Haikus: May 2013

HAIKUS: May 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.

Wednesday, May 1, 2013, 1:01-7:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Cornell Newsletter: Stuart McClure, CEO/President
of Cylance, Inc., "The World of Cyberthreats"
(Cornell Club-New York, 6 East 44th St. NYC, May 8)

McClure's Hacking Exposed:
Network Security Secrets & Solutions
ranks #4 computer book ever sold. Wednesday, May 1, 2013, 1:01-7:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Deanna Durbin, Hollywood film star, dies at 91"
(BBC News, 5-1-2013); "Child actress dead at 91"
(By Peter Trapasso, SF Examiner, 5-1-2013) (1)

She brought so much joy
to those seeing her films
but was not happy making them.

Wednesday, May 1, 2013, 1:01-7:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Typed pages 52-57 of Samuel Beckett's "Proust"
from Los Altos Library (843.912ProustBeckett)
with 14 web links; Anne Carson's Syllabus

Proustian solution—
negation of Time and Death.
Death is dead because Time is dead. Wednesday, May 1, 2013, 8:00-9:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
A Reading by Anne Carson, The Mohr Visiting Poet Stanford University, Cemex Auditorium; 7:16 pm Bus #35 & 7:45 pm Stanford Y-Bus got me there 7:55 pm

She imitated Wittgenstein's
Tractatus with 59 numbered
paragraphs on "The Albertine Workout".

Thursday, May 2, 2013, 12:36-6:25 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Typed pages 43-48 of Marcel Proust's "Swann's Way"
(2004) translated by Lydia Davis [Los Altos Library (FictionProustMarcel)]; Anne Carson's Syllabus

Taste of petites madeleines
brought Proust back to Combray
when aunt Léonie gave it to him. Thursday, May 2, 2013, 12:36-6:25 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Deanna Durbin, Plucky Movie Star of the Depression Era, Is Dead at 91 (By Aljean Harmetz, NY Times,
5-1-2013); Lucky to see all 21 Deanna Durbin Films

Did Deanna Durbin know
that her alchemical acting
and singing made others happy?

Thursday, May 2, 2013, 12:36-6:25 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Bill Morrison's email today links to 3-year old
Aimi Kobayashi playing the piano (she's now 18)

Amazing talent at 3 years old—
Mozart composing music and
John Stuart Mill reading Greek. Thursday, May 2, 2013, 12:36-6:25 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Chhandam School of Kathak, Pacific Ballet Academy, Mountain View (Sunday, May 5, 2013, 11 am) (1)

Will see "Introduction
to Kathak Classic Dance
from Northern India".

Thursday, May 2, 2013, 6:30-8:30 pm
Foothill College Middlefield Campus: Gym B
Donna Frankel's Intermediate Ballroom Dance Class:
94^o today— too hot in gym; danced outside on grass;
Polka, Ba La Cha Cha, La Bastringue, Kohonutchka

Donna wants page report
attending dance performance
in Bay Area Dance Week.
Thursday, May 2, 2013, 6:30-8:30 pm
Foothill College Middlefield Campus: Gym B
Donna Frankel's Ballroom Dance Class: Taught
Syrtos from Macedonia (1) (Makedonsko Oro);
Brazil: Samba Circular; Israel: Od lo ahavti day

Will perform these dances
at Foothill Smithwick Theatre
and Sunnyvale Art & Wine Festival.

Friday, May 3, 2013, 7:45-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Friends' House, 957 Colorado Ave,
Waverley Writers Monthly Poetry Reading;
Featured Reader: Judy Grahn (wikipedia, poems);
"Ella, in a square apron, along Highway 80"

She's a copperheaded waitress,
tired and sharp-worded, she hides
her bad brown tooth behind a wicked smile. Friday, May 3, 2013, 7:45-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Friends' House, 957 Colorado Ave,
Waverley Writers Monthly Poetry Reading;
Read "The Balance Tree" & "Earth Day 2013";
Tom Digby "Bubbles" read his poem "Moon???"

Showed Boreal Owl looking
at Wild Turkey & Sandhill Crane
while reading poem "Earth Day".

Saturday, May 4, 2013, 11:46 am-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
MIND & MATTER: How the Brain Really Works
(By Alison Gopnik, Wall Street Journal, 5-3-2013)

New techniques let researchers
look at the activity of
the whole brain at once. Saturday, May 4, 2013, 11:46 am-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
GRAY MATTER: Brain, Interrupted (Bob Sullivan
& Hugh Thompson, New York Times, 5-5-2012)

Those interrupted during
tests did 20% poorer
than those left alone.

Saturday, May 4, 2013, 11:46 am-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
One Entrepreneur's Favorite Start-Up Tools
(By Adriana Herrera, NY Times, 5-1-2013)

Learning to code: LaunchRock,
Optimizely, Zopim, survey.io, Skitch,
Trello, Google Analytics, Startup Tools; Saturday, May 4, 2013, 11:46 am-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
Think Like a Doctor: An Unusual Headache Solved
(By Lisa Sanders, M.D., NY Times, 5-3-2013)

Among 300 readers, Dr. Bevers
made correct diagnosis— Ovarian
teratoma (dermoid cyst) encephalitis.

