This is a strange staircase at the Skokie campus of OCC. It makes you feel misaligned when you walk up them.

I’ve had the same song stuck in my head for about three straight days now. That’s 72 hours of the same song playing again and again in my brain.

What song is it, you ask? Well, it’s “Friendship Grows,” which is on the Strawberry Jams CD that my daughter has been listening to. I know you all are dying to get a piece of the lyrics, so here’s the main chorus (and remember, imagine singing these along with Strawberry Shortcake and Friends)

Friendship grows like a flower
Friendship grows like a flower
Friendship grows like a flower
Way up high like a tower
Like a flower friendship grow-oh-ohs….

Aren’t you happy you visited my blog today

My favorite magazine, one that I actually have delivered to my home, is Wired. I have never been disappointed in a single issue. In fact, I just finished reading a great article in this month’s issue about how NASA has LOST the raw footage of the Apollo 11 moon landing. If you’re interested at all in archival issues, you should read this article.

Here’s a short excerpt:

“Not long ago, Lebar learned why the footage had looked like mush: The transfer and broadcast had degraded the image badly, like a third-generation photocopy. “What the world saw was some bastardized thing,” says Lebar, now 81. “Posterity deserves more than that.” Good thing the engineers in Australia recorded the raw feed. Now Lebar and a crew of seasoned space cowboys are trying to get that original footage and show it to the world.

There is just one problem: NASA has lost the tapes.”