Haikus: June 2013

HAIKUS: June 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.

Saturday, June 1, 2013, 11:45 am-2:25 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
Opinionator: Does Great Literature Make Us Better?
Martha Nussbaum's Love's Knowledge: literary fiction has peculiar power to generate moral insight.
Daniel Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow:
failures of expertise to predict the future.)
(By Gregory Currie, NY Times, 6-1-2013)

Can't conclude that literature
either does or doesn't have
positive moral effects. Saturday, June 1, 2013, 11:45 am-2:25 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
"Opinionator— The Essayification of Everything"
Phillip Lopate's The Art of the Personal Essay:
on the relationship between essay and doubt.
Sarah Bakewell's How to Live: elegant portrait of
the 16th-century Montaigne, father of the essay.)
(By Christy, NY Times, 5-26-2013)

Essay is a short nonfiction prose
with meditative subject at its center
and a tendency away from certitude.

Saturday, June 1, 2013, 4:15-5:00 pm
Sunnyvale: McKinley & Sunnyvale Avenue—
Donna Frankel's Foothill Dance Classes performing: Good Time; Doudlebska Polka; Toes; Beautiful Sunday; Meringue; Kohanuchka; Thriller; Hooked on Country; Swing; Believe; Waltz Mixer; Hine Ma Tov;

Class performing dances
this weekend June 1 and 2
at Sunnyvale Art & Wine Festival. Saturday, June 1, 2013, 4:15-5:00 pm
Sunnyvale: McKinley & Sunnyvale Avenue—
Donna's Foothill Dance Classes performance at Sunnyvale Art & Wine Festival; Bus #40 (2:33 pm) & Bus #22 (2:56 pm) to Sunnyvale & Saratoga; Walked 3 blocks to stage: Fred & Patricia gave me ride home

Soap bubbles on newly painted
stage made it wet and sticky—
difficult dancing on a tar pit.

Sunday, June 2, 2013, 2:00-2:45 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping at
Safeway (1750 Miramonte Ave); Los Altos Library
(4:30-5:45); Checked out "Social Media Commerce for Dummies"; Met Rudy at Chase (6 pm), walked
around Lake Lagunita before going to Stanford Flicks

Salmon and fish fillets,
yogurt, raisin bran, croissants,
orange juice, V-8 vegetable juice. Sunday, June 2, 2013, 8:00-9:37 pm
Stanford Flicks: Cubberley Auditorium;
Jonathan Levine directs "Warm Bodies" (2013)
with Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer, Rob Corddry, Dave Franco, Analeigh Tipton, Cory_Hardrict,
John Malkovich; YouTube: 1, 2, 3; Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4

After zombie apocalypse,
zombie R craving human flesh
falls slowly in love with Julie.

Sunday, June 2, 2013, 11:00 pm-3:00 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory interviews healer and intuitive Tom Benedict, (Biography, Web: 1, 2); "Healing with Stones"; Different types of stones have particular frequencies which can match up with various systems in the human body, and help them to function better.

Black Tourmaline helps focusing,
Selenite and Apophylite bring in
white light and energy. Sunday, June 2, 2013, 11:00 pm-3:00 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory interviews Matthew Petti, (Biography, Web: 1, 2);
"Apocalypse & Metaphysics"; BOOKS: "Alpha to Omega— Journey to the End of Time"; Apocalypse Now Volume 1: The Metaphysics of Truth; Heretical Wisdom: The Truths From Within; Questions to ask:

Where did we come from?
What is our purpose?
What is our destiny?

Monday, June 3, 2013, 12:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Donna emails class thanking us for performing on
sticky stage at Sunnyvale Art & Wine Festival, and
includes Video: Let's Dance; Found Montage from:

Fred & Ginger, Gene Kelly,
Chaplin, Elvis, Michael Jackson,
Patrick Swayze, John Travolta,
and the Nicholas Brothers. Monday, June 3, 2013, 12:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Hilary B. Price's comics "Rhymes with Orange"
(5-28-2013) inspired this web page on Social Media
with 20 links to sites on networking, video, & music;
Added 14 links & 9 inactive social networks (1)

AddThis Delicious
Loopt Foursquare Digg
to Friendster Myspace.

Monday, June 3, 2013, 10:30 pm-3:00 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory interviews Katherine Albrecht, (Biography, Web: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, startpage.com); "Privacy Update"; BOOK: "Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Move with RFID"; YouTube: Spychips; RFID: Tracking Everything

Yahoo switching over to
a new email system with
automated scanning of messages. Monday, June 3, 2013, 10:30 pm-3:00 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory interviews Maria Wheatley, (Biography, Web: 1, 2);
"Stonehenge & Dowsing"; BOOKS: "Avebury: Sun, Moon and Earth"; The Essential Dowsing Guide; Discovering Wiltshire: A Gazetteer of Ancient Sites; Megalithic Temples of Ancient Britain & Ireland Tour

Stonehenge located at
intersection of 14 ley lines
and emits high gamma radiation.

