Clicking the Xbox icon on a Windows lockscreen today yielded . . .
See as well . . .
Sunday, September 15, 2024
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
Nutshell Theory
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Saturday, December 9, 2023
Sunday, December 27, 2015
Rigorous
Symbol —
Monday, November 7, 2011
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Thursday, February 19, 2015
In the Place of the Skull
"I CAN TELL you about my friend Andrew,
the cognitive scientist. But it’s not pretty."
— Opening of Andrew's Brain: A Novel by
E. L. Doctorow, Random House, Jan. 14, 2014*
"…whirligig consciousness…."
—The New York Times Book Review
See also Inside the White Square (Log 24, Feb. 15, 2015):
.
* Cf. Log24 on that date.
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Sunday, February 15, 2015
Inside the White Square
Review:
Monday, November 7, 2011
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See also the phrase "a dance results" in the original
source and in yesterday's Valentine Dance.
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Xbox Games
(Continued from Sunday, April 22, 2012)
Xbox Background—
Design Sermon from Sunday, November 6, 2011, and
The X Box from Monday, November 7, 2011.
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Sunday, April 22, 2012
The Gospel According to Xbox
"Every multiplayer game, both free-for-all and team based,
will begin with a Mexican standoff." —Wikipedia
"The Cardinal seemed a little preoccupied today."
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Monday, December 12, 2011
X o’ Jesus
Religion for stoners,♦ in memory of Horselover Fat
Amazon.com gives the publication date of a condensed
version* of Philip K. Dick's Exegesis as Nov. 7, 2011.
The publisher gives the publication date as Nov. 8, 2011.
Here, in memory of the author, Philip K. Dick (who sometimes
called himself, in a two-part pun, "Horselover Fat"), is related
material from the above two dates in this journal—
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Tuesday, November 8, 2011 m759 @ 12:00 PM …. Update of 9:15 PM Nov. 8, 2011— From a search for the word "Stoned" in this journal—
See also Monday's post "The X Box" with its illustration
Monday, November 7, 2011
"Design is how it works." — Steve Jobs, quoted in
For some background on this enigmatic equation,
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Merry Xmas.
♦ See also last night's post and the last words of Steve Jobs.
* Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the publisher, has, deliberately or not, sown confusion
about whether this is only the first of two volumes.
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Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Stoned*
From "The Stone" in Sunday's online New York Times—
Cosmic Imagination
By William Egginton
Do the humanities need to be defended from hard science?
Illustration of hard science —
Illustration of the humanities —
(The above illustrations from Sunday's "The Stone" are by Leif Parsons.)
Midrash by the Coen brothers— "The Dude Abides."
See also 10/10/10— The Day of the Tetractys—
* Update of 9:15 PM Nov. 8, 2011—
From a search for the word "Stoned" in this journal—
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Sunday, January 2, 2011
m759 @ 6:40 PM Simon Critchley today in the New York Times series "The Stone"— Philosophy, among other things, is that living activity of critical reflection in a specific context, by which human beings strive to analyze the world in which they find themselves, and to question what passes for common sense or public opinion— what Socrates called doxa— in the particular society in which they live. Philosophy cuts a diagonal through doxa. It does this by raising the most questions of a universal form: “What is X?”
Actually, that's two diagonals. See Kulturkampf at the Times and Geometry of the
[Here the "Stoned" found by the search |
See also Monday's post "The X Box" with its illustration
.
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Monday, November 7, 2011
The X Box
"Design is how it works." — Steve Jobs, quoted in
The New York Times Magazine on St. Andrew's Day, 2003
.
For some background on this enigmatic equation,
see Geometry of the I Ching.
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Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Tuesday July 10, 2007
Perfect your
wand work
— Web page for the
“Harry Potter and the
Order of the Phoenix”
Xbox 360 game
wand work
— Web page for the
“Harry Potter and the
Order of the Phoenix”
Xbox 360 game
Sounds to me
more like Harry Reems.
