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Loaf N Jug, 783 West Highway 64
3.811 gallons
$3.839/gallon
$14.63

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turbulence on the Green River

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turbulence on the Green River

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Thursday, 26 April, 1962

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Put the finished Deck into the 7090, but it stopped taking data after card 72; this was the 1st card of the NTI set. Left it for a rerun after Donna Sample was unable to find anything wrong.

Called Gen. McCormack’s office re: HJM, but didn’t get a response later for an appointment.

Rec’d approval to attend the ORSA mtg in DC May 9-11. Put thru trip requests for this and the one next week to DCA.

Clear

Phoned AMS to see if I can get the steering gear fixed tomorrow but they are booked up.

Picked up drive shaft and put it in the Willys.

DCH made his last regular visit to Dr. Yen; he is now on his own; i.e., if he wants his teeth straight he will have to keep the brace in his mouth.

Tuned some of the bass notes. Sally O. came over to give JAH a piano lesson; NJH also took a 15 minute lesson. The treble keys are out of tune.

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rainstorm

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cold camping shower

26::April::2012 16:26 → permalink

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back in the wilderness, watching the sky

26::April::2012 16:02 → permalink

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.50 calibre sacrifice

26::April::2012 15:29 → permalink

sacrifice, Echo Park, Dinosaur National Park, Colorado, April 2012

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.50 calibre sacrifice

26::April::2012 14:32 → permalink

sacrifice, Upper Sand Canyon, Dinosaur National Park, Colorado, April 2012

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Wednesday, 25 April, 1962

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Started to make up a deck of cards so that I can get an entire trajectory from the program I’m using.

Clear – windy

Left the drive shaft at AMS. It was not worn out, it was out of adjustment, so I’ll have to look elsewhere for the vibration. I’ll get it tomorrow.

Went to BS meeting. Got Sgt. Held to give the boys some marching instruction.

Mr. Charbineaux had a problem in that the Explorers were requested by Hirsh to lead the parade at the Davis Home on 19 April & Art Hirsh then brushed them aside at starting time. A. Miller will talk to A. Hirsh to see what he says.

Went in to town on 2 PM shuttle. Paid $1000 on mortgage at Cambridge Savings Bank and took hat to Adams Hat Company for reworking.

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sacrifice: gloves

25::April::2012 18:23 → permalink

sacrifice: gloves, Echo Park, Dinosaur National Park, Colorado, April 2012

They may look fine on the backs, but the palms are trashed and shredded, they’ve been used for a decade of fire-tending at chill campsites around the west, after a useful career in colder places. Not even sure where I got them, but I suspect in Iceland in the early 1990s. They’ve had a good life.

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self-portrait, Upper Sand Canyon

25::April::2012 13:27 → permalink

self-portrait, Upper Sand Canyon, Dinosaur National Monument, Colorado, April 2012

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.50 calibre sacrifice

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sacrifice, Upper Sand Canyon, Dinosaur National Park, Colorado, April 2012

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Tuesday, 24 April, 1962

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Talked with Dan D. re: HJM at FAA BRD. He agreed, said he would talk to Dr. Overhage, L2 Director, and I will talk to HJM. I did this at 1:45 PM, and he agreed, as he wants to leave the area. Reported this to Dan who said the following: Mr. Halaby had spoken at length with his scientific advisory committee on this need for a BRD head. Halaby wants an individual from industry who is an R&D leader. He certainly won’t get this at the current Federal salaries. Halaby regards this job as the key to the future.

Call from a Col. Duncan on Hanscomb re: going to Washington next week to review a problem that has to do with the air defense of Europe. It turned out that Larry Starkey requested me as a member of a 3-day evaluation committee. I’ll drive down Sunday afternoon.

Clear.
Windy

Took the drive shaft out of the Willys; will leave it at AMS in morning.

Picked up our 5 sacks of Turf Builder at Dr. Wishner’s; it was $3.35/sack, so I got back $.75. Our lawns — the grass from the original plantings — are almost non-existent.

