This post was suggested by Dudeney's "Stonemason's Problem," which
in turn was suggested by the number "204" in the opening episode of
the new Apple TV Plus thriller "Prime Target."
Thursday, January 23, 2025
The Gotham/Getty problem: “Da hats ein Eck”
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Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Wednesday, August 9, 2023
Waiting for the Low-Hanging Fruit
How many miles to Babylon?*
Three score miles and ten.
Can I get there by candle-light?**
Yes, and back again.
Mary Gaitskill's latest substack meditation —
"I am thinking of Susan Sontag, writer, philosopher,
political activist and some-time pain in the ass;
she went to Sarajevo during the siege in order to
put on a theatrical production of Waiting for Godot.
She didn’t get paid and none of the actors did either.
They rehearsed in the dark and performed by sparse
candlelight . . . ."
"How many bananas ?"
"Drei . . . or else Vier ."
See also the comedy writers of Elsevier —
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The Junction Function
A function (in this case, a 1-to-1 correspondence) from finite geometry:
This correspondence between points and hyperplanes underlies
the symmetries discussed in the Cullinane diamond theorem.
Academics who prefer cartoon graveyards may consult …
Cohn, N. (2014). Narrative conjunction’s junction function:
A theoretical model of “additive” inference in visual narratives.
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science
Society, 36. See https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2050s18m .
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Getty Images
J. Paul Getty and Minotaur, according to Hollywood —
Getty Images and the "Cubic Stone" —
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Getty Images —
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See also the previous post and . . .
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“The Seed Crystal” — Plan 9 from Science Direct
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Friday, January 27, 2023
The Stone
Here stands the mean, uncomely stone,
’Tis very cheap in price!
The more it is despised by fools,
The more loved by the wise.
— https://jungcurrents.com/
the-story-of-the-stone-at-bollingen
Not so cheap:
Identical copies of the above image are being offered for sale
on three websites as representing a Masonic "cubic stone."
None of the three sites say where, exactly, the image originated.
Image searches for "Masonic stone," "Masonic cube," etc.,
fail to yield any other pictures that look like the above image —
that of a 2x2x2 array of eight identical subcubes.
For purely mathematical — not Masonic — properties of such
an array, see "eightfold cube" in this journal.
The websites offering to sell the questionable image —
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Getty —
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Alamy —
https://www.alamy.com/
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Photo12 —
https://www.photo12.com/en/image/
No price quoted on public page:
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