Haikus: July 2011

HAIKUS: July 2011

By Peter Y. Chou
WisdomPortal.com

These haikus were written as exercises in mindfulness—
an attempt to catch the fleeting moment in my daily walks,
while reading, listening to music, and pondering about life.
(Underlined words are not for emphasis but to web links.)
This web page best viewed with Times font size 14.

Friday, July 1, 2011, 2:00-6:00 pm
Stanford University, Green Library
"Mathematicians Want to Say Goodbye to Pi"
(By Natalie Wolchover, LiveScience, 6-29-2011)

Circle has 2π radius—
τ = 6.28
is better for circles. Friday, July 1, 2011, 2:00-6:00 pm
Stanford University, Green Library
"Illusion Reveals How Brain Adapts to Motion"
(By Wynne Parry, LiveScience, 6-30-2011)

Watch waterfall in motion—
then look at a wall
that seems to move upward.

Friday, July 1, 2011, 2:00-6:00 pm
Stanford University, Green Library
"Twisted Physics: 7 Mind-Blowing Findings"
(By Clara Moskowitz, LiveScience, 2-18-2011)

Spooky entanglement,
Knots of light, quark-gluon soup,
light bends matter. Friday, July 1, 2011, 2:00-6:00 pm
Stanford University, Green Library
"The Little Things in Life" (LiveScience Image 20: Jonas King took photograph of a mosquito heart, magnified 100x using fluorescence technology)

Mosquito's heart shaped
like Platonic Lambda—
Soul of the Universe.

Friday, July 1, 2011, 10:10-12:00 pm
KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM,
George Noory interviews Jeffrey Long,
Biography, "NDEs & The Afterlife", Book:
"Evidence of the Afterlife: Science of NDE"

Near death experience—
going through light tunnel
like worm hole to other world. Friday, July 1, 2011, 10:30 pm-1:30 am
Mountain View: Reading Jeffrey J. Kripal's
"The Serpent's Gift" (Gnostic Reflections, 2007),
p. 59. Quotes Meister Eckhardt: "The eye with which I see God is the same eye which God sees me"—

"My eye and God's eye
is one eye, one sight,
one knowledge, one love."

Friday, July 1, 2011, 10:30 pm-1:30 am
Mountain View: Reading Jeffrey J. Kripal's
"The Serpent's Gift" (Gnostic Reflections on the Study of Religion) pp. 88-89. Gospel of Philip:
"No longer a Christian but a Christ"

Serpent's gift is forbidden
fruit that delights, awakens,
arouses, and exiles all at once. Saturday, July 2, 2011, 1:30-4:00 am
Mountain View: Reading Jeffrey J. Kripal's
"Esalen: The Religion of No Religion" (2007) on Joseph Campbell (pp. 188-193); Huston Smith at Menninger Conference says of Joseph Campbell—

Campbell seemed to have
more energy than yogis,
gurus, and psychics.

Saturday, July 2, 2011, 7:00 pm
Mountain View: White cat leaps to fencetop
in two jumps, beneath the eucalyptus tree
where Cat Eyes appear from my window

Cat leaps to top of fence—
waits for me to get camera
to photograph him. Saturday, July 2, 2011, 8:50-11:50 pm
Palo Alto: Cubberley Pavilion
Ballroom Dancing: James Kleinrath
taught Intermediate Tango

Open reverse left turn,
rocks and swivels,
right twist turn to promenade.

Sunday, July 3, 2011, 2:30-4:00 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping
at Trader Joe's (590 Showers), Wal-Mart,
and Safeway (2580 California Street)

Sesame sticks, eggs,
water chestnuts, almonds,
yogurt, pizza, strawberries. Sunday, July 3, 2011, 9:35-9:45 pm
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: Photographed
posters in Lobby & film memorabilia
in Stanford Theatre's Exhibit Room

Tree Grows in Brooklyn,
My Fair Lady, Roman Holiday,
and Yankee Doodle Dandy.

Sunday, July 3, 2011, 7:30-9:35 pm
Stanford Theatre: Michael Curtiz directs
"Yankee Doodle Dandy" (1942) starring
James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston & Richard Whorf; Film bio of George M. Cohan,
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, Bob Hope), (Reviews: 1, 2, 3)

Jimmy Cagney gets me
dancing down the street
each time I watch this film. Sunday, July 3, 2011, 9:45-11:30 pm
Stanford Theatre: Lloyd Bacon directs
"Footlight Parade" (1933) starring James Cagney,
Ruby Keeler, Joan Blondell, Dick Powell, Frank McHugh, choreographed by Busby Berkeley
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5), (Reviews: 1, 2)

"By a Waterfall"
was mesmerizing but
"Shanghai Lil" woke me up!

