Archive for January 10th, 2021

“What you gonna do when you get out of jail?…” part 285

Sunday, January 10th, 2021

Science Sunday!

Today I thought we’d go back to maths.

Look Around you 1 – Maths from Joe Hathy on Vimeo.

(One of my cow-orkers sent me this video originally, without any context. I didn’t realize until I went looking for it again that instead of being a semi-contemporary parody of 1970s educational films, it was actually a post-2000 parody of 1970s educational films, and part of a series called “Look Around You“.)

(Give it time. It builds.)

“An Evening with Leonhard Euler”, a lecture by William Dunham. I loved Journey through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics (affiliate link).

Short bonus, since the first video is long: from Numberphile, “e (Euler’s Number)”.

I kind of want to do some stuff with Newton, Gauss, Évariste Galois, and some other mathematicians. But I think next week I may do something with pi, and then something with i the following week.

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Obit watch: January 10, 2021.

Sunday, January 10th, 2021

Michael Apted. Yeah, yeah, “7 Up” and the follow-on movies, but he had an interesting career outside of that: “Coal Miner’s Daughter”, “The World Is Not Enough”, “Gorillas In the Mist”, “Gorky Park”…

John Richardson (by way of LP). Credits include “She”, “One Million Years B.C.”, and “Frankenstein ’80”.

Lawrence also sent over an obit from Mark Steyn’s website for Kathy Shaidle, their movie writer. I don’t read Mark Steyn regularly, and I wasn’t familiar with Ms. Shaidle, but from the obit, she sounds like someone I would have enjoyed knowing.

In a too short life, Kathy wrote in almost every form: She is the only writer I know who was both a respected poet nominated for major prizes and the “Ed Anger” columnist of The Weekly World News.

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I posted this on Facebook last year:

I get over a thousand TV channels if you count my Roku. I have a Criterion Channel subscription, a bunch of DVDs still in their shrink wrap, and a pile of ‘to read’ books.

So of course because it’s on TCM (again), what I’m doing is watching All About Eve for probably the thirtieth time. #Loser.

(We watched “All About Eve” recently. It was the first time I’d seen it: it is a seriously great movie.)

Even back then, I resented being ordered around by the government.

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