Mr. Gravelin was supposed to appear at 0730 to talk about a ditch for drain tile at the front of the house.

I’ll have to get the 2nd Willys towed to AMS, as they do not have a set of repair plates.

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portrait, Heidi and James

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portrait, Heidi and James, Echo Park, Dinosaur National Monument, Colorado, April 2012

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Monday, 23 April, 1962

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Decks I, II, & III produced Runs 15, 16, & 17 but Deck IV was short card 2, so it produced no data. Reran this one at 1200.

Discussed Saturday’s idea (4.21) with VAN, who thot that Dan Dustin might be able to help.

Put card 22 (Item 29-42) the nozzle area equal to zero so that the thrust will be zero at time 31.9999 secs. Previous changes have made it zero during the application of the 4th stage thrust. These will be Runs 19 thru 22.

Clear, windy

Tried tuning the piano by counting beats. Certain notes are hard, D42 for example. Perhaps I need to mute all the strings rather that the middle section. A37 & F45 sound dead, although the 2 new A37′s sound fine.

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.50 calibre sacrifice

23::April::2012 15:20 → permalink

sacrifice, Red Rock Canyon, Dinosaur National Park, Colorado, April 2012

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23::April::2012 12:14 → permalink

sacrifice, Red Rock Canyon, Dinosaur National Park, Colorado, April 2012

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garden (stock of lexicons)

23::April::2012 12:00 → permalink

The garden of Eden:
already functions as an *after-* life:
the bibles cannot tell:
of *the numberless time:*
before the wall:
the building of the wall:
*the moment* of their confinement.

****/A*

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Sunday, 22 April, 1962

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Sticky – clear

Took family to church – 9 AM. The Sanctuary was filled at both services. This should help materially with the deficit.

We then went to Al & Edith’s for a delicious dinner. May & John seem quite well.

Mary expects to get her new VW on 25 April. She is quite excited as it is her first new car.

We went to the Easter concert at the Church at 6:30 PM; it was fine, but too short.

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sacrifice: empty pen

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sacrifice: empty pen, Echo Park, Dinosaur National Park, Colorado, April 2012

Staedtler pigment liner 0.3, Art. Nr. 308 03-9, EAN 40 07817 330418

I had the ‘ex’ send me four of these from Iceland a couple years back, but am on the last one now, they don’t do to well in hot & dry situations. But otherwise, they are an excellent and clean substitute for my exploding Koh-i-noor India Ink drafting pens which were just too sensitive to changing air pressure (i.e., flying), and had to be totally disassembled and cleaned prior to any travel. The beauty of the line, and the feel of the metal tip on paper was superlative, but the hassle was too much for the traveler to bear.

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watching the sky

22::April::2012 17:46 → permalink

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Saturday, 21 April, 1962

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It occurred to me while laying fiber pipe to take water from our SW down spout that Hugh Miser might take on the job of FAA R&D Bureau Chief. I thot of writing to the FAA Administrator & to the President’s Science Adviser Dr. Weisner, but of course, I have no rank. It then occurred to me to seek the assistance of Alex Nedzel, and thru him, Bob Weisner. I’ll work on this on Monday AM.

Clear – 70Ëš!

Finished the ditch about 1 PM. Now we won’t have drain water over the SW yard.

Put the concrete mixer together; it works quite well.

Asked Mr. Gravelin to look at the drain problem in the front yard and quote on a ditch.

Too tired to sleep.

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.50 calibre sacrifice

21::April::2012 15:13 → permalink

sacrifice, Upper Pool Creek Spring (east), Dinosaur National Park, Colorado, April 2012

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self-portrait, near Upper Pool Creek

21::April::2012 12:55 → permalink

self-portrait with cottonwood, near Upper Pool Creek, Dinosaur National Monument, Colorado, April 2012

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Friday, 20 April, 1962

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Ran at 0930:

Deck 1 β = 8.0 ∼ 400, T = 700
Deck 2 β = 20 ∼ 1000, T = 5500

Also, had the cards from the Output Tape sorted on Col 72 so that they can be put through the plotter. Made an error in the above runs; also Bino tells me that the thrust eq. for St. 4 should have the nozzle area taken out. Changed the data cards to provide 4 runs two with 5500 at β = 400 + 1000. Left cards at Stop 2 for 0815 Monday morning.