Saturday, May 4, 2013, 11:46 am-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
Robert Bly: By the Books (Interview on Reading)
(NY Times Sunday Book Review, 5-5-2013)

Bly loves Yeats, Rumi, Kabir,
Mary Oliver, James Wright,
Neruda, Tranströmer, Rilke. Saturday, May 4, 2013, 11:46 am-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center
Silicon Valley's Start-Up Machine (web site)
(By Nathaniel Rich, NY Times, 5-5-2013)

Y Combinator is
Mountain View's Start-Up Machine
with two 3-month sessions a year.

Sunday, May 5, 2013, 3:10-5:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: Joseph L. Mankiewicz directs
"Guys and Dolls" (1955) based on Abe Burrows's play with Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine, Stubby Kaye, Regis Toomey, Robert Keith; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Brando sings & dances
as gambler Sky winning
the love of Jean Simmons.
Sunday, May 5, 2013, 5:30-7:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: Elia Kazan directs "On the Waterfront" (1954) with Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Lee J. Cobb, Karl Malden, Rod Steiger, Martin Balsam, Fred Gwynne; Music by Leonard Bernstein; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Film won 8 Academy Awards
with Brando as Best Actor
and Kazan as Best Director.

Sunday, May 5, 2013, 11:00 am-12:15 pm
Mountain View: Pacific Ballet Academy
295 Polaris Avenue; Chhandam School of Kathak, "Introduction to Kathak Classic Dance from Northern India (1) Bus to Shoreline Blvd; Walk: Snow, Latham, Mercy, California, N. Dana, Villa, over Central Expressway, Wright Ave, Gemini Ave, Polaris Ave

Farah teaches 24 children
and ten adults Kathak yoga
as part of classic Indian dance. Sunday, May 5, 2013, 8:00-10:45 pm
Stanford Flicks: Cubberley Auditorium; Quentin Tarantino directs "Django Unchained" (2012) with Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, Walton Goggins, Dennis Christopher; James Remar;
(Video: 1, 2, 3); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Bounty hunter Schulz
frees slave Django who
becomes a sharpshooter.

Monday, May 6, 2013, 12:35-1:15 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping
at CVS and Safeway (1750 Miramonte Ave)

Vitamin C, potato tots,
Roma tomatoes, carrots,
and Gorton salmon fillets. Monday, May 6, 2013, 3:11-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Anita's email photo: hummingbird on her nest

Through her patio window
a hummingbird on her nest—
how wonderful!

Monday, May 6, 2013, 3:11-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Email from Tetra-CMS (India) on "powerfull portals & websites using CMS" Content Management System

Using Joomla to build
web sites, large portals,
and powerful Intranets. Monday, May 6, 2013, 3:11-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Email from May 2013 Columbia Engineering News:
New Nanomaterials; Nanoscale CMOS; Data Science

Columbia's Symposium
on mining Data Science,
its potential and risks.

Monday, May 6, 2013, 3:11-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Opinionator: ANXIETY— I Am Not This Body
(By Brian Jay Stanley, NY Times, 5-6-2013)

Plato called our body
the prison of the soul
and "Soul is the master". Monday, May 6, 2013, 3:11-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
In Pursuit of an Underwater Menagerie
(By C. Drew Harvell, NY Times, 5-7-2013)

Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka
created glass jellyfish based
on Cotylorhiza borbonica.

Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 12:32-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Bookmarked 25 Harvard Gazette articles in Interesting News— Favorite: Office, Ours (4-11-2013)
Professor Cumrun Vafa's wall has a poem by Hafiz—

"Even after I die,
you will see this fire
still burning in my heart" Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 12:32-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Format photos taken on Sunday, May 5 going to
Pacific Ballet Academy, 295 Polaris Ave, Mtn View,
to see Kathak Classic Dance from Northern India

Farah Yasmeen Shalkh studied
Kathak dance for 17 years
under Pandit Chitresh Das.

Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 12:32-5:40 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Updated "On the Number 13" done 13 years ago
as 1/3 of links were gone: U. S. Flag; suit of cards;
Leonardo's "Last Supper"; Treasury Secretary;
Numerology with spiritual words adding to 13—
Soul: 1 + 6 + 3 + 3 = 13; Star: 1 + 2 + 1 + 9 = 13

Atman, Jnana,
Soul, Star,
World Mind, Yes. Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 7:00-9:00 pm
Stanford: Pigott Hall (Building 260), Room 113
Images of America: German Cinema & Beyond:
Jean-Luc Godard directs "Le Mépris" ("Contempt", 1963); Brigitte Bardo, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, Fritz Lang, Giorgia Moll; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4);
(Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6); Art vs. Hollywood

Beautiful Brigitte Bardo
and gorgeous Capri are
not in Nature's harmony.

