Buckminster Fuller at the Whitney
August 27th, 2008 | 0 Comments | Art |
Saturday we travelled in to Manhattan to see the Whitney’s current exhibit, “Buckminster Fuller: Starting With The Universe.”
Late Night Action
August 26th, 2008 | 2 Comments | Home, Uncategorized |
Last night around midnight I was awakened by the sound of squealing tires and crashing cars.
Short and Far Hills
August 24th, 2008 | 0 Comments | Biking |
Today’s ride was 41.4 miles from a parking lot in Short Hills, NJ out to Far Hills. Along the way, a few moderate climbs — such as right out of the box up to Summit — and a few cows.
I also saw a pair of turkey vultures rummaging through the remains of a dead deer [...]
Philadelphia Story
August 23rd, 2008 | 0 Comments | Art, Travelogues |
Following up on a suggestion to see a remarkable mural that a friend-of-a-friend had done, we hiked west down Walnut Street Thursday afternoon to check it out.
Storm King
August 21st, 2008 | 0 Comments | Art, Travelogues |
We spent the day up at the Storm King Art Center in upstate New York. Here are a few quick shots of what we saw.
C. took this one of one of the Calders:
South Mountain Conservancy
August 20th, 2008 | 0 Comments | Home |
Up in the Reservation, good things are happening.
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Sports Question
August 18th, 2008 | 0 Comments | Baseball |
Here’s a mash-up of a couple of sports articles that were in the paper this morning. Michael Phelps, in an almost scripted move, shatters eight world records and wins eight gold medals in the Olympics. Other world records — the men’s 100 meters for example — are falling like rain. Dara Torres, age 41, misses [...]
Farmland Ride Through Hunterdon County
August 17th, 2008 | 5 Comments | Uncategorized |
Saturday’s ride was a nice one. Beautiful sunny weather, around 80 degrees and dry. The ride was only 37 miles, but it was nice enough that I wished it were more.
Souvenir
August 16th, 2008 | 0 Comments | Music |
The composer Donald Erb died the other day, at age 81. A prof at the Cleveland Institute, he was big on the scene in the ’70s when I was first paying attention to “serious” music. “Serious” is in quotation marks, because Erb was sort of an exemplar of how unserious and fun that music could [...]
Parallel Universe Film Guide
August 16th, 2008 | 0 Comments | Comedy, Movies, Strange Site Of The Week |
A satirical just-this-close-to-our-own-universe guide to the movies that reveals them for what they almost were.
Remembrances of the 2003 Blackout
August 15th, 2008 | 8 Comments | Uncategorizable |
I didn’t really realize I was supposed to remember, until I read about it being remembered in the paper yesterday morning. So here’s what I remember.
Late afternoon, Midtown Manhattan, the lights and my computer go out. I look out my office door, all the lights and all the computers are out. So is my phone. So are the lights out on the street and in the offices across the way…
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