Thursday, May 20, 2021
Tuesday, July 19, 2016
Monday, March 3, 2014
Saturday, February 2, 2013
Outside the Box
In memory of the late Ed Koch,
a poem and a link:
Poem — "The Shoebox," by Sheila Gogol
Link — Sheila in this journal
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Sunday, June 10, 2012
Outside the Box*
Lee Marvin in the 1983 film Gorky Park
For related material, see yesterday's post on Nietzsche's
Birth of Tragedy and a May 27, 2010, post— Masks .
The link to the Masks post was suggested by four things:
- Tonight's Tony Awards
- A speech dated May 27, 2010 (the Masks date)—
"Russia— Getting It Right the First Time" - The name of the organization on whose website
the speech appears— Tertium Datur - Tertium Datur in this journal—
* The title is in memory of business writer Mike Hammer.
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Friday, May 21, 2021
Thinking Outside . . .
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Friday, February 24, 2017
Getting It Right
From a webpage linked to here in the post
"Outside the Box" (June 10, 2012).
"… the good news is that there are companies that do
get it right in the Russian market, even on the first try."
— Chris Crowl, director of operations at TD International,
in a speech of 27 May 2010, "Russia: Getting It Right
the First Time." The quote is from a webpage that is
no longer online.
The above figure, Russian mathematician Igor Shafarevich,
reportedly died on Feb. 19, 2017. (See remarks in a Feb. 22 post
by Peter Woit at Not Even Wrong .)
An old post revisited here on Feb. 19, 2017, Shafarevich's
reported date of death —
Related material —
Hollywood Easter Egg (Groundhog Day, 2017).
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Saturday, July 30, 2016
Strange Humor
The title refers to the previous post.
Recommended reading:
From the above review —
"His book is the box; he himself is Maxwell's demon."
See also "Outside the Box" in this journal.
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Monday, June 27, 2016
Some Prefer Women …
Outside the Box (as opposed to the Eve of "Interiors").
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Tuesday, November 17, 2015
Meditation on an Icon
Note the "share icon" at top right of the first image
in the previous post:
This suggests a review of the phrase "Outside the Box"
in this journal. An image from that review:
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Friday, July 4, 2014
Knockout
(Continued from yesterday’s noon post, from “Block That Metaphor,”
and from “Mystery Box III: Inside, Outside“)
“In one corner are the advocates of the Common Core,
led by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which
helped develop the standards and has defended them
against efforts by some states to roll them back. In the
challengers’ corner, a lineup of foundations and
philanthropists…. Other funders in the opponents’ corner
read like a ‘who’s who’ of well-heeled conservative
philanthropists, including Pittsburgh media magnate
Richard Mellon Scaife….”
— “Meet the Funders Fighting the Common Core,”
from Inside Philanthropy , Feb. 10, 2014
Scaife reportedly died this morning.
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Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Speedtalk
"… in Speedtalk it was… difficult not to be logical."
— Robert A. Heinlein in Gulf
Related material: ABC TV at 9 PM ET
on Sunday, March 9, 2014… 3/09.
See also page 309 in the previous post, Outside the Box.
Shades of Plan 9.
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Monday, February 10, 2014
Mystery Box III: Inside, Outside
(Continued from Mystery Box, Feb. 4, and Mystery Box II, Feb. 5.)
The Box
Inside the Box
Outside the Box
For the connection of the inside notation to the outside geometry,
see Desargues via Galois.
(For a related connection to curves and surfaces in the outside
geometry, see Hudson's classic Kummer's Quartic Surface and
Rosenhain and Göpel Tetrads in PG(3,2).)
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Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Mystery Box II
Continued from previous post and from Sept. 8, 2009.
Examination of the box's contents does not solve
the contents' real mystery. That requires knowledge
of the non-Euclidean geometry of Galois space.
In this case, without that knowledge, prattle (as in
today's online New York Times ) about creativity and
"thinking outside the box" is pointless.
