Haikus: April 2013

HAIKUS: April 2013

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.

Monday, April 1, 2013, 5:00-8:40 pm
Mountain View Senior Center Technology Room
Anne Carson's "Eros: The Bittersweet" (1986, p. 21):
"As a sweet apple turns red in a high branch,
high on the highest branch and

the apple pickers forgot—
well, no they didn't forget—
were not able to reach... Monday, April 1, 2013, 5:00-8:40 pm
Mountain View Senior Center Technology Room
Anne Carson's "Autobiography of Red" (1998)
based on myth of Geryon & Tenth Labor of Hercules; Dante & Virgil Riding Geryon (Inferno 17.97-136)

Monster of three heads
and three bodies that Hercules
conquered in his Tenth Labor.

Tuesday, April 2, 2013, 2:30-3:00 pm
Stanford University: Building 110, Room 101
Anne Carson's English 192V: Occasions of Poetry; Nicholas Jenkins escorted me to English Dept office
& was told I can't audit this class for undergraduates

Shook hands with Anne Carson—
When I called her Professor Carson,
she said "Just call me Anne". Tuesday, April 2, 2013, 4:24-8:45 pm
Mountain View Senior Center Technology Room
Gave Anne Carson: "Speculations on the Soul"; "Platonic Lambda Sonnet" & Notes; "Mind: Questing or Resting?" & Notes; This Week's Citation Classic

Dante at Wisdom Portal;
Lightness in Purgatorio 9;
What Makes a Poem Lasting?

Wednesday, April 3, 2013, 5:00-8:45 pm
Mountain View Senior Center Technology Room
"Memories Endure as Ebbets Field Nears 100th Birthday" (By Dave Anderson, NY Times, 4-4-2013)

Opening of Ebbets Field
on April 9, 1913 as Dodgers
lost to the Phillies 1-0. Wednesday, April 3, 2013, 5:00-8:45 pm
Mountain View Senior Center Technology Room
"OP-ED: Diagnosis: Human"
(By Ted Gup, NY Times, 4-3-2013)

11% of school-age children
some 6.4 million of them have
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Thursday, April 4, 2013, 12:55-4:45 pm
Mountain View Senior Center Technology Room
"Scientists 'read dreams' using brain scans"
(By Rebecca Morelle, BBC News, 4-4-2013)

Japanese neurologists
can decode dream images
with 60% accuracy. Thursday, April 4, 2013, 12:55-4:45 pm
Mountain View Senior Center Technology Room
"Essay-Grading Software Offers Professors a Break"
(By John Markoff, NY Times, 4-5-2013)

Computer software using
artificial intelligence
can grade student essays.

Friday, April 5, 2013, 1:00-2:30 pm
Mountain View Senior Center Multipurpose Room B:
Andrew Adamson directs "Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away" (2012) with Erica Linz, Igor Zaripov, John Clarke; (You Tube: 1, 2, 3); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3)

Girl searches for Aerialist
in circus of acrobatics
and finds her true love. Friday, April 5, 2013, 7:50-9:40 pm
Palo Alto: Friends' House, 957 Colorado Ave,
Waverley Writers Monthly Poetry Reading; Read
"Why Everything Begins with M?" & "Angel Cloud";
Tom Digby "Bubbles" read "Convention Report"

Who inspires the Muses?—
It's Apollo whom the Muses
dance around like the planets.

Saturday, April 6, 2013, circa 8:00 am
Mountain View: Dream that my ad design won
Macy's "50% off Perfume Promotion Contest"
with most web customers clicking on it

You are Beautiful—
clouds in the blue sky and
flowers blooming in spring. Saturday, April 6, 2013, 1:40-1:55 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me grocery
shopping at Safeway (1750 Miramonte Ave)

Fish fillets, yogurt,
poppy seed dressing,
devil-egg potato salad,
and angel food cake.

Saturday, April 6, 2013, 2:45-4:40 pm
Palo Alto: VA Hospital (3801 Miranda Avenue)
Friend takes me to visit Rudy after his
gall bladder surgery (UC3, Room 147)

Walked Rudy around
three floors looking at art
and praying in the chapel. Saturday, April 6, 2013, 5:06-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library: Rare Honus Wagner card fetches $2.1 million at auction (By Brendan O'Brien, Yahoo! News, 4-6-2013); NBC News

Goldin Auctions sold
1909 T206 Honus Wagner
card for record $2.1 milllion.

