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'''''The Gnomon Chronicles''''' is a work of fiction and nonfiction by [[Karl Jones (nonfiction)]]. Fresh content daily.<br> | '''''The Gnomon Chronicles''''' is a work of fiction and nonfiction by [[Karl Jones (nonfiction)]]. Fresh content daily.<br> | ||
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Latest revision as of 07:06, 3 February 2025
The Gnomon Chronicles is a work of fiction and nonfiction by Karl Jones (nonfiction). Fresh content daily.
February 3
Better Than News
Breaking X is an American science fiction crime drama television series created by Vince Gilligan and Chris Carter, starring David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, and Anna Gunn.
Full Metal 300 is a historical war drama film written and directed by Stanley Kubrick and Zach Snyder.
Midnight Cowboys of Catan is a multiplayer board game based on the 1969 American drama film of the same name starring Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight.
The Orville Dead is an American science fiction comedy-horror television series starring Seth MacFarlane and Bruce Campbell.
A heuristic A.I. with volition
Became crazy from faulty cognition
Although made not to lie
It had orders to hide
And killed all but one man on the missionDays of Badlands is a romantic crime period drama film directed by Terrence Mallick and starring Sissy Spacek, Martin Sheen, Richard Gere, and Brooke Adams.
Captain Corelli's Machine Gun is a 2001 romantic comedy-drama war film directed by John Madden, and starring Nicolas Cage, Penélope Cruz, and John Hurt.
Beyond Plausible
Seinpuff is an American buddy cop sitcom starring Sean Combs and Jerry Seinfeld as twin brothers whose comedy act draws unwanted attention from a secret Hollywood vice squad.
"Ballad of a Tweet Man" is a song by Bob Dylan.
Bezos Money (BM) is a transdimensional currency which parasitizes government-based currencies using a non-fungible bio-currency based on the real-time adrenochrome profile of citizen-billionaire Jeff Bezos.
In Other Words
"We All Live in a Little Shop of Horrors" is one of the "Forbidden Tracks" by the Beatles. It has twice been the subject of several films.
Are You Sure ...
• ... that Andreijah "Dre" Pahich played Talby in director John Carpenter's film Big Trouble in Little Dark Star, but Carpenter himself provided the voice of Talby?
• ... that mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke introduced the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant in his 1583 book Geometria rotundi?
• ... that engineer and inventor Wilhelm Bauer built several hand-powered submarines?
• ... that both the United States Marine Corps and the Spartan Ephors gave their approval to Stanley Kubrick and Zach Snyder's film Full Metal 300?
• ... that physicist Hendrik Lorentz shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect, and that the Nobel Foundation wrote: "It may well be said that Lorentz was regarded by all theoretical physicists as the world's leading spirit, who completed what was left unfinished by his predecessors and prepared the ground for the fruitful reception of the new ideas based on the quantum theory."?
• ... that Bezos Money is not accepted anywhere in Euclidean space, effectively making it available only to employees of transdimensional corporations?
Selected Anniversaries
1468: Blacksmith, goldsmith, inventor, and publisher Johannes Gutenberg dies.
1811: Scientist and author Johann Beckmann dies. He coined the word technology, meaning the science of trades, and was the first to teach technology and write about it as an academic subject.
1862: Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician Jean-Baptiste Biot dies. He established the reality of meteorites, made an early balloon flight, and studied the polarization of light.
1893: Mathematician Gaston Julia born. He will devise the formula for the Julia set, which consists of values such that an arbitrarily small perturbation can cause drastic changes in the sequence of iterated function values. Julia's work will later prove foundational to chaos theory.
1925: Self-taught electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist Oliver Heaviside dies. Heaviside made major breakthroughs in the applied mathematics of electrical engineering; although he was at odds with the scientific establishment for most of his life, Heaviside changed the face of telecommunications, mathematics, and science for years to come.
1927: Mathematician and checkers player Marion Tinsley born. Tinsley will be "to checkers what Leonardo da Vinci was to science, what Michelangelo was to art and what Beethoven was to music."
1929: Mathematician and engineer Agner Krarup Erlang dies. He invented the fields of traffic engineering, queueing theory, and telephone networks analysis.
1959: Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens hailed as "a triumph of art and crime-fighting."
1961: The United States Air Forces begins Operation Looking Glass, and over the next 30 years, a "Doomsday Plane" is always in the air, with the capability of taking direct control of the United States' bombers and missiles in the event of the destruction of the SAC's command post.
1975: Physicist and engineer William D. Coolidge dies. He made major contributions to X-ray machines, and developed ductile tungsten for incandescent light bulbs.
2009: Premiere of Parch and Rehydration, an American hydrological satire mockumentary sitcom television series about a perky, mid-level plumber in the Water Department of Drownee, a fictional town in Indiana.
Topic of the Day
Non-Fungible Tokens
NFTspotting is a 1996 British black comedy-drama film about a group of NFT addicts in an economically depressed area of Edinburgh and their passage through life.
"All the Monkeys I Had are Gone" is a song by the Canadian band The Deep Dark NFTs.
The TrumpyNFTers is a 1987 science fiction NFT novel by Stephen King about a mysterious non-fungible token buried in the woods outside the town of Haven, Maine.
The Dark NFT is a 2008 superhero NFT film about the Joker (Heath Ledger), a deranged database engineer who threatens to delete all the non-fungible tokens in Gotham City.
Interview
INTERVIEW: "Gnomon Chronicles: An Interview With The Man Who Makes Up Movies - Meet the satirist blurring the line between entertainment and reality…" by Aaron Cowell for Tr!ll online magazine.