2020 Miscellany #6

Bricklaying can be an artistic trade. The layering of courses forming bond patterns are pleasing to the eye. On this small front porch, someone formed a mathematical symbol. The Ben Casey teevee show began with the chalking of a slate board and a calm musical intro. The voice of Sam Jaffe, whose character (Dr. David Zorba) was a mentor to Dr. Casey, would composedly name the symbols drawn, “♂ man ... ♀ woman ... * birth ... † death ... ∞ infinity”; then a wheeled gurney, with patient covered by a sheet would burst through swinging doors, followed by shots of the two leads, a large light would click on, and the operating amphitheatre would be seen all accompanied by an instrumental theme of some tension. [click]

Someone has broken a record.

in Parma, 20 April

 before you cut cable, make sure it is not live (electrified)

 Canadian goose, white heron (great egret), North Ridgeville 21 April