Fall is here
The sunset on the equinox was spectacular, courtesy of the approaching storm Ophelia. Days later the rain and chill are still here. Fall is here for real.
Still trying to get out and do more, as the weather permits. I went to an interesting lecture on the upcoming US Supreme Court year. The Court is under a lot of scrutiny right now, with ethical lapses showing up on the news. The lecture was fun. And Johns Hopkins had an open house to show off their new building on Pennsylvania Avenue. They remodeled the old Newseum. They kept the balconies with the spectacular views but the insides are all study spaces and classrooms now. They did a nice job. And every Sunday afternoon I go up to a local Irish bar to listen to some musicians do a session.
Reading: I splurged on some audiobooks: Starter Villain by John Scalzi, Mammoths at the Gate by Nghi Vo, Winter's Gifts by Ben Aaronovitch, and The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman. For a real book, I just started reading The Delusions of Crowds by William Bernstein. It's about how false narratives have caused catastrophes throughout the years.
And I was really sorry to see David McCallum passed away. He just had his 90th birthday too. This generation knows him as Ducky Mallard on NCIS, but mine remembers him fondly as Illya Kuryakin on the Man from UNCLE. RIP.
Yesterday, a Marine who was killed in an Osprey crash was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery. Four Ospreys did a flyover in his honor. When they are in airplane mode their engines are much quieter.
Still trying to get out and do more, as the weather permits. I went to an interesting lecture on the upcoming US Supreme Court year. The Court is under a lot of scrutiny right now, with ethical lapses showing up on the news. The lecture was fun. And Johns Hopkins had an open house to show off their new building on Pennsylvania Avenue. They remodeled the old Newseum. They kept the balconies with the spectacular views but the insides are all study spaces and classrooms now. They did a nice job. And every Sunday afternoon I go up to a local Irish bar to listen to some musicians do a session.
Reading: I splurged on some audiobooks: Starter Villain by John Scalzi, Mammoths at the Gate by Nghi Vo, Winter's Gifts by Ben Aaronovitch, and The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman. For a real book, I just started reading The Delusions of Crowds by William Bernstein. It's about how false narratives have caused catastrophes throughout the years.
And I was really sorry to see David McCallum passed away. He just had his 90th birthday too. This generation knows him as Ducky Mallard on NCIS, but mine remembers him fondly as Illya Kuryakin on the Man from UNCLE. RIP.
Yesterday, a Marine who was killed in an Osprey crash was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery. Four Ospreys did a flyover in his honor. When they are in airplane mode their engines are much quieter.
