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Ideas

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live. The princess is caged in the consulate. The man with the candy will lead the children into the sea. The…

Variation on a Simple Tune

The previous post discussed a tune ending in the following sequence of notes (symbols as in a Wikipedia article): C#4  B4  A4  E4  G4 . (This sequence was…

Simple Tune

1  2  3  4  5  9  8  6  7 220 * (1/4) =   55 = A1 220 * (2/4) = 110 = A2 220 * (3/4) =…

Palm Desert's Got Talent

“The film captures the offbeat time warp of the present-day desert cities around Palm Springs, with the movie being partly filmed in Palm Desert.” See also posts on…

Matrix

From AP’s Today in History: Happy birthday. “It all adds up.” — Saul Bellow The Matrix:

Meanwhile, Back at Harvard…

"William Deresiewicz argued his claim that students of elite universities are growingly risk-averse, homogeneous, and career-focused with a panel of faculty members and students on Monday evening. Hosted…

Both Hands and an Ass Map

Remarks by University Diaries  this morning suggested a search for Rutgers in this journal. That search yields a post from Dec. 30, 2005, that is closely related to both…

Finder

According to Amazon.com, the first (hardcover) edition of Paranoia , by Joseph Finder, the book on which the 2013 film of the same title was based, was published…

The Matrix continues…

From the opening credits of the 2013 film “Paranoia,” a hint that you may have taken the red pill: (Note the reflection.)

A Holy Cross for Brooklyn

Saturday night’s 9  PM post: “Once again, Harvard defeats Holy Cross.” That post quoted Joseph Campbell describing a “… matrix of the cosmic process, whether in the macrocosm or in…