Tuesday, June 4, 2013, 12:10-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
June 3 Australia email from Nicholas Johnson—
"Could you please explain to me off the top
of your head what a transcendental number is?"
4,420,000 Google answers: MathWorld; Wikipedia;
Video; 15 Most Famous Transcendental Numbers

π and e are transcendental
as they are not algebraic and not
the root of any integer polynomial. Tuesday, June 4, 2013, 12:10-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
June 3 Australia email from Nicholas Johnson—
"Could you please explain to me off the top
of your head what a transcendental number is?"
Joseph Campbell; Quotes About Transcendence;
Emptiness (Sunyata); Mu (Nothing); Plotinus: One

Off the top of my head
is not intellect but intuition—
0 and 1 are both transcendent!

Tuesday, June 4, 2013, 12:10-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Bob Thaves, Frank & Ernest comics (6-4-2013)—
Serpent to Eve: "You want knowledge? I have
an App-le for that!" reminds me of Jan. 1, 2010 Economist cover: Serpent gives Apple iPod to Eve

Will Apple iPod, iPhone, iPad,
and those Apps bring our downfall
just like the Apple of Genesis? Tuesday, June 4, 2013, 12:10-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Missed de Young Museum exhibit (last day 6/2/2013)
of Johannes Vermeer's "Girl with the Pearl Earring";
1667 Painting; 1999 Novel; 2003 Film; Art Essay;
Vermeer Links; Vermeer in Washington; Lecture (1)

She turned and looked at me—
her face more luminous
than her pearl earring!

Tuesday, June 4, 2013, 10:30 pm-3:00 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory interviews Penney Peirce, (Biography, Web); "Power of Attention"; BOOKS: "Leap of Perception: Transforming Power of Your Attention"; The Intuitive Way: Definitive Guide to Increasing Your Awareness; Frequency: The Power of Personal Vibration; YouTube: How to raise personal vibration

Our Age is shifting from
Information to Intuition—
we'll be more perceptive. Tuesday, June 4, 2013, 10:30 pm-3:00 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory interviews Tina Sacchi, (Biography, Web);
"Spirituality"; BOOK: "My Spirit Is Not Religious: A Guide To Living Your Authentic Life"; YouTube: Living a Spiritual Life with Tina Sacchi; Be the Light; Five Foods Not to Eat; Organic vs Non Organic; Retreating For the Day; Sleep Sleep Sleep Soundly

Spirituality is connecting
with higher consciousness
and discovering wisdom.

Wednesday, June 5, 2013, 12:11-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Helicopter Takes to the Skies With the Power of Human Thought (Video, Science Daily, 6-5-2013)
University of Minnesota's Professor Bin He

Five students could control
flight of four-blade helicopter
with their thoughts alone.
Wednesday, June 5, 2013, 12:11-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"The idea of progress: Onwards and upwards"
(The Economist, Dec. 19, 2009-Jan. 1, 2010)
Durant: Is Progress Real?; "Perils of Progress"

Hungarian Imre Madach's play
"The Tragedy of Man" (1861)
questions human progress in history

Thursday, June 6, 2013, 5:00-7:20, 9:20-11:36 pm
Stanford Theatre: Vincente Minnelli directs
"Some Came Running" (1958) with Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine, Martha Hyer, Arthur Kennedy, Nancy Gates, Betty Lou Keim, Larry Gates; YouTube: 1, 2; (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 6, 7, 8, 9); Richard Linklater on "The film that changed my life: Some Came Running" (Guardian, 4-10-2010); (1, 2)

Soldier returns to home town
after war and meets gambler
and girl who madly loves him. Thursday, June 6, 2013, 7:30-9:10 pm
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: Joshua Logan directs
"Bus Stop" (1956); Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray, Arthur O'Connell, Betty Field, Eileen Heckart, Robert Bray, Hope Lange, Hans Conried, Max Showalter;
YouTube: 1, 2, 3; (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); Making of "Bus Stop"; Seeburg Model 146 Juke Box;
Marilyn Monroe sings "That Old Black Magic"

Naive cowboy falls in love
with small-town saloon singer
who dreams of a better life.