Thursday, May 9, 2013, 12:34-6:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Mystery of Abraham Lincoln's Funeral Train Solved by Chemist (Denise Chow, Yahoo! News, 5-9-2013)

Color of Lincoln's
funeral railcar now
found to be dark maroon. Thursday, May 9, 2013, 12:34-6:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Photos at corner of Wright Ave & Shoreline Blvd
on May 5 is not a gnarly oak tree but a pepper tree

Gnarly Pepper Tree
has a large rabbit hole
and giant shelf mushroom.

Thursday, May 9, 2013, 12:34-6:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Web page for Kathak Class Dance Class report during Bay Area Dance Week for Donna's homework; Walk to Pacific Ballet Academy passing Gemini Ave to Polaris Ave was like Dante's pilgrimage to Paradise

Dante was born under
Gemini and the Muses guided
him to the Polaris & Paradise.
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 6:30-9:10 pm
Foothill College Middlefield Campus: Gym B
Donna Frankel's World Dance Class: Taught Israel: Hine Ma Tov (1); Practiced Syrtos from Macedonia (1) (Makedonsko Oro); Brazil: Samba Circular; Doudlebska Polka, La Bastringue, Kohanuchka (1)

Practice to perform these dances
at Foothill Smithwick Theatre
and Sunnyvale Art & Wine Festival.

Friday, May 10, 2013, 11:40 am-4:40 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
Kathak postcard too big for Kathak Dance web page;
Used Transform & Scale Tools in Adobe Photoshop
to reduce Kathak postcard from 3/2 ratio to 4/3 ratio

After scaling postcard
used clone tool to match
border with pattern background. Friday, May 10, 2013, 11:40 am-4:40 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
Interesting email received from Laissez Faire Today:
"Does Innovation Require the Patent Office?"
(By Jeffrey Tucker, Daily Reckoning, 5-10-2012)

Of the 3000 innovations
examined, 9 in 10 of them
were never patented.

Friday, May 10, 2013, 4:57-5:25 pm
Los Altos Library Sales Shelf: Bought Jon Winokur's
"W.O.W.: Writers On Writing" (1990); Hardcover
$16.95 for $2— Quote: Alberto Moravia (p. 142)
who wrote "Il Disprezzo" (Godard's film Contempt)

"I trust in inspiration.
But I don't sit back waiting.
I work every day." Friday, May 10, 2013, 4:57-5:25 pm
Los Altos Library Sales Shelf: Bought Ed Morrow's
"Born This Day" (1995); Paperback $12.95 for $1—
Fred Astaire (born May 10, 1899) (pp. 150-151);
Mikhail Baryshnikov: "What do dancers think of

Fred Astaire?— We hate him.
He gives us a complex
because he's too perfect."

Friday, May 10, 2013, 5:45-7:20 pm
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: Gerd Oswald directs
"A Kiss Before Dying" (1956) with Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Virginia Leith, Joanne Woodward, Mary Astor, George Peabody Macready;
(YouTube: 1, 2); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Psychopath thriller
written by Ira Levin
of Rosemary Baby fame.
Friday, May 10, 2013, 7:30-9:05 pm
Stanford Theatre: Henry Hathaway directs "Niagara" (1953) with Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, Max Showalter, Denis O'Dea, Don Wilson, Lurene Tuttle, Richard Allan; Music by Sol Kaplan; (YouTube: 1, 2); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Great acting by Marilyn
in film noir shot on
location at Niagara Falls.

Saturday, May 11, 2013, 12:30-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
Variety: Puns & Anagrams (Deb Amlen, NY Times,
5-11-2013); Clues in solving PandA puzzles—

Cracker weighing .035 ounce?
.035 ounce = a gram—
it's a GRAHAM cracker! Saturday, May 11, 2013, 12:30-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
GRAY MATTER: When Helping Hurts (Eli J. Finkel & Grainne M. Fitzsimons, NY Times, 5-12-2012)

Students who receive
more help from their parents
are less successful in life.

Saturday, May 11, 2013, 12:30-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
Salvador Dalí's 109th birthday (Dali's Jump & Cats)
Dali on "What's My Line" (2,435,090 views);
Eva Maria Saint on "What's My Line" (33,440 views)
while making "North By Northwest" (Sept. 7, 1958)

Panelists had tough time
guessing mystery guest—
Salvador Dalí. Sunday, May 12, 2013, 8:00-10:00 pm
Stanford Flicks: Cubberley Auditorium; Ruben Fleischer directs "Gangster Squad" (2013) with Josh Brolin, Ryan Goslin, Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, Emma Stone, Anthony Mackie, Giovanni Ribisi; James Remar; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

LA Police Department
formed Gangster Squad
to tackle Mickey Cohen.