Monday, July 4, 2011, 2:30-6:00 pm
San Mateo, Pescadero Creek County Park
Tarwater Trailhead: Tarwater Trail Loop

Redwoods, Douglas Firs,
and Bay Laurel Trees offer
much shade on this hike. Monday, July 4, 2011, 2:30-6:00 pm
San Mateo, Pescadero Creek County Park
Tarwater Trailhead: Tarwater Trail Loop

Leaving Tarwater—
distant view of Russian Ridge
Mindego Hilltop.

Tuesday, July 5, 2011, 11:15 am-9:05 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"In Eyes, a Clock Calibrated by Wavelengths of Light" (By Laura Beil, New York Times, 7-5-2011)

Eyes detect rise and fall
of daylight with sleep
hormone melatonin. Tuesday, July 5, 2011, 11:15 am-9:05 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"The Then and Now of Memory"
(By Benedict Carey, NY Times, 7-5-2011)

Contextual memory
surrounds all newly
learned information.

Tuesday, July 5, 2011, 11:15 am-9:05 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Notes to Poem: "Cat in the Tree"
Searching for image of stargate

Cat Eyes are black panther's
darkness swallowing me
into the stargate. Tuesday, July 5, 2011, 11:15 am-9:05 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Five days behind with July Haikus since last
time on computer was Friday at Green Library

Missed computers for
three days— caught up
writing 20 haikus with links.

Wednesday, July 6, 2011, 11:11 am-10:05 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Student splits 40K in winnings among runners-up"
(RivalsHigh, Yahoo! Sports, July 5, 2011)

Allen Geui wins $40K
in foul-shooting contest,
gives winnings to other finalists. Wednesday, July 6, 2011, 11:11 am-10:05 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Muhammad Ali's 'greatest' gift to Dirk Nowitzki"
(By Kelly Dwyer, Yahoo! Sports, July 6, 2011)

After Dirk wins NBA Finals,
Ali sends him boxing glove
signed "You are the greatest".

Thursday, July 7, 2011, 11:15 am-5:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Format 48 photos of July 4 Tarwater Trail Hike,
Photos: Stanford Theatre, Cranes Wall, White Cat

Didn't see 1000-year old
Redwood but scenic trail
made hike worthwhile. Thursday, July 7, 2011, 5:00-10:15 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Finishing Notes to Poem "Cat in the Tree"
Resized photos & texts for better printing

Cats are finding me
in films, sidewalk drawings,
and on the backyard fence.

Friday, July 8, 2011, 12:20-2:00 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me to Kaiser
(test strips & lancets), Nob Hill Foods (milk),
99 Ranch Market (1350 Grant Road) shopping

Vegetarian dumplings,
water chestnuts, broccoli,
tofu, bean curd, custard buns. Friday, July 8, 2011, 4:30-6:00 pm
Los Altos Library: Emailed Jack on
Derek Jeter homers for 3000th hit;
Fan returns 3000th-hit ball to Jeter

Jeter goes 5-for-5
and becomes first Yankee
to get 3000th hit.

Friday, July 8, 2011, 4:30-6:00 pm
Los Altos Library: Checked out James Joyce
"Ulysses" & Mayank Chhaya's 7-year authorized
biography "Dalai Lama: Man, Monk, Mystic" (2007)
Dalai Lama never fails to laugh when seeing people

Curious without prying,
Detached with caring,
always calm and in control. Friday, July 8, 2011, 10 pm-2:00 am
KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM,
George Noory interviews Dr. Gregg Korbon,
"Metaphysical Journey", Book: "Beyond Reason: Lessons from the Loss of a Gifted Child"

9-year old Brian
predicts own death after
touching home in baseball game.

Saturday, July 9, 2011, 12:00-1:00 pm
Mountain View: Read "Polar bear's ancestor is Irish brown bear" (By Amina Khan, LA Times, 7-8-2011)

Polar bears descended
not from Alaska but
Ireland's brown bear. Saturday, July 9, 2011, 2:30-3:40 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping
at Whole Foods & Safeway (2580 California St.)

Wheat germ, potato salad,
tangerine juice, ice cream,
coffee cake, raspberry danish.

