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On Sharing
I’ve been musing too much, it seems. I had plans for this blog. It was supposed to be two months of randomness, with blueprints for impractical architectural projects, and infographics detailing the seven characteristics…
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On Doing Things
Thinker, tinker. Use your hands once in a while. From your cave you have eaten miles And swallowed kingdoms, have you? Have you? Tinker, thinker. Recently it’s been whispered that my country has…
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On Being Funny
According to the plan, this blog was supposed to be funny. I know. It’s very hard, trying to be witty. I might have some success if I took my time, but this is supposed to be…
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On the Economy
Two days ago, in terms of population, the world’s second-largest economy was four times the size of the largest. Even now, though China has overtaken the USA, there hasn’t really been any change…
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On Meekness
“When I was green and blossomed in the SpringI was mute wood. Now I am dead I sing.” Allen Grossman. I saw these words a couple of weeks ago. The poem didn’t connect with me, but I thought…
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On the Brokenness of Things
Once in a while you happen to see some random commonplace thing without the filter of your experience, and it looks all wrong. It happens quite often with words- all of a sudden the spelling…
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On Noise
Space. The trotros have got me thinking about space a lot these days. Stars are in space. Stars are balls of fire. There are as many of them as there are grains of sand on…
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On Trotros
Civilization as we’ve known it in the urban, metropolitan, Western sense, is defined by one resource above all others: space. A very good percentage of our innovation goes to maximize space: the skyscrapers, the…
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On Culture
I wore a very nice shirt on Friday. Everybody kept telling me. They didn’t say “You look nice” just “Nice shirt!” (One notices the difference after the third or fourth instance.) I wore this uncharacteristically…