Noting today that the time was 11:32 (AM ET),  a portentous number in Finnegans Wake, I decided to practice a bit of chronomancy (use of time for augury).  My weblog's server infomed me when I pressed "enter" that it thought the exact time was 11:32:39.  Consulting (as in Symmetry and Change in the Dreamtime) the I Ching for the meaning of (hexagram) 39, I found the following:

The hexagram pictures a dangerous abyss lying before us and a steep, inaccessible mountain rising behind us.... One must join forces with friends of like mind and put himself under the leadership of a man equal to the situation: then one will succeed in removing the obstacles.

For the abyss and the mountain, see the five log24 entries ending on July 5, 2005, with "The Edge of Eternity." As for "friends of like mind," see the previous entry's references to July 2005.  "The leadership of a man equal to the situation" is more difficult to interpret.  Perhaps it refers, as a politician recently noted, to "a king who took us to the mountain-top and pointed the way to the promised land." Or perhaps to a different king.

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Note the time: 11:32 (of 13:09).
The moment is that of the syllable
"mount" in the quotation above.

See also "Reflections on Symmetry,"

"Quantum Information Theory Related to Finite Geometry,"

and a comment at The n-Category Cafe,

On Spekkens' toy system and finite geometry.

The Wootters talk was on July 20, 2005. For related material from that July which some will find more entertaining, see "Steven Cullinane is a Crank," conveniently reproduced as a five-page thread in the Mathematics Forum at groupsrv.com.

What you mean "we"?

"After the credits, a close-up of a lottery list shows the winning numbers drawn in the Mexican National Lottery, dated February 14, 1925. The camera pulls back to the hands of a man holding a lottery ticket and comparing his number with the posted winners."