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.

Tuesday, January 1, 2013, 1:00-7:00 pm Mountain View: "Code Found on Pigeon Baffles British Cryptographers" (dead pigeon found in 1982) (By Alan Cowell, NY Times, 11-24-2012) WW II Carrier pigeon with name 40TW194 has code stumping experts.	Tuesday, January 1, 2013, 1:00-7:00 pm Mountain View: "A Record Worth Wilting For: Death Valley Is Hotter Than" (Adam Nagourney, NY Times, 12-29-2012); 136.4o record in 1922 Libya erroneous 134o at Death Valley on July 19, 1913 is official record for hottest place in the world.
Wednesday, January 2, 2013, 4:10-8:45 pm Mountain View Senior Center Technology Room "Good and Bad, the Little Things Add Up in Fitness" (By Gretchen Reynolds, NY Times, 1-2-2013) Every hour watching TV after age 25 reduces life expectancy by 21.8 minutes.	Wednesday, January 2, 2013, 4:10-8:45 pm Mountain View Senior Center Technology Room "What You Think You Know (but Don't) About Wise Eating" (By Jane E. Brody, NY Times, 12-31-2012) Nuts are good sources of proteins, antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, & fiber.
Wednesday, January 2, 2013, 3:41 pm Mountain View Library (585 Franklin Street) Jeanine Basinger's "The Star Machine" (2009); (Chapter "Defection: Deanna Durbin", pp. 256-296); There are no books on film star Deanna Durbin Deanna retired from films at age 28 and moved to Neauphle-le-Château in France.	Wednesday, January 2, 2013, 4:10-8:45 pm Mountain View Senior Center Technology Room "THE STORYTELLER: Fact, fiction, and the books of Madeleine L'Engle" (By Cynthia Zarin, New Yorker, 4-12-2004); Madeleine L'Engle on nonfiction— There's really no such thing as nonfiction— writing is like a fairy tale.
Thursday, January 3, 2013, 2:40-4:45 pm Mountain View Senior Center Technology Room Charles Henri David's Filmography: Made 16 films before marrying Deanna Durbin in 1950, but produced only one film (1970) afterwards. Adele Whitely Fletcher's Modern Screen (January 1972)— Letter from Deanna.	Thursday, January 3, 2013, 2:40-4:45 pm Mountain View Senior Center Technology Room "Deanna Durbin and the Holocaust" (By Robert J. Avrech, breitbart.com, 4-20-2010); Retired from films, she still cares about her image— In 1980, Deanna sent a current photo of herself to Life showing she's not overweight.
Friday, January 4, 2013, 2:52-4:45 pm Mountain View Senior Center Technology Room "Hubble Serves Up a Holiday Snow Angel" (NASA, 12-06-2011) Sharpless 2-106 Soaring celestial snow angel with Platonic Lambda body spreading glowing blue wings.	Friday, January 4, 2013, 7:30-9:25 pm Palo Alto: Friends' House, 957 Colorado Ave, Waverley Writers Monthly Poetry Reading Featured Readers: Dana St. George & Evelyn A. So Read "Physician Treating Patient"; Tom Digby read "The Almanac" at Waverley Writers tonight.
Saturday, January 5, 2013, 4:16-5:30 pm Los Altos Library: "Collected Poems " (2012) by Jack Gilbert (Obituary: LA Times; Slate) "Secrets of Poetry"— People complain about too many moons in my poetry.	Saturday, January 5, 2013, 4:16-5:30 pm Los Altos Library: Why You Won't Be the Person You Expect to Be (John Tierney, NY Times, 1-4-2013) People overestimate their own wonderfulness & can't live up to their expectation.
