A BRIEF BIT OF SUN

npr: Upon rereading the book recently, I took special note of...

Thu, 09 May 2013 00:02:21 -0700

Upon rereading the book recently, I took special note of Gatsby’s spending habits. He’s described as a wealthy man, but he’s still living a very tony lifestyle for someone who made most of his money bootlegging. One over-the-top party, yes. But an over-the-top party every weekend? Even hedge-funders don’t live like that.

So I pulled every nugget from The Great Gatsby related to Gatsby’s personal wealth and income, and every passage that detailed his spending, and — with the help of some experts — tried to re-create a historical ledger that might have shown the state of Jay Gatsby’s fortune, if he had been a real person and not a figment of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s imagination. It turns out that, far from accumulating vast stores of wealth, Jay Gatsby might have been spending beyond his means.

— Was the Great Gatsby Broke? — Daily Intelligencer

Found a good climbing tree. @danielgorash (at some lake)

Sun, 05 May 2013 19:27:02 -0700

Found a good climbing tree. @danielgorash (at some lake)

My new background. Judge away #drwho (at Tardis)

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:47:03 -0700

My new background. Judge away #drwho (at Tardis)

nprfreshair: Today’s guest and author of Gulp: Adventures on...

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:29:16 -0700

nprfreshair:

Today’s guest and author of Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal, Mary Roach in Popular Science:

Taste is a sort of chemical touch. Taste cells are specialized skin cells. If you have hands for picking up foods and putting them in your mouth, it makes sense for taste cells to be on your tongue. But if, like flies, you don’t, it may be more expedient to have them on your feet. “They land on something and go, ‘Ooh, sugar!’ ’’ Rawson does her best impersonation of a housefly. “And the proboscis automatically comes out to suck the fluids.” Rawson has a colleague who studies crayfish and lobsters, which taste with their antennae. “I was always jealous of people who study lobsters. They examine the antennae, and then they have a lobster dinner.”

The study animal of choice for taste researchers is the catfish, simply because it has so many receptors. They are all over its skin. “They’re basically swimming tongues,” says Rawson. It is a useful adaptation for a limbless creature that locates food by brushing up against it; many catfish species feed by scavenging debris on the bottom of rivers.

I try to imagine what life would be like if humans tasted things by rubbing them on their skin. Hey, try this salted caramel gelato—it’s amazing.

Image by Emily Cavalier

wnycradiolab: You probably need these. Lots more Kyler Martz...

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:28:17 -0700

wnycradiolab:

You probably need these. Lots more Kyler Martz here.

makes sense to me.

A human condition

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 10:13:48 -0800

“…but he went on backsliding in the way of his own heart, I have seen his ways, But I...

Washington Forestry. #pnw #northwest (at 🌲🌳🌲🌳🌲🌳🌲)

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 15:07:18 -0800

Washington Forestry. #pnw #northwest (at 🌲🌳🌲🌳🌲🌳🌲)

My hide-out spot, during these past few sick days. 😷😴 see ya...

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 12:28:57 -0800

My hide-out spot, during these past few sick days. 😷😴 see ya when I’m better. #vscocam #slowhealing

thedailyfeed: This is the speech President Richard Nixon was...

Mon, 27 Aug 2012 17:11:53 -0700

thedailyfeed:

This is the speech President Richard Nixon was prepared to give in case Apollo 11 did not safely return.

Luckily, it was never needed. RIP Neil Armstrong.

to the moon and back.

No end in sight...

Fri, 20 Jul 2012 13:36:00 -0700

Things that last matter. What ends on earth doesn’t matter, it doesn’t go on to the next...

A quick synopsis after 21 years

Fri, 29 Jun 2012 23:41:00 -0700

I haven’t lived much, but from my short span of life, I can say I have learned a bit. I have...

"I don’t love God because I’m faithful and good, I’m hardly faithful and no where..."

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 22:58:13 -0700

“I don’t love God because I’m faithful and good, I’m hardly faithful and no...

"God is love, He has to love you."

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 22:12:09 -0700

“God is love, He has to love you.”

Lions gate. Vancouver, BC Canada

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 21:35:55 -0700

Lions gate. Vancouver, BC Canada

Bon Iver at AIR Studios (4AD/Jagjaguwar Session) (by boniver)

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 19:07:21 -0700

Bon Iver at AIR Studios (4AD/Jagjaguwar Session) (by boniver)

"Live carefree before God; he is most careful with you. (1 Peter 5:7 MSG)"

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:13:36 -0700

“Live carefree before God; he is most careful with you. (1 Peter 5:7 MSG)”

Washington State via Birds-eye view

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:18:01 -0700

Washington State via Birds-eye view

Don't be fooled by Floyd.

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:24:51 -0800

Pink Floyd stole this image from God. God is...

God cannot..

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:10:13 -0800

Change. He is not subject to change. It is an impossible act. God can never change; His character...

"If you have gotten this far, not on your own ability, how does it make sense that you will get to..."

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:00:28 -0800

“If you have gotten this far, not on your own ability, how does it make sense that you will...