HAIKUS: April 2012
By Peter Y. Chou |
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. |
Sunday, April 1, 2012, 12:00 am-4:00 am KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, John B. Wells interviews captain & pilot John Lear, (Bio, web); "9-11 Conspiracies & Lunar Civilizations"; John's father Bill Lear (Lear Jet), invented car radio & 8-track tape; UFO Coverup; YouTube Interview Lunar civilization of a billion people was April Fool's joke. |
Sunday, April 1, 2012, 4:10-5:45 pm Los Altos Library, "ON BASEBALL: A Monotony of Excellence, an Atrophy of Passion" (Bruce Weber, NY Times, 3-31-2012); 1963 World Series; 1st time Yankees lost four in a row in the World Series; Koufax fanned fifteen & first five batters faced. Koufax in 1963 World Series, struck out 15 Yankees, as Dodgers swept 4-0. |
Sunday, April 1, 2012, 4:10-5:45 pm Los Altos Library: "Mel Parnell, 89, Dies; Dominated Yanks" (By Bruce Weber, NY Times, 3-22-2012); 71-30 at Fenway with no-hitter against White Sox (7-14-1956); #30 Topps 1952 BB card Parnell was 5-0 against the Yankees in 1953 with four shutouts. |
Sunday, April 1, 2012, 4:10-5:45 pm Los Altos Library: March 31 Email from Cornell President David J. Skorton on "Former Cornell president Dale Corson dead at 97" (Associated Press, Wall Street Journal, 3-31-2012) Dale Corson, Cornell president (1969-1977) led University during tumultuous years. |
Sunday, April 1, 2012, 10:00 pm-2:00 am KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory interviews Diana Cooper, (Bio, Web), "2032 & the Golden Age"; Books: "Transition to the Golden Age in 2032"; "Keys to the Universe: Access the Ancient Secrets"; YouTube: 2012 & Beyond; Awaken chakras Coming energy will aid in planetary ascension into the fifth dimension. |
Sunday, April 1, 2012, 10:00 pm-2:00 am KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory interviews Astronomer & physicist Hugh Ross, (Bio, Web), "Cosmology, Christianity, & UFOs"; Books: "Hidden Treasures in the Book of Job"; "Creation As Science": Why the Universe Is the Way It Is Book of Job predicted space-time beginnings as well as dark energy. |
Monday, April 2, 2012, 3:30-9:00 pm Mountain View Senior Center: "BOOKS: How to Teach Art in 89 Simple Lessons "Draw it with your eyes closed: art of the art assignment" (By Dwight Garner, New York Times, 3-30-2012) Paul Thek: "I reward real effort and punish laziness and insincerity. |
Monday, April 2, 2012, 3:30-9:00 pm Mountain View Senior Center: BOOKS: How to Cultivate Eureka Moments 'Imagine: How Creativity Works', by Jonah Lehrer; (By Michiko Kakutani, NY Times, 4-2-2012) (serendipidity from strangers) Seeing as an outsider from a different angle promotes creativity. |
Monday, April 2, 2012, 8:30 am Mountain View: DREAM Foothill College has designated me as "Official Superman". I complain that there are no wires to support me. They say: "You don't need any wires. Just fly!" Saw purple phoenix Took photo of phoenix flying in the sky as it folded up its wings. |
Tuesday, April 3, 2012, 8:00 am Mountain View: DREAM Someone asked me to explain a triangular diagram. I tell him it's a Tetractys and quote Pythagoras "All is number". The color balls from green to blue symbolize Dante's flight to Heaven Green to light light blue symbol of Dante's ascent from Earth to Heaven. |
Tuesday, April 3, 2012, 10:00 pm-2:00 am KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory interviews Charles Duhigg, (Bio, Web), "Understanding Habits"; Book: "Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business" Claude Hopkins changed people's habit to brush their teeth by using Pepsodent. |
Tuesday, April 3, 2012, 10:00 pm-2:00 am KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory interviews James Colquhoun (Bio, Web), & Daniel Vitalis (Bio, Web), "The Food Conspiracy"; Videos: Hungry for Change; Food Matters; Fresh Water Eat fresh foods. Processed foods lack nutrients and detrimental to health. |
Wednesday, April 4, 2012, 1:27-9:00 pm Palo Alto, Foothill MIddlefield Computer Lab "Tigers' Verlander Sets Expectations Ever Higher" (By Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 4-5-2012) Justin Verlander; MLB 2K12 Cover; YouTube Verlander led American League in 24 victories, 2.40 ERA, 250 strikeouts, won Cy Young and MVP awards. |
Wednesday, April 4, 2012, 1:27-9:00 pm Palo Alto, Foothill MIddlefield Computer Lab Just One More Game... Angry Birds, Farmville and Other Hyperaddictive 'Stupid Games' (By Sam Anderson NY Times, 4-8-2012) Stupid games like Tetris and Angry Birds force us to punish ourselves. |
Monday, April 2, 2012, 10:00 pm-2:00 am KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory interviews Richard C. Hoagland, (Bio, Web), Mars, Ancient Life, & 'John Carter' ; Books: "Monuments of Mars: A City on the Edge of Forever"; "Dark Mission: Secret History of NASA"; Film Video John Carter film based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel sabotaged to learn truth about Mars. |
Wednesday, April 4, 2012, 10:00 pm-2:00 am KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory interviews physicist Russell Targ, (Bio, Web), "Remote Viewing Experiments"; Books: "Reality of ESP: A Physicist's Proof of Psychic Abilities"; "Do You See What I See?: Memoirs of a Blind Biker" Learned remote viewing from Ingo Swann at Stanford Research Institute. |
