Wednesday, August 23, 2017
Deceivers’ Wargames
Monday, April 10, 2023
Wednesday, May 25, 2022
Mexico City Blues
The New York Times yesterday ("2022-05-24T21:54:19.000Z")
on a Saturday, May 21, death —
"Colin Cantwell, an animator, conceptual artist and computer expert
who played significant production roles in seminal science fiction films
like '2001: A Space Odyssey,' 'Star Wars' and 'WarGames,' died
on May 21 at his home in Colorado Springs, Colo. He was 90."
Cantwell at Teotihuacan pyramid, September 26, 2019 —
A different image, also from September 26, 2019,
in other Log24 posts tagged Pyramid Game —
The letter labels, but not the tetrahedron, are from Whitehead’s
The Axioms of Projective Geometry (Cambridge U. Press, 1906),
page 13.
Tuesday, August 29, 2017
Pakanga
Continued from August 23, 2017. See a death on that date
reported by a funeral home in Monterey, California.
Wednesday, August 23, 2017
Pakanga
("Every Picture Tells a Story," continued from August 15 )
Related material — Laughing-Academy Cartography.
Tuesday, August 15, 2017
The Uploading
Every Picture Tells a Story
Monday, August 14, 2017
Chess Records
Wednesday, August 9, 2017
War Game: 8/09
"Fire and Fury is one of the most popular
historical military miniatures wargames . . . .
For the new player it is an easy game
to learn and enjoy."
Monday, July 6, 2015
War Haiku
Remark by the director of "Project Almanac" on Feb. 10, 2015
about a proposed remake of "War Games":
"Israelite admitted that he was 'always very sceptical of remakes,
because the story's already been told,' but added that 'with this
particular title, I feel it's primed to say something new.'"
Related material: Log24 posts tagged Haiku.
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
True Grid (continued)
For material related to the Dec. 29, 2010, posts Toy Stories and True Grid —
See Theological Points of Tron: Legacy, by the anonymous blogger hilbertthm90.
An excerpt —
Another story told in the movie is how this girl was about to be destroyed by the evil guys only to find “the father” standing over her after she blacked out and he “saved her”. The father’s disk contains all the information about everything in the grid, so in a sense the father is omniscient. Clearly the father is a stand in for the Biblical God since he creates a whole universe and is omniscient (and by some of the actions he performs in the movie, he seems omnipotent as well). I don’t think the Christian parallels are all in my head.
There is some sketchy theology that occurs that might be in my head, though. The “real world” outside of the grid seems to be a symbol for heaven. If this is true, it presents a very interesting theological point.
Compare and contrast —
Woody and Buzz from Christmas Day, 2010 —
Update of 8:55 PM — Related material from today's Ghost Light weblog —
See also today's New York midday lottery number, 596, as it appears in a search
for "legacy code" in this journal. It is China's code for its first nuclear test.
Today's evening New York number is less alarming — 401, suggesting the date
4/01 — i.e., April Fools' Day.