Friday, June 7, 2013, 11:41 am-6:10 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
Stanley Donen (89), Jane Powell (84), Marc Platt (99), Jacques d'Amboise (78), Tommy Rall (83),
Russ Tamblyn (78), Ruta Lee (77), Julie Newmar (79), Matt Mattox (d. 2013, 90), Virginia Gibson (d. 2013, 88); Emailed Rudy about longevity of dancers in film & Donen choreographed "Singing in the Rain" (1952)

Amazing— 8 of 12 people in
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers—
film of 60 years ago are still alive! Friday, June 7, 2013, 7:45-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Friends' House, 957 Colorado Ave,
Waverley Writers Poetry Reading: Read "Attachment to Compassion" and "Hands Holding the Void";
Tom Digby "Bubbles" read his poem "The Speech";
Patrick Daly read Gustave Caillebotte's "Rainy Day";
Steve Arntson read "Modigliani Woman" stepping out from her portrait and fantasized about them together

Elizabeth Biller Chapman read
Matt Cain's "The Perfect Game"
that will air Sunday on Marty Lurie.

Saturday, June 8, 2013, 10:56 am-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
"BOOKS: In the Pursuit of Longevity" (Lauren Kessler's "CounterClockwise" reveals her trials of anti-aging methods; Dr. Hilary A. Tindle's "Up" shows that optimists lived longer than pessimists;
Cynical hostility increased mortality by 16%
(By Abigail Zuger, M.D., NY Times, 6-4-2013)

New books on anti-aging—
"CounterClockwise" for the body
and techniques in "Up" using the mind. Saturday, June 8, 2013, 10:56 am-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
Longevity data by professions: Sculptors & Painters [144 Sculptors (67.4) lived 3 years longer than 262 Painters (63.6)]; Of 544 nominees, Nobel Prize winners live 1.4 years longer; Athletes: NFL player (58), Athletes (67), Avg American (76); Centenarian philosophers & thelogians; Russian ballet dancers;

Titian lived to 88,
Michelangelo lived to 88,
Martha Graham lived to 96.

Sunday, June 9, 2013, 10:00 am-12:00 pm
KNBR 680 am: Marty Lurie interviews Umpire
Eddie Montague who has 6 World Series rings after officiating in 1986, 1991, 1997, 2000, 2004, 2007; He picked up ball going through Buckner's legs and gave it to the Mets; later sold to Charlie Sheen for $93,000

Baseball that went through
Bill Buckner's legs in 1986
World Series sold for $418,250
Sunday, June 9, 2013, 10:00 am-12:00 pm
KNBR 680 am: Marty Lurie interviews Umpire
Eddie Montague; His Dad Ed Montague had a baseball autographed by Ty Cobb; When Pete Rose broke Cobb's all-time hits record with his 4,192nd hit, Eddie Montague asked Pete Rose sign that old ball

When Pete Rose signed the old baseball
and saw Ty Cobb's autograph on it,
his eyes nearly popped out.

Sunday, June 9, 2013, 10:00 am-12:00 pm
KNBR 680 am: Marty Lurie interviews Umpire
Eddie Montague who has 6 World Series rings after officiating in 1986, 1991, 1997, 2000, 2004, 2007; He picked up ball in right field going through Buckner's legs and gave it to Mets executive Arthur Richman

Montague has baseball signed
by Giants greats Carl Hubbell,
Mel Ott, Lefty O'Doul, Willie Mays. Sunday, June 9, 2013, 4:21-5:55 pm
Los Altos Library: Bought $27.50 book @$1.00—
Joseph Horowitz's "Artists in Exile: How Refugees from 20th Century War and Revolution Transformed the American Performing Arts" (2008)

Exiles Lang, Lubitsch, Mamoulian,
Murnau, Wilder, Garbo, Dietrich,
Stokowski, Stravinsky, and Weill
enriched American film & music.

Sunday, June 9, 2013, 7:30-9:15 pm
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: Stanley Donen directs
"Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" (1954) with Howard Keel, Jane Powell, Jeff Richards, Marc Platt, Matt Mattox, Tommy Rall, Russ Tamblyn, Ruta Lee, Jacques d'Amboise, Julie Newmar, Virginia Gibson; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 4, 5); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4 5, 6)

Bachelor farmer marries—
inspiring his six brothers
to get their own wives. Sunday, June 9, 2013, 9:25-11:05 pm
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: David Butler directs
"Calamity Jane" (1953); Doris Day, Howard Keel, Allyn Ann McLerie, Philip Carey, Dick Wesson,
Paul Harvey, Chubby Johnson, Gale Robbins;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4);
Calamity Jane (1852-1903); Wild Bill Hickok 1837-76

Fictitious account of
romance of Calamity Jane
and Wild Bill Hickok.

Monday, June 10, 2013, 1:00-1:25 pm
Mountain View: Maintenance man John had heart attack 25 years ago (he's 79 with a new fibrillator);
Installed new fluorescent bulbs in my apt kitchen
(12:20-12:50 pm); Friend takes me shopping
at Safeway (1750 Miramonte Avenue)

Popcorn, salad dressings,
ketchup, grapefruit juice,
Red Baron supreme pizzas. Monday, June 10, 2013, 3:07-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Rudy enjoyed Doris Day in "Calamity Jane" film;
Doris Day owned Palo Alto's Crowne Plaza Hotel
(4290 El Camino Real) where the Beatles stayed after their Aug. 31, 1965 sold-out show at Cow Palace

Bed sheets Beatles slept on
were cut into small pieces
and sold in the parking lot.