Sunday, January 6, 2013, 2:00-2:36 pm Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping at Safeway (1750 Miramonte Avenue) Pepperidge Farms cookies, Roma tomatoes, spinach salad, dairy creamer, berry strudels.	Sunday, January 6, 2013, 2:00-2:36 pm Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping at Sprouts (630 San Antonio Road) Ginger powder, tarragon, sunflower seeds, blueberries, 8 lbs navel oranges for $1.60
Sunday, January 6, 2013, 7:30-9:00 pm Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre; Frederick de Cordova directs "For the Love of Mary" (1948); with Deanna Durbin, Edmond O'Brien, Don Taylor, Jeffrey Lynn, Ray Collins, Hugo Haas, Harry Davenport; (YouTube: 1, 2); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) Telephone operator kept busy with calls from her three suitors.	Sunday, January 6, 2013, 9:10-10:40 pm Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre; Henry Koster directs "Three Smart Girls" (1936); with Deanna Durbin, Nan Grey, Barbara Read, Binnie Barnes, Charles Winninger, Alice Brady, Ray Milland, Mischa Auer; (YouTube); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4) Fourteen-year old Deanna lights up the screen when she sings in her first film.
Monday, January 7, 2013, 1:00-2:47 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill College— Registered for Donna Frankel's Ballroom Dancing class; Returned William Maxwell's book to Library "So Long, See You Tomorrow" (1980) Sign of good writing— murder plot so realistic, it's likely all made up.	Monday, January 7, 2013, 3:32-10:00 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab "VIRTUAL UNIVERSITY: Students Rush to Web Classes, but Profits May Be Much Later" (By Tamar Lewin, NY Times, 1-7-2013) Two million have enrolled in Coursera for free online education.
Monday, January 7, 2013, 3:32-10:00 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab "DESIGN: What Constitutes Good and Bad Web Design?"; (By Alice Rawsthorn, NY Times, 1-7-2013) Good sites: Quo Vadis; Rijksmuseum; Poor site: Tate Well designed web site needs to be efficient and engaging to visitors.	Monday, January 7, 2013, 3:32-10:00 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab "OPINIONATOR: The Myth of Universal Love" (Stephen T. Asma, NY Times, 1-5-2013); Singer's "Expanding Circle"; Rifkin's "Empathic Civilization" It's natural to love family and friends more than acquaintances and strangers.
Tuesday, January 8, 2013, 1:57-10:00 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab 2013 Calendar reduced 50% (3"x5" to fit pocket); U.S. Naval Observatory: 2013 Phases of the Moon Printed 3"x5" versions of 2013 Calendar and Moon Phases to fit pocket.	Tuesday, January 8, 2013, 1:57-10:00 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab Found photos of Barbara Avene & 109 Catherine St., Ithaca to write poem "Feminine Street Names" Forgot that I lived on feminine street name while studying at Cornell.
Tuesday, January 8, 2013, 1:57-10:00 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab Hubble's photo of Sharpless 2-106 nebula inspired poem "Celestial Snow Angel" Celestial Snow Angel with Platonic Lambda body and bright blue wings.	Wednesday, January 9, 2013, 11:48-11:54 am KDFC 104.9 FM— Andrew Litton conducts Gabriel Fauré, Pavane, Op. 50 (1887) Listen (CD); YouTube: 1, 2, 3) Fauré's Pavane calms the mind so one feels tranquil in a landscaped garden.
Wednesday, January 9, 2013, 2:10-10:00 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab Email from Jain 108 on his new book "The Book of Phi: Volume 3" (The 108 Codes) Golden Number Phi Φ is connected to 108 and Gayatri Mantra.	Wednesday, January 9, 2013, 2:10-10:00 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab "Plato's Timaeus— The Most Beautiful Triangle" (By Panagiotis Stefanides, 3-31-1996); Timaeus 53 God used the most beautiful triangles in forming air, fire, water, earth.
Wednesday, January 9, 2013, 2:10-10:00 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab "Rest in pieces: Hasbro to replace a classic Monopoly game token" (Chris Morris, Yahoo! News, 1-9-2012); Vote to keep token (Scottie); Vote for new token (Cat) Racecar, thimble, boot, Scottie dog, battleship, hat, iron, wheelbarrow.	Wednesday, January 9, 2013, 2:10-10:00 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab Brian Crane's Pickles comics (8-16-2012); Grandpa is contemplating the meaning of life. Grandson tells him "Have you tried googling it?" 58,200,000 googled results on "meaning of life"— 100 years to read them all.
