See as well a recent post in memory of “Chariots of Fire” actor Ben Cross.
From a Chrome Browser announcement today —
Compare and contrast “The Ghost and the Darkness” (Constellation, 1996)
and the new film “Rogue” (Lionsgate, 2020).
“Elijah?… Elijah?!” — Megan Fox in “Rogue” (00:41:47)
“Careful. Evil has a way of making friends with the good
and dragging them into the darkness.” — CSI, Feb. 24, 2011
A related meditation —
All 4096 vectors in the code are at . . .
http://neilsloane.com/oadir/oa.4096.12.2.7.txt.
Sloane’s list* contains the 12 generating vectors
listed in 2011 by Adlam —
As noted by Conway in Sphere Packings, Lattices and Groups ,
these 4096 vectors, constructed lexicographically, are exactly
the same vectors produced by using the Conway-Sloane version
of the Curtis Miracle Octad Generator (MOG). Conway says this
lexico-MOG equivalence was first discovered by M. J. T. Guy.
(Of course, any permutation of the 24 columns above produces
a version of the code qua code. But because the lexicographic and
the MOG constructions yield the same result, that result is in
some sense canonical.)
See my post of July 13, 2020 —
The lexicographic Golay code
contains, embedded within it,
the Miracle Octad Generator.
For some related results, Google the twelfth generator:
* Sloane’s list is of the codewords as the rows of an orthogonal array —
See also http://neilsloane.com/oadir/.
“Plan 9 deals with the resurrection of the dead.”
* See the previous post‘s link to the phrase
“Turn on, tune in, drop dead.”
Sheehy reportedly died on Monday, August 24, 2020.
YouTube has the Vermont speech:
From this journal on that date —
Summary: “Turn on, tune in, drop dead.“
The title is adapted from T. S. Eliot.
See Jung, Psychology and Religion , p. 72
(Princeton University Press, second ed., 1969).
“It is a strange, melancholy feeling to turn sixty-five, and realize
that what you have spent a good portion of your life working
for and toward was not only meritless but also destructive.”
— A new book on politics quoted by Sean Illing at vox.com this morning
For some 65th-birthday-related reflections of my own, see my posts
of August 2007.
For those who prefer entertainment to melancholy, an image
from one of those posts —
Also Dick-related —
Jung's phrase "'four-square' Heavenly City" in the previous post
suggests a geometric object… the 4×4 square —
The "twelve gates" at the sides of the above figure suggest a song —
The Baez date above suggests in turn a review of
the Jan. 4, 2014, post "Heaven's Gate,"
on the death of film producer Saul Zaentz.
Related material —
The "Heavenly City" is perhaps not Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Recall as well Jean Simmons preaching the Foursquare Gospel
in the 1960 film classic "Elmer Gantry" —
Or: "1, 2, 3 , 4, who are we for?"
Related material —
Image added to post on Tuesday, November 4, 2025 —
End of added image. Also on Nov. 4, 2025 . . .
Publication year added to the Coordinates excerpt below.
Related images —
Chess Knight
(in German, Springer)
See also…
From yesterday morning’s post “An Object Lesson” —
A search for the origin of a photo in yesterday’s New York Times
obituary of linguist Geoffrey Nunberg yields . . .
“Words are not things, but activities,” observed Dwight Bolinger,
a revered linguist who taught at Harvard before retiring to Palo Alto,
and he might have been describing Nunberg. Early this morning—
about 2:30 a.m.—he called Bolinger’s words “my favorite linguistic
epigram” in his posting on the Language Log, where blogging linguists
“chew the electronic fat,” as Nunberg puts it.
— Ann Hurst, undated article in Stanford Magazine , March/April 2005
In reality, Nunberg said something slightly different —
Meanwhile, elsewhere . . .
Scholium —
From Log24’s Language Game, Jan. 14, 2004 —
“Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations :
373. Grammar tells what kind of object anything is. (Theology as grammar.)”
From a web page —
From YouTube, for the Church of Synchronology —
Meanwhile, elsewhere . . .
* See that book title in this journal.
Posts tagged Plato's Video continue.
Related literary remarks from this journal on Oct. 1, 2016 —
— A Heart for the Gods of Mexico , Conrad Aiken, 1939
Related imagery this morning from the Gulf of Mexico —
Meanwhile, also on Oct. 1, 2016, related imagery from Star Wars Rebels —
Click here for the video.
“What is your aim in philosophy?—To show the fly
the way out of the fly-bottle.”
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
“Philosophical Investigations”
Related philosophical investigations —
This morning’s post Gap Dance and a 2012 film . . .
“Three magazine employees head out on an assignment
to interview a guy who placed a classified advertisement
seeking a companion for time travel.” — IMDb
The finished film does not follow the script exactly. (The above
dialogue is rendered more in the spirit of Hunter Thompson.)
From remarks in this journal on Aug. 7 —
“You’ve got to pick up every stitch.” — Donovan
“Looking carefully at Golay’s code
is like staring into the sun.”
“What would the pavement of the universe be
if there were gaps between the paving stones,
inaccessible and filled with nothing?”
— “Concerning Time,” by Iannis Xenakis and
Roberta Brown, on page 85, Perspectives of New Music ,
Vol. 27, No. 1 (Winter, 1989, pp. 84-92).
This post was suggested by the Aug. 19 remarks of
Karmela Padavic-Callaghan in Scientific American .
Music for The Bowler and Casanova Frankenstein —
Image from the website of the Scientific American author.
“In the main belly cabin he discovered the reason
for the tropical heat; a naked woman was sweating
and swearing over the maintenance gear surrounding
a transparent incubator. She was tinkering and crawling
over and under the complications like an octopus.
It was his assistant, Dr. Cluny Decco, and Krupp had
never seen her nude before, but his controlled voice
did not betray his delighted amazement.”
— Alfred Bester, The Deceivers . Kindle Edition.
From a post, Dharma Fabric , of January 7, 2020 —
“Ann Syrdal, a psychologist and computer science researcher
who helped develop synthetic voices that sounded like women,
laying the groundwork for such modern digital assistants as
Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa, died on July 24 at her home
in San Jose, Calif. She was 74.” — Cade Metz, NY Times, today
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