Sunday, December 21, 2025
Love from Frida and Diego: Explicit Breakfast
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Thursday, November 3, 2022
Linear Transformations for Scientists, or . . .
"Rotate, Flip, and Stretch, Baby!"
"One way to evaluate an artist is to observe the quantity and quality
of misinterpretation his work begets. By this measure Everett ranks
very highly. 'Damn it, I don’t understand it, but I love it,' mutters one
of the characters, regarding Sill’s weapon of nothingness. Same.
Kitu has a colleague named Eigen Vector, which refers to …
something having to do with linear transformations?"
— Book review by Molly Young in The New York Times
on All Hallows' Day 2022
See as well Bik in The New Yorker on June 23, 2021.
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Wednesday, November 2, 2022
The Plot
"Principal photography has begun in Croatia
on the action thriller Canary Black , starring Kate Beckinsale
and Rupert Friend (Anatomy of a Scandal )."
"The film’s plot follows a top CIA operative, Avery Graves
(Beckinsale)…. Cut off from her team, she turns to her
underworld contacts to survive and help locate the
coveted intelligence that the kidnappers want."
[Croatia , underworld , and coveted intelligence links added.}
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Thursday, March 11, 2021
Underworld Type
" LaTeX is widely used in academia[3][4]
for the communication and
publication of scientific documents
in many fields . . . ." — Wikipedia
Related academic remarks —
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Monday, May 5, 2008
Monday May 5, 2008
Lottery Sermon
"And take upon's
the mystery of things
as if we were God's spies"
— King Lear
From Log24 on Aug. 19, 2003
and on Ash Wednesday, 2004:
a reviewer on
An Instance of the Fingerpost::
"Perhaps we are meant to
see the story as a cubist
retelling of the crucifixion."
From Log24 on
Michaelmas 2007:
Google searches suggested by
Sunday's PA lottery numbers
(mid-day 170, evening 144)
and by the above
figure of Kate Beckinsale
pointing to an instance of
the number 144 —
Related material:
Beckinsale in another film
(See At the Crossroads,
Log24, Dec. 8, 2006):
"For every kind of vampire,
there is a kind of cross."
— Gravity's Rainbow
There is such a thing
as a tesseract.
"It was only in retrospect
that the silliness
became profound."
— Review of
Faust in Copenhagen
From the conclusion of
Joan Didion's 1970 novel
Play It As It Lays —
"I know what 'nothing' means,
and keep on playing."
From Play It As It Lays,
the paperback edition of 1990
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux) —
|
Page 170:
"By the end of a week she was thinking constantly
170
even one micro-second she would have what she had |
"The page numbers
are generally reliable."
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