Thursday, June 12, 2014

Mexico City (Dec. 1985)

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Keiran and Rodney at the Anthropology Museum On top of the Pyramid of the Sun, Teotihaucan In December, 1985, I traveled with my frien...
Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Autographs - Luis Zapata

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Luis Zapata 's best known work is El vampiro de la colonia Roma (1979). The English translation (1981) is Adonis Garcia, A Picaresque...
Tuesday, June 3, 2014

A trick of memory

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Walking in Debs Park with Princeton (last summer) Sue, a childhood friend of Bruce Lemerise's, found my note about him and wrote to ...
Thursday, May 29, 2014

PanAm's First Moon Flights Club

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(Click the images to enlarge them.) As you can see, I was a charter member of PanAm's First Moon Flights Club. Even before this,...

Autographs - Don Knuth

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(Click the image to enlarge it.) Famed computer scientist Don Knuth offers a modest cash reward to the first person who reports any spec...

Autographs - Paul Hawken

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(Click the images to enlarge them.) I was an avid reader of the Whole Earth Catalog and its spin-offs. Paul Hawken wrote occasional pie...
Sunday, May 18, 2014

Political ads (March 2013)

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I sent this letter to the Los Angeles Times (not published): As a resident of the City of Los Angeles, I've been inundated by campaign...

Handling crimes on campus

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Last week, the Los Angeles Times ran an article about college administrators becoming sexual misconduct detectives . I sent the following l...
Friday, May 16, 2014

On GMO foods

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1. I don't have a fundamental issue with it. 2. I think GMO labeling will happen. Those who care are already using "No GMO"...
Thursday, May 15, 2014

On Internet privacy

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February 11, 2014 was designated The Day We Fight Back Against Mass Surveillance . I wrote a short Facebook post as my contribution: 1. Ass...