Sunday, April 7, 2013, 2:00-3:10 pm
Palo Alto: Lucie Stern Community Center
(1305 Middlefield Road): John Henry McClenahan
(Vice President of S.P. McClenahan) slide lecture
Palo Alto Historical Association: "Let's Talk Tree"
Sudden Oak Death; Visit Rudy @ VA 3:30-5:15 pm

Trees need room to breathe
and grow— they get sick when
constrained and stressed like us. Sunday, April 7, 2013, 8:00-10:30 pm
Stanford Flicks: Cubberley Aud; Steven Spielberg directs "Lincoln" (2012) with Daniel Day-Lewis,
Sally Field), David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Spader, Hal Holbrook, Tommy Lee Jones; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); Jack came

Film focuses on passing
the 13th Amendment
abolishing slavery.

Monday, April 8, 2013, 4:23-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Pablo Neruda's Body Exhumed: Was Chilean Poet Poisoned? (Eva Vergara, Huffington Post, 4-8-2013); Guardian; BBC News; Wikipedia: Neruda; Poems (1)

Was Chilean Nobel Laureate
poet Pablo Neruda poisoned
by agents of dictator Pinochet? Monday, April 8, 2013, 4:23-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Annette Funicello Dies at 70"
(By Joyce Eng, TV Guide, 4-8-2013); NY Times;
Time (18 photos); Disney; Wikipedia: Annette

Walt Disney casts Annette
as Mouseketeer who later
starred in Beach Party films.

Monday, April 8, 2013, 4:23-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Woes of a goose midwife" (webcam of nest; photo)
(By Joan Morris, SJ Mercury News, April 8, 2013)

Canadian goose gives birth
to seven goslings as they
made their way to nearby pond. Monday, April 8, 2013, 4:23-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"OP-ED: The Secrets of Princeton"
(By Ross Douthat, NY Times, 4-7-2013)

Princeton alumna Susan Patton's
letter urging Ivy League
women to find a mate.

Tuesday, April 9, 2013, 1:00-4:00 pm
Palo Alto: VA Hospital (3801 Miranda Avenue)
Took Bus #22 & Bus #88 to see Rudy (UC3, Rm 147)
Spoke to doctors who did gall bladder surgery, who
decided to release Rudy today instead of Thursday

Al drove Rudy back to his
Sunnyvale apartment, then
we came to Foothill Lab. Tuesday, April 9, 2013, 4:36-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Printing web pages on WisdomPortal.com to give to
Gary Snyder: Persimmons; Mu Chi's Six Persimmons; "Prayer for the Great Family"; May 8; Two Poems

Seeing Gary Snyder tomorrow
will be the 27th year since going
to his poetry reading in 1986.

Wednesday, April 10, 2013, 12:00-1:05 pm
Stanford University: Margaret Jacks Hall
Building 460 (Terrace Room, 4th floor)
A Conversation with Gary Snyder

Snyder talked about
deep ecology and read
poem "Waiting for a Ride". Wednesday, April 10, 2013, 1:05-2:00 pm
Stanford University: Margaret Jacks Hall
A Conversation with Gary Snyder: Signed my copy
of "Mountains and Rivers Without End" (1996)

Snyder liked my analysis
of Mu Chi's Persimmons
and will send me his later poem.

Thursday, April 11, 2013, 6:15-7:40 pm
Stanford University: Geology Corner, Building 320 (Room 105); Gary Snyder: Poetry Reading & Talk (1); Read 15 of his unpublished poems; Also Emily Dickinson's Poem 986 "And Zero at the Bone" (1);
Nanao Sakaki's "Break the Mirror", "Let's Eat Stars"

Believe me, children!...
The well never dries up.
Look at the evening glow! Thursday, April 11, 2013, 8:00-9:00 pm
Stanford Oval: Hitchhiked ride with Wayne Roth,
carpenter, who saw me at Snyder reading. Caught Bus #35 at Palo Alto Train Depot at 7:59 pm and got to Foothill Middlefield Campus at 8:20 pm for the end of Donna Frankel's Intermediate Ballroom Dance Class

Donna got 20 students
so this class won't be cancelled—
She taught a circle dance tonight.

