Haikus: October 2016

HAIKUS: October 2016

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, October 1, 2016, 12:26-3:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
TECHNOLOGY: Defending Against Hackers Took a Back Seat at Yahoo, Insiders Say (Hackers backed by an unnamed foreign government stole the credentials of 500 million users in a breach that went undetected for two years since 2014); (By Nicole Perlroth and
Vindu Goel, NY Times, 9-29-2016)

New chief information security officer,
Alex Stamos clashed with CEO Mayer
on more funding, & left for Facebook in 2015. Saturday, October 1, 2016, 4:10-5:40 pm
Los Altos Library: Al Guzman phoned me this morning on picking me up at 8:30 am tomorrow for breakfast at Santa Clara's HomeTown Buffet at 9 am followed by "The Magnificent Seven" 2016 movie at Cinelux Theatre (1 pm); Rudy not back yet from Lodi; Al told me to contact other friends to join us—

Math Prof. Matt Low, Python Prof. Jim Lai,
Astronomy Prof. John Beck, EMT Director
Dave Huseman, VETT Director Robert Slack,
Semper Fi Telecomm. CEO Felix Oseguera.

Sunday, October 2, 2016, 9:27 am-12:00 pm
Santa Clara's HomeTown Buffet (2670 El Camino);
Al drove from San Jose to pick me up at my apt in
Mountain View at 8:15 am; then drove to Fremont
(Eggers Drive) to pick up Robert Slack for breakfast;
Al & Robert tell me about Holistic Veterans in Santa Cruz & Sweat Lodge; I went to Sweat Lodge with Tom McPherson conducted by Charlie "Red Hawk" Thom at Mt. Shasta (7-89); Robert: Nassim Haramein

Coffee, scrambled eggs, bacon,
sausages, potato triangle crisps,
chocolate milk, cantaloupe melon. Sunday, October 2, 2016, 1:00-3:30 pm
San Jose: CineLux Theatre (2306 Almaden Road):
John Beck joined us to see "The Magnificent Seven" (2016) directed by Antoine Fuqua with Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, Lee Byung-hun, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Martin Sensmeier, Peter Sarsgaard, Haley Bennett, Matt Bomer, Luke Grimes, Cam Gigandet, Jonathan Joss; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Remake of 1960 Preston Sturges'
western classic The Magnificent Seven
inspired by Kurosawa's Seven Samurai.

Sunday, October 2, 2016, 5:30-7:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: Billy Wilder directs Double Indemnity (1944) with Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall,
Jean Heather, Tom Powers, Byron Barr, Fortunio Bonanova, ; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Film Reviews:
1, 2, 3, 4; Complete File; Literature; Film Script

Classic film noir with
scroundrel insurance salesman
helping sleazy wife kill her husband. Sunday, October 2, 2016, 7:30-9:10 pm
Stanford Theatre: Fritz Lang directs "The Woman in the Window" (1944) with Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey, Edmund Breon, Dan Duryea, Thomas E. Jackson, Dorothy Peterson, Arthur Loft, Iris Adrian; (YouTube: 1, 2, Full Movie); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); Paste named it as best film noir

Fritz Lang's film noir
of Wanley killed by blackmailer
that turned out to be a dream.

Monday, October 3, 2016, 1:20-7:45 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
First day of Fall Semester at Foothill College;
Rumor that only Dell Computers at Krause Center;
20 large Macs & my favorite small Mac computer
still here, so don't have to take Bus or Light Rail
to Sunnyvale Campus (1070 Innovation Way);
Chat with Jack (1:20-1:40 pm) on Connie

Foothill Computer Labs closed
for eight weeks during the summer,
happy to be creative again with a Mac. Monday, October 3, 2016, 1:20-7:45 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Linked 12 Mercury News stories in Interesting News;
BASEBALL: Behind the scenes with Vin Scully:
Giants broadcasters share favorite memories
(Mike Krukow, Duane Kuiper, Jon Miller and Dave Flemming— savored private audience with Scully);
(By Daniel Brown, SJ Mercury News, 9-29-2016)

After Aaron's record 715th home run in 1974,
he allowed several minutes of silence & let
ballpark ambiance wash over his audienced.

