Strange stuff
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Free ways
The first time I heard the term “Sepulveda pass,” I thought it was a medical procedure. I mean, I was still new to The Coast, and sepulveda sounded like one of those oddball body parts, like uvula or something. (Not speaking of which, I no longer have an uvula. No idea why. It used to… Continue reading
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Some context on privacy
Searches: privacy: 1,390,000,000 privacy+policy: 3,400,000,000 results “privacy policy”: 837,000,000 results So if you’re looking for something about privacy that’s not a site with a privacy policy, you’re also looking at a high haystack/needle ratio. Just saying. Not sure what else that data says, such as it is. But it’s interesting. Continue reading
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Bomb sights
Last week I flew back and forth from Boston to Reno by way of Phoenix. Both PHX-RNO legs took me past parts of Nevada I hadn’t had a good look at before. One item stood out: a dry lake that looked, literally, like a town had been built on it and blown up. In fact,… Continue reading
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Hey Jules, bring me another fifty skulls
While walking around Paris for the last month, I’ve became fascinated by the highly fossiliferous limestone that comprises so many of its iconic structures. At one point I thought, Hmm… The City of Light is built with materials of death. I had no idea how much farther that thought would take me. Without abundant death… Continue reading
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Mass Inconvenience
So this is what it takes to shake me out of my blogging torpor: a message on my phone with the short form of what the National Weather Service says here: Tornado Watch Central Middlesex County, Southeast Middlesex, Northwest Middlesex County (Massachusetts) TORNADO WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE FOR WT 263 NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK… Continue reading
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Advertising in the pits
There is an ad running during the NCAA basketball playoffs that’s so creepy and surreal that I decided to take some screen shots of it, as a kind of public service to the company spending money on it. The scene is a guy’s hairy armpit. (Do they have armpit models? Guess so.) As if this… Continue reading