Haikus: September 2013

HAIKUS: September 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.

Sunday, September 1, 2013, 2:56-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library: Frank Luntz's "Words That Work: It's Not What You Say. It's What People Hear" (2008)
(Successful communication: simplicity, brevity, credibility, consistency, novelty, sound & texture, speak aspirationally, visualize, ask a question,
provide context and explain relevance)

Speak in a way
to make people hear what
you want them to hear. Sunday, September 1, 2013, 2:56-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library: Reiner Stach's "Kafka: The Years of Insight" (2013) (Kafka responds to personal trauma and global firestorm, by incorporating his negative circumstances into his fiction, but sometimes transcending those circumstances in metaphysical creations informed by a profoundly personal myth.)

Book on final years
of Kafka's life (1916-1924)
shedding light on his writings.

Monday, September 2, 2013, 10:00 pm-2:00 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory interviews Stanford professor Philip Zimbardo,
(Bio, Web); "The Psychology of Evil & Heroism"; BOOK: "The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil"

1971 landmark study—
college students became
sadistic prison guards. Monday, September 2, 2013, 10:00 pm-2:00 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory interviews science journalist Elizabeth Svoboda,
(Bio, Web); "The Psychology of Evil & Heroism";
BOOK: "What Makes a Hero?: The Surprising Science of Selflessness" (Joseph Campbell story)

Our brains might actually
be wired for a certain
kind of selflessness.

Tuesday, September 3, 2013, 2:43-8:45 pm
Mountain View Senior Center, Technology Room:
"The Secrets Behind Baseball's Walk-up Music"
(By Daniel Brown, SJ Mercury News, 6-11-2013)

Brandon Crawford switched music
to Kelly Clarkson's "Stronger" and
his batting average jumped 20 points. Tuesday, September 3, 2013, 2:43-8:45 pm
Mountain View Senior Center, Technology Room:
Jack Mullen came to get his free Oakland A's ticket
and gave directions to O Coliseum Parking A Lot

Take I-880 making 45^o turn to
Coliseum Way, and turn right
to 66th Avenue into A Lot.

Wednesday, September 4, 2013, 10:30 am-12:30 pm
Mountain View to 7000 Coliseum Way, O Coliseum;
Al Guzman picked up Rudy (Sunnyvale) and me;
Met Dave Huseman at D Gate to see A's baseball

Al was hungry and found
Wendy's for burger & coffee
before the baseball game. Wednesday, September 4, 2013, 12:30-3:50 pm
Oakland: 7000 Coliseum Way, O Coliseum;
Got 5 free tickets from Mtn View Senior Center
to see live baseball game with four friends

All tied up atop A.L. West
as A's beat Texas Rangers 11-4;
Moss, Barton, Donaldson, Crisp homered.

Wednesday, September 4, 2013, 12:30-3:50 pm
Oakland: 7000 Coliseum Way, O Coliseum;
Jack gave us Oakland A's Game Information Sheet,
and escorted me to centerfield upper deck where
I took overhead photo of Coco Crisp #4

A's retired uniform #s— Catfish Hunter 27,
Reggie Jackson 9, Dennis Eckersley 43,
Rollie Fingers 34, Rickey Henderson 24.
Wednesday, September 4, 2013, 4:59-6:30 pm
Mountain View: Sweet Tomatoes (1040 Grant Road)
After ballgame, Dave Huseman drove Rudy home;
We three had late lunch for Senior Special @ $7.60;
Told Dave that my apartment is just two blocks away

Spinach salad, egg salad,
beets, blueberry muffins,
jello and tapioca pudding.

Thursday, September 5, 2013, 7:30-8:55 pm
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre; Henry Koster directs "First Love" (1939), with Deanna Durbin, Robert Stack, Helen Parrish, Eugene Pallette, Leatrice Joy,
June Storey, Kathleen Howard, Lewis Howard;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3)

Deanna is the most
charming cinema Cinderella
getting her prince. Thursday, September 5, 2013, 9:05-10:43 pm
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre; Robert Siodmak directs
"Christmas Holiday" (1944); with Deanna Durbin, Gene Kelly, Richard Whorf, Gale Sondergaard,
Dean Harens, Gladys George, David Bruce;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Gene Kelly never gets
to dance with Deanna
Durbin in this film.

