brilliant corners

June 12, 2011

conversation

(6:30 am, bleary-eyed, walking out door)

Little girl who lives downstairs: "Hi! I'm going to school. Where are you going?"

"I'm going to work."

"Do you drive?"

"Yes."

"Is it far?"

"Yes."

"You should take an airplane!"

Filed under // whimsy

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October 17, 2010

rocktopus

Clarion Alley, San Francisco

Posted from San Francisco, CA

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September 6, 2010

five essentials

I get an incredible amount of use out of these five simple items:

3x5 cards. Nothing I can say that 43 Folders hasn't said already. Indispensable.
Fiskars scissors, nice and sharp.
Locking carabiner. Useful for hanging shoes, backpacks, water bottles, etc. I never travel without one.
LED headlamp. Another travel essential. Daily use: furniture assembly, plumbing repair, power outages.
Bandana. Why "build the cave" when you can bring the cave to you? Much comfier than a sleep mask and you can use it for a million other things.

For the tiny amount it takes to put all this together, I get a massive utility return--10x, 20x, or more. Splendid.

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August 25, 2010

perpetrating hooptedoodle

Elmore Leonard's excellent 10 Rules for Writing via a 2001 article in the NYT:

"These are rules I've picked up along the way to help me remain invisible when I'm writing a book, to help me show rather than tell what's taking place in the story. If you have a facility for language and imagery and the sound of your voice pleases you, invisibility is not what you are after, and you can skip the rules. Still, you might look them over."

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March 29, 2010

bend, don't break

A Boeing 787 Dreamliner undergoes "ultimate load" wing stress tests in the Everett, WA factory. Via Telstar Logistics.

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March 21, 2010

words to live by

(from http://bit.ly/c1PdZt via BoingBoing)

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March 17, 2010

sometimes...

Sometimes after a particularly tough slog, it's fun to think back to the old days, and remember the lightness and the power and the feeling that you were put on the earth to run.

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March 11, 2010

Sunrise over Dhaulagiri

Dhaulagiri I, 8167m, Nepal

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March 11, 2010

Hello, world!

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