The personal website of Cyrus Khan, teacher, traceur, physicist and full-time monkey.
I have always been indecisive about what to choose as my emblem, partially because of the weight of permanence and mainly because of my pathetic art skills.
I was fortunate enough, however, to have a friend who (without request), did the job for me.
Here it is, my emblem forever more, (till I find a better one):
Today was the first time I linked to this site from the G+ blog. Let's see what effect it has on my traffic levels.
Here's the post I wrote. I covers the most important things that I think someone choosing a product like this would need.
Considering the fact that Gödel, Escher, Bach persists as a member of my favorite books category, it comes as no surprise that any new information about Bach in general, or the Musical Offering in specific, piques my interest like a deer piques a cheetah who thought he had already eaten all the deer when this other deer shows up and the cheetah follows it into the brush but it turns out its a deer ambush and all the other deer surround him but then dance music starts playing and they all- wait... What? Nevermind.
I came across this video that had an interesting way of visualizing the Crab Canon, which has the remarkable property of being played once, and then repeated, but backwards and inverted. Ahhhhhhhh...... Bach.
An intesting way to visualize this is by writing the score out on a paper, cleaving it, inverting one half, and then joining the two halves at the ends but with a half-twist at one end. If that was a little hard to visualize, here's the video:
The enigmatic Canon 1 à 2 from J. S. Bachs Musical Offering (1747), The manuscript depicts a single musical sequence that is to be played front to back and back to front. Video by Jos Leys (http://www.josleys.com) and Xantox ( http://strangepaths.com/en/ )
Today is the day I start my quest, to write one piece of original content every day.
To be a little more flexible on my schedule, I'll make it 7 a week, to allow for compensation.
But this is where it stands.
I also wanted to post this here as a way of solidifying what I'm doing, the modern equivalent of setting in stone.
And considering how many of my previous milestone challenges have fizzled out before the quarter ended (hint: all); Good luck to me!
Success looks inviting.
The Kewalramani Public Speaking Competition took place in college this month, and the talks was nothing less than fabulous.
Lecturing arts students on the complexity of computers.
From speeches on computers, to politcs, humor, prostitution and extra-physical representations of conciousness, the content was very refreshing to hear, like that last chilled juice packet on an unnecessarily hot day.
Despite a lot of serious emphasis and gesticulating, it ended with all smiles around. YEAH!
All smiles. : )