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"It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no suc...
I can finally claim success at Naked Mail. Sometime last year I got an email asking if I wanted to participate in a Naked Mail swap, and I joined in with gusto. I couldn't wait! My secret sendee was Charlie Fish. I was pleased, because I got to send...
. 2010: Jahr des Einhorns This story begins back in August on top of a giant geodesic dome at dawn. Audrey, Slim, and I had climbed to the top of the dome with a bottle of 12-year single malt and we were watching day break over Black Rock City. ...
We chose the "Create a system to amuse those caught in traffic." part. It happened unexpectedly when Tac juggling seemed to amuse and entertain people caught in traffic. With that knowledge in hand we came back the next day, this time armed with ...
Lincoln spent about two months in Austin and wanted to do some tasking, and when he and The Bastard were thinking of tasks to do, they both thought "Why not launch 1000 ships?" So we went about doing that. The hardest part was the folding of 1000 o...
Dan loves Louise. He loves her so much he moved into my head for more than two years to tell me about it. The day he moved in was a sunny day, but his sulfrous sofa and stain-torn seats were no match for sun. He was apart from Louise by many hundreds...
********sensitive material to follow************* It's all about timing, ain't it? I did a huge purge last year and got rid of a lot of things that I had been hanging on to for far too long. I did not, however, go through my dresser. At first I w...
The Funeral Of Scyld Scefing We got married on a dare and a coin-flip. I mean, he dared me to marry him-- but i had to check my impulsive alacrity against the chaos of the universe. Heads, we break up. Tails, we... wed. and the universe sai...
I read the Illiad and the Odyssey in sixth grade and never again since then. So the story was a bit foggy for me. So I had to do some research before setting out on my own odyssey. I learned a little bit from wikipedia, and then with that little bit ...