Log24

A sketch, adapted from Girl Scouts of Palo Alto —

Click the sketch for further details.

Season 2 Teaser of "The Peripheral" —

Non-fiction —

I did not attempt a solution of the above red-dot problem, but others
have done some related work —

Vide  https://www.quora.com/Is-it-possible-to-construct-a-straight-line-
through-a-point-on-a-circle-that-is-perpendicular-to-that-circles-diameter-
with-the-Euclidean-straightedge-alone/log .

Some related Log24 remarks: "The Dotted Line," Sept. 21, 2021.

"Ignore the red dot, for it is an illusion."

♫   "Red and Yellow, Blue and Green"

The New York Times  reports  a Sept. 20 death —

See also Red Dot Problems from the date of Codevilla's death.

"Sign (Just sign) the dotted line (The dotted line)"

— Song lyric by Labrinth

See as well "Child Buyer" in this journal.

Addendum for Mean Girls —

The "dotted line" lyric by Labrinth was suggested by 
last night's post Red Dot Problems —

Types of Ambiguity

1.  Oscar: military phonetic for the letter 'O'

2.  "… this symbol among the Greeks was more circle than dot, but among those in India, more dot than circle."

— Robert Kaplan, The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero

3.  A bindi is an auspicious mark worn by young girls and women. Bindi is derived from bindu, the Sanskrit word for dot.  It is usually a red dot made with vermilion powder which is worn by women between their eyebrows on their forehead.  Considered a symbol of Goddess Parvati, a bindi signifies female energy….

— Indian Customs & Traditions

4.  Sometimes I feel so reckless and wild
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
I gave nobody life, I am nobody's wife
And I seem to be nobody's daughter
So red is the color that I like the best
It's your Indian skin and the badge
On my chest
The heat of my pride
The lips of a bride
The sad heart of the truth
And the flag of youth
And blood that is thicker than water

— Shawn Colvin of Vermillion, SD,
    "The Story" lyrics

5.  Hamlet  Do you think I meant country matters?
Ophelia  I think nothing, my lord.
Hamlet  That's a fair thought to lie between maid's legs.
Ophelia  What is, my lord?
Hamlet   Nothing.

6.  Macbeth  "…. a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."

7.  Enter a Messenger.