Sunday, May 12, 2013, 2:00-3:00 pm; 3:30-4:00 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me grocery
shopping at Safeway (1750 Miramonte Avenue);
Short haircut at Lam's (2464 W. El Camino Real)

Broccoli, almond cereal,
Greek yogurt, shrimpmeat,
tapioca pudding, ice cream. Sunday, May 12, 2013, 6:00-7:30 pm
Palo Alto: Rudy and I hiked along bike path
on Matadero Creek Trail around Deer Creek Road
passed Tesla Motors to Pagemill Pastures and back

Rudy's first hike since
his surgery so we avoided
climbing hilly terrains.

Saturday, May 11, 2013, 10:00 pm-3:00 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, John B. Wells interviews Josh Reeves, (Bio, Web) "America's Ancient Secrets", Video: "The Lost Secrets of Ancient America, Volume 1"; YouTube: Global Reality (9-18-12); Hidden History & Sirius Star System (5-8-2011)

Underground wall
in Rockwall, Texas
may be built by race of giants. Monday, May 13, 2013, 11:00 pm-2:00 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory interviews Paul Davids, (Bio, Web: 1, 2) & Gary Schwartz, (Bio, Web: 1, 2), "After Death Evidence", Books: "Afterlife Experiments"; "Sacred Promise"; "G.O.D. Experiments"; Forry Ackerman Archive

Film on Forrest Ackerman
showing he made contact
with friends after his death.

Tuesday, May 14, 2013, 12:04-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Dr. Joyce Brothers, On-Air Psychologist Who Made TV House Calls, Dies at 85 (Margalit Fox, NY Times, 5-14-2013); Wikipedia; BA Cornell, Ph.D. Columbia

She won $64,000
on the quiz show answering
trivia questions on boxing. Tuesday, May 14, 2013, 12:04-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Chapter 4— Marcel Proust: Method of Memory
in Jonah Lehrer's "Proust Was a Neuroscientist";
Chapter 6— Igor Stravinsky: The Source of Music

Found PDF file of Stravinsky
after typing 20 pages of
Chapter 4 on Marcel Proust.

Wednesday, May 15, 2013, 11:00 am-12:00 pm
Stanford: Encina Hall, Bechtel Conference Center
Anne Carson: Poetry Colloquium; Reading Saphho's Fragments; Cited Emily Dickinson's Poem 1209—

The Fruit perverse to plucking,
But leaning to the Sight
With the ecstatic limit
Of unobtained Delight. Wednesday, May 15, 2013, 11:00 am-12:00 pm
Stanford: Encina Hall, Bechtel Conference Center
When citing Emily, I recall 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...

Wednesday, May 15, 2013, 12:00-12:30 pm
Stanford: Encina Hall, Bechtel Conference Center
Asked Robert Currie (sitting near me during lunch) if his spooling of golden thread during his wife Anne's Reading was related to Ariadne's Thread that helped Theseus through the Labyrinth to kill the Minotaur—

Anne is shy and want
my thread spooling to distract
the audience from focusing on her. Wednesday, May 15, 2013, 1:45-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Anne Carson signed May 1 Poetry Reading flyer
"Respectfully, ac" after today's Colloquium lunch;
Returned to Middlefield Lab and typed pp. 43-48
of Lydia Davis translation of Proust "Swann's Way"

more enduring, more faithful,
smell and taste still remain
for a long time, like souls...

Wednesday, May 15, 2013, 1:45-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Reading David Walsh's August 2003 Blog on quotes from Proust's "Swann's Way" led to his 8/15/2003 Blog linking to source: "Hitler's Forgotten Library"
(By Timothy W. Ryback, The Atlantic, May 1, 2003)

3000 books in Hitler's Library
transferred in January 1952 to
the U.S. Library of Congress. Wednesday, May 15, 2013, 1:45-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Hitler's Forgotten Library"— "Predictions of Nostradamus" found in Hitler's Berlin bunker by Colonel Albert Aronson in May 1945. After Aronson's death, it was donated to Brown University in 1979

Hitler's Private Library
expands on Ryback's essay
on books influencing the Führer.

Thursday, May 16, 2013, 12:40-5:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
'Star Trek' Secrets Revealed! Story Behind Spock's Vulcan Salute (Meriah Doty, Movie Talk, 5-15-2013);
Romeo & Juliet (V.3) "Live, and be prosperous"

Spock's Vulcan salute
is a Jewish blessing gesture
"Live long and prosper". Thursday, May 16, 2013, 12:40-5:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab— Learned about Sappho when reading Bliss Carman's "Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics" at Cornell Library (1968) where
I memorized poem "When the Linus songs are sung"

Bliss Carman wrote:
If granted one wish— give
me the lost poems of Sappho!

Friday, May 17, 2013, 10:30-6:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center
Blackbird hitches a ride atop a red-tailed hawk
(By Pete Thomas, Grindtv.com, 5-15-2013);
Amazing sightings: Hawk gives blackbird free ride
(By Tom Stienstra, sfgate.com, 5-14-2013)

Eric Dugan captures
blackbird riding on hawk
at Napa-Sonoma Marshes. Friday, May 17, 2013, 7:30-10:10 pm
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: David Lean directs
"The Bridge on the River Kwai" (1957) with William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald, Geoffrey Horne; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Haunting tunes highlight
this epic World War II
film by David Lean.