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Monday, July 9, 2007
Monday July 9, 2007
Harry Potter and
the Xbox 360
the Xbox 360
Harry Potter and the Order of The Phoenix for Xbox 360 “is based on the fifth book and is timed to coincide with the release of the movie of the same name…. The game consists of Harry walking around and talking to characters and performing spells and tasks in order to advance the plot. I jokingly considered calling this review ‘Harry Potter and the Order of the Random Tasks Needed to Advance the Plot.'” —July 9 review at Digital Joystick
Today’s lottery numbers
in the Keystone State:
in the Keystone State:
Mid-day 220
Evening 034
Related material:
2/20 and
Hexagram 34 in the
box-style I Ching:
The Power
of the Great
Let us hope that Harry fans remember the meaning of Hexagram 34 (according to Richard Wilhelm)– “Perseverance furthers” and “That is truly great power which does not degenerate into mere force but remains inwardly united with the fundamental principles of right and of justice. When we understand this point– namely, that greatness and justice must be indissolubly united– we understand the true meaning of all that happens in heaven and on earth.”
Related material:
“If Cullinane College
were Hogwarts“
(continued) and
the four entries
that preceded it
on July 5-6, 2007
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Friday, July 6, 2007
Friday July 6, 2007
Midnight in the Garden
of Good and Evil
continued from
Midsummer Night…
of Good and Evil
continued from
Midsummer Night…
“The voodoo priestess looked across the table at her wealthy client, a man on trial for murder: ‘Now, you know how dead time works. Dead time lasts for one hour– from half an hour before midnight to half an hour after midnight. The half-hour before midnight is for doin’ good. The half-hour after midnight is for doin’ evil….'”
— Glenna Whitley, “Voodoo Justice,”
The New York Times, March 20, 1994
In Other Game News:
“In June, bloggers speculated that the Xbox 360 return problem was getting so severe that the company was running out of ‘coffins,’ or special return-shipping boxes Microsoft provides to gamers with dead consoles. ‘We’ll make sure we have plenty of boxes to go back and forth,’ Bach said in an interview.”
The picture of
“Coxeter Exhuming Geometry”
suggests the following
illustration, based
in part on
Plato’s poem to Aster:
“Coxeter Exhuming Geometry”
suggests the following
illustration, based
in part on
Plato’s poem to Aster:
Related material:
and
The proportions of
the above rectangle
may suggest to some
a coffin; they are
meant to suggest
a monolith.
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Monday, December 26, 2005
Monday December 26, 2005
Language Game on
Boxing Day
Boxing Day
In the box-style I Ching
Hexagram 34,
The Power of the Great,
is represented by
.
Art is represented
by a box
(Hexagram 20,
Contemplation, View)
.
And of course
great art
is represented by
an X in a box.
(Hexagram 2,
The Receptive)
.
“… as a Chinese jar still
Moves perpetually
in its stillness”
“… at the still point,
there the dance is.”
— T. S. Eliot
 A Jungian on this six-line figure: “They are the same six lines that exist in the I Ching…. Now observe the square more closely: four of the lines are of equal length, the other two are longer…. For this reason symmetry cannot be statically produced and a dance results.” |
For those who prefer
technology to poetry,
there is the Xbox 360.
(Today is day 360 of 2005.)
Sunday, December 11, 2005
Sunday December 11, 2005
For Rita Moreno
on Her Birthday:
on Her Birthday:
Sex and Art in
a Chinese Poem
In the box-style I Ching
Hexagram 34,
The Power of the Great,
is represented by
.
Art is represented
by a box
(Hexagram 20,
Contemplation, View)
.
And of course
great art
is represented by
an X in a box.
(Hexagram 2,
The Receptive)
.
The combination of these
three symbols may be viewed
as “Power in a Box,” or,
according to some scholars,
“The Art of Great Sex.”
From Xinhua News Agency tonight:
Xbox 360 meets
cold shoulder in Japan.
But in another time and place…
