A nod to the classroom where things began

Alex Stewart directed me to an interesting story about how the number A113 appears in virtually every movie made by Pixar Studios.  A113 is the classroom number at the California Institute of Arts where many of the animators at Pixar, Disney and other studios first discovered and mastered their craft.  You can see A113 on a car license in Toy Story, as protocol code in WALL-E, and on an underwater camera in Finding Nemo, just to name a few Pixar films.

Correspondents finally recogize Harry McAlpin

Pioneering black journalist Harry McAlpin got some long overdue recognition at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner on Saturday night.  McAlpin, a reporter for the Chicago Defender, covered the administrations of Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, but the association refused membership to blacks. That injustice was finally corrected this year as McAlpin was admitted posthumously and a scholarship was started in his name.