Thursday, April 7, 2022
And a collection of hot-air balloons in fantastical designs — one shaped like the Sphinx, one like a bust of Beethoven, one like a Fabergé egg, one like the chateau in Normandy.
— Willy Staley, "How Many Billionaires Are There, Anyway?," The New York Times Magazine
Wednesday, April 6, 2022
“DALL-E is good at avocados,” Mr. Nichol said.
— Cade Metz, "Meet DALL-E, the A.I. That Draws Anything at Your Command," The New York Times
Tuesday, April 5, 2022
Isaac's cup.
— Mason figuring out what bit of the image I made bigger.
Monday, April 4, 2022
Tromp l'oeil
— @cynthia_talmadge
Sunday, April 3, 2022
A private journal. This one contained some of his worst handwriting, which may explain why so few have given it any attention.
— Donald Worster, A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir
Saturday, April 2, 2022
There was a grain to this earth, or rather a multitude of grains, which the ice had laid bare. "Every carpenter knows that only a dull tool will follow the grain of wood. Such a tool is the glacier... Mighty as its effects appear to us, it has only developed the predestined forms of mountain beauty which were ready and waiting to receive the baptism of light."
— Donald Worster, A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir
Friday, April 1, 2022
And however you go about it, Mr. Wright, try to make it sound like you wrote it that way on purpose.
— Bill Murray, The French Dispatch
Thursday, March 31, 2022
Griffith noted at the time of his fieldwork that Mayo carvers were likely to charge more to non-Indian buyers than to their fellow Mayos. And whereas their Pascola customers wanted the masks they purchased, exchanged or borrowed to be freshly painted and new looking, collectors for the most part looked for evidence of wear that added "authenticity."
— Explanatory text at Arizona History Museum
Wednesday, March 30, 2022
Hopi and other Native consultants say dwellings like this were meant to recycle back to earth after the people left. However, in 1906 the Castle became a national monument to be managed for present and future generations.
— Explanatory text at Montezuma Castle
Tuesday, March 29, 2022
George H. Rothrock, a pioneering Arizona photographer, took advantage of this site's popularity and painted his advertisement on the rocks overhead.
— Explanatory text at Montezuma Well
Monday, March 28, 2022
Excavation represents a curiosity foreign to American Indian cultures and is often considered culturally offensive. Do objects from the past serve as legitimate educational tools, or is that notion unimportant or even wrong?
— Self-guided tour document at Wupatki National Monument
Sunday, March 27, 2022
Imagine all the rock we don't see underneath.
— Lily on the Earth
Saturday, March 26, 2022
"Von Neumann devised cellular automata to make a reductionist point about the plausibility of life being in a world with very simple primaries," Toffoli explained. But even Von Neumann, who was a quantum physicist, neglected completely the connections with physics, that a cellular automata could be a model of fundamental physics. Perhaps, Toffoli conjectured, "the complex laws of physics might be rewritten in terms of automata. Might the strange realm of quantum physics be explained as a product of interactions between Von Neumann's mathematical machines, themselves obeying just a few rules."
— Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John Von Neumann
Friday, March 25, 2022
The miscalculations demonstrate that even in an age of electronic intercepts and analysis assisted by fast data collection, human relationships still matter in accurately assessing the morale of a country or military.
— The New York Times (part of an article that seems to have been taken off the web)
Thursday, March 24, 2022
“We know that in Israel what is temporary becomes permanent,” said Avichay Buaron
— Isabel Kershner, "Ukraine War Ignites Israeli Debate Over Purpose of a Jewish State," The New York Times
Wednesday, March 23, 2022
Paper knows if you're in a rush.
— Daniel*
Tuesday, March 22, 2022
The crux of Morgenstern's argument was that any prediction would be acted on by businesses and by the general public, and their collective responses would invalidate it.
— Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John Von Neumann
Monday, March 21, 2022
I don't know what it is about commitment that's beautiful.
— Lex Fridman, "David Wolpe: Judaism | Lex Fridman Podcast #270"
Sunday, March 20, 2022
Today's Sunday right? Why's everybody running for. Just kick back and enjoy the song birds.
— Guy outside of Providence train station
Saturday, March 19, 2022
Cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev said each new crew that travels to the station gets to choose its own style of flight suit, the AP report said. "It became our turn to pick a color. But in fact, we had accumulated a lot of yellow material so we needed to use it," he said. "So that's why we had to wear yellow."
— Dom Calicchio, "Russian cosmonauts wear Ukrainian colors in arrival at International Space Station," Fox News
