Today’s New York Times on a character in a 1978 film —
“Cluelessly upbeat and charmingly idiotic.”
Related material from a post Saturday —
Coda —
See as well this journal on the above date — Sept. 24, 2015.
Monday, June 19, 2017
Sunday, June 18, 2017
Saturday, June 17, 2017
The Formula
With apologies to the late director of "Rocky" and "The Formula" —
Below: John Gielgud as "Abraham Esau" in "The Formula" (1980).
For the real Abraham Esau, see Wikipedia.
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Friday, June 16, 2017
The Biersdorfer Synchronology
See also this journal on the above date — July 13, 2016.
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Ein Eck*
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Rough Night at the Museum
See the previous three posts… and the Nobel flashback titled Cuber.
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Chalkroom Jungle
At MASS MoCA, the installation "Chalkroom" quotes a lyric —
Oh beauty in all its forms funny how hatred can also be a beautiful thing When it's as sharp as a knife as hard as a diamond Perfect |
— From "One Beautiful Evening," by Laurie Anderson.
See also the previous post and "Smallest Perfect" in this journal.
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Thursday, June 15, 2017
Building Six
Berkshire tales of May 25, 2017 —
See also, in this journal from May 25 and earlier, posts now tagged
"The Story of Six."
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Early Personal Computer
(The title is from yesterday morning's Graphical Interfaces.)
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Wednesday, June 14, 2017
Graphical Interfaces
Thacker reportedly died on Monday, June 12, 2017.
This journal on that date —
Thacker retired from Microsoft in February.
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Tuesday, June 13, 2017
Inventing Sex at Harvard
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Annals of Embedded Space
This journal on the above date —
Thursday, April 13, 2017
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Monday, June 12, 2017
Bubble
The "bubble" passage in the previous post suggests a review of
a post from December 21, 2006, with the following images —
Update of 11:01 PM ET the same day, June 12, 2017 —
Related material for the Church of Synchronology —
From a tech-article series that began on Halloween 2006 and
ended on the date of the above Geometry's Tombstones post —
Compare and contrast (from a post of Feb. 27, 2017) —
“Lord Arglay had a suspicion that the Stone would be
purely logical. Yes, he thought, but what, in that sense,
were the rules of its pure logic?”
—Many Dimensions (1931), by Charles Williams
See also "The Geometry of Logic:
Finite Geometry and the 16 Boolean Connectives"
by Steven H. Cullinane in 2007.
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Sunday, June 11, 2017
Saturday, June 10, 2017
Strange
Mark Zuckerberg in a commencement speech
at Harvard on May 25 —
"Movies and pop culture get this all wrong.
The idea of a single eureka moment
is a dangerous lie. It makes us feel inadequate
since we haven’t had ours. It prevents people
with seeds of good ideas from getting started.
Oh, you know what else movies get wrong about
innovation? No one writes math formulas on glass.
That’s not a thing."
THE ACCOUNTANT (2016) 8 p.m. on HBO.
Ben Affleck stars as Christian Wolff, an enigmatic mathematics savant
with special-ops-caliber skills who moonlights as a numbers cruncher ….
— The New York Times today, What's on TV Saturday
In other news today —
“You can’t play Batman in a serious, square-jawed, straight-ahead way
without giving the audience the sense that there’s something behind
that mask waiting to get out, that he’s a little crazed, he’s strange.”
— The late Adam West, according to The Hollywood Reporter
Update of 2:42 PM ET Saturday —
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Cardinal Interplay
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Friday, June 9, 2017
Overarching Theme
“Communications disorders were the overarching theme of my mother’s career.”
— Anne Louise Oaklander, daughter of a famed autism expert, Isabelle Rapin,
who reportedly died at 89 on May 24.
See also a post on Mark Zuckerberg's recent Harvard commencement address.
Some background — Overarching in this journal.
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Montana Quality
In memory of a mathematics professor —
Posts now tagged Montana Quality.
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Enchanting
"Among the most enchanting aspects of the Alhambra is
the constant sound of flowing water emanating from its fountains."
— Bob Taylor, commdiginews.com, January 16, 2017
See also Snow White Meets Apple and the cover of
The New York Times Book Review from October 4, 2015 —
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Proprietary Code
Quixote Vive! — Terry Gilliam, June 4, 2017
Review of a post from March 7, 2017 —
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"The supervisory read-only memory (SROM)
— Elliot Williams at Hackaday , March 4, 2017, From a reply to a comment on the above story —
"You are singing a very fearful and oppressive tune. A perhaps less oppressive tune —
Related scene — Richard Kiley in "Blackboard Jungle," 1955:
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Wednesday, June 7, 2017
Development Hell
Two readings —
On the director of "The Zero Theorem" —
Terry Gilliam Finally Wraps on ‘Don Quixote’ Film After 17 Years.
More seriously —
On a Spanish author who reportedly died at 86 on Sunday, June 4.
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Anywhere in Years
" In 1965, Mr. Simmons, an incisive, erudite reviewer and essayist,
won a William Faulkner Foundation Award for Powdered Eggs [ 1964 ],
recognized as a notable first novel. (He wryly called it his
'64th first novel.') The Boston Globe said it was 'certainly among
the outstanding fictions of the ′60s.' [ Later, in 1971,* ] The novelist
Harry Crews heralded him as 'one of the finest comic voices to appear
anywhere in years.' "
— Sam Roberts in a New York Times obituary this evening
See also Harry Crews in this journal.
Roberts says Simmons also wrote "a savage sendup of The New York Times
Book Review , where he had worked as an editor for three decades."
Some not-so-savage related material —
* "Anywhere in years" — From http://www.nytimes.com/1971/11/21/archives/
an-oldfashioned-darling-by-charles-simmons- 202-pp-new-york-coward.html
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Snow White Meets Apple
Tabletop fountain from the June 5 opening video of Apple's 2017
Worldwide Developer Conference —
Kristen Stewart (Snow White in June 2012) as a personal shopper —
Personal shopping result —
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Three Things at Once
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