Tuesday, June 11, 2013, 12:07-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
TRAVEL: Pacific Crest Trail finds itself wildly popular this year (2,650-mile trail from Mexico to Canada)
(By Barbara Egbert, SJ Mercury News, June 9, 2013)

Cheryl Strayed's 2012 book
Wild: From Lost to Found on
the Pacific Crest Trail inspired hikers. Tuesday, June 11, 2013, 12:07-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Cupertino High sophomore develops app that 'clips' articles (identifies sentence structures statistically)
(By Matt Wilson, SJ Mercury News, June 11, 2013)

Tanay Tandon's app Clipped extracts
article's most important information
to create bullet-point summaries.

Tuesday, June 11, 2013, 12:07-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Oprah Winfrey: Failure is just movement (Video)
(By Colleen Walsh, Harvard Gazette, 5-30-2013)

"There is no such thing as failure.
Failure is just life trying to
move us in another direction." Tuesday, June 11, 2013, 12:07-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Opinionator: Writing and Fear
(By Sarah Jio, NY Times, 6-10-2013)

"Write What Scares You"—
fear that spilled out onto the page
made the scene ring true to readers.

Tuesday, June 11, 2013, 12:07-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
The Healer Behind the Belmont Winner of 1963
(On June 8, 1963 Chateaugay won Belmont Stakes
in 2:30.20 establishing a track record for 1.5 miles)
(By Helene Conway & Nancy Brennan,
NY Times, 6-11-2013)

On July 4, 1962, Dr. Brennan
performed ventriculectomy surgery
on Chateaugay to ease his breathing. Tuesday, June 11, 2013, 12:07-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Opinionator: The Myth of 'Just Do It'
(Balanchine tells his dancers, "Don't think, just do."
Experts perform at their best, act intuitively.
Herrigel's "Zen in the Art of Archery"— "It shoots")
(By Barbara Gail Montero, NY Times, 6-9-2013)

Thinking about what you are
doing, as you are doing it,
interferes with performance.

Sunday, June 9, 2013, 11:30 pm-3:00 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, Ian Punnett interviews Stephen Harding, (Biography, Web: 1, 2); "The Last Battle"; BOOKS: "The Last Battle: When U.S. and German Soldiers Joined Forces in the Waning Hours of World War II in Europe"; Gray Ghost: The R.M.S. Queen Mary at War; Voyage to Oblivion; YouTube: The Last Battle; Coast-to-Coast

German major Josef Gangl
teamed with U.S. Lt. Jack Lee
to capture Nazi Austrian castle. Tuesday, June 11, 2013, 10:30 pm-3:00 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory interviews L. A. Marzulli, (Biography, Web: 1, 2);
"Nephilim Secrets"; BOOKS: "On the Trail of the Nephilim"; The Nephilim Trilogy YouTube: Aliens, Nephilim & the Watchers; Be the Light; Five Foods Not to Eat; Organic vs Non Organic; Retreating For the Day; Sleep Sleep Sleep Soundly

Nephilim or fallen angels,
tinkered with human DNA,
will appear as Antichrist.

Wednesday, June 12, 2013, 3:14-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Robinson Jeffers: Literary Legacy— An Uncommon Voice (By James Karman, California History, Vol. 87, No. 2, April 2010, 6-11); (Jeffers' generation lived through an exceptional moment in human history and passed away "like the leaves" in Homer's "Iliad" VI)

Trojan Glaucus tells Greek Diomedes—
"Like leaves scattered by the wind,
so do generations of men rise & fall."
Wednesday, June 12, 2013, 3:14-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Mysteries of Mount Shasta: Home Of The Underground Dwellers and Ancient Gods
(By Tim Beckley, UFO Digest, January 2012);
Video: Mount Shasta Cloud Ship UFO (8-8-2010); UFO Sighting Mt Shasta 2006 (3-26-2010); Audio

A Dweller on Two Planets
claims UFO sightings and
wonders at Mount Shasta.

Thursday, June 13, 2013, 12:11-6:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
After attending Kathak Classical Indian Dance
(May 5, 2013) for Bay Area National Dance Week,
finally finished my report for Donna's Dance Class
typing up my three pages of notes taken that day

Donna told me that only
a paragraph would suffice
instead of my photo-essay. Thursday, June 13, 2013, 6:30-9:15 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Foothill College Middlefield Campus: Gym B
Donna Frankel's Ballroom Dance Class: Taught
Bolero (1, 2, 3); Samba (1, 2); Ten Step Texas Style; Ten Step Country Western; Alene's 21st birthday today

Missed last week's class
so the girls showed me how
to dance the Texan Ten Step.

