Thursday
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Nov 16
From this morning’s run
People are saying that autumn came too late and hasn’t lasted long enough. I couldn’t say, but it certainly has its colorful moments:
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Oct 16
Thursday status:
Just another beautiful day on campus:
Took that picture from The Yankee’s office on the fourth floor. For a moment, I was as tall as a tree. Also, I was in my wife’s office, which is just a few feet from mine, and that’s nice.
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Oct 16
Beam this up
There has been a Star Trek exhibit at one of the campus museums. As far as I can tell there might be 16 museums and galleries on this one campus. This was at Lilly, the acclaimed rare book library. The experts there house more than 400,000 books, more than seven million manuscripts, 100,000 pieces of sheet music and, right now, a small Star Trek exhibit.
Being the last few days, these were on display, I had to stop by.
Please note the date. This is a 1964 treatment of the original Trek, with Gene Rodenberry’s name across the top:
This means that staple has been in place for more than 52 years. Incredible.
Also, look at the example episode descriptions. Some seem familiar. Some read like obvious early drafts of old favorites. And one just might have been altogether forgotten, fortunately.
One of the classics, the Trouble With Tribbles, which was written by David Gerrold:
Side note, the tribble episode might be one of the last of the original series I ever managed to catch. Famous as it was, I never saw it on television.
This is from another classic episode, Amok Time, written by the great Theodore Sturgeon:
And, oh look, something like tri-ox is actually a medical reality now.
And just over from the the script for the famous third act sick bay scene was this handsome cover:
It was a small exhibit, and mostly script-based items of the above sort. But it was worth walking a few blocks on a warm autumn day to see. And, by the door, someone had filled a display case with action figures:
I’m pretty sure that they just wanted to show off their Gorn.
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Sep 16
Well that happened in a hurry
I say this at least once a year, but maples are quitters:
And this is way too early for the first leaf to have turned and let go of the branch to find its way to the ground. I found it on the sidewalk outside of our building on campus this morning. I’m noting the date and time, should anything come of it.
Found this repop poster on the wall at lunch today. While I find it too early for the leaf turn, this is right on time.
Even if the poster is wrong — Game One was at Yankee Stadium — it is eerily right on time. Game One of the 1932 World Series was on September 28th. This happened 84 years and one day ago.
The Yankees won. Some 41,000 fans saw the Yankees take the lead with a Lou Gehrig, and then they really poured it on in the final three frames. Red Ruffing pitched a complete game, striking out 10 Cubs.
So that’s timing, for you.
On the 29th, in Game Two, the Yankees won 5-2 and Hall of Famer Lefty Gomez got the second win of the Series. That game took one hour and 46 minutes to complete, and is not the shortest on record. (That’d be an 85 minute contest in 1908.) Babe Ruth saw his last Yankee Stadium World Series game. Ruth’s supposed called shot took place in the third game, in Chicago.
Through all of this, the Cubs wouldn’t hold a lead for more than a half-inning until Game Four, but even that couldn’t stand up. They got swept. But look at the Cubbies now, right?