Wednesday, April 4, 2012, 10:00 pm-3:00 am KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory interviews Von Braschler, (Bio, Web), "Secrets of Time"; Book: "Seven Secrets of Time Travel" Transcend physical body for time travel, treat addictions and heal oneself. |
Thursday, April 5, 2012, 10:00 pm-3:00 am KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory interviews OBE expert Rick Stack, (Bio, Web), The Seth Material; Book: "Out-Of-Body Adventures" Seth said: Thoughts affect matter Our emotions and beliefs construct our reality. |
Thursday, April 5, 2012, 5:50-7:20 pm Stanford Theatre: Michael Curtiz directs "Four Daughters" (1938), Priscilla, Lola, Rosemary Lane, John Garfield, Claude Rains, Gale Page, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3), (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3) Schubert's Serenade opens film of musical family with four talented daughters. |
Thursday, April 5, 2012, 7:30-9:15 pm Stanford Theatre: Raoul Walsh directs "The Roaring Twenties" (1939), James Cagney, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart, Gladys George, Jeffrey Lynn, (Video: 1, 2, 3); (Film Reviews: 1, 2) Three WW I soldiers return to find changing world and take up bootlegging. |
Friday, April 6, 2012, 7:45-9:45 pm Palo Alto: Friends' House, 957 Colorado Ave, Waverley Writers Monthly Poetry Reading Featured reader Len Anderson read from his book "Invented by the Night"; Four Poems; LinkedIn I live for the day, yet the day and I were invented by the night. |
Friday, April 6, 2012, 7:45-9:45 pm Palo Alto: Friends' House, 957 Colorado Ave, Waverley Writers Monthly Poetry Reading Read poems "Joyfulness in the Spring" & "Linsanity"; Terry Adams read poem "Meditation & Prayer" Wrote "Linsanity" poem in four hours based on new stories on Jeremy Lin. |
Saturday, April 7, 2012, 1:45-4:00 pm Los Altos Library: "Thomas Kinkade, Artist to Mass Market, Dies at 54"; (Matt Flegenheimer, NY Times, 4-8-2012); Kinkade's Art (10-4-2001); Web site Called himself "painter of light", Kinkade's work was disdained by fine art establishment. |
Saturday, April 7, 2012, 1:45-4:00 pm Los Altos Library: Thomas Kinkade, one of America's most popular painters, dies suddenly in Los Gatos, CA at 54; (Mike Rosenberg, SJ Mercury News, 4-7-2012) His prints of cottages and bucolic garden gates hang in one of 20 American homes. |
Sunday, April 8, 2012, 10:00 pm-2:00 am KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, Ian Punnett interviews Bart Ehrman (Bio), web site, "Life of Jesus"; Books: "Did Jesus Exist?: Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth"; "Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible" Jesus existed since there was the creation of a new religion. |
Sunday, April 8, 2012, 10:00 pm-2:00 am KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, Ian Punnett interviews Charles Pellegrino (Bio, web site); "Titanic Stories"; Books: "Farewell, Titanic: Her Final Legacy"; "Ghosts of the Titanic"; "Her Name, Titanic: Real Story of the Sinking"; Photo Gallery Titanic's tragedy reflects man's arrogance on this "unsinkable ship". |
Sunday, April 8, 2012, 2:00-6:15 pm San Jose: Santa Teresa County Park Friend takes me to Bernal-Gulnac-Joice Ranch to see spring's wildflowers; 6-12-2011 Hike First hike of the year forgot my walking stick and bottled water today. |
Sunday, April 8, 2012, 2:00-6:15 pm San Jose: Santa Teresa County Park Friend takes me to Bernal-Gulnac-Joice Ranch to see spring's wildflowers; 6-12-2011 Hike Saw more wildflowers today than last year's hike in June and more hawks too. |
Monday, April 9, 2012, 2:30-4:20 pm Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping at Lucky's (715 East El Camino), Sprouts Market (111 E. El Camino, Sunnyvale), and Safeway (1750 Miramonte Avenue) Orange juice, wheat germ, strawberries, Brussels sprouts, Swiss cheese, bananas, coffee cake. |
Monday, April 9, 2012, 5:40-10:00 pm Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab Giants get first victory as Zito shuts out Rockies; Zito threw first shutout since 2003 in a 7-0 win. (By Alex Pavlovic, SJ Mercury News, 4-9-2012) Lincecum, Bumgartner, Cain, Giants aces lost three straight "stopper" Zito won first game! |
Monday, April 9, 2012, 5:40-10:00 pm Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab Mike Wallace (1918-2012), CBS Pioneer of '60 Minutes' Dies at 93; (Interviews; Charlie Rose); (By Tim Weiner, New York Times, 4-9-2012); Mike Wallace's interviews on 60 Minutes were riveting as he exposed wrongdoing. |
Monday, April 9, 2012, 5:40-10:00 pm Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab Beautiful orange and black butterflies: Bay checkerspot butterfly re-populated at Edgewood Park (Aaron Kinney, SJ Mercury News, 4-9-2012, B1, 7) Saw these checkerspot butterflies yesterday on tidy tips at St. Teresa County Park hike. |
Monday, April 9, 2012, 10:30 pm-3:00 am KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory interviews Craig R. Smith, (Bio, Web), "Economic Analysis"; Books: "The Inflation Deception: Six Ways Government Tricks Us... and Seven Ways to Stop It!"; "Rediscovering Gold in the 21st Century" U.S. headed for currency collapse and hyper-inflation. Gold standard will help in balancing the budget. |
Monday, April 9, 2012, 10:30 pm-3:00 am KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory interviews astronmer Chris Impey, (Bio, Web), Galaxies & Cosmology; Books: "How It Began: A Time-Traveler's Guide to the Universe"; "How It Ends: From You to the Universe"; Art of Science Brain growth not needed as microbes didn't evolve and coexist with humans. |
