04:00 pm - Avocado leaf
The underside of an avocado leaf
I watched Julie & Julia on DVD tonight. What a wonderful movie! Meryl Streep makes an excellent Julia Child. So did Dan Aykroyd. :-)
According to gather.com quoting the New York Times:
In the seventeen Brevard County, Florida Public Libraries, you can find Lolita and The Complete Kama Sutra, but not the number one book on USA Today's top seller list, Fifty Shades of Grey. A spokesman for the Brevard County government, Don Walker said, "We view this as pornographic material," but then admits he hasn't read any of the three books in the Fifty Shades trilogy!How come people who ban books never try reading them first to make an informed decision?
When asked why books like Tropic of Cancer and Lady Chatterley's Lover were available but not Fifty Shades, Cathy Schweinsberg, the library services director said, "...those other books were written years ago and became classics, because of the quality of the writing. This is not a classic." Well! Who decides what is 'quality writing'? Mr. Walker's reasoning? The other books have "become part of the societal mainstream."
Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood by Oliver Sacks is an interesting book about the history of chemistry, the discovery of elements, and Sacks's childhood, family, and growing up in England during the war. Amazing what dangerous substances were readily available for purchase and experimentation back then.
The Space Shuttle Enterprise carried on top of the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft flying past my office building in downtown Manhattan on its way to JFK.
One of the hundreds of stray cats along Paseo del Morro, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico
I just finished processing the photos from my recent Caribbean cruise on Holland America's m/s Eurodam. We went to Grand Turk, San Juan (Puerto Rico), Charlotte Amalie (St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands), Half Moon Cay (Holland America's private resort in the Bahamas).
More photos on Flickr
Yesterday afternoon my iPad popped up an alert saying that new "Carrier Settings" were available and asked me if I wanted the update. I accepted, and immediately after my iPad no longer said it was connected to Verizon 3G. It still had a 3G signal, and I could still use it, but it no longer said Verizon, and the Verizon specific account info in Settings disappeared. It took me an hour on the phone with Verizon, and installing new software on the iPad before things got back to normal.
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