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I'm on a cruise, so that determines what I post.  However, I'll maintain a sense of order by continuing these daily themes whenever possible.

  • Monday:  top news of the day and politics.
  • Tuesday:  nostalgia.
  • Wednesday:  science and technology.
  • Thursday:  COVID-19 pandemic.
  • Friday:  something more lighthearted.
  • Saturday:  entertainment.
  • Sunday:  spiritual.
So far, yes, yesterday, continuing into today, something newsworthy, which was the Academy Award ceremony.  But first today I reach into my past, and my mind at this moment, is way back into 1958 when I went to Stanford instead of Cal Tech, because I just read in Quora the following about my second choice.

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It's small.

REALLY small

People(including students) often don't understand how small, and how it changes everything.

The deans know EVERY student by name.

If you want to change something(like a requirement for a major), you can ask for it, and IT WILL be considered

If you want to ask another Caltech person a question, they WILL NOT ignore* you, even if you are a frosh, and they are Nobel laureates, even if the question is stupid.

*They might say they are busy, and they might plan to answer later and forget, but they will not ignore you.

IN 2006, David Politzer (Nobel laureate in Physics 04..,.that photo is how he looked twenty years or so ago), wrote a long detailed letter to my friend in response to the question "how will space travel effect werewolves" (in short, their transformation will become mostly a function of space, instead of time).


Here in the Tasmanian Sea on a Seabourn Odyssey cruise I was able to watch the entire 95th Academy Awards ceremony.  As expected, Everything Everywhere All at Once dominated.  Even Rotten Tomatoes gave it 95/89 ratings.  My blog did not think so well of the film:


  • Me? You would think a film featuring an Asian family dealing with parallel universes would be appealing.  Nope.  Did not like the movie.  Too confusing, too many fisticuffs, a few technical flaws, with an uncertain ending.  I would have given it a 50% score.

I still cannot explain why I thought unwell of the production, except that it was confusing and helter-skelter.  Here from NBC News is a 4-minute video of the best.  And the best.

I did, though, have a good lunch watching the Oscars.

That was Yeoh winning her Best Actress Oscar.  My lunch ended around 2:30PM, but soon thereafter, High Tea in our cabin.
That dark drink is my melange of Kahlua Coffee, Chambord (raspberry) and lime juice, over ice.  My computer thinks I'm an idiot and, in my absence, later, meaning sometimes overnight, too many times, for a wide variety of terms, changed the Chambord to Chambered.  

You have already seen this happening in the past.  Such is life.  Chambord, incidentally, sounds French, which it is.  The history, though, brings this drink to the USA.

Then at 6PM, the Caviar Sailaway (DID IT AGAIN....MY COMPUTER HAD CHANGED IT TO SPILLWAY!!!  ARGHH...just caught by accident) with their singers.
We immediately went to the Colonnade for an Australian dinner.  I was not hungry at all, but getting there when the place opens insures for a great table.
Supersatiated (again, I'm fencing with my AirMac...it thinks there is no word like supersatiated.  Of course there is...it is the past tense of being in the uber state of satiate in reference to food.), I skipped dessert and went home to sleep.  I might add that for two straight nights, the soup was junk.  Told our server.  Mind you, the cuisine on this Seabourn ship is phenomenal. If you were wondering what exactly is Australian food, in addition to barbies, it can be anything.

My pedometer today.
Wow, almost 10,000 steps.  Actually I forgot to zero out the 6409 from the day before, so I actually only walked 3306 steps today.  

Tomorrow, Tacos Tuesday (I'm a day ahead of you), with Margaritas.  Then again, maybe not.

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