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Plan 9 Continues…

A link to “Nine Tailors” in this journal may serve as a memorial to the late David M. Abshire, who reportedly died at 88 on Halloween. See also…

Wisconsin Death Trip*

Courtesy of Mira Sorvino. Enter Madison : From "Intruders," BBC America, Season 1, Episode 2, at 1:07 of 43:31. "You sure know how to show a girl a…

Gods and Giants

A weblog reports Chris Rock's remarks on Saturday Night Live this past weekend: "It’s America, we commercialize everything. Look at what we did to Christmas. Christmas.  Christmas is…

The Rhetoric of Abstract Concepts

From a post of June 3, 2013: New Yorker  editor David Remnick at Princeton today (from a copy of his prepared remarks): “Finally, speaking of fabric design….” I prefer Tom…

A Singular Place

"Macy’s Herald Square occupies a singular place in American retailing." — NY Times  today, in print on page BU1 of the New York edition with the headline: Makeover on 34th Street ….

Right Through Hell

… there is a path. — Malcolm Lowry

Tonic

Related posts: New Key and The Well-Tempered Monolith. Hold the gin.

Not Saints

“We are not saints.” — Alcoholics Anonymous , Chapter 5 The New York Times  on AA’s co-founder Bill Wilson in 1934: Click for the rest of the story.

All Saints' Day

For the Late Hans Schneider

See a University of Wisconsin obituary for Schneider, a leading expert on linear algebra who reportedly died at 87 on Tuesday, October 28, 2014. Some background on linear algebra…