Friday, September 6, 2013, 2:58-4:45 pm
Mountain View Senior Center, Technology Room:
Jive's Tony Zingale splits time between his passions
(By Heather Somerville, SJ Mercury News, 9-7-2013)

Jive software helps
850 customers, including Intel,
Goldman Sachs, Kaiser, and McAfee. Friday, September 6, 2013, 2:58-4:45 pm
Mountain View Senior Center, Technology Room:
Brainstorm Tech Spotlight: Tony Zingale, Chairman and CEO of Jive (Interview, Fortune, 7-15-2013)

Communication is the foundation,
but passion, energy, decisiveness,
commitment are all important as well.

Saturday, September 7, 2013, 2:47-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library: "HEALTH: Some Fruits Are Better Than Others" (Better: Grapes, apples, grapefruit)
(By Nicholas Bakalar, NY Times, 9-4-2013)

Eating blueberries
reduced risk by 11%
of Type 2 diabetes. Saturday, September 7, 2013, 2:47-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library: Wild Turkey feather
(BirdingWestCampus.Blogspot.com, April 2010)
(Federal Government Feather Identification Web Site)

Wild Turkey wing feather
often confused with
hawk or owl feather.

Sunday, September 8, 2013, 1:30-2:15 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping
at Safeway (1750 Miramonte Avenue)

Bananas, Roma tomatoes,
Sargento shredded cheese,
dairy creamers, oatmeal. Sunday, September 8, 2013, 3:17-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library: "OP-ED: The Value of Suffering"
(By Pico Iyer, NY Times, 9-8-2013)

Suffering brings clarity
& illumination— for Buddha,
it is the first rule of life.

Monday, September 9, 2013, 1:17-8:45 pm
Mountain View Senior Center, Technology Room:
ART & DESIGN: A van Gogh's Trip From the Attic to the Museum (Nina Siegal, NY Times, 9-10-2013)

Van Gogh's Sunset at Montmajour
painted 1888 in Arles,
now declared genuine. Monday, September 9, 2013, 1:17-8:45 pm
Mountain View Senior Center, Technology Room:
Opinionator: A Defense of the Internet Community
(By Daphne Koller, NY Times, 9-9-2013)

Face-to-face communication
has its advantages but
so does online medium.

Tuesday, September 10, 2013, 1:51-8:45 pm
Mountain View Senior Center, Technology Room:
"Opinionator: THE DRAFT— The Short Sentence as Gospel Truth" (On July 19, 1975, Tom Wolfe said: "If you ever have a preposterous statement to make... say it in five words or less, because we're always used to five-word sentences as being the gospel truth.")
(By Roy Peter Clark, NY Times, 9-7-2013)

Art critic who had begun
an essay with the sentence
"Art and ideas are one." Tuesday, September 10, 2013, 1:51-8:45 pm
Mountain View Senior Center, Technology Room:
"Opinionator: THE DRAFT— The Short Sentence as Gospel Truth" (On July 19, 1975, Tom Wolfe said: "If you ever have a preposterous statement to make... say it in five words or less, because we're always used to five-word sentences as being the gospel truth.")
(By Roy Peter Clark, NY Times, 9-7-2013)

Short sentence proves
a reliable method for delivering
the practical truth. With punch.

Wednesday, September 11, 2013, 6:36-8:45 pm
Mountain View Senior Center, Technology Room:
"Opinionator: THE STONE— Things Fall Apart"
(By Philip Kitcher, NY Times, 9-8-2013)

Thomas Nagel's Mind and Cosmos
has paved the way for
a religious world-view.
Wednesday, September 11, 2013, 6:36-8:45 pm
Mountain View Senior Center, Technology Room:
"Opinionator: THE STONE— The Disappearing Women" (By Rae Langton, NY Times, 9-4-2013)

Socrates banished
weeping women, as prelude to
real business of philosophizing.

