July 2010
1 post
May 2010
16 posts
mamihlapinatapai
A look shared by two people with each wishing that the other will initiate something that both desire but which neither one wants to start.
From the Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego
This is so cool
i love wikipedia. i love maps. i love this.
“Petrichor is the name of the scent of rain on dry earth.”
– Wikipedia (via read more wikipedia) (via lagubeko)
December 2009
3 posts
“‘You must remember that there is danger in loving. You may not derive much...”
– Sensei, from Kokoro, by Natsume Sōseki (via bpick)
November 2009
12 posts
“During the last two hundred years the blackbird has abandoned the woods to...”
– Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Knitting.
I have a new found respect for knitting. It’s nice watching a process all the way through, and there are so few things you can actually do that with.
Scott the IT guy at school is a knitter. He also will fix just about anything that could be wrong with a broken computer or a disoriented first-year. When my computer crashed last year, just before breaking the awful news to me that I would...
Happy thing of the day: eating cookie dough ice cream with a fork. it’s like making a melting zen garden of sweet snow.
some days i’m really pleased to have lived in Bombay. This story about a particularly awesome bombay-dweller is from Jordan [don’t miss the videos]. It’s a little disconcerting when you think about the millions of people you share breathing space with everyday, and how few of them you’ll ever know and how you’ll never meet most of them.
I did met some super people,...
Prionodon pardicolor →
a viverrid cat-serpent. shortly before i turned 24, i learned of the existence of the linsang. it’s made the world a better place to live in.
