Sweetarts, a sour candy, dating back to 1962, has taken to impressing each tablet with a false dichotomy. (I think this is to call attention to the sweet/tart dualism.) You see pairs like chill/classy, calm/bold and retro/fresh. I thought this one was pretty cool. #mathart

Abbey Cube Not to disrespect the art, but #origami is too dang quiet. Needs some music. Here's five songs from Abbey Road, embedded in a Husimi-Fushimi cube. Best used with Newpipe or some other ungoogly software. https://nebula.oschene.com/index.php/s/zPofEEM7rmAYHF4 @origami

Mass Highway

A dither, a dollar, a ten o'clock scholar.... The QR code may not work in the photo, but does in real life -- takes you to a video of the Flying Lizards doing Money (That's What I Want). #ditheredqrcode

#caturday #catsofmastodon

Now that State Line Potato Chips are made in Warwick, Québec, I think they should be updated to Provincial Border.

The last cent was struck today. Atque in perpetuum, frater, ave atque vale.

Noted with pleasure: if you look up Salvador Dalí on https://noai.duckduckgo.com, the logo changes.

15-Sided Elliptical Noodle Container In the style of Masaru Hashimoto, Akira Nagashima, Jun Maekawa, Tomoko Fuse and Johannes Kepler. #origami @origami

@christianp https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tiling_at_Zelena_Hora.jpg

How soon is now? #ditheredqrcode #andrewt@mathstodon.xyz

There is no vanilla but Baldwin's vanilla. http://www.baldwinextracts.com/

Does anyone else get spam email with a paragraph from a random Russian book in quoted-printable encoding? There are no photos, no links, nothing spamlike at all. There are non-printing strings of hex, eighteen digits in each email. Soviet number stations? An art thing?

I reposted this before, but dang, this is a really good book. Price is not bad, either. Form & Number: A History of Mathematical Beauty (Ebook, large format) : Alan J. Cain : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/cain_formandnumber_ebook_large

RE: https://zirk.us/@SmithsonianRoulette/115510019838993744 Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night -- Jimmy Kennedy

Listening to a station out of Hong Kong and there was an elections ad, reminding me that all the candidates are mature, patriotic and responsible. Gave me a premonitory shiver.

I think Windows engineers learned percentages from Zeno of Elea.

In the swamp.

On All Souls, it is meet to remember, once our flame has gone out, we are all food for squirrels.

I don't know what #brutalist #origami design might be -- both terms are much abused in popular writing. Still some interesting work here. https://www.admiddleeast.com/story/sudanese-architect-hadeel-subahi-foldlab-origami-design-meets-innovation @origami

ɐᵗʰ (Symbol for eighth in line to the throne, formerly known as prince.)

Texture, October.

It's really not appropriate to keep calling it dog-whistling, when it's audible to everyone this side of the grave. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear: it's wiener-whistling and nothing else.

Marguerite Daisies with a Painted Lady butterfly, Vanessa cardui.

Butter-and-eggs, Linaria vulgaris. Sometimes, toadflax. I hear it's invasive.

America is waiting for a message of some sort or another....

Smith College Fudge 4 tablespoons butter 1 cup granulated sugar 1 cup brown sugar 1/4 cup molasses 1/2 cup heavy cream 2 ounces unsweetened chocolate, chopped 1-1/2 teaspoons vanilla

Duo Tato #origami @origami From a regular decagon. Crease pattern: https://nebula.oschene.com/index.php/s/CLEQxidMGaG5Sqs

Am told it's bad form to photograph protests. This was on the walk over. Thousands here in Pulaski Park, Northampton, Massachusetts. #origami @origami #nokings

That time of year thou mayst in me behold.... #candycorn

I read today that there is an advanced persistent threat group (that is, hackers, phishers) called #origami Elephant.

A book I'd recommend to a non-math student: https://bookstore.ams.org/view?ProductCode=DOL/47

Today, committed to the book recycling bin: -- Windows 95 manual -- Cambridge Latin Course, volumes I - V -- Mandrake 7.2 manuals -- O'Reilly's Programming ASP

Don't know how I got this old without listening to It's a Beautiful Day.

Pyrrharctia isabella, the wooly bear caterpillar. Winter is coming.

Had occasion to explain to a bank tech today that she couldn't send a text to my landline. Her knowledge of landlines was entirely theoretical, which is only to be expected. Still, it made me feel as though I had asked her to dispatch the code with a telegraph boy on a penny-farthing.

Old origami joke -- wasn't all that funny. "Where are the penguin diagrams?" Wasn't really about Feynman. Or was it? https://www.quantamagazine.org/origami-patterns-solve-a-major-physics-riddle-20251006/

Whenever I see a good article in Wired, it almost always turns out to have come from Quanta: https://www.quantamagazine.org/quasicrystals-spill-secrets-of-their-formation-20250818/

Saw this film at the Academy of Music today. Highly recommended. https://missionjoy.org/

変形の様子は以前YouTubeに投稿しました www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkW4...

Soup of the evening, Unusual Soup, Soup of the evening, Unusual Soup https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book//lookupid?key=olbp107035

It did not end well for Fat George. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%3AProclamation_of_Rebellion%2C_August_23%2C_1775_-_Museum_of_the_American_Revolution_by_Joy_of_Museums.jpg

The F.B.I. Considered as a Puffed-up Frog #aesop #origami

No one speaks of the Goops anymore. Because so many of them are in government, I suppose.

The Omphalos, an #anamorphic #origami model. With apologies to the shade of Leonardo da Vinci. https://clip.place/w/2nigxshYXb4moWM3Bhh9EX @origami

When I hear AI music, I'm often reminded of this interchange in #neuromancer: ‘Listen,’ Case said, ‘that’s an AI, you know? Artificial intelligence. The music it played you, it probably just tapped your banks and cooked up whatever it thought you’d like to –’ ‘Babylon,’ broke in the other […]

Locust borer (Megacyllene robinae) on goldenrod.

Sow's Thistle, I think.

The new Medicare and You booklet has no mention of the COVID-19 vaccine. https://www.medicare.gov/publications/10050-medicare-and-you.pdf