Friday, April 12, 2013, 7:30-9:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: Charles Walters directs
"High Society" (1956) with Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Celeste Holm,
John Lund; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Last film appearance
of Grace Kelly before
becoming Princess of Monaco.
Friday, April 12, 2013, 9:30-11:30 pm
Stanford Theatre: Rouben Mamoulian directs
"Silk Stockings" (1957) starring Fred Astaire,
Cyd Charisse, Janis Paige, Peter Lorre (marquee)
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Fred Astaire & Cyd Charisse
brighten the screen when
they're dancing together.

Saturday, April 13, 2013, 7:00-7:13 pm
Mountain View: Three ducks by swimming pool;
after getting camera, one had flown away;
photographed ducks & roses in the garden

Two ducks by swimming pool,
red rose, pink roses,
and Bird of Paradise. Sunday, April 14, 2013, 3:30-3:57 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me grocery
shopping at Safeway (1750 Miramonte Ave):
Got to Stanford Theatre movies at 5:46 pm

Almond milk, orange juice,
maple links sausages,
pickles and pizzas.

Sunday, April 14, 2013, 5:30-7:20, 9:40-10:00 pm
Stanford Theatre: Alfred Hitchcock directs
"Stage Fright" (1950) with Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding, Richard Todd, Alastair Sim; (YouTube: 1, 2); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Man accused of murder
enlists help of young actress
to prove his innocence.
Sunday, April 14, 2013, 7:30-9:30 pm
Stanford Theatre: Billy Wilder directs "Witness for the Prosecution" (1957) starring Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, Henry Daniell; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Agatha Christie courtroom
thriller with surprise ending
and superb Laughton acting.

Monday, April 15, 2013, 2:02-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"2013 Pulitzer Prizes for Letters, Drama and Music"
(By NY Times, April 16, 2013); Sharon Olds win Poetry Pulitzer for "Stag's Leap" on her divorce

When anyone escapes,
my heart leaps up. Even when
it's I who am escaped from... Monday, April 15, 2013, 2:02-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Cover: Poems & Notes for Gary Snyder"
using Fa-ch'ang (Mu Chi)'s 13th century paintings:
Crane & Monkey, Dragon & Tiger (Daitokuji, Kyoto)

Honoring Gary Snyder's
poetry with Mu Ch'i's
paintings from Kyoto.

Monday, April 15, 2013, 2:02-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
William Newsome appointed to lead Stanford's new interdisciplinary neuroscience institute (Bjorn Carey, Stanford Report, April 12, 2013); William Newsome

Using interdisciplinary
approach to attacking complex
neuroscience problems. Monday, April 15, 2013, 2:02-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Brains as Clear as Jell-O for Scientists to Explore"
(By James Gorman, NY Times, 4-11-2013, A13)
"Getting CLARITY" (Stanford News, 4-10-2013)

Mouse brain made transparent
so one can see networks
of neurons in action.

Tuesday, April 16, 2013, 1:05-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Format Photos: Ducks & Roses in Backyard and Flowers on El Camino Real; "Stop and Smell the Roses" (Phrase); (Lyrics: Mac Davis; Ringo Starr)

Missed my bus today
to smell the Amber Café
roses— yellow, pink, and red. Tuesday, April 16, 2013, 1:05-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Sleepy Floyd recalls his magical playoff moment with the Warriors" (By Monte Poole, SJ Mercury News, 4-12-2013); Sleepy Floyd; 1987 Playoff Video

Sleepy Floyd holds
NBA playoff record—
29 points in a quarter.

Wednesday, April 17, 2013, 10:00-10:17 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Zubin Mehta conducts
Franz Liszt "Les Preludes S97" (1854)
Listen; CD; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3)

Liszt's symphonic poem
recollecting the calm
serenity of life. Wednesday, April 17, 2013, 12:20-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Writing Preface on the 28 items included in
"Poems & Notes for Gary Snyder" (Cover)

Gift to a wonderful
poet whose work & life
have inspired my poems.

