Postings from Athens, Georgia United States
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In Love With a View: Vagabonds,
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06/07/08
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Tim Patterson, editor of MatadorTrips.com, recently published an article entitled How To Travel The World For Free (Seriously). There are some good tips in the article, even for the seasoned travel vet. But what’s far more fascinating is the response …
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Topics:
Politics,
Travel
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Failure is My Friend
05/20/08
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Okay, let’s face it. The Photo of Day project has fallen apart. I have failed. Oh well. It was fun while it was fun and then it was no longer fun so I stopped doing it. I have a bunch …
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Topics:
Failure
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Once Upon a School
03/18/08
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Dave Eggers gave a fantastic talk at this year’s TED conference about his 826 Valencia project, an after-school reading/writing program, which, as you may recall, my friend Lee volunteers at. But the real point of Eggers’ talk was to show …
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Topics:
Charity,
Children
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A Lost Theory
01/31/08
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Since tonight is the season premiere of Lost I’d like offer a small theory I haven’t seen elsewhere. As fans of the show know, Lost is full of mysteries and one of the mysteries is who is on the boat …
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Topics:
Lost,
Television,
Theories
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New Year’s Day
01/01/08
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I have at various times been accused of harboring a certain amount of cynicism (or realism, depending on the point of view of the person leveling such accusations), something I continue to deny. However, there are a few notable moments …
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Topics:
Holidays,
Photos
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Fall
11/14/07
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The trees are in full technicolor swing. The land is slowly dying, and not just because it’s Fall [1], we’re also in the middle of a prolonged drought — this year being one of the worst — but this year …
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Topics:
Autumn,
Fall,
Nature
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Recent Writings
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Thursday
July 3, 2008
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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 …
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Monday
June 30, 2008
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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, …
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Thursday
June 26, 2008
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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 …
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Saturday
June 7, 2008
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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 …
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The Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala
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"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 ...
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Cross-Fade Anything (This Time For Real)
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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 ...
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Cross-Fade Anything
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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, ...
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Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
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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.
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