Thursday, January 10, 2013, 2:32-10:00 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab "Galactic surprise: New find overturns theories how our galaxy evolved" (By Thomas Sumner, Santa Cruz Sentinel, 1-5-13) NASA Astrophysicist Susan Kassin: “It's like the universe is saying to me, 'Susan, there's more order with time. Just relax, it's going to be OK.'” Our Milky Way evolved from chaotic jumble of stars to an orderly disk galaxy.	Thursday, January 10, 2013, 2:32-10:00 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab Richard's email: His photo of New Zealand Bay of Islands made the Collette 306-page Worldwide Travel Catalog; Steve's email: Giacometti: "Invisible object— hands holding the void" (1934, bronze cast 1935) Can't find this Giacometti artwork in Google Images Her hands are not gestures of prayer or any mudras— she's holding the Void.
Thursday, January 10, 2013, 2:32-10:00 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab Searching for Giacometti's sculptures found Bulgarian Ivan Minekov's sculptures— "Ballerina" and "Meditating Madonna" Ivan Minekov's sculptures of Ballerina & Madonna showing motion and rest.	Thursday, January 10, 2013, 2:32-10:00 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab "Portuguese billionaire adds works inspired by Bamiyan Buddhas to his vast sculpture park" (By Gareth Harris, Art Newspaper, 1-1-2013) Berardo's sculpture park north of Lisbon shows giant sleeping Buddha.
Friday, January 11, 2013, 1:00-4:00 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill Gym Building 2507 Donna Frankel's Ballroom Dance class; Donna taught merengue and waltz today 36 students in class— 12 from last semester enrolled again to dance.	Friday, January 11, 2013, 4:17-6:00 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center of Innovation "GRAY MATTER: Designing for Calm" (By Roger S. Ulrich, NY Times, 1-13-2013) Violence in psychiatric hospitals may be reduced by architectural design.
Friday, January 11, 2013, 4:17-6:00 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center "300 Cats, Yes. Craziness, No." (By Anne Raver, NY Times, 1-10-2013) Siglinda Scarpa's home is so calm and serene— like a spa for cats.	Friday, January 11, 2013, 4:17-6:00 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center of Innovation "OPINIONATOR: Joy of Zadie Smith and Thomas Aquinas" (By Gary Gutting, NY Times, 1-10-2013) Zadie Smith's "Joy" essay and Thomas Aquinas valuing joy more than pleasure.
Friday, January 11, 2013, 7:30-9:25 pm Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre; James Whale directs "Show Boat" (1936) with Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger, Paul Robeson, Helen Morgan, Helen Westley, Hattie McDaniel, Queenie Smith; (YouTube: 1, 2); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4) Audience applauded twice after Paul Robeson as Joe sang "Ole Man River".	Friday, January 11, 2013, 9:25-10:55 pm Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre; Gregory La Cava directs "My Man Godfrey" (1936) with William Powell, Carole Lombard, Alice Brady, Gail Patrick, Eugene Pallette, Jean Dixon, Alan Mowbray, Mischa Auer; (YouTube); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4) Rich heiress hires hobo from dump to be her butler and falls in love with him.
Saturday, January 12, 2013, 1:22-3:50 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center "VINA JOURNAL: Monks in California Breathe Life Into a Monastery From Spain" (By Norimitsu Onishi, NY Times, 1-11-2013); planned by William R. Hearst New Clairvaux monastery built from stones brought from Spain in 1930.	Saturday, January 12, 2013, 1:22-3:50 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center of Innovation "OPINIONATOR: Writing About What Haunts Us" (Peter Orner, NY Times, 1-12-13); How to write in fiction he stole his dad's Hermès gloves & confessed. He wanted to steal the rare stillness on his dad's face, a kind of hopeful calm.