Tuesday, April 10, 2012, 2:10-10:00 pm Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab iBrain can 'read your mind'; enlists Stephen Hawking; (Eric Pfeiffer, Yahoo! News, 4-10-2012) Philip Low's Neuro Vigil invents brain scanner to read your mind. |
Tuesday, April 10, 2012, 2:10-10:00 pm Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab Falcon eggs hatch atop San Jose City Hall; Webcam; (Joe Rodriguez, SJ Mercury News, 4-10-2012, B1, 5) Clara hatched four eggs, three on Easter Sunday after Nando drove her mate Colbert out. |
Tuesday, April 10, 2012, 2:10-10:00 pm Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab Evidence in Science and Religion, Part Two; (By Stanley Fish, NY Times, 4-9-2012); Part 1 Science corrects its mistakes, religion doesn't admit errors Faith inherent in both. |
Tuesday, April 10, 2012, 2:10-10:00 pm Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab The Iceberg Was Only Part of It; Stage for Tragedy; (By William J. Broad, NY Times, 4-10-2012) Inept sailors, flawed rivets, high tides and ice mirage caused ship's sinking. |
Tuesday, April 10, 2012, 10:30 pm-3:00 am KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory interviews Wilbur Allen, (Bio, Web), "UFOs"; Books: "UFO Forensic Files: The Science of UFO Research"; "A Close Encounter of the Third Kind at the US Capitol": Video of 1952 UFOs over Capitol Saw UFOs outside U.S. Capitol in July 2002 that flew outside Apollo 11. |
Tuesday, April 10, 2012, 10:30 pm-3:00 am KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory interviews hypnotherapist Bruce Goldberg, (Bio, Web), "Dimensional Travel"; Books: "Exploring the Fifth Dimension: Parallel Universes, Teleportation and Out of Body Travel"; "Soul Healing"; Images Superconscious mind tap cleanses soul's energy for better astral travel. |
Wednesday, April 11, 2012, 12:25-10:00 pm Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab Took 21 screen shots of peregrine falcon Clara feeding her four chicks from Webcam; Resized & sharpened photos in Adobe Photoshop Clara didn't feed her babes equally a bully got most of the food! |
Wednesday, April 11, 2012, 12:25-10:00 pm Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab Formatted 80 photos from Easter Sunday hike at Saint Teresa County Park. Friend referred web site to identify wildflowers in local parks Largest poppy seen on hike width of my palm which I name "King Poppy". |
Thursday, April 12, 2012, 12:30-5:30 pm Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab Bob Thaves, Frank and Ernest (4-10-2012) Guru on mountaintop: "Everything is illusory" Seeker: "Imagine that!" (Maya "All is illusion") Brahman is real. The world is unreal. The world is Brahman. |
Thursday, April 12, 2012, 12:30-5:30 pm Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab Composed web page from Easter Sunday hike. Thanks to Hemlock Walking Stick in aiding my hike. Western hemlock, not poison hemlock killing Socrates. Favorite hike photos "Two Bird Clouds Dancing" & "Clouds Soaring Upward in Sky". |
Thursday, April 12, 2012, 5:50-7:20 pm Stanford Theatre: George Cukor directs "What Price Hollywood?" (1932), Constance Bennett, Lowell Sherman, Neil Hamilton, Gregory Ratoff, (Videos: 1, 2, 3, 4), (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4) Blonde waitress becomes movie star in first version of A Star Is Born. |
Thursday, April 12, 2012, 7:30-9:45 pm Stanford Theatre: Max Reinhardt & William Dieterle direct "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (1935), James Cagney, Ian Hunter, Mickey Rooney, Dick Powell, Olivia de Havilland, Joe E. Brown, Victor Jory; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4) James Cagney as tailor turned into an ass loved by the Fairy Queen. |
Thursday, April 12, 2012, 11:30 pm-3:00 am KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory interviews Marc Seifer, (Bio, Web), "Consciousness & Psychology"; Books: "Where Does Mind End?: A Radical History of Consciousness and the Awakened Self"; "Transcending Speed of Light: Consciousness, Quantum Physics, and the Fifth Dimension" Access the greater being within through our dreams this thinking energy. |
Thursday, April 12, 2012, 11:30 pm-3:00 am KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory interviews physicist Loyd Auerbach, (Bio, Web), "Parapsychology & Ghosts"; Books: "Ghost Detectives' Guide to Haunted San Francisco"; "A Paranormal Casebook: Ghost Hunting in the New Millennium"; "Fate Magazine" articles Auerbach contacted ghosts in hotels and restaurants around San Francisco. |
Friday, April 13, 2012, 4:30-7:45 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center Cain masterpiece a fitting beginning for Giants; (By Tim Kawakami, SJ Mercury News, 4-13-2012) Giants beat Pirates 5-0 on Cain's one-hitter Cain's perfect game spoilt by pitcher's hit as the 18th batter in 6th. |
Friday, April 13, 2012, 4:30-7:45 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center Baryshnikov: Dancer, Actor, Icon; Legendary dancer in multimedia presentation 'In Paris' at Berkeley Rep) (By Karen D'Souza, SJ Mercury News, 4-12-2012) Mikhail does everything with great passion dancing and exploring everything. |
Saturday, April 14, 2012, 12:35-5:00 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center Composed web page Peregrine Falcons with 21 screen shots photos from Webcam Rondo the Rocket chased the father away, helped raising his babes. |
