In memory of Charlie Watts . . .
See as well Hicks Nix Styx Pix.
Sunday, October 15, 2023
For Broomsday Eve
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Wednesday, December 14, 2022
Bloomsday Meets Broomsday . . .
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Sunday, October 16, 2022
For Broomsday: Turning Eight
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Sunday, September 3, 2017
Broomsday Revisited
Ivars Peterson in 2000 on a sort of conceptual art —
" Brill has tried out a variety of grid-scrambling transformations
to see what happens. Aesthetic sensibilities govern which
transformation to use, what size the rectangular grid should be,
and which iteration to look at, he says. 'Once a fruitful
transformation, rectangle size, and iteration number have been
found, the artist is in a position to create compelling imagery.' "
— "Scrambled Grids," August 28, 2000
Or not.
If aesthetic sensibilities lead to a 23-cycle on a 4×6 grid, the results
may not be pretty —
From "Geometry of the 4×4 Square."
See a Log24 post, Noncontinuous Groups, on Broomsday 2009.
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Saturday, October 21, 2023
Thursday, October 12, 2023
Hot Snakes
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Tuesday, November 1, 2022
Saturday, June 26, 2021
Critical Space Theory: The Three Stooges at Harvard
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Thursday, December 3, 2020
Brick Joke
The "bricks" in posts tagged Octad Group suggest some remarks
from last year's HBO "Watchmen" series —
Related material — The two bricks constituting a 4×4 array, and . . .
"(this is the famous Kummer abstract configuration )"
— Igor Dolgachev, ArXiv, 16 October 2019.
As is this —
.
The phrase "octad group" does not, as one might reasonably
suppose, refer to symmetries of an octad (a "brick"), but
instead to symmetries of the above 4×4 array.
A related Broomsday event for the Church of Synchronology —
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Tuesday, February 26, 2019
Axis of Anti-Evil?
"ACTUALLY HAPPENED!"
Wolff reportedly did on Sunday, Feb. 17.
For the Church of Synchronology —
Log24 posts on the reported date of Wolff's death.
Related Log24 post — Good News and Bad News.
Wolff himself, in a weblog post of Oct. 16, 2017,*
had some trenchant comments on religion . . .
See "How Odd of God." (See as well today's midnight
post in this journal, "Ghost in the Shell.")
* "Broomsday." See also Log24 posts on that date.
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Thursday, October 4, 2018
Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Broom Bridge*
The Hamilton watch from "Interstellar" (2014) —
On the above date — Nov. 17, 2016 —
* See posts tagged Broomsday 2014.
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Thursday, October 16, 2014
Seeking Kleos
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, quoted in a webpage dated
October 7, 2014 (presumably according to Australian time):
"For the Athenians, kleos mattered more than anything,
according to Goldstein.
'Kleos is fame: it’s the deed that brings fame, it’s the poem
that sings your triumphs, it’s having your life replicated in
other minds, acquiring a kind of moreness, a kind of
secular immortality.' "
Related material:
A check of Goldstein's definition…
… and an image for Broomsday:
From Argument for the Existence of Rebecca (Feb. 6, 2010)
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Broom Bridge Day
Wikipedia on Broom (or Broome, or Brougham) Bridge,
where on 16 October 1843 Hamilton discovered quaternions:
"The 16 October is sometimes referred to as
Broomsday (in reference to Broome Bridge)
and as a nod to the literary commemorations
on 16 June (Bloomsday in honour of James Joyce)."
See also, in this journal, The Craft.
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