Archive for November, 2007
Scenes from Metropark
A few snaps from last night while waiting for the delayed train home at Metropark: The top two are long exposures of passing trains — five and eight seconds — which suffered the wobblies from lack of a tripod. As for the arrow on the track, I have no idea what it was marking besides [...]
links for 2007-11-26
vintage_ads: 80s Cereal Ads. Movie and video game tie-in cereals of the 1980s. C3POs! (tags: retro advertising video lj food cereal wtf) UStream: Railway TV. Live video from the front of a Japanese commuter train. So mesmerizing. (tags: rail train japan video streaming) NIST WTC 9/11 Investigation FAQ (tags: 911 conspiracy science engineering) Wonkette – [...]
NJSunset.jpg
Sunday evening, sun setting behind the world’s tallest water sphere. (NJSunset.jpg uploaded by brownpau.)
FBCUbrd.jpg
Blackboard in the fellowship hall at First Baptist Union, possibly after a kids’ Sunday School class. What can it all mean? (FBCUbrd.jpg uploaded by brownpau.)
AMNH Demotes Pluto
Please do indulge me in just one more AMNH entry tonight, but I just wanted to point out that, in yet another great stride for the Holy Cause for the Demotion of Pluto, the solar system exhibit at the Hall of the Universe (under the Hayden Planetarium in the Rose Center) has been seamlessly updated [...]
Central Park West
While at the AMNH we very wisely decided not to have lunch in the museum itself, and instead walked out into the cold to have lamb gyros and coffee at Niko’s, a cramped but delicious Greek diner at W 76th and Broadway. Walking back along W 77th we found a little string hanging on the [...]
AMNH – Philippines
One thing I was especially interested in seeing at the AMNH was if they had a display for the Philippines in the Culture Halls, and how accurate and up-to-date that would be. I didn’t find it in the Stout Hall of Asian Peoples, where I would have expected it, but rather in the Margaret Mead [...]
AMNH
Yesterday was spent at the American Natural History Museum in New York — my first visit. Being acquainted with the sciences, I was much more interested in the AMNH as a classic historical landmark than as a museum; I was there for the novelty of old, unrenovated displays and their quaint, outdated views of the [...]
NJ Thanksgiving 2007
We spent Thanksgiving with Amy’s family at her grandma’s house, with a dinner of broccoli soup and shrimp cocktail and mashed potatoes and turnips and sweet potatoes and creamed onions and of course a rather large roast turkey (dark meat for me), followed by apple, cherry, and pumpkin pies. I also recall vegging out in [...]
Banahaw in US News
Happy Thanksgiving! Be sure to open up this week’s U.S. News and World Report to page 60, where you’ll find my article “The Draw of a ‘Holy Mountain,’” on Mount Banahaw in the Philippines, part of a larger series on Sacred Places. I’ve never actually been to the “pilgrimage” parts of Banahaw myself, (though my [...]