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Saturday, November 12, 2016

Good Questions

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 7:13 am

1 Corinthians 15:55

Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Deathly Hallows

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 7:00 am

The previous post, on the July 13 death of computer scientist Robert Fano,
suggests a review of "Deathly Hallows" posts in this journal. From that review —

Mathematics

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11A/110505-WikipediaFanoPlane.jpg

The Fano plane block design

Magic

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11A/110505-DeathlyHallows.jpg

The Deathly Hallows symbol—
Two blocks short of  a design.

For further information, click the image below —

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Tuesday, July 26, 2016

In Nomine Patris

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 9:48 pm

"Robert Fano, an electrical engineer who was instrumental
in creating a world of instantly responsive computers, died
on July 13 in Naples, Fla. He was 98."

John Markoff in this evening's online New York Times

Wikipedia on Robert Fano

"Fano's father was the mathematician Gino Fano . . . .

A mnemonic I associate with the Fano plane — "Seven is Heaven . . . .

Log24 on the date of Robert Fano's death —

Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Luminosity

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:00 pm
 

"At CERN the LHC has reached design luminosity,
and is breaking records with a fast pace of new
collisions. This may have something to do with the
report that the LHC is also about to tear open
a portal to another dimension
."

— Peter Woit, Thursday, June 30, 2016,
    at 1:01 PM ET 

Another sort of design luminosity —

IMAGE- Massimo Vignelli, his wife Lella, and cube

Claves

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 9:00 pm

For one meaning of the title, see The Faustian Merry-Go-Round.

Look Busters

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 8:48 pm

See a search in this journal for "Look, Buster."

Fritz Leiber's 'Spider' symbol

Block That Metaphor

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 8:38 pm

Magic cube and corresponding hexagram, or Star of David, with faces mapped to lines and edges mapped to points (The 6 cube faces are mapped to the 6 hexagram lines.)

Happy dies natalis  to the late Frida Kahlo.

Art Wars

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:45 am

Wil S. Hylton today in the online New York Times

"It seems to me now, with greater reflection,
that the value of experiencing another person’s art
is not merely the work itself, but the opportunity
it presents to connect with the interior impulse of another.
The arts occupy a vanishing space in modern life:
They offer one of the last lingering places to seek out
empathy for its own sake, and to the extent that
an artist’s work is frustrating or difficult or awful,
you could say this allows greater opportunity to try to
meet it. I am not saying there is no room for discriminating 
taste and judgment, just that there is also, I think,
this other portal through which to experience creative work
and to access a different kind of beauty, which might be
called communion."

Or damnation.

Always Nice to See You

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:00 am

“It is always
Nice to see you”
Says the man
Behind the counter

— Suzanne Vega. "Tom's Diner"

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