You needn't gild the lily, offer jewels to the sunset.
No one is watchin' or standin' in your shoes.
Wash your lonely feet in the river in the morning,
Everything promised is delivered to you.

- grateful dead - doin' that rag

You need to see Blue Planet. I caught two hours of it last night before I fell asleep, and god was it beautiful. Spectacularly filmed, and I find the topic of life beneath the sea ceaselessly interesting. Maybe that's just me, but if so, I feel no shame in trying to foist my love of all things oceanic onto others ( Read more... )

The mountains! Mountains! Not like the hazy shadowed bumps I've seen across the horizon when driving through the Northeast, but brilliantly contorted masses of earth, apparatitions like sand dunes topped with glossy white. They're almost silken, they hover, they tower, and I was glued to my little airplane window at the sight of them ( Read more... )

Gemini Horoscope for week of August 28, 2003 ( Read more... )

Steven Dietz's Fiction was a truly excellent play, probably the best I've seen at McCarter Theatre for the years I've been a subscriber. Mom, Gail and I had a fantastic time Saturday night ( Read more... )

I've been waiting for a day like this since October, and today I couldn't wait to roll out from beneath the comforter, don my bike clothes, tight black underthings and pink fleecy overthings, plus my favorite Trek Fast Eddy biking gloves, and set the bike rack up on my car ( Read more... )

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

- Stephen Leacock, Canadian humorist and political economist

Shelly and I came up with this list of things to do for someday when we get bored and have an excess of free time on the way home from Manhattan on the train a few weeks ago. I've been meaning to type it up, so here goes...

THINGS TO DO (WELL, PLACES TO GO) WHEN YOU CAN'T THINK OF ANYTHING TO DO

- Tiffany Dream Garden (Philadelphia)
- Roebling ( Read more... )

Someone's using screenshots from my Web site in a textbook! (not my personal site, but my company site, which to me is FAR more personal than my private site anyway, if ya want to know the truth. I actually take *time* to design it!)

BlueSpace: http://www.watson.ibm.com/leo/HMS2002/BlueSpace-overview-RC-Oct31.pdfRead more... )