Thursday, April 23, 2026
Saturday, February 7, 2026
Sunday, November 10, 2024
Numberland: The Talladega Craftsman
Monday, October 17, 2011
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From Summer Solstice 2023 —
Related tunes — "Hot Rod Lincoln" and
"Junk in the Trunk" (Planet Booty, YouTube, Feb. 27, 2019)
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Monday, September 30, 2024
Saturday, September 14, 2024
Tribal Art
Welcome to the towel room.
From a Log24 post of February 26, 2024 —
The URL https://tri.be
of the design firm Modern Tribe . . .
Some will prefer other digital gateways . . .
Amy Adams in The Master
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Monday, May 27, 2024
♫ “This Old Man, He Played Two…”
Some literary background— Doctor Sax.
For The Pride of Lowell . . .
"Fewer letters, cheaper signs." … Business saying from CVS.
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Tuesday, May 4, 2021
Geometry Unzipped*
Or: A. A. Milne Meets Jim Morrison
“She’s like the wind.” — Dirty Dancing
* The key to the title is the date of
the above Amy Adams rendezvous —
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Sunday, May 10, 2020
Plato Again Thanks the Academy
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Saturday, March 2, 2019
Fashion Story
A death last Sunday —
Meanwhile . . .
Amy Adams attends the 2019 Vanity Fair Oscar Party
at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on
Sunday, February 24, 2019, in Beverly Hills, California.
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Saturday, May 12, 2018
In Memoriam
"It is with tremendous sadness that we inform you
that Feral House founder and publisher, Adam Parfrey
passed away Thursday, May 10, 2018."
— Facebook early on Friday morning (12:41 AM)
This journal early on Thursday morning (12:25 AM) —
"And they were singin' . . ."
Midrash added today —
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Thursday, May 10, 2018
“For Ten Years, We’ve Been On Our Own…”
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Friday, May 26, 2017
Headline Style at The New York Times
Sounds like a job for Amy Adams.
Amy Adams at the Lancia Café in Taormina, Sicily, on June 15, 2013.
Adams was in Taormina for the Italian premiere of her Superman film.
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Friday, February 17, 2017
Heptads and Heptapods
In the recent science fiction film "Arrival," Amy Adams portrays
a linguist, Louise Banks, who must learn to translate the language of
aliens ("Heptapods") who have just arrived in their spaceships.
The point of this tale seems to have something to do with Banks
learning, along with the aliens' language, their skill of seeing into
the future.
Louise Banks wannabes might enjoy the works of one
Metod Saniga, who thinks that finite geometry might have
something to do with perceptions of time.
See Metod Saniga, “Algebraic Geometry: A Tool for Resolving
the Enigma of Time?”, in R. Buccheri, V. Di Gesù and M. Saniga (eds.),
Studies on the Structure of Time: From Physics to Psycho(patho)logy,
Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, New York, 2000, pp. 137–166.
Available online at www.ta3.sk/~msaniga/pub/ftp/mathpsych.pdf .
Although I share an interest in finite geometry with Saniga —
see, for instance, his remarks on Conwell heptads in the previous post
and my own remarks in yesterday's post "Schoolgirls and Heptads" —
I do not endorse his temporal speculations.
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Friday, February 3, 2017
Hard Kernel
Hermeneutics —
The above quote occurs in a search called up by clicking on the image
of Amy Adams in the noon post on Groundhog Day (yesterday).
For a "universal message" see the final post of Groundhog Day.
For an "unintelligible secret," see today's previous post.
See also kernel in this journal.
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Thursday, February 2, 2017
Putting the Y in Vanity
Amy Adams on the cover of the
Vanity Fair Hollywood issue, 2017 —
Line spoken to Adams's
character in Arrival —
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Wednesday, February 1, 2017
Hollywood Arrival
In the new film Arrival , Amy Adams plays a linguist
who must interpret the language used by aliens whose
spaceships hover at 12 points around the globe.
Yesterday's events at 6407 Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood,
together with the logic of number and time from recent
posts based on a Heinlein short story, suggest that the
character played by Adams is a sort of "fifth element"
needed to save the world.
