See also the phrase “Beautiful Mathematics” in this journal.
Monday, January 4, 2021
The Purloined Joke
Sunday, January 3, 2021
Joke
George Clooney to Matt Damon —
“There’s a Michelangelo joke to be made.”
A search in this journal for Michelangelo suggests . . .
How about “Bach meets Bochner“?
The Ice Stone* Meditation
A quote from the novel on which George Clooney's new Netflix film,
"The Midnight Sky," is based —
"Yet here he was, seventy-eight years old …
and, having come to the terminus of his life’s work,
all he could do was stare into the bleak face of
his own ignorance."
— Brooks-Dalton, Lily. Good Morning, Midnight (p. 5).
Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
Related material —
For more ignorance, see part of the current New Yorker home page —
Click image for the magazine's animated gif .
— and other recent posts tagged "Sixteenth."
* The "Ice Stone" is in the New Year's Eve post tagged "Sixteenth."
Space fans may think of that tag as representing the empty space
(a sort of black hole ) in the classic "15 Puzzle."
Friday, January 1, 2021
Mission Possible: KenKen Meets BarbieBarbie
Wikipedia on the late Hugh Hefner —
“Through his father’s line, Hefner was a descendant of
Plymouth governor William Bradford. He described
his family as ‘conservative, Midwestern, [and] Methodist’.
His mother had wanted him to become a missionary.”
A quote from Story Space —
“Your mission, should you choose to accept it . . . .” —
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Annie_Fanny .
Hefner’s parents might prefer the region of Story Space
proper to Dreamboat Annie.
Thursday, December 31, 2020
The Dreaming Jewels . . .
Wednesday, December 30, 2020
Space Force
New Yorker video today, at 14:00-14:25 —
“What’s good about KenKen, and Sudoku, and crosswords,
all of those puzzles like that, is that they have grids to be filled in,
empty squares. I think there is something about human nature
that we want to fill up spaces. And if you’re a puzzle person,
or almost anybody, and you see an empty grid, you want to
put something in those spaces. It gives a feeling of satisfaction
that you don’t get often in life and that really feels good.”
— Will Shortz, New York Times puzzle editor
“I can’t get no… satisfaction….” — The Rolling Stones
The New Yorker recently restarted the Weiner story,
which includes —
“… the fall of 2017, when he began a twenty-one-month
prison sentence for sexting with a minor.”
“You want to put something in those spaces.”
— Will Shortz, New York Times puzzle editor
Yes, you do.
Weiner is now with a Brooklyn countertops company called IceStone.
The Whiteboard Jungle
Detail:
A story in numbers:
It is what it is.
See also the phrase “Beautiful Mathematics” in this journal.
The Sixteenth Subset
A four-set has sixteen subsets. Fifteen of these symbolize the points
of “the smallest perfect universe,”* PG(3,2). The sixteenth is empty.
In memory of . . .
Polish this — “The Nothing That Is.”
* Phrase by Burkard Polster.