Saturday, May 18, 2013, 11:11 am-1:25 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
Opinionator: What the Woodpecker Told Me
(Woodpeckers can hear larvae slithering inside
a tree trunk as they are flying past overhead.)
(By Rennie Sparks, NY Times, 5-17-2013)

Woodpeckers tap on trees,
Mary Sweeney smashed windows,
Rennie breaks boundaries with a song. Saturday, May 18, 2013, 11:11 am-1:25 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
"8 Things Really Successful People Do" (By Kevin Daum, Inc. Magazine, 5-3-2012); Time Efficiency; Enhance Knowledge; Manage Relationships; Commit to a Physical Ideal; Emotional Self-Awareness;

Make Materialism Irrelevant;
Clarity About Spirituality;
Adhere to Code of Ethics.

Sunday, May 19, 2013, 3:25-5:10 pm
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: Billy Wilder directs
"The Seven Year Itch" (1955) with Marilyn Monroe, Tom Ewell, Evelyn Keyes, Sonny Tufts, Oskar Homolka, Robert Strauss; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4);
(Film Reviews: 1 2, 3, 4, 5); "Forever Marilyn"

Rush of air from subway
grating sends Marilyn's skirt
flying up around her shoulders. Sunday, May 19, 2013, 5:20-7:20 pm
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: Walter Lang directs "There's No Business Like Show Business" (1954) with Ethel Merman, Dan Dailey, Donald O'Connor, Marilyn Monroe, Mitzi Gaynor, Johnnie Ray; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Irving Berlin musical
with Marilyn singing
"Heat Wave" as only she can.

Saturday, May 19, 2013, 5:30-8:00 pm
Santa Clara, AMC Mercado Theatre: J. J. Abrams directs "Star Trek Into Darkness" (2013) with
Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Benedict Cumberbatch, Karl Urban, John Cho, Alice Eve, Anton Yelchin, Simon Pegg; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); Sweet Tomatoes: Rudy & Al

Kirk leads manhunt to
war-zone world to capture
weapon of mass destruction. Sunday, May 19, 2013, 8:00-10:00 pm
Stanford Flicks: Cubberley Auditorium; David O. Russell directs "Silver Linings Playbook" (2012) with Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver, Chris Tucker, Anupam Kher, Julia Stiles; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)
(Rudy & Jack came and both enjoyed this film)

Patrick lost his house, job
and wife, but dancing with
Tiffany put his life back together.

Monday, May 20, 2013, 12:05-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Barbra Streisand on 'The Judy Garland Show' was history in the making (Allison Waldman, SF Examiner, 10-4-2011); Judy Garland Show (October 4, 1963)—
Ethel Merman, Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand

Three generations of legends
on stage singing on spur of the moment—
"There's No Business Like Show Business". Monday, May 20, 2013, 12:05-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Yahoo board OKs $1.1 billion purchase of Tumblr (Yahoo! Purchases; Tumblr's CEO David Karp)
(By Brandon Bailey, SJ Mercury News, 5-20-2013);
Tumblr: David Karp's Project (Forbes, 1-21-2013)

Tumblr members create their
own blogs, where they share
essays, musings and photos.

Monday, May 20, 2013, 12:05-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
David Karp, the Nonconformist Who Built Tumblr
(By Liz Welch, Inc. Magazine, June 2011)
(18% Tumblr blogs are fashion related)

Karp owns Leica M9 camera,
uses Pilot Precise V7 pen, says
appointments are caustic to creativity. Monday, May 20, 2013, 12:05-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
6 Unique Ways to Be Successful and Happy
(By Steve Tobak, Inc. Magazine, 4-30-2013)
(Try different things & broaden your skills).

Do one thing at a time.
Build real relationships.
Learn from pros & mentors.

Thursday, May 16, 2013, 11:00 pm-3:00 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory interviews Gerald Epling, (Biography, Web: 1, 2)
"Bio-Communication & Memory" (tape of program),
BOOK: Treasure of the Mind; plants respond to us

Strong memory created
by attentiveness and
exciting experiences. Monday, May 20, 2013, 11:00 pm-3:00 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory interviews Jim Sparks, (Bio, Web: 1, 2), "Evolution of an Abductee", Book: "The Keepers: An Alien Message for the Human Race"; Amazon Reviews; (YouTube)

UFO abductee claims
'grey' aliens can think
100 times faster than humans.

Tuesday, May 21, 2013, 2:58-3:58 pm
Palo Alto: Temporary Mitchell Park Library
Chance finding on bookshelf: Alain De Botton's
"How Proust Can Change Your Life" (1997)

A self-help manual based
on Marcel Proust's novel
In Search of Lost Time. Tuesday, May 21, 2013, 4:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
OP-ED: What Our Words Tell Us
(By David Brooks, NY Times, 5-21-2013)

Google database of 5.2 million books
shows shifts in language reflect
tectonic shifts in culture.