Thursday, September 12, 2013, 2:18-4:45 pm
Mountain View Senior Center, Technology Room:
"MUSIC REVIEW: A far out 'One Night With Janis Joplin' at San Jose Rep" (Kacee Clanton channels wild-child fury of Joplin, shaking rafters through Piece of My Heart, Cry Baby, Try, Mercedes-Benz);
(Karen D'Souza, SJ Mercury News, 9-13-13)

Her lusty evocation of Joplin's
whiskey-soaked wail is nothing
less than unforgettable. Thursday, September 12, 2013, 2:18-4:45 pm
Mountain View Senior Center, Technology Room:
"PERSONAL TECH: New Devices Mind Pets While Owners Are Away" (Stainless steel tag Whistle, embedded with an accelerometer registers your dog's every move & feeds you data via a smartphone app.)
(Mike Hendricks/Roxie Hammill, NY Times, 9-12-13)

Half-ounce device
can tell whether your dog
has been asleep or running.

Thursday, September 12, 2013, 6:00-9:00 pm
Los Altos Library: Didn't buy Michael Driscoll's
"A Child's Introduction to Poetry" (2003) $19.95 for $5.00; Dylan Thomas's villanelle "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" (1951), pp. 18-19

Do not go gentle
into that good night.
Rage, rage against
the dying of the light. Thursday, September 12, 2013, 6:00-9:00 pm
Bought book— Daniel M. Kimmel & Nat Segaloff,
"Love Stories: Hollywood's Most Romantic Movies" (1992); $19.50 for $3.00; 70 romantic films from "Adam's Rib" to "Year of Living Dangerously"

Camille, Casablanca,
The Clock, Now Voyager,
Magnificent Obsession,
An Affair to Remember.

Thursday, September 12, 2013, 6:00-9:00 pm
Los Altos Library: Bought Bill Moyer's book
"The Language of Life: A Festival of Poets" (1995) $29.95 for $3.00; Interviews with 34 poets: W.S. Merwin, Coleman Barks, Robert Bly, Donald Hall, Sharon Olds, Stanley Kunitz, Li-Young Lee, Galway Kinnell, Gary Snyder, Octavio Paz; William Stafford:

"A poem is said in such a way
to invite from the reader
a certain kind of attention." Thursday, September 12, 2013, 6:00-9:00 pm
Los Altos Library: Checked out Alister McGrath,
"C. S. Lewis: A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet" (2013) 823.912LEWISMcGRATH; Lewis was a towering intellectual figure, a popular fiction author who inspired a global movie franchise around world of Narnia, atheist-turned-Christian thinker.

Books of C.S. Lewis
are read by more people
now than a generation before.

Friday, September 13, 2013, 2:06-4:45 pm
Mountain View Senior Center, Technology Room:
"BITS: Twitter vs. Facebook: A Tale of Two Sites"
(Twitter functions as a real-time news, entertainment and information network, tapping into ideas of people who live online and events that affect them.)
(By Jenna Wortham, NY Times, 9-13-2013)

Facebook primarily functions
as the yellow pages
for the Internet. Friday, September 13, 2013, 2:06-4:45 pm
Mountain View Senior Center, Technology Room:
"SCIENCE: In a Breathtaking First, NASA Craft Exits the Solar System" (Since the launch of this spacecraft in 1977, Voyager 1 traveled 11.7 billion miles. Its computer has 1/240,000 memory of iPhone.)
(By Brooks Barnes, NY Times, 9-13-2013)

Voyager 1 has travelled
to the moon and back
almost 25,000 times.

Saturday, September 14, 2013, 2:41-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library: "OP-ED: GRAY MATTER—
It's Not 'Mess', It's Creativity." (Anthropologist Mary Douglas noted 50 years ago a connection between clean, open spaces and moral righteousness.
Chaotic wilderness associated with death.)
(Kathleen D. Vohs, NY Times, 9-15-13); New Study—

Clean spaces might be
too conventional to let
inspiration flow. Saturday, September 14, 2013, 2:41-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library: "EDUCATION: The Boy Genius
of Ulan Bator" (Battushig Myanganbayar, then 15, became one of 340 students out of 150,000 to earn
a perfect score in Circuits and Electronics, a sophomore-level MOOC class at M.I.T.)
(By Laura Pappano, NY Times Magazine, 9-15-2013)

Battushig is now a MIT
freshman taking electronics,
biology, solid-state chemistry.

