Postings from San Francisco, California United States

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  • Thursday
    July 3, 2008

    Tiny Cities Made of Ash The bells are a constant cacophony, not the rhythmic ringing out of the hours or tolling from mass that the human mind seems …
  • Monday
    June 30, 2008

    You Can't Go Home Again The wind became constant on the second day, changing from the occasional gust that would precede an hour or two of torrential rains, …
  • Thursday
    June 26, 2008

    Returning Again — Back on Little Corn Island This is a first — going back to somewhere I’ve already been. Generally speaking, the world seems so huge and so full of …
  • Saturday
    June 7, 2008

    In Love With a View: Vagabonds,
    Responsibilty and Living Well
    Tim Patterson, editor of MatadorTrips.com, recently published an article entitled How To Travel The World For Free (Seriously). There are some good tips …
"Those who have ever received a case of Orchidaceæ from the Tropics, know full well that the opening of it is attended with the most ...
Nice Javascript library to cross fade any series of elements in a container element. This one uses JQuery and has by far the best browser ...
Nice Javascript library to cross fade any series of elements in a container element. Generic and handy (uses scriptalicious). [Update: This one had IE7 issues, ...
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
cover image for Ficciones My first hands on with Borges... Absolutely amazing. So far beyond what I've been reading lately (mainly non-fiction and some late 20th century authors). As with Faulkner, I find it shocking that I was given an undergraduate degree in English without having read Borges. That simply should not be allowed. Everything I was expecting and so much more. If, like me, you know Borges through his myth rather than his words, this is a fine place to start. And rest assured, the myths are nothing next to the real thing. more »