Tuesday, May 21, 2013, 4:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Ray Manzarek, 74, Keyboardist and a Founder of the Doors, Is Dead (Jon Pareles, NY Times, 5-21-2013)

Manzarek founded The Doors
in 1965 with Jim Morrison based on
Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception Tuesday, May 21, 2013, 4:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Before Tumblr, Founder Made Mom Proud. He Quit School. (By Jenna Wortham, NY Times, 5-21-2013)

At 19, Karp helped Fred Seibert
design Next New Networks
bought by Google for $50 million.

Wednesday, May 22, 2013, 1:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Web page: Lydia Davis, "Varieties of Disturbance"
"Passing Wind" (pp. 58-59); "The Senses" (p. 26);
"Getting To Know Your Body" (p. 66)—

If you don't want to be thinking
at this particular moment,
try to keep your eyeballs still. Wednesday, May 22, 2013, 1:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Lydia Davis, world's most concise short story writer,
wins Booker International Prize 2013 (£60,000)
(Adam Sherwin, Independent, UK, May 22, 2013)

There is vigilance
to her stories, and great
imaginative attention.

Wednesday, May 22, 2013, 1:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Web security: Inside the secret Symantec building that keeps websites safe (Only 2 million of 670 million web sites have https addresses encrypted against hackers)
(By Steve Johnson, SJ Mercury News, 5-22-2013)

Symantec's secret vault helps
certify that web sites
are safe from hackers. Wednesday, May 22, 2013, 1:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Silicon Valley website Piggybackr helps kids use 'crowd funding' (Andrea Lo's Piggybackr helped
kids raise over $325,000 for their team projects)
(By Joe Rodriguez, SJ Mercury News, 5-22-2013)

Four kids from Redwood City
need funding for aeroponics
to grow plants without soil.

Thursday, May 23, 2013, 12:05-6:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Dr. Joyce Brothers '47 dies at age 85
(Joyce Diane Bauer, entered Cornell at 16 and graduated from the College of Home Economics.
(By Joe Wilensky, Cornell Chronicle, 5-14-2013)

Cornell University Library maintains
Joyce D. Brothers Papers— 463 films,
796 videotapes & 184 audio recordings. Thursday, May 23, 2013, 12:05-6:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Opinionator— THE STONE: Why Do I Teach?
(Knowledge, when it comes, flares up, from the sparks good teachers have implanted in their students' souls.)
(By Gary Gutting, NY Times, 5-22-2013)

Judge teaching not by amount
of knowledge it passes on, but
by enduring excitement it generates.

Thursday, May 23, 2013, 11:00 pm-3:00 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory interviews Richard Martini, (Biography, Web: 1, 2)
"Amelia Earhart & Afterlife"; BOOK: "FlipSide: A Tourist's Guide on How to Navigate the Afterlife"; YouTube: Flipside Trailer (1, 2); Amelia Earhart

Amelia's plane Electra
landed on Saipan; jailed
for 7 years & executed in 1944. Thursday, May 23, 2013, 11:00 pm-3:00 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory interviews Richard Martini, (Biography, Web: 1, 2)
"Amelia Earhart & Afterlife"; BOOK: "FlipSide"; Flipside Trailer (1, 2); Michael Newton's Interview; Destiny of Souls; Journey of Souls; YouTube: (1, 2, 3)

Afterlife Convention
will examine soul groups
and past life memories.

Friday, May 24, 2013, 5:00-5:30 pm
Los Altos Library Sales Book Shelf: Bought for $4
"The Illuminated Book of Day" (1979) by Kay & Marshall Lee; Illustrations by Kate Greenaway & Eugène Grasset; Queen Victoria born May 24, 1819

On May 24, 1844, Samuel Morse
sent the first telegraph message—
"What hath God wrought". Friday, May 24, 2013, 5:00-5:30 pm
Los Altos Library: Not found in Kay & Marshall Lee's
"The Illuminated Book of Day" didn't mention events on May 24— Joseph Brodsky born 1940; Bob Dylan born 1941; First (MLB) baseball night game 1935—

Brooklyn Bridge opens 1883,
Nicolaus Copernicus dies 1543,
Duke Ellington dies 1974.

Friday, May 24, 2013, 5:40-7:20 pm; 9:15-10:55 pm
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: Frank Tashlin directs
"The Girl Can't Help It" (1956) with Jayne Mansfield, Tom Ewell, Edmond O'Brien, Henry Jones, Julie London, Little Richard, Ray Anthony, Fats Domino;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Film Reviews: 1 2, 3, 4, 5)

Gangster hires washed-up
agent to promote his blonde
girlfriend into a singing star. Friday, May 24, 2013, 7:30-9:05 pm
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: Frank Tashlin directs
"Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?" (1957) with Jayne Mansfield, Tony Randall, Betsy Drake, Joan Blondell, John Williams, Mickey Hargitay, Groucho Marx, Henry Jones; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Ad man pursues blonde
bombshell to be a lipstick
spokesperson & becomes famous.