Friday, June 14, 2013, 1:18-5:40 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
Opinionator: Me, Myself and Math— Visualizing Vastness; (Ithaca's Carl Sagan Planet Walk is 3/4 mile long in 15 minutes from Sun to Pluto; 5000 miles to Hawaii representing Alpha Centauri, Sun's nearest star.) (By Steven Strogatz, NY Times, Oct. 15, 2012)

Mercury, a grain of couscous;
Earth, a pea; Jupiter, donut hole;
Sun, the size of a serving plate. Friday, June 14, 2013, 7:30-11:10 pm
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: Otto Preminger directs
"Anatomy of a Murder" (1959); James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, George C. Scott, Eve Arden, Arthur O'Connell, Kathryn Grant, Duke Ellington;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5);
Film's 50th anniversary of "Anatomy of a Murder"

Soldier accused of murder
claims that his victim
assaulted his wife.

Saturday, June 15, 2013, 12:27-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
Opinionator: Hel-LO! You're... Who Again?
(Going to 50th Lincoln High School Reunion—
rows of classmates photos who had passed away;
beauty queen divorced & toiling as cafe waitress; Adonises were fat & balding; Time taketh away.)
(By Dick Cavett, New York Times, 6-14-2013)

Dick Cavett, talk show celebrity,
returns to 50th high school reunion
and recounts his experience. Saturday, June 15, 2013, 12:27-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
GADGETWISE: Getting Smart About Personal Technology— Q&A: Protecting a PC From Spam & Spoofs (PC World's on minimizing exposure to e-mail spoofing. Free Antivirus Programs; Free anti-spyware programs: Malwarebytes; Spybot Search & Destroy)
(By J.D. Biersdorfer, NY Times, 6-13-2013)

Warn your friend whose email
to you had been spoofed
with junk advertisements.

Sunday, June 16, 2013, 2:00-2:40 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping
at Safeway (1750 Miramonte Ave); Rudy will meet
me at Chase (6 pm) to see "Ten Commandments"

Dairy creamers, oatmeal,
yogurt, grapefruit juice,
Red Baron supreme pizzas. Sunday, June 16, 2013, 3:57-5:50 pm
Los Altos Library: Bought Susan M. Tiberghien's
"One Year to a Writing Life" (2007) for $1.00;
(12 Lessons to deepen every writer's art and craft)

John Gardner's Art of Fiction—
the three building blocks are
description, dialogue, action.

Sunday, June 16, 2013, 3:57-5:50 pm
Los Altos Library: Checked out book edited by
Meredith Maran, "Why We Write" (2013) featuring
20 authors on how & why they do what they do—
Including Isabelle Allende, Sue Grafton, Gish Jen, Sebastian Junger, Mary Karr, Michael Lewis, Terry McMillan, Walter Mosley, Ann Patchett, Jane Smiley;
Grafton's 967 pages journal for "V Is for Vengeance":

"Knowing that I've survived all
my bumbling & fumbling in the past
helps me survive it in the present." Sunday, June 16, 2013, 7:30-11:20 pm
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: Cecil B. DeMille directs
"The Ten Commandments" (1956); with Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, Edward G. Robinson, Yvonne De Carlo, Debra Paget, John Derek, Vincent Price, John Carradine, Cedric Hardwicke, Nina Foch; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4,
Cecil B. DeMille); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Yul Brynner's acting
was better due to his
anger & envy at Moses.

Monday, June 17, 2013, 1:20-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
GRAY MATTER: Where We Are Shapes Who We Are
(Who we are— litterbug or good citizen, depends on where we happen to be; Blue streetlights deter crime; Honesty box with eyes ended up with more money)
(By Adam Alter, NY Times, 6-16-2013)

More lost letters delivered
by students in less crowded
dorms than crowded dormitories. Monday, June 17, 2013, 1:20-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
NEWS ANALYSIS: Facebook Made Me Do It
(In social exchange systems like Facebook,
when people were told that their networks liked
the content they were sharing, they shared more)
(By Jenna Wortham, NY Times, 6-16-2013)

More risqué behavior
posted on Facebook to gain
favor of web onlookers.

