Haikus: January 2014

HAIKUS: January 2014

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, January 1, 2014, 5:15-5:40 pm
Mountain View: Trader Joe's (590 Showers Drive) & Milk Pail Market (2585 California St.) closed early for New Year; Shopping at Sprouts Farmers Market
(630 San Antonio Road); Raw almonds @ $3.99/lb

Magnesium citrate,
Seven grain granola,
ground ginger root, almonds. Wednesday, January 1, 2014, 10 pm-2:00 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-CoastAM, George Noory's "2014 Predictions Show": psychic Joseph Jacobs (Web); consultant George Ure (Web); numerologist Glynis McCants (1); prophecy expert John Hogue (1)

Ure sees Dow reaching
17,250 before falling to
3000 over 2-3 year period.

Thursday, January 2, 2013, 7:30-9:40 pm
Stanford Theatre, Alfred Hitchcock directs Rebecca (1940) starring Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine,
Judith Anderson, George Sanders, Reginald Denny, Gladys Cooper, Nigel Bruce, C. Aubrey Smith; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

David O. Selznick won
1939-40 Best Picture Oscars for
Gone with the Wind & Rebecca. Thursday, January 2, 2013, 9:50-11:59 pm
Stanford Theatre: Alfred Hitchcock directs "Suspicion" (1941), (original ending), Cary Grant,
Joan Fontaine, Nigel Bruce, Cedric Hardwicke, Heather Angel, Dame May Whitty, Isabel Jeans; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Joan Fontaine won 1941 Oscar
for Best Actress over her
sister Olivia de Havilland.

Friday, January 3, 2014, 2:14-4:45 pm
Mountain View Senior Center Technology Rom
Returning to Los Altos Library: Mary Borg's
"Writing Your Life" (808.0669BORG2013);
(Bringing your best memories & family stories to life)

In your mind's eye, travel
through the homes you lived
and tell about your favorite rooms. Friday, January 3, 2014, 7:45-9:55 pm
Palo Alto: Friends' House, 957 Colorado Ave,
Waverley Writers Poetry Reading: Featuring Joe Katz (Away) & sister Joy Katz (All You Do is Perceive)
Joy Katz: "George Oppen's Silences" (Jacket, 2008)

I read "I Love to Waltz";
Len Anderson read "Into Being"—
"even the deepest silence can be heard"

Saturday, January 4, 2014, 1:15-5:30 pm
Los Altos Library: Bought Alice van Straalen's
"The Book of Holidays Around the World"
(1986) $13.00 for $2.00

Nice illustrated
book of holidays
and notable birthdays. Saturday, January 4, 2014, 1:15-5:30 pm
Los Altos Library: "Spark: How Creativity Works" (2011) by Julie Burnstein ($24.99 for $5), 153.35Burnstein, p. 217

Yo-Yo Ma on his cello:
"I become friends
with the instrument"

Saturday, January 4, 2014, 1:15-5:30 pm
Los Altos Library: "Linchpin: Are You Indispensible?" (2010) by Seth Godin ($25.95 for $4.00), 650.1GODIN, pp. 58-59

Marissa Mayer is a linchpin—
made Google interface
clear, spare and simple. Saturday, January 4, 2014, 1:15-5:30 pm
Los Altos Library: "The Medieval Art of Love:
Objects and Subjects of Desire" (1998)
by Michael Camille ($35.00 for $5)

Four steps in art of love:
Hope, kiss from beloved,
embrace, consummation.

Sunday, January 5, 2014, 2:45-3:05 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping
at Safeway (1750 Miramonte Avenue),
then ride to Los Altos Library

Chamomile and mint tea,
yogurt, salad dressings,
pizza, and fish fillets. Sunday, January 5, 2014, 4:07-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library: MUSIC: Phil Everly, Half of a Pioneer Rock Duo That Inspired Generations,
Dies at 74 (By Jon Pareles, NY Times, 1-5-2014)

"All I Have to Do Is Dream",
"Wake Up Little Susie",
"Bye Bye Love".