Saturday, May 25, 2013, 12:25-2:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
YOUR MONEY: Leaving Behind the Digital Keys to Financial Lives (Paul Sullivan, NY Times, 5-24-2013)

People live digital lives
and die with no paper trail
for their heirs to follow. Saturday, May 25, 2013, 12:25-2:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
BOOKS: Seeing Art Through Austen's Eyes
(By Jennifer Schuessler, NY Times, 5-25-2013)

"What Jane Saw" exhibit
shows the paintings Austen
viewed on May 24, 1813.

Sunday, May 26, 2013, 3:35-5:10 pm
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: Jean Negulesco directs
"How to Marry a Millionaire" (1953) with Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable, Lauren Bacall, William Powell, Anne Buydens, David Wayne, Rory Calhoun, Cameron Mitchell, Alexander D'Arcy, Fred Clark;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Film Reviews: 1 2, 3, 4)

Three women rent posh
New York penthouse
to trap millionaire husbands. Sunday, May 26, 2013, 5:20-7:20 pm
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: Vincente Minnelli directs
"Designing Woman" (1957) with Gregory Peck, Lauren Bacall, Dolores Gray, Sam Levene,
Tom Helmore, Mickey Shaughnessy, Jesse White, Edward Platt, Chuck Connors, Richard Deacon; (YouTube: 1, 2); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Sportswriter & dress designer
marry in haste and
repent at leisure.

Friday, May 24, 2013, 1:11-4:40 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
Cynthia Haven's email on "Another Look" Brings the Roaring '20s to Stanford with Anita Loos' "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" with Moderator Hilton Obenzinger; Mark McGurl: "Trapped in the Mind of an Idiot"; Claire Jarvis: “From page to film: On Marilyn Monroes's famous 'dumb blonde'”

Interesting viewpoints
discussing Anita Loos' novel
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Sunday, May 26, 2013, 8:00-9:35 pm
After Stanford Theatre films, Rudy drove us
to see Stanford Flicks: Cubberley Auditorium;
Fisher Stevens directs "Stand Up Guys" (2013) with Al Pacino, Christopher Walken, Alan Arkin, Julianna Margulies, Mark Margolis, Katheryn Winnick, Vanessa Ferlito, Addison Timlin, Lucy Punch; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Pacino's Val released
from jail after 28 years
but crime boss wants him killed.

Monday, May 27, 2013, 1:30-2:50 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping
at Safeway (1750 Miramonte Avenue)
and Wal-Mart (600 Showers Drive)

Bananas, spinach salad,
potato chips & tots, dairy creamers,
rubbing alcohol, and AIM toothpaste. Monday, May 27, 2013, 3:15-7:45 pm
Mountain View: Sprouts (630 San Antonio Rd);
Nob Hill Foods (1250 Grant Rd); Walgreens
(121 E. El Camino Real); Laundry at home

Blueberries, Red Baron pizza,
VTA June Bus Pass, laundry.
Read Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

Monday, May 27, 2013, 10:00 pm-3:00 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory interviews Steve Quayle, [Biography (1), Web]
"Legends, Secrets, & Giants"; BOOKS: "True Legends"; Genesis 6 Giants Master Builders of Prehistoric and Ancient Civilizations; Angel Wars; LongWalkers: Return of the Nephilim; Aliens & Fallen Angels Offspring of the Gods; YouTube: (1, 2)

America's name came from
Túpac Amaru (glowing serpernt)
and land called Amaraca. Tuesday, May 28, 2013, 1:37-6:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
William John Meegan's 5/26 email that Dante
structured his "Commedia" with a sophisticated mathematical system; "THE SISTINE CHAPEL:
A Study in Celestial Cartography: Mysteries and Esoteric Teachings of the Catholic Church";
Conquest for Genesis (Commedia: 13-base number)

Meegan complains that
academia doesn't recognize
his work without academic degrees.

Tuesday, May 28, 2013, 1:37-6:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Amazing find inside of used bible
(CBS Los Angeles, Yahoo! News, 5-28-2013

Marion Shurtleff bought a
used Bible and found letter
in it she wrote 65 years ago! Tuesday, May 28, 2013, 1:37-6:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Opinionator: Moving On (sold most of his books)
(By Stanley Fish, NY Times, 5-27-2013)

Books sustaining his life
for 50 years are gone— now
acres of empty white bookshelves.