Saturday, April 14, 2012, 12:35-5:00 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center "Saving the Birds" Video; (Eric Van Susteren, photos by Veronica Weber, Palo Alto Weekly, 4-13-2012) Victoria-Crowned Pigeon, Cape Doves, Gouldian Finch, Crowned Crane at Aviaries. |
Sunday, April 15, 2012, 3:15-4:00 pm Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping at Safeway (1750 Miramonte Avenue) Swiss cheese, dairy creamer, strawberry yogurt, ice cream, smoked ham, fish fillets. |
Sunday, April 15, 2012, 4:45-5:15 pm Mountain View: Went grocery shopping and 99 Ranch Market (1350 Grant Road) Custard and sesame buns, green onions, roasted seaweed, firm tofu and bean curd. |
Sunday, April 15, 2012, 8:00-10:10 pm Stanford Cubberley Auditorium, Stanford Flicks: Guy Ritchie directs "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows" with Robert Downey, Jr., Jude Law, Noomi Rapace, Jared Harris, Rachel McAdams Official Site; YouTube; (Film Reviews: 1, 2) Sherlock Holmes pits wits with Moriarty who blows up buildings in Europe. |
Sunday, April 15, 2012, 10:49-12:10 pm Palo Alto Cal-Train Station to Mountain View: Stanford 10:37 pm "O" Bus at the Oval let me catch 10:49 pm Bus #22 in time. Unfortunately it broke down at Showers Drive & El Camino. Next bus arrived at 11:57 pm. Got home after midnight. Got home an hour late. After dinner, too tired to do taxes for IRS. |
Monday, April 16, 2012, 6:50-10:00 pm Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab "Is 4-Year-Old as Smart as Einstein? Not Quite, Scientists Say" (By Stephanie Pappas, Yahoo! News, LiveScience.com, 4-16-2012); Great Minds Four-year old Heidi Hankins with 159 IQ compared to Einstein's 160 Need to compare with her age group. |
Monday, April 16, 2012, 6:50-10:00 pm Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab "11 Facts Every Parent Should Know About Their Baby's Brain" (By Robin Nixon, LiveScience.com, 2-20-2011); "Philosophical Baby"; (Reviews: 1, 2) A baby's brain grows to 60% adult size before their first year. |
Monday, April 16, 2012, 10:30 pm-3:00 am KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory interviews Christopher Dunn (Bio, Web) & Brien Foerster (Bio, Web), "Mysterious Ruins & Skulls"; Books: "Giza Power Plant", "Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt"; "A Brief History Of The Incas", "Enigma of Cranial Deformation" (Video) Stones bound with precision in Cuzco and Puma Punku made with vibrational technology? |
Monday, April 16, 2012, 10:30 pm-3:00 am Mountain View: While searching for my 2010 Federal & State Income Tax booklets to do this year's taxes, found Eric Marshall & Stuart Hample's "Children's Letters to God" (1967); Sample letter on page 6 "Dear God, I saw Saint Patrick church last week when we went to New York. You live in a nice house. Frank" My response: Dear Frank, I don't live in the church. I live in You. God |
Tuesday, April 17, 2012, 1:15-10:00 pm Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab "The practical uses of poetry"; (By Todd R. Nelson, Philly.com, 4-17-12); 9th grader on Richard Wilbur's "Year's End": "That was the stupidest poem ever." Poetry is soul food nourishing us with words that bloom later in our lives. |
Tuesday, April 17, 2012, 1:15-10:00 pm Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab "Princeton's Tracy K. Smith Wins Pulitzer Prize for Poetry" (PrincetonPatch, 4-17-2012); 2012 Pulitzer; Tracy K. Smith (Princeton), "Life on Mars"; PBS (1) Poems taking readers into the universe to mix of joy and pain. |
Tuesday, April 17, 2012, 1:15-10:00 pm Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab "Stanford professor asks, how does God become real to people?"; (By Brooke Donald, Stanford Report, 4-12-12); Tanya Luhrmann's research seeks to narrow gap between believers & nonbelievers Prayer practice sharpens mental imagery so they hear when God talks back. |
Tuesday, April 17, 2012, 1:15-10:00 pm Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab "Now, brought to the big screen by physicists at SLAC: the universe" (By Mike Ross, Stanford Report, 3-23-2012); Dramatic 3-D videos, created from actual data, show the origins of the universe. KIPAC; Movies Tom Abel uses video to predict the past on how the universe is the way today. |
Wednesday, April 18, 2012, 11:40 am-12:00 pm Mountain View: Missed 12:05 pm Bus #35 yesterday. 8-minutes walk from Phyllis Ave to Castro Street, and 12 minutes walk to California Street to catch Bus 35 just in time as Bus Driver stopped for me. Brisk 20-minutes walk from Phyllis Avenue to California & Castro Street. |
Wednesday, April 18, 2012, 12:30-10:00 pm Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab Steve Gould's email included 1998 Swiss 100 francs banknote showing Giacometti's "Walking Man" that inspired my poem on the Platonic Lambda If 100 symbolizes perfection, Swiss got it right on their banknote, as the Platonic Lambda (Soul) is perfect. |
Wednesday, April 18, 2012, 12:30-10:00 pm Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab While searching for Swiss banknotes (Giacometti), found "Bubble Bunny" image at Daily Speculations; World Banknotes Gallery; Swiss currency 1915-1992 Among China's banknotes found a sailboat heading for the Mountain of Bliss. |
Wednesday, April 18, 2012, 12:30-10:00 pm Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab "Amazing Hubble Photo Reveals Tarantula Nebula's Star-Filled Web" (SPACE.com, 4-17-2012); Video; Tarantula Nebula; (Tarantula's Center); VFTS 682 Tarantula nebula a fantasy landscape of pillars, ridges, valleys. |
