Beaked whale: "Haiku~ish," 2nd book, 1st edition, 2nd printing, Monterey's Stanford's Hopkins Marine Station, Heard marine biologist Kelly Benoit-Bird who's also a MacArthur Genius grant recipient, A kind of Savasana and potentially at Harbin Hot Springs where there are 3 yoga classes a day ... New Harbin book of poetry ... "Haiku~ish" ... and seeking here to develop a virtual Harbin Hot Springs ... Visit the Harbin Gate here ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ... and "walk" down the road 4 miles to Middletown, California

Friday, January 26, 2018

Hi Sandy and M,

Just received 10 copies of my new book "Haiku~ish: and Other Loving Hippy Harbin Poetry" in the mail this morning.

They look nice - are slim volumes of poetry! Green blue covers, not spiral bound with white cover like the 1st printing of 11, - I'll put one in the mail to you, Sandy, as a belated Xmas present.

I like this wee book a lot. :)

Greetings from Monterey (for a second Friday in a row), where I just heard marine biologist Kelly Benoit-Bird speak - http://events.stanford.edu/events/742/74237/ and https://twitter.com/HopkinsMarine/status/955503031897923585 (which I reposted here - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch?lang=en) - who's also a MacArthur Genius grant recipient, and having gone to Brown University, has actually visited Cuttyhunk Island, MA.

Mentioned my MIT Media Lab faculty application to Prof. Benoit-Bird, which I haven't heard back about yet, and Joi Ito's interest in Scuba and oceans, - and asked Kelly in the Q&A about my ongoing interest in developing a realistic virtual earth (and at the cellular and atomic levels) re her field sites, and even facial recognition of the beaked whales she studies, - and I think this was a good 2.25 hour drive each way networking trip. She's a technologist and an ecologist. As a prof at Oregon State, she has a freedom and a blank check to be an ocean researcher per her CV - http://people.oregonstate.edu/~benoitbk/cv.pdf. Seeking this. Also mentioned to her afterward how the idea for a realistic virtual earth emerges out of the making of a realistic virtual Harbin for actual virtual comparison. 

Back to UC Berkeley for a Tourism Studies' talk at 5. May give my 4th Harbin talk there in late February.

L,
Scott

(Also sent Joi the very 1st "Haiku~ish" book in the second printing).

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Haikuish poetry book 1st edition 2nd printing - Monterey

(on the day I received the first 10 copies)

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A kind of Savasana (Yoga resting / releasing pose at the end of a class), and potentially at Harbin Hot Springs where there are 3 yoga classes a day ...

https://plus.google.com/+ScottMacLeodYogaMacFlower/posts/NPb1TbSA5hd

New Harbin book of poetry ... "Haiku~ish" ... http://www.scottmacleod.com/HaikuishPoetryBook.html

... and seeking here to develop a virtual Harbin Hot Springs ...

Visit the Harbin Gate here ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg

... and "walk" down the road 4 miles to Middletown, California, which streets you can check out too.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaked_whale

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