tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564160362079542584.post5971324338336924567..comments2023-10-17T08:36:53.560-04:00Comments on The Peirce Blog: Charles S. Peirce as a Teacher, by Joseph JastrowBen Udellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18361083931729525642noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564160362079542584.post-84145498118274992852009-04-05T22:39:00.000-04:002009-04-05T22:39:00.000-04:00I get ambivalent about those colorful pics - after...I get ambivalent about those colorful pics - after I've said that I love colors! I know that they're supposed to reflect actual frequency differences, but still.... The ending pics on the original <I>Outer Limits</I> were all pretty much black and white, one would watch each expanding slowly, as if one were heading to those unbelievably far, majestic, strange places (some astronomers have said that those scenes were what got them into astronomy). Then there was the original version of the book <I>Cosmic View</I>. Gilbert Sorrentino wrote poem that I've suspected took some inspiration from that book. He wrote:<BR/><BR/> where<BR/> color is is<BR/> in those places we<BR/> have made within the<BR/><BR/>world, but they are<BR/>simply, places, the world passes<BR/> hugely on each side, huge<BR/> and black, and<BR/> white. <BR/><BR/>I posted the whole poem <A HREF="http://aussiethule.blogspot.com/2006/07/atlas-of-universe.html#c115385328695138935" REL="nofollow">here</A> at the blog of one "Aussiegirl," actually an American of Ukrainian heritage, who is gone into light now. Aquinas, if I recall aright, said that the beauty of heaven is not purely intellectual and oolorless light but to the contrary.Ben Udellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18361083931729525642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564160362079542584.post-2715524666964111512009-04-05T20:36:00.000-04:002009-04-05T20:36:00.000-04:00Thanks! I can claim the photography though... at ...Thanks! I can claim the photography though... at least the ones in my gallery and the ones labeled photo of the day... except for the Hubble pix. ;>R Jeffrey Gracehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04539446306309051295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564160362079542584.post-7923393446407863212009-04-05T16:37:00.000-04:002009-04-05T16:37:00.000-04:00Well, you certainly have good taste. Now I've fina...Well, you certainly have good taste. <BR/><BR/>Now I've finally repaired the problem where the sidebar was jumping beneath the totality of posts when the browser window gets too narrow. It's always a learning experience.Ben Udellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18361083931729525642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564160362079542584.post-16607646949483357322009-04-05T15:31:00.000-04:002009-04-05T15:31:00.000-04:00Thanks for the kind words, Ben! I can't claim the ...Thanks for the kind words, Ben! I can't claim the design of the site as my own... it's a Wordpress theme, designed by <A HREF="http://design.davidgarlitz.com/" REL="nofollow">David Garlitz.</A> It's one of the best free themes out there that I've seen to date!R Jeffrey Gracehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04539446306309051295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564160362079542584.post-55519446388093472592009-04-05T12:47:00.000-04:002009-04-05T12:47:00.000-04:00Oops, forgot to link nitidum to a translation.Oops, forgot to link <A HREF="http://lysy2.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/words.exe?niteo" REL="nofollow"><I>nitidum</I></A> to a translation.Ben Udellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18361083931729525642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564160362079542584.post-64224415814595378422009-04-05T12:37:00.000-04:002009-04-05T12:37:00.000-04:00Thank you. It was specific for the post. I tried t...Thank you. It was specific for the post. I tried to reproduce some of the look of the original Jastrow article. <BR/><BR/>The first letter is positioned too high when viewed in <I>Firefox</I>. Getting special effects to work in both <I>Internet Explorer</I> and <I>Firefox</I> is often a challenge. Some say that the fault is the individual coder's (i.e., mine) or Microsoft's, since <I>Firefox</I> "just shows you what you do," since it rigidly adheres (when not itself buggy) to the Official Standards of some techie association, as if the standards were pure logic or laws of nature and couldn't be buggy or misconceived, for instance the ridiculous and apparently never-to-be-repaired hyphenation problem. The turf battle between Microsoft and the