Thursday, April 19, 2012, 3:15-10:00 pm Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab "Poetry in Motion: Harvard's practitioners pass craft from generation to generation" (Jorie Graham); (Sarah Sweeney, Harvard Gazette, 4-18-2012); Woodberry Poetry Room Curator Christina Davis: It's important to revive the other dimensions of poetry's wisdom. |
Thursday, April 19, 2012, 3:15-10:00 pm Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab "Don't worry, be happy and live longer" (Lauran Neergaard, Mercury News, 4-18-2012, A7); "Protect the heart with optimism" (Marjorie Dwyer, Harvard Gazette, 4-18-2012); (Older news: 1, 2, 3) Being upbeat and optimistic help protect against heart disease. |
Thursday, April 19, 2012, 3:15-10:00 pm Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab Mystical Numbers; Number Symbolism; About 100; Number Hub; Middle Ages; Spiritual Numbers; 100; Dante's cosmic vision in Paradiso, 22.33 Dante sees a hundred little suns each making the other lovelier. |
Thursday, April 19, 2012, 3:15-10:00 pm Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab Steve's email includes "A Thought for Today" (4-19-2012) from A.Word.A.Day quoting Whitman: "To have great poets, there must be great audiences." Socrates was so sagacious because Plato became his student. |
Friday, April 20, 2012, 12:05-12:16 pm Mountain View: Missed Bus #22 at Phyllis Ave and El Camino; walked to Castro Street as two Bus #522 passed by; caught Bus #52 just in time, instead of 12:30 pm Bus #40 at Showers Drive. Bus #52 Driver stopped for me as I got to Foothill College half-an-hour early. |
Friday, April 20, 2012, 12:45-5:00 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center "Million Dollar Penny: Rare 1792 Penny Sells for $1.15M" (The Inquisitor, 4-20-2012); Yahoo! News; Heritage Auctions; Rarest Coins; Penny's Poetry Penny for your thought 1792 Penny sold for a million dollars. |
Friday, April 20, 2012, 12:45-5:00 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center Foothill College student on Bus #52 was wearing T-shirt saying "SELF-MADE"; Ramana Maharshi on Self-Realization (YouTube); Ramana stamp; Arunachala Hill; PB & Ramana This kid is boasting too much he has no idea of what is The Self. |
Friday, April 20, 2012, 12:45-5:00 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center "Self-assembly as a guide: SEAS professor sees possibilities in health, manufacturing" (Manoharan); (By Edward Mason, Harvard Gazette, 4-17-2012) Proteins can self-assemble but we can't do it yet. Self-assembly is when particles arrange themselves into organized structures. |
Friday, April 20, 2012, 12:45-5:00 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center "Meditation found to increase brain size: Mental calisthenics bulk up some layers" (By William J. Cromie, Harvard Gazette, 2-2-2006) Meditation increases brain size improving attention and memory. |
Friday, April 20, 2012, 12:45-5:00 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center "Howard Hawks retrospective: Stanford Theatre" (Cover); (Richard von Busack, Metro, 4-18-2012, pp. 16-23); Howard Hawks, Stanford Theatre Learned Howard Hawks was an auteur from Scott Bukatman's film classes at Stanford. |
Friday, April 20, 2012, 7:30-9:05 pm Stanford Theatre: Howard Hawks directs "Twentieth Century" (1934), with John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3), (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3) Oscar makes Lily Garland a stage star but she leaves him as he's too demanding. |
Friday, April 20, 2012, 9:15-10:50 pm Stanford Theatre: Howard Hawks directs "Scarface" (1932), Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley, Osgood Perkins, George Raft, Boris Karloff; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4) Crime boss Tony kills gangsters with the booze as he climbs up to the top. |
Saturday, April 21, 2012, 1:30-4:45 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center "Google scales back bridge project" (Daniel DeBolt, Mountain View Voice, 4-20-2012, pp. 1, 7); Egret photos by Michelle Le (1, 2, 3) Near Google's planned bridge, a snowy egret in flight and building her nest. |
Saturday, April 21, 2012, 1:30-4:45 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center "How Exercise Could Lead to a Better Brain" (Gretchen Reynolds, NY Times Magazine, 4-22-2012) "Can You Make Yourself Smarter?" (Dan Hurley) Neuroscientists find exercise makes you smarter more than thinking does. |
Saturday, April 21, 2012, 1:30-4:45 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center "OPINION: Teach the Books, Touch the Heart" (Claire Needell Hollander, NY Times, 4-22-2012); Kafka: "book must be the ax for frozen sea within us" Students wept reading aloud ending of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men. |
Saturday, April 21, 2012, 1:30-4:45 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center Notes: Mountain of Bliss; Checking 18 banknotes of "100 denomination" in 100 (item 24), only France depicted spiritual dimension in their 100 Fr. currency Angel inscribing PAX in disk 100 is symbol for perfection & peace. |
Saturday, April 21, 2012, 1:30-4:45 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center Recalled Ben Hecht's "A Child of the Century" that Lee Garmes was the most perceptive of all Garmes saw a live daisy cufflink worn by a girl driving past them going the other way at 60 mph. |
