Johnston Freed
Alan Johnston is free.
Archive of posts filed under the mind category.
Australian Drought Could Be Nearing End
From the Melbourne Herald Sun, Mills Looks to End Drought: Australian golfer Joanne Mills is confident she can win her first European title in 10 years, as she heads into the final round of the Ladies Open de Portugal. Fun with Google News.
Things I Have Seen
Stopped on my bike at a red light this morning, a scooter pulls up behind me. I glance over my shoulder and smile in greeting at an elderly couple – perhaps 70 – both in shorts. As they speed past me when the light turns green, I notice that the woman, sitting on the back, …
Favorite search string
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Metablogging
This is not a blog post.
The Curse of the Writer
Jim Belshaw on walking into his house upon discovering that his old Datsun pickup had been stolen: Here’s the worst part: As I rushed back into the house to tell Liz, I couldn’t stop thinking that this was going to make a good column. Once again, Philip Roth came to mind. He said nothing that …
Daybook
paper of the day: From Jia-Lin Lin at the Climate Diagnostics Center in Boulder, more evidence that the models don’t get El Nino right real climate: From the Climate Prediction Center: La Nina’s roaring back real climate II: I saw on yesterday’s bike ride that the Rio Grande is back down, under 1,300 cubic feet …
Cheap Shit from China
Cheap Shit from China Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. In a continuing series, I follow the big shipping containers of cheap shit from China one more step closer to their source. This is a China Shipping Line container ship on its way into San Francisco Bay. Previously in this series: Shipping the cheap shit back More …
Daybook (Nightbook?)
reading: Endangered Species, Steve Younger’s discussion of the complexities of being a pacifist nuclear weapons designer reading II: Just finished – Howl on Trial, a collection of letters from in and around the time of the publication of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl, along with transcripts of the obscenity trial that are an absolute hoot. music: Epistrophy, …
Shutting Down PlanetFleck
Just an FYI, PlanetFleck will be shutting down within a day or two. I post this here because there seem to be four or possibly five people reading it regularly, but I only know who two or three of them are (and one of those is me). Its original purpose was to give me an …