Monday, January 6, 2014, 4:20-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Happy Waitress Even Happier After Receiving Astounding Tip" (Lincoln Journal Star, 1-5-2014);
(By Lauren Tuck, Yahoo! News, 1-6-2014)

Abigail served customers
with smiles and received
$1000 for her college tuition. Monday, January 6, 2014, 4:20-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Old country-western 1972 song by Tom T. Hall,
"Old Dogs, Children, and Watermelon Wine" (YouTube: Song & Lyrics, 1973, 11-16-2011)

"Nothing worth a solitary dime,
but old dogs, children,
and watermelon wine."

Tuesday, January 7, 2014, 1:01-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Filling in gaps in Silicon Valley's education"
(William Fredlund runs Institute for Study of Western Civilization, Cupertino); Stanford Magazine 12-2010
(By Scott Herhold, SJ Mercury News, 1-7-2014)

Everyone reads Dante
in a bilingual edition
doing the medieval period. Tuesday, January 7, 2014, 1:01-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Old country-western 1971 song by Tom T. Hall,
"The Year That Clayton Delaney Died" (Based
on childhood neighbor & hero, Lonnie Easterly)
(YouTube: 1971 album, Hall on guitar, 8-18-1971)

"I remember the year
that Clayton Delaney died,
I went out the woods and cried."

Wednesday, January 8, 2014, 12:00-1:00 pm
Mountain View: 990 Bay St. Parktown Dental Care;
Dr. Roberto V. Espejo, Jr. put temporary crown on tooth #20; will perform bridge across teeth #19, 20, 21, 22 on January 22; (Half copayment $920)

Convenient that dentist
is three minutes away
from my apartment. Wednesday, January 8, 2014, 3:09-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Registered 1/7 for Foothill KCI FastTech Class
"Google Sites" LINC F070A (31671) for $18.50
(Instructor Kyle Brumbaugh: Sat. Feb. 1, 9 am-3 pm)

Registration entitles
10 free pages printing a day
& free VTA Bus Pass for semester.

Thursday, January 9, 2014, 12:40-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
PERSONAL TECH: Carriers Step Up Battle for Wireless Customers (Verizon #1, AT&T #2, Sprint #3)
(By Brian X. Chen, NY Times, 1-9-2014)

T-Mobile US, country's No. 4 carrier,
will give customers $650 in credit
after trading in their phone. Thursday, January 9, 2014, 12:40-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Al Guzman sends me photos taken on his cell phone
at Tech Shop, 926 Howard St., San Francisco, 12/30:
Alex, Rudy, 3-D Printing; Group; Metallic Elephant

Safari spirit
captured in this carving
of a metallic elephant.

Friday, January 10, 2:20-5:45 pm
Mountain View Senior Center Technology Room
'Hand of God' captured in NASA image"
(By Jolie Lee, USA Today, 1-10-2014) (1, 2)

Pulsar wind nebula
17,000 light-years away
nicknamed "Hand of God". Friday, January 10, 2:20-5:45 pm
Mountain View Senior Center Technology Room
"All the News That's Fit to Forget"
(By Claudia Hammond, NY Times, 1-12-2014)

We remember recent news,
but forget details in
four to eight years.

Friday, January 11, 2013, 7:30-9:00 pm
Stanford Theatre: Max Ophüls directs
"Letter from an Unknown Woman" (1948) with
Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Mady Christians,
Marcel Journet, Art Smith, Howard Freeman,
Erskine Sanford; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6);
(Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) Novel, (Photos: 1, 2)

Joan Fontaine in love
with two pianist in both
films at Stanford Theatre. Friday, January 11, 2013, 9:10-11:02 pm
Stanford Theatre: Edmund Goulding directs
"The Constant Nymph" (1943), Charles Boyer,
Joan Fontaine, Alexis Smith, Brenda Marshall, Charles Coburn, Dame May Whitty, Peter Lorre,
Jean Muir, Montagu Love; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Joan Fontaine has crush
on Charles Boyer who marries
her cousin Alexis Smith in this film.

