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How to Get The Most Out of Your Technology: TED Talk
The First Computer: a 240 Year Old Automaton
An amazing piece on the precursor to a computer. This automaton is two hundred forty years old, the creation of Swiss watchmaker Pierre Jaquet-Droz.
Continue reading →Part 69: Who’s Who?
I have been putting off writing the latest addition to my mother-daughter series for several reasons: I have been really tired if not drained, I have been fighting those ocular migraines which have been coming in groups, like one episode a day isn’t enough, I have been busy running around, and at times I am just plain daunted. I have: taken my mother to apply for all kinds of changes at social security taken her to apply for a NYS photo ID gotten applications for all kinds of services spent hours on the phone with the social worker gotten her … Continue reading →
Google Doodle: Happy Birthday, Claude Debussy
8/22/13 Google Doodles are the best. >Happy Birthday, Claude Debussy.< Clair De Lune. (Moonlight)
Continue reading →A Slice of Life …
The Lower East Side of Manhattan Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village Are Highlighted The following video is a segment of a PBS broadcast about Robert Moses and the post-war re-building of New York City. Mid-way, it features the development in which I grew up, Stuyvesant Town and how it replaced hundreds of tenement buildings and displaced thousands of people. It is interesting to note that the original purpose of the building of Stuyvesant Town was to provide affordable housing to the World War II veterans and their families. At this time the management has changed hands several … Continue reading →
A Wonderful, Nostalgic New York City Video
My friend, K., brought this video to my attention and I sat there for almost a half hour glued to it: I had a bad case of nostalgia. I miss the old simple New York City of my childhood, the young ladies in white gloves and dresses, the young men in suits and ties, the Mamie Eisenhower outfits on mothers. This is one of the kitschiest “tours” of New York City I’ve seen. Of course the young man in the horse drawn carriage on a date was smoking–it seems so passeé. The streets that are now so impossible to … Continue reading →
Song in my Head…
This has been one of the rainiest Springs I can recall. Rain. Cool. Hot, muggy. Rain, cool. Migraine weather. Here’s some relief … or maybe not. Love Billie Holiday, nonetheless.
Continue reading →Tuning Into the Universe: a TED talk with Honor Harger
A fascinating sound-fest from your favorite orbs in the sky and beyond. Space speaks, we just have to listen.
Continue reading →A Ted talk on the buffet of life…The Paradox of Choice
Too much choice is just too much. Barry Schwarz on “The Paradox of Choice.” If you’ve ever walked into one of those “all you can eat” buffets, you’ll know. It’s a lot more than food.
Continue reading →Video: The Power of Words
Video: 3-D Printing: Sci-fi or the future?
I find this video and it’s implications astounding. Just think: you’ll never lose your keys again. Here’s a link to a related article:http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/3-d-printers-could-bring-manufacturing-to-your-home-office/2013/01/07/2b42bdb8-56be-11e2-a613-ec8d394535c6_story.html
Continue reading →Salsa dancing : Never underestimate an older woman
What I hope I will be doing when I am eighty! She’s way ahead of me. Are women cool, or what?
Continue reading →The Relative Size of the Universe
Dancing at the Movies
How to Cuddle With an Elephant Seal
I came across this video from a friend and was very taken by it. After posting it, it went viral and people from all over the world came to see it. The comments ranged from joy to anger; some folks were moved by the interaction between the woman and the wild sea animal while others felt she was a danger to it and was invading its space. No matter what, you can’t help but be dumb-struck. And maybe a little teary-eyed.
Continue reading →Memories of WNEW Channel 5 – New York
Who needed cable? We had everything; the best television-watching ever. The way it was…some nostalgia for you.
Continue reading →An early film clip of Anne Frank …
Twenty seconds: the only existing film images. If only time could have been stopped. If only. Anne watches a wedding couple from her window. And then life went on.
Continue reading →Women in Art
500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art Music: Bach’s Sarabande from Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 performed by Yo-Yo Ma. For a complete list of artists and paintings visit http://www.maysstuff.com/womenid https://www.myspace.com/eggman913
Continue reading →Women in Film
Music: Bach’s Prelude from Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 performed by Yo-Yo Ma Mary Pickford, Lillian Gish, Gloria Swanson, Marlene Dietrich, Norma Shearer, Ruth Chatterton, Jean Harlow, Katharine Hepburn, Carole Lombard, Bette Davis, Greta Garbo, Barbara Stanwyck, Vivien Leigh, Greer Garson, Hedy Lamarr, Rita Hayworth, Gene Tierney, Olivia de Havilland, Ingrid Bergman, Joan Crawford, Ginger Rogers, Loretta Young, Deborah Kerr, Judy Garland, Anne Baxter, Lauren Bacall, Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner, Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly, Lana Turner, Elizabeth Taylor, Kim Novak, Audrey Hepburn, Dorothy Dandridge, Shirley MacLaine, Natalie Wood, Rita Moreno, Janet Leigh, Brigitte Bardot, … Continue reading →