There are, of course, purely secular forms of prayer . . .
The above remarks were suggested by the award today of a Nobel Prize
for Hopfield networks, and by the Hebbian theory I learned
in a 1960-1961 Harvard Freshman Seminar on Prescott Street.
Updates:
A scene I prefer . . .
Click the album above for a video uploaded on June 17, 2021.
For the Church of Synchronology: This journal on that date.
Metadata —
From a motion picture filmed in Bucharest —
Meanwhile, in this journal . . .
* See the previous post.
The New York Times this afternoon —
" William Beecher, who as a reporter for The New York Times
revealed President Richard M. Nixon’s secret bombing campaign
over Cambodia during the Vietnam War, and who later won a
Pulitzer Prize at The Boston Globe, died on Feb. 9 at his home
in Wilmington, N.C. He was 90." — Clay Risen, 2:28 PM
Also on Feb. 9 —
Another Beecher narrative —
Religious meditation from the Church of Synchronology . . .
In memory of a Broadway star who reportedly died on Jan. 30 . . .
A Jan. 29 New Yorker story, "Life with Spider," suggests
a look at the author's earlier novel The Variations and,
after a synchronology check, a Log24 flashback —
Thursday, September 7, 2023
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See also Fritz Leiber's rather different Spider Woman in this journal.
Hat tip to Instagram's @slightlystable for some colorful background
today on Venice Beach Kundalini. Related reading —
A synchronology check on the above WWD date,
Aug. 4, 2021, yields some related art —
"Here's to efficient packing."
The previous post suggests a synchronology check of
the release date for the film "The 355." That in turn suggests …
See also a synchronology check of "Jul 8, 2023."
The previous post displayed a use of the phrase "quantum kernel"
by Prof. Dr. Koen Thas of Ghent University. Here is an example of
a rather different, and more widely known, meaning of the phrase —
Synchronology check (approximate) — Also from May 2023 —
From Prof. Dr. Koen Thas at the University of Ghent on 13 Dec. 2017 —
From this journal on that same date — 13 Dec. 2017 —
Related material for fans of synchronology — both from Nov. 3, 2009 —
Nightlight and Summa Mythologica .
Lewis Carroll's chess Red Queen, from Through the Looking Glass,
is "often confused with" the playing cards Queen of Hearts,
from Alice in Wonderland —
" The King turned pale, and shut his notebook hastily.
'Consider your verdict,' he said to the jury in a low, trembling voice….
. . . . 'No, no!' said the Queen. 'Sentence first—verdict afterward.' "
— Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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The figure at right in the video of today's previous post,
"In Alice in Wonderland , the Red Queen
— College of Natural Resources commencement address,
Berck's address was titled "The Red Queen." |
Berck's dies natalis — "birth into heaven," in Catholic parlance —
was reportedly August 10, 2018. A Log24 synchronology check
yields a different chess-related figure … Actor/director John Huston:
"Scarecrow Press, June 21, 2000" — The above publication date.
That date suggests a synchronology check —
From a December 2021 obituary —
"I'm just sittin' on the dock of the bay
Wastin' time"
From Peter Woit's weblog today —
A background check yields . . .
For the Church of Synchronology . . . Posts now tagged
Members of the Church of Synchronology may investigate
in this journal the above Harold Budd dates —
Sept. 27, 2020 and April 18, 2018.
The Mathematical Intelligencer Vol. 10, Issue 1, page 3 (Dec. 1988) . . .
http://www.log24.com/noindex-pdf/
Cullinane-letter-Artes_Liberales-Intelligencer.pdf —
Not a snowflake . . .
Related material . . . "Omnibus ex Nihilo."
And, for the Church of Synchronology —
Log24 on the above Instagram date:
September 8, 2022 — Chevron Variations.
"Hey now, you're an all star
Get your game on, go play
Hey now, you're a rock star
Get the show on, get paid"
— Lyrics from . . .
And for the Church of Synchronology … Log24 on
the above YouTube date — Dec. 25, 2009.
Art Blocks in the previous post —
"… making accessibility and IRL viewership a core component" . . .
From this journal on the above art date — April 6, 2021 —
Tuesday, April 6, 2021
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A check of today's New Yorker penbots yields
an entertaining piece on pop culture by Sarah Larson:
Perhaps, in death's dream kingdom, there is some guidance from
the illustrator who reportedly did the book cover in the previous post —
one Hector Garrido.
"Operation Childlike Innocence, Phase One."
— Sarah Larson, quoted here on Sept. 5, 2015.
Garrido's dies natalis was reportedly 19 April, 2020.
Synchronology check — Log24 search: "Wittgenstein Easter."
Related dramatic dialogue from FUBAR —
Hero — I guess I'll take the pill, and get it over with. (Dramatic music playing.)
Villain — This will be fun. (Music intensifies.) Cheers … Nothing's happening.
Hero — Come to think of it, I might have taken the antidote.
Read more at: https://tvshowtranscripts.ourboard.org/… .
Related synchronology check —
The date — January 9, 2010 — of the Guardian book review
in the previous post was noted here by a top 40 music list
from that same date in an earlier year.
Update of 4:07 AM ET the same morning:
Fans of Cormac McCarthy's recent adventures in unreality
might enjoy interpreting the time — 3:25 AM ET — of this post
as the date 3/25, and comparing the logos, both revisited
and new, in a Log24 post from 3/25 . . .
Helen Mirren with plastic Gankyil .
. . . with the logo of a venue whose motto is
"Reality is not enough."
See also this journal on the above Cambridge U. Press date.
"There are many places one can read about twistors
and the mathematics that underlies them. One that
I can especially recommend is the book Twistor Geometry
and Field Theory, by Ward and Wells."
— Peter Woit, "Not Even Wrong" weblog post, March 6, 2020.
* A fictional entity. See Synchronology in this journal.
The previous post suggests a review of
a Log24 post from August 22, 2020 —
From a web page —
From YouTube, for the Church of Synchronology —
For some context, see Holocron in this journal.
Cable was born in Akeley, Pennsylvania, in 1932 and graduated
from Warren High School in nearby Warren PA in 1950.
The "online remembrance" is at the Meadville Tribune.
Members of the Church of Synchronology may consult this journal's
posts on the date of Cable's reported death.
The date of the Rubber Ducky article in the previous post was . . .
November 11, 2019.
Synchronology check:
* A phrase by Woody Allen (NY Times , May 5, 2011).
Newlove grew up in Jamestown, NY, a city which
appeared in his fiction. He reportedly died on Aug. 17.
Synchronology check: "Little Museum of Horrors."
A Bon Jovi "Stripped" video released May 1, 2007 —
Synchronology check —
This journal in the early morning of the above release date —
"Nine is a very |
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Synchronology check — See LA Scenes tag.
From the previous post . . .
"This review was filed from the 2020 Sundance Film Festival
on January 30th."
Meanwhile . . .
Click the above image for posts on "Expanding the Spielraum."
See as well . . .
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