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Tuesday, February 6, 2024

Summer Knowledge  in Winter

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 7:30 pm

For Taylor Swift

"I love those Bavarians." — Don Henley, "The Garden of Allah"

Thursday, June 3, 2021

Staats-Oper

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:40 pm

Arthur Staats, the very influential psychologist who
established the practice of "time out" for naughty
children, reportedly "died at 97 on April 26
at his home in Oahu, Hawaii." 

The New York Times  says this evening that 

"Dr. Staats’s legacy was reflected by
the license plate of his silver BMW —

TYM-OUT . . . ."

Related material —

"I love those Bavarians … So meticulous."
— The Devil, according to Don Henley

Sunday, October 16, 2016

Sunday Dinner

Filed under: General — m759 @ 2:00 pm

"I love those Bavarians." — Don Henley, "The Garden of Allah"

See also a BBC story from March 11, 2005, and Log24 on that date.

Thursday, July 2, 2015

Shema Cartier*

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:00 pm

Woody as Figaro

* For the title, see a search for Inside Man .


Related material: The co-editor of The Architecture of Modern Mathematics

"I love those Bavarians."

Saturday, June 6, 2015

Heisenberg

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:09 am

"I love those Bavarians."

Saturday, May 24, 2014

Lyric Intelligence

Filed under: General — m759 @ 3:33 pm

(Continued from previous post, Clue)

IMAGE- Illustration of Don Henley's BMW quote 'I love those Bavarians... So meticulous'

The quoted lyric is not by Elliot Rodger, but rather by
Don Henley in his 1995 album “Actual Miles: Henley’s Greatest Hits.”

See also some related Hollywood notes.

Update of 6:30 PM ET on May 24:

LA Times  opinion piece of May 19, 2014 —

“At UC Santa Barbara, the student government
has formally requested that professors provide
trigger warnings on their syllabuses.”

See also an laist  introduction to an LA Times  transcript
of a frightening Santa Barbara “trigger warning” video .
The introduction is itself a trigger warning —

“… the LA Times  has a transcript, although we
warn that the content is truly disturbing.”

Friday, March 4, 2011

Oh, When the Saints…

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 7:59 am

In memory of John Miner

March First

NY Times obits index: Jane Russell and Peter J. Gomes

See also
Venus at St. Anne's.

Related symbols:

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http://www.log24.com/log/pix11/110304-MathChurchSm.gif

AMS logo—Note resemblance
to Harvard's Memorial Church.

Click on pictures for details.

This morning's LA Times —

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11/110304-LATobitsSm.jpg

Related remarks —

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Thursday October 30, 2008

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 12:25 pm

Readings for
Devil’s Night

Pope Benedict XVI, formerly the modern equivalent of The Grand Inquisitor

1. Today’s New York Times  review
of Peter Brook’s production of
“The Grand Inquisitor”
2. Mathematics and Theology
3. Christmas, 2005
4. Cube Space, 1984-2003

Friday, September 19, 2008

Friday September 19, 2008

Filed under: General — m759 @ 2:02 am
Toward the Light

O dark dark dark
They all go into the dark
Four Quartets  

This morning’s NY Times obituaries:

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NY Times obituaries, Sept. 19, 2008, starring Norman Whitfield

I love those Bavarians…
so meticulous
.”

Marvin Gaye sings 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine'

Related material:

Church of the Forbidden Planet,

Campaign Song,

At the Apollo.

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Wednesday April 18, 2007

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:00 pm
Vigil

Candlelight vigil at Virginia Tech, April 17, 2007

Andrew Russell, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Candlelight vigil at Virginia Tech,
Tuesday, April 17, 2007

VA lottery April 17, 2007: Day 826, Night 102.

Virginia Lottery, Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Candlelight Vigil, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

“I love those Bavarians… so meticulous.”

— “In the Garden of Allah

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