Tuesday, October 4, 2016, 3:00-3:56 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me to Storage to pay
$288 monthly rental fee, and then shopping at
Safeway (570 North Shoreline Drive)

Progresso clam chowder soups,
Tai Pei egg rolls & pot stickers,
Oroweat dark rye bread, almond milk. Tuesday, October 4, 2016, 6:00-7:45 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center;
Ray Kurzweil's email on his daughter Amy's first
novel "Flying Couch" & New Yorker cartoons

Steve Gould attends Paris Opera,
asks for my 1979 photo with Dad
for comparison of any changes.

Wednesday, October 5, 2016, 1:40-2:10 pm
Mountain View: iSmile Dental (1702 Miramonte Ave. Suite B); Half-payment $500 for Dr. Amy Au
doing crown impressions for implant tooth #8;
Crown cementation on Thursday 10-27 at 2 pm

Took photos of dentist room
with children alphabet A to Z—
J for jewelery, P for pencils. Wednesday, October 5, 2016, 4:56-7:45 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center;
Format Connie poem from Microsoft Word to HTML;
Jack gave me ride home to listen to ending of NL
Baseball Wildcard Game SF Giants vs. NY Mets

0-0 pitching duel Bumgarner vs Syndergaard,
until top of 9th inning when Conor Gillaspie
hits 3-run homer for SF Giants' 3-0 win.

Thursday, October 6, 2016, 10:30-10:44 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Valérie Milot plays harp,
Bernard Labadie conducts Les Violons du Roy in
George Frideric Handel: Harp Concerto in Bb Op 4/6 HWV 294; CD; (You Tube: 1, 2, 3)

Violins muted, bass played pizzicato,
wind represented by two lone flutes—
music conceived for quieter & gentler harp. Thursday, October 6, 2016, 1:08-4:40 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Took 10 minutes to find Newsletter on the web—
Mountain View Senior Center Oct. 2016 Newsletter
for free October movies in Multipurpose Room B—

Free Friday movies at 1:00 pm—
Brooklyn, The Big Short,
5 Flights Up, Steve Jobs.

Thursday, October 6, 2016, 5:50-7:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: Max Ophüls directs
"Liebelei" (1933) with Magda Schneider,
Wolfgang Liebeneiner, Luise Ullrich, Carl Esmond,
Olga Chekhova, Gustaf Gründgens, Paul Hšöbiger; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Love affair between young lieutenant and
musician's daughter ends tragically, when
he's killed in a duel & she commits suicide. Thursday, October 6, 2016, 7:30-9:05 pm
Stanford Theatre: Erik Charell directs "Der Kongress tanzt" (1931) with Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch, Otto Wallburg, Conrad Veidt, Carl-Heinz Schroth, Lil Dagover, Adele Sandrock, Margarete Kupfer; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Musical comedy of Congress of Vienna
1814/1815 as German producer Ufa
challenges Hollywood for supremacy.

Friday, October 7, 2016, 2:50-5:00 pm
Mountain View: Walgreens (121 E. El Camino Real) 3:34 pm & Smart & Final (141 E. El Camino Real) 3:57; Google Red Bus 2:50 pm, Bus #22 3:09 pm & return 4:13, Bus #40 4:37 pm, Home 5:00 pm

Unsalted cashews & pieces, peanuts @ $2;
bananas @ 49¢/lb, large eggs @ 99¢/lb,
nonfat milk @ $1.79 with @ 40¢ coupon. Friday, October 7, 2016, 7:30-8:50 pm
Palo Alto: Friends' House, 957 Colorado Ave,
Waverley Writers Open Poetry Reading: Due to SF
Giants-Chicago Cubs Baseball Playoff Game, only
17 poets showed up; Gene Lee gave me a ride home.

I read Mary Oliver's "When Death Comes",
my "Memories of a Best Friend for 26 Years",
& Cay Horner's "With Connie on the Trail".

