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21st-century

what’s the point, of beauty?

March 3, 2010

What’s the point of a Rube Goldberg contraption? Children get science-class assignments to build things, learning about different “laws” I suppose. But why should grown-ups invest hours!!! in building such things?
Well, because they are things of beauty.
I love the fern frond in this one.

And this one is just crazy amazing. Love the sounds of the [...]

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There’s a New Girl in Town

March 2, 2010

Pinball is in my DNA. My father was a gangsta pinpall player, back in the days when pinball machines paid out cash winnings. He’d cheat, frankly, on top of being an ace player, and he’d travel from one small Montana town to another playing pinball, and getting running out of town now and again.
Later, I [...]

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Just saying thanks.

December 4, 2009

I have always been a bit of a social klutz. I like to blame it on my  parents’ own dearth of social interactions (so I had little example from which to learn) and my Myers Briggs reading (INT/FJ) — I tend to the Introvert realm of existence.
But, I have been working on overcoming my awkwardness. [...]

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when it rains

December 2, 2009

It is not easy times I am living in and I have a core of rage; an awful lot of that is being vented on these pages. But I hope that I have also conveyed my gratitude (and awe) for all the good people and things in my life.
I am on some weird roller coaster, [...]

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election 2008

October 28, 2008

It seems a little fitting somehow that I launch this blog with a little photo and note about voting.
I’m not quite sure why or how it is fitting, but it does seem that way.
Like, something about the 21st century and all the resources and privileges that I have. I had my ballot, at home. I [...]

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