Lions With Wings presents Dayna Stephens ‘The Hero’s Prelude’

Posted on February 13, 2021 by markweiss86
Part of a suite of four songs

bw The Artist Si Grazie


art by Dayna Stephens
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By Hilbert writ, by Manning sealed

Posted on February 13, 2021 by markweiss86

Barbara Manning wrote and recorded an original song as a tribute to mathematicians like Cantor, Goedel, Hilbert, Cohen and Good Will Hunting.

lyrics

It’s hard to be the only one who knows something that’s true 
To stand alone as colleagues groan
They’ll never see as you 
Though God maybe infinity
There’s countless more in space 
Infinities of sizes, Infinities of place 

CH:
Cantor loved a good debate
His data did the talking
Ripping math almost in half
Cantor’s mind was rocking 

His notion of dimensions where numbers reign or kneel
No greater power than Naturals
No less power for Reals
Though God maybe infinity
There’s countless more in space
Infinities of sizes, Infinities of place 
CH:
Cantor loved a good debate
His data did the talking
Ripping math almost in half
Cantor’s mind was rocking 

Depressed, Cantor changed careers
He argued Bacon wrote Shakespeare
Left his lists of ordered sets
That no one cared, his one regret
Playing on his violin
A sanitorium kept him in
He knew it before anyone
He didn’t live to see it done 
CH:
Ripping math almost in half
Ripping math almost in half 
Ripping math almost in half 
Cantor’s mind was rocking

credits

roll over, bob dorough

free download and streaming at Lions With Wings bandcamp, an imprint of Earthwise Productions — Paul J Cohen was a friend of mine, a math professor at Stanford. In 1964 he solved a problem about CH that was on David Hilbert’s list of problems for the new math century. And Barbara Manning, sometimes now known as Barbara Manning Vargas, or Ms Vargas to her students, was a Matador and Heydey and Innerstate recording artists as SF Seals — that’s my headline pun. She also recorded for Earthwise and Lions With Wings an Elliot Smith cover tho not the one from “Good Will Hunting”.

Barbara Manning, partly in honor of Valentine’s Day, did three songs for Lions With Wings: the orginal song “Cantor’s Mind Was Rocking”, a cover of Elliot Smith “Twilight” and a cover of Edgar Winter “Dying to Live” — love, death, madness, what’s the difference?

I met Barbara Manning years ago, May 5, 1995 to be exact, when SF Seals played the Cubberley Sessions, my indie ’90s music series at the old Cubberley High School slash Cubberley Community Center. Soon enough we will have her play these new songs at The Mitch.

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Is the difference between Brandenburg and what I’m watching on TV today that 140 police were injured hours after the allegedly inciting words?

Posted on February 12, 2021 by markweiss86
Mr Castor argument seems to work against his client. Re insurrection of January 6, 2021. I noted dueling poetry references Longfellow for him and Lowell for the managers, at first impeachment day. I wonder if he will trot out sections of Huck Finn: there was an explosion— was anyone hurt? No’m, but a n***** was killed. At the capitol five are dead, a woman was shot trying to breach the chambers. I kind of like the Kamala Harris “fight-fight-fight” video though it did call to mind a George Carlin bit about how we are going to F*** these guys and f*** them good —he says something about tyranny erected.

Edit Add shortly there after I am multitasking between watching my fellow Dartmouth 11 is Jake Tapper on CNN and some correspondence and watching the impeachment trial and I realize I might be confusing Bruce cast door who I mentioned above and another attorney named insertVan der Veen’s —-Sean example or what was he doing touching his head as he drink water that’s not really part of my heritage anyways I meant to say that if I am confusing to Philadelphia guys who look alike in a Not necessarily bright enough to have gotten an a in professor star zingers course of Dartmouth and I admit I barely passed it if I am confusing Vanderveen in cast door it is like picking up your shoe and sniffing it to see if you stepped in dog shit or just something hard to scrape off like gum

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Three quick takes from the SV Biz Journal

Posted on February 10, 2021 by markweiss86

1) San Jose gets twice as much revenue from business tax than from TOT. They get $70 m per year in business tax. We get zero. It’s possible that we would get more than that, despite the population differences, as we have Tesla, Amazon and the like.
2) 1050 Page Mill a new build by Sand Hill Peter Pau, is the 8th greatest lease, at 170,000 square feet, between Dec. 1, 2019 and November 30, 2020. Palo Alto has #4, 3000 Hanover, 250,000 sf also SHP; #16 607 Hanson 110,000 Stanford, Stanford Industrial Park — tho SHP is a broker — ???; #20 1501 Page Mill also Stanford, 100,000 sf; 1050 stood out because I went to some of the meetings, and wrote and maybe spoke up about it. Video games replacing devices.
3) Richard Florida, the creative class, still relevant? Was he ever?
oh there’s a bonus track on the back of the tear sheet for 2) above, ranking 25 property management firms: CW, CBRE, Essex, Ventana #7, Sobrato of MV #10. More later

