From the journal of Steven H. Cullinane...
2005 July 16-31
Sunday, July 31, 2005
5:24 AM
Looney Tunes LOS ANGELES, July 30 (AP) - Kayo Hatta, an independent filmmaker... died on July 20. She was 47. She accidentally drowned at a friend's home in the San Diego area, her sister Julie Hatta said.... Ms.
Hatta graduated from Stanford University with a degree in English and
received a master's degree in film from the University of California,
Los Angeles. She recently completed a 30-minute
coming-of-age film called "Fishbowl," based on the writings of Hawaiian
author Lois-Ann Yamanaka. |
Quote from Lois-Ann Yamanaka:
Blu's Hanging
... Poppy still plays "Moon River" in the background.
He sings aloud:
"Old dreammaker, you heartbreaker, wherever you're going, I'm going your way."
He makes me afraid.
I know where he wants to go.
And who the dreammaker is.
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There will be a public memorial service in Honolulu
open to friends and the general public:
Date: Sunday, July 31st
Time: 1:00 pm
Location: Moiliili Hongwanji Buddhist Church,
902 University Avenue
In lieu of flowers, donations may be sent to:
Asian Improv aRts / Kayo Hatta Fund
201 Spear St., Ste 1650
San Francisco, CA 94105
Saturday, July 30, 2005
11:21 AM
Born today: Laurence Fishburne
Matrix 
"The
nine-fold square has centre, periphery, axes and diagonals. But all are
present only in their bare essentials. It is also a sequence of eight
triads. Four pass through the centre and four do not. This is the
garden of Apollo, the field of Reason, sheltered by the Gate from the
turmoil of the Delta, with its endless cycles of erasure and
reinscription. This is the Temple of Solomon, as inscribed, for
example, by a nine-fold compartmentation to provide the ground plan of
Yale...."
-- Architects
John Outram Associates on
work at Rice University Yale Daily News, Jan. 11, 2001:
"When New Haven was founded, the city was laid out into a grid of nine squares surrounded by a great wilderness.
Last year History of Art Professor Emeritus Vincent Scully said the original town plan reflected a feeling that the new city should be sacred.
Scully said the colony's founders thought of their new Puritan
settlement as a 'nine-square paradise on Earth, heaven on earth, New
Haven, New Jerusalem.'"
"Real and unreal are two in one:
New Haven
Before and after one arrives...."
-- Wallace Stevens,
"
An Ordinary Evening in New Haven,' XXVIII
Saturday, July 30, 2005
11:07 AM
Born today: Arnold Schwarzenegger
Staircase
Frame not included in
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
"...Mondrian and Malevich are not
discussing canvas or pigment or graphite
or any other form of matter.
They are talking about
Being or Mind or Spirit.
From their point of view, the grid
is a staircase to the Universal...."
-- Rosalind Krauss, "Grids"
Saturday, July 30, 2005
10:18 AM
Born today: Hilary Swank
E is for Everlast
"The grid is a staircase to the Universal."
-- Rosalind Krauss
"To live is to defend a form."
-- attributed to Hölderlin
Friday, July 29, 2005
4:44 AM
Anatomy of a Death From today's New York Times:
From the Washington Post:
"Al
Held, an American artist who painted large-scale abstract works... was
found dead July 27, floating in a swimming pool at his villa.... The
cause of death was not reported, but Italian police said he died of
natural causes. He was 76."
From the Associated Press,
filed at 4:34 PM ET July 27, 2005:
"Held once described his work this way: 'Historically, the priests and
wise men believed that it was the artist's job to make images of heaven
and hell believable, even though nobody had experienced these places.'
'Today,'
he went on, 'scientists talk about vast worlds and universes that the
senses cannot experience. The purpose of the nonobjective artist is to
create these images.'"
Another view:
"Most modern men do not believe in hell because they have not been there."
-- Review of Malcolm Lowry's novel Under the Volcano (1947)
Related material:
The Four Last Things.
Wednesday, July 27, 2005
7:59 AM
Monday, July 25, 2005
2:56 AM
Sunday, July 24, 2005
2:56 AM
L'Affaire Dharwadker:
Non-computer proof of 4 color Theorem,
2000 Oct. 13-Nov. 30,
sci.math, 23 posts
Open Directory Abuse,
2002 Oct. 2-Oct. 14,
sci.math, 8 posts
Open Directory Abuse,
2002 Oct. 2-Oct. 15,
comp.misc, 2 posts
Steven Cullinane is a Liar,
2002 Nov. 1-Nov.16,
geometry.research, 2 posts
Four-colour proof claim,
2003 Aug. 10-Sept.1,
sci.math, 9 posts
Proof of 4 colour theorem No computer!!!,
2003 Aug. 10-Aug. 20,
alt.sci.math.combinatorics, 8 posts
Steven Cullinane is a Crank,
2005 July 5-July 21
sci.math, 70 posts
From
a Log24 post a year ago today:
"With a holy host of others standing 'round me Still I'm on the dark side of the moon..."