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Saturday, February 2, 2013
Mad Day
A perceptive review of Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life—
"Page 185: 'Whatever else we are, we are also mad.' "
Related material— last night's Outside the Box and, from Oct. 22 last year—
"Some designs work subtly.
Others are successful through sheer force."
Par exemple—
See also Cartier in this journal.
The Cartier link leads to, among other things…
“A Mad Day’s Work: From Grothendieck to Connes and Kontsevich.
The Evolution of Concepts of Space and Symmetry,”
by Pierre Cartier, Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society ,
Vol. 38 (2001) No. 4, pages 389-408
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Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Friday, September 5, 2008
Friday September 5, 2008
For Mike Hammer
Block That Metaphor
“Michael Hammer, an engineer and author on management who helped popularize the ‘re-engineering’ movement in the 1990s, died Thursday [Sept. 4, 2008].
A spokesman for Mr. Hammer’s consulting firm, Hammer and Co., said Mr. Hammer died from cranial bleeding that began Aug. 22 while he was vacationing in Massachusetts. He was 60 years old.
Mr. Hammer was the co-author of the bestselling management book Reengineering the Corporation and founder and president of Hammer and Co., Cambridge, Mass.”
“An engineer by training, Hammer focused on the operational nuts and bolts of business.
Hammer’s relentless pursuit of ‘why?’ drove his entire career. ‘My modus operandi is simple,’ he once wrote, ‘though not always easy to carry out. I take nothing at face value. I approach all business issues and practices with the same skepticism: Why?’
A funeral will be held at 9:30 a.m. Friday, Sept. 5 in Stanetsky Memorial Chapel, 1668 Beacon St., Brookline. Interment will follow at the Shaarei Tefillah Section of the Chevra Shaas Cemetery at Baker Street Jewish Cemeteries in West Roxbury.”
Related material:
From today:Outside the Box
“I need a photo opportunity,
I want a shot at redemption.
Don’t want to end up a cartoon
In a cartoon graveyard…”
— Paul Simon
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Thursday, May 22, 2008
Thursday May 22, 2008
The Undertaking:
An Exercise in
Conceptual Art
An Exercise in
Conceptual Art
Hexagram 54:
THE JUDGMENT
THE JUDGMENT
Undertakings bring misfortune.
Nothing that would further.
“Brian O’Doherty, an Irish-born artist,
before the [Tuesday, May 20] wake
of his alter ego* ‘Patrick Ireland’
on the grounds of the
Irish Museum of Modern Art.”
— New York Times, May 22, 2008
THE IMAGE
Thus the superior man
understands the transitory
in the light of
the eternity of the end.
Another version of
the image:
See 2/22/08
and 4/19/08.
Related material:
Michael Kimmelman in today’s New York Times—
“An essay from the ’70s by Mr. O’Doherty, ‘Inside the White Cube,’ became famous in art circles for describing how modern art interacted with the gallery spaces in which it was shown.”
Brian O’Doherty, “Inside the White Cube,” 1976 Artforum essays on the gallery space and 20th-century art:
“The history of modernism is intimately framed by that space. Or rather the history of modern art can be correlated with changes in that space and in the way we see it. We have now reached a point where we see not the art but the space first…. An image comes to mind of a white, ideal space that, more than any single picture, may be the archetypal image of 20th-century art.”
See also Epiphany 2008:
“Nothing that would further.”
— Hexagram 54
|
…. Now thou art an 0 |
“…. in the last mystery of all the single figure of what is called the World goes joyously dancing in a state beyond moon and sun, and the number of the Trumps is done. Save only for that which has no number and is called the Fool, because mankind finds it folly till it is known. It is sovereign or it is nothing, and if it is nothing then man was born dead.”
— The Greater Trumps,
by Charles Williams, Ch. 14
* For a different, Jungian, alter ego, see Irish Fourplay (Jan. 31, 2003) and “Outside the Box,” a New York Times review of O’Doherty’s art (featuring a St. Bridget’s Cross) by Bridget L. Goodbody dated April 25, 2007. See also Log24 on that date.
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