Monday, June 17, 2013, 1:20-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Google's Reader is going away, but here are some options to replace it" (Digg, Feedly, Flipboard, My Yahoo, Pulse, The Old Reader, WordPress to fill Google Reader void); Reprinted in Denver Post
(Brandon Bailey, SJ Mercury News, 6-10-2013)

Google Reader pulls in posts
from blogs & other sites, listing
them all on a single Web page. Monday, June 17, 2013, 1:20-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"TECHNOLOGY: The printable life—
3-D production predicted to mold our tomorrows"
Hod Lipson & Melba Kurman's 2013 book Fabricated: The New World of 3D Printing
(By Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 6-1-2013)

Producible by 3-D printers:
sailboats, guitars, guns,
prosthetic hands and legs;

Tuesday, June 18, 2013, 12:00-2:00 pm
Mountain View: SETI Institute (189 Bernardo Ave)
Robert K. Nesbet (IBM Almaden Research Center)
"Conformal Gravity: New Light on Dark Matter & Dark Energy"; Lambda, Λ is symbol for Dark Energy in the ΛCDM model and the Cosmological constant

Explained dark energy
and dark galactic halos
without invoking dark matter. Tuesday, June 18, 2013, 2:56-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
SCIENCE: Animal invisibility cloak makes cat and fish vanish (New light-bending technology that
could have applications in telecommunications)
(By Ian Sample, The Guardian, UK, 6-10-2013)

"Invisibility cloak" made
goldfish and a small cat
vanish from plain sight.

Tuesday, June 18, 2013, 10:30 pm-3:00 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory interviews Earnest Cobb, (Biography, Web); "Slot Machine Guru"; BOOK: "The Secrets to Hitting More Jackpots"; YouTube: How to Win Millions on TLC

He won over $19.3 million
in slot machine jackpots
and gives away his winnings. Tuesday, June 18, 2013, 10:30 pm-3:00 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory interviews Michael E. Salla, (Biography, Web: 1, 2);
"Exopolitics & Contact"; BOOKS: "Exopolitics"; "Galactic Diplomacy"; (YouTube: 1; 2; 3)

Some 19 different ET civilizations
contacted Earth, looking human-like
with underground bases in Italy.

Wednesday, June 19, 2013, 2:00-2:15 pm
Palo Alto: Congdon & Crome (552 Waverley St.)
Bought 8 white 1/2-inch spine bars @ 27¢ for $2.34
on 12/21/2012; Today paid $30.80 for box of 100
($40.46 retail) with 30% discount store closeout sale

Store closing 30% discount
sale— but paid 10% more
buying whole box of 100. Wednesday, June 19, 2013, 3:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
ARTS: Humanities Committee Sounds an Alarm
(7.6% of BA's degrees granted in humanities in 2010)
(By Jennifer Schuessler, NY Times, 6-19-2013)

People talk about humanities
and the social sciences
"as if they are a waste of time."

Wednesday, June 19, 2013, 3:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
OP-ED: Beyond the Brain [Books: Jerome Kagan, "The Human Spark", "Psychology's Ghosts"; Satel & Lilienfeld, Brainwashed: Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience; Robert G. Shulman, "Brain Imaging:
What it can (& cannot) tell us about consciousness"]
(By David Brooks, NY Times, 6-18-2013)

When they tell you what
brain scans say, be skeptical.
The brain is not the mind. Wednesday, June 19, 2013, 3:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
ARCHITECTURE REVIEW: Celebrating a Poet
of 3 Dimensions (Exhibit "Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes" June 15-Sept. 23 at MOMA; Chapelle Notre Dame du Haut at Ronchamp (1954)
is Le Corbusier's "acoustic landscape" seashell.)
(By Michael Kimmelman, NY Times, 6-18-2013)

Le Corbusier famously said:
"It is always life that is right
and the architect who is wrong."

Thursday, June 20, 2013, 12:32-6:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Video: Beauty as a Call to Justice: Elaine Scarry"
(John Rawls view of justice— symmetry & fairness; Beauty as state of bliss; Beauty brings art & poetry;
Scarry's On Beauty and Being Just: Fair playing field, the word "injury" with syllable "jury" linked to justice
(Elaine Scarry, Harvard Thinks Big2, March 4, 2011)

Iris Murdoch: beauty as unselfing;
Simone Weil: beauty as decentering;
Elaine Scarry: Beauty as opiated adjaceny. Thursday, June 20, 2013, 12:32-6:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Video: Elaine Scarry: Beauty and Social Justice"
Wildflower is natural, flower garden is artifactual; Justice is artifactual, needing human intervention;
Beautiful artworks: Shiro Kuramata's "Miss Blanche"; "Glass Chair"; "How High the Moon"
(Elaine Scarry, Cambridge University, May 21, 2010)

Piet Modrian's
Broadway Boogie-Woogie
greets us at the MOMA.

