"What were you expecting to see in here, Meeno?"
Wednesday, June 14, 2017
Saturday, November 12, 2016
Monday, November 16, 2015
Good Question.
YouTube —
Uploaded on Sep 17, 2009
Who'll love the devil?…
Who'll sing his song?…
Who will love the devil and his song?…
"The pictures are understood to have been taken
just a few minutes before three gunmen burst into
the venue at 9.40pm (8.40pm GMT) as the
Californian rock band were launching into one of
their favourites, Kiss The Devil."
Read more: DailyMail.com.
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Monday, December 1, 2014
Good Question
"A friend asked why I am saying kaddish.
A good question."
— Kaddish , by Leon Wieseltier, Chapter One
Scarlett Johansson
and Natalie Portman
See Scarlett in Lucy …
Barry Rudd at the end of John Hersey's
1960 novel The Child Buyer :
"Fascinating to be a specimen,
truly fascinating. Do you suppose
I really can develop an I.Q. of
over a thousand?"
… and Natalie in Black Swan .
Midrash :
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"12:30 pm we leave for the historic
Princeton Cemetery on Witherspoon and
Paul Robson Streets to assemble for
a service and burial at 2:00 pm."
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Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Good Question
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Sunday, December 29, 2013
Good Question
Amy Adams in the new film “Her” —
“You’re dating an OS? What is that like?”
— Question quoted in a Hollywood Reporter
story on the film’s second trailer
From the same story, by Philiana Ng —
” The trailer is set to Arcade Fire’s
mid-tempo ballad ‘Supersymmetry.’ “
Parts of an answer for Amy —
Nov. 26, 2012, as well as
Dec. 24, 2013, and
The Hollywood Reporter story is from Dec. 3, 2013.
See also that date in this journal.
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Sunday, December 3, 2023
Sunday Morning
A scene from "Charade" (1963) introduced by Jane Pauley today
at the beginning of "CBS Sunday Morning" —
Good question. Also on June 16, 2011 —
Thursday, June 16, 2011
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"Like three sides to the market square and a clock tower on the fourth"
— Nigel Dennis on The Alexandria Quartet .
See as well Star Brick Memories (Feb. 6, 2021).
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Tuesday, February 28, 2023
Robot Love (“Welcome to the new Bing”)
"What is the 16 puzzle?" . . . Good question.
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Monday, February 27, 2023
Wednesday, July 13, 2022
A New Yorker Child’s Progress
A New Yorker writer on why he wanted to
learn mathematics at an advanced age —
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"The challenge, of course, especially in light of the collapsing horizon, since I was sixty-five when I started. Also, I wanted especially to study calculus because I never had. I didn’t even know what it was—I quit math after feeling that with Algebra II I had pressed my luck as far as I dared. Moreover, I wanted to study calculus because Amie told me that when she was a girl William Maxwell had asked her what she was studying, and when she said calculus he said, 'I loved calculus.' Maxwell would have been about the age I am now. He would have recently retired after forty years as an editor of fiction at The New Yorker , where he had handled such writers as Vladimir Nabokov, Eudora Welty, John Cheever, John Updike, Shirley Hazzard, and J. D. Salinger. When Salinger finished Catcher in the Rye , he drove to the Maxwells’ country house and read it to them on their porch. I grew up in a house on the same country road that Maxwell and his wife, Emily, lived on, and Maxwell was my father’s closest friend."
— Wilkinson, Alec. A Divine Language (p. 5). Published |
See as well two versions of
a very short story, "Turning Nine."
Wilkinson's title is of course deplorable.
Related material: "Night Hunt" in a
Log24 search for the phrase "Good Question."
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Sunday, May 29, 2022
Saturday, November 6, 2021
Query:
"Why is this message in spam?"
Good question.
Image courtesy of Hollywood Jesus:
When you wish upon a star…
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Monday, June 7, 2021
Pullman’s Holy Office
Good question. From Philip Pullman's recent HBO version of
"His Dark Materials," The University of Oxford’s St. Peter’s College:
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Thursday, March 4, 2021
Wednesday, April 1, 2020
Books at Perlego
” How small is the evil that may be safely ignored…? “
— “QBass” at Wikipedia, April 1, 2020
Good question.
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Monday, July 22, 2019
Visual Languages
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Friday, November 10, 2017
The Rogin Gambit
See today's New York Times Rogin obituary.
"What happens next?"
Good question.
See also this journal on November 4.
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Wednesday, September 7, 2016
Grammar and Patterns
"May, / The months [sic ] of understanding" — Wallace Stevens
Saturday, May 21, 2016
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"If pure mathematics does spring from sub-conscious intuitions— already deep-structured as are grammatical patterns in the transformational-generative theory of language?— if the algebraic operation arises from wholly internalized pattern-weaving, how then can it, at so many points, mesh with, correspond to, the material forms of the world?"
— Steiner, George. Grammars of Creation |
Good question.
