Sunday 28 Apr 2013 comment? Two stories of creation out of nothing. Where stuff came from:
In the beginning there was nothing,
but only approximately (Heisenberg) so nothing didn't stay nothing for long. Where numbers come from:
Allowing the notion of set,
i.e., apprehension or grouping,
define zero as apprehension of nothing: the null set {} . Zero is now a potential object of apprehension. Define one as apprehension of zero: { {} } and so on. Our buddy Heisenberg said observation is tied to uncertainty. As apprehension is observation, the two stories have a common flavor. The stuff story is my whimsical summary of Lawrence Krauss. The number story is also not my invention. Friday 19 Apr 2013 comment? Storm Thorgerson, designer of many great album covers, died of cancer yesterday at age 69. Several articles (e.g., the one linked to above), in mentioning his artwork for Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here, refer only to the front cover with the burning man. That image deserves to be considered in context, as it was one of four thematically related images on that album's (inner and outer) sleeves. Each sleeve face depicted one of the (Greek) classical elements, interpreted not just by a photo but also as if coming forth from the paper itself. Earth and water pour out of holes; fire shows the paper burning; air is invisible and thus implicit. All four photos show human(-like) figures, men in the fire/earth/water pics and a topless woman hidden behind the red veil in the air-themed photo. I'm partial to Thorgerson's covers for Houses of the Holy and Atom Heart Mother (the latter subsequently imitated by a bootleg recording, The Dark Side of the Moo). Those were the days, when recorded music went hand-in-hand with artwork. I make slotted frames for hanging album covers on the wall; if you want one, lemme know. Happy nineteenth, everyone. Thursday 18 Apr 2013 comment?
Thursday 11 Apr 2013 comment? Singapore has a male-only sodomy law, like Texas did before Lawrence. But Singapore's High Court recently refused to overturn the law. To summarize parts of the 92-page ruling:
Saturday 06 Apr 2013 2 comments
About Boeing and the 787: The company said it would analyze the results of several weeks of testing, which included blowing up the batteries in labs, and then forward the results to the Federal Aviation Administration, probably early next week.Someone at Boeing has a nice gig. Most of us only get to "test" (also my preferred euphemism for blowing up) electrical parts for sport. |
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