Friday, June 21, 2013, 7:30-9:30 pm
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: William Wyler directs
"Roman Holiday" (1953) with Audrey Hepburn,
Gregory Peck, Eddie Albert, Hartley Power, Harcourt Williams, Margaret Rawlings, Paolo Carlini, Paola Borboni, Tullio Carminati, Laura Solari; (YouTube:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 6)

Audrey Hepburn won Best Actress,
Eddie Albert lost to Frank Sinatra
as Best Supporting Actor in this film. Friday, June 21, 2013, 9:40-11:33 pm
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: Billy Wilder directs
"Sabrina" (1954); with Humphrey Bogart,
Audrey Hepburn, William Holden, John Williams, Walter Hampden, Nella Walker, Martha Hyer, Marcel Dalio, Francis X. Bushman; (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6);

Two wealthy brothers
(Humphrey Bogart & William Holden)
in love with Sabrina (Audrey Hepburn).

Saturday, June 22, 2013, 11:55-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
Books on entropy from Foothill College Library:
Rudolf Arnheim, "Art and Visual Perception";
Harold J. Morowitz, "Entropy for Biologists";
Jeremy Rifkin, "Entropy: Into the Greenhouse World"

Arnheim: Work of art strives for
a pattern of directed forces that
are being balanced, ordered, unified. Saturday, June 22, 2013, 11:55-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
Books on entropy from Foothill College Library:
Rudolf Arnheim, "Art and Visual Perception;
Analysis of "Angel on a Sphere" by Hans Thomas
poorly done conveying absence of movement (p. 354)

Example of piecemeal approach
of minor artists with no such
unified conception of form.

Saturday, June 22, 2013, 11:55-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
Supermoon: Brighter moon beams over us Sunday
(By Lisa M. Krieger, SJ Mercury News, 6-22-2013)

Full Moon at 4:32 am Sunday
will be 15% larger & 20% brighter
at perigee— 221,824 miles away. (Photos) Saturday, June 22, 2013, 8:00-11:55 pm
Palo Alto: 4000 Middlefield Road
Ballroom Dancing at Cubberley Pavilion
Donna Frankel's World Dance Class Field Trip

Learned Quickstep dance from
James Kleinrath; Tim Michaels
taught Nightclub Two Step.

Sunday, June 23, 2013, 2:50-3:15 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping
at Safeway (1750 Miramonte Avenue)

Broccoli, Roma tomatoes,
apple and berry danish,
Red Baron supreme pizzas. Sunday, June 23, 2013, 4:00-5:50 pm
Los Altos Library: Decline & Fall of English Major (By Verlyn Klinkenborg, NY Times, 6-23-2013)

In 1991, 165 Yale students graduated
with a B.A. in English literature.
By 2012, that number was 62.

Monday, June 24, 2013, 12:00-2:00 pm
Mountain View: SETI Institute (189 Bernardo Ave)
Lee Smolin (Perimeter Institute Theoretical Physics)
"The Evolution of the Laws of Physics"; Books: "Time Reborn"; "Trouble With Physics"; Life of the Cosmos

Missed Smolin's lecture
to type books coming due
at Foothill College Library. Monday, June 24, 2013, 12:09-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Found cartoons on entropy by Sidney Harris
and Mark Thompson for web page on Entropy;
Mired in Entropy has quote by William Lyon Phelps—

The happiest people
are not only happy in themselves,
they are the cause of happiness in others.

Tuesday, June 25, 2013, 1:09-4:30 pm
Santa Clara: HomeTown Buffet (2670 El Camino)
Lunch & talk on Balance in Art with longtime friend

Fish fillet, shrimp, green beans,
home fries, mandarin orange salad,
cantaloupe, jello, and strawberries. Tuesday, June 25, 2013, 5:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Oliver Sacks' "Mind's Eye"; (Anne Carson's Syllabus)

Neurologist tells about
people with loss of sight
and speech coping with life.

Wednesday, June 26, 2013, 12:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
OP-ED: C. S. Lewis, Evangelical Rock Star
(In 2005, Time magazine called C.S. Lewis "hottest theologian" of the year— 42 years after his death;
In his seven fantasy novels Chronicles of Narnia, Lewis created the lion Aslan, to represent God/Jesus)
(By T.M. Luhrmann, NY Times, 6-26-2013)

Joshua Landy argues in his book
that fiction teaches us how to think
about what we take to be true.
Wednesday, June 26, 2013, 12:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
RELIGION: Beyond the Wardrobe
(95 million Narnia books by C.S. Lewis have been sold since 1945; His "Mere Christianity" (BBC radio talks 1942-44) with metaphors on his Christian
belief is superbly organized and easy to follow)
(By David Van Biema, Time, Oct. 30, 2005)

Domino's Pizza founder Tom Monaghan
abandoned his lavish lifestyle after
reading about pride in Mere Christianity.

