"E Kiosk" is a cleverly enciphered allusion to Dave Koski, who is
my gracious host these few days. I'd never been to his digs in
Minneapolis, along one of the major flight paths. I enjoy reading
the tails, thinking about global aviation.

Our mission: to go on a kind of pilgrimage of appreciation to
Collegeville (that's literally what they call it), where one of the
most gem-like little campuses is home to a gem-like smallish priest
named Magnus Wenninger. His reputation precedes him as one of the
great polyhedronists. A polyhedronista perhaps.

Dave is crashed out, having done all the driving and heavy lifting
around this trip. I'm more along for the ride, as the photo-documenter.

Those knowing their way around my blogville will have an advantage
in finding some recently uploaded stills. I also took some video,
some of which is pretty good I'm pretty sure.

There's a sort of National Treasure Da Vinci Code feel to all this in
that the coded messages of the Platonists and Pythagoreans are almost
everywhere if you know what you're looking at. But then in some
locales, it's hardly "coded", is just right out there for everyone to
see. Dave was tickled pink to see a certain star pattern embedded
in the science center floor. We attended a liturgical service in
the hexagonally honeycombed not-a-steeple-house. Wenninger was quick
to show me the ropes (which hymnal to use, where to put it etc.).

On the way to and from, we went past the nuke plant where protagonist
Koski has contended as a member of the pipefitters union. It's an
older plant, not all that unlike the one that blew in Nippon recently.

Yes, I plunked down a few dollars for some models from the gift shop
in the Great Hall, which Father Magnus keeps supplied with some
shapes. They make good use of the revenue, preserving old books and
creating new books to treasure. We toured HMML, a headquarters for
such as the Ethiopian Imaging Project. Liturgical Press is also
headquartered there. http://www.litpress.org/

It's E Kiosk because one of the things Dave an I talk about is the
T/E module difference in Synergetics, and where does Koski's research
best fit. The 120 E mods, scaled up by phi in all linear dimensions,
equate to the RT in which are embedded our friends the 18.51+ icosa-
hedron and his "wife" (Fuller's term somewhere), its dual, the
pentagonal dodecahedron, which also has a simple volume in phi terms,
when ratioed to the unit volume tetrahedron. For so many years,
David referred to his primary dissection tool as a T. But it's
really more an E, is how he thinks of it today.

Kirby