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Feist ‘1 2 3 4’ VS Dolly Parton / Squarespace ‘5 to 9’

Posted on February 9, 2021 by markweiss86

I would have hired Jenny Lewis rather than Dolly Parton.

 

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Schoen argues let sleeping dogs lie

Posted on February 9, 2021 by markweiss86
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With five he got egg roll

Posted on February 8, 2021 by markweiss86

George Shultz served five Republican presidents; Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan, Bush and Bush.
But his greatest accomplishment, in my book, was the pipeline he created between The White House and Chef Chu’s.
I posted to this effect yesterday on the Palo Alto Weekly website and was censored and deleted.
(And, yes, partly in his honor, we had take out last night)

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Let’s rename the park

Posted on February 3, 2021 by markweiss86

Let’s rename the park, for a Black man.
We’re all equal, not a sequel.
With 2020 hindsight, we’d repair the funk
All the other parks, they want the darkness.
We charge the poor to park the car,
but we don’t tax the man, and drive Tesla.
Poet laureate, poet laureate;
the epitome of literacy.
Life’s a brief candle, but he lit it.
He hit it, he didn’t shit it.
For his game, he’s like the Willie Mays or Willie Mac,
the Barry or the Bobby, meanings clearly or at bottom.
We can’t change our past, but we can change our minds.
There’s more than 1s and 0s, there’s more than of’s and “ahvs”

A temple of listening. To see it glistening.
Let’s rename the park. Let’s rename the park.
aeiou! aeiou!
We want to mingle, to hit a single.
Even our squirrels think the new rules are uncool. They’re not dullards.

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Ethan Iverson with Alex Ross: In music, there were no victories

Posted on January 26, 2021 by markweiss86
A piece from NYT in summer 1995, that presages Ross becoming a genius of writing about classical music, the rest is noise etc:
as i’ve said previous i don’t really write a blog i just paste things in, mostly notes to myself.

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TEN MINUTES DRIVING AROUND PALO ALTO IN MY DAD’S OLD LEXUS LISTENING AS IF FOR THE FIRST TIME TO THE BAD PLUS ONE

  1. 1. Prehensile Dream or “Girl in jeans at Uni Ave Aporoaching High”

2. Or “Woman with Dog Wearing Backpack near Stanford Gate” (Anthem for the earnest)

3.Let our Garden Grow or “white knuckles green light”

4. The Empire Strikes Backward or i hope the truck does not hit the pedestrian

5. backhanded compliment >> chariots of fire

That actually took me more like 22 minutes but I pulled over to type
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If not now, Venn

Posted on January 25, 2021 by markweiss86

Few people realize that John Venn Neumann, the inventor of the Venn diagram, lived here in Palo Alto. He used to play poker with other notable geniuses like Dr Richter, the inventor of the Richter scale, Nathan Oliveira, who invented the nude or if not the nude the idea of Xeroxing your a** on a copy machine, and Hewlett and Packard, in fact they used to play strip poker and do a life drawing session — or was it a collage bee? – -in that famous garage on Addison Street (which is now the world’s most expensive piece of property, or after the Japanese Imperial Palace, if you excuse the digression).

Anyhow, as part of our heritage, staff is required to use a Venn diagram in every report.

For example, here is one from tonite.

Although to the average reader, or citizen, this looks like 4 ideas and a bunch of overlapping ovals, it is actually 10 or 11 separate ideas. That’s the geniousof of it.Tune back in later as I break down ideas, 4 thru 11.

(Note: people think Plastic Alto is about music, but before that I was an English major at Dartmouth; but before that I was the highest scoring student in the honors math lane at Terman Junior High, which was named for the guy who invented the Theremin. Before he left to join the Beech Boys.

olivera work on paper, private collection courtesy of smith anderson NOT A VENN DIAGRAM

Backed with so to speak: Ed “Sharkey” Shikado announced to mixed reaction that we are disbanding the Public Art commission but hiring conceptual artist and my Gunn classmate John Beech to succeed Pasco Sam as head of Utilities:

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