September 28, 2019

$22 win!



I happened to come across a 2010 video, on The Big Picture, of my favorite Neurobiologist's Stanford course Introduction to Human Behavioral Biology. Someone on Youtube had a link to all 25 lectures.

September 27, 2019

NY Court of Appeals, Albany NY.



Beers from Jack's Abbey and Golden Road. The Mango Cart is a perfect Summer brew.

September 24, 2019

Reading this biography of Seneca by Emily Wilson.



This free download has most of Seneca's essays.

September 23, 2019

Autumnal Equinox, wish I was there today.

September 22, 2019

Perfect score!



$20 win!

September 21, 2019

Another visit to Fire Island.



On the water.



Ocean Beach, great signs.



Declaiming from above.

September 17, 2019

Richard III at a park in Staten Island. Good production.



Battery Weed is a great settings.



Picked up some Pizza to go and had a Flagship Roggenfest while it cooked.

The specs:
Flagship Roggenfest (6.5% ABV ~ 23 IBU) is Flagship’s fall seasonal combines two classic German beer styles: roggenbier, a German ale brewed with rye, and märzenbier, also known as Oktoberfest for the Munich beer festival, a full-flavored beer that marks the season. We give you Flagship Roggenfest! This malty brew uses Vienna and Munich varieties of malted barley that are complemented with German malted rye and German chocolate rye. Bavarian noble hops balance the beer with a mild bitterness and soft floral aroma. The result is a full-bodied dark copper colored ale with a smooth texture and spicy-like characteristic from the rye malt. Grab some bratwurst or a pretzel and enjoy a Roggenfest before the all the leaves fall.

September 14, 2019

Couple of days off for Golf, Cards and Beach. Shake Shack on the road, good breakfast sandwich.



Water Tower in the background.



Course right off the ocean.



Couple of Egrets.



Gotta love the mailbox on a house next to the course.



The Jersey Shore, Atlantic City in the distance.

September 8, 2019

The Alamo. From a 1992 visit to San Antonio. Just saw Rio Bravo and never knew the music that the Mexicans played during the siege.



Rio Bravo was good. John Wayne underplayed his role and was quite good. The Degüello in the movie is not the actual Degüello, but music written by film composer Dimitri Tiomkin. Once you hear it, you realize how Sergio Leone used it with variations.

September 7, 2019

Another rainbow the other day.



Kossar's for Bialys.



The Sutton Hoo Ship Burial Helmet.



Hoa Hakanania'a means "Stolen or Hidden Friend."



Aztec Double-Headed Serpent.

September 6, 2019

$19.50 win!

September 4, 2019

Enigma cipher machine.



Food exhibit at the Albert and Victoria museum.



Gem cask ale.



Roman Bath.



Top of the Eye.



Big Ben in repair.

September 3, 2019

Original Woodstock poster.



I liked Helen Schlesinger's take on Falstaff. Lots of drinking from the audience's cups. A pigeon flew in and sat atop a stage pillar. She addressed the ‘What is that honour?’ speech to the bird.

September 2, 2019

$10 win!



Queen’s Guard at Windsor Castle.



Stonehenge.



The Eye.



Tower Bridge.



Always go to local Farmer's Markets.



London Bridge ain't much to look at.



The Globe.



Part of the Elgin Marbles.



British Museum.



Kali Ma.



Rosetta Stone.



Ramesses II.

Inspiration for Shelly's Ozymandias:

Ozymandias
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

"I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”