Saturday, October 8, 2016, 11:40 am-3:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
"BASEBALL: Giants undone by one swing (and one swing that might not have been a swing)" (Cueto pitches 3-hitter & 10 KOs, but on 108th pitch gives homer to Baez as Cubs wins 1-0 in 1st NLDS game)
(By Mark Purdy, SJ Mercury News, October 8, 2016)

Hernandez' checked swing ruled strikeout,
otherwise Posey's double would have
scored him and tied the game. Saturday, October 8, 2016, 4:20-5:40 pm
Los Altos Library: Emailed Rudy to meet me
at Chase Parking Lot on Sunday at 5:06 pm,
if he's back from Lodi to go to Stanford Theatre
and see Hedy Lamarr in "The Strange Woman"
(5:40 pm) & film noir "Detour" (7:30 pm)
both directed by Edgar G. Ulmer

At the beginning of World War II, Lamarr
and composer George Antheil invented a
radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes.

Sunday, October 9, 2016, 12:50-4:45 pm
Los Altos Library— Returned Ben Lerner,
"Hatred of Poetry" (2016); 808.1Lerner; p. 74-75:
"Virgule" from Latin virgula— a little rod, from virga:
branch, rod. We hear in it the "Virgula Divina"—
the divining rod that locates water or other precious
substances underground, a rod that mediates
between the terrestrial & the divine

Roman poet Virgil guides
Dante through Inferno and
Purgatorio to gate of Paradise. Sunday, October 9, 2016, 12:50-4:45 pm
Los Altos Library— Returned C.S. Lewis
"Mere Christianity" (1952, revised edition 2001) with Foreword by Kathleen Norris; 239.Lewis; Based on 3 BBC Broadcast during WW II (published 1942-1944 as "Case for Christianity", "Christian Behavior", and "Beyond Personality"); Book One: Right & Wrong as a Clue to the Meaning of the Universe: pp. 4-5—

Law of Human Nature or
Rule about Right and Wrong
need not to be taught as it is in us.

Sunday, October 9, 2016, 5:40-7:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: Edgar G. Ulmer directs
"The Strange Woman" (1946) with Hedy Lamarr,
George Sanders, Louis Hayward, Gene Lockhart,
Hillary Brooke, Rhys Williams, June Storey, Moroni Olsen; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Hedy Lamarr plays vile dame
going from poverty to wealth,
luring men to evil deeds & murder. Sunday, October 9, 2016, 7:30-8:40 pm
Stanford Theatre: Edgar G. Ulmer directs "Detour"
(1945) with Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake,
Edmund MacDonald, Tim Ryan, Esther Howard,
Don Brodie; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5);
(Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Piano player hitchhikes cross-country
to see girlfriend and meets nasty woman
who threatens to turn him over to the police.

Monday, October 10, 2016, 11:54 am-7:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
"GLOBAL WARMING: Protecting the Big Sur redwoods: How is climate change a threat"
(By Sukee Bennett, SJ Mercury News, 10-10-2016)

Climate change threatens extent
of coastal fog that quenches
summer thirst of Redwoods. Monday, October 10, 2016, 11:54 am-7:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
"Science of raising happy kids starts with enchanted garden" (Parenting book Gardener & the Carpenter)
(By Martha Ross, SJ Mercury News, 10-9-2016)

UC Berkeley psychologist Alison Gopnik
recommends parents try to 'grow'
not 'build' their kids.

Monday, October 10, 2016, 11:54 am-7:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
LIFESTYLE: Secrets of great parents: 8 best practices
(Oakland psychologist and parent educator Erica Reischer book What Great Parents Do: 75 Simple Strategies for Raising Kids Who Thrive.)
(By Martha Ross, SJ Mercury News, 10-9-2016)

Do what they say they are going to do,
don't make rules they can't enforce
and keep their commitmentss. Monday, October 10, 2016, 11:54 am-7:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
INTERNATIONAL ARTS: Wolfgang Suschitzky, Photographer and Cinematographer, Dies at 104
(His photographs aimed to highlight social distinctions, and depicted his subjects as content)
(By Jennifer Szalai, NY Times, 10-9-2016)

Cinematography for Joseph Strick's
1967 film Ulysses of James Joyce and
1971 Michael Caine film Get Carter.

Tuesday, October 11, 2016, 11:43-11:50 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Leonard Bernstein conducts
Los Angeles Philharmonic in Aaron Copland:
"Appalachian Spring: Simple Gifts" CD;
(You Tube: 1, 2, 3)

'Tis the gift to be simple,
'tis the gift to be free
'Tis the gift to come down
where we ought to be Tuesday, October 11, 2016, 12:54 pm-7:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Listening to Quaker folksong "Simple Things"
this morning on KDFC reminds me of many
joyful moments with Connie who passed away

Took Connie to hear S. Chandrasekar's
talk on "Monet's Paintings & Relativity"
where he autographed Truth and Beauty—
this 1983 Nobel laureate of white dwarves.