Saturday, January 11, 2014, 1:13-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
"Judge orders Renoir painting returned to museum"
(Stolen from Baltimore Museum of Art in 1951)
(By Matthew Barakat, Yahoo! News, 1-10-2014)

On the Shore of the Seine
painted by Renoir in 1879
on a linen napkin. Saturday, January 11, 2014, 1:13-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: ART & DESIGN: The Fascination
of the Unfinished (Unfinished paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
(By Roberta Smith, NY Times, 1-10-2014)

Nothing inspires a young artist
like a close look at how
an earlier one worked.

Sunday, January 12, 2014, 2:30-3:05 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping
at Safeway (1750 Miramonte Avenue);
then ride to Los Altos Library

Salmon fillets, fish fillets,
instant oatmeal, bananas,
carrots, and non-fat milk. Sunday, January 12, 2014, 5:22-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library: Michelle Perrot & Georges Duby,
"Power and Beauty: Images of Women in Art" (1995)
Didn't purchase book ($30.00 for $4)

Historian's view of women
representation in art—
their power and beauty.

Sunday, January 12, 8:00-10:22 pm
Stanford Flicks, Cubberley Auditorium;
Zack Snyder directs "Man of Steel" (2013)
with Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon,
Diane Lane, Kevin Costner, Laurence Fishburne, Antje Traue, Ayelet Zurer, Christopher Meloni, Russell Crowe; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Clark learns that he has
super powers to protect
Earth from evil forces. Sunday, January 12, 11:00 pm-2:00 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-CoastAM, John B. Wells interviews futurist David Brin (Bio, Web) "2014: Year of Pivotal Change": BOOKS: "Existence", "The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us To Choose Between Privacy And Freedom?", "The Postman", "Kiln People", "Earth"; Google Talks

Self-righteous indignation
is a worse addiction than
heroine, cocaine, and alcohol.

Monday, January 13, 2013, 9:01-9:28 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Claudio Abbado conducts Berlin Philharmonic in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, "Symphony #25 in G minor, K 183", CD, YouTube:
1, 2); (Voted #98 for 2014 KDFC Classics Top 100)

17-year-old Mozart composed it
in two days after finishing
Symphony #24 in Salzburg. Monday, January 13, 2013, 10:50 am-2:00 pm
Stanford Cubberley Auditorium & Education Bldg;
Couldn't find my lost umbrella after last night's film;
Missed Steven Uhly's talk "Writing and the Mind";
Found two free books among hundreds at Pigott Hall:

Rosenthal's Cathedral of Granada
and Gomes' Portugese translation
Emily Dickinson uma centena de poemas.

Tuesday, January 14, 2014, 12:56-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Worlds Smartest Cutest Puppy Misa Minnie 31 wks" (Yahoo Video Viral Hits, 1-14-2014;
original YouTube video, 6-3-2013)

7-month-old Yorkie
puppy Misa Minnie
can do lots of tricks. Tuesday, January 14, 2014, 12:56-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
EUREKA: Breathing In vs. Spacing Out
(Amishi Jha teaches marines resilience in war zone) (By Dan Hurley, NY Times Magazine, 1-19-2014)

Mindfulness to discover
inner truths and letting go
to wander the universe.

Tuesday, January 14, 2014, 12:56-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Miggy's unmissable... but the most unmissable?"
(By Rob Neyer, baseballnation.com, 1-14-2014)

On April 17, 1988,
George Brett hit 450 ft homer
over the roof of Tiger Stadium. Tuesday, January 14, 2014, 12:56-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Abstract: Steven Uhly's talk "Writing and the Mind"
(Stanford Pigott Hall, Room 252, 12:00-1:30 pm)

Fernando Pessoa discovered
the link between our ego and
binary code of decision making.

