In my local paper,
The Long Island Advance, there is a weekly (as is the paper) segment titled From the Archives of the Long Island Advance, in which they present some news clips from 100, 75, and 50 years ago. A lot of the news is so mundane that I find it to be very funny. I hope that you do too.
From 100 years ago:
- The great Neuman, the Russian psychic, who astonished
New York and other big cities last fall by his marvelous
feats of mind-reading, will come to Patchogue next week
at the auditorium.
- Mr. and Mrs. John Romanski left for a trip to Germany
and expect to be gone three months.
- In the line of progress, we are glad to note Ackerly’s new
24 H.P. automobile piano truck. This is the first piano house
on Long Island to have its own auto-delivery. Mr. Ackerly
says the bugbear of long drives for delivery has now been
changed into a pleasure, and he is looking forward to a radius
of business three times as great as formerly.
- The 50 Tungsten lights in the Blue Point lighting district
were turned on by the Patchogue Electric Light Co. and the
illumination makes a gratifying difference to those going
through this section at night. The East Patchogue district
will be lighted by May 15, it is said. The company is pushing
work along for the Moriches district. The Bellport Village
district has not yet signed the contract.
Here is a post I made on an old blog from 2 years ago:
I have been swaying back and forth lately between saying "Bless you" and not saying "Bless you" when people around me sneeze. I NEVER say "God bless you" of course...that would be stupid.
Since I am currently working toward my teacher certification and Masters degree, I have been thinking about how things will be when I can a teacher. I certainly can't say "Bless you" sometimes and not say it other times, or students might think I am playing favorites.
I think the responsible thing for me to do as an atheist is to stop saying anything, but I am afraid people will find this to be rude. We need to come up with a new, secular phrase to use when people sneeze. Sometimes I tell people "Shut Up!" when they sneeze, but that's just plain mean.
As the title of my blog suggests, I have finished my education education (suggestions on something better to call that?) and I am now teaching physics at a high school on Long Island. The decision was easier to make than I thought - I just don't say anything. No one really cares.
