May 2010
28 posts
Fireflies of the Great Smokey Mountains - Atlas... →
In 1680, the Dutch physician Engelbert Kaempfer, on a voyage down the Meinam River in Siam, recorded one of the earliest Western accounts of the coordinated flashing of Asian fireflies: “A whole swarm of these insects, having taken possession of one Tree, and spread themselves over its branches, sometimes hide their Light all at once, and a moment after make it appear again with the utmost...
HOLD UP
UNDERWATER BASKET WEAVING IS REAL?!
New/Current Reads
New Reads: A Million Miles in a Thousand Years - Donald Miller Poeta en San Francisco - Barbara Jane Reyes The Father - Sharon Olds Letter To My Daughter - Maya Angelou Ed Ruscha - Phaidon Current Reads: Crazy Love - Francis Chan Stoked to read these puppies.Catch-22 was genius, by the way.
“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
– Galileo Galilei
Untitled (Dissection III)
maybe you saw her grow up maybe you don’t care you saw nothing
小川倫生 / Michio Ogawa →
good clean guitar, simple + expressive
“I like things that are short and to the point because I never am.”
– Kurt Vonnegut
The Race
When I got to the airport I rushed up to the desk, bought a ticket, ten minutes later they told me the flight was cancelled, the doctors had said my father would not live through the night and the flight was cancelled. A young man with a dark brown moustache told me another airline had a nonstop leaving in seven minutes. See that elevator over there, well go down to the first floor, make a...
As the days grow longer, my attention span for hitting the books grows shorter. Noooooo…
750 Words →
ernie:
A web application - using game mechanics! - as a private place to write 3 pages (750 words) a day.
This is totally genius. Maybe this will give me an incentive to write more.
neato! I like it.
thank you for allowing me to be a part of your...