Overcast in AM

Drove the Willys.

Went into Boston in the afternoon, picking up the mixer, a length of pipe (fiber), some bread and a few other articles.

Stopped at the office until 7:30 PM.

Worked a little on the ditch for draining the downspout at the SW corner of house.

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Thursday, 19 April, 1962

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See yesterday – Came in at 3 PM to look at the results for runs 9 & 10 — see previous page.

Overcast – clear in early morning, Rain in PM

DCH & I went on the annual march to Concord; there must have been 700. After ceremonies at the Bridge we then marched in the parade along Monument Street to the parking lot.

Went to the Lab in the PM.

DCH to Boston.

Ordered a concrete mixer, mylar (10′x50′x0.006″ sheet), and some other articles.

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watching the sky

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Wednesday, 18 April, 1962

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The 4 runs showed a slowdown to 506 Ft/sec at 38 K! This is too slow.

Reran at 20˚ & 25˚ with δ+ = 1.0 sec rather than 0.1 sec and 250 sec total time.

Put a data deck in the 5 PM run with 20˚, 01. sec, β = 400 and δ = 20˚, 0.1 sec, β = 400 and thrust to 5500 from 700; V at 300 K, 36,281; high.

Drove the Willys.

Went in to Tuner’s Supply for some more tools & a pound of Nr. 18-1/2 wire.

Passed a boy (Roger?) on most of his First Class tests except the signalling. We meet at 0545 tomorrow at the Capt. Isaac home to start the march to Concord to commemorate the Battle of Concord April 19, 1775.

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Day 3 – a short circuit

18::April::2012 16:31 → permalink

petroglyphs, Mitten Park, Colorado, April 2012

wanted to check if a round-about way to get to the top of the bench was possible via heading to Mitten Park, and ascending the end of the bench there. nope, not without some serious bouldering or even technical climbing. got up pretty far, but the as the rocks are severely distressed at the fault itself, everything gets unstable. I quit where the trees stopped growing! good day for just looking around at everything along with a little initial off-road cardio. the cryptobiotic soil is always something to visually decode along with the lichen and other symbiotic expressions.

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.50 calibre sacrifice

18::April::2012 12:49 → permalink

sacrifice, Echo Park, Dinosaur National Park, Colorado, April 2012

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Tuesday, 17 April, 1962

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Picked up the new cards and made up 4 data decks hoping to see what the RE angles will be for 5Ëš, 10Ëš, 15Ëš and 20Ëš of thrust direction — δ in Kressa’s program. Left the program & 4 data decks at the L-208 Express pickup point for 10:45 AM pickup. They were run but I should not have put a data card ahead of each deck. I left them for a 5 PM rerun.

Overcast

Rode with HS in his new Plymouth SW. It is an 8 cylinder 6 passenger with auto transmission of a gray color like his old Dodge. It rides very nicely; and does not jerk when the push-buttons are operated.

Sent a check for $96.31 to the Electrical and Hardware Center, 1119 Main Street, Springfield 3, for an AM/FM intercomm with a stainless steel face.

Did as much as I could with the StroboConn, to about C76. Tried the chord method, and found it quite good!

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Echo Park campfire

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Day 2 – a short circuit

17::April::2012 18:39 → permalink

Steamboat Rock, Echo Park, Colorado, April 2012

a short circuit to recall the textures and to reacquaint the senses with the essences of place — sky, rock, earth, plants, former occupants, etc: the basics. starting with a quick overview of Echo Park from the southern wall (a of the first two images), following that complexly eroding wall along to Pool Creek, then across to some nice petroglyphs.