Tuesday, October 11, 2016, 12:54 pm-7:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Emailed San Jose Chapter of West Coast Dowsers
(1, 2) on Connie dying on 9-9 (Cay's poem & mine)

She went to West Coast Dowsers meetings,
used a pendulum to find the age of oaks,
locate missing objects, and aid in healing. Tuesday, October 11, 2016, 12:54 pm-7:00 pm
SPORTS: The Giants fight, survive, blow it, survive, rally back, win a playoff all-timer and live to do it all again (Tim Kawakami, Mercury News, 10-11-2016)

Conor Gillaspie tripled in 8th for 4-3 lead;
Brandon Crawford & Joe Panik doubled
to beat Chicago Cubs 6-5 in 13th inning.

Wednesday, October 12, 2016, 1:49-8:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
BASEBALL: Giants bullpen turns out to be the curse
(Giants blow a 5-2 lead in the blink of an eye and lose game, 6-5. Five relief pitchers failed to get an out.)
(By Mark Purdy, SJ Mercury News, 10-12-2016)

One pitcher after another failed in the 9th—
Derek Law, Javier Lopez, Sergio Romo,
Will Smith, and Hunter Strickland. Wednesday, October 12, 2016 1:49-8:00 pm
"Illumination of Eugène Delacroix: From Doubt to Certainty— An Artist's 40-Year Journey to God"
Diary 10-12-1822 (doubt of God's exisence); Diary 10-12-1862 ("God is within us; it is that inner presence which makes us admire the beautiful")

Celebrating the 18th anniversary of
WisdomPortal.com (10-12-1998)
to honor the Spirit of Discovery.

Thursday, October 13, 2016, 1:27-8:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Expanding Number 95 done for Mom in 10-30-2003
for Professor Scheraga's 95th birthday with info from
"Best By Number: Who Wore What With Distinction"

Richard Dent, William Fuller,
Chad Hennings, Greg Lloyd,
Bryce Paup wore #95 in the NFL. Thursday, October 13, 2016, 1:27-8:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Expanding Number 95 to include Collectibles:
China 1995 Panda Coin, Marvel Comics Mole Man,
and Topps Trading Cards from the 1950s—

Wings #95 Banshee, Wheels #95 Buick,
Look 'n See #95 Alfred E. Smith,
Scoop #95 Chief Sitting Bull Killed.

Friday, October 14, 2016, 10:30-10:44 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Ofra Harnoy plays cello
William Aide plays piano in Johannes Martini:
Plaisir d'amour (1784); CD; (You Tube: 1, 2, 3, 4);
This tune inspired 1961 Elvis Presley pop
standard song "Can't Help Falling in Love"

The pleasure of love
lasts only a moment,
The grief of love lasts a lifetime. Friday, October 14, 2016, 12:30-4:35 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Expanding Number 95 to include Collectibles:
Postage Stamps with 95 Denominations from
Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Israel, Poland,
Netherlands, Portugal, Somolia, Sweden, Tunisia

Consulted my 1975 Scott's
Postage Stamps Catalogue
and found 25 stamps with "95".

Friday, October 14, 2016, 5:40-7:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: Sidney Franklin directs
"Reunion in Vienna" (1933) with John Barrymore,
Diana Wynyard, Frank Morgan, Henry Travers,
May Robson, Eduardo Ciannelli, Una Merkel,
Bodil Rosing, Nella Walker; (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Archduke returns to Vienna
and meets his old lover now
married to psychoanalyst. Friday, October 14, 2016, 7:30-8:55 pm
Stanford Theatre: Sidney Franklin directs
"The Guardsman" (1931) with Alfred Lunt,
Lynn Fontanne, Roland Young, ZaSu Pitts,
Maude Eburne, Herman Bing;
(YouTube: 1); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Actor & actress happily married
but he masquerades as Guardsman
to tempt his wife who plays along.

