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Most teenagers are excited to get their driver’s license. I wasn’t. As far as I could tell, a license was simply the first step in an elaborate trap. A license meant driving, driving meant gas and insurance, and gas and insurance meant...
It doesn't look like much, but that's actually an extremely rare station sign. The Milan Metro has two types of entrance; in the main, they're voids in the street, stairs and escalators and lifts disappearing beneath the pavement. In...
During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge. Today’s TDC asks us Our Daily Creator Kevin aka @dogtrax has been an award worthy participant and contributor (hundreds of ’em) to the Daily...
cultivating these three distinct aspects of life can bring you happiness hedonism — enjoy life without guilt. allow pleasure and satisfaction self-realization — develop talents and abilities. focus on what you can service — contribute to...
Have you ever looked at someone and thought, “They figured it out”? Maybe they have a good career, a nice house, a happy family, or a large group of friends. They always seem to be traveling, eating at nice restaurants, and doing...
For whatever reason, I’ve been in a hard bop mood lately. Last week, while driving, I very much enjoyed Johnny Coles’s trumpet. This week, I’ve been enjoying some Tina Brooks, a relatively obscure and tragic sax player. In general,...
mortise layoutGoing with 5 vertical slats, one inch wide by 1/2 inch thick. The slats need to be installed before I can glue up the sides.big brain fartI thought I was done with the dowel jig but I wasn't. I had broke it down and stowed...
San Francisco’s Washington Street leads past the TransAmerica Pyramid to San Francisco Bay. The post Washington Street appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.
It was a good week-end, full of bread baking and writing (sermon and a poem), a good Sunday at church, and some piece work (by which I mean sewing together small scraps). We watched a lot of Hot Bench, a court TV show that is slightly...
I saw Spider-Man: Far From Necessary over the weekend and, like everyone else in the cinema, I sat through the entire end crawl to watch the ‘post-credits scene’ that has become so ubiquitous among superhero movies.On the one hand, it’s...
Angkor Thom announces itself before you even get inside. You pass through one of its massive gates, a stone face gazing down from the tower above while two rows of figures line the causeway, devas on one side and asuras on the other,...
In this episode I talk to Spencer Greenberg about his life philosophy, valuism, and his surprising finding that almost nobody has genuinely harmful intrinsic values. We also get into a worry technique most people have never heard of, why...
Kaniṣṭha, Madhyam, and Uttama Eating[1] The first and lowest stage of consciousness, which represents the karmic or selfish mind, is called anna-moya. It’s the consciousness of an animal who sees things mostly in terms of eating....
Every new generation of Londoner has to go through the phase of being bewildered and bedazzled by the various lavish stalls and speciality producers at Borough Market, shell out a small fortune for a selection of wildly unrelated items...