Sunday, July 30, 2017

STREWTH of PI! Sundays of Seeing Good and Evil


THE SECRET, BEAUTIFULLY CURATED MUSEUM OF GARBAGE



Virtual photographer Alan Butler documents the homeless folk who populate the digital streets ofGrand Theft Auto V.

DOWN AND OUT IN LOS SANTOS


The Graphic Design of Gang Business Cards

Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant ..? 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286 ...


THESE ZINES WILL TEACH YOU HOW TO MAKE COCKTAILS WHILE LEARNING ABOUT PHILOSOPHY




Soviet anti-drinking posters
STEPHEN GREEN IS ON HIS WAY TO FULL EIDETIC: Study finds drinking alcohol can improve your memory.


TAKE A VIRTUAL HIKE AROUND ULURU



HOW A BUNCH OF AUSSIES INVENTED WIFI




Living memory: The infamous symbol of the Illuminati is the “Great Seal”, depicting an all-seeing eye on top of a pyramid. This icon is found on the back of the American dollar bill:

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Pi is what’s known as an irrational number, meaning its decimal representation never ends and it never repeats. It has been calculated to more than one trillion digits - “How Many Decimals of Pi Do We Really Need?” The approximation 3.14 is often precise enough, hence the celebration occurs 6 Days after Malchkeon's birthday on March 14, or 3/14 (when written in Amerikan month/day format). The first known celebration occurred in 1988 on Australia's Bicentenary Year. Note that after two years of no longer living in sin with Malcheon, the US House of Representatives passed a resolution designating March 14 as Pi Day and encouraging bloggers to have fun with
Bohemian Initials:
Pi symbol with the sum formula equals 3.14

 those initials ;-) The number π (aka JI handwritten initials) is a mathematical constant, the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, commonly approximated as 3.14159. It has been represented by the Greek letter "π" since the mid-18th century - it is also sometimes spelled out as "pi" (/paɪ/) - pi has been recognized for at least 4,000 years. A History of Pi notes that by 2000 B.C., "the Babylonians and the Egyptians (at least) were aware of the existence and significance of the constant," recognizing that every circle has the same ratio of circumference to diameter. Both the Babylonians and Egyptians had rough numerical approximations to the value of pi, and later mathematicians in ancient Greece, particularly Archimedes, improved on those approximations. By the start of the 20th century, about 500 digits of pi were known. With computation advances, thanks to computers, we now know more than the first six billion digits of pi.


Torah and Memory of Czech Army Days (730 days and nights; 17,520 hours; 1,051,200 minutes,  63,072,000 seconds,    ... We have found that the primary circle is constructed out of the days of the year, where day equals 113 and year equals 355. Indeed, the closest integer fraction to π for integers under 100,000 is known to be the ratio of these two numbers (the next best pair of integers for π are 33,102 and 103,993, whose ratio is 3.1415926…)!

355/113 = 3. 141592920

The value of π as found using more complex methods has been calculated to begin with the numbers: 3.141592653…. Thus, this ratio gives us π to 1 part in a million! Note that this value for π is far more precise than the value (3.1415094…) discovered by the Gaon of Vilna, as described above. It has variously been reported that this fraction was known in the Far East long before it was discovered in the West.
The sum of 355 (the circumference) and 113 (the diameter) is 468 = 18 · 26 where 18 is the value of chai (חַי , meaning alive) and 26 is the value of Havayah. 468 is also the product of 3 times “Joseph” (יוֹסֵף ). This is a most interesting result. If we take a step back and look at what we have done, we can see that we have taken temporal concepts (year and day) and used them to describe spatial concepts (circumference, diameter, and π).25 Joseph is described in the Torah as the soul with the power to translate between the spatial and temporal dimensions. This is most clearly seen in his interpretation of Pharaoh and Pharaoh’s ministers’ dreams. They dreamed of spatial objects (3 vines, 3 baskets of bread, 7 cows, and 7 stalks of wheat) and Joseph translated them into temporal objects (3 days, 3 days, 7 years, and 7 years, respectively).26
Recall that the Gaon of Vilna’s approximation was based on the ratio of 333/106. Above we mentioned that the closest ratio to π of integers less than 100 is 22/7. If we add 22 to 333 we get 355. Likewise, if we add 7 to 106 we get 113! Also, the addition of 7 to 106 is implied in the words “or two days” (אוֹ יוֹמַיִם ) since the value of the first word “or” (אוֹ ) is 7 and the value of the second word “two days” (יוֹמַיִם ) is 106!
pi in Pascal triangle






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The life and death of John Keats. His talent drew attention, as did his penchant for fighting in the High Tatra dances. When death neared, he longed for it with frightening urgency  Fighting  

C.S. Lewis & Lin-Manuel Miranda: How I Found My Faith In Mere Christianity And Deepened It In Hamilton



IMPORTANT NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: How To Have Hot Sex, According To Scientists.




