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Abstract*

  Saturday January 12, 2013, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. Pacific Standard Time MAA Invited Paper Session on Writing, Talking, and Sharing Mathematics Room 2, Upper Level, San Diego Convention…

Grapevine Hill

See also the song at the end of yesterday morning's "For Your Consideration." The setting for that song, "Hot Rod Lincoln," is— according to Wikipedia— the road described in…

For Your Consideration

From the World Socialist Web Site: (Click to enlarge.) Note the bend sinister in the address bar: Related remarks: Related music: "Pulled out of San Pedro late one…

Bad Idea

For the 2013 Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Diego, which start today, a cartoon by Andrew Spann— (Click for larger image.)  Related remarks: This journal on the Feast…

Eve and Cleavage

From a poem by Frances Frost— "The upper peak, the shattered rock that cleaves the northward sky remains alone untaken by the darkness" — "From a Mountain-Top," The…

Django

"Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, is 31." — The Associated Press this morning, Jan. 9. See also, in honor of the date of the Duchess's birth— 1982 Jan. 9— Django in…

Vermont Throws Itself Together

"The way, when we climb a mountain,   Vermont throws itself together" — Wallace Stevens, "July Mountain" For another view of reality in New Haven, see the brief…

Star Wars (continued)

The New York Times  today has an obituary of poet Harvey Shapiro— See also the following image   elsewhere in this journal.

Necessary Angel

Old Stone-Cutter His gravestones are his everlasting children. He loves to get his cramped left hand around the solid faithful feeling of his chisel and dig the names…

Nine is a Vine (continued)

In honor of a famed architecture critic, here is a link to Bruno's Atria. See also Giordano Bruno  in this journal.