Annie Dillard writes about the doomed Franklin Expedition which set out in 1845 to map the icy Northwest Passage. The expedition wound up frozen in an ice floe. Fourteen years later the men’s bodies were found and it was clear that their survival was hindered by the amount of useless crap they tried to take…
Here are 4 Easy Photoshop Techniques to Make Your Pictures Pop. Some of these are a little two “processy” for my taste, but the blur/overlay trick looks like a must-try.
Here’s a site describing a low impact woodland home. Very Hobbit-y. I drafted plans for a home almost identical to this when I was in 10th grade, only I envisioned clean modernistic lines with concrete as the main building material.
Using technology analogous to ink jet printing, Jeep’s waterfall “prints” words and pictures in pattern of rainfall. Brings a whole different meaning to the phrase “like writing in water.”
Be very afraid… Elephant jokes.
At Mercury Joe: a scale model Mercury rocket designed to take a GI Joe into outer space.
As if mail carriers didn’t have enough trouble with dogs already, BoingBoing reports that China is introducing the postman’s nightmare–pork scented stamps.
Jeepiki is a new wiki site set up for Jeep owners, in connection with the popular JeepForum. Jeepiki is populated mostly with factual info about specific models and some Jeep history.
Do you really want your tools to talk back? Well, with the Accutire pressure gauge, sure. Why not. The audible readout is handy when you’re checking tire pressure at night or in a dimly lit garage. The LCD display is a little hard to read in low-light conditions, making the audible feature all the more…
January 2006 started with a daytrip to Mt. Baldy to take the dogs for a run in the snow. After three hours in the minivan we arrived at a muddy, rocky ski lift. Rats. We mistakenly read the snow report for Mt. Baldy in Canada. Drove the VW bus to Big Sur to hear a…
Richard Rohr, in a “This I believe” segment on NPR, marvels that We love closure, resolution and clarity, while thinking that we are people of ‘faith’! How strange that the very word ‘faith’ has come to mean its exact opposite.
Maureen and I, along with several other couples, are going through Tom Stephen and Ginny Starkey’s devotional Fearless. On day four they ask these questions– Do you sense that God has a purpose for your life? Are you willing to humble yourself and ask God to reveal that purpose to you? Questions about purpose have…
I gave my Jeep a quick hose-down the other day and noticed that my California Adventure Pass was flapping in the breeze. For $30 you’d think the darn thing would at least have some decent glue. The pass is designed to hang from your rearview mirror. But for open-top vehicles (such as a Jeep) the…
Something happened last week, a load shifted in my psyche. I don’t have the words, really, to describe the feeling. Something like a grim set of the teeth. Determination to face the coming cyclone even though there will be nothing left intact on the other side. Over the weekend I went to see Scorsese’s brutal…
We spent the Thanksgiving holiday in San Luis Obispo visiting our long-time friends Gene and Ros. We also house-sat for a woman in Los Osos, free lodging in exchange for looking after her pets. In the morning we would take the dog for a walk. It was a strange experience because neighbors and other people…
