For art more closely related to the title "Alpha and Omega,"
see a different view of the above Hoyersten exhibition.
Tuesday, October 31, 2023
“Omega is as real as we need it to be.”
— “The Osterman Weekend”
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— “The Osterman Weekend”
— “The Osterman Weekend”
Sunday, July 10, 2022
The Osterman/Brosterman Weekend
See Osterman and Brosterman.
Logline for Osterman Meets Brosterman! — See Super-8.
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Sunday, November 29, 2020
Wednesday, June 12, 2019
The Osterman Haiku
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Sunday, May 6, 2018
The Osterman Omega
From "The Osterman Weekend" (1983) —
Counting symmetries of the R. T. Curtis Omega:
An Illustration from Shakespeare's birthday —
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Sunday, March 5, 2017
Saturday, February 28, 2026
For Langer and Percy* — A February Omega
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Monday, December 29, 2025
Working for the Weekend
AI giveth, and AI taketh away.
More in the spirit of Alpha than of Omega . . .
Images related to work I began in the 1970s, from
a 1960s design classic by Karl Gerstner.
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Saturday, June 7, 2025
Sunday, July 31, 2022
Domingo for Ramos*
The reference to Vallega-Neu in posts that last night were tagged
The Ereignis Sanction leads to . . .
Heidegger’s ‘Contributions to Philosophy.’ An Introduction .
(Indiana University Press, 2003).
That book is about . . .
Martin Heidegger, Contributions to Philosophy (From Enowning) ,
trans. Parvis Emad and Kenneth Maly (Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 1999). German edition:
Beiträge zur Philosophie (vom Ereignis) ,
ed. F.-W. von Herrmann, Gesamtausgabe, vol. 65
(Frankfurt a. M.: Klostermann, 1989).
* See today's news and a Log24 search for "Philippine."
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Monday, November 29, 2021
November 29 …
… is the birth date of storytellers C.S. Lewis and Madeleine L'Engle.
Another perspective on this date —
In the context of mathematics, I prefer to think of it as Brosterman Day.
See, from last year on this date, Osterman Meets Brosterman . . .
and, more generally, Brosterman.
But seriously . . . LAST THOUGHTS ON DEVIL'S NIGHT :
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Monday, May 24, 2021
For Doctor Manhattan
"Omega is as real as we need it to be." — The Osterman Weekend
See also related material in The New Yorker and the National Review .
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Friday, May 7, 2021
Types of Ambiguity
“Omega is as real as we need it to be.”
— Burt Lancaster in “The Osterman Weekend”
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Saturday, November 28, 2020
A Poster for Doctor Manhattan
A nostalgia pill for Watchmen fans.
For Harvard Watchmen fans, a link to 2346:
http://m759.net/wordpress/?p=2346 —
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Sunday, July 28, 2019
Review
From a news article featured on the American Mathematical Society
home page today —
A joint Vietnam-USA mathematical meeting in Vietnam on
June 10-13, 2019:
This journal on June 12, 2019:
Wednesday, June 12, 2019
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See also the Twentieth of May, 2008 —
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Saturday, July 27, 2019
Saturday, June 1, 2019
Thursday, July 12, 2018
Kummerhenge Illustrated
“… the utterly real thing in writing is the only thing that counts…."
— Maxwell Perkins to Ernest Hemingway, Aug. 30, 1935
"Omega is as real as we need it to be."
— Burt Lancaster in "The Osterman Weekend"
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Monday, May 7, 2018
Data
(Continued from yesterday's Sunday School Lesson Plan for Peculiar Children)
Novelist George Eliot and programming pioneer Ada Lovelace —
For an image that suggests a resurrected multifaceted
(specifically, 759-faceted) Osterman Omega (as in Sunday's afternoon
Log24 post), behold a photo from today's NY Times philosophy
column "The Stone" that was reproduced here in today's previous post —
For a New York Times view of George Eliot data, see a Log24 post
of September 20, 2016, on the diamond theorem as the Middlemarch
"key to all mythologies."
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Sunday, March 5, 2017
The Omega Matrix
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Sunday, December 18, 2016
Manifest O
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Thursday, December 24, 2015
Saturday, August 22, 2015
It’s 10 PM…
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Sunday, May 24, 2015
Point Omega
“Am I still on?” — Ending line of The Osterman Weekend (1983)
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Sunday, January 11, 2015
The XYZ of Being
From a recent Gitterkrieg post:
"The motive for metaphor, shrinking from
The weight of primary noon,
The A B C of being…." — Wallace Stevens
See also the cover of the February 2015
Notices of the American Mathematical Society .
"Omega is as real as we need it to be."
— Burt Lancaster in The Osterman Weekend
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Sunday, November 23, 2014
Remarks on Reality
Wallace Stevens in "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven"
(1950) on "The Ruler of Reality" —
"Again, 'He has thought it out, he thinks it out,
As he has been and is and, with the Queen
Of Fact, lies at his ease beside the sea.'"
One such scene, from 1953 —
Another perspective, from "The Osterman Weekend" (1983) —
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014
Omega Post
In memory of radio personality Steve Post,
a link to some remarks on the date of his death.
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Monday, August 4, 2014
Bunch vs. Bunch
“This is a divorce case that was before us on an earlier occasion.”
Wild:
From the director of The Wild Bunch —
Brady:
From The New York Times —
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Sunday, August 3, 2014
Unplatonic Dialogue
Dialogue from “The Osterman Weekend”—
01:57:22 “Why did he make us try to believe Omega existed?”
01:57:25 ….
01:57:26 “The existence of Omega has not been disproved.
01:57:28 Don’t you understand that?
01:57:31 Omega is as real as we need it to be.”
See also Omega elsewhere in this journal.
Update of 9:15 PM ET —
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Monday, July 14, 2014
Conversations with an Empty Chair
Continued from August 20, 2013
In honor of Sam Peckinpah, the closing shot of his last film:
"Am I still on?" — Ending line of The Osterman Weekend (1983)
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