-- James Taylor
From a Log24 post on July 20 this year:
"And if the band you're in
starts playing different tunes
I'll see you on
the dark side of the moon."
-- Roger Waters
Saturday, July 23, 2005
3:17 AM
continued
Saturday, July 23, 2005
2:28 AM
Go Ask Alice From the weblog of Alice:
Click to enlarge"This is a
Datura Moonflower."
From Dec. 20, 2002:
See... my Sermon for St. Patrick's Day. This contains the following metaphysical observation from Mark Helprin's novel Winter's Tale: "Nothing is random." For those who, like the protagonist of Joan Didion's Play It As It Lays, feel that they "know what nothing means," I recommend the following readings: From Peter Goldman's essay
"Christian Mystery and Responsibility:
Gnosticism in Derrida's The Gift of Death" --
"Derrida's description of Christian mystery implies this hidden demonic and violent dimension: The
gift made to me by God as he holds me in his gaze and in his hand while
remaining inaccessible to me, the terribly dissymmetrical gift of the
mysterium tremendum only allows me to respond and only rouses me to the
responsibility it gives me by making a gift of death, giving the secret
of death, a new experience of death. (33)" The above-mentioned sermon is a meditation on randomness and page numbers, focusing on page 265 in particular. On page 265 of Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce, we find the following remark: "Googlaa pluplu." Following Joyce's instructions, and entering "pluplu" in the Google search engine, we find the following: "Datura
is a delusional drug rather than a hallucinatory one. You don't see
patterns, trails, or any cool visual effects; you just actually believe
in things that aren't there.... I remember holding a glass for a
while--but when I raised it to my mouth to take a drink, my fingers
closed around nothingness because there was no glass there.... Using
datura is the closest I've ever come to death.... Of all the drugs
I've taken, this is the one that I'd be too scared to ever take again." — PluPlu, August 4, 2000 For
those who don't need AA, perhaps the offer of Ed Harris in the
classic study of gangs of New York, "State of Grace," is an
offer of somewhat safer holiday cheer that should not be refused.
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Friday, July 22, 2005
3:57 PM
Particularity
continued
For Louise Fletcher
on her birthday 
Fletcher in
Exorcist II: The Heretic From Andrew Delbanco, the author of
The Death of Satan: How Americans Have Lost the Sense of Evil:
"A couple of years ago, in an article explaining how funds for faculty
positions are allocated in American universities, the provost of the
University of California at Berkeley offered some frank advice to
department chairs, whose job partly consists of lobbying for a share of
the budget. 'On every campus,' she wrote, 'there is one
department whose name need only be mentioned to make people laugh; you
don't want that department to be yours.' The provost, Carol
Christ (who retains her faculty position as a literature professor),
does not name the offender—but everyone knows that if you want to
locate the laughingstock on your local campus these days, your best bet
is to stop by the English department."
--
Andrew Delbanco in
The New York Review of Books, Nov. 4, 1999 Christ:
Friday, July 22, 2005
5:55 AM
By Their Fruits Today's birthdays:
Don Henley and Willem Dafoe
Related material:
Mathematics and Narrative,
Crankbuster.
"And the fruit is rotten;
the serpent's eyes shine
as he wraps around the vine
in the Garden of Allah.
"
Thursday, July 21, 2005
9:00 PM
Permanence
"What we do may be small, but it has a certain character of permanence."
-- G. H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology
For further details, see
Geometry of the 4x4 Square.
"There is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics."
-- Hardy, op. cit.
For further details, see
Four-colour proof claim.
Wednesday, July 20, 2005
10:30 PM
Beaming Scotty Up
From crankbuster, July 18:
"Do not underestimate Evil Cullinane's plan for World Domination! http://www.log24.com
now shows that he has crossed over to the dark side, making sacrifices
to the Ancient Hindu Goddess 'Kalli' to ward off our attacks!
'Kalli'-nane will soon appear as the top result on every Google search.
July 20 illustration of
crankbuster's remarks
Soon, all young mathematicians will be hypnotised by his dark diamonds
of falsehood. At least, that's his plan. But wait, who's
that brilliant mathematician who shines the light right through
Cullinane's fraud and exposes him to the whole world?!
Crankbuster saves the day! (applause)"
From Log24, July 18:
Is Beauty the Beast?
(
Headline in Christianity Today)
"In Hindu mythology,
Kali, the Divine Mother, is the symbol for the infinite diversity of experience.
Kali
represents the entire physical plane. She is the
drama, tragedy, humor, and sorrow of life. She is the
brother, father, sister, mother, lover, and friend. She is the
fiend, monster, beast, and brute."
-- Gary Zukav, Harvard '64
Star Trek's "Scotty," who died
at 5:30 AM PDT
July 20, was "a veteran of the D-Day landings who managed to hide a war
injury on screen. As an artillery lieutenant in the Canadian
army, he was hit by six machine-gun bullets, one of which removed his
middle right finger."
