Thursday, December 26, 2013
Boxing Day
Wednesday, August 21, 2024
Annals of Symbology:
For a New York Times Pilot Fish*
From other posts now tagged Dark Symbol —
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.
* See Hemingway on pilot fish and an Instagram post
from Boxing Day, 2016.
For a New York Times Pilot Fish*
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
The Unboxing
Above: Episode 2 of "3 Body Problem" on Netflix. This suggests
a review of the phrase "Set the controls for the heart of the sun."
That phrase appeared here in a post of Wednesday, March 6.
Related material from Boxing Day, 2016 —
"Who knows, really…" — Perhaps James Joyce.
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Old News Revisited
Thursday, May 8, 2014
Like a Bee
From a Log24 search for “Boxing Day“—
(Click image for some commentary.)
From The New York Times —
“An obituary on Dec. 27 about John Diebold,
a businessman and engineer who helped shape
modern industrial development in America,
misstated a business venture of John Diebold Inc.,
an investment firm he founded in 1967. It did
not finance Diebold Election Systems, a maker of
polling machines that, despite its name, has no
connection to John Diebold.”
Related material:
Synchronicity and this journal on the date of the correction.
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Getting with the Program
Stanley Fish in The New York Times yesterday evening—
From the MLA program Fish discussed—
Above: An MLA session, “Defining Form,” led
by Colleen Rosenfeld of Pomona College
An example from Pomona College in 1968—
The same underlying geometries (i.e., “form”) may be modeled with
a square figure and a cubical figure rather than with the triangular
figures of 1968 shown above.
See Finite Geometry of the Square and Cube.
Those who prefer a literary approach to form may enjoy the recent post As Is.
(For some context, see Game of Shadows.)
Friday, July 6, 2007
Friday July 6, 2007
(see last 3 entries)–
11:07:02 PM:
Sex and Art
in a
Chinese Poem
See also the entries
of St. Stephen’s Day
(Boxing Day), 2006.
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Tuesday December 26, 2006
Today in History
by The Associated Press:
Today is Tuesday, Dec. 26, the 360th day of 2006. There are five days left in the year. The seven-day African-American holiday Kwanzaa begins today. This is Boxing Day.
Tuesday, December 27, 2005
Tuesday December 27, 2005
John Diebold
Diebold died yesterday,
Boxing Day:
From Rand Careaga,
The Diebold Variations
Click on the above
for related posters.
Related material
from June 2005:
and
“Visionary”
Monday, December 26, 2005
Monday December 26, 2005
Boxing Day
In the box-style I Ching
Hexagram 34,
The Power of the Great,
is represented by
.
Art is represented
by a box
(Hexagram 20,
Contemplation, View)
.
And of course
great art
is represented by
an X in a box.
(Hexagram 2,
The Receptive)
.
“… as a Chinese jar still
Moves perpetually
in its stillness”
“… at the still point,
there the dance is.”
— T. S. Eliot
 A Jungian on this six-line figure: “They are the same six lines that exist in the I Ching…. Now observe the square more closely: four of the lines are of equal length, the other two are longer…. For this reason symmetry cannot be statically produced and a dance results.” |
For those who prefer
technology to poetry,
there is the Xbox 360.
(Today is day 360 of 2005.)