Sunday, January 28, 2024
Saturday, October 21, 2023
Sunday, September 18, 2022
Friday, August 5, 2022
Wednesday, July 21, 2021
“Here am I, your special lockscreen” — Adapted show tune
"If you try, you'll find me
Where the sky meets the sea."
— Song lyic inspired by James Michener
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Saturday, January 23, 2021
Lockscreen Artspeak Continues.
The same texts appeared in another Windows lockscreen today —
I prefer the beach huts inspiration in "Body Double" (1984) —
Midrash for Hollywood —
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Saturday, January 9, 2021
Thursday, October 24, 2019
Sunday, October 6, 2024
For Students of the Archimedes Screw
For a Hollywood version of Archimedes, see . . .
A related image from what Ray Bradbury called "October Country" —
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Sunday, September 15, 2024
The Bride: “I need Japanese steel.”
Clicking the Xbox icon on a Windows lockscreen today yielded . . .
See as well . . .
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Tuesday, September 3, 2024
“Real-Time Strategy Games”
The Coconut Dance —
The above YouTube upload date: April 17, 2020.
"It was — and is — very difficult to focus, to navigate
between each sentence and its real-time double,
to find the fuzzy edges where these reflections meet."
— This journal on April 17, 2020, in a passage quoted
from a Laura Marris essay in The New York Times.
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Monday, April 1, 2024
“Ask Copilot anything.”
"How's tricks, dangerous love triangle?"
The Source:
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Sunday, October 15, 2023
Efficient Packend
"Stencils" from a 1959 paper by Golomb —
These 15 figures also represent the 15 points of a finite geometry
(Cullinane diamond theorem, February 1979).
This journal on Beltane (May 1), 2016 —
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Tuesday, October 3, 2023
Monday, September 4, 2023
The Dark Corner Continues: Invitation for Gamers
Windows lockscreen, 6:08 AM ET, Monday, Labor Day, Sept. 4, 2023 —
"Come discover hundreds of new games
that are free to play whenever you want!"
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Friday, July 21, 2023
Saturday, July 8, 2023
Dead on the Third of July
Update at 9:06 PM ET . . .
Windows lockscreen this evening —
Related material in this journal: Weaveworld.
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Sunday, July 2, 2023
Badlands Philosophy
This afternoon's Windows lockscreen is Badlands National Park —
From this morning's post, a phrase from Schopenhauer —
"Apparent Design in the Fate of the Individual."
An apparent design in the philosophy of Optimus Prime —
"Before time began, there was the Cube" —
Click the image for further remarks.
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Thursday, June 8, 2023
Interpellation by Media:
Report from Clouded Mountain
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Report from Clouded Mountain
Report from Clouded Mountain
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Reality as a Third-Rate Joke
For Sean Carroll, author of . . .
See also Carroll in this journal.
Related humor for Doctor Strange —
Windows Lockscreen at 12:43 AM ET tonight —
.I prefer the non-humor of Cold Mountain .
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Wednesday, December 14, 2022
“Modern Meets Historic”
The above title phrase is from the Windows lockscreen
I encountered at 7:59 AM ET today:
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Tuesday, December 6, 2022
Banana Beach
Banana Beach:
Banana Beach is on the island of Príncipe. Wikipedia —
"Príncipe was the site where Einstein's theory of relativity
was experimentally corroborated by Arthur Stanley Eddington
and his team during the total solar eclipse of May 29, 1919."
Related cultural notes —
"… as today we look back on Eddington's
1919 eclipse observations…." —
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Monday, November 21, 2022
Calvinist Anomalies
Last night's 1:40 AM ET Windows lockscreen was Chateau d'If,
a fortress featured in the 1846 novel The Count of Monte Cristo :
"The isolated location and dangerous offshore currents
of the Château d'If made it an ideal escape-proof prison,
very much like the island of Alcatraz in California
in more recent times. Its use as a dumping ground for
political and religious detainees soon made it one of the
most feared and notorious jails in France. Over 3,500
Huguenots (French Calvinists/identifying Christians)
were sent to Château d'If, as was Gaston Crémieux,
a leader of the Paris Commune, who was shot there in 1871."
Speaking of Calvinists . . . See Marilynne Robinson on anomalies.
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Thursday, November 17, 2022
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
“Here am I, your special island” — Song lyric
Scholium —
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Saturday, October 15, 2022
Tuesday, August 9, 2022
Story Line
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Friday, July 29, 2022
To the Lighthouse… Continues.
