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Saturday, May 31, 2025

The Nobel Eye

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 4:18 am

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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Rhyme Scheme (continued)

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:23 am

In memory of CCD co-creator Willard S. Boyle, who died Saturday

Rhyme Scheme (St. Lucia's Day, 2002), with updated link to Hopkins.

Friday, December 13, 2002

Friday December 13, 2002

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:27 pm

Rhyme Scheme

"The introduction of Charge-Coupled Devices (CCDs)
has dramatically changed the methods
astronomers use to view objects."
— Santa Barbara Instrument Group, Inc.

"They should have sent a poet." 
— Jodie Foster in the film version
of Carl Sagan's Contact

star cluster

M16 Nebulous Star Cluster.
300 second Model ST-7
CCD image
taken through a
7", f/7 Astrophysics refractor
utilizing the self-guiding mode.

"Say 'Abba,'
Jesus told
his followers. 
'Our Father.'"
 

Abba!
Abba!

CCD!
CCD!

— Rhyme
Scheme,
Gerard
Manley
Hopkins

On the question of what reality is:
"Under what circumstances do we think things are
real? ….

This question speaks to a small, manageable problem
having to do with the camera and not
what it is the camera takes pictures of."

Erving Goffman,    
Frame Analysis, An Essay on
the Organization of Experience
,
Harper & Row, 1974, p. 2

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