Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

thanks, steve

never been a news junkie, either (not like my brother-in-law) always managed to remain agnostic... Dem vs Rep left vs right it all seemed... trivial... boastful posturing that our affairs mattered more than the World in which they occurred... buried myself in STEM the poetry of Cosmos writ in mathem...

influencers self-anointed pundits of shiny objects - what to wear and what not what music deserves your ears and what doesn't - grandiose declarations elevating their opinions to objective fact... not so much to inform as to amass followers more more must have more more likes more subscribers more e...

sasha wrote: ↑

July 15th, 2025, 10:18 pm

...Yet they both crop up in expected corners of mathematics...

UNexpected.... UNexpected corners... sheesh

I shouldn't post when 'm tired....

Pi at least has a geometric interpretation, a connection to the physical world you can intuitively grasp: the distance around a circle divided by the distance across. Phi emerges from a shadowy realm of infinite series, polynomials, converging limits, all that good stuff. Yet they both crop up in ex...

the gulf of America
ain't in the Caribbean...
it's in the heartland
where once dwelt a people
who cared enough
to stand in line
fill out a ballot
and vote

an unclothed emperor
strutting about
preening for his sycophants
who ooh and aah
at his imagined finery...
delusion feeding delusion
in an ever-shrinking
sphere of reality...
their roars of approval,
his squeals of pleasure,
sound and fury
signifying nothing -
but madness

"Hey, if it seems a little off in here, feel free to turn me on!"

'deed I do... we've all met one... "hey baby - anyone ever tell you those blue eyes are a road hazard?..."

thanks for joining me on the walk, last one for a bit. I've got an all-day kiilobuck car repair (just in time to celebrate my final credit card payment to the water fiasco back in March) - and a routine (I hope) maintenance stop with my physician. Weather's going to suck for the rest of the week any...

great acoustics!

late-night thunderstorms - all harumph and bluster - chased out the humidity (and the July 4th revelers) - dawn broke clear and chilly... traded my warm blanket for flannel robe & wool socks... brewed the usual pot of hot black coffee... did a bit of keyboarding - emailed a reply to a reply to a rep...

 
 
water's edge
whirligigs chasing
their shadows

 

add to that anger, shame, & disillusionment

mountain laurel - cousins to rhododendrons. They're all over the place around here.