Saturday, January 12, 2013, 1:22-3:50 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center "3 Exercises to Do If You Sit at a Desk All Day" (Lexi Petronis, Glamour / Yahoo! News, 1-10-2013) Pick your butt off that chair and move around— stand up every twenty minutes.	Saturday, January 12, 2013, 1:22-3:50 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center of Innovation Need to return books to Los Altos Library: "God's Hotel", "Pinterest for Dummies" & "My Pinterest" New Year kept me busy so I didn't read these books that can't be renewed.
Saturday, January 12, 2013, 4:10-6:30 pm Los Altos: 4:10 pm Bus #40 to Los Altos Library; 4:55 pm Bus #40 to Showers Drive/El Camino Real; Met Rudy at Chase Bank Parking Lot at 5:05 pm for drive to Sweet Tomatoes (1210 Kifer Rd., Sunnyvale); Al Guzman & David Huseman got there at 4:30 pm & finished eating dinner; Rudy & I arrived near 6 pm & had to rush eating our dinner to make the 6:45 pm movie "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" Al is treating us to see The Hobbit that I recommended.	Saturday, January 12, 2013, 6:45-10:05 pm Santa Clara: AMC Mercado Theatre (3D IMAX): Peter Jackson directs "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" with Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving, Christopher Lee, Sylvester McCoy, Manu Bennett, Andy Serkis, Barry Humphries, James Nesbitt, Ian Holm, Elijah Wood, Graham McTavish, Ken Stott; (YouTube: 1, 2); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4) Views of waterfalls amidst mountains and valleys are breathtaking & beautiful.
Sunday, January 13, 2013, 2:20-2:50 pm Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping at Safeway (1750 Miramonte Avenue) Tomatoes on vine, tapiaco puddings, pizzas, dairy creamers, orange juice.	Sunday, January 13, 2013, 6:05-6:25 pm Mountain View: Lam's Hair Salon (2464 El Camino) & 99 Ranch Market (1350 Grant Road) 8:40-8:55 pm Short haircut; bus home, shower, bath; shopped for soft tofu and jumbo eggs.
Sunday, January 13, 2013, 4:01-5:45 pm Los Altos Library: "BOOK REVIEW: An Effort to Untangle Scientology's Mysteries" Lawrence Wright's "Going Clear" (Janet Maslin, NY Times, 1-14-2013) Hubbard was the greatest con-man and delusional visionary at the same time.	Sunday, January 13, 2013, 4:01-5:45 pm Los Altos Library: "OPINION: Hypochondria: An Inside Look" (By Woody Allen, NY Times, 1-13-2013); Filmmaker & actor's experience on hypochondria I'm an alarmist— my maladies are not imaginary but real.
Monday, January 14, 2013, 2:18-10:00 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab "PERSONAL BEST: Training Insights From Star Athletes" (By Gina Kolata, NY Times, 1-14-2013) Stay focused, take risks, manage your energy pie, structure your training.	Monday, January 14, 2013, 2:18-10:00 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab "Politically correct enlightenment: Cory Booker sees light on gays!" (George Berkin, NJ Voices, 1-14-2013) Google News sent this enlightenment story about Cory Booker.
Tuesday, January 15, 2013, 1:31-10:00 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab Composed St. Barbara web page after writing poem; Pope Paul VI issued Mysterii Paschalis (2-14-1969) dropping 30 saints from Roman Liturgical Calender Saint Barbara, Christopher, and Valentine were removed from Roman Liturgical Calender.	Tuesday, January 15, 2013, 1:31-10:00 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab "I'm Losing Money. So Why Do I Feel So Good?" (By Randall Stross, New York Times, 1-13-2013); Natasha Schüll's casino video; "Addiction by Design" Gamblers prefer casino machines than human- mediated table games.
Tuesday, January 15, 2013, 1:31-10:00 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab Mark Hurst's 1/15 email Creative Good links to "Laws of Physics Can't Trump the Bonds of Love" (By Tara Parker-Pope, NY Times, 12-24-2012) Wright's 12-year old son Adam has Joubert syndrome and can't speak but he signals "Daddy, I love you".	Tuesday, January 15, 2013, 1:31-10:00 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab "Teacher's love of life and physics inspires moving short film" (By Zack Conkle, MSN Now, 12-27-2012) Kentucky teacher Jeffrey Wright inspires his students Something more powerful than energy or entropy— love we have for each other.
