From this journal on Nov. 17, 2018 —
See also another disastrous-mess commentary from Nov. 17, 2018.
Related weblog post —
Related theology — “Diamonds Are Forever” in this journal.
Related art — “Black Diamond.”
Friday, January 29, 2021
Saturday, June 4, 2016
Icons
From this morning's news, a cultural icon —
From November 18, 2015, four icons —
— the three favicons above, and the following:
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Saturday, January 23, 2016
Hard
"Hard Science Fiction in the era of short attention spans,
crowd-sourcing, and rapid obsolescence"
— May 26, 2012, Dragon Press Bookstore symposium
Related material: Posts now tagged Black Diamond.
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Friday, January 22, 2016
Saturday, June 13, 2015
Egg Tales
"And not all the king's men nor his horses
Will resurrect his corpus."
See as well Andy Weir's "The Egg" and Working Backward.
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Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Raven Light
"…a fundamental cognitive ability known as 'fluid' intelligence: the capacity to solve novel problems, to learn, to reason, to see connections and to get to the bottom of
…matrices are considered the gold standard of fluid-intelligence tests. Anyone who has taken an intelligence test has seen matrices like those used in the Raven’s: three rows, with three graphic items in each row, made up of squares, circles, dots or the like. Do the squares get larger as they move from left to right? Do the circles inside the squares fill in, changing from white to gray to black, as they go downward? One of the nine items is missing from the matrix, and the challenge is to find the underlying patterns— up, down and across— from six possible choices. Initially the solutions are readily apparent to most people, but they get progressively harder to discern. By the end of the test, most test takers are baffled."
— Dan Hurley, "Can You Make Yourself Smarter?," NY Times , April 18, 2012
See also "Raven Steals the Light" in this journal.
Related material:
Plan 9 from MIT and, perhaps exemplifying crystallized rather than fluid intelligence, Black Diamond.
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Thursday, November 1, 2012
For All Saints’ Day
Conclusion of "The Storyteller," a story
by Cynthia Zarin about author Madeleine L'Engle—
— The New Yorker , April 12, 2004 —
Note the black diamond at the story's end.
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Monday, September 17, 2012
The Count
|
… I saw a shadow
I rose to a knee, |
Simpson reportedly died on Holy Cross Day.
That day in this journal—
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Thursday, May 31, 2012
Black Diamond
“To say more is to say less.”
― Harlan Ellison, as quoted at goodreads.com
Saying less—
- Home Schooling for the Hunger Games (last Thursday)
- Black diamonds in last Saturday's Talk Amongst Yourselves
- Last night's New York Times obituaries
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Saturday, May 26, 2012
Talk Amongst Yourselves
Hard Science Fiction weekend at Dragon Press Bookstore
Saturday May 26:
11am-noon Playing with the net up:
Hard Science Fiction in the era of
short attention spans, crowd-sourcing,
and rapid obsolescence
( Greg Benford, James Cambias, Kathryn Cramer)
….
3pm-4:30 Technological optimism and pessimism;
utopia and dystopia; happy endings & sad endings:
what do these oppositions have to do with one another?
Are they all the same thing? How are they different
from one another? Group discussion.
My own interests in this area include…
(Click image for some context)
The above was adapted from a 1996 cover—
Vintage Books, July 1996. Cover: Evan Gaffney.
For the significance of the flames,
see PyrE in the book. For the significance
of the cube in the altered cover, see
The 2×2×2 Cube and The Diamond Archetype.
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