A Top Ten List!

The Top Ten Reasons to Preserve Rock Creek Hills Park are listed at SaveRockCreekHillsPark.org!

Cars go bang! [NeuroCooking FlashBack]

If you get the chance to attend a county fair demolition derby, we suggest that you go. But bring earplugs.

[Photos: At the 2010 Delaware County (NY) Fair.]

"Citizens Appeal to State, Seek to Protect Park."

An update is available at SaveRockCreekHillsPark.org.

"Here's what we've done to help."

Two things I said to the Board this morning about Rock Creek Hills Park:

"...understanding the availability of the site is key to avoiding wasting time, resources, and scarce tax dollars pursuing an option that may not exist."

"Doing so would be consistent with the due diligence that is required in any site selection, and in this case, it could help avoid enforcement actions or threats to future funding."

Save the Trees of Rock Creek Hills Park!

Have you seen the two new videos from SaveRockCreekHillsPark.org?

• Trees.

http://youtu.be/nOzFAv0zDs0

• "... not going to be any trees left."

http://youtu.be/K493b9vhqw8

"res ipsa loquitur"

Children say "lookit"; lawyers say "res ipsa loquitur" ("the thing speaks for itself").

NeuroCooking friends who have been following our community's efforts to save Rock Creek Hills Park may be interested in this: A one-minute YouTube video, comprising two half-minute clips, has been posted to www.SaveRockCreekHillsPark.org on its own – that is, with no accompanying text (other than a title: "MCPS 'Feasibility Study' Process Lacks Integrity").

Because, the video speaks for itself. Or, as the kids say: Lookit!

Summer's here and the time is right for a gerund in the street, boy.

Variations on a theme:

"Summer's here and the time is right for dancing in the street."

– Marvin Gaye, 1964.

"Summer's here and the time is right for fighting in the street, boy."

– The Rolling Stones, 1968.

"Summer's here and the time is right for going racing in the street."

– Bruce Springsteen, 1978.

"the ultimate machine"

Claude Shannon (1916 – 2001), "the Father of Information Theory", built several machines, including this one, which he dubbed "the ultimate machine":

[h/t: Mark Mitton]

Save Rock Creek Hills Park!

What I said to the Board last night: "... don't build a costly and deficient school on this little park."

Sunday Feature: Photo Gallery.

Have you seen what supporters of Rock Creek Hills Park are sharing on facebook?

Save Rock Creek Hills Park!

What Cathy Fink told the Board Monday night: "In this park 50 languages say hi to each other."

Save Rock Creek Hills Park!

What Paul Beck told the Board Monday night: "I invite you to reflect for a moment on our sense of betrayal."

Save Rock Creek Hills Park!

What I told the Board of Ed last night: "No wonder you don't want to talk about this."

Save Rock Creek Hills Park!

[Photo: Soccer yesterday in Rock Creek Hills Park, &

the Kensington Park retirement community.

Join park supporters on facebook ;

learn more at http://SaveRockCreekHillsPark.org. ]

Save Rock Creek Hills Park!

We have been writing here less often, NeuroCooking friends, because another topic has been occupying us lately, a great deal really, since the night of April 28th, when, out of the blue, something shocking and terrible happened.

In fact, ...

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On second thought, we would prefer not to go into the matter here. However, we would like to take the opportunity to direct your attention to it.

And so, please, might we direct your attention to:

http://SaveRockCreekHillsPark.org

And to the facebook page "Save Rock Creek Hills Park".

Thank you for your understanding, and your interest.

Because this ain't Hebrew. (Not that there'd be anything wrong with that).

We generally eschew photoshop. Sure, we'll crop a little, and rotate by a few degrees (to level things out), but otherwise we leave our images pretty-much as-they-were-captured-by-the-camera. But.

Yesterday we helped brew a batch of lager, tentatively named "Leaping Lurcher Lager". We plan to put our leaping lurcher photo, from May of 2009, on the label. However, in the photo, the dog is moving from right to left, while the label will, of course, read from left to right.

So, we will "flip" the image, such that, on the label, the dog will be leaping in the same direction as your eyes are now moving while reading this.

"A healthy shove ..."

Time-traveling with Mark Trail does create a sense of responsibility: If we can see the future, aren't we obligated to act upon it? Which is why we say, today, regarding tomorrow: "Look out, Mark!"

[If you get a "permission denied" message, then click on this link, and then on the "Look out..!" link above. Cookies, I guess.]

Election Day!

Dear NeuroCooking friends who are Americans (and not convicted felons),

Please vote! It's important.

Thank you.

A professional appearance starts at the top.

To iron a shirt, start with the shoulder yoke.

When you're holding a hammer, everything looks like a...

Saturday afternoon it was hot and humid, and I was getting frustrated.

I was in the back garden, trying to photograph the trumpet vine & spirea. I was not happy with any of the pix. What was the problem? Well, um, for some reason, the portrait lens was on the camera.

So, I took prompt and appropriate action! What did I do? Did I change to the macro lens, which is far better for photographing small blossoms? No, what I did was: I went inside (air conditioning!), and, without removing the portrait lens, sat down on the living room rug, and shot the dog (who was quite amenable):