Wednesday, January 16, 2013, 2:26-10:00 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab Richard sends photo of new grandson Jacob Aaron; I tell him about Delacroix's "Jacob Wrestling Angel", Genesis 32, Goethe & Emily Dickinson's Poem #59 With Aaron's rod and Jacob's ladder in his name, this child will be blessed.	Wednesday, January 16, 2013, 2:26-10:00 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab Writing Notes of poem "Feminine Street Names"— Google Photos for Cypress Lodge & Pamela Dr. & Phyllis Ave; Google Maps for old apt & new apt Google Street Maps are real time savers with photos of my old apartment and new.
Thursday, January 17, 2013, 12:54-5:00 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab "Santa Cruz poetry club has strong following" (By Shanna McCord, Santa Cruz Sentinel, 1-5-2013) Safe circle for poetry (Mercury News, 1-17-2013, B3) Magdalena Montagne guides and inspires nine students to write and discuss poetry.	Thursday, January 17, 2013, 12:54-5:00 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab Writing Notes of poem "Feminine Street Names"— Doré engravings: Dante's "Commedia"— Inferno 26; Inferno 34; Purgatorio 4; Purgatorio 16; Paradiso 21 Virgil guides Dante through Hell and Purgatory but Beatrice leads him to Heaven.
Friday, January 18, 2013, 12:30-1:00 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Seman Library— Books: Timothy McDermott's "Summa Theologiae"; Robert Miner's "Thomas Aquinas on the Passions"; Alexander Lowen's Pleasure; Lionel Tiger's "Pursuit of Pleasure; Paul Bloom's "How Pleasure Works"; Aquinas Summa Theologica (1274): In non-human animals we don't talk of joy but only pleasure.	Friday, January 18, 2013, 5:00-8:30 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center Dante's "Commedia"— Inferno 26 (26.31-33: fire in 8th abyss); Inferno 34 (34.133-135: see bright world); Purgatorio 4 (4.31-33: upward through rifted rock); Purgatorio 16 (16.4-6: smoke tat wrapped us) Used translations of Mandelbaum and John Ciardi to find Doré's Divine Comedy engravings.
Saturday, January 19, 2013, 6:00 am Mountain View: Dream that Topps never issued a Stan Musial baseball card (1952-1956) but Bowman did in 1953 (Card #32); In 2011 Topps issued Musial BB card for 1953 #275 and 1956 #341; Topps 1952; In 2007 Topps issued 1954 Musial (1) Dreamt of Bowman Stan Musial 1953 baseball card, but not one Topps cards from 1952-1956.	Sunday, January 20, 2013, 3:00-5:50 pm Los Altos Library: "Stan Musial, Gentlemanly Slugger and Cardinals' Stan the Man, Dies at 92" (By Richard Goldstein, NY Times, 1-20-13); "Stan the Man Musial Dies: No. 6 Was Greatest Cardinal (By Rick Hummel, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 1-20-2013) Hall of Fame Dreaming of Stan Musial baseball cards on the day he died— precognition?
Saturday, January 19, 2013, 1:20-5:00 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center Botticelli: Dante's "Commedia"— Paradiso 1 (1.91-105: ascent to stars); Paradiso 6 (6.127-142: Sphere of Mercury); Paradiso 26 (26.72-84: Fixed Stars); Beatrice; Romeo; Lightness of Being; Lucia Beatrice tells Dante "your home is in the stars" that enables him to fly.	Sunday, January 20, 2013, 8:00-10:00 pm Stanford Flicks: Cubberley Auditorium Rian Johnson directs "Looper"; with Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt; Emily Blunt, Paul Dano; Noah Segan, Piper Perabo, Jeff Daniels, Pierce Gagnon; (YouTube: 1, 2); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4) Loopers kill and dispose of agents sent back in time by crime bosses in Shanghai.
