See also "R We D8ing?" and related posts.
For the Church of Synchronology —
See as well this journal on the above lecture date: April 4, 2018,
in other posts now also tagged D8.
Update of 11:22 PM ET Jan. 13, 2020 —
Note the Christmas Eve date, and compare and contrast with the previous post.
“There has never since been any serious question
that the event from which to date the founding of
Harvard College is this vote on October 28, 1636.”
— Samuel Eliot Morison, The Founding of Harvard College
See also D8ing the Joystick (4/04 2018).
Or: "Show me all the blueprints!"
— A saying attributed to Howard Hughes.
From the Blacklist episode in the previous post, "Date," blueprints
allegedly describing the boiler room in the Denver Mint —
Note the Thrust/Translation Controller Assembly (TTCA) at upper left
and the Attitude Controller Assembly (ACA) at lower right.
A NASA publication dated April 1, 1971, illustrates the Attitude Controller —
Krysten Ritter was born more than ten years later, in 1981.
For more on Attitude Control, see Boiler Room in this journal.
(A sequel to D8ing the Joystick)
Adam Gopnik today in The New Yorker —
“In remote therapy sessions, with the loss of familiarly structured
therapeutic spaces, a kind of staring contest takes place.”
This journal on the above YouTube date — May 28, 2011 —
“Two things of opposite natures seem to depend
On one another, as a man depends
On a woman, day on night, the imagined
On the real. This is the origin of change.
Winter and spring, cold copulars, embrace
And forth the particulars of rapture come.”
— Wallace Stevens,
“Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction,”
Canto IV of “It Must Change”
Update of 5:45 PM ET —
The above May 28, 2011, Stevens quotation is from a post
titled “Savage Detectives.” A related image starring Sean Young —
“The key is the cocktail that begins the proceedings.”
– Brian Harley, Mate in Two Moves
“Just as these lines that merge to form a key
Are as chess squares . . . .” — Katherine Neville, The Eight
“The complete projective group of collineations and dualities of the
[projective] 3-space is shown to be of order [in modern notation] 8! ….
To every transformation of the 3-space there corresponds
a transformation of the [projective] 5-space. In the 5-space, there are
determined 8 sets of 7 points each, ‘heptads’ ….”
— George M. Conwell, “The 3-space PG (3, 2) and Its Group,”
The Annals of Mathematics , Second Series, Vol. 11, No. 2 (Jan., 1910),
pp. 60-76.
“It must be remarked that these 8 heptads are the key to an elegant proof….”
— Philippe Cara, “RWPRI Geometries for the Alternating Group A8,” in
Finite Geometries: Proceedings of the Fourth Isle of Thorns Conference
(July 16-21, 2000), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001, ed. Aart Blokhuis,
James W. P. Hirschfeld, Dieter Jungnickel, and Joseph A. Thas, pp. 61-97.
There is also finding purpose through dating —
(from the source code for the above Crimson article)
Related material — D8ing.
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