Saturday, October 15, 2016, 10:55 am-4:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Expanding Number 95: 95% Bell Curve;
Messier 95 Galaxy; Asteroid 95 Arethusa;
Cities 95^o longitude: Houston, TX & Tulsa, OK

Houston, Texas: 95^o 23' W longitude,
Tulsa, Oklahoma: 95^o 56' W longitude,
Football: Houston Cougars beats Tulsa 38-31. Saturday, October 15, 2016, 5:25-5:32 pm
Mountain View: Milk Pail (2585 California St.)
After Jack dropped me home from Krause Center
caught 5:12 pm Bus #40; got off at California Street
instead of near El Camino for quicker run to store

2 pints of blackberries @ 79¢,
green onions @ 79¢, and caught
the 5:49 pm Bus #40 home.

Sunday, Oct. 16, 2016, 3:55-5:25 pm, 7:30-9:10 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); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

One of the greatest romantic
movies of all time with 100%
rating from 21 film critics. Sunday, October 16, 2016, 5:35-7:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: Maurice Elvey directs "Beware of Pity" (1946) from 1939 novel by Stefan Zweig with
Lilli Palmer, Albert Lieven, Cedric Hardwicke, Gladys Cooper, Linden Travers, Ernest Thesiger, Emrys Jones; (No videos of movie); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Pretty baroness who's lame
falls in love with lieutenant
who promises to marry her but doesn't.

Monday, October 17, 2016, 12:00 pm-8:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Number 95: Locomotive #95 in Toy Story 3;
Car #95 in Toy Story 1; Russian Tu-95 Bomber;
1964 Masonic Medal #95: Santa Fe Locomotive #95; Saab 95; 95th Infantry Division: "95 Pounds of Hope"

Haydn's Symphony 95,
Films 95 Miles to Go &
95 Worlds and Counting. Monday, October 17, 2016, 12:00 pm-8:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Teiichi Igarashi: 100-Year-Old Conquers Mount Fuji
(By Shigeyoshi Kimura, Assciaed Press, Aug. 2, 1987)
Joel Hildebrand, UC Berkeley Chemist Dies at 101
(By Wallace Turner, NY Times, May 3, 1983)

Hildebrand's Viscosity and Diffusivity:
A Predictive Treatment was published
in 1977 when he was 95 years old.

Tuesday, October 18, 2016, 11:45-11:57 am
Los Altos Post Office (221 Main St.); Miro's Painting
birthday card; Web page for Harold A. Scheraga's
95th birthday; "Meditations on 95" (Poem for
Mom's 95th birthday, 10-30-2003); Notes to Poem

Told the postal clerk to hand-stamp
"October 18, 2016 Los Altos, CA" postmark,
for Scheraga's momento on his 95th birthday. Tuesday, October 18, 2016, 1:07-8:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Bronze statue erected in honor of Teiichi Igarashi
who on Aug. 8, 1988 scaled Mount Fuji at age of 105;
95-stories: London's Shard & Chicago's Vista Tower

Scheraga's "My 65 years in protein chemistry"
[Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics 48 117-177 (May 2015)] was published at age 94.

Wednesday, October 19, 2016, 10:57 am-8:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Egypt's Great Pyramid Might Have a Few More Secrets (Researchers used non-invasive scanning called muon radiography to map the entire pyramid)
(By Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 10-18-2016)

Found two previously undiscovered "cavities"
inside the ancient 4500-years structure
of the Great Pyramid of Giza itself. Wednesday, October 19, 2016, 10:57 am-8:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Rickey Henderson's 95th stolen base (July 27, 1982);
New Zealand State Highway 95; Bach's Cantata 95; U.S. T95 Medium Tank; Russian T-95 Tank; 1964 Masonic Medal, Jeptha Lodge #95 (Clipper Ship)

Freemasonic Symbols—
Compass & Square, Letter G,
All Seeing Eye, Masonic Gavel.

Thursday, October 20, 2016, 10:33 am-8:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Forgot these sporting events in Number 95:
95th Kentucky Derby; 95th Preakness Stakes;
95th Belmont; 95th Wimbledon; 95th U.S. Open Tennis; 95th U.S. Open Golf; 95th Boston Marathon

Adding 95th sport events
of horse racing, tennis,
golf, and marathons. Thursday, October 20, 2016, 10:33 am-8:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
"95" in Wei Wu Wei's "Ask the Awakened", Paul Brunton "Notebooks V. 16", Subramuniya's "Merging
with Siva", Seung Sahn's "Whole World Is a Single Flowers" "Radical Zen: The Sayings of Joshu" #95—

Someone asked: When one is confronted
with disaster, how can one avoid it?
Joshu said: "That's it!"