Monday, January 21, 2013, 5:00-5:35 pm Mountain View: Sprouts (630 San Antonio Road); Trader Joe's (590 Showers Drive); Walgreens (VTA February Bus Pass); Fry's (16 GB USB sold out) Three red bell peppers, maple pecan granola, balsamic vinegar, sesame sticks.	Monday, January 21, 2013, 5:00-5:35 pm Mountain View: "El Greco, Batoni, Dürer Works to Be Auctioned in New York" (By Evan Mantyk, Epoch Times, 1-20-2013); Sotheby's: "Susanna & Elders" Dürer's Melencolia I estimated to sell for half-million dollars.
Monday, January 21, 2013, 10:00 pm-2:00 am KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-Coastam.com; George Noory interviews Rosemary Ellen Guiley (Bio, Web: 1, 2, 3); "Nature of Miracles"; BOOKS: "Encyclopedia of Angels"; "Encyclopedia of Demons and Demonology"; (YouTube: 1, 2) "Miracle Mind Consciousness" comes when we align ourselves with higher forces.	Monday, January 21, 2013, 10:00 pm-2:00 am KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-Coastam.com George Noory interviews Paul Kimball (Bio, Web: 1, 2); "Paranormal Interactions"; BOOK: "Other Side of Truth: Paranormal, Art of the Imagination, and the Human Condition"; (YouTube: 1, 2) Non-human intelligence creates paranormal events to raise our consciousness.
Tuesday, January 22, 2013, 1:00-10:00 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab "Space Explosion to Blame for Tree Ring Mystery, Astronomers Say" (Solar Flare of October 22, 2012) (By Clara Moskowitz, Yahoo! News, 1-22-2013) 775 A.D. Solar flare caused carbon-14 & berylliium-10 recorded in tree rings.	Tuesday, January 22, 2013, 1:00-10:00 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab Notes to poem: "Feminine Street Names"— Goethe's "Faust": "Eternal Feminine leads us above"; Lao Tzu's "Tao Te Ching 6": "Spirit of the Valley" Lao Tzu, Dante, and Goethe knew that it's the Eternal Feminine to lead us above.
Wednesday, January 23, 2013, 9:29-9:38 am KDFC 104.9 FM: Murray Perahia plays Franz Schubert, Impromptu #4 in Ab Op. 90 D.899 (1827); CD, (YouTube: Artur Rubinstein, Vladimir Horowitz, Murray Perahia, Alfred Brendel, Krystian Zimerman, Shura Cherkassky, Young Rachel) Music of cascading waterfalls and crystalline chandelier lights tinkling.	Wednesday, January 23, 2013, 12:30-10:00 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab "A hidden genetic code: Researchers identify key differences in seemingly synonymous parts of the structure" (Peter Reuell, Harvard Gazette, 1-18-2013) A.R. Subramaniam et. al. PNAS (Dec. 31, 2012) Transfer-RNA less efficient when cells are stressed to deliver amino acids.
Thursday, January 24, 2013, 12:44-5:15 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab "Young Judy Garland & Deanna Durbin" in 1936 film "Every Sunday" ("Opera versus Jazz") Finally found this rare clip of 14-year-old Judy & Deanna singing in Every Sunday.	Thursday, January 24, 2013, 12:44-5:15 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab "Dalai Lama Stresses Science and Secularism in Jaipur" (Neha Thirani Bagri, NY Times, 1-24-2013) He liked Jataka tales of a human or animal helping another being.
Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013, 5:45-7:20 pm; 9:20-10 pm Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre; Rowland V. Lee directs "Tower of London" (1939) with Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Barbara O'Neil, Ian Hunter, Vincent Price, Nan Grey, Ernest Cossart, Leo G. Carroll, John Sutton; (YouTube: 1, 2); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3) Basil Rathbone played evil Duke of Gloucester to become King Richard III.	Thursday, January 24, 2013, 7:30-9:10 pm Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre; Zoltan Korda directs "A Woman's Vengeance" (1947) with Charles Boyer, Ann Blyth, Jessica Tandy, Cedric Hardwicke, Mildred Natwick, Rachel Kempson (mother of Lynn Redgrave, Vanessa Redgrave); (Images: 1, 2, 3); (Reviews: 1, 2) Did Henry poison his wife or was it another woman in love with him?
