Month: November 2018
Bobby Fischer vs Donald Byrne
Colorado – The road to carbon neutrality
Well written article in the Colorado Sun on the state of Colorado’s energy infrastructure and the quest for renewable energy.
Wind turbines near Matheson, Colorado, are part of Xcel Energy’s new 600 megawatt Rush Creek Wind Project. Rush Creek, which became operational in October 2018, uses 300 turbines to generate enough electricity to power 325,000 homes. Xcel estimates the project will cut 1 million tons of carbon emissions each year from its system. (John Leyba, Special to The Colorado Sun)
https://coloradosun.com/2018/11/26/colorado-100-percent-renewable-energy/
Olivier – Richard III, Jed Harris inspiration
“There, staring back at me from the mirror, was my Richard, exactly as I wanted him. I’d based my makeup on the American theater director Jed Harris, the most loathsome man I’d ever met. My revenge on Jed Harris was complete. He was apparently equally loathed by the man who created the Big Bad Wolf for Walt Disney.”
On Acting, Laurence Olivier.
Barrymore as Hamlet
“My Hamlets in later years owed a great deal to Jack Barrymore. It seemed to me that he breathed life into the character, which, since Irving, had descended into arias and false inflections – all very beautiful and poetic, but castrated. Barrymore put back the balls.”
On Acting, Laurence Olivier
Still life – Lamp with pumpkin
One of the principal genres (subject types) of Western art – essentially, the subject matter of a still life painting or sculpture is anything that does not move or is dead
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/s/still-life
Their definition, my pic.
Colorado at Night
Spinoza and William James on Freedom
From the essay, The Will, by William James:
Spinoza long ago wrote in his ethics that anything that a man can avoid under the notion that it is bad he may also avoid under the notion that something else is good. He who habitually acts sub specie mali, under the negative notion, the notion of the bad, is called a slave by Spinoza. To him who acts habitually under the notion of good he gives the name of freeman. See to it now, I beg you, that you make freemen of your pupils by habituating them to act, whenever possible, under the notion of a good. Get them habitually to tell the truth, not so much through showing them the wickedness of lying as by arousing their enthusiasm for honor and veracity.
Found in, The Heart of William James,
William James (Author), Robert D. Richardson (Editor).
(This book is filled with good stuff and is Highly Recommended. )
Also available here: Talks to Teachers, William James, via Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16287
From The Ethics, Benedictus de Spinoza:
PROP. LXVII. A free man thinks of death least of all things; and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life.
Proof.–A free man is one who lives under the guidance of reason, who is not led by fear (IV. lxiii.), but who directly desires that which is good (IV. lxiii. Coroll.), in other words (IV. xxiv.), who strives to act, to live, and to preserve his being on the basis of seeking his own true advantage; wherefore such an one thinks of nothing less than of death, but his wisdom is a meditation of life. Q.E.D.
Ethics, Benedictus de Spinoza via Project Gutenberg
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3800
Denver 1912
via Reddit.
Toyota’s Six Rules for the application of kanban
Toyota has formulated six rules for the application of kanban
- Each process issues requests (kanban) to its suppliers as it consumes its supplies.
- Each process produces according to the quantity and sequence of incoming requests.
- No items are made or transported without a request.
- The request associated with an item is always attached to it.
- Processes must not send out defective items, to ensure that finished products will be defect-free.
- Limiting the number of pending requests makes the process more sensitive and reveals inefficiencies.
via wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban