Month: June 2011
One Long Weekend
Spreading across the entire lawn and consuming the entire weekend (well, almost), the girls — Ivi and her buddies Marina and Jeanie — attempt to raise some cash for college this fall, Europe this summer, etc. using the time-tested expedient of a yard sale. Of course, they supplemented their offerings with very well-received homemade lemon bars, chocolate chip cookies and Russian tea cakes (aka Mexican wedding cakes?) as well as free lemonade, ice tea and water.
Bicycle with Flywheel
Watch this video and read more about this slick invention by a Cooper Union engineering student:
Amanda the Intrepid
Finally, the rains have abated (and the basement is even drying out), and the painters have completed their work. Here is something in-progress between showers from the other day.
Happy Birthday, IBM
The company that has evolved into the present-day IBM — International Business Machines — turned 100 today. Read more at IBM’s own site, see a couple of IBM and Errol Morris videos here, check out Time’s piece, and Google for much more for the fascinating story of this American and global icon. Hugely important right now, especially for its research work, let’s keep watching how this company and its industry unfolds over the next 100. I’m hoping to be around …
Airbus Plane of the Future
I absolutely HATE flying. But this might make it more interesting. Toggle full-screen and turn up your speakers …
Jabberwocky
Post-Graduation Dinner
We walk downtown in the rain to join Grandma Janet for dinner at Foley Station.
Confessions of a Budding Curmudgeon
Here’s something from Bob Simon of CBS News that perhaps some of us can relate to …
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-simon/confessions-budding-curmudgeon_b_876044.html
Ivi Graduates
