Monthly Archives: July 2017

I got a lot of commentary on last Friday’s picture, most of it about the two-way traffic on the loop rather than the eye catching fashion: By happenstance I just ran across the memo that authorized the shift to one-way … Continue reading →

This image is from a contact sheet so I can’t get it big enough and clear enough to tell what they’re doing. But you’d have to be blind to miss those pants:  

I realize that 1926 can seem like a million years ago and it isn’t always easy to see how anything that old could mean much to us today. But stuff has a way of hanging around, though sometimes it fades … Continue reading →

Working in Ken Pitzer’s papers this afternoon I chanced upon something that made me laugh out loud. Here’s a letter he wrote in 1964 to Eugenia Rayzor, wife of Rice trustee Newton Rayzor ’17 (and a great woman in her … Continue reading →

I’m still struggling to catch up after a week away from campus, including catching up on my reading. My friend Patrick Kurp, who works over in Engineering and blogs at Anecdotal Evidence,(well worth your time, by the way) wrote a … Continue reading →

We meant to go to Wyoming, then do some driving in Montana. We did make it to Laramie, where I had a very productive day in the American Heritage Center at the University of Wyoming. They have an enormous collection … Continue reading →