Here are a few seconds of this game. Noah scored 4 goals and an assist in this 8-7 victory on 4/15/15 at Randalls Island.
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Category Archives: Movies, TV, Podcasts
Friday – 4/3/2015
Final snow.
Slavery Was Not Inefficient
Cotton picking productivity in The Half Has Never Been Told by Edward Baptist
Continuing to work through this book. Here is a graph that demonstrates that the cotton economy was in fact dynamic and enormously productive. Slave owners used detailed accounting of each slave’s production and regular beatings and other physical violence to enforce ever greater levels of production.
Movie – Wild Tales
Argentine film, Wild Tales. Opens with a scene in an airplane that is really frightening because since the movie was made, the German airliner was crashed into the mountain in French Alps by a depressed guy. Scene in the movie shows captain banging on the door. Then the plane crashing into backyard of the co-pilots parents.
Completely over the top story of two guys who get into a traffic altercation on a remote highway. Both end up burned to death in a wrecked car.
Tuesday – 3/24/15
Snow and ice almost gone from shady side of street. 8:38 am
Went to gym early.
Very good UTM meeting with Seth and Jan about developers.
Went to Harrington’s for paint. Very expensive $49 per gallon. Paint DOG rooms tomorrow. Continue reading
Monday – 3/9/15
Spent most of day on UTM. Met with Jan at Columbia Memorial Hospital for talk with Katie Cullen, head hospitalist. She is enthusiastic about the app. Wants to bring more of her people into using it. Ran over to Fish & Game Rd. office of Chris Gorczinski. He had his admin, Kacey Quirk, with him. Similar discussion.
Went to Albany to meet up with Karen and David Drake for a movie, Leviathan, and later dinner with Dave’s new girlfriend Liz. Need to find her last name. Continue reading
Friday – 2/13/15
Meeting with HAL board candidate Agi Clark cancelled due to her illness.
Spent most of morning catching up on accounting for DOE.
Walked to post office – 8 degrees. Found Valentine’s card for K.
Went to see Selma (IMDB entry), the movie. Was afraid that it might be a bad movie. Proved to be well constructed with good interlacing of personal, organizational, and public events. Meetings with LBJ featured. How many times did King really meet with him in the White House.
Thursday – 2/12/15
Drove to Albany for a UTM meeting with Belvedere Home Care for a requirements gathering meeting. Jan Woodcock led the process. Very active customer inputs from four staff & CEO/owner.
Then on to UAlbany for the regular weekly meeting with the students.
My visit to Albany Made Here Creative Space at Albany Public Library was cancelled due to illness. Will see this next week. They are building this in partnership with Etsy.
Finished last of season five of The Wire. Now have seen the entire series again. Still most compelling TV.
2/10/2004 – The Interrotron – Errol Morris
In a recent visit to the movies I picked up the FLM [Magazine] (Winter 2004), a product of Landmark Theatres, and found an article by Errol Morris, “13 Questions and Answers on the Filmmaking of Errol Morris”. It contained a bit of drollery about the Interrotron.
In The Fog of War and other Morris’ movies, the interview subjects stare straight into the camera while responding to a voice interviewing them from off screen.
Here is the text lifted without permission from the magazine’s website (http://www.movienet.com/fogofwar.html). I have attempted to maintain the design and layout. I did add the picture of the Interrotron from another source.
Q Is it true that you interview people using a machine?
A Yes, the (patent pending) Interrotron. It’s a machine that uses existing technology in a new and novel way. When I made my first film, Gates of Heaven, I interviewed people by putting my head right up against the lens of the camera. I would be talking to them, and it seemed as though they were looking directly into the lens of the camera, but not really. Almost, but not quite. Of course, they were looking a little bit off to the side.Q Why? What’s the point?
A To create the first person. When someone watches my films, it is as though the characters are talking directly to them…There is no third party. On television we’re used to seeing people interviewed 60 Minutes style. There is Mike Wallace or Larry King, and the camera is off to the side. Hence, we, the audience, are also off to the side. We’re the fly-on-the-wall, so to speak, watching two people talking. But we’ve lost something.Q What?
A Direct eye contact.Q Eye contact?
A Uh huh. We all know when someone makes eye contact with us. It is a moment of drama. Perhaps it’s a serial killer telling us that he’s about to kill us; or a loved one acknowledging a moment of affection. Regardless, it’s a moment with dramatic value. We know when people make eye contact with us, look away and then make eye contact again. It’s an essential part of communication. And yet, it is lost in standard interviews on film. That is, until the Interrotron.Q I don’t get it.
A I got tired of sitting so close to the camera. (In my early films, my cameraman would grab the back of my head and pull me back because you could see the side of my head in the lens. When he yanked me back, it often hurt.) And I started to wonder, what if I could become one with the camera. What if the camera and myself could become one and the same?Q You’re losing me.
