AT&T Long Lines "Oak Hill" Tower, San Jose. CA. 2021.
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While we're all appreciating the late Tom Stoppard, I want to throw in a good word for his under-appreciated espionage drama Hapgood. I missed the original West End production (in 1988), but was mesmerized by the version he revised for Stockard Channing at Lincoln Center in 1994.
You can find many of the same physics and math themes in his later (and much more critically successful) Arcadia, but I think Hapgood deserves to be better known than it is.
It's December 2nd, which means that for the next 23 days, there's a high probability that you will encounter the classic film A Christmas Story broadcast on TV or streaming services.
One of the plot points in the film concerns decrypting a radio message from Orphan Annie's Secret Society, which was based on a real radio program of the era.
A while back I wrote up a little post on the (basic, but still interesting) cryptography involved.
