Friday, April 25, 2025
Thursday, April 3, 2025
Efficient Packing*
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Sunday, June 18, 2023
Friday, December 4, 2020
Here’s to Efficient Packing!
"Rock music from car . . ."
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Friday, April 25, 2025
Review
A 7:10 AM obituary in the online New York Times this morning, along with
the "efficient packing" phrase in a previous (6:57 AM) post, suggests a
review . . .
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Thursday, April 10, 2025
A Century for Gatsby
The shape of the church in today's "But Seriously" post
is not unlike the 1988 rocket shape below . . .
https://www.atariuptodate.de/img/kidshapes.png —
"Here's to efficient packing."
The rocket and chess images are from a post of November 23. 2024.
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Saturday, November 23, 2024
The Square Aspect (vs. Stevens’s “Radial* Aspect”)
"New horizons open up." — New York Times, Nov. 21, 1924.
A search for some such 96-square division yields . . .
https://www.atariuptodate.de/img/kidshapes.png —
"Here's to efficient packing."
* See as well radial vs. square aspects in a post on Mackey's classic
Harmonic Analysis as the Exploitation of Symmetry.
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Wednesday, January 3, 2024
White Space
Hat tip to Instagram's @slightlystable for some colorful background
today on Venice Beach Kundalini. Related reading —
A synchronology check on the above WWD date,
Aug. 4, 2021, yields some related art —
"Here's to efficient packing."
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Saturday, June 3, 2023
Gesamtkunstwerk for Wagner
In memory of set designer Robin Wagner, winner of three
Tony awards, who reportedly died at 89 on May 29 —
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From Log24 on May 29
"When the men on the chessboard Don't take the Brown acid!
Sunday, May 28, 2023
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See as well Chess Set and Efficient Packing.
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Sunday, December 11, 2022
Wednesday, December 1, 2021
“Show Details” — Art Pallets
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Saturday, September 4, 2021
Number, Time, and Dan Brown*
The title is a nod to the book Number and Time ( not by Dan Brown ).
An illustration —
This journal 10 years ago today —
"Dan Brown certainly packed a lot into
the 500-plus pages of The Lost Symbol ."
That sentence suggests a review of Efficient Packing .
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Wednesday, August 4, 2021
“Old men ought to be explorers” — T. S. Eliot
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Friday, December 4, 2020
German Lesson: Untergang
The recent posts "Bunker Bingo" and "Here's to Efficient Packing!"
suggest a review.
Alex Ross in The New Yorker on Dec. 2, 2020, on the German
word "Untergang " —
"The usual translation is 'downfall,' although
the various implications of the word—
literally, “going-under”—are difficult to capture
in English. In some contexts, Untergang simply
means descent: a sunset is a Sonnenuntergang .
Lauren German in a 2005 film —
See as well . . .
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