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self-portrait, arrival

17::April::2012 11:45 → permalink

self-portrait, arrival, Echo Park, Dinosaur National Monument, Colorado, April 2012

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Monday, 16 April, 1962

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Wrote note to Steve Dodd in Div 2 office to authorize payroll deductions of $458.34 over the next five months. This as a result of Liberty Mutual payments in February and March. I hope this finishes this transaction. My jaw is still tight on the left side, making those teeth intersect first.

Took Kent Kressa’s program and changed it to show higher RE angles; also higher β and lower thrust. Nick Ciampa took me thru the card room where I left an order for enough new data cards to make the above changes.

WZL gave Bino and I the data on the 4th Stage from Ashmore, who phoned it at 0830 PST.

Clear

A quarter of an inch of wet snow blanketed everything last night.

Drove to work in the Willys.

Worked on piano in PM. It is quite difficult to rotate the tuning pins in the treble section with the short-handled hammer; I’ll order the extension hammer tomorrow.

All the children home from school, and under foot.

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driving the Echo Park road

16::April::2012 16:50 → permalink

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194081

16::April::2012 16:04 → permalink

Gateway Service, 124 West Brontosaurus Avenue
8.439 gallons
$4.159/gallon
$35.10

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193968

16::April::2012 13:55 → permalink

Shell, 101 Railroad Avenue
6.644 gallons
$4.199/gallon
$27.90

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193790

16::April::2012 10:35 → permalink

King Soopers #645, 12350 West 64th Avenue
6.989 gallons
$3.999/gallon
$27.95

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Sunday, 15 April, 1962

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Overcast
Snow in PM!

Took family to SS & church. During the service the Sanctuary public address system picked up a police or aircraft radio transmission. It looks like what we should do is to pull in all new cables asap.

Tuned a few more piano notes; the tuning pins are loose. I broke one string that made up 2 of A-440. Found the StroboConn off — 3 cents low — in comparing it with WWV’s A-440 cps transmission.

LCH & I took DCH in so he could operate the main amplifier in the PM. Mrs. Ockenga & LCH — with HJO — are coming to dinner on 16 May.

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Saturday, 14 April, 1962

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Took Willys down to AMS where I checked the compression and timing. Compression ok in all 6 at about 90 psi. The timing was way off.

Tuned all the piano notes except the upper 28 and the lower 8.

The chap who does black-topping came around and he will widen the drive by 2′ and dig out under the porch, starting in about 1-1/2-2 weeks.

Had breakfast at Harry’s; he insisted when I went after the tires. Put his on the RF of Willys and my good 5th one as the Willys spare. Put the 2 off the Willys on the 3rd SW.

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Friday, 13 April, 1962

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Worked with Bino most of the day. We obtained Kent Kresa’s program from him after finding an error in it (the angle of application of 4th stage thrust). This was changed to 10Ëš and the thrust cut by a factor of 10, producing a much more reasonable trajectory. It still however, provided excess velocities and greater than desired ranges.

Rain

Drove the Willys today.

DCH complained of a sore throat, but made him go to school anyway.

The Willys seemed to have some small amount of vibration still, and the engine didn’t run too well this morning.

Borrowed the StroboConn from the Lab — over VAN’s signature.

Went in from L2 to the Trustees meeting at the Church. We voted unanimously to authorize the Finance Subcommittee to bind the Church in negotiating for the land & building now occupied by the Warren Institute for Savings.

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welcome to the tech-no-mad space

13::April::2012 09:32 → permalink

FYI — the (b)log will be a little quiet 16 – 30 APRIL 2012 as I will be completely incommunicado in Echo Park, Colorado recovering from too much reading, writing, and screen-life. Rather, I’ll be hunting for any celestial and terrestrial phenomena: watching skies, canyon walls, and ground…like:

