The New York Times today has an
obituary of poet Harvey Shapiro—
See also the following image
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Star Wars (continued)
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Saturday, December 1, 2012
Star Wars
Source: Rudolf Koch, The Book of Signs
The American Mathematical Society
(AMS) yesterday:
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Lars Hörmander (1931-2012) Hörmander, who received a Fields Medal in 1962, |
Some related material:
- A 1990 AMS review of a book by another mathematician,
Harmonic Analysis in Phase Space , that is closely
related to Hörmander's research (and perhaps more
accessible to the nonspecialist than his books), - Mathematical Imagery (Log24, Jan. 19, 2012),
- The Eight-Pointed Star, and yesterday's
- Point.
See also posts on Damnation Morning and, from the
date of Hörmander's death,
- Will and Representation.
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Friday, August 24, 2012
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Chapman’s Homer
Louis Sahagun in today's Los Angeles Times—
The late Professor Marvin W. Meyer
"was our Indiana Jones," said James L. Doti,
president of Chapman University in Orange,
where Meyer held the Griset Chair in Bible
and Christian Studies and was director of
the Albert Schweitzer Institute.
Meyer reportedly died on August 16.
Thursday, August 16, 2012
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Monday, February 27, 2012
Reflection
"But even if the religious note is dissonant to some of us,
it seems hard to come up with a better formulation
of what a college should strive to be: an aid to reflection…."
— Andrew Delbanco, Chronicle of Higher Education , Feb. 26, 2012
Another aid to reflection—
The logo of an institution that advertised today in the Chronicle
next to Delbanco's article—
Click logo for context. The institution's original name
was Hesperian College.
For some background, see Evening Star in this journal.
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Thursday, April 23, 2009
Thursday April 23, 2009
Star Quality
This deliberately cryptic entry is to thank an anonymous reader in Sweden for the following footprint:
| Sweden Speedy |
…&uid=37798719 | 4/23/2009 4:33 PM |
“Speedy” is the browser name supplied to the server. The link is to a Columbus Day, 2003, entry with the song phrase “spinnin’ wheel, spinnin’ true.” The time is Eastern Daylight.
Related material:
Vide today’s midday PA lottery number, 177, the 1919 edition of The Oxford Book of English Verse, and the time (interpreted, in a Joycean manner, as a date) of this morning’s first entry.
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Sunday, March 22, 2009
Sunday March 22, 2009
Funeral Services Held
for Natasha Richardson
for Natasha Richardson
“Family and friends of Natasha Richardson said their final farewells to the late actress Sunday afternoon during a small, private funeral held near her Millbrook home in upstate New York….
Richardson died on Wednesday [March 18, 2009] at the age of 45 from a head injury she suffered [on Monday, March 16, 2009] while skiing in Canada.
The funeral began after the family arrived in a police-escorted motorcade at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Lithgow, where Neeson and her sons are members….”
For what it’s worth…
Background image
for the E! story:
Related images —
Midsummer Night
in the Garden of
Good and Evil.
See also:
“God as Trauma,”
by a former vicar
of the Lithgow church,
and Drunkard’s Walk.
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