1962 

Frank said: "... It was a very good year."

My beautiful daughter, Elizabeth was born a year ago and my other beautiful daughter, Diane was about to be born.

I was busy helping people get their Social Security benefits, and I soon would be picked to be a Computer Programmer-Analyst.  Elaine and I were enjoying a wonderful marriage.

In the evenings, between diaper changing and TV watching, I made a scrapbook showing and commenting on things that interested me and sometimes "bent my mind." Here are a few of those "things:"

01.  Washington... former President Harry S. Truman says Washington is "full of chicken coops and crackerboxes.  ... He added: "I'm no architect, but some day they are going to have hailstones here ... and we'll find out about those crackerboxes."

02.  The German Bauhaus was founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius.  Dr. Gropius also founded the American Bauhaus in Chicago in 1937.

The Bauhaus movement produced lots of modern architecture.  (I did a paper on the German Bauhaus for a German class at Boston University,)

03. Employees of the New York Museum of Modern Art showed their appreciation for Henri Matisse by hanging one of his paintings upside down.

A museum guard opined: "You don't know what's up, and you don't know what's down, and neither do we." This observation "raised the ire" of French art lovers.

(When I learn how to post pictures to this blog again, I will show this art work and ask if you can tell which way the painting should be shown.)

04.  The "Shaker Man," 39 inches high and made of heavy metal, was stolen from an art supply store in Baltimore by muscular thieves..  Police were notified and an APB was implemented.

05. Apparently, the above-mentioned New York art-hanging problem is catching.  In its latest catalogue, the Louvre printed a work by Georges Braque upside down. 

06.  For years, I have called "unknown substance" googlies.  Also, I always enjoyed the "Barney Google" comic strip. And, of course, who wouldn't sing along with the song "Barney Google with those GooGooGoogily Eyes?"

So it surprises me that there suddenly was interest in the word google (spelled googol), as a mathematics term : a 1 followed by 100 zeros.  I could not guess that just a few years later, a computer program called Google would appear and be used daily (hourly?) to search for information.  

The term googol was coined by Milton Sirotta in 1920.

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Yeah, I know, this is kind of boring, so I'll say "Good Night,  Bugs Bite!"