A Well, not literally. Are you familiar with Teleprompters?Q Not really.
A Well, Teleprompters are used to project an image on a two-way mirror. Politicians and newscasters use them so that they can read text and look into the lens of the camera at the same time. What interests me is that nobody thought of using them for anything other than to display text: read a speech or read the news and look into the lens of the camera.
(image borrowed without permission from http://www.spin.com)
Q OK.
A I changed that. I put my face on the Teleprompter or, strictly speaking, my live video image. For the first time, I could be talking to someone, and they could be talking to me and at the same time looking directly into the lens of the camera. Now, there was no looking off slightly to the side. No more faux first person. This was the true first person.Q It sounds like Buck Rogers. Were people willing to tolerate this?
A I worried at first. Would it frighten people? Would they run out of the studio screaming? Who could say? I used it for the first time in Fast, Cheap & Out of Control. And it worked like a charm. People loved
the Interrotron.Q The Interrotron? Did you make up the name?
A No, it was named by my wife, Julia Sheehan. She liked the name because it combined two important concepts — terror and interview.Q But doesn’t the device intimidate people?
A Oddly enough, no. It doesn’t. People, if anything, feel more relaxed when talking to a live video image. My production designer, Ted Bafaloukos, said, “The beauty of this thing is that it allows people to do what they do best. Watch television…” We often think of technology as
working against the possibility of intimacy. But there are so many counter-examples. The telephone is a good counter-example. There are things we can say to each other on the phone that we would never say if we were in the same room. You know, “Being there is the next best thing to using the phone…” The Interrotron is like that. It creates greater distance and greater intimacy. And it also creates the true first person. Now, when people make eye contact with me, it can be preserved on film.Q Have you used it much?
A Whenever I need to. I used it in a film that introduced the Academy Awards® in 2002. Gorbachev, Laura Bush, Iggy Pop, Al Sharpton and Walter Cronkite have all been on the Interrotron.Q Did Robert McNamara like it?
A Well, you have to remember that we are talking about someone who has been interviewed a thousand times. He walked into the studio and said, “What is that?” I smiled and said, “The Interrotron.” He said, “Well, whatever it is, I don’t like it.” But then he sat down, and we proceeded to record over twenty hours of interviews. I guess he came to like it, too.
7/12/2003 – Saturday – movie – Terminator 3: rise of the machines
Year In Pictures – June 28 thru July 15, 2003
June 28, 2003 Saturday
We attended a wedding party for Kristen Graves (former tenant at 52 Kinnaird) and Lien Tung at their house in North Cambridge.
Sunday June 29, 2003 Roadrace and Shulman Party
The New Charles River 5K and 5 mile race.
The guy to my left appears to be running. In fact, he is a race walker. I kept pace with him for the first mile. By the three mile marker, I couldn’t see him. He finished 3 minutes ahead of me across the finish line.
That’s me closing in on the finish line [the finish line photo was in an old now defunct format – so lost]. A disappointing 37 minutes, barely under 12 minutes per mile pace.
BTW: After the race was over, the race walker came over and we chatted. He had heart bypass surgery a year ago.
(Thanks for the photos to the official Mr. Wonderful Sports Photographer, Ms. Karen.)
>We also went to a luncheon given by Hank and Flo Shulman in honor of the son Brian and new daughter-in-law Tracy.
Goldie Barman
Mariachi Band
Monday June 30, 2003
Boston Harbor Cruise sponsored by the Cambridge police department for the Riverside and Cambridgeport neighborhoods.
Talked with Anne Williamson, a neighbor and compatriot from the old RCCC days and other community matters.
Tuesday July 1, 2003
Went to see Dr. Jim Umlas today. Looks like I have some floaters. To my surprise he found floaters that i had not noticed in my left eye as well as the new one in my right
“FLOATERS
Seeing floaters (spots) before one or both eyes is a frequent adult complaint. Floaters are usually most noticeable against a white homogeneous background and seem to move slowly when the eye is still. Floaters maintain their relative position in the visual field with eye movement. They result from contraction of the vitreous gel and its separation from the surface of the retina (posterior vitreous detachment). This leads to macroscopic opaque aggregates of vitreous fibers, which can be seen floating in the vitreous. Since the vitreous gel is denser where it attaches to the optic nerve, floaters are usually more apparent in this area. Although floaters usually are without significance, in a few patients they may indicate a tear in the retina. They are more prevalent in highly myopic and older persons and tend to become less noticeable with time.”
from THE MERCK MANUAL, Sec. 8, Ch. 90, Approach To The Patient With Eye Disease
image borrowed without permission from www.lensconsultants.com/_images_us/020602.jpg information downloaded Tuesday, July 22, 2003 9:25:24
Thursday July 3, 2003
Trip to NYC for a long Fourth of July Weekend
We left Cambridge by 8:30 or so and arrived in NYC, the Chelsea neighborhood first, in time for lunch at a tavern’s noisy back yard. All was ok because I took my bowl of chili with Guiness.
