Author: leh

A friend visiting in Los Angeles last week sends this pic of the building where Nik and Ivi spent the first chapters of their childhoods.

This month you can get free access to the complete archive of Scientific American issues from 1845 – 1909. Everything is in PDF form.  Here is a quote from the press release:

Readers can now revisit original reports of Alexander Graham Bell’s invention of the telephone and Thomas Edison’s invention of the light bulb. Scientific American’s complete archive, back to volume 1, issue 1, is now available on nature.com. To celebrate the completion of the Scientific American archive on nature.com, the 1845-1909 archive collection will be free to all to access from 1-30 November 2011. Published since 1845, Scientific American is the longest continually published magazine in the U.S.

This stuff makes for fascinating, riveting reading. Check out what is said in 1909 about the future of aviation and war, predicting that aircraft will have no place in modern warfare, for example.  Oh-oh, I misplaced that link.

Google for “do a barrel roll” today. Do it now before it is too late.

Alternate instructions:

Go to Google’s homepage. Type in the words “Do a barrel roll.” Click Enter.

By Christiann MacAuley at Sticky Comics. A site worth visiting repeatedly, by the way.

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We’ve been Laura Gibson fans around here ever since we heard her collaborations with the Portland Cello Project. And she has worked with Colin Meloy (Decembrists) and others in the Portland music scene. We have at least a couple of her CDs — If You Come To Greet Me and Beasts of Seasons — and continue to be charmed. A couple of weeks ago we heard that she has signed with a new label and will bring out a new album before too long. Hear the title track – La Grande — from that album here. Gibson, incidentally, comes from another small Oregon town, Coquille. Now I wonder exactly where Jeremy Peterson ate that muffin?

Intermittent rain didn’t stop this new landscaping project today.  Now to document everything, perhaps from the same camera angles, on an annual or semiannual basis.

And maybe I can get the resident landscape architect to identify everything, so we can post an annotated version…