Saturday, April 21, 2012, 4:50-5:30 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center Missed 4:48 pm Bus #40; Hitchhiked ride with Said, Foothill student from Kenya Said gives me a ride home as I tell him about inspiration. |
Sunday, April 22, 2012, 10:00 am-3:40 pm KNBR 680 AM with Marty Lurie; Giants-Mets game rained out at Citi Field. Marty chatted with listeners for 7.5 hours on no-hitters & double-headers Baseball Perfect games: 7290 attended at Len Barker's, 12,228 attended Dallas Braden's. |
Sunday, April 22, 2012, 10:00 am-3:40 pm KNBR 680 AM with Marty Lurie; Marty noted that Don Larsen's perfect game could have been broken by Jackie Robinson's 2nd inning shot was almost a hit Jackie Robinson's liner hit Andy Carey's knee that bounced to Gil McDougald who threw him out. |
Sunday, April 22, 2012, 10:00 am-3:40 pm KNBR 680 AM with Marty Lurie; Marty chatted with listeners for 7.5 hours. Caller tells attending July 2, 1963 pitching duel shutout at SF Candlestick Park Juan Marichal beats Warren Spahn as Willie Mays homered to win 1-0 in 16th inning. |
Sunday, April 22, 2012, 10:00 am-3:40 pm KNBR 680 AM with Marty Lurie; Caller attended 9-28-51 Allie Reynold's 2nd no-hitter in 1st game of double-header (Yankees won pennant in 2nd game) Jerry Coleman's line drive went over his shoulder knocking off woman's coat button & bounced back to him. |
Sunday, April 22, 2012, 8:00-9:40 pm Stanford Cubberley Auditorium, Stanford Flicks: Michel Hazanavicius directs "The Artist" (2011); with Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman, Dog Uggie, James Cromwell, Penelope Ann Miller; Official Site; YouTube: 1, 2; (Film Reviews: 1, 2 3) Silent film star declines as protegé rises to fame with sound era in movies. |
Sunday, April 22, 2012, 9:50-10:30 pm Stanford Flicks: "The Artist" (2011); Jack called out to me after film & gave me ride home. He noticed music in film's climatic scene is from Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo" (1958). Kim Novak felt "raped" by Bource lifting Bernard Herrmann's score for "The Artist" Herrmann's Vertigo score is like Wagner's "Liebestod" from Tristan und Isolde. |
Sunday, April 22, 2012, 11:00 pm-2:30 am KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Knapp interviews Tom Voigt, (Bio, Web), "Zodiac Killings"; Voight suspects Richard Gaikowski as Zodiac killer; Letter to Melvin Belli; Belli Envelope; "Zodiac" film Font in Zodiac's letter to Melvin Belli is the same as the front door of his house. |
Monday, April 23, 2012, 3:00-10:00 pm Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab "White Sox pitcher Philip Humber enjoys a perfect moment" (By Mark Gonzales, LA Times, 4-22-2012); Huffington; NY Times; Fox; Pitcher Perfect; Video Philip Humber throws 21st perfect game in baseball history. |
Monday, April 23, 2012, 3:00-10:00 pm Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab "Fireball with big boom in Nevada & California"; (By Martin Griffith, SJ Mercury News, 4-23-2012) Yahoo! News; CSM Video; Lyrid Meteor Shower Fireball across Sunday's morning sky in Nevada with loud boom was a meteor. |
Monday, April 23, 2012, 3:00-10:00 pm Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab "Campbell: Library calls out to aspiring poets" (By Khalida Sarwari, SJ Mercury News, 4-23-2012); 2011 Teen Winner: Rachel Steeves, "Reverberations" Alanna Zhang's poem "Pursuit of Happiness" was another winner. |
Monday, April 23, 2012, 3:00-10:00 pm Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab "Treasures hiding in plain sight: Widener Library"; (By Corydon Ireland, Harvard Gazette, 4-19-2012) Henry David Thoreau was Harvard 1837 graduate In Harvard's Widener stacks, student found letter from Thoreau in an old book. |
Monday, April 23, 2012, 3:00-10:00 pm Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab Foothill student Carol Gleason shows photos from carolag.com on Historic Sites from her travels; She and her husband have collected 1800 film DVDs. Standing Stones, Brochs, and Cairns from Scotland are 5000 years old some in circles others all alone. |
Monday, April 23, 2012, 3:00-10:00 pm Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab Found Fashion Rose with 23 petals for my niece Emily's 23rd Birthday; 23 & Baseball Greatest Moments 23rd Psalm "Lord is my Shepherd" 23 pairs of human chromosomes 23.44o in Axial tilt of the Earth |
Monday, April 23, 2012, 3:00-10:00 pm Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab Sally's email on May 11 talk by Dr. Hugh Ross (Bio), "Where Science and Faith Converge" at Bridges Community Church, 625 Magdalena Ave, Los Altos Scientific evidence for God as the creating and sustaining Power of the universe. |
Monday, April 23, 2012, 10:30 pm-3:00 am KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory interviews Stanford's Tina Seelig, "Creativity" (Bio, Web) Books: "inGenius: Crash Course on Creativity", "What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20"; 2009 Interview Knowledge, imagination, and attitude ignite our creative engine. |
Tuesday, April 24, 2012, 12:30-10:00 pm Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab "Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz brings new startup Asana into the marketplace" (Peter Delevett, SJ Mercury News, 4-24-2012, A1, 8); LA Daily News Asana is a yogic position, but this startup makes your team work faster, focused, and efficient. |
