Amazing pictures of giant crystals under Mount Naica in the Chihuahua desert (things my browser windows are open to)
Tuesday, May 15th, 2007I’ve a bad habit of not bookmarking but landing on a webpage, wanting to read more or whatever or think of buying something (I think long and hard, like months) and simply leaving that browser page sitting there on my monitor.
Today I have open:
This article Colossal Crystals Cave Uncovered with an awesome picture of these HUGE crystals. My dad sent it along and H.o.p. was amazed (he loves rocks and crystals and last week we were talking about crystal formation). When you’re done reading the article here’s a picture gallery.
Amazing!
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Netflix, because as soon as H.o.p. gets home from piano we’re going to watch a movie on the Great Wall of China. And because I just added DeMille’s “The Greatest Show on Earth” to the queue. (H.o.p. is back into watching Cirque du Soleil videos and I thought he might enjoy this, though it might prove to be too tense.)
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A webpage of a UC Berkeley interview with a female impersonator who used to perform at the Finocchio Club. Because Thomas Pyncheon referenced the Finocchio Club in “The Crying of Lot 49″ and I didn’t realize it was a real place so I’m reading about that.
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The Private Sea by William Braden, about his taking mescaline back in 1966 and a well-meaning “psychedelic guide” throwing him for a loop by putting on Beethoven’s Eroica. I found this amusing.
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The Old Navy website because I need a pair of jeans and a shirt.
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Weekend America’s The (Kind of Gross) Story of Jamestown about what it was really like there at the beginning, which I keep meaning to listen to but haven’t gotten around to yet.
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Webpage for the book The Wildest Colts Make the Best Horses. The link was in a post on one of the homeschool lists and I’ve been reading through some articles by the author; just like reading anything that promotes making allowances for the differences in kids rather than drugging them so they’ll sit in a desk.
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Google accounts because I was thinking about trying out their tracker but got sidetracked and thus it’s open for days.
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My Flickr page because I’ve been working on some photos.
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Several genealogy pages (I do genealogy in a non-obsessive way) because a couple days ago I was looking at a line I’d never paid much attention to and gee I wish I’d left it that way because the last recorded ancestor in that line born in Ye Old World turns out to be recorded in the Michelfeld church register as having been beheaded AND burned at the stake, in 1684, for having been affectionate with his horse. The next in that tree’s line was only a year or so old when it happened. No wonder he came to America. There’s no mention of the mother remarrying and I wonder what happened to her.
I don’t know how you can be beheaded AND burned at the stake though.
More enjoyable was a find a couple of weeks ago, in an old book (via Google books putting some old books online, full text), of a brother of an ancestor who knew Lincoln, and his son writing of meeting Lincoln when he was fifteen and hearing him speak, talking about how he had thought him woefully homely but when Lincoln took the podium he underwent a remarkable transformation, a captivating speaker.
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I can’t decide whether to work on the book or paint right now but H.o.p. just walked in the door so I imagine it’s time first for the great wall of China.
Marty’s mother was here Sunday and part of Monday for Mother’s Day. We had a great time–and the moment she left H.o.p. began spreading back out, covering the apartment in projects.