Monthly Archives: August 2012

The Buckley Blog Returns Monday, August 20

Posted on Friday, August 3, 2012 - 9:04 pm | 2 comments

In the meantime, please suggest a story idea! When I get back, I’ll turn my favorite idea into a forty-minute story. Thanks! 😀

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Friday Links

Posted on Friday, August 3, 2012 - 6:08 am | 3 comments

Author Gore Vidal died on Tuesday at 86 years old. I never read any of his books, never knew much about him except that he was one of those towering literary figures that people invoke reverently from time to time. The New York Times piece has given me a little more perspective on who he was as a person. Anyone more familiar with his work care to enlighten me in the comments?

Did you know that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has hundreds of their courses available online, for free, without even the need to register? Some have videos (or audio recordings) of lectures, some have notes, some have projects and exams, and some have all of the above. You don’t get course credit, naturally, but there’s still a wealth of instant knowledge out here, on topics from aerodynamics to brain science philosophy to chaos theory. Stanford also has a nice collection of free online lecture videos.

Ever wanted to construct your name from the Periodic Table of Elements? No? Well then you’re probably not geeky enough for this site.

PvP asks the important questions.

SMBC explores the practicality of alien abduction.

Two Guys and Guy has an important lesson about consequences.

Finally, quite possibly the cutest thing you will see all week: bulldog puppies learning to walk.

Have a great weekend.

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Knottery

Posted on Thursday, August 2, 2012 - 6:41 am | 4 comments

Sorry for the lack of postage yesterday. Not sorry like an apology, of course; sorry as in, you were deprived of my genius for twenty-four hours, and I’m sympathetic to that. 😉 (When you have so much homework you have to take the morning off your day job just to get it done, the blogging doesn’t quite happen.)

But I had my final exam last night, which means no class for a few weeks, and a short chance to breathe.

*breathes*

Yeah, that’s the stuff.

So I’ve been getting into Celtic knots lately, doodling them in my notebook margins all semester. Thought I’d share a few…

This one’s called a Trinity knot, or triquetra:

A little pudgy…

A little better, still kind of skewed. Also, floating in a wheel of fire?

Somewhat better, still kind of skewed. Also, floating in a wheel of fire?

Not sure what this one’s “official” name is, but I call it the Quad. Sort of a variation on the Trinity.

Like the Olympic rings got sucked into a black hole…

Don’t know the name for this one either, but it pops up a lot if you google Celtic knots.

I did take actual notes in this class, I promise.

You might also recognize it from the beginning of Dark Knight Rises:

As you can see, they blatantly stole their logo from my computer science notebook.

This one, the Eternity Knot, is actually a Buddhist symbol rather than a Celtic one.

Eternal. Tiny, but eternal.

Infinity x2

Most knots aren’t just a single enclosed picture, but can be extended linearly as long as you want. I’m running out of time this morning, so I’ll just post the rest of the pictures without the commentary: