Every day during Marine Week Cleveland the Quantico Marine Band performed at Public Square.
They also performed some of their rock repertoire at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum.
It was surreal to see the very clean cut guys jamming on rock classics in front of the Grateful Dead sign at the Rock Hall.
Way back in 1983 the Great Lakes Geek got his first portable computer. It had
a great form factor, nice keyboard and useful ports.
The LCD screen was only 8 lines and 40 characters across but that seemed
plenty for the text-based BASIC programs you ran on the unit.
Maybe the best part of the ahead-of-its-time unit was the built-in 300 bps
(yes 300 bps) modem. It made the Model 100 a favorite of journalists who could
type about 10 pages of text into the unit and then plug into a phone line and
upload their columns to the main office. 300 bps sounds excrutiatingly slow but
when you just transferred ASCII character and plain text, it was surprisingly
useful. The Geek spent a lot of time on the old Cleveland Freenet with that
device.
The Great Lakes Geek recently uncovered his old Model 100 and shot this video
of it. Ah, memories.
Ever wonder about some of the strange sounding meats in the
ethnic butcher shop? Blood Sausage, Head Cheese, Klobasa - what exactly are
they? And what makes Hungarian pigs, Mangalitsa Pigs, so unique?
Tom Ratoni-Nagy
was one of the judges in the annual Hungarian Goulash (Gulyas) Cook-Off and he
explained some of the meats in this video.
Cleveland Ohio and Bratislava Slovakia are sister
cities. Bratislava Mayor Milan Ftacnik visited Cleveland last week and
besides seeing the statue of General Milan R. Stefanik, he toured the Slovak
Cultural Garden and spoke at a CCWA event.
He was accompanied
by the U.S. Ambassador to Slovakia Theodore Sedgwick.
Cleveland Slovak George
Terbrack showed the Slovak Cultural Garden in Cleveland Ohio to Bratislava
Mayor Milan Ftacnik.The Garden has
busts of Slovak poet Ján Kollár and Stefan Furdek.Mayor Milan Ftacnik helped plant a larch tree
in the Garden.
US
Ambassador to Slovakia Theodore Sedgwick and Bratislava Mayor Milan Ftacnik spoke
about some of the highlights of the relationship between the US and Slovakia at
a Cleveland Council on World Affairs (CCWA) meeting.
If you take a wrong turn on MLK behind the Art and Natural History Museums, you will see a little island in all the traffic at MLK and Jeptha. The island is small and barely has room to host the large statue of General Milan R. Stefanik.
General Milan R. Stefanik is a Slovak hero who died young and was memorialized with the statue in Cleveland in 1922.
As the surrounding real estate gets more crowded (and valuable) plans are to move the statue, hopefully to the Slovak Cultural Garden.
Bratislava, Slovakia Mayor Milan Ftacnik visited the statue on June 16, 2012. He had some interesting words to say in this short video we shot in front of the statue of the General.
Juneteenth was celebrated in the African American Cultural Garden in Cleveland
on Sunday June 17, 2012.
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on September 22,
1862, with an effective date of January 1, 1863 but in parts of the South,
slavery continued. Juneteenth commemorates June 18 and 19, 1865. June 18 is the
day Union General Gordon Granger and 2,000 federal troops arrived in Galveston,
Texas, to take possession of the state and enforce the emancipation of its
slaves.
Juneteenth has been mostly a Southern event but it has been spreading in recent years.
The largest replica of the Vietnam
Veterans Memorial Wall is on display at the Marine Week celebration in Cleveland's Voinovich Park. It is an emotional experience to walk past name after name after name after name... of young people who lost their lives.
It was especially moving to see a memento left in front of one name of a West Tech high school graduate who lost his life. So many and so young.
