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Month: August 2009

  • Alan Watts on Specialization

    “The price that we pay for specialization in conscious attention is ignorance for everything outside its field…for if you concentrate on a figure you tend to ignore the background. You can, therefore, see the world in a disintegrated aspect. You take separate things and events seriously, imagining that these really do exist, when actually they…

  • Gayaneh’s Adagio

    Gayaneh’s Adagio

    Like a moth to a lamp. Middle of conversation, I heard a familiar tune and went into the other person’s living room to see on the television a music channel and the words Gayaneh’s Adagio. A bit of dissonance between what I was seeing on the screen and my knowing I was acquainted with the…

  • A One Second Comedy Show

    A One Second Comedy Show

    I was going to post a quote from Alan Watts but then people started farting around me, distracting me from my current sense of purpose. Hop encouraged, “Try it, it gives you more humor.” Pretending ignorance, I said, “What?” H.o.p. said, “Farting!” He blew a fart on his arm and laughed. “See, it’s like a…

  • Doesn’t get it

    Doesn’t get it

    Trying to explain concept of unicorn chaser to h.o.p. who is ranting on how ancient unicorns were awesome and are now girly.

  • Ruby Falls

    Ruby Falls

    Portraits of a Young Man in Full Burgeoning Blossom of an Angst Ridden Preteen Who Still Wants to Have An Awesome Time as a Kid But Finds Himself Now Sometimes Also Subdued and Self-Conscious and Simply Dutifully Posing for A Pic Ruby Falls #1 Ruby Falls #2 Ruby Falls #3 Was wild getting out of…

  • Textbook Irony

    The Apple store says their “geniuses” are very busy with repairing computers so it’s several more days before they can look at my monitor. I already know my monitor is going to cost probably (at least) $500 to repair. After 16 months in my possession, the Apple power box apparently freaked out and went bad…

  • H.o.p. and his uncle at Fernbank

    H.o.p. and his uncle at Fernbank

    H.o.p. and his uncle, David

  • Wandering Youtube

    Elle Greenwich is dead. She wrote some amazing songs. Tina Turner. What a voice. Can’t pass this one up. I didn’t realize until now that Marc Bolan played on Nutbush City Limits. Ike and Tina and the T Rex hit. Marc Bolan was the session player on this as well as Sexy Ida Part II…

  • Fernbank Glider

    Fernbank Glider

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  • “We cannot have a fair prosperity in isolation…”

    “We cannot have a fair prosperity in isolation…”

    “[W]e cannot have a fair prosperity in isolation from a fair society…. We must not surrender to the relentless medical inflation that can bankrupt almost anyone…Let us insist on real controls over what doctors and hospitals can charge, and let us resolve that the state of a family’s health shall never depend on the… size…

  • Fernbank Bubble in Black and White

    Fernbank Bubble in Black and White

    Bubble of light in black and white Enlarge light box link Another bubble of H.o.p.’s at Fernbank, filled with light.

  • H.o.p. Makes a Big Bubble at Fernbank

    H.o.p. Makes a Big Bubble at Fernbank

    Big bubble Enlarge light box link I was wondering if my broken toe could handle walking around Fernbank. It was feeling better but then it was feeling so much better Sunday that I ended up bashing it into a chair and was in major pain the rest of the day. But the broken toe made…