Wandering Consumptive

Sleep Labs of the Soviet Empire ↳

My money is on my youngest. Salubrious scents and chirping of nightingales indeed.

1 week ago

"Scanning" Car Parts ↳

“Computer. Earl Grey, hot.”

1 week ago

The Treasures of Henry Wellcome ↳

(Source: chriswoebken)

1 month ago
#curiosities

“Not long after my parents had relocated the family from the cold, damp and impressively windy Highlands of Scotland to the less cold, only marginally less damp, but no-doubt-about-it impressively windy island of Jersey, I was invited to a rich classmate’s seventh birthday party. You could tell he was rich since on the way home from school in my parents’ car we passed his house. This took a while.”

—	Covering Bond via Daring Fireball

1 month ago

Full Crew Farallones Race 2012 ↳

The Farallones have figured prominently in my mental map of the bay area since reading The Devil’s Teeth. Sorry to hear about these lives lost.

1 month ago

Sunday drive to East Bay redwoods ↳

Just walked the Stream Trail last weekend. Awesome park.

2 months ago
#hikes

Preserving Kauai culture rooted in nature ↳

The place we’ve been staying in Kauai is maybe three miles form Limahuli Gradens. The recommendation on bug netting kept us away. Looks lovely here.

2 months ago
#kauai

“That internal roiling you experience when you step out of your car at the event site on race morning, surrounded by your fellow competitors and the electric Ironman atmosphere, is essentially the same feeling your dog experiences when you show him the leash.”

—	A Physiological View Of What The Human Body Goes Through In An Ironman

4 months ago

“We think of time in the way that other people think of space. What other people are doing in space, we can do it in time,”

—	‘Time cloak’ hid event in experiment, physicists say - The Washington Post

4 months ago

“Heard a line or two of “Video Games” while parking the car last night. Turns out I was late. “For me, thinking about this year in independent music, Lana Del Rey was like the most photographed barn in America. There were times when I had trouble actually hearing her, and to follow along with her strange meme was indeed to surrender to a collective perception. She saw some old film clips and heard some old songs and said, “This is me.” Then she showed them to us, and we believed her.”

—	Resonant Frequency: Taking Pictures of Taking Pictures \| Features \| Pitchfork

6 months ago