Friday, October 21, 2016, 5:50-7:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: Max Ophuls directs "From Mayerling to Sarajevo" (1940) with Edwige Feuillère,
John Davis Lodge, Aimé Clariond, Jean Worms,
Gilbert Gil, Jean Debucourt, Raymond Aimos,
Gabrielle Dorziat, Gaston Dubosc;
(YouTube: 1, 2); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Tragic suicide of Duke Rudolph
at Mayerling to assassination
of Archduke Ferdinand in 1914. Friday, October 21, 2016, 7:30-9:10 pm
Stanford Theatre: Anatole Litvak directs
"Mayerling" (1936) with Charles Boyer,
Danielle Darrieux, Jean Dax, Jean Debucourt,
Suzy Prim, Vladimir Sokoloff, André Dubosc, Gabrielle Dorziat, Gina Manès, Marthe Régnier;
(YouTube: 1, 2); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Austria Crown Prince Rudolf's affair
with 17-year-old Baroness Maria Vetsera
and their tragic suicides at Mayerling.

Saturday, October 22, 2016, 10:58 am-4:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Can't renew Viktor Frankl's book from Gilroy
Library "Man's Search for Meaning" (1959,
new 2014 edition); 150.195Frankl2014 as all
5 copies are checked out, and 7 current holds

Typing inspiring passages from this
book that sold over 10 million copies
and was translated into 24 languages. Saturday, October 22, 2016, 10:58 am-4:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Viktor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning" (1959,
new 2014 edition); p. 3— This book is the inside story of a WW II concentration camp, told by one of its survivors. it will try to answer this question:

How was everyday life in a
concentration camp reflected
in the mind of the average prisoner?

Sunday, October 23, 2016, 1:53 pm-5:05 pm
Los Altos Library: Fininshed typing Viktor Frankl's
"Man's Search for Meaning" (2014); original 1959
book ends p. 125; New edition has speeches, essays,
letters; pp. 135-180; Frankl not interested in raising
parrots rehashing "their master's voice" but rather

in passing the torch to
"independent and inventive,
innovative and creative spirits." Sunday, October 23, 2016, 1:53 pm-5:05 pm
Los Altos Library: Fininshed typing Viktor Frankl's
"Man's Search for Meaning"(2014); p. 145 & p. 176 : Quotes last line of Benedictus de Spinoza's "Ethics"— "everything great is just as difficult to realize as it is rare" (Dave Pfefer gives me ride to El Camino)

So let us be alert— alert in a twofold sense:
Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable.
And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.

Sunday, October 23, 2016, 5:55-7:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: Fred Zinnemann directs
"Act of Violence" (1946) with Van Heflin,
Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh, Mary Astor,
Phyllis Thaxter, Berry Kroeger, Taylor Holmes, Harry Antrim; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3);
(Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Robert Ryan from prison camp
stalks Van Heflin for being informer
making his calm family life a boiling hell. Sunday, October 23, 2016, 7:30-9:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: Carol Reed directs The Third Man (1945) with Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles,
Trevor Howard, Bernard Lee, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Ernst Deutsch, Erich Ponto; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); Anton Karas wrote and performed the score, which used only the zither (1, 2)

Switzerland had brotherly love,
500 years of democracy and peace—
and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

Monday, October 24, 2016, 12:08-3:40 pm
Mountain View to Palo Alto to Los Altos Hills:
Bus trips to Stanford University for photos—
12:08 pm Bus #34 (Hackett); 12:26 Bus #522 El Camino to Palo Alto Train Depot; 1:03 Palm Express to Oval; 1:40 Photos at Quadrangle; 2:03 Pigott Hall; 2:33 Palm Express; 2:53 Bus #522; 3:20 Bus #52 Castro Street to Los Altos Hill Foothill College

Took six buses for photos
of Stanford Bronze Plaques
at Quadrangle for Number 95. Monday, October 24, 2016, 3:40-8:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Stanford Shuttle Palm Express runs every 10 minutes during rush hours but 50 minutes at 1:43 pm; Missed getting off Bus #522 at Showers Drive for Bus #40; Lucky to catch Bus #52 at Castro Street to Foothill;
1895 plaque near Memorial Church's front door;
1995 plaque near Building 80 (Anthropology Dept);

Surprise discovery at Palo Alto Depot—
95 University Avernue signpost
and close up for Number 95.

Tuesday, October 25, 2016, 12:55-1:45 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Power outage: computers & all lights off; College closed; students going home; cars bumper to bumper; Driver packed over 100 students on Bus #40; couldn't get off at Los Altos Library; got off at Rengstorff Park and walked to Mountain View Senior Center

Visits with Paul Brunton (1972, 1979);
Typed Tomas Tranströmer's 95th poem
"Homeward" from his Selected Poems. Tuesday, October 25, 2016, 4:05-8:45 pm
Mountain View Senior Center (266 Escuelar Ave);
Tech Room: Links to "Act of Violence" & Third Man; Found 21 postage stamps with 95 denomination with links to image sources; France C44 Hot-air Balloon, 1026 Dunkirk, 1072 Moissac, 1077 Chartres, 1129 Vendee River, 1189 Lighthouse, 1279 Cloister Abbey;

Israel 95 agorot: 472 Hamifratz,
486 Seder Passover, 495 Book Year,
500 Holy Arks from Italy Synagogues.

Wednesday, October 26, 2016, 12:57-5:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Monaco 2604 1st Electric Mail Flight; France 4803 Europa 2015 Children's Toys, France 4823 National Monument Hartmannswillerkopf

0.95 Euro stamps
with catalogue #s from
2016 Scott Catalogues. Wednesday, October 26, 2016, 6:03-8:45 pm
Mountain View Senior Center (266 Escuelar Ave);
Tech Room: Specials from Safeway-Just-For-U;
Searched for more 0.95 Euro stamps with sources
for inclusion in On the Number 95—

Luxembourg SEPAC;
Vatican Mother Teresa;
Monaco 2621b Aristide Maillol.

Thursday, October 27, 2016, 2:00-2:45 pm
Sunnyvale: iSmile Dental (970 W. El Camino, Suite 1)
After numbing my gums with novacaine, Dr. Amy Au didn't place crown on implant tooth #8 because color of crown is different from neighor tooth

They took photos of front teeth
and X-rays and made appintment for
next Thursday for right color crown. Thursday, October 27, 2016, 3:50-7:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
12 Links to Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning;
Found more 95 denomination stamps with sources
for inclusion in On the Number 95—

Portugal 511 "Portugal" with Lusiadas;
Somalia CB13 Destroyed Somail Village;
Sweden 655 Rock Carvings, 750A Roe Deer.

Friday, October 28, 2016, 1:00-3:02 pm
Mountain View Senior Center (266 Escuelar Ave);
Danny Boyle directs "Steve Jobs" (2015) with
Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen,
Jeff Daniels, Katherine Waterston, Michael Stuhlbarg, Perla Haney-Jardine, Sarah Snook, John Ortiz;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Fassbender portrays Steve Jobs
as a vicious, egotistical, maniac,
and the genius behind Apple Computers. Friday, October 21, 2016, 4:35-5:35 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping at Safeway
(570 North Shoreline Drive) $8 off for $80+ purchase; Checkout Ana said my savings on $80.95 purchase was $123.63; Kraft Swiss Cheese @ $1.99; Lucerne Creamers @ $2.24; Dole Fruit Blend Juices @ $1.66; Hawaiian Chips @ $1.99; Tai Pei Meals @ $1.90

4 Red Baron Supreme Pizzas @ $2.00;
5 Quaker Instant Oatmeals @ $1.99;
5 Gorton Grilled Salmon Fillets @ $2.24.

Friday, October 28, 2016, 5:30-7:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: Alfred Hitchcock directs
"Shadow of a Doubt" (1943) with Teresa Wright,
Joseph Cotten, Henry Travers, Patricia Collinge,
Macdonald Carey, Wallace Ford, Hume Cronyn,
Edna May Wonacott, Charles Bates; (YouTube:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Filmed in Santa Rosa but theme
of "The Merry Widow Waltz" links
this to earlier Hitchcock film on Vienna. Friday, October 28, 2016, 7:30-8:55 pm
Stanford Theatre: Alfred Hitchcock directs
Waltzes from Vienna (1934) with Esmond Knight,
Jessie Matthews, Edmund Gwenn, Fay Compton,
Frank Vosper, Charles Heslop, Betty Huntley-Wright, Sybil Grove; (YouTube: Entire movie);
(Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Hitchcock didn't like this film
scripted by his wife Alma Reville, but
the waltz would appear in his later films.