Sunday, September 15, 2013, 1:30-2:17 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping
at Safeway (1750 Miramonte Avenue);
and gives me ride to Los Altos Library

Strawberry yogurt,
Vanilla almond milk,
Trans-Ocean crab meat. Sunday, September 15, 2013, 3:30-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library: "EDUCATION:
How to Get a Job With a Philosophy Degree"
(By Susan Dominus, NY Times, 9-15-2013)

To preserve liberal arts,
universities need to help
humanities majors find jobs.

Monday, September 16, 2013, 1:09-8:45 pm
Mountain View Senior Center, Technology Room:
"OP-ED: How to Fall in Love With Math"
(By Manil Suri, NY Times, 9-16-2013)

With math you can reach
for timeless constellations
of ideas that lie beyond. Monday, September 16, 2013, 1:09-8:45 pm
Mountain View Senior Center, Technology Room:
"BOOKS: A Numerical Love Story"
(By Katie Hafner, NY Times, 9-10-2013)

Daniel Tammet's book
Thinking in Numbers
dwells on a pure love.

Tuesday, September 17, 2013, 2:27-8:45 pm
Mountain View Senior Center: "BITS: Content Creators Use Piracy to Gauge Consumer Interest"
(By Nick Bilton, NY Times, 9-17-2013)

Netflix looks at pirate Web
sites to determine which genre
of shows people are interested in. Tuesday, September 17, 2013, 2:27-8:45 pm
Mountain View Senior Center: "SCIENCE:
Dancing With Black Widow Spiders"
(By Jackson Landers, NY Times, 9-17-2013)

Black widow spider's
venom can lay out
heavyweight boxer for days.

Wednesday, September 18, 2013, 4:36-8:55 pm
Los Altos Library: "Opinionator: DRAFT—
Time to Write? Go Outside"
(By Carol Kaufmann, NY Times, 9-16-2013)

Nothing coaxes thoughts into
coherent sentences like sitting
under a shade tree on a pleasant day. Wednesday, September 18, 2013, 4:36-8:55 pm
Los Altos Library: "Eat, Pray, Love, Get Rich,
Write a Novel No One Expects"
(By Steve Almond, NY Times Magazine, 9-22-2013)

Viking will publish Gilbert's
sixth book, a novel titled
The Signature of All Things.

Thursday, September 19, 2013, 2:51-5:00 pm
San Francisco: Asian Art Museum (200 Larkin St.)
"In the Moment: Japanese Art from Larry Ellison Collection"; "Larry Ellison's Cat Pictures"
(Tom Foremski, zdnet, 6-30-2013)

Tiger ready to pounce
when you enter, but a cat
lures you to sweet sleep. Thursday, September 19, 2013, 2:51-5:00 pm
San Francisco: Asian Art Museum (200 Larkin St.)
"Best of the Billionaire's Bounty" (David Littlejohn, WSJ, 8-19-2013); Cites 10 gems & other collections;
Artworks shown earlier but no longer on exhibit—

Buddha's Paranirvana,
Hokusai's "Dragon",
Okyo's "Dragon & Tiger"

Friday, September 20, 2013, 4:00-5:30 pm
Los Altos Library: Richard Smoley's "Supernatural"
(Writings on an Unknown History) (2013)
130SMOLEY

Illuminating journey
to paranormal history
that shaped our world. Friday, September 20, 2013, 4:00-5:30 pm
Los Altos Library: Paul Kléber Monod's
"Solomon's Secret Arts"
(The Occult in the Age of Enlightenment) (2013)

Newton, Boyle, Locke
embraced the spiritual,
magical and the occult.

