MoMA (the Museum of Modern Art) has restored and published a short but wonderful travelogue of New York City originally created by a Swedish film crew in 1911. See it here.
Month: June 2017
rDay Eight-Hundred-Fifteen
Miscellany on this sunny day … Discovered today and am reading a new book found at the Library, the Smithsonian’s “The VietNam War: The Definitive Illustrated History“, chock full of photographs, maps, graphics, and textual accounts.
Collective Nouns
From The New Yorker:
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/a-compiled-list-of-collective-nouns
Driving Across Antarctica (in a Hyundai)
In this Road and Track piece, we see how the great-grandson of Ernest Shackleton becomes the first person to drive across the South Pole.
Predating the Nightly Business Report …
Even if the study of economics wasn’t basic to your college education like it was for some of us, you surely must have an appreciation for how economics is fundamental to an understanding of modern society. Here, the Evonomics website presents a piece on the Islamic scholar whose ideas were literally centuries ahead of Western economists.
The Amazing Arab Scholar Who Beat Adam Smith by Half a Millennium
rDay Eight-Hundred-Fourteen
Rainy, rainy, rainy. An unexpected turn of events: I noticed a Nissan Leaf plugged in for a recharge, unaware that the EOU campus had such facilities for electric cars, and when the owner came along, conversation ensued and culminated with driving (yes, me at the wheel) around several blocks in the neighborhood. Recharged, the owner took off for his home in Pendleton — and he tells me that if he drives moderately, he can make a Pendleton-La Grande round trip in one go. Both the conversation and the driving experience turned out to be quite pleasant and informative.
Neil’s Office
While reading about the subject of the previous post, I stumbled across this brief video. If you are as much a fan of Neil deGrasse Tyson as I am, or maybe not, you might like seeing this visit to his office.
Our Bruised Universe
rDay Eight-Hundred-Thirteen: Gillig Addendum
I was so taken by the Gillig bus in the previous post that I had to do some research. Discovered that Gillig opened for business making carriages in 1890, was designing custom bodies by 1906 and started making school buses in 1932. Check out the Gillig website here and here. Haven’t yet nailed down the date or specs of the Gillig in my photographs, but I suspect that it dates from the late 50s or early 60s, based on its dual headlights (Detroit started putting dual headlights on some cars in 1957 and 1958, if memory serves). Research continues …
rDay Eight-Hundred-Thirteen: Automotive Edition
As Ken Kesey said: “… you’re either on the bus or off the bus …”
