See today's earlier posts Ode and True Grid (continued) and, in the latter's
context of tic-tac-toe war games —  Balance, from Halloween 2005 —

“An asymmetrical balance is sought since it possesses more movement.
This is achieved by the imaginary plotting of the character
upon a nine-fold square, invented by some ingenious writer of the Tang dynasty.
If the square were divided in half or in four, the result would be symmetrical,
but the nine-fold square permits balanced asymmetry."

— Paraphrase of a passage in Chiang Yee's Chinese Calligraphy

For material related to the Dec. 29, 2010, posts Toy Stories and True Grid —

See Theological Points of Tron: Legacy, by the anonymous blogger hilbertthm90.

An excerpt —

Another story told in the movie is how this girl was about to be destroyed by the evil guys only to find “the father” standing over her after she blacked out and he “saved her”. The father’s disk contains all the information about everything in the grid, so in a sense the father is omniscient. Clearly the father is a stand in for the Biblical God since he creates a whole universe and is omniscient (and by some of the actions he performs in the movie, he seems omnipotent as well). I don’t think the Christian parallels are all in my head.

There is some sketchy theology that occurs that might be in my head, though. The “real world” outside of the grid seems to be a symbol for heaven. If this is true, it presents a very interesting theological point.

Compare and contrast —

Woody and Buzz  from Christmas Day, 2010 —

Update of 8:55 PM — Related material from today's  Ghost Light weblog —

See also today's New York midday lottery number, 596, as it appears in a search
for "legacy code" in this journal. It is China's code for its first nuclear test.

Today's evening New York number is less alarming — 401, suggesting the date
4/01 — i.e., April Fools' Day.

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From http://www.douban.com/note/63358774/ —

An Ode to the Unity of Time and Space 

Time, ah, time,
how you go off like this!

Physical things, ah, things,
so abundant you are!

The Ruo’s waters are three thousand,
how can they not have the same source?

Time and space are one body,
mind and things sustain each other.

Time, o time,
does not time come again?

Heaven, o heaven,
how many are the appearances of heaven!

From ancient days constantly shiftling on,
black holes flaring up.

Time and space are one body,
is it without end?

Great indeed
is the riddle of the universe.

Beautiful indeed
is the source of truth.

To quantize space and time
the smartest are nothing.

To measure the Great Universe with a long thin tube
the learning is vast.

 By Shing-Tung Yau

《时空统一颂》
作者：丘成桐
时乎时乎 逝何如此
物乎物乎 繁何如斯
弱水三千 岂非同源
时空一体 心物互存
时兮时兮 时不再欤
天兮天兮 天何多容
亘古恒迁 黑洞冥冥
时空一体 其无尽耶
大哉大哉 宇宙之谜
美哉美哉 真理之源
时空量化 智者无何
管测大块 学也洋洋

"What a fellowship…"

Happy birthday, Iris.