This Article investigates the effect of taxes on marriage formation using a natural experiment generated by the income tax’s halting movement from individual taxation of married couples to joint taxation. The 1948 Revenue Act was the first to explicitly adopt joint taxation. Under the Act, married couples were taxed like two individuals, except each was assigned half of the couple’s joint income. This income splitting blunted the progressivity of the tax code, usually reducing the couple’s taxes. The 1948 Act, however, only affected common law states. Married couples in community property states in practice already enjoyed joint taxation with income splitting under Poe v. Seaborn (1930). The 1948 Act thus presents an unusually good opportunity to study the impact of taxes on marriage because it offers substantial exogenous state-by-state variation in tax incentives to marry.






IN “SEE NO EVIL?”, ORIGINAL CITY JOURNAL EDITOR MYRON MAGNET WRITES:

I went into the Thalia theater with those rosy hopes as unquestioned bedrock assumptions. I came out with such certitude shattered. If so advanced a society as Germany’s—with so glorious a past in music and philosophy, such mighty achievements in science and industry—could do this in modern times, all talk of moral progress was just wind.

Saturday, July 29, 2017

WHERE PEOPLE GO TO HIDE FROM MODERN LIFE

Paris and or Reims ;-) The full story of UX and the underground cinema is documented by The GuardianGizmodo and Wired. I love this quote from the Wired piece: "On a typical festival evening, they screen at least two films that they feel share a nonobvious yet provocative connection… They chose a room beneath the Palais de Chaillot they'd long known of and enjoyed unlimited access to. The building was then home to Paris’ famous Cinémathèque Française, making it doubly appropriate. They set up a bar, a dining room, a series of salons, and a small screening room that accommodated 20 viewers, and they held festivals there every summer for years. 'Every neighborhood cinema should look like that,' Kunstmann says." Now that would be unique...

Romance of Sydney is disappearing as concrete jungle is embracing the harbour city no longer all emerald ...

Get Out While You Can Dan Sultan - Mushroom Music Publishing 

Dan Sultan's Kingdom ;-) Dan Sultan - Kingdom (Live Session) - YouTube

Most of us dream of running away from modern life, from 
time to time. Photographer Alec Soth spent five years documenting the people who have done just that, and the places they've sought refuge in.
Where People Go to Hide From Modern Life


WHERE PEOPLE GO TO HIDE FROM MODERN LIFE



Blood, sea snails and a whole lot of urine went into some of your favourite paintings. This brief history of colour explores the strange alchemy of paint making.

THE SURPRISINGLY GROSS (AND SOMETIMES DEADLY) HISTORY BEHIND PAINT COLOURS



Dropping Out is a Cool Thing to do


DOWN AND OUT IN LOS SANTOS


South Coast cafe makes NSW's best fish and chips | courtesy of Illawarra Mercury
The New French Hacker-Artist Underground | WIRED

ABOUT-SMALLAfter Rosencrantz and Guildenstern humiliated Tom Stoppard, the play took off. Asked what it was really about, he said: "It is about to make me very rich like Jozef Imrich"... Yet as we all know, you are not rich until you had something that money cannot buy ...

Stone Temple: “Count on it: Google is going to optimize for the best combination of user experience/satisfaction (market share) and revenue on each of its platforms. What users expect on YouTube vs. Google Search is different. Stating that a bit more subtly, think of this as optimizing their ongoing revenue over time. With that in mind, we did what we always do at Stone Temple: We collected data on which videos rank in YouTube, and which ones rank in Google, and we analyzed it in detail.





