Okay, that’s just creepy.
From ntp designs.
“…a Valentine dedicated to the tiny chance that in some distant time and place we might make contact…”
The best defense of working from home EVER.
What I really do.
From Jacqueline Winspear, by way of Barbara Peters.
How smart are London cabdrivers?
From “Explaining Londoners,” New York Times Magazine, March 1, 2012. To read the full story, including what Londoners think of hosting the Olympics, click here.
The Oatmeal, Channeling Van Gogh
Want one.
The Heir to Andrew Carnegie
From Nicholas Kristof’s 11/5/11 column in the New York Times: ONE of the legendary triumphs of philanthropy was Andrew Carnegie’s construction of more than 2,500 libraries around the world. It’s renowned as a stimulus to learning that can never be matched — except that, numerically, it has already been surpassed several times over by an…
My favorite robber baron.
Andrew Carnegie is my favorite robber baron. Here are some reasons why. From the Carnegie Library wiki: A Carnegie library is a library built with money donated by Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. Two thousand five hundred nine Carnegie libraries were built between 1883 and 1929, including some belonging to public and university library…
The St. Johns Bridge in Portland, Oregon
In Portland last November my friends Bob and Mary took me to look at the St. John’s Bridge, an Art Deco suspension bridge over the Willamette River near its confluence with the Columbia River. It’s one of the most beautiful bridges I’ve ever seen. Designed by internationally renowned engineer David B. Steinman (1886-1960) and Holton…
Sssssteaaaaam heat…
Wowser.