Category Archives: People

The Grand Elf

That’s what I think of when I see James Randi. He is just a wee bit of a thing. Never tall, even in his youth, and age has curved his spine and shrunken his body even more. Yet, he looms large in the skeptical community (Wikipedia).

He’s been through much in the past few years, not the least of which was cancer and chemo. He was given a clean bill of health, and he moved well this year, navigating the hallways and the stairs without pause.

At the close of The Amaz!ng Meeting, he made one concession to his advancing years: a “wrangler” would be brought on to assist him.

This year, we were all invited to a special showing of “An Honest Liar,” a documentary of Randi’s life (trailer).  I highly recommend it.  We also learned this year that his biography is in the works as well.  That gargantuan effort is in the hands  Massimo Polidoro (Wikipedia)

The clock is ticking.

Sounds of Reno

I was cleaning out some posts still in “draft” mode and realized that this one from last October should have been posted. I don’t know what distracted me. Anyhoo . . . here you go.

Box A-23, Reno Air Races, 2013.  The shirt she is wearing has a special meaning.  The owners of this box silkscreen a commemorative shirt every year, and we who volunteer at Box Seat Security are always given t-shirts as a thank-you. This particular version was the shirt we were all going to wear on Sunday in 2011.   Obviously, the crash on Friday changed those plans.

So we all wore them on Sunday in 2012 for the Tribute.

This year, we were given new “2013” shirts to wear on Sunday. And we did. Proudly.

Color

For those of you who think I’ve abandoned color.

A portion of Honolulu… You can see Hawaii’s state bird over there in the upper right corner.

Meanwhile, back in Kailua . . .