August 2007
1 post
Missing the International Space Station
I am really embarrassed … I missed the 09:39 mark for the ISS; I was playing an online Hangman game. This would not have happened in the sixties!
June 2007
1 post
Sputnik?...maybe better
Ron called Anada and me to the backyard…9:15pm…there goes the space station chased by the shuttle. The speed is magnificant…and so is the brightness of the two machines. Unlike Sputnik…just a high flying dot in the winter sky, alone. Yes, Sputnik was first. But this seems more brilliant. And closer. Well, 40+ years between can make a difference.
May 2007
8 posts
Headline: "Fred's remains low-key, but successful"
Source: The Star-Ledger, Tuesday, May 29, 2007, p. 36. How did the Business Section of the newspaper know about our neighborly groundhog, Fred? He is a quiet, solitary fellow who has successfully created two paths under the fence to our juicy backyard lawn. He keeps Izzy dog very happy with games of tag.
Blue Moon Coming Soon
Waxing moon leap-frogs East to north to east we race Birthday candlelight
Impressionist and Early Modern Paintings: The... →
Through time we’ve experienced these paintings—and just took for granted that they have always been part of the collections. But, yes, somebody did have to have a vision to collect the works. The Clark brothers were wonderful collectors.
Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era →
Going back in time—with the music and art of the 60s. A fun exhibit to experience again and again. But I still have problems walking in flashing strobe lights.
Reflections from visiting the Mark Twain House,...
Our guide mentioned the high esteem in which the Clemons family held their butler. But the Clemons children did not play with the children from the carriage house. Grandpop’s chairs—the cane seated two—are in Mom’s dining room and in the Clemons’s servants’ eating area; Grandpop’s coffee grinder on my mantle is very much like the one in the...
“… Americans say something very true: Writing is rewriting.”
– Francis Veber, French Comedies Report http://www.theworld.org/?q=taxonomy_by_date/1/20070516
April 2007
3 posts
“Librarians are “guerrilla warriors on the barricades of freedom.”
– John Perry Barlow, addressing the New Jersey Library Association Annual Conference, in Long Branch, NJ, on April 25, 2007. Keynote address: “Librarians on the Front Lines”
e-Literate? Video from UCLA/Pacific Bell (2000 →
My colleague Amy Clark reminded me of this terrific video.
When Lois Lane first meets Superman →
My first tumblr log, I felt, should be something that celebrated my “first meeting” with my very own blog. So I searched that phrase in The Columbia World of Quotations, available through the Bankier Library online catalog link: http://library.brookdalecc.edu:80/record=b1107673a