Saturday, September 21, 2013, 3:00-3:53 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping
at Safeway (1750 Miramonte Avenue)
& CVS (1.5 oz 0.1% capsaicin cream)

Ketchup, broccoli crowns,
blueberry pomegranate bar,
hothouse tomatoes, orange juice. Saturday, September 21, 2013, 5:00-6:00 pm
Los Altos Library: Tim Manner's "Relevance"
(Making Stuff that Matters) (2008)
658.827MANNERS

Focus on relevance—
not on demographics,
fads, and advertising.

Saturday, September 21, 2013, 5:00-6:00 pm
Los Altos Library: Linda Coles's "Learn Marketing with Socail Media in 7 Days" (Master Facebook, LinkedIn & Twitter for Business) (2011) 658.872COLES

Use Facebook, Linked In,
Twitter, and YouTube
to promote your business. Saturday, September 21, 2013, 5:00-6:00 pm
Los Altos Library: Kelby Carr's
"Pinterest Marketing for Dummies"
(Making Stuff that Matters) (2012)
658.872CARR2012

Showcase your personality
through pins and
build a community.

Sunday, September 22, 2013, 3:48-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library: Marketing Books— Shel Israel's
Twitterville: How Businesses Can Thrive in the New Global Neighborhoods (2009) (Case studies on how
to leverage Twitter); Barbara Findlay Schenck's
"Small Business Marketing Kit for Dummies"
(3rd Editon) (2012) 658.8SCHENCK2012DISC

Develop right marketing
strategy and harness
social media as your tool. Sunday, September 22, 2013, 8:00-9:45 pm
Stanford Flicks, Cubberley Auditorium (full house);
Dan Scanlon directs "Monsters University" (2013)
with Billy Crystal ("Mike" Wazowski), John Goodman (Sulley" Sullivan), Steve Buscemi ("Randy" Boggs), Helen Mirren (Dean Abigail Hardscrabble), (YouTube: 1, 2); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

"Mike" Wazowski
rallies his Oozma Kappa
to win the Scare Games.

Monday, September 23, 2013, 12:06-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Can Google Solve Death? (By Harry McCracken & Lev Grossman, Time, 9-30-2013, pp. 22-30)

Google's CEO Larry Page with
former Genetech CEO Arthur Levinson
launched Calico to tackle death. Monday, September 23, 2013, 12:06-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Google to Try to Solve Death, LOL" (By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review, 9-18-2013)

Calico stands for
California Life Company
not a cat with nine lives.

Monday, September 23, 2013, 12:06-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Are Google and Stephen Hawking Going to 'Solve' Death? Oh Dear" (By Jack de Aguilar, ContactMusic.com, 9-23-2013); Hawking—

"Possible to copy brain
on to a computer and
provide form of life after death." Monday, September 23, 2013, 12:06-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Of Course Google's Founders Want to 'Solve Death'— They're Rich!" (By Andrew Couts, DigitalTrends.com, 9-22-2013)

No matter how many
great things you build,
Grim Reaper awaits us all.

Tuesday, September 24, 2013, 1:00-3:10 pm
Mountain View Senior Center, Multipurpose Room B:
Brian Helgeland directs "42" starring Chadwick Boseman, Harrison Ford, Andre Holland, Nicole Beharie, Christopher Meloni, John C. McGinley, Lucas Black, Alan Tudyk; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4);
(Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); True Story (Rudy came)

Jackie Robinson leads
1947 Brooklyn Dodgers
despite racial taunts. Tuesday, September 24, 2013, 4:01-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
The number 42 is, in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, "The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything", calculated by an enormous supercomputer over 7.5 million years.

Jackie Robinson #42
stealing home:
Ebbets Field, May 18, 1952.

Wednesday, September 25, 2013, 12:42-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
September 24 email from Kim (Big Ape Marketing) thanking me for web page Number 96 (11-17-2004 composed for Mom's 96th birthday) that helped her son "complete a school project in record time"

Wei Wu Wei's Ask the Awakened
Chapter 96: Vertical Living—
All true-seeing is 'vertical'. Wednesday, September 25, 2013, 12:42-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Number 96 ranked #6 among 344,000,000 results on meaning of 96; Searched writings of poets & sages to find this gem— Paul Brunton's Notebooks Volume 15: "Advanced Contemplation", Chapter 7, Para #96—

We enter paradise
in contemplation—
aware of the Overself.