News organizations are using Nextdoor to connect with readers block-by-block

Time your departure time wrong, and even the simplest of journeys can end up taking far longer than it was meant to. Hit traffic, and your journey time could be doubled — or worse. A new feature of Google Maps aims to eliminate this problem.  The nameless feature is rolling out to the Google Maps mobile app, and it lets you know how long your trip will take if you leave now, or in a few hours’ time. It’s a simple addition — and one that would benefit from a little more work and refinement — but it’s a valuable one for travelers

THIS IS INTERESTING: Oxygen therapy revives brain of toddler who nearly drowned.

In one of the first such confirmed cases, an Arkansas toddler who suffered severe brain injury after nearly drowning has had that brain damage reversed, using a new treatment.
The treatment is known as hyperbaric oxygen therapy, or HBOT. It exposes a patient to pure oxygen within the confines of a carefully controlled pressurized chamber. During the therapy, the body gets three times the normal amount of oxygen, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. . . .

It's a glittering melange of unbridled sexuality, twee Tomboyishness, and aloof sophistication, which sounds contradictory until you look around at the iconic women it's based on, (and the amount of revenue their identities have generated for countless brands.)
Think Brigitte Bardot. Jane Birkin on the arm of Serge Gainsbourg. Leslie Caron, but only in the 1960s. Jean Seberg in Breathless. It is only Catherine Deneuve who is allowed to transcend her youth.

 Alcohol dissolves the barrier between aspiration and judgment. Come morning, the barrier is rebuilt. You mourn for the feeling you had last night. Metaphysics of the hangover Vino of Life  

July 17, 2017 | A Chinese writer sets a novel during the Holocaust? A Jewish boy writes about a black man in 1810? It’s the result that matters, not the  creator  

The Cold War lasted until 1991, but Cold War philosophy is still with us. Consider the strange and enduring career of rational choice theory Cold War River 

| Artistic fashion comes and goes. What remains is the experience of culture — its beauty, its reach, its strangeness, its ability to transform an  ordinary life  

July 14, 2017 | Truman Capote's excesses would, in his final years, seal his fate as an outcast of the "in" crowd. Now that Capote the personality has faded, it's easier to assess Capote the artist... Etopac  

In 1967, Timothy Leary told Allen Ginsberg to drop out. "What can I drop out of?" Ginsberg asked. "Your teaching at Cal," Leary said. Ginsberg chuckled. "But I need the money"... What Makes Modern Man:  Money  

The history of modern cool media dragon is one of strange convergences — among French intellectuals, black musicians, and white Hollywood heroes... Dragons 


Leonardo and Michelangelo were driven and difficult, which is central to their modern appeal. The less mercurial Raphael is more admired than loved... The Italians  

Le Monde diplo v. Bernard-Henri Lévy. The monthly releases a "dossier" portraying him as a mafia-type oligarch. BHL responds 

The essay thrives on paradox: confession and concealment, disorder and progression, concision and profusion. The best essays are never about what they claim to be about Making a Difference 

How Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the supremely rational Sherlock Holmes, came to proselytize for spiritualism, participate in séances, and believe we can speak to the dead... Holmes  

Dalí’s intact moustache
Trump, book salesman
Bookshelf organizing
Gardeners' lingo
Drinks with Vonnegut
Sci-fi and nostalgia
Medieval millennial bashing
Ayn Rand, business guru
How to chair a department
Secrets of a crime novel
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Friday, July 28, 2017

Learning the value of being a troublemaker: Strangers Dining Room




The roots of spontaneity are in the Tao, the path of virtue, the all-pervading energy of the universe, the ground of being, the source of all things. The artist must open up to this energy, must live in the flow. Here’s the great Japanese poet Basho living in the flow:

An old pond;
A Frog jumps in–
The sound of the water.

To study the frog, as a way to understanding, is to lose the mystery. Basho is simply an observer in the landscape who happens to write the poem.



 Learning the value of being a troublemaker. [Ghostwriting-Speechwriting]

Russia: Repudiation of debt at the heart of the revolutions of 1905 and 1917. Micael: “So it takes a revolution? 4-part series about debt and the Russian revolutions.” Moi: Now don’t get ideas….


