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The View. Rio de Janeiro, April 2009

Sat, 18 Dec 2010 12:17:45 -0500

The View. Rio de Janeiro, April 2009

I’d be remiss if I didn’t link to this performance...

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 10:43:57 -0400

I’d be remiss if I didn’t link to this performance because Régine’s dancing kicks major ass.

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. September 2009

Sat, 11 Sep 2010 14:47:17 -0400

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. September 2009

Jackass on a horse. This guy was about to get thrown off; that...

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:13:53 -0400

Jackass on a horse. This guy was about to get thrown off; that horse didn’t care for the water. Half Moon Bay, August 2010

Water, because, well it is a rain forest. Brazil, April 2009

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 18:30:59 -0400

Water, because, well it is a rain forest. Brazil, April 2009

Muir Woods. July 2010

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 16:47:47 -0400

Muir Woods. July 2010

Monterey Bay. July 2010

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:03:46 -0400

Monterey Bay. July 2010

Man on a bike. Rio de Janeiro, April 2009

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:58:04 -0400

Man on a bike. Rio de Janeiro, April 2009

What a common housefly

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 09:00:45 -0400

What a common housefly

Is there anything good about men?

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:53:34 -0400

Is there anything good about men?:

Fascinating read:

Research has compiled mountains of data on the stereotypes people have about men and women, which the researchers summarized as “The WAW effect.” WAW stands for “Women Are Wonderful.” Both men and women hold much more favorable views of women than of men. Almost everybody likes women better than men. I certainly do.

My purpose in this talk is not to try to balance this out by praising men, though along the way I will have various positive things to say about both genders… This is not about the “battle of the sexes,” and in fact I think one unfortunate legacy of feminism has been the idea that men and women are basically enemies. I shall suggest, instead, that most often men and women have been partners, supporting each other rather than exploiting or manipulating each other.

Later, what men are good for:

Culture relies on men to create the large social structures that comprise it. Our society is made up of institutions such as universities, governments, corporations. Most of these were founded and built up by men. Again, this probably had less to do with women being oppressed or whatever and more to do with men being motivated to form large networks of shallow relationships. Men are much more interested than women in forming large groups and working in them and rising to the top in them.

Austin. February 2006

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:16:59 -0400

Austin. February 2006

Breathless

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 09:00:46 -0400

Recently Enjoyed: Breathless. Directed by Jean-Luc Godard, 1961

Wind and Tree

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:00:03 -0400

Wind and Tree

In the way that most of the wind
Happens where there are trees,

Most of the world is centred
About ourselves.

Often where the wind has gathered
The trees together,

One tree will take
Another in her arms and hold.

Their branches that are grinding
Madly together,

It is no real fire.
They are breaking each other.

Often I think I should be like
The single tree, going nowhere,

Since my own arm could not and would not
Break the other. Yet by my broken bones

I tell new weather.

— Paul Muldoon, New Weather

Sufjan Stevens - Delighted People EP

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 16:15:02 -0400

Sufjan Stevens - Delighted People EP:

Buy for $5 or stream the entire thing for free.

This rock has a name I don’t remember, Rio de Janerio,...

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:02:45 -0400

This rock has a name I don’t remember, Rio de Janerio, April 2009

Touring the Budapest Parliament building, from the...

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:00:44 -0400

Touring the Budapest Parliament building, from the archives: January 2005

This is where I grew up ranching cattle, Wyoming, May 2009

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:15:24 -0400

This is where I grew up ranching cattle, Wyoming, May 2009

The Old Apartment, December 2009

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:53:05 -0400

The Old Apartment, December 2009

Big Sur, July 2010

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:46:49 -0400

Big Sur, July 2010

Undecideable arithmetic

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 08:59:43 -0400

Undecideable arithmetic:

The most severe implications are philosophical. The result means that the rules we use to manipulate numbers cannot be assumed to represent the pure and perfect truth. Rather, they are something more akin to a scientific theory such as the “standard model” that particle physicists use to predict the workings of particles and forces: our best approximation to reality, well supported by experimental data, but at the same time manifestly incomplete and subject to continuous and possibly radical reappraisal as fresh information comes in.