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Entertainment Theory

From "Entertainment," a 1981 story by M. A. Foster— "For some time, Cormen had enjoyed a peculiar suspicion, which he had learned from his wanderings around the city,…

Release Date

The premiere of the Lily Collins film Abduction  (see previous post) was reportedly in Sydney, Australia, on August 23, 2011. From that date in this journal— For the eight-limbed…

Mirror, Mirror

Elizabeth Taylor in National Velvet  (1944), Lily Collins in Abduction  (2011).

OWL Time Ontology

Continued from yesterday's 9 PM (ET) post. Here KR stands for Knowledge Representation . See also some ontology remarks by Marissa Mayer.

A Prime for Marissa

"I don't like odd numbers, and I really don't like primes." — Marissa Mayer See Cube Symmetry Axes in this journal.

Where Entertainment Is God

(Continued) "In City-Now, there's no time reference, so you can't trace things." — "Entertainment," by M. A. Foster, first published in 1981       in New Voices 4 ,…

Museum Quality

"Marissa, we picked up an unencrypted signal below the Arctic Circle." — Hanna  (2011) "We have a clip." — Kalle  (Kristen Wiig on SNL)

The Feast

"And in the Master's chambers…" — Eagles Related fiction — Amy + Dinner and today's previous post. Related non-fiction — a page of pure mathematics —

At the Still Point

Midrash on yesterday's midday NY lottery: "Everybody's doin' a brand new dance now…"

Star Wars (continued)

A star figure and the Galois quaternion. The square root of the former is the latter. "… Todo lo sé por el lucero puro que brilla en la diadema…