Tuesday, May 28, 2013, 1:37-6:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Hilton Obenzinger gave me a copy of his book
"Busy Dying" (4-16-2008) at Stanford Banner Hall because we were both students of poet Kenneth Koch

Amidst the riots at Columbia,
Koch asked his student Hilton—
"Did you write any poems?" Tuesday, May 28, 2013, 1:37-6:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Hilary B. Price's comics "Rhymes with Orange"
(5-28-2013); (Stanford Magazine, May/June 1999; Washington Post, 10-25-2002; MassLive, 11-10-2011)

You Facebook me, I Reddit,
I Google you, and StumbleUpon
the Vimeo of your YouTube.

Tuesday, May 28, 2013, 7:30-9:00 pm
Stanford Humanities Center: "Another Look"—
Book Discussion: Anita Loos' "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" with Moderator Hilton Obenzinger and
Professors Mark McGurl (1) & Claire Jarvis (1)—
CJ: Holly Golightly in Capote's "Breakfast at Tiffany" is a punctured version of Loos' Lorelei in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"; Lorelei is canny and impervious

Spirited discussions
of Anita Loos' 1925 novel
and Howard Hawks' 1953 film. Tuesday, May 28, 2013, 11:00 pm-3:00 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory interviews Graham Hancock, (Biography, Web)
"War Gods & Lost Civilizations"; BOOKS: "War God: Nights of the Witch"; Master Game: Unmasking Secret Rulers of the World; Entangled: Eater of Souls; Supernatural: Meetings with Ancient Teachers of Mankind; Fingerprints of the Gods; YouTube: (1, 2)

Both Montezuma and Cortes
felt themselves guided by
supernatural entities.

Wednesday, May 29, 2013, 12:10-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
OP-ED: The Gift of Siblings (cites Jeffrey Kluger's "Sibling Effect" & George Howe Colt's "Brothers")
(By Frank Bruni, NY Times, 5-26-2013)

Siblings are the only people
who are with you through
the entire arc of your life. Wednesday, May 29, 2013, 12:10-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
How Jeannette Walls Spins Good Stories Out of Bad Memories (Dad & Mom are probably both bipolar)
(By Alex Witchel, NY Times Magazine, 5-26-2013)

Walls' 2005 memoir The Glass Castle
sold 4.2 million copies and
translated into 31 languages.

Thursday, May 30, 2013, 12:05-6:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Literature Humanities Turns 75 (Columbia's syllabus for all 75 years: Homer, Iliad; Aeschylus, Oresteia; Sophocles, Oedipus the King; Dante, Inferno);
(Alexis Tonti, Columbia College Today, Spring 2013)

Though the texts are far from
us in terms of a time period,
they're close to us in life experience. Thursday, May 30, 2013, 12:05-6:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Amelia Earhart Plane Found? Sonar Image Of Possible Wreckage May Suggest Earhart Died On Island (VIDEO); (By Meredith Bennett-Smith, Huffington Post, 5-30-2013); (PBS; 2; 3; 4)

Earhart landed on a remote reef,
after which her plane washed
into the ocean and sank.

Thursday, May 30, 2013, 12:05-6:30 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, and music

Google All Access
and Twitter Music
are new music app services. Thursday, May 30, 2013, 6:30-9:20 pm
Foothill College Middlefield Campus: Gym B
Donna Frankel's Ballroom Dance Class: Taught
West Coast Swing (1, 2, 3); Practiced Believe;
Hine Ma Tov; Doudlebska Polka; Kohanuchka

Will perform world dances
this weekend June 1 and 2
at Sunnyvale Art & Wine Festival.

Friday, May 31, 2013, 10:30 am-6:10 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
OP-ED: Belief Is the Least Part of Faith
(By T.M. Luhrmann, NY Times, 5-30-2013)
Luhrmann's "When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God"
"Seeing and Believing"; Poem: "Believing Is Seeing"

Belief is the reach for joy,
and the reason many people
go to church in the first place. Friday, May 31, 2013, 10:30 am-6:10 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
Colum McCann's Radical Empathy [His book Let the Great World Spin title is from Tennyson's "Locksley Hall": "Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change."] 2009 Fiction Award;
(By Joel Lovell, NY Times Magazine, 6-2-2013)

On Colum McCann's wall:
"Keep yourself away from answers,
but alive in the middle of the question."

Friday, May 31, 2013, 7:30-9:30 pm
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: Fred Zinnemann directs
"From Here to Eternity" (1953) with Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, Frank Sinatra, Ernest Borgnine, Philip Ober, Jack Warden, Mickey Shaughnessy, George Reeves, Claude Akins; YouTube: 1, 2, 3; (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) Rudy came

Three soldiers stationed
on Hawaii leading up to
the attack on Pearl Harbor. Friday, May 31, 2013, 9:40-11:25 pm
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: Fritz Lang directs
"Clash by Night" (1952) with Barbara Stanwyck, Paul Douglas, Robert Ryan, Marilyn Monroe, Keith Andes, J. Carrol Naish, Silvio Minciotti, Robert F. Simon;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
Marilyn Monroe had her first major role in this film.

Mae (Stanwyck) returns to
fishing village and marries
but has affair with a loner.