Saturday, July 9, 2011, 4:30-6:00 pm
Los Altos Library: Checked out David S. Rubin (ed.)
"Psychedelic: Optical & Visionary Art since 1960s"
Alex Grey, "Journey of the Wounded Healer" (1985)

DNA spirals
around the healer
while he holds a Caduceus. Saturday, July 9, 2011, 8:45-11:50 pm
Palo Alto: Cubberley Pavilion
Ballroom Dancing: James Kleinrath taught Intermediate Waltz; Danced & talked to Sandy

She's interested in
serotonin, light tunnel,
and Edgar Cayce.

Sunday, July 10, 2011, 3:30-9:00 pm
Stanford University, Green Library
A Lost World? Atlantis-Like Landscape Discovered
(By Wynne Parry, LiveScience.com, 7-10-2011)

56-million-year-old
landscape near Iceland
sank to bottom of ocean. Sunday, July 10, 2011, 3:30-9:00 pm
Stanford University, Green Library
Web page: July 4 Tarwater Trailhead Hike
20 photos from car of flowers & scenic views

Sticky Monkey-Flowers,
Clarkia, Mustards, Cowparsnip,
Thimbleberry, and Forget-Me-Nots.

Monday, July 11, 2011, 11:50 am-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Believers In Mysterious Planet Nibiru Await Earth's End" (By Natalie Wolchover, Space.com, 7-11-2011)
NASA's David Morrison discounts Nibiru collision

Planet Nibiru will crash
into Earth and wipe
us out in 2012. Monday, July 11, 2011, 11:50 am-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Richard emails this story: "Blueberries faked in cereals, muffins, bagels and other food products"
(By Mike Adams, Natural News.TV, 1-18-2011)

Blueberries made from
artificial colors, sugars,
and hydrogenated oils.

Monday, July 11, 2011, 11:50 am-5:30 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Web page: July 4 Tarwater Trailhead Hike;
Tarwater Video of Old-Growth Redwoods

Forty-six photos
of July 4 hike to
Tarwater Trailhead Loop. Monday, July 11, 2011, 5:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Wrote 16 haikus (7/7-7/11) & Notes "Cat in the Tree"; James Joyce "Finnegans Wake" (page 563)

The window blinds open
the Stargate galaxy—
O, I see and see!

Tuesday, July 12, 2011, 12:20-2:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Frozen Lake Photos" (Abraham Lake, Canada)
(By Emmanuel Coupe, Yahoo! News, 7-12-2011)

Warm air rises but
cold air stays as bubbles
beneath the frozen lake. Tuesday, July 12, 2011, 12:20-2:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Sunrise over the Old Man of Storr, Isle of Skye, Scotland"; (2009 Landscape Photographer Winner)

Four elements in
harmony— earth, lake,
airy clouds, and sunrise fire.

Tuesday, July 12, 2011, 12:20-2:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Photo: Yorkshire Yak "Near Malham, summer in Yorkshire Dales, England", (By Steve Sharp,
2010 Adult Your View, Highly Commended)

Yorkshire Yak seems angry
like storm clouds behind him—
He is the Raging Bull! Tuesday, July 12, 2011, 2:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Found Nice Nature Photos (Emmanuel Coupe, Antony Spencer, Gary Eastwood, 2008 Winners) & Notes "Cat in the Tree"; William Henry's Stargates

Stargates are portals
to the stars— Look up
in Washington's Capitol Dome!

Tuesday, July 12, 2011, 2:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Photo: Angry Yorkshire Yak— Seed storm clouds for rain to cool yak or Chant Om to calm his nerves?
Friend sends a surprise solution to befriend yak—

"Yak is not angry.
He is just Being"—
How simple, so wonderful! Tuesday, July 12, 2011, 10:30-11 pm, 2-3 am
KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM,
George Noory interviews Dr. Laurie Ann Levin,
"Unity Theory", (YouTube: 1, 2), PDF article,
Book: "God, the Universe, and Where I Fit In"

We are one & connected—
Air has consciousness
travelling through us.

Wednesday, July 13, 2011, 12:30-2:50 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Owl leaves imprint on Kendal woman's window" (BBC News, Cumbria, UK, July 11, 2011)

Silhouette of owl
imprinted on window
with eyes, beak and feathers. Wednesday, July 13, 2011, 12:30-2:50 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
213th anniversary of William Wordsworth's
poem "Tintern Abbey" (July 13, 1798)

Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey"
poem elevates my mind
to a sense sublime.

Wednesday, July 13, 2011, 2:50-4:08 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
July 10 photo of neighbor's "Cat in Window"
composed in Photoshop (Step 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Photoshop let me
capture a neighbor's cat
sitting in the window. Wednesday, July 13, 2011, 4:15-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Composed web page "Cat in the Window" in
honor of "Tintern Abbey" & "Cat in the Tree"

Honoring Wordsworth's
"Tintern Abbey" and latest
poem "Cat in the Tree".

