IMNOTQUITEJACK
He’s got a lot to manage.
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It’s 2011. Is there some kind of surgical technology that will finally let me raise one eyebrow at a time?
I happen to love cartography, sunlight, happiness, data, and concentric circles.
Sunshine and Happiness
Image of the Day: Earth’s Ghostly Light from Interplanetary Dust
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One of the rarest of Eath’s astronomical events is a ghostly glow called the zodiacal light that the ancient Greeks believed that it was caused by distant volcanic eruptions. Visible in the Northern Hemisphere for the next two weeks, the phenomenon -caused by sunlight scattering off countless grains of microscopic interplanetary dust spread out to beyond the orbit of Mars- will be visible above the western horizon as a faint cone of light that extends halfway up the sky for about an hour after sunset..
The vast majority of the interplanetary dust is concentrated within the plane of the inner solar system near the sun, making the dust grains combined light appear along the ecliptic, the path in the sky each planet follows.
(via dailygalaxy)
California is Amazing
“ A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, con a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
Robert A. Heinlein, via mirRoR
Happy D-Day
My divorce is official!
Don’t cringe! It’s not dramatic - it’s celebratory. One phase of my life has concluded, and made way for the next. I enjoyed the time that Stephanie and I shared, and I’m really excited to create and discover a new future.
All of the household comforts, stability, and certainty I enjoyed have been exchanged for the opportunity to experience new adventures, romances, and life plots. When your future hasn’t been laid out, you can create anything you want.
Wait until you see Erada’s amazing photos!
Salt Flats, Death Valley CA
I spent the week with one of my closest and dearest friends of many years doing a roadtrip throughout California. Expect more photos to come in the next few days.
xo
Erada
(Source: bornwithitinme)
The 2010 Feltron Annual Report
Nicholas Felton has a project that inspires me: his Annual Report series. Nicholas collects data every day, and then creates an “annual report” for the year, detailing the progression of his travels, musical tastes, relationships, moods, and interests. The result is a visually captivating. I’m a sucker for infographics with good typography, and he’s a master at it.
For 2010, he tried something new: he created a sort of lifetime report of his father’s life, organized roughly by decade. His father passed away in September of 2010.
The idea of compacting someones entire life into a pretty annual report is a little distasteful to me - a lifetime is so much more than a series of datapoints. At the same time, I think it’s a great way to memorialize someone. Any attempt at describing someone’s life necessitates some form of distillation, of selecting some details instead of others. Over the years, I’ve tried several ways to memorialize my mother, who passed away in 2006. With the multitude of documents and photos I’ve got, there’s plenty of data that I could use to create a Feltron Report.
