Here’s a fine feature I found will skimming through some archives in an office filing cabinet. Unfortunately the web isn’t so helpful in finding Shorty Harrison or his wife.

The reporter works in academia. The photographer is with a modeling agency in Florida. People doing the real work on campus, I always tell young writers, always offer the best, and usually overlooked, stories on campus.

Got a swim in this evening, the first in far too long. So I guess it is back to training then, which is where I’ve been having the problem of late: starting.

I got in 1,350 yards, which is little more than a trifle, but it was my first swim in a while. About 1,200 in my shoulders complained, “Enough.” Also, I figured out that I don’t actually breathe in the breathing part of my freestyle stroke. There’s a swimming coach that works at the pool, but he’s teaching kids to be competitive swimmers, not me. We talk now and then and I’ve complained about my arms filling up with lactic acid. He has told me a few times I’m not breathing right. Either that’s an observation or just the obvious conclusion. He hasn’t told me how to fix it. Maybe because he’s not my coach. Or maybe because it should be obvious. It makes sense though, I tend to hold my breath when I concentrate or in exercise.

If I can get that fixed, I chuckled to myself, I could progress from being a sadly incompetent swimmer to a merely bad one.

Things to read … because reading always makes us better.

This would be huge on the farm, With Google Glass app developed at UCLA, scientists can analyze plants’ health in seconds:

Scientists from UCLA’s California NanoSystems Institute have developed a Google Glass app that, when paired with a handheld device, enables the wearer to quickly analyze the health of a plant without damaging it.

The app analyzes the concentration of chlorophyll — the substance in plants responsible for converting sunlight into energy. Reduced chlorophyll production in plants can indicate degradation of water, soil or air quality.

Social media use of student athletes: 2015 survey results:

Over the last few weeks we’ve been compiling data on our third annual survey looking at the social media use of collegiate student-athletes (can see the results from our 2013 survey here and 2014 here). This isn’t a perfect science but it does allow us a good look into how college athletes use social media. This helps us be more effective in our social media education and training sessions, and also provides valuable insight as we help athletics departments craft social media strategies.

This year we had nearly 1000 student-athletes participate.

An unfortunate tale out of Oregon, Raped on Campus? Don’t Trust Your College to Do the Right Thing.

This doesn’t apply to me, yet. Training for Triathlons at an Older Age.

I’m going to say “No,” while waiting for the courts to say “Of course.” You’ll notice in the story this isn’t about you, the client, but rather the proprietor. Should Hotel Owners Be Forced To Hand Over Guest Records To Police?:

At issue was a Los Angeles ordinance that requires hotel and motel owners to record various pieces of information about their guests — drivers license, credit card and automobile tags, for instance. The hotel owners don’t dispute they have to do that; what they do dispute is the part of the law that requires proprietors to make this information available to any member of the Los Angeles Police Department upon demand.

The city contends the law is a necessary and important tool for fighting prostitution, drug trafficking and other crimes. The hotel and motel owners, some of them mom and pop operations, contend they are harassed by police, who sometimes show up for inspections of their records in the middle of the night. They contend that police should at least have a subpoena in hand, allowing the proprietors to challenge the inspection in court if they think they are being harassed.

You could make tea party jokes, but I suppose you’d have to deal with various interest groups and obtain an EPA release. There’s no limit to the jokes, really, but this is serious. Obama “Very Interested” In Raising Taxes Through Executive Action:

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest confirmed Monday that President Obama is “very interested” in the idea of raising taxes through unilateral executive action.

“The president certainly has not indicated any reticence in using his executive authority to try and advance an agenda that benefits middle class Americans,” Earnest said in response to a question about Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) calling on Obama to raise more than $100 billion in taxes through IRS executive action.

“Now I don’t want to leave you with the impression that there is some imminent announcement, there is not, at least that I know of,” Earnest continued. “But the president has asked his team to examine the array of executive authorities that are available to him to try to make progress on his goals. So I am not in a position to talk in any detail at this point, but the president is very interested in this avenue generally,” Earnest finished.

Here at home, some things never change.

Alabama Supreme Court orders halt to same-sex marriages

Gov. Robert Bentley on state budget problems: ‘We cannot cut our way out of this’

This is a really neat, unsurprising and seldom told type of sports story. Beauty of sport: Texas A&M’s compassionate act in Auburn’s time of need:

On Saturday morning, former NBA forward Anthony Mason, father of Auburn guard Antoine Mason, died in Manhattan following complications from an earlier heart attack. Antoine already was with his loved ones, but Auburn rightfully felt compelled to somehow honor the Mason family in a game nationally televised on the SEC Network (or even if it wasn’t).

Problem was, Auburn already was in College Station, and the Tigers’ jerseys were laid out in the Reed Arena visitors locker room, hours before a 7:30 p.m. tip against the Aggies. That’s when Auburn head equipment manager Dana Marquez reached out from Auburn to his friend and counterpart at A&M, Matt Watson.

Watson has served as A&M’s head equipment manager since 2000, but is only 43 – a testament to how diligent and good he is at his gig. This is one more example. Watson received the call from Marquez at 3:30 p.m. Saturday, only four hours prior to tip.

Marquez asked if the Aggies could do anything at all to help the Tigers honor Mason. The result was an example of the oft-untold good in sports.

“It was the right thing to do,” Watson said. “Life happens, and it doesn’t always happen in a timely manner.”

And time was of the essence.

From the depths of history, and the deep of the Pacific, Microsoft co-founder says he’s discovered long-lost Japanese battleship:

Paul Allen says he has found the wreck of a long-lost World War II Japanese battleship near the Philippines.

The philanthropist posted images on Twitter that appeared to show the Musashi, once one of the two largest warships in the world. The discovery was made aboard his superyacht, the MY Octopus, as part of an expedition that Allen launched.

The search has taken Allen and his team of researchers more than eight years.

The images and video were taken by an unmanned submersible deployed from the vessel.

It is simultaneously amazing that we are capable of making discoveries like this and surprising that it often takes so long to make discoveries like this.