Thursday, July 14, 2011, 11:32 am-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Insights with Réne Girard (YouTube: Interview
by Peter Robinson, Hoover Institution, 12-9-2009)

Great to see and hear
Réne Girard expound
on Christ as the scapegoat. Thursday, July 14, 2011, 11:32 am-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Web page on Jean-Pierre Dupuy's Seminar
Réne Girard's Mimetic & Sacrificial Theory

Poetry projects delayed
this web page on Dupuy's
Seminar on Réne Girard.

Friday, July 15, 2011, 3:00-6:00 pm
Stanford University, Green Library
Richard sent 7/13 email "Beyond 21st Century"
on 3D printing of a wrench— Simply Amazing!

3D printing created
successive layers of matter
and made a wrench! Friday, July 15, 2011, 3:00-6:00 pm
Stanford University, Green Library
Richard emails to confirm 3D Printing
is true (Snopes.com); Also 3D chocolates

No need to hire chef—
3D Printers will whip up
dishes for your diners.

Friday, July 15, 2011, 3:00-6:00 pm
Stanford University, Green Library
"The Good Short Life" (Dying of Lou Gehrig disease at age 66, friend sent Leonard Cohen's "Dance Me to the End of Love" London concert)
(By Dudley Clendinen, NY Times, 7-10-2010)

I dance, spin around,
happy in the last rhythms
of the life I love. Friday, July 15, 2011, 3:00-6:00 pm
Stanford University, Green Library
"Internet Use Affects Memory, Study Finds"
(By Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 7-15-2011) (Betsy Sparrow, Columbia; Daniel M. Wegner, Harvard; Jenny Liu, U. Wisconsin Madison)

Transactive memory—
Internet has become our
external storage system.

Friday, July 15, 2011, 7:30-8:15 pm
Stanford Theatre: Buster Keaton directs
"Sherlock, Jr." (1924) starring Buster Keaton,
Kathryn McGuire, Ward Crane, & Joe Keaton;
(YouTube), (Reviews: 1, 2, 3)
(Dennis James at the Wurlitzer)

Film projectionist
dreams his way onscreen
to become a detective. Friday, July 15, 2011, 8:25-9:25 pm
Stanford Theatre: Buster Keaton directs
"Seven Chances" (1925) starring Buster Keaton,
Ruth Dwyer, Snitz Edwards, T. Roy Barnes,
Jean Arthur, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4), (Reviews: 1, 2)
(Dennis James at the Wurlitzer)

Hundreds of women
chasing him to be married
but rolling rocks chased him!

Saturday, July 16, 2011, 2:30-2:50 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me grocery
shopping at Milk Pail (2585 California St.)

Blackberries, broccoli,
cauliflower, radishes,
red leaf lettuce. Saturday, July 16, 2011, 3:00-3:40 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me grocery
shopping at Safeway (2580 California St.)

Green beans, peas, yogurt,
fish fillets, cheese, creamer,
deviled egg potato salad.

Saturday, July 16, 2011, 8:45-11:50 pm
Palo Alto: Cubberley Pavilion
Ballroom dancing: Michelle Regal teaches intermediate West Coast Swing (YouTube:
West Coast Swing, Waltz, Viennese Waltz)

Michelle Regal teaches
form & styling in dancing
the West Coast Swing. Sunday, July 17, 2011, 12:15-3:00 am
KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, Ian Punnett
interviews Tom Shadyac ("I Am" film),
Biography, "Fixing a Broken World",
Yogurt reacts to our emotional states (Backster)

Cooperate not compete
is the way to mend
our divisive world.

Sunday, July 17, 2011, 1:00-1:30 pm
Palo Alto: Friend takes me to Fry's
Electronics (340 Portage Ave) to buy
Canon F-502 calculator ($7.99), Patriot
8 GB camera chip ($7), HP 8 GB USB ($7.99)

Replaced Sharp calculator
that lasted for 26 years
as key "2" is not working. Sunday, July 17, 2011, 2:00-9:00 pm
Stanford University, Green Library
Reading about Leonard Cohen and his
song "Dance Me to the End of Love"
(1984), (Lyrics) (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Dance me to your beauty
my homeward dove— dance
me to the end of love.

