in between the irrational numbers of e and π is the number 3, a bastion of rationality when it comes to all kinds of things.
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two and four ways of looking
March 12, 2011 – 8:21 pm
Errol Morris’ piece on Thomas Kuhn, Saul Kripke, Pythagorus, and incommensurability is a giant brain bender, and it forced me to back the bus up many years. i read The Structure of Scientific Revolutions a long time ago as an undergraduate crashing a seminar led by Todd Gitlin, but i was taught the weird concept [...]
benefactress with palm trees
February 25, 2011 – 6:31 pm
here’s a self-portrait in the rain, looking at the mudding going on inside the new Resnick pavilion at LACMA. whereas our little project spells out “ATM,” this bit of wall spells “POM.”
garage inside out with scale
January 17, 2011 – 10:28 am
in my post yesterday it was pointed out that i didn’t provide a point of scale for the mitten painting.
garage inside out
January 16, 2011 – 12:09 pm
in just a short time the weather’s gone from “maybe we can own wool clothes in LA” to the usual 80 degrees and sunny. for a hike we went wandering in a lovely canyon in the Palisades (where locked gates aren’t too locked) and saw several thousand feet of wild and rampant nasturtiums. they weren’t [...]
reflected vs. reflection
December 1, 2010 – 8:59 pm
Light arriving at an opaque surface is like me arriving at a buffet. it’s all about which dish will be rejected and which dish will be ingested, since the color of something is determined by which wavelengths of light are reflected and which wavelengths are absorbed. turn away all wavelengths and you are a big [...]
scattered blue light
November 19, 2010 – 3:49 pm
it’s always been a great hope of mine to see the green flash at sunset (or sunrise – but that would require some east coast or houseboat type of living), but so far i have either missed it and/or the sun flashed green without me. yesterday i saw a program about a two-person rowboat race [...]