February 24, 2008

 

Hi Pete 
 
 
Cassidy sent   us  this video that is pretty amazing// its 7 minutes long tho 
 
enjoy Lou

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZjZQ6KkiUk&eurl=http://a4.vox-data.com/6a00ccff8a4686673100e398cdc6f40001-html

 

 

Thanks to the three of you who sent me this same link.

From Magda,

.... Anyhow, here is what I saw recently
quite funny
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwMj3PJDxuo

From Jim,

How  you  doin'  Pete???
 
how  was  your  trip  to  Ala.
 
i  found  this  link  to  a  video...  thought  you  might  enjoy  it
 
jim 

Shortcut to: http://www.gadling.com/2008/02/01/best-prank-ever-stopping-time-at-grand-central-station/

 

From Sue,

> This is too cool!!!  Who thinks of this stuff???  It would be freaky to
have been there!!!

http://www.gadling.com/2008/02/01/best-prank-ever-stopping-time-at-grand-central-station/

 

 

 

Here are friends discussing Children's books that they wrote or illustrated. It seems like celebrities are the new competing authors.

 

 

Thanks Don for this quiz on current media emblems:

www.cramersweeney.com/smartmarketing.html
 

 

 

The Democratic debates have been interesting this year.

Barack and I both attended Columbia at the same time. He majored in Political Science.

I had completed my Masters degree, and was taking an extra course on a new phenomenon, computer graphics!

Then he went on to Harvard Law and toward the presidency, while I became editor of Best emails!

Here's a light disco spoof on him.

http://www.dailymotion.com/related/x4gvi7_obama-boogie_news/video/x3stsf_disco-clinton-obama_fun?from=rss

 

 

Mary asked me to take a picture of our spruce trees in the 8" newly fallen snow, to send to dad Wilfred.

 

This happens to be the view if my computer monitor was a corner window instead.

These buildings are as follows from the left:

Garages are where the car with Connecticut license plate "1" was stored about a hundred years ago.

Grey building and white house serve as rectory for the rector of our town's Episcopal Church.

America's first law school, where Aaron Burr went in 1774.

The renovated tan barn is the new curatorial center for our museum.

 

 

 

 

 

This week I will also play the role at the Law School of Judge Andrew Judson who presided in the Amistad trial in 1839 in New London, CT.

At a pre meeting last week, we discussed how Cinque was captured in Western Africa, and taken to Cuba in chains.

He and the others used a nail to free themselves and retake the ship.  At the trial, a Yale professor had Cinque count to 10 in the Mendi language.

Then Prof. Gibbs walked the sidewalks near the docks in New York City, counting out loud. Sailor Jim Covey recognized it, and became the interpreter.

I asked what John Quincy Adams and Martin Van Buren and the others involved with that trial would have thought if they were told that in the century after the next, another Central African would travel here, and father a son who would become president of 300 million of us.  They would never have believed it, but it is about to happen!

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

Pete

 

 

 

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