Sunday, July 17, 2011, 2:00-9:00 pm
Stanford University, Green Library
"Does Ted Williams Own A More Impressive
Streak than Joe DiMaggio?" (By Cam Martin,
Post Game, 7-13-2011), Joe DiMaggio was on
base 74 straight games (1941) in 56-hit streak

Ted Williams on base
safely in 84 straight
games in 1949. Sunday, July 17, 2011, 2:00-9:00 pm
Stanford University, Green Library
"Is Anyone There?" On people not responding
to your emails because they're just too busy;
(culprits: lack of courtesy & passive aggression)
(By Henry Alford, New York Times, 7-17-2011)

No mail is ever
as dire as the one that
never reached Romeo.

Sunday, July 17, 2011, 2:00-9:00 pm
Stanford University, Green Library
Reading Leonard Cohen's "Selected Poems:
1956-1968" (PR6053.O35A17.1968)
"Summer Haiku" for Frank & Marian Scott (p. 70)

Silence
and a deeper silence
when the crickets
hesitate Sunday, July 17, 2011, 2:00-9:00 pm
Stanford University, Green Library
Reading Leonard Cohen's "Selected Poems:
1956-1968" (PR6053.O35A17.1968)
"Who Will Finally Say" (1st stanza of 6, p. 234)

Who will finally say
you are perfect
Who will choose you
in order to edit your secrets

Monday, July 18, 2011, 11:32 am-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Food Chain: 'Apex consumers' key in natural world" (James Estes, UC Santa Cruz, Science)
(By Tovin Lapan, SJ Mercury News, 7-18-2011, B3)

Otters feast on urchins,
if left unchecked, would
decimate kelp forest. Monday, July 18, 2011, 11:32 am-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Pedroia's 16th-inning single lifts Boston"
(Longest 1-0 game 24 innings, Mets-Astros, 1968)
(By Fred Goodall, Yahoo! Sports, 7-18-2011)

Boston beats Tampa Bay
1-0 as Josh Beckett and
five relievers pitched 3-hitter.

Monday, July 18, 2011, 11:32 am-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
While linking to films of T. Roy Barnes, found
1929 film "Sally" (Plot Summary, 3rd all talking color film), (YouTube: 1, 2, 3), (Reviews: 1, 2, 3)

Sally sings & swings
sweetly in "All I Want to
Do Do Do Is Dance". Monday, July 18, 2011, 11:32 am-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Web page on Jean-Pierre Dupuy's Seminar
Réne Girard's Mimetic & Sacrificial Theory:
Introductory Lecture: March 28, 2011

37 page Word file
converted to HTML
in four hours for the Web.

Tuesday, July 19, 2011, 12:15-1:45 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me to Kaiser to pick
up medication; Read "Dance Partners" on Martha Graham (Joan Acocella, Smithsonian, June 2011)

Barbara Morgan's photo
of Martha Graham dancing
Letter to the World. Tuesday, July 19, 2011, 2:30-9:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Using Photoshop to combine "Devil Head" & "Monkey" to create "Mind as Restless Monkey"

Putting monkey swinging
in tree inside head to make
Mind as Restless Monkey.

Tuesday, July 19, 2011, 2:30-9:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Giants 5 Dodgers 0: Vogelsong in control"
(By Carl Steward, SJ Mercury News, 7-19-2011,
C1, C3), "Vogelsong feels love of fans" (5-9-2011)

Vogelsong threw strikes
75 of 111 pitches
lowering ERA to 2.02. Tuesday, July 19, 2011, 2:30-9:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Pitcher gets the call— it has an All-Star ring"
(By Daniel Brown, SJ Mercury News, 7-11-2011, A1, A5), "Vogelsong now 8-1" (7-23-2011)

13 years adversity
before Vogelsong makes
the All-Star Game.

Wednesday, July 20, 2011, 11:20-11:50 am
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Lab opened late; Read "Sound Craftmanship" on Santa Cruz Guitar Company (By Bruce Newman,
San Jose Mercury News, 7-19-2011, A1 & A5)

Richard Hoover uses
vintage wood to create
great sounding guitars. Wednesday, July 20, 2011, 11:50 am-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Susan emailed that her Dad died; Donald Bleznick encouraged my poetry writing; Thanked him with Number 80 gift for his 80th birthday & web page

Don was a knight to me—
encouraged my writing
as mentor and mensch.

Wednesday, July 20, 2011, 11:50 am-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Today's the 42nd anniversary of Man's Landing
on the Moon, but Google Doodle chose to honor
geneticist father "Gregor Mendel's 189th birthday

Mendel is great but
Google doesn't know
secret of number 42. Wednesday, July 20, 2011, 11:50 am-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Using Photoshop to combine "Empty Brain" &
"Don Quixote" to create "Questing Mind";
Poem— Mind: Questing or Resting?" (Notes")

Putting Don Quixote
inside head to symbolize
Mind on the Quest.

