Some of the advice in this Quartz piece:
Author: leh
rDay Eight-Hundred-Seventeen
Stifling, brain-frying heat…
Family Album Stuff
My LA/CA brother with his MA daughter and granddaughters on FDay. From Gabrielle.
New York 911, Postscript
Have been getting a bunch of feedback on the New York 911 MoMA film. When Bill, my photographer friend from L.A. (you’ve “met” him frequently in these web pages) forwarded it on to Roger, a photographer/poet we both know, Roger sent back these lines. Don’t know the provenance of this verse, but here’s what came to his mind:
“It avails not, time nor place—distance avails not,I am with you, you men and women of a generation, or ever so many generations hence,Just as you feel when you look on the river and sky, so I felt,Just as any of you is one of a living crowd, I was one of a crowd,Just as you are refresh’d by the gladness of the river and the bright flow, I was refresh’d,Just as you stand and lean on the rail, yet hurry with the swift current, I stood yet was hurried,Just as you look on the numberless masts of ships and the thick-stemm’d pipes of steamboats, I look’d. “
New York 1911
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.
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.
