‘hiding in triangles’
This is almost enough to make me take up mountain biking again.
the new mountain bike hotel is a proposal by philip modest schambelan and anton fromm. located on the edge of pregasina in italy it offers sports enthusiasts a place to stay, an unforgettable view and a fast connection to an impressive variety of routes, trails and single tracks.
I say almost enough because I know I’d probably crash just trying to navigate the ramps to and from my room.
The 2010 Decennial Census
I wish that sharing information regarding my work as a census enumerator didn’t carry a penalty of fines not to exceed $250,000 or a period of time in prison with a limit which I don’t recall, or both. People are strange, mysterious creatures. If you ever get a chance to be a census worker, to walk around and knock on your neighbors’ doors and ask them personal questions on the government’s dime, I say do it.
In looking through the list of categories, there are surprisingly few that wouldn’t apply to at least one of my visits (and it’s only day one.)
The word of the day is
Shivers me timbers.
AAA Restaurant #3. US 287, Palestine, TX 75803
Whew!
Our lights are starting to flicker. So if I disappear, blame it on the atmosphere.
Blame it on God!
I blame everything on God.
He set himself up for it!
Fuck, yes.
Almighty la-di-dah.
Just bound to take a tumble.
Public Education
Drove past an elementary school today. Kids all out on the playground for recess. Saw two boys taking turns kicking each other in the balls.
for the Texan clusterflockers
From our email:
I need a little help…I’ve come Dallas by way of Austin and need to know some
of the best things about Dallas (to do, to see/experience). My wife and I have
been here for 5 months and finally stopped comparing Dallas to Austin. I see
Dallas having a lot potential as a badass place to live, but not sure where to
start. Any suggestions are appreciated and thanks for your time.
reel money was spent on this
Bad pun, I know.
lost languages
NYC is a haven for dying languages:
While there is no precise count, some experts believe New York is home to as many as 800 languages — far more than the 176 spoken by students in the city’s public schools or the 138 that residents of Queens, New York’s most diverse borough, listed on their 2000 census forms.
“It is the capital of language density in the world,” said Daniel Kaufman, an adjunct professor of linguistics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. “We’re sitting in an endangerment hot spot where we are surrounded by languages that are not going to be around even in 20 or 30 years.”
If you visit me in San Francisco
This is about what you can expect your tour to be like.
giant ammonia-ice blizzard on Saturn
An ammonia-ice blizzard large enough to be seen by amateur astronomers has developed on Saturn.
“A balloonist floating about 100 kilometers (62 miles) down from the bottom of Saturn’s calm stratosphere would experience an ammonia-ice blizzard with the intensity of Snowmageddon,” said Brigette Hesman, a composite infrared spectrometer team member and assistant research scientist at the University of Maryland.
“These blizzards appear to be powered by violent storms deeper down — perhaps another 100 to 200 kilometers (62 to 124 miles) down — where lightning has been observed and the clouds are made of water and ammonia,” Hesman said.
Birds Love Dupstep
Sal Paradise was right:
Boys and girls have such a sad time together.
(Walt did this.)
quote out of context
As mistakes go, punching out a guy with no legs is a lulu.
porn stars against piracy
Lunokhod 1
A long lost light reflector that was left on the surface of the moon by the former Soviet Union has been rediscovered by a team of American physicists after nearly 40 years using lasers beamed from Earth.
“No one had seen the reflector since 1971,” said Tom Murphy, an associate professor of physics at the University of California San Diego.
“We routinely use the three hardy reflectors placed on the moon by the Apollo 11, 14 and 15 missions, and occasionally the Soviet-landed Lunokhod 2 reflector – though it does not work well enough to use when illuminated by sunlight,” Murphy said. “But we yearned to find Lunokhod 1.”
from the spam
This is all too deep for me!
This is all too deep for me!
This is all too deep for me!
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spam name
Dino Judd.
Dear Clusterflock
Walt here.
Y’know, I’ve sorta got to get something off my chest. It ain’t a big thing, but… my name isn’t really Walt.
As I’ve mentioned, my job is in a rather conservative and old-fashioned industry, but also an industry that isn’t above going and doing web searches on your name and seeing what you’ve been up to online. I know of a couple FDs who haven’t been hired because of the rather childish and juvenile stuff they’ve posted online, and others who’ve been taken to task by their employers for what they’ve said online.
So there’s a good reason for my reticence, and why I don’t even share an email address when I post. I hope you all understand.
That all said, I’m rather jealous that you all know each other and have a sense of each other with your real names and your real lives, and that you even get to meet up once in a while and whatnot, while I play the role of Clusterflock wallflower, watching you dance freely while I nurse my Diet Pepsi and dream of living a bigger life here.
It isn’t like I think that I couldn’t trust regular Clusterflockers with my identity – I would somehow like to share that with you guys, if anyone actually cares to know who I am really.
Your feedback would be appreciated.
from the comments
I sometimes have a strange dream about asteroids linked into a kind of Bucky-ball shape, with enough gravity to hold an atmosphere but spaces between the parts. Inhabitants can jump and float from country to country, on the inside and the outside of this world.
alanis morissette, take note
The actress who played Thelma Lou on “The Andy Griffith Show” was robbed in the town that inspired the show’s idyllic Mayberry setting, after moving to the area to avoid big city crime.
Update: Second verse.
I found you another pictures-story
This one is about a bookseller who has every book in the world. Almost.
dear clusterflock
Looking for work sucks.
momma
What we can’t have is mysterious. What we can have is beneath us. It’s the things we can’t have that stay with us our lives, an ever present reminder of consistency.
my divine she-bears of retribution
(thanks, Known)