Thursday, July 21, 2011, 1:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Decoding DNA With Semiconductors"
Jonathan M. Rothberg's $49000 DNA Decoder
to sequence human genome for $1000 by 2013
(By Nicolas Wade, New York Times, 7-21-2011)

Semiconductor chip
sequenced genome of Intel's
co-founder Gordon Moore. Thursday, July 21, 2011, 1:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Writing Notes to "Mind: Questing or Resting?
Finding images of Hui-neng, Diamond Sutra,
Jean-Claude Killy's 3 Olympic gold medals skiing, and Martha Graham dancing "Letter to the World"

Killy's skiing and Graham's
dancing— showcases for
yoga's skill in action.

Thursday, July 21, 2011, 1:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Yoga is skill in action"— cited not
from Patanjali's "Yoga Sutra" but
from the "Bhagavad Gita, 2.50"

"Yoga is skill in action"—
I also like Juan Mascaró's
"Yoga is wisdom in work". Thursday, July 21, 2011, 1:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Homage to Donald W. Bleznick"
(Hispania, Vol. 67, No. 1, March 1984)
Printed 21 pages of tribute from jstor.org

Donald Bleznick's 9 years
as Hispania's Editor
shows skill in action.

Friday, July 22, 2011, 3:30-5:00 pm
Mountain View & Sunnyvale: Friend takes
me shopping at Lucky (715 East El Camino)
& Sprouts (111 East El Camino Real)

Bananas (37¢/lb), cherries ($1.47/lb),
blueberries (3 pints @ 99¢/6 oz.),
strawberries (3 lbs @ 99¢/lb),. Friday, July 22, 2011, 6:30-7:00 pm
Stanford Theatre, Exhibit Room—
Film posters of Alfred Hitchcock on walls;
Audrey Hepburn film stills of "Sabrina"

Got to Stanford Theatre
early to see David Packard's
film memorabilia collection.

Friday, July 22, 2011, 7:30-9:40 pm
Stanford Theatre: Alfred Hitchcock directs
"Vertigo" (1958) with James Stewart, Kim Novak,
Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore, Henry Jones;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5), (Reviews: 1, 2, 3), Poem

Madeleine vanishes
from McKittrick Hotel
for she doesn't exist! Friday, July 22, 2011, 9:50-11:40 pm
Stanford Theatre: Alfred Hitchcock directs
"Psycho" (1960) with Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh,
Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam, Simon Oakland; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4), (Reviews: 1, 2, 3)

Herrmann's music and
Saul Bass graphic design
add suspense to Psycho.

Saturday, July 23, 2011, 2:30-4:30 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me to bank,
shopping at Safeway (2580 California St) &
Los Altos Library to print Coast-to-Coast.am

Doritos Nacho cheese,
tuna, yogurt, veggie soup,
popcorn shrimp, orange juice. Saturday, July 23, 2011, 8:50-11:50 pm
Palo Alto: Cubberley Pavilion
Ballroom Dancing: James Kleinrath
taught Intermediate Bolero

Parallel & crossover
breaks, pivots, rondé.
twist turn to same foot lunge.

Sunday, July 24, 2011, 3:14-9:00 pm
Stanford University, Green Library
Email from John Staube (7/23) on
his new web site Dante's World
and images of Paradise

Dante's Commedia
is the best guide for us
to experience paradise. Sunday, July 24, 2011, 3:14-9:00 pm
Stanford University, Green Library
Dante's World: The Rule of Four;
Francesco Colona's "Hypnerotomachia Poliphili"
"Strife with Love in a Dream" (1499); Rule of Four

Mystery story solved
by Caldwell & Thomason's
book The Rule of Four.

Monday, July 25, 2011, 12:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Donald Bleznick earned reputation for scholarship"
(By Janelle Gelfand, Cincinnati.com, 7-24-2011)

Knighted by the King
of Spain, he also read
on radio for the blind. Monday, July 25, 2011, 12:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Image "About Emptiness" by Erik van Hannen, photo at Bunnik, Utrecht, to illustrate Sunyata

Emptiness is
attentive awareness
of everything around us.

Monday, July 25, 2011, 12:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Catching up on 16 haikus (July 21-25)
with Video links to "Vertigo" & "Psycho"

Found nine YouTube videos
on these two Hitchcock
classic suspense movies. Monday, July 25, 2011, 12:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Writing Notes to "Mind: Questing or Resting?
Quoting Paul Brunton "Quest of the Overself"

Those who follow this quest
is like the ray which is
returning to its source.