Thursday, September 26, 2013, 2:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"BITS: Google Alters Search to Handle More Complex Queries" (By Claire Cain Miller, NY Times, 9-26-2013); "New Google Hummingbird Algorithm"
(By Danny Sullivan, Search Engine Land, 9-26-2013)

Google's Hummingbird search
focuses more on query's meaning
than on total words in Web pages. Thursday, September 26, 2013, 2:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
DEALB%K: A Hedge Fund Manager Who Doesn't Mind a Losing Bet (Alexandra Stevenson, NY Times,
9-24-2013); Mark Spitznagel, founder of Universa Investments, managing $6 billion in assets, says:

Stock market is going
to fall by at least 40%
in one great market "purge".

Friday, September 27, 2013, 7:30-9:10 pm
Stanford Theatre: Howard Hawks directs "To Have and Have Not" (1944), Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Walter Brennan, Dolores Moran, Hoagy Carmichael, Marcel Dalio; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Great chemistry between
Bogart and Bacall with scenes
resembling Casablanca. Friday, September 27, 2013, 9:20-10:55 pm
Stanford Theatre: Jacques Tourneur directs "Out of the Past" (1947) with Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Richard Webb,
Steve Brodie, Virginia Huston, Paul Valentine, Dickie Moore; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Robert Mitchum is terrific
in this film noir, considered
now as greatest of all time.

Saturday, September 28, 2013, 10:40-10:44 am
KNBR 680 AM with Marty Lurie: Elizabeth Chapman wrote earlier poems on "Matt Cain's Perfect Game" & "Tim Lincecum's No-Hitter"; She reads latest poem "Hitting for the Cycle" which Marty Lurie likes best

Metaphors on Giants
losing baseball year
and cycle of four seasons. Saturday, September 28, 2013, 12:30-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
9/28 email from Abby Smith thanking me for
"The Figure 5 in Gold" that she linked in
her 9/27 Blog "I like five"

William Carlos Williams'
"The Great Figure" poem
inspired Charles Demuth's painting.

Sunday, September 29, 2013, 10:30-11:00 am
KNBR 680 AM with Marty Lurie: Interview with
Ralph Branca (1) on his book "A Moment in Time: An American Story of Baseball, Heartbreak, & Grace"

Branca tells how NY Giants
had telescope in centerfield
to relay pitches to their batters. Sunday, September 29, 2013, 2:00-2:40 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping
at Safeway (1750 Miramonte Avenue),
and drives me later to Los Altos Library

Macaroni & cheese,
yogurt, string cheese,
dairy creamer, orange juice.

Sunday, September 29, 2013, 4:14-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library: Bought Noel Botham's book
"Amazing Book of Useless Information: More Things You Didn't Need to Know But Are About to Find Out" (2008) ($12.95 for 50c); Ch. 3 Arithmetic Exam, p. 26

Forty is the only number
with all its letters in
alphabetical order. Sunday, September 29, 2013, 4:14-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library: Bought Jimmy Carter's book
"A Remarkable Mother" (2008) ($22.95 for $2)
Recall Lillian's 1978 letter inviting Chinmayananda to
White House and he didn't go, & never told anyone

Surprised to find India photo
of Lillian Carter eating with
Swami Chinmayananda.

Monday, September 30, 2013, 1:02-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Oakland Athletics-Texas Rangers Baseball Game"
33 photos taken on Sept. 3, 2013 at O Coliseum
when A's beat Rangers 11-4 to tie atop AL West

Jack's "Oakland A's Game Info" sheet
helped me to identify players
on both teams from photos. Monday, September 30, 2013, 1:02-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Oakland Athletics-Texas Rangers Baseball Game"
More time writing Preface than arranging 33 photos
(Gave Jack web pages when he came to Lab at 8 pm)

Found June 12, 1965 boxscore
of Koufax 5-0 shutout game
attended at NY Shea Stadium.