Thoughts. Photos. Errata.

Things to look at, watch and read.

Traveling through space on a rowboat
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Earthlings are Boring

Why haven’t aliens visited us? Because we’re boring and live in a crap neighborhood.

Photography

Cities Rust

Look past New York’s shiny bits and you’ll find endless stretches of decay. It’s a part of its generations-long life cycle.

Briefly Noted

Things Read, Seen or Heard… from elsewhere.

Progress is great except when it traps you. Which is how an interesting theory about the origins of agriculture begins.

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Ugly online mobs have a beautiful real-world analog, flocks of birds.

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The life advice from which all other life advice flows.

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On second thought, San Francisco decides killer robots aren’t a good idea. Crazy that it got so far.

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Up Above

Photography, illustrations and musings.

Down Below

Things I’m still thinking about.

Listen

Learning to Love Giant Steps Again

Listening to covers affects how I hear and understand music. Here’s one that helped me rediscover John Coltrane’s Giant Steps. And here are a dozen others to make a point.