Tuesday, January 14, 2014, 12:56-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Source of inspirational quote: "Johnsen's Jottings"
by Roy Johnsen [Troy (IL) Tribune, 8-18-1955, p. 2]
or Marvin Phillips, "Never Lick a Moving Blender!" (1996, p. 88): (Posted by Barry Popik, 7-22-2013)

"The difference between
try and triumph
is just a little umph!" Tuesday, January 14, 2014, 12:56-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Print 2014 Pocket Calendar (3"x5" to fit pocket);
U.S. Naval Observatory: 2014 Phases of the Moon
Full Moon: Jan. 16; New Moon: Jan. 1 & Jan. 30
Chinese year 4712 begins on Jan. 31, 2014.

Printed 3"x5" versions
of 2014 Calendar and
Moon Phases to fit pocket.

Wednesday, January 15, 2014, 12:30-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Assembled photos for poem "Blossoming Blessings":
Hummingbird over Bush; Spinel's "Phoenix Cloud"; Leaping Gazelles; Jan-Peter Semmel's "Open Mind";
Moon Halo over Palm Trees above my apartment.

Wrote this poem a month
ago inspired by day's events
from 11:32 am to 11:32 pm. Wednesday, January 15, 2014, 12:30-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
While searching for "Open Mind" images found
Pinterest postings by Jan-Peter Semmel: Mind Opening & Expansion, Vesica Piscis, Geometry, Clouds, Sufi-Dervish-Whirling, Here & Now

Sitting, Jump,
Bliss Monkey,
Blessed Saint.

Thursday, January 16, 2014, 9:39-9:45 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Wynton Marsalis plays
Nicolo Paganini's Moto Perpetuo Op. 11; CD; (YouTube: 1, Wynton Marsalis, Yehudi Menuhin)

Nice trumpet rendition
of Paganini's Moto Perpetuo
by Wynton Marsalis. Thursday, January 16, 2014, 12:34-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Completed Notes for poem "Blossoming Blessings"
Photoshop to draw Moon Halo over Palm Trees

"Ghost Comet" photo reflects
Nye's "Night, that beautiful dark
broom, / sweeps the day away."

Friday, January 17, 2014, 5:50-7:20 pm
Stanford Theatre, Frank Capra directs
"Bitter Tea of General Yen" (1933), starring
Barbara Stanwyck, Nils Asther, Toshia Mori,
Walter Connolly, Gavin Gordon, Richard Loo;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Ruthless Chinese warlord and
engaged Christian missionary
fall in love in his palace. Friday, January 17, 2014, 7:30-9:30 pm
Stanford Theatre: Frank Capra's "Lost Horizon" (1937), with Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, H. B. Warner, Sam Jaffe, John Howard, Edward Everett Horton, Thomas Mitchell, Margo Albert, Isabel Jewell; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

High Lama tells Conway
that he was brought here
to prolong Shangri-La.

Saturday, January 18, 2014, 11:56 am-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
Two hours to complete web page Coyote Creek Hike
with 40 photographs taken on Christmas Day 2013

How fitting to find
Farm Post of "Peace on Earth"
echoing Luke 2.14 on Christmas! Saturday, January 18, 2014, 11:56 am-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: TECHNOLOGY: Yahoo's Asian Lifeline (Yahoo's American core, is worth only $10
a share.) (By Jeff Sommer, NY Times, 1-19-2014)

Yahoo's 24% stake in Alibaba
& stake in Yahoo Japan makes
the stock worth $50 a share.