In other words, the strange logic of recent posts ties the
California lottery number 6407 to the date April 12, 2015,
and a check of that date in this journal yields posts tagged
Orthodox Easter 2015 that relate to the "fifth element."
Midrash by Ted Chiang from the story on which Arrival was based —
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After the breakthrough with Fermat's Principle, discussions of scientific concepts became more fruitful. It wasn't as if all of heptapod physics was suddenly rendered transparent, but progress was suddenly steady. According to Gary, the heptapods' formulation of physics was indeed topsy-turvy relative to ours. Physical attributes that humans defined using integral calculus were seen as fundamental by the heptapods. As an example, Gary described an attribute that, in physics jargon, bore the deceptively simple name “action,” which represented “the difference between kinetic and potential energy, integrated over time,” whatever that meant. Calculus for us; elementary to them. Conversely, to define attributes that humans thought of as fundamental, like velocity, the heptapods employed mathematics that were, Gary assured me, “highly weird.” The physicists were ultimately able to prove the equivalence of heptapod mathematics and human mathematics; even though their approaches were almost the reverse of one another, both were systems of describing the same physical universe. |
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Friday, December 9, 2016
Snow Dance
See Ballet Blanc in this journal.
For a darker perspective, click on the image below.
See also Cartier in The Hexagon of Opposition.
Happy birthday to Kirk Douglas.
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Friday, May 20, 2016
Friday, April 29, 2016
At the Still Point …
… Continues.
"OK Baby, let's go dancing."
— Amy Adams in "American Hustle"
Click image below for some backstory.
Happy birthday to Uma Thurman.
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Thursday, October 1, 2015
Cartoon Graveyard
The following horrific images —
— were suggested by two pieces I read yesterday in
The Harvard Crimson —
"On Belonging and 'Steven Universe'" and
"Wise Words from the King."
See also a more realistic daydream, starring Amy Adams,
in the previous post, Ornamental Language.
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Harvard’s Science Complex
Utopia or Dystopia? Discuss.
Related scenes for storyboarders —
See the city in the Amy Adams film "Her."
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Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Where Entertainment Is God (continued)
The Cumberbatch Conundrum
A quote from Benedict Cumberbatch in this journal
on Nov. 15 last year:
"… this film’s been up my ass
for the last five years.”
The quote, in connection with today's previous post,
suggests a check of this journal five years ago.
The check yields a paper at the new research site InvenZone.
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Thursday, February 5, 2015
Friday, December 12, 2014
Vocational Education
This post was suggested by today's Harvard Crimson story
Protest at Primal Scream Leads to Chaotic Exchange.
Frederick Seidel in the September 3, 2012, New Yorker —
"Biddies still cleaned the student rooms."
Above, Amy Adams and Emily Blunt in
"Sunshine Cleaning" (2008).
The Cleaner:
A scene from Bridget Fonda's "Point of No Return" (1993)
in a video uploaded six years ago on this date.
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Friday, June 27, 2014
Night of the Iguana Club
“We specialize in bachelorette parties.”
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Thursday, May 8, 2014
Wrinkles in Time
Rivka Galchen, in a piece mentioned here in June 2010—
On Borges: Imagining the Unwritten Book
"Think of it this way: there is a vast unwritten book that the heart reacts to, that it races and skips in response to, that it believes in. But it’s the heart’s belief in that vast unwritten book that brought the book into existence; what appears to be exclusively a response (the heart responding to the book) is, in fact, also a conjuring (the heart inventing the book to which it so desperately wishes to respond)."
Related fictions
Galchen's "The Region of Unlikeness" (New Yorker , March 24, 2008)
Ted Chiang's "Story of Your Life." A film adaptation is to star Amy Adams.
… and non-fiction
"There is such a thing as a 4-set." — January 31, 2012
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Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Dating an OS
Amy Adams in the recent film “Her” —
“You’re dating an OS? What is that like?”
eXPired
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Tuesday, March 4, 2014
The Crimson Passion…
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Thursday, January 2, 2014
Annals of Photography
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