See Bedtime Story (Sept. 1, 2016).
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Tuesday, August 11, 2015
The XYZ of Being
"The Stone" column in yesterday's New York Times :
"But where, exactly, is the border between
the private exchange of money or gifts
and the impersonal profit-making of the market?"
Good question.
Some background on the market —
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Saturday, August 8, 2015
Raiders of the Lost Windows
"Why is it called Windows 10 and not Windows 9?"
Good question.
See Sunday School (Log24 on June 13, 2010) —
.
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Sunday, October 27, 2013
Days of Future Past
"The Cardinal seemed a little preoccupied today."
The New Yorker , May 13, 2002
See also Log24 , January 8, 2012.
" … Had they deceived us
Or deceived themselves, the quiet-voiced elders,
Bequeathing us merely a receipt for deceit?"
— Four Quartets
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Thursday, June 9, 2011
Page 679
Good question. See also
Chern died on the evening of Friday, Dec. 3, 2004 (Chinese time).
From the morning of that day (also Chinese time)—
i.e. , the evening of the preceding day here— some poetry.
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Friday, October 1, 2010
Volcano Dawn
Estas son las mañanitas
Que cantaba el rey David
Who is she that looketh forth as the morning,
fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?
Good question.
From The Hunchback of Notre Dame :
Un cofre de gran riqueza
Hallaron dentro un pilar,
Dentro del, nuevas banderas
Con figuras de espantar.
A coffer of great richness
In a pillar’s heart they found,
Within it lay new banners,
With figures to astound.
Those who prefer more commercial banners may consult this morning's New York Times.
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Sunday, November 15, 2009
The Dead Shepherd and…
Chinese Boxes
Continued from “The Dead Shepherd,” Jan. 24, 2007…
“James R. Lilley, 81, a longtime CIA operative in Asia who served as ambassador to China during the Tiananmen Square crackdown… died Nov. 12.”
James R. Lilley
From a page linked to here on the date of Lilley’s death:
“… the extraordinary set of nested Chinese boxes that we introduced earlier in this series….”
A seemingly unrelated item in today’s New York Times obituaries index:
This suggests an article on temporal logic at IBM Developer Works, which contains a link to Time-Rover.com.
This in turn leads to…
Shing’s CV at the Naval Postgraduate School affirms the usefulness of temporal logic.
Those who prefer metaphysics may consult the novel Many Dimensions referred to in yesterday’s entries and in “Relativity Blues” (Feb. 20, 2005)–
From Many Dimensions:
“Lord Arglay had a suspicion that the Stone would be purely logical. Yes, he thought, but what, in that sense, were the rules of its pure logic?”
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Friday, March 13, 2009
Friday March 13, 2009
Twisterooni
continued from
March 26, 2006
continued from
March 26, 2006
“When did Wharton School take over?”
— Chris Matthews tonight on “Hardball”
Related material
from the
Harvard school:
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Thursday, July 31, 2008
Thursday July 31, 2008
Symmetry in Review
“Put bluntly, who is kidding whom?”
— Anthony Judge, draft of
“Potential Psychosocial Significance
of Monstrous Moonshine:
An Exceptional Form of Symmetry
as a Rosetta Stone for
Cognitive Frameworks,”
dated September 6, 2007.
Good question.
Also from
September 6, 2007 —
the date of
Madeleine L’Engle‘s death —
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Related material:
1. The performance of a work by
Richard Strauss,
“Death and Transfiguration,”
(Tod und Verklärung, Opus 24)
by the Chautauqua Symphony
at Chautauqua Institution on
July 24, 2008
2. Headline of a music review
in today’s New York Times:
Welcoming a Fresh Season of
Transformation and Death
3. The picture of the R. T. Curtis
Miracle Octad Generator
on the cover of the book
Twelve Sporadic Groups:
4. Freeman Dyson’s hope, quoted by
Gorenstein in 1986, Ronan in 2006,
and Judge in 2007, that the Monster
group is “built in some way into
the structure of the universe.”
5. Symmetry from Plato to
the Four-Color Conjecture
7. Yesterday’s entry,
“Theories of Everything“
Coda:
as a tesseract.“
— Madeleine L’Engle
For a profile of
L’Engle, click on
the Easter eggs.
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Tuesday, January 7, 2003
Tuesday January 7, 2003
Can You See?
I finally got around to watching "Minority Report" on DVD. My favorite part is scene 16, which takes place in a sort of high-tech fantasy park — rather like Hollywood itself. Rufus T. Riley, the hacker who works there, asks Anderton, "You brought a precog… here?" When the reality sinks in, he exclaims "Jesus Christ!," falls to his knees, crosses himself, and asks "Are you reading my mind right now?"
A Brief History of Time
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Time present and time past — T. S. Eliot, "Burnt Norton" |
Anderton and Agatha |
"Is it now?"
Good question, Agatha.
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