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Is having one of those "wishing I was in Paris" kinds of days. # Just made my travel plans for #thatcamp prime! Now I should do the same for #DH2011 :) # MT @westcenter @TheHuntington Designers of L.A. Noire game used vintage maps from Huntington to create virtual city http://lat.ms/hNqRxe # MT @ddchamberlain @laurenfklein: Mentally [...]
A few classic lines from A.E. Housman: Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. Of course, I love the white-pink blossoms. But what gets me most about this picture is that blue blue sky. I want to dip in [...]
Nearly every picture I take, I evaluate it and find things that I could have done differently. I’m learning. I’m making mistakes. But I’m enjoying the process and trying and trying and trying again. When I’m behind the lens my whole body relaxes and it’s just me and whatever is in my viewfinder. And, on [...]
(It’s been awhile since I’ve posted one of these, you can see earlier entries in this series here): On the night before I Easter I ate a grilled lamb. Not the entire thing, exactly, but a meal that had pieces taken from all of the very best lamb-parts, including the skin. It was tasty and [...]
On Thursday I was having a day. A day that was full of all kinds of emotions and appointments and things. And so I planned to escape for about an hour late in the afternoon to the rose gardens at the Huntington Library. But my camera battery needed charging and I was trying to coordinate [...]
It seems that sometimes life sends a convergence of happenings all at once. Of course it can be thrilling when this happens, but it can also be tiring or stressful, or even the best-laid plans can go awry in the midst of the whirlwind. This past week held a bit of that craziness for me. [...]
RT @MHpodcast: Adam Hochschild on the tensions between academic & popular writing: http://bit.ly/geEps7 # Must-read for writers: Oliver Broudy on modern saints, non-fiction writing & Kindle Singles: http://bit.ly/gyTgdF (h/t @jimbenning) # RT @westcenter: Tomorrows big DH-Day @Stanford. WhereCampSF 2011 on campus (@wherecamp) and @mljockers at toolingup.stanford.edu at noon. # RT @westcenter: Mappy Hour tonight! #wherecamp [...]
When I was at Powell’s bookstore this past weekend, I spent a lot of time in the cookbooks. I didn’t buy any, but found much inspiration there! Now that I’m eating meat, I have a lot of thinking to do about incorporating new recipes and menus into my weekly routines. So I’d really appreciate your [...]
Spent the weekend in Portland, and realized that I really needed to make a list of all I’d done, just so I wouldn’t forget anything, such as… cherry blossoms & tulips books (a la Powell’s and Heathman’s) chasing a bright moon riding the Max train getting dressed up getting dressed down telling stories from the [...]
Left my checkbook w/the UCI cashier & my debit card w/the ChapmanU cashier in the past 48 hrs. But haven't locked myself out (yet). # The ocean is my Third Place: http://bit.ly/dmcjpj # I get so happy when making flight reservations (& now can hardly wait for this weekend's travel-adventure)! #bringit2011 # RT @digiwonk: For [...]
“What I fear and desire most in this world is passion. I fear it because it promises to be spontaneous, out of my control, unnamed, beyond my reasonable self. I desire it because passion has color, like the landscape before me. It is not pale. It is not neutral. It reveals the backside of the [...]
Today GameBoy turns 17 years old. I can hardly wrap my head around that fact, and I marvel at the man that he’s become. I couldn’t be more proud of him.
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