Sunday, January 19, 2014, 8:00-9:54 pm
Stanford Flicks, Cubberley Auditorium;
Gavin Hood directs "Ender's Game" (2013)
with Asa Butterfield, Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley,
Hailee Steinfeld, Abigail Breslin, Viola Davis, Aramis Knight, Moisés Arias, Nonso Anozie, Jimmy Pinchak; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Kids trained in Battle School
to defend Earth from attack
by hostile alien race. Sunday, January 19, 2014, 11:00 pm-3:00 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-CoastAM, George Knapp interviews Brad Steiger (Bio, Web) "The Other"; BOOK: "Real Encounters, Different Dimensions and Otherworldy Beings"; Second Half: William J. Birnes (Bio, Web: 1, 2, 3) "Esoteric America"; BOOK:
"The Haunting of Twenty-First-Century America"

U.S. Presidents have
used psychics for insights
in the White House.

Monday, January 20, 2014, 2:29-4:36 pm
San Jose: 1st Street & River Oaks— Friend takes me
hiking at Guadalupe River Trail; Met on trail and chatted with John Hallahan who worked at MKS

Hiked first hour on bike trail
and returned the second hour
on more scenic trail by river. Monday, January 20, 2014, 5:23-8:09 pm
Mountain View: Milk Pail (2585 California Street)
Red grapes & white zuchinni; Safeway (blueberries);
Shopping at 99 Ranch Market (1350 Grant Road)—

Sesame balls, water chestnuts,
ginseng root tea, bean curd,
bean sprouts, spinach buns.

Tuesday, January 21, 2014, 12:04-9:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Five hours to complete web page Guadalupe River Trail Hike with 39 photographs: Some Favorites—

Row of Buddings on Branch,
Roots Raging for Water,
Sun Dipping in River. Tuesday, January 21, 2014, 12:04-9:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
KDFC 104.9 FM: Classical All-Stars 2014 (6-7 pm)
Listening to Live Broadcast of Beethoven's 9th

Beethoven's 9th Symphony
voted #1 again among
KDFC's music listeners.

Wednesday, January 22, 2014, 12:00-1:00 pm
Mountain View: 990 Bay St. Parktown Dental Care;
Dr. Roberto V. Espejo, Jr. put permanent bridge across teeth #19, 20, 21, 22; (Full copayment $920)
Roberto wants to do bridge on teeth #28-31 next.

Now I have teeth to chew
almonds, broad beans,
cashews & Brazilian nuts. Wednesday, January 22, 2014, 1:58-9:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Opionionator: DRAFT— How I Stopped Procrastinating (Sleepy brain is not useless)
(By Merrill Markoe, NY Times, 1-18-2014)

Best brain for creative
writing is your right brain
before you're fully awake.

Thursday, January 23, 2014, 12:34-6:45 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Ancient Church Mosaic With Symbol of Jesus Uncovered in Israel" (Archaeologists in Israel uncovered mosaics on floor of a 1,500-year-old Byzantine church, showing a Christogram.)
(By Megan Gannon, Yahoo! News, 1-23-2014)

Chi Rho Christogram
surrounded by four birds
as well as Alpha Omega. Thursday, January 23, 2014, 12:34-6:45 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"UConn prof delves into spirituality in daily life"
(Professor Bradley Wright using www.soulPulse.org & smart phones to measure people's spirituality
as it unfolds over time in natural settings.)
(By John Christoffersen, SF Chronicle, 1-20-2014)

Now our faith is being
more defined by things
that we do on our own.

Thursday, January 23, 2014, 7:30-9:30 pm
Stanford Theatre, Frank Capra directs
"Arsenic and Old Lace" (1944), starring
Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Josephine Hull,
Jean Adair, Raymond Massey, Peter Lorre, John Alexander, Jack Carson, Edward Everett Horton; (YouTube: 1, 2, 4); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Mortimer becomes crazy
learning his aunts buried
a dozen corpses in the cellar. Thursday, January 23, 2014, 9:40-11:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: Frank Capra directs
"Dirigible" (1931), starring Jack Holt, Ralph Graves, Fay Wray, Hobart Bosworth, Roscoe Karns, Harold Goodwin, Clarence Muse, Emmett Corrigan, Alan Roscoe; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)
Amazing aerial footage of Navy's USS Los Angeles

Numerous airships at
Lakehurst, New Jersey, more
scenic than South Pole snow.

