Minima

Lonely Road

Below is some temperature data for ten days before and after June 20, which I

got from the Environment Canada site. I asked for Montreal Trudeau Airport,

and shown are max, min and average temperatures. I limited myself to back 12 years.

June 20 is, for Canada, the longest sunlit day; if sun exposure were the only component

of temperature, one would expect temperature patterns on either side to even out. 

This is true to some exent but temperature is also directional; one is re-heating yesterday’s 

warm air, air moves around and so forth. I should be able to make some

statements from the data but- as everyone knows - climate as such is quite a complex issue 

and my little data set is more fun than anything else.

Still, data is data. If it won’t allow me to comment on climate, it does give me information

 about what to wear and eat for breakfast. In this spirit, I would like to do a little study.

My task for today: getting my data into Mathematica. Um....

R F of a C V

Parade

Weird

http://tones.wolfram.com/xid/2775-008-0369-846-1983

Mathematica

For the 'dead docs'­­ talk: http://www.wolfram.com/broadcast/screencasts/announcing_cdf/

SICK

It’s been irking me for years: this cool-talk habit of contraries, saying that

something one finds amusing is ‘sick’ or ‘depraved’. As someone who has studied

in philosophy, I have been taught to keep language clean; it is, with mathematics, a

tool of reason to access and communicate truth. Well my long tolerance for this

border-line practice has caught up with me. I am faced with something I consider sick,

but ‘sick’ won’t do it.

The film «Hangover 2», summer Hollywood fare purportedly comedic is actually, in

my professional opinion, over the top. Or rather in the category of snuff films. This is

verboten, Hollywood; not allowed. The film is complacent about self-mutilation. A

sixteen-year old cuts off a finger during a coke-fueled evening with older men. 

And smiles about it the next day. 

As a grey-haired person, I am actually quite fond of the Hangover boys who periodically

trip-over into Bacchanal behavior as each faces marriage and seeks to begin with a clear soul.

 H-2 actually contains a brilliant scene, wherein the chubby member remembers the night 

before with himself and his cronies as children. That’s fine film-making. 

But the problem remains that there is no way I can recommend this film to a younger

person - and at this point, they are legion - without caveats, recommendations, interpretations, 

all doomed to be ignored as this kind of elder’s behaviour quite rightly

deserves. «Le texte est orphelin», the film must speak for itself, and sadly it is in this

case a purveyor of a dangerous untruth.

The Magnotta case looms in the horizon, here in Canada. I shudder to think...

Smart!

Bass Man

Fourier Explained

http://see.stanford.edu/see/lecturelist.aspx?coll=84d174c2-d74f-493d-92ae-c3f45c0ee091

Roll Over

GND (Wacom Victim)

Coming Soon

Rhubarhe

Not amused!

By the Thames

Spell