Friday, January 25, 2013, 4:10-8:30 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center "A Cat's 200-Mile Trek Home Leaves Scientists Guessing" (By Pam Belluck, NY Times, 1-19-2013) After two months and 200 miles, Holly the cat found her way home.	Friday, January 25, 2013, 4:10-8:30 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center "OPINION: Secret Ingredient for Success" (Camille Sweeney & Josh Gosfield, NY Times, 1-20-2013) David Chang revamped his noodle shop's menu and became a wild success.
Friday, January 25, 2013, 4:10-8:30 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center F.W. Murnau directs "Tabu" (1931) with Matahi, Anne Chevalier, Hitu, Bill Bambridge, Kong Ah; (You Tube: 1, 2, 3, 4) (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4) Murnau's last film before he died was Tabu about the South Sea islands.	Friday, January 25, 2013, 4:10-8:30 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center "VIEW FROM ASIA: Where Science and Religion Coexist" (Saskia de Rothscild, NY Times, 1-25-2013) Matthieu Ricard: Happiest Man?; Buddhism & Health Dalai Lama encourages exploring neuroscience with old Buddhist texts.
Saturday, January 26, 2013, 11:05-5:00 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center "An idea that changed the world" (Corydon Ireland, Harvard Gazette, 1-23-2013); Andrey Markov's January 23, 1913 lecture on "Markov Chain" Used Markov Chain to analyze first 20,000 letters of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin.	Saturday, January 26, 2013, 11:05-5:00 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center "OPINION: Successful and Schizophrenic" (By Elyn R. Saks, NY Times, 1-27-2013); Schizophrenia; "Center Cannot Hold"; "Memory Palace"; TED Refusal to accept failure made her a USC chair professor and winner of MacArthur genius grant.
Sunday, January 27, 2013, 2:00-2:35 pm Mountain View: Friend takes me grocery shopping at Safeway (1750 Miramonte Avenue) Bus #22 came late at Phyllis Ave & El Camino Arrived at Palo Alto Train Depot at 4:15 pm Got to Stanford Theatre 20 minutes late to see "Bedtime for Bonzo" with Ronald Reagan Bananas, broccoli, dairy creamers, fish fillets, oats & nuts bread, instant oatmeal.	Sunday, January 27, 2013, 8:00-10:00 pm Stanford Flicks: Cubberley Auditorium Ben Affleck directs "Argo" (2012); with Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston; Alan Arkin, John Goodman; Tate Donovan, Clea DuVall, Kerry Bishé, Rory Cochrane; (YouTube: 1, 2); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); Film based on "Master of Disguise" & "Wired" article CIA agent used fake sci-fi film to rescue six hostages from Iran.
Sunday, January 27, 2013, 4:00-5:25 pm Stanford Theatre; Frederick de Cordova directs "Bedtime for Bonzo" (1951) with Ronald Reagan, Diana Lynn, Walter Slezak, Jesse White, Ann Tyrrell, Brad Johnson, Jacqui Johnston as Bonzo; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3) Ronald Reagan plays professor teaching chimp Bonzo human values.	Sunday, January 27, 2013, 5:35-7:20 pm Stanford Theatre; Henry Koster directs "Harvey" (1950) with James Stewart, Josephine Hull, Peggy Dow, Charles Drake, Cecil Kellaway, Victoria Horne, Jesse White, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); Remembering Jimmy Stewart; Pooka (1, 2, 3) Elwood's invisible large rabbit Harvey can stop time and transport you in space.
Monday, January 28, 2013, 2:42-10:00 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab Elwood Dowd's home is numbered 348 in "Harvey"; Number 348 (1, 2); Ferrari 348; Svea Lodge #348 Jimmy Stewart played Elwood Dowd in film Harvey that opened with number 348.	Monday, January 28, 2013, 2:42-10:00 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab Bob Thaves's "Frank & Ernest" comics (1-28-2013)— "3-Dimensional, Eh— What makes you so spatial?" Square, Triangle, Circle— used on Zen Koan cover and old Electronic Arts logo.