Tuesday, July 26, 2011, 2:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Poetry: "On the Nature of Understanding"
(By Kay Ryan, New Yorker, 7-25-2011, p. 30)

Can something wild be
really tamed? So it's strange
when your "friend" attacks you. Tuesday, July 26, 2011, 2:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"An Essay Concerning Human Understanding"
by Enlightenment philosopher John Locke (1690)

Can we have a lock
on understanding? Something
wild will change your mind.

Tuesday, July 26, 2011, 2:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"America's Most Expensive Home is for Cowboys" $175 million for Jackson Land & Cattle Ranch, WY
(By Morgan Brennan, Forbes.com, 7-25-2011)

The sage is happy
in his hut for he knows
the universe is his home. Tuesday, July 26, 2011, 2:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Contemplative Life: Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas,
Christ on Martha & Mary, Mundaka Upanishad;
"Vita Contemplativa" at Chartres Cathedral

Contemplative life
in Middle Ages— Active
life during Renaissance.

Tuesday, July 26, 2011, 2:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics" X.8:
Superiority of the Contemplative Life

Perfect happiness
and highest virtue is
life in contemplation. Tuesday, July 26, 2011, 2:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Completing Notes to "Mind: Questing or Resting?
Life of action versus life in contemplation

Highest virtue is a
life in contemplation
and skill in action.

Wednesday, July 27, 2011, 11:50 am-1:45 pm
SETI Institute, 189 Bernado Ave, Mountain View,
Anthony Aguirre, Dept. of Physics, UC Santa Cruz, Noon Lecture: "Are We Living in a Multiverse?
Eternal Inflation, Bubbles, & Cosmic Collisions"

Inflationary universe
not making more of our own
but infinite multiverses. Wednesday, July 27, 2011, 2:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
YouTube: Hubble Deep Field; Edge of the Universe; Space & Galaxies; Flying through Space; Hubble Universe; (Zen Sculptures by Sally Aguirre)

Searched for Milky Way
videos and found sculptures
even more beautiful.

Wednesday, July 27, 2011, 2:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Long-Delayed Show of Buddhist Art From Pakistan Is to Open" (By Jane Perlez, NY Times, 7-27-2011)
Gandhara Buddha; Buddha Paradise; Video

Gandhara Buddha and
"Vision of a Buddha Paradise"
at Asia Society Museum. Wednesday, July 27, 2011, 2:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Digital Maps Are Giving Scholars the Historical Lay of the Land" (By Patricia Cohen, NY Times,
7-27-2011) General Lee's View of Gettysburg

Historians can recreate
vanished landscapes
using digital maps.

Wednesday, July 27, 2011, 2:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Al Guzman has something wild to show me—
"Project Pegasus" heard 5-17 on Coast-to-Coast;
I heard Andrew D. Basiago 11-11-09 & 11-11-10

Chronovisor teleported
him back in time
and into the future. Wednesday, July 27, 2011, 2:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Told Al about Al Bielek program 2-24-05 & 7-21-03, time travel from Philadelphia Experiment (1943) to Montauk Point (1983); Al Bielek; Bielek Debunked

Magnetic levitation
teleported him
40 years to the future.

Wednesday, July 27, 2011, 2:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Recalled Professor Aguirre's SETI lecture today
on electromagnetics connection to 5th dimension;
"Electromagnetic form factors from the fifth dimension" (By D. Rodriguez-Gomez & J. Ward, Academic Research, 2008), Kaluza-Klein theory

Giant magnets used in
time travel going from
5th to the 4th dimension? Wednesday, July 27, 2011, 10:30-12:00 pm
KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM,
George Noory interviews Carmen Boulter,
Biography, "Egypt & Pyramid Mysteries", web site, Books: The Pyramid Code, "Angels and Archetypes: An Evolutionary Map of Feminine Consciousness" Images: Green Pyramid, Holy Grail, Dendera

Great Pyramid used
telluric or Earth currents
to generate power.

Thursday, July 28, 2011, 12:50-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Friend sends link to Nano Lopez's
bronze sculptures. I like "Gatin"

Beautiful bronze sculpture
of cat with outstretched paws
and serpent-like tail ready to strike. Thursday, July 28, 2011, 12:50-10:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Clicked Web Link to Hakuin's "Bridge of Mama"
and found nomius.com shopping site (Restored)

Surprised to find web link
to Hakuin's Zen painting
is now a shopping site!

