Time is hard: Leap Second crashes half the internet #
A shadow cuts across an empty lot I pass this parking lot everyday on my walk home from work, and it always catches my eye. Usually there are a few unremarkable cars in the spaces, but on this day, maybe…
There are some things I see in black and white that I’m oblivious to in color. I suppose that’s the whole point of this exercise. We’re so accustomed to seeing power lines cut across our fields of vision that the…
I was wrong. Turns out Virgin America doesn’t need a darkroom onboard for me to post film photos from the air—if they were taken on a previous flight! I’m presently headed to New York for business, but these were shot…
Time is hard: Leap Second crashes half the internet #
Fancy that: bacteria grown from Anton Zuiker’s bellybutton lint is on Boing Boing this morning #
Rotation innovation: Kalle Mattson – Water Falls, RRRRRRRROLL_gif, Gregory Euclide’s “Laid Down & Wiped Away” (a pleasant reminder that art can be anything) #
Slice of life in Ghana: Francis and Easter
Francis often konks out on my porch while his mother is delivering dinners (young wives are required to cook not only for their own families, but are expected to make food for their mother and their mother-in-law—every night. It certainly keeps Esther busy.) I have some foam blocks I let him rest on, and he usually falls fast asleep.
“Horror” movie: Sight—the scariest bit, besides the creepy ending, was this all-too-realistic exchange:
“What is scary though, on my last run, my Sight crashed! It was so scary, I didn’t see anything, I couldn’t find my way home.”
“Sight doesn’t crash”
“Oh it did! I was totally lost. I didn’t see anything.”