Saturday, October 29, 2016, 10:53 am-4:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
BASKETBALL: Echo of Jeremy Lin's Glory Days as Nets Win Home Opener (Brooklyn Nets 103-94 win
over Indiana Pacers as Jeremy Lin scored 21 with
9 rebounds and 9 assists in their home opener; Lin
gave game ball to 1st-year coach Kenny Atkinson)
(By Scott Cacciola, NY Times, 10-29-2016)

INDIANS 1, CUBS 0— Indians' Pitchers
Roar to Life, and the Cubs' Bats Fall Silent
(Tomlin pitched 2-hitter in 4-^2/3 innings;
Relievers Miller, Shaw, Allen shut Cubs out.)
(By Billy Witz, NY Times, 10-29-2016) Saturday, October 29, 2016, 10:53 am-4:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Typed Robert Bly's 95th poem in "Selected Poems" (1986) "THE CRY GOING OUT OVER PASTURES" (Reading; Google Text) & Jane Hirshfield's 95th poem from "Women in Praise of the Sacred" (1994) by Mirabai "O friends on this Path"

O friends on this Path,
My eyes are no longer my eyes.
A sweetness has entered through them,
Has pierced through to my heart...
My Beloved is a steeped herb, he has cured me for life.
Mira belongs to Giridhara, the One who lifts all,
And everyone says she is mad.

Sunday, October 30, 2016, 1:49-4:50 pm
Los Altos Library: Can't renew Joshua Prager's
"100 Years: Wisdom From Famous Writers on Every Year of Your Life" (2016) because of holds;
Quote: Age 27— Joyce Carol Oates, "Blonde"

Twenty-seven!...
It was a time of sudden revelations.
"Heyyyy, know what?
This thought came to me." Sunday, October 30, 2016, 1:49-4:50 pm
Los Altos Library: Can't renew Hal Elrod &
Steve Scott, "Miracle Morning for Writers" (2016)
because of holds; p. 56— Erle S. Gardner, who wrote "Perry Mason", averaged one million words a year.

Victor Hugo, who wrote
Les Miserables and
The Hunchback of Notre Dame,
completed 20 pages per day.

Sunday, October 30, 2016, 5:35-7:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger direct "Oh... Rosalinda!!" (1955) with Anton Walbrook, Anthony Quayle, Dennis Price, Ludmilla Tchérina, Michael Redgrave, Mel Ferrer, Anneliese Rothenberger, Oskar Sima, Arthur Mullard;
(YouTube: 1, 2, full film); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

British musical comedy
based on Die Fledermaus
(The Bat) by Johann Strauss, Jr. Sunday, October 30, 2016, 7:30-9:10 pm
Stanford Theatre: Max Ophuls directs "La Ronde"
(1950) with Anton Walbrook, Simone Signoret,
Serge Reggiani, Simone Simon, Jean-Louis Barrault,
Daniel Gélin, Danielle Darrieux, Fernand Gravey,
Odette Joyeux, Isa Miranda, Gérard Philipe;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Eleven episodes of ten illicit
sexual encounters with one partner
forming liason in unbroken circle dance.

Monday, October 31, 2016, 12:20-8:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
0.95 Euro stamps from Monaco with sources
for inclusion in On the Number 95—

Monaco 2781 39th Festival Cirque,
Monaco 2613 Race-car driver Fangio,
Monaco 2801 Europa 2015: Children's Toys.
Monday, October 31, 2016, 12:20-8:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Numerology: words whose letters add up to 95
with links to symbolism & metaphysical themes

SPRING INITIATION = 38 + 57 = 95 GOETHE PHILOSOPHY = 33 + 62 = 95
GRAIL TRANSFORMATION = 29 + 66 = 95