Wednesday, July 20, 2005
7:20 PM
Another rhetorical contrast,
from a different date --
One small step for me:
Sunday, November 03, 2002
One giant leap for mankind:
Date Posted: 11/03/02 Sun
"The
'Diamond Theory' website of Steven Cullinane shows a man who is
incapable of telling the truth: a pathological liar who hates and
despises the mathematical community; a sociopath caught between the
conflicting desires to earn the admiration of mathematicians, and his
desire to insult those who ignore him and refuse him his self-perceived
due measure of honor and reverie. As such, Steven Cullinane is
constantly trying to purchase recognition when he has the funds to
advertise on google.com, or steal that recognition by lying and
deceiving dmoz.org when money isn't enough. As you can see from the
correspondence below, Jed Pack has clearly pointed out serious errors
in Steven Cullinane's calculations. Now, instead of admitting that he
has been caught with his pants down, Steven Cullinane is questioning
Jed Pack's education! Surely, Jed Pack is a more competent
mathematician than Steven Cullinane."
For further details, see Crankbuster.
Wednesday, July 20, 2005
6:29 AM
Real
From today's
New York Times:
"Elizabeth
Blodgett Hall, an educator who concluded that bored high school
students should be sent straight to college and started Simon's Rock
College to prove the point, died on Monday in Canaan, Conn. She was
95....
Mrs. Hall's mission was intensely personal. In
addition to spending more than $6 million of her own, she gave 200
acres of her family's farmland, buildings included, to start the
college.... She named it for a rock on which she had played as a child."
"Was there really a cherubim
waiting at the star-watching rock...?
Was he real?
What is real?" -- Madeleine L'Engle,
A Wind in the Door,
quoted at
math16.com For further details, see
To Prove a Point.
Monday, July 18, 2005
10:00 PM
Is Beauty the Beast?
"In Hindu mythology, Kali, the Divine Mother, is the symbol for the infinite diversity of experience. Kali
represents the entire physical plane. She is the
drama, tragedy, humor, and sorrow of life. She is the
brother, father, sister, mother, lover, and friend. She is the
fiend, monster, beast, and brute."
-- Gary Zukav, Harvard '64
"Tickle her under the chin
and she'll stay with you forever."
--
People Weekly's "Hero Pets!"
July 14 1997
Monday, July 18, 2005
12:00 PM
The Dance,
continued
Via Google News this morning:
Monday, July 18, 2005
7:59 AM
Speak, Memory
Today's birthday:
Paul Verhoeven, director of Total Recall.
A link: The Art of Memory.
Sunday, July 17, 2005
7:59 PM
Dance
Yesterday's AP "Thought for Today"--
"In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no
overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and
this is a knowledge which they cannot lose." - J. Robert Oppenheimer,
American physicist (1904-1967).
From Log24 on Dec. 17, 2002:
The Dancing Wu Li Masters,
by Gary Zukav, Harvard '64:
"The
Wu Li Masters know that physicists are doing more than 'discovering the
endless diversity of nature.' They are dancing with Kali [or Durga], the Divine Mother of Hindu mythology."
"Eastern
religions have nothing to say about physics, but they have a great deal
to say about human experience. In Hindu mythology, Kali, the Divine
Mother, is the symbol for the infinite diversity of experience. Kali
represents the entire physical plane. She is the drama, tragedy,
humor, and sorrow of life. She is the brother, father, sister, mother,
lover, and friend. She is the fiend, monster, beast, and brute. She is
the sun and the ocean. She is the grass and the dew. She is our sense
of accomplishment and our sense of doing worthwhile. Our thrill of
discovery is a pendant on her bracelet. Our gratification is a spot of
color on her cheek. Our sense of importance is the bell on her toe.
This full and seductive, terrible and wonderful earth mother always
has something to offer. Hindus know the impossibility of seducing her
or conquering her and the futility of loving her or hating her; so they
do the only thing that they can do. They simply honor her."
How could I dance with another....?
— John Lennon and Paul McCartney, 1962-1963
Saturday, July 16, 2005
3:00 PM
Fat Man and Dancing Girl
From "The Bomb of the Blue God," by M. V. Ramana--
Gita 11:32 --
kalosmi lokaksaya krt pravrddho
"This literally means: I am kala, the great destroyer of Worlds. What is intriguing about this verse, then, is the interpretation of kala by Jungk and others to mean death. While death is technically one of the meanings of kala, a more common one is time." 
See 1132 AD & Saint Brighid, and my 2003 weblog entries of January 5 (Twelfth Night and the whirligig of time), January 31 (St. Brigid's Eve), and February 1 (St. Brigid's Day).
The fact that Oppenheimer thought, on this date in 1945, of Chapter 11, verse 32, of the Gita may, as a mnemonic device, be associated with the use of the number 1132 in Finnegans Wake.
Related material for
Michael Flatley on his
July 16 birthday:
Crankbuster -- 
