Jake and Mo came running with us again today. The conversation is always interesting, ranging from Vince Wilfork eating a chicken sandwich with bones, my new favorite movie "Tim's Vermeer", what it is like to work at any of the Carnegie Buildings on campus, and probably a few other things I forgot.
On the way to our first destination, we ran by Lake Lagunita, and saw a guy practicing juggling clubs while balancing on a rope tied between two trees. Almost simultaneously, we noticed some object with netting right in the middle of the dry lake bed. We couldn't figure out what it was: trampoline, soccer or lacrosse goal, or some enclosure for birds or butterflies. It's not on the map, though, so we kept going.
We eventually ended up at the Carnegie Foundation. Go up by the golf course and keep going up the hill to the very last building. It has to do with teaching, so Ira told us all about it, and Mo found this little pool/pond and took a quick swim to cool off. It's a very pretty building with a nice view.
Andrew Carnegie apparently had so much money that his wealth funds two organizations at Stanford. The next one is down the hill and is called the Carnegie Institute. It is tucked away, and apparently has to do with studying plant growth, and is next to another cool corn field. It is an interesting building; from far away it looks like one of those run down Stanford buildings from another era that probably should be closed down soon, but when we got up to the door there were people inside working and it looked pretty nice.
OK, I just did some googling, and I think we've got a problem. There is, apparently, another Carnegie Institution building. It is right next door, and looks all high-tech and environmental.
On the way to our first destination, we ran by Lake Lagunita, and saw a guy practicing juggling clubs while balancing on a rope tied between two trees. Almost simultaneously, we noticed some object with netting right in the middle of the dry lake bed. We couldn't figure out what it was: trampoline, soccer or lacrosse goal, or some enclosure for birds or butterflies. It's not on the map, though, so we kept going.
We eventually ended up at the Carnegie Foundation. Go up by the golf course and keep going up the hill to the very last building. It has to do with teaching, so Ira told us all about it, and Mo found this little pool/pond and took a quick swim to cool off. It's a very pretty building with a nice view.
Andrew Carnegie apparently had so much money that his wealth funds two organizations at Stanford. The next one is down the hill and is called the Carnegie Institute. It is tucked away, and apparently has to do with studying plant growth, and is next to another cool corn field. It is an interesting building; from far away it looks like one of those run down Stanford buildings from another era that probably should be closed down soon, but when we got up to the door there were people inside working and it looked pretty nice.
OK, I just did some googling, and I think we've got a problem. There is, apparently, another Carnegie Institution building. It is right next door, and looks all high-tech and environmental.
This is the building we saw on the other side of the chain link fence. I'll have to do some more research about the difference. We definitely got to a Carnegie Institute building of some kind (we saw the sign and touched the door, honestly), but we might have to go to this one too. This map needs some serious work.
Lastly, we went by Cedar Hall. It is a nondescript old building right next to the power plant. I'd be shocked if it wasn't next on the list to be knocked down to make way for the improvements to the whole engineering side of campus. It was a pretty run back through the quad, though. Jake was really impressed with the sight lines.
Distance: 3.4 miles (I always round to the nearest tenth, and it was actually 3.49 miles, even though clearly Ira didn't start his pedometer for at least a few hundredths at the top of the hill by the Carnegie Foundation). Total distance is 38.4 miles, according to my tally.
FTPG: Here I will help KMo with his homework:
ReplyDeleteThere are two research depts. at Stanford as part of the Carnegie Institution for the Sciences (with 6 depts. on both coasts): http://carnegiescience.edu/about/whoweare
Note that the new President of the Carnegie Institution for the Sciences is Matthew Scott. (I was his son's kindergarten teacher many years ago. Lovely family.): http://carnegiescience.edu
FTPG: P.S. We also talked about Cool Hand Luke eating 50 eggs on this run. For some reason this is a recurring topic of conversation during our running adventures for over 10 years now.
ReplyDeleteAlso, how does one of the world's greatest math teachers and all-around brilliant minds round 3.49 to the nearest tenth and get 3.4?!?