Today is Aimee Moiso's birthday! She is my niece-in-law, married to my nephew Nolan Huizenga. They live in Louisville, KY. Aimee is celebrating completing her first half-century! Because she is thinking a lot about "circles of life," we settled on this tie featuring multicolor rings with a peaceful, centered feeling. I added a tie tack with a nice silver-blue center.
If you lost anything in the last 15 years, you can "Blame It On The Large Hadron Collider." The LHC, which is the largest machine in the whole world, opened on this date in 2008, and is located near Geneva, Switzerland. Its primary feature is an enormous underground cylindrical tunnel ring with a diameter of 5.3 miles. You can take a virtual tour of the LHC through your own Web browser! Since this subatomic particle accelerator can create miniature black holes, the LHC makes a handy excuse when anything disappears without a trace. My tie has many rings-within-rings, on a deep black background. As far as I know it has never been "lost," but it tunneled to me from the tie collection of my former EKU colleague Minh Nguyen.
Every year, 25 March is celebrated as World Tolkien Reading Day. It's sponsored by The Tolkien Society, and this year's theme is "Love and Friendship." The date of the 25th of March was chosen as the date on which the Ring was destroyed, completing Frodo’s quest and vanquishing Sauron. I chose a tie that represents the theme of "rings" nicely. While the Tolkien Society urges us to focus on reading the primary texts, I have taken this opportunity to read some very interesting passages in "The Making of Middle-Earth." It's a book written by Christopher Snyder that covers "everything" about J. R. R. Tolkien's life and works, including detailed explorations of the great movie adaptations by Peter Jackson and others.
Are you all set to celebrate the birthday of Georg Cantor (1845-1918), the creator of set theory (in mathematics and philosophy)? A complete set of chess pieces, for example, is the "union" of the set of 16 white pieces and the set of 16 black pieces. When we identify the pawns and the rooks, etc., we are playing with the ideas of set "inclusion" and "intersections." Another simple example of a set is the collection of 2,795 posts in my tie blog (since 2008). Beyond expressing the fundamental axioms of counting and arithmetic, set theory has given us the best ways to explore the logic and mathematics of infinity. Among the set of people born on 3 March, Georg Cantor is the unique member who "introduced the mathematically meaningful concept of transfinite numbers, indefinitely large but distinct from one another" (from britannica.com). The two members of the Kleppinger household selected this tie out of the set of ties-Gene-has-not-worn-recently because its multiple circle motifs illustrate the ideas of "union" and "inclusion."
If you lost anything in the last 12 years, you can "Blame It On The Large Hadron Collider." The LHC, which is the largest machine in the whole world, opened on this date in 2008, and is located near Geneva, Switzerland. Its primary feature is an enormous underground cylindrical tunnel ring with a diameter of 5.3 miles. You can take a virtual tour of the LHC through your own Web browser! Since this subatomic particle accelerator can create miniature black holes, the LHC makes a handy excuse when anything disappears without a trace. My tie has many rings-within-rings, on a deep black background. As far as I know it has never been "lost," but it tunneled to me from the tie collection of my former EKU colleague Minh Nguyen.
