Sometime within the last couple of days I flipped 100,000 visits (and over 150,000 page views) on the old sitemeter. In thanks to all the people who take time out of their day to visit I’m “giving away” a free desktop wallpaper calendar each month this coming year. I hope you enjoy them.
Fareed Zakaria GPS, featuring Nathan Myhrvold. It’s worth watching, and worth reading the transcript of the segment of the interview not featured in the video.
“Then summer fades and passes and October comes. We’ll smell smoke then, and feel an unexpected sharpness, a thrill of nervousness, swift elation, a sense of sadness and departure.” – Thomas Wolfe
A pleasant old dirt road that drops 1400 feet in elevation in just under a half a mile.
I went to the hills because I had no choice but to live fortuitously, to usurp the essential facts of life, and see if I could not unlearn all that I had been taught . . .