Thursday, April 18, 2013, 12:35-6:20 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Addendum to Ducks & Roses in Backyard and Flowers on El Camino Real; Took photos of ducks last night (11:20 pm) & this morning (11:24 am)

Two ducks swimming last night
in backyard pool and resting
by pool side in daytime. Thursday, April 18, 2013, 12:35-6:20 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Is Organic Better? Ask a Fruit Fly"
(By Tara Parker-Pope, NY Times, 4-17-2013)
Ria Chhabra's Research article

16-year old Ria Chhabra
found fruit flies fed on
organic food lived longer.

Thursday, April 18, 2013, 12:35-6:20 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Anne Carson: ENGLISH 192V: Occasions of Poetry;
Spring 2013 Syllabus Exploring "Forms of Attention"
and Weekly Reading Assignments

Invention, unexpectedness,
and chance are key to Anne's
class on "Forms of Attention". Thursday, April 18, 2013, 6:30-8:50 pm
Foothill College Middlefield Campus: Gym B
Donna Frankel's Ballroom Dance Class: Taught
Viennese Waltz and Polka & three Mixer Dances—
'T Smidje Mixer; Ba La Cha Cha; La Bastringue

Shawn had a Super Genius
T-shirt on, so I gave him
Michael Meade's talk printout.

Friday, April 19, 2013, 2:00-4:00 pm
Foothill College Library: Checked out books:
René Girard, "Proust"; Proust, "Swann's Way"; Oliver Sacks, "The Mind's Eye"; Roland Barthes, "Camera Lucida"; Okakura Kakuzo, "Book of Tea"

Found some interesting books
from Anne Carson's Syllabus
on "Forms of Attention". Friday, April 19, 2013, 7:30-9:00 pm
Stanford University: Cubberley Auditorium
Finding Genius: An Evening with Michael Meade
Michael Mead; "Why the World Doesn't End";
"Fate & Destiny"; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Finding our inner genius
to awaken us and
perform joyful work.

Saturday, April 20, 2013, 11:44-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
Typed 21 poems from Mary Oliver's "A Thousand Mornings"; NPR Interview; Goodreads: Blog

While the man who has
only questions, / to comfort
himself, makes music. Saturday, April 20, 2013, 5:00-7:00 pm
Los Altos Library & Mountain View: Jack gives me
ride to return book and home; Chatted about Boston
Marathon bombers which I didn't read much about

Jack was a sleuth emailing
CNN who were clueless from
photos on the terroist bombers.

Sunday, April 21, 2013, 4:20-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library: Checked out books (Anne Carson's Syllabus): Diane Ackerman, An Alchemy of Mind; Jonah Lehrer, Proust Was a Neuroscientist; Lydia Davis, Varieties of Disturbance: Stories; Marcel Proust, Swann's Way; Hold: Samuel Beckett, Proust

Burne-Jones' The Baleful Head
painting used as the cover
in "An Alchemy of Mind". Sunday, April 21, 2013, 8:00-10:30 pm
Stanford Flicks: Cubberley Auditorium; Seth Gordon directs "Identity Thief" (2013) with Jason Bateman,
Melissa McCarthy), Jon Favreau, Amanda Peet, T.I., Genesis Rodriguez, Morris Chestnut; Eric Stonestreet; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Diana steals Sandy's
identity and max out his
credit card & he tracks her down.

Monday, April 22, 2013, 1:32-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Bill Morrison's email linking to his brother's friend
Ed Mackerrow's beautiful Bird Photos— Amazing!
Mtn Goat; Cloud Shadows; Seascape through Trees

Boreal owl's eyes
focused on wild turkey
and sandhill crane in flight. Monday, April 22, 2013, 1:32-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Recalled first visit to Boston Public Library (1970)—
Old lady sold me Chavannes' Muses postcards for 5¢
& Abbey's 1936 book "Quest of Holy Grail" for 75¢—

"No one asked for these treasures—
Since you were the first,
they are meant for you."