Monday, January 28, 2013, 10:15 pm-3:00 am KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-Coastam.com; George Noory interviews James Paris (Bio, Web); "Prayer & Finances"; BOOK: "How To Pray For A Financial Miracle"; "Overcoming Adversity: James Paris Story" Prayer is a two-way conversation— financial miracle will happen.	Monday, January 28, 2013, 10:15 pm-3:00 am KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-Coastam.com George Noory interviews Dave Schrader (Bio, Web); "Paranormal Forms"; BOOK: "The Other Side: A Teen's Guide to Ghost Hunting and the Paranormal"; (YouTube: 1, 2) We conjure up "Thought form" creatures— Bloody Bones Man, Slender Man and Faceless Man.
Tuesday, January 29, 2013, 12:30-10:00 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab Newton's Prism: 52; 85; Newton on the Beach; Monochromatic heaven; Newton & color (1); Alchemy; Prism Experiment (1); Apple Logo Newton's prism symbolized "one and many" as white light becomes rainbow colors.	Tuesday, January 29, 2013, 12:30-10:00 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab Newton's Prism Experiment (1); Prism & Rainbow (Apple Computers; Wozniak became a Freemason); Pink Floyd Prism (Record album; R.J. Dent's Story) White light of heaven transformed to rainbow colors of earth through the prism.
Wednesday, January 30, 2013, 10:53-11:00 am Mountain View: Woke up at 10 am & listened to KDFC 104.9 FM: Itzhak Perlman plays Jules Massenet, Thaïs: Meditation (1894) Listen, CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); Voted #90 Beautiful nature photos while Itzhak Perlman plays Massenet's Meditation.	Wednesday, January 30, 2013, 12:30-5:00 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab "KDFC 2013 Classical All-Stars" Listeners voting: #1 Beethoven 9th Symphony; #2 Dvorak "New World Symphony"; #3 Gershwin "Rhapsody in Blue" # 7— Pachelbel: Canon in D major # 58— Albinoni: Adagio in G minor # 77— Zipoli: Elevazione
Thursday, January 31, 2013, 1:00-10:00 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab Nancy's email with Kalidasa's "Ritusamhara: Pageant of the Seasons" translated by R.S. Pandit (1947); Arthur W. Ryder's Translation (1912); Aurobindo's Poem is Lover's Calendar of feelings awakened by the six seasons.	Thursday, January 31, 2013, 1:00-10:00 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab "Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works" by Kalidasa (circa 450 AD), by Arthur W. Ryder (1912); Shakuntala; Read Kalidasa's Shakuntala around 1967 The water-lily closes, shutting her door of welcome to the bee.
Thursday, January 31, 2013, 1:00-10:00 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab "Stanford scholar Roland Greene holds up poetry as cultural mirror" (Corrie Goldman, Stanford Report, 1-11-2013); PEPP has 1000 entries from 110 nations. Rise of poetry since 1993 is not print or performance but the digital realm.	Thursday, January 31, 2013, 1:00-10:00 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab Patty Andrews, Singer With Her Sisters, Is Dead at 94 (By Robert Berkvist, NY Times, 1-31-2013); Andrew Sisters; Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy; Rum & Coca Cola Patty was a soprano, youngest of Andrew Sisters and she sang the lead.
Thursday, January 31, 2013, 1:00-10:00 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab Nancy's 1/27 email with photo of "Grapefruit eyes" and 1/31 email with photo of "Road to Rifted Rock" Blessings to be shared— With clear grapefruit eyes seeing the road to rifted rock.	Thursday, January 31, 2013, 1:00-10:00 pm Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab Where have I seen this "Rifted Rock" before? It's Doré's engraving for Purgatorio 4.31-33— We made our upward way through rifted rock; along each side the edges pressed on us; the ground beneath required feet and hands.

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