Round Museum

A train is a big, heavy piece of machinery. So heavy in fact that the steel wheels are an important factor to minimize friction so it can roll efficiently. The specially shaped wheel fits to the rail with a contact area that's about the size of a dime.

09.19.19

Look around, everywhere you turn are feathers. A thousand preening pink. It's a dance floor, you've got to perform. So, come on, vogue. Let your birdy move to the music. Head-flag, point it high, look your partner in the eye. Twist-preen, bend with grace, wing-salute, give good face. Wing-leg, stretch it out, flamingos marching all about. Don't just stand there, let's get to it. Strike a pose, there's nothing to it. Vogue.

09.18.19

Blue Suede Shoes immortalized in a snow globe. Wind it up and go, man, go! The iconic song became associated with Elvis of course, but it is actually the intersection of Elvis, Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins. Cash suggested the shoes as a song idea to Perkins in 1955, who wrote and performed the song that year. It was a substantial hit and was subsequently covered by many artists in 1956, but it was Elvis who conquered the globe with it.

09.17.19

Good evening, parents. Welcome to Back to School Night. Drinking the sink water in the bathrooms is not recommended. That is all.

09.16.19

The study of conchology will tell you that the spiral form of the ammonite fossil is made up of numerous chambers, each progressively larger than another and divided by thin shell walls called septa. To help regulate its buoyancy in the water, the ammonite passed gas through a thin tube called a siphuncle which extended from its body through the shell. Passing gas through a siphuncle. Hee hee.

Academy of Natural Sciences
Philadelphia, PA

09.14.19

In Collinsville, Connecticut, next to the Antiques on the Farmington shop, and located next to an axe factory, and at the end of the building currently housing the Crown & Hammer Restaurant Pub, that used to be a train depot, is an old boiler plate that was made by the D.M. Dillon Steam Boiler Works, which was founded in 1932, and is credited as the first company to build a steel boiler in the USA.

09.13.19

The last thing you need on the dock down at McKinley Marina is a rat's nest of ropes laying around all over the place. We don't need it either -- one little trip and it's man overboard! So if you're docking for an overnight stay, the thing you need to do is coil your line into a taut Round arrangement called a Flemish Flake. It's just good dock etiquette, matey.

09.10.19

Spoiler alert... and this one’s really not good! This is exactly the surprise you don’t want to find first thing in the morning while you’re scrounging for breakfast. Sour milk. Warm yogurt. Chalked cheese. I can’t believe it’s not butter anymore! We won’t even talk about the skunked brewskis! The worst part of all? Tossing the fridge full of spoiled stuff! Cha-ching!

09.07.19

Jezabel's empanadas are ready, waiting and among the best from Palpalá to Philadelphia. These baked Argentine pastries, filled with spicy beef, chicken, lentil, or spinach & carrot, have unique, crimped folds called “repulgues” indicating which filling is inside. Can we get a platter full, please.

09.06.19

A blank sheet of paper need not be a challenge. Get your creative juices flowing. Wet-on-dry. Wet-on-wet. A little water in a cup, your favorite variety of pigments, and with a few strokes of the brush your paper will soon be awash in a fluid work of art. Now, there's a happy little cloud!

09.04.19