by Charles Cameron | May 7, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — comparing two recent landslides for scale, and a conundrum ] . Abi Barak, Afghanistan: 2,100 believed buried . Oso, Washington: 41 dead, 2 missing . I wanted these two images to be as large as the Zenpundit format would permit, and fear...
by Charles Cameron | Sep 14, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — where paradox begets form in phrasing, redux ] . Here for your entertainment and entrainment are some further instances where the tweet doubles back on itself, bites its tail, or otherwise embodies some form of “form”...
by Charles Cameron | Jul 29, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — a few quirky thoughts about graphs and analysis ] . Two eyes (heads, ideas, points of view) are better than one. ** When I worked as senior analyst in a tiny think-shop, my boss would often ask me for an early indicator of some trend. My...
by Charles Cameron | Jun 4, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — the four goats go with the woman, the cow called Bessie belongs with Hiyakawa’s Ladder of Abstraction ] . ** My friend the anthropologist Peter van der Werff recently wrote this paragraph about a woman he met in India: The very poor...
by Charles Cameron | Feb 8, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — Christmas pudding UK circa 1950, math, banks, and moral authority ] . . As I recall, the plum pudding served in our family on Christmas day was not only rich in raisins, sultanas, currants and candied peel, it not only had brandy poured...