Friday, July 29, 2011, 3:10-5:20 pm
Los Altos Library: "1.5 million bats in Texas city left hungrier by drought" (bridge in downtown Austin)
(By Karen Brooks, Reuters, msnbc, 7-28-2011)

Before sunset, streams
of hundreds thousand bats
form dark clouds in the sky. Friday, July 29, 2011, 3:10-5:20 pm
Los Altos Library: "How Exercise Can Keep the Brain Fit" (Arch. Inter. Med. 171, 1251-57, 2011)
(By Gretchen Reynolds, NY Times, 7-27-2011)

Push dementia back
by ten years just walking
and moving around more.

Friday, July 29, 2011, 7:30-8:30 pm
Stanford Theatre: Buster Keaton directs
"The Navigator" (1924) starring Buster Keaton,
Kathryn McGuire, Frederick Vroom, Donald Crisp, Noble Johnson; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4), (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3) (Dennis James at the Wurlitzer)

Rollo and Betsy
drifting on ship when
cannibals attack them. Friday, July 29, 2011, 8:40-9:55 pm
Stanford Theatre: Buster Keaton directs
"The Cameraman" (1928) starring Buster Keaton,
Marceline Day, Harold Goodwin, Sidney Bracey,
Harry Gribbon, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4), (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3) (Dennis James at the Wurlitzer)

Cameraman Buster
loves Sally who tips him
to film Chinatown war.

Saturday, July 30, 2011, 4:15-6:00 pm
Los Altos Library: "Pujols reaches 2,000-hit mark
in Cardinals victory" (beating Chicago Cubs 9-2),
12th-quickest player to 2000 hits in 1650 games,
(Sports Illustrated, 7-29-2011)

Pujols joins Musial (3630),
Brock (2713), Hornsby (2110),
Slaughter (2063) of St. Louis Cardinals. Saturday, July 30, 2011, 4:15-6:00 pm
Los Altos Library: "Yogi Guardians, on a Healing Mission" (Ana Forrest & Forrest Yoga);
Book: "Fierce Medicine: Break through Practices"
(By Mary Billard, New York Times, 7-31-2011)

"Forrest Yoga" attract
NFL players, dancers,
and cancer patients.

Saturday, July 30, 2011, 4:15-6:00 pm
Los Altos Library: "It's Fashionable to Take a Trip to Another Universe"; Sci-fi film "Another Earth";
Brian Greene , "Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes"
(By Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 7-26-2011)

Trip to another
universe where you are
living another life. Saturday, July 30, 2011, 4:15-6:00 pm
Los Altos Library: "It's Alive! It's Alive!" Maybe Right Here on Earth— Specially engineered RNA
by Gerald F. Joyce of Scripps Research Institute;
(By Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 7-28-2011)

Evolved molecule
in test tube dubbed
"The Immortal Molecule".

Saturday, July 30, 2011, 4:15-6:00 pm
Los Altos Library: "Video: Josh Beckett's gift brings young fan to tears"; After warming up against Kansas City in bullpen, Beckett gives ball away;
(By 'Duk, Yahoo Sports, 7-29-2011) (YouTube)

Red Sox pitcher Josh Beckett
gives baseball to young fan
bringing him to tears. Saturday, July 30, 2011, 8:50-11:50 pm
Palo Alto: Cubberley Pavilion
Ballroom Dancing: James Kleinrath
taught Intermediate Tango; Forgot to change
to distance glasses & wore my reading glasses

Double corté to
promenade, pivots, rondé,
lilt, swivels & forward draw.

Sunday, July 31, 2011, 12:15-3:00 am
KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, Ian Punnett
interviews Howard Bloom, Biography, web site,
"U.S. Economy & Future"; Book: "Genius of the Beast: A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism"

China's government projects
building railways and dams
raised the human spirit. Sunday, July 31, 2011, 2:30-3:30 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me grocery
shopping at Safeway (2580 California Street) &
Los Altos Library to bookmark Sunday NY Times;
Bought "1001 Pearls of Buddhist Wisdom" for $3

Pure almond milk, yogurt,
pizza rolls, red grapes, garlic,
wheat bread, salad dressings.

Sunday, July 31, 2011, 4:30-5:50 pm
Los Altos Library: "Mechanic Muse: Jargon of the Novel, Computed"; COCA has 425 million words
of text from past two decades for analysis
(By Ben Zimmer, NY Times, 7-26-2011)

Verb phrases occur
more often in fiction
than in other genres. Sunday, July 31, 2011, 4:30-5:50 pm
Los Altos Library: "Options for Self-Publishing Proliferate, Easing the Bar to Entry"— CreateSpace (Amazon.com) increased book publishing 80% (2010) (By Alina Tugend, NY Times, 7-30-2011)

AuthorHouse, iUniverse,
and Xlibris print one book
at a time to be profitable.