golden gate park It’s hard to imagine that it used to be all sand dunes, all the way until the ocean. In the years following the Gilded Age, San Francisco drilled wells near the sea to bring in water, pumped by two large windmills that are still there (surrounded now by a bright Alice-in-Wonderland garden).
Monthly Archives: February 2012
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here’s my semi-arbitrary list of favorite jeremy lin articles: :: www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7601157/the-headline-tweet-unfair-significance-jeremy-lin :: freedarko.blogspot.com/2010/01/lives-of-others.html :: ideas.time.com/2012/02/13/jeremy-lin-makes-us-all-american/ :: www.capitalnewyork.com/article/null/2012/02/5264729/jeremy-lin-and-limitations-hard-working-asian-american-narrative :: www.washingtonpost.com/sports/wizards/jeremy-lin-challenges-stereotypes-as-well-as-defenses/2012/02/18/gIQAGhTYMR_story.html :: us.cnn.com/2012/02/20/opinion/yu-jeremy-lin/index.html :: news.yahoo.com/asian-americans-rejoice-lin-smashes-stereotypes-080442459–spt.html :: espn.go.com/espn/commentary/story/_/id/7682770/jeremy-lin-becomes-face-asian-americans :: www.cracked.com/blog/4-things-jeremy-lin-story-reveals-about-modern-racism/
notes, notes, notes
To be honest, I always found the controversy a little bewildering; it makes sense to me that this is what art does. I think I’ve always instinctively believed that truth is separate from fact, and that there is a truth (and beauty) of rhythm, tone, emotion. It’s important to dialogue and be aware and thoughtful, […]
as the circular wall whirred A couple weekends ago, I went to an observatory outside San Francisco and looked through a large mechanized telescope. I saw: + Pleiades (M45), a constellation also known as the Seven Sisters. + The Beehive Cluster (M44), which is made up of several hundred stars 500 light years away. + […]