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Friday, August 2, 2024

For Dr. Yen Lo* (and Peter Woit**)

Filed under: General — m759 @ 8:02 am

* https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/20561-days-with-dr-yen-lo/

** See Woit's helpful links from the evening of July 31 —

"The second International Congress of Basic Science
ended a few days ago in Beijing. A huge number of
interesting talks, video and slides available here."

Wednesday, April 3, 2024

For a Dead Playwright (and Dr. Yen Lo):
I Ching Meets Cha-Ching

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:17 am

Amazon order for Here in the Dark: A Novel  by Alexis Soloski,
author of today's New York Times  obituary for a playwright
who reportedly died last night ——

Update at 12:03 PM ET Wednesday — From April 1 . . .

Thursday, February 8, 2024

“All is Number” — Saying attributed to Pythagoras . . .
(and possibly also a favorite saying of Dr. Yen Lo)

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 5:41 am

A note for Dr. Yen Lo

The above saying attributed to Pythagoras, and the above
numbers 4:53:03, suggest a search for 53 03, i.e. for what
happened in March 1953. The reference above to South Korea
suggests a possible focus for that search . . .

Related entertainment for teens . . .

"For someone who don't drive,
  I been all around the world."

— Melanie Safka, song lyric

Wednesday, March 10, 2021

“Always with a little humor.” — Dr. Yen Lo

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:03 pm

David Carradine displays a yellow book-- the Princeton I Ching.

Click on the Yellow Book.

Saturday, February 16, 2019

“Always with a little humor” — Dr. Yen Lo

Filed under: General — m759 @ 7:50 pm

Welcome to the Garden Club, Pilgrim

http://www.log24.com/log/pix08/080520-GardenClub2.jpg

"Program or be programmed."

Friday, August 2, 2024

For Olympic Dinghy Day (vide Google Doodle):
“Life’s Spiritual Dimension” — Templeton phrase

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 9:30 am

Templeton reportedly died on Saturday, May 16, 2015.

That date was also the release date for . . .

Days with Dr. Yen Lo.


For a Templeton I actually respect , see a
Warren (PA) Times Observer  obituary.

Wednesday, April 3, 2024

Aesthetics from The New York Times :
“High Art and Low Humor”

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:31 am

Report of a Tuesday death:

For another such mixture, see yesterday's posts
now also tagged Art Humor.

"Always with a little humor." — Dr. Yen Lo

Monday, February 26, 2024

Outpost Vegas… Continues.

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 3:26 am

From this journal on February 8, 2024 —

A note for Dr. Yen Lo

The Metadata —

Saturday, February 24, 2024

Saturday Night Live:  The Full Snow Moon

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 10:20 pm

New from Harlan Kane:

The Wittenborn Date

"Always with a little humor." — Dr. Yen Lo

Tuesday, May 4, 2021

Annals of Advertising: May Tag

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:51 pm

Eames in Inception , about planting an idea—

“It’s not just about depth.
You need the simplest version of the idea,
the one that will grow naturally
in the subject’s mind.
It’s a very subtle art.”

The above quote is from this journal on Jan. 9, 2014,
a date suggested by the New York Times  business section:

“Always with a little humor.” — Dr. Yen Lo

Thursday, March 16, 2017

Hexagram 64 in Context

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 10:22 pm

"Always with a little humor." — Dr. Yen Lo

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Our Most Important Product

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:45 am

Hexagram 35:
Progress

"Then came a 'Robot Psychologist,' known as a Psychological Matrix Rotator,
developed for the Department of Defense. It is still used to literally 'see' that
the right man gets the right Army job."

Ronald Reagan, 1961 GE Sales Meeting

"Always with a little humor." — Yen Lo

In memory of Dr. Irving Peress,
who reportedly died on Thursday,
November 13, 2014.

Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Through a Mirror, Darkly

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:26 pm

Review of a book first published in 1989—

Reality's Mirror: Exploring the Mathematics of Symmetry —

"Here is a book that explains in laymen language
what symmetry is all about, from the lowliest snowflake
and flounder to the lofty group structures whose
astonishing applications to the Old One are winning
Nobel prizes. Bunch's book is a marvel of clear, witty
science writing, as delightful to read as it is informative
and up-to-date. The author is to be congratulated on
a job well done." — Martin Gardner

A completely different person whose name
mirrors that of the Mathematics of Symmetry  author —

IMAGE- Daily Princetonian, Dec. 23, 2013

See also this  journal on the date mentioned in the Princetonian .

"Always with a little humor." — Yen Lo

Monday, February 21, 2011

Another Manic Monday

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:48 am

"The curriculum begins with a game called Winding Around Positions.
There are twelve stations that could represent hours on a clock
or the Chinese years zodiac."

— The current (March 2011) Notices of the American Mathematical Society

Background — "Winding Games" (pdf, 1.43 MB)—

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11/110221-ChineseZodiac.jpg

For the not-too-tightly wound —

“Always with a little humor.” – Dr. Yen Lo  (See The China Candidate and Humorism)

We are now at the Year of the Rabbit

(Click images for sources.)

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11/110221-DarkoRabbitSm.jpg IMAGE- Scene from a film based on the old SF story 'Mimsy Were the Borogoves'

Monday, March 9, 2009

Monday March 9, 2009

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 12:00 pm

Humorism

'The Manchurian Candidate' campaign button

"Always with a
little humor."
Dr. Yen Lo  

Diamond diagram of the four humors, the four qualities, the four elements, the four seasons, and four colors

From Temperament: A Brief Survey

For other interpretations
of the above shape, see
The Illuminati Diamond.

from Jung's Aion:

"From the circle and quaternity motif is derived the symbol of the geometrically formed crystal and the wonder-working stone. From here analogy formation leads on to the city, castle, church, house, room, and vessel. Another variant is the wheel. The former motif emphasizes the ego’s containment in the greater dimension of the self; the latter emphasizes the rotation which also appears as a ritual circumambulation. Psychologically, it denotes concentration on and preoccupation with a centre…." –Jung, Collected Works, Vol. 9, Part II, paragraph 352

 

As for rotation, see the ambigrams in Dan Brown's Angels & Demons (to appear as a film May 15) and the following figures:

Diamond Theory version of 'The Square Inch Space' with yin-yang symbol for comparison
 
Click on image
for a related puzzle.
For a solution, see
 The Diamond Theorem.

 

A related note on
"Angels & Demons"
director Ron Howard:

Director Ron Howard with illustration of the fictional discipline 'symbology'
 
Click image for details.

 

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Tuesday May 20, 2008

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:00 pm

The China Candidate

In honor of the 100th birthday of actor James Stewart,
Turner Classic Movies is now showing
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.

In light of an ABC News story tonight,
Report: U.S. Soldiers Did 'Dirty Work' for Chinese Interrogators,
the following film seems more relevant:

Welcome to the Garden Club, Pilgrim

http://www.log24.com/log/pix08/080520-GardenClub2.jpg

Related material:

The Dictatorship of Talent, by David Brooks
in The New York Times of December 4, 2007—

"When you talk to Americans, you find that they have all these weird notions about Chinese communism. You try to tell them that China isn’t a communist country anymore. It’s got a different system: meritocratic paternalism. You joke: Imagine the Ivy League taking over the shell of the Communist Party and deciding not to change the name. Imagine the Harvard Alumni Association with an army."

— and Harvard mathematician

Professor Yau of Harvard

See also Sylvia Nasar's 2006 New Yorker article on Yau
and the screenplay of The Manchurian Candidate:

A long pause.
Finally, Yen Lo laughs.

YEN LO With humor, my dear Zilkov.
Always with a little humor.

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