“Plan 9 deals with the resurrection of the dead.”
* See the previous post‘s link to the phrase
“Turn on, tune in, drop dead.”
Wednesday, August 26, 2020
Plan 9 from Prescott Street*
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Tuesday, May 14, 2019
Surrealistic Pillow Talk
"Plan 9 deals with the resurrection of the dead."
"When the men on the chessboard
get up and tell you where to go . . ."
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Wednesday, June 24, 2015
Scoring Plan 9
In keeping with the resurrection themes of the
previous post and of "Plan 9 from Outer Space,"
here is a link to the soundtrack of "Field of Dreams."
Related material:
A post of March 11, 2014, on
truth, cornfields, and Rebecca Goldstein —
Dark Fields of the Republic.
R.I.P., James Horner.
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Up to Date
"Plato's cave was brought up to date in 1978…."
— Keith Devlin in Mathematics: The Science of Patterns
Related material from yesterday: Touchy-Feely and Plan 9.
"Plan 9 deals with the resurrection of the dead."
For a rather different approach to Plato, see three posts of August 16, 2012—
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Thursday, October 13, 2011
Now, Here’s My Plan
"Plan 9 is an operating system kernel but also a collection of accompanying software."
— Webpage pointed out by the late Dennis Ritchie,
father of the programming language C
and co-developer of Unix, who reportedly died on October 8.
From Ritchie's own home page—
"A brief biography, in first person instead of obituary style."
From that biography—
"Today, as a manager of a small group of researchers, I promote exploration of distributed operating systems, languages, and routing/switching hardware. The recent accomplishments of this group include the Plan 9 operating system…."
Another operating system is that of Alfred Bester.
My laptop now includes his classic The Stars My Destination ,
downloaded this morning…
Not much compared to Widener Library (see this morning's Lost Cornerstone),
but sufficient for present purposes…
"Simple jaunt." — "The Comedian as the Letter C"
See also Plan 9 from Outer Space in this journal.
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Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Cannes Bangs
24 Frames
MOVIES: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE (LA Times )
"But what feels like standard movie exposition quickly takes
a sharp turn when we're feted with about 20 minutes of the
elemental and cosmic footage that's been making all the
headlines. At first it looks like it could be a depiction of heaven
or hell, but it soon becomes clear that it's a story of creation—
or of Creation, as some iteration of the Big Bang unfolds
before our eyes."
— "Cannes 2011: What Terrence Malick's 'The Tree of Life'
Is Actually About," by Steven Zeitchik of the LA Times
Hannibal Pictures
THE BIG BANG (Click for Cannes details.)
See Peter Woit's review from Sunday.
The generic 3×3 HannibalPictures.com
favicon has an apt connotation—
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Monday, December 13, 2010
Plan 9 Revisited
Leading today's New York Times obituaries —
— is that of Nassos Daphnis, a painter of geometric abstractions
who in 1995 had an exhibition at a Leo Castelli gallery
titled "Energies in Outer Space." (See pictures here.)
Daphnis died, according to the Times, on November 23.
See Art Object, a post in this journal on that date—
There is more than one way
to look at a cube.
Some context— this morning's previous post (Apollo's 13,
on the geometry of the 3×3×3 cube), yesterday's noon post
featuring the 3×3 square grid (said to be a symbol of Apollo),
and, for connoisseurs of the Ed Wood school of cinematic art,
a search in this journal for the phrase "Plan 9."
You can't make this stuff up.
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Sunday, May 9, 2010
For Miss Prothero (and Dylan Thomas)
Friday’s post “Religion at Harvard” continues…
This list may be of some use to
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, who, like Prothero,
spoke recently at Harvard Book Store.
See also Rosalind Krauss on Grids,
An Education, and Plan 9 from Outer Space.
Readers more advanced than Harvard audiences
may wish to compare yesterday’s linked-to story
“Loo Ree” with the works of Alison Lurie—
in particular, Imaginary Friends and Familiar Spirits.
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Saturday, March 13, 2010
Space Cowboy
From yesterday's Seattle Times—
According to police, employees of a Second Avenue mission said the suspect, clad in black and covered in duct tape, had come into the mission "and threatened to blow the place up." He then told staffers "that he was a vampire and wanted to eat people."
The man… also called himself "a space cowboy"….
This suggests two film titles…
and Apollo's 13—
The 13 symmetry axes of the (Euclidean) cube–
exactly one axis for each pair of opposite
subcubes in the (Galois) 3×3×3 cube–
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