Midrash on Woolf for Reiner —
Illustrated! —
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Tuesday, July 19, 2022
For 7/20 Eve
Mosses from an Old Manse (Hawthorne Recycled)
Click the above image to enlarge it.
This lockscreen suggests happy memories of J3 . . .
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Saturday, July 9, 2022
Strange Fiction
"You can work in the undercroft." — Doctor Strange
A related geographical note —
See also "Swiftly Tilting Planet" in this journal.
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Wednesday, June 29, 2022
Wednesday, June 22, 2022
Code Wars: “Use the Source, Luke.”
Click the above galaxy for a larger image.
"O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell
and count myself a king of infinite space,
were it not that I have bad dreams." — Hamlet
Battle of the Nutshells —
From a much larger nutshell
on the above code date—
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Monday, April 4, 2022
Saturday, April 2, 2022
Monday, September 27, 2021
Sunday, August 1, 2021
Thursday, July 29, 2021
Castling, or: A Dark Corner* for Cara
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Thursday, April 15, 2021
Sunday, January 31, 2021
Prelude to Groundhog Day
Welcome to Westview continues.
My Windows lockscreen this morning features a badger
emerging from his den. Microsoft’s commentary —
Related commentary from Bellevue —
“History, Stephen said, is a nightmare
from which I am trying to awake.”
— James Joyce, Ulysses
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Sunday, January 24, 2021
A Love Shack for Daisy Clover
Provenance — See Lockscreen in this journal.
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Tuesday, December 1, 2020
Beach Rocks
"The Beach is a 1996 novel by English author Alex Garland." — Wikipedia
Windows lockscreen today —
Another part of the lockscreen, later . . .
Related* mystical remark on a legendary artifact —
Animation adapted from a legendary diagram —
* The "9" and "16" may be viewed as referring to areas —
both above and below the hypotenuse — bordering a
3-4-5 triangle illustrating Euclid's proposition I.47.
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Beach Tips from Microsoft
Windows lockscreen, morning of December 1, 2020.
Related security tips. . . See tinfoil. “We all know the song.”
Image related to last night’s post “Time Class” —
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Tuesday, November 10, 2020
To the Lighthouse
Windows lockscreen, 9:05 PM ET Tuesday, November 10, 2020
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Monday, November 9, 2020
“Big Media, Big Money, Big Tech”
Related material —
See as well the recent post Annals of Artspeak and the related
Microsoft lockscreen photo credit —
.
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Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Japanese Bed*
The reported death on Monday of the Random House editor of the 1996
book Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics suggests a search in this journal
for “primary colors.” From that search, some non-political quotations —
| From “The Relations between Poetry and Painting,” by Wallace Stevens:“The theory of poetry, that is to say, the total of the theories of poetry, often seems to become in time a mystical theology or, more simply, a mystique. The reason for this must by now be clear. The reason is the same reason why the pictures in a museum of modern art often seem to become in time a mystical aesthetic, a prodigious search of appearance, as if to find a way of saying and of establishing that all things, whether below or above appearance, are one and that it is only through reality, in which they are reflected or, it may be, joined together, that we can reach them. Under such stress, reality changes from substance to subtlety, a subtlety in which it was natural for Cézanne to say: ‘I see planes bestriding each other and sometimes straight lines seem to me to fall’ or ‘Planes in color. . . . The colored area where shimmer the souls of the planes, in the blaze of the kindled prism, the meeting of planes in the sunlight.’ The conversion of our Lumpenwelt went far beyond this. It was from the point of view of another subtlety that Klee could write: ‘But he is one chosen that today comes near to the secret places where original law fosters all evolution. And what artist would not establish himself there where the organic center of all movement in time and space—which he calls the mind or heart of creation— determines every function.’ Conceding that this sounds a bit like sacerdotal jargon, that is not too much to allow to those that have helped to create a new reality, a modern reality, since what has been created is nothing less.”
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* Title suggested in part by Monday evening’s post Annals of Artspeak
and the related Microsoft lockscreen photo credit —
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Monday, October 26, 2020
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
Sunday, March 22, 2020
Putting the “Arch” in Architecture:
An 1132 for James Joyce — (Click to enlarge)
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Sunday, October 28, 2018
Outreach
From a New York Times obituary today —
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“Centering prayer is all about heartfulness, which |
Windows 10 lockscreen image
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Friday, October 12, 2018
Spooky Moonrise
Kristen Wiig leaving bookstore in
"Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee," S9E1 —
A Windows 10 lockscreen image — "Spooky Moonrise Over Lake":
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