Some will prefer the stripping of Pristine Edge.
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Devs: Hollywood Development Hell
From The Man Who Knew Infinity to The Man Who Knew Zero.
Related mathematics: The Diamond Theorem Correlation, which
results from interchanging infinity and zero in the figure below.
"Read something that means something."
— New Yorker ad
.
Click image for
related posts.
Background — Relativity Problem in Log24.
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Wednesday, November 22, 2023
For E. Lily Yu* — Devs Setting
Friday, July 11, 2014
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* Author of Jewel Box: Stories ( Erewhon Books, Oct. 24, 2023).
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Sunday, April 30, 2023
DDD for Devs (and Rickman)
For the image at upper left below, see
https://www.google.com/doodles/celebrating-alan-rickman.
On the Rickman domain . . .
See as well "Stella Maris" in this journal.
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Wednesday, March 22, 2023
Tuesday, June 7, 2022
Devs
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Thursday, September 2, 2021
Devs Continues.
" In 2017, Milioti appeared in the fourth season of
the sci-fi anthology show Black Mirror in the episode
"USS Callister" as Nanette Cole, a newly employed
game developer whose digital recreation becomes
trapped in a virtual simulator game.[16] "
16. Strause, Jackie (December 30, 2017).
"'Black Mirror': Cristin Milioti on Battling a "Misogynistic Bully"
in Empowering Space Epic". The Hollywood Reporter.
Retrieved June 22, 2021.
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Thursday, June 18, 2020
Devs Crown
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Thursday, August 29, 2024
Amaya
Scene from a TV series that reportedly reached Anya Taylor-Joy's
childhood home, Argentina, on August 29, 2021 . . .
Clip of Taylor-Joy in a film that opened on Augustine's Day, 2020.
Taylor-Joy is currently streaming in "Furiosa."
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Saturday, November 5, 2022
Under the Bridge, Over the Dam … Whatever.
Bridge
Dam
April 11, 2020, was the dies natalis ,
in the Catholic sense,
of John Horton Conway.
Whatever.
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Saturday, June 26, 2021
Annals of Experimental Theology . . .
See as well . . .
April 11, 2020, was the dies natalis ,
in the Catholic sense,
of John Horton Conway.
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Monday, November 16, 2020
The Garland Modelling
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Monday, September 21, 2020
Zelig-Like?
“On their way to obscurity, the Simulmatics people
played minor parts in major events, appearing Zelig-like
at crucial moments of 1960s history.”
— James Gleick reviewing a new book by Jill Lepore
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Thursday, April 23, 2020
Dead Poet Joke
From the subtitles of the recent Kristen Stewart film “Underwater” —
427
00:30:26,144 –> 00:30:27,476
He’d always say
he had a new joke,
428
00:30:27,478 –> 00:30:29,445
and then he’d tell
the same stupid joke.
429
00:30:29,447 –> 00:30:32,785
I was… laughing at that joke.
430
00:30:34,053 –> 00:30:35,685
Yeah, what was it?
431
00:30:35,687 –> 00:30:38,654
What did the fish say when
it bumped into the brick wall?
April 11 was the dies natalis , in the Catholic sense, of John Horton Conway.
Related material: Other posts containing the phrase “brick wall.”
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Thursday, April 16, 2020
A Four-Color Epic
“A love story of epic, epic, epic proportion” — Kristen Stewart
See also the following letter to Knuth on four-color enthusiast
Spencer-Brown, as well as Tim Robinson on the same subject
in his book My Time in Space .
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Saturday, April 11, 2020
Dream
“All the schools of philosophy, from ancient Greece to the Enlightenment
encyclopedists, have dreamt of one day arriving at total and definitive
knowledge, a knowledge that encompasses the world. Indeed, the dream
lives on in the minds of some scientists today.”
— “Does Basic Research Have Meaning?” by Laurent Lafforgue —
“La recherche fondamentale a-t-elle un sens?
Quelques remarques d’un mathématicien catholique,”
Conférence donnée à l’Université de Notre-Dame,
aux États-Unis, le 20 mai 2011. Voici la version anglaise
de cette conférence (traduite par Hélène Wilkinson)
Et voici Larkin in Devs —
See too “musical brocade” in this journal.
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Monday, April 6, 2020
Friday, March 20, 2020
The Hollywood Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
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Saturday, March 14, 2020
Thursday, March 5, 2020
Architect
Suggested by the previous post: "Garland is an architect of complicated stories and actual spaces."
— Adam Rogers, 7 AM March 4th, 2020,
https://www.wired.com/story/
inside-devs-dreamy-silicon-valley-quantum-thriller/.
See also The Reality Blocks.
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Pythagorean Letter Meets Box of Chocolates
Friday, July 11, 2014Spiegel-Spiel des GeviertsFiled under: Uncategorized — m759 @ 12:00 PM See Cube Symbology.
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Friday, September 12, 2003
Friday September 12, 2003
Into the Sunset
I just learned of Johnny’s Cash’s death. On Google News, the headline was Johnny Cash rides into sunset. The source was the Bangkok Post.
“Don’t you know that
when you play at this level
there’s no ordinary venue.”
— One Night in Bangkok (midi)
No Ordinary Venue
“They are the horses of a dream.
They are not what they seem.”
— The Hex Witch of Seldom, page 16
A Singer
7-Cycle
The Magnificent Seven:
CLICK HERE for
“the adventures of filming this epic
on location in Cuernavaca, Mexico.”
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“He is the outlaw the people love, — The Hex Witch of Seldom, |
“Words are events.”
— Walter J. Ong, Society of Jesus
“…search for thirty-three and three…”
— The Black Queen in The Eight