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Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Iconic Form

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 8:23 pm

“I appreciate simple, iconic and timeless forms —
things that can adapt or serve multiple purposes
and avoid being easily labelled. At the same time,
I love parts and fragments that reveal how things
move or work. Mostly, anything that tells its
own story and isn’t generalized or clad in some
sort of ornamental icing.”

— Charlottesville, VA, architect Fred Wolf, who seems
to have been associated with the business name
“Gauss LLC ” in Charlottesville.

Posts tagged Space Writer include —

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Saturday, October 13, 2018

Location: Endor

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:26 pm

See also Space Writer in this  journal.

Space 101

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:01 pm

Screenshot of a tweet by space writer Shannon Stirone
posted at 10:57 PM ET October 12 —

See also NASA + Wiig.

Stirone has an opinion piece in today's online New York Times  promoting NASA.

Discussing the Hubble Space Telescope, she claims that . . .

"Hubble peers deep into space, patiently collecting the universe’s traveling light,
then delivering it to us in never before seen images: galaxies, supernovas and
nebulae. It is a time machine. And without it we wouldn’t know we are inside
a galaxy that is just one of possibly trillions."

Thursday, April 19, 2018

Something to Behold

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 2:45 pm

From a review of a Joyce Carol Oates novel
at firstthings.com on August 23, 2013 —

"Though the Curse is eventually exorcised,
it is through an act of wit and guile,
not an act of repentance or reconciliation.
And so we may wonder if Oates has put this story
to rest, or if it simply lays dormant. A twenty-first
century eruption of the 'Crosswicks Curse
would be something to behold." [Link added.]

Related material —

A film version of A Wrinkle in Time

The Hamilton watch from "Interstellar" (2014) —

See also a post, Vacant Space, from 8/23/13 (the date
of the above review), and posts tagged Space Writer.

Thursday, April 5, 2018

Easter Fantasy

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

From this journal at midnight (12 AM ET) on April 4

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From the weblog of Ready Player One  author Ernest Cline —

"Recently, a lot of people have asked me if a real person
inspired the character of James Halliday, the eccentric
billionaire video game designer in my book. Steve Jobs
and Steve Wozniak are both mentioned in the text,
because their world changing partnership inspired the
relationship between James Halliday and Ogden Morrow,
with Morrow being a charismatic tech industry leader like
Jobs, and Halliday being the computer geek genius of the
duo like Woz. But the character of James Halliday was
inspired by two other very different people.

As I told Wired magazine earlier this year, from the
beginning, I envisioned James Halliday’s personality as
a cross between Howard Hughes and Richard Garriott.
If I had to break it down mathematically, I’d estimate that
about 15% of Halliday’s character was inspired by
Howard Hughes (the crazy reclusive millionaire part), with
most of the other 85% being inspired by Richard Garriott."

Mrs.  Garriott

See as well Log24 posts tagged "Space Writer"
and the classic tune "Midnight at the Oasis."

Wednesday, March 7, 2018

Excited

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 5:48 pm

"How do you  get young people excited about space?"

— Megan Garber in The Atlantic , Aug. 16, 2012

The above quote is from this  journal  on 9/11, 2014.

Related material —

Synchronology for the above date — 9/11, 2014 —

A BuzzFeed article with that date, and in reply

"A Personal Statement from Michael Shermer" with that date.

Monday, February 8, 2016

Space Reporter

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:45 pm

See also "The Martian" posts and a post from
the reported date of Cooper's death.

Backstory:  Posts tagged Space Writer.

Thursday, September 11, 2014

Oh, Moon of Alabama

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:09 am

The mention of Gauss in today's previous post, along with
recent news, suggested this post.

"How do you  get young people excited about space?"

— Megan Garber in The Atlantic , Aug. 16, 2012

Further details:  Child Buyers (July 16, 2013).

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