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Monthly Archives: December 2007

238889

I saw receipt #238889 and did some research to see what that number might teach me. My findings follow. Goliardo This image is exactly 238889 Bytes, and comes from a series of photos titled La Posada Del Goliardo (The Inn of the Goliardo). Relying on various automated translation tools I find that the word “Goliardo” [...]

That. Is. All.

I am trying to avoid distraction today. It is not the big things that distract me. Tiny distractions cause enormous drains on my focus and energies. Accomplishment, a wise man once told me, is simply a matter of doing things. I learned this from a composer who described his decision to move to a shack [...]

Writing blind

I am, to paraphrase one of the greatest lines ever written, typing blind. “I am writing blind,” wrote the Kursk sailor whose submarine had sunk to the bottom of the sea, slowly suffocating all on board. Motivated by what none seem to know, but confronting that ghastly fate the sailor found pen, paper and the [...]

Grids and girders

Ah hah. I just did the Amsler Grid test for the first time in too long. I know I was avoiding it. The Amsler Grid test helps screen for symptoms of macular degeneration and, in my case, any worsening of the condition. It has been too long between tests for me to say what it [...]

Palmbreathers

When I can not sleep my first trick is to breathe through my fingers, then through the palms of these hands. That calms my mind and then my body. This technique often fails, though, at such times when I bolt awake early in the morning or the middle of the night. This happened last night. [...]