Tuesday, April 24, 2012, 12:30-10:00 pm Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab "Displaying Value: The Case for the Liberal Arts Yet Again"; (By Stanley Fish, NY Times, 4-23-2012); Delbanco's "College: What it Was, Is, and Should Be" Progress of science does not answer questions we face in the shadow of death. |
Tuesday, April 24, 2012, 12:30-10:00 pm Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab "Case for the Liberal Arts Yet Again"; (Stanley Fish, NY Times, 4-23-2012); Jackson Cope wandered into a class on iconography by Don Cameron Allen & said: I didn't know what he was talking about. I did know that I wanted some of that. |
Tuesday, April 24, 2012, 12:30-10:00 pm Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab "Gideon Sundback, who did not invent the zipper, gets Google Doodle" (Rene Lynch, LA Times, 4-24-2012); Washington Post; PC Magazine; History of Zipper Sundback (born 4-24-1880) perfected Zipper in 1917 More "teeth" per inch were added to give the zipper more flexibility. |
Tuesday, April 24, 2012, 12:30-10:00 pm Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab "At Herbaria, a new career blossoms" (By Katie Koch, Harvard Gazette, 4-19-2012); Curatorial assistant left art world for natural world Harvard's Herbaria; Chairs; Danielle Hanrahan said: It's important to follow your passions they'll lead you to where you need to be. |
Wednesday, April 25, 2012, 12:35-10:00 pm Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab "New Saturn video created from Voyager and Cassini spacecraft images"; (By Eric Pfeiffer, Yahoo! News, 4-25-2012); Video: Outer Space (By Sander van den Berg, Vimeo.com); "That Home" music (Cinematic Orchestra on Vertov's "Man with a Movie Camera"). Awesome! Breathtaking! Video of Saturn's rings is a cosmic delight. |
Wednesday, April 25, 2012, 12:35-10:00 pm Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab Wendell Berry (born August 5, 1934); "Leavings"; "Peace of Wild Things" (1968); Look It Over (2010); 11-30-2009 Interview; Jefferson Lecture (History); 41st Jefferson Lecture: "It All Turns on Affection" Quoted E.M. Forster's novel "Howards End" (1910): You have collected empires of facts but will they kindle the light within? |
Wednesday, April 25, 2012, 12:35-10:00 pm Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab "Opinionator: Wendell Berry, American Hero" (Mark Bittman, NY Times, 4-24-2012); Wendell Berry Quotes: "What I stand for is what I stand on." Listen to the land if you imitate nature you'll use the land wisely. |
Wednesday, April 25, 2012, 12:35-10:00 pm Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab "The Creative Monopoly"; (David Brooks, NY Times, 4-24-2012); Peter Thiel's Stanford 2012 Class; Blake Masters' CS183: Startup Class 4 Notes Creative people don't follow crowds they wander where nobody goes. |
Wednesday, April 25, 2012, 12:35-10:00 pm Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab Artist Thomas Kinkade's girlfriend accused of being gold-digger out for 'money and fame' (By Julia Prodis Sulek, SJ Mercury News, 4-25-2012); Photo Gallery; Obituary; Kinkade News; Amy Pinto-Walsh Is Kinkade's girlfriend protector or gold-digger cashing in on his riches? |
Wednesday, April 26, 2012, 12:35-10:00 pm Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab At his own speed Artist behind 'Slow Dancing' retraces path of inspiration (By Colleen Walsh, Harvard Gazette, 4-24-2012); David Michalek's Slow Dancing (Slide Show); Vows, 9-11-2005 Slow Dancing invites us to stop to look deeply into space and time. |
Wednesday, April 25, 2012, 10:30 pm-3:30 am KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory interviews James Wasserman (Bio, Web) "Occult & Secret Societies"; Books: "The Temple of Solomon: From Ancient Israel to Secret Societies"; "Secrets of Masonic Washington"; "Mystery Traditions: Secret Symbols & Sacred Art"; Symbols & Psyche; Studio 31 Temple of Solomon built in 975 BC was place of higher wisdom. |
Thursday, April 26, 2012, 10:30 pm-3:30 am KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory interviews Linda Moulton Howe (Bio, Web) "Unexplained Booms, Bee Collapse, & Ancient Structures"; Books: "Glimpses of Other Realities: High Strangeness (Volume II)", "Mysterious Lights and Crop Circles"; (Video: Two Suns); Hoax Hal Saflieni Hypogeum in Malta vibrate with frequencies that alter human brain functions. |
Thursday, April 26, 2012, 1:10-10:00 pm Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab "Earth's sister in the crosshairs: Astronomer says extrasolar planet like ours will be found by 2014" (By Alvin Powell, Harvard Gazette, 4-19-2012) 61 planets found in "Goldilocks Zone" that may support Earth-like life. |
Thursday, April 26, 2012, 1:10-10:00 pm Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab "Decision, decisions: Social scientists debate whether increased choice leads to increased happiness" (By Paul Massari, Harvard Gazette, 4-25-2012) Extra choices complicate decision making and may not increase happiness. |
Thursday, April 26, 2012, 1:10-10:00 pm Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab "Decoding keys to a healthy life"; (By Alvin Powell, Harvard Gazette, 2-2-2012); (lifestyle choices you make in midlife more important in how long you live) Quality of play will make you happier than income when older. |
