{"id":1014,"date":"2003-07-04T09:44:58","date_gmt":"2003-07-04T17:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1014"},"modified":"2006-07-04T12:02:55","modified_gmt":"2006-07-04T20:02:55","slug":"an-outing-in-area-650","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1014","title":{"rendered":"an outing in Area 650"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainviewca.net\/restaurants\/amarin.html\">dinner<\/a> last night, whom should I espy but loyal reader Mysterious Mike <a href=\"http:\/\/gondwanaland.com\/ml\/\">Linksvayer<\/a>.  (After that, it is fitting that Mike&#8217;s page leads me to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www-ang.kfunigraz.ac.at\/~katzer\/engl\/\">guide to spices<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Afterward my party went to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanfordtheatre.org\/\">cinema<\/a> for <i>Lawrence of Arabia<\/i>, which none of us had seen before.  Unfortunately the sound was muddy enough to obscure some of the dialogue.  We left at intermission (how many movies have an intermission?); it was already ten p.m.<\/p>\n<p>In one scene where Lawrence sits meditating on a dune, my eye was caught by aeolian (wind-made) ripples in the sand, with a period of about half a foot; I&#8217;ve seen orbital pictures of dunes that looked just like those ripples.  Can&#8217;t recall whether they were on Earth or on Mars.  If on Earth, then: hey, fractal self-similarity!  If not, perhaps the sizes of the grains or the differences in gravity and atmosphere make the difference in scale.<\/p>\n<p>One of the Bedouins says of a particularly nasty patch of land, &#8220;This is the Sun&#8217;s Anvil.&#8221;  I wonder: would nomads know about anvils?  Where did their knives come from?<\/p>\n<p>I once heard someone on television refer to <i>Lawrence<\/i>&#8216;s director David Lean as &#8220;David Lynch&#8221; &ndash; director of another film that had something to do with sand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At dinner last night, whom should I espy but loyal reader Mysterious Mike Linksvayer. (After that, it is fitting that Mike&#8217;s page leads me to a guide to spices.) Afterward my party went to a cinema for Lawrence of Arabia, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1014\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local","category-cinema"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}