Echo Park, Dinosaur National Park, Colorado, April 2012

you have stumbled upon a slowly evolving mediated space which is the next online evolution of the original neoscenes archive and network presence. it has subsumed the entire neoscenes travelog which began back in 1995. it rolled over to a frames-based site in 1999, and then to a php-based site in 2004, and now onto WordPress as of 2009. it is now extending the time span with images, audio, and video from the long-standing off-line neoscenes archive. what’s this 1961-1962 “50 years on” material? it is one dimension of the use of the (b)log as the accompaniment of the text of my Ph.D. thesis which touches on many of the topics surfaced here combined with my creative media practice. there is an evolving about page which contains more background on the whole project. contact: neo at neoscenes dot net.
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NEW FROM THE ARCHIVE
slowly starting to upload documents of performances like Open Air Radio Barcelona and DEAF03 – Interfacing / Radiotopia / Keyworx. also in the process of figuring out how to add the thousands of scanned black&white negatives that cover a period of time from 1976 through 2000 when I quit wet darkroom work. (a few (86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95) of the 4000+ portraits that are slowly migrating to these pages). will be including many fragments like that over the next months to enrich the overall blog experience, so stay-tuned here for new announcements. of course, there are always new field recordings for the aporee maps project.

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Thursday, 12 April, 1962

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Spent the day working on the trajectory of the B vehicle, using the tapes from Kent Kresa’s run. We found that he had not used the 3rd stage or 4th in the run he gave us.

Overcast – rain/snow in PM

Drove Ford today, stopping at AMS on the way home to get the Willys drive shaft.

HS finally decided that he would like to have his rear springs — boosters taken off so I did so; it was quite a job as the nuts had locking inserts. He gave me his six volt adjustable regulator that I’ll try putting on the Willys, changing the ground — This as an experiment.

Put the Willys drive shaft on and road tested it. There didn’t seem to be any vibration.

Had a large bit of wax taken out of my right ear at the Acton Clinic.

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now the wait

12::April::2012 10:38 → permalink

Not that I’m holding my breath, as I am more in the Richard “I-don’t-give-a-fuck” Pryor mode at this point. Docs made it to the Head of School’s desk yesterday, on from there today. Out to examiners via snail-mail (argh, it is 2012, what’s with that?!). Jan really carried the ball in my physical absence from Oz, but the uni needs chastising (righteous prodding) for not mandating electronic submission as is rather standard elsewhere.

Adding portraits and other snippets: settled on the strategy of adding them to the current stream of postings, then after a week or two, demoting them to their proper chronological position. Daunting how many there are yet to add, along with other content.

Traffic has doubled in the last three months, and I hope this continues, although fresh content addition is still sucking up enormous amounts of time. There is no real limit in terms of what is available from the archive (video is just scratching the surface, and there is the whole analog archive in storage to be digitized! help!)

Heading West shortly for higher and more isolated regimes to wander and look and simply be for a time. to allow thought and thinking to settle, dis-band, and perhaps re-form in a new neuronal configuration. That’s always sure to happen when searching moonless skies for a spiral galaxy or two: Andromeda (M-31) for starters. So, need to sift through back-country gear to make sure with a 2-week hiatus from civilization that I’ll survive intact. The ancient vehicle is the biggest worry, but it should hold out for this adventure (fingers crossed).

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portrait, Joshua

12::April::2012 09:59 → permalink

portrait, Joshua, Stavanger, Norway, July 1988

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Wednesday, 11 April, 1962

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Spent the day generating comments on the Aerospace draft document on testing — worked out 9 pages of longhand and gave it to Shirley about 4:15 PM.

Clear

Rode with HS.

The Willys drive shaft was not fixed; they had the parts on hand but not in. They will put a lubrication fitting in also.

Went over to the Scout Meeting. They finally were practicing marching.

Wrote some letters in the PM.

JAH is using the piano consistently now; she is in a contest with a few others. I believe I should offer a prize to the winner.

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instagram, yadda yadda yadda

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Insipid: this posting over @ the New Yorker is just too friggin kind to the whole concept. Retro is so … empty …

Susan Sontag is not empty and to use her full words to do anything but obliterate the whole inane concept of instagram is a travesty.

It is a nostalgic time right now, and photographs actively promote nostalgia. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos. An ugly or grotesque subject may be moving because it has been dignified by the attention of the photographer. A beautiful subject can be the object of rueful feelings, because it has aged or decayed or no longer exists. All photographs are momento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt. — Susan Sontag

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