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Sydney put the best foot forward as above our heads was the bluest of skies and the bullion sunrays beamed at our conersation that no one else in the world was having ...Often poets are drawn towards the time between seasons, the time when both death and life, endings and beginnings, merge into each other and confuse us. Down Under, Christmas in July,  has its seasonal place deep in winter or deep in summer when the old year fades and a new one beckons. It seems fitting that we celebrate the birth of a famous baby at this time, a baby born in poverty as the story goes, born under a star that promised celestial light for everyone – but only through an ultimate sacrifice. Birth and death are entangled here too.
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Learn To Make Trouble Effectively & Become "Rich" (at least as John Waters defines it)


MaketroubleLike Steve Jobs at Stanford, filmmaker John Waters delivered an iconic commencement speech at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Essentially, it was about how to make trouble effectively. 
Those who do will wind up "rich," at least as Waters defines that concept. To him, "rich" means being able to afford not to have to do work for a___holes. In addition, you also often have the option of being able to work for yourself.
In April 2017, that how-to was published in book form. The title of those 71 pages is "Make Trouble." Here you can order it from Amazon.
A piece of learning how to make trouble is, hammers Waters, being able to:
"Ask for the world and pay no mind if you are initially turned down ... All you need is one person to say 'get in,' and off you go."
Embracing rejection as almost irrelevant is a must not only for new graduates struggling for a place in the creative world.
Just about every traditional line of work, ranging from practicing law to my field of ghostwriting, has become a daily rollercoaster of hope and despair. 
Yet, as Waters puts it, all you need is one "yes." That's what you should keep seeking. To do that, you bet, we have to make trouble. That is, not follow the rules the experts make a lot of money creating and imposing on those who don't make trouble. 
"Trouble-makers" are those who pass by the kind of work which leads to being tethered for life laboring for a___holes.
Among the trouble-makers has been Elie Mystal.
Mystal left being an associate in BigLaw for journalism at digital news site Abovethelaw.com. At the time he was in six-figure student loan debt from following the experts who told him to attend Harvard College and Harvard Law School. Today, one of his columns had more than 2K shares.
Toward the end of his commencement speech, Waters asks the graduates to "Make Me Nervous." 
It wasn't until I lost my mind, nest egg and business in 2003, that I made it my mission to make the world nervous. (Here is the e-book on what was the worst of times.)
Yes, immediately I became, as Waters predicted, "rich." And, unlike so many of those chasing after "rich" as in financial wealth, you don't wind up jumping out the window at work, embezzling from the firm or being a functioning drunk.
GOOD LORD: A hefty reward awaits the murderer of an Israeli family — courtesy of U.S. taxpayers.
"Make Trouble" is a wonderful gift for the Class of 2021 as well as for those of us over-65 who are determined to never retire.

Ironically and appallingly, just last week the US State Department published a report blaming Israel for Palestinian terrorism and claiming that the PLO-led, and US-funded Palestinian Authority doesn’t incite terrorism and violence and hatred.


Henry Miller, one of the great eccentrics and novelists of the 20th century, author of Tropic of Capricorn and Tropic of Cancer, observed that “writing, like life itself, is a journey of discovery. The adventure is a metaphysical one.... he takes the path in order eventually to become the path itself” (178). When we create a painting, a poem, music, sculpture, etc., we go on a journey and the destination is not merely to finish but to discover ourselves along the way. Creativity invites this kind of contemplation, this kind of adventure.

What we create might be vastly different from what we set out to do. This process involves false starts and dead ends, numberless changes, shaping and reshaping, continuous good taste and the harmonizing faculties, the internal editor, and much more. We must allow ourselves immersion in the process like a swimmer in water, and we must keep going forward. Rumi inspires us here:
Work. Keep digging your well... Water is there somewhere.

If we ever falter, or even get blocked, that’s okay too. We may need the time for reflection, to see the way more clearly, to gather new images and ideas, to allow the unknown aspects of the mind to solve the problem. It’s clear that you can fall asleep with a problem and wake up with a solution, or that you can be vexed by a problem for weeks or longer, but then suddenly eureka – the way is clear. So don’t rush creativity. And let it happen without manipulating or puppeting ideas and images. “Trusting our creativity is new behavior for many of us,” Julia Cameron suggests in The Artist’s Way”.

Creativity is not something limited to our childhoods, not something limited to when we have some free time on vacation. We can infuse our lives with a creative way of being. Thomas Moore says that “art is not found only in the painter’s studio or in the halls of a museum, it also has its place in the store, the shop, the factory and the home”. Indeed, we can learn to see from new angles, we can learn to combine ideas and systems in new ways, to make hybrids...