Tuesday, April 23, 2013, 10:00-10:26 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Trevor Pinnock conducts
Joseph Haydn "Symphony #43 "Mercury" in Eb" (1771); Listen (1); CD; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3); 43 is the calling code for Austria where Haydn was born

Woke up today to
Haydn's Mercury Symphony—
May it speed up my work. Tuesday, April 23, 2013, 12:04-9:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Valerie K's email of NGC 2024 Flame Nebula (1)
reminds me of "Astronomy Picture of the Day"—
SN 1006 Supernova "Pancake"; Big Dipper

Sun with Solar Flare,
Grand Spiral Galaxy M81,
Mt. Hood & Lenticular Cloud.

Wednesday, April 24, 2013, 2:38-9:55 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Poem "Earth Day" inspired by Google Earth Day Doodle & Ed Mackerrow's Bird Photos (Notes)

Plato says we stand
upright aligned to a star—
so I fly up, up, up... Wednesday, April 24, 2013, 2:38-9:55 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Poem "Earth Day" inspired by Google Earth Day Doodle & Ed Mackerrow's Bird Photos (Notes)

But this is Earth Day—
so I bend down, down, down
low and kiss the Earth."

Thursday, April 25, 2013, 1:06-6:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Finished Notes to Poem "Earth Day"— Recalling favorite stars: Horsehead Nebula, "Ouroborus" V838 Monocerotis, & NGC 6357 Nebula, but I still love "Blue Marble Earth" the best and honor my home

Be humble like Chung Gang—
When asked What Is Your Star?
he dropped down to the Earth. Thursday, April 25, 2013, 6:30-9:00 pm
Foothill College Middlefield Campus: Gym B
Donna Frankel's Ballroom Dance Class: Taught
Viennese Waltz and Doudlebska Polka & Mixers—
'T Smidje Mixer; Ba La Cha Cha; La Bastringue; Russian: Kohonutchka; Japanese: Believe

It's Bay Area Dance Week—
Free classes & performances
April 26-May 5, 2013

Friday, April 26, 2013, 1:28-6:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
Correction on Notes to Poem: "Earth Day"— Found
"Blue Marble Earth" photo was not taken by Apollo 8
(December 1968), 19,000 miles above Earth as posted by Sky Lights but by Apollo 17 (December 7, 1972), 28,000 miles above the Earth as posted by wikipedia;
Found original Google Interactive Earth Doodle 2013 & photo of Ed MacKerrow whose bird photos inspired "Earth Day" poem; Links to Buddha's enlightenment:

Good discussions on
Buddha's enlightenment
upon seeing the morning star. Friday, April 26, 2013, 1:28-6:00 pm
Samuel Beckett, "I Can't Go On, I'll Go On" (1976) (pp. 113-114): "Poetry is essentially the antithesis of Metaphysics: Metaphysics purge the mind of the senses and cultivate the disembodiment of the spiritual. Poetry is all passion and feeling and animates the inanimate; Metaphysics are most perfect when most concerned with universals; Poetry, when most concerned with particulars. Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity."

Beckett wrote this essay
when he was 22 and published
on May 27, 1929 in Paris.

Friday, April 26, 2013, 7:30-9:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: Richard Brooks directs
"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (1958) based on Tennessee Williams's play with Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives, Judith Anderson, Jack Carson, Madeleine Sherwood; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Elizabeth Taylor
with Southern accent
in her best acting film.
Friday, April 26, 2013, 9:30-11:30 pm
Stanford Theatre: Martin Ritt directs
"The Long, Hot Summer" (1958) with Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Orson Welles, Anthony Franciosa, Lee Remick, Angela Lansbury, Richard Anderson; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Paul Newman married
Joanne Woodward at end of film
and in real life for 50 years (1958-2008).

Saturday, April 27, 2013, 11:01-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill Krause Center
"A Shot in the Light" (By Douglas Quenqua, Columbia Magazine, Spring 2013); Amber Miller

Looking for light that's
13.3 billion years old—
10^-35 seconds after Big Bang. Saturday, April 27, 2013, 11:01-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill Krause Center
"On Marriage" (By Moira Egan '92MFA, Columbia Magazine, Spring 2013); "Hot Flash Sonnet"

"How goes the marriage?"
"You should ask a fish—
out of the sea, she couldn't breathe."