Thursday, April 26, 2012, 1:10-10:00 pm Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab "World's Most Beautiful Currencies" (David Standish, Slide Show at cnbc.com); "The Art of Money: History & Design of Paper Currency from Around the World" Giacometti's Walking Man shown on Swiss 100 Francs 4th most beautiful banknote. |
Thursday, April 26, 2012, 1:10-10:00 pm Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab "The Worst Cases of Hyperinflation" (Paul Toscano, cnbc.com, 2-14-2011); 1946 Hungary Szazmillio banknote equals 100 million-billion pengo. 5 million Greek drahma, 500 billion Yugoslavia dinars, 100 trillion Zimbabwe dollars. |
Thursday, April 26, 2012, 1:10-10:00 pm Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab 1929 China 5 million banknote (reverse); 10 ruble (1922 Russian-Asiastic Bank in Harbin, Chinese Eastern Railway); Great Chinese 1949 inflation Recalled Mom exchanging million yuan banknote for one silver dollar. |
Friday, April 27, 2012, 12:15-3:30 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center 'Dragon Blood' And Other Awesome Trees For Arbor Day (Photo homage to awesome trees) (By Claire O'Neill, npr.org. 4-27-2012); Baobab Montezuma cypress is a Tule tree with second stoutest trunk. |
Friday, April 27, 2012, 12:15-3:30 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center Eight Immortals; Zhang Kuo Lao carries a phoenix feather or peach, symbolizing immortality; Immortal Holding a Peach (MMA); Peaches of Immortality Zhang Kuo Lao, Sage Sau, Hsi Wang-mu all carrying the Peach of Immortality. |
Friday, April 27, 2012, 4:10-5:30 pm Los Altos Library: Stanford's Özgen Felek investigates the power of dreams in Sufism (By Kelsey Geiser, Stanford Report, 4-17-2012) Sultan Murad III tells his dreams to Sufi master Dreams of camels show the soul is dominated by earthly desires. |
Friday, April 27, 2012, 4:10-5:30 pm Los Altos Library: "Mantis", published by Stanford students, translates a world of poetry (By Camille Brown, Stanford Report, 4-24-2012) Mantis Co-Editor Derek Mong says A good poem slows you down, forcing a touch of patience in the midst of our hyper lives. |
Saturday, April 28, 2012, 12:30-5:00 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center 5 Mind-Bending Facts About Dreams (By Jeanna Bryner, LiveScience.com, 4-28-2012) Deirdre Barrett, Nightmares; Committee of Sleep Night owls have more nightmares. Video gamers have more lucid dreams. Dreams reboot brains to solve problems. |
Saturday, April 28, 2012, 12:30-5:00 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center "Former major leaguer Dmitri Young is unlikely owner of huge rookie baseball card collection" (By Steve Henson, Yahoo! Sports, 4-25-2012) Dmitri Young selling his collection of 500 mint baseball rookie cards to start hitting school in Camarillo. |
Sunday, April 29, 2012, 7:30-9:15 pm Stanford Theatre: Howard Hawks directs "Bringing Up Baby" (1938), with Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles, May Robson, Asta; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4), (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3) Ripped skirt scene when Grant wrapped himself behind Hepburn walking in tandem. |
Sunday, April 29, 2012, 9:25-10:50 pm Stanford Theatre: Howard Hawks & William Wyler direct "Come and Get It" (1936), Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan, Frances Farmer, Joel McCrea, Mary Nash, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4) Gregg Toland's camera captures mountains of lumber tumbling into the river. |
Monday, April 30, 2012, 2:30-3:15 pm Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping at Safeway (1750 Miramonte Avenue) and VTA May Bus Pass at Safeway (California St.) Broccoli crowns, almond milk, frozen peas, corn, green beans, and fresh orange juice. |
Monday, April 30, 2012, 5:15-10:00 pm Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab "Silicon Valley events offer insight on artistic process" (Bonny Zanardi, SJ Mercury News, 4-28-2012, B6) Kristine Taylor's bronze Barn Swallows captures the dynamism of flight. |
Monday, April 30, 2012, 5:15-10:00 pm Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab Steve's 4/30 email on Stanford's Clark Center in "An Open-Concept Lab Building Design: Ten Years Later" (Tully Shelley, American Laboratory, 4-9-12) Design of Clark Center supports interdisciplinary & collaborative research. |
Monday, April 30, 2012, 5:15-10:00 pm Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab "Tony Pietrantonio takes a punch he'll remember for a long time" (By Kevin Iole Yahoo! Sports, 4-30-2012) Tim Shaffer's ringside photo caught moment of impact Harvell's knockout punch lands on Pietrantonio's face and you can feel his pain! |
Monday, April 30, 2012, 10:00 pm-2:30 am KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory interviews Mitch Horowitz (Bio, Web) "History of the Occult"; Books: "Occult America: White House Seances, Ouija Circles, Masons, and the Secret Mystic History of Our Nation"; Secret Teachings; YouTube Ronald Regan's speeches used writings from occultist Manly Palmer Hall. |
Monday, April 30, 2012, 10:00 pm-2:30 am KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory interviews Marshall Master (Bio, Web) "Coming Cataclysms"; Books: "Planet X Forecast and 2012 Survival Guide", "Crossing the Cusp: Surviving the Edgar Cayce Pole Shift"; (Video: Two Suns); Hoax Avebury Crop Circle predicts Solar Killshot on December 21, 2012. |
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