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I have to give credit to this bookseller- doesn’t hold anything back from the description of this book for sale. I’d be tempted if only for the historical bit, but I’ll pass…

And just for the record, accurate descriptions like this is one of the reasons I buy from this seller (and the fact that you can spend days lost in their physical store) :)

The Principle of Relativity: A Collection of Original Memoirs on the Special and General Theory of Relativity 1st Edition

by H. A. Lorentz and A. Einstein and H. Minkowski and H. Weyl

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1923. Octavo, 14.5 x 22 cm, 216pp. 1st American edition. Original blue cloth with paper label affixed to the spine. Boards are worn and soiled, with chipping and loss to the paper spine label. Hinges badly cracked; spine shaken; front free endpaper is partially detached. A spot stain to the top of the text block; some toning to the pages, especially the edges; name in ink on the front free endpaper; light pencil marginalia scattered throughout. Fair condition.

Yearly Christmas portrait (click on any pix for larger version/slideshow). Only took 61 shots to get this one. Amazing how hard it is to get three kids to look at the camera and smile. Or at least look near the camera. Big brother Dylan gets the prize for being the most patient of all four of us.

For example:

     

The downstairs toilet has been either blocked or *very* slow flushing for the past few weeks: Preston flushed “a box” down it. Hmm.

I’ve been using a plunger periodically, but mostly we haven’t used it much. We figured it would eventually disintegrate. It wasn’t improving so the plumber came by today and had to remove the toilet to get to the blockage.

The Altoids tin was definitely not going to disintegrate (soon).

2012 Science and Prophecy of the Ancient Maya (showing glyph date on left)

Last Saturday I went to an all-day symposium, “Under Cover of Darkness: The Meaning of Night in Ancient Mesoamerica” sponsored by the Pre-Columbian Society of Washington, D.C. While there, Professor Mark Van Stone was signing copies of his book, “2012: Science & Prophecy of the Ancient Maya. What was really neat is that he signed my copy by writing the current date in Maya glyphs. Really neat!

maya date glyphs

Jojo Garza of Los Lonely Boys

Tuesday night I went to see Los Lonely Boys at Ram’s Head in Annapolis, MD. They sounded great! I really enjoyed the concert – the three brothers definitely put on a good show. They only played about an hour and 20 minutes, with no opening band. The short concert may be due to the bass player/lead singer Jojo having some problems with his vocal cords (the band appears to have cancelled some dates last month due to medical issues). But I certainly didn’t notice anything wrong with his voice! I do hope all is well. Definitely a band worth seeing live.

Los Lonely Boys

Los Lonely Boys