Sunday, April 29, 2018

My math publication

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My only mathematics "publication" In 1984, The Mathematical Intelligencer magazine asked for pithy definitions of applied a...
Monday, April 23, 2018

Autographs ― Walter Mosley

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I have not yet read any of Mosley's books. I decided to attend his talk at this past weekend's Los Angeles Times Festival of Bo...

Autographs ― Lawrence Wright

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I have always enjoyed Wright's work in The New Yorker , and our book group discussed  The Looming Tower back in 2006. Until I rea...
Wednesday, April 11, 2018

An apparently religious boy

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Chip Levine Memorial Award (CLMA)  Rodney Hoffman for Devotion to Jewish Studies, 1964 To all appearances, I was quite a religious ...
Friday, March 30, 2018

Whole Earth Catalog

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A few of my WEC items [Prompted by  this John Markoff article  about WEC in the LATimes] I was a huge fan of The Whole Earth Catal...
Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Visa progress: Step 2

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I added time in Mérida before and after our Peru trip so that I could push forward on Victor's visa. The U.S. Consulate in Juárez han...
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Peru — March 2018

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Me with a tailless whip scorpion Macaws at a clay lick Link to more photos. Given our love of wildlife and knowing that Victor...
Thursday, February 22, 2018

My unwritten book, Apples and Oranges

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"Knowledge is classification" John Dewey, 1925 For nearly fifty years, I collected notes for a book I titled Apples and Or...
Friday, February 16, 2018

Autographs ― Dave Eggers

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Dave Eggers ' most recent book, The Monk of Mokha is about Mokhtar Alkhanshali, a young Yemeni American who becomes a coffee entrepr...
Monday, January 29, 2018

Scholar Stones

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Impression of Shengshan 2 , 2015 by Zhao Meng I've always liked scholar's stones . Now, I've just purchased the sculpture...
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