I've never been one for it, but I really feel like hating people today. So I'm going to. It's a small indulgence (not of the outdated Catholic variety) I'm allowing myself. It will be short lived, I promise. And it's not directed toward anyone that might be reading this, rest assured. It's directed toward persons I don't even know. I figure it's ( Read more... )

Amazing:



People are brilliant.

But remember...

This is the best thing ever: news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/asia_pacific/10130346.stm
This, on the other hand, is both amazing and unsettling: news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10132762.stm

"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at ( Read more... )

I've got to get out of this place.

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No more foolishness, child, no more nonsense.
Tomorrow turn things loud, summon unstoppable strength.

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tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther...

A homeless man in an Iron Maiden shirt rode by with two dogs and a blaring radio. I kind of wanted to be his friend. He had large glasses and an epic beard. I waved but he ignored me for people that weren't there.

Speaking of epic-icity, the world is significantly less epic today: Ronnie James Dio died this morning, apparently of stomach cancer. ( Read more... )

It is a sadly unbeachy day. We may beach ourselves anyway, as if to say, "There is nothing you can take from us, we are victorious!" Or perhaps for lack of anything better to do? No. That is never a reason.

Reyes Creek is an amazing spot and I wish I'd made its acquaintance sooner. It was like, "Hello, we've only just met, but I think we're old ( Read more... )

A 17th century remedy for freckles: "For the Freckles which one getteth by the heat of the Sun: Take a little Allom beaten small, temper amonst it a well brayed white of an egg, put it on a milde fire, stirring it always about that it wax not hard, and when it casteth up the scum, then it is enough, wherewith anoint the Freckles the space of ( Read more... )

Went for a bike ride and saw an old Asian man counting his steps as he walked backwards along the trail. I decided to help him by shouting out a random string of numbers as I sped by. He looked at me incredulously as he inevitably faltered in his counting and cursed at me in Chinese (at least I assume that's what he was doing). But his curses came ( Read more... )