hey, Carrie-Anne,
what’s your game now….”
— The Hollies, 1967
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