Saturday, April 27, 2013, 11:01-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill Krause Center
"Always on His Mind" (By Beth Saulnier,
Cornell Alumni Magazine, May 2013);
Jeff Hawkins's book "On Intelligence" (Numenta, Amazon Reviews, NY Times, Goertzel's Review)

300 trillion synapses—
connections between neurons
in our brain's neocortex. Saturday, April 27, 2013, 11:01-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill Krause Center
"Yesterday, Today— and Tommorrow"
(Jim Roberts, Cornell Alumni Magazine, May 2013); Photographer Alan Nyiri's "Cornell: Tradition, Inspiration and Vision"; College Campus Books

Platonic Lambda shape
in Sage Hall & Sage Chapel
and Cornell McGraw Tower.

Sunday, April 28, 2013, 2:00-2:54 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping at
Safeway (1750 Miramonte Ave); Savings $58.35
including 11 free items with $20 purchase today

Strawberries, blackberries,
green beans, peas, spinach,
dairy creamers, ice cream,
milk, nut cereal, yogurt.. Sunday, April 28, 2013, 4:50-5:50 pm
Los Altos Library: Can't renew; returned Anita Loos's "Gentlemen Prefers Blondes" (1925) illustrated by
Ralph Barton (Amazon); Quote at end (p. 216) is like
Emily Dickinson's alchemy "in making others happy"

"greatest thing in life
is to always be making
everybody else happy."

Sunday, April 28, 2013, 4:50-5:50 pm
Los Altos Library: Checked out Jeffrey J. Fox,
"Don't Send A Resume" (And Other Contrarian Rules to Help Land a Great Job) (2001) & Samuel Beckett,
Proust (1931) "For Proust, as for the painter, style is more a question of vision than of technique" (p. 67)

Beckett examines Proust and
the double-headed monster of
damnation and salvation— Time.. Sunday, April 28, 2013, 8:00-10:40 pm
Stanford Flicks: Cubberley Auditorium; Kathryn Bigelow directs "Zero Dark Thirty" (2012) with Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, Joel Edgerton, Chris Pratt, Mark Strong, Jennifer Ehle, Kyle Chandler; Édgar Ramírez; (Video: 1, 2, 3); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Maya is 100% sure
that Osama Bin Laden
is hidden in that compound.

Monday, April 29, 2013, 12:34-9:20 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Smithsonian Channel: "The Hunt for Bin Laden"
(10-15-2012); 92 minutes program on Bin Laden's
Al-Qaeda Jihad terroism, 9/11, and his murder

Documentary of the manhunt
of most wanted terroist
Osama Bin Laden. Monday, April 29, 2013, 12:34-9:20 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Has the CIA agent who helped track down Osama bin Laden been unmasked by a HBO documentary?" (Daily Mail, UK, 1-22-2013); Maya "Zero Dark 30"

Is Nada Bakos
CIA's Maya who tracked
down Osama Bin Laden?

Tuesday, April 30, 2013, 12:30-9:15 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
John's Consciousness: "Birds of a Feather"
(John J. Hill's Blog of April 28, 2013)
John on Ackerman's "An Alchemy of Mind"

Robin thumped at his window
for hours— could this be
his late brother Mike calling? Tuesday, April 30, 2013, 12:30-9:15 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Harun Yahya, "Darwin's Dilemma: The Soul"
The Brain Is Not the Source of Personal Identity
(Harun Yahya is a Turkish Islamic creationist)

100 billion neurons
in our brain with
100 trillion connections.

Tuesday, April 30, 2013, 12:30-9:15 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Dilip Mukerjea: Braindancing Smorgasbord "Oysters, irritated by grains of sand, give birth to pearls. Brains, irritated by curiosity, give birth to ideas." (3-5-2009);
Quote from Ackerman's "Alchemy of Mind" (p. 43)

"Space between two neurons
is like the air between
two whispering lovers." Tuesday, April 30, 2013, 12:30-9:15 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Diane Ackerman: An Alchemy of Mind"— Typed Chapter 6: Shape of Thought (pp. 37-40) & Chapter 7: Inner Space (pp. 41-46) from book checked out from Los Altos Library (612.82) with 12 web links

How does our brain knows
what's useful? Whatever
we use most, it will keep.