A couple of years ago, our daughter Lauren decided that she would like to try doing stand up comedy. Between then and now she has gone from working for free on open-mike nights in clubs to paid work. I put up this poster for an appearance she is making next month. This summer, she and …
Author: Reid Farmer
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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool. – Richard Feynman, Cargo Cult Science
Programming Note
Steve asked me to put up a post to let everyone know that he is in Deep Springs visiting Jackson, Nikki and Eli. Internet access isn’t the best there, so he will most likely not be posting much for the time being.
Made in China
Earlier in the week, I visited the contemporary art galleries at the Denver Art Museum and saw this fabulous resin sculpture of a T-Rex (or maybe that’s an Allosaurus) by Sui Jianguo called Made In China. I confess I no sooner saw this than I heard Steve’s voice in my head saying, “Shoulda had feathers!”
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When we were together…..Dixon would never converse much. He did not need to. He was one of those rare and wonderful companions who did not carry with them a requirement that one engage in constant conversation. We had our occasional discussions of matters quite profound, but for the most part while visiting he would draw …
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The BBC had an interesting write-up on “aircraft boneyards” around the world with lots of emphasis on the USAF facility at Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson. It’s quite impressive just driving around outside of it. They offer tours and taking one is on my list. Back in my aerospace days I worked at the Mojave Airport where …
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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away. – Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
Excavations at the Lost City of DeMille
Long ago, I put up a couple of posts about a unique archaeological site on the California Central Coast: the movie set for Cecil B. DeMille’s 1923 The Ten Commandments buried in the Guadalupe Dunes (has it really been eight years?). I just ran across this article in the LA Times that tells how archaeologists have …
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There is no scientific anthropology here, for anthropology is not a science, no matter how much its young practitioners wish it to be. You can feed apples into a computer until the cows come home, but all you will get out of it is applesauce. I am defiantly an “eyeball anthropologist,” a man with what …
Gilcrease Museum
The first weekend of the month, Connie and I were in Tulsa, Oklahoma for a special event at the fabulous Gilcrease Museum. The museum had an open house with a number of lectures and other events to celebrate the opening of a new building they just added. Connie grew up in Tulsa and was very …