Responding to bread being thrown into the air, every gymnastic move was on display.  Spectacular!

Except for teachers, parents, and students - everyone at the Cleveland Municipal School Board meeting this evening supported the school closing plans advanced by the Cleveland Foundation.   

Why do small differentials in air temperature warp visible light?  Index of refraction.   

An earlier post on Realneo wondered whether an invisibility cloak could be made from wire - the air temperature differential around the wires on the corn crib causes a visual moire effect.

No cell phone app will put buttons back on your shirt, or darn your socks.  

Have you ever created a shirt from a McCalls pattern? 

Have you sewn with a treadle machine and finished the details with needle and thread?

It used to be that thimbles were an indispensible tool in every household - necessary for digital protection. 

While you are having that Martini at dinner - and all through the night, the slopes are being groomed.

Did you hear the joke about how many (insert your favorite-to-ridicule ethnicity here) it takes to change a light bulb?  

In this case two City workers, and two to turn the truck!  

Just kidding, this is an unfair use of the image.  

The  recent snows in the North East Ohio area have stimulated children (and perhaps adults, in the case of the very cleanly expressed example in the image above) to creative play involving no commercial components. 

I took a walk through a community garden in the middle of February - no one else was there. 

I went to a Greater Cleveland Partnership funded "community" meeting tonight...and the hypocrisy and lies were so thick I felt like I had to ethically/intellectually PUKE.

Cleveland’s downtown Councilman Joe Cimperman points out that the  Rail Road Station design competition reception on Friday, January 29 took place only a day after Ohio received 400 million dollars in stimulus funds to be used to connect Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati by passenger rail.

The 3 concrete domes on the Presidential Palace in Haiti not only survived the recent earthquake intact, they also appear to have survived their fall from their positions as roofs over the second floor of the Palace to their final resting positions on the rubble of the first floor. 

The image shows a retrofit seismic support on I 215 in San Bernardino, California near the San Andreas Fault.  CalTrans has studied all of the California highway structures and retrofitted the system with earthquake safety features in many locations across the State.

Very special.  Makes me gulp.  Blind Skier

Andrew Carnegie provided over 2,500 libraries across the world between 1883 and 1929.  What a great idea and gift.   The Brooklyn Branch of the Cleveland Public Library is one of Carnegie's libraries.