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San Francisco Chronicle photo / Brant Ward
75-year-old tap-dancer shimmies his way across Golden Gate Bridge
Michael Grbich enjoyed his 1.7-mile dance across the Golden Gate Bridge, even bringing his own music and jump rope. The Oakland resident celebrated his 75th birthday Sunday, Nov. 18, 2007, by tap dancing across the Golden Gate Bridge.
When I am old I shall.... Tap dance across Golden Gate bridge, trailed by my children, grandchildren and friends.
75-year-old tap-dancer shimmies his way across Golden Gate Bridge
Right brain restoration: After football -- yes, I was nodding off sitting up by the fourth quarter of last night's late-night Pats blowout -- I beat it to some art blogs to balance my brain.
The directors of the National Malus (crab-apple) Collection invited Heatherwick Studio to develop the design of a structure called the Sitooterie for their site in Essex. Derived from the Scottish, a 'sitooterie' is a small building in which to literally "sit oot".The structure is a cube punctured by over 5000 long thin windows that project from all its surfaces and lift it off the ground. The cube, which measures 2.4 x 2.4 metres, is precision-machined from 15mm anodised aluminium and the windows are 18mm square-section aluminium tubes glazed with transparent orange acrylic.
As the long thin windows all point at the exact centre of the cube, it only takes a single light source, located at this central point, to send light through every tube, causing the windows to glow orange. A small number of them also project into the cube to form seating.
Collective Perception is a Web notebook of the fabulous; a few quotes, but largely images -- fractals in nature, space biology, architecture -- each is a link, a gateway to forward ideas. Some detective work reveals it to be the work of Folkert Gerter (Superfamous).
Providence Journal photo / Bob Breidenbach
Happy at last: Randy Moss watches the end of last night's 56-10 Patriots win over Buffalo.
As for football... “That was not a pleasant way to spend an evening,” said Bills coach Dick Jauron. “We ran into a buzz saw and we didn’t do much to slow them down.” -- Wrecking crew, Buffalo News.
Is anyone else surprised that losing to the Patriots two weeks ago seems to have taken the stuffing out of Peyton Manning?
Next Sunday night, I get to fall asleep to the Philadelphia Eagles in Foxboro. (The week after that, it's the Pats at the Ravens on Monday night. Sunday afternoon just isn't any fun this year.)
SI's Peter King: "No one except maybe the '27 Yankees could beat the Patriots right now."
And Don Banks:
I'm starting to think these Dolphins, at 0-10, have a real shot at running the table in reverse, losing to a degree that no NFL team has ever lost before. How cool would it be if the Patriots and the Dolphins provided perfectly historic bookend seasons in the AFC East? You realize, of course, that no team has ever had either a 16-game divisional lead (as New England would) or a 16-game divisional deficit (Miami's potential fate).