standards people, and the often (not always, but often) less forgiving (less amateur-markup-friendly) nature of <I>Firefox</I>, make it harder for smaller business to do a really nice Website without external professional help. Dealing with the different ways of calculating margins plus widths etc., requires weird hacks which I'll probably have to use for this site if I'm ever to get the masthead to center properly in all browsers and which for all I know I'll have to redo after the next versions of the browsers. I usually don't even bother worrying about <I>Opera</I> and <I>Safari</I> and I've no idea what this site looks like on a Mac or in Linux, though I included some Linux fonts in the CSS and generally tried to avoid adding complication. Right now I'm tempted to do what I did at <A HREF="http://peircematters.blogspot.com/" REL="nofollow"><I>Peirce Matters</I></A> and make the sidebar seem static and separately scrollable without using frames - another <I>IE</I> vs. <I>Firefox</I> struggle for me - (that site looks weird and crowded but it's for other reasons, and I'm not sure that I needed to move the Blogger Navbar to the bottom), but this new Blogger template is weird, so I don't know. Anyway, now that I've gotten all that off my chest....<BR/><BR/>Ahem!<BR/><BR/>Your site's home page's arrangement is superb, it looks like a magazine or something (though unlike like the way actual magazines on the Internet tend to look - they should hire you for design and execution), and is highly convenient. If I create another blog, I might steal some looks at your page source. <BR/><BR/>When one clicks on <A HREF="http://www.rjgrace.com/?p=1387" REL="nofollow">your current main post</A>, one finds a beautifully done photo image.<BR/><BR/>Your current color scheme leaves some of the words way too light - in the subtitle and in the link bar along the top. Not everybody has good vision, or good vision in both eyes (and defective vision is not always correctable by lenses - e.g., cornea damage). I see things from both sides now so to speak. <BR/><BR/>Me, I love colors - hues - but tend to tone it down in team work. Yet both the tendency to unpainted statues and the Georgetown style of whitish room walls were based historically on mistakes about what the Ancients and George Washington actually used - actually they used hues that weren't so subdued. That not all that glitters is gold is insufficient reason for gold not to glitter. <BR/><BR/><I LANG="la">Nam ad pulchritûdinem tria requîruntur. Prîmô quidem, integritâs sîve perfectiô, quae enim <A HREF="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0059%3Aentry%3D%2314023" REL="nofollow">dîminûta</A> sunt, hôc ipsô <A HREF="http://lysy2.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/words.exe?turpis" REL="nofollow">turpia</A> sunt. Et dêbita prôportiô sîve consonantia. Et iterum <A HREF="http://lysy2.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/words.exe?claritas" REL="nofollow">clâritâs</A>, unde quae habent colôrem nitidum, pulchra esse dîcuntur. — <I>Summae Theologiae</I>, Prîma Pars, Quaestiô</I> 39, <I LANG="la">Articulus</I> 8. <BR><BR>“For in fact for beauty three things are required. First certainly, integrity or perfection, indeed things which have been dashed to pieces [<I>or</I> destructively violated], by this very fact are ugly [base, disgusting, “gross”]. And due proportion or harmony. And again clarity [<I>or</I> brightness], whence things which have bright [<I>or</I> glistening <I>or</I> blooming] color are said to be beautiful.”— <A HREF="http://www.corpusthomisticum.org/sth1028.html#30062" REL="nofollow"><I>Summa Theologica</I>, First Part, Question 39, Article 8</A>. (tr. mine).<BR/><BR/>On the other hand, I admit that, besides the <I LANG="la">stăre dêcîsîs</I> of the faint-hue fashion, there are other reasons for the undecorated look of serious text. I remember that funny scene on the TV <I>I, Claudius</I> where he rages at the scroll makers for having added elephant illustrations to his text. I wonder whether scholars in his time really had that attitude.Ben Udellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18361083931729525642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564160362079542584.post-80382131572346485202009-04-05T01:24:00.000-04:002009-04-05T01:24:00.000-04:00Ben, just a compliment on the typography... nice! ...Ben, just a compliment on the typography... nice! As you probably noticed, I've been of two, or three... maybe four minds regarding the look of my own website... hup! I think I'm done experimenting for awhile...R Jeffrey Gracehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04539446306309051295noreply@blogger.com