Earworm of the Day: The Who's "Love reign o'er me"

Listen to it here.

Image of the Day: Oldest and Newest Business Cards

My oldest business card, most likely circa 1880s that I discovered with other S. Cooke Ingraham ephemera,  and the newest addition picked up by my son in NYC.

"This Looks Like a Job for the Penn State Mark Police!"

Penn State Creamery Gift Card

Burger King

IST Building

IST Building

Giant Food

Giant Food

Images of the Day: Raising of the Chipmunk

Weighing in at weighs 6500 pounds, the Chipmunk logo is  ~35 feet by 25 feet.

Image of the Day: Hook & Ladder

Another version of this can be found here; love the way the ampersand overlaps itself.

Image of the Day: Friends with a Lock

Images of the Day: Snow Pack

On the Penn State University Park campus, remnants of our brutal winter. Photos taken this morning at 6:20 a.m. 

At their peak, the piles were over one-story tall,  and were created from plowing and dumping snow off of the upper levels of the parking deck. They are on the northern side of the deck.

Image of the Day: Never Take a Finish Line for Granted

"Never take a finish line for granted." — Bart Yasso

Mooch

“My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.” 

― Richard Adams, Watership Down

Mooch, me, Molly, and Henry

Image of the Day: Plastic Army Guy

Discovered today in the parking lot at work.

Among friends in my office.

Jensen's “Crystal” Pepsin

Letter from J. C Perry & Co., Sole Travelling and Advertising Agents of Carl L. Jensen’s  Preparations, recently found by me stuck between pages in an old book. 

Ads for the Crystal Pepsin can be found here in the Dietetic and Hygienic Gazette, Volume 6, Issue 8, October 1890 and here in the The National Druggist, Volume 12, Issue 8, April 15, 1888. Many other great ads can be found by scrolling through these two links.

“My Dear Samuel…” May 16, 1994

This found letter discovered between pages an old book, was written Wednesday, May 16th, 1894 near Greenland and was postmarked almost 3 months later in Philadelphia on August 7, 1894. Page 3 of the letter notes the sailing ship the writer was on getting stuck in drift ice, and on June 9th seeing “the green ray as the sun set we have no night now.”

Close-up of the embossed seal on the letter. It looks like a capital dome, but I cannot make out the lettering above it.

Fink Brewing Company

Terri took some great photos for me of this Fink Brewing Company crate used to hold menus in the lobby of Otto's. I love the flowing type which has aged so well over the years.

Image of the Day: Buddha in the Russian Sage

Peripatectic Cats: Mrs. Chippy, Nigeraurak, and Trim

Image courtesy of Peggy Nelson’s Twitter novel Shackleton

“When Ernest Shackleton set out for Antarctica in 1914, his carpenter, Harry ‘Chippy’ McNish, brought along a tabby who was quickly named ‘Mrs. Chippy,’ though he proved to be a male. When the Endurance was crushed by pack ice, Shackleton ordered the ‘weakling’ cat to be shot, a decision for which McNish never forgave him. Cat and carpenter were reunited in 2004, when a life-size bronze statue of Mrs. Chippy was added to McNish’s grave in Wellington…"

Read the rest of the Futility Closet post here to learn about the cats Nigeraurak and Trim. An excellent little post from the Twitter novel Shackleton by artist Peggy Nelson can be found here.

I also recommend the slim volume, Mrs. Chippy's Last Expedition: The Remarkable Journal of Shackleton's Polar-Bound Cat by Caroline Alexander.

Image of the Day: Truth in Advertising

Image of the Day: 5:45 a.m. Run

Associated poem posted on See Jain Run.

Image of the Day: Reflections

I loved seeing the brightness and clarity of the reflection onto the sidewalk. 

You Blew It on the Name

Oh, Direct TV, a poorly designed faux handwritten font on an invitation-size envelope does not entice me to take advantage of your offer, nor does sending it again in a business-size envelope. Not that I am interested in anything you would ever have to offer, but you immediately blew it on the name, and your credibility was immediately lost on me.

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Image of the Day: Praying Mantis Egg Sack