The Eternal Doorman

This was an interview conducted in 2006. It's a total joy to listen to. He died on October 27, 2011. See  Robert Bly - A Thousand Years of Joy . Stop your stupid fucking wars!  Subscribe to Tree+ . 

She talks about her latest song,... Mariposa Tecknicolor See  Yo Canto 2  for the album.  Resta in Ascolto (21 December 2012) I don't think she's ever played in Bolivia. Subscribe to Billboard Latin and Laura Pausini . 

Merge/upload from an UX-unfriendly page with Vimeo player on simonsfoundation.org . All rights on this video belong to Simons Foundation. 00:00:00​ Highlights 00:03:53​ Early Years in California, Arizona and Choosing Stanford 00:10:39​ Faculty at Stanford in Mathematics and the New Computer Science 00:14:49​ First Job at GTE Sylvania 00:20:20​ Faculty in Math and Computer Science at Stanford 00:25:11​ Work in England 00:28:36​ Back to Stanford 00:31:24​ Operations Research at Stanford 00:38:53​ Is Linear Programming Polynomial Time? 00:44:33​ Karmarkar’s Algorithm 00:49:48​ Creating Algorithms and Writing Software 01:00:13​ Working at Bell Labs: a Liberating Experience 01:03:05​ Bell Labs Nostalgia and Moving to Courant 01:09:12​ Being Department Chair at the Courant Institute 01:13:39​ Girls and Computer Science 01:17:09​ Committees and SIAM 01:25:03​ Advisory committees and the NAS 01:39:09​ Editing SIAM journals 01:43:44​ Applications That Work 01:47:51​ Accomplishments and Progress...

This is a really well-made biographical documentary. Robert Bly died on Nov 21, 2021. I once attended an amazing double-act he did with James Hillman in Bristol Cathedral. I remember particularly  this poem  by Antonio Machado.  Coleman Barks was spurred on by Robert Bly to produce versions of Rumi's works in English and by the time this documentary was produced in 1998, Rumi was apparently the bestselling poet in America: Subscribe to Poetry Docs .  See also  James Hillman on Changing the Object of Our Desire .  Subscribe to Tree+ . 

You can tell a lot about people through the company they keep. The University of Cambridge administration systems are run by an Oracle subsidiary.  Subscribe to  The Drey Dossier  and see her Substack page  https://substack.com/@thedreydossier . Kyla Scanlon on what a Civil War looks like these days.  Subscribe to Kyla Scanlon . 

5:14 This made me think a little about the idea of " Surplus value ", especially how it applies to bullshit industries like cybersecurity. These are bullshit because they came about when people realised that a problem, that of the software, particularly Microsoft Windows, being garbage, meant that there was an opportunity to make money by selling "tools" to help people deal with the consequences of the bad software they were being forced to use. I don't think Marx's theory applies unmodified to modern economics after businesses became divorced from the material and energetic substance and became information processing.  Subscribe to Verso Books . 

According to Google AI, Liz Oyer was fired from her position as a DoJ Pardon Attorney  after refusing to recommend restoring Mel Gibson's gun rights. Also according to Google AI "Gibson lost his right to own firearms in 2011 after pleading no contest to a misdemeanour domestic violence charge involving an altercation with his then-girlfriend in 2010". Oh wow, I didn't know that. The difference between real-life and the movies, ... See  DOJ official says she was fired after opposing the restoration of Mel Gibson's gun rights . Nancy Guthrie is the 84‑year‑old mother of NBC News journalist and Today co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, and she was apparently kidnapped from her home in Arizona with motives of extracting a ransom from someone. [Update: see this The Onion piece :  ]  Subscribe to  Lawyer Oyer . Subscribe to The Onion .  The people at the FBI have to put up with more than a lot of people realize:   Subscribe to Coral Gables Art Cinema . Subscribe t...

Why'd they call it that? Because it  made people fart ? It was a pretty comprehensive program to develop techniques to torture and maim people clandestinely. Who would want to be a pathologist these days anyway. Subscribe to Kim Iversen .

25:03 On the ATF sending weapons to Mexico.  See  https://www.derrickbroze.com/ . Subscribe to Kim Iversen . Inna Afinogenova:    Subscribe Inna Afinogenova . The Economist podcast Jason Palmer with their Mexico City bureau chief Sarah Birke. 3:39 The King Ping strategy is something to do with Chinese trade connections, I suppose. You have to be able to juggle a lot of balls when you're working for The Economist in Mexicico City, ... Subscribe to The Exonomist .  Maybe Private Eye are going to do something on this too, ... About ten years ago I thought he might offer himself up as a sort of very low-grade human sacrifice, ... maybe that's what this was? Subscribe to Private Eye .