Tuesday, May 31, 2022
A Mad Night’s Work*
Last night's posts on triangles, and today's anniversary of the
death of Evariste Galois, suggest a review . . .
"Take triangles, perhaps" . . . as a category.
And then . . . take squares, perhaps, as another category,
and then . . . find a suitable "translation machine."
See "Square Triangles."
* Title adapted from a 2001 essay by Pierre Cartier.
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Monday, May 30, 2022
Decoration Day (In Memory of a Dead Poet)
A story in The Art Newspaper today suggests a review —
… And then there is the motto "Principles before personalities."
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Sunday, May 29, 2022
Memorial for Ronnie Hawkins
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/
ronnie-hawkins-obituary-1360442/
See also other posts now tagged Night Hunt.
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“Code and Theory” Image
For some material much more on the theory side,
see a Log24 post from the above IG date — Nov. 18, 2020 —
in posts tagged Qubes —
.
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Lost in Deep Space Translation
"Black art" → "Black magic"
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https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2022-05-28/
Keasha Dumas Heath, executive director at
Keasha Dumas Health, executive supervisor at |
Consider the source.
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Morning Song
[Verse 1]
Oh, I could hide 'neath the wings
Of the bluebird as she sings
The six o'clock alarm would never ring
But it rings and I rise
Wipe the sleep out of my eyes
My shavin' razor's cold and it stings
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Saturday, May 28, 2022
Grothendieck at Chapman …
Last two days of the conference, May 27 and 28, 2022 —
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27th Friday
9:00 – 10:00 Andrés Villaveces (Univ. Nacional de Colombia):
10:00 – 11:00 Olivia Caramello (Univ. of Insubria; by Zoom): 1:00 – 11:15 Coffee Break
1:15 – 12:15 Mike Shulman (Univ. of San Diego):
12:15 – 1:15 José Gil-Ferez (Chapman Univ.) 1:15 – 2:30 Lunch
2:30 – 3:30 Oumar Wone (Chapman) :
3:30 – 4:30 Claudio Bartocci (Univ. of Genova):
4:30 – 5:30 Christian Houzel (IUFM de Paris): 28th Saturday
9:00 – 10:00 Silvio Ghilardi (Univ. degli Studi, Milano):
10:00 – 11:00 Matteo Viale (Univ. of Turin; by zoom): 11:00 – 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:15 Benjamin Collas (RIMS, Kyoto Univ.):
12:15 – 1:15 Closing: general discussion |
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Wine Country
I order the gin martini I’ve been anticipating
for the last twenty-four hours.
"Sorry. We only have wine.”
“You’re kidding me, right?”
He shrugs, reaching for a laminated pamphlet
that lists the bottles at his disposal.
It’s wine country, after all.
I start to read through the vineyards,
but the compound names quickly blur—
I don’t know a thing about wine.
I shut the menu.
“Something very cold and strong.”
— Steinhauer, Olen. All the Old Knives (p. 22).
St. Martin's Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
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Friday, May 27, 2022
Great Escapes
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Plan 9 from Disney
"With the Tablet of Ahkmenrah and the Cube of Rubik,
my power will know no bounds!"
— Kahmunrah in a novelization of Night at the Museum:
Battle of the Smithsonian , Barron's Educational Series
Scholium —
Abstracting from narrative to structure, and from structure
to pure number, the Tablet of Ahkmenrah represents the
number 9 and the Cube of Rubik represents the number 27.
Returning from pure abstract numbers to concrete representations,
9 yields the structures in Log24 posts tagged Triangle.graphics,
and 27 yields a Galois cube .
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Thursday, May 26, 2022
A Mad Day’s Work*
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Wednesday, May 25, 2022
Cargo Cult
From the Amazon.com description of Colin Cantwell's space novel Corefires —
"Of the cargo, the data Crystals are the most important.
Necessary to life in space, they have to be protected at all costs."
Related merchandise — Disney Holocrons:
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Corefire Temple
The words in the above title were suggested by
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the title, Corefires , of a novel by the late
Colin Cantwell (see previous post). -
the place-name Temple, Texas , in the gas station
scene of "No Country for Old Men," -
Log24 posts on the fictional cinematic Fire Temple,
and by … - a folk etymology for the word "pyramid" —
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Mexico City Blues
The New York Times yesterday ("2022-05-24T21:54:19.000Z")
on a Saturday, May 21, death —
"Colin Cantwell, an animator, conceptual artist and computer expert
who played significant production roles in seminal science fiction films
like '2001: A Space Odyssey,' 'Star Wars' and 'WarGames,' died
on May 21 at his home in Colorado Springs, Colo. He was 90."
Cantwell at Teotihuacan pyramid, September 26, 2019 —
A different image, also from September 26, 2019,
in other Log24 posts tagged Pyramid Game —
The letter labels, but not the tetrahedron, are from Whitehead’s
The Axioms of Projective Geometry (Cambridge U. Press, 1906),
page 13.
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Tuesday, May 24, 2022
Playing the Palace
From a Jamestown (NY) Post-Journal article yesterday on
"the sold-out 10,000 Maniacs 40th anniversary concert at
The Reg Lenna Center Saturday" —
" 'The theater has a special place in our hearts. It’s played
a big part in my life,' Gustafson said.
Before being known as The Reg Lenna Center for The Arts,
it was formerly known as The Palace Theater. He recalled
watching movies there as a child…."
This, and the band's name, suggest some memories perhaps
better suited to the cinematic philosophy behind "Plan 9 from
Outer Space."
"With the Tablet of Ahkmenrah and the Cube of Rubik,
my power will know no bounds!"
— Kahmunrah in a novelization of Night at the Museum:
Battle of the Smithsonian , Barron's Educational Series
The above 3×3 Tablet of Ahkmenrah image comes from
a Log24 search for the finite (i.e., Galois) field GF(3) that
was, in turn, suggested by last night's post "Making Space."
See as well a mysterious document from a website in Slovenia
that mentions a 3×3 array "relating to nine halls of a mythical
palace where rites were performed in the 1st century AD" —
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“Making Space”
Flashback to April 13, 2017 —
See also the post "Making Space"
in this journal on that date.
Related cinematic art:
A new film at Cannes has a character
named "Caprice" —
I prefer a different Caprice . . .
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Monday, May 23, 2022
Church Socials: Class Act*
* Alternate title:
"Time Is a Weapon,
or 4:45 Meets 8:38."
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A Long March
"'Night Sky' is an absorbing series with an interesting premise
that marches to its own drummer…." — NY Post , May 18.
See as well posts tagged "Bedrock" in this journal.
"I need a photo opportunity . . . " — Paul Simon
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