Thursday, June 27, 2013, 12:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Alviso isn't Silicon Valley's ghost town, but it is something else (Home of High-Tech campuses: IBM, Polycom, Flextronics, Boston Scientific and TiVo.)
(By Mike Cassidy, SJ Mercury News, June 25, 2013)

Alviso Marina County Park
and Walkway in Alviso Bay Trail
show Platonic Lambda Gateway Λ.
Thursday, June 27, 2013, 12:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Scientists Unlock Mystery in Evolution of Pitchers
(Humans are able to store elastic energy, using a cocking motion, to throw much harder than other primates.) (James Gorman, NY Times, 6-27-2013)

Adult chimps throw at 20 miles/hour,
but a 12-year old human pitcher
can throw at 60 miles/hour.

Friday, June 28, 2013, 1:00-4:40 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
1982 Physics Nobel laureate Kenneth Wilson dies
(Wilson's research stemmed from work on phase
transitions by Michael Fisher & Benjamin Widom
at Cornell & Leo Kadanoff at University of Illinois.)
(By George Lowery, Cornell Chronicle, 6-18-2013)

Enjoyed Greek & Balkan
folk-dancing with Ken Wilson
by Beebe Lake at Cornell (1966-1970). Friday, June 28, 2013, 1:00-4:40 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
Roland Barthes' "Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography" (1981); (Anne Carson's Syllabus);
"Rereading: Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes"
(By Brian Dillon, The Guardian, UK, 3-25-2011)— "one of the most influential studies of photography"

Photos selected by Barthes
are intimate portraits of life—
tender, touching, mesmerizing.

Friday, June 28, 2013, 7:30-8:40 pm
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: Mark Robson directs
"Isle of the Dead" (1945); Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew, Helene Thimig, Alan Napier, Jason Robards, Sr., Ernst Deutsch, Marc Cramer, Katherine Emery; Painting; (YouTube: 1, 2) (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 6)

Martin Scorsese lists
this film among 11 scariest
horror movies of all time. Friday, June 28, 2013, 8:50-10:02 pm
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: Jacques Tourneur directs
"I Walked with a Zombie" (1943); with James Ellison,
Frances Dee, Tom Conway, Edith Barrett, James Bell, Theresa Harris, Sir Lancelot, Jeni Le Gon;
(Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); (YouTube: 1, 2)

Nurse brought to Haiti
to care for his sick wife
who turns out to be a zombie.

Saturday, June 29, 2013, 2:00-3:00 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping
at Safeway (1750 Miramonte Avenue)

Orange juice, craneberry juice,
Maui potato chips, carrots, garlic,
Gorton & Van der Camp fish fillets. Saturday, June 29, 2013, 3:30-5:50 pm
Los Altos Library: "Lit from Inside: 40 Years of Poetry from Alice James Books" (2013); Carole Oles' poem:

Maria Mitchell gives talk
at Harvard and her "teeth
spill out powdery as chalk".

Saturday, June 29, 2013, 3:30-5:50 pm
Los Altos Library: Typed Carole Oles' "Dream" poem
from "Night Watches: Inventions on the Life of Maria Mitchell" (1985) cited in "Lit from Inside" (p. 79)

Maria Mitchell was first professional
American woman astronomer. Awarded gold
medal by King Frederick VII of Denmark
for her discovery of Comet C/1847 T1. Saturday, June 29, 2013, 3:30-5:50 pm
Los Altos Library: Yesterday, June 28, 2013 was the 124th anniversary of Maria Mitchell's death. (Aug. 1, 1818-June 28, 1889) when I learned about her work

Did Maria Mitchell's spirit
contact me on her death date
when she left this planet Earth
for the starry heavens above?

Sunday, June 30, 2013, 2:00-6:00 pm
San Mateo: Upper Windy Hill Open Space Preserve
Friend takes me on a shady 4-mile hike on hot day

Came here on September 4, 2011—
went on Razorback Ridge Trail;
hiked on Lost Trail path today. Sunday, June 30, 2013, 2:00-6:00 pm
San Mateo: Upper Windy Hill Open Space Preserve
Met only two people on today's 4- hour hike

Friend drops me off near
Stanford Theatre so I could
see the Fred & Ginger movies.

Sunday, June 30, 2013, 7:30-9:15 pm
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: Mark Sandrich directs
"The Gay Divorcee" (1934); Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Alice Brady, Edward Everett Horton, Erik Rhodes, Eric Blore, Betty Grable, Lillian Miles; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 6)

Stanford Theatre's 1175-seats
was nearly sold out when this
film was shown in 1987 festival. Sunday, June 30, 2013, 9:25-11:05 pm
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: Mark Sandrich directs
"Top Hat" (1935); Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Erik Rhodes, Eric Blore, Helen Broderick, Lucille Ball, Donald Meek;
(Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); (YouTube: 1, 2, 3)

All five songs by Irving Berlin
in Top Hat made the Hit Parade
in 1935 and are still popular today.