Friday, January 24, 2014, 12:22-12:33 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Library
Checked out George Santayana's "Sense of Beauty",
Elaine Scarry's "On Beauty and Being Just", and
Umberto Eco's "Art & Beauty in the Middle Ages"

Beauty expresses
the ideal and is symbol
of divine perfection. Friday, January 24, 2014, 1:00-3:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Kraus Center of Innovation
Correcting photos on Guadalupe River Trail Hike—
Monterey Cypress (Cupressus macrocarpa) (1, 2);
Monterey Pine (Pinus radiata), (1, 2); Hike (1, 2)

The Monterey Cypress trees
were actually Monterey
Pine trees on hike.

Friday, January 24, 2014, 5:35-7:20 pm
Stanford Theatre, Frank Capra directs
"It Happened One Night" (1934), starring
Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns, Jameson Thomas, Alan Hale, Sr.; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) Haiku: 11-13-2007 (close enough to stir up the stars)
"Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze" (1, 2)

Nights when you and the moon
and water all become one— you're
part of something big and marvelous. Friday, January 24, 2014, 7:30-8:25 pm
Stanford Theatre: Frank Capra directs his first film "That Certain Thing" (1928), with Viola Dana, Ralph Graves, Burr McIntosh, Aggie Herring, Carl Gerard, Syd Crossley; (YouTube: 1, 2); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3);
Dennis James plays the Stanford Theatre Wurlitzer,
telling the audience that in 1993 David Packard asked him to score this silent film with music from the 1920's

Molly marries millionaire's
son who gets disinherited,
but her box lunches bring success.

Saturday, January 25, 2014, 12:28-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Nancy's 1/25 "Happy New Year!" email with front door photo of January 16 Full Moon in the desert of Palo Verde on the Colorado River;
Liked poem "Hands Holding the Void" & Notes

Last Full Moon rose like
a grand cheddar cheese into
the rosy dust of the desert. Saturday, January 25, 2014, 12:28-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: "PRO FOOTBALL: Seahawks' Richard Sherman Is Much More Than Just Talk"
(Sherman creates own reality through visualization.)
(By Ben Shpigel, NY Times, 1-25-2014)

Whatever he wants & needs—
if he envisions it
happening, it will.

Sunday, January 26, 2014, 4:10-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library: "OP-ED: What Drives Success?"
(Associate Justice of Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor is Puerto Rican descent, in the 5th grade she asked smartest girls in her class on to "how to study" and got good marks, and went to Princeton. 2% of Americans are Jewish, and comprise 1/3 of U.S. Nobel laureates.)
(By Amy Chua & Jed Robenfeld, NY Times, 1-26-14)

Superiority complex,
insecurity, & impulse control
are three traits that breed success. Sunday, January 26, 2014, 8:00-10:14 pm
Stanford Flicks, Cubberley Auditorium;
Gavin Hood directs "Captain Phillips" (2013)
with Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Catherine Keener,
Faysal Ahmed, David Warshofsky, Corey Johnson, Chris Mulkey, Yul Vazquez, Max Martini, Omar Berdouni; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); Maersk Alabama hijacking (April 8-12, 2009)

Somalian pirates
hijacks Maersk Alabama
and kidnaps Captain Phillips.

Monday, January 27, 2014, 11:01-11:12 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: André Previn plays Mozart's
12 Variations on a French Nursery Theme K 265 (1791); CD; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3); He had photographic memory and could play a piece hearing it just once.

"Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"
played to celebrate Mozart's
258th birthday today. Monday, January 27, 2014, 1:08-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Macintosh's original family gathers to celebrate its 30th birthday" (By Sal Pizarro, SJ Mercury News,
1-27-2014); "Apple's first Mac was inspirational"

Bill Atkinson who developed
MacPaint and Hypercard said
"We were making art."

Tuesday, January 28, 2014, 11:32-11:36 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Yo-Yo Ma plays
Camille Saint-Saens, (Listen), CD, YouTube,
Carnival of the Animals: #13 The Swan (1886)

Stayed to listen Yo-Yo Ma
playing Saint-Saens music
of "The Swan" before leaving. Tuesday, January 28, 2014, 12:30-12:40 pm
Mountain View: Visit to Revolution Ink Tattoos
(557 W. El Camino Real); Chat with Leo Cardenas;
(Photos: Shop Front, Skulls Poster, Tattoos, Tattoos 2)

This is not a print shop
but they're doing exotic
tattoos for your body.

Tuesday, January 28, 2014, 1:28-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
HEALTH: Older Mind May Just Be a Fuller Mind
(By Benedict Carey, NY Times, 1-27-2014)

Not so much that the mental faculties
of older people are rapidly declining,
it's that their databases are fuller. Tuesday, January 28, 2014, 1:28-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Brain Science: Secrets of the Brain
(By Carl Zimmer, National Geographic, Feb. 2014)

New technologies sheds light
on biology's unsolved mystery:
how brain really works.

Tuesday, January 28, 2014, 1:28-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
On 12/30 Teeb sent happy new year email with
Naomi Shihab Nye's poem "Burning the Old Year"

I begin again with
the smallest numbers—
quick dancing of leaves. Tuesday, January 28, 2014, 1:28-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
On 12/30 Teeb sent one of her favorite poems:
Nazim Kikmet's "Things I Didn't Know I Loved"

I've loved rivers all this time
whether motionless like this
they curl skirting the hills.

Wednesday, January 29, 2014, 1:06-6:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Tom Thaves's Frank & Ernest comics (1-29-2014)
in today's "San Jose Mercury News" inspired poem
"What Happens When You Fall Asleep, Descartes?"

Wrote this poem in three hours
as Descartes & Anthony Damiani
were my early spiritual mentors. Wednesday, January 29, 2014, 1:06-6:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"What Happens When You Fall Asleep, Descartes?"
reminds me of Descartes three dreams, three states
of consciousness, and Beethoven's Fifth Symphony

"I am THAT I am"—
Beethoven sings of THAT
in his Fifth Symphony.

Wednesday, January 29, 2014, 7:30-8:50 pm
Stanford Theatre: Frank Capra directs
"The Power of the Press" (1928), with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Jobyna Ralston, Mildred Harris,
Philo McCullough, Wheeler Oakman, Robert Edeson,
Dell Henderson; (Video); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4);
Dennis James plays the Stanford Theatre Wurlitzer,
telling the audience movie trivia of the actresses

Cub reporter wrongly accused
Jane of murder and tries
to prove her innocence. Wednesday, January 29, 2014, 9:00-10:30 pm
Stanford Theatre, Frank Capra directs
"Platinum Blonde " (1931), starring
Loretta Young, Robert Williams, Jean Harlow, Halliwell Hobbes, Reginald Owen, Edmund Breese, Don Dillaway, Walter Catlett, Claud Allister,
Louise Closser Hale; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3);
(Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); Jack came at 7:30 pm

Ace reporter marries
high society blonde but
loves best pal at the office.

Thursday, January 30, 2014, 11:15 am
Mountain View: Walking down Ortega Avenue
Bare ginkgo on left & bare plum trees on right

A row of bare trees
as I walk down the street—
Ah! a single plum blossom. Thursday, January 30, 2014, 12:00-6:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Friend sends "Spring" haiku on 1/29, 6:13 pm

Daffodils are up.
Scent of flowers fills the air.
It feels like spring.