We stopped at a number of galleries, but we found our return to InCamera to be the most rewarding.
InCamera Gallery
511 West 25th Street, Suite 401
New York, New York 10001
Phone: 212 647 766
The current exhibition is a group show. One of the owners of InCamera, David Monaco, took an inordinate amount of time showing us lots of photos in his portfolio of artists.
photo above by David Stewart – From the Fogeys series
Friday July 4, 2003
We visited with the New York crowd, Andrea, John, Noah, Nyla and the extended family (more on them below).
We went to a pool party at John and Jeanette’s (147th St & Malcolm X Blvd). Little did we know that these are real partying pros.
Karen bouncing Nyla
Noah
Nyla
Karen with Nyla
By the time a couple of hours had passed, we had enlarged our territory to four table from our original two. And, we were still there until the clean up crew began to sweep us towards the gates. 
Saturday July 5, 2003
On Friday and Saturday mornings, I took advantage of the running path around the Reservoir in Central Park. Nice packed dirt surface. Most everyone runs in the same direction around the 1.6 mile circumference.
(picture appropriated from http://www.centralpark2000.com/touring/runners_bikers_skaters/reservoir_tracks.htm)
(After my run Friday morning, I found our way north through the park, skirting the tennis courts and stumbling through a ravine and under two bridges of very different construction to the Harlem Meer and the edge of the park. A mini-adventure.)
No trip to the city would be considered without visits to museums.
We spent part of Saturday at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
Karen found the National Design Triennial stimulating.
At the Whitney, we focused on three exhibits:
Pictures from Within: American Photographs, 1958–2003;
The American Effect;
and Elie Nadelman: Sculptor of Modern Life
Sarah Sze’s “The Triple Point of Water” in the courtyard at the Whitney
The American Effect is a large show of artwork from around the world that focuses on reflections, influences, and commentary on America. Only a few pieces really revealed how engrained American images and ideas are throughout the world. Most of the work was much more straightforward commentary. An interesting phenomenon in the exhibition is the presence of so much video/computer-based art. I found this off-putting because I was not mentally prepared to put on headphones and settle down for a while to see a video or interact with a computer. Thus an awful lot of the exhibition was missed by me.
Monday July 7, 2003
Here is friend Linda at her new Apple eMac.
More lessons about surfing the web to follow.
After many year’s of using old machines and suffering the breakdowns, this is her first brand-new, out-if-the-box computer.
Wednesday July 9, 2003
Karen’s birthday – after the party
Thursday July 10, 2003
A favorite with Law & Order
Saturday July 12, 2003
Arnold returns!
Sunday July 13, 2003
A smoke stop in one of my favorite parks in Cambridge, Cpl Burns on Flagg St.
What is not visible here?
To the left of the path at rear of picture, two basketball courts where some of the best round ball around is played. On the right of the path at rear of picture, several panel trucks and a couple of SUVs with noisy rap music and people hanging out. To the left at about where the father is helping the tricyclist, is a street hockey court. To the immediate left, is a large playground with a couple of water spritzers and little children screaming as they run through the water sprays.
I walk up this path from the river after each run along the Charles. I enjoy it every time.
Harvard is finishing up new student housing across the river at Western Ave. I have been troubled from the beginning and now as it comes to completion i am struggling to find good things to say. I will return later with a little photo essay and you can decide for yourself.
Monday July 14, 2003
A visit to Dr. Wolpow, neurologist
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I paid a visit to my neurologist today. He gave me a little lecture about how we lack appropriate mental models for the pace and process of peripheral nervous system repairs. He said the good news is that the nerves damaged in the Lyme attack two years ago are alive, but that recovery could take 2 to 3 more years assuming that recovery continues…. so I guess I have to keep my consumption of Scotch dwon to once a week. As Mother used to say in such states, “What a bore!”.
Construction at 217 Western Ave continues. Controversy over disruption of neighbors side yard seem to be resolved with new fence and promises of landscaping when the project is finished.
Year In Pictures – May 2003
Thursday May 1, 2003
Work on a proposal with Boeing.
Saturday May 3, 2003
I ran a 5K race along the Charles, The First Annual Asthma Fund Raiser at MGH, part of World Asthma Day. Here I am in the T-shirt from the last race (December 3, 2000) I ran in before the Lyme plague. Finished this one in 36’20”. Slow (targeted 33′ 30″) but Felt Great!!
